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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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The Student Body 167 ferred on 10 persons and 2 persons, respectively, in 1904, but in 1918 52 (87) persons were granted the degree of A. M. and 33 (59) that of M. S. In 1904 no person was granted the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, In 1918 this degree was conferred on 33 (36) persons. The degree was granted to a total of 241 persons during the fifteen years from 1905 to 1919. The number of persons receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts was 249 (235) in 1918 as compared with 120 in 1904. The number of graduates of the College of Engineering increased from 99 to 121 (218), a gain of more than 22 (120) per cent A remarkable gain is shown in the number of persons who completed the curriculum of the College of Agriculture. One hundred and thirty-nine (235) persons received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture in 1918 as against only 16 in 1904, an increase of over 768 (1,368) per cent. The newly organized College of Commerce and Business Administration presented 69 candidates for the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1916, and 38 (73) in 1918, together with 17 (3) candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science in the latter year. The total number of degrees granted by the University increased, with some degree of uniformity, from 633 in 1904, to 928 (1,223) in 1918—a total gain of 295 (590), or about 47 (93) per cent for the fourteen year period. The exceptionally large number of degrees conferred in 1914 is partly to be accounted for by the fact that at the 1914 commencement 45 students of former years who had completed the required amount of work for a degree, but had failed to satisfy the technical requirements in force at that time, were granted the appropriate degrees. If this number be deducted from the total number of degrees conferred in 1914, the number of degrees granted to members of the class of 1914 is 987. It is perhaps worthy of note that the ratio of the number of degrees granted in 1918 to the total number of persons in attendance during the year 1917-18 is nearly the same as the corresponding ratio in 1904—16.6 (17.9) per cent in 1918 as compared with 17.6 per cent in the earlier year. In December, 1916, the Board of Trustees approved a recommendation of the University Senate to the effect that thereafter
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