Evening star., 1928-09-23
ALL c. j. CLASSES
FILLED TO LIMIT
Schools of Medicine and
Dentistry viii Begin
Wednesday.

| With all classes filled to capacity, the
Georgetown University Schools of Medi-
cine and Dentistry will open Wcdnes-
| day for the first semester. BY october
l, opening date for the School of For
! eign Service. all departments of the
! university will be in operation.
| From LOO applicants for admission
to the medic& school, Rev. Walter G..
Summers, S. j.. the regent, announced
that $50 students had been selected to
enter the freshman class In the
dental school the incoming class was
limited to 45 students, chosen likewise
from large list of applicants.
A committee of the medical faculty
will be appointed soon to function as
an S;ecutive body until successor to
DR.. George M. Kober, now dean
emeritus, is named this Fall. DR.. Kober
resigned as dean, after service of %
years.
Plan Dental Clinic.
An important service in behalf of
Catholic parochial school children will
be started Tuesday morning at the
Georgetown University Hospital. when
dental clinic will open for the first
time under the supervision of DR.. Will
liam N Cogan, U. S. NJ, retired, dean
of dentistry. Volunteer dentists will
examine and care for the teeth of all
children who apply. Four chairs have
been provided for the clinic with all
necessary apparatus, including X-ray,
and the hours will be from 9 to IL
o'clock. Instructions also will be given
children and their parents in the care
of the teeth.
DR.. Cogan recently was elected a
fellow of the American College of
Dentists as reward, not only for his
work at Georgetown, but for his long
service as a dental surgeon in the
United States Navy.
November II will see Washington
crowded with alumni who will come
here from all parts of the East for the
homecoming game, all annual reunion
affair at Georgetown. First of all the
classes to make extensive arrangements
for the reunion is the 1923 class of the
law school, which met last week at the
call of Stanley De Neale. president, in
the Office of Ira Ewers, 1903 F street.
Headquarters for out-of-town mem
berS of the class will be established
probably at the Occidental Hotel and a
committee was appointed to arrange for
the reunion banquet at one of the
country clubs. Al Keane will be toast
master at the banquet, and speakers
will be chosen from members of the
local bar.
A committee, consisting of Jack
White, mayor of Colmar Manor, Md.
Jack Hegarty and Tim DAILY was ap-
pointed to make arrangements for
entertainment and another committee
designated to provide transportation
facilities. The members of this COM
mlttee are Robert Dennison, Lou
yoIV
gan and Austin Garfield The COM
mittee on speakers comprises Joseph
Connolly and Gregory Cipriani.
Committees Named.
other committees we're: Finances,
Ira Ewers, A. A. O'Donnell, Charles
Valaer, Henry McNerney and Stanley
De Neals; tickets, David Smith, William
Hogan and Fendall Coughlan.
Several changes are being made in
the faculty and courses at the medical
school. DR.. Wilfred M. Barton, head of
the department of medicine, will have
as full time associate this year, DR..
Wallace B. Yater, who is at present fin
ishing a post graduate course at the
Mayo clinic, where he is specializing
in internal medicine. DR.. Yater is a
graduate of Georgetown.
Several other members of the George
town staff have returned from attend
ing courses at the Mayo Clinic, among
them DR.. Brockbank, who specialized
in -psychiatry and DR.. John j.
Shugrue, who has just finished a course
in neuro-surgery. The latter will be at
tached to the surgical staff at George
town this year.
Announcement also was made that
Comdr. P. F. Dickens of the Navy
Medical School will give course this
year in pathological al-phySiology and DR..
ciples and practice of anesthesia in
the school of dentistry. DR.. Lynch has
just returned from the Mayo Clinic
where he specialized for two-and-a-half
years in the X-ray and aneStheSia.
In view of the growing Importance of
commercial aviation much interest has
been aroused among physicians in the
course in aviation medicine which will
be resumed at Georgetown during the
second semester which opens in Febru-
ary. It was established at the school
last year by DR.. Lewis H. Bower of the
Aeronautical Bureau, Department of
Commerce, as the first course of its
kind in medical school in this coun-
try. The course is designed primarily
to instruct physicians in the examina-
point of civilian aviation, but military
aviation as well.
400 Freshmen Enroll.
Both the college and law school now
are in full operation, the former hav-
ing started last Thursday and the
morning law courses on Wednesday.
Registration at the college was par
ticularly heavy, the freshman class
numbering over 400 students. Several
years ago the entire registration at the
college did not exceed that number.
Resolutions were adopted directing
the class to transmit letter of con-
graduation to Father Nevils upon his
recent return as president of the uni
versity, and also one of appreciation
to Rev. Vincent S. MacDonough, S. j.,
for his years of services rendered ath-
letics at Georgetown. William H.
Labofish is the recording secretary of
the c1aSS