Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-15
EDITORS Working
|. ON NATIONAL BOOK
Annual Staff Meets to Dis.
cuss Final Plans for
Publication.

Since the first Of the year an active
subscription campaign I'm behalf OF
the Docket. annual publication of the
senior class OF National University.
has been in progress and. according
to members of the yearbook staff.
the number of subscriptions already
has been doubled since January i.
William l.. Bruckart, editor Of the
yearbook. and Eugene Began. men,
Der of the staff, recently went to Balti-
more to complete arrangements for
the publication. While in the Mary
land city they saw a number of other
college publications from which sew
eral ideas were cleaned They hope
to incorporate some of these in the
Docket.
\ meeting Of the entire staff of the
publication was held last Monday. at
which time final plans as to material.
photographs and advertisements
were discussed. As announced some
weeks ago by Mr.. Bruckart. there will
he a surprise theme running through
out the publication. The actual ma
ture of this theme will be kept secret
Ject, II has been announced, involves
the justices OF the Supreme Court of
the United States.
A number of former National Uni
versity students returned at the be-
ginning OF this quarter to complete
their legal training. Among these are
Wilmer Stitely, who attended Ma.
tional in 1925 and 1925, and John w.
Taylor. a student at National in 1926.
Prior to coming to Washington. Tay-
Tor attended the University of Florida.
where he was prominent in student
activities.
FlOurnoy Gets Post.
Richard W. Flournoy, professor Of
international law at the university.
has been appointed to the American
advisory committee on the codifiCa.
ton of International law. organized
at Cambridge. Mass, last week. This
committee was organized under the
auspices OF the faculty of the Harvard
Law School and is headed by George
w. Wickersham. former Attorney
General of the United States.
The committees aim Is to set in mo-
ton cooperative effort OF American
legal scholars in order to place before
tho first conference for the codification
of international law. which the League
of Nations has called to sit in 1929. a
systematic statement of American
thought on the subjects as to which
codifcation shall be attempted.
A special assignment for research
work on the subject of nationality was
given to Prof. Flournoy. A fund of
$4,000 has been made available for
carrying on the research work of the
committee.
The second OF the series Of volumes
dealing with the legal problems of
regulating interstate commerce has
been prepared by o. l.. Mohundro.
professor Of interstate commerce law
at National. and examiner OF the Inter.
state Commerce Commission. This
work has been made available for the
use OF the class on interstate com.
merce law and covers the subject for
the Winter quarter.
Club Plans Banquet.
The National University Masonic
Club win mold its annual banquet n,
the Hamilton Hotel. February -, &C.
eording TO an announcement by Darrell
kull, president of the organization
Plans for the banquet were formulated
at recent meeting Of the club. at
which time Robert L. Hoiioweii was
chosen POSTMASTER for the affair.
Hollowell also heads the committee on
arrangements. He will be assisted In
making preparations by r. r. O'Neill.
]. j. Resincoff. J. A. Williams. u. r.
Brown. Z. B. Detwiler and S. II. Field.
man.
Members of the Supreme Court and
Court OF Appeals Of the District Of
Columbia. as well as a number OF Sen.
ators and Representatives In Congress,
win be invited to attend the dinner.
Dean Charles Carusi will speak and
efforts are being made TO secure judge
Frederick l.. Siddons and Judge Jen.
nings Bailey of the Supreme Court Of
the District " Columbia, both mem
bers Of the law faculty. an speakers
Judge Charles n. Robh OF the Court
Of Appeals of the District of Columbia
IL expected 10 be present. as are many
other members Of The faculty OF Ma
tionai University
The senior smoker will be held We'd.
nesday at L'Aigion. II In expected
that between 800 and 400 persons Will
attend.