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B—4 STANDARD DEGREES PURPOSE OF STUDY New Test System May Have Revolutionary Effect on Higher Educa_flon. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. | | | | A mounmental job, calculated to have | & revolutionary effect on higher educa- ! tion in the United States, has been! launched by the American Council on | Education, with headquarters here, work- | ing with a grant of $500,000 from the | Rockefeller Foundation. H Dr. John Henry MacCracken, former | president of Lafayette Umvenlty.; will start work Monday as associate director of the councfl, with general su- | pervision of this project—the ultimate | object of which is to make a student’s | progress through college dependent en- | tirely on actual achievements in learn- ing rather than in spending so much time in study. Eventually the same system may be applied to high schools, to bring about a tremendous saving in time, expense and labor. ‘This is essentially a project of the colleges themselves, the American council, which is a co-operative organi- eation”of the colleges and educational associations, acting as their agent, and when once the system is established it is certain of very widespread accept- tance and to effect the careers of hun- dreds of thousands of students. Will Standardize Work. The ‘work will consist of constructing & graduated series of standardized achievement tests for every subject commonly studied in colleges, designed to measure the actual attainment of a student at any stage in the progress of his studies and to give a college degree the same value as a reward for ac- complishment, regardless of where it is obtained. At present, it is explained by Dr. C. R. Mann, .director of the council, a student's is measured in units of time wl have very little relation to_actual mastery of a subject. Thus | & boy or girl spends in college s0 many semesters, or years, each consist- ing of so'many courses and each course consisting of so many hours. If the! student Dakeos these courses each | semester a prescribed minimum ; grade, at the end of three or four | years he or she receives a bachelor's degree in certification of the com- pleted course. The degree is granted regardless of actual accomplishment in studies, 8o as the minimum re- quirement is reached. There is no actual -differentiation between bright students and dull students. Each gets the same ith the same valua- | everybody. - Under the new system it ht count twice as much in the way credits, based on some other unit hours, for a good stiderit as for a student. The plan of the council is to ct an examination in college Latin, ith & graduated increase in difficulty g to end, scores on which be correlated rather precisely with of actual mastery of ‘he sub- | After all, Dr. Mann points out, | object_of Latin courses in college | to teach Latin and not provide a dor earning certificates of hours credit which can later be cashed like so many bank notes, at the officé for a plece of sheepskin, sueh an e: knew a little Lat ‘the student tin—perhaps bare- enough to “get by"—would get a low and wopuld be credited with what~ number of points this score rep- ted toward a degree. His ly y to get more points out of 1t would to get a higl mark. The good it would get a high mark, cor- lated with that much greater progress mastering the subject, and would ive correspondingly more credits. Accomplishment to Count. ‘The same system would be applied English, modern languages, mathe- tics and the natural and social ices. In the end the degree woull nt a specific degree of ac- plishment in learning rather than a | pecific number of hours spent in Under the present system each in- $tructor in each college makes up and marks his own examinations. One man may give an easy test and mark it Jeniently. The man teaching the corre- sponding course in another college may ve & very difficult test and be merci- lessly severe in his marks. The same differences may obtain in practically all ,the courses in the two colleges. Yet § students in both receive the same thing at the end—a bachelor’s degree. Thus as a certificate of accomplishment the , degree has y no meaning. ! Under the system the students i in both eges would get exactly the —1 exactly the same using the system would mean e: y the same as degrees from any other college. It is led to construct tests in of which the subjective cannot have the marl jeattitude of any teacher iany effect. The questions are such as can be answered with a word or a sym- sbol. The answer is either right or ‘wrong. There is no room - personal judgment of the maker, A Latin test could be scored just as vell by a girl | stenographer in the professor’s office who didn’t know the difference between Chinese as by the professor imself. On the old type of examina- fon, experiments have shown, the corer is influenced by the student's acility in English, spelling, handwrit- ing, neatness, point-of-view—and a host of other factors that have nothing whatsoever to do with mastery of the | subject. Examinations Graduated. Under this system credits would be awarded not according to scores in themselves, but—an important