Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-09-28
CRUSH At THE UNIVERSITY
OPENING AT MADISON, HOWEVER,
TAME COMPARED TO FOR
MER YEARS.
NO FOOTBALL TALK.
Rents Are Higher and Freshmen Are
Having Trouble Getting Ac-
commodations

MADISON. Wis. Sept pa Special.l
To-day the University of Wisconsin be
gan its fifty-sixth year. The registration
this morning was heavy, as is usually the
case on the opening day. Preparations
have been made to accommodate 100 stu
dents more than attended the university
last year the estimated Increase i'll at
tendance. The increase in the colleges
of engineering will be especially large.
To those who have been in Madison
during registration days of former yCals,
tOday's opening was tame affair In
former days tit, first question which the
old student asked on alighting from the
train was How is the team doing: And
before he went to the registrars office
or paid visit to the treasurer, he spent
an hour watching the boys in the mole
skins.
No Football Talk.
The freshman formerly had a detailed
knowledge of the football doing5. gath
cred from the newspapers, before lie
struck Madison, which gave hlm Il COM
mon interest with the older students.
But this year it is all changed. There is
no football team, there is no football
talk, as far as the university students
can surmise, there is not even football
in Madison. The lower campus, the
arena of athletic activity at the opening
of college in the olden days, is now de-
serted, except for an occasional youth
full freshman who wishes to take a front
view of the historical library. There
is some talk among the sophomores about
making the campus sacred ground, and
fOrbidding the freshmen to set foot upon
it until after the class rush.
Sophomores Are Quiet
The sophomores this year are models
order and propriety. They are looking
wise and waiting. 1t is said that they
have few plans up their sleeves and
are going to execute them upon the ar
rival of Charles Steen, the husky lad
from Johnson Greek, who last year bore
the title of Freshman King" Mean
while the graveyard aspect of Madison
is not disturbed.
There is practical question. however.
which does disturb the freshman, and
that is a scarcity of rooms in the stu
dent section. This is especially true for
the girl students who, through lack of
room. have been unable to secure places
at ChadbOurne hall. AS a result of the
congestion in the Latin quarter room
rent has advanced So to So a month.
Changes in University
While the students have been away
on their vacation the university regents
and faculty have been making prepara-
tons for the accommodation of the ex-
pected increase in the number of stu
dents and for the better instruction of
those who will return. There are five
new buildings on the campus either COM
pleted or in the course of construction
Six professors have been added to the
faculty as well as twenty-three instruct
Ors and twenty-nine assistants. Many
new courses have been added to the cur
ricuum and various departments have
fnr i111y CTR It'll nI
the new buildings will be occupied at
once, and the other two will be ready
for use at the end of the first semester.
The new hydraulic laboratory is COM
pleted and ready for occupancy by stu
dents of hydraulics and those engaged in
special investigation in water power and
water supply. The building stands on
the shore of Lake Mendoza near the en-
cheering building. 1t is constructed of
high, As by 9S feet. The new north
wing of main hall is nearly completed
and will socn be ready for use by the
students in the college of letters and
science.
Eminent Professors Secured
AS the new buildings are a sign of
physical growth of the university, so
the addition of six new professors shows
the continuation of the policy of the
president and the regents to strengthen
the different departments by increasing
the Institutional force with capable men
DR.. Joseph Erlanger has been called
from an associate professorship at Johns
Hopkins to the chair of physiology,
where he will aid in building up a pre-
medical course. a department which is
becoming one of the strongest in the
country. Prof. Edward A. Ross, the
new head of the department of So
GEOLOGY, is one of the leading authorities
in America in that branch of learning.
He has written several books and has
an international reputation in his line
Prof Ross has just been elected a mem
Der of the Institut Internationale de
Sociologie at the international congress
in London. The Institut recognizes So
biologists from all countries and its
membership is limited to 100, eight of