Evening star., 1925-03-29
j. OF N. DEbATERS
RENEW ACTIVITIES
Team Books Initial Contest
With 0gIethorpe-MaryIand
Day Observed.
specinl Dispatch to The Star.

special Dlsnatch TO The Star.
COLLEGE PARK, Md, March 2S.-
University of Maryland, which has
not had a representative debating
team for several years, is to get
back into line. Oglethorpe University
has been booked as the initial op-
ponent for the comeback, the Geor-
gians being scheduled to appear at
College Park April 30.
Maryland will be represented by
Joseph Macko and Clark Beach, with
John McInery as alternate They
were chosen recently after a series
of tests. The subject of the debate
will be The Abolition of Capital
Punishment"
Edna b. McNaughton, State super
visor of vocational home economics,
attended the annual regional confer
ence of vocational economics workers
this week at Swampscott, Mass. Miss
McNaughton served on one of the i'm
portant committees. She made an
active study of vocational training
In Massachusetts while on the trip.
Student Activities.
Henry f. Yost of Grantsville, Nd,
has been elected assistant manager
of varsity basket ball for next sea-
son, and John Burns has been
chosen for a similar position with
the tennis team. Both will auto
matically succeed to the manager
ships the following season.
Uniforms were much in evidence
last night in the throng in Ritchie
Gymnasium. the occasion being the
annual ball of the r. o. Z. c. unit at
the university.
Preliminaries to select a repre-
sentative of the university to par
ticipate in the annual oratorical con-
fac Of No ha1I
s. Mrs. Eleanor Robey of the Col
lege of Education won the contest
for the university last year.
r. w. Carpenter, professor of agri
cultural engineering, intends to offer
a special course next year in meth
DDS of teaching farm machinery shop
in the vocational departments of sec
ondary schools.
F.. w. Sheetz of the animal hus-
bandry department of the United
States Department of Agriculture
addressed a recent meeting of the
Live Stock Club at the university.
Weekly seminars are being held
by the students of agricultural edu-
cation in the auditorium at the uni
yersity each Saturday morning. Stu
dents are presenting papers and de-
Tending their views before the pro-
fessorS of the College of Agriculture,
teachers from high schools through
out the State and officials from the
Upited States Depar artment of Agri-
cultureg
Representative NIillard L. Tydings
of the fifth Maryland congressional
district eXtoled the university in his
Maryland day address. made here
Wednesday. After paying a compli-
ment to some of the other institu-
tions of the State, he went on to say
that taking its place in all the
great agricultural, economical and
civic interests of the State stands
this great institution, the University
of Maryland Today, with all its
many departments and large student
body, it is blazing a path of educa-
tion and progress which is bound to
be a great financial, cultural and
economic benefit to our State and
Union"
Pledged to FraternitieS.
Two members of the freshman
class recently have been pledged by
fraternities. Kappa Alpha has
pledged ]. Z. Zulick of Houtzdale,
Pa, while Fred Linkous of Highland,
Md, has been pledged by Delta Sigma
Phi
An intramural shoot is being con-
Quoted by the military department,
which will not be completed before
about the middle of next month.
Jozef Mikulowski-Pomors pro-
fessor of agricultural chemistry of
the leading school on rural economy
of Poland, at Warsaw, was a recent
visitor at the university. He in
spected and observed in the various
departments of the College of Agri-
culture. The purpose of his travel
in this country is to better conditions
in Poland by studying American
methods of agriculture.