Evening star., 1936-11-26
NEW SCIENCE HALL
lis DEDICATED BY
|G. v. i. GATHERING
Ceremony Is One of High
Points of Schools Home.
coming.
PRESIDENT MARVIN
TELLS SIGNIFICANCE
Responsibilities and Privileges Of
Citizenship Through Greater
Understanding, Aim.

With some 1000 students and
alumni present, George Washington
University late yesterday dedicated
its new Social Science Hall in one
of the high points Of the schools an
nual homecoming.
The ceremony came Immediately
after the second campus rally ar
ranged to prepare for today's Thanks
giving game between G. w. U. and
the University of West Virginia.
DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president,
delivered the dedication address, and
the corner stone, containing both cur
rent and historic university docu-
ments, was slipped in place jointly
by Theodore w. Noyes, senior MEM
Der Of the Board OF Trustees, and
Harry c. Davis, secretary.
Symbolic of Program.
"At the center of the university's
grounds" DR.. Marvin said, sit (the
new Social Science HalD stands SYM
bolic of the place of the social science
program in the academic life of
George Washington University. Here,
where the social studies are being
developed as a component part of q
university curriculum embracing the
full circle Of mans activity in his
physical and social environment, this
Social Science Hall compliments those
halls which are given over to the
physical and biological sciences as
well as the professions. To try to
separate the Interpretation of the So
cial sciences from the supporting life
Of which they are an explanation
would be suicidal to true university
endeavor.
This hall which houses the social
sciences likewise is the temporary
home of the George Washington Uni
versity School of Government. Ths
juxtaposition is an appropriate and
significant one, for it is the interpre.
tation of the social sciences which
implements government, making it
intelligent, dynamic and purposeful.
1t is through increased knowledge in
the field Of social sciences that we
may expect to arrive at our goal OF
social reconstruction through demo-
cratic methods in our seIf-governing
society. The School of Government
affords preparation within the field
OF social sciences for those who look
forward to public serice as a vocation.
Bases for Understanding.
1.-THE division Of the social sciences,
In q broader and non-technical sense,
give the bases for an understanding
of the responsibilities and privileges
OF citizenship in our developing so.
cial order. The School of Govern.
ment and the division Of the social
sciences, thus adequately housed, en-
ables these branches Of the university
service to contribute more largely and
more effectively to the fulfllment Of
the university's purpose in the Ma
tion's Capital.
In dedicating this Social Science
Hall We here rededicate the university
to the enlargement and dissemination
OF that knowledge an understanding
through which man will perfect his
social relationships"
When he had finished. Mr.. Moves
and Mr.. Davis applied the mortar
that will hold the stone in place.
The marker bore the single inscrip.
ton 1895"
Rally at Rialto.
Later last night the final big rally
OF the two-day celebration was held.
uylraY, the S,rIH nt. -,
took charge Of the Rialto Theater
after the days regular run of picture
entertainment.
The usual pep talks were made,
and gloomy Coach Pixles repeated
his warning against overconfldence
in todays game with the University
Of West Virginia. He asked for a
fighting and scared" attitude on the
part Of the student body and the
former students who are here for the
annual festivities.
Earlier in the evening the visitors
were entertained at a reception in
the unitersity's new Strong Hall, a
dormitory for women.
After today's game the home COM
ing will end with a dance at the Hall
of Nations in the Washington Hotel.
The members Of the West Virginia
team will be guests of honor. A cup
will be awarded for the prize winning
fraternity house decorated for the
celebration.
Hugh H. Clegg, assistant director Of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
will take an active part in tonight's
part Of the program. He is chairman
for the General Alumni Association
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