New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-19
GIRLS OVERFLOW BARNARD
No Hall Big Enough to Get All
Students Together at One Time.
LUNCHEON IN Cl0AKROOM
Teachers College Lends Use of
Gymnasium, but Lack of Room
Is Felt Keenly.

with the opening Of tho college year and
time allowed for systematic count ~
noses. tho trustees and faculty OF Barnard
College find themselves confronted with an
unexpected and embarrassing situation.
The unusual increase I'm the enrolment oil
young women over last year presents tho
serious problem Of caring for more than
600 students with room facilities adequate
for hardly more than half that number
II was found necessary yesterday 10 con-
vert one Of the large cloakrooms on mo
ground floor Of Mrlbank Hall, the main
building. into a lunchroom in order to ac-
commodate the overflow Of students al the
noon meal
The faculty and trustees look with APP
prehcnsiou on this situation. for unless
some means Of increasing facilities Is
found they may ne compelled 20 limit inc
number Of students. a remedy that would
be- tried only IA a very last resort, Tor u
has always been felt by those Interested
i'm this institution that its main object was
10 afford a college education 10 the women
Of New York who find il convenient to ac-
quirc college education near home
and it would seem a pity, i'm the minds %.
the trustees, to debar any from this priyl-
lego..
Speaking OF these uncomfortable cohdl'
lions YESTERDAY. Miss Kate : Doty, sccre-
tsry of the college said that they existed
I'm nearly all the departments Of the institu
ton When the college opened this fal
and exercises were held I'm the small audi
tOrium the meeting place was found ab-
surdly inadequate 10 hold the student body
she said. and many % the girls had &c
stand I'm tho rear Of the room and about
the doors The freshman study. room
used as a meeting place and for work 10y
the mambers Of that class. has one large
table i'm it. surrounded with twenty-siN
chairs There are 205 freshmen in this
years class.
The junior class study" will accommo-
date forty girls. while there IS a class
membership OF $50 The proportions arc
about the same i'm the other class studies
with perhaps q little more elbow room fol
the seniors.
There are 6o0 regularly enrolled stu
dents this year" said Miss Doty. with
about $40 more from Columbia University
and Teachers College who take courses
here. The college is ut present by no
means properly equipped to care for these
increasing numbers. Her gu students are
crowded into buildings designed for 500
She has no adequate provision for the very
important work OF physical culture
Through the courtesy of Teachers Con-se
our students are allowed 20 use her gymnd
stun. but that courtesy cannot be extended
indefinitely.
I'VE have 10 single hall large enough 10
hold our student body II the dean wishes
to address all the students there 81 mo-
place where they can assemble. The audi
torium win not hold half the students VINO
may desire 20 attend chapel services or
lectures Unless Barnard il 10 turn away
girls able and eager To enter, she must
UcgIu al once 10 erect additional buildings.
According 90 the college records there IS
au increase OF eiEhty-seVen regularly c'-
rolled students over last year. This Is an
unusually large increase in comparison
with the figures iu 1910, when there were
only six moro students enrolled Than in
from Columbia and Teachers 'ollcG-
make ND the total The large majority OF
Barnard students are residents OF this
city. and her alumni as rule remain mere
The college was founded twenty two
years ago and the first year had thirty-slS
students
n was pointed ont that Barnards oppor-
t-fr4itics for growth and FOR usefulness were
limited only bv lack Of adequate space and
breathing room. so to speak, Do Which 10
uroyde for the anxious girls VINO appear
10 boz knocking at her gates in ever IN
creasiug numbers,