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4 On N. U. Staff THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. WWMEMCAN U. OPENS FALL TERM ON SEPTEMBER 28 TOTEACHATILL, | Appointment Gives Toaching; Staff Seven Active | Jurists. Through the appointment of Judge D. Laurence Groner, associate justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, as professor of admiralty law, National University will open its ' sixty-third annual Fall term with seven | mctive jurists on its teaching stafl ] Judge Groner's appointment, together | with those of several other new faculty members and the establishment of a| number of new courses were announced | during the week by Dr. Hayden John- son, chancellor of the university and} dean of its law facu A native of Norfo Va., where he began his law practice in 1894, Judge Groner will project his course in ad- miralty law against a background of | rich experience gained on the benc of the United States District Couit in the maritime c>nter of his home city. The course, the foremost of severall added to the curriculum of the gradu- | ate department of National, will | brace every topic on waich maritime law practice may upon to us2, including sl 7 maritime transportation, marine insur- ance, charters, collision ca: lvag> and llens for supplies, and, in general, the law of the sea. Named To Appeals Bench. Judge Groner schooled at Wash- ington and Lee University and at the University of Virginia. ~ His career has been marked by brilliant activities within the Republican party, including his candidacy for Attorney General of Virginia in 1901. He also was a dele-| gate to the Republican national conven- tions from 1904 to 1920. In 192 President Harding appointed him U. S District Judge in_ the Eastern District | of Virginia, in which office he served with distinction until January of this year when President Hoover, on the recommendation of Attorncy General Mitchell, nominated him to the bench ofsthe Court of App here. That nomination was approved unanimous'y | by the Senate on motion of Senator Carter Glass of Virginia and Judge Groner was sworn on March 3 The appointment of Judge Groner | to its faculty gives National University its seventh active jurist as one of its! law teachers. Judge Fenton W. Booth, | chief justice of the United Slutes" Court of Claims, is professor of ele- ments of jurisprudence. Judge Charles 8. Hatfield, associate justice of the United States Court of Customs Ap- peals, Is professor of Federal procedure and the law of agency. Judge Jennings Balley, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, is professor of equitable trusts and con- flict of laws. Judge Oscar R. Luhring, assoclate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, i3 pro- fessor of suretyship. Judge Peyton Gordon, associate justice of the Su- | preme Court of the District of Colum- | bia and former United States attorney | for the District, is professor of case law of crimes. Judge Charles H Robb, associate justice of the Cour of Appeals of the District of Columbia, also teaches in National's graduate | school. ‘The university’s faculty includes also | Dr. Charles S. Lobingicr, former United States judge for the Philip- pine Islands and China. Milton Stras- burger, former judge of the D. C. Municipal Court. teaches the D. C. Code of Law at National. Faculty Changes Listed. Among the faculty changes listed for the coming term is the assignment of Dr. Charles Pergler, dean of the graduate department, to teach consti- tutional law. This course formerly was presented by Judge Frederick L. Siddons, associate justice of the D. C. Supreme Court, who died during the Summer. Dr. Pergler, who has been assoclated with National for sev- eral years, is one of the eminent fig- ures “in the politics ni | Czechoslovakia, whose fo s- | ter to Japan he was pri ‘Washington. Dr. given the course prudence. Henry L. Walker, attorney in_the legal dcpartment of ihe Southern Rail- way, will present the course in domes- tic relations which last vear was given by Dr. Charles Francis Carusi. chancel- lor of the university, who died during the last school year, Dr George F. Wells, attorney™ for the United States Board of Tax Ap- peals and lecturer on public utilities at National, will present a new course in general legal history at the univer- sity this Fall. His lectures will be given at 5:35 pm. on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Dr. Wells, who is former dean of the law school of the University of North Dakota, will continue with the presentation of his course on pub- lic utilities, giving these lectures at 6:30 pm. on the same days he will teach general legal history. In making the changes for the com- | ing season National University is | striving to raise its standards as an ! institution of learning even above those which have increased its student ! enrollments from the mere handful that comprised its first classes in 1869 to the 1,100 mark of the past academic year, Dr. Johnson explained. During the coming season, the university is | prepared to enroll more than 1,200 men | and women. 