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[N. S. Vol. XLIII. No. 1099 



Illinois (10), Ohio State (11), Minnesota (12), 

 Northwestern (13), Syracuse (14), Missoviri 

 (15), Texas (16), Nebraska (18), Iowa State 

 (20), Kansas (21), Stanford (25), John Hop- 

 kins (28), "Washington University (29), and 

 Virginia (30). The other twelve institutions 

 shift about as follows : Pennsylvania advances 

 to fourth position, forcing Wisconsin back to 

 fifth. Harvard, holding sixth position last 

 year, falls back to the eighth, and Michigan 

 and New York move up a notch. Pitts- 

 burgh formerly nineteenth, exchanges with 

 Yale for the seventeenth position and Tulane 

 drops back two places, thus advancing Cin- 

 cinnati and Indiana. Western Reserve and 

 Princeton change about. 



If the summer session enrollment be omitted 

 the universities in the table rank in size as fol- 

 lows: Columbia (Y,042), Pennsylvania (6,656), 

 California (5,977), New York University 

 (5,853), Michigan (5,821), Illinois (5,511), 

 Harvard (5,435), Cornell (5,392), Ohio State 

 (4,897), Wisconsin (4,868), Minnesota (4,679), 

 Chicago (4,324), Northwestern (4,153), Syra- 

 cuse (3,830), Pittsburgh (3,569), Yale (3,303), 

 Nebraska (3,067), Missouri (3,043), Iowa State 

 (2,704), Texas (2,611), Cincinnati (2,524), 

 Kansas (2,470), Stanford (2,048), Indiana 

 (1,771), Princeton (1,615), Western Eeserve 

 (1,469), Tulane (1,321), Washington Univer- 

 sity (1,264), Johns Hopkins (1,173), Virginia 

 (1,008). 



A comparison shows that the relative posi- 

 tions of thirteen of the universities remain un- 

 changed, and that the changes in the position 

 of the remaining seventeen institutions in- 

 volve only the shifting about of pairs — except 

 in one instance. These shifts include the fol- 

 lowing, the first in each case having the ad- 

 vantage. New York and Michigan, Illinois 

 and Harvard, Ohio State and Wisconsin, 

 Pittsburgh and Yale, Cincinnati and Kansas, 

 Indiana and Princeton, and Tulane and Wash- 

 ington. Northwestern is now thirteenth, Min- 

 nesota and Chicago advancing a step thereby. 



Including the summer sessions the largest 

 gains in the decade from 1905 to 1915 were 

 made by Columbia (7,133), California (6,924), 

 Pennsylvania (3,873), New York University 



(3,744) Wisconsin (3,727), Chicago (3,411), 

 Ohio State (3,394), Illinois (2,515), Cornell 

 (2,480), Texas (2,382), Michigan (2,163). The 

 same group made the largest gains in the 

 decade 1904 to 1914. Considering the gains in 

 the last ten years of the thirty institutions, it 

 is of interest to note that although the state 

 institutions have had wide public attention 

 because of their phenomenal growth a study 

 shows that the other institutions of the group 

 have also made noteworthy advances, approxi- 

 mately equalling in the aggregate the growth 

 of the state universities. 



Considering now the individual schools of 

 the various universities, in the number of col- 

 lege undergraduates, California leads with 

 1,294 men and 2,023 women, followed by Har- 

 vard with 2,516 men and 653 women (Ead- 

 clifie College) ; Michigan with 1,986 men and 

 890 women ; Minnesota with 993 men and 1,074 

 women; Chicago with 1,161 men and 851 

 women; Wisconsin with 850 men and 970 

 women; Columbia with 1,118 men and 656 

 women; Nebraska with 780 men and 826 

 women; Texas with 835 men and 767 women; 

 Kansas with 873 men and 678 women; Iowa 

 with 741 men and 762 women; Yale with 1,489 

 men; Indiana with 837 men and 597 women; 

 Syracuse with 1,430 men and women; Mis- 

 souri with 792 men and 588 women; North- 

 western with 645 men and 711 women ; Prince- 

 ton with 1,306 men; Ohio State with 853 and 

 430 women; Stanford with 820 men and 401 

 women. 



In engineering, Michigan now leads with 

 1,498 students followed by Cornell with 1,347, 

 Illinois with 1,148, Yale with 1,039, Ohio 

 State with 841, Wisconsin with 758, California 

 with 712, Pennsylvania with 611, Minnesota 

 with 578, Missouri with 564, Cincinnati with 

 474, and Stanford with 434. In law. Harvard 

 holds the lead with 786 students. New York 

 University with 726, Columbia with 471, 

 Michigan with 431, Texas with 340, and 

 Northwestern with 314 following in order. 



The largest medical school is at New York 

 University, where 509 students are now en- 

 rolled. Michigan has 378 students registered 

 in medicine; California, 373; Johns Hopkins, 



