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Yale and Texas. Illinois now attracts the 

 largest number of medical students, fol- 

 lowed by New York University, Northwest- 

 ern, Pennsylvania, Tulane, Johns Hop- 

 kins, Michigan and Columbia, each of these 

 institutions enrolling more than three 

 hundred students. In law. Harvard and 

 Michigan have passed New York Univer- 

 sity, these being followed by Minnesota, 

 Columbia and Pennsylvania, the six insti- 

 tutions mentioned being the only ones in 

 the table to attract over three hundred 

 students. 



Sixty per cent, of the graduate schools 

 show an increase over last year's enroll- 

 ment, and where losses are registered, they 

 are slight. Columbia, Stanford and Illi- 

 nois exhibit the largest gains, the first 

 named institution, with an enrollment of 

 1,167 non-professional graduate students, 

 having more than twice as many as the next 

 largest, Harvard (456), which is followed 

 in turn by Chicago, Yale, Pennsylvania, 

 California, New York, Cornell, Illinois and 

 Wisconsin, each of these institutions en- 

 rolling more than two hundred students. 

 Over two thirds of the students enrolled in 

 these eleven universities are to be found in 

 eastern institutions. 



All of the schools of agriculture con- 

 tinue to show a highly encouraging in- 

 crease, Minnesota remaining at the head of 

 the list, while Cornell has passed Illinois. — 

 Of the architectural schools Cornell and 

 Syracuse show slight losses, the others hav- 

 ing registered an increase, especially Illi- 

 nois and Columbia. The four largest 

 schools are Illinois, Pennsylvania, Co- 

 lumbia and Cornell, in the order named, 

 the two latter having changed places since 

 the last year. — The largest schools of com- 

 merce are those of New York University, 

 Pennsylvania and Northwestern, and all of 

 these show very considerable gains in at- 

 tendance over last year. Wisconsin and 



California have also increased their en- 

 rollment in this field, while Illinois and 

 the Harvard graduate school of business 

 administration have remained stationary. 

 With the exception of Iowa and Tulane, all 

 of the dental schools have increased their 

 attendance, Northwestern, Illinois and 

 Harvard showing the largest gains. The 

 institutions continue to rank in the order 

 Pennsylvania, Northwestern, Michigan, 

 Minnesota, in this department. — Of the 

 four divinity schools. Harvard alone shows 

 a gain, the order in point of size being 

 Northwestern, Chicago, Yale, Harvard. — 

 At aU of the institutions where the stu- 

 dents of forestry are listed separately, a 

 gain is apparent. — In the department of 

 music, half of the institutions show a 

 decrease in the number of students, this 

 being especially large in the case of North- 

 western and Wisconsin. Syracuse, Ne- 

 braska and Northwestern continue to have 

 the largest schools. — In the department of 

 pedagogy Minnesota, Missouri and New 

 York University have suffered losses in at- 

 tendance, while the other universities regis- 

 tered gains, especially the Teachers CoUege 

 of Columbia University, which exhibits an 

 increase of no less than 432 students, it 

 being by far the largest school of education 

 in the country. It is followed by New 

 York University, Chicago and Missouri, in 

 the order named. — There has been a slight 

 gain in the total number of students of 

 pharmacy, the largest decrease having been 

 experienced by Northwestern, the largest 

 increase by Western Reserve, the other in- 

 stitutions being about evenly divided in 

 the matter of gains and losses. The three 

 largest schools continue to be Columbia, 

 Northwestern and Illinois. — Ohio State, 

 which has the largest school of veterioary 

 medicine, has registered a loss of 21 stu- 

 dents, Pennsylvania, which comes next, has 