dis- tinction—according to scores definitely correlated with degrees of achievement by laborious mathematical analysis. Each graduated step is to indicate more of the territory covered by a subject and not necessarily the intensity with which any part of the territory has been covered. But the labor of preparing such| standardized tests is enormous. It in- volves preparing hundreds of thousands of questions, each -constructed with skilled painstaking so that there is no possible ambiguity. Then the examina- tions containing these questions must be given to thousands of students and the relation of each guestion to the ac- complishment of each student correlated rearrangements, carding, etc., until eventually a test is achieved which will measure & person’s achievement in the subject as accurately as distance can be measured with a foot rule, as accurately at George Wash- ington as at Harvard, and with the same accuracy regardless of who is do- the measuring. uch tests already have been pre- said, ‘modern good. Only two boys flunked one D cx-mination each. Under the old sys- 1. all these students would have DAY STAR, WASHINGTO‘I B C The plane in which David S. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aero- nautics, will begin a transcontinental naval inspection trip tomorrow. DR. KARL LAN Scientist Brought Into Lime- light by Award for Re- searches. !His Discoveries of Blood Qualities Will Aid Crime Detection. Special Dispatch to The Star. Dr. Karl Landsteiner exists. Although the people were generally unaware of it a day or two ago, they accept it as a fact now because of the announcement from Stockholm that he has been awarded the Nobel prize for medicine. Existence is the first essential for re- ceiving this prize. If a man doesn’t exist, he doesn't get it. The announcement also serves to classify this obscurely famous person. Dr. Karl Landsteiner works at the Rockefeller Institute, which means that he is engaged in research. It also makes it easier to understand why the public has known nothing about him and his work. Dr. Alexis Carrel, who received the Nobel prize in 1912 for his success in suturing blood vessels and in transplantation of organs, also works there. Dr. Carrel's name is widely known, of course, but the public has only & vaguely erroneous idea that he is busy keeping the heart of a. dead chicken beating year after year and that in experiments on the connection of can- cer and food he has several fema!" cooks in white aprons meals for rats. May Prevent Baby Mix-ups. As a result of Dr. Landsteiner’s study of human blood groups, which really brought him this prize of $48,000 and great distincticn, the human race may be farther on the way to discovering what kind of monkey—if any—was man's immediate ancestor. Because of Dr. Landsteiner’s work it may be pos- sible: to settle such questions as pater- nity as have arisen with the mixing of identification tags in hospital nurseries. And by identifying blood stains, mur- ders may be solved. Thus the fruits of this scientist's labors may have large application to human progress, but the modest doctor can't be persuaded to say so. An attempt was made when, through the courtesy usual with men of science, and perticularly with the Rockefeller Institute, an interview was arranged. The doctor entered shyly, but with natural dignity, took his place in a chair that had for a background John S. Sargent's large portrait of the elder John Davison Rockefeller, Has Viennese Coloring. Dr. Landsteiner, with his wa hair and , looked man of 68 that he is. the rich brown shade possessed by vy gray the wasted time learning what they already knew—just for hours of credit. Five experts in various college sub- jects have been retained to work on the construction of these tests under the direction of Ben D. Wood, who is working under the Committee on Pe sonnel Methods of the Council. A five- year program will be undertaken. The goal for the end of the second year is the construction of from 12 to 15 forms of preliminary experimental tests in English, mathematics, foreign lan- guages, physics, blology, botany, geology and astronomy. This involves the con- struction of more than 50,000 questions and the printing of more than 2,500 pages. At the end of the third year it is planned to have a similar basis for constructing standardized tests in chemistry, general science, civics, gov- ernment, ‘economics, American history, modern European, ancient and medieval history. Besides working with the committee on these standardized tests, Dr. Mac- Cracken, one of the country's foremost specialists on higher education, will work with another committee of the council operating under a grant from the Rosenwald fund for surveying the field of education and determining the need of research projects. One of the plans before this committee is to in- augurate a system of measurement which will determine the ability of stu- dents to pursue certain studies and thus do away with great waste in the edu- cational process. Medical education, for example, is in- creasingly costly, the courses increas- ingly difficult and the medical colleges increasingly crowded. Almost every medical