The times., 1898-10-28
Another Gift of $4,000 to the
Catholic University.
THE SECOND THIS WEEK
Diocese of Brooklyn Pounds u Rev.
SchOlnrship-Mgr. COnaty's Speech
of Acceptance-EulOgy 10 the Mem
or. of the beloved Father.


Yesterday, for the second time this week.
Mgr Conaty, the rector, was called upon
to express the thanks of the trustees of
the institution for generous gifts of en-
dowment money.
Yesterdays endowment came from the
diocese of Brooklyn, where the clerical
and Law friends of the late Rev. DR..
James II. Mitchell subscribed the sum
of 5000 to found the Mitchell Memorial
Scholarship.
Owing to a delay of over an hour in
leaving Philadelphia, the Brooklyn dele
CATION, numbering seventy, over half of
which were ladies, did not arrive at the
university until $50 o'clock. The visitors
| gathered in the assembly room of Nc
| Mahon Hall. the faculty and students of
| the college and large number of Wash
ington friends of the university filled the
| floor, while the delegates, with Mgr.
| Conaty, occupied the rostrum.
| Immediately upon the assembling of the
audience, Joseph w. Carroll. chairman of
| the Brooklyn committee advanced to the
| center of the platform and in the follow
ing words presented the gift to the uni
versity:
DweIlers in imperial city, pilgrims from
| Towering diocese, through the broadened paths
| of yoRder Washington, with reyeTent steps have
come into this glorious light (the university to
| lay wreath of memory upon consecrated
| tomb.
Monsignor Conaty, rector: The diocese OF
Brooklyn sends greeting to the Catholic univer-
| sity OF America and presents gold 10 found
scholarship for the higher education of its
end clergy with right OF nomination to its bene-
fits in the Bishop of Brooklyn and his successors,
| TO be known as the Mitchell memorial scholar
ship, in honor OF the late Rev Dr. james II.
Mitchell. one time chancellor of Brooklyn, and
subsequently rector OF St. Stephens Church, and
| legs your acceptance.
We are they who for this noble purpose received
| the eager and generous offerings of those who
| loved Father Mitchell. and through the medium
ship of our honored bishop, transmitted them to
| you.
We bring with us today Father nitcheirs like
ness, which, gazing upon, your fortunate students
| in future years may see one who knew TO scoGn
| delights and live laborious days"
| And for your achives have with u this
| modest book. in which set down his history
! without comment and why this scholarship IS
founded and the honorable roll of those who gave
TO its founding. OF this book there are two
other copies; in the archives of the diocese
| OF Brooklyn and in the keeping of the BrtoS-
lyn Catholic Historical Society
| Father Mitchells name Will never dim, now
that it will be inscribed on the mperishabe
| scroll of this impcrisldble university
His friends have shown that they know how
| to do him homer for the here and the hereafter
The diocese Of Brooklyn has added another
laurel to its beauteous Gown, and the Catholic
University OF America benignly smiles its grac-
ious recognition of humble effort to aid it IN
its God-siyen work.
Mr. Carroll then introduced DR.. Dominic
]. Bodkin, who delivered an excellent eu
Iogistic address. Among other things DIR.
| Bodkin said:
The Rev. James H. Mitchell was born
in Astoria, L. l., on October 10, 1853; grad
uated from Manhattan College in 1874, and
was ordained priest at Grande Seminare,
| at Montreal in 1871 He was secretary to
| Bishop Laughin. and after the appoint
4 ment of the present bishop Rev. c. E.
! Mcdowell, Father Mitchell was, made
| chancellor of the diocese OF Brooklyn. In
January he became pastor of ST.
| Stephens Church, where he died April
Il. of the present year. During the twen-
ty years of his ministry he filed with dis
tinction the offices of secretary to the
bishop, president of the Brooklyn Catholic
Society, vice president of the Brooklyn
Institute of Arts and Sciences, and trus-
tee of the Catholic Summer School at
Plattsburg. N Y. We are here On pleas
ant pilgrimage to offer a tribute. of our
esteem to the central sun of Catholic
learning in America, a shrine we consider
more enduring than sculpturec marble or
bronze to honor one whose whole life
meant long and laborious industry 1t is
to US a mission of love"
Monsignor Conaty, in accepting the gift
of the scholarship. spoke substantially as
follows: Rev. Fathers, Ladies and Cen
tlemen of Brooklyn: 1t is my privilege
in extending to you the sincere thanks
of the university for your generous
gift, to also bid you welcome to our
university halls. This scholarship en-
titles you to a place of honor among
us. in fact, 1t establishes a relationship
by virtue of which you have the right to
consider yourselves perfectly at home
Your coming here in such numbers and in
so representative a body has a most i'm
portant, as well as most consoling sig
| nificance.
You come to establish as a memorial
to a noble-hearted and much beloved
priest. the Rev. James II. Mitchell, a
scholarship for the higher education of
the clergy of your great diocese of Brook
| lyn; you come to ally yourselves intimate
| ly with the most important educational
work of our church in this country. Your
gift thoroughly identifies you with the
more than in the past, you have right
| to be considered as co-laborers with us in
university work.
You, then, representatives of Brook
lyn, with pride in your bishop and clergy,
in the spirit of education which pervades
your great city, with honor for the churc ch
Of which you are so prominent part,
you follow the traditions of the church.
you give a magnificent example to the
country in honoring the memory of a
priest who was devoted to all your in
terests, and by this memorial you desire
. to cooperate under the inspiration of his
name in the formation of a learned priest
hood. The Rev. James III. Mitchell Schol-
arship will now take its place among the
endowments of this university.
Father Mitchell was a priest whom
we all respected, a man of brilliant tai
ents, of great zeal, and of inspiring de-
! yotion to the interests of the church and
of his diocese. He was a leader among
men. whose ambition was to fit himself
thoroughly for the work of the priest
hood in our American life; scholar.
whose name is an inspiration to us all
, His name is now to be forever associated
with this university in the work for the
higher education of the clergy of the do
cese he loved.
I'm the name, then, of the trustees, in
structors. students, and friends of the
university, 1 gratefully accept your gift
and thank you for your generosity, by
which, as Catholics, you attest your con-
fidence in the university. and give to the
country an example of unselfishness and
true Catholic devotion to education"
At the conclusion of Monsignor Coma