The evening times., 1895-10-16

valuation of the site. is now over ST.
| 100000. Since the adjournment of the
trustees in May, when the subscription of
| $l50.OO0 for the han of histury was
completed. several further donations have
been received.
Gen. John Watts de Peyster, OF Tivuli,
| n. y, at the August meeting of the
| building committee. presented to the trus-
1 tees, a magnificent piece of property near
| Riverside Park, New York city, whose
minimum value is about $15O,0OO. This
| will form the nucleus of a fund Ia build
| the j. Watts de Peyster Hall of Languages.
In the general plans of the university
II was originally intended that the hall
| of philosophy should follow the erection
| of the hall Of history, but at the request
of Gen. de Pcyster, this change was made
to the hall of languages. The Intimate
| connection between history and the Ian
guages is SO apparent that this divia,ion
| is a wise one. All the special work in
| literature and philosophy covering the
vast departments of oriental and semitic
| Greek, Latin, romance, GermaDic, and
| English viii be done CO. ordinately with
| the courses pursued in the hall of his
tory.
AsBURY MEMORIAL HALL.
Another great college which will soon
awaken universal interest is the Asbury
Memorial Han or Divinity. The Epworth
League and the varIous conferences OF
| the II. +. Church have undertaken to
raise 81 ,00O.u0O to build and endow this
lasting monument of the sanity Bishop
Asbury. Bishop Hurst during his last
tour OF collection received over $4,000
for this purpose.
The woman's building which Mrs.
The wOman's building which Mrs. Lo-
gan is so actively and zealously encour-
aging, is proposed to occupy a central
st,a ,r.at,.
rama. 1t Will not be college as has
been lately inaccurately pu ublished, but
simply n residence for women students,
which viii contalna gymnasium and
reading and club rooms. The American
University will matriculate women and
men in. all its courses, hence there will
be no need for a woman's college.
The man who is mostly instrumental in
this noble work is tie chancellor, Bishop
John F. Hurst. Bishop Hurst has been a
resident of Washington for thirteen years
and has been from the beginning a prom
ineDt figure in scholarly and religious
life. He is a native of Salem, Dorchester
County, Nd. and first attended school In
Dickinson College. Carlisle, Pa. after
teaching the ancient languages fort wo years.
when he had taken his first degree, the
future renowned chancellor determined
to pursue the courses OF higher philosophy
at the great German universities of Halle
and Heidelburg.
SKETCH OF THE FOUNDERS.
Bishop Hurst is one of the few American
born scholars who have have been hon
ored with a professorship in a foreign uni
versity. For five years he taught at Bremen
and at the theological college at Frank
fort-on the Main. He relinquishcd these
important posts to return to America where
he was constantly employed in different
colleges until his election as bishop OF the
Methodist Episcopal church in 1880.
For thirteen years he has presided over
nearly all the conferences of world wide
Mcthodism, and his administration has been
for the greater glory OF God, the edifica-
ton of his brethren and the increased pros
perity of the Methodist church.
Dr. Samuel L. Beiler, the vice ehancel-
Tor, is a man who has a conspicuous place
mong the co-laborers for the American
University DIR. Beiler was born in Lima,
Ohio, and received his collegiate educa-
ton first at the Ohio Wesleyan College,
and afterw ards at the College of Liberal :
Arts, Boston University, from which In
stitution he holds the degree OF Phi. d.
DIR. Beiler was pastor of various churches
in Toledo and other parts OF Ohio, and
for seven years filled the pulpit OF the
Eighteenth Street Memorial Church, Brook
lyn. He came to washington about two
wears and a half ago, and has already
i,rro circIe of friends and admirers.