Collegiate

The crush at the gates of U. S. colleges and universities (TIME, Sept. 29) continued. On every hand record enrolments were reported. Many said this indicated a tremendous spread of the educational idea in the U. S., "a return to the days of Abelard." A few added: "But, of course, the natural growth of population also has a bearing upon this vast number of seekers after light."

P:At Cambridge, Mass., townfolk watched the doors of a vine-clad chapel open, heard the strains of a Bach fugue issuing forth behind the students of Harvard University as they departed from the opening service of Harvard's 289th year. Prompt to start publication, the Crimson launched an early editorial at Harvard authorities for their "polished neglect" of Prof. George Pierce Baker, long the director of the 47 Wordshop (dramatics). The Workshop will be closed this year, its quarters having been reconverted for dormitory use. For Prof. Baker this means a sabbatical.

P:At Boston, Dr. Lemuel H. Murlin, for 13 years head of Boston University, announced his departure from Boston "not later than Dec. 1" to accept the presidency of De Pauw University (Greencastle, Ind.), whence he was graduated in 1891.

P:At Providence, young men were described as ushers of a new era by President William H. P. Faunce as he ushered in Brown University's 161st year with a speech.

P:At Northampton, Mass., "first chapel" at Smith College was dignified by the Faculty's academic robes, donned to inaugurate a new tradition. It was Smith's 53rd year. The college grounds were dignified by Grecourt Gates, erected since June, at the main entrance, to commemorate Smith's War unit.

P:At New Haven, the 224th year of Yale University found a new institute of psychology and a new natural history museum ready for use. At the one, Profs. Robert M. Yerkes (onetime member of the National Research Council) and Raymond Dodge (erst of Wesleyan), and, Clark Wissler (Manhattan), will lecture. Into the other, Yale's stuffed animals, pressed flowers and labeled rocks will be transported and displayed for examination by the inquisitive.

P:In Manhattan, Columbia University enrolled some 35,000 for its 171st year. Dr. Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler led the academic parade along Morningside Heights, reminded those who listened to his speech in the Gymnasium of Columbia's beginnings in 1754 when Dr. Samuel Johnson selected eight young gentlemen for the first undergraduate body of King's College.

P:At State College, Pa., green skull caps bobbed hither and thither through the streets. Pennsylvania State University had opened.

P:At Princeton, N. J., President John Grier Hibben mounted to the rostrum of Alexander Hall and mildly berated his undergraduates for a falling-off in scholarship that took place last year. Said he: "What shall it profit a man to make the Triangle Club (dramatic society) and to drop out of Princeton?" It was Princeton's 178th year.

P:At Baltimore, Goucher College (for women) and Johns Hopkins University enrolled some 350 new students each. Goucher had added 22 to her teaching personnel. The famed Hopkins medical college limited its new class to 75.

P:At Lexington, Va., the doors of Washington and Lee University swung wide for the 175th time. In the absence of President Henry Louis Smith, still convalescent from motor injuries suffered in July, Dean Campbell delivered words of welcome and advice in the Robert E. Lee chapel.

P:At Athens and Atlanta, Ga., "College Nights" were occasions for speechmaking, singing, cheering among the undergraduates of Georgia State University and Georgia School of Technology.

P:At Ann Arbor, Mich., the University of Michigan started another year with 13,000 undergraduates. In the medical school, an honor system went into effect.