Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-09
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
Preparations in Progress for the Fall Open
ing of the Institution.
Annual Meeting of Directors to BE
of the ArchbishOps.

Preparations are being made to reopen
the doors Of the Catholic University for the
coming school year, and several members
of the faculty are already in the city. in
Guiding the vice rector. Rev. DR.. Philip J..
Garrigan. Two or three of the professors
are now participating in the conference in
Switzerland, but will start for home in a
few days, SO that within a week there will
be general. drift of pupils and teachers
toward Washington. The divinity students
are to assemble the 9th instant, the stu
dents in philosophy. science and letters
September 80. and those IN law, political
economy and the social sciences October G.
Heretofore it has been the custom to
open the divinity courses with retreat
for the students of the college; but the re-
treat. even in this school, will be given
later in the year. The directors of the uni
versity are to held their annual meeting
the 2th of October, and this will be fol-
lowed, the next day, by the meeting of the
archbishops of the United States.
The Vacant See.
1t has been stated that at this meeting
the matter of nominating an archbishop
for the archdiocese of New Orleans will be
considered, but this is not correct. The
archbishops, through the use of the mail
and by conferences with each other, have
already made their choice, so that the en-
tire matter is now in the hands of the
propaganda at Rome, and an official an
nGuncement may be expected from that
source at any time. 1t is not known whether
the archbishops have recommended Arch
bishop keane for the vacant See but in
any case they simply act as advisory
body limiting themselves for the most part
to the choice of names made by the priests
and bishops of New Orleans. The latter,
bishops and priests, indicate their choice by
aff1xing to the three names selected the
word worthy" more worthy and most
worthy
may be announced at the meeting of the
prelates here. That body may also have
some interesting news for the public when
1t announces its decision on the Catholic
Indian school bureau.
Outlook for Students.
The outlook for students in all the schools
of the university Is very promising at pres
ent. Two-thirds of those who studied here
last year will return to continue the course
The technical school has received large
equipment this summer while the law
school will be strengthened by the perma-
Eent establishment Of the Richard NJ.
O'Brien chair of Roman law. Three new
young professors are to enter upon their
career as trained university students, two
of them being graduates from the institu-
ton These are Rev. William ]. kerby
Ph.D., who has taken his degree with dis
tinction in the University of Louvain,
school of social sciences, and who will be
associate professor of sociology; Rev.
Charles F. Aiken s. T. L.. who is to begin
the course in Christian apologetics and
Rev. John S. Creagh, who is to direct stu
dies in canon and Roman law. 1t is most
probable that the chair of Gaelic wiz not
be occupied this year, as Rev Richard
lowed another year for! travel and study in
northern Europe.
RumOr Denied.
In connection with the chair of canon
law, a person III authority at the university
was asked whether this chair had been Of
fered to any other canonist and reply was
n ace that this is the only chair of canon
law that has beer or is in the university
ard L know that this chair was never Of
fered to Father Glaab or any other canon
list. except to Father Creagh, who was
elected to this position by the senate of the
university last October
Dur1rg the summer the university has re-
ceived as a bequest, through the will of
the late Father Doherty of Honesdale Pa,
ascetic theology, and 500 from the will
and through the executors of the late Mrs
Coburn of Washington
Valuable Contributions.
Among the many contributions to the
library during the year have been the
valuable volumes of Col Joseph Smolenski
OF this city, on photography of Iroquoin
ard Algonquin Languages Charles Ew-
ing (by his youngest corporaD, from Miss
Lizzie Sherman of this city; 1O6 different
volumes, rare and valuable, from William
onahan OF Chicago: volume 4, Messages
and Papers of the Presidents" from Thorn
as H. Carter, United States Senate: eighty
nine volumes from DIR. Pace; fourteen diff
1erent dissertations from Columbia Uni
Fersity, New York: fifty different bulletins
OF great value, from the United States De-
partments CT Agriculture and of the In
terror. respectively, and nine numbers of
reviews from the French government.
Tnese volumes are placed according to
their matter in the departmental or general
reference.