Evening star., 1934-02-25
Schools and Colleges
Events Of Interesting Student and Faculty
Activities IN Washington Leading
Educational Institutions.

the university, which have been held
daily from to $50 since the re-
opening of the redecorated Lambie
House, student headquarters, will be
continued during the coming week.
On Monday the tea will be sponsored
by the Alpha Delta Theta Sorority,
Tuesday by Phi Delta, Wednesday.
Kappa Kappa Gamma; Thursday, the
Faculty Women's Club, and Friday,
Phi Sigma Sigma Sorority.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull was
initiated into honorary membership
in the George Washington University
chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa,
honorary activities fraternity, at
ceremonies held In the State Depart
ment last Friday. The initiation was
| conducted by DIR. William Allen Will
bur, provost of the university and
faculty adviser of the chapter, and
Wendell Balm, chapter president.
Wilson Frosh Dance.
THE freshman class of Wilson
Teachers College held its an
AudI lIOllC al the ar
College Friday night. Leo Altman
headed the committee in charge Of
the affair.
An installation dinner, given by
1.-The Twenty" was held last Tuesday
night at Tilden Gardens. Guests
from the faculty were Miss Mary Rose
Parkman, DR.. M. Margaret Stroth
and Miss Anna Halberg.
Miss Ruth Lee, the outgoing pres
ident, gave brief speech of welcome
and outlined the history of The
Twenty" since its inception, in 1892.
The officers for the coming year are:
Dorothy Russell. president; Helen
Sellers, vice president; Margaret
Cragg, secretary, and Jane Fror,
treasurer.
The Boy Scout leader, Commodore
Longtellow, was guest speaker at last
Tuesdays convocation He spoke on
the significance of the Boy Scout
movement and its relation to educa-
ton, and related briefly a series of
his experiences at the Scout jamboree
held at Birkenhead. England, in 1929.
The woman members Of the faculty
will be the guests Of the Women'S
Club at tea In the Little Theater,
on the second floor of the college,
March 20. Miss Betty Little is chair
man Of the committee in charge.
n. U. Girls Get Advice.
INCOME tax attorneys of the future
will have more difficult ceases"
than they have in the immediate
past, Miss Helen Carlos, special as
sistant to the Attorney General, ad-
vised women law students of National
University at the annual dinner of
the Cy Pres Club Thursday night at
the Mayf1ower Hotel.
Speaking on THE New Deal in In
come Taxation" Miss Carlos said that
the recent Investigations into out
standing incomes and taxes paid on
them showed glaring need for plug
g1ng up the income and tax laws" so
that evasions will not be so easy. The
Investigations, she said, will be made
the basis Of new income tax legisla-
lation, which will have for its goal
the more active taxation of big in
comes SO that the lower bracket in
comes can be relieved Of the tax bur-
den they now carry.
Senator Ernest w. Gibson Of Yer
mont, professor of trial procedure at
National University, was toastmaster
Of the dinner, which marked the
thirteenth anniversary of the Cy
Pres Club. The Senator was intro
duced by Miss Margaret Early, presi-
dent of the club.
Moot Court Judge Glenn Willett,
also of Nationals Law School staff.
spoke on Women as Advocates, con-
tending that they would be outstand-
ing successes as criminal defense at
torneys. He argued that they would
succeed especially well In cases where
human elements were involved.
Guests of the club at it's dinner in
cluded DR.. Hayden johnson, chancel-
lor Of the university, and Mrs. John
son; MIS- Frederick L. Siddons, wild
years, was a prominent member Of
Nationals staff: Mrs. willett, and
Miss Jane Elizabeth Newton, founder
of the Cy Pres Club.
DR.. Charles Pergler, dean of the
National University School of Eco
nomics and Government, will address
the Young Democrats of Arlington
County, Va, tomorrow night on
Changing PHILOSOPHERS of Govern
ment."
Winter term examinations at Ma
tional will begin March 5, to continue
throughout that week. The Spring
term opens March IL.
Gallaudet Frat Initiates.
THE Kappa Gamma, mems schol- |
arship, leadership and fellow
ship fraternity Of Gallaudet Col
lege, held its initiation ceremonies last
night at Kendall Green. Eleven can
didates were admitted as members
from among the students and two
faculty members were installed as
honorary members.
Student candidates admitted were
Clarence Olson, Gordon Clarke Cecil |
Davis, Rudolph Gamblin, Calvin |,
Long, Gorden Hirschy, Stanley Patrie, |
John Slanski, Charles Whisman,
Joseph Burnett and Hubert Sellner,
'37. Louis L. Hooper and Frank B.
Smith were given honorary member
ship.
These additions bring the number
Of undergraduate members to over 80. |
The fraternity was founded in 1901,
by DR.. Percival Hall, and has four
chapters, one each in New York,
Council Bluffs, Philadelphia and Co.
lumbus. It is the only fraternity ex-
istent among the young men of Gal
laudet. and its influence is widespread