Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-08
Senior Week Opens
Al 6. W. With Ball
For Graduating Glass
BuccuIuureute Services
Tonight; Three Events
Tomorrow Evening

The historic senior week program
eliminating in the 120th annual
commencement on Wednesday eve
ming at Constitution Hall, and the
final meetings of various societies
this week will bring to a close the
regular school year at the George
Washington University.
Senior week activities opened last
night with the annual ball for
graduates, which is sponsored by
the General Alumni Association at
the Willard Hotel.
Baccalaureate services will be
held tonight at the Washington
Cathedral. Bishop James E. Free
man will preach the baccalaureate
sermon and President Cloyd Heck
Marvin will read the lesson. The
academic procession will form al
tbs o'clock and will enter the Great
Choir of the Cathedral at 7:45
O'Clock. Tickets of admission to the
baccalaureate services are not re-
quired and parents and friends of
graduates are invited to attend.
Busy Evening Monday.
Tomorrow night there is varied
activity on three fronts. President
and Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marvin will
receive graduates and their parents
at the Washington Club, 17Ol K
street from 5 to 7 o'clock. Dancing
will follow the reception.
The Order of the Golf. honorary
legal society. will hold its annual
banquet and initiation at the Wash
ington Hotel at 7:30 o'clock. So
licitor General Francis Biddle will
be the guest of honor. Members
of the law school graduating class
who rank in the upper 10 per cent
of the class will be initiated.
The alpha of the District chapter
of Phi Beta Kappa also will hold
it's initiation and banquet tomor-
row evening. Edgar Baker, Vernard
Band, Katherine Bowen. Elsie Mae
Carper. Marie Falk, Lillian Kolbey
Ellen Maxi, Paul McClenon. Robert
Morrison, Eleanor Sherburne, Anne
Thomas, John Wilson and William
Zeller will be indicted into member
ship at 7:30 at the Cosmos Club.
Dean Doyle Is POSTMASTER.
Dean Henry Grattan Doyle, presi-
dent of the George Washington
Chapter, will act as POSTMASTER;
President Marvin will extend greet
ings to the members and initiates;
DR.. Howard Maxwell Merriman, as
sistant professor of American diplo-
matte history, will say Latin grace,
"Ante-Coenam" and Post Coenam, 3"
and DR.. Charles Sager Collier, pro-
fessor of law, will deliver an address
on The Significance of Phi Beta
Kappa
Tapping by Omicrop Delta Kappa,
national honorary activities fra
ternity, and the presentation by
President Marvin of two awards for
excellence in scholarship and lead
ership in activities will feature the
class night exercises in the yard,
Tuesday evening, starting at 8
o'clock There will be dancing and
refreshments in the Student Club
following the formal program.
Commencement, the final part of
the 10th graduation, will be held
Wednesday evening at Constitution
Hall. The academic procession will
be formed in the C street lobby.
Members of the graduating classes
will form in procession at points in
dictated in the order in which their
names appear on the commence
ment program. The academic pro-
cession will enter the auditorium
promptly at o'clock. President
Marvin will award certificates and
confer degrees in course to some $50
members of the graduating classes.
Summer Registration to Open.
Registration for 134 summer
courses to be offered during the
summer sessions will be held June
16. Courses are offered in two terms
during the summer. The nine week
term runs from June II through
August Is and the siX-week term
from June "a through August l.