1 BERNSTEIN TO TEACH Oscar J. Bernstein, *vice president of the District of Columbia Institute of | Certified Public Accountants, yesterday | ‘was appointed to Columbus University to teach advanced accounting in the School of Accountancy. Mr. Bernstein | is a practicing certified public account- | ant and a member of the American So- ciety of Certified Public Accountants. | He received his degree of bachelor of | commei-fal science from New York University. Announcement of the ap- pointment was made by Francis P. Brassor, assistant dean of the School of Accountanc: ¢ He ok S Felix Mahony’s National Art School 1747 R. I. Ave. North 11 Pergler 1 in analytical juris- | Free booklet tells . how to earn ANOTHER RAISE N | Rypa B dob and bigger pav. It explains how hun- dreds of people who are employed during the dax ir evening Crease inh 3 arranged to fit indi- ~ free copy of booklet. | : | Capital City Commercial College ’ 1340 N. Y. Ave. N.W. Met. 4223, | ! pointed to the faculty of the Temple JUDGE D. LAURENCE GRONER. CATHEDRAL SCHOOL BEGINS 32D YEAR Three Teachers Are Appointed, While Course Remains Unchanged. The thirty-second year of the Na- tional Cathedral School will begin with the opening of classes on Friday, Oc- tober 2. As in former years, the courses of study include & four-year college preparatory course and & five-year gen- eral course, with special advantages in music and art. The intermediate de. partment, exclusively & day school covers grades six through eight ‘The upper classes include both resident and day students. As in the past. students in the resident department come from all sections of the United States and from several foreign countries. New members of the faculty include: Head of the art department. Miss Gladys Milligan; English, Miss Helen C. Hoffman, and Bible, Miss Jean Day- ton. | The National Cathedral School is an | integral part of the Protestant Cathe- | dral Foundation of the District of Co-| lumbia and is administered by the | Cathedral Chapter as a board of trustees, of which the Bishop of Wash- ington is president. His associates on the board of trustees are the Very Rev. | G. C. F. Bratenahl. D. D., dean of the | Cathedral; the Most Rev. James DeWolf | | Perry, jr. D. D.: the Rev. William L. DeVries, Ph. D., D. D.. precentor of the Cathedral; the Rev. G. Freeland Peter, D. D., chancellor of the Cathedral; the Right Rev. Philip Mercer Rhinelander, D. D. former Bishop of Pennsylvania and the present warden of the College of Preachers at Washington Cathed:al: the Rev. Robert Johnston, D. D.. rector of St. John's Church, Washington; Charles C. Glover, for many years chairman of Riggs National Bani Dr. William C. Rives, Corcoran Thom, pres- ident of the American Security & Tiust i Co.: Dr. William Holland Wilmer, head of the Wilmer Eye Institute in Balti- more: former Senator George Wharton Pepper of Philadelphia, Gen. John J. Pershing, U. S. A. and Wiliam R. Castle, Jr., Undersecretary of State. TEMPLE ADDS TYPING, SHORTHAND TEACHERS Business School Which Opened for Year September 8 Is Organ- izing New Classes. Two new instructors have been ap-| (Business) School for the year which | began September 8. They are Miss M. E. Kelly, a graduate of the Gregg | Srhool in Chicago and a former teacher | of commercial subjects in the high schools of A'bany, N. Y. and Miss Jeannett Howard. Miss Kelly will teach shorthand and Miss Howard will in- struct in typing. Although the school already has opened, new classes are being organizad | for beginners in shorthand. Likewise new classes in stenotypy are being formed. Additional space has been taken over | by the school in its building, at 1420 K! street, and additional equipment has been added to care for the increasing | enrollments. { Kalorama Day School || 1840 Kalorama Road Children 2—8. (Al day care if desired Tuition, $175—$225 Col. 2336 Advertising See our advertisement on Page 3 LIVINGSTONE ACADEMY Improved Facilities Available as Faculty and Curriculum The original part of American. Uni-| versity, its Graduate School, having | been enlarged during the Summer va- cation, both in faculty and curriculum, | will start the Fall term September 28, | it was announced by Dr. Lucius C.