 This included adding a fourth year to the course of study at the Law School, beginning lectures in ethics at the School of Medicine, and presided over the establishment of the antecedents of the School of Dentistry, which was then a department of the School of Medicine.There had long been tension between Georgetown and the Catholic University of America, which opened in Washington, D.C., in 1887.During Daugherty's tenure, the president of Catholic University complained to the Jesuit provincial superior that Georgetown's graduate programs were detracting from those of Catholic University.