Openers

On hundreds of campuses last week, students opened trunks, tossed their contents helter-skelter into closets. With some colleges already opening and others holding freshman week, enrollments were generally up, might set a new record. Newsworthy openings:

P:Up in Webster Hall stood Dartmouth's President Ernest Martin Hopkins to tell his admiring students what has happened to the U. S. in the last two decades: "There has been an obvious retrogression.... In circumstances where loyalty to high idealism was imperative, we as individuals and as a people have compromised with expediency ... and amid the confusion resulting from unrest of the spirit we have sought surcease from concern in new dissipations and in more self-indulgence."

P:Williams' President Emeritus Harry Augustus Garfield had one way of dealing with students who objected to compulsory chapel. It was to denounce them as "busybodies." His successor, Tyler Dennett, has another way. Chapel this year will be voluntary.

P:Because "the education of white and colored persons in the same schools is contrary to the long-established and fixed policy of the Commonwealth," University of Virginia "refused respectfully" to admit dusky Alice Jackson, daughter of a Virginia druggist, a graduate student from Smith. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People planned to take her case to court.

P:Yale opened Timothy Dwight College, ninth of the ten College Plan units. Master of the College will be James Grafton Rogers, onetime (1931-33) Assistant Secretary of State, lately dean of the Law School at University of Colorado, now a professor at Yale's Law School. Master Rogers and his charges may be disturbed this year by workmen building the tenth College, Silliman, across Temple Street.

P:University of Chicago, which opens Oct. 1, announced that it would have as a student Mrs. Ruth Walgreen Dart, daughter of Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen, who last spring loudly withdrew his niece, Lucille Norton, from the University called it a hotbed of Communism, precipitated a fruitless legislative investigation (TIME, April 22. et seq.).

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