Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1924, Page 16

6. W. U. EXPECTING 10 HAVE BIG YEAR Building Program Pro- gresses—Structure to Be Devoted to Architecture. With "Corcoran Hall, the $280,000 building, rapidly nearing completion, fieorge Washington University an- nounces the addition of a building to irely to architecture of remodeling the administration building nty-first and G streets will be completed within the next three weeks The structure will be given over entirely to architecture, which will be increased in size and facility by 30 per cent this Fall. The university will be Dbetter equipped in every way than at any time in its history. - Corcoran Hall, with its immense chemical labora- tory, the new architecture building and the new gymnasium on H street rapidly nearing completion will not only increase the university holdings, but will provide ample cility for the thousands of students. In other vears t university» was greatly overcrowded These three new buildings and the announcement that the new $250,000 law school bullding will be started at - . ntralized the university xpects Best Year. s every indication that the| institution can ‘look forward to its most successful year. By midvear, it is reported, the new law =chool will 3 leted and the students and will be moved over from the K street holding. President William Mather Lewis and other officials of the university look forward with interest to the ing of the institution on Septem- ber 24 In the last year the univer- y has made unusual strides, in ad- lition to raising considerably more than haif a million dollars in endow- ment Corcoran Hall, about N ready f three w which was started mber 15 last vear. will be upancy in less than The newly remodeled architecture building also will be ready at that time. The gymnasium, which is 60 feet wide and 120 feet 1 structure capable o . It, too, will be completed for the opening of the university. Recent” anneuncement of the new law school plans reveal that the building will be the largest in the country devoted to that branch of educatt A library will be placed on the itire top floor which will contain ore than 50,000 volumes. Vaculty Committee Named. One of the most important changes made since the university closed was the selection of a faculty committee | to control student activit starting of a compulsory ac from all university students. It is expected that rapid strides will be made in student activities now that financial assurance is taken 4p by the university of all act supervised by the faculty commi headed by Dean William C. Vieck. With the crection of a gymnasium and the thorough grounding of a financial scheme for all activities, the students are assured of a con- siderably more uriform method of control of all their interests. Considerable change is noted in the number of additions to the faculties of the university. The additions will be announced during the week. is expected that President William Mather Lewis, now at his home in Colbrook, Conn., will return just be- fore the university opens. President Le spent some time this Summer visiting alumni centers in various cities in the interests of the university. On one of his trips to Denver, he attended a George Washington Club ing which was exceptionally interesting. Dean How Hodgkins, who o ¥ underwent an covered fully. s expected to make 2 to the faculty personnel this week. This Great Offer Clock Once Used By Gen. Grant Is Found in Storage| A-large pendulum clock, used by Gen. U. S. Grant at his headquarters in the old building at the northwest corner of Seventeenth and F streets during the Civil War, and which later hung in the office of the adju- tant general of the Army in th® days of the Spanish War, has just been recovered from the Qquarter- master's warehouse, where it has slumbered many years, It has been put in good running order again, and now hangs on the wall of the large conference room of the War Department general staff, otherwise room 451, State, War and Navy Bullding. Two other historie clocks still in operation in the building are the La- fayette clock, dating from the days crson Davis was Secretary d the large pendulum t, was in the office of Secre- tary Stanton in the early 60s, and by which President Lincoln regu- lated his watch during his frequent Vvisits to the old War Department WOMEN PLANNING - STUDY OF ALIENS cise,” said the eral Federation | |of Women! There are | organization ymen in that are urged to arranging her two years' program. She has called the directors frov each State to meet here September “With less than 50 per cent of th: registered voters going to the polls at_the last presidential election, the federation sees a problem in good citizenship that needs answering,” Mrs. Sherman says, adding, or don’t crit The Americ your men fo ]Prnmon! affai ily has a s in such a situation. | and the matter of voting is a duty | and not a_job. | “What about the alien family? Does | I the alien intend to become an Amer- |ican citizen when he comes to this| [country? What does the immigrant | do toward further cementing that | | &reat cornerstone of this republic [the American family? What about | |the native born in this regard? Th | General Federation of Women's Clubs is going to answer that ques | tion.” Trgex Alien Education. On behalf of this organization, Mrs Sherman has pl | the Americ President Coolidge. ggested he appoint | {an unsa committee to devise and recommend on a basis of estah- {lished facts definite methods of edu- cating the aliens among in our | standards of living, of absorbing them into the ranks of gond citizen- | ship and of improving our naturaliza- | tion laws “The American people should have| available the unpublished facts to be | found in the last census,” Mrs. Sher- | man says. “Becau of the lack of Government appropriation, many im- portant facts are not placed before | the public. These facts would answer | such questions concerning the fam ily as, What is the immigrant doin, Are his children in school? Are his| children wage earners? Does the im- | migrant own his home? What answer | can the native make to these ques- | tions? { “The American family controls the future of this republic. Then, what | can be expected of the foreign born? Just what interest does he have i Governmental affairs? The whole The American family is the most im- portant business in the world, and the biggest. Therefore, one of the | big jobs of the federation will be to | get at the facts concerning it. To | this end T am urging the naming of | an unsalaried committee of repre- sentative citizens to get at thesfacts | and recommend definite methods of educating the'aliens among us in our | standard of living. There is less | home life in America today than ever | before. Why?" Soon This Wonderful New Apartment Size Bz;tby Grand At a price no higher than that of a good upright piano, Jordar’s now announce this splendid Apartment-size Grand Piano. Without going into ecstasy about its qualities, we wish to impress that this new Baby Grand is a better piano than you would expect at this special price. . It has its own story to tell; so come in and see it—hear it—play it—then ‘'marvel at the value. liberal. 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