APPENDIX VI. SUPERIOR AND PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTION. I.-INSTITUTIONS FOR THE SUPERIOR INSTRUC TION OF WOMEN. II.-UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. III-SCHOOLS OF SCIENCE. IV. SCHOOLS OF THEOLOGY. V.-SCHOOLS OF LAW. VI.-SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE. VII.-DEGREES CONFERRED. 437 SUPERIOR INSTRUCTION. CLASSIFICATION OF INSTITUTIONS FOR SUPERIOR INSTRUCTION. Under the general head of superior instruction are included all institutions empowered by law to confer degrees. They are colleges of liberal arts, schools of science, professional schools, and universities. Each of these classes consists of institutions differing more or less in organization, standards, and resources, yet possessing enough common characteristics to admit of logical classification. The present scheme of classification was, perhaps, better adapted to the conditions of superior instruction as they existed at the time of its adoption than to the present conditions. The revision of the scheme has been undertaken during the year, but it has not been carried far enough to justify any very marked departure from the stereotyped form under which the particulars relating to the subject have heretofore been tabulated. TABLE 30.-Statistical summary of students in institutions for superior instruction (not including students in preparatory departments). |