Evening star., 1935-09-08
Father O'Lemy A,uaits Opening
OF G.. U.'sl47th academic Year
Administrative Staff Is
Completed in Recent
Appointments.
Satisfactory Enrolment
in All Schools Is
Assured.

Georgetown University's new presi-
dent and rector, Rev. Arthur A..
OLeary. S. j., is looking forward with
calm assurance to the opening of the
147th academic year the week of Sep
tember 16.
His appointment as successor to DR.
Coleman Nevils, S. j.. rector for the
past seven years, placed at the head
of the Oldest university in the National
nearly all the years of a long and
worthy teaching career within its
halls. Reared in the Gonzaga parish
of washington, which has supplied
names imprinted on Georgetown's s
early history. President O'Leary knows
and understands the problems facing
him in his new Office through "a years
of intimate contact With the univer-
sity.
With trusted administrative aides in
every department, three Of whom he
appointed within recent weeks, he is
assured of satisfactory enrollments in
all the schools and harmony of
thought and action that foretells a
highly successful year. Confronted
with none of the worries involved in a
building program at the present time,
he will concentrate his efforts in
carrying forward the university's con-
slant aim at strengthening its facul-
ties and the academic standards of its
college and professional schools.
Problems in Administration.
Presidents come and go at George
town, under the rules governing such
matters within the Jesuit order, with
out disturbing the operations of the
university. The new president steers
his course In a charted sea and his
immediate problems are local ones of
administration.
Georgetown has made rapid strides
academically In recent years. Last
year the School of Dentistry took Its
| place with the legal and medical
department as approved" schools of
the highest official rating. This year
three departments open under new
administrative heads, two under
Jesuits trained like President OJeary
in the ways of adapting ones self to
new and changing conditions.
| Rev. John e. Grattan, a former
! teacher at Georgetown, returned a
short while before the close Of the
/ last academic term to become dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences.
For four years he was stationed at
Jesuit headquarters in Rome, as sec
retary to the American representa-
tive in the cabinet of the general of
the order. Few such opportunities
have come to Georgetown deans as
was his to familiarize himself with the
thousand and one details governing
the administration of Jesuit institu-
tions in this country.
New Medical School Dean.
In the School of Medicine, Rev.
David v. McCauley, S. j., was ap-
pointed dean to succeed DR.. William
Gerry Morgan, resigned. Father
McCauley for the past year, has served
as regent of both the medical and
dental schools. He has had wide
training as a professor of biology and
administrator in other medical schools.
Dr.. Thomas H. Healy, for 10 years
on the faculty of the School of Foreign
Service, was appointed few weeks
ago to fill the vacancy in the deanship
caused by the death of DR.. william
F. Notz He is professor also of
foreign relations of the United States
and associate professor, with DR..