Word: summers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...simple matter it looks to be to name the country's largest university. Choice depends entirely on whether one is ready to grant that men and women enrolled in extension courses, night courses and summer schools are really university students. But in the figures below students in extension and night courses are omitted...
Counting its 9000 or so summer school students, Columbia has an enrolment of nearly 16,000. Of one thing certainly there can be no question. Columbia's sphere of influence is the largest of any institution of learning in this country. Indeed, it probably wields more influence over 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...
That the University Summer School will hold only one session next summer, lasting from July 6 to August 14, has been decided by the Administrative Board for University Extension...
...Last summer two sessions were held as a result of post-war conditions. The first of these sessions lasted from July 1 to August 2, and had an attendance of 1729 men and women, including students of the University, students from other colleges, college instructors, school teachers, and others...
Professor Arthur F. Whittem '02, who served last year as the director of the Summer School, and who is now Chairman of the Committee on Admissions, will be again in charge of the Summer School during its 1920 session...