Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1927, Page 22

22 L3 C.U.AND FORDHAM - DEBATE DRY ISSUE Local Varsity Team Upholds Prohibition in Match at New York. The varsity debating team of the Catholic University left Friday morn- ing on its first trip of the year to debate the prohibition quest with Fordham University and Providence College, Thé members of the team were announced last Monday by Joseph English, coach of debate. In the order of their speeches they are: John J. Meng, Edmund J. Fi ald and Joseph A. Beatty. These three men appeared at New York, Friday eve- ning when they debated rdham on the negative side of the question: “Resolved, That the Bigateenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Should be Abol- ished.” The Catholic Unive y team upheld the same side of the same question against Providence College ai Providence, R. I.. last evening. The results of this last dehate &t hand. The next home the season, open to the gen: admission free, is with Buc versity. The subject in this contesi will again be the prohibition guestion with Catholic University, upholding the affirmative Last 8 evening *“Catholic Universif night" at ington Council o7 the Knz An evening's entert offered to the Knights by ¢ talent. The fea 1s the presenta tion of several numbers by the versity Glee Club, under the direction of Dr. Leo Behrendt. Other stunts were offered by the Catholic i sity men. At the end of t} ment refreshments a dance held in honor of the Univer- sity men. Bishop Host to Staff. Bishop Shahan, rector of the uni wversity, was host to the retiring Tower F re not ye debate of public. W ts FRESHMAN GIRLS PARTY GUESTS OF BIG SISTERS Senjors on Honor Roll at Arm- strong Training School Give Entertainment. Freshman girls at Armstrong Man- ual Training School’ were the guests of the Big Nisters, an organization omposed of senfor girls making the honor roll, at a week-end party in the . Games and other features con- buted to the program. Among those acting as hostesses were Mias Helen Aiken, Odessa Hawkins, Geneva Freeland, Jennie Johnson, Esther Robinson, Amma Walker, Mabel Hick- erson, Lucille Bates, Mary Bowie, Dorothy Campbell, Edith Grimes, Thelma Johnson, Lottie McFadden, iuctlle McCormick, Clara Gray and Geneva Reeded. Mrs. Orra Weaver Spivey, dean of girls, super “ntertainment, assisted by Miss ( 1. Williams. Miss Brenda Ray Moryck Jf the faculty was aiso present. Capt. A. C. Newman of the military lepartment nas issued a memorandum < the dates for the projected in- a al, squad and company com- setitions. They will take place on he Waiker Stadium, on March 8, 18 ind at the close of the April recess, n the order named. Petty larcény of hooks and school squipment 1s being effectively checked ¥ caveful supervision of the locker wreas during the day, resulting in a narked diminuiion of reports of stolen property which usually flood 10 principai s office at thls season of he vear The system in operation is usiastically ~ indorsed . by the “udent body and is carried out wholly oy members of the eadet organization who volunteered for the work, offi- ered by ranking non coms and cadets the commissioned grade. The Im- sortance of the locker guard to the udent body cénnot be overestimated, as the parents of Armstrong, like sther parents, find it an economic iardship to e called on to replace purioined booksand other equipment, ind the thief seldom stops to think (hat resultng student retardation oiten sgriously Interrupts a high school career. Preparations for the second annual carnival, to take place on March 3, continue under the chairmanship of Miss Clayda J. Williams. Punch and udy shows, fortune telling, an in- loor circus, vaudeville and other fea- staff at a luncheon on Wednesday afternoon last. The luncheon, held in the dining room of graduate hall 18 a yearly token of appreciation offered to the outgoing staff in recog mition of its services through the year James Bradford Cronin, ‘27, of George. Staten Island, presided at the affair. Mr. Cronin is the retiring business manager of the Tower. Shor speeches of appreciation were made by Bishop Shahan ard Vice Rector Dougherty. John 'J. Daly, ‘27, retir ing editor-in-chief of the Tower made & brief farewell address, while the rmlcy for the coming year was out Jined by the new editor-in-chief, Johr J. Meng, ‘28 # The unlversity has recently installe® A new system of electric clocks, ir order that the time wasted between clasges may be reduced to a minimum. Under the new system. the clocks i every hall, both residence and lecture, will be regulated by a master clock It is guaranteed that in this wagy the time in the various buildings of the university will never vary more than two minutes a year. Preliminary work- of grading the campus has been started. For the past two weeks, surveyors have been busy measuring the elevations of the low ridge in front of the new John K. Mullen Memorial Library. It is believed that about the 1st of March, actual work will begin, and the ridge will be graded down, in order to give 10 the library the approach it needs Paintings for Shrine. Among recent gifts to the National 8hrine of the Immaculate Conception are two cotemporary paintings of and Leo XMI, from the hands of Roman artists. They offer much of interest, as both portraits exhibit the Pope in everyd\y costume, Plus in his worn white cagsock anc broad red hat looped on the \ides, and 1e0 In the long ‘ecclesiastixal .coat familiar to many of his visitols. Ex- oellent paintinge of the last five Popes ©an now be seen at thé university. A complete collection of the Alpine Flora has been donated to the Uni- wversity Museum