The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-06
BIG ENROLMENT
I. FOR ALL COLLEGES
People Leaving Bench and
Desk to Get Higher
Education
DARTMOUTH TURNS
AWAY 1,5O0, BOYS
Harvard Expects Over 200 freshmen
Waiting List for Rooms Opened at
MiddIebury Big Increase of Normal
School Students In Massachusetts.

BOSTON, Sept. 6.-The largest en-
rollment in the colleges OF the country
is Indicated this fall. 1t is expected to
surpass the record breaking attendance
of last year because, in the opinion of
educators. many persons who in normal
industrial times would stay at bench or
desk have decided To 90 back to school
and equip themselves for the profess
sions ROW that they are out of work.
Registrations and applications fo- ad-
mission at New England institutions of
higher learning have passed the limits
of teaching facilities and dormitory &C
commodations in several instances; in
many of the colleges the record rolls of
last year were equalled weeks ahead of
the opening of the colIcge year. The
conditions among New England colleges
and universities have been regarded as
barcmetric by EDUCATORS fo- years.
information received by Payson
Smith, commissioner of education in
Massachusetts, indicates considerable
increase in the number of prospective
normal school students. As an cNplaua-
ton of this, Commissioned Smith said:
lit seems that the interest in higher
learning is being taken UP at the point
here il stopped when we went to war.
1t Is true also, however, that III any pc
Rod of Industrial depression enrolment
III higher Institutions - secondary
creased considerably. The value of
higher education, too, has been mn
pressed on the public as never before. =
Higher Tuition No Check.
Higher living costs and an advance in
tuition fees that is fairly general, haze
been no deterrent factors \ stitfening
of entrance requirements has stayed but
little the pressure of young women and
men for admission.
Increased applications probably have
reached hIghwater mark at Dartmouth
college. That institution, it is officially
reported, has refused admission to 900
persons this fall, physical limitations
having made it necessary to hold the
freshman class to approximately $50.
At Harvard freshmen aspirants also
constitute small army and applica
lions Indicate the largest entering class
on record. 1t would be no surprise TO
Harvard authorities, it is officially
stated. if more than 700 men qualified
as freshmen. The question of how to
house these men Is pcrpleXing the Off
cials
The entering class at Yale last year
was 700 and the number this year is eN-
pectcd to be about the same.
At Brown university more applica
tions for admission tins year than ever
are reported Where 26S freshmen were
registered last year, more than that
number of students had presented ado
quate credentials for entrance a month
before registration began.
200 Fer Williams.
Williams college, which last year had
its largest freshman class viii again
have -pu1St Ta ion at anDrnN1matplV
200. An increased tuition fee has failed
to bring down the registration figures
at Tufts college, where President John
A. Cousens said an entering class in all
departments of approximately 30 per
sons is Indicated. Bowdoin COLLEGE also
is holding the growth shown last year,
with a probable entering class of l25
At Middlebury college, a waiting list
has been opened for rooms. The fresh
man class there viii ezceec that of last
year by nearly 50 per cent.
Boston university reports that with