The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-27
GEORGETOWN COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT.
Description Of the Famous Old
Seat Of Learning.
The Large Crowd Of Visitors-The Distribution
Of Degrees-What the Jesuit Fathers Have
Done for the College-Their High Eli
cheney and Religious federation.
WASHINGTON. June 20. 1873.


In oil our broad land there Is no school OF learn
ing which has so beautiful site as that OF George
town College The buildings are in PARK OF over
two hundred acres, fringed around with trees. You
see through the waving boughs the silver thread
OF the River Potomac, and over the tops glisten IN
the distance the white dome OF the Capitol the
unfinished shalt OF the Washington Monument and
the Heights OF Arlington, the former home OF Gen.
eral Lee, and now famous our principal national
cemetery. The place Is
THE REALIZATION OF A POETS DREAM.
Sitting on the steps OF the college building, with
this grand landscape you almost forget that TINS
Is workday world and that but little distance or
there are young men who, having gone through
the apprcnt eship OF collegiate training, are
proving their right to enter intenigently into the
bread winning llie The college Is under the charge
of the jesuit Fathers and the majority OF the stu
dents are Catholics. The teaching, however, Is
purely collegiate, and there is between the stu
dents
NO CLAsHlNG OF RELIGIOUS OPINIONS.
Quite number OF the graduates are Professionals
One OF them. OF few years past, is now Methodist
minister and another Lutheran minister. This
shows that the institution is simply one Of lib
era character, not seeking to Impress on the stu
dents the iath OF the professors aud tutors but to
give them an education OF as full and thorough
nature as can be furnished by any other university
in the country That the college does tins is evil
denced by the rank that It's graduates take with
their compeers from other universities. In schol-
arsnip the graduates OF Harvard or Yale, or, per-
haps the most trying OF all, those OF the Univer-
sty OF Virginia. do not surpass them. The lecture
room OF the college was crowded to-day with the
friends OF the graduates. Some OF the addresses
delivered by the students were more than notably
clever.
THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR or ARTS
was conferred on the foowing-named graduates
OF the present year:-Jacob b: Arnold, OF Balti-
George W. Douglass, OF Washington, d. c.; +. Y.
Fink, Of Baltimore, Nd; ]. s. Hollingsworth, OF
GAINESVILLE, Ohio; J. p. 5. Mulany, OF New Yo.k;
N 5. Murray. Of Washington, D. C., G. 5; voorhees,
and J. H. Washington, Of Tennessee. The whole
number OF students Tor the past collegiate
year is 800, OF which 1856 belong to what
is known as the academic course. There
are attached to the college medical department
ana u law school, and there are 1fty-s stu
dents in each. Associate Justice Miller, OF
the Law Department, and DR.. Noble Young is the
head OF the medical faculty. The College, IN its
Classical Department has most excellent set
OF professors, and in its law and medical
ton. The students principally from the
Southern states. There are some, however, from
the West India Islands and from South America.
The college Is In most fiourishing condition.
THROUGH THE ENERGY OF TIE CATHOLIC FATHERS
It's course OF study has been interrupted from its
foundation in 1892, even during the civil war, and,
though portion OF It's buildings were used as hos
pltais, the studies went on. This continuation OF
the college under the dark clouds OF trouble was
due largely to the active determination OF Father
Early, the late President OF the college, whose
timely death lew months since was not only
lamented by the students of the college and his
brother priests and parishioners but also by the
large circle OF acquaintance outside OF his latin,
who, knowing the man i'll his long years OF resi-
dence IN Georgetown, esteemed MIN for his great
intelligence, his devout and transformations piety
and his many acts OF DenevOlence.