Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-13
GEORGETOWN WINS
1926 PRESS AWARD
College Journal Extended Ger
tificate of Merit by
Congress.

| Congress.
Georgetown College Journal, leading
publication Of Georgetown University,
| has won certificate of merit in the
| 1926 contest Of the National College
| Press Congress. Announcement OF
| this award comes from the Quill of
| Delta Sigma Chi fraternity at Ur-
| bana. ILL.,, which included the Journal
| in list Of 270 university publications
SO recognized for general excellence.
| The March edition of the Journal
will be edited solely for the first time
by the members of the freshman class,
an experiment that has aroused keen
competition at the Hilltop. William
| o Brien is edtor-in chief of the fresh
man edition. with A. Joseph Burko as
sporting editor. William Curran In
charge Of the poets corner and Harry
| Guedilhofer editor of the alumni de-
| partment. Leo Mccormick, it was an
| nounced, will continue his notes on
old Georgetown.
DIR. FOOte Goes to Cuba.
| DR.. John Foo-e, professor of dis
eases of children at the Georgetown
Cuba, as an American delegate to the
| fifth Pan.American Child Health Con
gress.
DR.. Foote'S appointment came from
Secretary Of State Kellogg, the medi-
cal professor having been designated
as one of the official delegates by
Surg. Gen. Hugh S. Cumming of
| he Public Health Service. A gradu-
| ate of both the College and Medical
School of Georgetown, DR.. Foote is
one Of the leading child specialists in
| the country and has written extern
sively on health problems.
Georgetown University Hospital,
now undergoing improvements on a
large scale, will receive $4,000 for
| the maintenance Of bed, in accord
ance with the will Of the late Mrs.
Isabella c. May Of Washington. For
active interest In the hospital. par
ticularly in connection with it's pub
| lie welfare work This work has ex-
banded in recent years. and the hos
pitfalls free clinics are usually crowd
/ ed. One of the latest to be opened Is
a clinic for the treatment and cure OF
deafness.
New Courses Announced.
With the opening of the midyear
term several new courses We're an
nounced at the Medical School to be
added to the list of studies in the
senior wear. Included In these is the
course in aviation medicine, the first
of it's kind to be given at any univer-
sity which was announced by the De-
partment of Commerce last week. This
course is under DIR. A. E. Bauer, for
mer chief OF the Army Aviation School
of Medicine and at present medical
director of the Bureau Of Aeronautics,
Department Of Commerce.
Oral hygiene will be taught at the
Medical School by DR.. Sterling V.
Meade. professor of oral surgery and
oral diagnosis in the School of Den
tistry. Another course has been in
augurated under Rev. John l.. Clip.
prich, s. j., professor Of physics at the
college, who will teach medical ethics
Other new senior lectures at the
Medical School will be conducted by
DR.. John w. Burke, in optholmology;
DR.. D. Percy Hickling. in psychiatry;
DR.. William Gerry Morgan, in CASTRO
enterology, and DR.. William A. White,
who will give his Thursday afternoon
clinics at ST. Elizabeth's Hospital, at
tended by Georgetown students.
The junior class will have course
Clarence NJ. Dollman while DR.. John
f. Lind and DIR. Daniel y. Stuart will
lecture on neurology.
Mask and Bauble Plays,
The Mask and Bauble Club, which
| has postponed it's monthly presenta.
ton Of one-act plays on two occasions,
| will offer THE Jefting Satyr," 1.-THE
Game of Chess" and Poets AIR next
Thursday evening at Trinity Parish
Hall. The first Of these plays was
| written by Fenton Moran, sophie
| more, and was awarded the prize as
test conducted by the Journal.
| Announcement was made at the
| School of Foreign Service that the first
| prize in the course in statistics was
awarded to J. Raymond Trainor, d
member of this years graduating
| class.
| The second prize was won by Paul
II. Coughlin, president Of the gradu-
ating class. Both prizes, volumes
that would serve to aid them In this
| branch of study. were offered by
Prof. H. Matter. who conducts the
course. Mr.. Matter graduated from
the Georgetown school in 1924. and
since then has been with the United
States Chamber Of Commerce.
Fraternity Smoker.
| Kappa Alpha Omega fraternity at
| the Foreign Service School gave a
| smoker the evening Of February a at
the Chapter House, at 2003 o street,
Edward Creney, president, being in
charge Of the program. Among the
| guests and speakers were Dean viii.
liam r. Notz, DIR. Young, secretary of
| the Chinese embassy and professor
of Chinese at the school. and DIR. Pre-
dehl of the Institute of Economics at
Kiel, Germany. The latter gave a
brief comparison of American and
| German universities. DR.. Young dis
cussed the present Chinese situation
and the problems 1t involves.
All candidates for battery positions
on the varsity and freshman base ball
teams will reoor' to Coach Ciaeilly In
the Ryan Gymnasium Tuesday after.
noon at $50 O'Clock. This Is the first
| coll of the base ball season. and Is
issued for pitchers and catchers only.
| Other candidates for the teams. 1t was
said, will be called in two 7-eks.