Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-12
Official Figure
of Registration
at Colby College

me oiiIclal hgure at which the
registration of Colby college is. has
neen set by the registrar, Professor
Ire1ethen at 554 students from -
ota.s9' one lorelgn country and one
province in Canada.
The registration discloses some in
teresting factG which were given ont
thursday. TIE total registration for
the college year 1923-24 is 554. there
being 1884 members of the mems div
lsion ana 10 women in the college.
The freshman class WAS the largest
IN the history of the college and the
unusual increase in the number of
women is due to the large percent
age OF the entering class, there being
nearly half again as many more
women entering Colby this fall IS
have entered before.
AS is the usual case Maine con-
tributes the greatest number of stud
ents to the college, there being this
year 1874 men and 1856 women, the
women having the minority by a
small margin. Practically all of the
members of the woman's division
come from Maine, there being only "a
from out of the state. With the men
ut is a different story, there being
nearly as many out Of tate students
as there are from Maine.
Massachusetts comes second on
the list with a total of 50 students
enrolled in the. college the greater
part of them being men. There are
G6 men and 16 women from the Bay
State. New York follows Massachus-
etts with IS students, only two of
them being women. For the fourth
place New Jersey just barely GUSTS
j New Hampshire, having a margin of
one more student. From the 'Skee-
ter state there being l. and from the
Granite state 16. Is mon are regis
! from New jersey to the two women
and from New Hampshire there are
more women than mon, the ratio be-
ing nine to seven.
! For the first time in the history of
( the college there are several students
from Vermont, whereas in the last
few years there have been maybe
! one or two from the Green Noun
; tain state. this year there are six, all
! of them in the mems division. Rhode
! Island contributes four to the quota
and TIE Province of New Brunswick,
. three. two of them being women
TIL" far off land of China sends
tN2 men to I'll" college While one
man from Missouri and one from
California complete the number.
i The canvass of the religious faiths
of the students of the college like
wise shows 4 wide variation of
! faiths. Colby is not Il denomina-
tional church hat receives support
! and is under the direction of the
| Baptist church and consequently the
! number of Raptists ,n the college is
! greater than al other sets. This
! yea" there ere PA students who at
tend the Baptist church. 11S of them
| being men and the other 96 women.
| The ConGrcgation2lists and Metho-
/ Gists run Il close race for second
| place with the former winning by
| the margin of two students. The
students who prefer to attend the
! Conversational church are Sc in
number. Al men and 80 women. Those
who have chosen the Methodist are
81, this time the women outnumber-
| ing the men 45 to 80 The Catholics
! follow in order with Sc men and nine
! women, Il total OF 45.
1t is very evident that some of the
students do not attend any church
regularly or affiliate with any of the
| denominations since on the regiStra-
! ton cards 81 men and three women
! had 10 church preference. In this
/ lcsncct the members of the Woman's
| division are better churchwomen
| than the mon are churchmen. The
| EpiSClpaIanS come next with % men
and four women who attend tina t
! hcurch. 10 of the students of the
, college attend the Synagogue. The
/ Unitarian church draws Il students
| of the college while the Jnivorsalist
| has nine. The Friends have seven
Of their number in college. with only
one of them being of the woman's
division The Christian Science
church was preferred by four While
+, the Advent and Federated churches
! claim one man each