Word: urban
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Today the University will have as its guest the American Association of Urban Universities which is holding its annual meeting over this week-end. Harvard has for many years been a member of the Association and has annually sent delegates to the meetings but this marks the first time that the Association has ever met in Cambridge...
...purpose of the meeting will be to discuss various aspects of education in general and in particular to arrive at a solution of some of the problems which confront the urban universities alone. A number of men, prominent in education, and in the field of politics will be present at the meeting to speak on those subjects with which they are most closely connected...
...Association of Urban Universities is composed of the majority of city colleges and universities in the East and was formed originally to promote better feeling and more cordial relations between these educational institutions. The officers of the Association at present are President L. H. Murlin of Boston University, who is President, and the Secretary Treasurer, Frederick B. Robinson of the College of the City of New York...
...first meeting comes this morning in the Faculty Room, University Hall, at 10 o'clock when the session will open with President Murlin's address on "Some Educational Problems and Programs peculiar to Urban Universities." Following Mr. Murlin, Governor Calvin Coolidge will talk of the part that the universities have played in Public Administration. Addresses by Mayor Peters and two educational experts, S. P. Duggan and C. L. Swiggert will end the session...
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...