The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-02
How the Famous
University
Now Appears.

collected from confiscated monasteries.
Among the most remarkable are, an illu-
minated manuscript of the Fifteenth CEN
fury, 'Libro de les Claras y Virtuosas
mujeres'' Book of the Graces and Viz
tues of Women) by Don Alvaro de Luna;
original letters and manuscript books
of Fra de Leon: a volume of the Lords
Prayer in ISL languages, ordered by the
first Napoleon. and many rare works
prohibited by the liber expurgatorius, all
Of which the librarian viii show you
with boundiess pride and patience. Pass
ing through several tapestry draped
musty-smelIing rooms, you come to the
Sala delClaustrO, a rather modern look
ing saloon in which the doctors and the
heads of houses assemgble in conclave.
A student about to ''wrangle" or dis
pute is shut up here "A hours, with a
sentinel guard at the door TO give him
time and opportunity to consider his sub
ject.
Next of interest In the line Of colleges
is the old Colegio Mayor de Santiago
Apostal. now called the Irish College. -
founded more than four centuries ago
Here a score of Irish students are al
ways in training for the priesthood.
There are dozens Of others, al built at
incredible expense by the most skifful
artisans Of their age and all now com
paratively untenanted, with empty
courts and echoing corridors
Even more interesting in an historical
point OF view is the Dominican AIones-
terry Of San Ebestau. in the Gale de
memory Of the great admiral. who once
resided in il. When the wise doctors OF
the university found Columbus scheme
for discovering another continent vain.
impTacticable. and resting upon grounds
too weak TO merit the support Of the
government" the friars OF san Este6an.
under Deza. approved and upheld the.
homeless genius and entertained him sew
eral weeks with generous hospitality. II
gratitude for the same. Columbus used
the first virgin gold imported from The
New VOID in gliding the ertablIo Of the
Dominican church. and most gorgeous il
stll is I'm appearance as seen under the
dark elllptical arch Of the coro. The
Room of Colon. where the confer
enCes took place which subsequently, had
such great control over the dsstlnies ~
the Western hemisphere. is an smmerss.
hare, vsuitej hall 20 feet long By per-
haps . feet wide
The cathedral. % brilliant yellow stone
has Itile appearance o. antiquity a.
though begun IN 1913 From SIS north
aisle goa pass into "a second ara elder ca
thedral. built N Il1a by the famous
Bishop Geronimo. coHfassor Z ire ca
who fought by his side IN az his battles
and supported his dead body en- It's fua}
journey from Valencia The Bfsho- wzz
buried bere, ans shove his torrls fe~ fvs
centuries hung ~ Christie &c LAS Bstzl-
las" me bronze crucil3z - the ca. ana
which he always carried 81 Bate. II
has long since disappeared. bar IL Is Sss8
that the canars know Us h.d.ug place
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sd. snG a chronjcIeT II Eae dag aH~ns
that The BODY y the ha}y warrior
smelled truly aeliciaus
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