Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19
Schools and Colleges
News of Interesting Student and Faculty activities
in Wdshington's Leading Educational
Institutions.

the Big Brother Committee He is nov
vice president of the Student Council
vice president of the oxford Fellowship
chaplain Of Phi Beta Teta Fraternity
and member Of the Dramatics Club.
The new business manager of The
Eagle selected for the ensuing year Il
Rudolph Swanson OF East Greenwich
r. l., who during the past year wa
assistant business manager; he succeeds
Alton H. Keller. The Eagle staff cele-
brated the close of its year last Wed
nesday night with o banquet at the
college dining hail. Speakers inct1ded
the new and retiring editors and bust
ness managers, DR.. Lucius G. Clark
chancellor OF American University; DR.,
| George B. Woods and others. The re-
firing management of the Eagle was
! highly commended.
The outstanding social event of the
year for students at the college was
the Junior prom, held Friday night at
the willard Hotel. The grand march
was led by Blake B. Espey, president
of the senior class, accompanied by
Miss Elizabeth Towne, and by B. Brooke
Bright, president of the junior class,
accompanied by Miss Evelyn Billet.
Oh1cials of the university are receiving
congratulations from educational circles
upon the approval of the Graduate
School and the College of Liberal Arts
by the American Association Of Uni
versity Women, at its meeting in Boston
last week.
The Women's Guild of American
| University will hold It's next regular
meeting in the chapel of Hurst Hall on
the campus next Tuesday, when short
play, 1.-The Day That Lincoln Died,"
viii be presented by students, under the
direction of Will Hutchins, professor
Of dramatic art. Mrs. p. M. Anderson,
president of the guild. will preside.
Luncheon VIII be served in the women's
residence hall.
The Spring formal" of the Epsilon
Kappa Sorority will be held next Fri
day night, April "a. The oxford Fell
lowship banquet Is to be held next
Saturday night.
Honor DIR. Mussey.
ELLEN SPENCER MUSSEY, honor
Il airy dean Of washington College
Of Law, was honored by the
National League OF Women Voters on
Wednesday by the unwilling of bronze
memorial tablet, on which DR.. Mussey's
name was inscribed. This tablet con-
tains the names Of the two outstanding
women from each State in the United
States, the District of Columbia rank
ing as a State, deemed by members OF
the league to have performed the great
est service to their communities in
securing suffrage for women and the
general upbuilding Of their political and
civic life.
Or. Mussey, who studied law in her
husbands ONCE and became known as
the dean of women lawyers, established
the Washington College OF Law and
served as its dean for II years, the
first woman to occupy such a position
and to confer degrees IN law. DR.. MusSey
was instrumental in securing legislation
for the District Of Columbia from Con-
gresS. giving mothers equal rights with
fathers in their children and securing
TO married women the right to their
own earnings. As a member OF the
District of Columbia Board of Education
she procured the first appropriations for
free kindergartens, established the
atypical school for defective children,
and helped to secure the passage OF the
teachers relief and pension bill.
Dr. Mussey was an incorporation and
officer of the American Red Cross.
Howard GIee Club to Sing.
THE Mems Glee Club of Howard Uni
l. versity will appear in the lecture re-
cital series in Andrew Rankin Chapel
at e:15 pm, April 81. The club re-
Gently returned from two weeks tour
over 10 States, in which 16 concerts
were given Last Friday night the Glee
Club sang at the Armstrong High
School in its recital course.
Howard University r. o. T. c. Band
will broadcast over WMAL in Washing
ton, 9:15 pm, Thursday. The band Of
so students is under the direction Of
Sergt. John j. Briee, graduate Of the
Army Music School, and detailed by
the War Department. Sergt. Brica is
o student Of Capt. William j. Stannard,
director Of the United States Army
Band.
Miss Lucy D. slowe, dean Of women
of Howard University, will entertain
at tea in the north parlors Of Miner
Hall, at o'clock Thursday, April %,
in honor Of Dr. and Mrs. Charles II.
Wesley. who have just returned from
London.
Wives Of administrative officers, wom-
en- members of the faculty, and few
male members Of the faculty, together
with a group Of senior women, will be
present. DR.. Wesley will address the
group on his experiences in London.
Howard University School of Music
presented Emanuel Zetlin, violinist, and
Henry 8. Gregor, pianist, in recital in
Andrew Rankin Chapel yesterday at
S:15 pm. Mr. Zetlin Is o former in
structor in violin oil the Curtis Insti-
tute Of Musical Art, and Mr.. Gregor
is director Of music in the National
Park Seminary Of Forest Glenn, D. O..
DR.. Roscoe Mckinney, professor and
head of the Department of Anatomy
of the Howard University School of
Medicine, has recently been elected to
membership in the Association OF Amer
lean ANTAGONISTS, according to announce
ment by Dean Numa P. q. Adams to-
day. DR.. Mckinney received the de-
gree of doctor of philosophy in anatomy
at the University of Chicago last year.
School Schedules Lectures.
THREE special lectures will be given
l. before students of the Washing
ton Preparatory School this week,
according to an announcement by r. O..
Eliason. principal.
| at Leland Stanford University and New
York University, will address the eco
nomic class tomorrow night at 7:30
| O'Clock on Population Problems"
| Edward T. Henderson, curator of
! geology, National Museum. and in
structor in minerology at George Wash
ington University, will give an illus
| trated lecture on Africa of Today"
before the science and history classes,
! Wednesday night at $3.50 o'clock. Mr..
Henderson will show motion pictures
which he filmed during a recent tour
| of Africa
| D. P. McGregor, attached to the
office of the delegate from Hawaii, will
describe his native land in an illustrated
| lecture Friday night at $50 o'clock.
| Slides and motion pictures will be ex-
| hibited.
The lectures will be held in the as
| sembly hall of the school at the Central