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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Analyzing the preliminary registration figures at American universities this year, several features attract attention. The first is that Columbia will open on Wednesday with an enrollment exceeding 10,000. That breaks all American records, and places the metropolitan university in point of registration in the same class with the largest institutions of learning of the Old World. The University of Berlin will probably maintain its lead for a few years to come, but the rapidity of growth among American universities promises soon to transfer the leadership in numbers from Berlin to Columbia. Whatever may be said regarding the relative value...
...some interesting facts. The percentage of teachers among those attending the School in Cambridge is 66, a gain of 6 per cent over the summers of 1912. Nearly one third of this number is made up of teachers from the grade schools. Principals and supervisors make up the next largest division...
...largest class among the remaining occupations is that of students of the University...
...will think out the questions which we shall encounter,--who will think them out scientifically and earnestly,--who will face them fearlessly, because, remember this, the men who have rarely stood in the forefront of the advance of civilization have not usually found themselves shouting with the largest crowd. We require, above all, courage, and the courage we require is not only the courage of action; it is the courage of thought, the courage of thinking right. If the men in the country who have this feeling would think right, the getting right would follow almost as a matter...
...leaders came from every part of the country. While 103 of the 292 were from Massachusetts, the proportion of these 103 men to all the men from that state in college was much smaller than that of New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri, or California, the four states having the next largest representation. In other words, the men from a distance figure more largely than those from the immediate vicinity and the man from Missouri, to quote a concrete instance, seems to stand three times as good a chance of being prominent as the man from Massachusetts. This would seem to explode...