Evening star., 1925-02-01
FOREIGN SERVICE
SCHOOL POPULAR
Enactment Of Rogers Law
Stimulates Interest in Con-
SuIar Preparation.

The wider opportunities extended
70 young men under the Govern
snent's foreign service since it's re-
organization have served to stimu-
late interest among the students al
Georgetown University in the courses
tn diplomacy and consular practice.
Since the enactment of the Rogers
jaw the attendance at these classes
tn the Georgetown School Of Foreign
Service has greatly increased, with a
result that an additional professor
has been appointed to assist Consul
General. Addison Is. Southard, who is
Sn charge of the consular courses
Irving Nelson Dinnell. consular officer
detailed on special duty at the State
Department. has been selected as an
assistant professor and will give in
struction in consular practice. The
consular courses have always attract
ed large number of students at the
Foreign Service School. but since the
higher scale of salaries under the
Rogers bill and the inauguration OF
a system of promotion and retire
ment the incentive for young men to
prepare themselves for the foreign
service has had a marked effect on
attendance in the last few months.
Has Served Abroad.
Mr. LinnelI is well equipped for his
new duties by a varied experience in
The consular service. Since his first
appointment in 1914, he has served at
Prince Rupert, Plymouth, England
Cardiff, Wales, and London. He was
recently promoted to foreign service
officer in Glass ". Prior TO entering
The consular service, Alr. Linnell was
a practicing attorney in Boston. At
one time he served as president of
the Cant bridge Common Council. He
was graduated from Harvard College
in 1904, and from Harvard Law School
in 1907.
With the opening Of the Spring
semester at the Foreign Service
School tomorrow, several new courses
will be offered the students. Perhaps
the most unusual of these is Russia
In Revolution" which will be given
by Rev. Edmund A Walsh. s. j.,
regent of the school, and formerly
director In charge o. papal relief
work in Russia. Father Walsh first
went TO Russia with the American
Relief Mission.
Father Walsh's course will include
survey of the czarist regime and
the situation that led to its overthrow
and the establishment OF the Soviet
system. The outlook for this system
of government will be fully covered
in this course of Is lectures.
Prepare for Prom.
The annual Junior prom, anticipated
by hundreds of students in all depart
ments of the university, will be held
Friday evening at the willard Hotel
10 be followed by tea dance the
next afternoon.
The freshmen will have their fling
at a tea-dance February 90 at the
willard, arrangements for which are
in charge of committee consisting
OF James Mahoney, John Phillips.
Paul Wendland, William O'Neu and
Laurence Sullivan.
In recent years the junior prom
has always been regarded a s the gala
event of irs kind. Determined to put
other events in the shade, the prom
committee, headed by William Cooney,
president of the junior class, and Ed
mund II. Bingham, has gone out of
it's way to obtain special music and
farors for the young woman guests.
The Bar Harbor Society Orchestra has
been engaged and will furnish dance
music from 9 o'clock until 2 o'clock in
the morning. An elaborate supper
will be served to round out the pro-
gram. The tea-dance, also under
management of the junior class, will
he held at the Raleigh Hotel.
Plan Prize Debate.
The third prize debate between the
Senior and Junior Debating societies
at the Georgetown Law School will
be held February 81. Unusual inter
est is being shown in the contest
since the question of model rent
law for the District of Columbia has
been selected.
Thomas D. O'Keefe is the new presi-
dent of the Delta Phi Epsilon, profess
sional foreign service fraternity,
which has grown into one of the
largest and most influential at the
university. Other officers are: Charles
Baldwin, vice president; Walter II.
Jaeger, secretary: Steele B. Koch,
treasurer. and Orion ]. Libert, libra
rian Emerson D. Norton, who re-
Gently returned from Japan, where
he went after the Olympic games, is
now living at the fraternity house,
where he expects to remain for some
time. The fraternity members gave a
dance at their house last night-one
of a number Of events they are plan
ming for this year.
Semester Starts Wednesday.
Following the midyear examina-
tions. which end tomorrow, the second
semester will begin at the college
Wednesday morning. With the ad-
vent OF the new term there are a few
subjects, the most important being
the introduction of empirical psychol-
ogy as a senior elective. This subject
will comprise, among other things,
hew methods of treating mental dis
order, autosuggestion, hypnotism, tel
epathy and volitional control. The
course will be useful to students of
law, journalism, pedagogy, industry
and medicine, and will be given by
Rev. E. Boyd Barrett, S. j., who is
considered one of the leading psy-
biologists of the country.
Koyne V. Kram, who was graduated
from the School of Foreign Service in
June, 1923, has been promoted to the
rank of vice consul at Rangoon, In
dia, where he has been stationed as
q. clerk during the past seven months.
Another former student at the school
Elton NJ Hoyt, who has been in the
consular service since 1923, has just
been APPOINTED vice consul at Char
lottetown, Prince Edward Island.
At recent meeting of the Literary
Society of the college the following
officers were chosen for the second
term: Henry Blommer, '26, presi-
dent; Cyril Clemens, '26. vice presi-
dent: L. T. O'Brien, 81, secretary
4. I. Malley, ~, treasurer, and w. c.
Smith, 20, censor.