colle{e must turn away hun- dreds of applicants every T G student is admitted without the ability to complete the course, there is great waste of time and money and denial of opportunity to men who may be better qualified. Has Tried Test. An important step toward solving this difficulty has been made by Dr. F. A. Moss, professor of chology at George Washington University, and himself a medical college graduate, who has devised and standardized on thou- sands of students throughout the coun- try a specialized test which determines with almost uncanny accuracy whether or not a prospective medical student will “make the grade.” It is purely a measurement of one kind of ability— to pursue medical studies. Prof. Moss almost to & certainty student will be “flunked out” in the first, second or third year, whether he will graduate at all or whether he will graduate with honors. Now the American council feels, says Dr. Mann, that something similar should be constructed for other forms of education. Medical colleges or- dinarily flunk out about 25 per cent of their stuclents. But engineering col- leges, where there is no reliable meas- ure of ablility yet constructed, flunk out about 75 per cent. Whatever time and money is spent on this unfortunate they start ndpo:lem directed to a some ’Wmmhhm out in years In behi; of “fallure” upon , | man and that this was not like His skin was | Imost | night at Antietam Furnace mmrodhmu Munllo-lmnmnym d them and with the stigma |NOBEL PRIZE MAKES U. S. KNOW DSTEINER EXISTS i NEW YORK, November 1 (NNAN.A).— | | DR. KARL LANDSTEINER. Pritz Kreisler and other gentlemen from Vienna, where this scientist was for 10 years an assistant at the Patho- Anatomical Institute of the university. He was graduated there in 1891. His large eyes have the slightly protruding I that suggests surprise, or & childiike simplicity of character. His voiee is low, although distinct, and his words showed only a trace of accent. “I wouldn't put it so strongly; other | methods are better,” were his first words, in reply to & question about the efficacy | of his work in determining the remote | parentage of the human race. “What | T have found seems to agree with the view that the anthropoids and the apes are more closely related than are anthropoids and monkeys or apes and monk ts perhaps a common origin, eys. “It sugges! but I am not an authority on that, so I must refrain from saying so. I have not arrived at any conciusion. The work is not concerned with the origin of man.” The doctor was just as cautious about the hrser significance of his ex- periments in diagnosis of paternity and ;Kenuflcubn of blood stains. He ac- now it the prope: of ki ledged tha rties of blood cells are different in the ape and in Bie e e known, so that it was impossible to tell | whether & blood cell was that of an ape | or man. Test of Blood Explained. “In the examination of a blood stain on a person or his clothing it may be determined,” said . Landsteiner, “whether the blood is his or mot. This may be of value when & man is sus- pected of murder. An Italian, Leone Lattes, has had the most experience in this flel One uses the serum in the blood stain and tries its action on other bloods. If it be the blood of the man on whom it is found, it will not agglutinate in a test on his blood. If it does agglutinate, it 1s the blood of another, but it is impossible to deter- mine whose blood 1t is.” “Working out the chemistry of im- | mune reactions” was all that the doctor could be persuaded to say when asked | to give some concrete account of his present work. He refused to attempt any detailed description of how he pro- | ceeded, saying only that the experi- | ments were in the realm of chemistry | and could not be described except in the most technical language. He would not discuss the Nobel or what he e to do with the money nor would he speak of his private life and his interests aside from scien- tific research. Patlently but firmly he declined to tell what he had succeeded in doing and directed all inquiry on this score to the Rockefeller Institute’s state- ment about his worfl It reads, in part: Research in Immunology. “The studies of Dr. Landsteiner are mostly concerned with research in the fleld of immunology. This science is of comparatively recent development, start- ing with the successful immunization against infectious diseases by Pasteur, and the discovery of toxins and anti- bodies and their action, in the 90s of the last century. One of the most remark- able and puzzling features of the immu- nity phenomena appeared to be the specific action of the antibodies on cer- tain substances which had been intro- duced into the body by spontaneous in- fection or artificially. | “Dr. Landsteiner’s work deals largely | wndh lzh‘;‘ elucidation o{t the‘ principles ‘underly the specificity of antibody reactions and resulted in finding meth- ods by which it may be correlated to the chemical structure of the substance in- volved.” Dr. Landsteiner found that there were definite individual differences in human blood and this led to sater methods in selecting donors for blood transfusion. He infected monkeys with the virus of poliomyelitis (paralysis due to inflam- mation and atrophy of the gray matter of the spinal cord) and this led to the discovery that the serum of conva- lescents might be used for protecting patients in incipient stages of the dis- ease. According to “Who's Who in Amer- ica, the winner of the Nobel prize married when he was 12 years old. That’s wrong. He didn’t marry until he was 48. He has been called “the great- est living immunologist.” (Copyright, 1930. by the North American Newspaper Allianct | | | WOUNDED BY REVELER Man Tells Police Halloween Crowd Attacked Him. