CHAPTER XXXVIII.

PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS.

Medical schools in the Northern, Western, and some of the Southern States now require attendance upon courses of four years as a condition of graduation. Eleven schools have an annual session of nine months, and nineteen schools have sessions of eight months. In the University of Michigan "the literary student who intends to enter medicine has an opportunity, by electing from the courses of the first two years of the medical curriculum, of shortening from one and one-half to two years his total period of residence at the university." In the medical school of Yale University "graduates in arts, philosophy, or science, who have pursued studies in chemistry, physiology, anatomy, and histology during their undergraduate courses may be admitted to the second-year class, with certain conditions." A large number of medical schools have similar regulations.

Upon examination of the diagram showing the percentage of increase in the number of students during the ten years 1887-1897, it will be found that while theological students increased thirty per cent in number, dental students increased 284 per cent, or nearly ten times as fast. While medical students increased 108 per cent, law students increased 228 per cent.

DIAGRAM 2.-Percentage of increase in number of students in ten years, 1887-1897.

States.

TABLE 1.--General summary of statistics of professional and allied schools, for 1896-97.

TABLE 2.-Summary of statistics of schools of theology, for 1896–97.

Western Division:

Colorado..
Oregon

California

443484631

18 5 165

19

6 14,600

200

50,000

76

30 1,222

247

455 100,040

60, 269

1,407, 228

2, 649, 333

10 12 121

5

11

6,500

10,000

68,000

214

1 18

526

37
21

9 14

11,000

0

4

450

3,000
500

225,000

100,000

5,000

500

82

States.

Instruct-
ors.

TABLE 3.-Summary of statistics of schools of law, for 1896–97.

Students.

United States.

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

77 455 289 10,449 3,016 1,932 220,912 $50,000 $1,269,000 $131,000

TABLE 4.-Summary of statistics of schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and for nurses and veterinarians, for 1896-97.

Professors
and in-
structors.

Students.

or

Endowment funds.

A.-BY CLASSES.

118 1,897 1,245 20,317 1,121 21,438 4,779 1,240 84, 466 $5, 377, 355 $344,500

234 1,678 360 2,038 151 62 708 81 789 40 112

91 21

35

48 5,800 240,000
3 200 1,500

0

0

Total medical..... 150 2,436 1,550 22,794 1,583 24,377 5,564 1,498 119,458 7, 271, 009 648, 262

North Atlantic Division. 22

325 340 6,284 372 6,656 1,223 South Atlantic Division. 19 232 178 2,741 62 2,803 652 South Central Division.. 19 201 136 3,336 63 3,399 731 North Central Division.. 49 993 529 7,200 505 7,705 2,021 Western Division... 9 146 62 756 119 875 152

United States.

331 26,416 1,067,500 177,500 204 8,600 649,500 21,000 170 13,400 1,010,000 21,000 451 32,350 2,129,355 69,000 84 3,700 521,000 50,000

118 1,897 1,245 20,317 1,121 21,438 4,779 1,240 84,466 5, 377, 355 344,500