Evening star., 1924-01-04
HOLDS C. v. !. VITAL.
PART Of CAPITAL
University President Says
School Bound to Civic and
Business Life.

George Washington University Is
closely bound up with the civic and
business life of Washington. william
Mather Lewis. president of the in
stitution. told group of forty rep
resentative business and civic leaders
at a luncheon given at the Metropolitan
Club yesterday by Elliot H. Good
win, resident vice president Of the
United States Chamber Of Commerce
Two thousand Of our graduates and
more than 5000 former students are
now residents of Washington and are
working for the upbuilding Of the
city. said Mr.. Lewis.
There are in attendance at the
university this year 5000 students"
Mr.. Lewis declared, .'some 1900 of
Wnom are fufl-time college students
from Washington families. Thirty
live hundred other students are doing
part time work and are employed
for the most part in the various de-
partments of government. They are
not special students in the generally
accepted meaning of the word be-
cause they are working for degrees,
and they come to the university with
full entrance requirements
In order to be of the fullest serv-
ice to the city of Washington and to
the nation at large, the university
must be provided with the proper
equipment and buildings and with
the students may receive the maxi
mum of individual attention.
Handicaps Overcome.
"We are now in the process of
building the first unit Of a splendid
university plant which will be an
honor to Washington. The student
activities today are carried on under
work has been done despite a lack of
proper play fields and equipment.
1.-The university is bending every
effort toward making available to
the nation the peculiar advantages
of Washington found in the. various
government departments and In the
independent foundations located here.
Next summer the National Edu-
cational Association will hold it's con-
tvention in Washington and to this
will come many thousands of teachers
from all parts of the United States.
At the conclusion of the convention
the university will begin it's summer
school, Offering special courses for
teachers, which will hold great num-
bers of these visitors here for pc
riod of six weeks.
I'm addition to the regular teachers
courses there will be special lectures
departments, museums and libraries Of
Washington. This will open up to
these teachers, and through them to
hundreds of thousands of pupils
throughout the United States, a
knowledge of the federal govern
ment
Confident of support.
I'm our work, which Is of such
great Importance to Washington. we
are sure that we are to have the sup
port, encouragement and counsel of
the citizenship so well represented
here today"
The purpose of the meeting was to
make a report on the work and needs
of the institution to group of those
prominent in educational, civic and
business affairs In the city. Among
those who. attended were DR.. l.. s.
Rowe, Henry B. Spencer, Guy d.
Goff. Barry Mohun, Col. Archibald
Hopkins. Cot Frederic l.. Huidekoper,
RegiraId S. Huidekoper. w: S. Corby,
Ter. Gen. John. A Johnston. Judge
Edward B. Parker. Col. Herbert Slo-
cum. John B. Larner. c. c. Glover,
jr.: John JOY Edison. Walter X. Tuck
erman, Joshua Evans, jr.; Rev.
Charles Wood. Robert Cans, William
Phillips. Julius !Garfinkle. J. Harry
Covington. F. A. Delano, Eliot Wads-
worth. Christian Heurich, Col. Ste
phen. L. II. slocum., Ira E. Bennett,
Elliot H. Goodwin. Samuel Herrick,
Roy I. Neuhauser. William Knowles
Abram Simon, Arthur HELEN. Harry
G. Davis, Charles w. woodruff, VIII
liam b King, Rev. Douglas p.
Birnie, Charles P. Light, Isaac Cans
and Robert Lansing.