Numbers

According to figures prepared by Raymond Walters, Dean of Swarthmore College, published in School and Society, education journal, attendance in U. S. colleges in 1924-25 increased 8.5% over that in 1923-24. The University of California, with 15,580 students,* was ranked largest; Columbia, 11,621, second; The University of Illinois, 10,089, third; University of Minnesota, 9,417, fourth. Others in order were: Michigan 8,856 Texas 5,191 Ohio State 8,757 Syracuse 5,132 Wisconsin 7,643 Chicago 4,989 Pennsylvania 7,626 Pittsburgh 4,874 Harvard 7,035 Yale 4,731 New York U 6,889 Boston 4,302 Nebraska 5,777 Northwestern 4,173 Univ. of Wash. 5,450 Oklahoma 3,882 Fordham 5,433 Kansas 3,838 Cornell 5,232 Missouri 3,660 Univ. of Iowa.. 5,227 The five largest colleges exclusively for women are: Smith, 2,023; Wellesley, 1,583; Vassar, 1,150; Goucher, 1,042 and Mount Holyoke, 722.

Fisk Strikes

To Paul D. Cravath, millionaire Manhattan lawyer, came a telegram. He peered in amazement through his pincenez at the extraordinary request set forth on the yellow slip. It came from the students of Fisk University (for Negroes), Nashville, Tenn. They besought Lawyer Cravath,/- who is chairman of the Fisk Board of Trustees, to investigate "the situation".

What situation? Lawyer Cravath had been informed. He knew how certain liberal alumni had condemned the "disciplinarianism", the "Puritanism" of Dr. F. A. McKenzie, Fisk's President (TIME, Feb. 9). He had heard, even, of the more startling events which had taken place in the last Fiskal week. Fisk students, either encouraged to action by the sympathy of the alumni, or finding that their wrongs had become intolerable, held a mass meeting, indulged in declamations, shouts,'until interrupted by the police. Five leaders were led off, protesting, to the city jail of Nashville, there lodged. Next day, on charges of inciting to riot, they were tried in a courtroom crowded with black and white faces, sentenced to a suspended fine of $50.

The obstreperous five Dr. McKenzie expelled. Feeling boiled against him. Undergraduates stated that there had been no riot, that the mass meeting had quieted long before the arrival of the police, that the names of the arrested students had been furnished to the police by Dr. McKenzie himself and were merely the names of men who had protested to the Board of Trustees in June against his policies. When, on the morning after the trial, students and faculty assembled for chapel service, a spokesman addressed Dr. McKenzie, declared that he must reinstate the five, or all Fisk students would "strike". Dr. McKenzie refused to budge from his decision. A solemn ballot was taken ; a large percentage of the undergraduates voted to withdraw from the Uni- versity. Some hurried to pack their trunks; some loitered, talking excitedly, in the streets of Nashville; some composed a telegram to Lawyer Cravath.

*These figures repreesnted the number of full-time regular students. /- Paul D. Cravath's father, Rev. Erastus M. Cravath, was founder and first President of Fisk. (TIME, Feb. 9).