Again the roll-call of America's colleges is marshalled to summary in a supplement published with this issue. Again the story told is one of swift and stirring advance. Eighty-three of the Nation's 600 colleges and universities now have 245, 248 students enrolled for full-time work. This is an increase of 15.299 since the academic year of 1923-24. The rate of growth--nearly 6 1-2 per cent--is faster, proportionately, than the growth of the whole population of the United States. Think what that means! Fifteen thousand students are enough in themselves to make a small city. But one cannot consider these boys and girls alone. Behind them are fifteen thousand American families. And it is fair to assume, in the large, that every one of them, less than a generation ago, stood wholly remote from the possibility of being able to send a child to college. Yet now, in a single year's increment of the enrollment-list, fifteen thousand of their sons and daughters enter into the gates and the abounding opportunities of higher education.

The rising enrollments of our colleges in general are seen in their most dramatic form in the records of our largest institutions. In 1910 the Transcript's census showed only two institutions from coast to coast having more than 5000 full-time students--Columbia and the University of Minnesota. Today there are eighteen. Again, the ten largest universities of 1910 had a combined enrollment of less than 43,000; today they have more than 101,000. The mastery of the tasks of administration and educational organization which such vast numbers of students impose is a challenge to the greatest executive talent and qualities of leadership, mental and spiritual, which the United States is capable of producing. In the eager entrance of thousands upon thousands of new students each year into the colleges of the land is the Nation's greatest single promise of a noble and worthy future. May our educational leaders look well to the trust committed them! --Boston Transcript.