Evening star., 1923-01-21
COLLEGES
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIV.

All social and student activities will
be at standstill this week as George
heads of departments. professors and
assistants. bend their efforts toward
the mid-year examinations. Regular
classes in all departments of the uni
versity will be suspended during ex-
animation week, which begins to-
animation schedules have been posted
for the past week in all departments.
1t is estimated that more than four
thousand FIVE hundred students will
take examinations in more than three
hundred subjects.
1t is expected that more than five
hundred new registrations will be
made within the next ten days for
the coming semester. The largest en-
rollment in the history of the uni
versity is looked for by the registrar.
The president OF the university, DR..
Howard Lincoln Hodgkins. and Mrs.
Hodgkins were rendered an unusual
reception by the Columbian Women
at 1919 1 street Friday night. The
cance. 1t marked the fortieth ami
versary of the start of DIR. Hodgkins'
service to the university. It also was
q combination birthday party and the
annual reception given in honor of
the university head. DR.. Hodgkins
1889 During the past forty years he
has served as instructor, assistant
professor. professor and dean of the
engineering college and is the first
alumnus of the institution to become
its president. He always has taken
a deep interest in alumni matters.
His administration has been marked
by advance not only in enrolment.
but. better still. in standards, and his
progressive policies have been illus
taI ~ tel,
departments and the installation of
a dean of women.
Those in the receiving line with DR..
and Mrs. Hodgkins were Mrs. John T
Erwin. president of the club, and the
other officers; Mrs. Myron NJ Parker
dents; Mrs William c: Ruediger, re-
cording secretary; Miss Julia l. W
McCord, treasurer; Miss Ruby Nevins,
corresponding secretary. and Miss
Henryette Brumm, historian. Mrs.
William II. Heron, Mrs. Henry Grat-
tan Doyle and Mrs. John r. Lapham
assisted.
Immediately following examination
week the university will be offered
one of the biggest and best social
cert and dance. According to Graham
Fly. president Of the. club, the enter
tainment will be held at the City
Club Saturday evening, February 5.
Tne glee CLUB has beens practicinE
every Thursday evening since the
beginning of the scholastic year for
this concert Many Of the old favorites
as well as some new, snappy songs
written for the occasion, will be
rendered by the forty or more mem
bers' of the club. The program Will
begin at s o'clock and last to about
9 o'clock. followed by dancing.
Prof Brown, assisted by Prof.
Cheney, DR.. Brombacker. Mr.. White
and others, gave an instructive exhi-
bition of some of the more spectacu-
lar phenomena in the field of physics
to the Faculty Club Of George Wash
ington University at its last meeting,
January 13.
Another sport has been added to
the activities of George Washington
University in the recently organized
girls rifle team. Those on the team
are Katherine Edmonston, captain;
Elizabeth Faris, Sophia Waldman,
Edna Fitzpatrick and Isabelle Bunton
The alternateS are Eleanor Barroll
and Media Umbeck. Matches have
been arranged with the Central High
School girls rifle team and the Uni
versity of Maryland team. Other
matches are pending. s-