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2 Includes painting and sculpturing. 



^Included elsewhere. 



first time, of graduate courses, for whicli credit 

 may be secured towards the fulfillment of the 

 requirements for the degree of Master of Arts ; 

 second, to the accrediting of the summer col- 

 lege courses toward the Bachelor of Science in 

 Education degree (referred to above) ; third, 

 to the establishment of a state law requiring 

 attendance by state teachers upon a junior 

 school ; and fourth, to the permissible substitu- 

 tion of summer courses for attendance upon 

 teachers' institutes. 



The University of Michigan law school 

 shows a loss of about fifty students due to a 

 new requirement of two years of collegiate 

 work for admission in place of the one year 

 requirement which had been in force the pre- 



vious three years. In the college of literature, 

 science and the arts the gain was unexpected; 

 the gain in women students being probably 

 due to the opening of two new residences for 

 women. 



Part of the increase in the college of sci- 

 ence, literature and the arts at the University 

 of Minnesota is the result of an announcement 

 of special courses arranged for the Twin City 

 teachers which met with a gratifying response. 

 The large increase in the college of dentistry 

 is due to a dual freshmen enrollment, the last 

 in the three-year course, and the first in a four- 

 year course established this year. The maxi- 

 mum number of students were admitted to the 

 freshmen class in the three-year course and 



