Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1930, Page 24

STAR, WASHINGTON, EPTEMBER 15, 1930. ~iF FEVENING D. C., MONDAY, BRYAN UNIVERSITY T0 OPEN THURSDAY Institution to Teach Funda- mentalism on Scope’s Trial 1 Site Has 50 Enrolled. Epecial Dispatch to The Sta DAYTON, Tenn., Sep: N.A).—In the Rhea House here in the Cum nd Moun- tains where the Comm: made his last stand for fundamentalism at the Scopes evolution trial exercises will be mber 15 (NA. | i Court |ART TEACHER SNIPS PICTURES OF PUBLIC PERSONS AS HOBBY Has Silhouettes of Roosevelt, Taft. Rogers, Cantor and Other Notables. Subjects Autograph Scissor| Portraits, Often Adding | Witty Comment. Snipping the silhouettes of public | persons has been an interesting occupa- | tion for Miss Betty Kaufman, for four held Thursday to mark the formal but | years supervisar of art in the Providence, modest opening of the William Jennings | Brran University, “an_institution.” ac- | cording to its prospectus, “which recog- | nizes and accepts the supernatural H tudents Enrolled. | dents have been enrolled | ear, and 20 of the ging in age from | special | course in | Bible study he regular | university ula, which has been | patterned after that of Davidson Col-| lege. A Presbyterian school in North Carolina, and is designed for students unable to meet the freshman entrance requirement Dr. George E. C form worker for v Bib Chicago, is the professor of the em university and will return here tomor- row from a series of Bible lectures in Cenada to make the formal address at the institution’s opening exercises. It is the plan of the university board for Dr. Guille to remain in the field, cor for Bryan University until 2,500,000 plant 15 Fifty extension nstitute of Spindler Heads Faculty. For the present Dean F. W. Spindler, graduate of Hampden Sydney College in Virginia, will head the university. Dean Spindler is a bespectacied young man. looking scarcely the 29 yests he admits, and comes here from Rome, Ga.. where he was assistant dean at the Berry College, a singularly succes ful school in the mountains of Geor- gia, to which Henry Ford recently con- 600 Dean Spindler said, as the future prospects of Bryan University, “not only to advo- cate.but to whoop up the “infallibility of the Bible. Priends of Mr. Bryan all over the country have set themselves the task of perpetuating the cause he fought. for in these hills in the Summer of 1925." In the charter of incorporation given it by the State of Tennessee the creed of Bryan University is summarized thus “All departments of the university shall be open alike to students of any religion or sect, without imposing de- nominational or sectarian tests “While no statement of belief shall be required of any matriculating dent, no one shall be placed in a po tion of leadership or authority, either #s a trustee, officer or member of the faculty, who does not subscribe with us to the following statement of belief ““We believe that the Holy Bible, composed of the Old and New Testa- ments, is of final and supreme autior- ity in faith and life, and, being in- spired by God, is inerrant in the orig- inal writings.'” Sixteen Girls on Roll. Of the half hundred students with which the university is expected to be- gin work, there are about 16 young women who have completed high school courses in this country. Dean Spin- dler said that 8 or 10 of ithe total num- ber resided in Rhea County and that no students are expected to matriculate this_year from outside {he county. “We have received applications,” he explained, “from many ‘places in Ten- nessee and from other States. including Colorado, Virginia, New York, Illinois, Vermcnt, Massachusetts and California Buf we do not_expect to receive these applicants until the sophomore year, when we expect to have the adminis- tration building, suitable for housing 400 students and for providing ample space for administration and class work completed.” Eighty ncres surrounding the highest hill in a 5-mile radius of the famous little village has been given to Bryan University by Dayton people, and it in- cludes a natural amphitheater for the foot ball stadium. on which authorities expect to start work when the admin- istration building is finished This first unit, on which construction work is temporarily halted, will be a seven-story steucture. 437 feet lor y 64 feet, wide, and will be built of sa stone to be taken from the numerol quarries in the Cumberlands. This roc is of variegated colors and, in addition to its unusual beauty, i5 said to be one of the most enduring building sub- stances known. Seek $5,000,000. A goal of $5,000,000, one-half of which it is planned ta use for building and administration expense and the other half for endowment, is the aim of the campaign of the William Jen- nings Bryan Memorial Association This campaign is in the hands of Malcolm Lockhart, who has conducted & number of school and church drives for the Southern Presbyterian Church Already $50,000 has been received and pledges totaling a half million dollars are in the hands of the association The receipts this year are estimated | at 875000 and these are expected to | amount to $150,000 for 1931 ‘Our plan is to get 50,000 Christian men and women in the United States | to agree to give $100 each over a period of three years” Robinson ex- plained, “and we are receiving pledges | at_the rate of $200,000 a year.” Florida property of the Commoner. Jeft in trust for M 1 and valued | now at about come to (Copr doing ex- | eycle racing in the | ater this year than | =1 | \ e = The modern and span...and his store! Modern methods have replaced the easy going checker-playing days...and cash registers ring approval. grocer 1 50 the housewife make ° A R. 1., public_schools, and at present the guest of her sister and brother-in- Mr. and Mrs. Ismar Baruch, 3703 Brandywine street. With a small pair of blunt scissor and small sheet of black paper, Mis Kaufman has caught the profiles and the distinctive expressions of such per- sons as the late William Howard Taft Theodore Roosevelt, jr.. Mayor James J. Walker, Norman ~ Hapgood, Edwin fuel With Automatic Gas Heating you can throw away your furnace room tools—eliminate winter’s kindling—tend furnace by the cal- endar, not by the clock—live in a warm house, sleep in a ccol one—laugh at bliz- zards—and enjoy winter. Washington Gas Light C has ne day she idly outlined the profile of | a school friend, who sat near her in mil the class room at Columbia. | | ———— | | | favorite medium of Miss Kaufman. I never had occurred to the arti up the art of making silhouet | Max Reinhardt »nd a host of doctors Drofesso. . «nd business men in n cities, from1 Boston to Florida. ] of these silhouettes have been autographed by the persons who have been “snipped.” Do I look like that?” wrote 8. L. Rothafel (Roxy), and the unmistakable profile of Eddie Cantor, slightly phasizing the prominence of his olfac- tory organ, bears the autograph, “Eddie Cantor—all but the nose.” Miss Kaufman, who was graduated from the Rhode Island School of De- | sign, under Arthur W. Heintzelman, | and later continued her studies at the Art Students’ League of New York and Columbia University, was appointed as | supervisor of art in the Rhode Island | schools shortly after her graduation. "WORKMEN OF WELDIT CO. 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