Evening star., 1922-05-21
COLLEGES.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY.

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Georgetown University school of
foreign service participated success
fully in the National Foreign Trade
Council convention at Philadelphia
last week. where the institution
maintained an exhibit that proved in
teresting to the delegates.
Besides being the only educational
tfnstftution that had prepared an ex-
hibit of its work in training young
men for foreign service. the school
was represented by selected students
| who attended the convention. A
number of the Georgetown students
likewise attended the Chamber of
Commerce. convention in Washington.
! James A. Farrell, president of the
/ United States Steel Corporation. who
I endowed the foreign service school
at its inception. betrayed the, ex-
while in Philadelphia. In addition TO
the students. Rev. w. Coleman Nevils.
8. G., regent: DIR. Roy S. MacElwee.
dean. and Thomas H. Healy. secretary
and assistant dean of the school, at
! tended the sessions.
! Those representing the student
body were r: A. Carmichael, 22,
Delta Sigma Phi: F. J. Gillis, '22,
Delta Phi Epsilon; Frank Curran.
president of the freshman class. and
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Advantage was taken Of the oppor-
| tunity to place a number of the 1929
| graduates with business concerns.
and assistance was given others who
| desired to make connections.
One unique feature of the exhibit
| was map, heavily studded with red
pins. each pin indicating the position
of a Georgetown school of foreign
service graduate in the foreign field.
| Other faculty members who at
tended the convention, most of them
in the government service. were
| William A. Reid, DIR. w. C. Culbert-
| son of the United States Tariff Com
mission, F. Il Eldridge, Col Law
renee Martin, Col. Alan Goldsmith of
the bureau Of foreign and domestic
Baron Serge Korfsand DR.. L. S. Rowe,
director of the Pan-American Union.
Establishment of a pro-legal course
| considerable attention in the city be-
I cause Of the decision to compel col
lege training for admission to the
| law school. Sessions will be held at
lege, and at the law school. Stu
| dents desiring to take the pro-legal
! course may elect the courses given
at the college in the morning hours
or at the Law school in the afternoon
hours The regular members Of the
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| classes both at the Healy building
and downtown. The Riggs Memorial
Library, containing 100000 volumes
of reference works. will be open to
| legal students. as well as the
Hirst Library containing about 5000
| volumes.
| Everybody who is interested in
| ghosts. goblins and fairies" is in
vited to the college tomorrow after
noon at 4:30 o'clock and hear what
Rev. Thomas I. Gasson, S. j., dean of
the graduate school. has to say about
them. This will be the next to the
last of the lecture series, Rev. John
iP. Meagher. S. j.. being the lecturer
on the following Monday. His sub
ject will be The Missing Link"
Georgetown's annual elocution con-
test will be held tonight in CASTOR
Hall at 8:15 o'clock. with nine con-
testants for the William Writ Dixon,
jr. medal. Since the founding of the
medal. in 1903. Washington students
contest more. frequently than any
other class of students. The local
students who were awarded the medal
were Albert B. Redgway. 1904: John
H. Doyle. 1907: ]. Addison Lusk. 1908;
issi. N
The students participating in to-
nights contest will be Bernard NJ.
Wagner of Ohio. Joseph ]. O'Connell
of New York, Laurence K. Downey
lof the District of Columbia. Robert
E. Morgan of Kentucky. Robert E.
Ward of Illinois. Joseph A McDon-
ough of New York. John S. McCann
of Maine, Charles Clifford of Massa-
chusetts and Simon H. Rourke of
Massachusetts,.
Judges for the event will be On
;Wilfred NJ. Barton of the medical
school, Thomas H. Hurney, secretary
of the law school. and Lieut. Jean J.
Labat of the foreign service school
Music will be furnished by the col
lege orchestra.
Owing to the rain. the annual field
day ot the r. o. T. c. battalion has
been postponed until Tuesday after
noon at / o'clock. Prizes to the ca
dets with the highest efficiency rat
ings will be presented by the Wash
ington Chamber of Commerce. Com
pany B, commanded by Cadet Capt
Joseph F. Little. will defend its right
to carry the colors again next year.