Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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...
...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 in both instances...
...Endowment Fund Campaign. Many of the alumni have doubled their subscriptions, and in two instances have contributed an additional amount far in excess of their original subscriptions. This impetus has been attributed mainly to the activity of the class committees in an endeavor to gain a one hundred per cent response from their members...
Yesterday's subscriptions sent the fund well over 70 per cent. of the desired amount: The totals stood as follows...
...year after year, without ostentation or public applause, the astronomers have been combing the heavens, searching among the millions of other worlds, their sole purpose being to add to the sum of human knowledge. Of all the new stars discovered since 1886, Harvard has the honor of claiming seventy per cent...