Evening star., 1925-08-30
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

Georgetown University will open it's
Fall term session September IA with
280 professors, the largest faculty
ever retained in its 1876 years history,
employed TO conduct classes for what
is expected will be a record enroll
ment. The advance matriculation to
date totals approximately $500.
Evening classes of the law school
will start September "A, the college of
arts and sciences on September 16.
the day law school of the university
on September %. the school OF medi-
cine and dentistry on September %.
graduate school. September 2S and
the school of foreign service on Oc-
tober ,.
Ten new faculty members will as
sumo their duties at the college at
the beginning of this year. Other ap-
pointments are to be announced soon
at the school of foreign service, chief
among these being successor to DR..
William s. Culbertson, now L. S.
Minister to Rumania. The second
year of the aggressive administration
Of President Charles ". Lyons, S. j.,
will be further marked, it was said,
by a general broadening of courses
in the various departments and the
raising of entrance requirements. al
ready begun in the case of the dental
school.
The university faculty is drawn
from the trained members of the
Jesuit order, professional and official
ranks in Washington. There will be
one instructor, or lecturer to each
10 or IL students in the entire uni
versity, which will make for a marked
degree of individual attention. The
faculty of the foreign service school,
particularly, is drawn from prominent
officials in the State Department. the
Department of Commerce, the Agri-
cultural Department and various semi
official bodies such as the Pan-Amer-
lean Union.
Despite the two years of college
work required for admission to the
law school, the enrolment this year
will almost equal the number when
the, school ranked as the largest in
the United States, before college work
was required. The fact that the school
begins its first year as a 'class A" in
stitution has done much to increase
enrolment. Three years ago the law
school was required to inaugurate
morning classes to take care of the
Overflow" the classroom accommoda-
tions not permitting an increase in the
number of students attending the
evening courses. Facilities at the
school of foreign service also are taxed
nearly to the limit and the housing
problem is becoming an acute one for
the entire university. The situation
at the college, where dorlnitory space
has long been overcrowded. is being
met by increasing the number of day
students.
President Lyons has just returned
to Washington from a trip to his home
near Boston and with the return of
the Rev. Louis J. Gallagher, S. j.,
dean of the college, in a few days,
final arrangements will be made for
the entrance examinations beginning
September IA. These will run for two
days.
The Hilltop already is beginning to
show signs of activity in advance of
the opening. Lou Little, coach of the
foot ball team has been busy all week
making arrangements for the early
Fall training. Accompanied by As
sistants Mike Palm, Herb Kopf, Fred
Sheehan and William Kenyon, AS
picked candidates for the team left
Washington early today for Mon
mouth Beach, N. j., where training
quarters have been established.