ARCHIVES Georgetown University Washington, D. C. 20007 GEORGETOWN is published quarterly in the Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer by the Georgetown University Alumni Association, 3604 0 Street, Northwest, Washington, D. C. 20007 Officers of the Georgetown University Alumni Association President Eugene L. Stewart, '48 Vice-Presidents College Anthony F. Essaye, '55 Graduate School Col. Louis G. Mendez, Jr., '56 School of Medicine Dr. Thomas F. Keliher, '34 School of Law John E. Nolan Esq., '55 School of Dentistry Dr. JohnS. Clemence, '38 School of Nursing Mrs. Mary Korfonta Fleming, '43 School of Foreign Service Mitchell Stanley, '51 School of Business Administration Richard P. Houlihan, Jr., '54 Institute of Languages and Linguistics Elsa J. Corridon, '60 Recording Secretary Miss Rosalia Louise Dumm, '48 Treasurer contents Louis B. Fine, '25 The Faculty Representative to the Alumni Association Georgetown's Fourth Reverend Anthony J. Zeits, S.J., '43 Founder: Father Bunn The Vice-President of the University for Alumni Affairs and Page 2 Executive Secretary of the Association Bernard A. Carter, '49 Georgetown's Second Editor Founder: Giovanni Antonio Denis L. Nichelson, '57, '61 Grassi, S. J. Page 8 Editorial Consultant Dr. Riley Hughes Georgetown Campus, July Designer Page 13 Robert L. Kocher, Sr. Georgetown In The Nation Photography Page 14 Peter Carter, '65 Catholic Higher Education: Characteristics and Achieve· ment Page 17 THE COVER: The Strategy and Political After twelve years as President of Georgetown Economy of the War Against University, the Very Rever end Edward B. Poverty Page 26 Bunn, S.J., will assume his new position as Georgetown's first Chancellor on December 3, 1964. The cover sketch is the work of the well­ On Our Campus Page 30 known artist, Bernard Godwin. Book Review Page 31 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Septennber 22, 1964 Dear Father Bunn: As you prepare to retire fronn the Presidency of Georgetown University, I ann pleased to join your nnany friends and beneficiaries in tribute to your distinguished tenure, Georgetown's 17 5th anni­ versary thenne, "Wisdonn and Discovery for a Dynannic World, 11 is a nnost fitting resunne of your fine service to both its faculty and its students. You have throughout these years adhered to the best of the past, while keeping alert to the dennands of the present. You have innpressed upon the stu­ dents of Georgetown the responsibility that is theirs in a future which, God willing, will be better and brighter for all Annericans, With warnn good wishes for your health and happi­ ness, Sincerely, The Reverend Edward B. Bunn, S. J. President Georgetown University Washington, D. C. I by Riley Hughes On December 3, 1964, Father Edward B. Bunn, S. J ., will pre· sent the Univerity mace, symbol of the office of the presidency of Georgetown University, to his successor, the University's forty­ fourth president and thirty­ seventh man to hold that office, the Very Reverend Gerard J. Campbell, S. J. With this gesture will end the longest presidential term in the institution's history of a cen­ tury and three-quarters. And at this moment the man who has directed Georgetown's destiny for twelve years will begin a new era in her history by be- coming her first Chancellor. 1 The events of the past twelve years on campus, in spite of I their complexity and our near­ ness to them, provide their own perspective. It is not too soon to be able to descry the outline of a new Georgetown, one which came into being with Father Bunn's appointment to the presidency in 1952. The new Georgetown is not a mat­ ter of architectural profile only, or even primarily. The Hilltop, as viewed from the Potomac, presents the same majesty of towers and other landmarks familiar for nearly a century. The Healy spires and the white eggshell of the Observatory still frame the landscape from the Virginia shore. Hidden from view, Old North lives on in its eighteenth-century life, a re­ minder of all our yesterdays. There are subtle moderations of the profile of course-the low­ lying, severe lines of New South and beyond it the bright, chal­ CONTRIBUTOR'S NOTE lenging facade of the Reiss Science Center. To the visitor Riley Hughes, a member of the faculty since or returning alumnus these and 1946, is associate professor of English and other striking brick and mortar director of the Georgetown University Writers Conference. Dr. Hughes, who has been asso­ additions of the past decade ciate director of the 175th Anniversary Pro­ will serve as compelling evi­ gram, is the author of six books and a nation­ dence of new strides in George­ ally known literary critic. He is general editor town's continuing history. of the 175th Anniversary WISDOM AND DIS­ They are evidence as