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SCIENCE. 



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regard to a university with such a remark- 

 able record, and the information is given 

 a few pages farther on in the report 

 Taylor 'University' has no productive 

 funds; its income from tuition and other 

 fees was $4,000 and from other sources 

 $500! Unless they are to do more harm 

 than good, the commissioner of education 

 must in this and other cases put his figures 

 in a form that is not misleading. 



The following table gives details in re- 

 gard to the conferring of the degree during 

 the past six years: 



DOCTORATES CONPEKKED. 



Yale 



Chicago 



Harvard.... 

 Johns Hopkins 



Columbia 



Pennsylvania 



Cornell 



Michigan 



Clark 



New York 



Wisconsin 



Virginia 



Brown 



Columbian.... 



Minnesota 



California 



BrynMawr.... 



Princeton 



Stanford 



Nebraska 



Boston 



Vanderbilt.... 

 Washington.. 

 Georgetown... 



Lafayette.... 

 North Carolina 



Iowa 



Lehigh 



Syracuse.... 

 Cincinnati . 

 Colorado..., 



Tulane 



Missouri... 



234 I 224 239 



1900. 1901.. 1902. 



It will be noticed that five universities 

 are distinctly in advance, and that a large 

 majority of the degrees— four fifths— are 

 conferred by seven universities. There 

 has been no considerable change in the posi- 

 tion of the universities during the years 

 covered by the records, thoxigh there is ap- 



parently an increase at Columbia and Mich- 

 igan and a decrease at Johns Hopkins and 

 Clark. 



The degree of doctor of science was con- 

 ferred this year once by Harvard and once 

 by Michigan, and is included with doctor- 

 ates of philosophy. This degree is not 

 needed as a substitute for the Ph.D. It 

 does not mean that the student has done a 

 diiferent kind of university or even college 

 work, but that he perhaps did not study 

 Latin at school.* Harvard established an 

 M.S. degree four or five years since and 

 then abandoned it. Doubtless the D.Sc. 

 will not survive long. 



DOCTORATES CONFERRED IN THE SCIENCES. 



Chicago 



Johns Hopkins 



Columbia 



Harvard 



Yale 



Cornell 



Pennsylvania... 



Clark 



Wisconsin 



Michigan 



California 



Columbian 



Virginia 



Brown 



Bryn Mawr 



Stanford 



Minnesota 



Nebraska 



Princeton 



Washington 



Kansas 



New York 



North Carolina 



Lehigh 



Vanderbilt . 

 Colorado.... 



Iowa 



Lafayette.... 

 Missouri .... 

 Syracuse.... 



1899. 1900. 1901. 1902. 



In the second table the degrees awarded 

 in the natural and exact sciences are given 



* It may be suggested to ' Carolum Guiliel- 

 mum Eliot ■ prjesidem magnificum ' that there is 

 a slight lack of courtesy in calling attention to 

 the fact that a man probably does not Icnow Latin, 

 and then printing his name ' Georgius ' on the 

 commencement program. 



