New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-06
Nearly $4,000
In Columbia
Su1nnerSch
Registration on Opening Day
lnsures Largest Enstitu-
ton of Kind Ever Organ
lied in This Country
Real ConvocationT o-night
Social Features Scheduled
for Almost Every Evening
of Six Weeks Session

An army in checked g:ngham and
dotted swiss took possession of the
Columbia University campus yesterday
morning, with the opening of the sum
mer school. There were men visible
here and there in the long bright
colored lines which wound through the
north grove as the candidates waited
in the gymnasium, but they were vir-
tually lost in the hosts of school
marms and would-be school marms
from Gopher Prairie and points south
When the registration clerks YEARLY
closed their books last night there was
a total of 8,742, not including those
who registered by mail and so avoided
the tedious process of registering in
the gymnasium. To-day's late figures
are expected to bring the total we'll
up between eleven and twelve thou
sand the largest summer school this
country has ever seem.
There were 1851 registered yester-
day alone, as compared with 2947 on
the corresponding date last year All
classes were formally begun yesterday,
but the general convocation exercises
will not take place until tomorrow
evening. George Barclay Parsons,
chairman of the university trustees,
will address the convocation in the
gymnasium.
Social Features Interesting
Tonight the students will gather
for the first evening concert in the
grove and from this time on, practical
ly every night for six weeks. there
will be something of social interest,
from trips to the. famous sights of
Broadway to get-together parties of
the state clubs, OF which there are
thirty. three-weeks' trip for geogra-
ply students through the Adirondacks
and White Mountains will follow the
summer school.
The bulk of the students are taking
academic or professional educational
work-school teachers who wish to
freshen up in the classics, under
graduates from small colleges working
for their degrees and school principals
and superintendent studying the latest
theories in school management.
Something new in summer school
students, however, made it's appearance
on the campus yesterday with the ar
rival Of thirty men from paper
manufacturing plant, two vice-presi-
dents of the corporation and one mill
manager.
They were the pioneers in the new
field Of industrial education, whose
aim, according to Professor Ralph H.
Mckee, of the department of chemical
engineering, is to link the nations
great industries with the university.
Plans for the future Of this field in
Glide courses in gas engineering and
the industrial uses of alcohol. Men
who could not, and would not, leave
their business for a whole winters
work at college, are expected to avail
themselves Of the opportunity for six
weeks study in the quiet summer sea-
son.
N. Y. U. Registers 1000
New York University's summer school
opened yesterday with a registration
Of 1000. Special attention will be paid
this year to the courses in practical
business affairs, such as retail selling
and business management. Academic
courses are to be given at the college
on University Avenue, and the business
and professional courses at Washington
Square.
Registration began also for the chill
diem in the New York City public
sumner schools, but these will not open
for work until next week. Two hun
dred and fifty vacation Fairgrounds
we're opened yesterday.