well of COVERY BOOKS being published by P. J. Kenedy. new perspectives. They obvi- ously bespeak a heightened ~ town on a new course. When to­ mained a primary concern of his terest in science and the heal­ day takes its place in the texture "rare goodness and heart." And ing arts, and they reflect the of the past, it will be increas­ at the first it was he alone who dimensions of a complex devel­ ingly seen that in her forty-third took the long view and, with tact opment of the concerns given president the University had, in and patience, overcame in­ initial impetus in John Carroll's every sense, her fourth founder. numerable obstacles. prospectus of 1786, offering in­ There were three others, each To maintain that today's Uni­ struction in "the easier Branches the right man at the right time versity, with its many divisions of the Mathematics." Just as in the right place. Their suc­ and facilities was explicity with­ clearly the East Campus, in the cesses seem inevitable to us now, in the Founder's vision would of Walsh Memorial Building, is as we look around us in the one course be absurd. Nonetheless testimony to an enhanced global hundred and seventy-fifth an­ John Carroll foresaw that his commitment to the require­ niversary year. Yet one must "literary establishment" was to ments of training in diplomacy marvel, in looking back upon the exert a profound effect on the and in linguistics. But these ad­ University's history, at the ex­ country's lay and clerical leader­ ditions to the Georgetown traordinary individual energies ship. He was by no means con­ campus scene do not indicate which were brought to bear at tent to create a seminary upon the full scope of Father Bunn's moments of crisis and decision. European lines; in all matters years of achievement. George­ Perhaps this institution more his school was to be, in his de­ town has had " building presi­ than most has been, in Emer­ lightful phrase, "calculated for dents" before, and she will have son's phrase, "the lengthened the meridian of America." It is them again. What Father Bunn shadow of a man." Certainly owing to Archbishop Carroll has given to the University, it Georgetown was born in the that Georgetown came into be­ is already apparent, is more faith and vision of a single man. ing and remained as a pro­ than the contribution inevitable For John Carroll, in the anxious foundly American institution in in a steady growth in facilities years of planning, his school was its regulations, discipline, and and services. He has given the to be "the object nearest to my spirit. "Agreeably to the liberal University a new direction; he heart." In his long lifetime of Principle of our Constitution" has channelled the energies of service to church and country, runs a phrase in Father Carroll's this complex of men, buildings, in spite of the burdens of the prospectus of 1786; it was this and purposes and placed George- episcopacy, Georgetown re- accommodation to the American Archbishop Carroll Father Grassi Father Hea.ly Father Bunn scene and spirit that was the York was finally and perma­ the trials of these years was the Founder's greatest of many gifts nently abandoned. Under his joy of the Jesuits of Georgetown to his "Academy at George vigorous leadership the physical and of Archbishop Carroll at the Town, Potomack River, Mary­ plant was enlarged and, even restoration, during Father Gras­ land." more important for the future, si's term, of the Society of Jesus The first two decades of t he the curriculum was overhauled throughout the world. Just as he life of Georgetown College from and strengthened, particularly had shared in the restoration of 1791, the year of the appoint­ in the natural sciences. Owing to the Society·s fortunes, Father ment of the first president, Rev­ him the transition from acad­ Grassi had been in large measure erend Robert Plunkett, and of e my to college was firmly and responsible for the permanent the arrival of the first student, irrevocably made. Through the upswing in those of the College. William Gaston, were years in services of Georgetown's e mi­ By force of his energies and his which the future, and often, the nent first student, now a mem­ unbounded optimism and en­ very survival of the new institu­ ber of Congress, the petition for thusiasm he had prevailed. "He tion were in doubt. Father Car­ a Congressional charter was ad­ was fascinated," writes Father roll had become Bishop Carroll vanced. On the very date, March Durkin in Georgetown Uni­ in the interval between the 1, 1815, of the Senate's ratifica­ versity: First in the Nation's founding of the Academy a nd tion of the treaty of peace with Capital, "by the art of govern· the successful search for a presi­ Great Britain, President Monroe ing an educational institution.