Evening star., 1922-06-10
C. j. GRADUATION
WEEK OPENS TODAY
Class Day Exercises Tonight
in College Quadrangle.
Elaborate Program.

opening WIN CLASS Qay eAeTClSeS
tonight in the college quadrangle,
the 123d annual commencement week at
Georgetown University will be in
augurated. While the seniors from
the medical, dental, foreign service
school and college are holding forth
tonight at $40 o'clock, the legal
seniors will pay tribute to the late
Justice Ashley M. Gould at the law
building when portrait of the jurist
will be presented to the school on be-
half of the students whom he taught.
Gecrgetown's athletic heroes will
come in for their share of the cele-
bration at the annual meeting of the
alumni association, when steps Will be
taken to assure greater degree OF
success in athletics in the future.
despite the fact that Georgetown won
the pentathalon and the base ball
championship this season. Election
of officers will be held at 1880 o'clock.
Indian Legend Theme.
The class day exercises will be
centered around the general theme
of an old Indian legend of the Poto-
mac. known to the early Americans
as the Cohonguroton. Before a great
campfire. John S. McCann president
of the seEior class, will deliver the
Cohonguroton address, in the nature
of farewell. while other students in
Indian costume will chant the swan
s,ng. Joseph ]. Sweeney will recite
TIE class poem, while Sylvan J. Pauly
will give the class history. Music by
the Georgetown College Orchestra and
Glee Club will help keep the spirits
aroused
Addresses to the alumni will be
made by Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, For
eign Service School, and John Crosby.
former assistant to the Attorney Cen
eral and Georgetown oarsman.
Norman +. Kane will preside at
the law school class exercises while
Joseph A. Cantrel, president of the
senior class. will make the presenta-
ton address in connection with the
gift of the portrait of Justice Gould.
Court proceedings in the form of
probating a will will be held in con-
nection with the portrait.
BaccnlauHeate Sermon.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
delivered to the graduating classes
tomorrow morning at 10:3O o'clock in
Dahlgren Chapel by Rev Charles l..
OBrien of Philadelphia, member of
the class of 1904. The alumni and
graduates, including faculties. will
assemble shortly before in the col
legS walks and march to the chapel.
Much interest is centered in the
meeting of the board of regents dur
ing the afternoon, when important
business matters connected with the
growth of the institution will be
considered. Tomorrow evening will
be featured by the special exercises
for the Foreign Service School. at
which certificates Will be presented
to about fifty students. The eXer-
cises will be held on the porch of the
old North building, which served as
the temporary Capitol of the United
States in 1914. DR.. l.. S. Rowe of the
Pan American Union will address the
students. while Dean Roy S. MacEl-
wee will preside. These exercises
will be followed by the annual re-
ception of President John +. Creeden
and faculties to the visitors and
graduates.
$50 to Get Degrees.
About 450 students will be given
degrees in all branches of the uni
verSity at the commencement eNer-
ciSes Monday afternoon at i:l5
O'Clock on the college lawn in front
of the Healy building. Special prizes
for meritorious work and honorary
degrees to distinguished friends of
the university will be conferred.
George L. Hamilton. dean of the law
school and regent of the university.
will make the address to the grad
yates. 1t will be the occasion of his
own golden jubilee anniversary of
his first association with Georgetown.
Honorary degrees Will be given to
Mr.. Hamilton and James a. Farrell.
president of the United States Steel
Corporation, who will be made doc
tor of canon and civil laws and
doctor of laws. respectively.
An honorary degree of doctor of
military science, presented for the
first time. will be bestowed upon
Maj. William H. Hobson. U. S. A,
whose splendid services with the r.
O. T. C. unit have made it rank with
the best in the country. Two spe-
cia1 degrees in philosophy will be
conferred upon DIR. Guillermo A.
Sherwell of the inter-American high
for literature, and Jo-
seph DerivauX of Oil City, Pa, for