Evening star., 1934-05-20
Schools and Colleges
Events of Interesting Student and Faculty
Act;v;t;es in Washington Leading
Educational Institutions.

Each department Of the university was
represented by its own stan in the
general compilation.
The annual commencement exercises
will represent a departure this year
from the usual program. being sched-
uled for the evening on the esplenard
Of the White -Gravenor Building. This
will be brilliantly flood-lighted for the
occasion. The esplenard was especial
ly constructed for just such purposes
but last year, owing to the rain, the
commencement was held in Constitu-
ton Hall. The program Of commence
ment week will follow the usual Sc
quence of former Hilltop commence
ments.
National U. Forms Council
As A result of a movement started
"A last Fall, the Panhellenic Coun-
Gil of the National University Law
School has been formed and its con-
stitution adopted by the six Greek let
ter legal fraternities of the school. The
purpose Of the council is to promote
the interests Of the school and espe-
cially to inculcate in students the
highest ideals Of the legal profession
Each of the fraternities has ap-
pointed two representatives on the
council, namely, Alpha Beta Phi, rep
resented by Harry D. Sperling and Ar
thur Finkelstein; Kappa Beta Pi, rep
resented by Virginia Crowder and
Louise Roe: Phi Beta Gamma, repre-
sented by George r. Morris, jr., and G.
Newell Atkinson; Phi Delta Delta, rep
resented by Leda c. Amidon and H.
Marguerite Edwards; Sigma Delta
Kappa, represented by Henry L. Doyle
and J. NJ Singleton, and Sigma Nu
Phi, represented by Laforest S. Sauls-
bury and Dos T. Hatfield.
Officers elected for the first year
are: George r. Morris, jr., president;
Dos T. Hatfield, vice president, and
Louise Roe, secretary-treasurer.
DR.. Hayden johnson, dean OF the
Law School, has expressed himself as
being in complete accord with the
purposes and ideals Of the council. 1t
is planned to have general assembly
at the university in the near future,
for the purpose of having the dean
publicly aff1x his signature to the con-
stitution and in addition to have him
address few remarks to the students
to familiarize them with its principles
and plans.
One of the first projects the council
is sponsoring is the revival of the Law
Review, monthly publication for
merly edited by the students, which
contained articles of great interest to
the legal profession written by out
standing men, as well as contributions
of legal research submitted by the stu
dents themselves.
Summer Sessions at G. w. U.
DRE-REGISTRATION for the 1884
Summer sessions of the George
Washington University will open to-
morrow, continuing through May 81.
During this period those who wish
to take Summer courses may consult
advisers, make up their schedules and
complete registration in advance of
the more crowded regular registration
day which falls on June 9.
Nine-week courses in the Summer
sessions will run from June IL to
August 10. and six-week courses from
July 2 to August 10. The Summer
term in the Law School consists of
two semesters, the first from June II
to July 25. and the second from
July rs to September 7.
The Summer sessions, under DR.
Robert Whitney Bolwell, dean, will be
featured by special work in the fields
of government and education Through
the School of Government a schedule
OF courses in economics and political
science is offered. Courses in Rus
sian language and literature and In
recent Russian history have been
scheduled to meet the need arising
from re-esta blished relations between
the United States and Russia.
Through the School of Education
the university will conduct three con-
ferences for teachers, in teacher edu-
cation, educational guidance and
school finance. These conferences are
under the direction of DR.. William
John Cooper, former United States
commissioner of education and now
professor Of education in the uni
versity
In the natural sciences two inter.
esting field courses have been an.
nounced.
A special intersession course in field
ornithology will be conducted by DR.
Paul Bartsch of the Zoology Depart
ment, from June to July S, inclusive.
This course will consist of daily trips
about the environs of Washington
from to $50 am, and will close
with a visit to the Dismal Swamp and
the islands lying off the east shore of
Cape Charles, where are to be found
the nesting places of laughing gulls,
various species of tern and numerous
other seabirds.
DR.. Robert F. Griggs of the Botany
Department, will conduct pre-session
field trip to the coastal plain and
mountains of North Carolina for the
study of the flora Of that region,
which will run from June to
June 80.
A third field course tentatively
scheduled is that in marine in
vertebrate zoology, under DR.. Donnell
B. Young, which it Is planned to
hold at one of the marine biological
laboratories on the Atlantic Coast.