Evening star., 1934-04-08
G. w. Will Confer
First Honorary
Degree on Woman
Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady of
New York will Be the
Recipient.

Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady of New
York tomorrow evening will have the
distinction of becoming the first
woman to receive an honorary degree
from Georgetown University in the
las years of its history.
For this reason and the additional
fact that two other we'll known women
are to be among the recipients OF
the academic medals on the same
occasion, unusual interest IS attached
to the Forthcoming Maryland tercen-
tenary celebration of this venerable
institution, founded the year the
American Constitution was ratified
and the colonies became united
nation.
This celebration, coupled with the
university's annual Founders day OBJ
serVance, will be a gala occasion at
Georgetown, with the Apostolic dele
gate Most Rev. Amelto Giovanni Ci-
cognani, D. D., and Gov. Albert C.
Ritchie of Maryland among those also
to be awarded academic honors. Dr..
Coleman NevilS. S. j., president, has
invited distinguished group of
guests to attend the exercises and the
reception that is to follow. This will
be the largest and most interesting
function which DR.. Nevils will give
before the expiration Of his own aca-
demic term at Georgetown next Sum-
mer.
DR.. Sofie A. Nordhoff Jung of
Washington and Mrs. Padraic Colum
of New York, the one a leading ply
sician and patron of Science and the
other famed as a poet. are to receive
medals of two of GeorgetoWn'S hon.
orary academies. 1t is interesting to
note that the directors of the univer-
Sity had no heSitancy in breaking the
traditions of las years with respect
to the awarding of honors to the
three women, for the vote was unani-
mously in favor of it.
Mrs. Brady, who is to receive the
highest honors of the evening, is
equally well known in Washington
as she is in her New York home. The
widow of one of the leading financiers
and utility magnates of the country,
she has made national name for her
self as head of the Girl Scouts of
America and other movements for the
betterment of social conditions. As a
patron of Catholic education she has
done much to advance its cause in
this country. Recently she was Sc
lected for high honors by Notre Dame
University.
washington is interested in DR..
Nordhoff-Jung because of her resi-
dence for many years in this city;
her service on the Georgetown Uni
versity medical faculty and her dis
tinguished activities in the advance
ment of cancer research Several
years ago she endowed an award to
be made every two years to the
scientist who, in the opinion of a
board has done most to contribute
knowledge of the cure of cancer. The
last award was made to the noted
French scientist, DR.. Alexis Carrel of
the Rockefeller Institute in New York.
Mrs. Colum is the wife of the well
known Irish poet and has earned a
deserved reputation of her own not
only as a poet but as a literary critic.
She has been very helpful in aiding
the students of Georgetown who have
established a regular publication of
verse.
There is a general feeling of salts
faction that Georgetown, after nearly
a century and a half, has decided tc
establish this precedent tomorrow
evening by awarding academic honors
to women who have rendered useful
service to the university.