Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-27
UNIVERSITY NOTES
Unusually Strong Faculty Has Been Secured
for tbs Ensuing Year,
SKETCHES OF SOME OF THE MEMBERS
the Numbcr Are Several Men
Eminent In Their specialtics-
Prospects for Next College
Year Are Very Bright.

Eminent In Their specialized
for Next College
Year Are Very Bright.
No person who has not visited Creighton
university, at Twenty fifth and Caliiorni,
streets, can have any idea of the extent AM
uhoroughness of the work done by that in
stitution during the last twenty years
Being a free college the members O
the faculty have always enjoyed tn,
advantage of selecting pupils from tn,
most available material at hand, look
ing rather to results than numbers
They have seldom been able to accep
all that applied for admission, because, tn,
class room facilities being limited, they cid
not see their way clear to doing ius.lce to
more than about 200 in The classical &C.
partrnent, in addition to the special students
and those in the Medical college at Four
teenth and Davenport streets. Last year
was a very prosperous season aud the next
bids fair to suroass it. The writer Of a
monograph on higher education in Nebraska,
more than a decade ago, mentions with COM
mendation the fact that Creighton university
held back from the comforting of degrees
for a number Of years because it did not
find the right material at hand and it pre-
ieIIeu W postpone the SlVlnB OF degrees
until it was satisfied with the quality of
scholarship leading up to them. That stage
is long since passed and now graduating
classes succeed each other with ever-increas-
ing breadth of attainments and ever-widen-
ing Intellectual development.
Buildings do not make a college, but they
add materially to Its efficiency, and hence
it is to be regretted that the university is
handicapped for want of room and buildings
and is obliged to exclude some applicants for
want of room. Its patrons have long since
begun to note that it's facilities are entirely
too limited for the work it might do and is
already called upon to do, both for the cause
of education and the UNFOLDING of the hon
ored name of Creighton.
The Needs of Creighton University.
A scientific building is evidently needed,
for a rare collection Of scientific instruments,
the most complete and modern, is crowded
into space in which even a satisfactory dis
play of the apparatus Is impossible. The
room devoted to the library proper is al
together inadequate and divisions of the
library have been installed on the shelves
placed in various corridors, and even in the
commodious and well lighted attic, through
which one passes on his way to the tower
to obtain a commanding view of Omaha and
it's environs. The separate house used for
a chemical laboratory is entirely too small
for so considerable an outfit as it contains,
while the want of gymnasium advantages
practically confines the athletics to outdoor
sports. Buildings twice the size of
the present would be none too
great for the work which can be
done by Creighton university. The build
ings have been thoroughly renovated during
the vacation at an expense of about $1,000,
the assembly hall and chapel especially
showing notable improvement. From the
proceeds OF a play given last December by
the Dramatic association, under the direc-
ton of Prof. William Whelan, the stage has
been electrically lighted with lamps Of diff
ferent colors. The parlors have been beauti-
fully decorated by a domestic artist-a re-
firing lay brother and a man of rare artistic
and classical taste-who before entering the
brotherhood was a portrait painter and
musical virtuoso. Not finding a sufficient
play for his peculiar talents in the new life
he took up the study of ecclesiastical decora-
ton and left evidences of his skill in various
churches and houses of the Jesuit order in
the west. He adorned the wall of the re-
fectory at Florissant, Mo-, with an immense
mural painting of "The Last Supper" and
decorated the interior of Marquette college,
He likewise composed a grand
march in honor of the rector Of Creighton
university. 1t was first produced by al
orchestra composed of some members of the
faculty and Prof. John Schenk, at a private
entertainment recently rendered to John A.
Creighton.
A considerable number of trees and shrubs
were set out on the grounds last spring with
the intention of having them after a while
replace some box elders which must be cut
down on account of being breeding places for
caterpillars. The lawn and flower beds, under
the fostering care of the genial Father Roos,
have been unusually well kept and attractive
this summer. Naturally enough the kinship
of name causes the reverend father to look
with special favor on the rose in his collec-
ton of flowers.
The stone building TO the west of Twenty
fifth street, which was originally a collegiate
but is now devoted also to parish
was renovated and beautifed
within the last few months at a cost Of
about SO, 1000, under the superintendent of
The pastor, Father Bronsgeest. A stone
wall, fanked by turrets and ornamented with
urns and plants, was built in front of the
,hurch and a broad stone stairway leading up
% the entrance was likewise put in. Flower
beds and a well kept lawn add to the stately
of the front.
A Strong Faculty Secured.
President Bowling of the university has
in securing an unusually strong
aculty for the popular institution during
he ensuing year. Rev, James j. Con-
way, for many years professor of mental
md moral philosophy in the postgraduate
department. of st. Louis university, has
,een added TO the staff. This reverend
was also one of the most popu-
ar lecturers at the Madison summer school
nd is the author OF numerous articles for
and of several more elaborate
nd enduring works in his own chosen field
4 intellectual research, as we'll as in the
oman Of biography. In addition to
Their duties, Father Conway will occupy
he chair of evidences OF religion.
Rev. Richard Corcoran, whose speciality IL !
literature and the classics, and who has
aught with success for many years in
ONE of the principal Jesuit colleges in this
interrupted his occupations long
nough to devote a year to ascetic theology;
ut he returns once more to the professor
hip of rhetoric, which was always most IN