The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-26

Hummer schoolS) increased from 2,517 to 9,247-a growth of about thirty per cent. But this increase was very unequally divided between different departments. Correcting the figures for 1899 in order to bring them as nearly as possible into harmony with the methods used in 1906, and emitting altogether the figures of the Forest school, which did not exist in 1899, we find the results to be as fol- lows:
 Graduate school, nonresident 46
 1899 1906 Graduate school, resident.... 237 295 Graduate school, nonresident 46 65 sheffieid Scientific school. v. 495 S25 Music. school ............... 55 87 Divinity school (excluding
 graduate courses) ........ 86 65 Medical school ............. 1855 154 Law school .'............,.. l95 294 The three professional schools of the older type-the schools of Theology, Law and Medicine-show the same kind oflchanges which have fallen to the lot of similar schools in other parts of the country. There appears to be an. in creased demand among first class men for edugation in law and medicine, and diminished demand for education in theology.
 We canqot expect this increase in numbers iN our Law school and Medical school to be steadily maintained during the next few years The increased re- quirements in the way of preliminary training will exclude more than half ths men we now have in the Law school and an overwhelmingly large proportion of those that we now have in the Medical school. We are confident however, that any setback to the growth of the Law school due to these increased requirements will be only temporary. In the Medical department we are rather less fortunately situat- ed, and may, therefore, expect the loss of numbers to be somewhat more last ing.
 We should, however make a great mistake if we let these difficulties and this probability of loss of numbers de- ter us from raising the standard of the Medical school If we have a medical school at all, it must be a good one. It is far better for us to have twenty men who are capable of appreciating their opportunities than two hundred men who are not. A medical school which is part of a university is not in exact iy the same situation as 8 separate medical school in some large city The separate medical school finds it's prim- ary duty in turning out as large a number as possible of reasonably well equipped physicians The university medical school ought to train men in the scientific spirit.
 I am confident that the same prin- cipie ought to be applied to the Divin- ity school.
 There is feeling that we cannot af- ford to do this-that the church is es- sentially democratic institution, and the place that tries to train a select class of ministers is false to it's trust, I understand these feelings; to a cer- tain extent I sympathize with them; 2 but cannot agree with the practical conclusions to which they seem to lead. believe that we ought to have a tui- tion fee, which would prove whether a man who takes our instruction wants it enough to pay for it; that we should use our scholarship funds in the Divin- ity school as we use such funds in oth- CT departments, giving remission of tui- ton as a prize, rather than right; that we should use the increase of in- come and the reduction of numbers to improve the standards of our teaching; v,d to+ ,t, cculd enable our graduates to serve the public in such manner that they would be supported in responsibility and comfort. The sharp separation be- tween the ministry and other callings is thing of the past. To lament the dlminution in demand for ministers and at the same time try to remedy the evil by increasing the supply is like at- tempting to put out a fire by pouring dn kerosene.
 It will be observed that in the seven years which fall under our observation the Scientific school has nearly doubled its numbers. On the other hand, the Academic department has remained all most stationary. Its total registration has increased somewhat from year to year, but the size of the freshmen classes has not tended to grow apace,
 Three causes have been popularly as- signed for this difference in the growth of the two department: CD An increas- ed general interest In the study of sci ence as compared with that of litera- ture; @ dislike for the study of Greek, on the part of either students or their parents; (S) the demand for the substitution of three years college course for the longer course of four years which has been habitual in the past. The result of my observation goes to show that the third of these causes is tho most potent.
 The increased interest in the study of scienee as compared with literature has doubtless had a considerable effect In promoting the growth of scientific