January 21, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



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M. What shall be the field and the func- 

 tion of this body ? Shall it be strictly pro- 

 fessional and official 1 Or shall it represent 

 our democratic spirit and our forecast, in- 

 troducing the element of public policy and 

 prophecy even into technical discussion, 

 bringing together the men and women from 

 all sides and expressing all the work and 

 movements? Our work is well under way. 

 The morning hours are passed and the day 

 is well toward noon. 



L. H. Bailey 



UNIVERSITY REGISTRATION 

 STATISTICS 



The registration returns for November 1, 

 1915, of thirty of the universities of the 

 country will be found tabulated on a following 

 page. These statistics show only the registra- 

 tion in the universities considered. There is 

 no intention to convey the idea that these uni- 

 versities are the thirty largest universities in 

 the country, nor that they are necessarily the 

 leading institutions. 



The largest gains in terms of student units, 

 including the summer attendance, but making 

 due allowance by deduction for the summer 

 session students who returned for instruction 

 in the fall, are registered by California 

 (2,375), Pennsylvania (900), Minnesota (892), 

 Chicago (837), Columbia (594), and Pittsburgh 

 (594), New York University (514), Ohio State 

 (508), Illinois (486), Missouri (483), Cornell 

 (412), Iowa State (370), Michigan (365), 

 Northwestern (336), Cincinnati (334), West- 

 ern Reserve (302). 



The University of California shows a large 

 gain of 2,375 students; no other institution 

 shows a gain of more than 1,000 as against 

 four last year. However, sixteen institu- 

 tions (listed above) show gains of more than 

 300 as against fourteen last year and ten the 

 year before. The fourteen institutions last 

 year were Columbia, California, Pittsburgh, 

 Ohio State, Wisconsin, Harvard, New York 

 University, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Illi- 

 nois, Nebraska, Cornell, Cincinnati, and 

 Michigan. Of these Wisconsin, Harvard and 



Nebraska are not included this year in the 

 group, and Chicago, Missouri, Iowa State, 

 Northwestern, and Western Reserve are in- 

 cluded this year but were not last year. 



Pour institutions as against one last year 

 show decreases in grand total attendance. 

 They are Tulane, Washington University, 

 Harvard and Princeton. Exclusive of sum- 

 mer sessions Western Reserve and Wisconsin 

 show decreases, Washington University and 

 Princeton not having summer sessions. 



Omitting the enrollments in the summer 

 session, the universities showing the largest 

 gains for 1915 are Pennsylvania (916), Minne- 

 sota (739), Pittsburgh (594), Ohio State 

 (502), New York University (438), Chicago 

 (437), Illinois (374), California (363), Mis- 

 souri (361), Cincinnati (334), Cornell (314), 

 Michigan (299), Columbia (290), Nebraska 

 (288), Harvard (274), Iowa State (255), 

 Northwestern (208), Indiana (201). Eighteen 

 show gains of more than 200 as against four- 

 teen last year and twelve the year before last. 

 Of the eighteen thirteen are in the west and 

 far west and five are in the east. A similar 

 list last year consisted of eight western and six 

 eastern institutions. 



According to the enrollment figures for 

 1915, the thirty institutions, inclusive of the 

 sum m er sessions, rank as follows: Columbia 

 (11,888), California (10,555), Chicago (7,968), 

 Pennsylvania (7,404), Wisconsin (6,810), 

 Michigan (6,684), New York University 

 (6,656), Harvard (6,351), Cornell (6,351), 

 Illinois (6,150), Ohio State (5,451), Minnesota 

 (5,376), Northwestern (4,408), Syracuse 

 (4,012), Missouri (3,868), Texas (3,572), Pitts- 

 burgh (3,569), Nebraska (3,356), Yale (3,303), 

 Iowa State (3,138), Kansas (2,806), Cin- 

 cinnati (2,524), Indiana (2,.347), Tulane 

 (2,160), Stanford (2,061), Western Reserve 

 (1,825), Princeton (1,615), Johns Hopkins 

 (1,586), Washington University (1,264), Vir- 

 ginia (1,008). 



A comparison shows that the following 

 eighteen universities hold the same relative 

 positions (indicated by the numerals following 

 the name) as was held last year. Columbia 

 (1), California (2), Chicago (3), Cornell (9), 



