Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
$50 ARE ENROLLED
At MARYLAND i.
1928-29 Term Opens Tomor-
row With Record Fresh
man Class.

COLLEGE PARK. Md, September
22.-University of Maryland will begin
its 1928-29 term Monday, when the Of
fees of the institution will be opened
for freshmen registration. Two days
will be given over to this purpose, with
the upperclaSsmen registering Tuesday
and classes beginning at 500 Thursday
morning.
Maryland will have the largest fresh
man class IN the history of the colleges
at College Park More than 430 new
students had been accepted up until
this morning and indications were that
the list would go beyond the $50 mark.
Miss Alma Preinkert, acting registrar,
still was sitting out other applications
and there always are some late Corners
Plans to aid the newcomers in getting
settled have been arranged by a COM
mittee, headed by Prof. Ray w Car
penter, and every effort will be made
to help the new students get their bear
ings. Groups will be placed in charge
of various members of the faculty WIZ
will keep them in tow for the first two
days of their stay at the Old Line in
Stitution, directing them in the vari-
Gus phases they will have to go through
in registering and getting placed in the
dormitorieS
DR.. Raymond Allen Pearson, presi-
dent of the university, and Mrs. Pear
son, assisted by the members of the
faculty, will give a reception in honor
OF the new students Tuesday evening
in the gymnasium. DR.. Pearson also
will speak briefly to the newcomers.
There will be an assembly of the
freshmen on Wednesday evening, be-
ginning at $50, in the auditorium at
which Prof. Charles S. Richardson,
head of the department of public
speaking, will talk on university Ira
dition and History" and H. G. Byrd,
assistant to the president will speak on
Student Life" Later the meeting will
be turned. over to Fred Linton, presi-
dent of the students assembly, for
three quarters of an hour
There will be singing during intervals
in the assembly, which will be led by
DR.. Home G. House, head of the English
department, who also is director of TIE
University Glee Club and the musical
FESTIVAL that is held each Spring.
DR.. H. j. Patterson, director of the
experiment station, and dean of the
College of Agriculture, who was i'll in
hospital in Maine while spending his
vacation there, has returned to his
home in College, Park and is much i'm
proved. 1t will be some time though
before he will have to assume his duties
in full
Miss Mary Jane McCurdy, who was
graduated in the class of 1928, has been
appointed assistant of Miss M. Marie
Mount, dietitian, in charge of the din
ing hall. Miss Mount also is of the Col
lege of Home Economics, from which
Miss McCurdy was graduated. Miss Nc
Curdy is Washington girl
An eight-page edition of the Dia-
mondback, the student paper, will make
its appearance Monday to greet the
freshmen. John E. Schueler is editor
in-chief of the Diamondback and j.
Donald Kieffer is business manager.
Miss Bernice Moler who was gradu-
ated from Maryland in the class Of
1927. has been made secretary to Dean
Woods of American University and ct
the same time is acting as registrar of
the institution. During the 1929
term Miss Moler worked in the regis
trar's office at Maryland and late- be-
came the secretary to DR.. T. H. ITALIA
terro, dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences.
DR.. c. l.. Cottrell has left the Univer-
sity of Maryland to become membe:
of the faculty at Kenyon College, Gam
bier. Ohio. He is an alumnus of George
Washington University and formerly
was associated with the Bureau O:
Standards. He received his Phi. D. from
Cornell, where he taught for several
years.