Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1903 — UNIVERSITY STATISTICS, 1902. [ARTICLE]

UNIVERSITY STATISTICS, 1902.

Columbia Leads All the Rest in Numbers, with Harvard Second. Science prints n detailed, table giving the names of eighteen American universities and under each name the number of its students, who were, in November, 1902, pursuing studies In arts, science, law, medicine, agriculture, fine art, dentistry, divinity, forestry, music, pharmacy, pedagogy, veterinary art, In graduate work, in summer schools and in special courses for teachers. From this very instructive table the following excerpt is made: Total Graduate College. students, students. Fac. California 3,070 172 308 Chicago 4,290 427 190 Columbia .5,352 513 504 C0rne11...3,281 188 421 Harvard .5,408 314 533 Indiana 1,048 01 05 Johns Hopkins... 009 179 147 Stanford 1,378 81 120 Michigan ... 3,764 79 255 Minnesota 3,505 100 280 Missouri 1,408 53 92 'Nebraska .?;. .. .2,289 *IOB H - Northwestern .. .2,875 40 285 Pennsylvania ....2,549 187 279 Princeton 1,345 93 101 Syracuse 2.020 45 170 Wisconsin 2,884 102 188 Yale •....2,804 350 307 Tables of this sort are interesting in themselves as showing the wonderful numerical growth- of institutions, and they are very instructive when the rat\ps of total number of students to total number of faculties or to total number of graduate students are worked out. Their diversities of purpose and organization are obyiotis, at a glance, and tfifsTs a very" hopeful sign. It is very well to insist on uniformity in entrance requirements, but it is to be ardently desired that the university experiment may be tried along very various lines in our varying communities.