Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-19

Corridors, or covered porches, with a
Vine trellis at the sides. The main en-
trance to the building will face on
Michigan avenue. Extending back into
the grounds will be the chapel build
ing, and from the left hand corner the
convent will be erected. Every detail
OF architecture distinguishing the royal
palace will be followed, save where ne
cesslty demands change, on account
or the educational purpose The two
additional buildings will correspond in
style. and the belfry tower, which will
crown the chapel, will likewise be care
fully modelled from the same plan,
making an exceedingly harmonious
whole.
A GRAND GROUP OF BUILDINGS.
The erection of the first and main
building on the upper hill leaves space
FOR the placing of other hills, as neces-
slty may command, and circumstances
permit, so that in time the main hall
Will form the browning point of the
university group. as all other erections
must be somewhat lower down. Only
one difference from the regular plan
or university buildings is to be OBJ
served in the planning of Trinity Col
lege, and that is the placing of all stu
dents sleeping apartments in the main
building. instead of in separate dormi-
tory buildings.
The plans for the interior of the main
building are not yet completed They
are in process of drawing at the Phila-
delphia house of the order Of Notre
Dame, but will not be finished for a
month or more. They have as yet not
been viewed by any one save the foun-
ders of the college. and will be given
for publication probably about the list
of September.
The general plan of study will Of
course be founded on the approved uni
versty plan. Each college, however,
has its individual features, and in
these differs from other colleges. Trim
ity College announces in the broad
course outlined in the advance pros
pectus that it offers to its students ''all
the advantages of any of the American
colleges for women, besides the assured
protection to faith secured by the SUI
pervision of religious teachers" This
last clause emhodies in a nutshell the
unique distinction which will set this
institution apart and aside from any
other institution of learning in the
world, namely. the union of college and
convent instruction. That a convent
education is something different from
any other education is fact recognized
the world over That it is approved
for some of distinctive features by peo-
pie of all sects and beliefs is likewise
proven by the great number of Protes-
tant students to be found in all convent
schools By many of the exclusive
aristocracy Of Europe it is the pre-
ferred method of instruction, hence the
great convent of st. Sacre Occur in
Paris, whose stately room has shelter
ed royalty and aristocracy of all grades,
is divided almost equally between it's
Catholic students and those of other
persuasions.
LEADING THEM INTO RICHER
FIELDS.
Hitherto, however, the convent has
only led its girls to the portal of the
higher education. Now and henceforth
1t will be enabled to lead them on
through the enchanted land of acquired
knowledge, to the very threshold of
that garden of greatest education of
@i, where each must pluck his fruit
snasSisted from the tree of life-ex-
5erience.
The requirements for entrance as set
forth in the preliminary rules are the
same as those required by Vassar and
other colleges of the country. These
rules, briefly set forth, require the an
9ptlcant to be at least II years of age.
Satisfactory evidence of good moral
character must be given. likewise of
good helath. There are three regular
courses of study, each extending
through four years, namely, the class
zeal course, the scientific course. and
the course Of letters.
The classical course leads I'D tn the
degree of Bachelor of Arts; the scien
tiflc course leads up to the degree of
Bachelor of Science; the course of let
ters leads up to the degree of Bachelor
OF Letters, and all the courses will lead
ultimately to the degree of Phi. D.
UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS WILL
LECTURE.
Much of the instruction will be given
By the professors of the Catholic Uni
yersity, who will guide and supplement
the work of the nuns All the nubIic
lectures of the university will be at
tended by the Trinity students. and the
lectures given by the professors to the
Trinity students exclusively will he
similar to those forming the matter of
study for students at the Catholic Uni
Verslty. Every facility approved by
other colleges for making education
easy to obtain of which have com
bined to make our American colleges
renowned the world over will be adont-
ed by the new college.
Plans and arrangements for non-res-
ident students are already formed
which offer advantages to students
who do not reside in the city. and the
department of scholarships is like
ly to prove unusually generous from
present indications.
The energetic nuns who have under
taken so great, but so truly grateful
work, belong to the Order of Notre
Dame of Namur distinguished from
Canadian order of the same name and
their Belgiac origin
The plan for Trinity College orieina-
ted in Washington almost ten Years
ago, and has been the subject of discus
sion in authoritative circles for suffi-
cient time to leave no fundamental
4 question unsettled So the work will
l begin almost Immediately. and if is
probable that the opening of the next
&scholastic year. in September of 1898.
will see the new university ready 10
receive her daughters