by Rev. P. A. Manion of Spencer, Mass. This collection was completed in 1898 by Rev. Charles Ferina of New York, and ranks among the choicest botanical collections. It “1s bound in a very large album and contains several thousand specimens of Alpine flowers, plants, and grasses, among them several beautiful speci: mens of edelweiss In its natural sur- roundings. The collection is provided with a scientific description of all its items. A richly jeweled gold chalice has been recently presented to the Na- tional Shripe of the Immaculate Con- u?uon in _memory of the late Rev. Willam Thomas Whearty of Rich- mond, Va., and Rockford, Ill, chap- lain at Langley Field during the war. The chalice is made of preclous ob- jects contributed by the mothers, relatives and friends of the soldiers, and was brought here by Miss Nora Norton of Rochester, N. Y., where f;n"‘hor ‘Whearty ‘died, November 15, J PLAN DANTE CLUB AT K. OF C. SCHOOL Organization to Follow Lecture Tuesday on “Cru'tnr of Ital- ian Language.” Tuesday night at 8 o'clock, Prof. Mario Barra, graduate of the Liceo of Saluzzo, Italy, will lecture at the K. of C. Evening School. Tha 1title of the lecture will be “Dante, the Crea- tor of the Italian Language.” After the lecture it is planned to organize a Dante Club to consist of persons who are Interestd in gaining an ap- Preclation of Dante in the . original Itallan. A previous acquaintance with Italian will not be required for membership in the club. On Tuesday night at 7 o'clock the Santa Maria Club will give a dinner. The committee in charge consists of Misses Mary Warren, Mary Eike, Mary Hoy. Margaret Kreig and Betty Gerber. Miss Hoy will be toastmis- tress. The following ladies of the fac- uity will be present as guests of honor: Mrs. Frank O'Hara, Mrs. F. Hartnett, Mrs. Mercedes Huyden, Mrs. V. C. Pallansch and Miss Geor- ®eana Buddeke.@After the dinner the ?Inl;' }:,luril,a Club will give a dance, o which all the students of the schox have been invited, S On Washington's birthday Rev. Dr. Peter Guilday, of the Gatholic Unl- versity lectured to a large audience n George Washington and Abraham ineoln. Dr. Gullday is to give three more léctures in the history series. On account of absence from the city, his next lecture has been postponed to Tuesday, March 8. The subject on that date will be “The History of Catholic Education in Mexico,” Judge Michael M. Doyle has taken charge of the moot court during the abeence of Judge Smith. Judge Dovle conducted the session - night. The Edward Douglas White debat- ing Soclety debated the following sub- ject on Friday night: “Resolved: That the Philippine Islands be granted im mediate independence,” The afiirma tive side was represented by An- (ures are among the concessions to ve offere COLLEGE BANQUET DATE IS ANNOUNCED Washington Law Junior Class to Have Cha'rge of Event on April 23. Grace Hays Riley, dean of Wash. ington College of Law, has announced that the annual banquet will be held this yvear at Rauscher's on April 23. As is customary, the arrangements are in the hands of the junior class. The officers who assume these re- sponsibilities are John C. Conliff, jr., president; Miss nes Quinn, vice president; E. E. Huyett, secretary, and Miss E. Virginia Evans, treasurer. The series - of lectures on ‘‘Taxa- tion,” given by Judge Elmer J. Bin. ford, will be completed tomorrow. A course on “Conflict of Laws,” by Prof. Edwin A. Mooers, will follow on Wednesday. Prof. George Kearney will complete his course on “Legal Bibliography” on Thursday.. This training in refer- ence work 1is becoming more im- portant each year, a number of the States including in their bar examina- tion a test in legal research. The stu- dent doing the best work in the course recelves one of the most valuable prizes awarded. g Banquet For Visitor. Dean Riley and Honorary Dean El. len Spencer Mussey were in¥ited guests at the banquet given by the American Association of University Women Fri- day evening in honor of Mme. Grin- berg, the French lawyer, who is visit- ing jn this country. The French- woman told of the efforts made in her country fo secure opportunity for women in the legal profession and the success attained. Mrs. Mussey, as a piloneer lawyer, was called upon for a short talk, and related many of the amusing”incidents of the early days of women in the field of law. Mrs. Clare Trick Willison of the class of 1926, after a month in Atlantic City, returned home last We for the rurpose of being admitted to the bar of Arlington County, Vi Mrs. Willison is the first woman THE SUNDAY . COVERNWENT NEET POPULA G. W. U. Has Received Many i Acceptance§ From Colleges for April Conference. George Washington University is aiready In receipt of many accept- ances from universities and colleges for the conference on government, which will be held here April 19 and 20. Cabinet members, bureau chiefs and other high Government officials have accepted invitations to speak at the conference. The entire business of the Govern- ment will be outlined to the many educators who are coming.for the conference. Among the instutions that have accepted invitations are Cornell University, Syracuse Uni- versity, the United States Military Academy, Fordham University, the torney to be honored with admission in this county. Gets West Virginia Post. Miss Helen Hironimus, also of the class of 1926, has been appointed a member of the staff headed by Dr. Mary Harris, in charge of the Federal Institution for Women at Alderson, W. Va. .Miss Hironimus will have charge of case records and will serve as secretary of the classification com- mittee. She is now engaged in visit- ing institutions for the purpose of comparing systems of records and securing the most proficient for use at this new institution. Oliver Wendell Holmes Chapter, Sigma Nu Phi @egal) Fraternity, held its annual election of officers at the school on February 16. The new officers are as follows: Chancellor, William C. Brewer; vice chancellor, John C. Conliff; secretary, John J. Allen; treasurer, Robert E. King, and sergeant at arms, Charles Lamar. Members of Holmes Chapter and many alumni members attended the Founders' Day banquet Saturday eve. ning at the Hotel Roosevelt. A S i University of Oklahoma, Howard Payne University, Gettysburg Semi- nary, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Randolph-Macon Womane College, Tusculum College, Davis-Elkins Col lege, Albright College and the Ame lean Assoclation of University Women. 