The report of the Dean of the Medical Faculty calls attention to the diminiation of the size of the entering class. This falling off in numbers had been expected at the beginning of the last academic year when the new four years' course of instruction went into effect, but the entering class was the largest on record, so that the falling off in the numbers of this year's class was discouraging but easily to be accounted for by the prevailing financial depression.
A subject which has caused much anxiety to the officers of the Medical School is the astonishing rapidity with which the number of college graduates in entering classes has diminished. Since 1884 the percentage has fallen from 53.9 to 23.0 in the present year.
The past year is also to be noted as the first year in the history of the Medical School in which the salaries of those professors who give their whole time to the school have been placed on a level with the salaries of professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Divinity School.
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