Evening star., 1924-01-20
GEORGETOWN SEEKS
CLOSER COOPERATION
Association Of Glass Presidents Re-
garded as Step in That
Direction.

Closer cooperation in, student ac-
tivities at the Georgetown University
| Law School is being brought about un-
der a newly organized association Of
| class presidents directly responsible to
the heads Of the institution.
The initial step OF the Law. School
TO bring about more coordination in
student affairs is to be followed by
, , similar organizations in the other de-
partments of the university and has
the hearty support Of the Rev. John
! d. Creeden, president Of GEORGETOWN.
Win each department Represented
py an association of class presidents,
the most natural movement, to follow
would be revival Of the George
town Union, the suspension of which
mas oeen a large contributing factor
70 70 tne widening Of the gulf between
| the professional schools and the COL
lege. in the opinion of some of the
Georgetown faculty.
The Law School association, which
VIII have general supervision over
lowing presidents: Theodore King of
the hrst-year evening class Walter
Shea of the second-year evening
class. Donald F. O,Regan of the third
year evening class. Austin F. Can
held of the postgraduate class. John
Shaw of the pre-legal class. Edward
cunningham of the first-year morning
class, Daniel F: Mckenna of the sec
ond-year morning class and Edward
J; Mart Of the third-year morning
class.
The association has a big lob
mapped out ahead of it owing to the
rapid increase in the numbers attend
| graduate it's, first class next June.
| While the morning registration as
! compared with that of the evening
classes constitutes a decided minority.
the fact remains that the morning
school is just as potent part of the
| GeorsetoWn Law School as the regu-
! lar evening department. One of the
| first problems before the association
Is to find way to bring about a
tween the two rival schools.
AT its last meeting the association
took up the question of securing
greater attendance at the prize de-
bates staged between the Senior and
| dations were made to the faculty
that hereafter the audience should
be allowed to select the winning side
in debates. leaving the selection of
the best individual debater to the
decision of judges appointed for that
! purpose. In the last debate, on the
question of enacting soldiers bonus,
| the affirmative was given the decision.
but the two best individual debaters
! of the contest were chosen from the
| losing team.
/ Georgetown's rifle team, accom-
| panied by Capt. William L. Bergin,
| u. S. A, and Coach Michael ]. Dona-
hue. participated in the intelcolle-
| giate shoulder-to-s shoulder match in
New York yesterday. The Hilltoppers
were represented by Capt. w. c. SAT-
farrans, John n. Doran. James L. Rus
sell. jr., Cecil McDonough and Joseph
Rouse.
Edward L. Bacher, assistant man
ager of the foreign service depart
| ment of the United States Chamber OF
/, Commerce addressed the Foreign
| Service School Tuesday night on the
| benefits to international trade result
/ ing from the recent conference on
customs held at Geneva, Switzerland
He was a delegate to the conference
| Harold De Courcy, acting chief OF
the division of foreign laws of the
J. department of Commerce. addressed
! the class in commercial law Of the
Foreign Service School last week, CIV
| ing a general survey of the organiza-
| tion, purpose and general work of his
| division. which has only recently been
| instituted by the government.