at a later date. In the meantime there is a general feeling that efficiency of administration would be promoted by a reorganization of the Graduate Department in such a way as to concentrate responsibility for the work of the Department in the hands of the professors who are actively engaged in instructing graduate students. A Committee, of which Dean Crane was chairman, has reported to the Faculty in favor of this change, and the Faculty informally adopted the principle with the understanding that the matter should be brought up again for settlement at the beginning of the next University year.

STUDENTS

The number of different persons who received instruction in the University in the year 1907-1908 was 4,465. This is an increase of 240 over the enrollment for the preceding year, when the figures were 4,225, and an increase of more than 1,000 over the enrollment of four years ago (1903 -1904), when the figures were 3,423.

The distribution of these students among the different courses is shown by the following table, which gives the corresponding figures for the preceding years since the year 1904-1905:

The records of Cornell University always carefully distinguish between students who, having passed the examinations for admission, pursue courses leading to degrees, and attendants in short or special courses who enter without examination. Of these latter there are two groups, the Summer Session and the Winter School in Agriculture. Both are excluded from the following table, which takes account only of students regularly enrolled in courses leading to degrees during the academic year from September to June:

This table shows that the attendance of regularly enrolled students in 1907-1908 was 3,734. The increase over the attendance of the preceding year was 211. While most of the Colleges of the University exhibit gains, none has gained so much as the College of Arts and Sciences. which shows an increase of seventy-two over the attendance of 1906-1907. Then comes the College of Agriculture with an increase of seventy, the College of Civil Engineering with an increase of fifty-five, the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts with an increase of fortysix, and the College of Architecture with an increase of eighteen (in virtue of which its enrollment for the first time

touches the 100-mark), and the Graduate Department with an increase of ten. Of the 320 students registered in Medicine sixty-three were in Ithaca and 257 in the Medical College in New York City.

Of these 3,734 regularly enrolled students 3,331 were men and 403 women. And of those 403 women 313 were pursuing studies in the Arts and Sciences, thirty-four in Agriculture, twenty-four in Medicine, and four in Architecture, while thirty-eight were engaged in specialized work and investigation in the Graduate Department.

A little more than half (2,025) of these 3,734 regular students came from New York State. From Pennsylvania came 322, New Jersey, 190, Ohio, 155, Illinois, 108, and Massachusetts, 101, while 690 came from forty-five other states and territories of the United States (including Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippine Islands) and 143 from twenty-eight different foreign countries, (including China, 28, Cuba, 14, Argentine Republic, 14, Canada, 12, India, 11, Japan, 11, Mexico, 7, Brazil, 7, Peru, 6, England, 4, Australia, 3, Switzerland, 3, etc.)

Coming as Cornell students do from so many different states and countries, it is not surprising that many of them should have partially or wholly completed a college course before coming to Ithaca. In the Graduate Department there are 249 college graduates and 219 other college graduates are enrolled as undergraduates in the professional or liberal courses. But in addition to these graduates Cornell draws a large and increasing number of undergraduates from other colleges and universities. The number of new students-college graduates and undergraduates-admitted to advanced undergraduate standing in 1907-1908 was 225. Ten years earlier (in 1897-1898) the number was 108. The work done by these students who come from other colleges and universities to Cornell is indicated by the following exhibit for 1897-1898 and 1907-1908:

The entire number of students who have been enrolled in the University since it opened in 1868 is approximately 26,000.

The number of degrees conferred in 1907-1908 was 715, of which 649 were first degrees and sixty-six advanced degrees.

In the forty years that have elapsed since the opening of the University 10,475 degrees have been conferred, of which 9,451 were first degrees and 1,024 advanced degrees. Of these 10,475 degrees about one tenth (1,028 first and seventy-two advanced) were granted during the administration of President White, who resigned in 1885. Or, putting the matter in another form, the University conferred in 1908 almost two thirds as many degrees as it conferred during the entire period of President White's administration from 1868 to 1885.

It has been stated that 4,465 persons attended the University in 1907-1908 and that the number of regularly enrolled students was 3,734. This academic community of thousands of young men is almost entirely self-governing, and few things are more admirable in themselves or more encouraging for the future of the republic than the exemplary manner in which they conduct themselves. Now as always Cornell University is a place for hard work, and no indolent or dissolute student could for any length of time maintain the standing demanded of him. Nevertheless occasional cases of drunkenness or vice do occur which bring disgrace on this studious, temperate and moral com

munity. The policy of the University in such cases, whenever they become known, is to appeal to the delinquent's sense of honor, right and filial obligation, to warn him of the consequences of a repetition of the offence, and, when neither appeal nor warning is of any avail, to remove the offender from the University. But oftener than not the offence may not come to the cognizance of the authorities of the University. The only remedy for such cases is the maintenance of a high standard of public opinion in the student body, and to that end public addresses and appeals are on ordinary occasions of less value than informal expressions of opinion in and by groups of men—classes, societies, fraternities and the like--which in time would pervade and leaven the entire academic community. And there is one definite evil for the removal of which the President appeals to the senior class of 1908-1909. The senior banquet is entirely a senior affair. It has now become a disgrace to the University. For their own sakes and for the good name of the University the President appeals to the seniors either to abolish or completely reform this demoralizing celebration.

HALLS OF RESIDENCE

On the physical, economic and social sides the University has done far too little for the thousands of young men who come to it for instruction. Elsewhere in this report the President has described in some detail the provisions which have been made for the young women who reside in Sage College and Sage Cottage, and aside from the fact that even these buildings cannot accommodate more than half of the women enrolled, the Trustees may well feel that in this respect they have left little to be desired. But a vastly larger number of young men--indeed all except the comparatively few whom the fraternities house--are still com