300 Delegates Kxpected. It is expected that more than 300 delegates frem the various institu- rions will be on hand for the sessions of which there will be three each day. Prof. John Donaldson of the George Washington University l'ac- ulty Club is the head of a commit- tee which will provide for the enter- tainment of the visiting faculty members during their stay here. In addition to the lectures and exposi- tions to be made during the confer- ence there will be visits to the vari- ous governmental departments to watch the actual working. On Friday morning at 1.:05 o'clock Sir Henry Lunn of England. repre- senting the International Institute, will talk before the students of the university in Corcoran Hall on “Can Christendom Save Civilization?” Sir Henry Lunn {8 embarking on an ex tended itinerary which will include the leading colleges and institutions in this country. He will speak through the South and Southwest and will go to the coast later on. The Law School is in receipt of a set of valuable books, the gift of Charles Warren, the commence- ment speaker last Tuesday at the annual Midwinter convocation held at Memorial Continentai Hall. 82 Degrees Presented. There were 82 degrees presented Tuesday at the convocation. “Joh Adams and American Constitutions was the subject of Warren's address. Dr. William Mather Lewis made a brief address to the graduating stu- dents. John B, Larner, president of the hoard of trustees, awarded the degrees. On Tuesday night the annual en- tainment for the benefit of the uni- i hospital, under the auspices of the board of lady managers, was held in the university gymnasium. The affair was a social and financial success. ‘‘An Evening at Mount Ver- non” found the gymnasium transe formed Into the banquet hall of the historic Virginia home. Prof. Norris I Crandall and students of the archi- tectural classes worked out the scheme, which met with success. Scotch music was'the keynote of the entertainment, which was largely at- tended. Letters have been sent to high #chools in five adjoining States, in- viting them to accept the facilities of the university in any contemplated visits aurlng the Easter holidays. More than 5,000 letters have been directed to various institutions. Last year many visiting high school classes took advantage of the oppor- tunity, saw the university and were lven a comprehensive outline of ‘ashington thrbugh an {llustrated lecture. It is expected that many schools will again visit this year. The Classical Association of the Atlantic States will hold its annual meeting at the university on April 6 and 7. Members of the Washing- ton chapter are taking charge of the details of the meetings, which will be held at the university On Wednesday Dr. Edward Dwight Eaton, former president of the Beloit University, spoke to the students. Virginia Mitchell was recently awarded the Kappa Delta scholar- ship for attalnment during last year. Dean Anna L. Rose {s visiting Dallas, T for the National Edu- cation Assoclation sessions now in progress there. Glee Club Active. ‘The university Glee Club, under the direction of Robert Harmon, re- cently sang at Rauscher’'s under the auspices’ of the Department of State Club. The club has a full program for Spring actlvities. It is expected that during the holidays the glee club will accept a booking for one of the local theaters. Within two weeks George Wash- ington University debaters will be named for the trip to England, which will start on April 30. The team will be selected from a large list of can- didates who have had considerable experience this Winter. Tomorrow - night the university debaters will meet the University of West Virginia here. On March 2 Indiana University debaters will be met. On March 4 the University of Maryland team will be taken on. New York University is met here on March 10 and Bucknell will close the season the following night. During the past week John T. Trimble, W. F. Willlamson and W. A. McSwain represented the univer- sity in debates at the University of Maine, Colby College, Bates Coliage, NAMES ADDED TO ROLL OF ¢HONOR AT DUNBAR Seniors Now Lead With 14 on List. Visitor ~ Addresses Assembly. Three more names were added to the general honor roll of Dunbar High School last week: Benjamin Henley, Blanchard Lioyd and Charles Weir. The seniors now lead with 14 names, the freshmen coming next with 10: the juniors have 9 representa- tives and the sophomores 5. ‘The noon assemply was addressed on Friday, February 18, by W. J. Decatur, principal of the Sally J. Me- Call Foundation School, an industrial school operated on the co-operative system in Cincinnati, Ohlo. The speaker gave an account of the work done at this school. The Fleur de Lis Club, a senior girls’ organization, was hostess to six girls of the Howard High School of Wilmington, Del., who, accompanied