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c. v. DEBATERS
TO Be ENTERTAINED
Official Banquet viii Be Held
at University Club
April Is.

Man and woman students who have
represented George washington uni
versity in intercollegiate debate during
the current season will be entertained at
an official banquet in their honor We'd
nesday evening, April 16, at the Uni
versity Club. At this time awards will
be made to those whose work in debate
has been meritoriouS. A speaker OF
prominence, whose name will be an
nounced later, will give the principal
address.
The IA debaters who are to be hon
oEed are Elizabeth Reeves, Louise Fem
stein, Genevieve Wimsatt, Louise Fall
ligant, Julia Bonwit, Virginia Frye and
Myrtle Wilson of the women's debate
team and Woodfin L. Butte, Charles
Laughlin, Hearst r. Duncan, Robert L.
Parsons, Norman r. Hagen, Paul
Keough and Andrew Howard Of the
mems debate team.
Prof. Willard Hayes Yeager, Depew
professor of public speaking in the uni
versity and coach of debate, will pre-
side. Members of the university COM
guests at the banquet. The committee
includes Prof Earl Caspar Arnold,
chairman; Prof. Warren Reed West,
Andrew G. Wilkins, Ralph Morgali and
Hartman Dorsey.
All persons interested in public
speaking have been invited to attend the
banquet. Reservations are being made
through Prof. Yeager.
The mems debate team will hold its
last debate Of the season Tuesday, when
it meets a visiting team from Boston
University. Their schedule this year
has included Ohio Wesleyan, Princeton
University, the University of Vermont,
the University of North Carolina, North
Carolina State College. the University
of Florida, the Chinese Debating Coun-
Gil, New York University. Emory Uni
versity, Western Reserve University and
Gettysburg College.
The women's team will close its sea-
son on April "a with a debate against
American University.
The university will be represented in
the National intercollegiate Oratorlcal
Contest this year. Tryouts to select a
representative were held Friday night
by the public speaking department.
Interfraternity Debating.
Intersorority and interfraternity de-
batting will be inaugurated, Thursday
night under the auspices OF the George
Washington Chapter Of Delta Sigma Rho,
national honorary debate fraternity.
Two contests will be held, one for the
fraternities and one for the sororltles.
Sororities will debate the question. Re
solved, That the regular full-time en-
ployment of married women in industry
should be discouraged" while the ira
ternities will argue the issue, Resolved,
That the installment buying of con-
sumption goods should be discouraged"
Home economics students OF the uni
versity, under the direction OF Prof.
Frances Kirkpatrick, are making
study of hygienic laboratories. Last
Saturday members of the seminar IN
nutrition and dietetics visited the nu.
tritional laboratory OF the School OF
Hopkins University, which is conducted
by DR.. E. v. McCollum, scientist, author
and research worker. The excursion
included a survey of the laboratories
devoted to experimental work in nutri-
ton and a talk by DR.. McCollun. The
George Washington students were con-
Quoted through the dietetic division OF
Johns Hopk ms Hospital by Miss Phyllis
Rowe, the chief dietitian, and the or
ganization of the institutional work was
explained and observed as 1t was being
carried on in the various units. on
Wednesday the students visited the ny
gienic laboratory of the Department OF
Agriculture.
Chapter Installed.
The George Washington University
Chapter of Alpha lambda Delta, hon.
orary scholastic fraternity for freshmen
women, was installed Saturday evening
at ceremonies held at the Willard Hotel.
Dean Marie Leonard of the University
of Illinois and national grand president
of the organization, came to Washing
ton to be present at the installation
ceremonies. banquet concluded the
program, at which the speakers were:
Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr., of the board OF
trustees of the university, and Mrs.
Winnie G. Barrows, adviser for women.
Mildred Burnham, president of the
George Washington Chapter, presided.
Women who were initiated into men,
berShip If the society included: Sopho-
mores, Mildred Burnham, Carolyn
Brooks, Mary Maciulla, Jeanette Bern
stein, Margaret Payne, Mae Joseph and
Nanette Dembitz; freshmen, Virginia
Gummel, Marion Flick, Elizabeth
Churchill, Ray Miller, Jane Menefee
and Elizabeth Farrell.
Dean William Carl Ruediger Of the
School Of Education attended the con-
ference In New York during the past
week of the Interstate Conference on
Common Problems Of Teacher Educa-
ton. This group, composed of deans
of schools of education and principals
of teachers colleges in the Atlantic
Coast section, is doing an important
work in the formulation Of teaching
principles.
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