The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
U. 0F A. CROWDED AS MORE STUDENTS
 RUSH ID REGISTER
Col. Musgroye Says College Must Be Expanded Now. Million Dollar Campaign
 t'MuSt Not FaiY

University. September 9.-(Special.) The first week of the regular session of the University of Alabama closed with the greatest enrolment In the history of the institution, and con gested conditions which have been growing more serious each year at critical point. The institution was crowded to the doors and emergency measures were being taken to care for the students.
 We cannot temporize with the sit- nation any further. The enrolment this past week has proved that. The
 state university must be expanded at once. It is no longer question of building for the future. It Is a question of immediate action, of erecting buildings for the students who are already here, right now"
 This was the statement of Colonel L.. E. Musgrove of Jasper, after he had stood in the quadrangle and watched the hordes of students pour ing in. Colonel Musgrove. a trustee of the university. and one of it's most loyal supporters. was a visitor in Tuscaloosa during the past week, and strongly indorsed the million dollar campaisn~of the university which is Tor the purpose of financing the erec- ton or greatly needed buildings. More Than 1,70O
 At the end of the first week the total enrolment was greater than i,ioo students. At this time last year inc enrolment was less than 1.5OO and the total enrolment for the year. including those who entered at the opening of the second term, totaled l.653. The enrolment, therefore. at
 the end of the first week is 200 larg-
 CT than at ths time last year and approximately 70 more than the total Tor all of last year. The total en- roilment this year Is expected to. ex- ceed 1,S00 students.
 The freshman class is the largest
 in the history of the school and the numper Of women students is larger
 tnan ever before. The dormitories nave been filled to the capacity for which they were designed early in
 the week and extra space for the men was provided by turning the old medical building into a dormi- tory and providing other places for them. At Tutwiler Hall, the girls dormitory, it was necessary to put three girls in large number of rooms which had been designed but Tor two. Encouragement of schedules In several of the courses was neces- 5ary to provide class room space for extra sections which had to be formed because of the large regis tration.
 Accommodates 600
 Here we have an institution which was designed to care for about 600 students" said Colonel Musgrove. And right now we have nearly three times that number enrolled. Within
 tho next few years 5000 or 1000 stu dents will wish to come here. It seems almost pitiable that Alaba ma potentially the richest state in the na tion, has not already provided for the accommodation of these young men and women who desire an education The expansion of the state uni versity has become, by reason ot the enrolment this week, vital issue in every community of the sta-e. II
 Is an Issue which cannot remain un- decided any longer. The people oi Alabama have shown their deter mination to provide the best cdu- cational facilities for their children and they will again demonstrate their loyalty to the cause of higher education when the campaign Is started.
 "The university has not made it's appeal to the people too soon. If anything. 1t has delayed too long in asking for the fund of S1,0o0,0oo. so that conditions we now see have be- come possible. The movement Is timely. urgent and must not fall"