GRADUATE SCHOOL SHOWS LOSS

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences which was established in 1872 but which did not come to be a solid part of the University until 1890 shows a slight decrease in the number of students enrolled. There is a total of 603 men in the school this year as compared with 652 last year. This makes a striking contrast with the other departments and with the University itself. They almost all seem to have grown. This loss is probably due to the increase in efficiency of so many graduate schools in the smaller universities throughout the country. One hundred and sixty-one American colleges and universities are represented this year in addition to several foreign institutions, while last year 166 universities had graduates in the school.

The University leads but with 14 less than last year, having a total of 255. No other university has over 25 representatives. Dartmouth is second with 21 and California third with 20. Both of these figures are larger than those of the same universities last year, but in many other cases the number is much less.

Foreign universities are represented by 27 students, many of whom are from China, Japan, India and the countries of Europe.

There are enrolled in the school this year 17 travelling fellows and four on leave of absence.

Following is a list of the colleges with five or more graduates in the school:   1915-1916  1916-1917 Amherst,  14  5 Bates,    6 Boston University,  6  6 Bowdoin,  12  11 Brown,  11  10 Bucknell,  5 California,  14  20 Chicago,  5  10 Clark,  9  6 Colby,  6 Columbia,  11  11 Cornell,  7  5 Dalhousie,  6 Dartmouth,  17  21 Harvard,  269  255 Haverford,  8  8 Hobart,  5 Illinois,  9  9 Indiana,  6 Kansas,  6 Leland Stanford, Jr.,  6 Michigan,  8  11 M. I. T.,  6  6 Minnesota,  9  12 Missouri,    8 Northwestern,  5  7 Oberlin,  5  5 Ohio State,  7 Ohio University,  6 Pennsylvania,  9  6 Princeton,  13  8 Texas,  10  11 Tufts,  10  5 Tulane,    6 Virginia,  7 Wisconsin,  9  12 Western Reserve,  11  7 Williams,  7  9 Yale,  18  19 Foreign universities,  30  27 Total no. enrolled,  808  778 Names subtracted,  157  175 Grand total,  652  603

Dr. William Wistar Comfort, now professor of Romance Languages at Cornell University, has been elected president of Haverford College.

Dr. William Wistar Comfort, now professor of Romance Languages at Cornell University, has been elected president of Haverford College.