con-oung. “ifr.it.%ntlothatoverrriedCHANGESRVARDIMlaudegoodidei;IneedAndlamaMany Improvements GreetLargestbnagEntering ClassYears.■Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, Already inHehitin1stAanBtlt;SOICambridge to Arrange Rooms inClaverlyWill Have to LearnRopes Like Other Freshmen.do:lie*.iteit’*do!1)outhotw!The freshman class at Harvard will register tomorrow, and Thursday the university wlH open for its 270th year. As the fall examinations of the incoming lreshman have not all been corrected it is not known how large the Class will be, but indications are that it will be one of the largest In recent years.Among the freshmen who came to Cambridge yesterday was Theodore Roosevelt Jr. who will have his rooms at 13 Claverly. Mrs Roosevelt was with him. They came to look over the rooms and will probably begin to arrange them today. Young Roosevelt was at Groton until last year, when Matthew Hale, Harvard ’03, finished preparing him for college. He was about Harvard sq yesterday morning, but did not attract any attention.Nothing will be made of him by the students. He will have to go through the hard knocks of “learning the ropes'* in Cambridge along with (500 or more men from all parts of the country.versifies asfrom which turns. Profthis year asHyde Prof C. If.lecturer, the position Barrett Wendell re-Moore will be abroad an instrut tor at the American school of the classics at Rome.Among those who return after a year*® leave arc Prof Paul Hanus, head of thedepartment of education; Prof BarrettWendell, who has been absent two y ea t m, ihof C. A. Adams and ProfHoratio S. White, professor of German and chairman of the athletic committee.Among the instructors who will cometo Harvard this fall is Prof Goebel, lormerly at Reland Stanford university, l rof Goebel comes as a special lecturerin German philology, Prof Frederic J.stlmson of Boston will resume Ills lectures this year, as he has fully regained his health.As usual, there arc also a number ofresignations and promotions which takehu\clabaiby8 lu halt;neha«heiNoft!;effect at the beginning of the college year. The resigns Ion of Prof Paine,liiea2 J?/ department of music and Prof Clemei*-L. Smith take effect.Among the promotions to professorships and assistant professorships are thefollowing: George Pierce Baker, full professorship of English; Wallace ClementSabine, full professorship in physics; i*--Robert De Coursey Ward, assistant pro- log lessorahip in geology; Liortei Simoon I a,ie Marks, assistant professorship in mechanical engineering; Edwin Bisselltifl daigoiaidanlt;umlea heibyitsheimobe€ftheciuii lioitentotoamiwitOshei ens1 awi! TheingM Sad fan* can putI!Holt, assistant professorship in psycho! ogy; Gregory Paul Baxter and Henry«»morSIshehondimherbefckeyho ITshedaytedoektoatei 10Augustus Torrey. assistant professorships of chemistry; Charles Henry j u hite, assistant professorship of min-, ing und metallurgy; William Luther Mowll. assistant professorship of arehi lecture, and Arthur Orlo Norton, assist ant professorship of education. .Rufus William Sprague Jr has been son appointed lecturer on New York prac- ■ idea tlce at the law school, and Jeremiah AfSmith Jr lecturer on Massachusetts berpractice. Ezra Ripley Thayer will lecture on the relation of the medical profession to the law and the courts.Asst Prof O, M. W. Sprague of thedepartment of economics has resigned from Harvard to accept a professorship at the university of Toklo Japan. His courses will be given by Asst Prof A. P.: Andrew ar.d Asst Prof Gay.= Prof W. W. Fenn will act as dean of the divinity school while Dean Fea-| body is abroad. Prof Peabody has been I relieved of the duties of college preacher.Iand these have been transferred to ProfEdward Moore. Rev Henry Van Dyketannn,THEODORE ROOSEVELT JR,Who will be a Member of the Cluss ofat Harvard,of Princeton xml Rev Edward Cladwell MCore have been appointed to the board of preachers. The other four men will be selected at a meeting of the board of overseers tomorrow.i1009SCORE OF MEN INJURED.There are a number of changes about the university this fall. Emerson hall,. the new building of the department of philosophy, will be ready for the use ofGiltOfifeingbeWo)USvilllilt;heIn:ed*e:lidargketanaseirHt,,veckhe58 huyir-be3i-lditsagheheis.n Irlce V »smofss3.SJ.Stidthe department soon. A large addition to Memorial hail will make the big students* dining hall capable of better service than ever before, and adding 1000 square feet of floor space, making room for 200 more men. This will make the capacity of the dining room 1400.The walls in the dining room have been scraped and the portraits of Harvard’s famous sons have been cleaned and many of the pictures yetouched. TheEortrait of Senator Hoar was the last to e added to the collection.The entire basement has been remodeled and put in better sanitary condition. The floors and walls have been tiled. The