Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-25
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

read. highly commencing the meeting, the
writer's joining in spirit with those pres
ent.
All were a unit in maintaining that the
college must be strengthened and made
the central unit Of the university.
The following officers were elected in
the permanent organization: President.
Prof G. w. Cook; vice president, Mr..
Charles s. Syphax; treasurer, Mr.. U. E.
Wetheriess; secretary. Walter L. Smith.
Among those present were f. W. Fairfield.
w. v. Trumelf. j. B. Allen. Kelly Miller
J. III. Dodd. Edward Wfiliston, c. c. Lath-
ers. G. w. Cook, w. H. Thomas, F. J.
Shadd, ]. F.. E. johnson. l.. o. Posey, w.
Z. Wetherless, S. N. Young. G. Bagley, D.
O. w. Holmes. Grant Lucas, Chas. s. Sy-
]. II. Meriwether, c. A. Manus and Wal
ter l.. Smith.
At the recent convention of the stu
dents volunteer movement for foreign
missions, held in Nashville, Tenn, Feb
ruary IS to March 4. separate space was
for colored delegates Students of How
ard University Of this city; Fisk Univer-
sity, Nashville. Morris Brown College,
Atlanta. Ca. and other prominent colored
COLLEGES have Withdrawn from the assoc
citation Much feeling Is said to have
been engendered, and at a recent meeting
In the chapel of Wilberforee University
resolutions were passed condemnlng the
action of the citizens Of Nashville for
having provided separate space The offi-
been notified, it is said, that the eoiored
colleges will withdraw entirely from the
movement and Withhold all students from
aiding in the work in the United States
The Wednesday lectures at the NJ Street
High School each week mark an hour OF
entertainment and instruction for pupils ana
teachers. Wednesday, March A. Mr.. G. &.
Wilkinson, a teacher of history In the
school read an interesting and instructive
paper on THE Bulwark of the Nation.
when Lieut. Thomas r. Clark of the Dis
trfct Guard read a most interesting paper
on 1.-THE Negro Soldier and the boys sang
the chorus, Two Grenadiers"
The University of Cincinnati and the
George Washington University, which are
to meet each other in debate this spring.
have agreed upon April 7 as the date or the
event. Arrangements for the contest are
practically completed.
The judges will be Mr.. Charles j. Bona
parte, Secretary Of the Navy; Prof. jacob
Hollander of the Johns Hopkins University.
and Representative Charles Littlef1eld.
Prof. c. w. A. Veditz Is carefully coach
ing George Washington team. which con-
sists of Mr.. c. w. Whitmore, Columbian
College. '06: Mr.. L.. Cohen, Law, 'O6. and
Mr.. H. Couden, Law, 'O8. The question will
be: Resolved, that the effect of great COM
binations of capital commonly known as
trusts Is detrimental to the interests of the
wage-earning classes. Each speaker will
be allowed fifteen minutes. and one man on
each side will be permitted to speak eight
minutes in rebuttal.
DR.. Charles e. Munroe, dean of the faculty
of graduate studies and head professor of
chemistry at the George Washington Uni
versity, and DR.. Frank w. Clarke, professor
OF mineral chemistry, have arranged a
course of six free lectures on Chemical
Geology" to be given next month in the
chemical lecture hall of Columbian Col
lege. These lectures will be delivered by
Pref. Clarke, on Mondays at $50 o'clock in
the afternoon The dates and subjects will
be as follows: April 2. Introductory. The
Elements and the Atmosphere; April D.
The Hydrosphere;" April Is, '"Fhe Magma
and the Igneous Rocks April %, 'The
Sedimentary Rocks" April 30. Ore De-
positS:" May Z, Goal, Petroleum and Nat
ural Gas"
These lectures are given chiefly In behalf
of graduate students, but will prove or
great interest also to the general public.
The George Washington University Ca
noe Club has adopted plans for the erection
OF a camp house near Little Falls, and the
structure will be started as soon as the good
weather sets in, as to be completed In
time for the coming season. 1t is to be sit
uated on ample grounds. fronting seventy
five yards opposite the Rock Springs Club,
and Will consist of two stories and three
rooms, one large room on the first floor
and two apartments above, 18th accommo-
dations for ladies. The cost of the structure
will be about 500, which sum the MEM
bers hope to raise by a series ofdances-
Mr. W. Hamilton Smith is commodore OF
the club.
A vigorous and growing movement to or
ganfze many state clubs as possible mas
been launched at the George Washington
University in order to give students from
various states every opportunity to meet
one another The North Carolina and Ken
lucky men have already organized, ana
calls for meetings have been issued by stu
dents from many other states. All such
organizations will be recognized by the
Mall, along with classes, fraternities ana
other societies.
The recently-formed William Lloyd Gar
rison Association for the support of the
Manassas Industrial School for Colored
Youths has arranged to hold its first public
meeting Sunday. April 1. at $3.50 pm. at
the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church.
of which Rev. Francis j. Grimke is pastor.
Miss Jennie Dean, the founder of the
school. will speak for the first time in
Washington this winter, having spent her
time since October last In holding meetings
In Boston and New York for the school,
Miss Dean at this meeting will tell the
story of her Sunday school work In the
mountains of Virginia, how she started lit
tie churches with only handful of people
that have fourishing congregations,
and the observations then made that led
her to the industrial school idea and her
later formed plans. Mr. Oswald Garrison
Willard, the president of the board of di-
rectors of the Manassas school; Represen-
Emma e. Forter of Kansas will also speak,
and plantation "spirituals' will be rem
dered by local talent under the direction of
Mrs. Gabriel Lewis Pelham.
1t Will be remembered that Miss Dean
occupied a seat on the platform at the re-
cent Booker Washington meeting for the
Manassas school held at the Congregational
Church. when Mr.. Washington. Mr.. Willard
and Rev. Edward Everett Hale commend
ed her work TO the public.
The officers of the William Lloyd CARR
son Association are: George Fl. White,
president; Mrs. James H. Meriwether first
vice president; Maj. Charles R. Douglass,
second vice president: Justice Robert II.
| Terrell, treasurer; DIR. Wilson Bruce Evans
secretary, with Rev. Francis j. Grinke,
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Mrs. Gabriel
Lewis Pelham, Mr.. James r. NeiII and the
secretary. DR.. Evans, forming an execu-
tive committee.
The Chi Deuteron Charge of Theta Delta
Chi has arranged to celebrate the tenth an
niversary of its establishment at George
Washington University Monday evening
March 20. The event will take the form of
a banquet at the Shoreham Hotel Many
prominent members of the fraternity will
be present.
The president nPt the Cbt r,a.,4..o-