Statistics

Last week Dr. Raymond Walters, new president of the University of Cincinnati, issued his annual survey of U. S. college enrolments. His figures cover 438 approved colleges and universities, whose 855,863 students, part and fulltime, represent 80% of the total in all U. S. higher institutions. Dr. Walters finds this total enrolment 7% under 1931 but greater than 1927, "so that the plateau of higher education in this country is substantially maintained."

Columbia University gave way to New York University as the nation's biggest, with a grand total of 27,682 to N. Y. U.'s 27,905. Other biggests: full-time total (University of California, 19,282); liberal arts (U. of C., 11,157); women (Hunter College of the City of New York, 4,416); technology (M. I. T., 2,343); law (Harvard, 1,509); education (Teachers College of Columbia University, 5,210); commerce (Pennsylvania. 1,979); medicine (Northwestern, 661); dentistry (Pennsylvania, 509); divinity (Boston University, 349); summer courses (Columbia, 11,559).

P: The U. S. Office of Education has been studying schools in big cities, middling cities and rural districts. Last week School Life, the Office's monthly journal, published the first results, an analysis of schools in 41 cities of more than 100,000 population. In making comparisons between this year and last, it is found that figures from the densely populated North Atlantic States change the nationwide averages considerably. With these in parentheses. School Life finds total expenditures off 5.32% (12.24%); capital outlay off 37.98% (39.19%); teachers' salaries off 4.96% (14.62%); State appropriations up 3.13% (off 5.98%); assessed valuation off 7.50% (14.12%); enrolment up 1.39%, (1.63%); teaching staff off 2.13% (2-59%).

P: Reconstruction Finance Corp. has agreed that a college dormitory is a self-liquidating project. First to get R. F. C. money was Arkansas Agricultural & Mechanical College, which received $175,000 last week. Pending are loans to the University of Colorado ($550,000) and Oklahoma State Agricultural College ($450,000).

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