Evening star., 1925-03-25
WEEKS TO SPEAK
T0.SCHOOL HEADS
Ranking Army Officers Also
to Address Military COL
Iege Leaders.

Secretary of War Weeks Maj. Gen.
Mason NJ Patrick, chief of the Army
Air Service, and Maj Gen. Robert
H. Allen, chief of Infantry, will ad-
dress the 18th annual banquet of
the Association of Military Colleges
and Schools of the United States in
the sun parlor of the Washington
Hotel tonight. Other speakers on
the program are Maj. Victoriano Cas-
ajus, military attache of the royal
Spanish embassy here; Commissioner
of Education John J. Tigert and
Judge Harold B. Wells of New Jersey.
The association began a two-day
session at the Washington Hotel to-
day and at its opening meeting heard
the report of the president and secre-
tary treasurer the report of co-opera-
tive advertising committee by Col
Sandy Beaver, chairman. and Will
lard Smith of N w Aver & Son,
Philadelphia. Charles F. Hand of
New York City spoke on Reducing
Insurance on Military School Plants"
which was followed b. q round table
discussion of other business matters
including the purchase of commits
sary supplies from quartermaster
depots.
Afternoon Program.
This afternoons session is being
given over to the report of the COM
mittee on academic standing by the
chairman, Gen. Milton F. Davis, and
discussion of the subject led by Col
c. r. Endsley and Maj. c. NJ. Hitch.
This will be followed by an address
on Problems of Selective Admission
at Princeton" by Prof Radcliffe
Heermance, dean of admissions at
Princeton, and an address by Maj.
Roy w. Wonson, headmaster of the
Staunton Military Academy, Staun-
ton. Va, on THE Use of Intelligence
Tests as an Aid to Academic Work"
Discussion on this subject will be led
by Donald Snedden of the Teachers
College, New York City
Brig. Gen. Hugh A Drum, assist
ant chief of staff. will address the
military session" tomorrow morn
ing at 10 o'clock on THE Develop
ment of the r. o. T. c." and he will
be followed by Maj. E. B. Carey, L.
=. A., retired, president of ST. Johns
College, Annapolis. Md, with a talk
on "A Naval Training Unit" The
third speaker of the session will be
Col. Royal T. Davidson of North
western Military and Naval Academy
on Appointments to Annapolis and
Honor Graduates of Honor Military
Schools"
Morale to BE Discussed.
The closing session, beginning at
o'clock will be opened by Rev
Clayton Z. Wheat, chaplain at West
Point, with an address on Morale
in Cadet Life" Other speakers will
be Col c. c. Chambers of Culver
Military Academy and Mai. w. s
MacAaron, Kemper Military School,
on Organization and Methods for
Handling Discipline" and Maj. San
ford Sellers, jr., Wentworth Military
Academy. on The Organization of
an Honor Society Among Military
Schools.
Adjournment will be taken at 5
o'clock after the election of officers
The executive committee of the as
sociation is composed of Col. Sandy
Beaver. Riverside Military Academy,
Gainesville, Ga, president; Gen. l.. r.
Gignilliat, Culver Military Academy,
Culver, Ind, vice president: Col.
Thomas ID. Landon, Bordentown Mil
itary Institute, Bordentown, n. J.,
secretary-treasurer, and Gen. Milton
F. Davis, New York Military Acad-
emy. Cornwall on tn e. Hudson, n Y.
and Col. Thomas II. Russell, Staunton
Military Academy, Staunton, Va,
m emberS.