"Fraternity Campus Board," and elected its own officers, with Gerald Brophy as Chairman. This body was responsible for placing the Kings Crown flags upon the fraternity houses to impart a college atmosphere, and has materially aided Student Board in rallies, meetings, etc.

Two underclass fights were held this year-the tug-of-war and the sack rush. The former seems to have been more successful.

Elections held on February 27, 28 and 29, resulted in the election, as junior, non-voting members of the Board, of Lawrence H. Tiihonen and Royal J. Cooney.

At the beginning of the year, the Interfraternity Athletic League petitioned the Student Board for control by the latter body. The Board did not believe that interfraternity athletics had been successful, and referred this matter to the Interfraternity Council.

Thereupon, a committee to supervise such interclass athletics was appointed by Student Board. Thomas Chrystie, of the Board, was appointed Chairman of the committee. Our experience has been that interclass athletics are of much greater benefit to our campus than interfraternity competition.

On' Alumni Day, February 12, Student Board, assisted by the Van Am Club, cooperated with the Alumni Association in welcoming the returning graduates.

The work which the Board has been particularly interested in has been the "responsibility" movement. We have urged a general increase of undergraduate responsibility, including: implicit obedience to athletic coaches by those students on their respective teams; absolute regard for training rules by athletes; the curbing of lax practices in all examinations, etc.

Student Board formulated a plan of exempting students of high grades from final examinations, the aim being that with an incentive to work faithfully and consistently thereby provided, general scholarship would be improved. The Board presented this plan in writing to the Committee on Instruction, and the Student Board Chairman appeared before that body and explained the aims of the plan in detail. This pro

posal was presented to the Faculty by the Committee on Instruction, but was defeated by a heavy vote. Student Board still thoroughly believes in the desirability of this plan, and the Chairman has conferred with Dean Hawkes in regard to bringing this proposition forward again, but the Dean said that the Committee on Instruction did not believe it advisable for the Board to present this plan again this semester (Spring 1924), since its chances of being put into practice would be slight.

The first case of athletic insubordination occurred during the football season with the case of George Aliano, '25, who failed to obey orders given by a member of the coaching staff. After consultation with President Butler, Secretary Fackenthal, Dean Hawkes and Graduate Manager Watt, Student Board recommended to the University Committee on Athletics that Aliano be declared ineligible to represent Columbia for the remainder of his period in the University. This recommendation was published in Spectator. After hearing Aliano and the Student Board Chairman, and after further investigation, the University Committee on Athletics declared Aliano ineligible for athletic competition for the remainder of the Winter Session, 1923. It was pointed out by the committee that Student Board should have held a hearing for Aliano before the recommendation was made and before it was published in Spectator. The Board held a hearing for Aliano after publication of the recommendation, and believes that it was at fault in not holding a hearing prior to making the recommendation.

In order to keep our activity men from becoming ineligible, the Board appointed a Committee on Student Activities, headed by Hubert Voight, '25, and composed of two other undergraduates. Graduate Manager Benson consented to advise with this group, and Dean Hawkes appointed Professor Harry Carman to aid the work of this Committee. From all indications, the work of this group has been extremely successful.

During the year, Student Board sanctioned the formation of a society composed of members of the fencing squad,

formed to promote interest in that sport. The name of the organization is "Rapier."

Student Board also sanctioned the formation of a junior class honorary society named "Tombstone," formed to promote general class and college welfare.

The Board withdrew its sanction from the sophomore Van Am Club, at the same time deciding to vitalize and strengthen "Tombstone." The reason for this action was the belief that underclass societies did more to break down class spirit than they did to foster the same. The Van Am Club, composed as it was of sophomores, was controlled practically entirely by politics, and Student Board has attempted to decrease the use of politics wherever possible. The Board believed that many members of the Sophomore class who were not taken into the Van Am Club, became discouraged and lost interest in campus activities. The affairs of the Club for the past year have been inefficiently managed, and its members, aside from a very few, have been disinclined to carry out their respective duties. For these reasons, Student Board believed that the organization was productive of more harm than good, and consequently withdrew its sanction from the society.

Elections were held on April 24 and 25, resulting in the election, in the order named, of the five remaining members of the Board for the year 1924-1925: John Van Brocklin, Frank Anderson, Joseph Gleason, H. Cortland Wilson, Frederick Bryan. The new Board had its first meeting on May 6th and elected Royal J. Cooney as Chairman, and Joseph Gleason as Secretary.

Respectfully submitted,

May 16, 1924

FERRIS BOOTH,

Chairman

REPORT OF THE REGISTRAR

FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1924

AND FOR THE SUMMER SESSION OF 1924

To the President of the University

SIR:

As Registrar of the University, I have the honor to submit the following report for the year ended June 30,1924 and for the Summer Session of 1924.

During the year beginning July 1, 1923 there were enrolled at Columbia University 32,769 resident students as compared with 30,619 in the preceding year and 14,339 ten years ago. This student body is made up of three main divisions as follows:

The figure first mentioned above is the net total arrived at after deducting 2,703 duplications within these groups, 2,496 of whom were students who received instruction both in the Summer Session and the Winter or Spring Session following.

12,675 were enrolled in the Summer Session, 19,116 in the Winter Session and 17,461 in the Spring Session. Thus the aggregate session-registrations numbered 49,252.

5,605 not included above received instruction as non-resident students in University Extension as follows: 3,056 in Extramural courses, 827 in Home Study courses and 1,722 in Special courses.

Of the 12,940 students in the undergraduate, graduate and professional schools 5,308 or 40.8 per cent. were residents of Greater New York, and 564 or about 4.3 per cent. were from foreign countries. Every state of the Union was represented

by the remaining group. One hundred or more came from each of 13 states, twenty-five or more from each of 37 states and ten or more from each of 45 states. The largest foreign representation in the group was that from China with 170; Canada came second with 109, Japan third with 49 and France fourth with 21. The ratio of out-of-town students has increased from 50.7 per cent. in 1914-15 to 59.2 in 1923-24.

During the academic year 3,507 at the University received degrees and diplomas in course, 3,322 completing courses leading to a degree as compared with 1,801 ten years ago.

Each of the following departments within the Corporation gave instruction to more than 500 students, exclusive of University Extension, Summer Session and the schools of Medicine and Dental and Oral Surgery:

In the Summer, Winter and Spring Sessions 107,291 was the aggregate attendance in 3,032 courses offered by the Corporation for resident students excepting the Schools of Medicine and Dental and Oral Surgery. The average class roll was over 35. The following shows the number of courses and the aggregate attendance by divisions: