Abstract
IN another column (p. 175) we print an article on “Numerical Changes in the German Student Body” by Dr. E. Y. Hartshorne of Harvard, author of “German Universities and National Socialism”. The main conclusions in Dr. Hartshorne's article may be summarized by saying that the reduction in number of students in German universities and seats of higher learning was approximately 42 per cent between 1932 and 1937, so that where there were a hundred in 1932 there were only fifty-eight in 1937. The process has since continued, and it seems probable that there are now not more than half the number of students in Germany that there were in 1932. Of the survivors, more than a third —approximately 34 per cent in 1937—were students of medicine. The great reductions have been in humanities, in 'pure' science 'and in law and allied studies. These conclusions naturally suggest an inquiry whether there are similar tendencies, if of a less degree, in the British student body. A preliminary investigation of the returns of the Universities Grants Committee shows that this question must be answered in the negative.
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British and German University Enrolments. Nature 142, 133 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142133a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142133a0