Evening star., 1933-06-11
President TO GET
CATHOLIC i. Il. D.
Degree to Feature Forty
fourth Annual Commence
ment Wednesday.

President Roosevelt will join the
ranks of June candidates for academic
degrees Wednesday, when he dons cap
and gown to receive from the Catholic
University of America its honorary oe-
gree OF doctor of laws.
The comforting of the degree upon
the Chief Executive will be a feature
of the forty-fourth annual commence
ment of the university. which will be
held in the gymnasium.
The ceremony win be participated in
by the leading prelates of the Catholic
Church. including Most Rev. Michael
j. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore and
chancellor of the university, who will
preside and Patrick Cardinal Hayes,
archbishop of New York and member
of the university board of trustees, who
will deliver the commencement address.
The academic profession, led by Dr.
Charles Hallan Mccarthy, knights OF
Columbus professor of American His
tory on the faculty, will precede the
exercises, leaving Caldwell Hall on the
campus at 1915 am. The entire as
semblage is scheduled to be seated by
10:45 O'Clock, and Is minutes later
President Roosevelt and his party will
enter the hall by way of the new stage
entrance.
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The Marine Band will signal his ar
rival with the playing OF the salute
composition. Hail to the Chief" and
it will provide other music on the pro-
gram.
Right Rev. Msgr Edward A. Pace, vice
rector of the university, will open the
program with prayer, after which Arch
bishop Curley who is chancellor OF
Catholic University, will make the ad-
dress of welcome. Candidates for de-
grees in course then will be presented
by the deans of various schools of the
university. In this years commence
ment, the traditional reading of indi-
vidual graduates names and the handing
cut of each diploma will be omitted.
President Roosevelt will be presented
for the honorary degree by Msgr
Pace, who will read the citation Ill
Latin. With the reception Of the
diploma and the academic hood from
the archbishop, Franklin Delano ,Roose-
velt will have accepted the highest gift
the Catholic University can bestow.
Timothy William Mccarthy of Rock
vile, Conn, will deliver the valedictory
of the class of 1888. The program will
conclude with the playing of Alma
Mater" by the Marine Band to which
accompaniment the audience will be
led in singing by the university choir.
Exercises to Be Broadcast.
The commencement Will be broadcast
over both Nationwide radio systems.
Following the commencement, lunch
con will be served in the university
dining hall for the graduates and their
families. and for the decennial classes
those of 1893, 1908, 1918 and 1928
The commencement activities at
Catholic University actually began Fri
day night, when the alumni dance was
given at Indian Spring Country Club
The seniors staged their own dance at
the Shoreham Hotel last night
At 1890 o'clock this morning the
baccalaureate mass will be said in the
crypt of the National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception Rev. Dr.
Frank p Cassidy, dean of men, will be
celebrant. Rev. DR.. George johnson,
associate professor of education, viii
preach the sermon.
Following the mass, the seniors will
be formally inducted into the National
Catholic University Alumni Associa-
ton. Frank j. Brennan, president of
the class of 1888, will speak.