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., November 1.— Howard Churchey, 23, was wounded last , near here. Austin Stottlemeyer, 23, surrendered to the police here today. He said that he had been attacked by tried to wreck his car, and th e forced to open fire to save himself, an | | INGALLS WIL FLY TOINSPECT BASES New Type Fighting Ship to Be Flown on Cross-Con- tinent Trip. David 8. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, will initi- ate a transcontinental serial inspection trip tomorrow from the Naval Air Sta- tion at Anacostia, in & new type naval fighting plane, built by the Curtiss Co. for the Bureau of Aeronautics and em- bodying radical features in aviation construction. Capt. John H. Towers, assistant chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, remem- bered for his famous tranatlantic flight, ! will accompany Mr. Ingalls. The As- sistant Secretary's aide, Lieut. Comdr. R. P. Molten, jr, will accompany the flight in a F4B-1, which is a standard Navy fighter type. ‘The new plane, an adaptation of the Navy's F8C-4, two-place fighter, pos- sesses & speclal cowling for increasing its speed, which is placed at 180 miles an hour. An especially designed en- closure of the cockpits, keeping the personnel out of the slipstream of the propeller, is another feature of the craft, Complete lining of the cockpit is calculated to add to the comfort of the pilot and observer by providing additional warmth, while s special ven- tilating system has been installed to in- sure air. ‘The craft has conveniences for night fiying, with parachute flares and a new type of prismatic light, installed be- neath each end of the lower wings. Around the wheels are “spats” to ac- centuate the speed of the ship. Leaving Washington tomorrow morn- ing at 9 o'clock, Mr. Ingalls and his party will fly to Pensacola, Fla., by way of Greensboro, N. C., and Atlanta, Ga., arriving at their destination wmbout 6 pam. Activities of the Pensacola sta- tion will be inspected carefully by the Assistant Secretary, for there the Navy trains its flyers. On November 6, he is slated to proceed to New Orleans, La.; Houston, San Antonio and El Paso, Tex., en route to San Diego, where he is scheduled to arrive on November 8. The Naval Air Station there and the Carrier Squadrons of the United States Fleet will be inspected at that point and on November 10, Mr. Ingalls will fly to San Pedro, to visit the fleet, via seaplane, and view gunnery ices with the battle fleet. San ncisco will then be visited by the ¥y, which will return to the National Capital by way of the Southern transcontinental route. Mr. Ingalls is due back in Wash- ington on November 1 PUBLIC LIBRARY ISSUES EDUCATIONAL BULLETIN Lectures, Courses of Study, Ex- hibits, Musical Events, Drama, and Conferences Listed. The Public Library has just issued the November number of its bulletin, “Informal Educational Opportunities in ‘Washington.” This bulletin lists lectures, courses of study, exhibits, musical events, drama and conferences in Wi for the month of November. It is supplement- ed by a bulletin board in the lobby of the central building of the Public Library at Eighth and K streets, where notices of events received tor late for inclusion in the bulletin a'e posted. Similar notices are also posied at the branches. Copies of the bulletin may be ob- tained without cost at the central building of the Public Library or at any branch or subbranch. Churci; Supper Announced. MEADOWS, Md., November 1 (Spe- cial).—The Porest Grove M. E. Church will give an oyster and chicken salad supper on November 14. NAVAL ORDERS Lieut. Comdr. Charles G. Halpine, de- tached command VS Squadron 6S, Air Squadrons, Scouting Fleet, to duty as inspector of naval aircraft, Curtiss Alr- plane & Motor Co., Buffalo, N. Y.; Lieut. Comdr. Arthur B. McCrary, de- tached U. S. S. Gilmer, to U. S. 8. Bainbridge; Lieut. Morgan C. Barrett, detached 8. S. Bainbridge, to U. S. S. Gilmer; Lieut. James W. Whitfield, detached U. S, Oglala, to U. S. 8. Hamilton; Lieut. (Junior Grade) Marion M. Byrd, detached U. S. 8. Brooks, to U. S. 8. Barney; Lieut. (Junior Grade) Thomas L. 0, detached U. B. Goff, to U. 8. B. Bliss. ‘The following officers have been de- tached from the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla, about November 1, to duty as follows: Lieut. Willlam L. Rees to Naval Air Station, Pearl Harbor, T. H.; Lieut. (Junior Grade) George W. Anderson, jr, to V8 S8quadron 7S, Car- rier Division 1, United States Fileet; Lieut. (Junior Grade) John G. Brown to VS Squadron 9S, Carrier Division 1, United States