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Show SCHOOL DAYS Schools Due to Set Record Enrollment Oscar Ewing, federal security administrator, ad-ministrator, estimates that more Americans are expected to go to school this year than ever before. He figured the total at 33,121,000, compared with the 1950-51 peak of 32,703,000. Ewing said the largest enrollment enroll-ment will be at the elementary level from 23,686,000 last year to 24,468.000 this year. Secondary school enrollments are expected to increase from 6,142,000 last year to 6,168,000. Due to the diminishing number of war veterans and to the drafting draft-ing of college-age men, the enrollment enroll-ment in colleges and universities is expected to decline from 2,000,000 lastyear to 2,225,000. Private commercial com-mercial schools are expected to have 175,000 students. |