Show 1 Still A Problem I Despite U the e f fact ct that d denunciations of the American college college col- col 1 lege ge as an institution have 4 been en filling the pages of our magaI magazines magazines maga- maga I iJ ines and newspapers newspaper it i is rather interesting to note that enI en en enrollment I I in college has suffered little or none This fall over four hundred thousand d newcomers congregated in the various colleges colleges' and universities to swell the throng of a 1 coll Statistics show that in 1890 the number of college stua stu- stu a nt v was s one ne and one half p peY pr r cent of the total population of College ge age In 1926 t this lis percentage had increased to nine per c cent cent nt And all this gain has occurred In in the face of much adverse j criticism rit cis and gr greatly increased ased costs of college education Many learned reformers have written pages and pages of copy copy proving their stat statement ent that four years spent at college are are r four years of wasted effort Others merely hold forth that fifty per cent of the undergraduates attending college dont don't belong belong bet be- be t long lg in school school- r 0 t One of f the gre greatest est needs o of this this' country today day is th the establishment establishment es- es of club colleges colleges' in connection with or near the regular college which h will help the regular colleges to free themselves selves of the undesirable materials now clogging them up I Dr J Dr J J. JEdgar Edgar Park president of Wheaton college was vas evidently evi- evi dently 9 f feeling eling pretty strong about the matter when he voiced this his opinion pinion at of a a teachers teacher's convention which was vas recently held iri ti Boston H He went on to describe these clubs as being places i without ut libraries s but but fill filled d with easy cha chairs rs and ash trays a and d df f offering close contact with bootleggers In in short as he put it all the advantages of fraternities and sororities J B Be Bt this' this as it may the fact remains that until the college world reaches a definite conclusion as to what college is and what its uses are or until the psychologists have evolved a means ans of de deciding iding which are the fit and which are the unfit for entrance into college the colleges will continue to overflow with the undesirable type |