Word: farness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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From the figures tabulated up to 9 o'clock last night, it is estimated that the total enrollment in Harvard College this year will run close to, if not exceed, the record-breaking enrollment of 2,582 in 1916. The College this year is far larger than last year or the year before, when the war made big inroads on the attendance...
Only a rough estimate can be given thus far, owing to the number of men who could not register today because they were serving in the state guard or volunteer police by reason of the strike emergency...
Compulsory physical training is not meant to bear all its fruits during the Freshman year. Colleges which have tried it have found that a far greater number of their students have turned out for athletics during their last three years with compulsion during the first year, than under a strictly laissez-faire policy. Men who have never partaken in any sports or games in their school days will be drawn into them in college and will be able to enjoy them and profit by them throughout life. The spectacle of clever and talented men needlessly stricken with physical disability...
With the opening of the dormitories yesterday, Yale began its 219th year with what is expected to prove the largest registration on record. The freshman class in the academic department alone is by far the largest in Yale history...
From figures so far available the first-year men will number well over 450, and two temporary dormitories have been secured to house the surplus...