Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...civilized community. The army reports from the different draft camps reveal an alarming percentage of illiteracy among the draftees, not only with men of foreign birth but also among the native born Americans. New estimates represent, the number of illiterates in the country as being far above the census reports of the last decade...
Announcement of the complete program for Class Day was made yesterday by the 1918 Class Day Committee. As a result of a census of the class carried on during the past week, it is estimated that at least 250 Seniors will be in Cambridge for the Commencement exercises, a much larger number than had heretofore been expected. The Committee therefore plans a reunion on that occasion, as the class has been widely scattered during the past year, and will not likely have another opportunity to come together until after...
FIRST. That a census of the entire student body be taken immediately in order that the committee may be able to select those students who are qualified to render effective agricultural service...
...wireless station is offered as a central wireless station for New England; the students at Smith, Wellesley and Mount Holyoke are engaged in Red Cross work; and Western Reserve has already formed an ambulance unit of more than 100 men. Nearly all the colleges and universities are taking a census of their alumni in order that all resources may be utilized immediately as soon as the Government issues the call...
...corps, Boston University is giving war courses, New Hampshire is forming a nurses' aid organization in addition to the regular cadet corps, New York University is preparing, Columbia is organizing, Rhode Island has raised a signal corps in addition to its required military unit, Pennsylvania is taking a detailed census of its faculty, students and alumni, and 1,000 men are drilling at Purdue. Among the other institutions that are preparing to do their share are Norwich, Maine, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Colgate, Wesleyan, Trinity, Chicago, Minnesota, Williams, Amherst. Vermont, Worcester, Tech., Lafayette. Allegheny, Michigan, and a host of other colleges...