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TABLE II 



Doctorates Conferred in the Sciences 



TABLE III 



Doctorates Distributed According to Subjects 



work in our universities within fifteen 

 years. It is, however, still the case that, 

 in proportion to its population, Germany 

 has six times as many men officially certi- 

 fied, as competent to undertake advanced 

 teaching and research work. 



From 1898 to 1907 five universities — 

 Chicago, Harvard, Columbia, Yale and the 



numbers of degrees, varying only from 356 

 at Chicago to 305 at the Johns Hopkins, 

 but during the last six years these five 

 universities have arranged themselves 

 somewhat definitely in the order shown in 

 the table, and it seems not improbable that 

 this order will be maintained for a long 

 time. Pennsylvania and Cornell have in 

 this period come into the same group as 



