CHAPTER XXXVIII. PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS. Medical schools in the Northern, Western, and some of the Southern States now require attendance upon courses of four years as a condition of graduation. Eleven schools have an annual session of nine months, and nineteen schools have sessions of eight months. In the University of Michigan “the literary student who intends to enter medicine has an opportunity, by electing from the courses of the first two years of the medical curriculum, of shortening from one and one-half to two years his total period of residence at the university." In the medical school of Yale University "graduates in arts, philosophy, or science, who have pursued studies in chemistry, physiology, anatomy, and histology during their undergraduate courses may be admitted to the second-year class, with certain conditions." A large number of medical schools have similar regulations. Upon examination of the diagram showing the percentage of increase in the number of students during the ten years 1887-1897, it will be found that while theological students increased thirty per cent in number, dental students increased 284 per cent, or nearly ten times as fast. While medical students increased 108 per cent, law students increased 228 per cent. DIAGRAM 2.-Percentage of increase in number of students in ten years, 1887-1897. Class of schools. TABLE 1.--General summary of statistics of professional and allied schools, for 1896-97. ing. 785 7,051 60, 512 15, 525 e Since this tabulation was made, several other schools for nurses have been added to the list in this office. TABLE 2.-Summary of statistics of schools of theology, for 1896–97. United States.... 157 746 234 8, 173 1,672 2, 566 1,415,610 $417, 018 $14,106,970 $18, 171, 041 North Atlantic Division. 49 285 80 3,062 North Atlantic Division: Maine Massachusetts. Connecticut New York.. New Jersey.. Pennsylvania.. South Atlantic Division: Maryland.. District of Columbia. Virginia.. North Carolina South Central Division 288806 3 16 5445 DD DE 4831 88288 4948 12 183526 719 1,512 22, 425 140 112 58,150 625 733 366, 487 28 44 38, 050 6, 100 17 14 23, 670 7,000 109 356 120, 770 4,557 910,000 |