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Show Enrollment at University Shows Increase of Over 1000 Students The University of Utah enrolled en-rolled nearly 1,000 more students stu-dents in residence classwork in autumn quarter, 1958, than it enrolled in the same quarter last year. The combined daytime and evening eve-ning residence enrollment for the quarter, which ended this week, has been 10,535. The total was reported Tuesday by Dr. A. Ray Olpin, University president. In the same quarter last year, the combined residence enrollment enroll-ment was 9,604. Dr. Olpin drew the figures from a report from University Registrar J. A. Norton. An increase of more than 7000 in the credit hours produced by residence work was shown by the same report. Combined daytime and evening eve-ning classes produced 132,391.6 credit hours in the quarter compared with 124,961.8 for the same quarter last year. The autumn enrollment included in-cluded 906 transfers from other colleges 170 more than last year. Students of every county of the state and from 46 states are attending the U this year. Only the number of married students showed a decline. The married student enrollment for the quarter has been 2,133, compared com-pared with 2,189 last year. Married students comprised 24 per cent of the quarter's enrollment, enroll-ment, compared with 27.4 per cent a year ago. |