Evening star., 1932-09-11
c. v. i. PREPARING
FOR OPENING TERM.
112th Year Begins Septem-
Der 21-First Faculty
Meeting Called.

Members Of the faculty Of George
Washington University are returning
to Washington in preparation for the
opening of the 112th academic year of
the university on September 81.
DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president, has
called the first faculty meeting for Fri
day evening, September is. Registra-
ton will begin the following day, con-
tinuing through Tuesday, and classes
will resume on Wednesday.
Those of the teaching staff who were
absent during the past year on sabbath
cal leave will take up their classes again
this Fall, DR.. George Neely Henning
Of the department of romance Ian
guages will return from Paris. where
he has been engaged in the prepara-
ton of a revised critical edition of his
Representative French Lyrics" a text
that Is in wide use in American COL
leges. Dean william Carl Ruediger of
the School of Education, who spent the
past year in teaching and writing at
Cornell University and in travel abroad
to observe European educational meth
DDS, again will be in active service
director of the division of library sci
ence, will be back at the university
after visiting Munich, Leipzig, Vienna.
Rome and Paris. to study the great
European libraries Prof. Charles Sager
Collier of the law faculty will return
after year Of study and research at
Harvard University.
Four ON Leave This Year.
Four members of the faculty will be
on leave during the coming year. Prof.
Edward Elliott Richardson, Elton pro-
fessor of mental and moral philosophy,
will travel in India, China and other
Oriental countries, studying the philos-
ophy and religion of these peoples and
lecturing in several colleges. Prof,
Charles Sidney Smith of the depart
ment Of classical languages and litera-
ture Is to attend the School of Clas-
sical Studies of the American Acad- |
emy in Rome for the study of classical
philology and archaeology He also will
visit places of classical interest in Italy
Of the law faculty will spend the
greater part of the year at Harvard
University, completing translation from
the German Of a book on jurispru-
dence. preparing for publication a study
Of administrative law and doing in
tensive work in Roman law and ju-
risprudence. DR.. Joseph Hyram Roe |
Of the medical faculty will pursue re-
search work in biochemistry at Yale |
University.
Among the new appointees to the
teaching staff are executive offers of |
the departments of physiology, bio |
chemistry and obstetrics and gynecol-
ogy IN the School Of Medicine.
Professor In Siam.
DR.. Erritt Cyril Albritten, who will |
head the department of physiology, for |
the past six years has been professor |
of physiology in the Government Med |
ical School in Bangkok, Siam. Prior |
to that time he taught in the Uni
versity of Buffalo Medical School and |
the University Of Missouri Medical |
School He has been associated with |
the International Health Board and |
the United States Public Health Serv- |
Johns Hopkins University and the |
A. B. degree from the University Of |
Missouri
DR.. Vincent du Vigneaud, head Of |
the department Of biochemistry. comes |
to George Washington University from |
the University of Illinois. He holds the |
B. S. and M. S. degrees from the Uni |
versity of Illinois, and the degree of |
doctor Of philosophy from the Uni |
versity Of Rochester Medical School, |
He has studied in Europe, attending the |!
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute at Dresden, |
where he was with Prof Max Bergman; |
at the University of Edinburgh, and |
at the University College of Medicine, /
london He or the phila dn1p1rio 4
General Hospital for some time, held |
an assistantship in the Graduate |
School Of Medicine at the University |
OF Pennsylvania, was one year with !
Prof. John j. Abel at Johns Hopkins, |
and served on the staff of the Roches- !
ter Medical School
DR.. Radford Brown Of the depart |
ment of obstetrics and gynecology re-
ceived his medical training at George |
Washington University Medical School, |
and has been on the staff of Sloane's |
Hospital for Women and Children, New |
York City.
The degree of doctor Of philosophy |
has been conferred upon three faculty |
members since the close of school In |
June. Prof. Elmer Louis Kayser of the |
history department received the doc |
torate from Columbia University, Ralph |
Dale Kennedy of the department of !
economics from the University of Iowa |
and Christopher Browne Garnett, IT., |
of the philosophy department from the |
University Of Edinburgh.
Faculty Of $50.
The George Washington University, |
with $500 students, and with a faculty |
Of 450 offering training in arts and |
sciences and in eight professional
fields, is SO organized as to give the in
dividual student at once the greatest |
freedom and the fullest supervision In |
his studies.
The work Of the freshman and soph-
omore years is co-ordinated in the
junior college which underlies the
senior college Of letters and sciences
Columbian College,, and all Of the
professional schools. The curricula are
carefully planned to give the student
during the first two college years
foundation definitely preparing him for
sciences or in the professional field Of
his choice, so that from the outset his
college study looks toward its ultimate
objective
The new student entering the uni
versity is afforded the assistance in
his adjustment to college life. Oppor-
tunities to consult with freshman ad-
visers and with the deans Of the vari-
Gus schools relative to the planning
OF programs are extended at the time
of registration. Psychological tests and
physical examinations establish mental
aptitudes and physical fitness Of the
student. Each member Of the fresh
man class is assigned to a member Of
the teaching staff who acts as FAC
ulty friend giving him every assist
ance during the freshman and sopho-
more years. Close association between
teacher and student is recognized by
the university as a cardinal principle
OF instruction and is fostered by ad-
ministration and faculty.