by Miss Nellie Nicholson, an in- structor, came in a party of 26 to the basket ball game played Thursday afternoon by the teams of the two schools. The Dunbar Observer has launched a campaign for subscriptions for this semestes. Lo®ise Fisher, Marjorie altimore, Frances Cardoza, Edith Wormley, Clara Brown, Thelma Lane, tonio P. Llorep, Edgar G. Polsson and Edward Parenteau, and the negative side by Gregory P. Keehan, James F. Matthews and George R. Walker, isie Robinson, Katherine Balley, Olga Beckwith and Mabel Wyche are s:xporvuln; the work done in the sec- tions. Boston Uinversity, Clark University and Columbia University. The Co- lumbia team was engaged last night in New York. SCENES OF DISORDER MARK COLLEGE PROM Scranton Police Say Permit Will Be Refused in Future to St. Thomas Students. Special Dispatch ta The Star. SCRANTON, Pa., February 26.— ‘With one man under arrest for assault upon a policeman and a fire inspector, city officials today announced that they would never again issue a permit to students of St. Thomas' College to conduct their annual prom. The event, one of the most brilliant of the local soclal season, was marked by scenes of disorder in the closing hours in_Town Hall this morning. Police sa!d Director of Public Safety James Arigoni termed the college prom, which was attended by 1,000 young men and women, a disgraceful affair. He said policemen found more than 100 empty bottles that had con- tained whisky in the hall at the con- clusion of the affair. ‘The police also charged guests drag- ged an intoxicated girl into an auto- mobile and later threw her out. James Gorman, 26, the one guest arrested, ‘was fined $100. " ) STAR, WASHINGTON, T —— D. €., FEBRUARY 27, 1927—PART 1. VACANT—AFTER 35 YEARS This frame shack, 7 by 8 fect, located on the Patomac River bank, on the property of the Distric Home for the Aged, was the lone home for 35 years of Cap'n Frank Burge who died Thursday. OLD RIVER HERMIT CLAIED BY DEATH Cap’n Burge Lived 35 Years as Potomac Recluse in Lonely Hut. x Cap'n Burge is dead and the tiny frame shack that had been his lonely home for 35 years is silent now, save for an occasional yowl of a mangy cat and the reverent lap of the Potomac River upon the mud bank a dozen feet below the little doorway. The old man who years ago became a “squatter” upon a bit of river-bank ground that is now included in the acreage of the District of Columbia Home for the Aged directly across the river from Alexandria was found lying unconscious upon his little wood pile just outside the gray-white hut of his own building, on George Wash ington's birthday. His ax was in his hand and at his feet lay a handful of kindling. At the hospital of the Home for the Aged, to which he had been carried a half mile across an open field hy employes of the instituti h it was_kidney disease. Cap'n Burge was ‘“‘Something over 70 years old” and he had had years of privation; he died Thursday without having regain- ed consciousness. His only known relative is an inmate of the Home for the ed, and body was sent to the District Morgue to wait. There are no other relatives who might a range for burial. ¢ Cousin Nearing 88. . The surviving cousin, himself nearing his eighty-eighth birthday, tells the story of Cap'n Burge that has | been rivermen's gossip for years, a story that goes back over 35 years to a little drygoods store in Alexandria. Frank Burge, the real name of the old “Cap'n,” was a clerk in the little shop and he was prospering. He asked the girl of his choice to become his wife and she accepted him. Plans were being made for the wedding, when— “I don't know just what hap- pened,” the cousin said yesterday, “but for some reason the two of them split up suddenly. Somebody said the girl had run away and marrfed another young man, but I don’t know. I don't know whatever became of her; but Frank, he—well, he was hurt mighty bad and I reckon he showed it. Then there was a period of taunts by the other young men of the time and the continuous suffering of heart- break, the cousin related, and he con- tinued: \ t last Frank packed up a few things and dumped them in a row boat and came over here. He hit the bank right about where that shack is now and there he stayed. That was 36 years ago, and he hasn’'t been away from there since, except to row folks across thHe river or to take fishermen out in his boats, or to go to a nearby store for his provisions.” Guests Barred From Hut. The cousin said that through all the years he had never known of any one who visited Burge to be allowed to enter the little hovel. He himself had called several times, the last visit being a month ago, but he had never been invited indoors, he said. The shack today presents a pitiable sight. Its walls of thin boards are caulked with tufts of cotton and the interior is sheathed with newspapers long browned with years. In one cor- ner there is a broken-down iron cook stove and in the back end a single bunk of boards spans the entire width of the room, a Scant seven feet. Two narrow windows of crude design per- mit the only light and ventilation. Four rowboats which were used by Burge in his ferry and fishermin livery were tied together at the very door-step of the shack and they have now been removed to the float of the District institution. Burge, his cousin sald yesterday, was the youngest son of a family of seven—four girls and three boys, all of whom died just after the Civil War. parents were Thomas Burge, a barber of Alexandria, and Mrs, Han- nah Burge. That is all the cousin knows, and that, he thinks, is con- siderably more than any other living person knows of the man whose life