Evening star., 1925-09-06
Georgetown University

James NJ. Beck, former Solicitor
General of the United States, will be
associated with the faculty of the For
eign Service School of Georgetown
University upon his return from
Europe this Fall as lecturer in a new
course on the Constitution and
America niSn.
Announcement was made last night
by Rev Edmund a. Walsh, S. j., re-
gent of the Georgetown school, on
receipt of a cablegram of acceptance
from Mr.. Beck who is in Geneva,
switzerland. Details of the lecture
course will be worked out with Mr..
Beck when he returns here in time
for the opening of the school Octo-
Der ..
When it was decided to inaugurate
a general course on the Constitution
this Fall university authorities at
once chose Mr.. Beck as one of the
best known authorities on the Con-
stitutiOn in the United States.
THE authorities of Georgetown
University are especially gratifled at
having gained so strong an accession
to its program of exposition and de-
fense of the Constitution through the
services of Mr.. Beck" declared Father
Walsh.
Coupled with the public lectures of
Father Walsh. who will continue his
expose of Russian Soviet doctrines
this Fall, the new course by Mr.. Beck
will give Georgetown University an
opportunity to render a public service
in defending constitutional govern
ment against the foreign influences
seeking it's destruction.
Praised by Coolidge.
President Coolidge in his fore
word" to the work on the Constltu-
tion of the United States, recently
pubIished by Mr.. Beck, paid a high
tribute to the former solicitor gen.
eral. "Mr. Beck has been recognized
for wears as an authority on our
fundamental law" wrote the Presi-
dent. He is a lawyer of broad cul-
ture and wide learning. He has not
only an acquaintance with the prac-
tical side of the law from his long
experience at the bar, but, as stu
dent, has a deep insight into the
theory Of our Constitution.
In his lectures at the Foreign SerV-
ice School this Fall Mr.. Beck will
emphasize the Constitution more as
a philosophy of government, leaving
to Prof Robert a. Maurer of the
law school the task of dealing strict
" with it's legal phases in his course
on constitutional law. The oppor-
tunity also will be open to Mr.. Beck
to stress Americanism and the duties
of citizenship.
1t is hoped that Mr.. Beck will be
able to lecture each week, but this
matter, it was said, he will have to
arrange on his return here. So far
as known, this is the first time in
Mr.. Becks career that he has become
associated with the faculty of any
university.
Other Professors Abroad.
A number of the Foreign Service
School professors are abroad at the
present time in addition to DIR. Scott
and Mr.. Healy. William Jordan Bu-
chanan, who directs the course in
accounting, has just returned from
a tour of Europe, during which he
made a special study of finances and
credits in the principal cities so as
to acquaint the members of his class
with conditions which they will find
abroad.
Prof. Arnold w. Spanhoofd, who
has the class in German. and J. S.
Coutinho, professor of the Portu
gese seminar, are still abroad. They
are, likewise, gathering material for
their courses this Fall.
Dr. G.. A. Sherwell of the Inter
American High Commission. left
Washington Thursday as a delegate
of the United States to the Pan
American Congress Of Highways, to
be held at Buenos Aires from Octo-
Der to IA. During his stay there
he will visit Panama, Peru, Chile,
Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and per-
haps Paraguay, returning here by
the middle of November.
Preparations are going ahead for
the formal opening of the law school
morning clcss on September IA, fol-
lowed by I'll opening of the under
graduate department on the Hilltop
September 16. Rev. Louis ]. Gal
lagher, S. J., dean of the college,
has just returned after an absence
of several weeks.