The age-herald., 1898-10-06
THR 'T,M,1Ilu1RSITY'C ',,1l luE UNlluIINAAn n FINE OPENING About Two Hundred Matriculates For the First Day, ROLL NEW STUDENTS LARGE Julia Tutwiler Annex Was Overrun- Law Department Well Filled-A
 New Era for the Institution
 Has Appeared.
ROLL NEW STUDENTS LARGE

Tuscaloosa, October 5.-(Special.) )-The with flying colors.
 Not for years have the prospects been as fine for a prosperous year on the opening day as they are today. About 175 students matriculated this morning, besides the ''Co-Eds," who will matriculate tomorrow.
 This seems an especially good number, when it is considered that there is no pre- paratory department. The boys have been pouring in on all trains for several days and the hotels have presented an animated ap- pearance. The students are all in fine spir- its and are in good condition for hard years work. The professors are anticipat- ing a new era in the existence of the insti- tuition. One of the older members remarked this morning that the faculty as whole was one of the best that has ever worked together in the history of the university. A faculty meeting was held Saturday and an- other yesterday, when preliminaries were arranged for the work of the scholastic year.
 The roll of new students is nearly 50 per cent better than last year. There were about ninety new male students, most of AuOlH are uldIuIt 4iSli. hC huliOSA VI 'tCo-Eds." will be about twenty-five.
 The Julia Tutwiler annex is overrun. Sev- eral were turned away on account of lack of room.
 The law department is full this year. There were between twenty and twenty five matriculates.
 Opening Notes
 The Edgar house, which was reserved for young men desirous of reducing expenses, is already filled with two in each room Lodging in this is free, and arrangements have been made for table board for these students at $1O and SIP per month.
 What is especially pleasing to the cadets 7 in barracks is the appearance of the mess hall. Improvements there are more marked perhaps than in any other department, the entire room having been renovated and the woodwork done over i'll white. In the kitchen a Reid oven has been added and a steam table for cooking, President Powers evidently understanding the proverbial route to the average boys heart. The sleeping apartments have also been over hauled and sixty-three new iron beds added.
 Yesterday the university was visited by a committee of distinguished gentlemen-Dr. M. s. c. Sargent, of the Harvard Arbare- tum; Prof. Camby, of Washington, D. C., and Prof. John Miner. of California. the great authority on woods. They are on a tour of inspection of woods through the United States, and wishing to examine those in Alabama, they have come to the state university, where they find at the herbarium specimens of all they wish to see in the way of woods and plants. The her. barium has been prepared by Dr. Charles Mohr, under the aauspices of the state geo. graphical survey, who is now engaged in writing a book on the plants of Alabama
 In consequence of the f1attering outlook in all the departments of the university, it is natural that the friends of that institu- ton should be gratifed with the strides it has taken and the success of the manage ment.
 Education seems to be on a boom in Tuscaloosa. The public schools opened this week with about 200 pupils, which Superin- tendent Foster says is a marked increase over the openings of the past several years