Evening star., 1939-12-24
Many Of 6. ". Faculty
To Attend Holiday
Scholars Sessions
Two Conventions
Meeting in Washington
During YuIe Recess


Meeting in Washington
During YuIe Recess
With the university in recess until
January 4, many members of the
George Washington faculty will be
in attendance upon scholarly and
scientific meetings that will be in
session in various cities throughout
the country.
Dean Henry Grattan Doyle, pro-
fessor of romance languages and
dean of Columbian College, will 60
to New Orleans to report before
the Modern Language Association
of America as chairman of the as
sociation's Permanent Commission
on Trends in Education. His paper,
to be delivered Thursday evening,
will be a preliminary statement of
the work of the commission, which
is concerned with the place of Eng
lish literature and of the foreign
languages and literatures in Amer
lean education
English department also will attend
this meeting. including Profs. Doug
las Bement, Charles w. Cole, Frank
Smith and Maurice Irvine Prof.
Bement will discuss the universitys
ewly-established English writing
laboratory at a meeting of the Col
lege English Association, the group
that deals with undergraduate Eng
lish teaching and English compost
ton.
Two Conventions Here.
Two of the associations will hold
their conventions in Washington
during the Christmas recess.
The flfty-fourth annual meeting
of the American Historical Asso-
citation will take place at the May.
flower Hotel Thursday through
Saturday. Dean Elmer Louis Kay
ser is chairman of the Committee
on Arrangements for the convention,
and Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr, of the
university's Board of Trustees also
is serving on the committee. Dean
Kayser will lead the discussion at
the session on liberalism in Eng
land" Brig. Gen. Oliver L. Spauld-
ing, adjunct professor of history,
is chairman of a panel discussion
on Land Power and Sea Power" to
be held in conjunction with the
joint meeting of the American His
torical Association and the American
Military Institute.
Also meeting in Washington on
the same days will be the Amer
lean Political Science Association.
DR.. Warren Reed West. professor of
political science and dean of the
school of government, is on the local
committee arranging for this meet
ing.
A number of members of the law
school staff are on the program of
the 37th annual meeting of the
Association of American Law
Schools, in Chicago, on the same
days Prof. S. Chesterfield Open
helm, chairman of the associations
Committee on Current Legal Litera-
ture, will give report at the open
Ing session. Prof. Chester C. Ward
will discuss The Developing Con-
cept of Unfair Labor Practices" at
a round-table session. Helen New
man, law librarian, who is execu-
tive secretary of the American Asso-
citation of Law Libraries, will speak
at a luncheon meeting on Library
Problems"
Social Psychology Discussion.
At the American Sociological So
ciety meeting in Philadelphia Prof.
Steuart H. Britt of the psychology
department will act as chairman of
the division of social psychology.
He also will present paper on The
Influence of Newspaper Circulation
on National Elections at meeting
Of the section on political sociology.
DR.. Edward H. Sehrt and DR..
Wolfram K Legner of the depart
ment of Germanic languages and
literatures will go to the University
of Pennsylvania for the meetings
of the Linguistic Society of Amer
lea. DR.. Sehrt will read a paper en-
titled Are the So-Called Long
Forms of Second-Class Weak Verbs
in Old Saxon of Indo-European Or
igin?"
Prof. w. Hayes Yeager, head of the
department of public speaking. is
president of the National Associa-
ton of Teachers of Speech. He will
discuss Congressional Oratory" at
the associations meeting in Chicago.
Prof. Henry G. Roberts also will at
tend this meeting.
Prof. Christopher B. Garnett will
attend meeting of the American
Association of Philosophy, to be held
at Columbia University in honor of
John Dewey.
Prof Ruth Atwell will attend the
legislative board meetings of the
National Section on Women's Ath-
letics of the American Association
for Health, Physical Education and
Recreation, a department of the
National Education Association in
Cleveland. Prof. AtWell is chairman
elect of the National Section on
Women's Athletics, and will make
two reports to that section.
Prof. Ames to Chicago.
Prof. Norman B. Ames of the
engineering faculty will attend the
convention of Theta Tau, honorary
engineering fraternity, which will
be held in Chicago. Prof Ames is
national officer of Theta Tau
and adviser of the George Wash
ington University chapter.
DR.. John Donaldson, professor of
political economy. will read a paper
entitled, War, Social Institution"
at the annual meeting of the Amer
lean Economic Association in Phila-
delphia. He also will attend the
biennial convention of Pi Gamma
Mu, the national social science honor
society, of which he is a national
vice president and trustee.
Dr. Ralph D. Kennedy and DR.
Richard N. Owens of the depart
ment of business administration will
go to Philadelphia for the conven-
ton of the American Economic AS