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Next year's enrolment at Morningside Heights will probably approach close to 30,000. A very large portion of this enrolment is to be accounted for by the extension courses, which to large extent invalidate-comparison with other institutions not equipped with popular lecture courses or enormous summer sessions. Nevertheless as a social force the University does obviously operate through these supplementary activities. Furthermore, if Columbia counts its auxiliary student membership by the thousand, it is also an institutes which today confers about 850 Master of Art degrees. The expansion of sub-academic activities is going hand in hand with...
...degree the relative strength of the two American colleges and Oxford and Cambridge, that will compete July 23 in the Stadium. This estimate can best be made by comparing the times and distances of the Crimson-Blue duel with those made in the Oxford-Cambridge meet this winter. The comparison of the marks set in these two contests gives the English colleges the edge in the running events and the American in the field. The English meet, however, was held under much better weather conditions than the contest at New Haven last Saturday...
...distance and middle-distance runs the English combination is exceptionally strong. No comparison can be made in the two-mile race because this event was not included in the British meet, the three-mile being its substitute. Montague of Cambridge ran this latter event in 14 minutes, 54 seconds, and is sure to give Hilles of Yale and Mahon of the University keen competition in the two-mile July 23. Hilles' time for this event last Saturday...
Burns of Cambridge high-jumped 5 feet. 10 inches in the Oxford-Cambridge meet, a low mark in comparison with Landon's 6 feet, 2 5-8 inches for Yale Saturday. Three Americans have equalled Burns' leap: Goodell and Krogness of the University, and Hannon of Yale...
...point is this: Under the existing state of affairs teachers in both universities and schools are underpaid, especially by comparison with men and women of equal ability in other pursuits. And the institutions of learning are for the most part on the bare edge in regard to finances, despite their campaigns for funds. Most of them are overcrowded, so that the efforts of the teacher are spread over a great number of students. The result is naturally that education suffers materially in both classes of institutions alike...