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STUDENTS IN TEE GEEMAN 

 VNIVESSITIES ^ 



Since the establishment of the empire the 

 number of students at the German universi- 

 ties has regularly risen from about 13,000 un- 

 til in the middle of the 80's it had already- 

 doubled and the threatened overcrowding of 

 academic pursuits was recognized. The Ger- 

 man student body tripled its original number 

 by 1904, and reached in the current summer 

 57,230 as compared with 54,847 in the previ- 

 ous year. Of the entire number of students 

 to-day 54,678 are men, 2,552 women; of these 

 at present about 53,000 belong to the empire 

 and about 4,300 are foreigners. A comparison 

 of the figures for the different departments 

 for the present and previous year and for 

 1906 shows what changes in the direction of 

 studies have occurred in consequence of the 

 influence of the needs of the state and so- 

 ciety and especially what occupations are 

 favored. In this respect the rapid growth of 

 medicine as a profession is striking, the num- 

 ber of medical students rising from 6,683 in 

 1906 to 10,682 last year and now to 11,927. 

 Nearest to them stand the students of phi- 

 losophy, philology and history who number at 

 present 16,158 as compared with 15,475 and 

 10,832; mathematics and natural science, 

 8,442 (last year 7,937, in 1906, 6,323); law, 

 11,023 (11,323 and 12,375) ; evangelical theol- 

 ogy, 2,825 (2,507 and 2,329) ; of catholic theol- 

 ogy, 1,834 (1,840 and 1,841); political econ- 

 omy and agriculture, 2,729 (2,406 and 1,801) ; 

 pharmacy, 916 (1,147 and 1,767); dentistry, 

 1,046 (1,264 and 755) ; forestry — only matric- 

 ulated in Munich, Tiibingen and Giessen, 170 

 (123 and 114), and of veterinary surgery — 

 only matriculated in Giessen 160 (141 and 

 114). According to this the number of law 

 students has diminished in consequence of 

 the overfilling of the profession and this is 

 still more the case with pharmacy. The re- 

 cent reduction in the number of dental stu- 

 dents is to be attributed to raising the en- 

 trance requirements and the lengthening and 

 increase in cost of the course. 



^Prom the Journal of the Ameriean Medical 

 Association. 



Of the present student body 28,981 are en- 

 rolled at the ten Prussian universities as com- 

 pared with 27,577 in the summer of 1910. At 

 the three Bavarian there are 9,445, last year, 

 9,369; at the two Baden, 5,532 (1910, 5,279), 

 and in the other six state schools, including 

 the imperial at Strasburg, there are 13,222 as 

 compared with 12,602 in 1910. The university 

 of the metropolis stands at the head, having 

 at present 8,039 students, including 695 wo- 

 men, as compared with 7,902 and 626 last 

 year. 



All the universities except Giessen have 

 gained this year, most markedly Greifswald, 

 Kiel, Rostock and Halle, and least, Heidel- 

 berg, Miinster and the three Bavarian uni- 

 versities. 



TSE ASTRONOMICAL FELLOWSHIP OF THE 

 NANTUCKET MABIA MITCHELL 

 ASSOCIATION 

 The Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association 

 offers an astronomical fellowship of one thou- 

 sand dollars, to a woman, for the year begin- 

 ning June 15, 1912, under the following con- 

 ditions: The year shall be divided into two 

 periods, approximately as follows: June 15 to 

 December 15 on Nantucket, where the observ- 

 atory is equipped with a five inch Alvan 

 Clark telescope. This period shall be occu- 

 pied in observation, research or study, and in 

 lectures or instruction to classes or individ- 

 uals. February 1 to June 15 at one of the 

 larger observatories. This semester shall be 

 occupied in original research and study. 

 During this period a distinct plan for the fol- 

 lowing Nantucket period shall be formulated. 

 Every fourth year the fellowship shall be 

 available during the entire year for study at 

 one of the larger observatories in Europe or 

 America. The fellowship will be awarded 

 annually, but in order that the work at Nan- 

 tucket may be combined advantageously with 

 the work at the selected observatory, the pre- 

 ference wiU be given to the same candidate 

 for three successive years. This candidate shall 

 have first consideration among applicants for 

 the special quadrennial appointment. A com- 

 petitive examination will not be held. The 



