Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-08
LECTURE COURSE
OPENED TO PUBLIC
Father WaIsh's Talks Before
G. u. Class on Russia
Will Start Friday.

With the Russian problem again
forging to the front as one of the
major international issues before the
American people, the Foreign Serv-
ice School of Georgetown University
has arranged to admit the public to
it's series of lectures on Russia in
Revolution by Rev. Edmund A.
Walsh. S. J., which opens Friday eve
ming at o'clock
Since Japan revived interest in
Russia by extending recognition to
the Soviet government, Father Walsh
has had so many requests to address
meetings in Washington on the ques-
tons involved in Sovietism that the
Foreign Service School was com.
PEELED to arrange for the use of the
public auditorium in the National
Museum for the weekly Friday eye-
ming lecture course
Father Walsh has been fulfilling
lecture engagements in various parts
Of the country since Christmas.
arousing public opinion to the menace
that threatens democratic institutions
in the Soviet form Of government.
He has just returned from lecturine
In Boston, and during March will
make a tour of the middle West and
North, where he has % speaking en-
gagements. On these trips he will
speak before chambers of commerce,
civic clubs and various universities.
Regarded as one of the best in
formed men on Russian affairs,
Father Walsh has prepared his
ttorical treatment of the Russian
revolution in a. series of II lectures
These lectures are designed to sketch
the historical background indis-
pensable for right understanding
of the tremendous upheaval in the
social, economic and political order
introduced by the revolution of 1917
and proclaimed by the boisheyists
as the only basis for the reconstruct
ton OF human society elsewhere
The course will furthermore fur
nish material for a dispassionate
evaluation of the claims of Soviet
Russia to be admitted into the family
of civilized nations on the basis of
absolute equality.
Father Walsh spent q months of
his three-year period in Europe in
Intimate contact with Soviet author
tiles and institutions during relief
work. This period was passed not
in Moscow and Petrograd alone. but
of the beaten track-in the Crimea
in the Cossack country, the Kuban
and Black Sea districts and along the
Volga and in the Ukraine. An inter
esting phase of the lectures will be
in the Volga district
Congress Members Invited.
y Invitations have been extended to
members of Congress and other pub
lie officials, and tickets may be pro-
cured by the general public upon ap-
plication to the secretary of the For
eign Service School
The schedule of lectures were AN
nounced as follows: February 13
From the Crimean War to the AS
sassination of Alexander H." Febru-
airy 80, From Assassination of Alex
ander II to the Russo-Japanese War"
February p, From Russo Japanese
War to the Fall of the Monarchy"
March 6, From the Abdication of the
Gar to the Murder of the Imperial
Family" March 20. Fall of the
Kerensky Government to the Triumph
Of Bolshevism." March 81 THE
White Offensives and the Collapse of
the Counter Revolution April Z,
The Red Terror and Its Victims"
April II, The Failure of Communism
and the Rise of Leninism." April "a,
The Great Famine" (illustrated).
May /, The Persecution of Religion"
May 6, The Soviet State-Its Struc-
ture, Constitution and Codes" MAY
Is, Recognition of Russia by the
United States"
Radio fans who happen to tune in"
on WAR, Providence, Tuesday eve
ming, viii hear President Charles w
Lyons. S. j., of Georgetown Univer-
sity and Father Walsh, regent of the
Foreign Service School, address a
mass meeting of the Georgetown Club
Of Rhode Island. Both Father Lyons
and Father Walsh will attend the
meeting.
Arrangements are being made by
the local Georgetown University
Club for it's smoker, February 90, the
night before the Georgetown indoor
track meet. Members of the New
York Alumni Association feel certain
that Paavo Nurmi, the flying Finn.
will be able to come to Washington in
time to attend the smoker as the
guest of Georgetown. Gen. Smedley
Butler, who also was invited. will be
unable to attend on account of a
throat infection, but the Quantico
Marines will be represented by their
commandant, Gen. Dion Williams.
Tickets for the smoker. at $3.50 each.
are going fast. The affair will be
given at the City Club, the regular
meeting place of the local alumni.
An improved catalogue of George
town College, under date of Novem-
Der, 1924, has just been issued from
the deans office. The publication
offers a wealth of information to pro-
spective students and may be obtained
upon application at the office of the
registrar in the Healy Building.
Polls Theater will be the scene of
brilliant assemblage tomorrow eve
ming when the performance of Rose
Marie" will be presented for the bene-
fit of the Georgetown University Hos
pital. A splendid response has been
reported from the appeal sent out to
friends of the institution. The pur-
pose of the benef1t-the establishment
and maintenance of free wards at the
hospitals wopkhy of the support of
Georget own students.
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