Fleet; Lieut. Grade) Elmer G. Cooper to VT Squad- ron 1B, Carrier Division 2, United States Fleet; Lieut. (Junior Grade) Ken- neth Craig to VO Squadron 3B, Carrier Division 2, United States Fleet; Lieut. (Junior Grade) De Vere L. Day to Naval Alr Station, Pearl Harbor, T. H.; Lieut. (Junior Grade) Louis E. Rench to VS Squadron 10S, Carrier Division 1, United States Fleet; Lieut. (Junior Grade) Sylvius Gazze to VS Squadron 4B, Carrier Division 2, United States Hale to VT Squadron 1B, Carrier Di- vision 2, United States Fleet; Lieut. (Junior Grade) James M. Lane to VS Squadron 98, Carrier Division 1, United States Fleet; Lieut. (Junior Grade) Wallace B. Mechling to VS Squadron 9S, Carrier Division 1, United States Fleet; Lieut. (Junior Grade) Thomas B. {vision 1, United States Fleet; Ensign | George K. Huff to VO Squadron 5B, Carrier Division 2, United States Fleef Ensign George H. Moffett to VF Squad- ron 5B, Carrier Division 2, United States Fleet; Ensign Jack C. Renard to VO Squadron 4B, Carrier Division 2, United States Fleet, and Ensign Harry E. Sears to VS Squadron 10S, Carrier Division 1, United States Fleet. Chaplain Corps—Lieut. Earl M. Criger (C. H. C.), detached Naval Training Station, Hampton Roads, to U. 8. 8. Chaumont. Warrant officers—Chief Boatswain Harry L. Kiser, detached U. 8. 8. Robin, 5 8. Vireo; Chief Boatswain Wil- don A. Ott, detached U. 8. 8. Procyon, to U. 8. 8. Argonne; Boatswain Fran- cis M. Linderman to duty, U. S. 8. Robin; Machinist George W. Buzby to duty U. 8. S. Kitery; Machinist Ed- wards R. Hinson to duty Asiatic Sta- tion; Machinist Lawrence W. Ott to duty U. 8. S. Whitney; Machinist Carl P. Reynolds to duty U. 8. 8. Vi Machinist Clifford L. Worden to duf U. S. S. Nitro, Electrician Charlie Deaton to duty U. 8. 8. New Mexico. Asiatic dispatch orders, October 27, 1930—Lieut (Junior Grade) Thomas B. McMul , detached U. 8. 8. Guam, to United Sfates; Lieut. (Junior Grade) Selman 8. Bowling, detached U. S. S. Mindanao, to United States; Pay Clerk John H. Sewell, detached U. 8. S. Beaver, to United States. Deaths—Re: a group of Halloween celebrators who | son was d | ington, D. t:nfhe fired only after :olu -u—ucg ‘In liam bJeuo:l:, ll]n'-;;. U. 8. the face several times and dragged from October 27, 3 his Pensacols, Fla. (Junor | Fleet; Lieut. (Junior Grade) Harry D. | Neblett to VS Squadron 108, Carrier Di- | NOVEMBER 2, | 1930—PART ONE. Schools and Colleges News of Interesting Student and Faculty Activities in Washington’s Leading Educational Institutions. Maj. William H. Hobson, U.S. A, R. O. T. C. commandant at Georgetown Uni- versity, is preparing his military bat- talion for its first inspection of the season on Novem- ber 13. Lieut. Col. R. H. Leavitt, in- specting officer of the 3d Corps Area, in which is located the District of Co- lumbia, is coming here then for the With the largest freshman class \l; of ingly by enlistments since _the college opened. Enlistment in the military unit is voluntary. Last Monday the freshman cadets were given physical examination by Maj. Henry L. Krafft, medical officer at Georgetown. Announcement of the forthcoming prize debates at the School of Law was made last week. The first will be held November 19. These debates, among the principal scholastic_events at the Law School, are held between repre- sentatives of the four law eclubs, which are the White, the Gould, the Butler and the Carroll. Five debates are held during the year, the last being a final contest between the four previous win- ners. Prizes are offered by the faculty. Other tilts are scheduled for December 17, February 25, 1931; March 31 and May 1. The Butler Law Club opened its meetings last week and its members were addressed by Assistant Dean Hugh J. Fegan. Future meetings will be held on Fridays. Georgetown'’s Interfraternity Council will hold its first prom of the year Sat- urday evening at the Willard Hotel. Since its inception in 1922 the council has held its prom the night of the an- | nual “home-coming” , but with the introduction of night foot ball at George- town, the plans this year had to be changed. officers of the council are Paul F. Schmid, Kappa Alpha Phi, president; Arthur Vogelwede, Gamma Eta Gamma, vice president; Frank Thompson, Delta Chi, secretary; Albert B , Psi Omega, r, and Charles T. MacDonald, Phi Beta Gam- ma, historian. G. W. U. Council Acts. The George Washington University Student Council, elected by the student body last Spring, has entered this year upon the work of organ and_ di- recting the student of univer- sity. Established following stu ommendation on the the com- mittee on student life, the Student Council now functions as the student | governing body for the entire univer- sity, supervising and regulating social affairs of the university and its affiliat- ed organizations, deciding disciplinary questions and acting as_intermediary between the faculty and students. The council is headed Joseph | Howard of Columbian College. Its other officers are Maud Hudson, Columbian College, first vice president; Hearst Duncan, Law School, second vice presi- | dent: Edith Norris, Columbian College, secretary, and John Kennedy, Medical | Ma). W. W. Hobsen, e