The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-04-17

state Of delirium tremens Ranged In the
order Of their appearance are reconstruct
Ell skeletons showing the history Of old
earth's surface from primitive man back
to the early tertiarios, when tho ptero-
dactyl famed the languid air with his
leathery wings and tho iguanodon bask-
cd on tho sunny banks of primcval re-
pose.
A Spur to Effort.
But this is too superscientific. Let us
return to the universities Tho oldest in
tho city proper is Columbia, which has
its main building at Fifteenth and HI
streets, opposite tho Shorcham, but has
various branches and departments of
law, medicine, academies, dental sur
gerry and so on in separate buildings.
Most noted, however, i'll early times was
tho famous Jesuit college of George
town, which has splendid buildings and
largo library. Many have pronounced
the view from the front of the college
building the finest i'll this vicinity In
tho oldest building thoy have IL very
curious collection of old manuscripts
The board of trustees of the new insti-
tuition has representatives of the Baptist,
Episcopalian, Presbyterian and Congre-
gatlonal churches and three also of the
Southern Methodist Episcopal church.
1t is, i'll fact, pan-P Protestant, to coin
word, but the control is in tho Meth
odist church, as that is thought best to
fix the responsibility. Fifty trustees con-
stitutc full board, but at present there
are only 46.
A Great Art Center.
Now they not only say that Washington
is soon to be great educational center,
but that it already is q great art center
OF tho art schools that connected with
the Corcoran gallery is tho most famous
The gallery is ut the corner of Seven
teenth and Pennsylvania avenue, oppo-
site tho state, war and navy building,
and the school is in separate building
just back of it, and no visitor should 90
away without seeing the latter. His
having no taste for art cuts no figure
for ho would be delighted with n view
of the students, who arc mostly ladies'
nearly all young and generally quite
pretty.
The Art Student league has rooms on
Seventeenth street near by, and there are
many teachers and private studios in va
rlous parts of the city. How much in
struction tho art student will get out of
the pictures III the capitol il more than
can even surmisc, for what l don't
know about art would make a large sized
book. OF architecture however I mod
estly claira to know something, and my
Judgment is that, taking originality of
design and finish in combination with
its fitness for the purposes designed. the
Smithsonian institution is very near the
most interesting building, rs Il building,
ill Washington.
Enduring; ~ Time.
Many visitor to the Columbian cX-
position ut Chicago will recall that as he
walked those beautiful avenues in the
early evening and saw the White City
shining i'll the soft moonlight he felt
pang of regret that all this fair crca-
ton must SO soon pass away. 1t was not
difficult to imagine that, like. those IA
bled structures mentioned in "Vathek"
and Paradise Lost" it had risen by en-
chantment from the marsh and the sand
hill, and the poetic visitor could only
dream of 1t as made permanent by the
fiat of some higher power. Washington
city is in part that dream realized
From the eastern end Of the Smithsonian
grounds westward to the monument, by
tho museum, the agricultural department
and other buildings is walk which
gives one as pleasant an experience as
any at Chicago in 1898, and, though the
wonders Of that palace of Liberal Arts
have not even pale copy here, yet the
magnificent columns of the capitol and
other buildings and the general finish
Of the dwellings in the northwest sec