N VOL. VII GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 5, 1926 No. 15 G. U. WAR WRITER GEN. BUTLER AT The Hoya will tender an informal JUNIOR PROM IS VISITS FR. LYONS dinner on next Wednesday evening ALUMNI LUNCHEON to the present members of the staff COLORFUL AFFAIR Floyd Gibbons was Former in recognition of fidelity of service. Pupil of Father Lyons—Comes University Organization Honored New accessesions to the staff will Annual Premier Social Function From Campaign with the At Monthly Meeting by Pres- be eligible for a 'subsequent occa- Lives Up to Expectations— French in Morroco—Wounded ence of General Butler—Mr. sion. Music Best Yet—Favors and and Lost Sight of Eye in World Hugh Fegan Outlines Progress Supper Meet With Approval— War—Was First War Corres- Of Law School. Committee to be Praised for pondent to Cable Complete Ac- DR. EGAN'S MEMORY Task They Performed. count of Torpedoing of a Ship. General Smedley D. Butler, addressing the January luncheon of the Georgetown RECEIVES TRIBUTE Floyd Gibbons, war correspondent, and Alumni Club, held at the City Club, Jan- Last Friday evening, January 29, the uary 20, told the group of 100 alumni pres- former Georgetown student, was a recent Junior Class of the College, held its ent, that he has a warm place in his heart Noted Georgetown Graduate visitor to Father Lyons, at the college. for everything Georgetown. "George- Prom in the Mayflower Hotel. The Jun- The President of Georgetown was a pro- Honored— Memorial Services town was the first college to give the ior Prom, which is looked forward to as fessor here during Gibbon's school days, In the Mayflower Hotel—Was and they recalled with interest those other Marines a chance," General Butler de- Brilliant Scholar and Diplomat. the greatest social function of the year, clared. "And for that reason alone I lived up to and far surpassed the fond- times and friends, and especially the rev- will always have an admiration for your erend and saintly Father Carroll. est expectations of all, with its crowd, school." He expressed the hope that the On Wednesday, January 27, the Amer- music and pep. The spacious floor of With Villa in Mexico. Marines and Georgetown would meet ican Association of Arts and Letters met often on the gridiron. He said he would the ballroom was crowded to its dancing Gibbons left Georgetown in 1906, and in the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, for try to arrange a game between his San capacity. since that time has been almost con- the purpose of honoring the memory of tinuously engaged in newspaper work, Diego Marines and Georgetown, even if their late president, Maurice Francis Music Inspiring. first in Minneapolis and Milwaukee, and, he had to resort to bringing his men since 1912, on the staff of the Chicago back in airplanes. The General em- Egan, LL.D., '89. The Spanish Ambas- Roger Wolfe Kahn's orchestra, per- Tribune. His activities as a war cor- phasized the fact that athletics are one sador, Senor Don Juan Riano y Gayangos sonally conducted by Kahn, furnished the of the most powerful factors in bringing respondent began at the battle of Naco, and the Secretary of the Danish Legation, music for the dance. This orchestra was on the Arizona-Sonora frontier, in 1914. the students together, and for creating a common enthusiasm. The physical well Mr. P. O. de Treschow, presided at the the highest class organization that has He followed the fortunes of Villa in the being resulting from engaging in sports Mexican revolution in 1915, and accom- services, in honor of Doctor Egan, and ever played at any Georgetown function. panied Pershing, in 1916, in the punitive is priceless, he concluded. the presidents of the various universities The pleasure that the dancers experienced expedition into Mexico. Assistant Dean Speaks. at which he had studied and taught con- by hearing such music proved that it was Dr. Hugh J. Fegan, Assistant Dean tributed. Father Coyle, S. J., of George- well worth while to import New York's of the School of Law, described for the town University, offered the invocation. best collegiate orchestra to play for the assemblage the remarkable progress of All of the speakers stressed the services Prom. the Law School the past few years. Dr. of Dr. Egan to the cause of literature, Fegan outlined the major events since and praised his services to his country The supper was served during intermis- 1921, when the day school was established in the office of Minister to Denmark. sion in the large dining room of the hotel. in addition to the late afternoon classes. Interesting Life. It was a supper very ample and appro- One year of college was added to the