Evening star., 1926-06-13
NEW UNIT OF C. W.U.|
| MAY Be STARTED
$4,000 Pledged Toward
Building - Summer
Courses to Open.

break ground for the third unit of the
greater university in the middle of
the Summer, according to the an
nouncement OF President William Ma.
them Lewis at commencement on
Wednesday. DR.. Lewis gave out the
fact that more than $64 900 had been
pledged the university.
If conditions warrant it is expected
that activities may start at Twenty
first and II streets northwest, ada
cent to Corcoran Hall on the corner.
The new unit is designed to take care
of arts and science department stu
dents as well as the university H.
brary.
The announcement, made at the one
hundredth and fifth annual COM
mencement last Wednesday in the
Washington Auditorium, was we'll re-
ceived. The commencement exercises
were attended by 5000 persons. Four
diplomas.
Honorary Degrees Given.
Honorary degrees were awarded to
six distinguished personages. The
degree of doctor of laws was con-
ferred upon Sir Esme Howard, Brit
ish Ambassador: Mrs. Anthony
Wayne Cook, former president-gen-
eral of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, and Joseph Grew.
Undersecretary of State. The degree
of doctor of letters was awarded to
John oliver La Gorce. The degree Of
doctor of science was awarded to DR..
Thomas A. Gruver. John c. Fitzpat-
rick received the degree OF doctor of
humane letters.
H.. axxric
than $500 students had been enrolled
in the institution during the pas.
year. He declared it had been one of
the most successful in the many
years of it's existence, but noted that
while many improvements had been
noted in strengthening the faculty
and improving and building there still
remained much to be done In the way
of additional buildings.
On Thursday night DR.. Lewis deliv
cred the graduation address at the
Handley High School at Winchester,
Va. The invitation was extended
three years ago. Upon his return DR..
Lewis left for Chicago, where he will
make a graduation address at the
Northwestern Military Academy. On
Wednesday of this week he will speak
at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Summer School to Open.
Tomorrow afternoon the annual
Summer school activities will start in
both the department of arts and sci
ences and the law school. 1t Is ex.
pected that more than two thousand
students will be enrolled before the
first of the month.
There will be two terms in the de-
partments of arts and sciences, the
nine weeks course starting tomorrow
and the six weeks course starting on
July 6. Both courses terminate on
August IA.
The law school courses starting to.
morrow and again on July 29 will end
June % and September IL. Registra-
ton has been unusually heavy in
both departments. The 13 weeks
course in the law school is expected
to prove unusually popular this Sum-
law school building on Twentieth
street, which is commodious and un-
usually cool.
AS an added feature of the Summer
school work in the university it is an
nounced that the university cafeteria
will operate for breakfasts, lunch and
dinner. and that beverages, sand
wiches and cool drinks will be served
during the afternoons.
Commencement Week Praised.
1t is doubtful if the university ever
a more delightful or bet
ter planned commencement week
than that just concluded. From the
Sunday exercises last
week through the annual pilgrimage
to Mount Vernon, where Huston
spoke. the annual Faculty
Pyramid Society ball game, the class
night exercises. in which the uni
versityl was pledged 100000 by the
by President and Mrs. Lewis, to the
final playing of 1.-The Star Spangled
Banner" at graduation, there ap
peared to be no single hitch to pro-
ceedings. Those in charge of gradu-
ating the biggest class in the history
Of the university did their work un-
usually we'll in the opinion of both
and principals.
Dean William c. Ruediger of teach.
ers' college will go to Cornell Uni
versity to teach this year. Prof
Charles E. Hill has been chosen as
one of the several professors teach
study. Prof. Bemis will work in dip
lomatic history" Prof. Michaelson
will spend the Summer among the In
dams on Western reservations. Mrs.
Carroll has gone abroad
Vernon Brewster, alumni secretary,
was operated on at the George Wash
ington University Hospital for ton
He is recovering rapidly.
Announcement Is made that Helen
D. Pigeon, associate secretary of the
Association of Police
women, has been appointed lecturer
In social service to give a course in
delinquency and crime in the uni
versity next Fall. Miss Pigeon gradu-
ated from Radcliffe in 1912, did re-
search work in Boston for several
years, took a degree at Simmons and
has done work at Clark University, in
addition to unusual activity in social
work elsewhere.