Harvard's Growth Under Pres. Eliot.

The salient features of the period of President Eliot's administration of the University may be summarized as follows:

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.--A large expansion in the scope and quanity of instruction in Arts and Sciences, especially in the natural sciences and in political science, and the complete application of the elective system in Harvard College; the growth of museums and laboratories and the introduction of laboratory and field work in scientific instruction; the requirements for admission to College raised and broadened; the requirements for admission to the Scientific School gradually raised to the level of the College requirements; the development of four-year programs affording thorough professional training in the several branches of applied science, including architecture and landscape architecture; the Graduate School established for the administration of the higher degrees in arts and sciences, and recognition given to the importance of the fostering of higher studies as the essential function of a university.

DIVINITY SCHOOL..--Firmly established as an undenominational, or university school of theology, requiring of candidates for admission a bachelor's degree in arts or science, or the equivalent; the tuition charge made the same as that of other departments of the University, thus tending to relieve theological training from the eleemosynary character which had been traditionally associated with it throughout the world.

LAW SCHOOL..--Instruction by lectures and text books replaced by the "case" system of instruction introduced by Dean Langdell; requirements for admission raised, systematic course of three years established, examination required for the degree of LL.B., and finally a bachelor's degree in Arts or Science required as the ordinary condition of admission; remarkable growth of the school as shown below.

MEDICAL SCHOOL.--Financial administration taken over by the Corporation; loose system of lectures and degree examinations replaced by a systematic course of three years, later increased to four years; great increase in chemical and laboratory instruction, necessitating large increase in teaching staff (see below); requirements for admission raised from a standard below that of admission to College to the requirement of a bachelor's degree in arts or science; medical research established as an important part of the school's work, and its function taught as an adjunct of medical practice; enlarged school plant with five buildings now in process of erection, and endowment largely increased.

DENTAL SCHOOL.--Course of study systematized like that of the Medical School and made three years in length. First year work made identical with that of the medical course; requirements for admission raised to the level of the College admission requirements.

BUSSEY INSTITUTION.--Systematic instruction in agriculture, horticulture, and agricultural chemistry and allied subjects established leading to the degree of Bachelor of Agricultural Science.

STUDENT LIFE.--Erection of Memorial Hall, Randall Hall, Hemenway Gymnasium, Phillips Brooks House, Harvard Union, and Stillman Infirmary; acquisition of Jarvis Field for athletic sports in place of the Delta; acquisition of the Longfellow Marsh, and Soldiers Field and the erection of the Weld and Newell boat houses.

The following table affords a comparison of the numbers in the University students, teachers and other officers--in 1868-69, the year during which President Eliot's election took effect and the current year, 1903-04. For purposes of comparison the students in the School of Mining and Practical Geology which was in existence in 1868-69 are merged with those in the Lawrence Scientific School, and the meagre number of "Graduate Students" then catalogued are placed opposite "Graduate School," though the latter was not organized until later. STUDENTS   1868-69  1903-04 Harvard College  529  2073 Scientific School  41  548 Graduate Students  8  402 Divinity School  19  52 Law School  138  738 Medical School  308  383 Dental School  16  115 Bussey Institution  0  32   1059  4343 Deduct names counted more than once  0  15   1059  4328 OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNMENT   1868-69  1903-04 Corporation  7  7 Overseers  30  30 Other officers  8  72 OFFICERS OF INSTRUCTION   1868-69  1903-04 Arts and Sciences  34  318 Divinity School  4  12 Law School  3  13 Medical School  13  147 Dental School  4  54 Bussey Institution  0  10 Observatory  1  9   59  563 Deduct names counted more than once  1  14   58  549

MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS. 1868-69. Invested funds.  $2,257,989.50 Income (not counting gifts),  200,499.72 Expenditure,  189,844.98 Books and pamphlets in Library, 1903-04.  180.000 Invested funds,  $15,863,521.79 Income (not counting gifts).  1,511,061.11 Expenditure,  1,649,330.05 Books in Library.  640.000 Pamphlets in Library.  375.000

Courses of instruction in Arts and Sciences in terms of half courses have increased during this period from to 972.

MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS. 1868-69. Invested funds.  $2,257,989.50 Income (not counting gifts),  200,499.72 Expenditure,  189,844.98 Books and pamphlets in Library, 1903-04.  180.000 Invested funds,  $15,863,521.79 Income (not counting gifts).  1,511,061.11 Expenditure,  1,649,330.05 Books in Library.  640.000 Pamphlets in Library.  375.000

Courses of instruction in Arts and Sciences in terms of half courses have increased during this period from to 972.

Courses of instruction in Arts and Sciences in terms of half courses have increased during this period from to 972.