Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-29

81 MISUNDERSTANDING AAss0o F10u10S0 y ~
sss ths tdsnal Capital.
The first fruits Of the recent Catholic plenAry
council IN Baltimore are beginning to be seen,
and the browning work the establishment Of
4 great Catholic university-is already well un-S
der way The special committee appointed by
the council to organize the university met ID
Baltimore, at the residence Of the archbishop,
on May q 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 ., 1 ls
rapidly becoming not only the political but also
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 'ths
institution they propose to establish Othef
considerations beside those enumerated above
influenced the committee in its choice Wash
ington is daily acquiring libraries, museums,
etc, unrivalled 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 al euucaIeu cA1ss, Ivy ol'J
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, OH the
Seventh street road opposite the east gate OF
the Soldiers home. Three miles frorn the cap
itol on rising ground, the PROPERTY slxty7t ~,
city, the Potomac river and the distant hills OF
Virginia The price paid for the property was
$50, OO0-cOnsidered q very moderate figure.
Architects are now busy preparing plans Tor
the first building to be erected-the theological
Experimentation are to be submitted to the
committee in November next, and work will be
commenced early in the spring of1SS6, 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
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, OCO,
and six have already been subscribed for, aud
the other two promised The theological
building will cost $L5o,0oo. Students will
have rooms and meals furnished by the uni
versity at their own expense, butall instruction
will be entirely free. A number of courses or
fellowships, will be founded by the different
dioceses and the hberality of private individ~
uals at 5000 each. St Paul is expected to
FURNISH several IRON hIllOuS Iler NcdltuloI CAVl-
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 a man has par
ticularly distinguished himself in science or
literature, he may be invited to take a
professorship even if he be a. non
Catholic. A number of the most dis
tinguished professors in Europe have already
ize the theological department will take s., >
000, 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, ever
exceeding the propaganda at Rome. Depart
! ments Of law, medicine, science, literature,
etc, are to be organized as rapidly as possible
on the same scale as the theological, and al
equally great expense. A charter will be OBJ
tanned of congress at its next session The
rector a man of world wide reputation. lis 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 CHROME
! ously reported The university will in no wist
interfere with any existing college, not even thai
! of Georgetown, because its 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
we're adopted by the council, it is designed il
! time to make united system Of Catholic edu
cation in the United States, from the primary
school to the university.