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departments and in the total registration, 

 it should be noticed that a threatened ty- 

 phoid-fever epidemic in Columbia at the 

 beginning of the regular session caused a 

 number of students to transfer to other 

 institutions. Of the total number of stu- 

 dents in the University of Missouri, 1,388 

 are men and 499 are women. 



Inasmuch as the figures given last year 

 for the University of Nebraska were those 

 of the academic year 1903-4 and not those 

 for the beginning of the academic year 

 1904-5, no accurate comparison can be 

 made. The enrolment given in the table 

 for 1902, 1903 and 1904 represents the 

 final figures for the close of the respective 

 academic years, and the total of 2,635 for 

 November 1, 1905, will no doubt be in- 

 creased to approximately 2,800 by the close 

 of the year, thus showing a slight gain in 

 the total registration over last year. The 

 200 students mentioned under 'other 

 courses' will probably be enrolled in the 

 short course in agriculture, their number 

 being only estimated. The increase in 

 registration has occurred in the scientific 

 schools and in the departments of law and 

 agriculture. Medicine shows a decided 

 falling otf. Of the 2,435 students enrolled, 

 (i. e., excluding the prospective enrolment 

 in the short course in agriculture), 1,275 

 are men and 1,160 are women. 



Northwestern University shows a slight 

 decrease over last year. There has been a 

 considerable gain in the academic depart- 

 ment and in the theological school, and 

 smaller gains in the law school and the 

 school of music. No particular reason can 

 be ascribed to the decrease in the medical 

 school; it seems merely to reflect the de- 

 crease in the number of medical students 

 that has been noticed for several years 

 throughout the country. The marked de- 

 crease in the dental school is due to the 

 graduation of an unusually large class in 



June, a class which had been carried for 

 three years and which was abnormally 

 large, because of the fear that the length 

 of the course might be increased to four 

 years. Three years ago the entering 

 class in the dental school was two or 

 three times as large as might naturally 

 have been expected, and the following class 

 was proportionately small. The registra- 

 tion of the first-year men in the school this 

 year has been considerably larger than was 

 anticipated. The decrease in the school of 

 pharmacy is apparently due to an advance 

 in the admission requirenients by the addi- 

 tion of one year of high school credit. 

 Northwestern University has a total regis- 

 tration of 2,791 students, of which 1,998 

 are men and 793 are women. 



Ohio State University shows a decided 

 gain over last year, in which the scientific 

 schools have a considerable share, although 

 the academic department also shows an 

 increase in both men and women. The law 

 school, the graduate schools and the school 

 of forestry show a decrease, whereas agri- 

 culture, pharmacy and the veterinary 

 school show an increase. The enrolment 

 at the summer session has almost tripled. 

 The total registration at the university is 

 2,057, of which 1,645 are men and 412 

 are women. 



The increase in the enrolment at the 

 University of Pennsylvania is quite strik- 

 ing; indeed, the increase in the total num- 

 ber of students is the largest in the history 

 of the institution. Every department ex- 

 cept the dental school shows a gain over 

 last year, and notwithstanding the fact 

 that the fees in all departments have been 

 slightly raised, all the entering classes 

 show a considerable increase, even in the 

 dental school, where $60 per year has been 

 added to the tuition. An innovation in 

 the payment of tuition fees in the college 

 has been announced by the university au- 



