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remained stationary, and Cornell and New 

 York University have made slight gains. 



The summer sessions are enjoying con- 

 tinued prosperity, especially noteworthy 

 gains having been experienced by Colum- 

 bia (664), Pennsylvania (240), California 

 (232) and Tulane (184), while Harvard 

 registered a decrease of 504 students. The 

 only other decrease of moment was experi- 

 enced by Northwestern, where the summer 

 session in medicine has been abandoned; 

 Iowa, New York University, Syracuse and 

 Texas show slight losses, while Indiana, 

 Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Stanford 

 have remained practically stationary. 

 Chicago continues to assemble the greatest 

 number of summer students in its summer 

 quarter, Columbia's summer session is 

 rapidly nearing the three-thousand mark, 

 while Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and 

 California have over a thousand students 

 each. Then come Cornell, Tulane, Har- 

 vard, Pennsylvania and Illinois, in the 

 order named. 



Of the New England colleges for men 

 included in the following table, Dart- 

 mouth, Tufts, Wesleyan and WiUiams 

 show gains over last year, Amherst and 

 Bowdoin losses. Brown also shows a loss, 

 as do Bryn Mawr and Mt. Holyoke, while 

 Smith, Vassar and WeUesley have more 

 students than last year. jMassachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, Lafayette and 

 Oberlin have gained, Haverford, Lehigh 

 and Purdue lost. — At Amherst the intro- 

 duction of a group system of electives, as 

 well as the inauguration of a one-half-year 

 rule in public exhibitions, may have had 

 some effect on the diminution in size of the 

 entering class. — At Brown 657 of the col- 

 lege students are men, 199 women, and 

 there are 74 graduate students enrolled. — 

 At Bryn Mawr there are 69 graduate stu- 

 dents. During the year 1909-10 this col- 

 lege received gifts amounting to $694,000. 



1908 1904 



528 412 

 420 363 



Institution 1910 1909 



Amherst 502 526 



Bowdoin (incl. med.) . 398 419 

 Brown {inel. graduate 



school) 030 974 



Bryn Mawr ( incl. grad- 

 uate school) 409 4]2 



Dartmouth ( incl. eng., 

 med., grad. stud, and 



commerce) 1,229 1,197 



Haverford 150 157 



Lafayette 496 468 



Lehigh 616 667 



Massachusetts Institute 



of Technology 1.506 1,4S0 



Mount Holyoke 743 752 



Oberlin (college of arts 



and sciences only) . . 998 953 



Purdue 1.611 LC82 



Smith 1,618 1,609 



Tufts (college and engi- 

 neering) 433 428 



Vassar 1,0.38 1,0.39 



Wellesley 1,378 1,319 



Wesleyan 365 343 



Williams 5tl 528 



— At Dartmouth 1,144 students are regis- 

 tered in the coUege, 43 in the engineering 

 school, 41 in medicine, 34 in the Tuck 

 school of commerce and administration, 

 and 21 are graduate students. There were 

 also 151 students enrolled in the summer 

 school of this institution, of whom 47 re- 

 turned in the fall, giving a grand total of 

 1,333 students. Dartmouth has .just com- 

 pleted a new gymnasium building, while 

 an administration building is being erected 

 for the college offices only. — Haverford 

 College is completing a new science hall, 

 principally for chemistry, and has received 

 a donation from an alumnus for a building 

 for the Haverford Union. The college has 

 also introduced a pension system, for 

 which a fund of $150,000 has been raised. 

 — At Lafayette College 77 students are en- 

 rolled in the classical course, 135 in the 

 Latin scientific, 45 in the general scientific, 

 47 in the chemical. 89 in the civil engineer- 



