Evening star., 1925-04-26
MUSIC FESTIVAL
PLANNEDAT u. OF NJ.
Well Known Singers to Take
Solo Parts in "EIijah."
Glee Club to Broadcast.

COLLEGE PARK, Nd, April 25.-
Singers of national reputation will
have parts in the festival of music to
be given at the University of Mary
! land on May 13 and IA. The uni
versity chorus will present as its
principal contribution Mendelssohn's
oratorio, Elijah" and leading roles
will be taken by Edyth Helena, So
prano, and Aimee Olson, contralto,
both of New York; Paul Bleyden.
! tenor of Washington. and Rollin
Pease, baritone Of Chicago.
Miss Helena, formerly of the Cen
tury and Aborn Opera Companies, and
well known through her contributions
to phonograph records, also will sing
1 the artist recital.
Jesse Blaisdell of Riverdale will
play the piano Accomplishments.
The Glee Club of the university will
broadcast from Station wRC in
! Washington next Tuesday night from
TO $50 o'clock. A program given
! from the same station last year was
so well received that the management
! requested that the singers appear"
1 again. The program, of course, is
| entirely different from that given be-
| fore.
Dean Frederic E. Lee of the COLLEGE
| OF arts and sciences is to discuss the
purposes and possibilities of orienta-
ton courses in the social sciences at
the Philadelphia meeting of the As
| sociation of History and Social Sci
| ence Teachers of the Middle States
| and Maryland next Saturday.
| Papers on orientation coprses in
social sciences will be presented by
| DIR. III. j. Carman of Columbia Uni
! yersity and DR.. George Boas of Johns
| Hopkins. These papers will be dis
| cussed by professors from Princeton,
rutgers, Maryland and Bryn Mawr.
Prof II. f. Cotterman, Prof. r. w.
| carpenter and J. s. Blackwell of the
State Department OF Education are
| TO represent the university and State
at the regional conference of the
Northeastern division of the Asri-
cultural Vocational Association in
Boston on May Is.
Thomas c. Kelley of Washington
editor of the Reveilie the year book.
mas been pledged by the Delta Sigma
Phi fraternity. He is q Junior and
one or the most popular students in
the institution.
Members of the junior class in tbe
advanced course of the Reserve ON
| GERS Training Corps now are taking
lessons in rifle Workmanship under
the direction of Capt. w. B. Yancey.
| associate professor in military sci.
ences and tactics. This is a special
| course to prepare the juniors for rec.
ord firing for medals when they go
to training camp this Summer. The
1
katherine Baker has been elected
president of the Y w G. A. at the
university, with Elise Dorsey as vice
president, Mary Jane McCuddy as sec
retary, Olive Wallace as treasurer and
Mary York as undergraduate repre-
sentative.
| Chemistry is to be introduced to
Maryland students by a course far
easier and more entertaining than by
| the usual rough road via the class
| room. There will be no professors,
I studying or exams, but just an inter
| esting exhibition of some OF the COM
| moner phenomena that enable the ma
| gicians to own choice automobiles and
1 savage medicine men to be well fed
! without laboring. A perfectly sober
| individual may take this course and
yet not be surprised to see snakes
coming from the neck of a bottle and
a clear draught of water changed into
| sweet red wine or bitter, black balm.
The event in question is the KEN
Sho" that is to be put on on May z by
| the students in the department of
chemistry. The exhibition will be
staged in the auditorium at the uni
versity.
| Not only will time be devoted to the
exposure of the tricks of the practi-
| toners of the black art, but there will
be general exhibition of the most
interesting phases of the various de
| partments of chemistry.
| Tom Browne has been elected pres
ident of the Episcopal. Mary York was
named vice chairman, Gertrude Ryan
| recording secretary. Virginia Price
| corresponding secretary and Charles
! Sanborn treasurer.
| Walter Bromley of Pocomoke, Md,
of the senior class has been selected
| for graduate work in the dairy hus
bandry department.