South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-14
REGISTRATION FOR
SCHOOL YEAR NETS
800 ON FIRST DAY
Notre Dame Students Meet
Difficulty in Finding
Fair Price" Rooms.

Approximately 500 students regis
tered az Notre Dame university on
Tuesday and incoming trains are
bringing new arrivals who are eX-
pected 20 swell the total regfstra-
ton OF 1923 Of last year. The regis
tration hours are from 20 1880 IN
the morning and from 2:3O 20 8
o'clock in the afternoon.
A long and ever-increasing line OF
students awaited the opening hour
Tuesday morning and Il required a
two hours wait IN line 20 complete
the routine necessary 10 formally
become q student az the school
Many OF those who had arrived on
Tuesday took one look at the slowly
moving procession ana delayed their
registration until Wednesday or
Thursday. others equipped them
selves with chairs, which they used
when the line was at a standstilL
Follow old Custom.
Registration blanks. postmaster's
cards and contracts are furnished 10
the students IN the rOtuna on the
first hOor OF the main building and
class enroIlments are made in the
north reading room Of the library.
4 separate enrolment card is issued
for each class. an innovation which
replaces the time-honored bill Of
studies which has been used at the
university IN past years.
Following the custom inaugurated
last year. the deans Of the various
departments. aided by secretaries
and assistants from among the fac
ulties OF the various schools. are
aiding the students 20 enroll for the
classes proper 10 their respective
courses. The following departments
are represented by different groups
OF officials: Agriculture, arts and
letters, architecture, chemistry. COM
merce. mining. civil. electrical and
mechanical engineering. law, pre-
law. Journalism and pharmacy.
Room Rent High.
For the first time in the history %
the school all available housing IA
cilltles on the campus were exhaust
ed two weeks before the formal reg
istration and 20 extra beds were
placed IN the old Carroll dining hall
TO care for that number Of students
who were inadvertently accepted
after the last regular dormitory bed
had been given out. In an effort TO
relieve the anticipated congestion,
Rev. Frederick Gassensmith, csc,
newly appointed rector of students
residing of the university campus.
had arranged a list Of available
rooms in South Bend 10 which all
students without communications
are referred. The lists are printed
and are proving 10 be great help
Committees of upper classemen con-
tinue TO meet incoming trains and
will be aided in their work Wednes-
day and Thursday by automobiles
donated by friendly owners.
Although other living commodities
have fallen somewhat in the past
few months. those families renting
rooms IN South Bend are holding 10
the prices which were received since
the demand. for accommodations be-
came pressing when the great wave
OF students entered the university at
the close or the war. No fragrant
cases OF prOfiteering have been re-
ported, but many self-supporting STU
dents. OF whom there are great
mum Der at Notre Dame, were unable
to obtain employment in their home
towns during the past summer and
find the peak prices for room rem,
hard TO meet