Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1918-09-12
BIG ATTENDANCE
IS LOOKED FOR
Alma College Certain to Have
Largest Attendance in His
tory This Year.
TRAINING CORPS IS AID
College viii Probably BE Forced to
Arrange for Additional Quarters
for Men.

Ii is now certainty that the at
tendance at Alma college, when the
institution opens October 2, will be
the greatest that has ever been en-
joyed at the Presbyterian college
with about the same number of young
women as in former years being pres
ent and far greater number of
young men.
Applications are being made rapid
ly by young men for entrance into
the college since the announcement of
the plans of the war department in
connection with Alma college, and it
| is certain that Pioneer Hall will be
filled to the limit and it is expected
that arrangements will have to be
made for further quarters for college
men. Under the requirements of the
war department forty-five square feet
of floor is needed for each student
soldier at the college. and this makes
it possible to place l1S men in Pioneer
Hall.
Plans have not been thoroughly
worked out for the housing of ad-
ditional men and at the present time
there is considerable talk of taking
care Of them in three ways. One plan
is to use the museum of the college
for temporary hall for the men.
| This will call for the removal of the
exhibits in the museum to the base
ment of the building. "A second plan
is to fix up the old gymnasium for a
temporary hall, while the third plan
calls for the erection Of a new struc-
ture, which will in time become the
first unit of the dormtory plan which
has been adopted for the college in
the future and which is known as the
Oxford unit plan. As it is planned
to construct such a unit in the near
futures when demand for it was felt,
il is very possible that such a course
will be adopted, especially in view of
the fact that it has as its object the
carrying out of the plans Of the war
department, and the fact that it would
become a permanent structure Of the
college plant.
In an interview yesterday President
Crooks was asked about the admission
to college Of men who had not quite
completed their high school work, and
II was made plain that the war de-
partment demands that only men who
have completed their high school
course be taken. In talking about the
admission of men over twenty-one, he
said that the department had made
no ruling covering that ground.
He stated that about fourteen hours
of college work would be given the
members Of the student army corps.
and that three hours of this would be
the aims Of the war, which these men
must take. This course will be in
charge Of Dean James f. Mitchell.
The other course so far as possible
Will be taught from war view point.
to make the course more valuable 70
the student soldiers.
A Record reporter then asked if
athletics would be continued. and il
was stated that the war department
had gone on record as favoring ath-
letics, and that in view of this fact
the college now expected to continue
athletics 1t is a well known fact
that the college athletes in the serv-
ice are forging to the front, and this
is probably one Of the reasons why
the war department favors their be-
ing continued.
President Crooks also stated that
one hundred and twenty-five French
girls were being sent to this country
to be educated in American colleges.
and that two hundred and fifty col
leges applied for one of these girls
to educate. He stated that Alma col
lege was one Of the colleges to get
one of these young ladies' The
travelling expenses Of the French
girls are being borne by the French
government, while their college ex-
penses are taken care of by friends
of the colleges, which the girls will
attend.
President Crooks siso announced
yesterday that Herbert II. Dove. the
head Of the Dove Chemical company
at Midland. had been secured to give
the opening address at college this