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CHAPTER XL.

STATISTICAL REVIEW OF PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS.

There were 144 schools of theology, with 869 instructors and 8,017 students, a variation of only 33 from the number of students in attendance during the preceding year. Of the students in attendance, 2,953, or 36.8 per cent, had received the degree of A. B. or B. S. Theological schools reported grounds and buildings valued at $12,648,216, and endowment funds to the amount of $17,969,906. Theological libraries contained 1,204,889 volumes.

Law schools continue to show a rapid increase in the number of students in attendance, the 73 schools having an enrollment during 1895-96 of 9,780 students, an increase of 830 over the previous year. In addition to its regular law department, and not included in the statistics of law schools, the New York University has a special course of law lectures to women, which had an attendance of 80 in 1895-96, of whom 47 received the certificate of completion of the course. These lectures are designed to meet the wants of business women who "desire familiarity with the existing law, either for practical purposes, to assist their judgment as litigants, witnesses, and custodians of trust estates, or as a higher study for their mental development. They also furnish preparation for entrance upon the professional study of the law, with a view to active practice at the bar.'

There were 116 regular schools of medicine, 20 homeopathic, 8 eclectic, 2 physiomedical, and 9 graduate. Students in regular schools lacked but one of numbering 20,000; homeopathic numbered 1,956, and eclectic 634. The proportion of students graduating in medicine was smaller than in any of the other classes, excepting theology, viz., medicine 22 per cent, law 30 per cent, dentistry 24 per cent, and pharmacy 28 per cent.

The North Atlantic and Western States had exactly the same proportion of students of regular schools of medicine and of homeopathic students, but the North Central States had a much larger proportion of homeopathic and eclectic students than of regular students. On the contrary, both the South Central and South Atlantic States had a much smaller proportion of homeopathic and eclectic students. In other words, homeopathy and eclecticism have their strongest foothold in the North Central States, and are weakest in the Southern States. facts are clearly set forth in the following table:

Percentage of students of different schools of medicine in each section.

These

The number of dental students in 1895-96 showed an increase of more than 1,000 over the number in 1894-95, viz, 6,399 in 1895-96 and 5,347 in 1894-95. Pharmaceutical students numbered 3,873, with a difference of only 14 from the number in 1894-95. The course of training in schools for nurses heretofore occupied two years as a rule, but there is a tendency now to lengthen the time to three years, fifteen schools reporting courses of three years in this report.

State or 'Territory.

TABLE 3.-Summary of statistics of schools of law, for 1895–96.

United States....

North Atlantic Division.
South Atlantic Division..
South Central Division..
North Central Division.
Western Division....

North Atlantic Division:
Massachusetts.
Connecticut
New York.
Pennsylvania.

South Atlantic Division:
Maryland

District of Columbia.
Virginia.

West Virginia.
North Carolina.
South Carolina.
Georgia.

South Central Division:
Kentucky.
Tennessee

Alabama.

Mississippi..

Louisiana
Texas

Arkansas

North Central Division:
Ohio.

Indiana

Illinois

Michigan.

Wisconsin.

Minnesota

Iowa

Missouri

Nebraska

Kansas.

Western Division:

Colorado.

Oregon.
California..

TABLE 4.—Summary of statistics of schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and for nurses and veterinarians, for 1895–96.

TABLE 4.-Summary of statistics of schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and for nurses and veterinarians, for 1895-96—Continued.