August 21, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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Table I 

 Doctorates Conferred 



Columbia. . 

 Chicago. . . . 

 Harvard . . . 



Yale 



Johns Hopkins. 

 Pennsylvania . . 



Cornell 



Wisconsin 



Clark 



New York .... 



Michigan 



Boston 



Illinois 



Princeton 



California 



Bryn Mawr . . . 

 George Wash. . 



Virginia 



Brown 



Minnesota .... 



Stanford 



Catholic 



Iowa 



Nebraska 



Radcliffe 



Mass. Inst 



Cincinnati 



Indiana 



Ohio 



Missouri 



Pittsburgh 



Washington. . . 

 Vanderbilt. . . . 

 Georgetown . . . 



Colorado 



N. Carolina . . . 



Syracuse 



Kansas 



Northwestern. . 



Tufts 



Wash, and Lee 



Lafayette 



Dartmouth 



Lehigh 



Tulane 



<i^^ 



32.2 



35.6 



33.8 



31.8 



30.5 



22.5 



18.1 



8.6 



8.7 



6.7 



6.9 



4.4 



.5 



2.6 



3.3 



2.1 



2.8 



2.8 



2.3 



2.4 



1.4 



2.0 



1.1 



2.0 



.6 



.3 



.3 



.0 



.4 



.4 



Total 273.0 379 391 362 445 484 471 502 5,764 



1911, and considerably smaller than in 



1912. Harvard, Columbia and Chicago 



Table II 

 Doctorates Conferred in the Sciences 



765 

 709 

 651 

 554 

 505 

 424 

 421 

 237 

 168 

 168 

 132 

 109 



tisties, during which 2,786 degrees have 

 been conferred in the natural and exact 

 sciences and 2,978 in the other university- 

 subjects. For several years the number of 

 degrees in the sciences was increasing the 

 more rapidly, but this does not hold for the 

 past two years, the number of degrees in 

 the sciences being about the same as in 



conferred this year about the same number 

 of degrees and about twice as many as Yale 

 and Johns Hopkins. These two latter uni- 



