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Analysis of figures of any kind is not always easy; often it is wholly unsatisfactory. The returns from the colleges, however, would seem to indicate certain definite developments. Primarily it is the 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...
...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...
...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...
...sheer rapid growth few institutions in the country, and assuredly none in New England, have a record comparable to Boston University's. In a single year enrolment has almost doubled. B. U. has been adding new departments with considerable regularity, and the result is that today it has about 5400 students. These figures include the registration in the popular night courses given in the College of Business Administration. This fall the university has opened a college of secretarial science, a school of education and a department of religious education and social service...
Although the sanction of the Yale athletic council has not been given, the trip is known to be favored by many members of the faculty. The decision to 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...