Evening star., 1926-11-28
A, j. GYMNASIUM
DEDICATION SOON
TRIBE Events Planned for 0c-
casion, Beginning December
is on Campus.

Plans are being made at American
University for threefold dedication OF
the new 100000 gymnasium. Whlcn Is
also a theater, by basket ball game,
Thursday, December 16, play ana
musical. ia,
While the basket ball game with
the University of Maryland VIII pe
the opening event, Chancellor Luclus
C.. Clark, in announcing the dedlca-
ton, stated that because or the va
rietv of uses to which the structure
will be put, the other two functions
will also be considered part or the
dedication, The A. U.-Maryland
game will not be the first intercolleg1-
ate clash for the local quintet. but 1t
will be the first home game, one OF
the most important of the season.
and elaborate arrangements are De-
ing made.
The new structure has a complete
stage. The play will be presented
under direction of VIII Hitchlns,
professor Of art. The musical Will
be under direction of r. Deane
Shure, instructor in music. Dates
and programs for these two events
have not been announced.
Ten dormitory rooms in the gym
nasium, which eventually will be
used for the accommodation of visiting
athletic teams, will be occupied for
the present by American University
students. The gymnasium is situ-
ated at the end of one of the roadway
loops in the 90-acre campus of the
university. Adequate transportation
facilities will be provided for functions
at the structure. it was announced by
Chancellor Clark.
Under direction of DR.. Paul Kauf-
af
ing at Hurst Hall on Tuesday the
American University Chapter of the
American Association of University
Professors, with the following OFF,
GERS: DR.. B. B. James, professor of
history, president, and DR.. Walter
Shenton, professor of mathematics,
secretary.
Mrs. George B. Woods entertained
the Faculty Women's Club at tea
Tuesday at her home 4331 Cathedral
avenue.
Chancellor Clark, Dean George B.
Woods of the college, and dean of
women. Mary Louise Brown, attended
dedicatory exercises of a Phi Beta
Kappa building at William and
Mary College yesterday.
Dean Edward T. Devine of the
graduate school is in New York City,
from where he will make another
short lecture tour.
DR.. Kaufman represented Amer
lean University during the week at
Buffalo, N. V, at the annual meeting
of the Association Of Colleges and
Preparatory Schools of the Middle
States and Maryland. He is also a
member of the executive committee
of the college conference on English
of the Central Atlantic States, which
met at the same place.
The faculty board Of the graduate
school is admitting students to can
didacy for degrees.
Professor of Biology Ferdinand A.
Varrelman and Mrs. Varrelman, who
is college librarian, spent the
Thanksgiving holiday in New York
City.
Many students who We're able to
reach their homes over the holiday
left the campus. School will start
again tomorrow morning at o'clock.
w. Willis Delaplain has been
elected manager for the debate team
of the college, for which already two
debates have been scheduled, with
Western Maryland, here March 2, 3
or 4. and with Bucknell, here March
10.
Arrangements are being completed
for the dedicatory exercises of the
new Battelle Memorial Library on
the campus, which will take the form
of reception Tuesday evening, De-
cember Z.