Columbia Women

NEW YORK Columbia College, which will open its doors officially to women next fall, is expecting that women will probably make up most of the projected 37 percent increase in the number of applicants, the director of the admissions office said last month.

James McMenamin added that though he had hoped for an increase in male applicants because of the added attraction of a coeducational class, so far the number of male applicants for early admission down. The Columbia Daily Spectator reported recently. James S. McGuire