Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-28
GEORGETOWN COLLEGE.
NOTES OF INTEREST ABOUT SOME
OF THE PROFESSORS.
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Georgetown College. Washington. d.
O.. Oct. 26.-Charles Wardell Stiles. PHI.
D.. professor of medical zoology in the
medical school, and head of the biologi-
cal department OF the graduate school,
is giving an important series of semi
weekly lectures In the biology class
room at the college. DR.. stiles is q
graduate of Liepsic, where he was Il
pupil of Pasteur, Leuchart and other
renowned scientists. For the past two
years he was been in Berlin as an at
tache of the United States Embassy.
Rev. John Hagen, 5. j., professor of
astronomy and director of the obSer-
vatory, also professor of higher mnthe-
MATES in the graduate school, who has
been in Europe since early in July, Will
sail for America October 2Sth. During
his absence Father Hagen has officially
attended the National Congress OF
Mathematicians, held at the Palais des
Congress, in Paris, which was presided
over by Poincare, conceded to be the
greatest of living mathematician. and
read in the American Mathematical
Monthly for August September that
Hagen, of Washington" was named
with Dickstein Gutzner, Laisant and
some few others, as one of the most in
teresting personalities present Among
other conventions attended by Father
of the photographic Charts and of the
Astronomische Gesellschaft, the Con-
gress of Catholic Scientists in Munich,
and the meeting OF the Royal Astrono-
mical Society of England. Father
Hagen has also held important confer
ences in Berlin with his printers, who
have published his Atlas Stellarum
Variabilium and his Synopsis of Higher
Mathematics
1t is somewhat of coincidence that
the present opposing candidates. the
Hon. Sidney Il. Mudd and Hon. b. Har-
ris Canalier were both Georgetown
boys and friends. and that both gentle
men now have sons at Georgetown.
The Dramatic Association expects to
give a production of 1.-The Private Sec
rotary shortly before Christmas
MIR. John 3. Creeden, S. j., who has
been very i'll with typhoid fever since
the past summer, has now recovered
and resumed teaching.
competitive examination for a $500
scholarship has been announced
Rev. Mariana Gutierrez S. j., of the
province of CASTLE. is now in charge
of the Spanish department.
The Philademic Society has effected
its organization for the year by the
election of the following officers: j. p
Il. Duffy, New York, president: w. J.
Herman. New York, vice-president; NJ
j. Walsh. Pennsylvania. treasurer; e.
j. Smith. Tennessee, recording score
tary: l.. l.. Byrne, New York, CORE
spending secretary; C. c. Green. North
Carolina. first censor; James Martin,
second censor.
Castor Hall will shortly be in the
hands of artists, and ella boratc designs
for It's decoration are now being
pushed.
Thomas c. Downs, of Wisconsin, cap
tain of last years baseball team. en-
poets to commence the practice of law
IN Fond du-lac after the election, and
j. IL. Mulligan, of Pennsylvania, and
Theodore II. Desse2. OF District of Co
Iumbia. have begun a partnership I'm
the same profession in Kansas.
ID. j. Mccarthy. NJ. D., the captain of
baseball in 1899. when Georgetown made
the most famous walk-over known to
athletic history. having completed
successful year OF residence at Provi-
ience Hospital, Washington. has begun
practice in his native State of NIassa-
,huSettS.