priate for such an occasion. A flash- requirements in 1923. The evening course Maurice Francis Egan was born May was extended from 3 to 4 years in 1924, 24, 1852, in Philadelphia, and from early light picture of the dancers was taken and in 1925 the requirement for admit- childhood showed a deep affection for the early in the evening. The picture, which tance was raised from one year of col- books which were plentiful in his cul- came out splendidly, was later in the eve- tured home. At the age of twenty, he lege work, to two. The school is now ning on display and sale in the hotel a member of the Association of Law was graduated with honors from La Salle Schools, which includes the 60 leading College, in Philadelphia with the degree lobby. law schools out of 169, operating in the of Bachelor of Arts and the following The favors consisted of a cigarette case United States. The school is also rated year, 1873, saw him enrolled at George- made of an attractive blue leather, as a Class A institution by the American town in the graduate school. During stamped in gold with the Georgetown seal Bar Association. This is the highest the time spent at the Hilltop he received rating. Dr. Fegan urged everyone pres- many honors for his work, and was ac- and numerals '27, designating the year of ent to support lawyers, judges, and bar tive in his services to the Georgetown graduation of the Junior Class. The associations in raising the standards of College Journal. From 1877 to 1887 he dance program was fitted inside the case. legal education. After this historical was actively engaged in his chosen field, The ballroom was very prettily dec- sketch, Dr. Fegan recalled to mind the journalism, and the following year be- old professors who did so much in the came professor of English Literature at orated with a blue-and-gray color scheme. past to make Georgetown great. Con- the University of Notre Dame. In 1895 A large permant with the numerals, 1927, cluding his address he stated that the he was a member of the faculties of which hung in one end of the hall, pre- improvements he enumerated were made Catholic University and Georgetown, and dominated over the other decorations. under the leadership of the Dean, George a lecturer at Harvard, Yale and Johns E. Hamilton. Hopkins. He became famous among all Praise for Committee. those who had the privilege of knowing FLOYD GIBBONS The Alumni Luncheons. him, for his abilities as a conversation- Much credit is due to the Junior Prom Wrote Famous Torpedo Story. The Georgetown Alumni Association alist and a true gentleman. A diplo- Committee for promoting so successful held similar luncheons once a month. matic crisis in Greece prompted President an affair. The chairman, Mr. Thomas Going to Europe, where he was to be Cleveland to appoint him United States Each month the affair is under the aus- Murphy, assisted by Mr. Joseph F. Fer- London correspondent of the Chicago pices of a different school of the Univer- Minister to Athens, but with the passing Tribune, Gibbons was a passenger on the sity. Two speakers, one an outside man, of the crisis, however, Doctor Egan de- rall, Mr. Francis W. Gaffney, Mr. Mar- S. S. Laconia when that vessel was tor- and one representing the school for clined the offer. President Roosevelt, in tin J. Harding, Mr. John F. McDonough pedoed and sunk, February 25, 1917, 200 which the luncheon is given, address the 1908,, offered him the office of Minister to and Mr. Robert D. Nagle, deserved much miles off the Irish coast. As soon as he the court of Denmark, which he ac- body. Coach Lou Little, Director of praise and thanks from the Class. It was reached shore, after a night of exposure Athletics, was among those who attended. cepted and held successfully through both and rescue in a small boat, he imme- William E. Leahy presided, and John Republican and Democratic administra- through its tireless efforts that the diately cabled a 4,000 word account of this Paul Tones. '25. was active in making tions, for eleven years, when ill health dance was a success, financially as well as Continued on page 4 the affair a success. Continued on page 4 socially. THE HOYA Published Weekly at GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Washington, D. C. Entered as second-class matter Jan. 31, 1920, at the post office at Washington, D. C, under the act of March 3, 1879. "Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in sec, 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized Feb. 17, 1920." Subscription $3.00 per year Bditor-in-Chief She "5otfered Mil HUGH C. MCGOWAN, '26 Georgetown's tenth president (1818-1820) was the Superior of Managing Editor JOSEPH W.