Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-08
LAW SCHOOL OPENING.
Large and Entaukiastic Gathering
Last Night


On the 4occasi of the opening Of the
scholastic year Of the law department of
GeorsetewnI University last evening". about
six hundred students, alumni and friends
of the university gathered in the main
lecture hall of the law building. on E street
northwest. The faculty, headed by J.
Havehs Richards. s. j., president of the
university came inroa the hall at G:45
o'clock, and took seats ,on the platform.
On their entrance the audience rose en-
n1asse, and for the space of five minutes
cheers for Georgetown and, for each. tndi-
vidual member of the faculty were given
with great enthusiasm. When the cheering
= had. subsidized Father Richards, in a short
address, welcomed the students of former
years, who showed their loyalty to George
town by being there, and the students just
entering. He assured them that much de-
pended on their individual efforts in secur-
ing legal education and pledged the ut
most assistance and devotion on the part of
himself and of the faculty to assist them
in every possible way in their efforts. He
then Introduced Judge Louis E. McComas
of the Supreme Court of the District of Co.
lunbia as the orator of the evening. Judge
McComaS said, among other things, that
he" would spare the assemblage an oratfon,'
that he had only. Tuesday returned to the
city from vacation, and was not aware
them until then. and he thought that 1t
was their gain that he had not been mott
fed earlier. He spoke also of his recent
visit to Lincoln and Gray's Inns and to the
Inner Temple, in London, where Bacon,
Blackstone and other men great in the legal
profession had gained their knowledge,
and said 1t was an inspiration to him to
have been there. He congratulated the
students on being members of one of the
oldest universities in the new world and
one of the best; also that they were men,
bers of the law department Of that univer-
sity which numbered among Its faculty
| members Of the Supreme Court Of the
United States and of the Court Of Appeals
of the District of Columbia, and some Of
the keenest, ablest, greatest and most bril-
liant lawyers of the District bar.
After Judge McComas address announce
ments were made by each of the professors
as to the lectures to be given by them
Justice Morris said he would meet the
postgraduate class in constitutional law.
He hoped the present political strife would
leave enough of that venera:ed document
the Constitution to be useful and instruc-
tive to them. Prof. M. J. Colbert will lee
ture to the juniors on personal property on
Tuesdays and Saturdays; Judge Jere. NJ.
Wilson Will lecture on real property TO the
seniors and juniors, on Mondays, Wednes-
days and Fridays; Prof. R. Ross Perry 10
the seniors and post-graduates on common
law pleading, on Tuesdays, Thursdays AID
Saturdays; common law practice for the
post-graduates on Mondays and FRIDAYS
by Prof. George E. Hamilton; Prof. Tall
| madge A. Lambert will instruct the post
graduates in civil law on Wednesdays, and
| on Thursdays Prof D. w. Baker will con-
duct the moot court for the seniors and
post graduates. The lecture hours are from
G:3O to 1880 pm
Father Richards, in concluding the ex-
| ercises, made the announcement that in
Difference to an expressed desire on the part
| of a number of graduates for a higher
course, the faculty had made arrangements
| to give an extended course to all those who
| held the degree of LII. NJ, the course to
! cover two years, and on its successful COM
| pletion to entitle the student to the degree
| tribute to the memory Of the late Dr.
| Toner, one of the founders Of the school.
| Money to lend ut 81 ands6 per cent on real
es tate. Frank T. Rawlings. 1h05 Pa. ave.
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