Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08
FOREIGN SCHOOL
SYSTEM CHANGED
Georgetown Officials Decide
to lnaugurate TWo-Year
Preliminary Course.


Service on a semi-graduate basis, the
president and directors Of Georgetown
University have made a somewhat
drastic departure from the regular cur
ricul,Im in preparation for the opening
of the new academic term on october l..
Convinced by 10 years experience
that no foreign service education would
be complete unless, in addition to tech
nical training it adds broad cultural
background. the Georgetown school Will
require hereafter from newly registered
students two years of preliminary col
lege work. These two years may be
taken at the School of Foreign Service,
1t was announced. or the equivalent
period will be accepted from a recog-
nized college Of liberal arts.
Five-Year Degree Course.
The effect Of this cnange is to inau-
e1lrate a five-year degree course for
students who devote their full time to
this work, leading to the bachelors de-
gree in foreign service. Glasses In this
flll-time course will start at 8 o'clock
in the morning.
For part-time students there will be
a five-year diploma certificate course,
with classes beginning at $40 pm. Only
in certain cases, it was emphasized. Will
part-time students in the evening course
vided the character of the outside work
in which they are engaged is judged by
the university authorities to constitute
research or laboratory work allied to the
foreign service curriculum. There is
further reservation in such cases-that
they extend the number of years and
complete all subjects required In the
full-time degree course.
In justice to students who contracted
lafA Nt1r
riculum was inaugurated, the change
applies only to incoming students. For
a student, therefore, who oegins his for
eign service preparation at Georgetown
beginning with the new term, the time
required for a degree will be i've years.
The first two years Of the full-t1me
course will be devoted mainly to such
cultural subjects as will prepare the
student for the more specialized and
technical branches of foreign service
given in the last three years.
Outlook Satisfactory.
Despite this stiffness Of admission
:. standards, the applications received at
the Georgetown school are already in
advance of the number usually received
at this time. With an enrolment OF
5SS students last year, coming mere
from As States and Fl foreign coun-
tries. the outlook for the new term is
satisfactory.
DR.. Edmund A. Walsh. S. j., regent
of the school and one of its founders,
has been in Europe most of the Sum-
mer after taking part in the negotia-
lions for the settlement of the dispute
between church and state in Mexico.
Upon his return it is expected he will
devote his time to completing arrange
ments for the Inauguration of an ofi-
cial publication, to be known as the
Foreign Service Review. He will also
arrange for the annual series of public
lectures by eminent authorities on OUT
standing international questions. Dur
ing recent years such courses were
given by Representative James M. Beck,
former Solicitor General: Senator IT.
vine L. Lenroot, Senator Theodore Bur-
ton, DR.. John H. Latane, DR.. Walsh, Sir
Bernard Pares and Prof. Gerlof Of the
University of Frankfort.
In the absence of both DR.. Walsh and
the assistant dean of the school, DR..
Thomas H. Healy, who is giving Sum-
mer lecture course at the Academy Of
International Law at The Hague, Dean
1 William F. Notz is working out the vari-
Gus changes that are to be inaugurated
on October /. A number of special sub
jects will be added to the course of ap-
proximately 100 subjects already cata-
logued and will be announced later.