s and rec- | John G. Faircloth was editor last year. | ule advanced another step last night in the College of Liberal Arts. It was further shown that the general scholas- tic average of the students from all the ‘Washington high schools was above the general average of students in the| whole school. N. U. Seniors Elect. C. Chester Guy, auditor in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, was elected presi- dent of Natiomal University's senior class in last week's elections, according to announcements | made last night. ‘The senlor ballot- ing marked the second step in class organization at National this year, following the junior | class election a week earlier, when William A." Klutz was chosen presi- dent Other gradu- ating class officers chosen with Mr. Guy were Miss Grace Kanode, vice president; Wiiliam G. Baden, treas- _ urer; William Deering, secretary; C. Nelson Bean, his- torian; Edward Sievers, orator, and Nathan Priedenberg, sergeant-at-arms. The staff of officers, together with three other seniors who were chosen following the regular election, comprises the graduates’ exécutive committee. The committeemen named were Thomas J. Shanahan, Uga Carusi and Amos T. e h e next phase of the graduati class organization will be the lppolnl? ment of the editorial staff for the class annual, the Docket. The editor will be announced next week and his asso- ciates will be named shortly afterward. Chester Guy. National University's debating sched- when two teams argued the question of full representation in Congress for the District_of Columbia. V. A. Howard and T. Borrow spake for representation, while R. H. Hollinger and Roy G. Ep- perly opposed it. The results will be announced next week by Prof. Fred Myers, faculty debates adviser. ‘The National University Masonic Club, of which George P. Grove is president, will meet at the university next Friday night, it was announced. ‘The next regular meeting of the Beta Chapter of Phi Beta Gamma Legal Fraternity will be held at 9 o'clock Thursday night when the chapter's Fall pledges will be announced. Du ing the fraternity’s national convention here November 21 and 22 several of the organization’s members will be ad- mitted to the Supreme Court. C. U. Students Honored, Seventeen undergraduate students will be initiated during the coming week as members of Phi Kappa Omega Chapter, a national organization and the oldest social institution on the campus. Those to be recelved are John L.| 0O’'Connell, Lewiston, Me.; John Staple ton, Derby, Conn.; William T. Hanna Washington, D. C.; William R. Hanr: han, Bristol, Conn.; James M. Con- nolly, Cumberland, d.; Owen W. Doordan, Newark, Del.; Alfred. C. Scuderi, Conora, Long Island; Thomas School, treasurer. Each school of the university is rep- resented on the council upon the basis of 1 member per 500 studen's. These representatives are elected by popular vote of the students of the | respective schools. The various schools are represented on the council this | year as follows: Columbian College, | Joseph Howard, Arthur Kriemelmeyer, | Dorothy Albert, Edith Norris, Fletcher | Henderson: Graduate School, Margaret | Rees, Medical School, John Kennedy; | Law School, Hearst Duncan; Engineering | School, Meigs Brearly; pharmacy, Peter | Garofalo; School of Education, Wllh!l-l mena Gude; School of Government, Harry Ruddiman; division of library | science, Anna_Laura Sanford; division | of fine arts, Edwin Weihe. These representatives elect their own | officers, who then become the officers | of the student body. | Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin has been | chosen as chairman of the Armistice | Day memorial meeting to be held under | the auspices of the World Alllance for International Priendship, which will be | addressed by President Hoover. The | meeting is scheduled for 10:30 am. November 11 in the Washington Audi- | torium. ‘The Columbian Women of the George ‘Washington University will hold their | November meeting Tuesday, the pro- gram being devoted to & study of the work of the Home Economics Depart- | ment of the university. Prof. Frances | Kirkpatrick will explain the work of her department, after which the mem- bership will adjourn to the home eco- | nomics laboratories, where tea will be | served by home economics students. A. U. Head to Speak. The principal address at the formal exercises inaugurating Dr. Gideon Ire- land Humphreys, formerly of this city, president of | Point College, ing, November 15, will be delivered by Dr. Lucius C. Clark of American Uni- versity. Dr. Humphreys was formerly pas- tor of the Rhode | Island Avenue Methodist Protest- | ant Church of this | city and well known among church circles of this city. Dr. Clark. Clark and Dr Humphreys were {riends during the latter’s residence re. | -| The annual meetirg of the Board of | Trustees of American University, will be | held tomorrow morning at 9:30 ‘o'clock, | | at 1901 F street northwest, the Gradu- | ate School of the university. The board | will elect officers for the ensuing year, | | and adopt a budget for the school year | 1931-2, The new college text book by Dr.