Evening star., 1925-05-24
500 TO Be CT. n
DEGREES !. 6. j.
136th Commencement Week
on Hilltop viii Begin
Sunday, Iune 7.

Rev. Fra ncis X. Eoenln. :. j.. OF
Woodstock College. Ma. Georgetown.
'O7, will deliver the b&ccalaureate
sermon to the gradul.inS classes of
Georgetown University at The one.
hundred and thirly.siXth commence
ment Sunday, June 7.
Fully 500 graduates from all the de-
partments of the university, in whose
honor the baccalaureate mrsa will be
held, will assemble in tho college
walks and march to Dahlgren Chapel.
They will be headed by President
Charles w. Lyons. s. j., members of
the facuities and visiting alumni.
Plans for commencement week are
progressing rapidly. The three-day
program will begin the evening of
June 6. with the senior class-day
exercises in the college quadrangle at
$50 o'clock These will be featured
by the Cohonguroton Oration. the
seniors farewell 10 the days spent
along the Potomac. Esmond D.
Murphy, '25, of Buffalo. will deliver
the Grafton. the name being taken
from the Indian designa ton for the
Potomac. In addition there will be
the other usual features Of the class
day program with singing by the
Glee Club.
Earlier in the evenin" the annual
alumni meeting and reunion will be
held in Ryan Hall. Election Of Off
GERS for the new year is the most
important matter before the alumni
Rev. Peter V. Masterson, s. j., who is
in charge of the arrangements. re
ports that an unusual number of out
oftoWn alumni will attend the com
mencement exercises.
Faculties Reception.
Sunday afternoon at 4 O'Clock dur
Ing commencement week President
Lyons and the faculties will give q
reception in honor of the graduating
classes and visiting alumni. Earlier
in the day the board of regents will
hold their annual meeting. ut which
President Lyons will make a report
on the progress OF the university's
building plans, now actually under
way.
Commencement day, June 8, will be
the main event. Honorary degrees
Will be conferred by the university
on only two alumni, selected for dis
tinction in their professions. 1t has
never been the policy Of Georgetown
to award many honorary degrees, the
record number at any one time being
six on the occasion Of the golden
jubilee of the Law School several
wears ago. Prizes to honor students
also will be awarded commencement
day.
At the invitation of Rev. John L.
Gipprfch, S. j., director of the George
town Observatory, John Campbell
Gordon, Marquis of Aberdeen and
Temair, paid a visit to the university
Wednesday. Georgetown has been
the only university that Lord Aber-
deem has visited during his present
visit to the United States. He eX
~, he a1
laboratory and in the department of
Seismography, which has an interna
tiCnal reputation. He was likewise
impressed with the beauty of the sur
roundings and with the historic
records Of the university.
Wins Debating Prize.
William Gillian. '25. of Massa
rhusetts. is the prize debater of the
Philunomosian Society. which held it's
annual contest last Monday in CASTOR
Hall. He was awarded the Philo
nomosian cup for this distinction.
In addition to this honor Mr.. Gil
Ian was member Of the winning side
in the debate, the decision being rem
dered by Father George Hanlon, S. j..
Thomas II. Moore. g. j.. and Walter
O'Connor. registrar of the college.
The subject of the debate was
That capital punishment should be
abolished" and was decided in favor
of the negative. The other debater
on the negative side was Leo V,
Fahy, %, of this city. Vincent
O'Leary. '26, of Pennsylvania. and
Thomas p. Loughlin. 26, of New
Hampshire. took the affirmative.
Another debate of equal interest
at the Hilltop during the past week
was that between the Castor and
White societies, with the CASTOR de-
haters victors. The CASTOR debaters
upheld the negative side of the ques
lion. THAT The Air Service should he
made a special branch of national
defense
DehaterS for the winning Castor
Society were Edward Keogh 81. of
Wisconsin: Daniel W. O'Donoshue.
-. of this city: John ID. O'Reilly. jr.,
-. of this city. with Francis Dele
hanty. -, of New York. as alternate.
The Doomesday Booke.
The 1925 Doomesday Booke, repre-
senting. all the departments of
Georgetown University, is just off the
press. 1t was declared the best in
the history of Georgetown and made
its bow in an attractive new cover
design.
Opened with dedicatory page to
the president of the university, the
Rev. Charles w. Lyons, s. j., the
book devotes 500 pages, with num-
erous cuts. TO the college department.
Sections dealing with the military de-
partment, medicine. law, dental. for
eign service, graduate, fraternities
and athletics follow
The outstanding merit of the 1925
book can be traced to the work of
Robert c. Mcclellan, editor in chief,
and Daniel c. McGrath, business man.
ager.
One of the leading editorials in the
current issue of the Boya. official
publication of the university, Is de-
voted to the tribute paid by Dean
Wilbur of George Washington Uni
versity to Father Edmund A. Walsh,
s. j., on the completion of his pub
lie series of lectures on nRmssia in