Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-10-01
RECORD ENROLMENT
At STATE COLLEGE
Freshman Glass Larger Than Ever
BefOre--Au Departments Are
Popular


started the 1866 term last
Wednesday with an unusually prom
Using outlook. Indications that the
popularity of the college had taken
pronounced bound were furnished
on every quarter. Districts of the
state which had hitherto sent most
OF their students to other colleges in
the Northwest this year turned such
an unexpected tide of young people
to w. S. G. that in number of de-
partments reorganization of the
work was demanded before efficient
work could be done in the class
rooms. Never before, since the col
lege was founded, has opening day
found such host waiting for an OPP
portunity to take out registration
cards. The students came on every
train for week preceding the start
of enrolment operations, some of
them having been in Pullman ten
days early.
Enrolment proceeded with very
little confusion all day Monday and
Tuesday and scores were unable to
enroll before classes started on
Wednesday. The mapping of courses
for the hundreds of new students oc-
cupied the entire time of the admis-
sion committee and heads of depart
ments for both days set aside for the
enrolment, and the officials were
allowed no spare time, even after
the classes were organized.
Enrolment Is Record
No count of the number of stu
dents enrolled was made until the
fourth day of the term, when it was
| found that the registration was
greater by $50 students than the
| fourth day enrolment of last year.
Since that count was made cards
have been taken out at the rate of
about 80 each day and the total
number enrolled at the present time
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ing reached 975 early on Monday
These figures include those taking
the straight collegiate courses and
do not take into account the several
hundred students who will take spe-
cial work in the college.
The increased enrolment from
districts where the State College has
| heretofore been but little appreciat-
ed has brought much satisfaction to
the administration of the college for
it marks a beginning of popularity
| for the college where many attempts
| have been made to bring the school
! into the foreground. The city of
| Spokane, where the State University
has been most popular for years, this
| term sends three times as many stu
dents to Pullman as in any other
year. North Yakima contributes an
increased number, Dayton, Pomeroy,
and the adjoining country have in
creased the number enrolled from
those places, and Wenatchee has sent
a goodly number.
Perhaps the greatest satisfaction,
however, comes from the large en-
rollm ent from coast cities Portland
has sent number of students; Ia
coma, formerly hardly represented
among the students, has 35 enrolled,
and the cities of Seattle, Everett and
Bellingham have greatly increased
their representation here.
Many Courses Popular
| So great has been the increase in
| the enrolment in the domestic sci
ence department that for a number
of days the instructors were com
pletely swamped and unable to ar
range for class work English
classes show a decided increase in
: the number enrolled and the classes
in chemistry are attracting a large
number of new students. There are
| 240 Freshmen enrolled in chemistry
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the English courses. Interviews
with number of heads of depart
ments brought staten ents that
classes were crowded and effective
! work hindered until different ar
rangements were made 1t was ex-
pected, however, that this week !
would see all class-work running
smoothly, the confusion having re-
suited solely from the Unexpectedly !
large opening enrolment.
Many new courses in the different |
departments are being opened and |
taken advantage of by students. !
Public speaking classes are enlarg-
ing the scope of their work, journal |
1gFa pln III.