Evening star., 1935-09-08
NEW LABORATORY
!
FOR CATHOLIC j.
AeronauticaI Engineering
Equipment Will Be Ready
for Fall Term.

A new aeronautical engineering lab
oratory has been added to the growing
technical equipment of Catholic Uni
versity and will be ready for use when
classes begin September %.
Members of the engineering staff
and students at the university have
pioneered in aeronautical engineering
design and research for the past 80
years, and the original American wind
tunnel was constructed on the Catho-
lie University campus at the begin.
ming of the present century.
Three years ago undergraduate
courses were offered in this branch
of engineering, and, since then so
much interest has been shown that
it became necessary to enlarge the
existing facilities.
The new laboratory contains design
and drafting rooms, special library,
two wind tunnels, shops and fabrica-
ton rooms. In the larger of the two
air tunnels, it is expected to generate
air velocities greater than 200 miles
per hour. Students will take part in
plane in the fabrication shops.
Other Schools Expand.
Other and older schools of the uni
versity also have expanded their equip
ment and personnel during the Sum-
mer months, while final staff reorgan-
lzation awaits the appointment by
Pope Plus of a successor to Bishop
James Hugh Ryan, rector for some
eight years, who has been transferred
10 a Middle Western diocese
A large part of the universitys me-
chanical engineering equipment has
been torn out and more than 50,000
worth of modern apparatus installed
in order to enable instruction in this
department to keep pace with newest
scientific developments. Full-size pow
er plants. refrigeration plants and air
treatment systems have been installed
for student operation and research.
A comparatively new feature Of
the curricula has been its growing
emphasis on sociology. Among the
courses offered by this department
are ones dealing with current social
problems. race problems, population
problems and the like.
Law Staff Increased.
Two new members have been added
to the law school teaching staff for
the coming year Edward NJ. Curran,
assistant Corporation Counsel for the
District, will teach bills and notes,
and H. Clay johnson, a member of
the legal staff of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, will teach Fed
eral procedure.
In recent survey by the American
Council on Education, five of the de-
partments of Catholic University's
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
received special notice for their
equipment and teaching staffs. These
were the departments of Greek and
Latin, history, philosophy, psychology
and sociology.
Recent additions to the faculty
include DR.. John NJ Cooper, DR.. C..
j. Connolly and Miss Regina Flan-
merry, in the anthropology depart
ment; DR.. Philip J. Hernung, who
has just completed a year of graduate
study at Yale, In the biochemistry
department; DR.. Olgerd P. Sherbo-
witz-Wetzor, who comes from Har-
ward University as an instructor in
Slavonic languages and literature;
DR.. George McCabe. widely known
Tor his writings in business and
economic journals, In the economics
department.; DR.. Ferdinand Gruen,
o. F. NJ, in the educational depart
ment: Ernst Stein, who spent the
past year at Catholic University as
visiting professor of Byzantine his
tory. as regular professor in charge
of graduate work in the ancient and
medieval sections of the history de-
partment; Dr. Fabian Carey, o. P,
who through a special grant of the
Rockefeller Foundation is returning
to Catholic University as a research
specialist in child study, in the
psychology department; Miss Mary
c. Connor, formerly of the Instruc-
tive Visiting Nurse Society, in the
department Of nursing education, and
DR.. William Roach, formerly of the
University of Chicago and DR.. Elio
Gianturco, formerly of Columbia Uni
versity. In the department of romance
languages.