Evening star., 1935-11-17
DIPLOMATS TO SEE
0'[EARY. SERVICE.
Universities to Send Dele
gates to Inaugural at
Georgetown This Week.


stitutions, will join with Georgetown
University Saturday evening in honor
ing the installation of Rev. Arthur
A. O'Leary, S. J.. as its new president.
Completed plans for the inaugural
ceremony, eliminating a week OF
Homecoming Festivities and the
Georgetown Maryland foot ball game,
were announced last night by DR..
Edmund A. Walsh, S. j., chairman of
the committee in charge. Twenty
five presidents of colleges and uni
versities, it was said, are included
among the delegates and 80 of the
leading learned societies also will be
represented at the Inauguration.
Georgetown will confer on its new
president, the first native Washing
tonian to hold the Office. an honorary
degree of Doctor of Divinity in recog-
milton Of the occasion and l6 years of
priesthood Dr. Walsh, as chancellor
of the university, also will confer de-
grees on four other distinguished sons
of Georgetown.
The combined Inauguration and
homecoming" will bring to WaShin-
ton the largest number of alumni in
recent years from every section of the
country. Beginning tomorrow, there
will be events for their entertainment
during the week.
Georgetown established a precedent
seven years ago by comforting a de-
gree in divinity upon DR.. Coleman
Nevils, S. j., at his Inauguration as
president. Father OLeary was ap-
pointed president and chairman of
the Board of Directors last July, but
as formerly, his formal installation
was postponed.
Gonzaga Alumni Present.
Among the guests Saturday night
will be many officials and alumni OF
Gonzaga College, for it was from this
sister Jesuit institution that George
towns new president was graduated
For "a years he served on the college
faculty at Georgetown as professor of
philosophy and ethics and as head
librarian. In 1919 he was member
of the first class of priests to be or
dained at Georgetown by the late
Cardinal James Gibbons of Baltimore.
Father OLeary served as acting
president for several months year
ago. He entered the Society of Jesus
in 1908, completing his studies in
theology at Woodstock College. He
is one of the youngest presidents OF
the University, having observed his
48th birthday on September 81.
The other recipients of honorary de-
erees will be Rev. John J. Toohey,
S. j., professor of philosophy and Of
religion: DR.. Raymond Henry ReiSs
of New York, regent and benefactor
of the university; Fred K. Nielsen,
professor in the Law School and prom
inent international lawyer, and DR..
William N. Cogan, U. S. NJ, retired,
dean of the School of Dentistry. DR..
Cogan will be made a doctor of sci
ence, the others receiving the degree
of doctor of laws.
In honoring Nielsen, who is pro-
fessor of procedure before internation-
al tribunals, the university is honor
ing one of its former foot ball coaches.
1t was back in 1908 that Nielsen. a
crack player for the University of
Nebraska in his student days, took the
athletic helm at the Hilltop He had
graduated from the Law School in
1906.
To Honor Diplomat.
Nielsen gave up foot ball. however,
for an even more brilliant career as
diplomat. With a long and dis
tinguished service in the State De-
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solicitor from 1920 to 1922. he has
served as American commissioner or
arbiter in half a dozen or more i'm
portant capacities. He was a repre-
sentative at the Paris Peace Confer
ence in 1919, after serving in the World
War as a major, and again at the
Conference on the Limitation of Arm
aments in Washington, 1922, he
was chairman of the American legal
experts.
The Georgetown Maryland game in
Griffith Stadium will be played Sat-
urday afternoon. Father OLeary will
nave as his guests at the game the
delegates to his Inauguration, many
OF whom will be quartered at the
Hilltop. He will hold a formal re-
ception following the ceremony in
CASTOR Hall.
The Mask and Bauble Club will
present special program of one-act
plays Friday at $50 pm. in CASTOR
Hall in honor of the new president
and invited guests. The last act of
Il Aiglon" will feature the program,
which will include two comedies.
BOX and Cox" and IF Men Played
Cards as Women Do"
The same evening, at 8 o'clock in
the Mayflower Hotel, the Law School
alumni smoker will be held under
auspices of the District of Columbia
Club Justice Jesse C. Adkins of the
District Supreme Court is president.
The homecoming festivities will
begin with a luncheon tomorrow at
the Racquet Club for members of the
athletic departments of both George
town and Maryland Universities. An
other luncheon will be given Wednes-
day at the Raleigh Hotel, when Jack
Hagerty, coach of the GEORGETOWN
team, will be the guest speaker. The
president and officials of the univer-
sity will attend, this affair also being
given by the District alumni of the
Law School.
Thursday evening will be the oc-
casion of the undergraduate rally at
the Hilltop, featured by a bonfire
and a parade. Visiting alumni are
invited to join in the pep" affair.
Friday afternoon on the college field,
the Georgetown Maryland freshmen
will meet in their annual foot ball