Evening star., 1927-09-18
MARYLAND BEGINS
NEW YEAR MONDAY
"Freshmen Week" Planned
to Welcome Strangers.
Class of 400 Expected.

COLLEGE PARK, Md, September
l7.-University of Maryland will be-
gin the 1929 scholastic year next
Monday, when the registration of the
freshman class will start. Freshmen
registration will continue through
Tuesday with the old students getting
in line on Wednesday. Glasses will
begin at $50 Thursday morning.
A special committee for Fresh
men week." Of which Prof. X. w.
Carpenter is chairman. will have SUI
pervision of orienting the yearllngs
and a complete program that includes
diversions has been arranged for their
benefit.
Indications are that there will be
close to 400 in the freshmen class,
many from Washington and the ter
ritory adjacent to the Capital City.
The first convocation Of the student
body will be held in the gymnasium
at 11:20 o'clock Thursday morning.
President Raymond Allen Pearson Will
make an address and there will he
music and other features. DR.. T. II
Taliaferro, acting dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences. is chairman of
the committee in charge Of the affair.
Work Is progressing rapidly on the
project Of landscaping and building
of new roads and walks on the campus
and the improvements will be com
pleted within the next couple months.
A full scheme looking well into the
future was worked out in the road
building and landscaping and the
placing of an administration building
and new domitories was provided for
in the plans. o. c. Simonds of Chi
cago, one Of the foremost landscape
architects in the country, designed
the campus plan.
Crop and soil work at the univer.
sity has been consolidated with Prof.
J. f. Metzger as head of the argonomy
department.
William B. Kemp has been ad.
vanced from the position of associate
professor of agronomy to professor Of
genetics and statics. and also will
serve as assistant to DR.. H. J. Patter-
son, dean of the College Of Agricul.
ture. DIR. Patterson also is director
of the experiment station.
Frank B. Gardner. B. S., Pennsyl.
vania State College, and M. S. and
Phi. D., University Of California, has
been appointed assistant in plant
propagation on the experiment sta.
ton staff.
Prof. s. III. de Vault has been
granted leave for the college year to
take some advanced work at Cornell
University. but will continue to give
general directions as to teaching and
research work in agricultural eco.
nomics at Maryland. Benjamin H.
Bennett, B. s. and M. S. of Maryland,
has been appointed assistant professor
Of agricultural economics and will
carry on the teaching work of this de.
partment during DR.. de Vaults abb
sence. Bennett has been employed at
the Bureau of Agricultural Econom.
les, United States Department Of Ag.
riculture. since his graduation.
Leroy Mackert, who has been on
the staff of the university for several
years, and who has assisted in ath.
letic coaching. has been granted leave
to study physical education at Colum-
bia University during the 1927-1928
terms.
Geary Eppley. assistant professor
In agronomy, has been named faculty
advisor of the Student Grange to
succeed DR.. p. w. Zimmerman.
Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority has an
nounced it's third annual subscription
dance, to be held in it's house here
on October !, the evening Of the foot
ball game with South Carolina.
The Diamondback, the student
weekly at the university, will make
it's first appearance Of the year Mon.
day to greet the incoming freshmen.
The paper has been increased from
four to six pages and will carry the
latter number throughout the year.