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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...inadequate mediums--individual communications, mass meetings called for special purposes, and the passing of occasional resolutions. Any movement of a new group to make its influence felt in the time between elections points to the solution of one of the most difficult problems in the government of a democratic state. The proposal to take a vote on the thirteenth of next January in the colleges of America on four phases of the question of ratification of the treaty may prove a landmark in the history of the organization of opinion...
Many advantages would accrue both to the state and to the colleges if the machinery by means of which the coming ballot is to be taken should be perpetuated. The Government would receive aid in determining, its policy from a well-informed part of its society. The colleges, for their part, would benefit from a greater discussion of vital problems, and a stimulus to such discussion would be provided by a permanent forum of college opinion...
...increase. From 130,630 students in 1916 the total has swollen to 158,816. Although the colleges were not wholly prepared to receive these great numbers, and even had to tell many that they could not receive them, and although they found that educational conditions were in a chaotic state, they set to work to effect a readjustment on a fundamental and expansive basis. Today they are ready to solve any problem that may be thrust upon them and ready for an era of unparallelled prosperity...
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...
Viscount Sir Edward Grey has long been engaged in governmental and diplomatic service. He was educated at Balliol College, and soon after graduation was appointed an under-secretary of Foreign Affairs, in which capacity he served until 1895. From 1905-16 he acted as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and in this position had practically the entire charge of British Foreign Affairs during the trying days of the fall of 1914, immediately preceding and following England's entrance into the war. He resigned his office in 1916, and thereafter has been a Member of Parliament...