Evening star., 1921-10-02
COLLEGES.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY.

! Confronted by the housing short
age in Washington, which is ,becom-
/ ing more acute with the approach
ing conference on the limitation of
! ornaments. the students OF the
! Georgetown University professional
schools will meet this morning to
| take the question of living costs into
| their own hands.
The housing committee appointed
! last summer TO arrange for down
| town dormitory building and for
! board, accommoda tions for incoming
students will make its formal report
and recommendations at meeting of
the Georgetown Union at 10 o'clock in
J CASTOR Hall at the college.
| Two necessary objects are sought
| by the union. which is the center OF
| student activities in the law, for
eigr service. medical and dental
| schools. Living costs for the stu
dents must be lowered and the Npur-
| chase or lease of a large downtown
! apartment. suitable for housing sew
eral hundred persons, must be d1-
rected by the student body, support
, ed by the faculty.
/, One of the first steps in this direc-
| ton will be taken when the question
+, of Incorporating the Georgetown
j Union arises. so that the union may
! istrar at the college and chairman
of the housing committee. will re-
| port the recommendations and these
will be acted upon today.
| Aside from the location of uni
versity dormitory, the committee has
been fine-combing the residential sec
| tions of the city for suitable board
| ing houses and residences where
students may obtain either board or
! lodging at reasonable cost. Care
| has been taken. in the selection OF
| the list, to eliminate the so-cal1ed
i, rent profiteer. In this way it is esti-
! mated that several hundred students,
| most of them incoming freshmen
who are unacquainted with living
conditions in the city, will be pro-
vided with rooms in suitable private
| homes.
| The question of purchasing or leas-
! ing an apartment house is quite an
| other problem, since 1T involves the
! expenditure of large sum of money.
A schedule has been worked out.
however. showing that such a prop
| osition could be put over at very
| reasonable monthly rate for each stu
dent who goes into it. President
John b. Creedon. S. j.. and other Off
cials of the university are thoroughly
! in sympathy with the efforts of the
Georgetown union to help solve the
i tigh cost of living that is formi-
! dable problem with many students.
! With the opening of the law school
Saturday night the entire university
| is now in full swing. The most i'm
portant announcement in connection
/ with the law school is the tablish
| ment of a pre-legal course of two
years in the college for the benefit
! of students who wish highly spe-
cialized training to take UP the study
of law. 1t is announced by the school
authorities that this step is taken in
accordance with the policy of improve
ing the standards of the institution
from time to time.
The first-year course calls for Eng
| lish, government, history and public
speaking, while elective studies ih-
cIude French. Spanish, German. physics.
chemistry. biology and journalism.
! For the secondyear course the
F. studies required are English. philosophy
and public speaking, while added to
! the elective studies are economies,
, sociology. history and Latin. 1t is
! recommended by President Creedon
and George E. Hamilton, dean of the
| law school. that all students of the
F.. pre-1egal course become members of
! the various debating societies at the
+; college.