Physical culture, 3 11 347

Total, 23,179 18,356 14,093

As the totals vary so largely, the only thing here to be noted is that European languages bulk largest at Harvard, classics at Yale, and natural sciences at Cornell. The following table gives the best basis for comparison:

Harvard. Yale. Cornell.

Classics, 8.7 24.2 8.0

European languages, 22.8 14.5 18.8

Political science, 9.9 11.2 6.5

English, 16.8 10.9 16.3

History, 14.3 10.4 8.2

Mathematics, 4.4 9.6 6.6

Philosophy, 6.1 8.9 7.7

Natural sciences, 10.2 8.1 23.5

Biblical literature, 0.2 1.1 0.2

Art, 5.6 0.4 ?

Music, 0.6 0.3 0.5

Military science, 0.5 0.2 1.3

Physical culture, 0.01 0.1 2.4

Perhaps the most striking fact shown is that nearly one-fourth of a student's time is given at Harvard to European languages, at Cornell to the natural sciences, and at Yale to the classics.

The table for Cornell will be entirely changed in two years, for the present prescribed work in Greek, Latin, French, German, English, philosophy, mathematics and science will be entirely abolished. In making the statistics, only students in the academic course were counted for Cornell.