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UNIYEESITY OF ILLINOIS.

Edward Chilton Craig, Mark Alden Earl, William Fred Milton Spalding, and John Truesdale Stewart mended by t h e faculty to t h e governor of t h e State ored by him with commissions by brevet as captains tional Guard.

ENROLLMENT.

Johnson Graham, have been recomand have been honin t h e Illinois Na-

At this time last year there was reported to you a total enrollment of pupils of 583, which was an advance of 64 over t h e preceding year, and which was then stated to be t h e greatest annual growth in t h e history of t h e institution. The enrollment now reaches 714, or 131 more than t h a t of last year. This is phenomenal for us. I t has been a healthy development of t h e work already in hand without t h e attraction of anything really new, except t h e short winter course in agriculture, in which there were 29 students. No other state university or other prominent collegiate institution of several years' standing in t h e country, so far as my information goes, has made so large gains in per cent, of attendance, though i t is true t h a t t h e general increase of students has been very remarkable in many, especially in western universities. The greatest gain here has been in t h e college of engineering, especially in t h e course of electrical engineering, in which t h e advance over last year is 178 per cent. T h e increase of architectural students, including t h e architectural engineers, is 24 per cent.; of students in chemistry, 12 per cent.; in natural history, 28 per cent.: in Latin and Greek, together, 71 per cent. I n t h e last there were 21 enrolled last year; 36 this year. For further comparison I submit t h e following tables, summaries for the last two years:

SUMMARY, 1891-92.

cc o sr o Total Junior Prepai Specia Senior *Graduate school Resident graduates

TOTAL.

5o

COURSES AND CLASSES.

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Agriculture, men Mechanical engineering, m e n Electrical engineering, m e n Civil e n g i n e e r i n g , m e n Mining engineering, men A t •*. • ,„~ | Men A r c h i t e c t u r e -j W o m e n ~,. . , l Men Chemistry ] W o m e n N a t u r a l s c i e n c e -j ^ o m e n . . , •, ( Men

1 1

5 12 9

1 3 5 13 13 3 3 1

2 18 2 21 2 12 13 1 10

1 35 12 30 3 29 15 3 14 9

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1 1 1

2 4 1

6 1 29 14 12 1 20 " " 8 1 8 2 11 1 o 1 23 16 2 2 9 " 3 5

11 91 33 89 6 91 44 42

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11 91 33 89 6 j92 48 56 m 19 3

"4 [ " i 4 j1 "*9 3 ' "47

Arts iandw o m e n g n ] W o m e n desi Mu c,

English and mod- j Men ern language ] Women

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, 1 2 7 3 2 1 7 6. 2 9 6 1 1 1 2 11 11

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2 "58 "3 12 13

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m 4.„i ( M e n T o t a M Women Total *Not established till 1S92.

93 157 137 8 27 26 94 11 13

494 89 583

57 101 184 163