Evening star., 1924-11-02
BROADER LECTURE
/. COURSE IS OFFERED
Foreign Speakers to Be Pre-.
sented Here by G. w. U.
This Winter.

George Washington University will
offer Winter lecture course to the
public which is expected to be unusu-
ally popular. During the past week
President William Mather Lewis Wis.,
tied New York and arranged for sew
eral internationally known lecturers
to come to this city during the Win
ter months to deliver talks.
Several English, French and italian
lecturers of note will visit this coun-
try this Winter. 1t is expected that
their tours will start of at the local
| university.
Last season George Washington Of
! fered a series of popular lectures on
art, literature and the drama Dur
| ing the Summer and while the Ma
tional Education Association was
here. the university presented many
notable Government officials in
phases of their work.
Scope Is Broadened.
The broadening out of the lecture
series to an international scope will,
! no doubt, be of unusual interest in
| academic, as well as educational cir
| cles. Now that the university is
| equipped to take care of large gath
erings in its new auditorium and new
| gymnasium, it is expected to build up
| an even larger following for, the lee
| lures.
| DR.. Lewis, upon his return tomor-
row, will Immediately lay plans for
| the lecture series. While in New
| York the George Washington Club,
| composed of alumni of the university,
| was visited. with the view of keeping
| the endowment and building cam
paign alive. The university recently
opened its new 100000 building, Cor
coran Hall.
Tod Al ~
graduation exercises at the Fall con-
vocation last Tuesday night. John
| B. Larner. president of the board of
| trustees, turned the keys of the new
| building over to DR.. Lewis. Seventy
| nine graduates received diplomas.
| President Lewis was the principal
| speaker.
Start New Law Building.
Coincdent with the dedication of
the new building was the raZng Of
| the old university office buildings on
! Twentieth street between G and II
| streets, for the purpose of erecting
the new law school. This structure, d
| s250,000 project. is expected to be
| ready in the early Spring.
George Washington and Catholic
| University alumni representatives are
! to get together shortly to go over all
| details incident to the Thanksgiving
day foot ball game to be played in
| the big Catholic University Stadium.
| Vincent l. Toomey of the Brookland
institution has written the downtown
| authorities asking for meeting.
Ernest l.. Wilkinson has been elect
ed president of the junior class of the
law school Thomas Mount was
elected vice president, Francis w.
Brown treasurer, and Thomas F.
| Stewart Sergeant-at-armS.
Historical Society Elects.
Dominic L. PUGET was elected presi-
dent of the Charles c. Swisher His
torical Society. Margaret A. Klein
was elected vice president, Ora Marchi-
no secretary, and Clarence @. Graham
sergeant t-arms.
DR.. Charles e. Munroe. noted au-
thority on explosives, dean emeritus
| of the school of graduate studies ad-
dressed the Chemical Society at its
recent meeting. DR.. Munroe gave an
interesting talk on his past activities
| and experiences.
! Ten members of the Women's G. w.
| Club were presented with gold
basket balls by Martha McGrew, 1922
% coach and retiring president of the
club, at a meeting held last Friday
evening in Corcoran Hall. \ consti-
tuition was presented to the club for
adoption, and Daisy Robsion and
Mary Bixler were elected president
and secretary-treasurer, respectively.
lmogene Stockette, who coach ed
the team last year, gave an inspir-
ing talk.
Those Receiving GIFTS.
| The members receiving basket balls
are Beatrice Woodford, Mary Bixler,
Alice Haines. Alice Ewers. Winifred
Esa Daic Poh
Katherine Shoemaker, Marguerite
DAILY and Miss Stockette.
| An invitation to accompany the
Washington Society of Engineers, To-
cal chapter of the Society of Me-
chanical Engineers, to Annapolis next
Saturday to witness engineering ex-
periments has been extended to the
student branch recently established
in George Washington. Members of
the two societies will also attend the
Mayhem State game at the Naval
Academy Saturday afternoon.
| Because of the small number of
students present at the meeting
called last Tuesday, election of Off
GERS for the student branch of the
American Society of Mechanical Engi-
neers was postponed.
Sorority Has Open House.
Phi Sigma Sorority held open house
last Tuesday at the chapter rooms
2022 G street northwest
At meeting of practically the en-
tire senior class of the engineer col
lege last Monday night, L. Meade
Hammond was elected president OF
the class for the coming year. HAM
mond was also president of the junior
class last year. Catherine Hough, in
the department of architecture of the
| department of the engineering col
lege, was elected vice president
Ernest H. Klein, manager of the
engineers base ball team last year,
was elected ecretary, while ]. Home r
Winkler, retiring president of the
Engineering Society, was elected
treasurer. J. o. Houghton was Sc
lected to fill the office of sergeant-at-
arms.