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SCIENCE. 



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an integral portion of the regular course, 

 and the number of students taking advan- 

 tage of this medium to shorten the length 

 of their course is constantly on the increase. 

 Another factor that unquestionably entered 

 into the growth of the college is the comple- 

 tion of the two dormitories, Hartley and 

 Livingston Halls, -which accommodate about 

 600 men and which will no doubt work 

 a revolution in the life of the undergrad- 

 uate student body. Five hundred thousand 

 dollars has recently been presented by an 

 anonymous donor for the erection of a 

 building (Hamilton Hall) to be used by the 

 college. This building is to be ready for 

 occupancy in September, 1906, and will no 

 doubt contribute its share to the growth of 

 the college. Barnard College, the under- 

 graduate faculty for women, shows a slight 

 gain over last year. In the scientific schools 

 there has been a small loss, due to the 

 stricter, enforcement of requirements for 

 advancement, but this loss has been more 

 than made up by the gain in the school of 

 architecture, where there has been a con- 

 siderable increase on account of the intro- 

 duction of the atelier system and of a new 

 course leading to a certificate in architec- 

 ture instead of to the B.S. degree. All 

 three classes in the law school are composed 

 for the first time of holders of baccalau- 

 reate degrees (leaving college seniors out of 

 consideration), and the result is that there 

 has been a considerable falling off in the 

 attendance. The enrolment in the first 

 year class, counting college seniors, is 94. 

 The school of medicine also shows a large 

 decrease, due to the increased requirements 

 that first became operative two years ago. 

 The new requirements did not affect this 

 year's graduating class, so that the attend- 

 ance next year promises to be even smaller 

 than it is this year. The entering class 

 consists of 92 men, counting the college 

 seniors. The college seniors are not in- 



cluded in the figures for law and medicine 

 given in the table. In the school of phar- 

 macy there has been a loss of 82. Last 

 year the attendance in this faculty was 

 unusually large, on account of the desire 

 to register as a student of pharmacy 

 before the new statute increasing the re- 

 quirements for admission to schools of 

 pharmacy became operative. The increased 

 requirements went into effect this fall, with 

 the result that the entering class is con- 

 siderably smaller than it was last year. 

 The graduate schools show a growth from 

 709 to 804, and Teachers College has ex- 

 perienced a remarkable increase, namely^ 

 from 627 to 792. The summer session in 

 1905 was larger than the preceding one,, 

 but the increase was more than offset by a 

 greater gain in the number of summer ses- 

 sion students who returned for work in the 

 fall, there being 280 this year as against 

 184 last year, thus emphasizing the state- 

 ment made before, that the summer session 

 is being regarded more and more as an in- 

 tegral portion of the regular course of 

 study. 



At Cornell University there has been a 

 slight gain in the academic department 

 and a considerable increase in the scientific 

 schools. The law school has remained sta- 

 tionary, the medical school and the veterin- 

 ary school show a decrease, while the gradu- 

 ate department and the school of agriculture 

 show a gain, which is especially noticeable 

 in the case of the latter faculty. The enrol- 

 ment in the short winter course in agricul- 

 ture has increased from 135 to 199. Of 

 the 1,499 students enrolled in the scientific 

 schools, 1,082 are registered in the depart- 

 ment of mechanical engineering (Sibley 

 College) and 417 in the department of civil 

 engineering. The summer session shows a 

 falling off compared with the previous 

 year, and here, as at Columbia, there has 

 been an increase in the number of summer 



