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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Nearly $70,000 was contributed in the Boston district yesterday to the University Endowment Fund as the result of the class canvass of the past three weeks. This brings the general fund to 71 per cent. of the required amount, and places Boston more than half a million dollars ahead of New York...
Enrolment in the colleges today is the largest in the nation's history, as disclosed by figures collected by the Boston Transcript from the returns of more than 60 institutions representing every type of higher education in every part of the country. It is larger by 42 per cent than in 1918 and larger by 21 per cent than in 1916, the record-breaking year of pre-war prosperity. So immense and insistent has been the flow of men, that for many colleges the old-time problem of how to attract more students has given way to the problem...
...city or state universities -- Boston University, Columbia, Cornell, New York University, Northwestern, Syracuse, and the universities of California, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Their total registration today is 90,947, compared with 53,316 in 1918 and 72,646 in 1916. Here is a gain of 55 per cent. over last year and of 25 per cent. over three years ago. In other words, they are well above the average in both instances...
...number of women students in our colleges has increased to a substantial extent, the advance is again largely in the great State and urban universities. In nine strictly women's colleges, enrolment this fall is 8870, compared to 8723 last fall, a gain of less than two per cent. Enrolment of women in coeducational institutions has made a gan of 22 per cent. This condition of affairs is not impossible of explanation. Many women's colleges, like Vassar, Bryn Mawr, and Wellesley, have only limited accommodations to offer, and must perforce limit the number of students they annually admit. Their...
...activities of the class organizations in Boston in their endeavor to raise their rating in the Endowment Fund Campaign. Many of the classes who were ranked relatively low last week have risen in the class list, while several of the higher ranked classes are striving for a 100 per cent. enrolment...