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has been conferred by other institutions, 

 but few of them have proper facilities for 

 research. The table shows that 324 de- 

 grees were conferred this year, a consider- 

 able increase over 1904 and over any pre- 

 ceding year. During the first five years 

 covered by these records there was no in- 

 crease in the number of degrees, the aver- 

 age being 233. In 1903 there was a gain 

 of 33 above this average, in 1904 of 48, 

 and this year of 91. The increase in the 

 present year is satisfactory, and if main- 

 tained may supply the demand for those 

 competent to carry on research work. An 

 average increase of about twelve degrees 

 a year for the past seven years is, how- 

 ever, small, not in proportion to the in- 

 crease in the number of graduate students 

 or of academic and other positions where 

 competence in research is a qualification. 

 It is further probable that the number of 

 degrees given to American students by Ger- 

 man universities has decreased during this 

 period. 



Attention has been called on previous oc- 

 casions to the large percentage of degrees 

 conferred by a few institutions. There is, 

 however, a slight tendency, that will prob- 

 ably become more marked, for the gap be- 

 tween the seven institutions at the head of 

 the list and those below to be filled in. 

 The fact that Boston University this year 

 conferred 14 degrees is probably excep- 

 tional, but the nine degrees conferred by 

 the University of Wisconsin are more likely 

 to be increased than diminished in subse- 

 quent years. Several institutions of the 

 central and western states, of which Cali- 

 fornia and Wisconsin may be especially 

 mentioned, have greatly improved their 

 facilities for graduate work during the 

 period covered by these statistics. Up to 

 the present time the universities fall into 

 rather well-marked groups. Chicago, 

 Yale, Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Colum- 



bia have, in the course of the past eight 

 years, each conferred about 250 degrees; 

 Pennsylvania and Cornell about 150; 

 Clark, Michigan, New York and Wisconsin 

 about 50; Boston, Virginia, George Wash- 

 ington, Minnesota, California, Brown, 

 Bryn Mawr and Princeton about 20 ; Stan- 

 ford and Nebraska about 10. 



The University of Chicago gave this year 

 44 doctor's degrees, of which 21 were in 

 the sciences, and these figures place Chi- 

 cago at the head of both lists, it surpassing 

 Yale as the university which up to last 

 year had conferred the greatest number of 

 degrees, and the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, which up to last year had conferred 

 the greatest number of degrees in science. 

 Clark University this year conferred as 

 many as 18 degrees, all in the sciences, and 

 Boston University conferred 14 degrees, 

 none of which were in the sciences. 



TABLE II, 

 DOCTORATES CONFEKKED IN THE SCIENCES. 



Chicago 



Johns Hopkins 



Columbia 



Harvard 



Yale 



Cornell 



Pennsylvania 



Clark 



Wisconsin 



Michigan 



California 



GeorgeWashington 



Brown 



Bryn Mawr 



Princeton 



Virginia 



Nebraska 



Stanford 



Minnesota 



New York 



Washington 



Iowa 



Kansas 



North Carolina 



Lehigh 



Missouri 



Vanderbilt 



Cincinnati 



Colorado 



Georgetown 



Lafayette 



Syracuse 



19 16 



Oi 

 



14 21 

 17 18 



105 115 113 131 106 136 128 150984 48 



53 

 51 

 43 

 39 

 61 

 43 

 100 

 43 

 35 

 84 

 67 

 56 

 50 

 50 

 39 

 80 

 73 

 30 

 10 



5,100 



3i 75 

 3 100 



'3! 75 



100 

 67 

 50 

 33 

 33 

 17 

 33 

 50 



