Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-17
stPLAYING AT UNIVERSITY
Half q Million Needed to Build q
"Temple Of Science.S

"Temple Of Science"
THE WHITE CROSS LEGION OF HoxoR-oRHAT
SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS HANDLED WITH SxATNKss
AND pIsPATCH-rHE GREAT SEAL OF TIE UNI
vxssIrT-THAf ooNGREss Is HxPRCTED 10 DO.
Some people may imagine that the president
and the board of trustees of the White Cross
University of Science, the home of which is in
this city, have been doing nothing, and it is
barely possible that there are within the
geographical limits Of the District of Columbia
| other people who could be compelled to confess
that they were not aware Of the existence of such
an educational institution as that mentioned. In
order that this mental darkness might be dis
PEELED and that knowledge might be free to
walk up and down the land the university has
made to Congress its first annual report. This
was surprise to Congress; it had not looked
for any such action and was totally unprspared
to cope with the situation. The wealth of
valuable information contained in the report
was not recognized and because there was
| some where a reference to the need Of a small
appropriation for university building
TRIPLE OF HALF MILLION OR So
the document was sent to the Senate commit
tee on public buildings and grounds. Here
the magnitude OF the proposition and the ac-
companying facts began to become apparent
but before they were fully uncovered the COM
mlttee sent them to the select committee on
the quadri-centennial, presumably because
they thought the University was too stupendous
an affair to be handled by anything less than
special committee.
This annual statement, which has been so
contemptuously treated. is a most interesting
affair and it shows that tho university has
taken hold OF the universe In earnest, and in
tends, SO far as possible, to run it in a proper
manner by duly adopted resolutions The
university was incorporated at a cost of 81
United States currency, on August Il, 1885,
and on the Goth day of the same month not
only adopted bylaws, but elected William
Wheeler Hubbell president, Samuel II. Bald
win secretary and Lee Crandall treasurer. No
time was lost in settling down to business, for
among the earlier acts of the university was
the adoption Of the resolution coudemning the
BrOwn-Sequard elixir as ''septic in effects and
declaring the truth of nature to be, as among
animals and man, that each shall be and re-
main OF its kind as originally created this also
condemning the Darwin and Huxley theories
and sustaining the biblical or divine law of
creation"
Cause and effect are shown up with startling
clearness in the paragraph which reads as fol-
lows: Adopted resolution on science and law
in Mrs. Maybrick's case; transmission thereof
to her majesty's government by the British
minister at Washington; accepted sentence
committed"
Friends Of Mrs. Maybrick, who wondered how
the communication was brought about, can now
behold revealed truth.
THE CoNFERRINa OF DEGREES,
that most responsible duty of a university that
desires to become known among men, was
commenced on August &c, twelve days after
incorporation. The highest honorary degree
the white cross legion of honor--was conferred
fnr ranf lie
A. Edison, Cyrus W. Field, George W. Childs.
James Gordon Bennett, John w. Mackay and
William Wheeler Hubbell the latter being the
president OF the university Additional honors
were heaped upon the unresistilg Mr.. Hubbel
so long as the stock of degrees held out He
was given the degree of doctor OF vivopathic
medicine, 'for proficiency, long study, prac-
tice and discoveries in medical science" and
before that was cold he voted unanimously to
bestow on himself the degree Of learned doc
tor of laws"
The only other member Of the board Of trus-
tees who got in on the honorary ground floor
was Mr.. Zachariah V. Purdy, and the title he
secured Is that OF doctor OF veterinary medi-
cine and surgery.
ANOTHER GREAT QUESTION SATISFACTORILY
SETTLED.
The next great question to be settled by the
university was as to the national flower. On
this subject there was great diversity of
opinion, but the board of trustees met and de-
clded that the golden plume" which grows
when the weather is propitious, near the Vir-
ginia home Of President William Wheeler Hub
bell, F.WC.L. H., M.D.V, Id. L., should be the
favored emblem. Since that conclusion was ar
rived at there has been but little said on the
subject. Maurice Adler's case was the next
thing to be taken up and here again were cause
and effect shown. Says the report: "Resolu-
ton passed to aid in restoring Maurice Adler;
copy to his attendants; not accepted; he died OF
exhaustion; resulting, from impairment Of the
vitality of his blood"
incidentally mention is made Of improve
ments IN the chemistry OF the materia medca,
for which the university is responsible. Schol-
arships have not yet been established, says the
report. There are no debts and the organiza-
ton owns no real estate. Its property consists
Of flags (number not stated, seal, press,
books, &c. The report is adorned with huge
seal, fully three inches in diameter, and pos
sessed of a deeply serrated edge like unto that
Of a circular saw. Beneath the seal is the
statement OF notary public as to the personal
appearance, &c, OF President William Wheeler
Hubbell, with all his degrees, and then come a
few lines from James NJ. Trotter certifying to
the recording of the affidavit made before the
notary.
THE PROPOSED TEMPLE OF SCIENCE.
Accompanying the report il q document
which is as follows:
1.-The board of trustees having under consid-
Grafton the subject of an university building:
Resolved, that this university proposes the
erection of a temple OF science at Washington,
ID. c., OF sufficient capacity to serve IA spac-
cious hall for lectures and other scientific pur-
poses and affairs of public periodical nature.
Also with suitable apartments for tuition, pres
ervation of records, library and other univer-
sity objects. To be of indestructible fire.
proof construction for the perpetual safety of
the memoirs OF all persons eminent in the pro-
or n knOWlpHpa n Of Wi tha hon
ors OF the university; and to embrace an annex
for the storage OF government records il au-
thorized by Congress; and that private donations
already authorized by act of Congress and the
further cooperation OF Congress be invoked,
III the name of the university, for aid in the
erection of temple of science worthy Of this
great and growing nation at a cost not exceed
ing
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
This is signed by William Wheeler Hubbell,
Lee Crandall, Romulus w. Ruter, Samuel NJ.
Baldwin and Zachariah V. Purdy, but the great
seal OF the institution is missing.
THE CONCLUDING APPEAL
is a memorial for building similar in design
to the pension Office, to be located near the
Smithsonian Institution and to be used in part
for the quadri-centennialo of 1892 "This univer-
sity," 1t concludes, would require few rooms
only in the temple of science for its private
use-the whole building being devoted to the
uses of the government and to scientific and
useful Objects To this William Wheeler Hub
bell, president F.W.C.L.H.. M.D.V., L.D.L.,