Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1935, Page 24

Schools an Events of Interest;ng HE forty-seventh academic year | of Catholic University will open tomorrow with the en- rollment of the class of 1939.‘ Preshmen will first meet with the | registrar, and then will enroll with the : dean of the school in which they in- | tend to study. Both registration and enrollment will take place in Me- Mahon Hall, under the direction of | Dean James Marshall Campbell of the College of Arts and Sciences and Dean I Ernest A. Valade of the School of En- gineering | Because of the reorganization of the | curriculum and administrative pro- cedures during the past year the tra- ditional Freshman week program has been shortened. Special exercises will introduce the newcomers to the uni- | versity. The first will be an assembly of all freshmen in the reception room | of Gibbons Hall tomorrow evening. This meeting will be conducted by Very Rev. James M. Campbell of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Dean Valade. Dr. Martin R. P. McGuire, asso- ciate professor of Greek and Latin, will address the freshmen Tuesday afternoon in the foyer of the Mullen Memorial Library. Physical examinations for entrance to freshmen physical education classes will be held Saturday afternoon. Pre- ceding the examination, Dr. J. Lawn Thompson, medical director of the university, will address the students on the subject of keeping physically it Upper classmen and graduate stu- dents will register in McMahon Hall Tuesday, beginning at 9 a.m., after | which they will enroll with the deans of their respactive schools. | Religious _services for all Catholic | students will be held Tuesday evening in the Gibbons Hall Chapel. On Wednesday classes will begin at | 8 am. in all schools and departments of the university. | ‘The solemn opening of the academic year will be celebrated Sunday, Sep- tember 29, with a mass of the Holy Ghost, to be offered in the crypt of the National Shrine of the Immacu- late Conception on the university campus. J G. W. U. Opens Wednesday. | (GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVER- SITY will formally open its 115th | academic year Wednesday, when in- | struction will begin in all of the col- leges, schools and divisions. Assemblies for freshmen and open- ing exercises in the Law School and the School of Medicine will be held the opening day. A dance in honor of new students will take place in the university gymnasium Wednesday night Freshman assemblies are scheduled at noon and at 5 o'clock in Corcoran Hall. Dean Elmer Louis Kayser, uni- versity marshal, will preside. Dr. William C. Johnstone, jr., dean of the Junior College, and Mrs. Vinnie G. Barrows, director of women's per- sonnel guidance, will address the freshmen. Dean William C. VanVleck will pre- side at opening exercises for first-year law students at 5 o'clock in Stock- ton Hall. Guest speakers will be John | Garland Pollard, former Governor of Virginia and a past president of the George Washington University law alumni, and E. Hilton Jackson, present | president. | Students and faculty of the School of Medicine, headed by Dean Earl| Baldwin McKinley, will assemble at| 11 a.m. Wednesday in Hall A at the School of Medicine. The principal | speaker at the opening exercises will be Dr. Walter J. Freeman, head of | the department of neurology. ‘ Harry Ames, chairman, with Machin | ‘Gardiner and Margaret Graves, are in | charge of arrangements for the‘ ‘Wednesday dance. The first issue of the year of the| University Hatchet already has come | from the press. The student weekly‘ 1s edited by a board headed by Eleanor | Heller as editor-in-chief and Richard Murphy as business manager. The Handbook, edited by Ruth Brewer, is| being distributed to students during | Tegistration. Registration, which opened yester- | day, will continue tomorrow and Tuesday. On these days university | offices will be open continuously from 9 am. to 8 pm. and deans and ad- visers will be on hand for consulta- tion. The first faculty meeting of the year was held last Friday afternoon. Dean Poteét’s BUSINESS COLLEGE | Commerelal. Secretarial, Civil Service Courses h and Eye Sts. N.W. N i Kindergarten Through Sixth Grade Music, French and Piano Classes Supervised Play and Special Athletic Class Playgrounds Open Tuesday, October 1 || 2344 Massachusetts Ave. N.W. | MRS. FRANK C. COOK, I’rlndfll Deca(ur 2750 NGUAGES 1115_Conn. Ave. Natl. 0230 MT.VERNON SEMINARY A Country Day and Boarding School Nebraska Avenue at Massachusetts Avenue Preparatory School College Preparatory and General Courses Junior College— Advanced Standing Granted Graduates Thirty-one-acre campus Swimming pool—indoor and open sir gymnasiums Fall term opens September 30 Regristrations mow For Further Information Address JEAN DEAN COLE, President Activities in Washington's Leading Educational Institutions. d Colleges Student and Facuky Robert W. Bolwell presided in the ab- sence of President Cloyd H. Marvin who is in Mexico City, where he went as chairman of the United States dele- gation to the Seventh American Sci- entific Congress. Southeastern Rolls Grow. 