Evening star., 1943-06-27
Georgetown Registers
Students for Term
Starting Thursday
Course in 3 Divisions
Is Arranged to Meet
Wartime Problems

With courses geared to wartime
needs, Georgetown University Is reg
istering students for the regular
summer term. starting Thursday, in
the college of arts and sciences, the
graduate school and school Of for
eign service.
Courses are so arranged In the COL
lege and foreign service school that
freshmen can begin their work to-
ward degree at the opening OF any
Of the three terms during the aca-
demic year. Many of the courses
have been drawn up in cooperation
with the Army and Navy, while
others are undertaken with view
to familiarizing students with prob
lens directly and indirectly related
to the war effort.
The graduate school is under a new
dean. the Rev. j. Hunter Guthrie,
s. j., who comes to Georgetown
from the graduate school of Ford
ham University. where he headed its
Department. Of philosophy. Father
Guthrie was trained at Fordham
and Woodstock College, the Gre
gorian University in Rome and the
Universities of Paris and Berlin. He
succeeds the Rev. Edward G. Phil
lips, S. j.
Glasses Start at PM.
With classes starting at pm. for
students otherwise engaged, the
graduate school Is featuring social
science courses this summer. Top
les have been chosen with view to
their relevance to world reconstruc-
ton after the present war. as we'll as
to their special significance in the
l919-1939 period.
DR.. Thor Kerekee and DR.. william
Boyd-Carpenter, respective heads OF
the departments of history and po-
itical science, are two of the pro-
fessors In this general course. The
former. an authority on Eastern Eu-
rope, will discuss the historical back
ground of the Soviet Union, the Fas-
cist and Nazi states. DR.. Boyd-Car-
penter, a graduate of Cambridge
University, with experience in the
British Colonial once and In the
Far East, will discuss ost-Versaiiles
diplomacy. contrasting dictatorial
and traditional diplomatic practice.
Social and economic features of
the Versailles era will be presented
by DR.. Goetz Briefs, formerly of the
Technische Hochschule in Berlin and
the University. of Freiberg. DR..
Briefs. an American citizen. is
known as an author and university
lecturer In social economics.
Prof. Gerard F. Yates, who studied
at the London School of Economics
and Yale, will deal with develop
ments in the field Of political ideas.
He viii discuss contemporary Com
munism. the Fascist and Nazi theo-
ries, corporatism and democracy.
Curriculum Unchanged.
The school of foreign service.
which has retained intact its regular
curriculum, Is stressing subjects
dealing directly with the war effort.
The Latin American field, in which
this school has specialized for so
many years. offers new problems for
study growing out of the war. For
eign trade and postwar cooperation
and rehabilitation offer other fields
for exploration.
At the school of foreign service the
War Department has established one
of its courses for soldiers who are
being trained to serve in a liaison
capacity in foreign areas occupied
by the military. Subjects of admin
istration, as well as European Ian
guages. are being stressed in these
classes, attended now by $50 SOL
diers.
Despite the drain on It's facilities
and civilian student body by the de-
mands of the war. Georgetown Is
functioning in all its departments.
The medical and dental schools are
operating in close cooperation with
the armed services and the school of
law already is in the third week OF
its summer sessions.
There will be no suspension dur
ing the war;" the Very Rev. Law
renee G. German, S. j., Georgetown
| president, recently announced.