Evening star., 1938-12-18
6. u. Competition
For Awards Draws
More Candidates
BeIIormine Essay
Provides Scholarship
In Law School

dCd0eHilC rewards OlereQ annually
at Georgetown University has
opened and during the next few
months scores of students in all
departments will engage in long
hours of research in a wide variety
of subjects.
The Rev. John E. Grattan, S. j.,
dean OF arts and sciences, who an
nounced the principal essay subjects
yesterday, said there has been a
marked increase in the number of
candidates this year. Most of the
essays must be submitted to the ex-
amlning boards during March.
While some of the medals have
been offered in competition over a
long period, the choice competitive
plum Is the Bellarmine scholarship.
which provides for free tuition at
Georgetown Law School for the full
course leading to the LII. B. degree.
This competition is limited to seniors
in the college.
Honors Jesuit Saint.
The Bellarmine essay for this wear
was announced as "Bellarmine's
reaching on the Relations of
Church and State" The scholar
ship was founded by the president
and directors of the university in
1881 and is in honor of st. Robert
Bellarmine, Spanish Jesuit of the
10th century, who was one of the
greatest theologians the Catholic
Chuch has produced.
The Mallory medal for the best
essay on a topic concerning the
Constitution of the United States
has attracted large group of cam
dldates. The topic for this year is
should the Traditional Place of
the State Governments in Our Con-
stltutional System Be Preseryed?"
This medal was founded years ago
by the late Stephen Mallory, Senator
from Florida and Georgetown
graduate of 1859 upon whom later
the university conferred a doctor of
laws degree.
another contest is for the Phi.
laskl medal offered for the best
essay on some topic of Polish in
terest. The Ambassador of Poland
serves on the Board of Judges
Ihree subjects were announced
from which choice can be made,
They are: "Poland's Part in Euro
pean Problems of 1888" "The Can
onlzatlon of the Polish Saint
Andrzej Bobola," and "Poland's Par
ticipation in the New York's World
Fair of 1899"
Brennan Medal Offered.
For the best essay and oral ex-
ANIMATION on an assigned subject
In the regular course in religion at
the college, the Brennan medal is
offered annually. This year the
subject for the essay is THE Moral
Miracle OF the Catholic Church, the
Mystical Body of Christ" The oral
examination on March 25 will deal
with Doyle's Defense of the Catho-
lie Church" and Herzog's God the
Redeemer."
The Morris historical medal was
founded by the late Justice Martin
F. Morris of the Court of Appeals
in the District of Columbia, who had
a great deal to do with the found
ing of the Georgetown Law School
and was one of its deans and pro-
fessors for many years. The sub
ject announced is Medieval Origins
of the Principle of Democracy"
Study Of Shakespeare has always
been popular in the college and the
Quicksall medal is offered for the
best examination this year in
Twelfth Night" "The Tanning of
the Shrew" and "A Midsummer
Nights Dream"
The Lynch-Pendergast medal
also will be offered in competition,
the subject being THE Sociological
Aspects of Charles Dickens Novels"
Week Brings Holiday.
Christmas holidays start in all
departments of the university this
week, the college students having
been dismissed Friday evening.
Glasses reopen January 8 and then
the students will soon thereafter
be plunged into the midst of the
midyear examinations. George
towns public forums, of which
there are several this year, have
recessed over the holidays.
The International Relations Club
at the college sent small delega-
ton to Swarthmore College, Swarth-
more, Pa, last week to attend the
annual Middle Atlantic Conference
of International Relations Clubs.
The Georpetown clllh uoS rapre
sented by DR.. Thor Kerekes, faculty
adviser; and Markoe Dugan, senior,
and Burke Schoensee, a junior.
These conferences have been held
at Swarthmore for several years
and Georgetown has always sent
delegation. Mr.. Dugan was one of
the speakers on the program that
ended yesterday. His paper was on
Europe and Internal Security"
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