Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-02
HOWARD LAUNCHES
ITS S|XT|ETH YEAR
University President Delivers
Opening Address-Greater
Enrolment Is Expected.

Howard Unversity's sixtieth aca-
demic year began Thursday. On Mon
day all freshmen entering the AGA.
demic colleges and the school of music
assembled at the university chapel at
10 o'clock for special instruction. An
address of welcome was delivered by
Dean Kelly Miller Tuesday and We'd
were devoted to the registration of
students in the academic colleges and
the school of medicine, including the
tons for the removal of condition in
the school Of mediCina, including the
college of medicine, the college Of
dentistry and the college of pharmacy.
Formal instruction in the academic
colleges began Thursday. Instruction
in the school of law and in the col.
leges of the school of medicine will
begin Saturday. October l. After an
academic parade from the library to
the Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel
on Thursday, September 90, at 10
o'clock, DR.. Mordecai w. Johnson,
president of the university, delivered
his opening address to the student
body.
He smoke on the possible powers OF
college men and women in their rela-
ton to the masses of the people. lie
spoke Of the power to give the max
1mufl OF illlGlHStIll iSSoIOii " p'iC -
desire to serve the common good: the
power of the trained teacher to make
disadva ntaged people transcend them.
selves in their children: the power of
educated men and women with their
knowledge of history to recognize ana
draw the allegiance of the people to
constructive personalities; the power
of the laboratory seeker after truth to
discover and destroy the secret enc
mics of human happiness, and the
power to think out and popularize
philosophy of life which galvanlzes
the energies Of the people and offers to
them a rich and beautiful existence.
With several illustrations he showed
how college men and women. colored
and white, had assumed these powers
in time past and indicated his belief
that these and other similar powers
will be made available to earnest stu
dents of this college generation.
Registrar F. D. Wilkinson an
nounces that from present indications
the enrolment for 1928 will exceed
that of last year, when it amounted
to 2.26S.
Faculty Changes.
DR.. Edward P. Davis, professor or
German, will serve as acting dean of
the College of Liberal Arts during
the absence of Dean Woodland, who is
on sabbatical leave at the University
of Pennsylvania. Prof. Percy l..
Julian takes the place of DR.. st. Elmo
Brady as associate professor and act
ing head of the department of chem
istry. Prof. Julian is a graduate of
DePauw University, master of arts
and Austin scholar, Harvard Uni
versity. From 1920 to 1922 he was
teacher of chemistry at Fisk. Uni
versity, and during the school year
1926-27 was professor of chemistry at
West Virginia Collegiate Institute.
After two years absence, Prof.
Alain L. Locke, returns to the chair
of philosophy, Howard University.
During the past Summer Prof. Locke
has been attending the sessions of the
Geneva conference. -.
Other additions to the faculty in
clude w. Mercer Cook, graduate of
Amherst College, and John Woodruff
Simson. fellow to the University OF
Paris. Prof. Cook comes to Howard
as assistant professor OF romance
language from the A. and T. College at
Greensboro, n. c., where he was en-
ployed last year.
Associated with him will be Prof.
Valaurez B. Spratiin. graduate of the
University of Denver, where he re-
ceived his masters degree in 1922.
Prof. Spratlin spent the Summer Of
1927 in study in Spain and France.
He comes to Howard from the West
Virginia Collegiate Institute, where
he has been employed during the past
three years.
The department of economics is
strengthened by the addition of Prof.
Abram L. Harris as assistant profess
sor of economies. Prof. Harris is a
graduate of Virginia Union Uni
versity, receiving the masters degree
at the University of Pittsburgh. He
has been a graduate student in
economics at New York University
and Columbia University. and during
the past Summer was at Columbia SO
as to complete work for his doctors
degree in economics. For several
years he was employed as secretary
of the National Urban League. and
was formerly a teacher at the West
Virginia Collegiate Institute.
Mrs. Myrtle r. Phillips has been
appointed as instructor in the College
of Education. Mrs. Phillips is well
equipped for the position, both in
academic and professional training
and in experience. She has gradu-
ated from the College of Education,
Howard University, with the degree of
b. S. in education, cum laude, in
1923. Since that time she has studied
at the University of Chicago where
she will soon receive her masters
degree and has taught in the Lincoln
High School of Paducah, KY, After
serving as teacher in that school for
two years she was made principal,
having served in that capacity for the
last three years. During the Summer
of 1925 Mrs. Phillips was special
lecturer in methods at the State Nor
NAL School of Louisiana for Colored
Youth. She will teach educational
psychology, history of education and
methods in teaching mathematics.
In the department of applied science,
Ernest r. Welch, graduate Of How
ard University in 1926, will be in.
structor in shop work and James
A. Porter. graduate of Howard Uni
Tcrsity, 1927, will be assistant instruc-
tor in art.
In the department of mathematics,
Mrs. Arlcathia p. Gaithirgs will serve
Rs assistant in mathematics.
Miss Violet Il. Warfield. a graduate
of Sargent School for Physical Edu-
cation will assist in the department
of physical education for women.
The trustees Of the university have
authorized establishment under the
College of Liberal Arts Of the depart
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