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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE year of the Hanson presidency. A new record enrollment of 622 in 1928-1929 immediately preceded the depression, during which the number dropped to a low of 480 in 1934-1935. Thanks to the return of women students in the fall of 1935, an upswing began which by the fall of 1942 had produced another record enrollment (668). As demands for military manpower increased, enrollment fell back to almost precisely the levels of World War I: 289 in 1943-1944 and 356 the following year. During the first three quarters of a century of its existence, the College annually faced the need to attract more students to make financial ends meet. On the assumption that satisfied customers were the best advertisement, it regularly urged current students to encourage their friends to enroll. It prepared attractive illustrated booklets in an effort to entice. In addition, into the early 1920s it annually designated younger staff members to make the rounds canvassing for new students. Soon after the end of World War I, President Granville came to the conclusion that the board of trustees needed to begin dealing with the new question of how much further growth in enrollment, if any, was desirable. "One of our problems in the past has been to secure enough students to enable us to make the most efficient and economical use of our teaching force and material plant," he told them in June 1920. "It seems clear now that in the future our chief problem will be to adequately serve those who shall come to us asking for admission." Returning to the same theme two years later, Granville advised that "educational authorities are pretty well agreed that from every standpoint the efficient liberal arts and science college should have only from 500 to 600 students." Even if "substantial additions to our financial resources" became available, he stated, he was "personally of the opinion that the time has arrived when we should limit our regular undergraduate college enrollment to 500." Any additional funds should be used for improving plant and equipment, and, "what is the most important of all, to increase our teaching staff and raise it to still higher standards of scholarship and teaching efficiency." After discussing this proposal, the board deferred any action on it until its winter meeting, by which time Granville had announced his resignation. Wisely the members decided to postpone further consideration for a year, when a new president could be expected to be in office. Finally, in December 1923, the trustees adopted a sense motion that, "due to inadequate resources, the crowded condition of the college buildings, and a purpose to excel in 58