The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-01
MGR. 'MAHON'S GIFT
Cardinal Gibbons Dedieates the
Institution for Lay Students
to the Catholic Uni
versity.

WASHINGTON. Oct. l. 1S95.-The Cath
oIic University of America today signal
lied it's admission of lay students ana
the inauguration of two new lay facul-
ties, by the dedication of the McMahoh
Hall of Philosophy. a magnificent new
building which will form the nucleus OF
the extension of the educational advan-
tages which the university Will anora.
AS Bishop Keane the rector of the Uni
versity puts it, "It is the most beautlrui
building that has been or will be erected
on the grounds
The services today began at three
O'Clock with the blessing and benedlclon
of the Mcmahon Hall by His Emlnence
Cardinal Gibbons, according to the for-
mula of the Roman ritual, assisted py
the directors of the University ana
number OF prominent preiates OF the
church, who are in Washington to par
ticipate also in the proceedings OF the
Eucharistic Congress, which begins TO-
morrow. The inaugural exercises imme-
diately followed.
Leo Kill. with reference to the estap-
lishment of the McMahon Hail., which
served as an Introduction to the delivery
of four formal discourses. Mgr Satolli,
the Apostolic Delegate, spoke OF PM
losophy and the faculties of philosophy,
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Prof E. A. Pace, Dean of the faculty
of Philosophy, and Prof w. Q. ROBIN
son, Dean of the faculty Of Social sii. 81.
ences The exercises concluded with the
Chaneellors address, delivered by Cardl-
raj Gibbons, Chancellor of the Univer-
GAVE A GREAT FORTUNE.
Mgr. James Mcmahon, the founder Of
the new hall of philosophy, was the most
interested and the most interesting WIT
ness of today's exercises. Although ven
erable in years. he is hale and hearty
in appearance and looks forward to many
years of quiet and content in the shades
of the beautiful building, to the erec-
ton of which he gave nearly his entire
Mgr. McMahon accumulated wealth
through real estate transactions in New
York City. When a young man he was
left small patrimony which he invested
in city property and the great increase
brought to him a fortune Of more than
four hundred thousand dollars. Il never
ran after real estate" Mgr. Mcmahon
has said: "It ran after me- Desiring
in his old age. after more than half q
century of priesthood, to give substantial
evidence of his devotion to, the church.
lifetime to the university for the erection
of the hall dedicated today. retaining
only. sum sufficient to give him the
comforts of life, to which his venera bic
his devotion to the church and the edu-
cation of its. children. he was. recently
made a MEMBER OF the Pope'S nOuSehOld
with the title of Monsignor
The Mcmahon is $50 feet long by from
70 to 100 feet in depth. four stories high,
throughout with a fifth central stcTvS
The building is constructed entirely IN
granite in the Romanesaue style, put
approaching closely to the classic. 1t
was built for the accommodation of two
new faculties inaugurated today-thoge
of philosophy and science, and of the
social sciences and law, to which lay
LIST OF THE FACULTY.
Among the faculties are:.Hon. Car
missioner Of LABOR and Acting Super
intendent of the Census who takes the
osition of lecturer on political economy
in the faculty of social sciences; the
Rev. DIR. Rocker, Secretary of the Apos--
tolic Delegation, lecturer on ethics; and
Prof. Maurice Francis Egan, formerly
Of Notre Dame University, Indiana. the
chair of English ,philology, and literature.
Among the distinguished spectators
was Archbishop Corrigan of New York,
one of the directors of the University
He was accompanied by Monsignor Far
ley. Father Lavelle, rector of st. Pat
rick's Cathedral, ard Father Connolly
Secretary to the Archbishop. From here
the Archbishop will go to Mexico to take
part in the ceremonies at the reopening
of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe