New Britain herald., 1930-10-01
HARD TIMES HELP
 COLLEGE CLASSES
Scarcity of Work Sends More
 Students to Institutions

New York, Oct. l (UP)-Drough / and the business depression, instead E. of decreasing the enrolment in
 American colleges this year, are
 likely to cause the heaviest attend
 aEce in years, a survey by the
 United Press indicated today. Only four schools in the compre-
 hensive list included in the survey
 reported a decreased enrolment of any considerable size and only three
 of them attributed it to business
 depression. The University of Mis-
 sissippi reports 50 fewer students . than last year. Financial depres-
 sion," was the terse explanation of - fered by R. L. Sullivan. registrar. , Mississippi A. & NJ. also reported a
 decrease and blamed it on bad . crops"
 : Indiana University reported 1S7
 fewer students than at this time last
 year and officials there ascribed the
 decrease to hard times" The . University of Illinois gave it's new
 student enrolment as 545 less than
 in 1929 But offered no explanation.
 On the other hand there were
 several educators who expressed the
 belief that shortage of jobs had sent
 many students back to school who
 otherwise would not have completed
 their education.
 "Paradoxical as it may seem,"
 said President Thomas w. Atkinson
 ot Louisiana State University, the
 business depression is a possible ex-
 planation for the increased enroll
 ment. In the scarcity of positions which has prevailed recently, par 3 ents have seen that it is the college man or woman who has landed the 1. jcb."
 |. Periods Cancel
 !. Studies of enrollments show that periods of prosperity and depression . just about cancel each other said '. Glenn Frank, president of the unl- : 'versity of Wisconsin. If these per iods have any effect on college en- . rollments, the tendency seems to be . for prosperity to slow up and for . depressions to speed up registra- |. tions."
 |. At Drake University officials ex- pressed the opinion that a business depression invariably drove people to school so they could fit them 1. selves better for their work and avoid the danger of losing their joDs : in future depressions.
 |. Unemployment and business de- . pression are in a way responsible : for the slight increase in enrolment here" said the Rev. Thomas Plass- man, president of St. Bonaventure's, | St. Bonaventure's, N. Y. Many for mer students who started an educa- |, tion and did not finish it have been !. laid off from their jobs. They have returned to school, having learned the most highly trained man has, /. the greatest advantage"
 a Among the schools reporting in creased enrollments with the amount of their increase were: Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y.,% about Ao; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, s4S; University of Virginia, 100; | WdSnlnSlOn & Lee, To, HeofSe Washington University, 400; Beloit College, 1O5; Alabama Polytechnic, roo; University of Wisconsin, little change or perhaps slight gain"; University of Nebraska, 1884; Knox College. Galesburg. H., total of 656 students Largest in history);. East 'ern Illinois State Teachers College, 75; Temple University, 13,053 for total enrolment Largest ir history .of schooD; Clemson College, S2; : Miami University Oxford, Ohio, .225; University of Denver, 167; University of Southern California, 1907; University of California, Clos
 Angeles branch), 114 Purdue Uni
 versity, 343.