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...during the year, a few pages are devoted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts and the changes which have taken place in recent years as to the relative position of this degree and that in science and letters. These changes are significant in connection with the sudden and rapid growth during the past few years of the Scientific School...
Owing to the rapid increase in the number of students in the Scientific Shool. a new building to contain lecture rooms, drawing rooms, and collections will be imperatively needed next year. In hard times the Scientific Schools have this advantage over the colleges, that they provide more quickly the means of of earning a livelihood...
...presence of Japanese students in the University for several years past, and the high standing which some of them have maintained in their courses, has doubtless aroused in many an interest in Japan and in the rapid advance which she has recently made in education. There is now in Japan a well organized school system and instruction is given in every grade from the kindergarten to the university. This instruction is of course adapted to peculiar needs of the country and is not, therefore, in all respects the same as that given in this country...
...with the university are five government and two private colleges which are preparatory to the professional schools. The enrollment of the university is about twelve hundred and that of the colleges about three thousand. The most prominent departments of the university are those of Medicine, Science and Technology. The rapid development of the country, and the construction of bridges, railroads, modern buildings, and the like, calls for a large number of trained engineers, and to these the Science and Technology departments give a course of training which ranks with the best that is given in Europe and America...
Among the "Kodaks" there are several choice bits of description, but the last one deserves a far better position. It shows just that rapid character painting which is best suited to this style of work...