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The Washington times., 1903-03-01

at the corner Of Louisiana Avenue and
-Four and a-half Street northwest, which
was occupied for I've years. IN IssE the
school secured from the Government
permission to occupy the old insane hos
pital located in Judiciary Square. Al
the outbreak Of the civil war the school
vacated this building that the Govern
ment might use it for a hospital. The
faculty secured a building on E Street
temporarily. In 1865 w ". Corcoran
gave the university the building on II
Street, between Thirteenth and Four
teenth, which was recently pulled down
to make room for the new building.
More than $50. 600 has been expended
on the two new buildings and the i'm
provement Of the old portion of the hos
pital, and the entire property Is valued
at about quarter of million dollars.
The equipment OF the institution IS sec
ord TO that OF no medical school in the
country. Laboratories have been pro
vided with superior microscopes, and no
expense has been spared in securing
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been altered, that the graduate Of any
reputable high school in this country
with four-year course may enter. This
change has been made that the Column
bian University may become a continue
ton of the public school system. The
University of Michigan and many other
prominent institutions have adopted
this same plan. and regard it with much
favor.
College Term Shortened.
The course in Columbian College has
also been shortened from four to three
years. This has been accomplished by
intensifying the work rather than les
SEEMING it. and is in line with the move
ment inaugurated by Yale and several
other schools which recognized the ne
eessity for shortening the length OF
time required for Undergraduate work.
The Columbian faculty has also arranged
in the college may devote part of their
time to work in the professional de-
partments or the graduate department
and secure credit Cor it in the college.
This viii make it possible for students
TO complete a collegiate and law course
in FIVE years and to complete a col
legiate and medical course in six years.
Columbian University has since it's
organization been under the direction
OF trustees who were prominent in the
business and professional circles of
Washington. Although it was establish
ed under the direction of the Baptist
Church il has always welcomed men
OF all denominations to its faculty. and
has numbered men OF all faiths among
its trustees. The present officers OF the
board Of trustees are Wayne Mac
Veagh chairman; Edward NJ. Galiaudet.
vice chairman; John B. Larner. secre-
tary; John Joy Edison treasurer. The
other members of the board are Presi-
dent Charles W. Needham. member ex
oficio; DR.. Otis T. Mason. J. Ormond
Wilson. Myron NJ. Parker. Theodore w.
Noyes. William S. Shanenberger. David
Abbot Chambers, Samuel H. Greene
Samuel w Woodward. William F. Mat
tingly. Eugene lowering. George O.
Manning. and Joseph J. Darlington.
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complete rearrangement OF rooms.
Operating, anesthesia and steTiIizing
rooms occupy the first and second floors.
A large amphitheater is on the third
floor and the nurses home is on the
fourth floor The building Is heated by
the direct pressure steam plant located
in the medical school building. This
minimizes the danger from FIRE The
hospital is hreproof throughout and is
provided with modern ventilating appIi-
ances.
The Dental Department.
The Columbian dental and medical de-
partments are the outgrowth Of a medi-
cal school started by DR.. Thomas Sew
all in connection with Columbian Col
lege in 1925. AT that time there were
but sixteen other medical schools in
the United States. and less than 1000
medical students. The school gradu-
ated its first class Of six members In
1926. Il is not known where the first
sessions OF the school were held. In 1889
the medical faculty secured building
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brick or soapstone finish. which max
IL possible for them to be washed aid
disinfected with ease. on the first floor
of this building are faculty rooms and
students waiting rooms arranged along
a wide corridor. At the back end Of
the corridor is lecture hall with a
seating capacity of $50. The museum.
library, reading room. professors rooms
and lecture hall which will seat 500
occupy the second floor Chemical.
pharmaceutical. and physiological lao
oratories capable OF accommodating
$50 students and lecture hall which Will
seat 200 are on the third floor. The
dental inirmary and laboratory and a
lecture hall with capacity of 200 oc-
cupy the fourth floor dissectfng
room large enough to accommodate 200
students and meteorological. histology
ical. psychological laboratories. each
of which will accommodate $50 stu
dents. are on the NTH floor
Model Lecture Rooms.
All the lecture rooms are arranged
with slanting floors. and are placed
above each other at the north end of the
building in such manner that there is
a great economy OF space The building
is provided with cold storage plant.
elevators. and modern ventilating APP
planes. and is heated by a low pres
sure steam plant. II is provided with
both gas and electric light.
The new hospital building is four sto-
ries and basement It is eighty feet
long and sixty feet wide. and is con-
nected with The old hospital building
which has been enlarged and remodeIed
and will be used exclusively for mater
nifty cases and the school Of nursing in
connection with the institution. In the
new building there are two large oper
ating rooms and one small one. II con
taiDs thirty-eight private rooms. MANY
OF which are arranged in suites and pro-
Vided with private baths. The building
has number Of wards. in addition Il its
private rooms. and viii accommodate 100
patients - has two elevators. which
reach the roof, and will carry patients
to large garden. which has been pro
Vided on the roof. This will be covered
with awnings. and viii be so divided
that charity and pay patients may both
have use OF IL. Behind the new hospital
is yard ninety feet by seventy feet.
which has been parked for the use of
patients.
Or the basement floor Of this building
are the dining room for nurses. strong
house STAFF. servants quarters. strong
rooms for violent pasents. cold sto-
rage room. laundry and baths. The SUI
DR.. II. c. Macatee. and the
Louise stan, have Offices on the first
Gocr. There are also six private rooms
and sun pariors on this floor. The sec
ond and third floors are given over TO
private rooms. wards. sun parlors. and !
baths. The hospital is newly furnished |
throughout. and Is as light and cheerful /
as money could make IL.
In the old hospital there has been a
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washington Institution of Higher Learning Fashioned After u1urd
Yale and O1er Leading SCfOOSOV IInhYT-
Sy Council Under The Direction President Needham y

