Evening star., 1934-04-22
LAWYERS TO PAY
HAMILTON HONOR
Georgetown U. Dean, 48
Years on Faculty, Dinner
Guest Tomorrow.

About 1000 former law students
who attended classes under Dean
George E. Hamilton at the George
town University Law School, includ-
ing prominent jurists, members of
Congress and leaders of the District
bar, will meet in the Mayf1oWer Hotel
tomorrow to honor him as the man
who has been vital factor in their
success.
Arranged as a testimonial dinner by
Georgetown alumni, the occasion
commentaries the sixtieth anniver-
sary of Mr.. Hamilton's own gradua-
ton from the university and his
forty-eighth year of continuous serv-
ice on its law faculty. During this
long period the veteran dean has
taught all but five of the 1900 law
alumni of Georgetown now residing
in Washington, and among others
of his former pupils scattered over
the country are governors of States,
eminent Federal and State judges,
scores of Senators and Representa-
tives and George B. Cortelyou, a for
mer cabinet officer
Frank J. Hogan, class of 1902, is
chairman of the banquet arrange
ments, and Leo A. Rover, former
United States attorney and graduate
of 1910, will serve as POSTMASTER
Members of the Supreme Court of the
United States, the personnel of the
District Court of Appeals and Su-
preme Court, legal officers of the
Government and several officials of
Georgetown, will be among the guests
of honor at the dinner. For more
than half a century Mr. Hamilton
has been a leader of the District bar
and prominent in local business cir
cles.
Honored as Teacher.
The dinner tomorrow night, how
ever. will honor him as a teacher of
law. With possibly one or two eX-
ceptions. it was believed that Mr.
Hamilton's experience of 48 years of
profeSsorShip is unique in the coun-
try.
One OF the veteran deans best
liked pupils, Martin Conboy, United
States attorney for the southern dis
trict of New York, will be the prin-
cipal speaker at the dinner. Dr. Cole
man Nevis, S. j., president of George
town, will give the only other formal
address, and Mr.. Hamilton will make
a brief response to the tributes paid
him. The testimonial program will
be broadcast over Station WMAL.
After his graduation from George
town College in 1870 and from the
Georgetown Law School in 1872, Mr.
Hamilton entered the law firm of
Richard T. Merrick and Martin F.
Morris, then Washington's leading at
torneys. When Merrick died in 1885,
the young man was taken into the firm
as full partner and the same year
Joined the law faculty at Georgetown.
Mr.. Hamilton saw the law school
grow into the largest in the United
States before the World War and in
late years deliberately sacrificed more
than half of its l 200 students to raise
its academic standards to the strict re-
quirements of Grade A school, He
has taught all the present members
of the faculty who graduated from
Georgetown.
The veteran law dean has been
highly honored by his university and
the District and American Bar Asso-
Citations, He is a former president Of
the local bar and one of the Oldest
and most active in the latter organi-
zation. Georgetown made him an
Ii. D. and later conferred its highest
degree, that Of j. U. D., upon the
man who has served it longer than
any other faculty member.
Still Active in Practice.
OF age, Mr.. Hamilton is in excellent
health and still actively engaged in
his law practice. He is general coun-
sci of the Washington Terminal Co.
and of the Capital Transit Co., having
for years been president and general
counsel of its predecessor, the Capital
Traction Co. He is director also in
several banks.
Among the special guests to the
testimonial dinner will be Justice Will
lis Van Devanter and Justice Pierce
Butler of the U. S. Supreme Court
and James Crawford Biggs, Solicitor
General. In addition to Mr.. Conboy
who is a regent of Georgetown, two
other regents from New York, James
A. Farrell, former president of the
U. S. Steel Corporation, and George
McNeir will be special guests. Rev.
Francis E. Kucey, S. j., of the law
school, is the only other Georgetown
regent invited.
The Court of Anneals will be repre-