| Clark, chancellor of the university, and | Dr. Walter M. W. Splawn, dean of the | Graduate School. | The School of the Political Sciences, | located also at 1901-7 F* street, of which | Dr. Splawn also is dean, is planning to | open at the same time. Improved fa- | cllities will be available in the two schools, as many changes have been made during the Summer. The library | has been enlarged at 1907 F street, | taking over several class rooms, and | more_class rooms have been provided | elsewhere. | In sddition to Dr. Harry Miles John- son, whose appointment as head of the department of psychology and educ tion in the Graduate School was re- | cently announced, there have been | named three other new members of | the department. They are: Dr. Roy | | Oren Billet of the United States Office of Education, Department of Interior. who was a staff member of the Na- | tional Survey of Secondary Education; Dr. Mary Davis, specialist in the Of- fice of Education, in primary education. and Mrs. Amy Jane England, who is to be lecturer in education. She was formerly professor of household eco- nomics and head of the department at Kansas State Agricultural College. In the fleld of education the department | will again have the services of Dr. Walton C. John, adjunct professor of education, who is a specialist in the Office of Education. i Dr. Johnson will have associated with him in the fleld of psycholcgy, Dr. | Knight Dunlap of Johns Hopkins Uni- | versity, who is lecturer In social psy- | hology, and Dr. Nolan D. C. Lewis, consulting professor cf psychology. who is director of clinical psychiatry in St. Elizabeth's Hospita Prof, Irving Stewart, in the depart- ment of government cf the Graduate’ School, has just returned from Ccpen- hagen, Denmark, where he was expert adviser on radio for the American Gov- ernment in an international conference on the subject. Dr. Stewart has asso- ciated with him in this department Dr. Blaine Free More, who is a specialist | cn government finance; Col. William C Rigby, who is offering a course in * ernment of Outlying Territorie: Fred"S. Blachly, an authority on com- parative government, who is giving a course in “Problems of Administration.” ‘ nd Lewis Meriam, who is to teach Principles of Public Administration.” The Graduate School of American | University, which was the original unit Aireratt Mechanical Architectural Electrical Ref a metic. nt. Specification Writing. Special Technical Sul see DRAFTING SCHOOL ENROLL NOW and Evening Classes. —5:30 P.M. Centinued Throughout the ENGINEERING SCHOOL lete_Intensive Nine-Month Units. ry Mathematics. for Admission DRAFTING CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL Special Home Study Method<—Enroll Any Time. Throughout the Year COLUMBIA TECHNICAL SCHOOLS LEVERONE. Twentleth Year AUL J. 1319 F #t. N.W. d for Drafting er Engineering Ca AVONDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL ‘Laurel, Maryland A military school for SMALL BOYS from six to thirteen. letics and riding v academically. For full information visit or write the School; or call Laurel-85 A Select School In a Residential Section Open Throughout the Year Extended—New Professors Named. of American University, directs its ac- tivities largely it was explained by Dr. Splawn, toward cultivating productive schclarship and toward preparing ad- vanced students for writing, for teach- ing, for research and for public service. The fields i which the Graduate| School specializes are philosophy, inter- ( national law and relations, history, government, economics, education and psychology, fine arts and physical sci- ence. HOWARD U. NAMES PHYSIOLOGY CHIEF | Dr. Joseph L. Johnson Is Chosen as Professor and Head of Department. Dr. Joseph L. Johnson of Philadel- phia has been appointed professor of physiology and head of the department of physiology in the School of Medi- cine, Howard University. Dr. Johnson is a graduate bachelor of science of Pennsylvania State College, a doctor of meaicine from the University of Chicago in 1930 and received his de- gree of doctor of philosophy in physi- | ology at the University of Chicago on August 28. His thesls was on experi- mental chronic_ hyperparathyroidism, based on research conducted in the de- partment of medicine at the University of Chicago, under Dr. Russell M. Wilder, while the experimental work on animals was done under Dr. Anton | J. Carlson of the department of physi- | ology. Dr. Joknson's work covers metabo- lism studies in man and certain changes in the blood and the bones of animals resulting from deficlencles or excesses in the secretion of the para- thyroid gland. Certain poorly under- stood bone changes have been produced , by Dr. Johnson,’as well as methods for | their prevention and control. * A h KKK Felix Mahony’s| National Art School 1747 R. 1. Ave. North 1114 ENGINEERING ALL