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H ITEFiTW • M !LJ! tiM1 VOL. XI GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 5, 1930 achr'n DOMESDAY B00KE A REMINDER. NEW SERIES OF LECTURES ON RUSSIA The oral examination for the Quick- NEARS COMPLETION sail medal will take place on Sunday, INAUGURATED BY FATHER WALS1 March 9. The plays selected for this 13HH3M T 30H3SWAJ All Copy from Hilltop Sent to year are: Merry Wives of Windsor, “Nicholas Lenin” Subject of First Discourse—Speaker Declares thj Printer—Appearance of Book Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Tempest. Those desiring to enter the Soviet Power Is Maintained by Violettce^A-loAdU-hfi^F Therefore Assured for Early in May. contest will please leave their names at Cannot Last. ^au-iaX .W TaaajA the Dean’s office before Friday night. IMAL Last week saw intense activity in THE Last Friday evening the Rev. Edward A. Walfch, S.J., opeff&bYift alhiMB series c HOYA room on the part of the staff of winter lectures in Gaston Hall, subject as in theepstst, dealing with Russiav/ojudging the Domesday Booke. A staff of four WASHINGTON CLUB from the capacity audience which gathered to hyar Fr. Walsh,f.t{ie,Topic .js^stih qne c| proofreaders and three typists worked absorbing interest to Washington’s select group of, cosmopolite Intellectuals: ” every night during the week from 7 This year Father Walsh, in a series of “thumBriail” sketches, tFCTe&ders df o’clock until 2:30 in morning preparing ATTENDS BANQUET the Bolshevist movement. In his first talk he^Jealt with Nicholas Lenin, the founder the material sent in, and in making cor¬ of the Bolshevist State. He introduced his gubject by a brief .resume. Q,f the out¬ rections and preparing the “dummies,” Mr. J. J. Haggerty, ’23, Toast¬ standing points of the Russian Revolution, to which.lje referred as “the most importadt which had to be in the hands of the master — Post-Lenten Dance single event in the world’s history since the breakup of the Roman Empire.” Speaking printer by March 1st. Plans Discussed. of the government now existing in the Soviet. State, he declared if was founded upon At the beginning of the week, there violence, explaining that the red regime was kept in power solely through the use of were a hundred pages yet to be com¬ The Washington students at George¬ this weapon, a situation which could not last indefinitely. g pleted, along with three hundred pages of town, both at the Hilltop and the profes¬ “Did Nicholas Lenin produce the Soviet ' — Jr copy to be typewritten and an incalculable sional schools, together wuth the Wash¬ State, or did the Soviet State prod&Ce Pn 'T' /’'’ACC/’YM C I amount of correction and revision to be ington alumni, attended the banquet of Nicholas Lenin? To answer this we mu^yj^jT|\« !• uAujUl'Ij O. J, done. There was, with the exception of the Georgetown Club of Washington at the Freshman Class history, no copy the new Ambassador Hotel last Wednes¬ and thence to personalities.” . e panics DIES IN MONTREA whatever turned in from the Medical day. An enthusiastic and cordial welcome Launching into the main part pf his School. This delinquent copy amounted was extended by the club to the Wash¬ speech, Father Walsh declared: “More.'.' TU- 1 to 107 individual write-ups, three class ington students at the Medical, Dental, than in any other example of history Formerly a Member of George- histories, and two special articles. From Law and Foreign Service Schools who the Soviet State is the lengthened shadow town Faculty—Was Instru- the evening Foreign Service School there displayed an interest in the reorganiza¬ of one man. This statement I shall fake i • T-, i • _ -o were missing the Senior Class history tion of a society for the residents of the as the principal theme of my l«(c|ur5 m developing Bostofl and the write-up of the German Club. District of Columbia. Graduates of the night. No constitution or government College. All of the copy from the morning For¬ last fewr years also evidenced a willing¬ reflects the elements of the chardd^ jbf “ ” eign Service School was in, but had not ness to further the aims of the club. one individual to such an extdnt-as'doesL ■ l Qty'Tebrua ry 27, the Rev. Thomas Jl yet been corrected and typewritten. The During the course of the banquet, en¬ the Soviet State those of Lenim.,TfJhef,e. GassoraQ S.J., noted educator, and a font material from the Law School was com¬ tertainment was furnished by the Col¬ is at present a sort of Lenin-iyorshm, •jnen.jiuqijnber of the faculty of George? plete with the exception of approximately legians, assisted by several numbers by among certain classes of the proletarian tqwn University, died