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A DECEMBER number of School and Society opens with "Statistics of Registration in American Universities and Colleges, 1939", a remarkable survey by the president of the University of Cincinnati. No fewer than 648 institutions are noticed with various comments in detail, and one realizes the vast attendance in a population, perhaps, four times as big as that of Great Britain. The figures, 873,697 full-time students, and with part-time and summer schools, 1,323,874, show an advance on 1938. The United States spends more of its holidays in learning than Great Britain does, though some of the instruction provided and degrees awarded do not reach the British level of attainment. The south-central divisions of East and West and teachers' colleges and technological institutions show the largest increase. In the Freshman Table the trend of the time appears in the 34 per cent additions to engineering, and we are glad to see a distinct though lesser gain in liberal arts. The establishment of a Graduate School of Education at Los Angeles may in time modify the crudities of American films and scenario writers.
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American University Education. Nature 145, 259 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145259a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145259a0