Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University of Michigan has established a system of meetings compulsory for Freshmen at which various members of the faculty speak informally for a half-hour on subjects of interest to students newly come to the university. These talks are on college ideals and traditions; and these meetings tend to acquaint the students with well-known faculty members and with college modes of life. . . It is evident that the Freshmen . . . cannot hope to become familiar with the ways of college without some exterior assistance. They remain an amorphous but unamalgamated group in their present situation, and some definite means should...
...large universities and technical schools which have benefited most by this new-found popularity of higher education. Take, for instance, the enrolment statistics of 11 of the 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...
...same reasoning applies in a measure to the University of Pennsylvania, with its 10,321 students; to New York University, with its 9695; California, with its 9208, and Michigan, with its 9800. All of those institutions and others like them are rendering a public service of tremendous dimensions...
...Right Reverend Charles David Williams; D.D., Bishop of Michigan...
...complete list follows: HARVARD. YALE. Massachusetts, 23 6 New York, 4 4 Pennsylvania, 3 4 Connecticut, 0 4 Ohio, 2 3 Illinois, 2 3 New Jersey, 0 2 Minnesota, 0 2 Michigan, 0 2 Honolulu, 0 1 All others...