may have mocked Byron, who wrote: “‘Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart; ‘tis woman's whole existence " CbrN BOR ER FIGHT PLANS ARE OUTLINED By the Associated Press. Provisional plans for the $10,000,000 campaign to control the corn borer were outlined yesterday at a confer- ence of Department of Agriculture officials and representativs of State agricultural departments and agricul- ture colleges. ‘The campaign, authorized by the present session of Congress, provides for control work in New York, Penn- sylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, and it is estimated that a corn acre- age of 2,500,000 in these States will be included in the clean-up. The appro- priation becomes avallable as soon as necessary legislation now pending in legislatures is enacted, The provisional regulations adopted today require the burning or destruc- tion of all cornstalks in the fields, feed lots and barnyards, unless ensiled or shredded, the clean-up to take place before May 1, and after that date all Infested farms will be rein- spected. If voluntarily done by the farmer and mesting all requirements, he will be nl‘l.aaxrud not to exceed $2 an acre for, corn and $1 an acre for sweet corn, where he is obliged to undertake unusual operation: EARLY SCHOOL PARTIES WIN FAVOR OF PARENTS Jefferson Assoclation Also Voices Regret at Failure to Secure Additional Teachers. The Jefferson Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation met Monday night in the as- sembly hall of the school and ap- proved the resolution advocating early hours for parties for Junfor High School pupils. A moi‘on was passed regretting the failure of Congress to allow 74 additiona] teachers asked for in next year's appropriation. An- other resolution approved was that a committee of five be appointed to confer with a committee of the South- west Citizens' Association concerning a recommendation for the selection of a site for the new Jefferson Junior High School. Dr. Barnes, musical director, gave an interesting talk, explaining the work of the music department. He laid special emphasis on the classes in musical appreciation and on the op- portunities for children obtaining les- sons on orchestral instruments at a very small cost. The Jefferson Or- chestra rendered several selections. A card party will be given March 1, at the school. Section 7-B-5 won the banner for having the greatest num- ber of parents present. STUDENT INTEREST IN ORATORY AROUSED Benefits of Contest Cited at Birth- day Exercises of Business High. The interest of Business High School students in the next oratorical contest was aroused at the general assembly held at the school last Monday when exercises were held in commemoration of George Washington's birthday. Principal Allan Davis, after lauding the character of Washington, intro- duced Randolph Leigh, who gave an inspiging talk on the many reasons why the students should enter the | oratorical contest and the benefits to be derived therefrom. He brought out the point that even though un- successful in the preliminary events, it is a wonderful opportunity for the students to learn how to speak properly in public. pts. Vernon Snoots and Harry Slye led the student body in the salute to the flag as a part of the Washing- ton exercises. Following this Miss Emma Louise Thompson led in the singing of “America.” The assembly was brought to an end by the singing of “The Star Spangied Banner” by the entire student bod There have been 26 new enlistments in the cadets, 18 of which are from section 111, The rookies, under the direction of Sergt. Joseph Tarshes are drilling one hour extra each Tues day until March 15. + The physics department of Business High School has established a weather forecasting bureau. It receives the daily weather report from Arlington and posts it in the hall near the door into Allan Da office as well as in the physics laboratory. Henry Goldstein, our own xlyophone soloist, made his ra debut recently with WMAL, broadcasting from the City Club. May High School, has had the honor of having a portrait of one of the students accepted at an exhibition at the Philadelphia Academy of Arts. This exhibition was given to show the modern tendency in art. Out of more than 1,500 entries only 125 were ac- cepted. Mrs. Ashton's portrait of Jeannette Harmon of section 468 is entitled “Jeannette." £, The fifth semester English classes’ are very busy at present with debates, The classes are separated into teams of six, with three pupils on each side. The following subjects have been de- bated: “Ratification of the Child Labor Law Amendment,” “A National Educational Department,” “The Philip- pine Islands,” “The World Court,” and “The Immigration Quota.’ Quiney D. Adams, instructor in the department of business practice, re- cently passed the District bar exami- nation. The dates set for the presentation of the Spring play, “The Dummy,” ar April 7 and 9. ehearsals under the direction of Miss Esther Galbraith are in progress. 'he balance sheet dance was given in the nature of an afternoon affair. The music was furnished by the Dagmoir Orchestra. From 2:30 to 5 the dancers enjoyed the singing rendered by the quintet. The gym- jnasium was decorated in red, white and blue as a reminder of George Washington’s birthday. FIVE ARE HURT AS TRAIN SIDESWIPES ANOTHER Flamingo Annex Hits String of Freight Cars at Chris- tiansburg, Ky. By the AssociatedPress. CHRISTIANSBURG, Ky., February 26.