Science in education.

TLDR: In the year 1895-96 there were in attendance at the colleges and universities of the United States nearly fifty thousand students who were pursuing courses leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and of whom nearly ten thousand received that degree as mentioned in this paper.

Abstract: SCIENCE IN EDUCATION.* DURING the year 1895-96 there were in attendance at the colleges and universities of the United States nearly fifty thousand students who were pursuing courses leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and of whom nearly ten thousand received that degree. In the various technological and professional schools there were sixty-six thousand students and nearly or quite fifteen thousand graduates. That is, those students seeking the so-called liberal education were less than forty per cent. of all the candidates for college degrees. In none of the professional schools, with but few exceptions, is the possession of a college or university degree necessary for admission. A single medical school at the present time requires its matriculates to possess the bachelor degree, and some others will in the near future. In the theological schools a preparatory college education is more usual, but the whole number of theological students in the United States is relatively small, and does not seem to be rapidly increasing. Nearly one-half of the professional students are those studying medicine, and of these I do not think more than five per cent. are graduates of other courses. Less than that percentage will be found among the engineering students, for reasons that will appear later. The profession of law, *A presidential address before the thirtieth annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science. 863