Evening star., 1941-04-06
Catholic u. Will Offer
Special Engineering
Defense Courses
Instruction to Be Given
At Lote Afternoon or
EorIy Evening Glasses

To meet the need for engineers in
defense plants, Catholic University's
School of Engineering and Architec-
ture is planning to give special in
struction in engineering subjects to
enrolleess who can attend late after
noon or early evening classes.
The courses are approved by the
Government, which is encouraging
universities and colleges to contrib
ute to the defense program in this
way.
Prof. T. J. MacKavanagh, head of
the department of electrical engi-
neering and chairman of the Catholic
University Defense Education Com
mittee, with seven other instructors
of the engineering faculty, will teach
the classes, which will include ma
terials testing, elementary machine
design. spherical trigonometry ap-
piled to navigation, elementary an
alytical mechanics and elastic staticS.
The courses range from II to 16
weeks.
A minimum of two years in an ac-
credited college or equivalent is re-
quired of students enrolling for the
first four courses, while the course in
elastic states is reserved for those
able to carry on graduate work in
aeronautical design.
The university's debating team will
make a tour of the South, the Most
Rev. Joseph M. Corrigan, rector, an
nounced. Accompanied by the Rev.
P. j. O'Connor, professor of sacred
eloquence of the faculty, the debat-
ers are scheduled to meet the team
of Clemson College, South Carolina,
tomorrow evening, under the aus
pices of the Newman Club of that
institution. On Tuesday they will
debate the team at the Citadel at
Charleston. The following evening
the team will engage the University
of Florida debaters at GAINESVILLE.
On the return trip the Catholic
University team may meet the de-
baters of William and Mary College.
The c. U. debaters include John
Hutton of Philadelphia, John r.
Murphy of Hartford, Conn: Patrick
Brennan of Savannah, Ga, and Neil
Croarkin of Washington.
The third of the series of talks on
Latin America Last Month by the
Rev. DR.. Edwin Ryan, assistant
professor of history, will be given to-
morrow at pm. in Mcmahon Hall
at the university.
The Very Rev. Ignatius Smith,
o. P, dean of the school of philos-
ophy, will be the preacher at special
Holy Week devotions in the Church
of the Nativity in Washington, and
in the cathedral in Baltimore. Father
Smith will speak on Order or Rev.
olution" at the 1915 o'clock mass in
the Baltimore Cathedral today and
will repeat the sermon in the Church
of the Nativity here Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings. On Good Fri
day he will conduct the three-hour
agony services in the Baltimore
Cathedral from II noon to 8 pm.
and the exercises will be broadcast
over station WCBM. That night
Father Smith will speak on The
Distant Peace" in the Church of the
Nativity, and on Easter Sunday at
1890 am. the same sermon will be
delivered in the Baltimore Cathe-
dral. The Easter address in Baltimore
also will be broadcast.
The department of library science
of the university will be represented
at the annual convention of the
Catholic Library Association, to be
held in New Orleans April 1918, by
the Rev James j. Kortendick, S. s.,
who is acting head of Mullen Lii
brary; Richard James Hurley, as
sistant professor of library science;
Laurence A. LeaVey, Instructor in
library science, and Miss Anna M.
Cieri of the library staff. The dele
gates will report to the convention
on special activities of which they
are now in charge. Miss Cieri will
address the college round table on
Problems in Book Selection in a
Catholic College Library" Her ad-
dress will include a summary of a
project she is undertaking under the
auspices of the National Catholic
Educational Association and the
Catholic Library Association, involv-
ing the compilation of basic list of
books for Catholic college libraries.
Prof. Hurley will preside at the high
school libraries round table, which
will discuss the projected Catholic
high school catalog, of which he is
the directing head.