Evening star., 1928-12-23
c. v. j. PERIODICALS
UNDER UNIT RULE
Business Management OF
Student Publications Now
Centered in One Group.

Coordination of all George Wash
ington University student publications
under unified business management
was voted at the meeting of the publi-
cations council of the university at Its
meeting last Thursday. Under the new
plan. the four publications-the Uni
versity Hatchet, student weekly; the
Ghost, college comic; the Wig literary
magazine, and the Cherry Tree, the
annual, will be operated as a unit, so
Tar as business matters are concerned.
A system of joint advertising and sub
scription rates win be adopted.
This business consolidation Is ex-
pected to strengthen all of the publi-
cations by eliminating competition
among them, and to contribute to well
rounded publications program, unoer
which each shall work for the gooo OF
ALL Business managers OF the publ
cations will work in close co-opera1ion,
with the general business manager OF
publications acting as facilitating
agent.
The publications council, which
voted this important step, Is composed
of three representatives from each OF
the publications; the chairman of the
board, the business manager and one
other representative elected by the
board. Representatives of the Uni
versity Hatchet on the publications
council are: Herbert Angel, chairman:
Frank Kreglow, business manager. and
Alice Graham: of the Ghost, William
Brawner, chairman; William Dove
Thompson, business manager, and
Emily Pilkinton; of the Colonial Wig,
Wanda Webb, chairman; James Wes-
colt, business manager, and Miriam De
Hass of the Cherry Tree, Ebert, Huber,
chairman; Allan Neil, business man
ager, and Dorothy Ruth.
Responsible to Committee.
The publications council is directly
responsible to the university committee
on publications. which includes repre-
sentatives of the student body. of the
alumni and of the faculty. Members
of the committee on publications in
clude Dean Henry Grattan Doyle,
chairman: Audley l.. Smith and Doug
las Bement, faculty members; Marcelle
LIE Menager alumni member, and Il.
Campbell Starr, student member
The George Washington University
chapter Of Phi Delta Gamma, national
professional forensic fraternity, has
presented to the university silver low
ing cup and two gold medals, to be
awarded annually to the winners OF a
freshman oratorical contest, sponsored
by the fraternity While the contest will
be held during the second semester of
the present academic year, in the third
week of March, it Is planned that in
the future the event will take place
during the first week of each Decem-
ber
This date was chosen in order to give
each entrant ample time to prepare
his grafton to comply with the rules,
which require that a written copy be
submitted to the judges two weeks
prior to the date of the contest In
accepting the Phi Delta Gamma prize
for the university, President Cloyd
seems to me that public speaking is an
Many of the differences which occur in
modern society are due to a lack of
understanding of the problems of indi-
viduals"
Many faculty members are utilizing
the Christmas recess. which began yes
terday to continue through January 2,
for attendance at educational and SCI
entiflc meetings.
Dean George NJ Henning, Prof Merle
/. Protzman, Dean Doyle, Prof. Robert
Whitney Bolwell and Prof. De Witt c..
CroisSant will attend the convention
of the Modern Language Association of
America in Toronto Thursday, Friday
and Saturday.
Dean to Attend Sessions
Dean Doyle will go to Detroit We'd
nesday to attend the convention of the
American Association Of Teachers of
Spanish. He viii be in New York on
December 81 and January / for the
meeting of the American Association of
University Professors. AT this meeting
Dean Doyle, as chairman Of the aSSo-
ciatior's committee on copyright legis-
lation, will make his annual report.
Dean Doyle is the associations repre-
sentative on the American Council on
Education
Prof. Robert F. Griggs and Prof. WAL
ter l.. Cheney will attend the conven-
ton in New York of the American AS
sociation for the Advancement of Sci
ence, December 27 to January l. Prof
Cheney also will be in attendance upon
Cfle sessions Oh tLle AIueTICHu EIlySIcal
Society, which is meeting in New York
on. the same dates.
Prof. John Donaldson will 60 to Chi
cago for the meeting Of the American
Economics Association, Wednesday
through Saturday
Dean william Cabell Van Week, Prof.
Charles s. Collier, Prof. Hector G..
Spaulding, Prof. Earl c. Arnold, Prof
Walter L. Moll, Prof. w. r. Freyer and
Prof. william Armstrong Hunter of the
faculty of the Law School will 60 to
Chicago for the meeting of the Asso-
citation of American Law Schools,
which will be in session Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday.
Word has been received here of the
nomination of DR.. M. l.. Combs, visiting
professor of education in the Summer
sessions, as president of the Fredericks-
burg state Teachers College. DR..
Combs Is widely known in educational
circles. Until recently he has been
supervisor of the division of research
and surveys Of the Virginia State Board
of Education.
ESSAY CONTEST RULES