The New York herald., 1922-12-31
Columbia

Thirty-six presidents of colleges and
universities in the United States are CO.
lumbia men. DIR. Nicholas Murray Butler
's2. SO A. NJ. 'st Ph. D.. president OF
the Morningside Heights institution
heading the list. which includes the
executives OF Cornell. the University of
California. Syracuse and the University
OF Washington.
Columbias graduates at the head of
institutions OF higher learning are not
confined to any one section of the
country. Twelve college heads are in
the East, eight others ore in the South.
while the remaining cixteen are scat
tered throughout the Mississippi val
ley and the far West.
Walter f. Koppisch, captain of the
football team last season, was the only
gridiron leader to be reelected In the
East for the 1929 campaign. Koppiscli
was listed by Walter Camp amoBg
those who were near the top In their
respective positions" Walt was the
star of the Blue and White eleven last
fall.
Home and home baseball arrange
ments have been made ~ Rutgers for
the 1923 season. The first - the games
will be played at New Brunswick April
26, while the return engagement will be
settled at South Field, May 5. Last
year only one game was played and
that resulted In an easy victory for the
Blue and White. The regular three
game series with Dartmouth and also
with Penn are on the schedule.
The Quakers have been given the reg
uiar Commencement Day game for 1923,
while one of the other games will be
played in the middle of June. The
games with Dartmouth will. be played
April Q. at South Field; May'7. at Han
over, and May II. at Columbia.
On December 10 the Columbia Uni
versity rifle team started match with
the University of Tennessee. Any one
who Is particularly anxious to know the
result will have to wait one or two weeks
more for the scores are being sent by
mail The shoot was the first OF eighty
on the card of the Blue and White.
The Columbia musical clubs will give
two concerts during che coming week.
The first will be given under the aus
pices of the Institute of Arts and
Sciences in the Horace Mann Audito-
rum In Teachers College Thursday.
January 4, by the Glec Club alone. The
following evening both the Glee Club
and the Instrumental Club will give n
concert in the Central School auditorium
In East Orange, n. j.
After winning three intercollegiate
fencing championships In four years
CoI.nlbia had to be satisfied with third
place last year, and from all indica-
tions will be lucky II she does as well
when the swordsmen of eight colleges
Navy. Columbia. Dartmouth. Harvard.
Massachusetts Institute OF Technology.
Pennsylvania, Yale and Hamilton
gather at Hotel Astor April and s
TO settle title claims. Although four
teen candidates reported for the first
practice to James Murray. the Blue and
Whites veteran fencing tutor. only three
were veterans. and. Furthermore. IL was
not that trio that had anything TO do
with winning the title In 1921.
The tentative schedule for the Lion
fencers follows:
FEBRUARY fo-Hamiiton College. at Iamil-
ton, y. "; II. University of Pennsylvania,
at Columbia; II. open: -. open.
MARCH 3--weet Point. ~ West Point; y,
Yale, at Columbia 10. University OF Penn
eyivanla. at Philadelphia; u, United states
Naval Academy. at Annapolis: - Massa-
chusetts Institute OF Technology, at Cam
bridge: "a. Harvard, at Cambridge; 81.
open.
APRIL and Q. intercollegiate fencing tour
nament at Hotel Astor. New York