Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-20
c. j. TO Be HOST
FOR PRESS FARLEY
Half Dozen Colleges of D. C.
and Maryland Will Send
Delegates.

Delegates.
Georgetown University will be the
host at a. press conference, next Satura
day to which half a dozen universities
and colleges in the District of Columbia
and Maryland will send representatives
Of their various student publications.
According to present indications there
ference from Georgetown, George
Washington University, Catholic and
American Universities, Trinity College
and the University Of Maryland. The
conference will be the second of its
kind held by the representatives of
these college publications. Last Spring
the publications sent delegates to a con-
vention held at George Washington
University. At that meeting Joseph
Brunini, editor-in-chief of the Hoya,
weekly news publication at George
October meeting, which, it was decided,
would be held at the Hilltop.
The purpose of the conference is to
improve the various publications by
offering an opportunity to the staff of
representatives to meet and discuss the
various problems and difficulties they
may have in editing their various papers
and magazines. Georgetown will be
represented at the conference by the
editors and business managers Of the
Hoya, the College Journal and Ye
Domesday Booke.
Sessions Are Informal.
Sessions of the conference will be
informal and it is being planned to have
the delegates separate into three groups.
One OF these would consist of the rep
reSentatives Of the weekly publications,
another would be made up of those
who are handling the college year
books, while the third group would
comprise the representatives of the
monthly publications. In this way the
business of the conference can be ex-
pedited and conducted more effectively.
DR.. w. Coleman Nevils president of
Georgetown, and Rev. Francis A. Ton
dorf of the medical school represented
the university last week at the cere-
monies OF dedicating the Wilmer
Opthalmological Institute at Johns Hop
klns University In Baltimore.
DR.. William H. Wilmer of Washing
ton, after whom. the institute was
named, is emeritus professor of opthal-
mology at the Georgetown Medical
school and for many years was actively
connected with its faculty. In 1919 the
distinguished eye specialist received the
honorary degree of doctor of laws from
georgetown. Georgetown naturally
has followed with great interest the
endowment of the institute which DR..
Wilmer Is to conduct at Johns HOPKINS
A dinner will be given at the Uni
versity Club Saturday night, under the
auspices Of the Georgetown Medical
School, honoring a distinguished Ger
man visitor, DR.. Karl Sudhoff of the
University Of Leipsic. DR.. Sudhoff is
professor OF: historical medicine and
CONSIDERED its leading authority in
| Europe.
VIII Attend Banquet.
Members of the medical faculty will
attend the banquet. including DR.
NevilS, Rev. John L. ,Gipprich, regent OF
the school; Dr. John Foote the dean
and Father Tondorf, head of the de.
partment Of physiology.
The senior class of the afternoon Law
school at recent meeting elected thu
/ following officers: William O'Neil o.
Wisconsin, president; Leo De Orsey o.
Massachusetts,, vice president; HarolC
Carolan of Iowa, secretary; Miltor
Schwartz of the District of Columbia
treasurer; Thomas Byron of the Dis
trict OF Columbia, sergeant alarms
and Paul FakleF Of Minnesota, historian
The position of class editor for TIT
| Domesday Booke was intrusted to Let
Quackenbush of New York. Paul AL.
bus of Pennsylvania was made clas
business manager for the college annual
The senior morning class, at al
earlier meeting, had chosen J. Ear
flanagan of Pennsylvania as the Law
| school business manager for the an
nual. Mr.. flanagan, who will hav
supervision over the entire law Schoo
section. came to Georgetown from tn
PittSton, Pa, High School four year
ago. He attended the Hilltop for tw
years and was then transferred to tn
law school.
From tomorrow evening until Frida
morning the annual religious retrea
will be conducted at the college, tn
student body being divided into fresh
men and upper claSSmen. The confer
ences for the freshmen will be hel,
in Dahlgren Chapel in the quadrangle
while those for the upper cIassmen vii
be conducted in Trinity Church, saw
in the case of the latter the evenin
talks will be given in CASTOR Hall.
Rev. Eugene T., Kennedy. asSistan
pastor Of Trinity Church, will conduc
the retreat for the upper classmen ant
Rev. Johl j. Murphy of the colleg
faculty, for the freshmen. Fathe
Kennedy is a graduate of the class O
1902 at Georgetown.
Room for All Students.
A large room on the third floor @
the Riggs Building of the Georgetow
University Hospital has been set asid
for the exclusive use Of Georgetown
students in case Of illness. 1t contain
five beds and, unlike most hospits
wards. its walls are decorated with col
lege banners and pennants. Sister Jan
Is in charge of the ward.
Sixteen freshman candidates for tn
glee club have been tentatively ad
mitted as a result of three tryouts, i
which 48 of the first-year men at tn
college participated. With a nuclei
Of % members from the previous season
the glee club probably will be the lare
est In many years. The size OF Tn
. club has not vet been determined, bu
the vacancies due to the loss Of senio
! members will be filled by freshmen.