Evening star., 1933-11-24
FOUNDERS H0N0RED
BY c. j. EXERCISES
Maryland Tercentenary Pro.
gram Inaugurated With
Large Gathering.

With the Inauguration Of its Mary
land tercentenary exercises last night
before a notable assemblage in CASTOR
Hall, Georgetown University is pre-
pairing to conduct a series of programs,
ending March IS, in commemoration
of its founders, who accompanied the
Leonard Calvert colonists and estab-
lished in Maryland land of sanctu-
ary."
President Coleman Nevils, S. j., in
proclaiming the tercentennial year an
nounced that commemorative exercises
would be held in apologetics, philosophy.
science and letters by all departments
of the university. These will extend
through March 25, the date of the
founding of St. Marys City, which is
observed annually as founders day at
Georgetown in honor of Father Andrew
White, the spiritual leader of the
colony.
The Apostolic delegate, Most Rev.
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. D. D., was
guest of honor at the opening exercises
and was greeted in 10 foreign languages
by teachers and students in recognition
of the worldwide Catholic church.
Jefferson Caffery, Assistant Secretary
of State, was the official representative
of the American Government, others
being represented by the Ambassadors
of Japan, Italy, Germany and France
and the Ministers of Greece, Venezuela,
China and Portugal.
Names Are Perpetuated.
DR. Nevils' proclamation said in part:
at is indeed fit that these exercises
should be inaugurated in the presence
of his eXcellency, the Apostolic Dele
gate, who is the highest official repre-
tentative of the Nationwide Catholic
Church in America, as Andrew White
was himself in n similar capacity head
of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Catholic
Colony of Maryland. The memory of
them shall not depart and their names
shall be in request from generation to
generation"
Praising the Maryland liberation act
of 1649 as the precedent for the con-
Stitutional guarantee of freedom Of
worship, Dr. Edmund A. Walsh. S. j.,
who spoke on behalf of the board of
regents, then said
That historic act which made Mary
land the land of sanctuary, took perma-
nent juridical form and force thereafter
In the Constitution Of the United
States, into which it was incorporated
as fundamental law of the land in the
very year that Georgetown College took
definite shape and found final habita-
tion on the banks of the Potomac.
The name of a Catholic Carroll was
writ large and fearleSsly across the
declaration of independence as first
endorsement of his coreligioniStS. The
same name has been written indelibly
country by the founding of Georgetown
College in 1889
The elder Carroll pledged his life,
his fortune and his sacred honor in
support of that perilous signature. The
younger Carroll sealed the compact by
providing the only guarantees yet de-
vised to perpetuate and safeguard our
civil and religious freedom For where
freedom of education ends. public ty-
ranny begins. When freedom of con-
science expires. the licensed enclave-
rnent of freedom is born"
Greeting In Spanish.
During the Academy of Welcome the
Apostolic delegate was greeted in Span
ish by Carlos F. Sacasa, senior in the
Medical School and a son of the Presi-
dent of Nicaragua. Greetings in Italian
by Eligio Petrelli, ir., senior dental
student, then followed There was a
song in French by Prof. JoSeph M.
Barbecot of the Graduate School and
the College of Arts and Sciences offered
greetings in the form of Greek chorus
by the glee club.
Other greetings were extended as fol-
lows: German, by Prof Walter H.
Jaeger, Law School; Japanese, from
the School of Foreign Service by F.
Irving Burnham, "a Portuguese from
the alumni. by Manuel C. Rosa, LII. B.,
'25: Chinese from the faculties, by Prof
William Boyd Carpenter. and in Rus
sian from the faculties, by Prof. Leonid
Strakhovsky.
DR.. Nevils made the concluding ad-