Evening star., 1925-02-22
HOWARD j. PLANS
ANNUAL BANQUET
Administration Charter Day
Affair to Be Held, With
Seniors as Guests.

A committee of the alumni and
faculty of Howard University has
made elaborate plans for the second
annual alumni-senior charter day
dinner to be held March in the new
dining hall on the Howard Univer-
sity campus. The occasion this year
promises to eclipse the initial alumni
senior charter day dinner which was
held last year on this same date. The
chairman of the committee, Mrs. Alma
J. Scott, member of the class of 1901,
has announced that arrangements
have been made for not less than 500
plates and that the Collegiate Trou-
badours. a student orchestra, has of
fered to donate their services.
The alumni senior charter day
dinner is an innovation which was
started last year special feature
of the dinner Is the provision that
each member of the faculty and
each alumnus is considered a host
invited in separate table groups by
members of the, alumni and faculty
to be their guests.
The committee in charge of the
dinner follows: Mrs. Alma ] Scott,
chairman; Dean Lucy D. Slowe, Miss
Ethel c. Harris, George A. Parker,
Miss Marie f. Jordan, Maurice Cliff
ford, Miss Harriet G. Heard. Miss
Norma F. Boyd, DR.. william H.
Greene. Miss Eleanor Rivers and
Robert l.. Evans.
DR.. Albert Bushnell Hart, a truste ee
of Howard University and a profess
sor of government at Harvard Uni
versity. will give lecture in the
Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapk to
the students and friends of the uni
versity. Thursday evening at s
o'clock. His subject will be Uncle
Sam and the World
According to Miss Estelle Brown,
scribe of the Stylus, 35 manuscripts
were submitted by various students
OF the university in the recent an
nual competition for membership in
this most important literary and art
society at Howard University. The
board of critics, headed by DR.. Alain
L.. Locke, the department of philos-
ophy, and composed of other mem
bers of the faculty and members of
the Stylus, have carefully evaluated d
the original productions submitted
and 1t is stated that approximately
five new members will be elected
from the group of student applicants
for memberships.
The scribe of the organization has
announced thai another call for the
submission of manuscripts for mem
bership will doubtless be issued The
rigid requirements of the society, de-
spite the large number of applicants
have made ii impossible to fill the
small quota needed to complete the
limited membership of 21 from eligi-
bles selected from the group who
submitted manuscripts in the annual
competition for membership.
DeSDite the Cnr-anpv Div 10
that the college student of today has
relegated religion to the class OF
things not necessary, it was dis
covered during the recent observance
of the week of prayer for colleges
at Howard University that there is
still a devotion to the religious teach
ings by students. 1t is very signifi-
cant that 444, 81 for the first time, out
of some $50 students present at the
exercises held in observance OF the
special day of prayer for colleges
quietly, deliberately, each for him
self, expressed his acceptance OF
Jesus as his Savior and his earnest
purpose to do Jesus will.
DR.. Mordecai Johnson, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Charleston
w. Va, delivered three addresses to
| the undergraduate students and sew
| eral others to special groups during
the week of prayer.
Representative Henry r. Rathbone
Illinois, will deliver the Washington
birthday address in the Andrew Ran
kin Memorial Chapel of Howard Uni
Yersity this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock