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- Volume I Number 3 - EDITORIAL BOARD OF ALUMNI MAGAZINE Contents j OHN G. BRUNINI, ' 19 D ONALD F. FLAVIN, '28 Editorial 2 j OHN T. FLYNN, '02 REv. HuNTER GuTHRIE, S.J.- Letters . 2 Faculty DR. TIBOR KEREKES- Faculty Cohonguroton Inn MARTIN s. QUIGLEY, '39 William A. Behan, '49 3 DR. jOHN WALDRON-Faculty REv. GERARD F. YATES, S.J.- Vocational Guidance Faculty L. C. McHugh, S.J. ]AM ES S. R usY, '27 5 Executive Secretary "The Envoy" j OHN J. O'CON NOR, '26 John A. Brogan III, '48 7 Editor PublisJ:ed quarterly by the Georgetown Liberal Education Umverszty Alumni Association, Inc., John E. Wise, S.]., '26 8 Washington 7, D. C. Sustaining Membership 825.00 per year, The Library and the Alumni Regular M•mbership 85.00 per )'tar, Phdlips T emple 10 of which 83.00 is for subscription / to the Alumni Maga<,ine. Distinguished Alumni . 12 ll Entered at the Post Office at Washington, . ' D.C., as Second Class maller February Athletics 24, r_q48 under the act of March 3, William T. Rach, '46 • 13 I879· Application for additional entry pending at Ithaca, N. r. Class Notes. 14 Publication Office: THE CAYUGA PRESS Who Are They? I I 3 East Green St. Ithaca, N. Y. 18 Editorial and Exectives Offices: Treasure House GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI John J. O'Connor, '26. ASSOCIATION 19 Washington 7, D.C. Campus News . 21

The Cover* Picture This Spring issue of the * Georgetown University Alumni Contributors to This Issue Magazine carries on its cover WILLIAM A. BEHAN, '49, is an undergraduate interested in pro­ an original drawing, Lazy Days, moting a great idea. by C. P. Osterman, a student REV. L. C. MCHUGH, S.J., is Director of the Georgetown in the School of Foreign Ser­ Guidance Center.

vice. JOH A. BROGAN III, '48, is one of the editors of The Env~y . REV. JOHN E. WISE, S.J., is Director' of the Evening Sch0ol, Copyright 1948 Loyola College, Baltimore, Md. Georgetown University Alumni PHILLIPS TEMPLE is the University Librarian. Magazine WILLIAM T. RACH, '46, is Director of Publicity for the Depart­ ment of Athetics. JOHN J. O 'CONNOR, '26, is Editor of the Alumni Maga,zinc. Editorial Letters

HIS spring issue of the Alumni Magazine Dear Sir: Just the briefest of notes to tell you that, since last writing to T brings to an end the most active year you, my post as U . S. Naval Attache in Wellington, New Zealand, our Alumni Association has ever enjoyed. In was closed because of budgetary restrictions in the Navy Depart­ July of 1947 the Association produced the ment, and I was sent here to Shanghai on the same kind of job. This is not the Shanghai of pre-war days but it is, nonetheless, Alumni Directory, listing over 32,000 George­ a very exciting, continually busy, usually interesting and thoroughly town men from William Gaston through 1946; stimulating place. Between office routine, meeting Very Impor­ September saw the publication of the Report to tant People, and carrying out protocol, I find it rather an exhaust­ ing kind ofjob and one that precludes any personal correspondence. the Alumni for 1947 listing those who had made Good luck in everything. possible the activities of the previous year and Shanghai MORGAN SLAYTON, '34. blueprinting those things which were planned for the present. In November the first issue of our new Alumni Magazine was born, the publi­ cation of which we feel has been responsible for the greatest membership year we have ever had. In February the McDonough Memorial Dear Sir: Gymnasium Campaign Committee stated its We are a few Georgetown men united in a far-off corner of the world (see class notes for foto-Ed.). The U. S. S. Valley Forge operations resulting in renewed activity in the (Aircraft Carrier CV-45) with Task Force !;38 is en route on a Georgetown clubs from coast to coast. cruise to Australia, China and Japan. Aboard are two Hoya men: Throughout the year our Association has Comdr. John R. Mcintyre, USN, Senior Dental Officer aboard, Dent.'28; and the undersigned, Lt. Richard E. McVoy, SC, USN, been instrumental in securing good Georgetown Assistant Supply Officer, College 1941. contacts for more than two hundred alumni At Sydney, Australia, we met Ray Higgins, College 1940. He seeking positions in business and in industry. was visiting his father-in-Jaw, U.S. Ambassador Butler. George­ town men continue to cover the world. Thought this would be of We have carried seven young men on alumni interest to you. · scholarships, giving them the opportunity to By way of postscript, now that we are in port, I might add that attend Georgetown which they would not Gene McCahill, College '21, is aboard in a reserve capacity, as an observer, and we are delighted to have him with us. Best r egards otherwise have had. By offering student em­ from all of us to all our friends at the university. ployment to as many as possible in the detailed Hong Kong DICK MCVOY, '41. work of our daily operations, we have assisted fifteen others to receive a Georgetown education. During the past year the Association has also made it possible for members of the faculty to visit thirty-six Georgetown centers to talk with the alumni concerning the problems of the Uni­ Dear Sir: versity. This activity has brought the alumni Georgetown men will be interested in a notice I have just body into much closer contact with the received. Uni­ The First Inter-American Congress of the J esuits' Old Boys versity at a time when their intimate knowledge Association will be held in S. Paulo, Brazil, from August 31 to of Georgetown's problems has been particu­ September 5, 1948. This will be an assembly of Jesuit alumni from all Latin America, and from the United States and Canada as larly important. well. All of these things have been made possible According to the announcement, "in this important moment in by the loyal support of the active members of history where there is such a conflict of ideals in the social and poli­ our Association tical fields, and such a perturbation of spirit, the American Jesuit who in the year now closing re­ alumni unite to express their sincere and fraternal viewpoints on sponded in numbers much greater than in any these great and important problems of humanity." previous year. The officers of our Association Significant, eh? All correspondence should be addressed to and the members of the Board of Governors Federacao Brasileira das Associacoes · dos Antigos Alunos dos J esuitas, Colegio S. Luis, Avenida Paulista 2324, Sao. Paulo, take great encouragement from this increase in Brazil. membership, reflecting as it does an obvious in­ Baltimore STEPHEN F. MCNAMEE, S.J. terest in the work of the Association and ap­ probation of its accomplishments. It is our hope that the year ahead of us will see an even greater number of members and a resulting increase in our activities and in our power fox: good. The completion of the fund for the McDonough Dear Sir: Gymnasium, which we hope will not be long Considerable interest has been evidenced in the past as to how much or how little publicity the Georgetown Athletic teams are delayed, will be the final and convincing proof getting. of the power of an organized continuing A detailed account of Hoya athletic publicity during the past Alumni Association. eight months will be sent to any alumnus who requests it. Washington, D . C. BILL RACH J.S.R. Director of Athletic Publicity 2 Georgetown University Alumni Magazine Cohonguroton Inn·

Whiffenpoof Sons of Georgetown in Search of an Eating Club

WILLIAM A. BEHAN '49

IS the JT. considered opm10n of Georgetown Univer­ remodel it as an Inn. ~ut more specifically, they are . slty that a Whiffenpoof of Distinction would politely looking for a home that bears a natural air of welcome in 1gno.re the unpolished restaurants of the neighborhood. its appearance, where, in their remodelling, they could Dutifully he would pass them by. Pressed, he might blend a taste of the antique with a necessary flavor of the ob~erve them, but invariably with severe disapproval. convenient, and be assured of happiest results. Accord­ Mistaken, he might enter them, but in haste and con­ ingly, on a tour of the vicinage, they usually linger longest fusion he would withdraw. From all lasting alliances in front of two-or-three-story brick residences which h ' oweve.r, some better angel of social grace would pre- seem to have existed here quietly and unobstrusively, for serve h.m~; the little black sheep never would go astray. the past hundred years or so, hidden by towering elms. For .1t IS certain that the nearby lunch roo~s can lay So much the better if, on inspection, the front steps seem ~o cla1m to the Whiffenpoof trade. Unfortunately there well worn, if a cheerful light plays dancing shadows IS no place adjoining the campus which remotely re­ across the portal, if the glistening brass door-knocker sembles the world-famous Mary's of Yale, or the Nassau seems to signal an eagerly awaited arrival rather than to Tavern of Princeton. Georgetown is a school without an challenge or bar the passerby. Inn. Given such a place, advocates of the plan feel that Nevertheless, the more optimistic of the local observers they could fashion a very fine Cohonguroton Inn, follow­ lately have begun to look up. Several forces on the cam­ ing the mental blue-print they have already formed. pus have been conducting a vigorous and intensive cam­ The renovations havE been planned in some detail, and pai?n throughout the Winter months, now happily past, supposing that the Inn were now a reality, you would des1gned to bring a Mary's to Georgetown; tQ secure a find it in general like this: decent eating house which, by combining good food with On the first floor, as you enter, you find a series of warm hospitality, might serve as a valuable addition to dining rooms adjoined by a small lounge. The dominant university life. A great many people are interested in the note here is simplicity. Unlik-e those coldly mechanical plan; they refer to it as the "Cohonguroton Inn Idea." places, flashing a chromium glare, this is an informal haven of relaxation, quiet but good-humored in atmos­ HE Idea can be traced back to 1945, when it was phere, rather plainly furnished throughout. You note Tfirst put forth by Father Gerard F. Yates, S.J., Chair­ with pleasure the rustic style of the tables and chairs, man of the Political Science Department of the Graduate the great old-fashioned fire-place iri the main dining School and a member of the Editorial Board of this room, the familiar pictures of Georgetown greats hung magazine. Writing a letter to the editor of the campus here and there on the walls. There is abundant evidence newspaper, The Hoya, Father Yates reviewed existing that here you would enjoy a fine meal in an air of privacy conditions, and then asked pointedly: "Isn't there a seri­ which Father Yates described as "not characteristic of ous need of a Georgetown equivalent to Mary's? \1\Touldn't the students' dining room, and yet not out of reach of a good eating club, where Georgetown atmosphere distinctive campus atmosphere." prevailed, be a wonderful asset to our campus?" He then Stepping downstairs, you discover the traditionally suggested: "A good name, incidentally, would be the popular rathskeller, oak and stein de luxe. It is a broad, Cohonguroton Inn." low-ceilinged lair, marked by over-hang.ing beams in­ Necessarily the thought lay dormant during the na­ tended for spirited ringing, and the noticeable traces of tional emergency. Early this Fall, however, with a a sniff that made Milwaukee famous. Scattered across record number of students on campus,- Father Yates' the room are a number of heavy round tables with oak letter was re-discovered. Printed again in The Hoya, thi~ chairs, while booths, touched with the initialling knife time supplemented by a full-page spread of pictures and of every visitor, neatly line the walls. An old Engjish ba.r commentary, contrasting conditions here with those at is at the near end of the hall, to the right of the stairway, other schools, it occasioned immediate reactions, wide­ and a well-used piano stands close by. You .have the spread and universally favorable. Since that time, the feeling ·that a place like this belongs in a college, provid­ Idea has been attracting active supporters both on and ing an appropriate background for everything from off the campus with every passing day. serious conversation to victory celebrations, as the occa­ Most of the people who seriously consider the problem sion demands. now view every home in Georgetown as a potential eat­ The remainder of the building, the upper floors, are ing club. 'Their general plan, of course, is to purchase happily your lodgings during your visit to Georgetown. or lease one of the large homes above M Street, and to You rather like being near to Georgetown, being able

