The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-20

venerable Archbishop WlllamS OF bOS-
ton The love which the priests ana
people of New England have for tnelr
Archbishop leave no reason to doubt
that the necessary fund for the endow-
merit will be presented at the next
meeting of the board of trustees of the
university.
BY the death of the late DR.. Hoff-
man the university has lost very
jealous and devoted friend. He was
for several years the honorary curate
of the university museum of ethnology'
a department. which he practically Gre
ated ard organized. While holding the
position Of honorary curator of the uni
Versity museum, DR.. Hoffman was ap-
pointed by Pres; dent Mckinley United
States consul at Marheim Germany.
, Owing to i'll health he was allowed
six months leave of absInce. and ne
returned to Reading. Pa. his native
place, where he died. During his sick
ness DIR. Hoffman had the happiness
of being received into the Catholic
church, and his last hours were blessed
and comforted with the sacrameISts.
Very Rev. DR.. .CarTigan, the vice rec
tor of the university, who was a warm
admirer of the deceased, visited him at
his home in Reading and had the
pleasure of baptizing him and of cheer
ing his last hours with all the spiritual
comforts of the church.
At the January meeting of the uni
versity senate the following reSolu-
tiOns were offered and unanimously
adopted:
1. Resolved: That in the death of
Walter James Hoffman we recognize
the dispensation of an Advise PrOvt-
dence, and we bow to its decree with
reverence and sorrow.
II. Resolved: That in DR.. Hoffman9
untimely demise science has lost an
eminent and devoted student of Amer
lean archaeology and ethnology. who
by his researches and publication. had
attained a foremost place among the
scholars of our age.
III. Resolved: That the Catholic
University of America hereby places
on record it's indebtedness to DR.. HOff-
man for his cordial sympathy with its
work and for his distinguished services
as Honorary Curator of its University
Museum of EthnoIogy; a department
which he organized with scientific
skill and taste, and enriched with many
valuable contributions.
" Resolved: That these resolutions
be incorporated in the minutes of the
University Senate meeting of this date,
and engrossed and placed in the Mu-
scum of Ethnology; also that copies Oh
the same be forwarded to the bereaved
family and immediate relatives of our
late friend and colleague.
The Feast of St Paul the Apostle,
the Faternal Feast of the Faculty Of
Theology, will be the occasion Of the
usual solemn ceremonies in the Divinity
Chapel. Rt Rev Mgr. Sbaretti, the
! Bfshop-elect of Havana, will pOntifi-
cate. and the sermon will be delivered
bv Rev. Dr. Edmund t. Shanahan,
Professor of Dogmatic Theology.
The Right Rev. Rector delivered the
Grafton at the fiftieth anniversary of
the Father Mathew Society of East
| Cambridge. Mass. Thursday evening,
Dec. 2S. He is expected TO give the
principal address at the meeting of the
Holy Cross Alumni at Worcester, Jan.
%. The Very Rev. DR.. Garrigan
preached the euIogy at the funeral Of
the Rev Richard J, Patterson, the for
ner pastor of st. Johns Church, Gin
ton. Mass, with whom DR.. Garrigan
was many years associated as a neigh
boring pastor.