Evening star., 1920-02-24
NOVELIST ADVISES
STUDY0F SPANISH
IN UNITED STATES
Senor Ibanez Is Chief Guest
at George Washington
Alumni Dinner.

| spanish was STRESSED DE SenoT VI
| cente Blasco Ibanez, the Spanish nov
| elist. in an address delivered last
| night at the dinner of the Alumni AS
sociation of George Washington Uni
versity at Rauscher's. Two hundred
persons attended the dinner.
| Speaking in Spanish, Senior 1banez
| urged that Americans give careful
| study to the Spanish language, and
promised the graduates that when he
comes to speak to them again he him
self will have mastered enough Eng
i lish to make himself understood.
Big Brother in South America.
| Senior Ibanez told of the hold which
| the Germans had on South American
| trade. secured largely through their
! ability to speak Spanish. If some
one has to be the big brother" in
I South America, he said, he would
| rather it be the United States.
| The novelist thanked the officers OF
George Washington University for
the degree of doctor of letters which
| had been conferred upon him in the
| afternoon. and said that he delighted
in it because it was from a republic.
He had been a republican all his life,
he declared. and before receiving the
degree from George Washington Uni
versity had accepted only the Legion
tof Honor Of France.
! Other speakers were President Will
liam Miller Collier OF the university.
Arthur Powell Davis. 'SS, director. of
the reclamation service, and Maj. Gen.
Charles Dudley Rhodes, 'S5. Dean
Howard Lincoln Hodgk ins. president
of the alumni, presided as toastmas-
/ ter.
Higher Faculty Salaries.
President Collier announced that
| the university has made material in
[ crease in the salaries of the pro-
| fessors this year. retroactive to last
! September. and that it may not be
| long before the university makes an
| appeal to alumni for funds.
| DR.. Collier pointed out the problem
j which the university now faces of
| putting 1000 students in the place
of 1000, declaring that the attend
ance has practically doubled in two
years
Mr.. Davis spoke Of the imitation ef
currency today, and declared tinker
| ing with the value Of the dollar "one
| Of the most unjust things you can
there is an ethical basis to right of
property, and instanced the Sauls-
| bury act as violation Of the rights
! of property.
Maj. Gen. Rhodes told Of the work
| performed in the war by college
men and women, and said that had
it not been for the leadership ma
. terial which the colleges furnished.
| in his opinion. the allies would not
have been able for a year to make
the supreme effort that brought vic
tory He told Of his work with the
allied military commission on the
armistice.
Ruth Leah Ayler, Is. and Arthur
Hannum Deibert. '13, gave musical
numbers. Small American and Span
ish flags were placed on each table.
Attended Dinner.
rrbo.a nrocopf included Tr N
fAcker, Mrs. A. A. Alley. Mr.. and Mrs.
w. Spencer Armstrong, Miss Austin,
Miss Ruth Ayler, David A. Baer. DR..
Josephine Baird, Prof. and Mrs. Paul
Bartsch, DR.. and Mrs Douglas Putnam
Birnie. Senor Vicente Blasco Iba nes.
Miss Booth, Dean and Mrs. w. c. Bor-
den, Dr. J. Wesley Bovee, Miss May p.
Bradshaw. Lieut.. Noel Branch. Miss
Marcia Bready, DR.. and Mrs. W. K.
Butler. Capt. c: Calhoun, Dr. and Mrs.
Prof. Mitchell Carroll. Edith NJ.
Clark, Miss Margaret Clark. President
William Miller Collier. Joseph W. Cox,
Miss Emma l.. Crowell, Edward Gull
lom. Maj. Moses H. Darnall, Miss A.
l.. Davis, Arthur 2. Davis, Harry c.
Davis. MIR. and Mrs. Arthur H. Del
bert. Richard c. De Wolf. j.. c. De-
vendorf. Prof. and Mrs H. G. Doyle
Mr. and Mrs. Henry w. Draper. Miss
Eleanor Earnshaw. John Joy Edison.
! H. +. fnlOWSs MES. Ella NJ. fLn1OWS,
Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr.: Mr.
and Mrs. Frank A. Everts. ]. Ralph
Fair. Dean and Mrs. M. l.. Person,
DIR. r. A. Foster, DR.. 8. L Franz, Mr.
and Mrs. Horace NJ. Fulton. DR.. Car
los u. Gibson. Prof. J. H. Gore. Mr.
ID. c. Grubbs. Mrs. George T. Guern-
sey. J. Foster Hagan. John Hanna
Miss Edith Haworth. Dean G. N. Hen.
ming. Miss Hennng. Prof. Luis Her
rera Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Herrick
Mai and Mrs. W. ii. Heron.
AIR. and Mrs. Louis Hertle. DIR. T.. A
Hill. pr. clifford g. Mines, Miss Mar
xaret e. Herrington. Dr. and Mrs
Frank Beane Hester. bean and Mrs
IL l., Hodgkins. J. W. Holcomb. Col
Archibald Hopkins, Col: Thomas $
day. Mrs. Hy.r. Mrs, Julian James.
j =. Jensen. Miss GLADYS Kahn. Elmer
Louis Kayser. Miss Mary u. Kerr
Miss Rachel King. William Bruce
King. Judge Martin A. Knapp. Mr.
Mrs. -. Oiin Leseh. Miss May ~. les
tor. Mira, lester. Mr.. and Mrs. A. Lis
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