The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-23

L. Is a factor in American college life is get in its infancy
 The time is approaching, the Blu rean of Education believes, when there will be as many women as men enroIled in universities and other higher institutions Of learning.
 Not only is this prediction support ed by the fact that more girls than schools. but figures compiled by the buEeau during the past 26 years show fhat the number of college womeH have increased 15s per cent. in that period, while the number of men have Rdtvanced only 143 per cent. 4 In the year 1890 of all the college Btudents in the United States 6S.3 per 1cent. were men and only 31.7 per per cent. were men and 3e.S per cent. 'Tere women. Abrupt increases in sfhe number of women were also re- ported in 1918, but this was due. 1t was stated, to war conditions.
 These figures are contained in a comprehensive survey of universf- Edes, colleges and professional schools flor the school year of f9f7-1s, Just Fcompleted under the direction of H. R- Bonner. ch4ef of the statistical di- rutsion of the Bureau of Education. The report Is to become a part of the Biennial Survey of Education in the
 Jmted States, t9f6-1S-
 Bonner points out that the propor- fton of high school graduates who seuter college may be expected to de- &rease as high schools become more sxocattonahzed.
 Men Teachers Predomtnate M Tt is evident" he says. that coi- s3oges and universities have not sue ceeded in more recent years in draw iscl1ool graduates as they formerly did.
 The multiplication of high schools, lin the attempt to give every boy and kgirl the advantages of a high school seducztion. has not resulted in large sprDportion of subsequent enrolment i4n collegiate and graduate courses fcourse in high school is not so likely Ito enter college after graduation as fstudent who hss taken the purely aca-
 91 9rooRR sesss apon %.sn Bon sner bases hts findings was collected hnm 672 universities, colleges and fprofeszionai schools. Most of the num- 6er are small colleges. although few svery large institutions are included.
 The teaching stnffs in the higher Educational institutions. according to lthere being about four men to one kwosnan. Almost 60 per cent of the in- sstructors in preparatory departments Eare men; in collegiate departments fT9 per cent and In professional fechools, S1 per cent
 One Graduate to 61 Adults .These percentages are significant" 44he report states ''in view of the fact Mhat in public high schools only s5 fper cent. of the teachers are men. and tdns the elementary schools only 13.3 sfore. for women to monopolize the keiementary and secondary school Ework and for men to control the work lin the higher institutions. The per fcentage of men instructors in colleges land universities has been steadily in creasing since 1892, while the pro Eportion of women teachers has de- creased correspondingly. About one khalf as many women as men receive 4graduate degrees from our colleges and universities, but only about one 5fourth as many teach in these higher tinstitutions On the other hand, about sS eight times as many men as women receive the PhD degree conferred on fexamination, yet only four times as tmany become teachers in univerSi- tics"
 The report estimated that in 1918 Ethere was only one college graduate E1iving for every 116 persons in the to- ktal population of the United States. If only the population B years of haze and over had been considered, it was stated. the ratio would become ione college graduate to every 61 fadults.
 Sixty-eight to 1000 Win Degrees.
 More than one-half of the gradu- ates of four-year high schools enter lcollege at some time. according to the rreport the percehtage being 517 It tds estimated that 1000 children en- ftering the first grade from four-year khigh school and only 2.3 per cent. of the original number will complete < a college course. On the same basis. Sout of each 1 900 entering high school L406 will graduate, 210 will enter col E1ege, and only 6S will complete col r lege course. Similarly, it is found that for each 1000 entering college, sf416 will become seniors and 322 will tgraduate Almost 30 per cent Of the 4 students enrolled in the first year of at college do not enter the second.
 The report points out that while the amount of Federal aid to unfver- sites and colleges has increased in general the proportion of revenue de- lrived from this source has almost s{steadify decreased in comparison with Sl the amount derived from other feources. In general the higher insd- | tutionS are coming more and more to rdepend upon the state or city for sup fport and less on income from produc- ttive funds, private benefac6ons and s-Federal support. The report states lthat:
 Productive Funds. Small
 s ''The public institutions as a general trule derive q very small proportion of 5 ttheir revenue from productive funds. tA1most Sa neghgi percentage is Se- scured from private benefactions. The tgreat bulk of the income of these i'm setitutions comes from public sources and from student fees and other q sources.
 Alabama Idaho and North Dako- tta, are conspicuous because of the un- usually high percen tages of revenue tderfved from productive funds. Della kvvare and Florida derive comparative lily. high proportions of their income Efrom private sources. The District of kColumbia Mississippi. Vermont and Virginia get relatively small percent
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