Evening star. [volume], December 11, 1938, Page C-11, Image 45

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Luhring to Address
Student Bar Group
At G. W. U.
Officers Are Appointed
To Head Law School
Association
The Student Bar Association of
The George Washington University
Law School, instituted this year, will
hold its first meeting tomorrow night
Mr. de Ganahl.
Hi tne Law
School with Jus
tice Oscar Luh
ring of the Dis
trict Court of
the United States
for the District
of Columbia, as
speaker.
Selected by the
dean’s council of
the. Law School,
on the basis of
scholarship, per
sonality and
other character
istics of leader
ship, three stu
ucnu. nave oeen Honored with ap
pointment as officers of the asso
ciation.
Joe de Ganahl, McLean, is presi
dent, with Richard A. Fitzgerald,
Kalamazoo, Mich., vice president
and Charles Ford O’Neall, Lubbock!
Tex., secretary. All have maintained
scholastic averages higher than B
in their Law School work.
The Student Bar Association is
organized by the university as an
Integral part of the Law School for
co-ordinating law school student
professional extra-curricular under
takings. Its aims and purposes are
to foster professional ideals of the
law among students training them
selves for that profession in the Law
School.
Responsibility for and direction of
its program is placed in its Execu
tive Committee, which includes the
student officers, three members of
the Law School faculty and three
alumni of the Law School who are
nominated by the president of
George Washington law alumni and
approved by the dean's council.
Prof. Hector G. Spaulding, Prof.
John Mclntire and Prof. William
R. Compton are faculty members of
the Executive Committee.
The alumni members are Arthur
H. Deibert. Paul Hannah, jr., vice
chairman of the Junior Bar Con
ference of the American Bar Asso
ciation, and Stanley P. Smith.
— -•—--. —
Parkinson Is Named
To Teach Suretyship
The appointment of Kenneth A.
Parkinson, local attorney, as pro
fessor of suretyship at National Uni
i versity Law School, was announced
yesterday by Chancellor Leslie C.
Garnett. Mr, Parkinson will con
duct the supplemental class made
necessary by the large freshman
enrollment.
He received his A. B. degree from
Brigham Young University in 1915,
studied at St. John's, Cambridge,
after the war, and took his LL. b!
degree at George Washington Uni
versity In 1923.
It was also announced that Ed
mund B. Campbell and Francis Hill
will teach the classes in bills and
notes during the winter term, which
begins January 3. Final examina
tions for the fall term will start to
morrow.
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DEPT. FLOOR
Congress Adjoi
Commencemen
By JESSIE FANT EVANS.
Commencements have not always
been synonymous with June days
at the George Washington Univer
sity. In its time-dimmed annals,
which go back to the days when
our Capital City was very young,
as well as in the early flies of Dis
trict newspapers in the Library of
Congress, one may read in the quaint
phraseology of the era the color
ful story of its first commencement
exercises held 114 years ago this
coming Thursday.
To this institution which began
a6 Columbian College, later evolved
into Columbian University and sub
sequently into its present status as
George Washington University, be
longs a distinction shared by no
other college or university in the
world. The Congress of the United
States and the Supreme Court ad
journed their sessions on the day
of its first commencement to en
able those of its membership who
so desired to attend.
In the Sunday Morning Chron
icle, published in Washington June
29, 1862, a retrospective news com
mentator of the day speaking of
college commencements says, “The
first commencement exercises of Co
lumbian College were held in the
year 1824 in a Presbyterian Church
on F street, now known as Willard
Hall. Few of our citizens yet live
who remember its importance. Both
houses of Congress and the Supreme
Court of the United States ad
journed to enable its members to
attend. The President, Judges of
the Supreme Court, Ministers from
foreign powers, the distinguished
Lafayette and other magnates of
importance contributed to the all
absorbing interest of the occasion.”
Lafayette a Guest.
News articles of the period itself
in the Daily National Journal and
the Daily National Intelligencer also
comment upon “the great of the
Nation" who “graced the exercises.”
In addition to President Monroe,
John Quincy Adams, John C Cal
houn and Henry Clay, “the vener
able Lafayette." then upon his fare
well visit to America, is listed as
“a beloved and honored guest,” in
the account of the event carried by
the Daily National Journal on De
cember 18, 1824.
