New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-05-27
rm aHzAr CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.

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ton Gives 8ome Interesting Details In
Relation TO the Magnificent Educational
Institution that Will BE Founded At
the National Capital.
| The first fruits Of the recent Catholic plenary
council in Baltimore are beginning to be seen,
| and the GROWING work-the establishment of
great Catholic universlty-is already well un-
der way. The special committee appointed by
the council to organize the university met in
Baltimore, at the residence of the archbishop,
on May {, and an outline of what was done
| there has been published. Further details
are, however, furnished by Bishop Ireland,
who has just returned to St Paul
one of the committee, which consists Of nine
bishops, four layman and four priests, selected
from different sections of the United States.
The first thing which the committee had under
discussion was the location Of the university,
and, recognizing the fact that Washington is
the social, artistic and literary center of the
country, city where the cultured class is
every year becoming larger, they selected
Washington as the place best adapted for the
institution they propose to establish Other
considerations beside those enumerat ed ebove
influenced the committee in its choice. Wash
ington is daily acquiring libraries, museums,
ETC., unrivaled in the country, but the principal
point sought to be emphasized by the selection of
Washington is this: The university is to be thor
oughly American 1t will endeavor to build up
in this country an educated class not only
the peers, but the superiors of the graduates
OF European universities The site selected is
one familiar to every visitor to the national
capitalize old Middleton estate, on the
Seventh street road opposite the east gate of
the Soldiers home. Three miles from the cap
itol. on rising ground, the property, slxty-fve
acres, commands magnificent view of the
city, the Potomac river and the distant hills of
Virginia. The price paid for the property was
$3O,OOUcconsldered q very moderate figure
Architects are now busy preparing plans for
the first building to be erected-the theological
department are to be submitted to tho
committee in November next, and work will be
commenced early in the spring of 1856, the the
illogical department of the university opening
the following autumn
This department will be for young clergy
men who have completed the course usually
taught in theological seminaries and will in
clude eight chairs: PHILOSOPHY, dogmatic
| theology, canon law, Scripture, history SCI
ence and literature. The endowments Of the
professorships range from $50, 600 to 500, 600,
and six have already been subscribed for, and
the other two promised The theological
building will cost $4,000. Students will
have rooms and meals furnished by the uni
verslty at their own expense, but all instruction
will be entirely free. A number of courses or
fellowships, will be founded by the different
dioceses and the iberality of private individ-
uals at $4,000 each. st. Paul is expected to
furnish several from among her weather. citi-
Zens This will make even the board and
clothing Of the student free. The professors
Of the theological and all the other depart
ments are to be selected from the best Catholic
talent in the world; and, when man has par
ticularly distinguished himself in science or
literature, he may be invited to take q
ggrofessorship, even if he be a non
tinguished professors in Europe have already
consented to accept chairs. TO fully organ
ize the theological department will take ST.
600, 900, two thirds Of which is now in hand
and the balance subscribed So high will be
the course of study that it is expected it will be
the finest theological college in the world, even
exceeding the propaganda at Rome. Depart
ments OF law, medicine, science, literature,
ETC., are to be organized as rapidly az possible
on the same scale the theological, and at
equally great expense. charter will be OBJ
tanned of congress at it's next session. The
rector a man of world wide reputation, is prob
ably selected, although his name will not for the
present be made public He is not, however,
Bishop Spaulding of PEORIA as has been errone-
ously reported. The university will in no wise
interfere with any existing college, not even that
of Georgetown, because it's course commences
where the most advanced colleges leave off.
They, on the contrary, will act as feeders to it,
receiving inspiration from it's halls. As plans
for the perfecting of the parochial schools
were adopted by the council, it is designed in
time to make a united system of Catholic edu-
cation in the United States, from the primary
school to the university