Word: states
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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 53,316 in 1918 and 72,646 in 1916. Here is a gain of 55 per cent. over last year...
This will mark the first time that air racing in the colleges has been officially recognized, and if the sanction of the Massachusetts Club can be gained for the plan, its chances for success will be materially improved. The University organization hopes to induce the state club to open the matter to general discussion at the meeting, and if this is done there should be many valuable expressions of opinion from the members, all of whom have had flying experience of one kind or another...
That there is a possibility of the establishment of a municipal airdrome in Boston was disclosed in the invitation sent to the University Club. Members of the state society will this week participate in a conference with Mayor Peters and Aerial Mail officials from Washington as to the desirability of having such an airdrome in or about Boston...
Never has the University had an opportunity to meet personally and informally so many prominent actors and actresses of the stage of today as will be tonight assembled in the State Armory. Movieland has sent William S. Hart and June Caprice as its representatives, while the vaudeville stage has contributed many others of prominence...
...business and inspirational programs, and the National Oratorical Contest will occupy the evening. This contest is a culmination of a two years' series of smaller contests. About 1500 students wrote and delivered orations in 290 local college and university contests. The winners of these locals competed again in state contests, and the victors in these 70 state contests met in seven interstate trials. The prize orators of these interstates will compete at Des Moines for national honors...