Word: york
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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 and of 25 per cent. over three years...
...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...
...same reasoning applies in a measure to the University of Pennsylvania, with its 10,321 students; to New York University, with its 9695; California, with its 9208, and Michigan, with its 9800. All of those institutions and others like them are rendering a public service of tremendous dimensions...
...competitive work required consists mainly in securing subscriptions and advertisements, with general business efficiency as a recognized factor. Men in this competition not only come in intimate contact with undergraduate life, but gain a large amount of practical experience from their business relations with firms in Boston, New York and other cities. Men elected business editors compete in their Junior year for the position of business manager...
...totals yesterday were as follows: Boston, $4,216,240 New York, 3,774,153 Outside, 2,622,803 Totals...