The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-28
COLLEGE READY
TO BEGIN WORK
Formal Opening Exercises Give
Record OF What Year
Will Bring.
ENROLMENT AT HIGH MARK
President Boatwright Shows
That New Standard Doesn't
Hurt Attendance.

Richmond College had its formal
opening exercises in the chapel last
| night, at which President Il. w. Boat
wright gave the public some idea as
to how the new session will be. The
enrolment is fully up to expectations
| notwithstanding the higher entrance
requirements. There was large at
! tendance. including students, alumni
and friends of the college.
| After extending hearty welcome to
/ the audience, President Boatwright
said in part
While many people are quick to
! judge 81 college merely by the strength
| Of the student roll, nevertheless the
number Of students Is always q mat
| ter of Importance and public interest
| This Is especially true at Richmond
College this session, when the standard
entrance requirements of fourteen Car.
negie units go into effect for the first
| time. AT some of our best colleges
| the attendance, under similar condi-
tons, fell Off Is to 20 per cent. and 1t
! should not lave caused surprise IL such
| a result had occurred here. I am glad
| to report, however, that thus far, as
| compared with last year. there has
been little or no decrease. II we COM
| pare the enrolment In college classes
! with the enrolment last year in classes
| OF the same grade there appears sub
| stantlal Increase in numbers. Includ-
ing the students in introductory, or
! sub Junior classes. the college enrolled
last season 3l3 students. This year
these classes have been discontinued.
and all such work remanded to the
Richmond Academy. Despite this fact
the college has already in attendance
on its classes this year 205 students.
and this meMns an attendance for the
session practically equal to the enrol
ment OF lavt year.
Il Students Examined.
Il Great care has been exercised to
d accept only those students fitted for
4 college work. A committee of the
faculty, consisting OF Professors
Gaines. Metcalf and Loving. has ex-
amined each student and passed upon
4 his studies before. le came to the pres
ident for matriculation. The college
thus enters upon a new period in its
career. period when all the students
are doing real college work. and when
n degree means four years of college
training based upon a good high school
course of study. I am glad to say
that this reform has been introduced
with a minimum Of misunderstanding
and trouble. While many students
probably seventy-five, who wished tc
enter Richmond College this year found
they would have to spend one or two
years more in preparatory work, only
two students had to be advised to sc
back home to make further prepare
tion after they had journeyed to the
college.
Our students come from sixteer
States and two foreign countries
Greater Richmond continues to be ou
chief source of patronage, and TIL,
John Marshall High School sends III
more students than any other singl,
: institution. This session will show al
I Increase in the attendance Of law stu
dents, and also an Increased attend
1 ance of women.
+ Far better provision has been mad
g for the convenience and comfort o
: young women than ever before. AM
n they now enjoy the use OF the parlor
q and other large rooms on the frs
a floor of the residence on the campu
t formerly occupied by Professor Whit
slit.
n New Courses Provided.
: Several new courses OF study ar
q being offered this session In history. i
political science In chemistry, and i
i. education. The course In educatlo
q evidently meets demand among GU
/. older students. Already over twent
: students have entered this course, an
we are having requests from the cit
h to make 1t available to teachers In tn
J. schools.
n 1T is hoped that by another sessio
l. other courses In education can be OF
% fered, and some of them at least ma
be made available to teachers.
TT gives me pleasure to have wit
: me on this platform this evening tn
}. three new members of our teachin
j. corps DR.. Thomas Albert Lewis.
Il graduate Of William Jewell College an
o the Johns Hopkins University, come
IL to occupy the chair Of philosophy, mao
" illustrious ~ Drs. Curry, Thomas an
: Whitsitt. its three former Incumbent
l. DR.. George Frederick White, a gradu
j. ate of the Massachusetts Institute {
IS Technology. and a graduate of tn
l. John Hopkins University, will be assc
t ciated with DR.. Z. G. Bingham in tn
chemical department.. 1t Is pleasing
: observe the growth of this departmer