Excerpt from Elmhurst College Magazine, 1871-1971: The First One Hundred Years The success of the reorganization was reflected in the increasing enrollment of students, from a total of 120 in to 162 in and 173 in 192223. Soon commuting day students began to appear, and also the first tuition fee, $100 per year. There followed a reorganization of the administration. The business responsibilities were assumed by a steward or business manager. For the first time there was an office secretary in the person of Miss Elfrieda Lang. A registrar was appointed, who also doubled as physical education director and football coach. The Reverend Robert Leon'hardt filled this post. The president was interested in promotion and public relations and news items Were released to the papers. The president began to participate in activities in the community, breaking out of the relative insularity and isolation of the earlier years. Mrs. Schick, wife of the president, organized a Women's Auxiliary, soliciting help from the women's organizations throughout the denomination, and also enrolling willing workers from groups in Elmhurst and Chicago. They engaged in tasks from mending of clothes to interior decorating in the dormitories and also fund/raising. 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.