Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-16

ing health, was man OF great energy and he
secured large donations and requests from
former graduates and friends of the college.
The largest of the donations came from Mr.
James b. Coleman, of California. amounting in
all to 100000, and from the heirs of the late
Thomas Dougherty, of Canada, S5l 900. The
rise In value OF some real estate which the col
lege owned and which il was enabled to sell
Tor about SS0,000 was also of very material as
sistance in liquidating the debt that had been
incurred on account of the new building.
THE BEAUTIFUL GROUNDS.
Or course when father Carroll fixed the loca-
ton OF the college upon the picturesque bluff
which overlooks the Potomac, he had no idea
that the capital of the then infant republic
would be located here, but he builded better
than he knew and the university and its beau
tiful grounds now form one of the most attract
i've features of the national capital. At the
entrance OF the grounds are two whitewashed
gate-houses, which look like guard houses,
and which were used as such during
the period that the college was occupied
by the soldiers in the early years of the war.
When hostilities commenced in 1861. and the
troops came to Washington. the college was
converted into a barracks and the students and
professors were crowded into one building for
about three months. The Sixty-ninth New
York Irish regiment was the first to be quar-
tered at the college. and when they were or
dered to the font they were replaced by the
Seventy-ninth New York. Scotch regiment.
After the departure OF this regiment. however.
the college was free from military control until
the following year when, after the battle of the
Second Bull Run, the buildings were taken for
hospital purposes and SO occupied for about Il
year.
The playground occupies some half dozen
acres of green sward. divided into two nearly
equal fields by road bordered with trees The
field to the left of the entrance is used for the
football matches, and an odd-looking structure
of brick atits upper end like the standing center
wall and gable of q ruined house which used
to stand there, was the bowling-alley. Here,
in former days, the students used to play hand
ball. OF which tine modern base ball, with its
professional players, its rules and leagues is
an evolution. Here, too, the students used to
meet sometimes to settle their little differences
in stand-up fight. although the spot chosen
most frequently for the adjustment of differ
ences by this method was 1.-THE walks
The origin of the charming woodland prone
made known as 1.-THE walks" is said to have been
an ordinary cowpath. first enlarged by the then
owner of the land in 1926. Upon his joining
the order OF Jesuits a lay brother. soon
afterward, he extended his labors, and, with
no other assistance than a spade and natural
taste for landscape gardening, he produced
little sylvan paradise. Starting from the green
house and gymnasium, at the east end of the
north building, 1.-THE walks" wind along the
sides OF romantic, deeply-wooded glen, in an
irregular somi-circle about the college build
ings for nearly mile. Through this glen runs
little riyelet, and the deep shades of the pine
and poplar trees form an ideal spot for revery
and surroundings which are calculated to bring
ont the poetic side of ones nature Here has
always centered much of the poetry and pleas
ure OF college life; here the student came to
engage in both physical and metaphysical con-
tests-to test whether he or his adversary was
the better man. where the fight would not be
likely to be interrupted, and to cram for ex-
aminations i'm natures cool silence Here too