The Detroit times., 1910-06-21
EORE THAH 800 TO
GRADUATE FROM
.B:DF N.
About 17o- Girls Will Get Diplomas
From Literary Department
This Branch Will Gradu-
ate $40 In All.
ENROLMENT This Year Shows 1888
Came From All Parts Of World
To Study.
BY ALFRED J. PITTS.

ANN ARBOR, Men, June FL
More than 900 students Will receive
diplomas from the University OF Mich
ixan this season. The ,arger number
OF girls who will say farewell to the
university have been enrolled IN the
literary department. This branch
viii graduate more students than any
other department OF the college. About
three hundred and forty diplomas Will
be issued there, and half OF the Tor
tunate ones will be girls. who nave
dtted themselves as school teachers
and other branches OF endeavor
The enrolment az the university
this semester, which closes formally
with the commencement exercises
next week, contains 6.3SS names,
against 5,22S the preceding year.
sTwenty-eight hundred and thirty-two
otudents live In Michigan, while the
others come from all parts OF the
United States and foreign countries.
Ohio, with 433; New York with 432,
Illinois with 254, Indiana with l9l,
and Pennsylvania with 1873, send the
largest representations. Practically
oyery state In the union Is represent
cd, Arizona, Nevada and New Hamp-
tshire sending four students each.
Those who come from the foreign
.countries, for the most part, study In
the literary and engineering depart
uents. Ontario leads with IS stu
6ents while China hss~11, Japan nine.
EGermany six and England, Cuba, In
dia and Mexico three each About M
teen other nations send students, the
map extending as far south as New
Zealand, with one representative, and
a far north as New Brunswick which
also has one student.
Scores Of boys and girls, who have
ended their examinations, are leaving
Ann Arbor for their homes. There
f. they will hear whether they have pass
"a and are TO- receive diplomas or adj
vance In the. classes next season.
There are some students who will
s"nunk"--both girls and boys, but pro
fessors of the different departments
think that the number who may fai
Or be conditioned will not exceed ten
per cent. Those whose studies have
not been UP to the standard, though
can continue their work IN the sum
Imer session and be repaired TO keer
npace with their companions when the
next semester begins in the fab. ------
Dean Reed, of the literary depart
kment of the university, says the girl
stand shoulder to shoulder with thu
boys as scholars. This is proven b.
the number of graduates from that de
partmenI. OF the $40 who will ge'
diplomas half will be girls. When the
girls come to the university they
"knuckle down" and study. While
some may not be as able leaders when
tbig problems are 20 be discussed and
solved, says Dean Reed, a large per
zcentage OF them hold their own with
the boys Dean Reed made trip
west last spring and saw many wo-
mer graduates from the university
who had entered the practice OF law
land medicine and Other professions
and were making marks for them
Iselyes.
The law department. over which
Dean HuJcEins. who Is also acting
president OF the university. has pre-
aided for a long time. will graduate
about 800 this season, according to an
Estimate made by Prof. Hail. the reg.
iBtrar Of the university. One hundred
: and sixty-five students will say fare
81 we'll to tho engineering department.
:, The number of graduating dentists Is
placed at about fifty.
The commencement exercises will
begin next Sunday with the delivery
hof the baccalaureate sermon. They
will continue till Thursday when this
semister will end.