—Three passengers and two train- men were hurt,:one seriously, today when the Flamingo Annex, a fast pas- senger train of the Louisville & Nash- ville Railr v d sideswiped a string of freight cars on a siding here. R. L. Thomas, fireman of the Annex, suffered injuries to his skull and spine when 'he jumped. The other in- jured, all of Louisville, were: C. I Dersey, engineer of passenger train, cut and bruised; Mrs. C. B. Clark, wife of a Loulsville & Nashville employe, injurfes to the neck and back; E. H. Dailey, back probably sprained,” and 8. E. Booker; thumb cut and back P Phe entine, ténder and bagsage e engine, tender an cars were derailed. % Ashton, art director of | STUDENTS TO DINE | FOTBALL PLAYER Georgetown Law Classes to Give Testimonial for Harry Connaughton. Georgetown University law students will glve a testimonial dinner the evening of March 8 to the ‘“bes known and best liked law student, Harry (Babe) Connaughton, 276 pound all-American toot ball guard and mem- ber of the senfor clas testimonial dinner will be given entirely by the Law School students, arrangements for it being in the hands of Florida J. Boland and George B. Schroeder, as senlor class representatives. A surprise of the evening will be a gift to “Babe” as a token of the high esteem in which he is held by all Law School students. Frank J. Hogan, former graduate and faculty member at the Law School has accepted the invitation to be toastmaster on this occasion and also will represent the Georgetown Alumni{ Assoclation, of which he is president. Practically every Georgetown alum- nus adviser in sports will be on hand to greet the popular athlete, as well as the Rev. Charles W. Lyons, 8. J., president of the university. Addresses will be made by Louis Little, foot ball coach, who was re- cently placed in charge of the newly organized department of physical education at Georgetown, and the Rev. Vincent S. McDonough, S. J., faculty supervisor of atheltics. Other guests will be officers of the Atheltic Association and the alumni represen- tatives, On Mythical Eleven. Connaughton is a real Georgetown product, having prepared for his law course at the college and is the first Georgetown player to be given a posi- tion on the mythical all-American eleven by a majority of the sports authorities in the country. The second prize debate at the Law 'School will be held Wednesday after- noon at 5:55 o'clock, according t y system should be abolishe is the question for discussion. Members of the affirmative team, selected at a recent competition, are: Frederick W. Wakefleld, jr. 8, of Vermont: William V. Whittington, '28, of Illinois, and John L. Geraghty, '28, of Washington, alternate. Those who will compose the negative team are Mark B. Wilmer, 29, of Wisconsin; J. Burke Walsh, '28, of District of Columbia, and Albert D. Halloran, '27, of New York, alternate. John Edward ‘Phoma, '27, of Vir- ginla, will preside at this debate and the judges will M. Garcia De Quevedo, ’13; Walter Clifton Stone, ‘23, and George Herber Webb, '26. M. Nicolas Serbian, head of the distinguished group of Rumanian educators that visited Washington last Summer as guests at Geofgetown University, was here again last week and renewed friendships with univer- sity officlals. He gave a lecture at the Foreign Service School Wednes- day night on the Rumanian situation before leaving the city last night to return home. Serban Speaks in French. M. Serban spoke in French, a language which has been made obliga- tory gor all students at the George- to hool, which feels that it is indispensable to students who intend going in for foreign service. The dis- tinguished ' Rumanian was interested in learning that the school maintains a French house, under the supervision of a member of the faculty, at which French is the only language spoken. A series of lectures in the French language wiil be given at the school this Spring, the one by M. Serban being the first. M. Serban is professor at Jazzy University and is a laureate of the French Academie. He is one of the most widely known professors in Europe and has been in this coun- try in connection with educational matters. ‘The Georgetown rifle team broke even in its matches last week, winning three and losing three. Michigan State College, West Virginia University and the University of Washington were defeated, but the- Hilltoppers lost to Lehigh, Virginia Military Institute and the Oklahoma A. M. College. Reports from the League A matches have not yet been received. Joseph Charles, who was varsity manager of base ball in 1924 and graduated from the college in that year, died February 12 of heart dis- ease in San Francisco, according to word received here by Father Mc- Donough. Mr. Charles was first at- tacked by heart trouble last Spring and went to a San Francisco sani- tarium for a complete rest. His home was in Brooklyn, N. Y., where services were held last Thursday. The final page proofs of the George- town Anthology, which the editors, Al Philip Kane and James S. Ruby, r., college students, received from the publishers last week, have been re- turned and the volume is expected to be issued soon. A copy of the proofs were forwarded to Archbishop Curley of Baltimore with a view to obtaining his official sanction. This volume will contain a collection of all the best known poetry written by Georgetown students and alumni in the last 187 ear: > Becker Is Appointed. Ferdinand E. Becker, a recent graduate of the Foreign Service School, has just received an appoint- ment to represent the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- merce in its Boston office. He suc- ceeds another graduate, Frank Cleary, who recently took up work with an export firm. .In the Boston office Mr. Becker will be associated with Edmond F. Bemis, also a graduate of the Georgetown School. ¥ Officials of the Foreign Service School have received word from M. L. Plsarek, one of its graduates, who is now in Warsaw, Poland, as secretary of the National Economic Bank, a government institution. Mr. Pisarek recently was assoclated with Prof. Kemmerer, who was engaged by the Polish government to make research into the country’s flnancial system and to offer suggestions for its im- provement. 