5pring, 1 948 3 to get to the University easily. That convenience, to­ propose to act, they have not stated explicitly. The most gether with the convivial atmosphere, the number of encouraging report, however, declares that the seemingly familiar faces you've seen, and the m·odern accomodation interested observer has already engaged a chef fresh of the rooms, makes this the practical place to stay in from the kitchens of New Orleans. Washington. Thus far has the campaign succeeded to date. Up to the As a matter of fact, the Idea is practical from nearly mon:ent, we have rumors, and wars of rumors, quite every aspect, including the viewpoint of the investor. extensive plans, and apparently excellent chances of Georgetown, classified recently by the Saturday Evening success; but it must be confessed we still have no visible Post as one of the wealthiest living districts in the nation, Cohonguroton Inn. does not presently harbor one Class A restaurant. The Meanwhile, the 3,200 post-war students here, hoping nearest decent eating houses, places likely to attract the for better times, make restricted use of the uninviting trade, are fifteen minutes downtown, and bewilderingly Class C lunch rooms of the area. surrounded by parking problems. There they gather languidly, a scattered, disorganized few, fragments of Georgetown, and minus the oak beams ET the continually growing student body would, and steins and the treasured sense of tradition, they sit Yin all probability, support the place alone, not to at ordinary black-top tables, and when they have a mention the residents of the area. Under present condi­ glass of beer, they now and then sing a song. tions, there are no adequate facilities to tend properly to But there really isn't much life to a scene like this; for the social needs of the school. There is no place where the tables down at the Hoya Inn do not remind one of student or professor and guest can meet suitably; where the tables down at Mory's; the place where Teehan associates at the university can gather casually; where dwells has nothing in common with the place where school functions, small dinners, receptions, meetings, can Louie dwells; nor would Gentlemen Songsters off on a be carried on with a legitimate and proper display of spree ever think to spree at Sugar's Drug Store. the spirit of Georgetown. So the Sons of Georgetown- regretfully, nostalgically Two possible investors have closely surveyed this situa­ -find themselves singing a song that voices a happier tion during the past few months, and recently have given scene-a favored song that tells of Temple Bar, where hints that they may soon act to open the doors of an Inn. the Whiffenpooffs assemble, with their glasses raised on Just exactly what they intend to do, and when they high.

Artist's Conception of the Proposed Cohooguroton Inn 4 Georgetown University Alumni Magazine Vocational Guidance

New Campus Service Proves Highly Successful

L. C. McHuGH, S.J.

DID you know that there has been a Vocational and Perhaps, in the course of my remarks about the history Educational Guidance Center in operation on the of the Center, our general raison d'.etre has emerged with Georgetown campus for two years? Possibly not. It is true, some clarity. But I should like to say more· about our however, that a constantly increasing amount of work objectives. is being done in the Center to help solve the vocational Insofar as we work in cooperation with .the Veterans and educational problems of the 3,376· students of the Administration, our purpose is to provide vocational College and School of Foreign Service. advisement (based upon a specific procedure) to veterans The Guidance Center was opened on February 1, under Public Law 16 and Public Law 346. To enjoy the 1946, to give "vocational advisement and guidance" benefits of the former, a disabled veteran must undergo to the veterans of the Washington area. It :.Vas staffed vocational advis.ement before he is allowed to enter a then, as it still is, by personnel of the Veterans Adminis­ training program of any kind. This law applies only to tration and of the University. As a matter of fact, we disabled veterans. Veterans who have no disability, or made our start under the rather formidable title of "The who take training under the G. I. Bill, are not obliged Veterans Administration Guidance Center of George­ to go through advisement, but are entitled to receive it town University. at any time, if they request it. At that time, we had our offices on the ground floor On the other hand, insofar as we are an institution of the White-Gravenor Building. In the beginning, most operating in the University, our purpose is to afford of our advisement work was done for the benefit of dis­ vocational and educational counseling to as many of the abled veterans seeking entrance into some kind of train­ student body as we can reach, whether they be veterans ing-on-the-job or academic institution. But as time or non-veterans. We know by considerable experience passed, a growing number of our clientele were of that that Georgetown has many students, on the under­ group of veterans who desired training under· the "G. I. graduate level at least, who are completely at sea regard­ Bill." To-day, veterans without disabilities form much ing their choice of life-objectives, or how to achieve their the largest number of our cliei)ts. objectives, even if their objectives are well-defined. Many have no true estimate of their abilities or deficiencies. AT the same time, another change has taken place. Others experience unusual difficulties in their eou,rse fi Originally, very few of the veterans seeking our work without understanding why. We believe th~ the help were from our own campus. Just now, perhaps half Guidance Center can help most of these students to a of the advisements we complete concern men who are • considerable degree. We can achieve this result for the actually schooling at Georgetown. This change has taken veteran at government expense. Regrettably (since we place without publicity or solicitation on the part of the have no budget), we can offer our services to ~on-vet­ Guidance Center. It has occurred as the result of word­ erans on a fee basis only, though we look forward hope­ of-mouth advertising among the student body, given by fully to a day when students at Georgetown, as at many those who felt satisfied with the help they received in our other colleges, can find guidance without cost. Center. To date, we have given vocational or educational HAT we have to offer the University, then, is guidance to approximately 1,300 veterans of the Wash­ W not an Information Center (as many people ington area. The latest developments which have taken think), nor a Placement Bureau (we do no placement place in the Center are these: (1) .we moved our facilities whatsoever), but a Voqtional Counseling Unit. · to the Old Hospital at the beginning of October; here we How do we go about our task? Our adviseme~t pr,o­ have more office space then before, and a set-up better cedure is identical for veterans and non-veterans, and suited to our purpose. (2) We now have the permission follows a recognized pattern. When a client begins of the President to undertake advisement on non-vet­ advisement, he is assigned to the care of a ·vocational erans on a fee basis. Services to veterans, of course, are appraiser, who first investigates the client's family and entirely gratis. To date, we have given vocational guid­ educational background, his work experience, in-service ance to only twelve non-veteran students. Here again, experience, hobbies and interests. At the same time, the we have so far been content to allow notice of this further appraiser tries to discover whatever plans for the fut.ure service to the University to pass about by word of mouth. the client may have, and how he hopes ·to execute them~ We are anxious, however, to inform the whole campus It is now time for the second part of the advisement of our ability to offer some help in the solution of voca­ procedure, which consists in objective testing, designed tional and educational problems. to reveal the client's interest-pattern and personality Spring, 1948 5 profile, as well as his measure of intelligence (I. Q.), the in courses that require considerable reading, such as level of his achievement, and any special aptitudes he may English and History. Discovery and analysis of these have. This part of the procedure consumes, on the aver­ troubles may frequently help prevent the academic age, six or eight hours. The time consumed, of course, and tragedy of failure. Careful advisement can be a good the number of tests administered, depends on the diffi­ insurance for the investment of time and money which culty of the advisement. On a six-month basis, the aver­ a student makes when he is in college. In the case of age number of tests taken by our clients has been five. veterans, guidance is an insurance for the thousands of Very often, of course, as many as eight or even ten tests dollars which the taxpayers invest in every veteran who may be administered. enters training. The third step in the advi_sement consists in an inter­ The Guidance Center can be a boon to Georgetown view with the appraiser, in which the test results are itself. After all, our schools are maintained by tuition discussed with the client. The appraiser tries to interpret fees. Obviously, then, the retention of the student once the test scores, and to point out their occupational and entered in course is important. The lower the student vocational significance, both in themselves and in relation mortality, the less the monetary loss tb the University. to whatever information may have been secured in the We believe that with our facilities, we can help prevent first interview. We generally conclude an advisement by student failure to a marked degree. Even where it is confirming the client in his choice of an objective, or by necessary to drop a student for scholastic reasons, we can suggesting what appears to the prudent judgment of the often re~ain the good will of the student toward -the appraiser. to b<'; a better course to follow. school by giving him, before he leaves, some sense of s.~udents who have gone through advisement generally direction as to where he should head, educationally or derive a -marked satifaction from it. To begin with, they occupationally. experience a new sense of direction in the pursuit of their Before the war, some form of Guidance was provided goal, and an-intensification of their motivation. This is for our students (at least in the College) in the form of o(~o small value to a student whose course work may arranged interviews between professor and pupil. This seem remotely connected with his final objective. Further, practice is not in use at present; the huge student body one usually finishes his advisement with a juster apprecia­ would make an unbearable drain on the professors' tion of his own abilities, and a clearer apprehension of the time. The guidance, therefore, that cannot be provided disabilities that may be hindering his progress. Many of personally may possibly be done at the Guidance Center our students appear to be pursuing vocational goals on a professional basis. which are beyond their abilities or which are at variance We hope that as we learn through experience to do an with their true interests; a ·considerable number have ever better job, the Guidance Center may be retained pronounced reading disabilities that afflict them seriously as a permanent institution on the campus.

The beloved teacher of thou_sands of Georgetown men. T~e P

'Without a thorough knowledge of history, the foreign correspondent moves in darkness. H<;! sees shadows but no reality. He in­ terviews statesmen but he docs not understand what they do. He does not understand why they speak as they do. The foreign cor­ res~ondent who lacks a grasp of ideas that have moved men for 6,000 years or. more wanders blindly through a maze of startling acttons which he can only report hysterically, because there is no reasonableness 10 what he sees or what he reports. George E. Sokolsky

Spring, 1948 7 Liberal Education

Three Facts of History Concerning the Liberal Arts

joHN E. WisE, S.J., '26

HERE are three facts which stand out from history, particular contributing to empirical method by the place Twhen one investigates the nature of the liberal arts. he assigns in knowledge to sense observation and mate­ The first striking fact is that science is an historical and rial being. The more immediate genesis of modern science, essential component, and a basic part of the liberal arts. which is not dealt with here, receives nevertheless the To speak about a college of arts and sciences is the same best commentary of its value and rapidity from the actual thing as to speak about a college of the liberal arts. To stage of scientific progress dazzliqg the eyes of the living. speak about a liberal education is the same as to speak Modern science is the modern subject of the quadri­ about education in the arts and sciences. Thus the hu­ vium. Scientific knowledge depends less on history than manities, humane studies, are only part of a liberal arts does literatur~ and philosophy. Boyle's law, that the education; the other part consists in the quantitative volume of gas varies inversely with the pressure, does not studies, mathematics and the natural sciences. need the personalized expression of Shakespeare's "coil of That this contention is historically true is easily seen mortal care" to make it a law or to make it intelligible. from the time of the Greeks when Aristotle wrote not Contrary to the "Great Books" system at St. John's, only on poetry and rhetoric, and spoke definitively on mathematics and science need not emphasize historical laws of grammar and logic, but was also the father in genesis, but can specialize in modern syntheses and ex­ many lines of nature study and of the study of the human periment with to-day's apparatus. Laboratory work and body, nature's wonder. He pondered the physical world mathematical problems make for accurate observation, and universe, the soul and its thought and will, human orderly procedure, careful classification, and justified society and ethical conduct, and the Supreme Being. conclusion. These are benefits from the study of the Even Plato, more literary and idealistic than Aristotle, sciences besides the knowledge of nature and vocational was not only a humanist but also a mathematician, as and professional preparation. Without the quadrivium, were many of his followers. The balance of the trivium the liberal arts abandon their historical inclusion of both and quadrivium, exemplifying moderation in all things, the arts and sciences; they become less qualitative when was often remarkable in Greece. In Rome, however, the they cease to be quantitative, because they know less balance fell off, and if Romanitas had science, it might about G,od and man when they forget nature. not have perished; but with a Greek genius for the real observation of nature, cataloguing of fact, and venture F it is understood that the quadrivium as well as the on hypothesis, it would have ceased to be Romanitas. Its I trivium is historically essential to the liberal arts, and own genius was rule and law. This is bequeathed to the that therefore the modern scientist can advocate a liberal newborn Church. education, and that a liberally educated man can and The Jack of science, therefore, in the early Middle should advance the natural sciences, a second historical Ages and before the Renaissance of the twelfth century, fact concerning the liberal arts can be noted. This fact was not Christian but Roman. Christian vitality was concerns the difficult point of the relationship of mental as ready to assimilate Greek science fed to it by the Arabs training and character training. It can be said without ­ as it was to make its own the Roman sense of order. This hesitation that mental training is the immediate end Renaissance of the twelfth century, its inherited and even of a liberal education. A liberal education aims primarily, creative science has been revealed with sufficient fullness as Cardinal Newman would teach us, at mental training, by the work of Charles Homer Haskins, Lynn Thorn­ which means the ready ability of a vigorous mind as well dike, and Christopher Dawson. The sources of modern as a balanced fund of knowledge. In other words, mental science are medieval as well as Greek, St. Thomas in training does not merely mean a keen intellect but also

There must be something rottenly wrong with education itself. So many people have wonderful children and all the grown-up people are such duds. Chesterton

8 Georgetown University Alumni Magazine thoroughly Christian and is not a new discovery, as we The only dominating influence in the school and the might be led by some writers to believe. In confirmation college must be that of truth. Maritain of this statement, it will be helpful, perhaps, just to quote three passages from representatives of Christianity, bridging centuries of time. As for St. Augustine: a content of truth, with a good grasp of essential reality, We are led to learning in two ways: by reason and God, man and nature. The liberal arts include, therefore, by authority. Authority is first in time, reason is first science and nature study, and also the study of man i.n in importance. For it is one thing to proceed in doing, the humanities, literature and philosophy. That bas1c and another to esteem in desire. And thus, though and liberal theology must underlie education in the authority seems more healthful for the unlearned trivium and the quadrivium goes without saying, for many, reason excels in the cultured ... And those God is the creator of both man and nature, and the who are content with authority alone, and expend ultimate causality and finality of man and nature ~ust their efforts on good morals and holy desires, condemn­ be investigated. Now such an investigation is essentially ing the liberal arts or not being up theology. to them, I do not . see how they can be really happy among mortal men, But even with such an understanding of mental tram­ though I believe with unshakable faith that they will ing as including both content, and the ability to use be free and happy to the greatest extent in the next such content, the relationship to will training and char­ life, who have lived best here. acter training is not yet fully clear. Seneca tell~ us t~at the St. Augustine develops to almost embarassing length liberal arts do not give virtue, but prepare the mmd to his explanation of what he means by the exercise of the receive virtue. They give good ideals and broad ex­ mental abilities, "to exercise the soul and for the student perience, as is evidenced in history and literature. But to sharpen the keenness of his mental vision" by the self­ besides these good ideals, which the will is still free to activity of his own reason. resist character training the formation of good moral ' ' St. Thomas Aquinas compares the teaching and learn- habits and the aid of divine grace must be cons1'd ered · ing process to the work of a physician: · The question of the relationship of a liberal education Just as a person may be cured in a twofold manner to character training, to the good of the whole man,. his through the operation of nature alone or through final destiny, is most profoundly treated in Cardmal nature with the aid of medicine, so there is a twofold Newman's essay on The Idea of a University. "Knowledge manner of acquiring knowledge, the one when the is an end in itself" but it is not man's end. Knowledge natural reason of itself comes to a knowledge of the must be an instr~ment of virtue. The higher education unknown, which is called discovery, the other when goes, the closer must be the Church, because the be~efits someone extrinsically gives aid to the natural of a liberal education are the most reason, excellent in the hne of which is called instruction. human achievement and yet are the most capable of Discovery is the higher process, since it requires more perversion.'To a liberal education must be added a ~o.ral native genius, but instruction excels education That is why in that the teacher the Church founded universltles. has · h the knowledge as a whole and explicitly, and "can Th e great mot er umvers1t1es. . · · o f the West are Christian lead to knowledge more quickly and easily than anyone and the idea of a university is Christian. . can be led by himself," whereas the pupil "knows the When once it is realized that the high attamment of principles of knowledge only in generality." liberal culture is The verbal the greatest in the line of human en- and oral . · · symbols of books and of teaching are, moreover, deaver, it can readily be seen that 1t 1s Imp ortant to . closer to the mind, as having already come from thought realize the relationship of such mental culture to _sanctlt~. and reasoning, whereas the student's own labor would Mental culture can exist with or without sanctity, 10 as be endless without the work of other men. St. Basil or in Julian the Apostate, who went to the same Knowledge is therefore inductive, psychological and school, or in the many litterateurs and ~av~nts, whom maieutic,. as well as deductiv~, logical and authoritative. Newman notes are more inclined to md1fference in In either case it must be applied and digested. Th'i:: bene­ religion than to the practice of religion. This is becau~e fits of both types of knowledge would be endangered by they make knowledge not only an immediate end m over-emphasis on either. What the student discovers for itself as fulfilling the needs of the intellect, but also an himself will last longer because of a greater association ultimate end in itself as fulfilling the needs of the whole of phantasms and experience. Even when the teacher has man; whereas the whole man must not only know God to take the lead, since the student cannot do all, the pre­ but love Him. The relationship of liberal culture to sentation should be clear, vivid and sanctity is the most associated with the imporatnt point discussed by New- student's . . . · own work. man m h1s Idea of a Umvemty an d h e m ost clearly shows that knowledge must be intended for the good of the whole man and that faith fulfills knowledge and does not A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the frustrate it, and that sanctity moment a single must make knowledge real, man contemplates it, bearing within him the · image of a and turn it into wisdom. cathedraL I shall not fret about the loam if somewhere in it a seed lies buried. The seed will drain the loam and the wheat will blaze. THIRD fact of history concerning the liberal. a_rts ~s St. Exupery A that the basically human idea of self actlvlty IS Spring, 1948 9 It must never be forgotten that the subject of Christian education is man whole and entire, soul united to body in unity of nature, witjl all his faculties natural and super­ RIGGS natural .. . man, therefore, fallen from his original estate, but redeemed by Christ and restored to the supernatural LIBRARY condition of adopted son of God. Pius XI

In the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum, self-activity, as stated by a late Father General, is essential to the spirit and method of· Jesuit teaching. This statement of Father Martin in 1893 only repeats the "exercise one's self," daily practice of speaking and writing, and the development of the The Library and the Alumni talents, so often mentioned in the Ratio. This self-activity applies not only to knowledge, but also to virtue, for one must "learn along with letters the habits worthy of Chris­ By PHILLIPS TEMPLE, University Librarian tians." It is interesting to approach the study of the liberal arts from a historical angle. The collective thinking of R EMARKABLE collection of old and rare medical great men can be wrong, but it is not often wrong. When A books has been presented to the Riggs Library by they tell us that the study of God, man and nature must Mrs. Rose Schlindwein, in memory of her late husband, be used for the glory of God and the salvation of souls, Dr. G. William Schlindwein, the noted eye specialist they speak true. They lead us to the most notably human who practiced in Eire, Pa. The gift, which Mrs. Schlind­ activities, namely, those exercised and manifested 111 wein made to us through the good officers of Father liberal culture. Charles .J. Foley, S.J., Professor of Psychology, comprises Science is part of liberal culture, and grows with it. 50 items ranging in date from 1476 (the rare first edition Character can be aided by liberal culture, when such of Peckham's Liber de oculo morali, known to collectors as culture is acquired by men of good will. But liberal "Hain 9426") to 1927, and including a first edition in culture is such a valuable weapon that one needs to be its original wrappers of Louis Pasteur's Quelques Reflex­ closer to God to use it right. Then his mental power ions sur la Science en France (1871). Selected volumes from exercises itself for the good of the human race, and the the collection were placed on exhibit in the Randall atomic age can dawn for human good. Reading Room, where they attracted considerable atten­ tion. Particularly striking were the quaint and rather terrifying old woodcuts which convey more forcibly than The REv. FRANCIS J. HEYDEN, S. J., director of the any prose account the difference between having an eye Georgetown College Observatory, was designated to operation in, say, the year 1583 and the year 1948. head one of the six observing parties stationed from the Martin S. Quigley, Jr., College '39, has published, Aleutians to Burma along the path of a solar eclipse under the auspices of the Georgetown University Press, which took place May 8. Father Heyden's station was a book entitled Magic Shadows: The Story of the Origin of set up near Wu-K'ang, China. Motion Pictures (Washington, D. C., 1948. $3.50). We ' had naively thought that the story began with Thomas A. Edison in the '90's, but Quigley carries us back to What the Students are Reading 6000 B.C. when, according to some authorities, magni­ Fiction fying glasses were used by the Chaldeans. He cites 5000 C. S. Lewis: That Hideous Strmgth (Macmillan.) B.C. as the possi ble date of the earliest Chinese Shadow Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory (previ.ously pub­ Plays; reproduces lished as The Labyrinthine Ways). Viking. a fascinating picture of Archimedes' Charles A. Brady, comp.: A Catholic Reader. (Desmond and "burning glasses" used in the defense of Syracuse in 212 Stapleton). B.C.; treats at some length the first screen picture show Alain-Fournier: The Wanderer. (New Directions). in Rome Frances Parkinson Keyes: Came a Cavalier. (Julian Messner). in 1646 by means of Kircher's picture wheels; Non-Fiction and so on until we reach modern and familiar times. ' Roger Butterfield: The American Pas!. (Simon and Schuster). Copies of the book were deposited with the leading James Brodrick (SJ.): The Progress of !he Jesuits. (Long- coll ege and research libraries of the country. Judging by mans). Saint Augustine: Cotifessions (in the translation by Frank the enthusiasm with which they were received, it appears Sheed). Sheed and Ward. that Quigley's study is the first comprehensive treatment David Dallin: The Real Soviet Russia. (Yale University Press). of the subject in book form. Copies may be purchased Lecomte du Nouy: Human Destiny. (Longmans). Walter Millis: This is Pearl. (William Morrow). from the Quigley Bookstore, 1270 Sixth Avenue, Rocke­ Norman Lewis: How to Read Better and Faster. (Crowell). fell er Center, New York 20. Beaman: Fat Man i11 a Phone Booth. (Cloud, Inc.). It will be of particular interest to the older graduates George Morgenstern: Pearl Harbor. (Devin-Adair). John F. Fulton: Harvey Cushing; a Biography. of Georgetown to learn of the recent death of Miss Janet - From the records of the Riggs Memorial Library Richards, niece of Father J. Havens Richards, who served as the University's President from 1888 to 18.98 10 Georgetown University Alumni Magazine and who played an active pan in the formation of the Mrs. Margaret Bailey, sent us some volumes for our rare Riggs Library. Miss Richards, for many years .an inter­ book coll ection. nationally known speaker on public questions, was a Among the recent periodicals there have been a num­ generous donor of books to the Library, giving us the ber of contributions by members of the Georgetown bulk of her father's collection. She is being remembered faculty or studem body, a few of which may be cited here: in the Masses and pray;rs of the Fathers in the commu­ Father Gerard F. Yates, S.J., Chairman of the Graduate nity at Georgetown. Department of Political Science, contributed a review Dr. John F. Callahan, Associate Professor of Phil­ of Mr. Cecil Driver's Tory Radical: The Life of Richard osophy in the Graduate School, is the author of Four Oastler to Thought (23:141- 3 March '48); Henry vV. Views of Time in Ancient Philosophy, recently announced Briefs, Foreign Service '43, who was president of the for publication by the Harvard University Press. student council during his undergraduate period, wrote Charles E. Thorn, Law '94, sent us a copy of his an article entitled "Needed: A Foreign Policy for Stu­ brochure entitled Heroic Life and Tragic Death o/ Lieuten­ dents" in Amenca (79 :24- 7 April 17, '48); Dr. Louis J. ant Jonathan Thorn, U.S. Navy. Lt. Thorn, in charge of A. Mercier, formerly of Harvard and now Professor of the barque Tonquin, fitted out by John Jacob Astor the Comparative Philo ophy and Literature in the Graduate elder, sailed her around the Horn in 1810, but while School, wrote, under the title " Rousseau and the 'Social trading furs with the Clayoquot Indians he and the rest Contact,' " the thirteenth in the series of articles on the of his crew (22 men in all) were massacred. "The story Great Books in America (78:687- 9 March 20, '48); while of the voyage and murder," Mr. Thorn wrote us, under numerous book reviews in the same periodical are cur­ date of October 31, 1945, " is the subject of the first part rently contributed by Dr. John J. O'Connor, Professor of Washington Irving's 'Astoria.'" Charles E. Thorn is of History in the School of Foreign Service; Riley Hughes, an attorney and resides in New York City. A.M., Lecturer in English in the same School; and Dr. Dr. Casimir Leibel!, Med. '16, a frequent benefactor Josephine N. Hughes, who is now serving as Reference of the Library in the past, has recently presented us with Librarian in the Riggs Library. Dr. Hughes also contrib­ fifty-odd volumes of 18th and early 19th century literary uted a long and critical review of orthrop Frye '~ periodicals and books. Among his earlier gifts was a Fearful S,ymmetr)': a study of William Blake to The Thomist complete set of "Life" magazine. Dr. Leibel! is associated (1 1 :257-9 April 1948). with the Radiology Department of Providence Hospital, Dr. Charles Callan Tansill, Professor of American · Washington, D.C. History and Diplomacy in the Graduate School, whose James Bailey of Petersburg, Va., who is studying at recent book, The Congresszonal Career of Thomas F. Bayard Georgetown for his doctorate in the Department of was published by the Georgetown Ur>iversity Press, has History, delivered a lecture on little-publicized but dis­ been currently delivering a number of lectures to clubs tinguished Catholic Virginians which was reprinted in and various organizations. Among these was an address the newspaper, The Catholic Vzrginian (Jan. 16, 1948). to the Lions' Club of Washington at the Mayflower on Bailey is also the author of a monograph, A Century of April 14 on the subject "America, Victim of a 'One Catholicism in Historic Petersburg: A History of Saint Joseph' s World' Ideal;" and another delivered on February 13 Parish, Petersburg, a copy of which he gave us for the at Loyola College in Baltimore on "Russian-American Georgetown Authors' Case. Several years ago his aunt, Rcla tions.''

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The dedication page, first and last pages of Mark Twain's Advent11res of Tom Sa·wyer. The autograph manuscript of this immortal classic is in the University Library. Spring, 1948 11 INTRODUCING

DR. JULIAN ]. REISS, '16 Champion of Justice

JAMES C. SHANNON, '18 R . REISS is a progressive Catholic business man Governor of Connecticut D who does not allow the social encyclicals of Leo XIII and Pius XI to gather dust on his shelves. His profit-snaring plan resulted in the distribution last year ONNECTICUT'S new governor has never been of more than $40,000 to twenty employees in his auto Cguilty of angelism. This sin consists of limiting dealerships at Lake Placid, Saranac Lake and Tupper Christian action to the spiritual and supernatural. It is Lake, New York. Sixty percent of his company's profits noticeable in some men who join pious study groups, were thus distributed as an incentive to loyal, coopera­ talk each other to death, and are fearful of going out tive and efficient workmanship. His strong sense of into the world in order to conquer and transform it. justice in labor relations has won wide acclaim, includ­ Jim Shannon has manifested a strong social sense in ing an honorary degree from Niagara University. three principal ways. In 1945 Dr. Reiss was appointed by Governor Dewey He has been active for many years in Boy Scout work. to the five-man Commission Against Discrimination He is a past president of the Bridgeport Council and for which included a Negro, a Jewish woman, a labor union the past ten years has been Diocesan Lay Chairman for official and two lawyers. Dr. Reiss supplied the sound Catholic Scouting in Connecticut. He is also a member social philosophy of an outstanding Catholic business of the regional committee for Boy Scouts of New England. leader from northern New York. During the past nine years this successful attorney has During his two years' service on the Commission, been counsel for the Connecticut Federation of Labor. Dr. Reiss adjusted complaints on racial and religious He has also represented other labor organizations. discrimination in employment. One effect of the Commis­ In the field of public service, Jim has served his com­ sion's work was to make employers ashamed to admit munity as prosecuting attorney, City Court and Juvenile belief in discrimination. In no case reviewed by the Com­ Court Judge. His succession as governor is Connecticut's mission was an employer willing to face the possible tribute to his unflagging devotion to the common good. stigma of a public hearing.

12 Georgetown University Alumni Magazine ATHLETICS

Spring Sports Appraisal

BILL RACH

PRING has come to the Hilltop. Baseball and football Sstars are in full bloom. There is an air o.f optimism and enthusiasm on the venerable old campus. Spring is here again, and love, and fresh, challenging hopes, and Georgetown Visitation Convent, and a line drive to center field, and a forward pass, and athletics, and a new season, and love, and Spring. Boys, it's SPRING! Joe Judge, the baseball mentor, coach and substitute Al Naples and Joe Judge first baseman, has a group of well-trained diamond dandies well started on their primrose way towar~s, or toward, one of the most successful of all Georgetown Flynn is a bashful red-haired kid from Buffalo. He baseball seasons. won his first five games and seems a good bet to win six Trinity College has a banner enrollment this year and - or a dozen. Mr. Flynn is a pitcher. Judge has lost only 27 games in the seven years he has Corley is another Staten Island youngster who is next handled the Hoya baseball fortunes. This is as good a year's basketball captain. Elections are early this year. record as any coach in Washington- or anywhere else. To keep in shape for ba:ketball, he plays baseball all by As a former major league great and a swell after-dinner himself in left field. Spring does things to people. Tommy speaker, Joe Judge has a knowledge of the game which has an average of 345. springs, or leaps, from the best of all sources, which l Brushing aside the buttercups, here is another item. It am told is experience. Added to this technical knowl­ seems that Joe Guiney's golf team is winning 90 percent edge, judge has a kindly personal regard for the boys of its matches. The Freshman mile relay team copped under his care. It must be a combination of these qual­ firsts in both the Seton Hall games and the Penn Relays. ities which instills the spirit, drive, and heads-up base­ Not bad, eh? Father Joseph Geib's tennis team, after a ball savy found in the current Hilltop Nine. slow springy start, is now beating everything in sight. Super-stars of a well-rounded club seem to be AI Wandering idly one day along the Mile Path, I noticed Naples, Tommy Flynn and Ray Corley. that Jack Hagerty's football stalwarts are looking as ~ · Naples is the nervous little Irishman from Staten sharp as Spring will permit. Island whom many rate as the classiest fielding shortstop J ack needs a fullback. He needs a first-rate passer. But in G. U. baseball history. he has a lot of fresh-looking, clean-cut, dapper and gentlemanly sophomores. According to publicity hand­ outs, Sophomore backs and Spring rains are flooding the Hoya field. · Leading tl1e ···fl.ood are Dick Barba and Billy Conn. Both boys are, not from Staten Island. They are clean-cut and they brm,.t''gh~ along superlative schoolboy records. They are also very sharp, and very modest, and very good football players. Barba, in case you are interested in minority. problems hails from Maplewood, N.J. He carries 190 pounds weli and even runs with it. It seems that he is defensively potent. , Conn comes fro,m _Newark, which is also inN. J. He can also run. He s cool, sharp, and football-wise. All Dick Barba to Billy Conn that he lacks is experience and polish. Spring, 1948 13 Georgetown Men in The Philippines The first Annual R eunion-Dinner was held by Alumni and former stu­ CLASS NOTES dents of Georgetown University in Manila on February 7, 1948. The foll owing officers were elected: HoN: FELIX BAUTISTA-ANGELO, Law '20, President; HoN. SALVADOR ABAD 1883 1912 SANTOS, Law '21, Vice-President; JoHN DowNEY HARVEY, College '83, WILLIAM C. HOLMES, Law '12, died sud­ ALPHONSO P. DoNESA, Law '24, Sec­ died recently at his home in San Francisco, denly at his office in Washington, D. C., retary-Treasurer. The Board of Di­ Calif. on January 12, 1948. rectors is composed of DEAN GABRIEL LA'o, Law ' 13, who is Professor of Law 1904 j osEPH C. HEMPHILL, Law '12, died in his sleep at his home in the Broadmoor a t the Santo Tomas University, CoN­ DR. FRANK J. SHORT, Med. '04, died Apartments, Washington, D. C., on March SUL F. IMP ER IAL, Law '21, of the De­ recently at his home in Jersey City, N.J. 12, 1948. He was assistant Eastern counsel partment of Foreign Affairs, Attorney of the Patent Division of the Association of FRANK E. NATTIER, F.S. '37, Law '40, 1906 American Railroads. Interment was held DR. MARCELO NuBLA, Law '23, Di­ DR. EDMUND W. PARDEE, Dent. '06, has at Newton, Ill. rector of the China Bank, Attorney been appointed Acting Mayor of Newport, 1913 BERNARDO B. GAPUZ, Law '26, former R.I., to fill the vacancy caused by the death DR. FRANCIS J. READY, Med. '13, died Provincial Governor, and Attorney of the Mayor. MATTHEW J. FAERBER, Law at his home in Washington on J' ebruary 19. j osE CoROMINAS, LAw '28, practicing '38, lu,ts instituted a suit to force a special DR. MomsTo VELEZ, Med. '13, died attorney and businessman. election to fill the vacancy. October 10, 194 7, from a heart embolism. The Alumni Association will hold BoLITHAj. LAws, Law '13, Chief justice another Reunion-Dinner sometime 1908 of the District Court in Washington, re­ during the month of April. DR. TnoMAS E. NEILL, Med. '08, died ceived the 1947 Cosmopolitan Club award February 22, 1948 at Garfield Hospital, for "unique and tireless service" in improv­ ney, died February 29 in St. Vincent's Washington, D. C. ing the administration of justice. Despite Hospital from injuries suffered in a traffic the demands of an ever-increasing schedule, accident. 1909 he conducts a Bible class each Sunday morning at the Mount Vemon Methodist JosF.Pil W. MILBURN, Law '09, died Church, a project of 16 years' standing. March 25, 1947. The R EVEREND JOHN B. CREEDEN, 1914 S.J., Grad. ' 14, noted Catholic edu­ DANIEL E. CASEY, Law '09, has colla­ cator and former President of George­ LT. CoL. jESSE E. MosELEY, Law ' 14, borated with William P. Helm in writing a town University, died February 28, book entitled "S died lash Those Taxes!" which during J anuary in the Fort Jackson 1948 in Boston from a stroke. He was Hospital, was published on February 19 by Duell, S. C. spiritual adviser at Weston College, a Sloan & Pierce CLARENCE M. PECK, Law ' 14, died Janu­ of New York. Mr. Casey is J esuit Seminary for advanced study Vice-President and Secretary of American ary 21, 1948 in Binghamton, New York. at Weston, Mass. Taxpayers Association, Inc. JoHN A. IGNASIAK, Law '14, Erie Attar-

Father Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., Vice-President of Georgetown, attended the Allied Jesuit Alumni meeting at the Industrial Club, Tokyo, Japan, during his recent world tour. 14 Georgetown University Alumni Magazine • L R ' h dR McVoy '41 andComdr.EugeneMcCahi11, ' 2l,onboardtheU.S.S.ValleyForgeenroute C om d r. John R. Intyre, 28, t. 1C ar · ' ' to Sydney, Australia.

H. R oss CoLWELL, Law '14, former Gallery recently was named president to T. E. LEAVI;:Y, Law '23, President of the Regional Director of the Federal Mediation succeed R ev. W. Coleman Nevils, S. ]., a Farmers Insurance Group, Los Angeles, and Conciliation Service, announced the former Georgetown University president. Calif., is area chairman on the West Coast opening of Labor Relations offices in the FREDERICK M . CooK, Law ' 19, died for the McDonough Memorial Gymnasium National Press Building, Washington, D.C. March 8, 1948 in Washington. Campaign organization. on March 15. 1921 1924 1915 ALBERT 0. PIERROT, F.S. '21, is now LEAR B. R EED, Law '24, former Kansas CoLONEL]OHN J. HoNAN, Law ' 15, and serving as Attache to Paris, France. City Police Chief, has become an editor. He LT. CoL. R AYMOND A. EGNER, Law '25, PAUL R . RowEN, College '21, has been was appointed Managing Editor of the became charter members of the American nominated by President Truman as a mem­ Compton (California) "Journal" by the University Club of Berlin at its formal or­ ber of the Securities and Exchange Com­ paper's publisher. ganization banquet on November 19, 1947 · mission to fill the unexpired term of J ames DR. TARAKNATH DAs, Grad. '24, is Visit­ They arc working for the Office of Military J. Caffrey, former Chairman, who resigned. ing Professor of Public Affairs ano Regional Government for Germany (U.S.). CoLONEL EDWARD B. ScHLANT, Law '21, Studies on the Watumull Foundation at D R. THOMAS PARRAN, Mcd. '15, former died December 8, 1947. New York University, New York City, N.Y. surgeon genc•·al of the United States Public Health Service, has been appointed t? the 1922 1925 staff of the United Nations International THOMAS J. MALEADY, F.S. '22, First jAMES W. HuGims, Law '25, Executive Children's Emergency Fund as head of a Secretary of the American Embassy at Vice-President of the Farmers Insurance temporary mission to the Far East. Caracas, has been t ra ~ s fcrrcd to Buenos Group, Los Angeles, Cali f., is Vice-Chair­ 1916 Aires in the same capacity. man of the West Coast area for the Mc­ LEO A. CoDD, Law '22, is executive vice­ Donough Memorial Gymnasium Campaign -LER, Law ' 16, was LAWRENCE J. HEI president of the American Ordnance Asso­ organization. elected President of the Washington Art ciation, foremost industrial preparedn~ss Center Association. society in the United States. The associa­ 1926 Dent. '16, was DR. GEORGE R. ELLIS, ti on was formerly known as the Army SAMUEL M. DRIVER, Law ' 26, is now elected a director of the National Council Ordnance Association. Col. Codd recently United ,States District] udge for the Eastern of Catholic Men. returned from an inspection trip of German District of Washington State. 1917 and Austrian industrial plants. WALTER J . THOMPSON, College '26, has been named general l ay chairman of the ' 17, of W. ST. JoHN GARWOOD; College 1923 1948 Catholic CharitiesAppeai by the Most Houston Texas was inducted as an Asso­ JoHN P. CooNEY, College '23, was elected Rev. John F. O'Hara, CSC, Bishop of Buf­ Court of Texas. ciateJus;icc of the Supreme president of the Serta Associates during falo. Mr. Thompson is Vice-President of the 1919 their semi-annual stockholders meetmg Buffalo Electric Corporation, manages all during ovcmber in Chicago. public relations and advertising activities REv. J. EuGENE GALLERY, S.J., College REV. CHARLES A. ABELE, F.S. '23, re­ for the firm. ' 19, received the honorary degree o fDo c t ~r signed as Rector of the parish at Big Spr in ~, WILLIAM L. CooNEY, College '26 was of Laws from Georgetowl) University at ~·s Texas in order to take charge of St. John s married tO VIRGINIA REEVES on inauguration as President of the University jAM~S February 2, 1948 in Baltimore, Md. They of Scranton on February 23, 1948. Father Parish, Portage, Wisconsin. Spring, 1948 15 CoRNELIUS M. HoRGAN, College '30, re­ Law '41, and NICHOLAS A. LENGE, Law ceived his Ph.D. degree from Fordham '43, arc now associated with the law firm University in February of this year. Dr. of Goodwin, Rosenbaum and Meacham at Horgan i s an associate member of the 824 Connecticut Ave., Washington 6, D. C. American Association on Mental Defi­ FREDERICK J osEPH TANSILL, Georgetown ciency and a member of the faculty at the '69, was born on February 27, 1948. Urban Division of Seton Hall College. Formal announcement of his candidacy LEo H . McCoRMICK, College '30, has for the Third Ward Councilmanic nomina­ announced his candidacy as a Democrat tion on the Republican ticket was made by for the Fourth District congressional scat of NORMAN J. ABRAMS, College '36, on March Maryland. Mr. McCormick was wartime 10. Mr. Abrams home is in North Plain­ OPA Director in Maryland. fi eld, N.J. RAYMOND P. LuDDEN, F.S. '30, formerly 1937 Consul at Nanking, China, has been trans­ DR. SPENCER J. SERvoss, Med. '37, is ferred to Canton in the same capacity. serving a year's residency in Urology at the Robert Packer Hospital and Guthrie Clinic 1931 in Towanda, Pa. MAURICE D. ROSENBERG, Law '31, and CoRNELIUS F. MuRPHY, College '37, and Miss R uTJ TAN NE ScHILLER were married MISS MARY AGNES FITZGERALD have an­ December 14, 1947 in Fitzgerald, Georgia. nounced their engagement. He is assistant He is engaged in the practice of law in superintendent in the engineering depart­ Alexandria, Va. ment of a Manhattan steamship company. DR. FRANCIS M. PARE, Med. '31, died TH OMAS MoRSE, Georgetown '69, son of January 28, 1948 in Worcester, Mass. Granville A. Morse, College '37, was born JOHN P. COONEY '23 BRIAN MARTIN, Georgetown '69, son of on February 19, 1948. DR. MICHAEL]. MciNERNEY, Med. '31, was will make their home at 3 East 33rd Street, born on November 24, 1947. 1938 Baltimore, Md. RoBE RT R. NATHAN, Law '38, economist \.YJLLIAM F. I LLIG, College '26, Law '29, and author, spoke on " Russia and America is among a group of more than 40 promi­ - One World or Two" in the Wilby High nent citizens who have agreed to serve as School Auditorium, Waterbury, Conn. sponsors for the University's campaign to raise $800,000. to build the McDonough 1939 Memorial Gymnasium. JoHN R OBERT RAISH, son of LT. COMDR. R Ev. j oHN E. WisE, S.J., College '26, is LEONARD R. RAISH, USNR, was bora on Dean of the Evening School, Loyola Col­ December 26, 1947. lege, Baltimore, Md. His recent book, "The LT. COLONEL jAM ES G. FOLEY, USAF, Nature of the Liberal Arts," has been widely College '39, announces the birth of FRANK· commended. LYN DANillL, College '69, on December 11, DR. j oHN J. O 'CoNNOR, College '26, 1947, at the Base Hospital, Offutt Field, Professor of History in the Foreign Service Fort Cook, Nebraska. School, has been a ppointed Editor of the THOMAS D. O'BRIAN, College '39, an­ Alumni Magazine. nounces his engagement to MISS ARLENE H ELEN NoRTH of Brooklyn, ew York. 1927 The announcement is made of the en­ jAM ES R. ScuLLY, F.S. ' 27, announces gagement of RICHARD KELLEY MARTIN, the arrival of Claire Ellen on November 7, College '39, to MISS CATHER IN E ANN O '­ 1947. BRI EN of Taunton, Mass. 1929 WILLIAM J . REYNOLDS, Jr., College '39, announces his e ngagement to NoRBERT H. WmsLER, College '29, has MISS J oAN MARIE McDoNOUGH. He is an been elected executive vice-president of the officer of the insurance organization of Corroon & Rey Bowen Products Corporation, Ecorse, ­ nolds of New York. Michigan. T. E. LEAVEY '23. JosEPH ]. R YAN, College '29, is now assis­ tant General Agent for the State Mutual EDWARD J. HEFFRON, Law '31, formerly Life in the Chemical Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. with the ational Association of Broad­ 1930 casters, is now Director of Media Relations for the National Conference of Christians EDWARD A. TAMM, Law '30, has been and J ews, 381 Fourth Ave., New York 16, nominated J udgc for the District of Colum­ N.Y. bia by President Truman. WILLIAM C. RYA N, College '30, was mar­ 1932 ried to Miss EIL EEN MEEHAN during Octo­ THOMAS E. LYNCH, Law '32, was elected ber, 1947, in the Catholic Church of St. recently to the Board of Directors of the Ignatius Loyola, New York. Father John Trust Company of New .Jersey. E. Grattan, S.J., former Dean of the Col­ lege, performed the ceremony. 1933 WI LSON C. FLAKE, F.S. '30, United States JOHN B. O 'SHEA, F.S. '33, Grad. '36, and Foreign Service Officer and former Trade MISS MILDRED M. LINDALL were married Commissioner to Australia, spoke on "What September 24, 1947 in the Church of the the Foreign Service Is and Docs" before Holy Redeemer, Po~tland, Oregon. classes of political science and international BERNARD J. DoNOGHUE, Law '33, an­ relations on February 13 in the Adminis­ nounces the opening of his law offices at tration Building, Washington. Mr. Flake is 422 University Building, Syracuse, New now a Foreign Service Inspector with rank York. H e will specialize in matters pertain­ of Consul General and First Secretary of ing to industrial and labor relations. Embassy. He plans to leave Washington to inspect embassies and consulates in the 1936 Southwest Pacific and Southeast Asia. l'REDERICK R. TANSILL, College '36, JOHN E. WISE, S.J., '26 16 Georgetown University Alumni Magazine EDWARD M . CURRAN LAW '39 Asso­ ciateJustice of the U. s .'District C~urt for the ~i str i ct of Columbia, ordered John L. Lew1s to appear before President T ruman's special board investigating the recent soft­ coal stri kc. FREDERICK L. McCoY, E:ollege '39, is steadily improving his 170-acre farm at Scotland, Md. 1940 THOMAS TETREAU, JR., Law '40, was married recently to Mrss SARAH HARRISON DUNLOP of Dallas, Texas. The ceremony was performed at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland, Maine. RowLAND K . HAZARD, Law '40, has just been appointed assistant attorney general of the Panama Canal Zone. At a farewell dinner in his honor at North Kingstown, R. I., his law classmate, WALTER 0RME, acted as toastmaster. Lt. Richard M. Groff, '43, his wife, two children and parents recently arrived in y k _ 1941 homa. o o DR. THOMAS M. NoRTON, Med. '41, announces the birth of a daughter, ANNE MARIE, on October 11, 1947. She joins MAY 1942 . DR. GEORGE J. T AQUJNO, College '43, is ]ANE, three and a half and JosEPH, one Susan Marie Catherwood, daughter of tn the U.S. Naval Service in Corana, Calif. ss year. Daddy is resident surgeon in Oph­ WILLIAMS. CATHERWOOD, III, College '42, Jor·IN T. DELA NEY, Law '43, and Mr thalmology at New York Hospital. was born November 1, 1947. MAR: A. DoNAHUE of Cambridge were d February 2, 1948 in the Immac­ ALBERT E. CoTTER, College '41, and Mrss WILLIAM P. EcKEL, F.S. '42, announces marne Church, Cambridge, MARIE TROMLEY have an­ the arrival of J oHN HAYWOOD, Georgetown ulate Conception ELIZABETH Mass. nounced their engagement. '69, on January 10, 1948 at St. Peter's The engagement of WILLIAM C. R EDMAN, R oY B. SNAPP, Law '41, was named Hospital, New Brunswick, N.J. College '43, and Mrss EILEEN M AR IE of the Atomic Energy Commis­ WILLIAM V. FINN, College '42, was mar­ Secretary K EENAN, has recently been announced. sion. As Secretary, he is head of the Staff ried to Mrss JA NET LEWIS, sister of the late , DR. jOHN H. T uOHY, College ' 43, Med. which directly serves the 5-man U.S.A.E.C. LT. THOMAS LEWIS, College '40, on J anu­ 46, was married to Mrss ELLEN LOU ISE and its General M anager. ary 24, 1948 at St. Joseph's Church, Garden City, New York. BELL on February 4, 1948 in Our Lady of D ouGLAS E. MACDONALD, College '41, Bethesda, Md. jAM ES R. HrooiNs, Law '42, and Mrss Lourdes Catholic Church, and Mrss D oROTHY J osEPHJNE BAD EN ­ their home in ALICE MARIE PEP PER were married during The newlyweds are making HAUSEN have announced their engagement. Dr. Tuohy is November in St. Patrick's Church, Potts­ Litt_le Rock, _Arkan sas, where FRANKLIN P. HoLCOMB, F.S. '41, was Public ville, Pa. After a brief wedding trip, they stat10ned with the United States married to Mrss SuzANNE SLINGLUFF on Health Service. left for Europe where he is attached to the February 3; 1948 in St. Matthew's Catholic '43, an­ legal staff in the Office of the Chief Counsel F. SHIELD M cCANDLISH, Law Cathedral, Washington, D. C. They will in for War Crimes at Nurcnberg, Germany. n o~ n ces the opening of his law offices make their home a t Rosecroft, St. Mary's Virginia. H e is associated with marriage of DR. JoHN THOMAS Mc­ Farrfax, City, Md . The Edgar A. Prichard. SwEENEY, Dent. '42, and Mrss VIRGINIA jOI-IN R. FRIANT, College '41, has an­ WILLIAM L. AMoRoso, JR., Coll ege MARIE MAHONY took place recently. , CAPT. nounced his engagement to Mrss NANCY 43, _and Mrss DIXIE LEE 7rRKIN were and Mrss KEITH LEACHMAN of Washington, D.C. JosEPH M. GILLIGAN, F.S. '42, marned February 14, 1948. PEARL MARIE TRAPANI were married in The wedding will take place in June. He is R Ev . L_EONARD R. T ooMEY, College ,43, Scranton, Penna. on February 7, 1948. He employed by the State Department. w~s ordamed to the Holy Priesthood by associated with the British Overseas Air­ j OHN J. HASSETT, College '41, a nd Mrss is J:IIs Excellency, The Most R everend Wil­ nd is a member of the Washington ELIZABETH MARGARET PEREN ICH were ways a ham A. Griffin, D.D., Bishop of Trenton sociation. They will make their married during February in the Shrine of Traffic As on March 13, 1948 at St. Mary's Cathedral' home at 3212 Macomb Street, N.W., Wash­ the Sacred H eart, _Washington, the R EV. R. Trenton, N.J. ' PA UL R EPETTI, Coll ege '35, officiating. The ington, D. C. A Shrine to St. Francis Xavier in memory '42, newlyweds are making their home in Wash­ EDWARD J. CRUMMEY, JR., College of LT. ALOYSIUS S. FENNELL j R. USMCR '43 , , , ington. and Miss Betty Jane Bon pane were married c o ll ege , who was killed on IwoJima in in the Church of Our Mother of Good Word has been received recently from Febr~ary 1945, was dedicated in St. Counsel, Los Angeles, on February 7. They LT. RICHARD R . McVoY, USN, College Aloysius Church, Washington, D. C. on will live in Albany, N. Y., where Mr. '41, that CoMDR. EuGENE McCA HI LL, Col­ March 4, 1948. Crummey is with W. E. Walsh & Sons, lege ' 21, and CoMDR. J o HN R . MciNTYRE, FRANCIS G. ~URPHY, ]R., College '43, founded by his great-grandfather, William Dent. '28, are stationed aboard the U.S.S. announces the b1rth of Francis G. Murphy in 1868. " Valley Forge," an Aircraft Carrier. E. Walsh, III, on March 12, 1948. ' Med. '42, has Comdr. Mcintyre is Senior Dental Officer DR . .JAM ES F. K EEGAN, ROBERT J . NEALON, College ,43, was e Old National and Lt. McVoy is an Assistant Supply opened his offices in th re-a~s1gned to Georgetown by the U.S.A.F. gton. Officer. When the ship docked at Sydney, Bank Building, Spokane, Washin as F1rst Lieutenant. During September 1947 Australia, they met RA y HIGGINS, College 1943 he was married to Mrss l OLA M . McDoN­ '40, who was visiting his father-in-law, U.S. ~ELL of Toronto, Canada. H e ~ ill graduate College ' 43, and Mrss Ambassador Butler. D AN IEL] . GORMAN, tn June 1948. ANN RosEMARIE FLYNN were married on LT. COMDR. jAM ES E. WHATTON, F.S. '41, j OHN LECLERC KoHL, College ,43, a n­ November 29, 1947, in Saint Edward's assistant Naval Attache in the U.S. Embassy nounces the birth of a daughter, Kristin Church, Youngstown, Ohio. on February 19, 1948. ' in Buenos Aires, was married to Mrss . WA LSH, Med. '43, an­ EVELYN j OHNSON on February 14, 1948 DR. WILLI AM B for the prac­ 1944 a t the American Church in Buenos Aires. nounces the opening of offices e at 3066 Que They expect to return to the United States tice of internal medicin PAuL H . B_ORDWELL, JR., F.S. ,44, an­ 7, D. C. ell in about a year. Street, N. W., Washington, nounces the b1rth of Virginia Ann Bordw Spring, 1948 17 on August 19, 1946. Daddy is now located RAYMOND E. BAKER, Law '46, and Mtss School of ursing, have made known their in Shanghai as the Manager of the Muller & MARION CECELIA TommY, daughter of the engagement. Mr. Lombard is now attend­ Phipps (China) Ltd. at 348- 350 Hamilton late jAMES A. TooMEY, College '96, Law '01, ing the Georgetown Law School. House, Shanghai, China. were married February 14, 1948 in the GEORGE T. DRISCOLL, JR., F.S. '47, and LuciAN R. RoBUSTELLI, CoLLEGE '44, Sacred Heart Church, Washington, D. C. Miss ANN jANE MONAHAN have chosen was married to M1ss HELEN V. FowLER DR. HECTOR E. CASTRO, Dent. '46, an­ June 26, 1948 for their wedding elate. Trinity of his offices for the on January 31, 1948 at Holy nounces the opening DR. BERNARD L. RoSENBERG, Med. '47, an of Dentistry at 1532 16th Church, Washington, D.C. general practice interne at Beth Israel Hospital, has won 6, D. C . WILLIAM]. McCARTHY, College '44, Law Street, N. W., Washington, third prize of $200 for a medical paper '47, announces his engagement to Miss DR. RoBERT M. SPELLMAN, l\1cd. '46, which he prepared and entered in a contest CAROL ELIZABETH MARTIN, Trinity, '48. Navy Lieutenant and nephew of Cardinal sponsored by the Schcring Corporation He is practicing law in Manhattan. Spellman, has announced his engagement of New Jersey. The subject of his paper was to M1ss GLORIA IRENE HAMilL, of Haverhill, DONALD M. CooK, College '44, and MISS "The Use of Androgens in the Female." Mass. EvA ELLIS have announced their engage­ ment. He is now associated with the Reli­ DR. EDWARD A. STAPLETON, Med. '46, 1948 has established a permanent residence in ance Overseas Corporation, New York City. WILLIAM A. MARTIN, College '48, was Wcstmore, Kansas, to practice medicine. married to MISS LILA ANTOINETTE \'\I EICH­ 1945 BRODT on October 22, 194 7 in Arlington, 1947 Va. The sympathy of the Alumni Association 1 DR. EDWARD . McCALL, Dent. '47, an­ JOHN LEWIS GETZ, JR., Med. '48, will is extended to DR. CHARLES I. WARFIELD, nounces the opening of his office fo;· the Med. '45, on the death of his father EARL interne at York Hospital, Pa., upon his general practice of Dentistry at 14 Winn graduation in June. P. WARFIELD, Law '07, on February 11 , Street, Woburn, Mass. 1948. ELMER]. OsERTO, College '48, and Miss DR. A. E. VERDI, Dent. '47, announces GERALD R. McGUIRE, College '45, and JEAN MARIE McLOUGHLIN of New Rochelle, the opening of his office at 2434 Wisconsin N.Y. have announced their engagement. Mtss]EwEL ANN DAVIS were married in the Avenue, N. Vv., Washington, D. C. Fort Myer Chapel on December 6, 1947. GoRDON GILES RYAN, College '48, and €:11ARLES S. DEvoY, College '47, an­ DR. LEON P. NuTZEL, Med. '45, and MISS NOREEN MARGARET BARR have made nounces the birth of Dceannc Devoy on . known their engagement. Mtss LEILA IRENE BuRGESS of East Orange, November 22, 1947 in New Orleans, La. N.J., were married April 10, 1948 in Our The engagement of PAUL S. Dwyer, Med. '47, and Lady of All Soul's Church, East Orange. DR.]. RICHARD MAZZARA, Grad. '48, and Miss MARGARET ANN YouNG M1ss RUTH DoRIS FLEMING have announced A reception was held in the Hotel Subur­ has been announced. The wedding will take their engagement. The date of the wedding ban, Summit. place in the Fall. has not been set. At present, Dr. Mazarra is 1946 serving his interneship at Newark City 1949 The Georgetown University Alumni Hospital, and is planning a future in sur­ Miss jULIA RAMSEY, Grad. '49, who is Association extends its sympathy to FRANCIS gery. taking her Ph.D. in political science at L. SwiFT, College '46, on the recent death RoBERT JoSEPH MuRPHY, F.S. '47, and Georgetown University and speaks Polish of hi s Mother. MISS BETTY ANN KENDRICK have announced and Russian, is conducting classes in English DR. PAUL A. RYAN, Med. '46, and Mtss their engagement. Mr. Murphy is now at the United Nations Club in Washington. IR ENE MARY GNALL were married Novem­ attending the National University School Most of the students of English are members ber 29, 1947 in St. John The Baptist of Law. The wedding will take place in the of Embassy families or staffs. The Club is Church, Taylor, Pa. He is now serving as early summer. sponsored by the 57 Ambassadors and Flight Surgeon in the Army Air Corps at TIIEODORE E. LOMBARD, College '47, and Ministers of the United Nations who .arc Barksdale Field, La. M1ss MARG t\RET H. BEATSON, Georgetown represented here.

Who Are They? The first alumnus to identify correctly the entire group pictured above will receive one dozen Georgetown Old­ Fashioned glasses. In case of tie, earlier postmark will determine the winner. 18 Georgetown University Alumni Magazine tion of incanabula is a copy of Pope Gregory l's Moralia In Job, printed by Berthold Ruppel, an associate of GEORGETOWN Gutenberg in Mainz, not later than 1468. The type is essentially Gothic, but in general appearance has many HISTORY Roman characteristics. Another of Gutenberg's associates, Johann Mentelin was established as a printer in Strassburg as early as 1460: One of the finest books produced by Mentelin was his Treasure House two-volume edition of Plutarch's Vitae (Strassburg, 14 70). A copy of this work was presented to the Univesity in The University Archives Contain Priceless 1891. Collections NE of the earliest printers of .Cologne was Conrad jOHN]. O 'CONNOR, '26 O de Homborch, whose work IS represented in the HE you next visit the University, take time out Georgetown collection by two splendid examples. One W to become better acquainted with the Archives. of these is a beautiful Bible which he printed in 1479. It will be a memorable and enriching experience. Far too The other, which he printed in 1478, is one of the many students and Alumni are prone to neglect one of earliest printed editions of the Etymologiae of St. Isidore the glories of the University-its extraordin~ry collec­ of Seville. This remarkable- book is a vertiable encyclo­ tions of fabulous books and manuscripts. pedia, in which St. Isidore takes practically the whole By way of introduction, I would like to share with you of the learning of his time and sets it forth in a systematic a quaint and beautiful legend that explains how Bede, presentation. Its popularity, even during the Renais­ the famous E~glish historian, obtained the title of vener­ sance period, is indicated by the fact that it went through able. It seems that after Bede had devoted himself for no less than ten editions between 1470 and 1529. The a long time to the study of Holy Scripture, in his old age volume in the Archives is in a tooled leather binding his eyes became dim, so that he could not see; to whom probably of the fifteenth century. ' some mockers said: "Bede, behold the people are gath­ Early examples of printing to be found in the Archives ered together waiting to hear the word of God; arise, and are books from the presses of Nuremberg, Rome, Venice, preach to them." And Bede, thirsting after the salvation Basel, Paris, and other cities. of souls, went up and preached, thinking tha.t there were The Archives also has two first editions of the works people there; whereas there was no one but those of the great English saints, St. John Fisher and St. mockers. And as he concluded his sermon, saying, "this Thomas More, who were beheaded because they re­ may God deign to grant to us, the Father, the Son, and fused to recognize Henry VIII as supreme head of the the Holy Ghost," the blessed angels in the air responded, Church. One o~ the books is Fisher's Treatise Concer11)Jnge saying "Amen, very venerable Bede." the Fruytjull Sayzngs of David the Kynge and Prophets in the The University is most fortunate in possessing a volume Seven Penytencyall Psalmes. The volume was printed in of theological and homoletic works by the Venerable London in 1508 by Wynkyn de Worde, who had earlier Bede (his Parables and Canticles), Hugo de Saint Vic­ be:n t~e associate of William Caxton, the first English tory, Saint Jerome, Gilbert de Auxerre, and others. It pnnter. The other volume is the first edition of More's is a folio on paper, in the original binding, of 302 leaves Utopia, printed in Louvain in 15l6 by Thierry Martens. executed in France during the fifteenth century. Another The latter work is one of the most precious possessions contemporary manuscript in the Georgetown Archives of the Archives. is an illuminated Book of Hours on vellum, with two The mos~ unusual items in the Archives relating to miniatures: monks saying a service, and a tribute to Our early Amenca are, strange to say, not American at all. Lady. The borders on the 229 folios are moderately They were_not printed in this country; they merely found decorated panels. The use of gold leaf throughout is very their way over here. They have, however, a close rela­ pleasing. tionship to colonial times, and an even closer relation to The University possesses many other manuscripts Georgetown. They are, in fact, the nucleus of the Library. typical of each succeeding century. A highly interesting They are gathered together, to the number of nearly two modern item is the Crewe manuscript of Sheridan's hundred, in a glass case in the Shandelle Reading Room School for Scandal, perhaps the most famous single play and are labeled "Catholic Refugee Literature." Thes~ of the eighteenth century, an epitome of its comedy of are the works of theological controversy and of devotion manners, and one of the most read to-day. which the English Catholics published mostly on the con- , A hundred years later was published a work which, tinent, from 1581 onwards. like the School for Scandal, is notable in itself and repre­ The Refugee Literature was the only group of books sentative, not of a century, but of a nation. This was in English on Catholic dogma and practice possessed b Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer . The University the first Jesuit missionaries in Maryland after thei~ possesses the autograph manuscript of this immortal arrival in this country in 1634, and the copies in the classic. Archives are undoubtedly the identical copies possessed The oldest printed volume in the University's collec- by them. It is a well known fact that a grammar school

