Education: Matriculation

In almost every instance, colleges throughout the U. S. reported record enrollments. Successful entrants wrote home about new buildings, strange traditions, peculiar curriculums.

¶Leland Stanford University has two new scientific buildings—the Guggenheim aerodynamics laboratory, the seismological station. In its entering class is Fidel La Barba, retired flyweight champion of the world.

¶ The University of California announced a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr., of more than $1,750,000 for a 500-room dormitory to be known as the International House. Half of the rooms are for women. 300 residents are to be foreign students. ¶ Scripps College for Women, which, with Pomona College, has allied itself to Claremont Colleges federation in California for the purpose of integrating the benefits of small college education with the advantages of large college equipment, announced the inauguration of its first president, Ernest J. Jaqua, and the dedication of its first building, the Eleanor Joy Toll Residence Hall.

¶At the University of Southern California, Freshmen coeds, were set to scrubbing sidewalks, in accordance with tradition. ¶ At the University of Wisconsin, famed for its journalistic educator President Glenn Frank, for its great economist Prof. Robert Commons (who dares chew tobacco in the President's office), Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn* started his Experimental College. At this unit of the University, students will study exclusively a single civilization, the Ancient Greek. In so doing, they are not called upon to master the Greek language. ¶At Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss., 40 Freshmen voluntarily shaved their own heads in a "Free Will Hair Offering", since upperclassmen are restrained by law from forceful hazing. ¶ Columbia University, in its 174th year, welcomed 64 foreign students from 31 foreign countries. After a year's study, many of them will return to their native lands to apply U. S. educational methods. ¶ At the Ballard School of the Y.W.C.A., Manhattan, girls are offered a Personality Course. Said Miss Jeanette Hammill, director: "I suppose most women look forward to being married and wish to know the secrets of personality that they may make themselves as pleasant as possible to husbands as well as to people generally."

¶At Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, a new teacher was introduced to the student body, Professor James Moffat. He has translated the Bible into colloquial English, changing "Garden of" Eden" to "park," "a mess of pottage" to "a red omelet," "Wise men of the East" to "magicians," the Virgin Mary's reply to the angel, "I know not a man," to "But I have no husband."

¶At Yale, the 227th Freshman Class heard from the lips of President James Rowland Angell that physical health is the first requirement for success. Blond, curly-headed Warren Pershing, son of General John J. Pershing, was one of those thus instructed. ¶ At Smith College, the Freshman class numbered 15 granddaughters of Smith alumnae.

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