TECHNOLOGY ENROLLMENT DECREASES 10 PER CENT.

Though the present enrolment of the Institute of Technology is about ten per cent smaller than a year ago, never have so many men been using the college buildings. Counting the 1670 registered as Tech. students and the many others enrolled in the various war schools, more then 3000 men are taking advantage of the Institute's opportunity.

The Institute's freshman class is larger than ever, 504 against 450 of last year, with still a considerable number who took the entrance examinations in June and have not yet registered. The sophomore class as now registered actually shows a gain of five or six per cent, being 433 against 420 who were in the class of freshmen last June. The junior class assembles with 358 registered against 456 sophomores in June and the senior class now calls together 325 out of 484 juniors before the vacation. These upper classes, instead of being "shot to pieces," come together with 75 and 80 per cent. respectively of their former numbers. It is in the post-graduate work that the largest percentage of loss comes. These men are of the age and attainments to be instantly of service to their country, so that here the number has fallen from 65 last year to 39 at the moment. This number usually rises because such students do not always report at the beginning of the term. There are a few Americans who are taking advanced work in chemistry or aeronautics, and quite an accession from foreign countries, Japan being represented by three or four mature men who are interested largely in mining. A dozen years ago Japan was studying Naval Architecture at Tech.; today it is towards the development of its mineral resources that it bends its efforts.

There are 42 Freshmen from New England in this registration, 57 from the middle states and 14 from the south. Norway sends two men and Spain one; Mexico sends eight; Chile and Japan each two; while Cuba sends one and China four.

The Institute professors have had a busy summer. The geologists have been off on the important oil searching parties, the chemists have been working on poison gases and other problems for the government, while the civil and mechanical engineers have had their hands full with the Government schools and the summer schools and the two student camps.