The Irish standard., 1894-06-09


Dame, are the College church, rich in
valuable paintings, statuary and other
decorations, and possessing, in addition
to fine chime Of bells, the second larg-
est Individual bell ON the continent;
Washington Hall, with it's reading rooms,
apartments for the athletic associations
of the college, it's music rooms and eShi'
bltion hall, with seating capacity IN ex-
cess of 1,200; science hall, containing one
of the best and completest plants to be
found in an American college: St. Ed
wards hall, the nome OF the younger
students of No1re Dame; Sorin hall,
named after the venerable founder Of the
university, with Its quarters for profess
sors, lecture and recitation rooms, and
the printing Office, whence issue weekly
those excellent publications, the Ave
Maria and Notre Dame Scholastic, and
from whose presses have come, in book
form, many valuable contributions to
American Catholic literature.
Notre Dame rejoices in the possession
of it's own post Office, connected with
which is also q telegraph service; the es-
tablishment of the Office having been Oh
tanned for the university in 1851, by the
good offices of Henry Clay, whose inter
est in the Institution was always great.
In addition to the many collegiate build
ings, there are also to bs seen st Notre
Dame a number of other structures
which are especially devoted to the uses
of the jealous congregation which has
charge of the university, such as the
novitiate, the home OF the professed
members Of the community and the the
ological scho, in which it's ecclesiastical
candidates are trained tor and instructed
IN the duties of the priesthood.
The chief glory of Notre Dame, how
ever, does not consist in the pile of stately
buildings that stand on the spot which
Father Badln secured for the church
over sixty years ago. Noble and grand
and numerous as these structures are,
they would not have given Notre Dame
the renown which the university now
possesses were it not for the fact that
the buildings, thanks to the eruditiop,
the zeal and the piety of the congrega-
tion which erected them, are truly homes
Of lea, ming and wisdom, of educational
enterprise and intellectual achievements.
The faculty OF Notre Dame is admittedly
one of the best which any American uni
versity possesses. In its ranks are
counted not alone the scholarly ecclesi-
astics of the Congregation of the Holy
Cross, but also the best Catholic special
lists in their respective lines that this
country has produced In law and liter
ature, in science and art, Notre Dame
always strives for the best, and her efforts
to secure shat have been singularly for
tunate The faculty is strong numer.
ically as we'll as intellectually; and in ad-
dition to the learned clerjcs who hold
the higher places, it counts sixteen lay
professors, besides still larger number
of seminarians; while the attendance of
students at the institution is far in ex-
cess OF that of any other American Cath
olic college or university.
Notre Dame hes witnessed many grand
and imposing ceremonies since that day
in June, Is44, when the first students
took possession of the original college
building. First in order OF time of these
events was the dedication, on the Feast
of the Immaculate Conception, 1874, of
the original college chapel, wherein, be-
fore fire destroyed it, Abp. Purcell, Bp.
Henni, Bp. Lefevre, Mgr. Hailandlere
and other prelates at different times Of
fciated. Then there was the placing in
the tower of the church of the chimes,
in 1856, when Abp. Purcell and Bp.
Henni again visited the university and
charmed all who listened TO them by
their splendid oratory. The blessing of
the statue Of the Virgin for the dome,
May 81, 1866, was another impressive
ceremony which called to Notre Dame
Archbishop Spalding, Bishops Luers,.
Henni, Rappe, Tmon and Grace. And
among other notable events in the insti
tution's history may be mentioned the
celebration in 1859 Of it's silver jubilee;
the dedication Of the Notre Dame OF to-
day; the oonvocat1on there, in 1872, of
the first general chapter Of q religious
order held in the western world; the eel.
ebration in 1883, of Father Sorin's golden
sacerdotal jubilee, and, still more recent
II, the reception accorded to Mgr. satoli,
the Papal Delegate. These are, however,
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