Evening star., 1924-04-13
EIGHT G. u. ORATORS
IN CONTEST TONIGHT
Dixon Elocution Competition to Be
Held in CASTOR Hall of
University.
SENATOR WALSH TO SPEAK
Easter Holidays, Beginning Wed
nesday, Continue to April %.

The annual Dixon elocution contest
Will be held in CASTOR Hall, George
town University, tonight at S:15
o'clock. Eight contestants, chosen
from among the youthful orators at
the college, will compete for honors.
Rev. William T. Talon, S. J., dean
of the college, announced that the
judges for the contest are John ].
Darby, Rufus S. Lusk and William J.
Hughes, jr., all graduates of the class
of 1917. The contestants are Bernard
M. Wagner, Charles L. Clifford and
Louis E. Laplace, seniors; Albert l..
Maserick and James Il. McLarney,
juniors. and Philip d. Dean, William
|. Corby and r. Rutledge Slattery,
freshmen. No sophmore happened to
qualify in the preliminary contest
At about 7:15 O'Clock. just before
the eloeution contest, Senator David
]. Walsh of Massachusetts will ad
dress the Pathfinders' Club on "Serv-
ice to Government" His talk will be
in the form OF advice to young men
who desire to enter public life.
Easter holidays At the college begin
Wednesday at noon and viii continue
until Monday, April IS. At the For
eign Service School and other pro-
feSsional schools of the university the
holidays will only continue five days,
beginning April Il and ending
April 81.
Five Essays Submitted.
Announcement was made that five
essays have been submitted from stu
dents in all departments in the con-
test for the Mallory medal. The sub
=;
is The Majority Rule in Decisions
OF the Supreme Court" All essays in
connection with the Norris historical
contest must be submitted by April
IS. The subject selected is James
Cardinal Gibbons. American Catholic,
Citizen and Statesman"
Seventy collegians were singled
out for meritorious work in their
studies during the past month, the
highest average having been earned
by John l.. Wise of the District of
Columbia, member of the sophomore
A. r. ii class. Mr.. Wise won similar
honorS during the preceding month.
Nine students from the District OF
Columbia were included among the
honor men.
Testimonials were awarded as fol-
lows: Junior Joseph Brennan,
Edward Brooks. Leo V. Fahy. Mat
thew Lyons. Francis Murray. Charles
Perlitz, Oliver St. Onge.
Junior H--John +. Baecher. G.. Brit
tingham. Alan a. Daily, John G..
Hayes, Robert NJ. Hitchcock, Robert
NJ. Lee. Esmond Murphy, James Pick
enbrook, Julius +. Pierce.
Sophomore a. b. Henry Bloomer.
Norbett Clare. Cyril c. Clemens, John
W Eustice, William Illig, John j.
OConnor of the District of Columbia.
Francis RufTer, James Quinn, John
J. Sweeney. Walter ]. Thompson, Jo-
/ ~ Of ha rf
Columbia. Charles l.. Watrous. T. h.
Smith.
Other TcstimoniaIs
Sophomore a. B. II-John r Doran.
Albert Giordano. Arthur McDonough,
Charles f. Rimp, william c. Smith.
John f. Wise, District of Columbia.
Sophomore p. S.-Charles Ferral.
Timothy Rice. James c. Sappington.
Paul van Laanen.
Sophomore pre- medical - Walter
Atkinson, Joseph J. Hourigan. Paul
O,Donnell Isador Rods. J. @. velaz-
quez. Fred NJ. liter
Freshman A. B. Francis Brady.
Francis Is. Delahanty, Charles Ginoc-
chic, J. F.. Loughlin, r. Rutledge
Slattery, w. Wallace Garner.
Freshman A. B. IT-James s. Ruby
of the District of Columbia
Freshman B. S.-Robert Maher,
John McManus. James S1avin, Will
liam Tarver of the District of Co.
lumbia.
Freshman pre-medica: Victor AL
faro, Charles G. Aronstein. District of
NJ Tartaglino.
Freshman pre-legal: William H.
Armstrong. \. Z. Blechman, District
of Columb George T. Eastment.
John Meany. Lester Murray. Harry
Saidman, District of Columbia: Cy-
rus H. Smithdeal, District of Colum-
bia.
A member of the staff of the Italian
embassy. G. zanetti, was one Of four
School winning highest scholastic
honors during the past semester.
Considerable interest was manifested
in local Georgetown circles in the
night and attended by about 500
Georgetown men. President John b.
Creeden, Rev. w. Coleman Nevils. S.
j.. national chairman of the George
town Endowment Association. and
other representatives of the univers-
ity attended
The senior prom committee, headed
by George Leo Burk of Massachu-
setts, is making elaborate arrange
ments for the principal social event
Willard. Others on the committee are
John A Goodwin of New York:
Charles J. Kelly of Montana; David
E. FITZGERALD. jr, of Connecticut: Ed
ward A Smell and Francis G. King.
both of Massachusetts,.
Again at Camp Meade.
Tho summer camp for the r. o.
T. c. students of the Sd Corps Area
will be held again at Camp Meade
from June 10 to July 80. Twenty
eight juniors and one senior from
the Georgetown unit will attend the
camp, as well as several basic stu
dents Those who intend to avail
themselves of the opportunity should
make application at once, as George
towns quota is limited.
Frank Z. Eldridgc. professor OF
the course on the far east at the
School of Foreign Service, addressed
meetings last week before the Cleve-
land Chamber of Commerce and the
advisory committee on far eastern
affairs in New York city.
Douglas Miller in lecturing at the
Foreign Service School last week on
Europe az an Export Field showed
films on industry and transportation
in central Europe from Holland to
the Black sea- These films were
prepared in the interests Of a project
to deepen the waterways of central
Europe. One of the co-authors of the
new year book of the Department of
Agriculture is Bernard o. Weitz, a
student at the Foreign Service School
who helped prepare the section de-
voted to the subject of land utiliza-
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