Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13
3O1 D. c. STUDENTS
| ON i. Of NJ. ROLLS
Almost as Many More Are
From Places Adjacent to
Capital City.

COLLEGE PARK, Md, January H.
Nearly one-fourth of the student regis
tered in the various colleges of the
University of Maryland are from the
District of Columbia, figures just COM
piled by Miss Alma Preinkert, acting
registrar, shows. There are 301 emf
rolled from the District at the OLD
Line institution and the majority OF
them are graduates of the public high
schools.
Another fifth Of the Maryland stu
dents also come from counties ada
cent to the District, there being II;
from Prince Georges and "A from Mont
gomery.
There is total enrolment in the
College Park branches of the university
the professional schools being In
Baltimore-of 1866. OF these, 781
come from within the State. 301 from
the District of Columbia and 1874 scat
tered.
twenty-five States, the District Of
Columbia, Porto Rico, Canada, Colon
bia, Cuba, Ecuador. France and Mica
ragua are represented.
New Jersey leads the States other
than Maryland with as, Pennsylvania
has 81, New York % and Virginia 70
All the counties in the State are
represented, six being the smallest num-
Der from any county.
Preliminary announcement OF the
1929 Summer school at the university
has been made, the dates being june
Is to August 6, inclusive. Catalogues
will not be ready until April /. SiA
hundred and twenty-six were enrolled
last Summer.
Six students have been elected tt
membership in Phi Kappa Phi. honor
ary scholastic fraternity. They are
Emily C. Herzog and Francis j. Maisch
education; Rose Alice Laughlin. arts
and sciences; Margaret M. Minimy
home economics; Joseph c. Long, agri-
culture, and Charles V. Rooms, engi-
neering. All are seniors. Misses Herzoe
and Minimy and Rooms are from
Washington.
D. B. Lloyd of the mathematical de.
partment staff of the university has
designed and constructed a simple de-
vice for the solution Of higher degree
equations. It consists of a So-callec
mystic chart" similar to the ones used
for bridge tallies. He shows how any
cubic equation may be solved by the
drawing of single line and a quartit
aquatic by drawing of circle.
He is now working on the adaptation
of the chart to the fifth and sixth de-
gree equations, although as he points
out. for practical uses in engineering
there is little need of solving equations
above the fourth degree.
John Mcdonald has been chosen
chairman of the Junior prom committee
which handles the biggest social event
of the year. He is prominent in many
campus activities, being director OF the
Glee Club and letter man on the foo
ball and track squads. He is former
Tech High student.
Other members of the committee are
Dorothea FRESHMAN, Floyd Liniger
Lloyd Groshon. Roy Tansil, Rober
Healy. Robert Settle and Irving Rosen'
baum. The prom will be held somt
time in March.
March has been set as the date fol
the annual military ball and Cade
Lieut.. Col. Fred Linton has named COM
mittees to handle the various phases o.
the affair.
Gamma Alpha MI, newly formed
journalistic fraternity, gave a dance II
Ritchie Gymnasium last night whlcf
was largely attended. Don Kieffer
business manager of the Diamondback
the student weekly, is president OF the
fraternity.