Evening star., 1924-03-30
MARYLAND STUDENTS
TO VOTE WEDNESDAY
Will Elect Delegates to Southtrn
Federation Meeting in
North Carolina.
DEBATE IS POSTPONED
Poe and New Mercer to Contest
for Cup.
from Staff Correspondent.

COLLEGE PARK, Md, March 20
Nominations have been made at the
University of Maryland for the delegates
to attend the sessions of the Southern
Federation of College Students at the
University of North Carolina April
IL, II and 13. The senior and junior
classes OF various colleges in the
south will be represented.
Charles Il. Ge!st and Aubrey Ward
well are the senior nominees and
Walter Bromley and Ed Juska are the
junior nominees at Maryland. The
elections are to take place at the
student assembly next Wednesday.
The annual debate between the Poe
and New Mercer Literary societies,
scheduled last Thursday night, was
postponed on account of the illness
of one of the debaters. The debate
this year will decide possession of
the Patterson cup, on which each So
ciety has two legs. The subject OF
the debate, which will bo held within
the next couple weeks, is Resolved,
should grant soldier bonus to its
ex-service men of the late war"
The Poes. who have the affirma-
tive, VIII be represented by Joseph
Macko and Robert Straka. Carville
Bowen and John Bragg will argue
for the New MERGERS.
Invited to Speak.
Dean A. y. Johnson of the engi-
neering college has been invited by
the Lehieh Alumni Association OF
Washington to speak at its annvsI
banquet April Il.
The University Glee Club has two
engagements in Washington this
month. The singers will appear at
n inn ,tr,rr
OF April s, and or April 30 will en-
tertain at a banquet to be held by the
superintendents of public buildings.
The military bail was held Friday
night. 1t was one of the most pleas
ing social functions of the year.
Among the invited guests were Mai.
Gen. Charles NJ. Muir, commander of
the Sd Army Corps, and his staff.
Cadet Maj. Jack McQuade was chair
man of the committee in charge.
Those serving with him were Il. II.
Roche, G. p. Gardner and j. G.. Burger.
Maxine HeisS and Minnie Hill have
been elected captains of the Day
Dodger and Hill Girls basket ball,
teams, respectively.
DR.. +. {. Auchter, head of the hor-
ticulture department, addressed the
fruit growers of West Virginia on
Wednesday on What Determines the
Type of Soil Management, Pruning
and Fertilization that Apple Orchards
Should Have"
Seven members of the university
staff have articles in the twentieth
annual report of the American So
ciety for Horticultural Science, which
tributing articles, all based on re-
search work, were DR.. L. G. Auchter,
f. w. Geise, W. +. Whit tehouse A. /.
Schrader. V. r. Boswell and A L.
Nierheller
Entertained Pocomoke Girls.
The Home Economics Club recently
entertained the senior girls from Po-
comoke High School at a tea Miss
Dicky, the girls instructor, expressed
her appreciation of the hospitality,
and said she hoped many of her
charges would decide to come to
Maryland for their college work.
A delegation from the department
of Horticulture attended the recent an
who went were Prof. A. S. Thurston,
w. II. Weber, V. f. Martin. II. o.
Yates, Ernest Walker and Mac" Nc
Cabe.
ranged for the meeting of the Stu
dent Grange Monday night. J. c.
Seibert will talk on What European
Farmers Are Doing" Robert Miller
will speak on Pets on the Farm"
Ethel Dorsey will tell of the origin
of April fools day, and there will be
special music.
Prof. F. W. Geise recently made
trip to Wicomico county, where he
arranged for carrying on some sweet
potato fertilizer experiments
Y. II. Boswell of the department of
horticulture is the author of a bulle-
tin, Changes in Quality and Chemi-
cal Compositions of Parsnips Under
Various Storage Conditions" which
has just been published by the uni
versity experiment station.
The varsity base ball team plays
Vermont here Monday, and the la
crosse twelve goes to Philadelphia
next SATURDAY. to play Penn