Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
&c. u. FOREIGN SERVICE SCHOOL
PUT ON SEMI-GRADUATE BASIS
Faculty Prepares to Offset Postwar
Period of Overemp hasis on Unbal-
anced Technical Training.

| plication of technical knowledge to
human relations.
| THE educational world as a conse-
quence is now discussing the serious
crisis through which liberal education
| is passing. and responsible spokesman
openly confess the need of a general
, restatement of purpose and methods.
One leading educator has frankly sug-
gested that sheer electivism threatens
us with tyranny of mediocrity. OF all
/ the forms of government representative
democracy has the greatest need of in
dividual leadership through depend
able personalities"
While the part-time course at the
school will lead to a diploma certificate,
in certain cases. approved by the exec
utiye faculty, it was explained, part
time students may be admitted to
academic degrees, provided the char
actcr of outside work in which they
are engaged is judged by the university
authorities to constitute research or
laboratory work in subjects allied to the
foreign service curriculum.
Justice Van Devanter of the United
States Supreme Court will be the guest
of honor at the annual banquet of the
John Carroll Law Club of the School of
Law, which will be held Tuesday eve
ming in the Hamilton Hotel at 1880
o CLOCK. oJLtI guests VI IIlC law SUI
dents will be Rev. Thomas B. Chef
wood, S. j. regent of the school: DR..
Hugh j. Fe9an, the assistant dean;
Prof. Michael M. Doyle and J. Arthur
Mattson, secretary to Justice Van De-
vanter.
Newly elected officers will be installed
at the banquet as follows: William T.
O'Neill, former recorder, as chancellor
of the club; Edward Heffron, vice
chancellor; John j. O'Connor, record
er; James Winters, treasurer, and Paul
c. Albus, censor. The retiring chan
cellor is J. Herbert Walsh, while John
]. Curry is the retiring treasurer.
Georgetown's r. o. T. c. unit will
hold its annual competitive drill and
field day exercises May Is at the Hill
top, it was announced by Lieut. Col.
Augustus F. Danneniller, United States
Army.
Talks on Law of Radio"
John w. Guider, a graduate of the
Naval Academy, who received the LII.
B. degree from Georgetown in 1926, ad-
dressed the Pierce Butler Law Club
last Friday on The Law of the Radio. y
DR.. John Foote, newly appointed dean
of medicine, was honored last week by
election to the presidency of the Med
ical Society of the District of Column
Dld. IN WHICH ne lids 1OIlB DCCLl al
active leader. The new medical DEAN
who is prominent in Georgetown alumni
activities, will make the address at the
dedication of the medical-dental build
ing during the forthcoming June COM
mencement.
Georgetown will entertain notable
visitor Tuesday evening when DR.. Mar
eel Knecht, director general of LIE Matin,
Paris, is a guest at the Foreign Service
School. He will speak at a general
assembly at BIS o'clock.
DR.. Knecht, who is one of the most
distinguished of French journalists, is
well known in Washington. On one
OF his recent visits here he presented
beautiful Savern vase to the National
Press Club
The Hamilton extemporaneous debate
will be held at the college next Sunday,
the subject being. Resolved. That the
Thirteen-month Calendar Should Be
Adopted" The affirmative will be up
held by a team of juniors consisting of
Fred Schlafly, Edward L. Cox and
John F. Lynch. Three seniors. Francis
McGarraghy. James Quinn and Charles
Maloney, will be on the negative side.