Deikmbku U. 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



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To be sure, the Ilarvanl Medical School 

 shows a loss of 65 as compared with last 

 year, owing in part to the operation since 

 19U1 of the requirement of a baccalaureate 

 detrree, or its equivalent, for admission, but 

 we shall see below that this loss in the med- 

 ical school enrolment may be due to other 

 causes. Harvard Colleyre and the Law- 

 rence Scientific School show a slight falling 

 oft' over last year, while there has been a 

 gain in the divinity school and the grad- 

 uate faculties. 



At Columbia also the increase in the total 

 enrolment is due almost entirely to the 

 growth of the summer session, the attend- 

 ance at which increased from 643 in 1902 

 to 1,001 in 1903. The registration of the 

 ^aw school shows a falling oft" of 81, due 

 to the requirements of the baccalaureate 

 degree for admission for the first time this 

 fall. The attendance at the school of medi- 

 cine has decreased over 100, a loss that can 

 in large part be atti-ibuted to increased 

 standards for admission. With the open- 

 ing of the present academic year, higher 

 entrance requirements went into effect, 

 whereby the mininnun condition for ad- 

 mission to this faculty consists not, as here- 

 tofore, in the pa.s.sing of examinations con- 

 ducted by the regents of the university of 

 the state in certain specified subjects, and 

 the obtaining thereby of a medical stu- 

 dent's certificate, but in the passing of an 

 examination conducted either by the Col- 

 lege Entrance Examination Board or by 

 the Committee on Entrance Examinations 

 of Columbia University. In every ca.se the 

 increase in requirements has had a gratify- 

 ing effect on the quality of the first-year 

 class. The graduate schools of Columbia 

 University are growing very rapidly and 

 show an increase of more than 100 over 

 1002. The extension students, of which 

 tliere were 1,196 in 1902. have been omitted 

 in this year's table, but even if the ex- 

 tension students were included, Columbia's 



registration would not be as large as that 

 of Harvard. 



The figures of the University of Chicago 

 point to a slight decrease in the total en- 

 rolment, most of which is due to a falling 

 oft" in the college and the faculty of medi- 

 cine. The summer session shows a loss of 

 over 100, but, as is well known, the summer 

 session at the University of Chicago does 

 not bear the same relation to the remaining 

 terms as it does at Harvard or Columbia 

 and most of the other institutions here rep- 

 resented, being regarded as a regular 

 semester fitting into the scheme of the en- 

 tire j'ear's work. 



The attendance at the University of 

 ^Michigan has increased somewhat over 

 last year, the largest gains being found 

 in the scientific schools and the summer 

 session. The faculties of law, dentistry 

 and i)harmacy all show a falling off. Of 

 the 44S medical students, 66 are enrolled 

 in the homeopathic division. In the case 

 of the University of Michigan, as well as 

 of several others, no accurate figures could 

 be obtained for the number of summer ses- 

 sion students who returned for work in the 

 fall and who should be deducted under 

 double registration. In all such cases the 

 deduction is based upon a fair estimate. 



The increase at the Universitj' of Cali- 

 fornia is only slight, there being a loss in 

 medicine and dentistry and in the college 

 and scientific schools, which loss, however, 

 is more than compensated for by slight 

 gains in other departments. 



In the case of the Univereity of Illinois 

 the gain of over 700 must be attributed 

 chiefly to the fact that the Chicago College 

 of Dental Surgery, formerly an inde- 

 pendent institution, became a part of the 

 university at the beginning of the year. 

 However, there has been considerable gain 

 in the scientific school and the department 

 of agriculture, whereas the increase in the 



