December 8, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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thorities. The tuition in the academic 

 department has been fixed at $150 a year, 

 whereas during- the past few years every 

 student was required to pay $10 for every 

 unit of work taken by him, sixty units being 

 necessary for the degree. The 621 students 

 mentioned under 'other courses' are dis- 

 tributed as follows : 303 are enrolled in the 

 evening school of accounts and finance, 278 

 in the school of finance and commerce and 

 40 in biology. The figures for last year 

 included 155 students under the heading 

 Teachers College. This year there are 226 

 students enrolled in special Saturday 

 courses for teachers, but they have been 

 excluded from the table, inasmuch as sim- 

 ilar students are not counted in the Co- 

 lumbia and Harvard figures. 



Princeton University has experienced a 

 slight decrease in enrolment, although the 

 freshman class shows a gain. The academic 

 department has decreased from 665 to 629, 

 whereas the scientific schools have lost only 

 4 students. There has been a slight gain 

 in the graduate schools, 



Syracuse University continues to make 

 the consistent gains that it has shown dur- 

 ing the past few years and these gains are 

 visible all along the line, except in the 

 faculty of medicine. 



The total enrolment at the University of 

 Virginia has remained stationary to all in- 

 tents and purposes, although there have 

 been changes in different faculties. The 

 professional faculties of law and medicine 

 both show a falling off, which is especially 

 noticeable in the case of medicine. 



The University of Wisconsin apparently 

 shows a decrease in the total registration, 

 whereas in reality there has been a slight 

 gain, inasmuch as the dairy students and 

 short-course students in agriculture are not 

 included in this year's figures. The large 

 number under the first item of double 

 registration is due to the fact that the 



classification at the University of Wiscon- 

 sin is based upon a somewhat different 

 plan from that followed in the accompany- 

 ing table. The school of pharmacy and 

 the pedagogical course are included in and 

 are a part of the college of letters and sci- 

 ence, and the same is true of the students 

 in the graduate school ; where the latter are 

 taking work in engineering or in agricul- 

 ture they are classified as graduate students 

 in these courses and are included in the 

 total attendance of the college, so that the 

 total in the college of arts includes the 

 graduate students in that college, as well 

 as the students in pharmacy and pedagogy. 

 The total number given in the graduate 

 school includes graduate students taking 

 work in the college of letters and science, 

 the college of engineering and the college 

 of agriculture. There has been a slight 

 decrease in attendance in the college of 

 engineering and the school of law, a de- 

 crease that is accounted for by advanced 

 entrance requirements that became opera- 

 tive in these colleges this fall. For admis- 

 sion to the school of law the candidate is 

 now required to have had at least one year's 

 attendance in college in addition to the 

 regular entrance requirements. In engi- 

 neering increased requirements in mathe- 

 matics have gone into effect. The increase 

 in the attendance at the summer session is 

 worthy of note, for there were 136 more 

 students in 1905 than in 1904. Of the total 

 students enrolled, 2,170 are men and 913 

 are women. 



The total registration at Yale University 

 shows a decided increase over last year, 

 which may be attributed in some measure 

 to the fact that the first summer session 

 held by the university wias opened in July, 

 1905. It has been impossible to obtain the 

 correct figures under the second item of 

 double registration and it was necessary to 

 make an estimate, which no doubt comes 



