The Dropping of Delinquents

Statistics of undergraduate enrollment in Dartmouth which have recently been prepared by the Registrar offer some interesting comparisons. The figures, corrected to March 22, are as follows :

Class of 1911 1912 1913 1914 Enrollment on Jan. 1 223 232 281 393 Completed work for degree with Class of 1910 11 Advanced to senior standing from junior class. 5 5 Separated by faculty action and withdrawn for various reasons 1 3 14 25 Admitted from other institutions 1 1 3 Reinstated 2 3 Present enrollment 217 225 269 374

Eight members of the senior class, who will receive their degrees in June, completed the requirement for their degrees at the end of the first semester. Two of them are pursuing graduate work at Dartmouth, and one at Cornell ; two are teaching and three are engaged in business.

The number dropped from the rolls, or withdrawn to avoid being dropped, is seen to be 43 in all. At the close of the first semester Princeton dropped 49 regular students as ; follows: freshmen, 18; sophomores, 16; juniors, 13; seniors, 2. The Princeton catalogue shows an enrollment, in these classes, of 1,227, If the statistics of the past few years count for anything, this number will be forcibly reduced to the extent of 40 more delinquents in June.

At Cornell, the number of students dropped at the close of the first semester was the smallest in years, 88 for all departments, the enrollment of which totals nearly 4,000. Of these 88, from the College of Arts, with an enrollment of about 900, 22 were dropped. From the Colleges of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, with an enrollment of about 1,700, 34 were dropped. The College of Agriculture furnished 21 of the remaining victims. In 1909, at the same period of the year, Cornell dropped 152 students ; last year 141. The considerable present decrease is attributed to increased severity in entrance examinations.