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University Will Be
In Recess Unit!
January 4

SuiIuoiy
With the university in recess until
wednesday. January 4, members Of
the George Washington faculty will
leave Washington this week to take
part in the meetings of scientific
and learned societies which will be
In session in various cities.
The meetings of the Modern Lam
guage Association of America and
affiliated societies. in New York
City. will be attended by Dean
Henry Grattan Doyle and Profs.
George N. Henning, Merle I. Protz-
man, Irene CornWell and Antonio
Alfonso of the department of ro-
nance languages; Dean Robert w.
Bolwell and Profs. George w. Stone,
Fred S. Tupper and Ross M. Taylor
of the English department, and
Prof. Edward H. Sehrt of the de-
partment of Germanic languages
and literatures.
Dean BolWell will read a paper,
Concerning the Study of National
Ism tn American Literature" in the
American literature section. Prof.
Sehrt is secretary of the German
historical grammar group. Dean
Doyle is chairman of the Nominat-
Ing Committee of the American
Association of Teachers of Spanish
and past president.
Attend Law Convention.
At Chicago, where the Association
will
vene, Dean William c. VanVleck
and Prof. S. C. Oppenheim of the
aaw faculty and Miss Helen New
man, law librarian, will be in at
tendance. Dean VanVleck is a
member of the associations Com
mittee on Cooperation with the
Bench and Bar. Prof. Oppenheim
IS chairman of the Committee on
Current Legal Literature. Miss
Newman will read paper at one
of the round-table meetings.
Two members of the faculty are
on the program of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of
Science, which will meet in Rich
mond. Prof. Steuart H. Britt of the
psychology department will present
q paper on Science and the Law:
Blood-Grouping Tests and Cultural
Lag: Prof. Donnell B. Young of
The zoology department, paper on
Studies of the Reproductive Tract
of the Male Box Turtle, Terrapene
Carolensis." Miss Edith Mortensen
and Prof. Ira B. Hansen of the 20
clogy department and DR.. Joseph
II. Roe and DR.. George B. Roth of
the medical faculty will attend the
Richmond meetings. DR.. Roger M.
Choisser of the medical faculty will
go to Baltimore for the sessions of
the American Association of Neo-
plastic Diseases
At the meeting of the American
Association of Physics Teachers here
papers will be presented by Prof
Thomas B. Brown and Prof. Ray
mond j. Seeger of the physics de-
partment. Prof. Brown is president
of the local chapter of the Amer
ican Association of Physics Teachers
and chairman of the committee ar
ranging the exhibits of demonstra-
tion experiments and laboratory
apparatus which will be on display
at the National Bureau of Standards
during the meetings.
DR.. Gibson to Present PAPER.
DR.. Ralph E. Gibson, adjunct pro-
lessor of chemistry. will take part in
the symposium on intermolecular
action at Brown University. With
o. H. Loeiffler he will present
paper, Pressure Volume Tempera-
ture Relations in Solution l. Obser-
vations on the Behavior of Solu-
tions of Benzene and Some of Its
Derivatives. The symposium is be-
ing held under the auspices of the
division of physical and inorganic
chemistry of the American Chemical
Society.
Prof. Ray S. Bassler of the geology
department will attend the semi
centennial meeting of the Geological
Society of America, of which he is
vice president, and the meeting of
the archaeological Society, of
which he is past president Both
meetings will take place in New
York City.
DR.. Don D. Humphrey of the de-
partment of economics will present
a paper at a joint meeting of the
American Economic Society and the
American Statistical Society in De-
troit on Price Reduction as a Stim-
ulus to the Sale of Durable Con-
sumers' Goods"
Members of the department of
business administration will attend
the following meetings in Detroit:
Prof. Richard N. Owens, American
Accounting Association; Prof. Ralph
D. Kennedy, American Accounting
Association and American Economic
Association: Prof Wilford L. White
and Prof. Nathaniel H. Engle, Am
erican Marketing Association.
Others at Meetings.
Miss Adelaide Hasse, lecturer in
library science. will attend the Am
erican Economic Association meet
ing.
DR.. Lowell j. Ragatz. editor of
publications for the American His
torical Association, will give his an
nual report at the meeting in Chi
cago. Others of the history depart
ment who will attend the meeting
are Prof. A. Curtis Wilgus and Vim
cent Jones and Edward Younger,
candidates for the Phi. D.
Profs. w. Hayes Yeager, De Witt