7 The freshman oollege class will give its annual pre-Lent dance at the Hotel ‘Washington ‘Tuesday afternoon. Bernard McDonald, class president, has appointed the following committe Robert McNell, chairman; Thoma: McGeary, Lawrence McCabe, Martin Welch, Robert C. Sullivan and Thomas Flynn. The freshman class this year is ‘more than double the size of last ear. yAlpha Alpha Chapter of Delta Sigma Delta Fraternity will give its annual dance tomorrow evening at the LaFayette Hotel, at which most of the Dental School students will be present. Last week the Freshman Dental Class gave a dance at the Thomas Circle Club in honor of ¢ne of their classmates, Harry h, who was recently married. D USEREEN Boone Kinsman Dies. NEW YORK, February 26 (#).— Death of James W. Barnhill, pioneer Kentuckian, and great-grandnephew of Daniel Boone, was announced to- day. Mr. Barnhill, who was 80 years old, died at a hospital last night. His grandfs , who imigrated to Ken- tucky m North Carolina in 1752, ith Boone, niece of the fa- He is survived children, ABBOT ASSOCIATION | PLANS SCHOOL AIDS New Parent-Teacher League of Vo- cational Institution to Wage Campaign. The Parent-Teacher Association of the Abbot Vocatlonal School was launched on February 16 at an enthu- siastic meeting. At the Instigation of the parents present, a canvass will be made of those having boys in the school, with a view to making the as. sociation 100 per cent representative Giles Scott Rafter gave an in- teresting review of the history of parent-teacher work and its aim. She also assisted in the formation of a temporary organization. Dr. G. L Knapp was elected chairman and pre- sided during the election of J. E. Mayer as secretary. A voluntary committeee composed of Charles Hol- den, J. E. Mayer, H. T. Voorhees, John Koenig, Marjorie A. Parezo and Mrs. H. T. Martz was formed to seek members. This committee will re port tomorrow at the second meeting, when plans will be formulated for| ::w Spring campaign of the associa- | on. ‘The members feel there is a wide fleld in which work may be done for the school. Under the direction of J. A. Ander- son, teacher of painting, the walls of the halls and classrooms are rapidly being transformed. Visitors to the building have commented very favor- ably upon the quality of the work. Louls Conradis, in charge of the plumbing shop, has supervised the in. stallation of two stationary wash ba- sins in each shop. At the assembly Friday, Dore Wal- ten of the Wolfsteiner Co. addressed the school on sheet metal. The boys of the electrical shop vis- ited the Benning power plant Wed- nesday. M MARYLAND TO VOTE ON VALEDICTORIAN Washingtonian Is One of Three Chosen for Senior Class Post. Special Dispatch to The Star. COLLEGE PARK, Md., February 26.—Clark Beach, William Hill and Milford Sprecher have been nomina- ted for valedictorian of the senior class at the University of Maryland. Blection will be by vote of the class at a meeting to be held next Thurs- day. Beach is from Washington and the other two are from Maryland. Two juniors and five sophomores have been pledged by Phi Chi Alpha, honorary engineering fraternity. They are: Juniors, R. H. Brubaker and A. T. Myers; sophomores, B. R. Bill- meyer, Willam LaMarr, H. C. Ort, G. T. Semensky and C. I. Smith. It has been definitely decided that the junior prom will be held at the New Willard Hotel in Washington on March 18. This action was taken at a meeting of the junior class. R. W. Powers is chairman of the prom com- mittee, the other members being Frances Morris, Nelson Spottswood, John Ryerson, Albin Knight and Bruce Emerson. Fifty-one students, the largest number ever listed, have been per- mitted by the Graduate School to be- come candidates for advanced degreés to be awarded in June. Fifty-four are striving for their masters and seven for Ph. D's. They were picked at a meeting of their professors and the Graduate Council, of which Dean G. O. Appleman of the Graduate School is chalrman. A novel method of teaching public speaking has been devised by Prof. Charles 8. Richardson, head of that department. A club has been organ- ized with a president and other offi- cers, and a program committee plans the speeches and readings for each day. The club, ‘which is called the ‘Winono Civic Club, is supposed to represent the citizens’ association of a town of about 10,000 inhabitants. The discussions include parliamentary law in addition to a variety of other subjects. Dean A. N. Johnson of the ('Dlle'-! of Engineering has just returned trom Urbana, where he gave a paper on “Highway Traffic” before the University of Illinois Road School. SCHOOL BASKET BALL LETTERS AWARDED Eastern High Players Get * Fire-Prevention Talks Are Given At an assembly of the upper semester at Eastern High School Wednesday C. M. Guyon, head of the physical training department, presented basket ball * to the following players: Harry McAllister, Louis Depro, Ber- nard Essex, Cy Hogarth, Henry Hoffman and Harry Bushon, A talk on fire prevention was by Ml Beryl Edmiston senior class. Burton Langhenry spoke o he Spring play, "“Green Stocking: to be given March 31 and April 1, and ppoke again at an assembly of the lower semesters ‘Thursday. John Quinn spoke on fire prevention at this assembly. Capt. George