Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22
C. v. FACULTY MAY.
co TO MEETINGS.
Two Educational Groups Sc
Iect Washington for
Sessions.

Meetings Of educational and learned
societies will engage members of the
faculty of George washington Univer-
sity during the Christmas recess which
starts tomorrow and extends through
Wednesday, January /, A number of
faculty members will leave Washington
to attend meetings Of educational groups
in other cities, while two such meetings
will be held in Washington.
The American Association of Teachers
OF Spanish will meet here under the
auspices of the university next Friday
and Saturday. Some 200 members of
the association from all parts of the
country are expected to attend. Dean
Henry Grattan Doyle is chairman of
the local committee on arrangements.
Morning and afternoon sessions will be
held on Friday and a morning session
will be held Saturday. At the banquet
which will take place Friday evening
instead of Saturday as originally an
nounced, DR.. Enrique Olava Herrera,
minister of Colombia, will be the prin-
cipal speaker. All sessions will be held
at the Willard Hotel.
Marvin in Welcome.
The delegates to the conference will
be welcomed by DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin,
president of George washington Univer-
sity. Other speakers on the program
are DR.. Charles r. Mann, director of
the American Council on Education;
Prof. E. Allison Peers of the University
of Liverpool; Prof. Alfred Coester of
Stanford University: Lawrence A. VIII
kins, director Of modern languages in
the high schools. of New York City:
Prof. A. L. Owen of the University of
KansaS. Prof. S. Patterson of Syracuse
University, Prof Ernest. H. Hespeth of
New York University, Prof. Edwin B.
Place Of the University of Colorado,
Prof John D. Fitzgerald Of the Univer-
sity of Arizona, Prof. J. Moreno-Lacalle
of Rutgers University and Robert H.
williams of Columbia University.
Members of the department of
sociology Of George Washington will
have an active part in the meeting of
social workers affiliated with the Amer
lean Sociology Society, who will hold
their twenty-fourth sannual session in
washington. December 81 to 80. The
committee on arrangements is headed
by Elwood Street, director of the Wash
ington Community Chest and lecturer
IN sociology in the university and also
includes Dudley Wilson Willard, profess
scr of sociology. Prof. Willard will give
q paper before the convention on Or
ganized Life in the City Of Washing
ton" which will deal with the activi-
ties of citizens associations, civic
groups and various charitable organiza-
tons of the Capital.
Three Men to Cleveland.
Dean George N. Henning, Dean Doyle
and Prof. Irene Cornwell of the romance
languages department, Prof. Edwin H.
Sehrt Of the German department and
Prof, Dewitt c. Croissant and Prof
Robert whitney Bolwell of the English
department will attend the meeting OF
the Modern Language Association of
America in Cleveland on December 80.
81 and January l..
Dean William C. Van Week will be in
New Orleans on December 81, %, 90
and 80, attending the convention of the
Association Of American Law Schools.
Prof. James H. Taylor of the mathe-
mates department will go to Bethie-
hem, Pa, for the meeting of the Ameri-
can Mathematical Society on December
"a and %.
Prof. Samuel F1agg Bemis and Prof
Lowell Joseph Ragatz of the history de-
partment will be in attendance upon
the meeting Of the American Historical
Association at Chapel Hill, N. c., De-
cember 81 to 80.
Prof Willard Hayes Yeager. Depew
Professor of public speaking, will attend
Teachers Of Speech in New York on
December 80.
The Modern Language Association OF
America has accepted the invitation of
George. Washington University to hold
It's 1880 meeting at Washington next
year.
New Fraternity Installed.
The George Washington University
Chapter Of Delta Chi Epsilon, foreign
service fraternity, was installed last
week at the Georgetown University
chapter house. The ceremonies were
concluded with banquet, at which
William s. Culbertson, United States
Ambassador to Chile, was the principal
speaker. Members of the George WASH
1ngton Chapter are: DR.. John Donald
son and Prof. Alan T. Deibert of the
faculty, and j. Harold Stehman, Arthur
A. Kimball. Paul Gardner, Howard S.
Payne, Charles G.. Jaquette, Frank H.
We1tzel, Paul e. Haney, Thomas S.
jackson, Quentin D. Watson, Henri Vic
tor LeMenager, Linwood K. Bailey,
Frank Whitehouse, Henry A. Zuberano,
j. Wesley Jones, Ernest S. Parker, Ar
thur z. Beech, Cecil T. White, Tremaine
z. Rambo, John r. Thompson and Har-
old W. Curran.
Prof. CornwelI Is the author of a
study in the current number of the bull
1etin OF the Modern Language Associa-
ton on The Correspondence Of Honore
de Balzac: Its Significance and It's IN
Yeliabilitv"