The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-05
YALE LOSES
 REGISTRATION New Conditions of Law and Medical School Entrance Requirements Canse
 Big Decrease. CLASS DROPS FROM 200 TO 5
CLASS DROPS FROM 200 TO 5

Although no official figures have been computed yet, it is generally supposed that the total registration in Yale uni versity for the present year will be one or two hundred below that of last year. This is owing to the great de- crease in the numbers entering the Yale law and medical schools under the rev requirements. It could not be authentically stated until all of the students have entered their names, but it is known that there will not be more than 50 or sixty in the first-year class of the law department as against close to 200 year afo, and about 30 in the medical school as compared with about 80 last year. Those in a position to realize the. situation say that this decrease is not a bit surprfs- ing.
 Until this fall, the entrance require ments to the two departments named were that a, student should have what amounted to high school education. Many young men who had only gone three years to a high school managed to get by tho examinations which were very easy, and those that had a high school diploma were allowed to enter upon it if the school was recog- nized as a standard one without talk ing any examinations. Hence, the professional schools at Yale did not come up to the usual standard for ad- requirements.
 The leading reformers in the univer- sity long realized that there would have to be raising of these require ments to satisfy what they consider ed to be correct ones for a large uni versity. So it was voted three years ago to make it requirement of ad- that every applicant should be able to show a certificate that he had successfully passed two years of college work in a recognized college or university, or else that he had and could prove the ability to pass exan- nations equal to those that would be given to classes finishing their second year in the college course.
 As soon as this announceWent was made public there was a great increase in the attendance at the professional schools. as large numbers took advan- tage of the tflree-year limit that was set before the new requirements would be put into operation. The class of 1909, which just graduated, entered 125 strong, reward for the school. The class of 1910 broke the record again, to be beaten by 1911, with near ly 200 men. This was in the Law school. The figures in the Medical school show the same proportional in creases.
 The new rules applied to the class eS that enter this fall. As a very large percentage of the other classes were not within the new requirements, it is not so surprising as it might seem, university authorities have de- clared, that the registration should fall off so in numbers
 It is thought .that the new require ments will greatly raise the standard of the professional schools, and that in time they will be made graduate schools where none but those hold ing college degrees will be admitted. As it is, most of the new men are col fege men, as very few students would take two years of college work with out finishing or just to go to the Yale schools.