Evening star., 1932-04-09
c. j. PAYS TRIBUTE
TO CHILEAN ENVOY
Founders Day Rites Open
New Law Academy
in CASTOR Hall.
Ambassador Cruchaga of Chile was

Ambassador Cruchaga of Chile was
admitted to membership in the new
Academy OF Law inaugurated last night
at the Founders day celebration Of
Georgetown University and named in
honor o: the first student, William
Castor, North Carolina jurist and
statesman, who enrolled in 1871.
A gold decoration Of the academy
was presented to the envoy by DR.. W.
/ Coleman Nevills, S. j.. president of the
university, at formal ceremonies in
CASTOR Hall. Members of the Diplo-
matte Corps and other prominent Off
cials and alumni attended.
Ambassador Cruchaga was cited as
''an author OF splendid repute, a dis
tinguished lecturer in international law.
the beneficent founder Of the School
of Social Services, Catholic University,
Santiago, Chile, who at home and
abroad has found full scope for his
extraordinary ability as a diplomat, and
who lately received from the Supreme
Pontiff the Grand Cross of the Order
of st. Gregory the Great"
Praises Early Jesuits.
Ambassador Cruchaga acknowledged
the honors Of the academy in an ad-
dress, in which he paid tribute to Will
liam Castor as lone noted for his con-
trlbut1ons to the making and interpre-
tation of the laws of this great democ-
racy." He likewise praised the influence
OF the early Jesuit educators, declaring
that from the beginning of Spanish
American history we find that the gos-
pei and the laws are always borne in
the same hand.
With the teachings Of the Master
they brought the spirit of justice of
Victoria, Suarez, Baez, Covarrubias,
Vasquez, Spanish scholastics, pro-
Founders Of divine and natural law as
the basis of human society,"" he said
"Evangelists, administrators, students
and thinkers, in their schools they
taught natural law and the rudiments
of political science, and thereby, ulti-
mately weakened the structure of alb
solute royal power in the Americas"
In being admitted as an honorary
academician of Georgetown, the Chilean
envoy was admitted into the company
of three others whom the university
similarly honored in the last two years.
Ambassador Claudel of France, Arturo
Toscanini, former director of the New
York Philharmonic Symphony Orches-
ira, and Ambassador Debuchi Of Japan.
Founders Roll Call.
The exercises opened with greetings
from the president Of the Student
Council, Gerard j. O'Brien, 49, Of New
York. Dean George E. Hamilton of
the School of Law read the charter
of the university and President Nevils
the proclamation of Founders day.
Most Rev. John M. Mcnamara.
auxiliary bishop of Baltimore, then
read the roll call of the founders AS
each name was read-Andrew White,
John Altman -Gravenor, Thomas Ger
vase, Thomas Copley, Ferdinand Poul-
ton and John Carroll-the mellow notes
of the bell of the first church of Mary
land, a relic at Georgetown, were
sounded in memory of the particular
founder. The college choir then chant
ed the praises of the founders.
Colonial relics of Georgetown, many
of them associated with the founding
of Maryland on March Is, 1884, were
on exhibit at the university after the
exercises. 1t is from this date that
Georgetown derives its Founders day
anniversary in commemoration Of the
Jesuit priests of the colony, whose early
struggles to establish a Catholic school
resulted more than a century later in
the founding of Georgetown College. AS
March 25 fell on Good Friday this year
the observance was postponed until
last night.