Evening star., 1939-05-28

cir service at 1890 a m. on the gayly
decorated Hilltop campus, George
Town University is preparing to open
a week of ceremonies today honor
ing the 150th anniversary of the
founding of its college.
An advance guard of the $500
alumni reported heading toward
Washington from many sections ar
rived last night and with the nearly
5000 alumni in the District will join
in the week of activities planned for
them. Academic discussions in
which prominent officials and edu-
Gators are to take part are to fea-
ture the program of each depart
ment, concluding with the sesqui-
centennial convocation Saturday
afternoon.
AS so years ago, when the uni
versity began its centennial celebra-
ton, the Very Rev. Arthur A
OLeary. S. j., 39th president and
rector, set aside today for a pontif1-
cal high mass in commemoration of
the founder, John Carroll, first Arch
bishop of Baltimore. A sermon eu-
logizing Archbishop Carroll, who
planted the first Catholic college in
the United States on Georgetown
Heights, will be preached at the mass
by the Most Rev. Francis c. Kelly
D. D., Bishop of Oklahoma City and
Tulsa.
Chapel in Event of Rain.
In the event of rain the services
will be conducted in Dshlgren
Chapel, located in the college quad
rangle.
The mass will be celebrated by
the Most Rev. Thomas Adds Emmett,
S. j., vicar-apostolic of the British
West Indies. To Georgetown stu
dents who attended the college
before the World War he is remem-
bered as prefect of discipline and
director of athletics. In later years
he served as headmaster of the
Georgetown Preparatory School at
Garrett Park, Md, until his first
conservation as Bishop of Jamaica.
His friends in Georgetown circles
extend from coast to coast.
An altar has been erected in front
OF the Healy Building and the stu
dent body, alumni and official dele
gates of various universities will be
seated on the lawn. Streamers in
red, white and blue, and the uni
versity's blue and gray hang from
the top windows to the ground. In
like fashion the houses on o street
near the entrance gates are fes-
tooned with bunting.
A military and academic process
sion will precede the mass. 1t will
form at 1910 am. Headed by a
color guard apd senior officers of the
R. o. T. c., with drum and bugle
corps, the procession will pass by the
statue of Archbishop Carroll near
the entrance gates to the campus
and march to the altar. At the left
of the altar will be the rs members
of the vested choir of Woodstock
College. the Jesuit novitiate at
Woodstock, Md
Faculty to Join Procession.
Members of the lay faculty in caps
and gowns, and the clergy who are
to take part in the mass will be
in the procession also. Assisting
Bishop Emmet at the mass will be
the Very Rev. Msgr. Michael J
Ready, secretary, National Catholic
Welfare Conference, Washington
the assistant priest; the Very Rev
James Bernard Walker, o. p, prior
OF the Dominican House of Studies
Catholic University of America, dea-
con of honor; the Very Rev. Joseph
A. Murphy, S. j., provincial of the
Maryland-New York Province of the
Society of Jesus, deacon of honor;
the Rev. Edward Dome, S. NJ, pro-
fessor of sacred literature, the Marist
College, Catholic University OF
America, deacon of the mass; the
Rev. c. j. Dacey, pastor. st. Paul's
Church, Washington, subdeacon o1
the mass; the Rev. Francis A. Nc
Quade, professor of canon law
woodstock College, master of cere-
monies.
The choir of Woodstock College
has not taken part in any George
town function for many years. The
novltlate is now the school of theol-
ogy for Georgetown. The Rev. Lee
j. Monihan, S. j., is director of the
choir and the Rev. Emory A. Ross
S. j., will be the organist.
Before the mass the Carroll statue
WILL be the scene of simple cere-
mony when Frank Hill of 2O29
Hillyer place NV. will place a
wreath before it on behalf of Bal
timore alumni. Mr.. Hill is a direct
descendant of Eleanor Carroll, sister
of the archbishop. At $50 O'Clock
this afternoon the Rev. Wilfrid Par
sons, S. j., dean of the graduate
school and member of the Ses-
quicentennial Committee, will take
part in a somewhat similar service
in Baltimore. The alumni in thai
city will place wreath on Car.
rolls tomb in the crypt of the
cathedral, where he was buried ir
1925.
Tonight the Hilltop campus will
be ablaze in foodlighting, and al
alumni have been invited by tn.
university to come and make them
selves at home. For their specia
benefit a gallery of old class pic
lures representing every depart.
ment has been arranged in tn,
Ryan gymnasium by DR.. Jamei
S. Ruby, jr., executive secretary O
the alumni association. Histori,
Georgetown records, arranged b,
Father Parsons, will be on exhibi
in the archives and library, togethe
with rare manuscripts, first edi
tions and an interesting collection
of stamps for the enjoyment o
philatelists. These are on specia
exhibition tonight and will be opel
for inspection during the rest o
the week.
Early Records Included.
The Georgetown Public Librar.
also has early American printe'
matter of great historical interest
including items relating to the uni
versity. The display, which is in tn
v,nod r,