Princeton University was formally opened yesterday, when President Hibben delivered the opening address to new students in Alexander Hall. The President and Mrs. Hibben arrived in New York Sunday on the Adriatic, after a summer of travel in England and on the Continent.

Twelve hundred applications for the freshman class have been received, and of these over six hundred have already been admitted, according to Professor Christian Gauss, director of Information. Registration of the class of 1927, however, is not yet complete. Psychological tests, which proved so successful last year, have been continued and enlarged in scope. Forty transfers from other colleges have been admitted.

Van Dyke Back From Europe

Professor Paul Van Dyke, of the history department, has returned from Paris, where he has served for two years as head of the American University Union. The University office has announced the appointment of four new professors: Professor Edward Raymond Bossange, late of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh who will replace the late Professor Howard Crosby Butler as head of the School of Architecture; Professor Frank Eidman, to be associate professor of machine design and industrial practice; Professor F. A. Heacock, to be professor of graphics and engineering drawing; and Professor Richard Montgomery Field, to be assistant professor of geology.

Yale will open tomorrow, when all students in the College and Sheffield Scientific School are required to register before six o'clock. Although there has been a greater number of applications for admission than usual, a record class of 1927 such as that at Harvard is impossible, as the Freshman class at Yale is limited to 850 men.

A new plan is being tried this year to improve the dormitory situation. Freshmen will be barred from Campus dormitories, and will be housed in Berkeley. Oval and private dormitories. Durfee Hall, formerly reserved for Freshmen, will be a Sophomore dormitory. Even with this new arrangement, however, a considerable shortage of rooms for upper classmen is anticipated.