The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-29

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LIVERY year witnesses increased
Il attendance at the summer SEES
s;ons of the universities and colleges
In New York, Baltimore and Chicago
Manv pastors of churches take their
vacations by "going off" to study IN
some special
Rig Cities Teaching line; but, per-
Centers in Summer haps, the great
err number OF
summer students from out-of-town are
those engaged in the business OF teach-
ing. The aggregate attendance OF
Columbia university, New York unl-
yersity and Fordham was larger this
summer than in any previous ike
period. :.
The World states that at Columbia
and New York universities, without
counting any of the other institutions
Of higher learning, the enrolment Oh
visiting students-men and women
totaled approximately 10000. 1t useo
to be that only young folks made up
student bodies, but in this age OF
progress, when the thirst for knowl-
edge is intense, no man or woman Oh
aspiration is too old to "go to school,.
1t is curious fact that the course
in photoplay writing offered at one OF
the New York universities was among
the most popular in the curriculum.
Most of the colleges in Gotham have
broadened their scope for summer
work so as to include all manner OF
"uplift" and "efficiency"-nursing,
settlement activities, Sunday school
pedagogy, department store manage
ment and "esthetic and social
dancing"
n EMOCRATIC national commit
u teemen and hundreds Of promi-
nent democrats from various parts OF
the country will gather in New York
this week for the purpose Of proceed
ing in a body to Shadow Lawn" near
Long Branch,
Balance of Power to participate In
in Jndependent Vote the ovation to
President Will
son on the occasion of the notification
ceremonies on Saturday next. AS IT
will be the first time the national
committee has come together since the
st. Louis convention adjourned the in
formal reports which the members
will make on democratic chances In
their respective states will be of more
than ordinary interest at campaign
headquarters. But at this stage OF the
national canvass it is too much to ex-
meet any reliable forecast of the No
yember result.
The progressives, from which must
come the great independent vote, hold
the balance of power this year. In 1912
thew made Woodrow Wilson's election
absolutely certain. In Colonel Roose-
velt's estimation the old republican
party was so vile that he felt he would
be doing the country service to help
elect the democratic standard bearer,
rather than allow the representative OF
the "old guard" Mr.. Taft, to win.
The situation is different now. In
June Roosevelt, to the amazement and
disgust of many of his faithful fol-
lowers, returned to the party he had
30 numerically abused and sought to
deliver the entire moose vote to Mr..
Hughes. Some of the well known pro-
xressives suffered themselves to he
delivered, but others, and very large
number of them it is believed, feeling
that they had been betrayed, are as
strongly against Hughes as they were
against the ticket headed by Taft.
Some of the most influential Of the
propressives have declared themselves
for Wilson, but the greater number
may be classed as independents. They
are keeping silent but are looking on
with eagerness, many Of them no
doubt with decidedly democratic
leaning. And this very silence on the
part Of thousands is why the situation
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