Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-13
MEETINGS ATTRACT
COLLEGE LEADERS
Three National Education
Groups to Be in Session
Here This Week.

Three national educational groups,
bringing to Washington many of the
outstanding educators OF the country,
will be in session here this week at the
Willard Hotel. Featuring these de-
liberations. will be those Of the Asso-
citation OF American Colleges, whose
sixteenth annual meeting opens tomor-
row. More than 400 colleges will be
represented through their presidents,
deans and other officials, and tomor-
row evening Sir Esme Howard, the re-
firing British Ambassador, will be guest
of honor at the annual dinner in recog-
milton of his outstanding contributions
to education and international under
standing.
The first of the educational sessions
to convene was the Council of Church
Boards Of Education. which met this
morning. Its sessions will continue
until tomorrow afternoon, when union
mass meeting will be held at 2:30
o'clock to discuss the place of religion
in American higher education.
Educational associations of various
UNCONVENTIONAL groups will begin their
meetings Thursday afternoon, some car
rying on until late Friday. In this
group are the Association of Colleges
of Congregational Affiliations; Board of
Education, Five Years Meeting of
Friends in America, Educational Asso-
citation of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and the General Education
Board Of the Bretheran.
Presidential Address.
In his presidential address before the
Council of Church Board of Education
this morning. DR.. Boothe c. Davis,
president Of Alfred University, discussed
the two-fold mission Of modern college
TRAINING IN donnrnf tiOpo1 incfifutiOy1c
These colleges" he said. must set
standards of liberal culture, forms of
scholarship and ideals of citizenship
and public service in century when
all the world is neighborhood. and all
men are brothers and fellow citizens as
never before"
At the dinner tomorrow evening for
Ambassador Howard, given by the
Association of American Colleges, THE
Contribution of American Higher Educa-
ton to International Understanding"
will be the topic of the address by Guy
E. Snavely of Birmingham-Sou
College. the association president.
Another speaker will be DR.. Charles
Moore, director Of the Washington
Beautiful Plan.
Will Review Years Work.
The years work will be reviewed at
DR.. Robert L. Kelly, former president
of Earlham College. first president of
the association. and for the last IL
years its executive secretary. will speak.
Frank L. McVey, president of the Uni
versity of Kentucky, and Prof. George
johnson of the Catholic University also
are on the program.
THE Education of College Teachers"
will be the topic of the afternoon Ses-
sion. with A. H. Upham, president of
Miami University, presenting the sub
ject from the standpoint of the under
gradute college. Deans Charles Laing
of the University of Chicago and Wilbur
L. Cross of Yale will represent the
graduate schools.
The development of intellectual life
among the undergraduate colleges will
be the topic of the evening session.
James A. Blaisdell, president of Clare
mont College, in California Dean
Luther P. Eisenhart of Princeton and
DR.. Henry Suzzalo, former president Of
the University of Washington, now on
the staff of the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching. and
c. c. Mierow, president of Colorado
College, who will speak on college
chapels, illustrated with Stereopticon
slides, will address the gathering.
4hCdT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 1HuESuAys
Recommendation Of the standing
committees will be brought before the
closing session Thursday morning. New
members will be admitted and officers
elected. A report on the committee on
college athletics. based in large part on
the recent report of the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement OF
Teaching, will be laid before the as
sembly by Prof. Bert E. Young of In
diana University.
Officers Of the association for 1929-30
are Guy E. Snavely of Birmingham
Southern College, president; President
William M. Lewis Of Lafayette College,
vice president; President Bernard ].
Bell Of st. Stephens College, Columbia
University, treasurer; Robert l.. Kelly,
executive secretary. and Archie M. Pal
mer, associate secretary.
Additional members of the executive
committee are Trevor Arnett, president
of the General Education Boar6. and
Rees E. Tulloss, president Of Witten-
berg College. The association has its
headquarters at Ill Fifth avenue, New
York.