UNIVERSITY REGISTRATION.

A yearly increase in the number of men enrolled in the University is a most healthy and gratifying sign. The total increase in the entire University including Faculty and students is 94. The number of men in the College has increased 45 while the Graduate Schools under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences remain at about their figure of last year. The Dental School shows a very considerable gain, while the other professional schools, that is the Law School, the Medical School and the Divinity School average very nearly the same as last year. The greatest drop in any department appears in the figures of the Summer Schools. Even if this drop were no more than offset by an equal increase in the number of students working in the University proper through the winter, the change would certainly be considered as one for the better. As it is, the increase in winter students does much more than merely offset this decrease of summer students.

Although an increase in numbers is a healthy sign, it can not be an absolute criterion of a university's success. But side by side with this increase we know that the new optional examination system is a force at work making Harvard more and more representative of the entire country.

The two factors taken together would seem to show that in spite of the tremendous increase of institutions of higher learning throughout the country, particularly in the West, Harvard is able to offer students, opportunities and advantages of a different kind which receive an increasing and more truly national consideration each year.