Evening star., 1924-06-09
COOLIDGE TO GIVE DIPLOMAS
At GEORGETOWN u. CEREMONY
President VIII Make CongratulatOry Address al
Commencement Erercises-COrernOr of
Rhode Island Featured on Program

President Coolidge will make a
brief congratulatory address and pre-
sent the diplomas and prizes to ap-
proximately 490 graduates of George
town University at the 125th annual
commencement Of the institution this
afternoon on the Hilltop.
Gov. William s. Flynn OF Rhode Is
land himself ii graduate of the
Georgetown law school, will deliver
the address TO the graduates. The
university will confer the honorary
degree of doctor OF laws upon Gov.
Flynn, the only honorary degree to
be given by it this year.
Weather permitting, the exercises
will begin at Ais o'clock on the
college campus, in front of the Healy
building. In event of rain they will
be held in CASTOR hall, where, owing
to lack of accommo odationS, there will
be no admission without special card.
The class is the largest ever gradu
ated at Georgetown.
VIII Present Candidates.
Rev. John 3. .Creedon, s. J., presi-
dent of the university, will make the
opening address and the deans of the
various departments will present the
candidates for degrees. For the first
morning law class will be among the
graduates. Dean George E. Hamilton
will present the 235 law graduates,
one of the largest legal classes in the
United States. The medical graduates
will be presented by DR.. George III.
Kober; the dental graduates by DR..
William F. Hoofnag1e, and the grad
yates OF the foreign service school by
DR.. William F. Notz.
Alumni'and friends of the institu-
Of he hoo lny1r
cises yesterday morning, when Rev.
Edmund A. Walsh. S. J., former re-
gent of the Foreign Service School,
preached the sermon and last night
attended the reception held by Presi-
dent Creeden and members Of the
faculties. Earlier in the afternoon
the class reunions were held.
Franks Case Recalled.
Citing the Franks murder case as
one of the results of misguided uni
versity training which subordinates
character molding to new ideas of
education, Father Walsh, in the bac-
calaureate sermon, stressed the tmpor-
tance of proper character moIding
along with education.
Father Walsh said, in part:
Iurn your thoughts to the city
of Chicago and contemplate two
youths of your own age, sons of mil
lionaires, who commanded all of the
advantages that wealth and modern
university could supply, sitting today
behind bars which the state of 1lli-
noiS has erected between them and
civil society, and ask these eternal
seekers after new emotional thrills
where that philosophy of life leads
which subordinates character to in
formation and mistakes instruction
for education"
Held Final Exercises.
During the afternoon the George
town Preparatory School held it's final
exercises at Garrett Park, Md, nine
teen students receiving their diplo-
mas. Mr.. Hamilton made the address
to the students and Rev. Thomas Ad-
dis Emmet, S. j., headmaster, present.
ed prizes to the honor students.
The members of the graduating
class were James Humphrey Bush
kirk, Edward Joseph Dennis, John A.
Deveney, Edwin Henry Fisher, John
G. F'lannery, Thomas Joseph HaIlahan,
Walter J. Hartman, Thomas Hunt
Joyce, Henry Andrew Jaeger, Leo r.
Kundtz, Paul Maynard Langley, Ger