Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-11
PENN SUMMER SCHOOL
PLANS GOOD CONCERTS
Musical Evenings Will Supple
ment Course Of Lectures.
Attendance Is Greater

The schedule Of entertainments. con
certs and lectures provided for the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania summer school
session presents program of unusual
interest and educational value. Each
Wednesday evening there will be a
musical recital by artists of established
reputation.
The first of those rccitas. held
Wednesday evening. July Q. was great
success. May Porter, piano, appeared
with Florence lIapnlc, violin; Dorothy
Powers. harp, and the Victory male
quartet; Charles w. Stahl. Eugene
Bnldridge, Harold Simonds and John
NandersloOt.
On Sunday, July 49, at 10 80. spc
cial University service will be held at
the First Baptist Church, Seventeenth
and SAMSON streets. DR.. Carter Helm
Jones will preach on Curiosity"
Germantown Pilgrimage
For Saturday. July 10. an excursion
to Willow Grove has been planned. On
Monday. July IA. at S p. m, Professor
Harlan Updcgraff will lecture on "The
Present Status of the Teachers Salary
of Pennsylvania-A Criticism of the
Woodruff Law" Excursions have been
sCheduled'for every Saturday during the
summer school sessions, and on Wpdncs.
day. August Is, at 3 o'clock, Charles
s. Jenkins will conduct II pilgrimage
to historic Germantown"
Other lectures to be given in Houston
Hall arc: Monday, July 81. s p. M,
Some Substitutes for the Saloon in IL
Community Program by Professor
Tyson; Monday. July 2S, s p. M.
"Dante's Divine Comedy by Profes-
sor Vaughan; Monday, August 4. 8
y. IN. lecture by Professor Crennan ::
Monday. August II, p. m. lecture by
Professor Howland Wednesday. Au-
gust IS, s p. m, reading by Mr.. Dol
man.
On Wednesday evening. July l6,
Marie Lalgston List, cOntralto. who
has been a favOritc on summer school
programs for several years, will be
heard in joint recital with Emil F..
Schmidt. c;olin. of the Philadelphia
Orchestra. The pianist will be Will
liam Sylvano Thunder.
On "Wednesday evening. July %,
Emily Stokes Hagar, soprano, and
Henry lIotz. basso, will be heard Both
have appeared as soloists with the
Philadelphia Orchestra and the Op-
cratic Society and ~ numerous ora
torios. The accompanist will be NJ.
Sherwood Johnson.
On Wednesday evening, July 30. the
recital will be under the direction of
Frank NJ. Comfy, baSsO. solOist at st.
Stephens Protestant Episcopal Church
Mr., Comfy will be assisted by Mildred
ZONES. soprano. soloist at the Bethle-
hem Presbyterian Church; Leila NJ.
Steele. contralto. solOist at the First
PRESBYTERIAN Church of Camden
Bernard Poland, tenor, soloist at the
Walnut Street Presbyterian Church,
and William Sylvano Thunder. piano.
On "Wednesday evening, August g,
n reading of "TIiawatha' with a muSi-
cal setting of Indian tunes by Saidee
Knowland Cop. will be given by Will
liam O. Miller, baritone. This reading.
given three years ago. is to be re-
heated by request. NJ. Sherwood John
son will assist at the piano. All re-
citals and lectures are free of charge
and open to Summer School students
and their friends.
Tn to this morning there have been
$50 students registered in the Uni
vrrsity Summer School. an increase
81 far of twenty six students over the
REGISTRATION in the last Summer School
sessions held in 1917. As registra
tion will continue for the rest of the
week, the increase will, after final
registration. undoubtedly be much
larger. Eighty of these students
an exceptionally large numbrr-arc
taking graduate work; and forty have
never before attended classes at the
University of Pennsylvania.