The Washington herald., 1921-09-14
NOTED STATESMEN
and SCHOLARS TO
HONOR GREAT POET
Ceremonies Planned Here
As Tribute to Memory
Of Dante.

IN nonor OF the SIX hundreotn an
niversary Of the death OF Dante. a
ceremonial will be held in the audi
torium of the National Museum. on
the night OF October 3. under the
ehairmanship Of Secretary of State
Hughes. according to an announce
ment last night by the committee
in charge.
This Includes Waldo @. Leland. OF
the Department OF Historical Re-
search of the Carnegie Institutions;
Monsignor Aluigi cossio. of the
Apostolic Delegation; Prof. Henry G.
Doyle of George Washington
University. and Constantine z. Nc
Guire. of the International High
Commission
Gasserand TO Speak
Addresses will be made by the
French Ambassador and the Italian
Ambassador. A paper on Dante will
be read by Prof. Charles H. Grand
gent, of Harvard University.
The following committee was ap-
pointed to prepare for the national
observance OF Dante Day:
Honorary chairman, President
Harding: honorary vice chairman.
Senator vittorio r. Ricci. Italian
Ambassador; honorary vice chair
man, Charles E. Hughes. Secretary
Of State; Vice President Calvin Coo-
lidge; ]. j. Jusserand. Ambassador
of the French Republic; Juan Ri
ano Gayangos, Ambassador to
Spain; William. Cardinal O'Connell,
Archbishop. of Boston; Denis Car
dinal Dougherty. Archbishop of
Philadelphia: Frederick H. Gillett,
Speaker of the House; Most Rever-
end Edward J. Hanna. Archbishop of
san Francisco; the Right Reverend
Alfred Harding. d. D., Bishop OF
Washington, and the Right Rever-
end William F. Mcdowell, d. D..
Resident Bishop of the Washington
Aera.
ethers on Committee.
The Very Reverend John B. Cree
den, rector of Georgetown; William
Miller Collier, president of George
Washington University; the Right
Reverend homas j. Shahan. rector
OF Catholic University; Bishop John
W. Hamilton, challenger of Ameri-
can University: Rev. ]. Stanley Dur
kee, president of Howard Univer-
sity; Charles ID. walcott, secretary
OF the Smithsonian Institution; Leo
Rowe, director OF the Pan Ameri-
can Institution: Herbert Putnam. IL
brarian of Congress: John C. Mer-
riam, Sc-D-, president OF the Car
ncEfe Institution of Washington;
James Brown Scott, secretary of the
Carnegie Endowment for Interna-
tional Peace. and willard Austen,
librarian Of Cornell University.
Many Men of Learning.
Prof. George L. Burr. of Cornell
University and the American Society
Of Church History; Prof. Joseph
Dunn, of the Catholic University of
America; Prof. J. d. NJ. Ford, OF
Harvard University; Prof. Charles
HAN Grandgent, Of Harvard Univer-
sity; Prof Sidney Gum. curator OF
the United States Na-al Academy:
The Reverend Patrick ]. Healy. of
the Catholic University; Theodore
W. Koch, librarian Of Northwestern
University; Prof. Henry Il. Lang, of
Yale University; Prof. Courtney
Langdon. OF Brown University: Prof.
Kenneth Mckenzie. of the Univer-
sity of Illinois: Charles Moore, the
~hairrnan of the Fine Arts Commits
sion: Miss Ruth Putnam. American
Historical Association, Washington:
Paul s. Reinsch. American Political
Science Association. Washington;
William r Thayer. Cambridge, Mass
achusetts: Col. Robert NJ. Thompson,
Archaeological Institute of Amer
lea, Washington; DIR. James J.
Walsh. Ph. D.. president of the
American Catholic Historical Asso-
citation. New York City: DR.. Andrew
p West. dean of the Graduate
School in Princeton University: Prof.
Ernest II. wilkins. of the Univer-
sity of Chicago