Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-30
M|DYEAR EXAMS
0VERAT i. OF NJ.
Casualties About Normal in
DISTINGUISHING for
Second Semester.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. January
90 (SpeciaD. With the midyear eX-
aminations over. with about the usual
percentage of casualties, students at
the University of Maryland now are
going through the procedure of reg
istering for the second semester
While a number fell by the wayside
in the mid-yea tests, there will be
fully as many newcomers who will
enter the school beginning with the
second semester, so that the total stu
dent body will remain about the same.
Prof. Chandler II. Beall a member
of the faculty of Amherst College
will teach French at the university
during the second semester, in place
of Prof. Charles L. Sulin, who has
been granted six months leave of
absence. Prof. Sulin will devote his
time to research work in French lit
erature of the seventeenth century.
He will receive his Phi. D. from Johns
Hopkins University in June and will
return to Maryland in September.
Prof Beall will teach French only
at Maryland, although he also had
charge Of classes in Italian and Span
ish at Amherst. He received his A. r.
from Johns Hopkins, and continued
his studies at the Universities of Gre
noble, Dijon and Sorbonne, all in
Europe.
DR.. P w. Zimmerman. professor
of botany and associate dean of the
college of agriculture, next week will
give a series Of lectures in plant phys
iology before the Institute for Plant
Research of Ohio State University.
& Clark Beach has been named cap
tain of Maryland's debating team,
the other members being Hazel Ten.
ney, Frank Witter, Kenneth Petrie,
John Caples, Wilffed Hearn and Viii
liam APlumley. Miss Tenney has the
distinction to be the first girl to be
chosen to represent Maryland in
debate. She, with Witter and Petrie,
viii speak in the first affair OF the
season against George Washington,
the latter part of next month.
Prof q. +. Cadisch represented the
college Of arts and sciences at the
annual meeting OF the American Eco
nomic Association and the American
Sociological Association in st. Louis.
Attention was directed very largely
to depression in agriculture
Kenneth Spence, president of the
senior class, has named chairmen of
committees to handle the commence
ment week activities, as follows:
Commencement, Norwood Thornton.
senior play, Bill Hill: class day. Parks
Shipley: junior senior german, Oscar
Coblentz. A valedictorian will be
chosen at a future meeting of the
class.
March II has been set as the date
for the military ball, one of the big
dances of the season at Maryland
It will be held In Richie Gymnasium.
DIR. Devoe Meade and Prof. r. G.
Munkwitz were among the discussion
leaders at the meeting OF the Mary
land Dairy Manufacturers at Fred
ericll on Wednesday
The sophomore class has decided
to hold its annual dance In Richie
Gymnasium on April J..
l.. III. Pammel, president general of
the Phi Kappa Phi, national honorary
fraternity, recently spoke to the mem
bers Of the local chapter. He Is a
member of the biology department of
the University of Iowa
Six members have been added to
the rolls of Phi Mu, honorary engi-
neering fraternity. The initiates and
the papers they read as a final re-
quirement were: j. H. F.. Bittner,
Development of the Maryland State
Roads Commission: c. F. Boteler,
THE Carroilton Viaduct"; H. r. Gar
Der, History of Mills on Monocacy
River; w. l.. Peverill History and
Development OF the Chesa peake and
Delaware Canal" and f. NJ Wenner,
liberalization of the y. & o. Tunnel
in Baltimore"