The evening times., 1899-09-02

exterior is built of. Indiana limestone and
Vermont granite. Entrance is made
through three circular arches to wide bal
cony, above which is portico surrounded
by four large and majestic Corinthian p.i-
lars, supporting gabled roof with cross
in its end. The interior has received the
most careful attention concerning Its ar
tistic arrangement with due regard to It's
special educational purposes. 1t contains
in all sixty apartments. including lbSa-
ry, chapel, offices. two pariors. and
guests room, billiard and recreation rooms,
all the necessary living apartments for the
students and faculty, and suite OF rooms
reserved for the exclusive use of Cardinal
Gibbons and several other church dignita-
ries when visiting here.
Holy Cross College.
Holy Cross College is intended for those
seminarians and priests of the congregation
of the Holy Cross who have taken their
degrees at the University of Notre Dame,
Ind, and who are sent here to complete
their theological studies or to pursue post
graduate work in some of the many de-
partments of the Catholic University.
These students will equip themselves for
future work in the various educational in
stitutions conducted by the Holy Cross
Congregation in both the New and the Old
World, or they Will prepare themselves
for missionary and cognata wo-k. While
the college is mainly designed for students
belonging to the province of the United
States, there will also be in attendance
certain number of members of the order
from Canada and Europe. This congre-
cation was the third religious order to
establish q house of studies in connection
with the Catholic University, opening in
1895 in rented quarters in Biookland, d.
c., which afforded accommodations for
Only fifteen students, and became enti e-y
inadequate year ago. Enough students
are expected this year TO tax the capacity
of the new structure and by next year it
is thought the wings will be added, doub-
ling present accommodations for fifty.
The priests of the Society of Mary are
likewise outgrowing their rented house of
studies in Brookland and last July they
began the erection of a much larger and
more commodioas building, on a tract of
ten acres, adjoining the university grounds,
just east of Holy Cross College and direct
ly in the rear of the Catholic University
buildings. The contract allows until the
LIST of April next, for the completion of
the structure which will be ia feet wide
with two extensive wings running 110 feet
back from each end. Indiana limestone
will be used for the construction of the
ground story and hand made red brick
viii be used for the rest of the building.
In the basement will be found the eating
apartments. recreation rooms, and a large
gymnasium taking in the entire east wing
of the building 80 by $50 feet in dimen-
sions. The first floor is devoted TO half a
dozen parlors Two chapels, a sacristy and
several large class and study rooms. On
the second are TO be found a dormitory for
the Sisters who will have charge of the
household, the infirmary and library, and
about a dozen dormer rooms for the stu
dents. The third floor provides for addi-
tional dormitories almost exclusively.
The architecture of the building is the
Romanesque style, very modest and plain
in appearance. The entrance is simple and
classical, through three arches. At the top
the central portion of the building is TO be
finished in the form of a gable supporting
cross at Its crest. In all there are TO be
about 100 apartments.
The Marist Society opened its college
here in 1892. and has for its object the
training of the Marist scholastics in theo-
logical science, and consequently receives
only young men who have made their no.
vitiates in the society. About thirty stu
dents are expected this year TO follow the
usual seminary curriculum in the college
and attend lectures in the university.
These three new settlements. together with
the matured plans of Trinity College for
women, represent a value OF nearly $780,
co., which. combined with the holdings of
the Catholic University of America. equal
= total of nearly S3,000,0 600, and positively
assure Washington of being the centre of
Catholic education for the United States
for all time.