The Washington times., 1923-04-08
STUDENTS GIVE 500
EACH To EVDOW c. j.
Foreign Service School VoIun-
teer Offering Adds $780,
600 to Fund.
WILL APPEAL TO NATIONS
Association Will Seek Foreign
Contributions Toward
100000 Goal.
APPEAL TO NATIONS

Volunteer subscriptions averaging
800 each by the students of the
Foreign Service Cchool, it was an
nounced last night by the George
town Endowment Association, will
net $4,000 as the initial fund to-
ward erection of unique home for
the institution, to be called the
college of Nations"
An additional subscription OF
$4,000 contributed by the faculty
of the Foreign Service School
raises the total to $4,000 and sets
a pace that other departments of
the university will find hard to
follow.
The fact that more than 95 per
cent of the Foreign Service School
students are young men of lim1teu
means. working their way through
the school indicates school spirit
which the Rev. w. Coleman Nevis.
5. j., national chairman of the en-.
doWment association, believes is UNI
rivaled by any class of students
Every one of the 400 students IN
the school contributed voluntarily
to a fund that will be used to erect
In Washington one of the most
UNIQUE university buildings in the
United States.
APPEAL TO NATIONS.
An appeal is being made to every
foreign nation, which is vitality con.
cerned in the promotion of COM
merce with this country, to con.
tribute to a new home for the
Foreign Service School that will be
truly representative of the nations
of the world, as the school was the
first in the United States to recog-
nize the Importance of Diplomatic
and commercial training.
IL IS proposed to erect q building
that will conform to the beautiful
public buildings in the Capital and
Will attract visitors to Washington.
The auditorium, museum, library.
lecture halls and classrooms would
be named after the contributing ma
tons. Each would bear mural dec.
orations, which would artisticalIy
express the flag, the emblem and
salient points in the history of the
nation to whom the hall is dedi-
Gated.
The proposed college of Ma
tons" is planned to hold in the
promotion of foreign service educa-
ZION much the same position that
the Pan-American Union holds be-
tween the United States and the
Latin -American republics. Many of
the foreign diplomats In Washing.
ton not only have heartily Endorsed
the plan, but have promised their
active cooperation to make its
erection possible in the near future.
DRIVE STARTS TODAY.
Every year a day will be set aside
for a public celebration in honor of
each contributing nation, at which
members Of the diplomatic corps will
be present. BY special exercises,
every attraction will be offered to
bring to the knowledge of as many
as possible the history and the eco
nomic resources of the nation.
The week of intensive campaign
ing to raise Washington quota Of
$250.O00 toward the $4,000, 900 Fer
manent endowment which George
town University is seeking, WIN be
launched with dinner at l o'clock
this afternoon at the college.
Alumni and teams participating in
the drive have been invited and
the aims of the Endowment Asso-
citation for Greater Georgetown"
will be emphasized.
President John B. Creedon, S. T.,
Rev. w. Coleman Nevis, S. j.,
Frank j. Hogan, chairman of the
local committee, and officers Of the
executive committee will be among
the speakers. Reports indicate that
$3.50, 900 will be raised in Washing
ton in record dime, especially in
view of the fact that it is the first
appeal Georgetown has ever made
to its alumni in the 1874 years of
its history.