Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-09-27
MARYLANDU.0PENS.
WITH RECORD CLASS.
More Than $50 Freshmen
Enrolled This Year at COL
lege Park Institution.

COLLEGE PARK, Nd, September
S6.-Classes got under way at the Uni
Versity of Maryland Wednesday with
the largest enrolment in the history
OF the institution. There were about
$50 in the freshman class, the first
time that the 800 mark has been eX-
ceeded.
Dormitory facilities on the campus
are taxed to their capacity, and near
by residents are caring for many of
the students. The frat houses also
are well filed.
With the opening of the university
the students handbook made its sec
ond annual appearance. 1t is pub
lished by the Y. NJ. c. A. and Y. w.
c. A. branches at the school, and is
of much value to the students, espe-
cially to the freshmen. as it contains
full information as to the activities
and requirements The book COM
prises 15S pages. Betty Amos of the
College of Education was the editor.
On Z. S. Honor List.
Maryland. 1t was recently Informed
by the War Department. was one OF
the four r. o. T. G. units of about 80
located in the Sd Corps Area to be
rated among the distinguished col
leges Of the country for the 1924-25
Virginia Military Institute and Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute were the
other three. Maryland had a percent
age of 70 which is very high, to gain
the distinguished rating for the fifth
consecutive year. Joseph G. Burger
of Washington, now a lieutenant In
the Marine Corps, was the honor
graduate of Maryland in the Sd Corps
Area.
Mai. George T. Everett, u. S. A,
head of the department OF military
science and tactics at the university,
has ordered a strict physical eXamina-
ton to be made before students Will
be allowed to enter the r. o. 7. c.
unit this term.
Capt. w. P. Scobey and Staff Sergt.
Earl Hendricks, formerly of Johns
Hopkins University. have been added
to the military faculty. Capt. Scooey
was an honor student at Fort Benning.
Mexicans Pay Visit.
Carlos Terrazas Moro, agricultural
ettache of the Mexican embassy In
Washington, and five members of the
Agricultural College of Mexico. re-
Gently made a thorough tour OF the
university
Prof. c. f. Kramer, who has been
on leave of absence for the past year
for graduate study at Johns HopRlns'
has returned to be professor OF mod
ern languages.
prof. r. H. Shelton, PHI. B. and
G.. E. of Yale and formerly an IN
structor at Allegheny College, has
been added to the engineering faculty
as assistant professor. He taught 1or
several years at Yale and Pei Yang
University of Teen Tsin, China
Prof. S. S. Steinburg, head or the
department of civil engineering, mas
been appointed acting dean OF the Col
lege of Engineering during the az
sence of Dean A. y. Johnson, who Is
one of the United States delegates to
the Pan-American Road Congress,
which opens in Buenos Aires next sat
rrday. Dean Johnson will return In
November.
New Buildings Planned.
Two new structures soon are to be
started at the University. dining haI
and a science building In fact, II eX-
Dectations had been met the work
would now be underway. The dining
hall will be 100 feet long and 90 feet
wide, and will contain, besides the
main dining room with a capacity OF
500, a cafeteria, small room for dinner
parties, offices and storage rooms. The
science building will be a stable build
ing of three stories and basement.
1t will cost 100000, and the dining
hall, $3.50, 900.
The Diamondback, the student pub
LEGATION that is issued each Tuesday
during the school year, was gotten
out last Monday as special edition
TO greet the students. Kenneth Stoner
of Hagerstown is the editor-in-chief.
Fraternity Buys Home.
Phi Sigma Kappa has Joined the
ranks of the property-owning fra
ternities by buying a home in College
Park. The house, which is large and
modern in every way. is at Dartmouth
and Princeton streets.
DIR. A. F. Fucker, professor Of mod
ern languages, has finished his book
on the Chinese theater, and 1t now is
being published.
DIR. Frederick E. Lee, dean Of the
university, recently completed his
book on Currency, Banking and
Finance in China" The study is being
published by the United States Gov
eminent as a hand book. Dean Lee
also has contributed an article to An
nails" of the American Academy of
Social and Political Science on 1.-The
Significance of Foreign Financial Con-
troll in China"