The George Washington Univer
sity of that period was not located
upon its present site. It was then
situated upon what was known as
College Hill on Florida avenue be
tween Fourteenth and Thirteenth
streets N.W.. near the boundary of
Washington’s northwest city limits
It is interesting to note that its
location today is approximately that
designated by George Washington
himself as the site for the higher
institution of higher learning of
national significance which he hoped
& fe, >n the Capital's midst.
In a letter to the “Commissioners
of the City of Washington," now in
the Library of Congress, written
from Mount Vernon on October 21,
1796. with characteristic pains and
specific detail, the Father of His
Country clearly expresses himself
on this point.
Minutes in Flowing Script.
Upon the walls of the executive
office of Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin,
president of this institution 114
years after that December com
mencement of another century
there hangs today a portrait in oil
of William Ruggles, its first secre
tary, which is contemporaneous with
the period of his service.
From the yellowing pages of his
book of minutes, carefully written
in the flowing script of his decade
one gleans that, the exercises for
that historic first commencement
“began precisely at half past 10
o'clock a.m.” Under Mr. Ruggles’
signature, “by order of the faculty.”
is listed the program of procedure
for the occasion.
“Possibly, for the convenience of
the distingushed guests who honored
the exercises,” and the general public
as well, they were not held in the
holdings of the institution upon
then remote College Hill, but in Dr.
Lowrie’s much more readily ac
cessible Presbyterian Meeting House
irned for First
t at G. W. U.
on F street between Fourteenth and
Fifteenth streets. Its former site
Is today the heart of Washington’s
hotel and business district.
The academic procession, however,
“formed at the college and repaired”
to the selected piice of convocation.
With Congress and the Supreme
Court adjourning for the day, it is
not difficult to visualize the atten-,
tion it must have received along the
route of its progress.
Music Official.
Even the music was official in
character for "the exercises,” one
is told, “commenced with the music
of the Marine Band, followed by
prayer.”
The next order of procedure was
the delivery of four original compo
sitions by undergraduates. These
were: “Responsibilities of American
Youth,” by John Boulware, sopho
more, of Virginia: “The Superiority
of Grecian Over Roman Literature,”
by John W. James, sophomore, of
Virginia: “Timoleon and Washing
ton,” by Thomas D. Eliot, junior, of
the. District of Columbia, and “The
Influence of Mathematics on the
Mind,by Baron Stow, junior, of
New Hampshire.
Next came the orations of the
three candidates for the first degree,
ir the following order: “The Vnlted
States,” by Alexander Ewell of Vir
ginia; “The Spirit of Liberty,” by
Albert Fairfax of Virginia, and
“Philosophy of the Active Powers of
Man: an Oration With Valedictory
Addresses,” by James D. Knowles of
Rhode Island.
Almost thankfully for the sake of
that December 15 assemblage of
high Government dignatries, college
officials, fond parents and friends, as
well as college orators, of over a
century ago, one further gleans from
the columns of the Daily National
Intelligence of December 18, 1824:
“Music at intervals between the
i orations enlivened the scene.”
Dinner Follows Exercises.
This newspaper comments, too,
upon "the excellent baccalaureate
address" given by Dr. William
Staughton, first president of the
institution, and speaks of the pres
ence of the Marquis de Lafayette as
"one of the welcome guests” at the
dinner which-was given to the trus
tees and faculty by the president of
the college following the com
mencement.
Concerning President Monroe's
gratifying sponsorship and support
of this new educational institution
in the Capital's midst and its
"highly successful first commence
ment.” the Daily National Intelli
gencer also has this to say: "To the
President, who has always honored
the institution with his confidence
and kindness, the success of that
day must have been peculiarly
gratifying, as we are sure his pres
ence was to the trustees and faculty
of the college, who justly estimate
the liberal disposition he has shown
toward it.”
Medical School Started.
This influential newspaper of the
era concluded its account of the
epoch-making occasion” with this
news item: “The establishment of
a medical school at the college,
with accomplished professors and
lecturers, which is to open in March
next, is a supject of great gratifi
cation to all who take an interest
in the future welfare of the Dis
trict.”
As the faculty of this medical
school, later destined to achieve
national distinction and to include
upon its roster such world famous
physicians and subsequent immor
I tals as Walter Reed, Theobald
—
Christmas Concert
Of C. U. Glee Club
To Be Thursday
Miss Louise McNerney
Will Be the Guest
^Soloist
The annual Christmas concert of
the Catholic University Glee Club
will be given on Thursday at 8:15
p.m. in the auditorium of McMahon
Hall, under the direction of Dr. Leo
Behrendt of the university faculty.
