Evening star., 1939-10-29
Catholic U. Prepares
Entertainment for
Homecoming Days
Student Pep RoIIy on Eve
Of Tulsa Game Saturday
To Start Festivities

TO Start Festivities
Homecoming plans are being
rushed to completion by the students
and alumni of Catholic University
IN preparation for the November
3-5 week end, the highlight of which
will be the football game in the uni
versity stadium between Catholic
University and Tulsa University on
Saturday afternoon, November 4, at
o'clock.
Under the direction of John Nc
Kenna of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, chair
man Of the Student Council. the
undergraduates are preparing for
pep rally Friday, November 8, at
7:30 pm, with addresses by out
standing alumni, members Of the
faculty and student leaders. The
freshmen have been busy for some
days collecting wood for a monster
bonfire IN the field near the power
house and adjacent to Brookland
avenue.
This will be followed by an in
formal student dance in the dining
hall from 9 to II, which will feature
three contests. The prize for the
winners of the rhumba, waltz and
jitterbug competitions will be tickets
to the cardinal hop, the outstanding
event of the fall, which takes place
on November II. Student leaders
are scurrying about looking for
talent to serve as judges for the first
contests of their type to be held on
the campus.
Freshman Pajama Parade.
Between the halves of the C. u
Tulsa game, the freshmen will stage
their annual pajama parade and
other entertainment features are
being developed to entertain the
spectators.
The Washington Chapter of the
Alumni Association is preparing for
the greatest homecoming in its his
tory. Interest has been keyed high
since the revival of the Alumni Asso-
citation last fall under James J. Bowe.
assistant professor of mechanical
engineering and national secretary
treasurer Of the association. Its
activities have parallehd those of
the golden jubilee year, which
opened on October IL, 1898, and
which will be brought to close with
a three-day ceremony November II,
IL and 10.
Centered about the Wardman Park
Hotel, which has been selected as
the headquarters, the annual smoker,
with long program of entertain
ment, will be held at $50 pm. on
Friday. Saturday afternoon the
alumni will make their contribution
to the Observation-Disclosures entertain
ment and an alumni-student dance
will be held at the Wardman Park
headquarters that evening from 10
pm. to ! am.
Rector In Missouri.
The Rt. Rev. Joseph M. Corrigan,
rector Of the university. will give the
invocation at the semicentennial of
the University of Missouri in Co.
lumbia, Mo-. Wednesday and will
also attend the dinner rendered to
presidents Of the member institu-
tions of the Association of American
Universities by President Middle
bush of the University of Missouri
tomorrow. DR.. Roy j. Deferran will
be the official representative Of the
Catholic University at the annual
meeting Of the Association of Amer
ican Universities at Columbia, Mo-,
tomorrow through Wednesday.
The ALUMNI Chapter of the Cave
Dwellers Club, an undergraduate
organization composed of Washing
ton residents. will sponsor a campfire
outing at Great Falls Halloween
night with the undergraduate men,
bers as their guests.
"Glories of the Medieval Univer-
sity of Cracow" will be the subject
of lecture today at pm. in Nc
Mahon Hall auditorium in the Sc
ries on universities and Their His
tory" by the Rev. DR.. John j. Rol-
biecki. associate professor of phil
osophy.
Moral Problems of Peace.
DR.. John j. Mcmahon, instructor
in the department of politics and
president of the Catholic Association
for International Peace, will speak
this afternoon on Catholic and
Moral Problems of Peace" at the
students Peace Federation meeting
at Joliet, III. Yesterday he addressed
the regional meeting of the c. A.
I. P. at Loyola University, Chicago
on "Pan-American and Neutrality"
The Rev. DR.. Ignatius Smith, 0. P,
speaks this morning at II o'clock
at the diamond jubilee observance of
Msgr. Joseph Cunnane of St. Jo-
seph's Church in Baltimore. This
afternoon at 2:30 he will speak on
Peace" at the Holy Name Society
rally at the Monument grounds in
honor of the feast of Christ the
King.
At the Shrine of st. Joseph, Stirl-
ing, N j., this afternoon, the Rev.
DR.. Paul H. Furfey will preach in
the novena of Sundays devoted to
peace.