Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-29
COLLEGE YEAR OPENS
INSTITUTIONS PREPARING FOR
RECEPTION OF STUDENTS.
Some Of the Departments Already II
Operation-Washing as
Educational Center.

This week and next the streets of the
national capital will fill again with the col
lege youth and the dainty seminary maids.
back again after long summer vacation
to begin another year Of hard study that
will prepare them for the work they intend
to do in the world. Washington as an ed
vocational center has long enjoyed advan-
tages of no little Importance over other
cities.
AS it is the center of political life of the
country it attracts to 1t the bright minds
from every section. The government de-
partments. with their vast libraries relating
to scientific and historical matters, have
been the loadstone that draw scientists of all
classes and caliber, who have settled here
to pursue their studies and attempt the re-
organization or to determine the origin of
the earth and the earths species.
Students Of all kinds have settled here
to pursue their studies. The laboratories
and museums maintained by the govern
ment are filled with priceless specimens
that cannot be found elsewhere. which are
of untold value to scientific students many
of whom have taken employment of one
kind or another here In order to be on the
ground to acquire their education at first
hand. Washington has corps of ex-
perts. skilled in all the sciences. waiting
for the opportunity to turn their talents
to account. Therefore the number of
schools and colleges that open each fall
in the District is constantly growing until
the list has become long and the roll Of
students enormous.
Georgetown University has already
thrown open it's collegiate department. Its
schools of law, medicine and dentistry will
open within the next week, the dates fixed
being October for the law school and Oc-
tober l for the medical school and dental
department.
The opening of Columbian University has
been fixed for tomorrow in the the col
legiate department. The sessions of the
law school will not begin until October 9Th.
and diplomacy will open October 6. and the
medical and dental schools October 1.
The thirty-ninth annual opening Of the
National University Law School will take
place in the Law School building, 18th
street northwest between New York avenue
and I streets, Thursday evening A num-
Der of important additions have been made
to the curriculum, especially in the practice
work Of the third year, which is intended to
take the place, as far possible, Of the
apprenticeship to the bar which the gradu-
ates Of undergraduate schools have usually
to undergo. All of the members of the
faculty in the city will attend the opening
exercises.
The National College Of Pharmacy threw
| open its doors to the students for 1904
last night.
September % was opening day at Howard
University. The students of the collegiate
department entered upon their studies on
that date. Thursday the law and medical
departments will open at their respective
buildings.
The opening exercises of the Washington
College of Law will be held at the college
halls on New York avenue, tomorrow even
ing at I o'clock. The dean of the institu-
ton, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, will de-
liver an address on the value of legal study,
and announcements will be made for the
present quarter by member Of the faculty.