Evening star., 1924-11-09
j. OF N. TO HAVE
ALUMNI REUNION
Second Annual Home Coming
to Be Held Next Saturday,
With Varied Program.
Special Dispatch to Tho Sfar

Special Dispatch to The Stsr.
COLLEGE PARK. Md, November s.
Next Saturday will be a gala day
at the University of Maryland. In
addition to being homecoming day
for the alumni. it also will be Amer
lean Legion Memorial day. in CO.
operation with Snyder Farmer Post
OF Prince Georges County. The COM
plete program is as follows:
1890 a.m.-Foot ball game between
Maryland freshmen and Catholic Uni
versity freshmen
! pm. - Mass meeting of alumni
students and faculty, with promine mt
speakers, in the auditorium.
1:3O pm. = Cross s-country run be-
tween Maryland and William and
Mary teams.
Maryland and North Carolina State
Push ball contest between sopho-
mores and freshmen between halves
$50 p. p.m.-Annual meeting of the NJ
Club in auditorium. $40 p.m.-An-
nual banquet of NJ Club in dining
hall. $50 D.m.-Annual NJ Club dance
for alumni, faculty, students and
other visitors in the gymnasium.
Repeat Homecoming Day.
Alumni home coming day was in
augurated last year with such
marked success that it was decided
to continue the affair The legion
part of the program was added to
help raise funds to finish the memo
rial cross at Bladensburg, and half OF
the proceeds of the foot ball game
viii &c for that purpose. 1t is es-
timated that $1,000 is needed to com
plete the project.
DR.. 7. 3. Thompson. professor in
lN.. .lsAr,
sciences, has resigned, to become
chief of the document division of the
Library of Congress
Officers have been elected of the
newly formed Womens' Athletic AS
sociation as follows: Maxine Heiss
president; Patricia Wolf, vice presi-
dent; Helen Beyerle. secretary. and
Mary Harbaugh. treasurer. There are
already more than 80 co-eds in the or
ganization. They will take part ir
rifle. basket ball, tennis and track
competitions.
Farm show SucceSsfuI.
The fourth annual show given by the
students OF the department of horticul-
ture. which ended Monday night, was a
big success. In one of the greenhouses
the students had worked out relief
map of Maryland showing the vegeta-
bles as grown in the various counties.
"Carmelita,' the gypsy operetta which
was presented with such success dur
ing commencement week last June, will
be repeated in the auditorium at the
university on November 81. Prof Good.
year is adding several new features.
The first of a series of lectures or
citizenship was given at the university
Friday, when Dean Frederick f. Lee
or the college of arts and sciences spoke
on Training for Citizenship" ano
Prof G. J. Schulz had as his subject
The Constitution, the Basis of Amer
lean Political Ideals The lectures
which are open to the public. will con-
tinue each Friday afternoon until the
end of February. Dean Lee and DR.. w
II. Small, dean of the college of educa.
tion, will be the speakers next Friday.
Rare Book in Library.
Charles II. Beach of WASHINGTON
through Prof. T II. Spence. has pre-
sented the library of the department
OF zoology with very old and rare
book. 1t is volume published in
1851, entitled "A Catalogue and De.
scription of the Natural and Artificial
Rarities Belonging to the Royal So
Gresham College" Nehemia Grew
is the author.
Warrant Officer James F. Simmons
of the Army Music School has beer
renamed to direct the Reserve Off
GERS Training Corps Band at the
university. Twenty-eight men so far
have enrolled for the organization
A. :. GoldSborough, secretary OF
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association of Baltimore, has accept
ed an invitation to speak before the
students assembly November 26.
Mrs. NJ. F. Halloran of Hyattsville
is being sought to direct the Mask
and Bauble Club plays during the
present term. She directed the ac-
tivities of the club during the latter
part of the season of 1884 A COM
mittee has been appointed to select
a play, which will be given about the
middle of December
Theodore Willis and Margare,
Haeseker have been elected by the
senior and sophomore classes. re-
spectively, to act in the capacity OF
historians for the "Reveille," the
yearbook.