120 Students Attended out of 11,000. Could this Quota Have Been Increased?

Such a small attendance as the above, Mr. Sullivan considers "a poor reflection on the average student citizenship." So do I. Indeed I go further and consider it a reflection upon our whole education system from primary school to university college, a system which can turn out "muddied oafs" and "flannelleled fools" by the thousand, but does shockingly little to harvest in its full ear a mental prowess potentially as great. I hope that Mr. Sullivan, as part of his dedicate service to collegiate life, will not rest till he has seen this condition of affairs greatly improved. But this said, how does this painful fact regarding the 11,000 reflect on the 120 who did attend the Congress and energetically participated in its work and its play? Surely Mr. Sullivan has involved himself in a non sequitur here.