Some facts concerning the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University. Presented to a hearing of legislative committees. Albany, April 5, 1910/Students in the College of Agriculture
The number of students attending the College of Agriculture has increased very rapidly in recent years. During the first twenty years, from 1868 to 1887, the total number of students in any year did not exceed fifty in number. In the year 1892-3 the short winter-course was added, and the total number of students reached 103. There followed a gradual increase until in the year 1903-4 the total registration reached 296. In the spring of the year 1904 the College became a State institution, and an appropriation granted for the erection of buildings. As a result the registration for the succeeding year, 1904-5, advanced to 418. From that time the increase has been constant, and in the five-year period since, the registration has more than doubled, being this year a total of 968 students of all grades. This increase is graphically illustrated in the accompanying chart.
CHART SHOWING INCREASE IN ATTENDANCE FROM YEAR 1876-7 TO 1909-10.
The registration of various grades of students since the College became a State institution is shown in the following table:
The registration of Winter-course students in 1909-10 would have been considerably larger had it not been found necessary to limit the registration.