Conrad Bernier, organist of the
university, will be at the piano and
Miss Louise Ryan McNerney will
be the guest soloist. The program
will include classical music, folk
songs, Christmas carols and other
works.
The Glee Club will sing also at
the reception for Father Flanagan,
famous for “Boys’ Town,” arranged
by the Calvert Club of Washing
ton at the Willard Hotel, Tuesday
evening.
Msgr. Joseph M. Corrigan, rector
Smith and Frederick F. Russell, it
professor of anatomy and physiology;
They were, Thomas Sewall, M. D.,
professor of anatomy and physiology,
James Staunton, M. D„ son of the
president of the college, professor
of theory and practice of physics;
Nicholas M. Worthington, M. D„
professor of materia medlca, and
Alexander McWilliams, M. D., pro
fessor of botany.
To further their interest in Amer
ican source history, pupils of Dr.
Lowell Joseph Ragatz, professor of
history at the George Washington
University and editor of the Amer
ican Historical Association, have
been searching the flies of the
city’s early newspapers in the Li
brary of Congress with regard to
the university’s early days. They
have also been accorded access to
the university’s own records of its
historic past, particularly with re
gard to its first commencement as
plans go forward for its midwinter
convacation on February 22.
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of the university, will speak before
the Philopatrian Literary Institute
at Philadelphia this evening on
“Safeguard Our American Christian
Traditions.” Msgr. Corrigan will also
celebrate a mass Sunday, December
18, at 8 a.m. in the Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception on the uni
versity campus for the Students’ So
ciety of the School of Nursing.
Upon receiving a petition from
the Student Council,' requesting
December 20 and 21 as the prom
ised extra free days commemora
tive of the golden jubilee of the
university, the rector has ordered
that as such recognition would be
given at some time during the year,
and as the students have particu
larly requested them at the present
time, the Christmas recess will be
gin Monday afternoon, December
19, at 5 pm., instead of December
21 as originally scheduled.
The Riccobono seminar of Roman
law in America will meet in the
law library of the university Thurs
day. A paper prepared by Dr.
Hans Julius Wolff, professor of juris
prudence at the National University
of Panama on “The Lex Cornelia de
Captivis and the Roman Law of
Succession” will be read and dis
cussed by the members.
Noted Author to Speak
Christopher Morley, noted author,
will speak at Trinity College Tues
day at 4:30 pm. His subject will be
"Literature as Companionship.”
Light Receipts
ALMA, Mich. OP).—A month ago
a pay telephone was installed in
a girl’s dormitory at Alma College.
When a collector opened the coin
box this week for the first time out
rolled 99 pennies, 47 slugs—and four
nickels._
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American U. Co-Eds
Will Form League
Of Women Voters
Judge Fay Bentley Will
Address Meeting
Tomorrow
In an attempt to organize a Junior
League of Women Voters several
American University co-eds will
meet in the women’s residence hall
tomorrow at 4 pm. A feature of the
meeting will be an address by Judge
Fay Bentley of the Juvenile Court
of the District.
In addition, a group of university
women will present a dramatic skit
which will describe the purpose and
activities of the organization. A
discussion of the average citizen’s
responsibility In Juvenile delin
quency will be discussed. This will
be cited as a typical problem with
which the League of Women Voters
Is concerned.
Plans have been completed for the
series of Christmas concerts to be
presented by the American Univer
sity Mixed Chorus. Tomorrow they
will present their program before
the American Association of Uni
versity Women.
The traditional Christmas chapel
service on Wednesday will feature a
program of Yuletide music by the
chorus and the singing of Christmas
carols by the student body. The
chorus will be under the direction of
James McLain, instructor In music
at the university, and will be ac
companied on Uie organ by Margaret
Thornton, a student.
A broadcast over Station WRO
from the N. B. C. studloes in the
Trans-Lux Building during this
week will jlimax the Christmas con
certs.
Foxhall Meeting
Slated Tomorrow
The annual meeting of the Fox
hall Community Citizens’ Associa
tion will be held tomorrow at 8 pm.
in St. Patrick's Episcopal Church,
Foxhall road and Greenwich park
way N.W.
The association meets but once
a year, in December, at which time
officers for the year are elected
and committees appointed. Any
business accumulated during the
year is acted upon at this meeting.
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