Evening star., 1927-04-24
TO SPEAK
ATA.U. GRADUATION
Rev. Francis ]. Mcconnell to
Address University Class
May 81.

| rams iOT the thirteenth annual
convocation program of American
University, including commencement
| Tuesday, May 81, were announced
| last night by DR.. Lucius c. Clark,
chancellor of the institution. The
commencement address will be de-
| livered by Bishop Francis J. Nc
Connell of Pittsburgh, former presi-
dent of DePauw University, and one
time bishop for Mexico, Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Bishop
Mcconnell is known as a brilliant
speaker as well as scholar and
educator of note. He has been a
member of educational missions to
China, and was author of a report
on the steel industry for the Inter
church World Movement, which
provoked Nation wide discussion.
Convocation exercises will open
Sunday afternoon, May 20, in the
assembly room of the gymnasium on
the campus, where at 4:30 Chancellor
Clark will deliver the annual convo-
cation sermon.
Monday evening following, the
chancellor and Mrs. Clark will hold
a reception at the chancellor's home
on the campus in honor of the grad
yates, guests including the graduates,
trustees faculty and students.
Commencement May 81.
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock the
board Of trustees of the university
will hold their annual meeting in the
board room of the Battelle Memorial
Building, and commencement will be
held that night at 8 o'clock in the |
assembly room in the gymnasium. It
will be the first time that convoca- |
ton exercises have been held in this |
new building, which was completed |
during this school year.
Further plans. looking toward the |
end of the year. are under way in |
the graduate school of the university |
where examinations for masters de- |
grees have already started. These |
preliminary examinations before a |
faculty committee will continue |
through to May 3. There are 10 cam |
didates for the degree of master of |
arts and 2 for the degree of master of
laws and 8 for the degree Of master of
political science.
For the first time at American
University the oral examinations of |
for the degrees of doctor
of civil law and doctor of philosophy
will be conducted as public examina-
tions in the presence of friends of
the students and others invited. The
public oral examinations for the
three candidates for d. G. L. and the
nine candidates for Phi, d. will start
on May 2, in the assembly room, at
1901 f street. and will be conducted
by the academic council, consisting
Of DR.. Alfred Charles True, chair
man; Chancellor Clark, Dean Ed
ward T. Devine of the graduate
school professors of the graduate
school and probably others
At the college of liberal arts, located
on the campus, there are 90 candidates
Tor the degree of bachelor of arts.
In the School OF Political Sciences,
1907 r street, there are 10 candidates,
of which will take examinations for
he degree of bachelor of political
science, and C;.era who viii take
e,tSlcr fer this degree,
Or new degree which is to be offered
'or the first time this year, bachelor
of science in commerce.
The outstanding event Of the coming
week at the college will ba the PLAY
Servant in the House, presented
Friday night by the Washington
pices of the Woman's Guild of Amer
can University. The production will
1edicate the gymnasium stage to
and will be the first event
1f its kind given in the new building,
which has been used before, however,
his season for basket ball, parties and
lances. Prof. VIII Hutchins, producer
If the play, will take the role Of the
vicar
Dean Devine Is expected to return
Wednesday from an extended lecture
our through the West,
Grand Piano Presented.
Chancellor Clark presided at a pre-.
Wednesday at chapel of
grand piano to be used in the college
,hapel, the gift of w. s. Bond and
dahlon N. Haines of York, Pa. DR..
Dayton e. Mclean and w. M. Dudley
II the university made brief talks. A
concert of three numbers. two of
which were his own selections, was
presented by r. Dean Shure. instruc-
or in music, and the college orchestra
s now using the new instrument in
ts organization.
The college gymnasium was the
scene of a community party last
Wednesday night by the Wesley
Heights Community Club, which is
a new clubhouse near
he college campus.
DR.. Albert Fl. Putney, director of
he School Of Political Sciences, de-
lvered a lecture Monday night before
he Woman's National Democratic
'lub on Reverence for and Disobedi-
nee TO the Federal Constitution"
Students are planning a picnic for
he faculty at the college on Saturday,
Day Z, with a committee consisting
# Miss Beulah Widstrand, Milton
,rist and Orton Karichoff in charge.
Yasushi Hasegawa, an eminent
japanese educator, will speak at
ollege chapel Tuesday.
Under direction of Miss Julia Pen.
ington, instructor in physical educa-
ion for women, the girls of the