Evening star., 1921-06-12
IN SCHOOLS, AND COLLEGES

continue six weeks. The course will
carry two-semester hours of credit,
September u. 1921. marks the six
hundredth anniversary Of the death
the Divine Comedy" )" and one of the
greatest poets and most profound
philosophers of all time. The COM
memoration of this event in the
United States Is expected to assume
various forms-pageants. library 7ex-
hibits, school exercises, essay contests
and lectures.
1t is expected that Washington will
do her part in offering due homage to
this worldwide Intellectual figure. A
commemorative lecture by Prof.
Charles Hall Grandgent Of Harvard
has already been arranged for early
October and other plans are under
way.
The celebration wilf enjoy the CO.
operation of the national Dante COM
scholars and pubiicists Of Italy and
America. headed by DR.. John Finley
and numbering among its members
President Butler of Columbia Uni
versity, DR.. Frank Crane, Otto H.
Kahn; Kahn Brander .Sn Matthews: Thomas ds mas
Catholic University. Henry Suzzallo.
William Roscoe Thayer, Henry Vap
Dyke and TalcVtt Williams.
Celebrations In New York, Boston.
Chicago, Buffalo and other cities are
also being arranged; Many uniyersi-
courses. notably the University OF
North Carolina and Rice Institute.
Harvard, Yale, Columbia. Illinois.
Princeton and the University of Chi
cago already have such courses, di-
rected by we'll known Dante schol-
ars.
Another new course at the George
Wy 1t vryf11 hn
entitled "Junior High Schools" It.
will be given at the special request
of DIR. Frank w. Ballou. superinten
ent Of public schools. to prepare
| teachers for new junior high schools
in the District. Examinations for
teachers for these positions Will be
held in the fall.
Among some Of the other courses
to be given this summer are history
| OF commerce, composition. Shake
speare, revolutionary Europe, philoso-
ply. art and drawing. poetry. tex
education. general sociology. solid
geometry. general psychology. educa-
tional measurements. social problems.
literature and science. food and MI
triton, foreign governments. nature
| study. public speaking. international
! cial law, industrial evolution. general
economics, geography. English rhet-
| oric, German, American history,
trigonometry. analytic geometry
! physics. American treaties. French
Spanish; general chemistry; y. ias1ra. biS;.
Latin American history. library
science. college algebra United States
{, government, geology. American litera.
ture. philosophy of freedom. inor-
ganic chemistry and qualitative
analysis.
| Commencement events are still in
| full swing at the university. The last
! event will take pace Saturday. Events
| scheduled for today are the Kappa
! of the Covenant. the Phi Alpha grad
uate smoker and buffet supper. and
the Phi Sigma river trip. On Wed.
nesday the Kappa Sigma fraternity
! will give its annual chapter and
\ alumni banquet at the Raleigh Hotel
Phi Mu will start a house party Wed.
! nesday and continue 1t for week
, Kappa Alpha will hold its final smok.
err next Saturday.
Three events were held yesterday
| Delta Tau Delta held a joint meeting
| with the National Delta Club: Sigma
| Phi Epsilon gave a graduate smoker
and Phi Sigma gave a luncheon Al
Wardman Park Hotel.
The nrst-year class in zoology re.
Gently inspected the division of pa
leontology at the New National Mu'
scum. The trip was under direction
I, Of Prof. Paul Bartsch. assisted by
| Miss Macmillan. One hundred stu
dents were In the party. The classe.
in art and archaeology, under direction
/ Of Prof. Mitchell Carroll. also- visited
the museum recently. inspecting the
| division of arts and archaeology. The
| chronological division of the museum
| was visited by the classes in eth
nology. Prof. Truman Nicholson wal
| in charge.
John L. Baer of the class of 20 al
| the university. now graduate stu
dent at the institution. has been ap-