Evening star., 1924-01-27
c. ". ENDOWMENT
OPENS THIS WEEK
Dinner for 500 Campaign
Workers Wednesday to
Launch Big Drive.
s1,000,0o0 TO BE SOUGHT
Law School Banquet to Be Held
Saturday at New
Ebbitt.

George Washington University has
planned two unusually large func..
tIons for the week. The national en-
dowment campaign committee, head
cd by Edward ]. Henning, will hold
a dinner at the Raleigh. Hotel on
Wednesday night. simultaneously
over the country other alumni and
former student groups as well as
friends of the university will hold
similar dinners. On Saturday night
at the New Ebbitt the annual law
school dinner will be held by the
alumni and students of the uni
yersity.
For the campaign dinner more
than 500 covers will be laid. The
law school dinner is expected TO ara"
800 persons.
Elaborate preparations for the
campaign dinner have been going on
for some time under the direction of
Gilber l.. Hall of the law school rae
ulty. The girls glee club. mems glee
club, the university orchestra ana
snecial solo numbers have been pro-
vided by way of incidental entertain
ment.
Edward j. Henning, Dean Howard L..
Hodgkins, Claude owen and Mrs.
Joshua Evans, jr., are among the
speakers listed.
Senator George to Speak.
The law school banquet at the New
Ebbitt will be addressed by senator
Walter +. George of Georgia, former. =.
1y iI,stice of the supreme court OF
the state of Georgia.
The two big dinners will serve TO
usher in the endowment campaign
for 81 OOO. 900. In addition, similar
features have been planned by the
national endowment campaign com
r,ittee among the students ana
alumni Those who attend the cam
paign dinners are expected TO get u
work Immediately to raise the W ASH
ington quota.
At the University Club last night.
Dean William Allen Wilbur OF Co
lumbian College. represented George
washington University. UnlVerslt.
students provided the cluo memoers
with entertainment.
George Washington University Is
offering a series OF tour lectures OF
the law to be given in the law school
building, 1895 X street northwest.
Tickets for the free public lectures
NAV be obtained by writing or ap-
plying to Joseph A. Jordan, secretary
of the law school.
The lecture series starts on Feoru-
ary Il, with Prof Charles ). Collier
talk on Judicial Supremacy at $40
pm. On March 7, l.. Russell Alden
will speak on Commercial Paper;
On Wednesday, March IS. Prof. II. w.
Edgerton will talk on ""rongful Acts
and Their Results" On April I.
Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford will
speak on lima gination of the Law.
Rifle Team Praised.
Considerable qualification was eX-
pressed in university circles last
week at the splendid record made by
the George Washington rife team.
which won the intercollegiate indoor
shoot in New York.
Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Penn,
Massachusetts Institute, ColuW bia'
Lehigh and other leading universities
was composed Of Walter R. Stokes,
James NJ. Barry, Hugh Everett, jr.;
George A. Anadale and Gerald r.
Trimble. H. c. Espey managed the
team and Ralph G. Stokes coached
them. They competed in the list Regi-
ment Armory, New York city, scor-
ing 1868 points TO 1927 for Colum-
bia, which won second prize. The 6.
W. boys brought home a huge silver
cup.
President William Mather Lewis
spoke at the Racquet Club on Tuesday
before the leaders of the cndow mt
campaign drive. He made stirring
appeal to the various team captains.
Last week Preside mt Lewis spoke at
the Kiwanis Club meeting in Ches-
ter, Pa.
President Lewis will be the speaker
at the Western High School next
exercises. He will deliver the gradu-
alton address on Thursday night at
the Mckinley Manual Training School
graduation.
Announcement is made at the uni
versity of the appointment of ClaE-
ence Aspinwall, president of the Sc
curity Storage Company and promi-
nently known as lawyer in this
Cit Anh he board of
trustees of the university.
,hir. Aspli,maIl w. prominently
identified with the successful endoW-
Jnent drive made for the Garfield Hos
pital.
The university will have an unusu-
ally large program for the next three
weeks. The campaign dinner the law
school dinner, the student endow-
mont camnaign drive, the big cam
paign drive, the glee club concert,
juh..r promenade, tne junior play and
the junior week activities incident to
the midwinter convocation will take
up an unusual amount of time and
energy.
Chairman Henry James and his COM
mittee of students will begin work
on the student drive for the endow-
ment this week, beginning January
%. An extra edition of the University
Hatchet will assist in the drive. Stu
dent meetings, addressed by promi-
nent members of the university, will
be held.