The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-10-21
HOWARD OPENS WITH 400
FRESHMEN.
"a. N, P.)

WASHINGTON. ID. c.. Oct. 19.-How
ard University began its academic year
Monday, October 2. with the largest
entering class IN its collegiate de-
partment ever registered in a univer-
sity specializing in the training of
young Colored men and women. There
is an increase OF approximately rs
per cent in the number of applications
which have been received during the
year and In spite of the rigid weed
ing OUT nearly 400 applicants have
been granted permission 10 register
as Freshmen. A marked trend is
noticed in the large number OF stu
dents entering Howard with advanced
standing, having received prior train
ing at all other colleges and univer-
stiles This is partly accounted for by
the new rating which Howard Uni
versity received last year when its
collegiate department was placed in
the approved list of the Association
OF Colleges and Preparatory Schools
of the Middle States and Maryland.
DIR. j. Stanley Burkee. the Presi-
dent OF the University. at the chapel
exercises welcomed the students to
Howard and counseled them regard
ing before them. In his opening adj
dress at chapel. DR.. Durkee said:
The college year 1929 opens aus
piciously not only for our own How
ard University. but for America as a
whole Therefore every school and
college in the land must teach morals
as well as science, must properly dis
cipline the emotional life as well as
the intellectual; must never forget
that an immoral or immoral student
is liability rather than an asset to
our nation.
"In welcoming you students to this
new year of study. / have for you a
few thoughts that can but hope
will claim your careful consideration
and your hearty endorsement"
"You have your personal problems
to meet. You have often thought they
were peculiar to you. Your problems
of finance. social intercourse, college
standing, choice of profession. and a
hundred such perplexing questions are
ever present with you. Yet, these are
questions common to all struggling.
aspiring IT, and you will, comforted
by the thought that there hath no
struggle nor temptation befallen you
that is not common to all mankind.
You have racial problems which tax
your mind and heart sometimes almost
beyond endurance. As you develop
the finer appreciations of life, these
problems will more and more test
whether FOR the first climbing up, or
climbing back again after centuries of
inertia"
Since last June. many changes have
been made in the Faculty OF the
Howard University One of the most
pleasing changes has been that of the
appointment of Miss Lucy d. 81 lowe as
Dean of Women. Miss Stowe comes to
Howard University full of zest for
her work and the influence of her
fine character is expected to be felt
life throughout the University student
life.
During the summer months many
improvements to the buildings and
4. IL a In
istration of the Howard University
welcomed in resident students to the
New Dining Hall which was dedicated
in June, 1922. The building is the most
beautiful and modernly equipped, OF
any on the University grounds, In ad-
dition to the many improvements made
to the interior of the various Univer-
sity buildings. attention has been
given TO the laying of walks about
the grounds to add beth to the con-
venience and beauty OF the campus
MedicaI school OvererOwded.
Owing to the action of the Board
of Trustee of the Board Of the How
ard University requiring that all en-
tering classes In the School of Medi-
cine be limited to so stud ,nts, quite
a large number applicants have had
to be denied admission.
In order TO accommodate the large
number Of students in the Dental
College. It was necessary that tenn
porary additions be made to the Dem
tai Infirmary to provide space for adj
ditional chairs and laboratory facili-
ties. The continued overcrowGihg of
the school of Medicine and the ina
bility to accommodate With present
facilities the Continual increase each
year in the numbers Of applicants for
admission has heightened interest in
the Howard University campaign to
secure the $3.50, 10000 which It must
raise in ordrr to secure the condition.
al offer OF 25o,000.OO from the Gem
eral Education Board for the endow-
mont OF the school Of Medicine