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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
Encouraging reports are being received of the activities of the class organizations in Boston in their endeavor to raise their rating in the Endowment Fund Campaign. Many of the classes who were ranked relatively low last week have risen in the class list, while several of the higher ranked classes are striving for a 100 per cent. enrolment...
...evidence that interest in this sport has revived. Its organization among Freshmen is but a step in the direction of establishing it as a Varsity sport. The formation of class teams should come next. That such action would be favored is shown by the number of men who played last year on the Randolph courts. Without the incentive of a schedule or regular practice, there were always enough players on hand to form two teams; at times as many as four or five...
...make the trip was caused by the absence at New Haven of a rink where skating is possible the entire winter. No call has yet been issued at New Haven for the hockey squad, but captain Ingalls will call the squad together within the next few days. Nine of last year's squad have returned to Yale this season...