Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
45O WILL RECEIVE
DEGREES AT G. u.
13Oth Annual Commence
ment Program Is Opened
With Senior Exercises.

Featured by senior class exercises at
the college and Law School, Georgetown
University last night opened its both
annual commencement program, that
eliminates tomorrow afternoon when
degrees will be conferred on approx
mately $50 graduates.
While hundreds of friends and alumni
crowded CASTOR Hall for the college eX-
erciseS, others met at the Law School,
where Dean George E. Hamilton, a
Georgetown graduate So years ago, be-
slowed awards on honor men OF the
two senior classes.
Glass Gives School PlaqAe.
A feature of the Law School program
was the presentation of the class gift
to the school, a plaque upon which will
be engraved each year the name of the
prize debate winner. The name OF Rob-
ert Granville Burke of Buffalo, N. Y,
is the first to appear on the plaque.
The presentation was made on be-
half of the seniors by Donald Andrew
Rock, president of the afternoon class,
and was accepted on behalf of the
school by Dean Hamilton. Three prizes
for the best essays submitted on legal
ethics, awarded annually by Mr.. Hamil-
ton to members of the senior class, were
presented to Donald L. Stumpf, with
mark of 90 per cent; Joseph Patrick,
with 96 per cent. and Julius Sherman,
with 95 per cent. The prizes were
volumes of Beveridge's Life Of John
Marshall"
Another prize, offered by Delta Chi
Fraternity to the member Of the gradu-
ating class who attained the highest
scholastic average during his entire
course at the Law School. was awarded
d oYEc DC
president of the Georgetown chapter OF
the fraternity
Otto Joseph Saur. president OF the
morning senior class. presided at the
exercises. the bachelors grafton being
delivered by William Francis Illig and
the valedictory by Donald Leonard
Stumpf Others on the program were
Robert Emmett Jones. class history, and
Thomas Henry Sisk and Francis Joseph
Sullivan, class prophecies.
Weather Puts Class Indoors.
Indictment weather compelled the col
lege seniors to abandon their program
planned for the quadrangle outdoors,
and seek shelter in CASTOR Hall.
Following Georgetown traditions,
James P. Quinn, IT., delivered the Co
honguroton Grafton, which takes its
name from the River of Swans" ap-
plleu ny Illc 1LuAdLlo ~ NAAC ONOllAoo AZ
the DAYS when Georgetown was founded.
Paul A. McDonough gave the class
salutatory, Francis l. McGarraghy the
class ode and William H. Powell. jr..
the class history. The program included
a one-act play. Regular Order" writ
ten by Richard K. Charlesworth, rettr-
ing president of the yard, and staged
by members of the Mask and Bauble
Club The cast included George II.
O'Connor. Ernest l.. Duhalme, John F.
Clarke. John j. Donovan, Thomas j.
McDevitt, Paul A. Miller, Charles l..
Gleason. Edward J. Mcclure. Samuel
j. Colman,. Warren E. Grant and Daniel
D. Friary, all members Of the senior
class.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
preached to the graduating class In
Dahlgren Chapel this morning at 10
o'clock by Right Rev. John M. McNa-
mara, auxiliary bishop of Baltimore.
Dedication of the new 81 100000 Medl-
cal-Dental School Building and the lay
ing of its corner stone will feature the
program this afternoon at 4:30 O'Clock
DR.. John A Foote, dean of the medical
school, and DR.. William N. Cogan, dean
of the dental school. will be the princi-
pal speakers. President w. Coleman
Nevis and Rev. Walter G.. Summers.
regent of both schools, will oficiate at
the corner stone laying and the apostolic
delegate. Most Aev. Peitro FumaSoni-
Biondi, will bless the stone.
The presidents reception at $3.50
o'clock in the evening and the Glee
Club concert in the quadrangle Will
close today's program.