Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-20
AMERICAN i. GETS
SCHOLARSHIP GIFT
Chancellor Announces SIS, 900
Fund Sponsored by
Florida Friend.

a new mon -Sectarthn scholarship
for $4,000, TO be available for either
a boy or girl. has been pledged to
American University by a friend OF
the institution at Eustis. Fla. Chan
cellor Lucius c. Clark announced
Yesterday without disclosing the
name of the donor.
The gift is one of a series of dona
tons made In various ways during
campaign which is being conducted
quietly in various parts of the .coun-
try on behalf of the American Uni
versity. and which already has
passed far beyond the 100000
mark.
Recruiting of additional members
for the. faculty of the college of lib-
eral arts for the opening of the next
Fail term continues. with announce
ment by DIR. George Il. Woods. dean
of the college. that Miss Mary
Meares Gait of Toledo. Ohio. has
been engaged as assistant professor
of French. Miss Gait Is "A graduate
Of Randolph Macon College holds a
masters degree from Columbia Uni
versity and has done graduate work
at the University of Chicago, the
University of Paris and Harvard.
She has taught at Rockford College.
Hood College. Mount Holyoke and
the University of Toledo. She was
one of the lecturers who appeared
before the French soldiers during the
World War
Chancellor Clark ON Tour.
Chancellor Clark has left for
business trip i'm the interests of the
university to Wilmington, Del! Phil
adelphia and New York.
The lecture last Monday night by
Cndersecretary of State Joseph =.
Grew at the graduate school of the
university was attended by a deleCa-
ton from the diplomatic corps. in
Guiding several ministers and large
group of other invited guests.
The college debating team. which
met Western Maryland i'm debate last
night. will meet Bucknell next Fri
day, taking the negative of the aues.
ton. Resolved. That the eighteenth
Amendment Should Be Repealed"
The library at American Uni
versity, housed in 4he new BattelIe
| Memorial, is the institution desig-
mated for special field work of two
students from Drexel Institute School
of Library Science. who will arrive
| Monday to begin what is known as
| block practice work" They are
| Miss Mary Margaret Smith and Miss
| Alice McCuster. and will work at the
! library under the direction of the
/ college librarian, Mrs r. X. Varrel-
/ man.
! Senior Class 10 Dine.
! Members of the senior class at the
college will be entertained at dinner
| Tuesday night at Turnstile Inn by
Miss Dorothea Mehring, president of
1 the class. Guests of honor will be
DIR. George Il. Woods. dean of the
college, and Mrs, Woods. and Miss
Mary Louise Brown, dean of women.
! Another of the series OF lectures
was delivered Friday night at the
college following a st. Patrick's day
dinner at the WOmens Residence
Hall, by Francis Harvey Green of the
Pennington. y. j., School for Boys,
who spoke on THE Nature and Worth
of Wit and Humor." Arrangements
for the st. Patrick's day dinner were
in charge of Miss Leila Covert.
| Harold +. Bling. organizing secre-
! tary of the British Federation of
Youth, presented the objects of the
federation TO the students Friday at
chapel.
The first of series of trips to sew
eral institutions in Washington was
taken yesterday by class in sociol-
ogy. under direction of Miss Louise
| Green. The class visited st. Eliza
beth's Hospital.
4 ne CHORUS tElNiE ca mount vernon
Methodist Episcopal Church South
| will present 4 concert Friday eve
ming, April /, consisting of negro
/ spiritualS. IN the college gymnasium.
The public Is invited. r. Dean Shure.
| director of the chorus choir. is in
structor in music at the college.
Mrs. LucluS G. Clark will entertain
the girls of the Women's Residence
Hall at her home on the campus Fri
day afternoon.
/ A concert by Mrs. Elvina Rowe, So
| prano. and Miss Katherine Riggs.
I harpist. will he given for the student
/ body Saturday night at the Women's
{ Residence Hall