With state and city universities snowballing along to ever huger proportions, privately endowed universities have lately felt it necessary for fame's sake, to advertise that their aim is "quality, not quantity." Harvard, Yale and Princeton have also stressed the point that they are "national" universities. And last week Yale, standing twelfth in point of size among the 86 representative institutions included in the Boston Transcript's annual survey,* pointed to itself as "most national" of the so-called Big Three. Taking the data of the classes of 1926 to 1929 inclusive, Yale proved itself Big Three favorite in 24 states. Princeton was second, leading in twelve states. Harvard, with the largest enrollment of the Big Three, led in ten states. There were three ties.
Yale States: New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, California, Oregon, Iowa, Washington, North Dakota, Minnesota, District of Columbia. Ties: with Princeton in Illinois; with Harvard in Utah.
Princeton States: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Nevada. Tie: with Harvard for Mississippi.
Harvard States: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, Georgia, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho.
Yale attempted no national comparison of itself with that huge cosmopolite, Columbia University.
Graduations
Principal Frank L. Morse of Harrison Technical High School, Chicago, took his seat on the platform for graduating exercises last week with the air of a man who has just asserted himself. He eyed the graduating class with satisfaction. There was no pupil there who did not belong. Principal Morse faced the gathering of parents and friends, and prepared to begin the ceremonies.