Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-01
Georgetown University Notes.

written for the Dspatch)
The Department Of Biology m tie Grsls.
ate School OF Arts and Sciences announced
by the faculty last commencemert t.s
been made an established fact Tile .n.
portance Of this subject as an el.r..t
Of intellectual culture and an at.a-s
20 higher philosophical training IS abe
mittedly great, and for A ucrb
course m medicine. it SIS an
preparation. and IS fast becoming .a ...
seut.al prerequisite The faculty
Georgetown have been exceptionally I..
tunata tn the selection 40 PROBES
Charles Wardel Stiles, ph. d.. r.a..-
ate Of Le.psic, az general director nD
Will devote HIS time more especial .
zoology being assisted in Gle 0.r
branches by some OF the mos- cr
specialists IN the government arr
most prominent among them being A.
ton p. waite. j.. s.. assistant Patio
logist. Division OF Vegetable Physiology
and Pathology. United states Depa-.u.t
OF Agriculture. professor az botany a.
Sylvester j. Judd. p. S., assistant ON.
iOgist. biological survey Untel States ..
partment OF Agriculture. Instructor ID
biology. Specia. lectures win he &c.. rar
IN addition 90 the above by Frank p
a. NJ. Pm. D., M. d., on autlrop1
Leland o. Howard NJ. S.. Ph. D.. Cl ..
sects T.. S. Palmer, a. D., st. d.. nm
mammals; James Il. Benedict. of tte -a-
tiouai Museum. on marine .nyer.ah-tt.s.
Charles y. Simpson. National Museum. cl
mouusks; Charles w. Richmond, National
Museum. on birds. Henry olCs. on zones
Of birds. and vs.. =. Hays d. S.. ol .a-
phiDia and. reptiles. A laboratory aaI
lecture-r5oms have been ntteI uD a.-
cially for this department in tho N..h
building.
The Graduate School has also aif.
70 f. this year a department OF DOH. .
under the management and instruction
% Or. Anton Gloetzner. and q er.H.y-
ing number OF students have CONNER.
work on the theory " music.
The distinguished specialist. Dr. a.
Hart Merriam. VIII deliver two lectures
% tho students of the Graduate School,
during tho coming month.
The Low Department opened on tlt -l
OF October with a large attends.
Judge McComas. OF tho supreme CONT
OF tho District OF Columbia. U.s. r,e
member OF the faculty and will lecture Cn
the claw OF Evidence and the claw ~
Contracts" Poor health having come
PEELED Professor j. j. Darlington no eHs
up his lectures on Personal Property
Professor Colbert. az the Moot C1l-
has been advanced TO tha5 c.r
and Mr. ID. W. Baker has been secured -5
Judge OF the Moot Court in his
The lectures OF the Rev. Rene A. E..-
laine. S. j., professor Of natura. 'aT
will soon make their appearance in book
form. Professor George T. H U..-r
Instructor In common law practice ard
equity pleading and practice. viii soon
place before the students o rev te1t-
book on common law practice
The medical department IS now giving
two courses OF lectures, afternoon ara
evening, necessitated by the change from
an evening % a day school. AZ soon as
the present third-year-class graduates in
1898. the evening session Will Do arar-
d0-ed. Northumberland ". Ut. r-
wood. Deputy Surgeon General. Ln
States army, has been added 20 .f
faculty as professor OF surgery anu .-
gical pathology.
In the literary contest be'w
tho special and the thiri a..
dcnic, presided over by Rev. Eat g
Ennis the victory was won
the third academic. which was champ
ed by Harold Redmond Kelly and J7r
A Cowardip, Jr., the latter OK Richmo -
Va.
The freshmen are much exercised r
a class cry. Naughty-naught. ouGfy-
ought, or nineteen or upupty -aus4t %
not satisfactory TO them, and tle query
often put is "What shall So beg"