Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
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LIGHT ON HONORS
Morality Play of Middle Ages,
"Everyman," Is Produced
by English Class.

An interesting survey Is being con.
Quoted by the Board of Deans dealing
with the awarding to students and
other academic questions of far
reaching importance. A question
naire circulated among the professors
will determine whether an annual con
vocation for the awarding of honors
is to be held. probably shortly before
graduation. The question of award
ing degrees Cum Laude' is to be
taken up, and whether honor students
and the valedictorian are TO take their
places on the stage at commencement
with the professors. Honor students
may also be exempted from final ex
aminations and granted other priv
leges of freedom.
The first presentations of the Uni
versity Dramatic Association for this
scholastic year We're held in the as
sembly room of Mcmahon Hall on
last Friday evening. Two one.act
plays were offered Bound East for
Cardiff" by Eugene O'Neil. and "a
Night At an Inn," by Lord Dunsany."
They were produced under the direc-
ton of Joseph English, moderator of
the association. The principal parts
were taken by Andrew p. Maloney,
William J. Common. James Blaney,
Paul Morrissey. Lehman Hoefiier
James Aspoas. John Meng, Arthur 7.
Florence, Thomas A. Kirby, Philemon
Coulter, Amedeo Meiten, Vincent
Walters. Edward Mcnamara and
Donald G.. Moore.
Rector Receives Seniors.
The Right Rev. Rector's annual re
ception to the seniors was held in
Gibbons Hall Thursday evening.
James Kenny. president of the senior
class, presided. A quartet. consisting
of James Mcnamara, Edward Nc
Namara, Harold Ogden and Vincent
Walters, gave one of the best enter
tainments of it's kind ever offered on
the campus. Members of the Gleo
Club also assisted, and Monsignor
Dougherty. vice rector, gave an en-
joyable talk.
"Everyman," a medieval morality
play. was presented by the English
class in the Maloney Auditorium on
Friday afternoon under the direction
of Eugene S. J. Paulus of the English
department. "Everyman" dates from
the sixteenth century. and was first
published in English by PynsOn, and
later imprinted by London. in Poules
Church Yard by me, John Skot." The
Scot script was used on Friday. The
cast comprised Francis O'Keefe,
Marion Russo, Herbert Halsbeck,
Donald Hayne, Norbert Piper, Francis
Broome, Lehman Hoeffler, Paschal
Ierardi, Robert Gilbert, George Wheat
ley. Carl Garges.
The University Glee Club will offer
its annual concert to the students on
January IA. and y a University
Night" will also be offered under the
auspices of the Knights Of Columbus
of Washington, which will afford an
evenings entertainment to the general
public. The club has also arranged
for an hours broadcasting over WRC,
to take place some time between the
end of the Christmas holidays and the
end of January
Historians to Meet.
The American Catholic Historical
Association, the headquarters of which
have been at the university since its
foundation in 1919, Is meeting Monday
and Tuesday, December 81 and rs. at
Philadelphia at the Bellvue- Stratford
Hotel. The committee on local ar
rangements is making elaborate prep
arations for the meeting under the
direction of Cardinal DOugherty, as
chairman. assisted by Daniel c.
Donoghue. The Historical Society
of Pennsylvania has invited the as
ISOLATION to hold public meeting In
it's spacious auditorium on Tuesday,
December %. Rev. DIR. Peter Guilday,
professor of the American church
history at the university, will be chair
man of the luncheon conference on
Monday, which will have for its pur-
pose final arrangements for his forth
coming Guide to the Printed Ma
terials for American Catholic History.
Right Rev. Thomas ]. Shahan.
d. D., rector. and Right Rev. Mon
signor George A. Dougherty, d. D.,
vice rector, represented the university
on Thursday at the installation of
Right Rev. Andrew j. Brennan as
bishop of Richmond, Va.