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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Large Universities Gain Most...
...representative big 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...
While the 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...
...most gratifying results of the Endowment Fund Campaign. Many of the alumni have doubled their subscriptions, and in two instances have contributed an additional amount far in excess of their original subscriptions. This impetus has been attributed mainly to the activity of the class committees in an endeavor to gain a one hundred per cent response from their members...
Immediately following the Student Volunteer Convention in Des Moines, the Eighth National Convention of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association will be held in the same city on January 5, 1920. This convention will bring together representative students and professors from all important institutions to consider the liquor problem abroad, to gain a vision of the responsibility of American to other colleges of the world, and to work out the plans for an extension of the college prohibition movement to all other lands...