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♦Includes schools of engineering, chemistry, architecture, mining, and mechanic arts, 

 flncluded in >cientific schools, 

 j Included in college statistics, 

 g Included in college statistics. 



stitutions of national repute. The figures 

 have been obtained from tlie proper officials 

 of the universities concerned, and are as 

 accurate as statistics of this nature can be 

 made. Changes are constaiitly taking 

 place in the enrolment at most of these in- 

 stitutions, but they are not far-reaching 

 enough to affect the general result. 



According to the revised figures of last 

 year, the nineteen universities enumerated 

 ranked as folloAvs: 



Harvard, Columbia, Chicago, California, 

 Michigan, Minnesota, Cornell, Illinois, Wis- 

 consin, Northwestern, Tale, Pennsylvania, 

 Nebraska, Syracuse, Indiana, Leland Stan- 

 ford, Missouri, Princeton, Johns Hopkins. 

 Comparing this with the present order, we 

 shall find that there has been no change in 

 the relative positions of the three largest 

 universities, Harvard, Columbia and Chi- 

 cago, but that Michigan has passed Cali- 

 fornia, while Illinois has passed both Min- 

 nesota and Cornell. Wisconsin occupies 

 the same position as last year, but Yale has 

 passed Northwestern. Pennsylvania, Ne- 

 braska and Syracuse foUow in the same 

 order, Ohio State University, which is in- 



serted for the first time this year, preceding 

 Indiana, Missouri, Princeton, Leland Stan- 

 ford and Johns Hopkins in the order 

 named. The fact must not be lost sight 

 of that numbers are not necessarily a cri- 

 terion of general excellence or high stand- 

 ards, features with which this article does 

 not attempt to deal. However, the fact 

 that a university like Johns Hopkins is in- 

 cluded in the statistics will prove that 

 mere numbers have not unduly influenced 

 the selection of the institutions here tab- 

 ulated. 



As far as the changes in the enrolment of 

 the different universities are concerned, 

 Harvard shows a considerable net increase, 

 • due almost entirely to the expansion of the 

 summer session from 945 in 1902 to 1,392 

 in 1903. This increase must be attributed 

 in large part to the Convention of the Na- 

 tional Educational Association held in 

 Boston early in July. Harvard's law 

 school shows a gain of almost 100, thus 

 eloquently demonstrating that increased 

 standards of admission to the professional 

 schools are not kept waiting long for 

 merited recognition from the student body. 



