Checking it twice

University administrators scrutinize enrollment numbers around 1904.

Edwin A. Alderman, right, the sixth president of Tulane University, and Richard K. Bruff, the university registrar, go over enrollment figures in Alderman"s Gibson Hall office, circa 1904. According to the Jambalaya yearbook from that year, Tulane"s enrollment in 1904 was 1,395 students, the largest of any urban university in the South.