Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-19
FUTURE OF G. ". i.
Prospects for Coming Scho-
Iastic Year Are Bright.
TO PAY FLOATING DEBT
Many Departments Will De Installed
in I Street Houses.
NEW SECRETARY Is CHOSEN
Richard Cobb, Instructor At Harvard,
Ssleetsd-LAw School to BE
in Masonic Temple.
70 PAY FLOATING DEBT


After difficult work through practically
the entire summer the officers and trus-
tees Of George washington University at
last have succeeded In getting that In
stitution safely through all the financial
endorsements and other dangers which
for a time seemed seriously to threaten It.
Plans for the coming scholastic year now
| are completed and the prospects OF the
institution are said to be remarkably
bright.
About to be freed Of heavy interest
charge and with its floating debt about to
be paid, the university has rented new
quarters and the entire course Of instruc-
| ton, with the possible exception OF the
school Of architecture, Is to be continued
as heretofore.
The present university quarters on 18th
and Fl streets are now being vacated, and
the work OF moving is progressing rapidly.
The present status OF affairs were stated
to a reporter for The Star today by Rear
Admiral Stockton, acting president OF the
university.
"At a meeting OF the executive commit
tee OF the board OF trustees YESTERDAY
afternoon" he said. 1.-THE lease of the
lege Of renewal for three years. was au-
thorized There will be installed In the
buildings the administrative ofhcers OF
the university, president, secretary ana
treasurer: the college of arts and sciences.
with the exception Of chemistry: the col
lege Of engineering, With the exception
of chemistry and the mechanical division; ;
the teachers college and the university
library.
General Room for Women.
There will remain in the buildings
rooms for the women's fraternities and
also a general room for the women Of the
university. The chemistry department
and the chemical laboratory or the entire
| university will be moved from the present
buildings and will be combined with the
Chemical LABORATORY OF the medical school.
General lectures in chemistry will be de-
iivered in the medical school building.
which provides ample facilities for all the
medical and dental classes,
usual, but will be placed under more i'm
mediate charge of the dean Of the medical
school. who also will have supervision
over It's expenses.
floors Of the New Masonic Temple. The
quarters in the Temple are being altered
so as to supply completely all the neces-
stiles or the Law school. 1t will be hand
somely installed, when the quarters are
the rooms Is for three years.
."The college of political sciences will
remain in Its present quarters on 18th
street between II and 1 streets. Prof.
James Brown Scott has volunteered to
give his usual courses I'm international
! law and diplomacy during the coming
year. All the courses will be continued as
previously, with additional outside lee
lures 1t Is expected that We will have a
| very full course In the college OF political
sciences.
There Is at present a movement on
| foot which may be successful. to re-es-
tablish the division OF architecture a. q
department Of the college Of engineering.
| The colleges OF pharmacy and of veteri-
nary medicine will be carried on as usual
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