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Freshmen Register
Next Saturday al
American University
Glasses Stort Sept. Is
Following Period Of
Orientotion on Campus

Registration for freshman week
at American University will begin
on Saturday. From that date until
the beginning of classes on Septem-
Der Is the freshmen will be under
going period of "orientation" in
preparation for college living.
The first day the freshmen will
be welcomed by Dean G. B. Woods
OF the College of Arts and Sciences
and by Charles Corddry. president
OF the student body. Following the
opening assembly the new students
will make a get acquainted" tour OF
the campus. An opening party will
be given to the new students by the
athletic department in the college
gymnasium that evening.
On Sunday morning at 10 o'clock a
discussion group is scheduled on
Important Elements in College
Life" Following this the students
will attend a church service at the
Metropolitan Church adjoining the
campus. In the afternoon the out
standing feature will be tea at the
different faculty homes.
Conferences With Advisers.
On Monday morning the new
students will have individual con-
ferences from $50 to 1890 o'clock
with their faculty advisers. Follow
ing this the freshmen students will
register for their college classes. A
feature will be the Student Govern
ment Associations registration of
all new students for activities, in
tended to advise the freshmen
against entering too many activities.
Monday evening at 7:45 o'clock
the women students are to be enter
talned by Cap and Gown, senior
women's honorary society, in the
Women's Lounge. The men students
are to have a bull session" with
the members of Omicron Delta
Kappa, national extracurricular
honorary group for men, in the
Mems Lounge.
A special assembly is planned for
Tuesday morning at o'clock during
which the traditions of the univer-
slty will be explained to freshmen
The students will make a tour at
$50 am. of the university library
under the direction of the librarian.
This trip is planned to explain to
the students the set-up of references
and catalogues.
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will be an athletic activities program
designed to acquaint students with
the type of athletic program avail
able at American University.
AH-College Party.
In the evening the college council
will give its annual all-college party
for both old and new students.
Glasses begin on Wednesday.
September Is, after the opening
convocation at the University
Chapel
Recent additions to the college
faculty are DR.. George Winston
Smith. assistant professor of history.
and DR.. Louis C. Wheeler. instructor
in botany and bfl1pgy. New to the
graduate school and school of public
affairs are: Miss Helen L. Chatfield,
archivist of the United States Treas
ury, who will give a course in The
Role of Records in Public Admins
tration; John N. Edy, executive
assistant and budget officer of the
Federal Works Agency, who will
teach the Philosophy and Practice
of Public Management: George
Wythe, liaison officer of the United
States Department of Commerce,
who will offer a course in Current
Latin American Trade Problems,
and Frederick T. Todd, an associate
of the American Military Institute,
who will give course in American
Military History.
Registration for the graduate
school is from tomorrow through
Tuesday, September "a. Glasses be-
gin on September Is at the down.
town center.