December 30, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



911 



the grand total. The summer session figures 

 are exclusive of 326 Porto Rieans in the 

 special summer session. The enrolment in 

 all the departments of the university has 

 fallen off since the last report, with the 

 exception of law and agriculture. The loss 

 in the college may be due to the increasing 

 number of students who are completing the 

 course in three years instead of four. 



At Columbia there would be a decrease 

 in the total enrolment were it not for the 

 fact that the New York College of 

 Pharmacy became incorporated with the 

 xmiversity on July 1, 1904. The registra- 

 tion at the College of Pharmacy up to No- 

 vember 1 included 435 sti;dents, the addi- 

 tion of which more than offsets the loss in 

 the professional schools of law and medi- 

 cine. The requirement of a baccalaureate 

 degree for admission to the law school was 

 enforced for the first time last year, and 

 this has naturally resulted in a decrease 

 in attendance, which should reach the 

 minimum in 1905. In the medical school 

 not only were increased admission require- 

 ments carried into effect for an additional 

 class, but the tuition fee was increased 

 from $200 to $250 per annum, both caiises 

 combining to decrease the enrolment by 

 about a hundred students. The scientific 

 schools likewise show a slight decrease. 

 The tuition fee in these schools was also 

 increased from $200 to $250, but this fact 

 seems to have had no particular influence 

 in preventing students from returning to 

 or entering the institution. This year 

 graduate students in applied science regis- 

 tered for the first time in pure science, and 

 are consequently included under the grad- 

 uate school figures in 1904, whereas they 

 appeared under scientific schools in 1903. 

 Furthermore, the fact that the tuition fee 

 under the faculty of pure science is only 

 150 dollars per annum no doubt caused a 

 number of students holding a baccalaureate 

 degree to become candidates for the mas- 



ter's degree in the faculty of pure science, 

 instead of for an engineering degree or a 

 B.S. in chemistry under the faculty of 

 applied science. The increase in the grad- 

 uate schools is, therefore, due partly to the 

 causes just mentioned. The loss in the 

 registration of college women is explained 

 by the fact that special women music stu- 

 dents previously registered at Barnard Col- 

 lege, whereas this year they were enrolled 

 in the university department of miisic. 

 Columbia College (men) shows the largest 

 enrolment in its history, exceeding that of 

 last year by 34, there being 145 students 

 registered in the freshman class, the largest 

 the college has ever had. The New York 

 City high schools are sending more men 

 to the college each year, and college stu- 

 dents in increasing numbers are taking ad- 

 vantage of the combined courses, whereby 

 they may receive the baccalaureate degree 

 and the law or a science degTce in six 

 years, or the baccalaureate degree and the 

 degree of doctor of medicine in seven years. 

 Teachers College shows a slight gain over 

 last year, and the summer session of 1904 

 was a little smaller than that of 1903, due, 

 no doubt, to the sapie fact that caused the 

 loss in the summer session at Harvard. 



There has been a slight falling off in the 

 total enrolment at the University of Chi- 

 cago, the greatest loss occurring in the 

 graduate schools. The law school is grow- 

 ing rapidly, the medical school having re- 

 mained stationary. It should be remem- 

 bered in making comparisons that the sum- 

 mer session at Chicago does not bear the 

 same relation to the remaining terms as it 

 does elsewhere. 



The increase in attendance at the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan is not large. The academic 

 departments for both men and women, as 

 well as the faculty of medicine, show a 

 decrease, whereas all the other departments 

 have increased in ninubers, the largest 

 gains having been made in the engineering 



