Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10
High Catholic Leaders
To Attend University
Celebration Here
All PreIotes in Western
Hemisphere Invited to
Jubilee Observance

One of the largest gatherings Of
the American Catholic hierarchy
ever to assemble in Washington is
expected to be on hand November
lib for the three semi-centennial
commemoration days which will
bring to a close the golden jubilee
year of Catholic University.
Invitations have been sent to every
prelate in the Western Hemisphere
to participate in the final activities
of year of celebration opened last
October II with the blessings of the
late Pope Plus XII in an apostolic
letter.
Invitations also have been sent
to more than 1900 colleges and uni
versities in this country and abroad
and to the leading scientific and
learned societies to send delegates to
the observance. More than 400 &C
ceptances already have been re-
ceived.
The closing day, November Is,
1899, will be the 50th anniversary
of the beginning of classes at the
university. The convocation to be
held that morning in the gym
nasium will symbolic the progress
of the past so years and point the
way for the next half century.
Executive Committee Named.
Right Rev. Joseph Corrigan, rector
of the university, has appointed the
Right Rev. Msgr. Francesca G.
Lardone, professor of Roman law,
as chairman, and DR.. Herbert
Wright, professor of international
law. and Joseph NJ Murphy, director
of the Bureau of Public Relations
as an executive committee for the
commemoration days program. Nu-
nferous subcommittee have been
appointed to handle the necessary
details.
AS part of the celebration, an
historical exhibit is being assembled
for display in the Mullen Library,
which will present the entire history
of the university in pictorial and
documentary form 1t is probable
that a souvenir historical booklet
will be issued to commemorate the
golden jubilee year.
AS part of the jubilee program
Msgr. Corrigan has recently caused
to be set up an Office for increasing
the income and for establishing the
university upon secure financial
base. In the early autumn a pro-
gram for achieving these results will
be instituted in great many
dioceses throughout the United
States.
$4,000 Grant to Be Used.
Announcement has just been
made of one curricular extension FOL
the coming year based upon a grant
of $4,000 from the Rockefeller
Foundation to the department OF
psychology. The grant is for the
purpose of more intensive work In
the university's child-guidance
clinic, for the training Of psycholo-
gists, psychiatrists and social work
ers. and for research in the over
tapping region of psychology ano
psychiatry. Henceforth the depart
ment will be officially known as the
department of psychology and psy'
chiatry.
With the opening of the new AGA
demic year. the child center viii
become a day school. Children viii
be taught for two hours in the
morning, spending the remainder o.
the day in their regular schools
Teaching methods will approach
the individual. with one instructor tt
three or four children intimately
grouped around a table. Supervl'
sion will be given a full-time teach
err. With the center in the same
building with the department, the
psychiatrist will be enabled not only
to advise remedial teaching bu
also to have it impaired under hi!
personal direction.
Students who intend to major II
psychiatry, of whom two or three
can receive training simultaneously
are required to have their medica
degree for their work toward tn
M. A. or Phi. D. degrees.