The Washington herald., 1921-06-12
GEORGETOWN FOREIGN SERVICE
SCHOOL WILL BE FEATURE
OF 122nd COMMENCEMENT
Schedule of Today's Exercises On the Hilltop
Announced With That of the Week.

Featured by the first graduating
class of a school of foreign service
in the history of the United States.
the 1921 annual commencement ex-
ercises at Georgetown University
this week will attract thousands of
friends and alumni to the hill
top"
Although the annual meeting or
the alumni association last night
proved the initial event, the COM
mencement exercises will not actu-
ally begin until this morning at
10:15 o'clock. when the graduating
classes of the college, law. medical,
dental. and foreign service schools,
will assemble in Dahlgren chapel to
hear the baccalaureate sermon. II
will be delivered by the Very Rev
Francis X. Delany, s. J., graduate
of Georgetown in 1897 and now
head of the Jesuit Order in ia
maica.
the faculties of the various schools
and the alumni, the graduating
classes will assemble in the historic
college walks" promptly at 1915
o'clock. They will then march in
ScAShbh pioStSSiOh W thc COlicsc
quadrangle, where Dahlgren chapel
is located.
Following the sermon, an i'm
board of regents will be held at
the college at 1870 clock in the
afternoon. Matters looking to the
further growth and expansion of
the university will receive final ac-
tion.
Senior Reception.
The feature of the exercises tnis
evening will be the reception to the
alumni and senior classes by the
president OF the university. the Rev
John B. Creeden. S. J., and the
faculties of all departments. This
will be followed at Sis o'clock by
band concert and the singing of
college songs in the quadrangle by
alumni and graduating classes.
The program for tomorrow will
be as follows: p. m. athletic field
events for seniors of all depart
ments; p. m, AlumniSenior base
ball game.
Reunion banquet for members of
the five and ten-year classes in the
Ryan dining hall at the college at
G o'clock
Glass day exercises in the quad
rangle for the college students at
S:l5 o'clock. B. Meredith Reid. of
Pennsylvania, will make the Cohon-
guroton GRAFTON, which is the vale
dictory.
Glass day exercises also Will be
held at the school of law for the
first time in its history, when q
memorial tablet will be unveiled in
honor of the law students who gave
their lives in the world war
The commencement exercises will
come to close Tuesday afternoon
at AIS o'clock, when nearly 500 stu
dents of all departments will re-
ceive their diplomas from the Rev.
John B. Creeden, ST.. president OF
the university.
Secretary DENLY Speaks.
The address to the graduates will
be delivered by Edwin DENLY. sec
retary OF the navy, whose father
was graduate of Georgetown col
lege more than half a century ago.
Exercises will be held beneath the
spreading trees on the college
campus. Should the weather be un-
pleasant, they will take place in
CASTOR hall. Owing to the limited
number of seats there will be no ad-
mission to the hall without special
card
Two distinguished Washington
ians will be honored by the univer-
sity with the degree of doctor of
laws in recognition of meritorious
public work. They are Gilbert H.
Grosvenor, president of the National
Geographic society and editor of its
magazine, and DR.. !. S. Stone, for
many years a member Of the medi-
cal school faculty OF the university.
The exercises Tuesday will be
marked by the fact that the school
OF foreign service, the only one of
its kind in the United States. will
graduate its first class. More than
rs young men, most of whom al
ready have passed examination for
the diplomatic, consular and COM
nercial services of the government;
will receive their diplomas
That evening at 1880 o'clock at
the Raleigh Hotel. the school of for
eisn service Withhold a banquet in
honor of its first graduating class.
James A. Farrell. president of the
United States Steel Corporation.