Evening star., 1948-09-12
|Georgetown.U. Ready
with New for.
Record Registration

Georgetown University will start
its 150th academic year this month
better prepared than = year ago in
the number Of teachers and plant
facilities, to cope with an enroll
ment which the university Is trying
to hold within the bounds of . pre-
vious record registration Of s,475
students.
To relieve crowded conditions on
the Hilltop campus, the Very Rev
Lawrence C. Gor1nan, 8. j., presi-
dent, took early precautions to pro-
vide . new college annex to &C
commodate 1000 students and add1-
tional dormitory facilities for SOC
freshmen. That was done to re-
lieve crowding in classroonns in the
Colleges Of Arts and Sciences, rather
than to enable the college to absorb
more students.
approximately 1000 freshmen vii
be registered in Georgetown's seven
schools during the month, starting
tomorrow in the college. Registra-
ton starts Saturday In the School
of Foreign Service, which is being
forced this year to reduce its fresh
man admissions.
Many Applications Made.
Typical Of the situation which ex-
lists in the professional departments
is the volume of applications. The
School of Medicine has received
5000 applications for the 12o open
ines in the freshman class. The
School of Dentistry received 1000
applications for 80 places in the
freshmen class. Out of these appli-
cations, the medical school pro-
cessed 1900 and the dental school
$50, leaving a heavy backlog.
The law school will be able to ac-
cept applications for the late after
noon course until the formal reg
istration date of September 1921.
The School Of Nursing is hopeful
of overcoming a deficiency in stu
dent nurses and would like to have
an enrolment Of at least $50 this
fall to meet the more exacting de-
mands of the new university hos
pital.
Both the graduate and nursing
schools are in newly remodeled and
enlarged quarters in the old group
Of hospital buildings just off the
campus. The new arrangements
also include increased dormitories
for 300 freshmen.
New Annex Ready.
The new U-shaped college annex,
erected with the aid of the Bureau
of Community Facilities of the Fed
eral Works Agency, is tWo-story-
hall which should be
ready for use this month. 1t has
10 classrooms, recreation rooms
and 6 faculty Offices. It faces the
campus wall at Thirty-seventh and
P streets NV.
The recent appointment of the
Rev. Edward B. Bum, S. J. brings
a new regent in charge Of the
Dental and Nursing Schools. Father
Bum was formerly president Of
Loyola College, Baltimore, from
which he was graduated as q youth
to enter the Jesuit Order. He is
director of studies in the Maryland
province OF the Society of Jesus,
having supervision over the studies
in all Jesuit Schools in Maryland
and the District and will continue
those duties.
New r. o. T. C. Director.
The Reserve Officers Training
Corps of Georgetown. which dates
to World War I, will be under q
newly appointed senior professor of
military science and tactics, assigned
by the Army Department. He is
Col. Remington Orsinger Of Arling-
ton, Va, . veteran Of two World
Wars.
One other important administra-
tive change involves the Rev. Fran
els J. Heyden, S. j., recently re-
turned from a sun eclipse expedi-
ton to Wu-Kang, China, who has
been appointed director of the
Georgetown Astronomical Observa-
tory. He has been its acting director
during the past year in place of the
Rev. Paul A. McNally, S. j., now
regent of the School of Medicine.
DR.. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j., regent
of the School of Foreign Service
was absent in the Far East and in
Europe during a large part of the