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 The ninety-eighth year of the college opened officially on Tuesday, September
19, 1911, although the registration of students did not occur until the morning
of September 21. In late years the day of registration has come to be the big
day of the college year. The enlarged enrollment in the college has made
necessary a number of important changes in the work of registering the
students, but even with these new rules to govern the newer conditions it has
required practically the entire forenoon to get the work satisfactorily done.
The members of the Women's Division are registered in the afternoon of the same
day. And the day has become big, too, by reason of the interest taken in it by
alumni, college students, and friends of the institution. Speculation is rife
concerning the number of new men to be added to the college Faculty and the
number of new students who are to offer themselves for registration. With
respect to these two speculations the present year was certainly no
exception.
Of the Faculty men not returning were Professor Francis J. Holder, Ph. D., who
for the previous two years had been at the head of the department of
mathematics, and who has now left to accept a position in a western college;
Professor Gilbert Tolman, head of the Physics department, who has left to
accept a business position; Frank 0. Dean,'10 for the past two years an
Instructor in the department of English, who has left to take up the study of
law; David M. Young, A. M., Instructor in the department of Chemistry, who has
left to take up advance work in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Morris E. Spear, A. M., for one year Instructor in English. Of the new men
elected to fill positions on the Faculty made vacant by resignations, mention
is made elsewhere in this number of the Alumnus.
The opening year has found nearly all the upper classmen returning as
well as a number of men who had been out of college for a year or more earning
money with which to complete their course. It is rather significant of the
steady growth of the college to note that the loss to classes of men who have
felt obliged to leave for one reason and another is much smaller this year than
for a number of years preceding. This fact, coupled with that of a large
entering class, has tended to overcrowd the classrooms and make imperative
larger accommodations in the future.
The number of men who entered Colby in September for the first time numbered
106; the number of women, 45, making a total of 155. Allowing for a number of
men who were dropped from the college lists soon after their registration in
1910, the class that entered in September last is as large as its predecessor
of the year previous. The class entering in 1909 numbered 120. It would seem,
therefore, to be fairly argued that Colby may expect an annual gift of about
150 students; that is, the figures of three consecutive years are open to this
interpretation if the same wise policy of administration is continued and the
alumni remain true to the loyalty which the college seeks to implant in all
those who come within the pale of its good influence.
The total enrollment of the college given by classes and Divisions, is as
follows:
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Men's Division |
Women's Division |
| Graduate Students |
2 |
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| Seniors |
31 |
35 |
Juniors |
41 |
26 |
Sophomores |
69 |
38 |
Freshmen |
86 |
42 |
Special and Unclassified |
31 |
5 |
Total |
260 |
146 |
Total number of students in College, 406.
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