Evening star., 1927-02-06
'DR. SCOTT ON WAY
TO SOUTH AMERICA
G. u. Professor viii Lecture
in Leading Colleges
During Tour.

DIR. James Brown Scott, professor
of international law in the Georgetown
University School of Foreign Service,
has left Washington for South Amer
lea, where he will give number OF
lectures in leading universities as the
first Carnegie exchange professor to
Latin America.
Long recognized as one of the best
known international authorities In the
world DR.. Scott also will preside as
president at the meeting Of the Amerl-
can Institute of international Law,
which will be held during March IN
Montevideo. Uruguay. At the CON
clusion of this conference he will pro
ceed to Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. where
he will head the delegation of the
United States on the commission OF
experts representing the Il American
republics who will assemble to pre-
pare a draft code of international law
for all the American republics. 1T Is
expected this code will be considered
by the Pan-American conference
which will be held in Havana, Cuba,
In January, 1928.
To Address Students.
While in South America DIR. Scott
will lecture on international affairs at
the largest universities in Chile. Ar
gentina Uruguay and Brazil. Upon
completion of his work he will sal
for Europe, where he evil give ad.
dresses in Spain. Portugal, France.
Holland, Belgium and England. He
will assist at the sessions of the
Academy Of International Law at The
Hague, of which he Is one Of the di-
rectors. Then he will return to Wash
ington to resume his classes at
Georgetown and preside as president
at the biennial conference of LIN
stitut de Droit International.
DR.. Scott is the first American citi
zen ever to be honored with the presi.
dency of this institute, which is com.
posed of the three principal interna
tional lawyers of each country in the
world. He is also director of the di.
vision OF international law Of the Car.
negie Endowment, as well as secre-
tary of the endowment.
VIII Present Diploma.
One of the interesting features of
his South American trip is the fact
that DIR. Scott will be present at the
official founding Of the School OF For.
eign Service in Santiago, Chile, estab-
lished through DIR. Cruchaga, the
Chilean Ambassador to the United
States. The school will be modelled to
a large extent after the Georgetown
institution. While there DIR. Scott
will present to the trustees Of the
new school a shield and diploma Of
Georgetown University.
During the absence of DIR. Scott in
Io
partment of international law and for
eign relations at the Georgetown
school will come under the direction
OF DR.. Thomas H. Healy, the assistant
dean and associate professor in these
courses. DR., Healy was formerly
professor of international law at the
Academy of international Law at The
Hague.
Now that the midyear term at the
law school has opened. several new
courses are being offered. Associate
Justice Josiah A. Van Orsdel of the
District Court of Appeals opened
new course on wills Thursday night
for seniors. Another new course on
patent law will begin tomorrow under
Thomas Ewing, former commissioner
of patents, for seniors and graduate
students.
Smoker Tomorrow.
Jesse c. Adkins, former Assistant
Attorney General and former assist
ant United States attorney for the
District, opened a new course on
criminal procedure Thursday night.
This will prove popular course, for
Mr.. Adkins has had very extensive
connection with criminal law and is
also Georgetown alumnus. An
other new course that will attract
attention is the one on domestic
relations, under John e. Laskey, for
mer United States attorney, which
also began Thursday night.
The freshman law smoker will be
held tomorrow night at the Harring-
ton Hotel Otto Saur, president of
the freshman morning class and left
tackle on last years varsity foot
ball team, Is in charge Of the ar
rangements.
shown in the forthcoming produc-
Wednesday evening in Trinity Parish
Hall. Three one-act plays are to be
presented by the Hilltop organiza-
tions, one of them, "The Testing
Satyr." having been written by Fen
ton Moran, sophomore. 1t was the
prize play in the recent contest held
by the College Journal.
Adopt One-Act Plays.
The other plays are 1.-The Game
of Chess, and Poets All" 1t is
the plan of the Mask and Bauble
Club to confine itself to these one
longer ones. In this way it will be
pOcS{hIo fn hava Y1roInptinp1
month.
1t was with great deal of regret
that the student body learned Of the
death of Father Edward T. Farrell,
member OF the faculty, which oc-
Cured last week from heart disease.
January 20 Father Farrell gave a
very interesting lecture to junior II
class on the religions of modern
India, where he served as a mission
ary after the World War. The stu
dents were so interested In his lee
ture that they were demanding
series of lectures on Hindu philos-
ophy and Father Farrell had
planned to give another talk on
Hindu social customs.
The junior prom, held Friday eve
ming at the Mayhower Hotel, was one
of the most successful given this
at the Washington Hotel yesterday
afternoon.
William Lyon, chairman of the
prom committee had arranged for
special favors for the young woman
guests. Others on the committee
were Richard Hughes, Daniel Nc
Nnmara. Leroy Couselman, Thomas
Moloney and Arthur Sullivan.