The Washington herald., 1921-02-06
MITCHELL GIVES
EIGHT TALKS ON
HORTICULTURE
G. W. Students Showing
Deep Interest in Views
of Playwright.

Students, faculty members and
friends Of George Washington Uni
versfry are taking marked interest
in the special course of eight lee
lures now being given by DR.. Lang
don E. Mitchell, Washington poet
and nd5pIaywright, on Poetry as the
Greatest of All Means OF Individual
eIf-Development and Of National
Culture and Unity"
TIE second lecture of the series
wilE be given at HIS Thursday
morning in Concordia Lutheran
church, Twentieth and G streets
northwest, which Is used regularly
by the larger classes Of the English
department. The subject will be
The Old Testament"
DIR. Mitchell's third lecture will
deal with the New Testament, the
fourth and fifth with lyric poetry,
and the last three with Shakespeare.
The lectures will be given on Thurs
day mornings at 11:15, with the ex:.
ception Of the final one, which will
be on Tuesday morning. March p.
Dir. Mitchell is the author Of
Becky Sharp" The New York
Idea" which has been filmed and
recently was shown here. and nu-
merous other works. including sew
eral volumes of verse. He is the
son. Of the late DR.. S. Weir Mitchell
noted novelist.
CENTENNIAL PLANS
FOR THIS MONTH.
Arrangements are completed for
ths centennial celebration of the
founding of the university, to be
he'd this month. The festivities
viii be opened with a dinner by the
students Of the arts and sciences
department at the New willard
Hotel on the evening of Saturday,
February l9. At Z o'clock the same
evening students of the law school
will give a dinner at the Franklin
square Hotel.
The mid-Binter conyocation ser
mon will be preached at $3.50 Sun
day afternoon, February 20, at the
Church of the Covenant. Eighteenth
and n streets northwest.
The junior classes have arranged
for a reception in the large ball
room Of the Raleigh Hotel on Mon
day, February 81, from 4 to :
o'clock. Delegates and other CEN
tennial guests, officers and faculty
members, alumni, students and for
mer students have been invited TO
attend
The university's centennial dinner,
in honor OF recipients OF honorary
degrees and delegates from other
educational Institutions and their
wives, will be held at 1880 Monday
February 81. at Rauscher's.
tn. F,F
ercises will be held at , o'clock
Tuesday, February %, George Wash
inEton's birthday, at Central High
School. Charles A. Richmond, presi-
dent of Union College, will deliver
the centennial oration, and a COM
memOrative address will be given
by William Bruce King, of the
hoard Of trustees Of the university
Degrees will be conferred on the
largest mid-year graduation class
in rthe history OF the institution
President william Miller Collier
will preside.
The junior clases will give a prom
at Rauscher's at 10 o'clock Thurs
day evening, February "a. The
juniors will present a play, The
Truth" at Central High School at
S:15 Monday evening, February %.
lambda chapter of Phi Sigma
Kappa entertained its alumni re-
Gently at an annual smoker at the
chapter house.
A. Bruce BielaskI. graduate Of the
university aud president OF Delta
Tau Delta Fraternity, was honor
guest and principal speaker at the
annual initiation banquet of Gamma
Eta chapter Of the fraternity held
recently at the New Ebbitt. Four
teen new members were admitted to
the fraternity. Ross NJ. Nichols
waS toastmaster. The initiates are
George W. Askew, J. Nelson Ander-
son, A. Hamilton Bell, jr- James T
Bergman, Paul H. Baker, Fred NJ
Bradley, Carl c. Grove, Joseph B
COlburne, Edwin H. Evans, Charles
F Foley, Douglas W. Macomber
Robert E. Newby. William Clarke
Prsntiss, jr., and Parrish Wood, jr
George Myers and c. E. Chambliss
jr., furnished a musical program at
an open house" entertainment
given recently by Alpha M Chapter
NJ Kappa Alpha at the chapter
house