at Montreal, Can? four articles. With the exception of members of the club. The toastmaster, although the Soviet revolution desired to ^iga, after a short illness following ah (Continued on page 8) Mr. J. J. Hagerty, ’23, whose sparkling do away with the individual inan. The eperatibri. Er. Glasson was born in Eng¬ wit and eloquence much enlivened the eve¬ working out, therefore, of the Soviet land in 1859, and came to this country ning, presented as other speakers Mr. Mc¬ State, .: presents j a ,cont radiction, , to... ftlg'Bol , when he was a voting man. After a long shevist theory, because of deification of a g -^ 0^ Society of Jesus Gowan, S.J., honorary moderator of the in the J J FEBRUARY JOURNAL club; Mr. Arthur Simpson, the president this one man. .-aheHbecame !a member of the faculty of of the club; Mr. Rowan, of the Law “No man was-more- worshipped -by—his— Boston-College. He spent’ twenty-years followers or more hated by his enemies RECEIVES PRAISE School; Mr. Donovan, Medical, and Mr. ,unur "1U1C Tub 1US cucT.TV,of his life there, and it was at Boston DePorry, Foreign Service. Open discus¬ than Lenin. To some he was an anarchist; <^n e^/ Gdsson accomplished his sion was held, and a general plan outlined to others a Mwes le.admgrM- BSPPjfiiPJIt bisa rmd naiio asri jl Essay by Richard X. Evans and for a dance to be held immediately after of bondage, tOL'the promjgqffcfeing.i/Lhsubrad; Interview of Coach O’Reilly Lent. It has not yet been decided scribe to neitherje'pf fb&fejjsstimatqs byj 0 e 1S c a tll Feature Issue—Sacred Heart whether this affair will be restricted to believe thkgft: of; apparently: ?qlat}v§Jdo5£11 KL (9^tTj ]J OjM7 w t mw,? hI|fi Pilgrimage Described. the members of the club, or will be an invitation dance, but a committee at pres¬ LtSl IheT'rJ.U fUc'SpU.lT ent working on the plans. ^s’tne?c; The February edition of The College 1 Journal was circulated early this week. j., . , lege, and whfcfr is ~ a ‘6f'pffde' To Though not a single short story graces its pages, still the edition is so skillfully GASTON DEFEATS WHITE WTWELFTHTL: and interestingly done that the February lie Journal is an eminently worthy continua¬ ANNUAL oaJnnlq SIB xioirlw to eunag 3ri tion of the high literary standard main¬ ,ibaJi TO! Uoup B at il _ ^rot otast arIT - .niritiw raon jmop tanm Ji avis tonnes. a-isrbssT ^aaibnJa^yd tained this year. Receives Unanimous Decision of-s^udgea>F*dEdwa3Cdji R. An analytic but far from destructive Awarded Gold Medal Donated by Edward Douglas WhiteL- .i essay on “The Visionary Blake,” written = Oraduafc.ich.- J, and Pm- by Richard X. Evans, is a feature of the Rebuttal of Both Sides Strongly Contested. T^sso? ?mor Philosophy at fhe.gol- 9 issue. For those of us who knew little, if F* tlavs ant to bmnj prit nl wtaaaaoannuo .anoaSEfin-mh^t ^W45n^%3n?^V^,€o <,j,L■ i' ^23.. anything, of William Blake, the poet and The twelfth annual Gaston-White-Etef- artist, this treatise contains all the charm bate was held at 8:15 P. M., last Thtif3- a well-written account of an exceedingly in “Waf Aims,” followed by all the stu- unusual and interesting genius should day evening, in Gaston Hall. TheLGas- contain, while for those to whom Blake ton Debating Society, represented^ *by the fact that the man who was adjudged T C was familiar it points out, one may be David A. Dyer, president; EdWard‘‘'R. the best speaker was awarded a gold In TJ23 he was transferred to Loyola sure, a new or enlarged viewpoint from Glavin, vice-president, and FredtoLoilgh- medal, the gift of Airs. Edward Douglas College, Alontreal, where he remained which to study the various complexities ran, upheld the affirmative of the question, White, widow of the former Chief Justice unt’l his death. While there, an untiring of his nature. Whichever of the two “Resolved, That a State Certificate of of the United States .Supreme Court, and worker, he was at the service of every groups claims you, you will be led Valid Election Should be SufificFent tb Af' The Bishop and priest for lectures, sermons, smoothly along until the final quoted Seat a Senator Withofit^'Questibii.'’ for the and Church wbrktofl ii lilnn (badainimib words will seem as happy an experience Afessrs. Alyles F. Gibbons,lojlresident; The medal was won by : Father Gas son was one of the best to you as they did to the essay’s author Richard English, vice-president, and Edward R. Glavin, of West Albany, N. Y. known Jesuit educators in this country, r“He was an idiot because he was Joseph Smith, comprised,tge, team..from YfUall jirtMbifityUf wM be presented to tthtf four years ago Ee celebrated his inspired.” White, which defended ffne negative Side hiqv n^xt-September.