BRANCHES Toposraph! Heating and Ventilal ing Construct Estimatine. by Individual Instruction Year. Four to 18 Month Cour Recister Now Begin September 21, 1931 Each Course No Academic Requirements Instruction Continued President MEL. 5626 5 W. H. Free Employment Service. Outdoor play, ath- car-around, Sound Day and Evening Beginners’ Classes Start September 14, 15 and 16 Tivoli Theater Builaing 3313 14th Street Northwest Telephone Columbia 3000 1931—PART EIGH FOREIGN SERVICE COURSES EXTENDED SEPTEMBER 13, themselves in the Declaration of Inde- | governments during the same perio pel;detn:e, &e Articles of Confederation ] ey and the Constitution. The efiect of | tant developments of a cent loca) American environment, will be | half of governmental idess. and seek - teaced and medu{.en;uz;o which Euro- | ascertain the influence of the Americar n ideas and traditions influenced | Revolution on the progress of political and guided Washington and his asso- | thought. e ciates in providing for the future in-| Senator David I. Walsh of Massacnii- dustry, commerce and trade of the new | setts will conduet & seminar on prac- Nation. In the second seminar Dr.|tical American government in which Notz will trace the development of the | the origin of the American party system public finance of the Nation from the | will be outlined from the days of Ham- These seminars will discuss the impar- l | Authority :Disarmament’s Relation to | World Peace a New Semi- inar at G. U. School. | In harmony with the Nation-wide | | program for the George ‘Washington | | Bicentennial Celebration next year, the | School_of Foreign Service of George- | town University is making special prep. aration to honor the national hero. A | | substantial group of new courses has' been outlined dealing with American | policy, both foreign and domestic, as | lald down by Washington and his asso- clates. Dean Willlam ¥. Notz will conduct | two seminars for advanced students, one | of which will study the economic poli- | cies of Washington and his contempo- days of Washington and Hamilton. Two New Seminars. In the fleld of international law Dr. James Brown Scott and his associate, Dr. Thomas H. Healy, will conduct two new seminars, one dealing with dis- armament in its relations to world peace, and a second on nationality. In the first the present-day policies of the United States toward war and peace will be compared with those established by George Washington, whose state pa- pers and other pronouncements have profoundly influenced the policy of the United States, In a second group of seminars dealing with the foreign rela- tlons of the United States Dr. Scott and Dr. Healy will trace the origins of the Monroe Doctrine from its earliest mani- festations during the era of Washington and the beginnings of the tremendous influence exerted on the growth of the country through immigration. | ilton end Jefferson. . Dr. Leo S. Rowe, director general bf the Pan-American Union, will continue | his seminar on inter-American prob- i lems, with speical reference to the rela- | tions between the United States and | Latin American countries. | Willlam Franklin Sands will lead a | seminar on diplomacy which will dis- cuss the rise of diplomatic agents and the evolution of professional diplomacy Of special interest will be the peridd | when the foreign representatives of the | United States, under the instructions of | the first President, sought recognitior for the new Republic of the West the various courts of Europe. b 8.0 0.0 .6 DR. EDWIN G. NOURSE, Irarfes, and the second, international Dr. Willlam Boyd-Carpenter will con- b b ) Felix Mahony’s Director of the Institute of Economics |finance. The first will deal with the | duct two seminars, one dealing wit | ] g with | Nati and chairman of the Committee of the | basic economic problems which con- | European governments in Washington's National Art School Soctal Sclence Research Counctl, who 18 | fronted the founders of the Nation and | times as compared with European. gov- | y = 4 = i on American University's st Ithe extent to which they reflected | ernments tod d another on Asiatic| 1747 R. I. Ave. North 1111 Georgetown University Founded 1789 W. Coleman Nevils, S. J., President College of Arts and Sciences Schools of Medicine, Law, Dentistry and Foreign Service Training School for Nurses Georgetown University Hospital GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FOREIGN SERVICE Foreign Trade International Law Diplomacy International Shipping Consular and Trade Commissioner Work Accounting and Business Administration Political Science Public Finance Economics Bankin; Degrees of B. F. S., M. F. S. and Ph. 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