Evening star., 1925-08-02
NATIONAL U'SLAW
FACULTY ENLARGED
Prominent U. S. Officials and
Members of Local Bar to
II Give Lectures.

One of the largest law faculties in
the country will be that which Ma
tional University has provided for it's
students for the coming academic
year, according to an announcement
last night by Chancellor Charles F.
Carusi. The faculty will be composed
of 43 members in all, including JUS
tices on the bench, Government Off
cials and practicing attorneys. All of
the members of the faculty have had
experience both as practitioners and
teachers and bring to the classroom
the practical knowledge of the law
which most professors without service
at the bar lack.
Four Jurists on List.
Associate Justice Charles H. Robb
of the District Court of Appeals and
Associate Justices Frederick l.. Sid
dons and Jennings Bailey of the Dis
trict Supreme Court and former Judge
Milton Strasburger of the Municipal
Court will bring to the students the
viewpoint of the bench in the lectures
that have been assigned to them.
Public officials who will lecture are
Representative Henry G.. Rathbone of
Illinois, United States District Attor-
ney Peyton Gordon. George Percy
Barse, Assistant Attorney General;
j. Robert Anderson, special assistant
TO the Attorney General; Vernon E.
West and Bertram Anderson, assistant
United States attorneys for the Dis
trict; Samuel V. Proudfit, Assistant
Commissioner of the Land Office; DIR.
Edison L. Whitney, economist for the
Department of Labor; DIR. Percy Hick
ling, alienist for the District; Richard
F'lournoy, assistant solicitor of the De-
partment of State; Herbert l.. Davis,
auditor of the District Supreme Court;
Russell P. Bellew, assistant clerk of
the District Supreme Court. and Sam
uel FoutS, examiner n-chief of the
Patent Office.
Local Bar Represented.
Most of the lecturers, however, have
been chosen from the ranks of the
legal profession in active practice here
and include Hayden Johnson, Conrad
Syme, former District corporation
counsel; Louis A. Dent, form,a register
of wills; DIR. Albert H. Putney, dean of
the American University Graduate
School of Political Science; Thomas H.
Patterson. Capt. julius l. Peyser,
Charles L. Frailey, Richard Ford,
Roger O'Donnell. William A. Coombe,
Glenn Willett, former assistant United
States attorney for the District: Wal
ter n. Bastian, Howard Leroy, Harry
II. Semmes, Turin B. Boone, Theodore
Peyser Woodson p. Houghton, George
E. Edelin,, Joseph Morgan, Godfrey l..
Munter, II. B. McCawley, Clinton
Robb, Everett +, Haycraft, John l..
Cassin and Frederick p. Myers.
The Beta Chapter of the Phi Beta
Gamma legal fraternity is giving a
week end party at Cabin John Bridge
for the members and their wives.
DIR. Charles s. Morgan. formerly of
the faculty of the University of Mary
land and now doing research work for
the Institute of Economics, will give
a course in railroad transportation in
the school, of business administration
and government in the Fall.
Fall Debates Planned.
Neither the Samuel f. Miller De
batting Society nor the Richard V.
Miller organization will have any de
bates of members during the Summer
term, but both clubs will have several
in the Fall. The honor debaters' con-
test Thursday night at the law school
was. the only. activity of it's kind
planned for the Summer,
DIR. Constantine A. ChekreZi, pro
fessor of history and former Albanian
commissioner to the United States, is
now touring Italy, according to cards
just received by members of the fac
ulty. DR.. Chekrezi is en- route to
Albania for a visit to relatives. He is
on leave of absence from the faculty
for a year.
DIR. Alton r. Hodgkins assistant pro-
fessor of economies, is on the faculty
of the Summer school of the college
of commerce of the University of
Maryland at Baltimore.
Graduates of approved law schools
will be able to enter the school of !
business administration and govern
me It with approximately one years
credit as candidates for the degrees
of bachelor of arts and bachelor of
business administration, according to
an announcement just made by Dean
Maynard y. Clemens. Students who
have pursued the commercial law sub |
jects in other institutions will be
given full credit for this work, too.