Evening star., 1921-02-20

the university have been invited to
attend. Reservations are being made
by Prof. Elmer Louis Kayser, secce-
tary of the university.
held at 3 O'Clock Tuesday afternos3,.
George Washington's birthday, at
Central High School. The centennial
Grafton will be delivered by Charles A
Richmond. president of Union College.
William Bruce King of the board of
tive address. Degrees will be con-
ferred on the largest midyear class
in the history of the university.
The junior classes will give prom
at Rauscher's at 10 o'clock Thursday
evening. These classes will present a
four-act comedy The Truth" at S:15
Monday evening. February 2S, at
Central High School.
The fourth of the series of eight spe-
cial university lectures by Langdon r.
Mitchell, eminent Washington poet and
Playwright, on Poetry as the Greatest
of All Means of Individual Self-develop-
ment and National Culture and Unity
Will be given at II rs Thursday morn
ing, in Concordia Lutheran Church, goth
and G streets northwest. The lectup .MtI
deal with lyrical poetry
The Importance Of Spanish in ! -
mercial life and in the study and .ip-
by Senior Pasalaqua. president of FL Cir
culo Espanol, a student organization, in
an address at a recently meeting of the
organization. Stereopticon views of Cen
tral and South American countries were
shown
Modelled after New 'Yorks famous
BeauX Arts ball and the Pagan Route
OF Greenwich Village. an elaborate party
was given recently at Lisner Hall of
hes S1y,yy, IN1,,t,
students were garbed in picturesque
smocks and tams. The smocks were
decorated with tee-squares. trangles,
artists pallettes. owls, cats. rabbits, and
other bizarre symbols. Jazzy dancing
lent a Bohemian atmosphere TO the
party.
Members of the freshman class held
a social mixer recently at Lisner
Hall. The freshman class will have a
box at the junior prom at Rauscher s
on Thursday evening. The committee in
charge of arrangements is composed OF
Messrs. Preece. Mcpherson, Mayors and
Thomas Misses Elsie McGarvin, Ruth
Phillips and Maxine Role will have
charge of the decoration of the box.
Safety first methods in experiment.
ing with high explosives were urged
upon members of the Chemical Society
at a recent meeting. by DR.. Charles E.
Munroe, one of the worlds greatest ex-
perts on high explosives, and formerly
head of the chemistry department at
the university. DR.. Munroe pointed out
many cases where lack Of precision in
laboratory experiments had resulted in
grave disasters. Members Of Phi Sig
ma sorority served refreshments.
The Faculty Club at the university
is planning to organize a glee club
and three base ball teams. 1t is hoped
to arrange series of base ball games
between faculty teams representing
law school and the medical school. At
the last meeting of the club talks
were given by NJ. H. C. Davis of the
board Of trustees of the university
and DR.. Frank A. Hornaday of the
medical school. Prof. Henry Grattan
Doyle. president of the club. presided.
The Wandering Greeks. a, society
compo sed of students belonging to
fraternities not represented by chap
quet recently at the Garden Tea
House. The society now has twenty
five members. Short talks were given
by Dean Merton L. Ferson, Prof. Will
son, Prof. Lavery and Prof. Collier.
The society plans to establfsh.a "a chap
ter house and to organize a base, ball
team. Benjamin c. Clark IS secretary
of the organization.
Miss Louise Strother has been elect.
ed vice president and Miss Leota Sears
secretary of the Architectural Club to
succeed Misses Esther Giltrude and
Pauline Johnson, who have left the
university.
The University Art Society was re-
organized at a meeting Wednesday
evening. The organization is PLAN
ming an elaborate program for the
second semester.
Delta Tau Delta fraternity will give
an open tea at the chapter house,
1850 Massachusetts avenue northwest,
from 4 to o'clock Tuesday
GEORGETOWN.
With the work of the final semes-
ter well under way, Rev. John 3.
Creeden, S. J.. president of George
town University. is directing atten-
ton to the medals that remain open
for competition the remainder Of the
scholastic year.
In more ways than one this year
promises to be notable in George
towns history. not only in the growth
OF the student body, but more particu-
larly in the general expansion Of
courses In the various schools.
Stress is being placed on the i'm
portance Of the competitions for med
ais as an incentive to the student
body, and several additional medals
are being offered this year. Rev. W.
Coleman Nevils. S. j., dean of the
department of arts and sciences, has
prepared a list of medals, which in
clude the Mallory medal, open to the
best essay submitted. The Mallory
medal was founded by the late Sena-
tor Stephen Mallory Of Florida, grad.
uate Of the class Of 1869. The subject
chosen for the essay is Legitimate
Influence Of the President Upon Leg
islation."
The other medals, DR.. Nevils an
nounces, are open only for college
students. These are the Quicksall
medal for an oral examination of
the Horace medal, for
the best material translation of three
odes of Horace: the Morris medal. for
the Lynch Pendergast medal, for the
best English essay; the Ryan medal,
FOR philosophy; the OBrien medal, to
the Junior maintaining the highest
average in studies, and the KidWell
medal, in physics.
These do not include such prizes of !
fered the winner of the Merrick and
other debates SO popular at the col |
lege.
Mai William H Hobson, u. s. A.,
detailed by the War Department as
of military science at the
college, is making arrangements for
the participation of Georgetown stu
dent officers in the r. o. T. c. train
ing camp which will open next sum-
mer, probably at Plattsburg, N Y.
Owing to the reduction made nv
Congress in the appropriation for the
training Of student officers, it is be-