Evening star., 1932-04-17
Schools and Colleges
Events Of Interesting Student and Faculty
Activities in Washington Leading
Educational Institutions

Presidents of student organizations
will be guests of honor at party to
be given by DR.. George B. Woods. dean
of the College of Liberal Arts and
Mrs. Woods, and Miss Mary Louise
Brown, dean of women, at the Woods
home, next Saturday night.
The Mems and Women's Glee Clubs
night at Hurst Hall before the League
Of American Pen Women.
The bronze marker presented last
/ Tuesday by the National Society of
New England Women to mark the elm
tree which they planted on the cam
pus last Spring is to be deeply i'm
bedded in a concrete base at the foot
/ of the tree
The junior prom, outstanding stu
/ dent social affair of the year at the col
! lege was held Friday night at the Ken
| nedyWarren, in charge of commit
/ tee headed by Virginia PederSen. The
/ grand march was led by the presidents
/ of the senior and junior classes and
( their escorts. Dan Terrell. senior, with
/ Miss Martha j. Skidmore of this city,
and Max Schaul, junior president, with
Miss Lois Town of Frederick, Md,
student at Hood College.
G. W. L. Plans Education Course.
/ TOUR visiting experts will join the
i staff of the School of Education Of
/ George Washington University for
/ the coming Summer session. These,
/ with members of the resident faculty,
will present program in teacher
/ training designed TO fit teachers Of all
/ school levels, from pre-School to the
college. The courses will bring to stu
dents new and important material in
various special fields, and the oppOrtu-
nitv to work on research problems utll-
izing the library of the United States
/ Office of Education and other resources
special to Washington.
/ The visiting members Of the faculty
will be DR. Roy o. Billet, specialist In
school administration of the National
I Survey of Secondary Education; Ethel
Mabie, director of elementary curricu-
/ lum and methods in the public schools
of Madison. Wis; Julia Hahn, super
vising principal in the District public
| schools, and Harriet H. AlherS. research
associate in adult education of the
American Association Of University
/ Women.
A graduate course Of interest to high
school teachers will be the seminar in
! the high school curriculum. under the
direction of Dr. Billet, which Will COM
/ bine a survey of present tendencies with
research studies by members OF the
! class. Dr. Billett also will give courses
/ in the high school and the junior high
school, in which the emphasis will be
upon organization and administration.
Miss Mabie, who is widely known
through her Investigations into methods
! of teaching English and as a ccllabora-
| tor on text books, will give two courses
in tho teaching of English one for in
termediste teachers and the other for
high school teachers. A third course,
teaching problems in the intermediate
grades, also will be given by her.
Two problems of moment to the
teacher will be dealt with in courses
offered by Miss Hahn, primary reading.
which will be a survey of contemporary
practices and theories, and the activity
program. a critical analysis of current
practices. A study of the pre-school
child, designed for mothers as well as
for teachers, will be conducted under
the direction of Miss Alhers. A course
primarily for instructors in teachers
colleges, backgrounds of professional
courses for teachers, will be given by
Acting Dean William Cullen French Of
the School of Education. Dean French
also will give courses in methods of
teaching the social studies and the ele-
mentary school curriculum.
Prof Mitchell Dreese of the George
Washington faculty will give work in
educational measurement and a seminar
in the psychology of learning.
Basic courses in the history, theory
and methods of education, given by
Prof. Dreese and Ruth Coyner, associ-
ate in education, will complete the
Summer curriculum in teacher training.