Evening star., 1934-09-09
DR.. NEVIS PLANS
JOURNEY TO TOXIC
Georgetown u. President
Will Attend World Red
Cross Convention.


of Georgetown University, is leaving
Washington Immediately after the
opening of the new academic term
this month TO attend the Interna-
tional Red Cross Convention in Toxic,
Japan, next month. He is one of the
delegates of the American Red Gross
for this meeting, the first held in the
Far East.
The Georgetown rector will return
TO Washington in December, just be-
fore relinquishing the presidency OF
the institution. His six-year term ex-
pired this Summer but he has been
granted an extension to take this
trip.
During the administration Of Dr..
Nevils Georgetown has made its
greatest academic strides in recent
years and the university also has
undergone progressive building pro-
gram. Two of the newest buildings
at the college, a dormitory and a
science hall, were erected during the
midst of the depression at sacrifice
to the university but in response to a
plea OF former President Hoover that
communities engage in building to
stimulate employment.
improvements Are Made.
During the past Summer the
Georgetown authorities have con-
tinued to improve the older buildings.
Two of the quadrangle dormitories
have been completely renovated and
the library in the Healy Building has
been enlarged by the addition of sew
eral reading rooms. New seminar
rooms for the Graduate School of
Arts and Sciences also have been pro-
yided.
The steady pickup in registration,
affecting all departments, has greatly
encouraged Georgetown officials this
Summer in preparing for the 136th
academic year, which starts this week
for the college. This increase in stu
dents registering is in the face of
steadily improved academic standards.
The Law, Medical, Dental and For
eign Service Schools are particularly
In favorable position this year. With
the great increase in Washington's
Government employees since the in
coming of the Roosevelt administra-
ton, the late afternoon courses in the
Law and Foreign Service Schools are
benefiting. Many ambitious Federal
employees who wish to take advantage
of the facilities for research work in
Washington are preparing to enter
the various graduate departments In
the college and professional schools.
Arts and Sciences Dean.
The Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences has q new dean In Rev. Fred
erick w. Sohon, s. j., director of the
Georgetown Astronomical Observatory
and professor also of mathematics.
Rev. Lawrence D. German, S. j., is
now acting dean of the undergrad
uate department, succeeding the late
George F. Strohaver, S. ].
In the Medical and Dental Schools
Rev. David v. McCauley. S. j., who
has been head of the biology depart
ment, has succeeded as regent of
these two schools. He succeeds Rev.
John L. Gipprich, S. j., transferred to
duties in Philadelphia.
Georgetown will have available this
year in an advisory capacity physi-
clan and former professor who has
won international fame in his profess
sion. This is DR.. William Holland
Wilmer, who retired recently as direc-
tor of the Wilmer Opthalmological
Institute of Johns Hopkins Hospital
DR.. Wilmer is returning to his old
home in Washington, and the facili-
ties Of Georgetown Medical School
are available for him to engage in re-
search work. For upward of 20 years
DR.. Wilmer was member of the
medical faculty, leaving it only to
head the Johns Hopkins Institute
which was founded especially for him.
Although Georgetown's student body
Is national in scope, drawn from every
State. the number of students enroll
ing from the District of Columbia has
increased steadily in recent years.
There is large enrolment of day
students annually in the college, and
for more than half a century many
of the leaders of the District of Co.
lulnbia bar have been graduates of
the Georgetown Law School. The
School of Foreign Service, which
opens September 19, also draws large
ly upon foreign countries, and since
its beginning it has been a favorite
school for younger members of the
diplomatic colony in Washington. Its
own graduates are scattered in more
than So foreign countries and hold
responsible positions under the United
States Government and in private
business.
The Medical and Dental Schools
also open on September IT.. In the
latter Is department Of denta,
hygiene for young women with the
necessary high school education.
This opens for a one-yea- term on
September 19.