Evening star., 1926-06-13
CATHOLIC j. TERM
ENDS WEDNESDAY
Archbishop CurIey to Preside
and Confer Degrees on
More Than 400.

The thirty-seventh annual com
rnencement of the Catholic University
at Brookland will take place Wed
nesday morning at 1890 o'clock in the
university gymna SUM. Most Kew.
Michael J. Curley. archbishop OF
Baltimore and chancellor of the uni
versity, VIII preside and confer the
degrees. Rt. Rev. Thomas j. Shahan,
rector. will address the graduates.
The class valedictory will be delivered
by James Lawrence GarVin OF Spring
field. Mass.
The commencement exercises Will be
preceded by an academic procession
which will leave Caldwell Hall at 10:15
O'Clock. The members OF the faculty
will be presented to the chancellor IL
Caldwell Hall at 10 o'clock. The
academic procession will be headed
by the senior class, the members .ol
the clergy, the heads of l9 affiliated
houses of study and the communities
the members of the faculty, the rector
and the chancellor.
The number of degrees to be award
ed is the largest in the history of the
Brookland institution. Of more than
400 to receive degrees, the doctorate
will be conferred upon 33, one viii
receive the doctorate in sacred the
ology, six in canon law. while q will
be created doctors of philosophy. the
other degrees to graduate candidates
are: Licentiate in sacred theology, D.
licentiate in canon law, IS; master Of
laws, l; master of arts, 102, divided
as follows: School of philosophy, 20;
school of letters. 80; school of sciences,
,: master of letters, /; master OF
science /; electrical engineer, L;
mechanical engineer, l, and master OF
music, l.
The annual program of commence
ment activities arranged by the senior
class began last Friday evening, when
the inter-club dance was held in Grad
uate Hall Saturday morning, at 10
o'clock, the registration of alumni was
begun in the reception room of Glib
bons Hall.
Baccalaureate Sunday will be OBJ.
served at the university today, and
solemn pontifical mass will be ceie-
hrated by the rector at 1870 am.
in the crypt of the National Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception. The
mass will be attended by all the stu
dent body and the senior class, and the
faculty in academic robes. Very Rev
William ]. Kerby. professor OF soci-
o!ogy at the university, will deliver
the baccalaureate discourse.
A committee for the registration of
alumni will remain in Gibbons Hall
reception room from 10 am. until
5 pm, when Bishop Shahan Will
hold a reception there to the parents
of the graduating students.
Tuesday morning at 1880 O'Clock
the senior class will be formally adj
mitted to the Alumni Association at
a meeting in the auditorium of Nc
Mahon Hall At o'clock in the af
ttrnoon a base ball game will be
played in the stadium between the
classes Of 1923 and 1924. At s O'Clock
in the evening an alumni smoker VIII
be held at L'Aigion, Eighteenth and
Columbia road. The commencement
exercises to be held the following
morning will bring the program to
close.
A number of faculty members have
made known their intentions of going
to various parts of the world to carry
on research work during the Summer
months. DR.. James NJ. Cooper, acting
professor of apologeticS, will go to
mort rthwestern Canada and spend his
vacation among the Indian tribes, for
the purpose of studying at first hand
the tribal dialects. Ri. Rev. F'ilippo
Bernardini will go to Rome to make
researches in canon law. DR.. Bernar-
DIM is the dean of the school of canon
law. Rev. Peter Guilday, professor
of church history, will visit important
archives in France, Belgium and
Spain in preparation for his work
next year. in American church history.
Rev. DR.. Arthur \. Naschalde, one OF
the editors of the great collection OF
Oriental Christian writer's, will spend
several weeks at Paris in the study
of Syriac and Coptic. Rev. DR.. Ro-
manus Butin, professor of Hebrew
and curator of the university museum,
will sail at once for Jerusalem to take
up the office of annual director of the
American School Of Oriental Research.
DR.. J. DeSiquiera Coutinho of the
department of economics will visit i'm
portant cities in Europe, and will de-
liver a series of lectures in Berlin and
Lisbon on commercial geography.