Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-07
TOHAVE DEGREES
FROM GEORGETOWN
Spanish Ambassador and Gov.
GIynn on the Anniversary
Honor List.
1000 AL UNINTERRUPTED
HERE FOR CELEBRATION
Exercises Scheduled to Begin With
Banquet on the Evening
of June ID.

Georgetown University at the celebra-
ton of the 125th anniversary of its found
ing will confer the honorary degree of
doctor of laws upon Senior Don Juan
Riano Gayansos, Spanish ambassador
to the United States. The same degree
will be awarded to Martin L. Glynn. Gov
ernor of New York; Thomas Ewing,
commissioner of patents. DR.. Joseph
Taber johnson and DR.. Frank Baker Of
this city, j. Percy Heating of Philadel-
phia and Eugene Ives Of Arizona.
The degree of doctor of letters will be
given to Thomas Walsh of Brooklyn. n.
Y. Other candidates for degrees have
submitted theses. The graduating class
of this year. which numbers 400, will re-
ceive course degrees in arts. sciences,
law medicine and dentistry.
The comforting of degrees will be the
feature of the commencement exercises
on the college campus June 16. The ad-
dress to the graduates will be made by
Gov Glynn of New York. President
Wilson has been asked to attend and in
vitations have been extended to Chief
Justice White of the United States
Supreme Court and many persons prom
inent in the affairs of church and state.
Madrid University Graduate.
Senior Riano, the first ambassador of
Spain to this country. was graduated from
the University of Madrid and received
degrees in civil and canon law. He
started his diplomatic career in 1885 and
served in Bogota, Caracas. Paris, Lon
don. Copenhagen and Christiania before
coming to Washington. .....
More than 1000 former students of
Georgetown from all over the United
States have announced their intention
to be present at the celebration which
begins with a banquet at the college
refectory the evening of June 10. The
baccalaureate sermon will be delivered
at IL o'clock Sunday morning at Holy
Trinity Church by Rev. jeremiah NJ:
Prendergast s. j., the honor man Of
the centennial class in the department
of arts and sciences. An election of re-
gents will be held in the afternoon.
and at evening Father Donlon, presi-
dent Of the university, will tender a re-
ception to the alumni and their ladies
at the college In the receiving line will
be the members Of the faculties of the
four departments. former presidents of
the university and Jesuits who taught
at the college in previous years. Fol-
lowing the reception the alumni will
gather in the quadrangle and recall
their boyhood days by singing old col
lege songs.
Monday morning will be given over
to sports and athletic events. The fea-
ture of this portion OF the program
will be a game of base ball between the
"old boys and the seniors of this
year. Class-day exercises and re-
unions will mark the afternoon, and
will conclude with the parade of former
students and alumni by classes around
the college walks This procession is
expected to be the most striking event
of the celebration. The secretaries OF
the various classes are striving to out
do each other in devising features to
distinguish the different years" and
many interesting and fantastic cos
TUNES are expected to be displayed. A
brass band will lead the parade.
Social Features on Program.
Social features will mark the even
| ing Of Monday. The seniors will hold a
dance in the Ryan gymnasium and a
smoker will be given for the alumni
| in Ryan Hall. The commencement Tues
| day will conclude the formal part of
the celebration. Glass dinners may be
arranged that evening by different sec
retaries at downtown hotels.
=, Rev A. ]. Donlon. S. j.. president of
the university, has presided at all the
| meetings of both the executive and the
general committee Of arrangements.
Father Donlon is the first alumnus of
Georgetown to hold the position of presi-
| dent of the university. Much of the de-
| tail work of the many meetings of the
committees and the sending of notices to
| the various secretaries fell upon Rev.
| Francis A., McQuade. S. j., who served
as vice chairman of the executive COM
| mittee. Other members of the execu-
tive committee were Thomas NJ. Harvey.