Evening star., 1928-12-09
CATHOLIC u. SERIES
OF LECTURES SET
Public Is Invited to Program
of Five Addresses at
BrookIand.

A program of five public lectures to be
given at the Catholic University at
Brookland during December and jan
uary has been announced by the rector,
Mgr. Ryan.
The schedule follows: December 10,
Soviet Russia" by Rev. Edmund Walsh,
S. j., vice president of Georgetown Uni
versity; December II, where Is the
Labor Movement Drifting?" by DR.. Ed
ward Keating, manager of Labor;
January II, Japanese Literature Old
and New" by M. Setsuzo Sawada, coun-
selor of the Imperial Japanese en-
bassy; January 81, Ancient Jerusalem
as Revealed by Recent Excavations by
DR.. RomanuS Butin, S. NJ, the Catholic
University of America; January %,
Beautiful Washington" by DR.. Charles
Moore, Washington Fine Arts Commits
sion.
All of these lectures, to which the
public has been invited, will be free
and will be held in the auditorium of
Mcmahon Hall, beginning on each date
at 8:15 pm.
The Catholic University Glee Club
will give recital next Sunday evening
at 1880 at the Catholic Sisters COLLEGE
at Brookland. This will be the first
off-campus performance of the wear.
The recital will be attended by members
Of the various religious Communities
connected with the Sisters College. On
the following evening, Monday. Decem-
Der II, the club will give it's annual
Christmas concert in the assembly hall
of Mcmahon Hall. The singers will be
under the direction of Dr. Leo Behrendt
James j. Blaney, Coaldale, Pa, will ap-
pear as piano soloiSt on this occasion.
Also a special program will be rendered
by members OF the double quartet. Their
numbers will include "Out of the
DepthS," by Bach; "Stille Nacht," by
Gruber and La Guarde Passe !" The
glee club will perform for the air an
dience over WRC about the middle of
this month. DR.. Behrendt announces
that the club has been entered in the
local competitive glee club singing
contest, the winner of which will 90 to
New York to take part in a national
contest.
Mgr. Pace Honored.
The faculty Of the College of St
Vlator, Bourbonnais, Ill, by a recent
unanimous vote conferred the honorary
degree of doctor of laws on Right Rev
Mgr. Edward A. Pace, vice rector of
the university. The degree was award
eo In recognition OF Mgr. PAGES serv-
ices rendered to his country and church
as priest, educator and scholar.
Prof. j. de Siquiera Coutinho of the
faculty Of philosophy has been ap-
pointed permanent visiting professor of
the University of Berlin on Ibero-
American subjects. The appointment
was made at the request of Prof. Ernest
Gimillsched. DR.. Coutinho lectured at
the German University last Summer.
and during that time interested him.
self in completing the Spanish library
there.
Mobile Giacomo de Martino, Ambas-
sador from Italy to the United States
was the recent guest of II Circolo
Italiano of the Catholic University at
a reception in the north room of the
Washington Hotel The Ambassador
was accompanied by Signor Buonar-
delll, attache on immigration. A. Mario
Russo. Waterbury, Conn, welcomed the
guests DR.. Francesca Lardone of the
faculty of canon law represented the
faculty.
The Rev. Theodore Peterson, C. S. P,
has been appointed an instructor in
semitic at the university. Father Peter
son until now has been chaplain of
Newman Hall. University of California.
Father Peterson will teach and will
have charge of the cataloging of the
Coptic manuscripts of the j. Pierpont
Morgan collection. This work is being
done under the auspices Of the uni
versity.
Best Yearbook Predicted.
The staff of the 1929 Cardinal, an
nual student publication, is making
rapid strides in its work and predicts
the best yearbook G. U. has yet had.
The editor -in-chief is Lehman A. Hoef-
Ter, Waterbury, Conn. The assistant
editors are James E. BreSnahan, Hol-
yoke, Mass; jeremiah F. Mahoney,
Casper. Wyo.: James j. Blaney, Coal
dale, Pa; Robert j. Heberle, Montclair,
N. j.; Armand E. deCesare, Lawrence,
Mass; Cecil J. McCaffrey, Montclair,
N. j.; Richard Goodwin, New York,
N. Y; Paschal r. Ierardi Hartford
Conn; George M. Wheatley, Beverley,
Mass; Robert A. Wepner. Lakewood
Ohio Paul A. Goettelmann, Washing
ton, D. c.; Joseph A. wilkinson. WASH
ington, D. c., and Richard E. Carey,
Erie, Pa The business manager Is
William E. Hogan. Waverly. N. Y. The
book is to be enlarged and will boast
many new features. The Photographic
section and the photography in general
has been completed. 1t will include
views of buildings, taken by day and
by night, interiors and exteriors, land
scapeS, group pictures of all university
organizations and individual pictures of
all seniors and many undergraduate
students.
An eight-piece orchestra has been or
ganized at the university and is under
the leadership of James j. Blaney.
Campus concerts are being arranged.
j. Harvey Cain, auditor, as the rep
resentative of the Catholic University,
attended the meeting of the Associa-
ton of Business officers of Eastern Uni
versities, held at Amherst College. Am
herst, Mass, and Smith College, North
ampton, Mass, Thursday, Friday and