'HE School of Law of Southeastern University will open tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock, when pre-office early morning classes will begin at the Central Y. M. C. A, Eight- eenth and G streets. Evening courses will start tomor- row at 5:30 p.m. Dean George W. Offutt will ad- dress the opening classes and Dr. James A. Bell, university presi- dent, also will speak. The day classes in law will not start until Mon- day, September 30. These classes will | meet at 9:30 am | Indications are that the Law School enrollment will rival that of the School of Accountancy, which opened last week with a registration ex- ceeding that of last year by approx- imately 30 per cent. The heavy en- | rollment in the accountancy classes has necessitated organization of extra classes to care for the overflow. The day course in accountancy will | begin September 30. The day ac-! countancy classes, like those in law, will convene at 9:30 a.m. The university has arranged three- Dr. J. A. Bell. | year courses leading to the degrees of LL. B. and B. C. 8. | All classes are co-educational, and Miss Margaret E. Betts, registrar, re- ports a large enrollment of women in both schools. New Fflrelgn Service Courses. MONG the new courses added this | year to the regular curriculum of | the School of Foreign Service of\ Georgetown University, which opened its academic term last week, are sev- eral especially designed to give addi- | tional background for students pre- | | paring for diplomatic and business | careers | The recent decision of the State | Department to hold examinations next May, for men seeking entry to the Foreign Service of the United States lead a stimulating effect on enroliment at Georgetown. The decision ends a four-year policy of retrenchment on the part of the Government during which time no exami- nations for ad- mission to the Foreign Service have heen held. In anticipation of the bars be- ing let down, the Georgetown school has added two | important courses, one dealing with diplomatic and consular practice and | F. C. Stetson. the other with general problems af- - | Francis C. Stet- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, fecting diplomacy. The course on diplomatic and consular practice will be given by J. D. Hickerson, assistant chief of the Western European Divi- sion of the State Department. The second course will be under Dr. Ed- mund A. Walsh, 8. J., regent of the Foreign Service’ School, and Willlam Franklin Sands, formerly for many years in the diplomatic service of the Government. Hickerman's course absorbs and expands the functions of the old course in consular practice. It adds specific treatment of diplomatic prac- tice, Covering administrative and technical details. Dr. Walsh and Sands will deal primarily with the historical evolution of international relations with special emphasis on the role of diplomats. Another course has been added as an ald to students who are desirous of domestic business careers of a pub- lic nature, either in or out of the Government service. This course on public administration will be con- ducted by A. L. Raffa, who has occu- pled several positions with the Gov- ernment. The School of Law at Georgetown, as well as the medical, dental and arts departments have all regis- tered an encour- aging increase in freshman enroll- ments. Among the new faculty members this term is one whose father, Charles Wyllys Stetson, prominent law- yer in Washing- ton, graduated from Georgetown in 1890. He is F. C. Nash. son, who has " been appointed a full-time professor to teach the property courses, includ- ing mortgages and wills. Stetson is a graduate of Georgetown and Har- vard, The other full-time addition to the law faculty is Francis C. Nash, who | was an honor graduate of the lswl school some years ago. He will teach equity, damages and torts. A. U. Classes Begun. WXTH several new officlals and fac- ulty members the downtown center of American University at| 1901-1907 F street tomorrow will ac- tively begin the academic year with lectures in the graduate school, school | of public affairs and in a new under- graduate program for social science majors. Under direction of Dr. Ernest S. Griffith, new dean, the graduate | school is specializing this year on Eht @ynthia Warner NURSERY SCHOOL For Kiddies, 2 to 5 1405 Emerson St. N.W. Phone GE. 8909 Fall Term— ept. 2 School Days! 8:30 a.m, to 11 a.m.—S%10 per mo. 8:00 a.m. to ».m.—$20 per mo. Trained Dietitian, Cynthia C. Warner, M. A.. 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The School of Public Affairs, under direction of Arthur S. Flemming, has shaped its curriculum for two groups of students: Employes of the Federal Government who desire to obtain spe- cial training to enable them to pre- pare for positions of greater responsi- bility, and teachers and students of the social sciences who desire to ob- tain a first-hand picture of the man- ner in which the Federal Government is dealing with current problems. On the campus regular class work has begun with an enrollment more year. Although formal registration closed last week:some special students week. An innovation, starting tomorrow, will be a late afternoon undergraduate program for social science majors at the downtown center. It is designed to meet the needs of employed stu- dents who have completed the work of their sophomore year, and are in- terested in majoring in the four prin- cipal subjects specialized in by the graduate school. Dr. Joseph M. M. Gray, chancellor, has returned from Missouri, where he discussed American University before joint sessions of the Missouri Confer- ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of the Methodist Episco- pal Church South, in their union movement. Social functions got under way Fri- with the annual faculty reception to all students. Mrs. Gray, Dr. and Mrs. George B. Woods and Miss Mary Louise Brown received. Plans are being made for the an- nual reception by the chancellor and Mrs. Gray for the faculty next Sat- urday night. W. C. of L. Enlarges Faculty. WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW will begin its fortieth Fall term with the opening of classes tomorrow. Returning students will find an ex- panded curriculum and an enlarged faculty as well as a greatly improved building by reason of the extensive repairs and alterations of the Sum- mer. Dean Grace Hays Riley announced the addition to the faculty of Elweod H. 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