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Dates: during 1910-1919
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A year ago the colleges were disorganized by the necessities of war and the changes they had to make to meet the demand for officers' training camps. As educational institutions they had almost ceased to function. They were military camps first and colleges afterward.
Analysis of figures of any kind is not always easy; often it is wholly unsatisfactory. The returns from the colleges, however, would seem to indicate certain definite developments. Primarily it is the large universities and technical schools which have benefited most by this new-found popularity of higher education. Take...
Somewhat to the surprise of the University authorities, Harvard's enrolment has passed the 5000 mark, and registration in the College alone exceeds 2500. The exact figure for the entire University, excluding University Extension and Summer School, is 5201. All the graduate schools except the Law School, whose small upper...
Despite the abolition of the popular select three-year course in its scientific school, Yale has a larger enrolment than it had in 1916. The university is undergoing a thorough reorganization, which includes departmentalization of the faculty and some changes in admission requirements. For the first time in Yale history...
For sheer rapid growth few institutions in the country, and assuredly none in New England, have a record comparable to Boston University's. In a single year enrolment has almost doubled. B. U. has been adding new departments with considerable regularity, and the result is that today it has about...