The evening times., 1899-09-04
THE NEW COLLEGE READY
Removal Of the Holy Cross Con
gregation Completed.
A Description of the New Bull ding
Near the Catholic University
ber - MOnastaic Simplicity Every
where-Apartment for the Cardinal

The removal of the Holy Cross Congre-
cation from the old building in Brookland
to its new college on the Rasemont estate,
near Harewood Road, and directly in the
rear of the Catholic University, has been
practically completed. Nearly all the
rooms are furnished, and an abundant
water supply from the city will soon be
obtained. The students, probably twenty
or thirty in number, which will be largely
increased this fall, will arrive from Notre
Dame. Ind, where they have been during
their vacation, on Wednesday at noon. and
Immediately occupy the building. Holy
Cross College will be dedicated Thursday,
October II. The conservation of the chapel
will be conducted by Cardinal Gibbons. The
Right Rev. Bishop Spaulding, of Peoria.
ILL.,, will deliver the oration, and, as the
hierarchy of the United States Will be at
the Catholic University preparing to con-
vene in annual session, it Will attend the
services. The ceremony will rival in splen-
dor and magnificence the dedication of the
Commissariat of the Holy Land, also near
the university, which will be conducted
on September II, the same Cardinal Off
ciating.
The Congregation of the Holy Cross was
the third religious order to establish an in
stitution for students in affliation with the
Catholic University. Its sole purpose is
for the education of seminarians and priests
Of the order who have received degrees at
Notre Dame, Ind. They are sent here to
complete their theological studies or to
pursue post graduate work in some depart
ment of the university, preparing them
selves for future labors in various colleges
conducted by the order in this country and
Europe, or missionary and cognate duties.
While the college is principally designed
for students in the province of this country.
a limited attendance from Canada and Eu-
| rope will be admitted. A medal termed
'Laetare" is annually conferred by the
order on some prominent Catholic man or
woman in the country who has rendered
| distinguished services to the church in the
United States Marquise de Merinville
Monsters, who founded the Catholic Uni
versity, received it this year.
The Holy Cross College was instituted in
| Brookland in 1895, occupying quarters
! which were rented. These soon became
entirely inadequate. as the house accommo-
| dated only fifteen students. Last autumn
the Very Rev. John A. Zahm. D. D., secured
| the present location for the college, con-
ssting of six acres. In FIVE months the
| ediflce was erected, and two weeks prior to
| the specified date of completion in the
contract the order received the building
| from the architect.
The principal of Holy Cross is the
Rev. Father Fraaciscus, G. s. c.. who was
born in Geramny fifty years ago. He i'm
| migrated to this country in fs72. Father
| Franciscus has-been-superior-. of the or
| ders institutions in Notre Dame. Cincin-
natl, New Orleans, Austin, Tex, and Rome.
where he was procurator- general OF the
| congregation. He has been superior OF
the college here since 1885, the year it
| was founded.
! The college is combination of the
colonial and the renaissance styles OF
architecture, purely classical. and though
its appearance is imposing, there is nc
ornamentation except a cross in the tym-
panum of the pediment above the en-
| trance The dimensions of the building
are 135 feet long by forty-five feet deep,
but the plans permit the addition of two
| proposed wings of forty feet wide and
eighty feet deep, which will form rec
tangular court. partially open, in the rear
The building is constructed of Indiana
limestone and Vermont granite. The en-
| trance is composed of three wide circular
| arches. which surround a balcony and
| support portico, where are four columns
The numerous pilasters, like the columns
are Corinthian.
The interior, the artistic arrangement
of which will not injure the educational
| object, Is fully described by two words
"Monastaic simplicity" 1t has sixt,
apartments, a library, chapel, offices, tive
parlors, reception room, billiard and rec
reation rooms. and suite of rooms re,
served for Cardinal Gibbons and dignitar-
les when visiting the college. The bed
rooms of the students contain only such
furniture as is absolutely necessary. The
beds are iron, the mattresses straw, and
the linen is coarse. There is a washstand
chair, and probably a bookcase will bt
added, in each room On the walls of tht
sleeping apartments. directly before the
4 had will n, hung erucifiyea