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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...
...simple matter it looks to be to name the country's largest university. Choice depends entirely on whether one is ready to grant that men and women enrolled in extension courses, night courses and summer schools are really university students. But in the figures below students in extension and night courses are omitted...
Counting its 9000 or so summer school students, Columbia has an enrolment of nearly 16,000. Of one thing certainly there can be no question. Columbia's sphere of influence is the largest of any institution of learning in this country. Indeed, it probably wields more influence over more men and women than any other university in the world, because its announced registration of 16,000 does not begin to tell the whole story. Thousands of other persons come under the Columbia spell through the medium of extension courses and lectures given in all parts of Greater New York...
...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 enrolment in consequence remains practically the same from year to year. Smith, with nearly 2000 students, continues to be the largest women's college in the world Wellesley and Simmons follow in the order named, but at some distance to the rear...
...subtle, is very potent. The following example well illustrates it: Three boys are oppressed by a bully, so they league together to jump on him should he attack any one of them. There is a great sense of security and power in such a compact. But, now, if the largest of the three withdraws from the agreement, saying, 'All right, boys, when the bully attacks you, jump on him. I will then decide whether I shall help you or not,' both the advantages of the league are lost...