Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-23
WISCONSIN UNIVERSITY.
statistics of Attendance and Other
Items of Interest.

statistics of Attendance and Other
Items OF Interest.
Inc new directory OF the University of
Wisconsin now in press, shows 32S7 stud
ents IN attendance, exclusive of the winter.
ualry and agricultural courses and the sum-
mer session. With these added, the total
attendance will exceed $500. The graduate
school has an enrollement of 216, an in
crease OF fourteen over the enrolment of
Ias' year ~ that department. This years
freshman class numbers 945, an increase Of
lo' Inc largest increase in attendance Is
III the college OF agriculture, which this
year mas rs an increase of seventy mine.
or nearly o. per cent gain. The college OF
letters ana science shows a steady growth.
the total enrolment being 1,S49, an increase
OF lS' or nearly 10 per cent. The college
OF medicine has thirty students this year.
an increase of six. or % per cent.
IN the college of engineering there are
ga students this year; In the college Of
law loe' an increase of eight; in the school
OF music, A6, an increase of fourteen. in
the school of pharmacy, thirty-seven. an in
crease of four; and in the course OF COM
merce. POI.
Inc three new courses stablished this
year all have a good enrolment. The new
tWo-year middle course in agriculture has
t"ehty-seNen students; the new course I'm
INNING engineering twenty-one, and the
new course OF chemistry thirty-nine.
IN order to insure prompt medical at
tehuahce ana TO prevent as far as possible
developments Of serious illness among stud
ents' the faculty committee on hygiene. NJ
whlch DIR. M. p. Ravenel, head of the sta te
nSsiehlc laboratory and of the university
department of bacteriology, is chairman
mas arranged with those In charea n,
houses where students i've to have evary
case OF sickness reported promptly To this
committee Each case will be inyestiqste TOD
py the at once. BY this method |,
Is expected that the amount OF sickness
among students. which on the svara.o
in the past has been very small. will he 70.
duced to a minimum.
TO maintain as hygenic conditions as nos.
siole In all university class-rooms. labora.
tories and In the buildings GENERALLY.
monthly reports from those in charge y,
these rooms are to be made to the com
mittee on hygiene. Careful Investigation y,
ventilation. heating. lighting and general
sanitary conditions in all OF the buldiro,
Is TO form apart Of the faculty committed,
work in this direction.
kuo Feng-Ning of Shanghai, China. q
delegate Of the Chinese Fisheries companv
10 the recent international Fisheries con.
sress at Washington. and Kohang Yih. who
Is investigating tobacco growing in this
country, Inspected the college of agriculture
OF the university and the Agricultural ex.
pertinent station.
Or. Herbert watney of Berkshire. Epg-
land an eminent British dairyman. visited
the dairy school recently and DR.. +. NJ
smith head of the department OF agricuI.
ture OF the Transvaal. South Africa. in.
spected the department of bacteriolosv
soils, veterinary work and live stock. in
the interests OF a contemplated college OF
agricultural at Praetoria.
Helen Thee Grove. 'O7. has accented q
position as tutor to children OF missIona ria,
in Northern Persia. and has Just left for
New York, from whence she will SAN n
take up her duties In her new position.