Evening star., 1932-06-07
571 GET DEGREES
At GEORGETOWN j.
DR.. NeviIs Pays Tribute to
Pope Plus xI in Address
to Graduates.

Paving a tribute to the moral leader
ship OF Pope Plus XII. DR.. w. Coleman
Nevis. s. j., president of Georgetown
University. declared in an address at
the universitys l33d annual commence
ment yesterday afternoon that condl-
tions will not improve until countries
learn to look to God for guidance In
the principles of charity and self sacri-
fee.
Degrees were conferred upon 576
graduates Of the various departments
and an honorary degree OF doctor OF
laws upon Justice jesse c. Adkins OF the
District Supreme Court. graduate OF
the Georgetown Law School and men,
Der Of its faculty.
Justice Daniel w. O,Donoghue. also
of the District Supreme Court, delivered
the commencement address in which he
stressed that the administration OF JUS
tice Is slowing down under the enact
ment Of too many laws and at times
unreasonable laws. Justice O'Donoghue.
a Georgetown graduate also on whom
the university conferred an LII. D. de-
gree In 1920, has been a member OF the
law faculty for many years. The other
members Of the District Supreme Court
attended the commencement exercises
In honor Of their two colleagues.
Education Faces Crisis.
In the opening address DR.. Nevis de-
plored the lack of leadership in meeting
the present economic condition which
he declared is mot confined to the
streets Of New York, but is world wide"
In paving tribute to the moral leader
ship Of Pope Plus XI. DR.. Nevis said
that the need today Is for the world to
look to a man who is leader and who
is looking not to the advancement OF
self interests, but to the interests of the
world
Modern education is facing crisis as
we'll as the nation, Justice O'Donoghue
said in his address. "A false philosophy
Of life is being taught throughout the
land The mind Of youth Is being
poisoned and their hearts led astray.
The moral law is sneered at as an
Divine Providence cast to the winds"
Announcement was made that Cadet
Capt. William H. Scissor. jr.. of Penn
sylvania had been designated under
War Department provisions as the
'"honor graduate" of tie r. o. T. G.
which carries with it an appointment
as second lieutenant Of Infantry in the
Regular Army. He will accept the
commission and start training at Fort
Washington, Md.
Awarded Commissions.
Thirteen other cadets were AWARDED
commissions as second lieutenants OF
infantry in the Offlcers' Reserve Corps
as follows: Paul Patrick Byrne. Austin
Thomas Casey. Howard William Cham
pion. John Richard Downing, Thomas
Joseph Foley. Robert Brooke Furman,
Raymond Forrest McNally, jr.: Thomas
Aquinas Murphy, James Francis Neville.
Gerard John O'Brien. Harry Charles
Schumacher. James George ST Law
renee and William Addison Todd.
Commissions as first lieutenantS In
the Medical Reserve Corps were award
ed to the following 81 cadets: Louis
Walter Abbamonte. Felix Shelley Bam-
bace. Sidney Berman, Henry Bernstein,
John Edmund Bradley, John Francis
8reslin. Joseph Anthony Byrnes. James
Arnone Carleo, Karl Coates Corley, jr.:
Robert Francis Costello, William Henry
Crull, jr; Lawrence George Geraghty
James Morgan Lotus, Joseph Albert
Novello, James Patrick OBoyle. Harold
Albert O'Connor, William Joseph Power
Norman Eric Tylar and John Francis
Warren. Certificates Of eligibility for
commission as second lieutenants OF
infantry when they become OF age,
were awarded to Ralph Francis Koebel
and John Charles Mcdonald.
Degrees in course we're awarded as
follows
College Of Arts and Sciences.
Bachelor of arts-Claude Ignatius
eakewell. Joseph Charles Beatty, Wal