Evening star., 1924-05-04
u. OF MS R. O. T. c.
FACES INSPECTION
General Staff Officers Will 0fficiate
at Annual Event-College in
Star Glass.
MILITARY REVIEW PLANNED
Chorus and Glee Club Arranging
Program for Festival.
From a Staf Corrcanondenf

From a StaT Correspondent.
COLLEGE PARK. Md, May 3.-The
annual inspection of the r. Q. T. c.
unit at the University of Maryland will
be made tomorrow by Lieut. Col, Walter
c. Short and several other officers of
the general staff at Washington. For
tho past two years Maryland has been
In the gold-star class OF 'diStin-
guiShed colleges" and the members
OF the corps are hopeful of again be-
ing so honored.
The inspection will be, an all-day
affair. In the morning the visiting
officers will pay their respects to
President Woods and then will inspect
students. After this there viii be a
review and inspection on the field and
demonstrations of the supervised
group system. Squad, section and
exhibit their skill in handling their
units in close and open order drills.
The outdoor work will be continued
in the afternoon, each class demon
exhibitions in scouting and patroIlng
and the platoon in attack.
The Engineering Society has held
its last meeting of the 1924 term,
and has chosen officers for 1s24-25.
Kenneth f. Matthews will be the next
president; W. H. Lewis, first vice
president: ]. Wayne Mills. second vice
president; Arthur Prangley. secre-
tary-treasurer; H. r. Aldridge, assist
ant secre tary treasure, and C. P.
McFadden. Sergeant-at arms. DIR.
George F.. Ladd, geologist, gave
talk on THE Engineer and Success
At the final session.
The University Chorus and Glee
Club are preparing to hold a two-day
festival OF music May IA and 10 that
is certain to eclipse anything ever
attempted in this line at the institu-
tion. The program will include two
Maiden" and Rossints "Stabat Mater"
glee club concert, and an artist re-
cital by the famons prima donna So
prano, Margery Maxwell of the Chi
cago Civic Opera. fine vocal quar-
tet of professional artists will assist
the chorus, the personnel being Ray
mond Simons. tenor. of Boston;
Gretchen Hood, soprano, and Charles
Trowbridge Tittmann, basso. both of
Washington and Aimee Olson, con-
tralto. of New York.
limitations were held Wednesday for
the twenty-eight students and faculty
members elected during the year to
the Phi Kappa Phi honorary frater-
nifty. DR.. F.. r. Sparks. former presi-
dent of Penn State College and ma
tional regent general of the Phi Kappa
Phi. gave the address. A banquet, pre-
pared and served by the girls of the
home economics department, was
given in the early evening.
An attractive musical program. ar
ranged by Prof. c. s. Richardson.
head of the department OF public
speaking. was given at the weekly
student assembly. Among the artists
Wooster of the Washington College
of Music; Prof. Arsenic RaIon, also
of the Capital city: Herrninia Ellis,
Betty Swenk and Roy Schmidt.
Dean Lee Of the College of Arts and
Sciences addressed q group of Wall
street bankers and financiers at a
luncheon of the Willard Straight
Tiffin Club in New York Wednesday
His subject was Far Eastern Finan-
cial Conditions" The club is made
ternational finance.
j. NJ Huntington, graduate of Mary
land. has been appointed county agent
for Anne Arundel county. He sue
Park graduate, who has become as
sistant manager of the Maryland To-
bacco Growers Association. Norris
will devote his efforts to the organi-
cation Of the tobacco growers of
southern Maryland.
The university students Bible class
under the leadership of Dean Lee,
Will start it's course for the season
with the lessons of tomorrow and
May II. During the term the class
Genesis to the establishment of the
kingdom of Israel. Six weeks were
sDent in sociological review of the
Book OF Exodus as a STUDY of the
averaged about forty each Sunday,
with fifty and sixty present at times.
Much discomfort and inefficiency
in all classes of industry are due to
the n1isclass'f1cation of the workers"
said A. B. Mcdaniel in a recent talk
10 the freshmen engineering class.
He said that many persons direct
their efforts along lines that are far
from suited to their tastes and abili-
ties instead of finding out what they
Officers for the Y. W. c. A. for
the 19'4-25 term have been elected
as follows: Alice Cushman, presi-
dent; Mary NJ. Brown. vice president;
Eiiey. treasurer, and Frances Wolf.
nndergraduate representative. It is
planned to send delegates to the
spring convention of the national or
Prof. S. S. Steinberg, head OF the de-
partment Of civil engineering. has been
selected by the director of research
Of the United States Civil Service
Commission to act in consulting ca
Dacity in connection with the eyami-
nations In the field of civil engineer-
inr.
DR.. Chan. a Chinese student at
Johns Hopkins University, addressed
a Joint meeting Of the Y W. c. A.
and the Y. M. c. A. Thursday night.
pr. Chan, who has spent ten years in
America preparing for work in the
mission fields of China, is an inter-
esting talker. He plans to return to
his native land shortly.
Fourtefn were initiated at the
meeting OF the Student Grange. They
are Katherine Stevenson, Dale Sim
inondS. Marparet Wolfe. Gertrude
Chestnut. Priscilla Pancoast, C. I.
Rennet, Edgar Walrath, w. ID. Moore.
III. d. Buckman, Stewart Whaley. E,
w. King. James Mills, J. J. Krein and
John Bryan.
Deaths ReporteI