Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-01
|CLASS TO HEAR
AUTHOR TEACHER
DR.. Peter GuiIday viii Deliver
Commencement Address
at G. U. Exercises.

tory at the Catholic University, It was
announced yesterday, will make the ad-
dress to the graduates Of Georgetown
University at the 1Slst annual COM
mencement exercises the afternoon Of
Monday, June ..
Regarded as one Of the best known
writer's and teachers Of history in the
country, DR.. Guilday IL particularly
known to Georgetown alumni rs the au-
thor Of THE Life and Times Of John
Carroll" Georgetown's founder. At its
forthcoming commencement one Of the
largest graduating classes in recent
years will be presented.
In connection with the Copley Hall
ceremonies the preceding afternoon, DR..
w. Coleman NevilS, s. j., president of
the university, announced that the cor
nerStone Of the new senior dormitory
would be laid by Mgr. C. r. Thomas,
rector of st. Patrick's Church. At the
present rate Of progress, It is expected
that the dormitory will be ready for
occupancy at the opening Of the next
mid-year term. 1t will provide for more
than 200 additional students at the Hill
top.
Seniors Await Exercises.
With John F. Lynch, 1r., as the vale
dictorian or Cohongurton orator, the
Hilltop seniors are busy in their prep
arations for their class day exercises
next Saturday evening at $50 o'clock
Members Of the dramatic group also are
rehearsing the play. which the Mask
ana Bauble Club will present in connec-
ton with the program.
Among the various degrees In course.
special interest is attached this year to
Prof. Edward p. Donovan who is to be
awarded degree Of doctor of music. Mr..
Donovan has been in charge of the
music classes at the Hilltop for a num-
Der OF years and also is director Of the
Glee Club.
His thesis for the degree is a mass of
st. Gregory, which will be sung at the
baccalaureate mass next Sunday morn
ing in Dahlgren Chapel. The mass was
approved by the arch-dioceSan board of
liturgical music.
Graduation exercises for the George
town University Hospital Training
School for Nurses will be held at 4
o'clock Tuesday afternoon In CASTOR
Hall. President Nevis will make the
address to the graduate nurses and
Dean John A. Foote of the Medical
School and others will take part. AS
will receive their diplomas jointly
with those from Providence Hospital.
Georgetown seniors will act as ushers.
The Georgetown Preparatory School,
at Garrett Park, Nd, will hold It's
commencement on June IL. Charles
A. Darr of the Knights OF Columbus
will address the young graduates.
School Of Law Program.
The two senior, classes of the School
OF Law will conduct class day exer-
ciSes Saturday evening at O'Clock in
their assembly hall. The program for
this event was announced, as follows:
Opening address, William I. O'Neill,
president of the afternoon section;
bachelors grafton, Jaime Benitex: class
history, Julian Francis Corish; class
Kenneth Paul Fennell, and the vale
dictory by Patrick John O'Connor.
Damian John Mclaughlin, president
of the morning class, will present the
class gift, which will be received on
behalf Of the faculty by Dean George
e. Hamilton. The exercises will be at
tended by the faculty generally and
many friends of the graduating classes.
AS result of a recent dissertation
held before a special committee, Wilbur
Norman Baughnan and Samuel Roscoe
Howell, postgraduate students at the
Georgetown Law School, successfully
passed the tests for degrees OF master
of laws.
Each of the two candidates presented
a thesis on international law and were
to questions by members of
the committee Of which Prof. Fred
erick l.. Nelson was chairman. The
other members of the examining COM
mittee were chosen outside OF the law
faculty and were George A. Finch, as
sistant secretary of the Carnegie En-
dowment for International Peace. q
graduate Of 1907, and j.
Allen Metzger, assistant to the So
licitor OF the State Department.
Mr.. Baughman Is a graduate OF the
of Pennsylvania and George
Law School, while Mr..
Howell is a graduate of King College
and Georgetown Law School.
Mississippian Wins Debate Prize.
Yancy D. Lott, jr, of Mississippi is |
the winner of the prize offered to the |
best debater in the Ashley M. Gould |
Law Club. The prize Is copy OF THE |
Common Law" by Associate Justice
States Supreme Court. Lott came TO |
from Springhill College.
Twelve of 81 students who passed the
OF the Spanish oral board
received ratings OF excellent, the board |
has announced, through Prof Manuel
Guillermo Martinez, who Is In charge OF
The Spanish department Of the School
If Foreign Service.
The examining board was composed
Of Senior Jorge Daessle-Segura, third sec
-etary of the Mexican embassy; Senior
e. Gonzalez, commercial at
ache of the Costa Rican legation, and
Prof. Martinez. The examination was
n accordance with the policy of the
school that all graduating students must
prove before a group of natives Of their
chosen languages their ability to con-
verse fiuently in the language.
The students who received the rating
If excellent were Antonio Alarid, Charles
Oavlin, Roman Davila. John Giacoma,
Edward Hornibrook, Earl Kiefer, F.
Kuhn, Don Kirkley M. Levenberg, Cecil
Stroup, Joseph Santoiana and s. White.
Students who received ratings of very
rood and good included Harmon Coney,
Harry Seay, David Longanecker, Philip
Raine, Roy James. Nicholas Cummings,