The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-24
NOTABLE CITIZENS
WILL PAY HOMAGE
TODANTE'SKAME
President and Cabinet to Head
Distinguished List of Ps<ons
Honoring Post.

with President Harding. Vice.
ASresident Coolidge, members of the
Presidents cabinet, diplomats and
distinguished Americans taking part,
Washington on October will OBJ
serve the six hundredth anniversary
4 Of the death of the great poet and
thinker, Dante Alighieri.
Exercises will be held in the Audi
torium of the National Museum, un-
der the Craftsmanship Of the Secre-
itary of State. Addresses will be de-
,livered by the Ambassadors of France
and Italy. A paper on the signifi-
lcance Of the work of Dante will be
ready by Prof. Charles III. Grand
gent, OF Harvard University.
Leland Heads Committee.
The committee in charge of ar
engagements for the observance con-
sists of Waldo G.. Leland, of the
Department of Historical Research
of the Carnegie Institution. Monsig-
nor Aluigi Cossio, j. u. D., of the
Apostolic Delegation, Washington.
Prof Henry G. Doyle, of George
Washington University and Constan-
tine e. Mcclure. of the Inter-Amer-
tican High Commission.
An honorary committee has been
named as:
Warren G. Harding, President;
Calvin Coolidge, Vice-President;
Charles E. Hughes, Secretary Of
State; J. j.. Jusserand, Ambassador
of France; Juan Riano y Gayangoes,
Ambassador of Spain; William Card
inal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston:
Denis Cardinal Dougher.y, Archbishop
tof Philadelphia; Frederick II. Gillett,
Z Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives; Most Rev. Edward j. Hanna,
Archbishop Of San Francisco: Rt.
Rev. Alfred Harding. Bishop Of
Washington; Rt. Rev. William F. Nc
Dowell, Resident Bishop Of WASH
ington Area; The Very Rev. John
b. Creeden. Rector Of Georgetown
| University; William Miller Collier
President Of George Washington Uni
versity; Rt. Rev. Thomas ]. Shahan,
Rector of the Catholic University;
Rt. Rev. Bishop John w. Hamilton,
Chancellor Of the American Univer-
sity; Rev. ]. Stanley Durkee, Presi-
dent of Howard University; Charles
ID. Walcott, Secretary Of the Smith
isonian Institutions; Leo s. Rowe, d.
rector Of the Pan American Union;
Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Con-
lgress; John c. Merriam, President OF
the Carnegie Institution OF Wash
iington; James Brown Scott, Secretary
of the Carnegie Endowment for In
lternational Peace; willard Austen,
librarian of Cornell University; Prof.
George l.. Burr. of Cornell Univer-
'sity and the American Society OF
Church History; Prof. Joseph Dunn.
of Catholic University; Prof. j. d. N.
Ford, of Harvard University; Prof.
Charles Hall Grandgent, Of Harvard
University and the Modern Language
Association of America; Prof. Sidney
Gum, Curator Of the United States
Naval Academy.
Reverend Patrick J. Healy, of the
J Catholic University Of America; Theo-
dore w. Koch, Librarian of North
western University; Prof. Henry r.
Lang, OF Yale University; Professor
Courtney Langdon, Of Brown Uni-
lversity; Professor Kenneth Mckenzie,
, of the University of Illinois; Charles
Moore, Pho, the Chairman Of the
! Fine Arts Commission; Miss Ruth
Putnam, American Historical Asso-
citation. Washington, d. c.; Paul 8.
Reinsch, American Political Science
Association, Washington, d. c.; VIII
liam r. Thayer, Cambridge, Massachu-
sets; Colonel Robert M. Thompson.
Archaeological Institute of America,
Washington, D. c.; DR.. James j..
Walsh, President Of the American
Catholic Historical Association, New
York City; Dr. Andrew +. West,
Dean of the Graduate School in
Princeton University and Professor
Ernest II. wilkins, of the University
of Chicago.