Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28
PAGEANT PLANNED
At MARYLAND j.
May Affair to Depict Services
of the University to
the State.

COLLEGE PARK, Md, February
27.-The Women's Senior Honor So
ciety of the University Of Maryland.
organized last year under the superVl-
sion of Miss Adele Stamp, dean of
women, is making plans for pageant
it will sponsor in May. This open-air
entertainment, in which from three to
four hundred students will participate,
will depict the service the university
is doing for the State. Betty Amos is
in charge of the arrangements.
In june the society will present
loving cup to the girl student in any
of the three upper classes VINO mas
received the highest scholastic average
during the year.
Dorothy Young of Washington lis
the president of the society.
Forty-one candidates for master
degrees and six for doctors degrees
have been admitted by the graduate
council, Dean C. o. Appleman OF the
Graduate School has announced.
Highway Research Talk.
Highway Research" will be the
suhiect of a radio talk to be given by
Prof. S. S. Steinberg, head of the de-
partment of civil engineering, from
station WCAP March 26 under the
auspices of the National Research
Council and Science Service.
Judge J. II. Shepherd, special Zee
turer in commercial law, is recovering
from an operation and will be able TO
resume his duties within couple OF
weeks.
T. n. Mackall. an alunnus. now
chairman and chief engineer OF the
state Roads Commission of Maryland,
addressed the freshman engineering
class recently. He told of the develop
ment of the road system OF the state
and pointed out the great contributor
il is making in the economic progress
of Maryland.
Prof. Charles F. Richardson ana r.
M. Watkins of the department OF pun
lie speaking are giving series vi re- Re
lures on parliamentary proceuure p.
fore the Friendship Heights woman
Club. ,o
Reta Kappa Chapter of Kappa
Alpha presented it's fifth annual pro
duction of the Cotton Pickers MN
strels in the auditorium last night
Ed I,ohse was the impressario OF the
chow with Ted Odds, Darcy Bonnet.
Kirk Beskey, Pete Schrider ana
Walker Hale as his principal assist
ants.
Women Lack Interest.
women in regard to national AFFAIRS
was one of the main points discussed
bv Miss Lavina Engle, organizer OF the
MARYLAND League of Women voters
in an address before the Y. w. Z.
A at the university. She pointed out
that only Al per cent of the women
eligible to vote in Maryland cast their
ballot at the last presidential election.
x A. Clark and B. r. Carmichael of
the husbandry department are touring
the southern part of the state STUDY
ing the marketing of early lamos IN
that section.
Twenty-Five per cent of the students
at the university departments are
working their way through college, d
report from the financial office SHOWS:
Students are employed In all lines OF
work on the campus. Men students
wait on the tables in the dining nall,
do ianitor work in the dormitories ana
work in the greenhouses and gardens:
Roth men and women do clerical ana
secretarial work in all the depart
ments. as we'll as to read themes IN the
English and education departments.
Appointments to jobs are made on the
basis of need and ability OF the stu
dent.
Six goods at the university here are
taking pre-medical work. They are
Susanne Sterling of Crisfeld, Lucia
Alagia of Elkton, Gertrude Speiden of
Riverdale, Alice Cross of Linthlcum
Heights, Alice Norwood of Glendale
and Irene Zalewski of Passaic, n. D.
All expect to continue their work at
the University of Maryland Medical
School in Baltimore.
THE American Legion post at the
university is being reorganized >. IL
Harvey is the new commander.