Evening star., 1925-04-12
DEbATERSAT c. i.
SEEKING AWARDS
$50 Prize to Be Given in Law
School Finals Shake
speare Medal Given.

speare Medal Given.
While ability displayed on the ath-
letic field apparently commands the
major portion of public attention in
present-day college circles, small
group of students at Georgetown
University, however, deserve recog-
milton for as hard-earned victories
during the past week in the seclusion
of the class halls.
In defeating the University of
Pittsburgh in the first intercollegiate
debate of the season Georgetown
College has put forward a debating
team which, 1T is declared, undoubt-
edly could hold its own with that of
any other university in the country.
EXtemporaneous speaking and debat-
ing has always been stressed to a
marked degree. 1t is not considered
sufficient that member of debat-
ing team should excel in argument
alone. The training which has been
in vogue many years at Georgetown,
and especially brought out through
the recent efforts of Rev. John j.
Toohey, S. j., is directed also to the
finer points of elocution.
Chosen by Competition.
The members of the present de-
banng team, who will represent the
Hilltop in other contests during the
season, were chosen by competition
from the members of such debating
societies as the Philodemic, Philono-
mosan, the White and others, which
have produced teams in recent years
that humbled the best debaters from
Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Brown,
Swarthmore and many others. The
honors this year go TO Joseph b.
Brennan Of Georgia, Edmond d. Muir
ply of New York, Robert NJ. Hitch
cock of Pennsylvania and walter j.
Thompson of New York, alternate OF
the team.
In law school circles I. Emmett
Mckenzie of Montana won highest
honor in the fourth prize debate
staged between the senior and Junior
societies. John Tilson Higgins of In
diana was awarded second honors.
Both are members of the senior
class. Honorable mention went to
Albert Sidney Cain. '26. of Louisiana,
and Elmer Eugene Field, '2S, of Con-
necticut was rated as distinguished
Prizes Are offered.
AS winner of the fourth debate Mr..
Mckenzie will meet the winners OF
three previous contests in final
match to establish the supremacy in
law school debating circles. To en-
courage the art of debating the law
faculty offers annually a cash prize
of S25 in gold to the winner of each
of the four preliminary debates and
$50 prize to the final successful
competitor.
he nf
year at the Hilltop medals are award
ed students in a number of open com
petitions The first of these, the
Quicksall medal, was awarded last
week to Joseph Lincoln Sweeney, a
senior, of Brooklyn, for the best oral
examination in three plays OF Shake
speare. The winner of the Mallory
medal for the best essay submitted
on a constitutional subject is to be
awarded next. Others to be awarded
include the Morris historical medal
and the Gloetzner prize for the best
paper on political science, the Lynch
Pendergast medal in English litera-
ture, besides a number of special
awards for elocution, oratory and de-
batting.
Professor Is HOnored.
Officials of the Foreign Service
School have just learned that DR..
James Brown Scott, professor of in
ternational law and foreign relations,
has been made honorary president of
the Italian Institute of International
Law at Rome. This institute includes
in its membership the most emf
nent Italian specialists in inter
tional Law, and with his associates on
Among them are several ex-premiers,
former secretaries of foreign affairs,
senator's, and professors from the
universities OF Rome, Genoa, Parma,
Padua, Turin, etc.
This new honor of DR.. Scott's adds
to the many he already has in numer-
Gus associations in connection with
the field of international law. He is
one of the founders and the president
of the American Institute of Interna-
tional Law and with his associates on
the executive committee of that in
stitute has just completed the codi-
fication of American international
law, a work of inestimable value to
the State Department. The Pan
American Union has just issued the
printed English version of this code
and copies in various languages have
already been sent to the heads of
each of the 21 American republics for
their action.
Prom Is Arranged.
Arrangements have been com
pleted for the foreign service prom,
which will be held in the ballroom of
the Mayf1ower Hotel, Thursday eve
ming, from 9 o'clock to 2:30 am. All
classes of the school are represented
on the committee and a 100 per cent
cooperation is looked forward to by
the student body.
Three orchestras, the Vincent
Lopez, LIE Paradis Band and the
Wardman Park Orchestra will set a
fast pace for the jazz trotters and at
the intermission a supper will be
served. The prom committee Is still
'ransacking the shops, selecting IA
vors and souvenirs.
In accordance with previous Gus
tom, number of prominent guests
from the Diplomatic Corps and official
Washington will participate in the
festivities. The prom committee con-
sists of Nichols Busch, chairman ex-
officio, and William A. Commerford
chairman, assisted by Frank Cleary
William Donovan, George Marsters
Morgan Shea, Henry Coughlin, Julian
Zier, Charles Garibaldi and Urban
Conlon.
The freshman class at the Foreign
Service School held an informal dance
recently at the Lee House. This was
one of the first functions of the
"yearlings" since the opening of the
school last Fall. The chairman of the
committee, John Morgan, was as
sisted by Aaron Rosenthal and Orion
Libert.
DIR. Cresson Lectures.
DIR. w. p. Cresson, professor of DO
litical and diplomatic history in the
foreign service school, whose study
of The Holy Alliance: The European
Background of the Monroe Doc.
trine" was recently published by the