The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-15

planned Nth great Formally. rcgi-
ment Of cavalry escorted him But
one unexpected, and dectdedr m
formal event TRANSFERRED. Students OF
| G~oreetovns old rival, Columbian
college, now part of Georgetown
| university, tried 10 outfsank George
/ town men and take precedence in the
| line OF parade to honor the famous
!, Frenehman. For a time the parade
| resen bied a latter day football game.
/ hut the Georgetown me- attained
I their goal In the skirmish they lost
! their banners, but captured those ~
| Columbian in a few DAYS George
| town men saw their priced banner
( flung from the window of George
1 town home They recapturcd It and
/ returned that OF Columbian, General
! Lafayette WAS 10 impressed by his
/ visit 10 Georgetown that he told about
! Il in an address to the national as
! senbly in Paris,
| II was Mt President Folks request
! thar priests OF the Catholic church,
: including two from Georgetown col
/ lcge went to the front In the MEXICAN
war One who went from George
| town. Father Ret. was murdered oy
a guerrilla band.
Following Lincotn's Inauguration In
1861 more than a hundred students
| from Southern states left for their
1 homes Some Southern sympathizers
remained and upon one memorable
accession, they made their presence
| known
The capital city was being fortified
|. against possible Confederate attack
and Georgetowns location made tt
/ an IDEAL place to take observations for
! prospective camps and defenses 40
| com panied by an old Georgetown man
Captain Prime went to the college
| to make the desired Inspections.
| When he came out he had to marca
/ between fales OF students who shouted
| Justify for JEFF Davis The officer was
I tactful enough 10 regard the demon
! stration as a Joke remarking that
once he had been a boy himself.
| In May, 1851. a regime nt Of soldiers
/ was auartered at the college. Most
OF the troops were Catholics, SO the
regimental chaplain set UP a tenn
| porary altar in the boys playground
| for daily mass President Lincoln
visited the grounds to review the
400 men stationed there.
The college weathered the trying
| Civil war period. despite reduced an
| rollment and distractions, and In 1858
Southern students began to return
| baseball, the great American leveller
helped cement the student body. It
| is recorded that The contra bands
gave a concert after the negro min
strel type and a baseball club was
formed which wound up with a play
r Of three hourx in December. with a
banquet"
In connection WITH flre IN 1885
IN a small building one historian 70
calls that The occupant was ii college
tailor and cohbler whose repair work
ignored matching OF coAofS, A well
tes.}r a
spectroscopic design that would have
afforded Joseph Urban some bizarre
. ideas
A students rvcoff~ctionr OF those
days OF the simple life" are pre-
served. The college day began IN
summer 1T S, IN winter at $50 O'Clock.
with n run to the pump for bath.
Tcwe,fng was hung bstw~en two
locust tre.s near the college door.
breakfast menu. Al O'Clock each
boy was given a piece Of bread Sup
per was not served until after a re-
: creation period. during which the
study han doors were locked to keep
the youth from their books, rosa ~
and evening studies. by O'Clock, IN
= that daylight saving program. mos
of the students were In bod
: Tho fnculty set an example IN abne
. that contained the few volumes of An
embryo library. TIfs berth was a
press bed folded In the daytime tc
AFFORD more room IN hrs cramp~t
cfficA Tho college could not AFFORD
elaborate vestments, 50 those used In
Tire college serv1ces were taken :,
: Trinity church Sunday morning fo'
celebration of mass. and then return
Il for cof1eEe servfces
= TIL u al kx, uf
light as the fare. Says an old diary
February -. Monday-At dinner
Leonard Neale translated Graecs
Minora. and George Jenkins explain
ed Virgil Both dd very well. and
= spoke sufficiently loud, which ha.
= hitherto been q circumstance rather
! rare"
: Commencement exercises a century
$ ago likewise were formidable affairs
= President Monroe attended one which
included an original two-act drama
! I'm imitation OF Shakcspearc's Julin.
{ Caesar an GRAFTON In Greek severa
poems in Latin. a French soliloquS
and then series Of speeches and
poems In English Even then thu
: familiar line. Music by the Marine
Band" WIS on the program.
From its eariist DAYS Georgetown
has produced men OF distinction. Har-
+
students In a single family. George
town can point to tours, first Of whom
was Robert Walsh. son of Count
Walsh and Baron Shannon. OF Balti-
more. Descendants OF the first stu
dent, now rnemorialtzed In CASTOR
hall. also came to Georgetown.
To trace thu influence OF George
town men in every field OF American
endeavor In itself would make a fasci-
mating story. One need only survey
the present field. to indicate their
quality, Edward Douglass White,
chief Justice OF the United States
Supreme court is representative OF
its alumni In Jurisprudence and laws:
DR.. q. EIeyd Magruder, a founder
Of Washingtons Emergency hospital;
DR. Ernest La Place. who studied un =
der Pasteur, Lister and Koch. be-
came a noted Philadelphia surgeon.
and was made Chevalier de la Legion
d'Honneur. and DR.. William c. Wood
ward, now head of the Boston Health
department. are among It's representa-
tives in medicine: Or. Leland o.
Howard, chief. bureau Of entomology.
is typical of its men of science: while
Wilton MI.ackaye and willard Mack