Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
]: 6. |. j. PREP SCHOOL
HALL TOBE OPENED
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1ormitory and Dining Room
to Be Dedicated Saturday
at Dinner.

faty Preparatory School at Garrett Park
Md, will be observed Saturday evening
= with dinner.
Rev. Thomas A. Emmett, S. J., the
headmaSter, will be host at the dinner
to which Rev. w. Coleman Nevis, S. j.
: president of Georgetown University;
parents of the students and number
@of friends of the institution have been
invited. The student body will partici-
pate.
- The party will take place in the new
sdining hall, which will be open for the
first time, and guests will be shown
: over the building, which was construct
ed to form a south wing of the main
ri preparatory school building. 1t is of
Colonial red-brick design and contains
besides living and dining quarters for
students, several recitation halls.
Rev. John L. Gipprich, S. j., director
of physics at Georgetown University
has been appointed editor of the Jesuit
Science Bulletin, quarterly publication
- issued under the auspices of the Society
Of Jesuit Scientists of the Maryland
New York and New England provinces
ct the order. Father Gipprich has been
connected with the society since 1924,
YEAR he represented the society at the
conference of the Genealogical Society
held in Rome. Rev. Edward C. Phillips,
former director of the Georgetown OBJ
servatory, who is now provincial of the
Maryland-New York district, also was a
/, delegate to the conference.
Lecture Change Announced.
A change in the program of public
addresses on Russia by DR.. Edmund A.
Walsh, S. j., regent of the School of
Foreign Service, will take place this
week. Instead of giving his two remain
ing lectures on March IA and 81, as
scheduled originally, these lectures will
be given tomorrow evening and Thurs
Gay evenings.
Approximately 1000 persons have
been attending each of the lectures in
Castor Hall since the opening of the
series, ...-. -
- DR.. Nevis has offered a prize to the
winner of a debate between members
of the Philodenic Debating Society on
Sunday evening, March "a. The SUBJ
lect will be Resolved, That the jury
system be abolished in the United
States"
The third prize contest between de-
baterS at the Georgetown Law School
Wednesday evening resulted in Robert
c. Burke being awarded the decision.
The debate took the form of trial
court, the case concerned being "The
Family Car Doctrine"
While Burke, as one of the counsel for
the plaintiff, was selected as the best
speaker, the jury of judges sided with
defense counsel in the case. Burke
has as his associate counsel James
BeniteZ, Charles B. Nugent and Thomas
E. Carney as alternates. The defense
was represented by John Joseph
O'Reilly, jr., and Donald L. Stumpf,
with Luke H. Stapleton, alternate.
Glee Club to Give Concert.
The Georgetown University Glee Club
will give a concert today at Woodstock
College, the Jesuit house of studies at
Woodstock, Md, its first appearance
there this season. Announcement was
made that the annual Mi-Careme con-
cert has been called off. Instead, the
club is making arrangements for spe-
cial program to be. presented some
time after Easter. Meanwhile the club
has been making number of appear
ances and has a concert scheduled for
Saturday evening at the Mayflower
Hotel before the Friendly Sons of st.
Patrick.
Prof. Alfred H. Haag, director of the
Department of International Ship
ping at the School of Foreign Service,
was one of the principal speakers at the
second annual dinner of the Marine AS
ISOLATION of New Jersey, which was
held aboard the S. S. America of the
United States Lines in Hoboken, N. j.,
on February %. Capt. George Fried
of the America was one of the speakers.
Arrangements have been completed
for Prof. Lynn r. EdminSter, lecturer
on tariffs and treaties at the Foreign
Service School, to give a radio talk on
Can the Tariff Be Made Scientific?"
over station WRC on March 10 at Z
pm. There will be hook-up with 10
other stations, comprising practically
all the larger cities east of the Rockies.
The talk will be given under the aus
pieces of the National League of Women
Voters.
Appointment of Prof Jean j. Labat
as member of the executive faculty of
the School of Foreign Service has been
announced by the regent, DR.. Edmund
A. Walsh, S. j. Prof Labat has served
as director of the department Of French
since 1922 and for number of years
also has held the position of director
of the department of foreign languages
in the university. His new appointment
comes as recognition of the success
of the French department since Prof.
Labat took charge.
Department Is Major Activity.
Starting with one professor and few
students, the French department of the
school now has four faculty members
and large proportion of the student
body enrolled. Because of the import
ance of French in all phases of foreign
service, the department has become one
of the major ones.
Prof. Labat has had an interesting
career. A native of France, he served
in the French Army during the World
War, being promoted from private to
major. He was decorated with the CroiX
de Guerre, the Polish War Cross, the
Order of the Star of Rumania and is
also an Officer d'Academic. Wounded
early n the war, he came to the United
States in 1917 with the French high
commission and as an executive officer
for the Polish forces in this. country.
After the armistice, he remained in
Washington as an attache Of the French
embassy.
DR.. Theodore Maynard poet and pro-
fessor of English at Georgetown, is leav-
ing on Marsh IL for lecture tour OF
the United States Among the subjects
upon which DR.. Maynard will lecture
are: Poets Have Known" Dickens, "
Frances Thompson" Poetry as an
Aid to Life" Thomas Hardy" How to
Be Original" THE Chesterbelloc" and
the "Masculinity of Irish Poetry"
His schedule includes the College OF
Mount st. Joseph, Delhi, Ohio; Notre
Dame High School, the Ursuline Acad-
envy, the College of the Sacred Heart
and the alumni of st. Xaviers College
all of Cincinnati; the Academy OF
Notre Dame, Newport KY; Villa Ma
donna. Covington, KY; Notre Dame
Academy, Reading. Ohio; Academy OF
the Sacred Heart. Chicago; Sacred
Heart College. Lake Forest, H.. st
Marys College. Notre Dame, Indiana: st
Thomas College, st. GATHERINGS College
and ST. Joseph'S Academy. all of st