Evening star., 1922-03-26
COLLEGES.
GEoRaETowN UNIVERSITY.

Realizing the splendid opportunity
FOR better understanding between the
two Americas that will be presented
in the Forthcoming Brazilian cente-
nary celebration, in which the United
States government is to participate.
the Georgetown School of Foreign
Service students are striving with
marked success to arrange for pam
American university conference. The
Brazilian government. anxious to aid
any movement that would tend to
strengthen the bonds Of friendship
between the two continents, is about
10 give the movement, 1t is learned,
oHcial Endorsement. Each country
In North and South America would
universities to convene in a students
council in Rio de Janeiro for the pur-
pose of discussing mutual problems
and educational opportunities.
Georgetown University will be rep
resented at the conference. which
be called, in connection with the
centenary celebration, by Marcellus
A. Cremer of Evanston, ILL.,. and New
ton do Pinto Almeida of Rio de ia
nelro. Mr.. Cremer is connected WITH
the Latin American division Of the
Almeida is now in Brazil, having
been called suddenly home on ac-
count of illness in his family.
The two Georgetown students. en-
thusiastic over the way the idea mas
been grasped by the American and
Brazilian governments, are working
through Sebastian Sampaio. CONNER
cial attache of the Brazilian embassy,
and DR.. Yanes, assistant director OF
the Pan-American Union. Last sum-
mer three Foreign Service School
students went to the students con-
ference of Latin American universi-
ties, held in Guatemala City. the only
representatives from the United
States. So beneficial did this confer
ence prove to the Foreign Service
School in arranging for an extension
of it's Latin American economic and
conceived the idea of an all-pan-
American students council at the
Brazilian celebration, at which many
governments are to be represented.
Encouraging replies have been re-
ceived from many prominent educa-
tional institutions to letters sent out.
and there are reasons to believe that
a strong representation of American
universities will attend the forthcom-
ing centenary.
Capt. Lawrence Stellings. assistant
in export sales practice at the For
eign Service School. resigned from
the faculty last week and will go
to New York city, where he will be
come associated with one Of the
wounds received in Belleau Woods,
where he fought with the. famous
5th Regiment of Marines, Capt. STALL
tngs has been dividing his time in
doing active newspaper work in
Washington and attending the For
.ip
well in his studies that he was ap-
pointed an assistant professor.
DR.. John Paul Goode of the Uni
versity of Chicago lectured at the
Foreign Service School Wednesday
on America as a World Power"
A recent valuable contribution to
the Foreign Service Schools library
is an edition of THE History and Ma
ture of International Relations.
edited by the Rev. Edmund A. Walsh.
5. j., former regent of the school.
who is now studying economic con-
ditions in western Europe. The con-
II ibutors to this volume. which COM
prises lectures relivered before the
school. are the foremost authorities
on ancient. medieval and modern dl-
plomacy. They include Carlton ]. H.
phen P. Duggan. director of the In
stitute of International Relations:
John Bassett Moore, formerly coun-
selor of the State Department and
professor at Columbia University:
DR.. James Brown Scott. secretary of
the Carnegie Endowment for Inter-
national Peace; Prof. Michael ].
Rostevtseff of University Of Wiscon-
sin. formerly Of the University of
Petrograd: Prof. James Lawrence
Laughlin, director of the Journal of
Political Economy. and numerous
others.
The Southwestern State Club of the
School of Law, grouped according to
Tennessee, Kentucky. Missouri and
Arkansas. has elected the following
officers: Leonard NJ. Gardner of Ten
nessee, president; Charles B. Richter
of Missouri, vice president: A. Hig-
gins of Kentucky, secretary, and Roy
Hall of Tennessee, treasurer. A meet
ing has been called for the evening
of March 20. at which papers will be
read on the constitutions of the vari-
Gus states in the club.
The New York State Club. second
largest in the Law School, it was an
nounced has just elected Philip Stein.
president; Anthony n. Skapiak, vice
president, and Thomas j. Clary, sec
retary treasurer. Represe
Perlman. Ryan. Volk, Hogan and 9TH
ers of the New York delegation have
promised to address the club, as will
also Senators Calder and Wadsworth.