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Newspaper
Richmond Collegian
Location
Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1923
Page
1
The Debating and Forensic Council outlines an extensive year program. A three man team from the University of Richmond will tour northern colleges including New York University. The tour aims to be the biggest debate of the year and signals broader forensic activity. Details on preliminaries are to come.
Prof HW H Horne of New York University addressed History J Section A on education. He discussed teaching problems and described a method where students question the teacher, a Socratic approach aimed at reversing classroom procedure.
Final examinations for the fall term at the University of Richmond begin next Friday and run each day except Sunday through the following Friday. Dean W. L. Prince extended the period to reduce end term rush and allow most tests on separate days. The new method is trialed this year to improve workload distribution.
Dr S C Mitchell spoke during the Monroe centennial celebration at the Jefferson Hotel. Several speakers addressed the afternoon session under the Southern Commercial Congress auspices. Continued on Page 6.
Professor Edward J. Woodhouse elected mayor of Northampton Massachusetts on the Democratic ticket over Republican William Cordes by seventy votes. A Virginia native, he is a government professor at Smith College after earlier teaching at Wisconsin Chicago Yale and Richmond College.
The Richmond alumni of the University of Richmond held an annual reunion last week. The program began with a banquet at Hotel Richmond on Wednesday night and ended with a theater party at the Academy on Thanksgiving night. Frank G. Louthan Jr. presided as association president and the Richmond Glee Club and College Quartette performed.
The commission on accredited schools of the Southern States association accepted a report urging high school girls not to play basketball unless under girls' and boys' rules. Dr. J S Stuart of the University of Georgia explained the rationale in an interview at the Jefferson Hotel.
The College Club of Richmond hosted the South Atlantic sectional convention of the American Association of University Women. Delegates arrived with a reception at the Collegiate School, business sessions at the Jefferson Hotel led by Dr May L Keller, and an address by Dr Mina Kerr. A noon luncheon for delegates followed at the Rose Bowl Inn.
Preliminary meetings precede the convention of the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States. The executive committee gathered at the Jefferson Hotel with sessions on Monday and Tuesday and again at 3 o'clock before continuing on Page 4.
Dr. S C Mitchell of the History Department attended the dedication of the Walter Hines Page Memorial Library at Randolph-Macon College last Wednesday. He spoke to Randolph-Macon alumni representing Virginia schools and colleges. Page, an alumnus from 1872 to 1876, served as ambassador to England and the library honors his memory.
The Senior Classes stage two nights of Sir James Barrie comedy Alice Sit by the Fire at 8:30 in the Red Cross Building Westhampton. The production features a premier cast and marks a two night run not tried before. Proceeds from ticket sales are noted.
The Debator resumes under editor J Hillis Miller to preserve annual university debates. Debaters must submit typewritten copies for binding in the library. The 1924 1925 program is tentatively planned with portraits of debaters and council members.
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