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President Angell's report to the board of regents, of Michigan University, notes an increase of thirty-six in the attendance of women during 1886-7, and a relative gain in numbers with respect to the male student. They now form nearly seventeen per cent. of the whole. He bears witness to their capacity to meet the severest tests of the common discipline, and says:- "The advantages derived from the University courses have proved as helpful to the women in their lives subsequent to their graduation as to the men." Of both sexes, he says: "The number of farmers' children...
...faculty is lack of information. There is much printed matter, furnished gratuitously, which is not read. For instance, a student said to the president that the "organization of Memorial was fundamentally vicious, as the steward had an interest in making the board bad, as he got 50 per cent. of every order." This is "fundamentally" wrong. An officer of the Hall did not know that the directors could dismiss the steward without consulting anybody, yet all this is in the "Scheme for carrying on the Hall." Courtesy for other bodies often obliges the faculty to withhold information. When the faculty...
There is an advance of five per cent. in college attendance in the United States this year over last...
...table showing the percentage of college students who enter the ministry, prepared by Prof. G. P. Morris, shows the following decrease: At Harvard, from 55 per cent. in 1650 to 1 per cent in 1875; at Yale, from 74 per cent. in 1710 to 8 per cent. in 1880; at Princeton, from 49 per cent. in 1750 to 18 per cent. in 1875; at Williams, from 25 per cent. in 1800 and 49 per cent. in 1825, to 12.7 per cent. in 1880; at Amherst, from 64 per cent. in 1825 to 13.5 per cent. in 1880. Weyleyan still shows...
There is an advance of five per cent. in college attendance in the United States this year...