Word: todays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that was less than a year ago. Today they are relatively in a stronger position than ever before. Not only have men who served with the colors come back to them; they have attracted thousands of boys who never had thought of going to college, but whose eyes were opened by the things colleges and college men did in that great struggle...
...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 and of 25 per cent. over three years ago. In other words, they are well above the average in both instances...
...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...
...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...
Although the class campaign will close today, and all cards will be turned in, the local committee will continue to work toward completing Boston's quota...