Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-27
c. j. AND FORDHAM
DEBATE DRY ISSUE
Local Varsity Team UphoIds
{ Prohibition in Match at
New York.

The varsity debating team of the
Catholic University left Friday morn
ing on its first trip of the year to
debate the prohibition question with
Fordham University and Providence
College,
The members of the team were
announced last Monday by Joseph
English, coach of debate. In the
order of their speeches they are: John
J. Meng. Edmund j. Fitzgerald and
Joseph A. Beatty. These three men
ming when they debated Fordham on
the negative side of the question;
Resolved, That the Eighteenth
Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States Should be Abol-
ished." The Catholic University team
upheld the same side of the same
question against Providence College al
Providence. r. l., last evening. The
results of this last debate are not yet
at hand. The next home debate OF
the season, open to the general publc'
admission free. Is with Buckneu Uni
yersity The subject in this contest
will again be the prohibition question,
with Catholic University, upholdine
the affirmative side.
Last Wednesday evening was
"Catholic University night" at Wash
ington Council OF the Knights OF
Columbus. An evenings entertain
ment was offered to the knights by
Catholic University talent. The fea-
ture of the evening was the presenta
ton of several numbers b. the Uni
rersity Glee Club. under the direction
of DR.. Leo Behrendt. Other stunts
were offered by the Catholic UniVer-
sity men. At the end of the entertain
yofroC roonfC SGTYpd and
a dance held in honor of the Univer-
sity men.
Bishop Host to staff.
Bishop Shahan, rector of the uni
versi,y, was host to the retiring Tower
staff at luncheon on "Wednesday
afternoon last. The luncheon, hello
in the dining room of graduate hall
is yearly token of appreciation
offered to the outgoing staff in recog
milton Of its services through the year
James Bradford Cronin, 81. of ST
George. Staten Island, presided at the
affair. Mr.. Cronin is the retiring
business manager of the Tower. Shor'
speeches of appreciation were made
by Bishop Shahan and Vice Rector
Dougherty. John J. DAILY, OF, retir
a brief farewell address, while the
policy for the coming year was out
lined by the new editor-in-chief, Johr
j. Meng, '2S.
: The university has recently installed
q new system of electric clocks, IN
order that the time wasted between
classes may be reduced to a minimum.
Under the new system. the clocks il
every hall, both residence and lecture.
viii be regulated by a master clock
IT is guaranteed that in this way. ths
tR~Nn b. ~ 4 = H.
university will never vary more than
two minutes year.
Preliminary work of grading the
campus has been started. For the
past two weeks, surveyors have been
busy measuring the elevations of the
low ridge In front of the new John
X. Mullen Memorial Library 1t is
believed that about the LIST of March.
actual work will begin, and the ridge
Will be graded down, in order to give
to the library the approach it needs.
Paintings for Shrine.
Among recent gifts to the National
Shrine OF the Immaculate Conception
are two contemporary paintings of
Plus IN, and Leo XIII, from the
hands OF Roman artists. They offer
much OF interest, as both portraits
exhibit Ire Pope in everyday. costume,
rus m his worn white caSsock and
broad red hat looped on the Aides, and
Leo In the long ecclesiastical coat
familiar to many Of his visitoAs Elk
cellent paintings Of the last five Popes
can now be seen at the university.
A complete collection of the Alpine
Flora has been donated to the Uni
versity Museum by Rev. P. A. Manion
or Spencer, Mass. This collection was
completed in 1898 by Rev. Charles
Ferina Of New York, and ra nks among
the choicest botanical collections. 1t
lis bound in very large album and
contains several thousand specimens
OF Alpine flowers, plants, and grasses.
among them several beautiful speci-
mems of edelweiss In it's natural sur
roundings. The. collection is provided
with a scientific description of all it's
items.
A richly jeweled gold chalice has
been recently presented to the Ma
tional Shrine of the Immaculate Con
ception In memory of the late Rev
William Thomas Whearty of Rich
mond. Va, and Rockford, ILL.,, chap
lain at Langley Field during the war.
The chalice is made of precious OBJ
jects contributed by the mothers,
relatives and friends of the soldiers,
and was brought here by Miss Nora
Norton of Rochester, n. Y, where
Father Whearty died, November Is,
1924.