Evening star., 1927-05-22
G: i. IS SREPLANT|NG
MEMORIAL TREES
EIms Honoring Students Who
Died in War Moved to
Varsity Field.


oring the two score students OF
GEORGETOWN University who gave their
lives for their country during the
World War is being transplanted
along the wall at the north end OF
varsity field. This is to be George
towns permanent living memorial to
its war dead, and the trees, planted
shortly after the armistic. are to be
rededicated at exercises probapiy ouf'
Ing commencement week.
Each tree will have a bronze plate
bearing the name of the student in
whose memory it was originally plant
ed. These will form background
for the varsity field on high grass
= terrace now being constructed and
reinforced by a concrete wall.
- The trees were first planted in the
historic college walks, north of the
main buildings on the Hilltop, but OBJ
scured from general view. George
town could find no better way to es-
tablish a permanent memorial to
these heroes, President Charles w.
Lyons believed, than by transplant
ing the trees along the wall of the
field which they frequented so often
: during their student days.
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Another exercise will be held dur
Ing the commencement next month,
when the class of 1917 will dedicate,
in the senior class hall at the college,
memorial tablets to the two members
of the class who were killed during
the late war. Their names are Ed
mund J. Grove of ParkerSburg. w.
Va, and Frank T. Murray of Roch-
ester, n. Y.
At the School Of Law, Memorial
day will be the occasion for the
seniors to hold formal exercises i'll
the law library, where tablet has
been erected in honor of the law stu
dents who died during the war.
Modification of the eighteenth
amendment was successfully opposed
at two debates held during the past
week, one at the college and the other
at the law school. Two Washington
students were selected as the best
individual debater at each Of these
contests.
Leo n. Mcclure was the success
ful contender for the Hamilton medal
in eXtemporaneous debating, which
marked the close of the year for the
Philodemic Society of the college, J
Burke Walsh of the Law School was
selected as winner of the fourth prize
debate.
The School of Foreign Service has
received from DR.. Alexandra Padilla,
the Spanish Amba ssador, 200 volumes
for its library, covering the arts, lit
erature and economic conditions of
Spain. One of the most interesting OF
these volumes is a memorial work on
Washington Irving. the famous Ameri-
can author, who in his classic works
has done much to acquaint America
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. addition to the library is being placed
alongside the groups of books that
have been contributed lately by the
!. 'eentine embassy, the Chilean en-
bassy and the Rumanian legation.
The annual Domesday Booke, just
off the press, Is dedicated to DIR.
George Tully Vaughan as a tribute 20
his 80 years association with George
town Medical School. For many years
DR.. Vaughan has been leading spirit
in the hospital and Medical School and
was honored by fellow faculty men,
bers at the medical reunion dinner
given Wednesday night in Ryan Hail.
DR.. George M. Kober, dean of the
school since 1901 and connected with
II almost since his graduation in 1873
from Georgetown. is the prime mover
b hind the proposal to raise an ade-
Quate endowment for the medical and
dental departments of the university.
Despite falling health. DIR. kober an
nJunced at the medical dinner that he
would continue his work at George
town until he has seen this accom-
plished. Few men connected with any
university, President Lyons declared,
have served so devotedly and so un-
Seflshly without expectation of reward
than has DIR. Kober.
Faculty Voluntary.
In the matter of an endowment Dr.
Kober said he wished to impress upon
tie public that for n years the Medi-
cal School has existed almost entirely
on the voluntary services of it's faculty
without an endowment from which it
could expect aid. In all these years,
he said, the Medical School has never
before made direct appeal to the pub
Vic for support.
i. The Glee Club ended a successful
g season last Friday evening by giving
a concert at the Georgetown Convent
of the Visitation. An informal recep.
ltion followed the concert. 1t marked
the last appearance of Joseph A.
? sKozak, '27, as president Of the Glee
aClub and about nine other members
who will be lost through the June
graduation.
Rev. Francis A. Tondorf, s. j., who
, has returned from addressing the
, Georgetown Club Of Providence, r. l.,
brings back news that the alumni of
that city have contributed funds with
which to carry on his work in seismol-
ogy at the Georgetown Observatory.
The funds will be devoted to the in.
Stallment of a new instrument, a
GaltZen apparatus, which will record
the parallel as well as the vertical
oscillations of the earth.
with the most sensitive fnstru-
ment in this country for detecting the
earth's tremors, we can carry on
much more extensive work at George
town." Father Tondorf said.
James Buskirk of Ohio, is the
newly elected president of the Philo-
nomosian Debating Society at the
college, succeeding Theodore Schlot-
{ terer. The other officers elected are:
Thomas Meaney, vice president;
Thomas Cowley, secretary; Thomas
Cahill, treasurer: Horace Herlihy and
Robert McGraw, censors, and John
Legier, amanuensis. Its work ended
for the year, the society held its an.
nual dinner Friday night at the Ham
1lton Hotel.
Rev. John J. Toohey, S. J., chan
cellor of the Philodemic Society, was
among the guests of honor at its re
cent banquet at the Hamilton Hotel
Other faculty guests were Rev
Thomas B. Chetwood, senior professor
in natural theology, and Rev. John
/. Moakley, senior professor in ethics
William /. Corbett, '27, retiring presi
dent, acted as POSTMASTER.