Evening star., 1927-05-01
University viii Pay Tribute to
Hilltop Athletes for
Successes.

alumni in the general activities of the
university.
Certificates of distinction will be
awarded by Rev. Vincent 8. Nc.
Donough, S. j., faculty director or
athletics. Athletes who wore the G
before 1900 will be special guests.
Hogan to Preside.
Rev. Charles w. Lyons, S. j., pres
ident of Georgetown University, heads
the list of speakers. In President
LYONS. the university has found an
ardent supporter of athletics and
much of the success of this years q
dinner will be due to his personal IN
terest. Frank j. Hogan of Washing
ton. president of the National George
town Alumni. will be toastmaster.
Other speakers scheduled are VII.
liam Navy Bill Ingram, coach or
the championship Naval Academy foot
ball team; John It. McGovern OF Cor
nell University, at present connected
with the Carnegie Foundation com
mittee on intercollegiate athletics, and
Knute K. Rockne, famous Notre Dame
coach
Academic exercises were held at the
college Wednesday morning, when
President Lyons distributed tesu-
monials to approximately 1870 stu
dents for excellence in studies. rms
number was said to be unusually
large. George Violante, freshman,
was the outstanding honor student
with five testimonials in English,
chemistry. mechanics, French and
analytic geometry. Three students,
Gerald j. Greeve, junior; kenneth
II. Baldwin, freshman, and Anthony }.
Ianacone, freshman, pre-medicai, won
four testimonials each.
Fifteen students won three tesu'
monials each and 43 were given two
testimonials each.
Plan European Tour.
Arrangements have been made by
the officials of the School of Foreign
Service for a European tour this
Summer, starting on June IL and end
ing the middle of August. This stu
dent tour will be conducted in CO.
operation with Columbia University
and the Carnegie Endowment for In
ternational Peace.
DR.. Thomas II. Healy. assistant
dean of the school, will accompany
the Georgetown students. They viii
ion DR.. Edmund A. Walsh, s. j.
regent of the school, who left last
week for Europe and who will go with
them to Rumania for q period of
three weeks. In Rumania the
Georgetown delegations will be prac-
tically the guests of the government,
as the government will furnish them
free transportation and lodgings as
we'll as entertainment.
Sailing from New York the party
will land at Boulogne, France, taking
the train for Paris. After visiting
France, they will go to Switzerland,
Vienna. Budapest. Prague, Leipzig
and then tour Holland. In many of
the places visited there will be recep.
tions in their honor
Students are urged to avail them
selves of this opportunity, as they
will be able to visit many historic
places and also will be able to see the
League of Nations in session at
Geneva. At The Hague those who
wish may attend the sessions of the
Academy of International Law. In
Rumania they will visit the princi-
pal university centers, the metal fac
tories, coal mines, the famous oil re.
gions and also will take trip up the
Danube River and on the Black Sea.
1t also is probable that arrangements
will be made for a reception by
Queen Marie in the palace.
To Attend Meeting.
DR.. Walsh will remain in Europe
until August. primarily for the pur
pose of arranging for the relief work
being done by the Catholic Near East
Welfare Association, of which he is
president.
Rev Francis A Tondorf will leave
this week to attend the meeting of
the Eastern section of the American
Seismological Society, which will be
NNnInnC61U ND OF hA
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy. He will read a paper on Some
Interesting Early Earthquakes"
DR.. James Brown Scott, professor
of international law at the School of
Foreign Service, who has been travel
ing in South America for several
months, has been made an honorary
member Of the law faculty of the
University of Chile. The diploma was
delivered to him in person by the
rector of the university. Don Claudio
Matte. Immediately after DR.. Scott
had given a lecture on the Importance
Of Pan-American conferences in the
hall of the National Library, at San
tiago, Chile.
This honor is the highest that can
be conferred by the University of
Chile and corresponds somewhat to
the title of professor emeritus in
American universities The number
of foreign professors thus honored is
very small. and conspicuous among
the Americans is DR.. Leo S. Rowe,
professor of the course on Inter.
American problems at Georgetown
and director-general of the Pan.
American Union.
DIR. Scott Going Abroad.
DR.. Scott has been delivering
number of lectures in Latin American
countries, principally at the Univer
sity of Havana, Cuba. and in Uru-
quay, Argentina and Brazil. lie re-
Gently presided, as president, over the
meeting of the American Institute of
International Law held at Montevideo.
Uruguay. He is now head of the
United States delegation at the con-
ference of Fan-American nations for
codification of international law, that
is being held in Rio de Janerio.
After the conclusion of this confer
ence DR.. Scott will leave for Europe.
where he will preside as president
over the biennial conference of LIN
stltut Gle Droit International to be
held in Lausanne, Switzerland. DR..
Scott is the first American chosen
president of this institute.
Judge Guillermo Guevara. prosecut-
ing attorney for the City of Manila
and one Of the most distinguished
Filipino graduates of the Georgetown
Law School, is a visitor In Washing
ton. He took post graduate course
at the school in 1876, and before his
appointment to his present position
was judge of the Court of First In
stance. He is also a professor of
criminal law and procedure in the
College Of Law, University OF the
Philippines. Judge Guevara came to
Washington to handle an important
case before the United States Su-
preme Court involving the City of
Manila.