Excerpt from A Survey of Higher Education, 1916-1918 Notwithstanding the fact that the number of candidates taking the board's examinations was less this year than last, the number of candidates presenting themselves under the new plan of admission increased from 495 to In 1918 this number has increased to 7 52. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.