New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-30
ICOLUMBI4 EXPECTS $500
These VII Not Include 1900 at
Teachers COLLEGE.

Columbia University will Open its doors for it,
Roth academic year on September .. With regis
traton which promises be about forty-eight hun
dred. an increase OF six hundred last year This
does include the extension students Of Teachers
College numbering twelve hundred. which would
bring the total registration about six Thousand
Contrary 20 past years. the extension student reg
istration viii be included at Columbia this year.
il is the custom to do 80 at other colleges
Formal exercises viii this year. for the first time.
mark the opening OF Columbia The programme.
as decided by President Butler. will consist o.
brief religious service short address OF welconns
by the president. and more formal address BY
OF the members Of the academic stan. who will
this year be Harry Thurstou Peck professor Of the
Latin languages and literature He VIII speak
the Impress Of the University
In view Of the distance between Moruingsiis
Heights and ;he Medical school separate exercises
viii be held at the latter the day following thcss
planned for the university a whole. At the Col
leSe of Physicians and Surgeons. President ButIe-
wiz make a brief speech. and "a formal address will
be delivered by Dr. Walter r James. professor oe
the practice OF medicine. The old and the New
Medicine"
Many new appointments for various important sd-
mInistratve offices have been made BY the trustees.
10 into effect the coming academic year. The to
tai number of the officers Of administration ia now
49i against 80 last year.
A list Of the more important appointments fol-
lows John C. Curtis, acting dean OF the school
of Medicine; laura d. Gill as adviser 10 women
IA RI. PROBES
sor OF phormacOlOSy and therapeutics; David d. 8.
Jessup medical visitor the university: Ernest
+. Nichols. professor OF experimental physics;
Frederick II. Sykes, director Of the extension de-
partment of Teachers College; Arnasa Trowbridgs.
adjunct professor Of mechanical engineerinx-
Marshall r. Saville Loubat professor o. Arueri-
can archaeology; James 3. Scott. as professor %
law; Henry Carr Pearson. a principal OF Horace
Mann Elementary School.
Columbia University will add new division to
its curriculum in the coming autumn that OF phyS-
cal education. The university has for the last few
years interested itself particularly in the subject
OF school hygiene ana the bodily training Of ths
individual from the kindergarten through college,
and has now come TO the point when il is able 10
launch its project.
The most important fea ture was the acquisitions
of competent corps OF expert instructors. Or.
Thomas DeniSOu Wood. who recently called
TO Teachers College has been placed the head
Of the division. His adjunct professor will be
DR. George L. Msylau- Or Meylan. who was for
many years connected with the Boston Young
Mems Christian Association. Harvard University
and other Institutions. will be the director OF the
Columbia gymnasium. and In addition will Offer \.
number OF important courses in hygiene and allied
subjects. To meet the needs Of Barnard ard
Teachers College students four women teachers
have been appointed Twelve courses have ALREADY
been outlined Tor the next two years. and MAN.
it is stated. will te added, particularly for
,.e students OF Barnard College.