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the attendance at Columbia University during 

 the academic year of 1910-11 and the attend- 

 ance at Berlin during the winter semester of 

 the same year, leaving the summer session 

 students out of consideration in both cases. 



There were matriculated at the University 

 of Berlin last winter, 9,686 students, distrib- 

 uted as follows : Protestant theology, 406 ; law, 

 agriculture and forestry, 2,439; medicine, 

 pharmacy and dentistry, 1,864; philosophy, 

 pure science, etc., 4,987. In addition 778 men 

 and 256 women were enrolled as auditors, so 

 that the total attendance amounted to 10,720, 

 this being exclusive of 4,664 auditors regis- 

 tered at other Berlin schools of university 

 rank. Leaving the auditors out of considera- 

 tion, the University of Berlin had an attend- 

 ance last winter of 9,686 students, as against 

 Columbia's 5,893, the latter being distributed 

 as follows : undergraduates, 1,349 ; theology, 

 — ; law, 376; medicine, 329; pharmacy, 275; 

 applied science, 724; architecture and music, 

 182; political science, philosophy and pure 

 science, 1,367; Teachers College, 1,571 (280 

 duplicates). Of the 1,349 undergraduates, 

 839 were enrolled in the freshman and sopho- 

 more classes, and these students in Germany 

 would correspond to the two last years of the 

 secondary schools — i. e., they would not be of 

 university grade in Germany. Omitting these 

 students, the total would be reduced to 5,054. 

 Then if we subtract the enrollment of 

 Teachers College, the faculty of applied sci- 

 ence and the faculty of fine arts, we would 

 have compared with the 9,280 students en- 

 rolled at Berlin in the various faculties, ex- 

 clusive of theology, only 2,857 students at 

 Columbia. The number of students in agri- 

 culture, forestry and dentistry at Berlin — de- 

 partments not represented at Columbia — is not 

 large enough appreciably to affect the result. 

 The law and medical schools at the University 

 of Berlin are each about five times as large as 

 the corresponding schools at Columbia, and 

 the Berlin non-professional graduate students 

 are more than three times as numerous as they 

 are at Columbia. It must also be borne in 

 mind that in general the requirements for 

 admission to the professional schools, with the 



exception of law and medicine, are — with few 

 exceptions — higher at Berlin and other German 

 universities than they are at Columbia and 

 elsewhere in the United States. 



In the same year the University of Munich 

 had an enrollment of 6,905 students, exclusive 

 of auditors, and Leipsic had an enrollment of 

 4,900 students, so that the former at least may 

 be regarded as being larger than Columbia, no 

 matter from which standpoint the matter may 

 be viewed, and from certain viewpoints Leipsic 

 is larger. The latter university, in addition 

 to its 4,900 matriculated students, had 904 

 auditors, and it might thus also be considered 

 as outranking Columbia in size. If the sum- 

 mer semesters for Berlin, Munich and Leipsic 

 were added, the numerical superiority of these 

 institutions over Columbia would become even 

 greater, for as against Columbia's 2,632 sum- 

 mer session students in 1910 and 2,970 stu- 

 dents in 1911, there were registered at the 

 University of Berlin in the summer semester 

 of 1910, 7,383 matriculated students and 651 

 auditors ; at Munich there were 6,890 matricu- 

 lated students and 474 auditors; and at Leip- 

 sic 4,592 students and 784 auditors. These 

 figures are all based on reliable statistics com- 

 piled annually for the " Deutscher Universi- 

 tats-Kalender." 



I might also add that compared with the 

 724 students enrolled at Columbia in the 

 faculty of applied science during the academic 

 year 1910-11, there were 2,168 students regis- 

 tered at the Berlin School of Technology in 

 the winter semester of 1909-10, these students 

 of course not being included in the enrollment 

 of the University of Berlin. 



It is also well to remember that Berlin is 

 not the largest university in the world, this 

 distinction belonging to the University of 

 Paris, at which there were enrolled during the 

 winter semester of 1909-10 no fewer than 

 17,512 students. At the University of Cairo 

 there were over 10,000, at Moscow over 9,000 

 matriculated students, at St. Petersburg al- 

 most 9,000; at Vienna there were 6,833 ma- 

 triculated students in the summer semester of 

 1910, at Budapest (Hungary) there were 6,683 

 matriculated students in the winter semester 



