The New York herald., 1921-09-25
RECORD COLUMBIA
LIST FOR 16STH YEAR
Opening Exercises Wednesday
Will Mark DR.. Buffers
Twentieth Year.

Columbias opening exercises Of the
16Sth academic year on Wednesday viii
constitute milestone in American uni
versity progress. For Columbia and New
York city it will begin what was char
acterized yesterday as the fifth dis
tinct period in the history of this founda-
tion for higher learning"
The four periods of Kings College, of
old Columbia College and of "the Build
ing of the University" having passed into
Columbia's great body of rich tradition,
the institution on Morningside Heights
vii on Wednesday, with a record enrol
ment and unprecedented resources and
equipment. start "the period of the
strengthening and Eerfecting of the uni
versity in all its parts" including Co
lumbia College, called 'its historic and
necessary link with New York and the
nation"
The beginning of this new chapter in
Colambias history viii mark the twen-
tleth anniversary Of the succession to
the presidency of DR.. Nicholas Murray
Butler. In honor of this event and to
celebrate the Homecoming of DR.. Butler
from his European trip, Columbia is ar
ranging big dinner in the Hotel Penn
sylvania Monday evening. October g.
The dinner will be given by the fac
ulty of the university. Two thousand in
vitations have been issued by the fac
ulty committee, consisting OF Dean
Frederick j. e. Woodbridge of the facul-
ties of political science, philosophy and
pure science DIR. William Campbell, pro-
fessor of metallurgy; John j. Coss. di-
rector of the summer session, and Frank
D. Fackenthal, secretary Of the uni
versity.
Wednesdays opening exercises will be
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o'clock. The academic procession will
form, as at commencement, in the library
building at $3.50 Trustees, officers of
instruction and other officials will be in
line. The annual academic address will
be delivered by DR.. Edward Lee Thorn
cike. professor of educational psychol-
ogy. and noted as the author of mental
tests on Measurement in Education"
At the College of Physicians and Sur
geons the opening exercises will be held
I'm the lower lecture room in Fifty ninth
street at 10 80 in the morning Presi-
dent Butler will make brief address of
welcome. The main address will be de-
livered on THE Trend and Scope of
Modern Medical Education" by DR.. WAL
ter Walker Palmer, Bard professor Of
the practice of medicine.
The medical school exercises will usher
in a new and broad scheme of organiza-
tion and training. DR.. Palmer, who
comes to Columbia from Johns Hopkins.
is one of three notable additions 70 the
medical faculty who will begin their
work this fall under the plans for a
s15,000.0o0 medical centre, which is to
arise in New York city through the per-
manent alliance recently effected be-
tween the Columbia Medical School and
the Presbyterian Ho spital.
Registration, which began on wedncs-
day, will close on Tuesday. Registrar
Edward ]. Grant said that while 1t was
impossible to forecast the enrolment.
the attendance this year would cer-
tainly be very large, the total exceeding
that of all previous years. The medical
school enrolment represents the maxi
mum nun'ber Of students that can be
provided for.