William Miller Collier, A.M., LL.D., President Department of Arts and Sciences Howard Lincoln Hodgkins, Ph.D., Dean Columbian College William Allen Wilbur, A.M., Litt.D., Dean College of Engineering Howard Lincoln Hodgkins, Ph.D., Dean Teachers College William Carl Ruediger, Ph.D., Dean School of Graduate Studies George Neely Henning, A.M., Litt.D., Dean Department of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy William Cline Borden, M.D., Dean Oscar Benwood Hunter, A.B., M.D., Assistant Dean Medical School William Cline Borden, M.D., Dean Dental School Carl Joseph Mess, D.D.S., Dean College of Pharmacy Henry E. Kalasowski, M.D., Phar. D., Dean Law School Merton Leroy Ferson, A.M., LL.M., Dean University Library Alred Frederick William Schmidt, A.M., Librarian Buildings and Grounds Elmer Schatz, Superintendent PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL (Arranged in Departmental Groups) WILLIAM MILLER COLLIER, LL. D.,.........President of the University ELMER LOUIS KAYSER, A. M.. GEORGE NEELY HENNING, A. M., Litt. D., .Secretary of the University Dean of the School of Graduate Studies HERMANN SCHOENFELD, Ph. D., LL. D............................ Professor of German WILLIAM ALLEN WILBUR, A. M., Litt. D... .Dean of Columbian College CHARLES CLINTON SWISHER, Ph. D., LL. D......... Professor of History CHARLES SIDNEY SMITH, Ph. D.. HOWARD LINCOLN HODGKINS, Ph. D., .Professor of Greek and Latin Dean of the College of Engineering JOHN RAYMOND LAPHAM, M. S. in C. E.,.. Professor of Civil Engineering WILLIAM CARL RUEDIGER, Ph. D.. .Dean of Teachers College .. Professor of German Dean of the Law School Professor of Law . Professor of Law .Dean of the Medical School ALFRED FRANCIS WILLIAM SCHMIDT, A. M... Professor of Bacteriology and Pathology CARL JOSEPH MESS, D. D. S........ Committees of the President's Council Catalogue and Other Publications.-The President, the Secretary, Professors HODGKINS, WILBUR, and RUEDIGER. Admissions.-Professors HODGKINS, RUEDIGER, and WILBUR. Commencement Exercises.-The President, Professors SWETT, ALDEN, the Secretary, and the Treasurer. Schedule.-Professors HENNING, Hodgkins, and RUEDIGER. Library.-Professors SCHOENFELD, HENNING, the Librarian. Summer School.-Professors RUEDIGER, HODGKINS, HUNTER, and VAN VLECK. Student Activities.-Professors HALSEY, HENNING, RUEDIGER, Van Vleck (Secretary,) DOYLE, MORRISON, and KALUSOWSKI. HISTORY The George Washington University is the successor of the Columbian College in the District of Columbia which was chartered by an act of Congress approved February 9, 1821. In 1873 the name was changed to Columbian University and in 1904 to The George Washington University. The first commencement of Columbian College was held on the 15th of December, 1824, with the President of the United States; the Honorable John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State; the Honorable John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War; the Honorable Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives; and General Lafayette among those present. Work in the College was confined to the Arts and Sciences until March, 1825, when the Medical Department was established under the conduct of Dr. Thomas Sewall. The Medical Department is thus in the chronological order of establishment the seventeenth medical school in the United States. In 1826 the Law Department was founded with the Honorable William T. Carroll and Mr. Justice Cranch as its professors. Shortly afterward the school was discontinued, but was reopened in 1865. A Theological School founded also in 1826 was soon moved to Newton, Mass., where it now flourishes. On October 1, 1884, the Corcoran Scientific School, now the College of Engineering, was founded. Under Dean Charles E. Munroe the School of Graduate Studies was organized in 1893. The Dental School which had as its nucleus a course of lectures begun in November 1887, will be temporarily discontinued by action of the Board of Trustees after June 1, 1920. Teachers College was started as The Division of Education in 1907. In 1919, the National College of Pharmacy, organized in 1905 as an affiliated college of the University and suspending during the last year of the war, was reopened as the School of Pharmacy, a division of the Department of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy. Department of Arts and Sciences School of Graduate Studies Columbian College College of Engineering Teachers College Department of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy The Medical School The Dental School The School of Pharmacy ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT The Annual Commencement is held thirty-six weeks after the last Wednesday in September. Students who have satisfied the requirements for degrees subsequent to the June Commencement may be awarded degrees at the Fall Convocation on October 28. The Winter Convocation is held on February 22. UNIVERSITY ASSEMBLIES University Assemblies will be held from time to time, the attendance of students upon which may be required. SPECIAL UNIVERSITY LECTURES In accord with the University's desire to provide some extension courses that will appeal to the public and especially to persons desiring to take special courses in Arts or Letters, a course of eight lectures has been arranged for the year 1920-21. The lectures will be delivered by Langdon E. Mitchell, Litt, D., and will deal principally with poetry. The lectures will be held during the first half of the second semester, most of them during the Lenten Season. Members of the public desiring to attend may obtain tickets of admission at a fee of six dollars at the office of the Recorder, Lisner Hall, 2023 G Street. THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY The University Library comprises the Library of the Department of Arts and Sciences, the Law Library, and the Medical Library. It contains 55,000 volumes. In addition to its general collections the Library of the Department of Arts and Sciences contains the Library of the late Professor Richard Heinzel, of the University of Vienna, containing 7,200 books and pamphlets in Germanic philology and literature, and cognate branches; the library of the late Professor Curt Wachsmuth, of the University of Leipzig, containing 7,900 books and pamphlets in Greek and Roman literature, archeology, and history; the Mount Vernon Alcove containing 4,000 volumes in political history, international law, and the social sciences. Besides, the library of the American Institute of Architects, consisting of 1,063 volumes and portfolios of plates and drawings, is deposited in the reading room as a loan collection, where it is accessible, also, to all local architects. The library is open from 9 a. m., to 10.30 p. m. The Law Library, containing 7,500 volumes, is open from 8.30 a. m. to 10 p.m. The Medical Library, containing about 3,000 volumes, is open from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. PRIVILEGES IN GOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTIONS OPEN TO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS In order to promote research and the diffusion of knowledge, the Congress of the United States has made the scientific resources of the Government accessible to students under the terms of the following joint resolution, approved April 12, 1892: "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the facilities for research and illustration in the following and any other governmental collections now existing or hereafter to be established in the city of Washington for the promotion of knowledge shall be accessible, under such rules and restrictions as the officers in charge of each collection may prescribe, subject to such authority as is now or may hereafter be permitted by law, to the scientific investigators and to students of any institution of higher education now incorporated or hereafter to be incorporated under the laws of Congress or of the District of Columbia, to wit: |