Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-08

Herbert Hoover's fellow alumni OF
Stanford, in Washington and elsewhere,
are wondering how the inaugural COM
mittee came to commit the terrible faux
pas of choosing the University OF Cali
fornias colors as the official hues for
March 4. They are gold and blue
Stanford's color Is cardinal. The Presl-
dent-elect's alma mater, since time I'M
memorial, has looked upon the Univer-
sity of California as its hereditary
enemy in the field of athletics-a sort OF
Yale Harvard and Army-Navy rivalry
of the Pacific Coast. The only 'expla-
nation Stanford men have for the
choice of the hated gold and blue fol-
Inauguration day is that the committee
in charge recognizes that Hoover be-
longs to the whole State Of California
and not merely to a campus. They are
nevertheless, in high dudgeon. No son
or daughter of the cardinal, they de-
clare. would stoop so low as to do rever-
ence to the gold and blue on Inaugural
ton or any other day.
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A certain Capital hostess who de-
scended upon the scene this Winter al
fluent and ambitious gave a splendid
erouS dinner party the other night n
honor of the Vice President-elect. She
halls from his neck of the woods. AS
special tribute to Senator Curtis Indian
ancestry the piece de resistance was the
Ice cream course, which was served In
the form Of an Indian chiefs head
feathers and all. AS the walters entered
the room the feathers were set aglov
| with tiny multi-colored electric lights
! A woman guests explanation OF the
k.Sk - o. tnkA 49, a
origin was that the dessert course rep
resented "Tammany on ice."
X Il u X
When Calvin Coolidge leaves thu
| White House on March 4, 1t will be ex
actly 100 years to the day since thu
last previous President of the United
States elected from Massachusetts, tool
! his departure from the Executive Man.
sion. He was John Quincy Adams, sixth
| President of the United States, who as
sumed office on March 4, 1925, and lef
| 1t on March 4, 1929. Interesting tradi
lions also adhere to the visit which
President Coolidge will make to Georg'
Washington University on February %
At the first commencement Of the uni.
versity, then called 1.-THE Columbian
College," held on December lis, 1924
the President of the United States
James Monroe, was present with hi!
cabinet and the Marquis de Lafayette
who was visiting America.
X X X
Mrs. George Higgins Moses, wife O.
the senior Senator from New Hamp
shire, who has just been elected presi
dent of the social organization known
as the Ladies of the Senate" Is typi
cal New England woman. She Is 1
graduate of Bradford Academy ant
lived abroad during the Taft admins
| tration while her husband was Ameri
can Minister to Greece and Montenegro
The brilliant Senator from the Granite
State has fought his way to most O
his distinctions, but honors have beer
thrust upon Mrs. Moses. She twice de
| clined to be candidate for the posi-
| ton to which the Ladies of the Sen
ate" elected her by reclamation. Ac
cording to the constitution of the so
rority, the wife of the Vice Presiden
is ipso facto its president. But as Sen
ator Curtis is a widower it became nee
essary to elect a presiding officer t.
serve during the next four years. Sine
Senator Moses is president pro tempor
of the Senate, it was In tune with tn
eternal fitness of things that his con
sort should succeed to the presidency o
the Senate ladies' club, which live
mainly to lunch and render the work
Of mercy.
|
Next Sunday will mark the mos
notable wedding anniversary Mr.. ant
Mrs. Hoover have ever celebrated. It i
their thirtieth and finds them on thu
threshold of the White House. The.
were married at Monterey, Calf, OF
February 10, 1899. The day afterwars
they sailed away to China for the youni
mining engineers first important com
mission abroad. Lou Henry-the FRS
Lady-to-be's maiden name-was good
looking, athletic, scholarly and under
stood the language of geology. in which
she had maiored OF Stanford. Like he