Evening star., 1925-01-11
MARYLAND COLLEGE
GROUP HONORED
Five Students at Agricultural
Institution Pledged to
Alpha Zeta Frat.
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
COLLEGE PARK, Md, January 10.
Five honor students of the College
of Agriculture of the University of
Maryland have been pledged to the
Alpha Zeta, national honorary agri-
cultural fraternity, and they will be
initiated in the near future. They
are: Walter Bromley of Pocomoke
City, Md; Lionel Ensor of Sparks,
Md; Paul Smith and Stewart Whaley
of Washington, D. c., and A. N. Shoe
maker. Bromley and Ensor are prom
inent in athletics and Smith is a can
didate for the varsity track team.
Whaley is president of the junior
class.
DR.. Albert +. Woods, president of
the university, recently elected pres
ident of Association of Land Grant
Colleges, presided over meetings of
that organization which were held in
Washington this week. Many impor-
tant matters, one of them Legislation
that is now pending before Congress,
were discussed.
Takes Up Husbandry Projects.
Prof. j. A. Gamble, head of the
dairy husbandry department of the
university, has been chosen chairman
of = subcommittee to survey the ami
naal breeding projects now under way
50 America and to make a synopsis
of the same. His selection was made
at recent meeting of the committee
on animal breeding of the National
Research Council. Four others will
serve with him.
Four freshmen have been nominat-
ed for the presidency of that class
for the election that will take place
Wednesday. The nominees are Char
I a +,
fellow athletic stars at Tech High of
Washington; Roger Snouffer and Tom
stephens. Pugh acted as chairman
of the yearling aggregation at It's
past meetings.
The military ball, one of the ban
ner events of the social season at the
| university, will be held Friday eve
ming, March 27. The date has just
been selected by the committee in
charge. Joe Burger of Washington,
foot ball, lacrosse and basket ball, is
cadet-major of the r. o. T. C. Bat
talon.
The sophomores vanquished the
freshmen in a recent SNOWFALL bat
tie that lasted long enough to cause
many of the participants to seek
| dry clothing. The battle was fought
at close range, but outside of few
bruises and cold feet and hands there
were no casualties.
Former Coach Morris n Visitor.
William G. Country Morris, for
| mer Maryland athlete, who helped in
| the coaching at the Old Line insti-
| tuition during the 1923-24 term, was
| visitor during the holidays. Morris
now is athletic director at Albany
N. Y, Academy and is making a sue
cess of the job. He turned out the
best foot ball team last Fall that the
school has had in years and started
the basket ball campaign with a VIC
| tory Morris is a Washingtonian and
graduated from Tech High before at
tending Maryland
The University Glee Club ended a
successful tour tonight at Williams
port, Md, that was begun January Q.
The sfngres appeared before good
crowds In eight Maryland and Penn
sylVania towns and cities. The party
OF about 40 was in charge of Dr.
Homer c. House, the director
Four sophomores - Jack Tonkin
Bill Hill, Henry Yost and Alex Muzzy
are toiling hard these days. scrub
blng' for the assistant managershiu
of basket balla next season. John
Baker of Winchester, Va, is the
| present manager, and Mason Hop
wood of Washington is his first as
sistant
Addison e. Hook of Baltimore
manager of track, and Fred Herzoe
OF Washington, his assistant are
busy equipping the largest squad that
ever has turned out for practice AT
Maryland in the Winter. More than
90 varsity and freshman candidates
| have reported so far.