Butler of Company C gave a party Friday evening at the school. There was a program of music and games. Refreshments were served in_the lunchroom. Jadets of the entering February class were measured Thursday for new uniforms. Commissions for all high school cadet officers will be presented at Cen- tral High School Monday, March 7, at 3:30 o'clock. * The Alumni Bulletin will be mailed to all members of the alumni assocla- tion March 15. This special issue will be edited by Miss Roberta Harrison, '28. The February issue of The East- erner was distributed last week. Miss Marjorie Black, ‘22, and John M. McInerney, '23, have been substi- tuting at Eastern during the past four weeks. The latter is at present a stu- dent at the Georgetown Law School. ‘The glee club, under the direction of Margaret Cook, president, held its annual dance at the Blue Triangle Hut last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Byram, Mr. and Mrs. Cyrds Cook, Miss M. Louise Wood and Mr. I. B. Simon were chapero: A tea .for Eastérn's new teachers was given by the faculty last week. Two Hurt in Accident. T. Harvey Henshaw and C. M. Price of Alexandria, Va., were taken to the Alexandria Hospital and treated for cuts and bruises, follow- ing an accident on the Alexandrin- ‘Washington road at Four Mile Run at 9 o'clock last night, when the small sedan in which Price and Hen- shaw were riding collided with a Win- AMERIGAN U GETS §7.000IN BEQUESTS University Announces Two Gifts—Debating Wil Begin Saturday. Two bequests totaling $7,000 have been received by American University it was announced last night by Dr Lucius C. Clark, chancelior of the in. stitution. The largest gift. $5,000 came from the estate of the late George Patten Davenport of Bath Me., while the $2,000 was from the late John C. Gifford of Phelps. N. ¥ The debating season will open next Saturday night at the College of Lib- eral Arts of Amerlcan University when the local team will meet Weat- ern Maryland at the college chapel on the question, “Rexolved, That the eighteenth amtndment should be repealed.” The American University team will defend the affirmative side of thin question while the visitors will take the negative The local team i composed of Roland McL. Rice, of Waterbury, Md; Hugh Wilson Speer of Olathe, Kans,, and W. Willis Dela. plain of San Fernando, Calif. Dela- plain, who is also manager of the team, is negotiating with several schools for forensic battles this son, and expects to be able to an nounce the complete schedule shortly Select Two Subjects. Debates for the year will be on two principal questions, repeal of the eighteenth amendment, and “Re. solved, That the international war debts should be cancelled.” . Showalter, aswistant editor of the National Geographic Magazine, will deliver the principnl address at the annual banquet of the Women's Guild of Amer‘can University, to be held March 9 at the women's resi- dence hall. Mr. Showalter will speal from the subject, “Science and Re- ligion.” Plans are being worked out for the three-day convention to bhe held by the student voluntters at American University, March 11, 12 and 13. Miss Louise Rounds, traveling secretary of the organization, has been visiting at the college and assisting in mak ing preparations. She was enter tained by students and Miss Mary Loutse Browpn, dean of women at the college, in her rooms in the women's residence hall, at tea Wednesday aft- ernoon. Miss Hilda Bull Is in charge of local arrangements for the coming convention. Women Entertain. The Faculty Women's Club enter- tained students at the college party at the residence hall on Wednesday night. Miss Josephine Clay was chair- man of the committee on arrange. ments Dr. Edward T. DeVine, dean of the graduate school of the university, has left on a lecture tour, during which he will deliver the twenty-fifth anni- versary address Tuesday at the New York Monday Club, of which he was a founder and first president. Dan McCowan of the Bureau of Commercial Economics of this city delivered an fllustrated lecture Fri- day at chapel on “Nature's Myster ies. A series of recitals is being planned by R. Dean Shure, instructor in mu- sic, to be held this Spring at the resi dence Rall. Dates have not as yet been picked, but it is expected there will be four in the serfes. The first will present Mrs. Elvina Rowe, so- prano, and Miss Katherine Riggs, harpist. Mr. Shure, who is director of music at Mount Vernon place M. E. Church South, will be heard at the piano. s The History Club, Carlisle Christie, president, visited the Pan-American Building on an educational trip Fri- day. TN R, SOCIETY TO HEAR PAPERS “An evening with the Plymouth Pilgrims” will be held tomorrow evening at the Franklin Square Hotel, Fourteenth and K streets, by the Soclety of Mayflower Descendants in the District. The governor of the lo- cal society, Thomas F. Whittelsey. will preside. Papers will be read by Harold M Marsh, Mrs. Bertha M. Robbins, John Altheus Johnson, Mrs. Bertha M. Rob- ertson, Maurice H. Thatcher, Miss Catherine B. Barlow, Frank H. Briggs, Miss Mary W. Durham, Henry G. Crocker, Mrs. Eli A. Helmick, Car- ter B. Keene and Anthony Burns. Music will be given by the Women's City Club quartet, Mrs. Gertrude Lyons, director. EDUCATIONAL. _S%ANLS"H SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON Prof m Sp: Rapid Progress. iase W S N W 1"3?33 The Civil Service Preparatory School S.E. Corner 12th and F N. Telephone Fr. 2080 Special Instruction for Assistan Statistical Clerk Exam.; salary, $1,500. Computer Exam.; salary, $1,860. Patent Office; salary, $1,860. 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