Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-10
GEORGETOWN GIVES
DIPLOMAS TO sol.
More Than Score of Prizes
and Awards Presented to
Honor Students.

Diplomas were presented to SOL grad
yates Of Georgetown University at it
1slst commencement, yesterday after
noon.
Dr.. W. Coleman Nevis. 8. j., preSi'
dent of the university, conferred ar
honorary degree Of doctor Of civil anc
canon law upon DR.. Peter Guilday Of
Catholic University. who made the
commencement address. Dr. William
Gerry Morgan, president of the Ameri-
can Medical Association, and DR.
Charles Maddox Hammett, both aSSo-
ciated with the university's medical and
hospital staffS were made honorary
doctors of law.
DR.. Guilday. in his address to the
graduates, emphasized the marked tend
ency in American university life to &C
cept moral basis for Intellectual train
ing.
Harvard. as the oldest Protestant uni
versity in the United States, and
Georgetown as the oldest Catholic Uni
versity, he pointed out, had religious
instructions as their corner stones, each,
by coincidence, having their beginning
in seventeenth century Newtown, Mass,
and Newton. Md.
In contrasting Georgetown with other
institutions founded for the purpose Of
religious instruction, Dr. Guilday said
that while others are now beginning to
return to those principles after the
lapse of many years, Georgetown ad-
hered steadfastly to its original pur-
pose for 131 years.
Referring to this tendency to return
70 early principles, DR.. Guilday said:
''There has been q constant and ever
increasing number Of those who have
- t~sn~ - -
the last genera ton of the danger the
American Republic runs unless a way
be found that will lead our educational
system back to Christian principles"
More than a score Of medals and
prizes were awarded to honor students,
including a number from the District
of Columbia, and commissions as lieu
tenants in the Organized Reserve Corps
Of the Army we're given to So r. o. T.
G. cadets.
Seniors Awarded Prizes.
The following prizes to seniors in the
college of arts and sciences were
awarded: Ryan medal, for the highest
average In psychology, natural theology
and ethics, awarded to Albert p. Thill,
Jr- of New York; Merrick debating
medal, for the best debate between
members OF 1.-THE the Phiiod sR Society;
City, N. j., and Hamilton medal,
founded by Dean George E. Hamilton,
for the best extempore debate, awarded
TO j. Fred Schaf1y of st. Louis.
School of medicine-Medal for the
bast general average in anatomy,
awarded to Felipe L. Martinez, Havana,
Cuba.
DR.. George M. Kober gold medal for
general excellence in senior class
awarded to Raymond Charles Krichner
Of Washington.
School of law-Faculty prize Of SIS,
30 the senior of morning section main
tanning the highest general average dur
ing the year, awarded to Joseph Mar
golis, Philadelphia, with 95.18 per cent;
$40 prize, for the second best general
average, Patrick John O'Connor of Mil
dred, Pa, 90 per cent.
Prize of SIS, to senior Of afternoon
section maintaining highest general av-
erage, awarded to Julius Sherman,
Bridgeport. Conn, with 92.44 per cent;
second prize of $40. to Charles Francis
Daley Of Takoma Park, Md, 91.55 per
cent.
-Four prizes Of s25 each, offered by