Evening star., 1934-01-28
G. w. U. Registration Scheduled.

IN ing George Washington Univer-
sity in February will take place
| on Wednesday and Thursday and
classes will open Friday.
All students, excepting law students,
will register in Corcoran Hall, Twenty
first street between G and H streets
between 10 am. and 8 pm. Law stu
dents will register in Stockton Hall,
| the Law School Building Twentieth
| street between G and H streets.
Arrangements are made by the
Junior College to accommodate students
who are graduated from high school in
February and who wish to enter I'M
mediately upon college work.
In Columbian College. the senior
college Of letters and sciences there
are many semester courses which start
in February, as well as number of
! full-year courses which may be entered
at midterm with the permission of the
instructor. In addition to under
graduate and graduate study in letters
| and sciences. the university offers
training in eight professional schools.
Late afternoon classes afford the en-
! ployed student the opportunity to pur-
sue university study either as candidate
for a degree or as a special student.
OF especial interest in Washington,
with the increasing scope and I'M
portance of governmental functions, Is
the work Of the School of Government.
with special curricula In government,
business administration, finance, do
meStic commerce, foreign service and
foreign commerce.
Through its School of Education the
university offers courses for teachers
of all school levels. from the primary
grades to the university, leading to
larger opportunities in the field OF
educational service.
The Law School, Oldest in the Dis
trict of Columbia and charter men,
Der of the Association of American
Law Schools, arrangeS a special Sched-
ule for those wishing to enter in Febru-
ary upon the study of law. In the
School of Engineering training Is
offered in civil. electrical and mechan-
ical engineering A combined engi-
neering-law curriculum prepares for
the field of patent law.
Other professional schools which
may be entered in February include the
Division of Library Science, the Divi-
sion of Fine Arts and the School OF
Pharmacy.
Howard U. Tests Begun.
EXAMINATIONS were begun in the
r undergraduate and graduate di-
visions of Howard University Fri
day. to continue through Wednesday,
which will mark the close Of the first
semester of the sixty-flfth year OF How
ard University. The second semester
begins February l with registration OF
iv, fIa oci1, Of O
university.
A new course in esperanto, under
the direction of the College of Liberal
Arts, will be conducted formally during
the second semester. 1t is arranged as
an extra -curricular activity for those
students who wish to become acquainted
with it, either for scholarly purpose. or
for purposes as may later prove to be
practical 1t will be conducted by
E. G. Dodge.
Under the auspices of the College of
Education, a course in German will be
conducted by DR.. Georgiana r. Simp-
son. associate professor Of German.
William L. Hansberry, instructor in
history, concluded his series of public
lectures on Egypt Under the Ethio
given under the immediate auspices of |
the division of social sciences Of the !
College of Liberal Arts During the
semester now ending DR.. T. V. Smith, |
professor of philosophy at the Univer-
sity of Chicago, delivered lecture un- |
der the same auspices upon THE In
dividual Conscience and Social Order"
The second semester Of the School OF
Law will be featured by Sunday forums,
held every other Sunday, at which a
number Of authorities will discuss legal
phases of current national and public
problems.
Strayer's New Term Announced.
CTRAYER COLLEGE will begin its
y second semester classes in both day
and evening sessions on February
and IL in the accounting and secre-
tarial departments. according to Pinck-
ney J. Harman, director Of the college.
C. Vaughan Darby, dean of the Grad
uate School, has announced an i'm |
portant change that has been made in
the c. P. A. accounting course leading |
to the B. c. S. degree. A new three
year course now is open to new stu
dents in the place of the four-year |
course that previously has been offered. |
1t was pointed out by officials of |
the Accounting School in making the
change to conform with the time re-
quired by other accounting courses that |
the amount of accounting offered in
the new course has not been reduced |
but some of the courses previously Of
fered in the undergraduate department |
have now been transferred to the grad
uate research course leading to the M.
G. S. degree.
The placement bureau under the |
direction of Margaret Hutchinson, en-
ployment secretary, is reporting in
creases in the number of students
placed in permanent positions that |
have not been equaled since the World |
War During the six months ending
December 81 almost three times as
many calls were received by the en-
ployment department as there were |
in a similar period in 1882. In addi- |
tion to the permanent placement Of |
students in business Offices in Wash |
ington, over 100 students and gradu-
ates have obtained employment in the
emergency" bureaus Of the Govern |
ment. The N. r. A., A. A. A. and R.
F. c. have employed the majority OF |
these students.
The Nu Chapter of Phi Theta Pi
Fraternity will hold it's annual formal |
initiation at the Willard Hotel Thurs
day evening. February l. business
meeting will precede the ritual cere-
monies. and DR.. Stephen E. Kramer,
first assistant superintendent of schools
and an honorary member of the fra
ternity. will address the chapter fol-
lowing the induction.
A new class in practical newspaper |
writing will be formed the latter part
of February for secretarial students
who elect this course. All Of the prac-
tical aspects of journalism are covered,
and particular attention is paid at the