Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
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% PRIZE DEBATE
Winner of Legal Tilt" May
Compete in Finals at
Year End.

The second prize debate of the
Georgetown University School of Law
for faculty prize Of $25 and the right
Of the winner to participate in the
finals at the end of the school year
will be held Wednesday afternoon at
o'clock. Contestants in the forth
coming debate have been chosen from
each of the four law clubs at the
school,
Differing from the usual debate. the
ones staged at the Law School are in
the form Of q legal case GA trial in an
appellate court. Wednesdays trial in
wolves an eviction suit with the debaters
serving as counsel.
John d. O'Reilly Of the District of
Columbia, representing the Gould Law
Club, and M. r. Kresky of Marionette.
Wis. speaker for the White Club, viii
act as attorneys for the complainantS.
Peter Joseph Toner Of Johnstown, Pa,
and Henry A. Hartley of Kearney, N. j.,
will represent the defendants. Toner is
member of the White Club and his
teammate belongs to the Butler Club.
Each of the four men was selected at
a special try-out.
Judges Named.
The Judges will be E. B. Sullivan,
Leo A. Codd and r. Regis Noel. These
moot courts have done much to slim
ulate interest in court practice among
the student body this year and the
winner OF the final contest may fairly
be regarded Is the champion debater
Of the school.
Oficials at the School of Foreign
Service announced the appointment OF
Senior Manuel Guillermo Martinez to
full-time position in charge of all the
courses in Spanish at the school. Regis
tration in the Spanish classes at
Georgetown has become so large this
year that 1t was found necessary to
expand the department.
Senior Martinez is q graduate of the
Georgetown School, having been
awarded degree Of foreign service in
1927. His preliminary education was
received in Mexico City, where ne also
attended the School of Commerce and
Business Administration of Mexico.
For number OF years Senior Martinez
has been q member Of the stan of the
Mexican embassy In Washington and
formerly was O research assistant for
the Inter-American High Commission.
He was an attache to the special mis-
sion headed by former Secretary of
State Colby which visited South Amer
lea IN 1920, and also was a member of
the personnel of the Pan-American
Highway Commission which toured this
country In 1928.
Senior Martinez has lectured on Span-
ish literature at Georgetown College and
has conducted conversational course
In Spanish ut two Summer sessions of
George Washington University. During
the past 10 years he has conducted
courses on q part-time basis at the
Georgetown Foreign Service School and
will enter upon his new duties at the
beginning of the second semester on
February 3.
DR.. Nevis to BE Host.
DR.. w. Coleman Nevils will be host
to the Jesuit and lay faculty of the
College Of Arts and Sciences at a din
ner Tuesday night in continuance of
the series of faculty affairs he has
planned for the year. Last night the
faculties of the law and foreign service
were his dinner guests, DR.. Charles S.
Culbertson, American Ambassador to
Chile, being the guest of honor. DR..
Culbertson was formerly on the foreign
service faculty.
The dean OF arts and sciences is Rev
r. Rush Rankin, S. j. The dinner will
De informal, with the wives of members
OF the lay faculty as guests. DR.. Nevis
Will make brief talk. These dinners
are held in the new senior dining hall
at the college and have been the means
OF bringing members of the faculties