Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1901 — COLLEGE DAYS BEGIN. [ARTICLE]

COLLEGE DAYS BEGIN.

Reports from Various Institutions f-’how Increase in Attendance. There Is a marked increase in the demand for higher education this fall. Reports from universities and colleges in tlie East and West show a larger registration than n year ago. For two weeks there lias lieeu a steadv current of humanity toward the seats of learning. Foods and young men alike have again enti-ved upon a year of college life, and for the next nine months will proceed to grind out themes and poctr.i as their fancy or their instructors dictate, while fond parents read the same and foot the llills. The average number of students who have been in attendance for one or more years lint been maintained at the various institutions. The usual number of freshmen entering for four year courses has been passed and the high water mark reached. The first arrivals at the schools lielongeil to the class tt.ho were highschool graduates last spring. They came attended in many cases by their mothers, and the process of registration was as intricate to them ns is a cobweb to a tly. Throughout the middle West there has been an awakening to the advantages of a college education, ns shown by the figures in the business offices of the schools. University authorities from the large ami small educational centers unite In the opinion that this will la* the most prosperous year in the history of their charges At Anu Arbor the total number in attendance is between 8,700 and (I,HOU. The L’uiveralty nf Illinois will have an increase in Its number of attendants of 15 per cent, according to Registrar W. L. President Q. K. Mac Lean of the Ktute University of lowa said: “There are more new students than ever before in the university, and an attendance of at least l.ttUO is indicated.” The semestcr st Beloit College opened with a larger registration of students than was expected. Northwestern University, the leading Methodist educational institution, openad aa attendance of about 2,DQO.