Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
BROOKLAND SCHOOL
OPENS WITH MASS
Rev. ]. H. Ryan to 0ffiCiate at
ExerciSeS-Rev. E. A.
Pace breaches.

The formal opening of the academi,
year at the Catholic University vii
take place this morning, when solemn
mass of the Holy Ghost is celebrated
] by Right Rev. Mgr James Hugh Ryan
rector, in the crypt of the Nationa
| Shrine Of the Immaculate Conception
at 1890.
The sermon will be preached by
Right Rev. Mgr. Edward A. Pace. vice
rector. Preceding the mass an AGA.
| demic procession of the faculty anc
students and superiors and members Of
religious communities will start from
Caldwell Hall at 1915. The university
chaplain, Very Rev. Edward @, Fitz-
gerald. 0. p. of the Dominican House
of Studies will direct the procession
Last Tuesday, registration day, APP
proximately 1000 students matriculateo
In the various departments of the uni
versity. This number includes grad
uate and undergraduate. lay and
clerical students. An increasing num-
Der of women students was noted in
the Graduate School The freshman
class numbered more than 200.
The Graduate School, having ma
terially augmented its teaching staff
in many departments, has shifted its
seminars and class hours from the
morning to the afternoon. The pur-
pose of this move is to make the
graduate classes of the university avail
able to teachers in local schools and
colleges, and to Government employees
who would find it inconvenient to at
tend morning classes These courses
will be held from $3.50 to $50. and in
hours will be Entertained, so that a
student who could attend the late after
noon hour only could. over a number
of years, take all the courses in a
single department. Some new courses
that are being offered this year are
the theory of recreational leadership,
by DR.. Paul Hanly Furfey, and
cultural anthropology, by DR.. John M.
Cooper, both of the department of
sociology; in the department. of Semitic
and Egyptian languages courses are
Babylonian and Coptic. by Prof Ro-
manus Butin, Prof. Arthur VaSchalde
and Prof. Hyvernat: DR.. Rubio of the
department of Spanish will present
courses in the Spanish nystics, the
Spanish drama and the romantic
writer's of Spain.
In the department of philosophy
Mgr. Edward A. Pace will conduct a
course in theories of freedom. In the
department of German new courses are
the German didactic literature, by DR..
Leo Behrendt, and the history Of the
German novel, by Prof. Paul Gleis.
Courses in medieval Latin will be of
fered by DR.. Martin Mcguire of the
department of Latin.
Announcement has been made of
forthcoming texts and research publica-
tons edited and published by members
of the university department of Latin
and Greek. Among these is an edition
of The Confessions of st. Augustine, {"
for college classes, edited by DR.. James
guire. which is being published by
Prentiss-Hal DR. Roy j. Deferrari
and DR.. James M. Campbell are col
laborating in the publication of "A
Concordance to Prudentius." These
scholars have been awarded large sum
of money by the Medieval Academy Of
America for the flrtherance of this
research, and the WORN will be published
under the auspices of the academy.
DR.. James M. Cooper has completed
the third volume of his series, Religion
Outlines for Colleges" 1t is book OF
500 pages.
DR.. Paul Gleis Of the department Of
German. conducted graduate courses in
philology and the history of German
literature in the Summer school of the
University of Notre Dame.
The freshman class was welcomed to
the. university last Sunday morning at
a mass celebrated by Rev. DR.. Nicholas
A. Weber. S. NJ, vice dean of the
School of Arts .and Sciences, in the
chapel of Gibbons Hall. Rev. DR.. Paul
H. Flrfey preached the sermon.