Education: Colleges Open

In colleges throughout the land last week janitors and charladies began once more to shuffle about their leisurely jobs. Pop-eyed new students and blase old ones busied themselves with multitudinous activities. College presidents delivered themselves of sapient dicta. College merchants once more did business. The Press delivered its annual salutes to learning.

With freshman enrollments everywhere increased over last year's, and upper-class enrollments slightly decreased (because men with two or three years of learning could better yield place), some college openings were noteworthy as follows:

Eight-year-old Duke University near Durham, N. C....

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