| George B. Woods, dean of the College of Liberal Arts of American Univer- sity, known as “Poetry of the Victorian | Period,” is just off the press and first | coples ‘are expected within a few days. Graduates of Central High School in American University made a higher scholastic average than the graduates of any of the other high achools in this city, according to a careful tabulation of records, and comparisons of the rec- | port, Callahan, Akron, Ohio; Cletys KiJker, Girardville, Pa.; Prancis B. Riordan, North Grosvernordale, Conx.; Anthony Caron, Taftville, Conn:; Josh ‘Herlihy, N. Y. Charles J. Cummings, Williams- Pa.; Edwin T. Breece, 'New Rochelle, N. Y.;. George W. O'Grady, Rochester, N. Y.;' Michael Marucci, Orange. N: J. ‘The initiations will ex- tend over-the period November 3-8, and will be brought to a close at a banquet to be held in the Chinese room of the Mayflower Hotel Saturday evening. Mgr. James H. Ryan, rector; Rev. Charles A. Hart, fraternity moderator, and Rev. Joseph Reilly, 'procurator of the Phi Kappa House, will be present. | ‘The initiations will be held at the campus home of the fraternity. Dr. Herbert F. Wright, professor of | international law at the university, was recently honored by the faculty of Providence College of Providence, R. I, which conferred upon him an honoris causa, the degree of doctor of law. ‘The citation was conferred on Dr. Wright by Rev, Lorenzo C. McCarthy, presi- dent of Providence College, in the presence of the entire student body and many distinguished guests. Dr. Wright, with Gen. Diaz, generalissimo of the Itallan forces during the World" ‘War, are among the few who have been | so honored by Providence College. Howard Women Dine. The ninth annual dinner of Howurdl University women will take place in! the university dining hall at 8 o'clock | Friday evening. The custom of having all of the woman students of the uni- versity, and # many women gradu- ates as can be present assembled at the | annual dinner was inaugurated in No- | = vember, 1922, by Dean Lucy D. Slowe, who became dean of women in that year. ‘The dinner is for each year by a committee of the Women's League, an organization including all | woman students of the university. Miss Robbie Turner, who graduated from the university in 1928, will be the speaker. Although no men are allowed at this dinner, the Student Committee has| made an exception of Dr. Mordecal W, Johnson, president, who will greet the yomen from the balcony of the dining all. Dr. Algernon B. Jackson, professor of bacteriology at Howard University and specialist in public health, has been in- | | vited by President Herbert Hoover to be a delegate to the White House con- ference on child health and protection, which is called in the city of Washing- ton, November 19 to 23. Strayer College of Accountancy has | added four instructors to its account- ing faculty, headed by Charles Vaughan Darby, secretary to the Board of Ac-| countancy of the District of Columbia. The other three new members are H. A. O'Connell, LL. B, C. P. A.; Wilbert L. Smith, C. P. A, and Thomas W. Fitz~ gerald, C. P. A The Student Relations Committee of | the Washington School for Secretaries | recently organized and held its first| meeting on Thursday, The personnel | of this committee inciudes representa- | tives of students enrolled from the vari- | ous Washington and nearby State high schools, Miss Edith F. Burnside, secre- tary of the school, acts as chairman of this group. which works in conjune- tion with the faculty and staff on stu- dent matters. ords of all local high school graduates |NATIONAL LEADERS TO TALK ON RADIO| |Gen. Pershing and Secretaries Stim- : son and Hurley Scheduled to Give Armistice Day Addresses. Gen. Pershing, Secretary of State Stimson and Secretary of War Hurley | will speak on & coast-to-coast network | |of the National Broadcasting Co. be- tween 10:30 and 11 o’clock on Armistice ‘dny, their speeches sponsored by the Military Order of the World War, it was announced i:"w e the speec! the “blue” network of the made over broadcast- ARTHUR C. SMITH CHOSEN BY CONFEDERATE SONS Commander of Maryland and D. C. Division Eleeted With Other Officers—Reunion Planned. Arthur Clarendon Smith of Washing- ton has just been elected commander of the Maryland and District of Co- lumbia Division of the Sons of Con- federate Veterans, it was announced yesterday. Other officers elected by the veterans are: Pred P. Myers, commander of the rady, ad- District Camp; Benjamin jutant general, and Gordon W. Wilsan, treasure > Plans are made to have a re- union of the ederate Veterans dur- ing 1932, Paul P. Myers, Dubolstawn, | Unemployment Set At 21 Per Cent by Labor Federation By the Associated Press. Preliminary unemployment fig- ures for October, issued yesterday by the American Federation of Labor, placed unemployment in all trades at 21 per cent, the same figure given for September. ‘Unemployment in the building trades was listed as 38 per cent, having shown no_ decrease from the previous month. The number out of work in the metal trades was placed at 21 per cent, a de- crease from 23 per cent in Sep- tember. Printing trades unem- ployment was described as de- creasing from 8 to 7 per cent, while all other trades averaged 14 per cent in both October and Sep- tember. No figures were given as to the actual number of unemployed. SEASON FOR DUCKS OPEN IN MARYLAND Sportsmen Warned to Keep Strictly Within Bag Limit§ on Water Fowl. