Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

schools will end In the next
i couple Of days and semester
ceremonies, promotion days and
graduating exercises will be held We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday. The
second semester will begin February 3.
More than 5000 pupils will graduate
from the senior and junior high
schools and from the eighth grade
into senior and junior high schools.
Graduation exercises will begin
Wednesday morning at 1890 o'clock,
when DR.. Howard H. Long will pre-
sent the diplomas to the graduates
of Francis Junior High School. Others
to graduate the same day, and the
presiding officers, are Terrell at 1880
pm, with Mrs. Mary A. Mcneil pre-
siding, and Garnet-Patterson at 2
pm, with DR.. J. Hayden johnson
in charge.
Thursdays schedule is as follows:
At 2 p.m.-Eliot, Miss Jessie La Sale;
Hine, Miss BERTHE Backus; Macfar-
land. George M. Whitwell; Paul,
Charles B. Degges, and Shaw, DR..
Garnet c. Wilkinson. At 8 pm
Mckinley, Henry Gilligan; Roosevelt.
Henry I. Quinn; Dunbar, Mrs. Nc
Neill, and Taft, DR.. Frank w. Ballou.
On Friday all the remaining schools
will conclude the first semester. The
schedule is: 1890 am.-Western Mrs.
Philip Sidney Smith, and Randall, A.
X. Savoy. At p.m-Deal, Jere j.
Crane: Gordon, Robert L. Haycock;
Powell. Robert A. Maurer, and Stuart,
DR.. Stephen E. Kramer At 8 pm
Central, Mr.. Maurer: Armstrong, DR..
Wilkinson: Cardozo, DR.. johnson; JET
ferson, Mrs. Smith, and Langley, John
F. Brougher.
Second Semester at G. w. U.
r EG1sTRAT1ON for the second
~ semester in George Washington
University will take place Wednesday
and Thursday. February S and 6.
On these two days university offices
will be open from 10 am. until pm,
and deans and advisers will be- on
hand to assist new students, both
those just graduated from high school
ana those transferring with advanced
standing from other colleges and uni
versities.
All students will register in Cor
coran Hall, Twenty-first street between
G and H streets, except law students.
who will go to Stockton Hall, the Law
School Building, Twentieth street be-
tween G and H streets.
All schools, colleges and divisions of
the university, with the exception Of
the School of Medicine, may be entered
in February.
With the beginning of the second
semester. 81 courses will open in 10
departments.
A number of courses for teachers are
scheduled to open with the second
semester. These include: Dean Will
liam Carl Ruediger's course in history
and principles of education, history of
American education and the social
studies, given by DR.. William Cullen
French, and the Junior high school and
school supervision, under Prof. John
B. Whitelaw.
In the Department of Psychology,
courses of special interest to teachers
which open in February include intro
duction to educational psychology and
education measurements, under Prof.
Mitchell Dreese; social psychology,
under Prof. Robert Ladd Thorndike,
and psychological tests, under DR..
Thelma Hunt.
For graduate students in education
there are a number Of seminars OPEN
ing in February.
The character education seminars.
offered jointly by the university and
the District Of Columbia public school
system. will continue in the second
semester. Through these seminars
some 200 Washington school teachers
are studying various phases Of char
acter education.
Prof. Charles S. Collier Of the law
faculty will be on leave the second Sc
mester and will 60 to the University
of Wisconsin as visiting professor of
law. Prof. Forrest r. Black Of the
University of Kentucky will serve in
the absence of Collier.
A. u. to Start Term.
\ MEXICAN UNIVERSITY will open
= its second semester next Tuesday
in all three of its schools, offering
many courses to new students, and,
according to DR.. Joseph M. M. Gray,
chancellor, an increased enrolment
already Is indicated.
Tomorrow will be the last day for
registration at the college on the CAM
pus, under direction Of Dean George
B. Woods, but registration at the
downtown center, 1901-1907 F street.
for the Graduate School and the
School of Public Affairs will be kept
open a few days longer, probably
throughout the week.
The Graduate School, under Dean