entire cooking arrangements have been changed, making the kitchen the biggest in the country. Part of the apparatus consists of kettles with a capacity of 770 gallons, three roasting ovens, 9 by 12 feet each, and two ovens for baking, 12 by 15 feet each.The refrigerator system has been improved all through, with separate refrigerators for vegetables, meats, butter, eggs, etc. There is a large laundry in the basement and a new lighting system. The hall will employ 125 waiters this year, and 126 other servants to dothe kitchen, laundry and cleaning work.Thayer hall, the dormitory in which there was a lire last spring, has been repaired, and will be ready for occupancy with the opening of college. A system of hot wter heating has been installed in Walter Hastings halK and a number of lesser improvements have been mAde in a number of the college buildings.A plan of the yard has been placed in front of University hall as a guide for visitors. Another piece of the fencewhich is gradually encircling the yard w'as completed this summer, the stretch between the Phillips Brooks house and the west end or Robinson hall, built by the classes of 1887 andBricklayers and Carpenters Go Down with Collapse of Partly Finished Building in Buffalo.BUFFALO. Sept 25-With a crash that could he heard for blocks, a three-story brick building- under construction on West Ferry st collapsed this afternoon, carrying down with it 30 bricklayers and carpenters.A score of the men eight of them seriously.The building was owned by J. J. Crowley. The bricklayers were working on the third story when the west wall went down, carrying with it a portion of the front of the building and a section of the rear wall.That there was not serious loss of life .was due to the fact there was no roof on the building and that the mass of bricks fell outward.iwore injured,iNATURAL HISTORY CONGRESS.IIA gate with a drinking fountain , DaVis John Ritchia►laced just opposite the path leal- j iVafi£m*rtnnrom Memorial hall. This com- H»merton, secretary.First One of New England Societiesto Open Here Oct 12.What the committee hopes to make the first of a series of annual meetings of a congress of the natural history societies of New England, with an exhibition of collections of all sorts of objects of natural history, apparatus for collecting and preserving, illustrations and records of observations, will be held in the rooms of the Natural history society on Boylston st Oct 12, 13 and 14.There will be an exhibition each daya m to 5 p m, and Saturday, at 10 a m, a session for the of papers. The committee in includes William M. Davis, George H. Barton, George G, Kennedy,Jr andshe told finairiag“IMrsmarwheI Hi triec Co saidmgherrevooccacatewasdoctHepiaclt;any$10 ttureaboiafteiHeanytson, coul her lt;Mr way, She befo; of tl to U left :sorrnThton,whei went worl lived she i Mrby ] liked her “H said ward anyt Stevlt; Scotl mot! anytifrom 9 Oct 14, reading chargefrietes the fence about the old yard with he exception of three short open spaces. There are as usual a number of professors on leave of absence this fall,Prof Henry P. Bowditch of the medicalmschool will go abroad for a year’s leave,. Marcoe will be absent, andleelisV.r,iiii-:hro,13r-Itit*11Prof P. BProf Francis G. Peabody will spend the first half year as the first Harvard professor interchanged with a German rofessor at the university of Berlin, rof William Ostwald will come to Harvard from Berlin as a chemistry lecturer.Prof von Jagerman. who was forced to go abroad on account of iU-health last year, has not sufficiently recovered to return now; Prof Strobe! and Prof Westengard of the law faculty, who have been advisers to the king of Siam for two years, have been granted another year’s leave to coptine their cervices there Prof Thxter, i *of P.. T, Jackson and Prof C. Coolidge will also be abroad, the last-named devoting his time to the study of the eastern question. Prof Santayana will . deliver a series of lectures at the Sor-| boons in Paris tod the prgvtncijU uni-SALEM.In the district court yesterday, JohnCross, George Rogers, Theodore Roberts, William Taluraas, Michael Moses, Andrew Alscey and Theodore Stuko-lakes for gambling on the Lord’s day, were each lined $5. Ernest F. Wiggin, for illegal speeding of an automobile InDanvers, was fined $10. James Donald, Joseph P. Chinn and Francis H. Mc-1IGuigan for disturbing the peace in Dan-nffDnA fln.nl tKwm *§£» »- •fAfljjj - A MM**Iton, Beverly, for violation of the liquor law. was fined 5100.Witch city a*rie of Eagles will observe its second anniversary Sunday with a banquet and speeches in Niagara hall.Oapt Harry F. Dalton, ICtlx U S infantry. accompanied hy Mrs Dalton, left yesterday afternoon for San Francisco, where they will embark for Manila.James A. Korman, the well-known singer, wilt sail from Boston for Europe tomorrow. He will remain abroad until April to study musk.r