October 24, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



685 



non-laboratory course, the latter factor is tlie 

 same as the number of class-room hours per 

 week given to the course; while in laboratory 

 courses, and occasionally in non-laboratory 

 courses, this factor is less than the number of 

 hours given to the class-room exercises of the 

 week. It is believed that this factor has al- 

 ways been used, in the work of these tables, in 

 accordance with the established ruling of the 

 institution concerned. 



The subjects have been grouped in three di- 

 visions along the lines most generally ac- 

 cepted, if any association of subjects has 

 gained sufficient adoption to entitle it to a 

 claim of general acceptance. The first di- 

 vision includes the foreign languages, to- 

 gether with archeology, philology, comparative 

 literature and " Greek art, etc." The third 

 division includes mathematics and the sci- 

 ences. The second division includes all other 

 subjects, particularly English, history, phi- 

 losophy and allied departments. It was found 

 unfeasible to retain in all cases the depart- 

 mental or subject names used by the various 

 institutions. Consequently, such grouping of 

 departmental titles as seemed feasible has 

 been made. Thus philology is made to in- 

 clude " classical philology " and " comparative 

 philology " ; archeology includes " archeology 

 and art " ; Romance languages includes 

 " French," " Italian " and " Spanish " ; 

 English includes " English composition," 

 " English language " and " English litera- 

 ture " ; public speaking includes " oratory " 

 and " elocution " ; government includes " mod- 

 ern government," or " politics " and " political 

 science," — which seems to be used at one insti- 

 tution as including government only and at 

 another as including both economies and 

 government ; economics includes " sociology," 

 " economics and sociology," " political econ- 

 omy " and " commercial organization " ; phi- 

 losophy includes " psychology " ; Bible includes 

 '■' Biblical history," " Biblical literature " 

 and " Biblical history and literature " ; art 

 includes " the fine arts," " art and archeol- 

 ogy " and " graphic art " ; drawing includes 

 the work in that subject which seems to be 

 properly supplementary to the department of 



art, while " mechanical drawing " is included 

 ordinarily under surveying and drawing or 

 mathematics ; music includes " musical his- 

 tory " ; mathematics includes " applied mathe- 

 matics " in the case of Leland Stanford Jun- 

 ior University ; engineering includes " graph- 

 ics," " graphics and engineering," " civil 

 engineering," " electrical engineering " and 

 " mechanical engineering " ; chemistry in- 

 cludes " chemistry and mineralogy " ; zoology 

 includes " entomology and bionomics " ; geol- 

 ogy includes " geology and mining," " geol- 

 ogy and mineralogy," " mineralogy " and 

 " mineralogy and petrography " ; physiology 

 and hygiene includes " physiology," " hy- 

 giene " and " physiology and histology " ; and 

 physical education includes " physical train- 

 ing " and " physical training and personal 

 hygiene," — ^the gymnasium-work component 

 of which subject is included in the figures 

 reported from a few institutions, but is 

 omitted by most of them. It is acknowledged 

 that these groupings might be changed on 

 fuller knowledge of the facts of the particular 

 institutions, but the various combinations 

 mentioned may perhaps be regarded suitable 

 and sufficient for the present purpose. 



It is to be noted that the Dartmouth fig- 

 ures do not take into account the courses 

 taken by the undergraduates in the profes- 

 sional work of the medical, Thayer and Tuck 

 schools. Similarly, the figures for Cornell 

 include only such work as is taken by arts 

 students, omitting that done by other stu- 

 dents in other colleges in that university. 



The statistics from the Johns Hopkins 

 University refer to the year 1912-13, but are 

 submitted for this report with the statement 

 that it is believed they are not very unlike 

 those of 1911-12; all the other information in 

 the tables applies to 1911-12 only. The Smith 

 College figures are based on only the first se- 

 mester of the college year, but one reads in 

 the report from which they are taken that 

 they differ very little for the second semester; 

 accordingly, the same figures are used for 

 both semesters. 



The Leland Stanford Junior totals do not 

 include the work done in the medical depart- 



