The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-29
COLUMBIA TO OPEN
162D YEAR TO-DAY
Dean Keppel Will Greet Fresh.
men With a stiff Warn
ing About Football.
REGISTRATION GOING Up

Columbia begins its 1921 academia
year to-day. The university authori.
ties have the programme of official eSer.
clses all planned. but the suphomorcs
into whose hands are placed the task n,
looking after the Informal affairs q,
they will receive the new students.
whose numbers are greater than those
Of any previous entering class.
Some OF the zest of the return Of foot.
ball to Morningside Heights after a
lapse Of a decade will probably be
taken out of the first day of IN. new
colleg, year by the message of Dean
Frederick L. Keppel, which will he
published in this mornings Spectator
Dean keppel stood aloof during the ag-
tation for the restoration OF football
last spring and no one was able 10 a.
Germ his attitude. He will make il
clear In welcoming the new students.
however. that IL football is to disrup,
the opening months of the college year
the faculty may be expected 90 do
things. This in part is the dean.
message:
among u freshmen 1t has been tho
exception and not the rule for a stu.
dent to throw away the advantage O,
a good start, Four out of Ave have
set about their academic work in a
businessllke and intelligent manner from
the opening day.
"A few sincere friends OF Columbia.
In the faculty and out of il, have
pointed out that the development Of this
desirable state of affairs has conceded
In time exactly with the period during
I a1atA 49,. 4 H. - -
collegiate football. They nave said that
this was not a mere coincidence. and
they are now feeling that with the re-
turn of football We will soon find our.
selves in the old state of procrastina-
ton and confusion. | submit that this
Is a matter upon which the students
themselves have something to say.
Under the conditions of It's ~restord-
ton there is no necessity that the game
OF football should interfere with he
academic work of players or spectators
But on the other hand we had hotter
face the fact that there IL every likeil.
rood that II will soon interfere unIes.
the students themselves face the new
conditions with a sense of responsibility.
II will not do to leave Ii 20 the faculty
TO pass resolutions about putting on the
screws.
"lf a good start in the years work
and 4 good football team at the same
time depend ON student responsibility.
they depend on every students under
standing OF what responsibility means
for him. 1t means. for example. that If
you who are reading these lines want
to put In the afternoon watching the
practice you should be prepared to forego
the joys OF the movies this evening
hi it means more han anything Use
is that each student must do his own
thinking about these and other matter.
and not rave IT done for him"
Formal exercises will be held both on
Morningside Heights and at the College
of Physicians and Surgeons at Tenth
avenue and ~tifty-ninth street. pr
Francis Carter Wood. director of career
research under the Crockcr foundation
will address the medical schooi tn
morning on Magic and Medicine. and
DIR. Edmund B. Wilson, Da Costa pro.
fessor of zoology, will be the principal
speaker at the exercises in the uulNer.
sity gymnasium on M~orningside Height,
this afternoon.
Although no announcement has beer
made as to the registration Of students
to date il is said that the total ,uroj
ment will he we'll over the record set
last year. despite the fact that fees have
been increased in all departments OF ;W,
university.