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SCIENCE 



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Indiana, Western Eeserve, Tulane, Washing- 

 ton University, Johns Hopkins and Virginia. 



This comparison shows that the relative 

 positions of thirteen of the universities remain 

 unchanged, although only in the case of one 

 institution, Pittsburgh, is the change of more 

 than passing interest. The others shift about 

 as follows: Michigan yields to California, 

 while New York University passes Harvard 

 and Illinois. Northwestern and Chicago now 

 follow Ohio State instead of preceding it as 

 in the past. Minnesota passes Chicago and 

 Syracuse, and the latter is followed by Yale. 

 Pittsburgh leaps to the sixteenth position, pass- 

 ing Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, Kansas and 

 Iowa. Nebraska and Missouri exchange places 

 and Iowa goes ahead of Texas and Kansas. 

 The remaining schools hold the same relative 

 positions with the exception of Washington 

 University and Tulane, which change about. 



While on the subject of the change in the 

 relative positions of the universities, based on 

 their registration statistics, it may be of some 

 interest to briefly point out the change in 

 1914 from the positions held in 1904. 



At that time the twenty-seven institutions 

 then considered, inclusive of the summer-ses- 

 sion, ranked as follows : 



1. Harvard. 10. Pennsylvania. 



2. Columbia. 11. Yale. 



3. Chicago. 12. Northwestern. 



4. Michigan. 13. Nebraska. 



5. Minnesota. 14. Syracuse. 



6. Cornell. 15. New York University. 



7. California. 16. Ohio State. 



8. Wisconsin. 17. Missouri. 



9. niinois. 18. Iowa State. 



19. Kansas. 



20. Stanford. 



21. Princeton. 



22. Indiana. 



23. Tulane. 



24. Texas. 



25. Western Reserve. 



26. Johns Hopkins. 



27. Virginia. 



Comparing this ranking with that of 1914 

 shown above, it should be noted that generally 

 speaking the relative positions of the univer- 

 sities have changed but little. By dividing all 

 of the universities considered in 1904 into 

 three equal groups, and by comparing these 

 groups with a similar grouping for 1914, it 



will be seen that each group has a tendency to 

 hold its membership; in other words, univer- 

 sities in group I. in 1904 are almost certain to 

 be found in group I. in 1914, those in group 

 II. in 1904 are almost certain to be found in 

 group II. in 1914, and those in group III. in 

 1904 are almost certain to be found in group 

 HI. in 1914. There are, however, several ex- 

 ceptions to this rule. Minnesota ten years ago 

 occupied fifth position in group I. and is now 

 occupying tweKth position, or the second posi- 

 tion in group II. Pennsylvania headed the 

 second group ten years ago and is now occupy- 

 ing fifth position in the first group. New 

 York University has changed from the fif- 

 teenth position to the eighth, that is, front 

 the second group to the first, in the same 

 period. The only other change is that of 

 Texas from the third to the second group. 



Changes in the position of the universities 

 within each group are not considerable. Har- 

 vard holding the ranking position ten years 

 ago, now has the sixth place, whereas Colum- 

 bia has taken the lead, with California follow- 

 ing. Michigan has gone from the fourth to 

 the seventh position. Yale has dropped from 

 the eleventh to the seventeenth position, and 

 Ohio State has advanced into its place, and 

 Nebraska has dropped back from the thirteenth 

 to the eighteenth position. There are no 

 decided changes in the third group. All of 

 which suggests the conclusion that the in- 

 crease in attendance of these universities tends 

 to be proportionately equal. This may be dis- 

 cussed more fuUy in another article. 



Including the summer session attendance, 

 the largest gains in the decade from 1904 to 

 1914 were made by Columbia (6,461), Cali- 

 fornia (4,442), New York University (3,762), 

 Pennsylvania (3,477), Wisconsin (3,326), Ohio 

 State (3,185), Chicago (3,096), Texas (2,441), 

 Michigan (2,319), Illinois (2,295), CorneU 

 (2,106). 



Considering, now, the individual schools of 

 the various universities, California with 1,238 

 men and 1,853 women, leads in the numbe't 

 of college undergraduates, being followed hf 

 Harvard, with 2,479 men and 603 womeii 

 (Eadcliffe College) ; Michigan, with 1,802 meA 



