HARVARD-YALE STATISTICS.

In connection with the Harvard Catalogue, which has just appeared, some interesting figures have come to light relative to the comparative number of students at Harvard and at Yale during the current year. They are given below. They are from the catalogues of the two universities and are therefore official.

Harvard. Yale.

College, 1770 1199

Scientific School, 340 583

Graduate School, 285 98

Divinity School, 41 105

Law School, 465 224

Medical School, 530 125

School of Arts, 8

School of Music, 11

Dental School, 102

Veterinary School, 55

Bussey Institution, 12

3600 2353

These figures need some explanation. In the first place, no students are repeated in this list. In the Harvard catalogue 5 names were repeated, in the Yale catalogue about 98 names were enrolled twice. Accordingly the Yale figures would, in the catalogue be larger by something like 98. The reason for it is this: Before the Yale Graduate School was founded, the students who took graduate courses were enrolled in their respective departments. When that school was started all graduates were enrolled in the new department. But their names were retained in the list of the other departments. For instance, about 50 students are enrolled as members both of the Scientific School and Graduate School at Yale.

There are also a few from the other departments. It has been thought advisable for this classification to enroll them in the older departments. So those who are members of both Scientific and Graduate Schools are enrolled as Scientific students, and the Graduate School appears so much smaller. Of course, the academic graduate students are even in the Yale Catalogue enrolled only as graduate students. They do not appear in the "College" list.

In the second place, at Yale women are admitted as graduate students, at Harvard they are not. There is only one woman enrolled as a Harvard student and she is taking a graduate course in the Medical School. At Yale there are 62 women enrolled as students. Some 40 of them are in the Graduate School and the rest chiefly in the School of Arts and School of Music. These names are taken from the lists, in order to put the comparison on exactly even terms.

To put the above explanation in a few words, no names in the above lists are reckoned twice and no women are counted.

Accordigly we have 3600 men at Harvard during the academic year, and 2353 men at Yale.

But the full number of students educated under the auspices of Harvard is much larger than 3600. For the summer school this last summer had enrolled about 475 in addition to the large number of regular college students who were taking summer courses Radcliffe, also, is largely under Harvard's wings and fully 350 women are educated there. This makes a total of about 4425 persons who receive their education at the doors of Harvard. Add to the men at Yale the 62 women and we have educated at Yale 2415 students. Therefore, with comparison even, over 2000 more students receive their education under Harvard's care than under Yale's.