Evening star., 1926-10-03
NEW STUDENTSSET|:
GEORGETOWN MARK
Every Department Taxed to ,
Handle EnroIlment-Extra
Curriculum Activities.
Georgetown University has launched

its Fall academic term with an enroll
ment that marks a new era OF expan~
sion in its five departments. Besides
breaking all registration records or
previous years, at least one depart
ment OF the university, the School or
Foreign Service. was compelled 10 re-
sort to drastic measures to restrict IT'S
enrolment during the new term.
While registration figures for the
entire university have not been an
nounced, 1t Is known that the facilities
of each department are taxed TO the
utmost. The incoming class at the
School Of Dentistry was more than
doubled on the opening day last week;
the college freshman class exceeds by
fully $50 students any previous year.
and the new morning classes at the
Law School promise soon to equal in
size the regular afternoon school. The
School of Medicine, long confronted
with an inadequate housing problem.
was compelled to turn away many ap-
pliCants for admission. Tentative
plans already are being considered for
an expansion of that department and
also the Dental School.
Extra Curriculum Activities.
With the whole university now in
operation, extra curriculum activities
are beginning to come TO the front.
The college seniors gave their annuai
a-dance for the freshmen yesterday
at the Willard Hotel. This is Gus
tom dating back many years -
senior committee was headed by
George H. Romweber, assisted by VII
liam Hinchcliffe, Howard GieS. Ar
thur Wilson and William Dempsey.
James D. Slavin of Connecticut is
president of the seniors. who are oC-
Cupying for the first time their quar-
terS in the new North Building. Other
officers are Christopher Clark OF New
Jersey. vice president: Michael j. Me
Innerny of the District of Columbia.
secretary; William X. MaCGOwan of
Indiana. treasurer. and Francis ].
Brady of Massachusetts, student cOun-
Gil representative.
The Hoya. official student news pub
liCation. made it's first appearance last
Friday under the editorship of Joseph
w. Sands. 81. The executives. each
assisted by a capable staff. are Lau-
renee f. Sullivan. '2S, managing ed
itor; Arthur A Wilson. business man
aEer; William f. Lyon. circulation
manager, and James Gleason. adver
tising manager. Associate editors are
William X. MaCGowan, William l..
Kaufman. James :. Ruby, Richard +.
Mathers. Bernard G.. Dwyer. Emmett
J. O'Malley. Frank e. Pequionot. lior-
ace A. Herlihy, Aloysius Kane.
Other Writers Listed.
Other writer's on the publication arc
Malcolm Brady. X. o. T. &. editor
John ID. OReilly. jr.. sporting editor
Andrew G.. Haley. Law School editor
James a. Murphy. Medical School ed
itor; Norman A. Conlon. dental editor;
Gil Luna Sulit. foreign service editor.
Stephen d. Baron is staff artist and
Stephen J. Barabas, J. Leonard Dor
gan and Edward c. CantweH are r.
porters.
There are numerous extra curricu-
lum activities AT the college partiCu-
larly to appeal 10 the new Student~a
OF the debating societies. the most
prominent are the Philodemic. Philo'.
nomosian CASTOR and White SoCie-
ties. The Philodemic is TIE oldest
debating society in any American uni
versity. In addition TO these, the Glee
Club. Mask and Bauble Club. the Lit
erary Club, Sodality and st. John
Bercllmans Society offer inducements
to students who desire TO participate
in other activities. The r. Q. T. c.
Band already organized, can use more
musicians. it was said. and will have
the honor of playing at all foot ball
games on the home grounds.
The School of Foreign Ser ice
opened it's doors Friday evening, and
is inaugurating morning classes in ~
endeavor TO relieve the congestion In
the late afternoon classes. While the
school necessarily has limited its en-
rollment to 500 these students are
drawn from all corners of the world
md from each of the 4S States of the
FL
tries are represented in this years en-.
rollment. including several members
of the diplomatic corps in Washing
ton.
Morning Classes Arranged.
The morning classes, arranged f0T
fhe benefit of students who are able
to devote their fun time to their class
work. parallels the afternoon courses
Confined to trst.year students, the
classes are to be extended eventuallT
to cover the entire four years scope
of the school An interesting feature
of this now morning course is the
Foreign Service House." where all
full-time students are required to live.
1t is under the supervision of the
faculty and so far as possible. the
student boarders will be required TO
converse in the French language. An
assistant French professor will be -
resident at the house.
Relying on the experience OF its
faculty. composed of experts on inter
national relations, the School of For
eign Service has decided to make
French a basic and prescribed foreign
language. a speaking knowledge Of
which hereafter will be required Of all
students before graduation Since
oh fe. Iay fV.ae
quently used in diplomatic and inter-
national intercourse. the executive
faculty felt it was imperative that stu,
dents seeking a training in foreign
service be taught to speak and writS
the language Prof. Jean j. Iabat,
formerly of the French embassy. is
the head of the French department at
Georgetown.
Another new course has been added
in statistics taking up first the the
ory and method of statistics and after
ward presenting the economic statis-
tics of the United States. Ocean trans
portation is another new course, az.
fecting most of the questions in con
nection with international shipping.
Expansion of Course.
Under the direction of Prof vii
liam G.. Buchanan. one Of the most
radical departures of the new CurriCu.
lun is the expansion of the courses
in accounting and business admins.
tration. Prof. Buchanan has just com.
pleted n survey Of accounting systems
in a number of foreign countries. par
ticularly Canada. 1t is the purpose
to give the Georgetown students the
benefit of the best features Of these
various systems for comparison with
those used in this country.
Among new faculty members at the
school are Col. Alexa nder Greger, as
sociate professor of French. who for
90 years was in the diplomatic service
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