Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-25
NO SIGN MEIkLEJOHN
ROW IN OPENING
AMHERST COLLEGE

Amherst. Mass. Sept. 24.-AmherSt
College resumed it's class work for its
103rd year today with conditions ap-
parently normal and with no manifes-
tation of the dissention which was so
evident during the stormy days preced-
ing and following the resignation Of
President Alexander Meiklejohn last
June, says a statement issued from the
office of the Alumni Council secretary.
While opening chapel was held last
Thursday, the actual beginning Of
work was put off until today to permit
students to make changes in courses
as the result Of arrangements Of cur
riculum and changes in faculty which
were made during the summer.
The statement continues:
Some significant indications Of the
trend of student opinion are to be
found in the election Of courses during
the past two days, among them the
continued popularity of some Of the
courses given by departments in which
designations took place during the
which achieved unusual prominence at
Amherst during the last few years in
keeping with a trend that was general
throughout the colleges of the coun-
try, have a heavy enrolment. Eco.
nomic courses have been selected hy
$50 as compared with i76 last year.
Political science, which drew las men
last year. will be taught this year to
1913 men. Part Of this latter large in.
crease is the result Of the popularity
of a new course in international rela-
tions to be given by Prof. Lindsay
Rogers of Columbia University. ...
zone of the largest English classes
in recent years, Is men, or one-third
of the senior and Junior classes. mem
bers of which are alone eligible to
take it, will be course conducted by
Robert Frost, who returns to the Am
hcrst faculty after an absence of sew
eral years. new English course to
he conducted Jointly by Prof. Percy H.
Boynton. Amherst 81. and professor OF
English and dean of the College Of
Arts and Literature at the University
of Chicago. and Prof. John Erskine Of
Columbia. formerly of Amherst has at
tracted IS members of the two upper
classes.
President George D. OSs can look
with a good deal of satisfaction upon
normal conditions which prevail as
the college opens less than three
months after he assumed the task of
uniting factions which in the heat of
last June seemed drawn irreparably
apart. One hundred and ninety new
students. 165 of them freshmen. have
entered the college. Courses have been
arranged, new teachers secured to take
the places of those who resigned. and
the alumni have been drawn together.
The students have given long and loud
ovations to George Olds at his public
appearances at the opening Of college
and at the ice cream rush. at which
freshmen are introduced to the college
faculty and undergraduate leaders. 1t
has been the personality of George
rs he is Familiarity and lovingly known
by Amherst men who have studied un.
der him for 80 years. which has pro-
duced harmony which might other
wise have been long in coming. The
Amherst Student undergraduate
newspaper. in it's first issue of the
year aligns itself solidly behind the
new president. although. 1t was not
convinced last spring of the necessity
of a change in administration. The
undisputed and well earned popularity
of the present head of the administra-
ton has done much the Students lead
ing editorial says. to increase this
unquestioning confidence in thel new
regime. President Olds starts this year
with a college ready to follow wher.
ever he leads"