Evening star., 1927-12-04
DIR. PAUL KAUFMAN
HEADS CONFERENCE
American University Profes.
sor Honored by College
Group on English.

The College Conference on English
of the Central Atlantic States in an
nual meeting at Atlantic City last
week elected as chairman for the COM
ing year DIR. Paul kaufman, profes-
sor of English OF American University.
DIR. kaufman has been member
of the executive committee of the con
ference for the past two years, and
presided at the Atlantic City meeting.
Dean George p. Woods of the College
of Liberal Arts made the principal
address at the conference.
The organization which DIR. Kauf-
man will head for the coming year in
cludes in it's membership b5 colleges
and universities, in New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
Maryland and the District of Colum-
bia, and meets each year to discuss
problems of the teaching of literature
in higher institutions of learning. The
organiza tion assemblies as one of the
principal sections of the Association
of Colleges and Secondary Schools of
the Middle States and Maryland.
DIR. Kaufman tomorrow evening Will
begin series of six lectures on pres
ent-day literature at the graduate
school of American University, Nine
teenth and + streets northwest, under
the auspices of the recently founded
Association of Private School Teach.
ers of the District. The subjects and
dates OF the course are as follows:
Literature in an Age OF Speed and
Change" December 5: THE British
Novel of the Present Time" January
is: 1.-The American Novel of Today,
January 80: English and American
Poetry" February 13; Contemporary
Drama" February 27, given by Prof.
Will Hutchins, of American Univer'
sitv: and 1.-THE Essay and Criticism
of the Present Day." by DIR. kaufman,
March IL.
Trustees Meet Tomorrow.
The annual meeting of the board
of trustees of American University
will be held tomorrow morning at the
Battle Memorial on the campus
with John G.. Let's, president or the
board, presiding. The budget, and edu'
cational program for the next college
wear will be adopted. The annual
meeting was preceded b d meeting OF
the budget committee last Wednes'
day with the chancellor, DR.. Luclus T.
Clark. and business manager HerDert
F.. Walter. The committee consists OF
John C.. Let's, w. 8. Corby ana M.
E. Church.
One of the most entertaining func-
tions of the college year so Tar was
a novelty last night in the gymna sum
auditorium, where the Woman's Fac
ulty Club presented three one.act
plavs under the direction of Miss
Mary M. Gait, with DIR. w. p. Holton,
manager. The presentation was listed
as "My Lady Mary's Company OF
High Brow Comedians" and provoked
hearty response with the plays, IAN
Innocent Villain" Sauce for the
Goslings," and .'One Rainy Day." the
latter adapted by Miss Phyllis Lamar.
The cast for IAN Innocent Villain
included DIR. Holton. Mrs. Carl Nep-
rud, Miss Berenice Field, Mrs. Luc1us
G.. Clark, Miss Maenette Olsen and
Mrs. Lois Fucker. The cast for Sauce
for the Goslings" included Arthur
Flemming, Miss PHYLLIS Lamar. Mrs.
George B. Woods, DR.. Harold Colder,
DIR. Jessie Ferguson and @. b..
Springston. Players in "One Rainy
Day" were Miss Doroty Wulf, DR..
Glenn +. Rouse. Carl Neprud. DR..
George b. Woods and Miss Mary
Louise Brown.
Psychology Course Opens.
The new special course in psychology
by DR.. Karl Buehler of Vienna.
opened at the graduate school
Thursday night, with an attendance
taxing the capacity of the largest
lecture room at the school.
Mrs. Albert H. Putney, wife of the
director of the School of the Political
Sciences, will entertain at tea next
Thursday afternoon for young women
of the university who assisted in the
recent drive for funds for the assO-
citation.
Final plans are being made for the
da nee next Saturday night by the
Brecka Club, composed of Central
High School Alumni in the college.
DR.. Woods, dean of the college. was
Judge at a debate last Thursday
between George Washington Univer-
sity and West Virginia University.