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, November 1.—The sea- son on water fowl in Maryland, includ- ing ducks, brandt and geese, opened to- day. November 10 is the open season on uplands game. State Game Warden Le Compte is suggesting and urging all sportsmen to keep strictly within the game bag limits on wild water fowl as well as upland game. ‘These - suggestions and warnings on account of the unusual long dry spell which the country is now suffering from, we hope will be considered se- riously by all who shoot this Fall and Winter, so that at the end of the shooting season there will be plenty of breeding stock remaining to insure fu- ture shooting in the State. Sportsmen and every one going into the fields and woods should be very careful so as not to start forest fires. PUBLIC IS BLAMED FOR CHICAGO VICE |Grand Jury Says Toleration Has Bred Present Alliance of Crime and Police. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November' 1—The ' al- leged alliance of police, politics and crime brought new grand jury mttacks on law enforcing authorities today. ‘The October grand jury in its final report sald that “instead of being a purely crime detecting and apprehend- ing agency, the police force has been through the history of our city the adjunct of whatever political faction bappens to be in power.” : “For many years Chicago has tol- erated vice,” continued the report, “and now the underworld and vice have it by the .throat. For all this the public is responsible, for the public has allowed it to exist. s The scandal occasioned by “the find- ing .of a list compiled in the detective buréau naming gangsters scheduled to be arrested .for vagrancy under the pbemow of 8 Caponebl]ieulde:l‘:;t ‘;:en yond a peasonable doul e, gen- eral gehal that there exists nn'-l- liance between some members of the Police Department and leaders of or- ganized crime,” the grand jurors added. ‘The ind jurors recommended ad- equate help for the newly estabished ICROWDS AT CLOSE OF HORSE SHOWS |Gray Knight, Owned by Mrs. Whitney, Largest Mount- ville Winner. Special Dispatch to The PURCELLVILLE, Va., November 1.— | The horse show season in Loudoun | County came to a close today with & show at Mountville given for the benefit | of the Mountville Sschool and sponsored | by the Mountville Community League. | Although the day was cold a large crowd attended to watch the perform- |ances of a number of outstanding | hunters and jumpers of Loudoun and | Fauquier Counties. Every class was well filled. The largest winner today was Gray Knight, owned by Mrs. J. H. Whitney of Upperville, the former Miss Mary Elizabeth Fitzhugh Altemus of Phila- delphia. He won first in 3 and 4 year old hunters, Green horses, 5 years and under, lightweight hunters and green hunters. Middle and Heavyweight. Melvin C., owned b jr., of Middleburg, took heavyweight class. Silver trophies given by the County Conservation Committee, Mrs. John B. Anderson, D. C. Sands, Moffett Burgess, ‘Turner Wright, Dr. R. L. Humphrey, D. O. Purr, Willlam Skinner, Carl Furr, Ernest woolfe, the Pledmont Hunt, Spencer llisley and Luddington Patton, were awarded. Judges were John Wal- ter and Ray Cassell. Summary. Yearlings—FPirst, entry, Walter Bowes, New York; second, Sandy Mack, E. L. Redmond, Middleburg. ‘Two-year-olds—First, Port Light, E. L. Redmond; second, Talis Boy, Ernest Woolfe, Upperville. ‘Three-year-olds—Pirst, entry, Arthur White, Middleburg; second, Black Boy, Ernest Woolfe. Three and four year old hunters— First, Gray Knight, Mrs. J. H. Whit- ney, Upperville; second, entry, Arthur | White. M Handicap jump—First, Doble, Mrs. J. A. Whitney; second, entry, Foxcroft School, Middleburg. Ladies’ Hunters Winners. Ladies’ hunters—First, 8ilk: Hat, Courtland H. Smith, The ns; sec- ond, entry, Foxcroft School. = Green horses, 5 years old—Pirst, Gray Knight; second, Pledpiper, Ar- thur White. Lightweight hunters — Pirst, Gray Knight; second. Jumping Fool, Skinner brothers, Middleburg. Middle and heavyweight hunters— Pirst, Melvin C, B. O. Purr, jr.; sec- ond, entry, Walter Bowes, New York: Green. hunters—First, Gray Knight; second, Pledpiper, A. White, Novice for horses that have been hunted once in 1929 or 1930—First, entry, Ernest Woolfe; second, Port- light, E. L. Redmond. | | | y D. O. Purr, | the middle and A colonial business corporation, the Philadelphja. Contributionship for In- suring Houses From Loss by Fire, whose charter was granted in 1763, is said, to be the only Colonial business corpora- tion still existing. _EDUCATIONAL._ For Practical Paying Results Study at The Master School Interior Decoration Specializing - in' interior Decoration Accredited, and .’"-5 nlll l’" and Course. vert Teachers. lnrm [nstruction. Rudolphe de Zapp, director 1706 Conn. Ave. North 5236 CIVIL SERVICE Anti-Racketeering Bureau of the State’s | pre, attorney office. A. V. 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