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session students returning for work in the 

 fall. Several new regulations covering 

 students' fees have recently been adopted. 

 For the first time a matriculation fee of 

 $5 was required of all new students this 

 fall, and the graduation fee has been in- 

 creased from $5 to $10 and the fee for 

 advanced degrees from $10 to $20. The 

 tuition fees in all courses in the colleges of 

 mechanical and civil engineering have been 

 increased from $125 to $150 per annum. 

 The entrance requirements in engineering 

 have been raised so as to include advanced 

 work in both modern languages, or their 

 equivalent, and this may have contributed 

 to the fact that the departments in question 

 do not show as large gains as they did last 

 year. The number of women students in 

 the university shows an increase for the 

 first time in several years, and this increase 

 probably explains in some measure the gain 

 in attendance in the academic department, 

 in which nearly all of the women students 

 are enrolled. 



The total attendance at Harvard Univer- 

 sity shows a decrease of 109, to which the 

 summer session did not contribute. In the 

 college department there has been a loss of 

 107 men, while Radcliffe College shows a 

 slight increase. The scientific schools, as 

 well as the professional schools of law, 

 medicine, dentistry and divinity, show a 

 falling off in enrolment, while the graduate 

 schools and the department of agriculture 

 show slight gains. The medical school of 

 the university has again raised its standard 

 for entrance by requiring a knowledge of 

 organic chemistry. The full requirements 

 now call for a certificate that the student 

 has passed in one year's full work in or- 

 ganic chemistry, a certificate that he has 

 passed in qualitative analysis, and a college 

 degree. In spite of this fact, there is an 

 increase of ten in the entering class, the 

 first upward step since the requirement of 



a degree for admission. At Harvard, as at 

 Columbia, the number of high school grad- 

 uates in the academic department seems to 

 be larger than ever and there is an accom- 

 panying decrease in the number of gradu- 

 ates of private preparatory schools. Of 

 the total number of students registered at 

 Harvard University, 4,382 are men and 

 901 are women. 



At the University of Illinois there has 

 been a considerable increase in the grand 

 total, but the increase aside from the sum- 

 mer session is also quite marked. The 

 largest growth is shown by the scientific 

 schools and the law school; the number of 

 men in the academic department has re- 

 mained stationary, whereas there has been 

 an increase of 51 in the number of women 

 in the same department. The enrolm^ent in 

 the school of medicine has decreased from 

 629 to 540, thus reflecting the falling off 

 in the number of medical students all over 

 the country, to which attention has fre- 

 quently been called by the writer. The 

 graduate schools, the school of pharmacy 

 and the school of agriculture shovv^ slight 

 gains, whereas there has been a falling off 

 in dentistry and music. The students men- 

 tioned under 'other courses' are enrolled in 

 the library school, which offers a five-year 

 course leading to the degree of B.L.S. Of 

 the 3,635 students registered at the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, 2,898 are men and 737 

 are women. 



The enrolment in the University of Indi- 

 ana shows an increase in the fall registra- 

 tion as well as in the summer session. 

 There is a total enrolment of 1,377 stu- 

 dents, of which 862 are men and 515 are 

 women. 



At Johns Hopkins University there has 

 been a decrease in enrolment of about 7 

 per cent., for which no definite reason can 

 be assigned. The academic department 

 and the faculty of medicine have remained 



