Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-30
UNIVERSITY NOTES.
Georgetown University.

The class of '97 at their last meeting
elected the following officers for the COM
irg term: President, Sherman Doyle; vice
president, Francis Delany; secretary, Tim
othy Conr oily; treasurer. Charles A. Shea;
poet, Walter Egginton; orator, Benedict
Maher; historian, John Cassidy; beadle,
William Higgins; manager of athletics,
Timothy WEIGH.
The Riggs Library has received an addi-
ton of seventy-five valuable books present
ed by Rev. ]. Il. O'Farreu of Petersburg,
Va.
Robert Dick Douglas has been appointed
editor of the College Journal. and Auter-
bridge Horsey its exchange editor.
An interesting exhibit for the educational
department of the Atlanta exposition is be-
ing prepared by the university.
Graduate students are beginning to arrive
in large numbers; their lectures will open
next Tuesday at 10 am.
Since foot ball has been abolished, special
interest is taken In field and track ath-
letics. and men are now at work fixing the
running track around the campus.
The inaugural address to the students of
the medical school will be delivered on Mon
day, at pm. by DR.. George NJ. Sternberg,
surgeon general of the United States army.
The regular lectures will begin the next
morning. The Law School will resume it's
studies on October q
Howard University.
Prof. Richard Foster has Just returned
an interesting and extensive exhibit, sent
to the exposition by the university.
Fifteen lectures will be given this year
in the university extension course. The
first lecture will be delivered by DR.. Ran
kin on school Room Ethics"
The opening address to the theological
class was delivered by Prof. Isaac Clark
deliver an opening sermon to all the uni
versity students.
Catholic University.
The Divinity Hall of the university
opened on Tuesday, with a large number
of students. The first days of the new
year are being spent in spiritual retreat
conducted by Rev. Father Elliott, Paulist
missionary.
On Monday the formal opening will take
place, preceded by mass of the Holy Ghost
offered in the Divinity Chapel by the rec
tor, Bishop Keane, in presence of both fac
ulty and students. An address will then be
made by Bishop Keane, in which the work
of the year will be outlined, after which
the students will matriculate to the diff
ferent classes and the class work will be-
gin.
Dr. Charles P. Grannon, professor of
Sacred Scriptures In the Divinity Hall, who
has been summering abroad. returned to
the university on Tuesday last.
The corridors of Mcmahon Hall have
been deliberately draped in the "stars and
stripes in preparation for its Inaugural
ton on Tuesday.
Columbian University.
H. H. Hawking, graduate of the Corcoran
Scientific School. has recently been appoint
ed instructor in chemistry in the New York
College of Dentistry.
C. LIE Roy Parker of the graduate school
has entered upon his duties as instructor in
chemistry and physics in the Forest Glen
Institute.
DR.. Herman Sch oenfeld, professor of Ger
man and continental history, has been ap-
pointed editor-in-charge of all the Ameri-
can articles in the Brockham Lexicon, which
is now the Oldest encyclopedia in the world,
a new edition of which is issued every
seven years.
DIR. Howard L. Hodgllins head of the de-
partment of mathematics, has added cours-
es in analytic geometry, theory of aqua-
tons and history of mathematics TO his al
ready large curriculum.
Mr.. George B. Pfeffer, who took the de-
gree of NJ. S. at the university last year,
has been appointed assistant in The United
States army office al New York city.
Cleveland Able, jr, is to have charge OF
the elementary course of photography in
the Corcoran Scientific School this year.
The number of students in the college is
larger at the beginning of this session than
it was last year." says DR.. Montague, land
new students are constantly enrolling them
selves. A day of great prosperity has
dawned for the college department, and all
the students are beginning the session with
earnest and faithful work.
The Corcoran Scientific School will open
on Tuesday and the graduate school on Fri
day