New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
w oman Heads
Medical Glass
AT Columbia
Mrs. CulIi Muller. Wife of
Minister, One of III
Who Will Take Oath of
Hippocrases Wednesday
commencement To-day
Members of Glass Of I'll.
Here for Ceremonies, Re-
call Days of Struggle

A woman Mrs. Gulli Lindh Muller,
u;ll receive the Hippoeratic oath for
The first time in the history 6s Co
us,bia University at the 167th annual
commencement exercises nex* Wednes-
5ay. when degrees will be conferred
an others in the graduating class of
,he College Of Physicians and Sur
reons, which numbers lit. Six of
these are women,
Mrs. Muller, who lives at 143 East
rhirty-ffth Street. and is the wife of
$ clergyman. will graduate at the
head of the class. Mrs. Muller re-
ceived the grade of A in every course
IN her senior year Mrs. Muller's
home is in Villa Fridhem, Tyringe.
Sweden.
Nine, Curie VIII be a guest of CO.
lambis on Wednesday at a reception
in her honor at 8 p. m, in the college
narlor of Students Hall, Barnard. bv
the Barnard Alumna Association.
Miss Ruth Guernsey, presidont of
the Associate Alumn8 of Barnard. is
chairman Of q committee which is ar
ranging for the reception to Nine.
Curie. Other alumn@ serving on the
committee are Mrs. James Lee Laid
Law, chairman of the New York State
League of Women Voters; Mrs. Ogden
Reid, Of The New York Tribune; Mrs.
Paul Achilles, and Professor Marie
Reimer.
Tbe FORMAL commencement ox-o,.o;,..
will begin at the university to-day
with the baccalaureate service, at
which the Rev. Raymond c. Knox.
chaplain of the university, will be the
preacher. Stephen Baker, member Of
the Columbia board of trustees, will
read the lesson at the service which
will be conducted by the Rev. Duncan
r. Browne, q member of the Columbia
class of 1905 and dean at Denver Ca
thedral. The chapel choir will be aug
nented by members of the university
chorus for the music, which will be
under the direction of Walter Henry
Hall, professor of church and choral
music.
Procession in Afternoon.
The procession to st. Pauls Chapel
will move from the Library at $40
p n. with the candidates for the BACH
eor's degree in Columbia, Barnard and
Teachers College and the schools of
Business and Journalism at the head.
followed by the choir, President Mich
olas Murray Butler and Stephen Baker,
Chaplain Knox and DR.. Browne.
The striking contrast the Columbia
Of to-day presents to that known by
the students of the class of 1871.
which celebrates its fftieth anniver-
sary this year, was commented on yes
terday by Brander Matthews, member
Of the class and now professor of
dramatic literature at the university.
The class includes such men as Stuy-
vesant Fish, R. Fulton Cutting, Oscar
S. Straus, George B. DeForest and
GurdOn Saltonstah Buck.
The Columbia Professor Matthews
knew as a student was decribed by
Stuyvesant Fish as Occupying the old
buildings at Forty ninth Street and
Madison Avenue long enough to have
made them shabby but not venerable.
With the exception of the Law School
and the medical department, all there
vas of Columbia rested on a short
block of land bounded by Madison and
Fourth avenues, Forty-ninth and Fifth
eth streets"
On this ground, according to Profes-
sor Matthews, there were no dormi-
tories, no gymnasium, no athletic field
and no student reading rooms. We had
no athletics at all, no glee club AMI no
mandolin club, no dramatics and no
daily or weekly college paper"
The Columbia I knew" Professor
Matthews continued, "had a faculty of
less than ten. The total undergraduate
attendance in 1871 was 120, far fewer
than the senior class in Columbia Col
iege to-day. We also were much
younger
II have had the delight of an eye