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SCIENCE. 



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dents in the graduate faculties, easily 

 maintains the lead in this department 

 which it has held for several years, 

 Harvard, Chicago and Yale following in 

 the order given. Northwestern has the 

 largest dental school, with Pennsylvania 

 second, and the former institution possesses 

 the largest divinity school. The greatest 

 number of music students is enrolled at 

 Syracuse, and the Columbia school of 

 pharmacy is more than twice as large as 

 that of its closest numerical competitor, 

 Illinois. The largest veterinary college is 

 at the Ohio State University, and by far 

 the largest school of agriculture is found 

 at the University of Minnesota, the number 

 of agricultural students at the University 

 of Illinois being 100 less than one half the 

 number of those at Minnesota. The gains 

 that have been made by the schools of agri- 

 culture all over the country are worthy of 

 especial mention. As far as is known, 

 instructors in summer schools who are not 

 also counted in the regular academic year 

 of 1905-06 are not included under officers. 

 Of these there were no less than 47 in the 

 Harvard summer school, which would bring 

 the Harvard officers' total to 616. 



Taking up the different institutions given 

 in the table in alphabetical order, we note 

 that there has been a slight decrease in the 

 enrolment at the University of California, 

 a decrease affecting the summer session as 

 well as the regular term. In the academic 

 department there has been a slight gain 

 and in the scientific schools a slight loss. 

 In the undergraduate departments of the 

 university advanced matriculation require- 

 ments were put into effect for the first time 

 this fall. The chief of these new require- 

 ments was the addition of French and Ger- 

 man to the requirements for. admission to 

 all of the engineering colleges and the addi- 

 tion of geometrical drawing to the regular 

 requirements of these colleges. This year. 



also, the university for the first time re- 

 cjuired that all candidates for teachers' 

 recommendations shall spend at least one 

 half-year in the graduate school (after re- 

 ceiving a baccalaureate degree) before re- 

 ceiving their recommendations as teachers. 

 This latter requirement has resulted in a 

 considerable increase in the number of 

 graduate students (from 194 to 271), and 

 it may also have resulted in some loss in 

 the number of undergraduate students, by 

 reason of the fact that prospective teachers 

 may have gone directly from the high 

 schools to the normal schools for their pro- 

 fessional training. The professional schools 

 of law and medicine both show a falling 

 off, which is especially marked in the 

 school of medicine, where the decrease has 

 been one from 106 to 72. A year ago there 

 were 33 first year men in medicine, as 

 against 9 this year, the large falling off in 

 their number being due to the fact that 

 beginning with this year no students were 

 admitted to the medical school who did not 

 possess the equivalent of two full years of 

 regular work in a college or university. 

 Although the requirements for matricula- 

 tion in the college of agriculture were this 

 year advanced so as to equal the require- 

 ments for the other schools of the univer- 

 sity, there has been a decided gain in the 

 number of new students, an increase that 

 we shall note in connection with all of the 

 other institutions on the list, with a single 

 exception. The dental school shows a 

 slight loss and the school of pharmacy a 

 small gain. The summer session shows a 

 falling off from 913 to 795. Of the 3,631 

 students at the University of California, 

 1,872 are men and 1,759 are women. 



The fall enrolment at the University of 

 Chicago shows a considerable increase over 

 that of last year, whereas the gain in the 

 summer term of the university is not so 

 marked. The college department shows a 



