Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-15
c. i. CLASSES GET
UNDERWAY AGAIN
Drastic Steps Again Are
Takan to Reduce Size of
Freshman Class.

With the afternoon classes at the
Georgetown University School of Law
already in session and the College Of
Arts and Sciences scheduled to reopen
Wednesday for its 141st academic year,
tn entire university will be in full swing
by October !.
For the second consecutive year,
drastic steps have been taken to reduce
the size of the freshman class at the COL
lege. Registration of incoming first
classmen tomorrow, consequently, will
be limited to approximately 800 to pre-
vent overcrowding in the living quarters
on the campus. Upper classmen, will be
registered Tuesday and classes start the
following day.
President w. Coleman Nevis ordered
many improvements at the Hilltop dur
ing the Summer and the finishing
touches are being applied to a new din
Ing hall for the senior class. Upper
classmen also will find upon their return
number Of new professors appointed
during the Summer. Chief among these
are Rev. Joseph T. O'Brien, the new
faculty director of athletics, and Maj.
William H. Hobson. designated by the
War Department as successor to Lieut..
Col. Augustus r. Dannemiller, In charge
Of the military department.
Hobson Started r. o. r. C. Unit.
Maj. Hobson was the first Army of1icer
to inaugurate the r. o. T. c. course at
Georgetown back in 1919 and it was
during his four years at the Hilltop that
the Georgetown unit was placed on the
distinguished list and the rifle team won
its first intercollegiate championship
He has already taken charge and Is pre-
pairing for the reopening of military
activities.
Announcement was made yesterday
by President Nevis of the appointment
Of John G. Bowen Of San Antonio, Tex,
to take charge Of alumni activities. He
also will succeed Frances D. Cronin as
executive secretary to the president Of
the university, Mr.. Cronin having been
placed in the position of supervising all
the stores of the university.
One of Mr.. Cronin's duties this Sum-
mer has been the purchase of all the
textbooks used in the various depart
ments of the university and reorgan-
izing the various school stores.
Mr.. Bowen is well known in George
town circles. A graduate of the law
the college during his student days ana
also as secretary to Rev. John B.
Creeden, when the latter was president.
Father Nevis was dean of the college
during most of that period and pre-
vailed upon Mr.. Bowen to return to
Georgetown this Fall to take general
charge of alumni activities. Since his
graduation, Mr.. Bowen has been In the
automobile business in San Antonio.
Dean r. Rush Rankin shocking for
ward to increased scholastic activities
during the year. With the return Of the
foot ball squad from its Jersey train
ing quarters this afternoon. there will
be no cessation of student activities un-
til the academic year closes. Next week
will witness the formal exercises in hon.
or Of the reopening Of the college, at
which academic prizes will be awarded
the honor students of the proceeding
year.
Law Glasses Start September %.
At the Law School, the morning class
es will resume September %. Next in or
der of opening will be the medical and
dental departments on September rs
and the Foreign Service School on Octo-
Der /. DR.. Edmund A. Walsh, regent of
the latter school, has returned from o
Summer in Europe to take charge OF
preparations for launching the Foreign
Service Review probably during the
present year.
Law School exercises will be held
September IS in furtherance of the pro-
gram of Constitution week, sponsored by
the American Bar Association through
out the country. There will be addresses
on the Constitution by Dean George z.
Hamilton, Rev. Thomas B. Fleetwood,
regent of the school, and another
speaker who will be especially invited.
The Law School, despite its require
ment Of two years of college work, will
have a particularly good registration
this year. The same also applies to the
School of Foreign Service. which Is be-
ing put on semi-graduate basis. It is
understood a number of changes in the
courses at the latter school are to be
announced.
The steady increase Of students in the
college In recent years has added con-
siderably to the work Of the registrars
ONCE, under Walter ]. O'Connor. From
one of the smallest departments at
Georgetown, the college has become the
largest. Addition of large dormitory
building, two years ago, apparently did
little toward solving the housing situ
alton at the Hilltop. Forced to reduce
the number. of incoming students,
President Nevis now faces the neces-
sity of arranging for another dormitory
Some definite announcement of these
plans may be made shortly.
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