The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-25
President Harding
to Attend
Banquet
a RESIDENT HARDING "

~ RESIDENT HARDING will
be the honor guest at the
dinner to be given by the
trustees Of. the Lincoln Memorial
University on the evening Of Feb
fuary II at the Wardman Park
Hotel. Charles Evans Hughes,
Secretary of State, will be a men,
Der of the notable company assem-
bled, and the arrangements for the
banquet are in the hands Of a COM
mittee which includes such per.
Bonages as Senator Lawrence G.
Phipps, Senator James w. Wads--
worth, jr., John Hays Hammond
former Senator 7. Coleman Dupont
and Charles c. Glover. DIR. John
Wesley Hill, ID. D., Ii. D., chan
cellor of the university, has the
seating arrangements in hand.
Looking back over the days
since Mrs. Harding was taken i'll,
one does not recall that President
Harding has attended a dinner or
banquet in his official capacity
with the single exception of the
Gridiron dinner, that classic
gathering of the newspaper
fraternity. So it is rather a
leather in the cap Of the Lincoln
Memorial University to secure
the Presidents attendance and q
tribute to an institution whose
aim is to offer to the mountain
whites the educational advan-
tages which were denied Abraham
Lincoln, a product Of the noun
tain country.
Twenty years ago, little
school named Lincoln Memorial
University was established in the
heart OF Lincoln's native country at
Cumberland Gap, where Tennessee,
Kentucky, and Virginia join. It
was developed by Gen. o. o. How
ard, in carrying out Lincoln's de-
sire that something be done for
his people, and It has been main.
tanned to this day by devoted and
philanthropic men and women who
realize the institutions unique and
priceless place in the educational
system of our nation.
The dinner is being arranged,
suspect, with view to spread
Ing. the gospel Of education for
those Americans of the mountain
regions, where isolation. and pow
erty erect great barriers to prog
ress: and OF bringing before the
people of this country an oppor-
tunity to contribute to this noble
mission.
THE Washington Opera Com
pany's second performance OF
"Rigoletto," which is scheduled for
tomorrow afternoon, is rousing
keen interest, and people who were
prevented from being present on
Monday evning are swapping up.
seats. There win be q particularly
brilliant company in the boxes since
the boxholders are the Secretary OF
sfhe Treasury, Andrew w. Mellon;
Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett, Mrs.
Charles, Boughton Wood, William
Phelps Emo. Miss Sophie Siebert,
Mrs. Francis Berger Moran, Mrs.
Walter Tuckerman and Mrs. John
Mock. Among those who will en-
terrain groups at the matinee are
Mrs. Herbert C. Hoover. Mrs. Will
liam Eric Fowler and Miss Martha
Cadman
The opera WIN be presented by
the same brilliant cast which
made musical history on Monday
evening OF which, by the
way, the director OF. the. COM
pany, Edouard Albion. has re-
ceived scores of complimentary
letters. One was from the Wash
ington correspondent OF the Musi-
cal Courier, who wrote that she
had heard the opera last year in
Naples, where she spent The
winter. and that it was given here
with much more fire and finish.
She also repeated the comment
Of Mrs. Hawkins. daughter OF
Senator and Mrs. Robert l.. Owen,
who said that she preferred the
Washington Opera Conpany's