Evening star., 1926-06-06
HILLTOP EXERCISES
UNDER WAY TODAY
Sermon at 1890 Begins
127th Commencement; Hoo
yer Gets Degree Tuesday.

menCement program OPENS DIT lU.oV
o'clock this morning with mass in
Dahlgren Chapel, when the Rev. Ed
ward J. Sweeney, S. j., class of 1916,
Brooklyn, n. y, will preach the. an
nual baccalaureate sermon to the
graduating class which approximates
500 seniors.
The three-day program will cul-
inmate in the commencement eXer'
cises Tuesday afternoon at o'clock,
on which occasion Secretary of Com
merce Hoover will receive the honor
airy degree of Doctor of Laws from
the university and will deliver the
commencement address. The exercises
will be held in the open, in front of
the Healy Building, except in the
event of rain, when they will take
place in CASTOR Hall.
Visiting alumni who are arriving in
large numbers will have an oppor-
tunity to see the first fruits of the
endowment campaign in the new col
leGe dormitOry now nearing compile
hon. Delay in the construction work
last Winter made it necessary to post
pone opening of the new building be-
fore commencement.
While Georgetown is bestoWing
only one honorary degree this year.
number of the seniors, comprising
the largest graduating class in its
history. will be awarded special
honors. Every State in the Union
and at least a dozen foreign countries
are represented in the class.
French Professor Gets Award.
One of the interesting side lights
at CONNIE ncement will be the award
ing of honors by the French govern
ment to Lieut.. Jean j. Labat, chair
man of the French department Of the
university. This award, the palms of
office in the French Academy, will be
conferred by Gen. Dumont, mill
tary attache of the embassy in Wash
ington, in recognition of Lieu. La
bats valuable services as official
interpreter at the recent sessions of
the lnterparliamentary Union. Lieut.
I-abat is we'll known in Washing
ton, having come here first with
the French War Mission in 1917,
after distinguished record at the
front. and latter became attached to
the ernbassk. He has been a member
of the Georgetown faculty for about
four years.
Two of the seniors at the Foreign
Service School who have distinguished
themselves as scholars during the
course are due for recognition. Fran
cisco Banda. "a member of the staff
of the Ecuador legation. will be the
first student from that country to
receive doctor Of philosophy de-
gree from an American university.
Mr.. Banda also was the first holder
of Pan-American scholarship in the
Foreign Service School and founded
the Pan-American students organi-
Zation at Georgetown.
Another senior of the Foreign Serv-
ice School. Walter Jaeger, has had an
outstanding scholastic record He
has been awarded the highest fellow.
ship in international law by the
Carnegie Endowment. announcement
OF which will be made at commence
ment. The fellowship carries with it
the privilege of studying year at the
most famous universities In France.
Reception This Afternoon
Due to necessary changes that had
to be made in the usual procedure of
commencement week, the baccalau-
reate sermon will start the program.
At 80 o'clock this afternoon the
board of regents of the university
will hold its annual meeting with
President Charles w. Lyons, S. ].
This will be followed at 4 o'clock by
the reception given by the president
and the faculties TO the graduates. to
which friends of the university and
alumni are invited. The dinner of the
quiquennial classes will take place at
6 O'Clock III the college dining hall,
to be followed in the evening at $50
o'clock by a band concert
For the student cody. tomorrow S
program holds chief interest. While
the law school is holding it's class
night exercises downtown. the col
lege seniors will be performing in the
quadrangle. Before these exercises,
however, the annual meeting of the
Georgetown Alumni Association will
be held at Z o'clock on the hilltop
Frank j. Hogan, national president,
will preside at the election of officers
and will be toastmaster at the alumni
dinner, always one of the most in
teresting features of commencement
week.
Anthony 3. Brennan. president of
the senior college class, has arranged
an elaborate program for tomorrow
night. The annual Cohonguroton
grafton. the usual valedictory, will be
delivered by Walter Thompson.
Dressed as an Indian chief, he will
speak from a tepee placed over the
quadrangle entrance to the Healy
Building. This is an old custom at
Georgetown, the COhonguroton ora
ton taking it's name from the Indian
name for the Potomac River.
The class ode will be recited by
John /. Sweeney, and another feature
of the program probably will be a
one-act play and a musical skit, ar
rangements for which have not yet
been announced Many of the alumni
will take part in the program and
the general singing of college songs
until late at night.
Other Musical Features.
George O'Connor and Mat Horn, a
notable Georgetown team, will be. as
usual on the program, while others
taking part are Thomas CantWell, '08,
baritone: George p. Cowles, "a, tenor;
Alfred Duismore of the dental school,
tenor. and John Paul Jones and
Malcome McRae, in a musical skit.
The Georgetown Collegians, popular
student aggregation. will feature the
musical program, and selections also
will be given by the Glee Club, under
the direction of Louis w. O'Leary.
Moving pictures of recent commence
ments at the Hilltop and notable ath-
letic events will complete the pro-
gram.
At the law school the same eve
ming faculty and student body will
join in making the most of class night
exercises. John w. Guider will be
the valedictorian; Eugene E. Reilly,
class prophet; James +. Reilley, his
torian. and Joseph T. Kelley. bache-
lor's orator. The law seniors had
their principal commencement event
Wednesday evening, when they pre-
sented a portrait of the late Chief
Justice Edward ID. White Of the United
States Supreme Court to the school.
Justice White was a member OF the
class of 1866 at the college.
There will be no program TUESDAY