Mabch 3, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



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California, New York University, Ne- 

 braska, Tale, Syracuse, Northwestern, 

 Ohio State, Missouri, Texas, Iowa, Indi- 

 ana, Kansas, Tulane, Stanford, Princeton, 

 Western Reserve, Washington, Virginia, 

 Johns Hopkins. Comparing this with the 

 order for 1910, we note that Chicago and 

 Michigan have passed Harvard, that Penn- 

 sylvania has changed places with Cornell, 

 that Illinois has been passed by Minnesota, 

 California and Wisconsin, that California 

 and Wisconsin have changed places, that 

 Northwestern has passed Yale and Syra- 

 cuse, that Kansas has outstripped Iowa 

 and Indiana, as Tulane and Indiana have 

 Iowa, and, finally, that Johns Hopkins and 

 Virginia have changed places. For the 

 first time in the annals of American uni- 

 versities the seven thousand mark has been 

 passed, Columbia having a grand total 

 registration this year of 7,411 students, a 

 figure that will closely approach the eight- 

 thousand mark before the end of the aca- 

 demic year. Pennsylvania is the sixth in- 

 stitution to pass the five-thousand mark; 

 Cornell passed it in 1909, Chicago and 

 Michigan in 1908, Columbia in 1907 and 

 Harvard somewhat earlier. If the summer 

 session enrollment be omitted, the univer- 

 sities in the table rank in size as follows: 

 Columbia, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Harvard, Cornell, Illinois, Cali- 

 fornia, Wisconsin, New York, Northwest- 

 ern, Nebraska, Yale, Syracuse, Chicago, 

 Ohio State, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Iowa, 

 Stanford, Princeton, Indiana, Western Re- 

 serve, Tulane, Johns Hopkins, Virginia, 

 this order also showing a number of 

 changes as compared with 1909, notably 

 the advancement of Minnesota from sev- 

 enth to second place. 



Examining the various faculties in or- 

 der, we find that the usual gains in the 

 male undergraduate academic departments 

 continue, the total increase being one of 



approximately a thousand students; it is 

 impossible to calculate the increase with 

 absolute accuracy, owing to constant 

 changes of classification. On the other 

 hand, it is noteworthy that the number of 

 undergraduate women shows a decrease at 

 the majority of the institutions in the list 

 — quite an unusual condition. Harvard 

 continues to lead in the niunber of male 

 academic students, being followed by Mich- 

 igan, Yale, Princeton, Wisconsin, Chicago, 

 Columbia, Cornell, Minnesota; including 

 the women, the order is Harvard, Mich- 

 igan, California, Wisconsin, Minnesota, 

 Chicago, Syracuse, Columbia, Yale, Prince- 

 ton, Texas and Kansas, each of these insti- 

 tutions enrolling over one thousand aca- 

 demic students. 



The number of scientific students is con- 

 siderably smaller than it was last year, 

 more than half of the institutions showing 

 a loss compared with 1909. The chief 

 gains were made by Illinois, Yale and Co- 

 lumbia, in the order given. The institu- 

 tions that attract over five hundred stu- 

 dents to their engineering schools are 

 Cornell, which continues to maintain its 

 old lead in this field, Michigan, Illinois, 

 Yale, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio State, 

 California, Columbia, Minnesota, Missouri 

 and Nebraska, in the order named, the first 

 four universities mentioned enrolling over 

 one thousand students each. 



As was the case last year, there has been 

 a decrease in the number both of medical 

 and law students, this being due in the 

 majority of the instances to a raising of 

 the requirements for entrance to these pro- 

 fessional schools. The largest gains in 

 medicine have been registered by Western 

 Reserve, California and Johns Hopkins, in 

 law by Stanford, Columbia and Harvard; 

 the largest losses in the former have been 

 experienced by Northwestern, Pennsyl- 

 vania and Iowa, in the latter by Virginia, 



