The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-18
The President Gives Some of His Old Buffalo
Cronies Ride Behind His New
Team of Seal Browns.
Congressman Adams's Scheme for Get
ting Even with the Mr.. Villas.
Acknowledgement Garland's California friend
General Gresham's Favoritism To-
ward Chicago Newspapers.
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY.
A Catholic Institution Intended to Eclipse All
Others in the Country.

A Catholic Institution Intended to Eclipse All
Others in the Country.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE scope of the Cath
olic university to be founded in Washington is
surprising as it becomes known. The institution
will be called the American University. It's pro-
fessors will be sought in Europe, and none but
men of worldwide reputation will be offered
chairs. Bishop Ireland. who has had principal
charge thus far of the preliminary work of Sc
lecting site and drawing up the charter, which
will be asked of Congress next winter, says that
in the choice of the faculty the matter of religion
will have no part There will be theological
school over which, it is ruplored, Bishop Spaul-
ding, OF Chicago, will preside. There will also be
schools for law, medicine, science. history phi
losophy and far-advanccd branches of learning
known rather to institutions on the continent of
Europe than to the few that we call universities
in America The men who will occupy the chairs
in these schools will be selected without regard
to their religion, and we may expect to see a
faculty so conglomerate that even Bob Ingersoll.
If he had the brains and systematic culture of
scholar, would not seem out of place.
The site chosen is the old Middleton estate,
east of the Soldiers Home, and part of that
beautiful rolling plateau which is Washington's
largest and most beautiful park 1t contains
station on the Metropolitan branch of the Balti-
more & Ohio road The general slope faces the
Bladensburg turnpike, which by pleasant drive
of two miles past Glenwood Cemetery and Edge
wood (the old Chase estate) takes one into town.
The building will begin early next year The
first structure will not be the largest, but will
cost $l50000 Each student will be furnished
a suite of rooms, fully furnished and there will
be a club commons on the ground, where the
best board may be had. The plan of the uni
versity carries it over and above any scheme of
learning now known in the country. For in
stance no student will be admitted to the
medical or law school except on a diploma from
another school of accredited standing. The
work intended in science, especially in chemistry,
engineering and abtruse mathematics, will be
abreast of that done in the leading German uni
versities.
The endowment now in sight is nearly $1,-
000 000 The founders will not be content with
a support insufficient to produce an income Of
from $500, 600 to $500 900 year. which is the ag
gregate outgo for any of the leading uEiver
sites OF England and Germany. The salaries
of the professors will range from So 900 to $10,
000 ard there will go with them the board and
lodging for such as may desire to take mp their
residence in the university buildings. Early in
the coming fall committe will be sent to
Europe, charged with the duty of inviting schol-
ars to chairs in the faculty. and it is intended
that the university shall be set in operation as
early in the coming year as possible. Temporal
ry buildings and provisional apparatus will be
secured for the purpose