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have been wanted, and presents, too, something of the comparative demand for them in the number of students enrolled for each one. It is not quite just, however, either to the institution as a whole or to the individual parts of it, to let the table stand without adding a grain of salt to its interpretation. Thus, a dropping off of 881 students in the year 1917-18 was an abnormal circumstance due to the war, and rather a source of pride than otherwise. The preceding year, however, was a normal one, and represents better than its successor the normal growth in registration. The biennium as a whole, as a result of the growth of that year, shows an increase of more than 500 above the enrollment for the preceding one. The figures, moreover, do not include either the S. A. T. C. of the fall of 1918, or the 2,400 men trained for the army in technical courses, from June to December, 1918.
The table is worth another glance. It reveals other things besides the bare proportions of the University. Looked at reflectively it speaks of the various ambitions which animate the youth of the state and which in the end are directed back into the general life—so many engineers, so many doctors, so many trained in law, so many in agriculture or domestic economy, and so on. For the most part these numbers reflect, not the relative popularity of school or college as such, but, more largely, the general needs of the community. For choice of profession goes, by and large, with the social demand.
Another thing to be observed is the degree to which the University has developed in its technical and professional branches. More than two-thirds of the men and more than half the women students of the year 1916-17 were registered in the professional course. And it may be added that many of those not so registered were underclassmen, freshmen and sophomores, still undecided to which profession to enter, but taking meantime such courses in the general curriculum as would give them the chance to try their aptitudes.
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