Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30

troller of the university, and Charles
Merry, assistant to the controller, will
attend the meeting Of the Association
of University and College Business OIL
GERS at Lafayette College December
and 6.
The General Alumni Association of
the university will hold the second of
its monthly luncheons on Saturday at
1890 o'clock at the Hotel La Fayette.
The luncheon programs this year are
being devoted to various phases of the
activity Of the university.
Broadening Of the scope of engineer
ing education in the university has re-
suited from the application to the
School of Engineering of the univer-
sity's plan of independent study and
principle of adapting college work to
the particular abilities and needs Of the
individual student.
National Begins Debates.
National University's 1s3o-sl series of
interclaSs debates was launched at the
university last night when selected
freshmen and junior class teams argued
the proposition THAT Trial BY Jury
Should Be Abolished"
The freshmen commended for abo-
lition of jury trials by upholding the
affirmative. Their team was composed
Of Ona G. Marler, Stanley E. Otto and
Eldred @. Daniels. The negative side of
the issue was supported by the junior
team, composed of William E. Strange,
John A. Hart and Lanceford B.
Pruitt, jr.
1t is through this series of interclass
debates that the best debater of the
year" is determined. The winner of
that distinction receives the faculty
award for debating at the June COM
mencement exercises. Debates at Ma
tional are under the faculty guidance
of Fred p. Myers.
The regular Saturday night debate
schedule will be resumed this week,
when two teams will discuss the propo-
sition That Members of Congress
Should Assume Their Duties During the
Early Part of the Session Immediately
Following Their Election"
The standing senior class commit
tees have been announced for the presi-
dent of the class by William E. Deering,
secretary. They are: Finance, John F..
Miller. chairman; G. Oliver Luhn, Jacob
D. Kolker and Lloyd G. Andrews; Social,
George w. Brown, chairman Jacob
Plotnick, Helen Bowers and Rose Tabb;
The Docket" (year book, William
John M. Lynham and M. j. Mccarthy;
Publicity, Charles H. Bair, chairman;
Lewis H. King, Merritt L. Smith and
Francis A. Marshall; Welfare, George
P. Grove, chairman; DR.. G. c. Rush,
William T. Murphy and Wilbur A. Gal
lahan, and Ring, Grace Kanode, Amos
T. Pagter, Thomas F. Shanahan and
Ugo Carusi
Stephen 3. Callahan, chief deputy
United States marshal for the District
Of Columbia, will address the National
University practice class" Wednesday
night on Service OF Process and
Writs" Alfred Buhrman, chief deputy
clerk of the District of Columbia Su-
preme Court, addressed this class last
Wednesday.
The freshman class will meet at the
university tomorrow night in Lower
Hall in order to adopt proposed consti-
tuition and bylaws. Committees for the
current year will be appointed at that
time. William G. Shipman is president.
Columbus U. Features Debates.
A movement to develop interclass
debating into the major extra-curricular
activity OF Columbus University School
OF Law was launched last night by
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