Spring, 1948 19 was conducted at ewton Manor in St. Mary's County, incanubala. There is a copy of the first Hebrew Bible Maryland, from 1640 to 1659, and many of these books published in this country (Philadelphia, 1814), and also must have been in the library there. Later, about 1740, a copy of the first Greek Bible (Worcester, Mass., 1800). the Jesuits had another school at Bohemia Manor, on Then there are several copies of the original Rheims and the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the imprint of that Doway New and Old Testaments, published in 1582 and school is on many of these books. It was these two schools 1609 respectively, and now known collectively as the which were the forerunners of Georgetown itself, and Douay Bible. Perhaps more interesting still, the Archives thus it may well be said that the little group of books in possess all but one of the thirty-eight new editions of the the Archives are, in fact, the first items in the George­ Bible or New Testament published by and for Catholics town Library. in this country from 1790 to 1890. Archbishop John Carroll was the founder of the Still another famous collection exhibits the greatest modern Georgetown Library. He was himself a great number of bound Catholic newspapers in the country. lover of books, and one of his first preoccupations after The Georgetown Collection of Catholic periodicals con­ the founding of the College was to furnish it with a tains files of forty-six Catholic weeklies, ranging from library. Several volumes in the present Library bear 1812 to 1888. They are invaluable to the scholar inter­ his autograph, among them the first edition of Lord ested in early American history and are, perhaps, the Chesterfield's Letters. In his will, Archbishop Carroll be­ group of items most consulted by research specialists. queathed to the Library five hundred shares in the A very unusual collection is that of the writings of Potomac Company (the old Georgetown Canal Com­ Mathew Carey, our first Catholic printer and publisher, pany), of which he was one of the founders with his who printed our first Catholic Bible in 1790 and our friend George Washington. The proceeds of these shares second in 1805, and who was probably the most prolific were to be used to buy books for the Library. Carroll's in all our Catholic American history. There are no less successor, Archbishop Leonard Neale, actually had his than 190 ti ties of his books and pamphlets, and George­ bedroom in the Library, which was at that time in Old town has a fair number of them. South, Georgetown's first edifice. The University Library, including the Archives, now The Georgetown Archives are famous for their Bibles. has a total of approximately 200,000 volumes. The func­ Some years ago, no less than one hundred Protestant tion of the Library to-day, as in the past, is to make Bibles alone were found on the shelves. The University accessible to the greatest number of readers the greatest also possesses many very early Bibles, including some number of books in the most efficient manner.

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now in use into rooms to accommodate G 300 Freshmen next year. PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING G COMMERCIAL: The long-awaited album of Georgetown Here's another post-war item. songs was waxed by the Glee Club and its Acceleration was officially ended at ·Choir in Gaston Hall early this Spring. Georgetown by the Dean's office disclosure of plans for the 1948 session. The album includes three sides of G­ Town songs and The College is back to the pre-war two non-G-Town tunes sung by the Glee Club. The College Choir schedule, when the summer session was has added a song to make the sixth side. conducted exclusively to afford an oppor­ tunity to remove failures or deficiencies. In the extra-curricular line, the Glee The session this year will begin on Mon­ Club waxed Stephen Foster's "Come day, June 21, and will continue for eight \.Yhere My Love Lies Dreaming" and O'Hara's "A Little Close Harmony." The weeks. Choir contributed an Eighteenth Century G canto, " Donna obis Pacem" to the album. Thirteen students of the College were The albums were ready for distribution named to the D ean's List. All students on May 25. The flrst 500 will sell for $4.00, listed made straight "A" averages, like we but all ordered after they arc gone will cost used to do, during the Fall Semester. $5.00. The list, announced by Father Charles G Coolahan, S.J., Dean of the College, in­ Among the 35 Jesuit cluded two seniors, five juniors, and six seminarians to be ordained June 20 at Woodstock College, sophomores. Md., are Rev. Hugh A. Kennedy, S.J., who Six arts men, five social science men, taught at Georgetown from 1942 to 1945, and two bachelor of science students com­ and Rev . .John M. Daley, S.J., who was a prised the group. graduate student from 1942 to 1944. Five of these men were on the list last Father .Jo year. This proves that learning is hereditary. seph M. Gcib, S ..J., of G-Town will be the Subdeacon at Father Daley's It is an astounding fact-and we feel Dr. George Tully Vaughan first High Mass in St . .Joseph's Church, quite sore about it-that no Freshmen were DR. GEORGE TULLY VAUGHAN, 88, Philadelphia, on June 27. on this year's list. It is rumored, however, associated with Georgetown Uni­ that a number of first-year students missed versity Hospital since its founding G making the list by a narrow margin. and long one of Washington's best The portrait of the Rev. Lawrence C. If that is any consolation to you, you can known surgeons, died on April 26. Gorman, S.J., President of the University, Distinguished as a teacher and have it. was displayed recently in Copley Lounge. practicing surgeon who gave of his G The portrait was painted by the noted skill to the armed services in two Mr. Richard I. "Bus" Werder is George­ Polish artist, Boleslaw Jan Czedekowski, wars, Dr. Vaughan was for 35 years town's "Athlete of the Year." whose paintings were on exhibit in Copley professor of surgery at the Medical So decided the "G" Club, the Hilltop's Lounge. School and head of the department organized Athletic of surgery at the University hospital. Alumni, as they He retired in 1933 to become pro­ presented the stellar fessor cmcri tus at the school and lineman (it says GEORGETOWN PREPARATORY consultant at the hospital. here) with a gold SCHOOL wrist watch at their newly-revived an­ GARRETT PARK, MARYLAND Degrees will be awarded to approxi­ nual banquet this mately one thousand Georgetown students Spring. on Monday, June 14, at the 159th annual Here are a few commencement exercises. biographical facts Six Forms, comprising the Seventh G on Mr. Werder: and Eighth Grades and the A two-story building now being erected "Bus" was chosen Four Years of High School. at the corner of 37th and P Streets will for Extension Maga­ relieve crowded conditions in the College. zine's All Catholic As well as providing class-room space, team in '46-'47, af­ the new brick structur e will also house the ter returning to G­ book-store, presently located in the cafe­ Town from the ser­ Resident and Dl'ty Students teria. vice. He is invited to The move is expected to be completed by play in Arch Ward's the start of the summer session. annual Chicago All­ G Star game, and is Under the Direction of the Georgetown's oldest traditional cere­ under con tract to Jesuit Fathers money, the Cohonguroton Address, returns the N. Y. Football to the Yard on Saturday night, June 12. Yankees. Back again after a wartime lapse, wig­ We are informed, wam and all, the event, so dear to the on reliable author­ For information, write to heart of every dues-paying Alumnus, marks ity, by a source close the full return to a peacetime schedule. to Jack Hagerty, REv. WILLIAM A. MALONEY, S.J. G that Mr. Werder Headmaster Frosh living conditions in the Old Hos­ positively does not pital arc rapidly being improved. Repairs hail from Staten Is­ are in progress which will convert the wards land.