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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following rule: "Every voter shall vote for three candidates for Marshals, indicating his preference for First Marshal. Of the three elected, that candidate receiving the highest number of votes for First Marshal shall be elected First Marshal; of the other two elected, that one whose total vote is higher shall be Second Marshal, and the other one Third Marshal...
Enrolment in the colleges today is the largest in the nation's history, as disclosed by figures collected by the Boston Transcript from the returns of more than 60 institutions representing every type of higher education in every part of the country. It is larger by 42 per cent than in 1918 and larger by 21 per cent than in 1916, the record-breaking year of pre-war prosperity. So immense and insistent has been the flow of men, that for many colleges the old-time problem of how to attract more students has given way to the problem...
Analysis of figures of any kind is not always easy; often it is wholly 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...
Encouraging reports are being received of the activities of the class organizations in Boston in their endeavor to raise their rating in the Endowment Fund Campaign. Many of the classes who were ranked relatively low last week have risen in the class list, while several of the higher ranked classes are striving for a 100 per cent. enrolment...
...music to be sung at these coming concerts will be of an altogether higher order musically than that which has characterized the Glee Club concerts in the past, and from what I know of the work of the Club's leader--Prof. Archibald T. Davison,--I am sure all who are interested in good choral singing will find the concerts of unusual interest and value...