Q EVERAL years after the close Of the
war OF 1912 the Rev. Luther Rice, a
missionary who served the Baptist
church in Africa. decided that Washing
ton should have an institution of high
er education fashioned after Harvard,
Yale. and the other leading schools of
that day. He interested the Rev Oba-
diah Spencer. the Rev Spencer Cone.
and several other prominent churchmen
in the plan. They labored faithfully,
and secured the assistance of many
prominent members OF Congress. IN
1921 Columbian College was chartered.
and began its work in a building located
on the edge OF the city.
The institution fiourished and received
the support Of John Quincy Adams and
many other men of prominence early in
the last century. From a school de-
signed especially for the teaching of
theology and the classics. Columbian
College has grown into a great uni
vers.ty with many departments and
AVotAS AFNNN oNAANnAss AAo NAOLNE1lOu1l
schools have graduates in all the States
IN the Union and in many foreign coun-
tries. In it's faculty are men who are
among the nations prominent scientists,
5urists. and educators From its loea-
tion IN the suburbs the University has
moved to quarters in the heart Of the
city and is now housed in buildings
which in every way meet the require
ments Of its many departments.
For number OF years the depart
ment OF medicine has used the building
at 1885 II Street northwest. but the
rapid increase in the number OF students
and the demand for more hospital room
led TO the enlargement OF the old build
ing and its conversion into a hospital
TO be used In connection with the new
hospital erected on the lot adjoining Il.
and the construction OF large building
at 1925 Street northwest which is de-
voted entirely 10 the use OF the medical
and dental schools. Although the new
buildings have been in use for some
time they have just been thrown open
for public inspection.
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every modern device for the operating
rooms. At present nearly 400 students
are enrolled in the medical and dental
departments and the nurses training
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New College Buildings.

Both Of the new buildings are OF modi-
fed colonial style. They are OF red
brick. with white mortar. and white
limestone trimmings. and are OF very
imposing appearance. Between the hos
Dital and the school building IS a wide
yard which affords plenty OF light and
gives space for a pretty piece Of park
ing An alley adjoins the school build
ing on the south. thus insuring unob-
structed light on all sides.
The construction Of the new building
has been under the personal supervi-
sion Of DR.. Emil A. de Schweinitz. dean
OF the medical school. and other mem
bers OF the faculty. The new medical
aad dental school building is fre-proof
throughout and is a model structure in
every respect. II is FIVE stories high.
lB4 feet long, and so feet wide. The
walls OF the rooms are all OF glazed
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school The schools have kept pace
with the prominent institutions OF the
country. The little medical school
which DR.. Sewall opened in such an IN
pretentious way nearly eighty years ago
has now developed into two of the
strongest departments OF the Columbian
University. and has given the city OF
Washington a centrally located hospital
which will make for the comfort OF the
sick. Or. James Hall Lewis is dean OF
the dental department. and Miss Paxton
is superintendent Of the nurses training
school.
A University Council.
Under the direction of President
Charles W. Needham the Columbian Uni
vorsity has been completely reorganized.
and is now under the control of a uni
versity council. comprising all the pro-
fessors and assistant professors. slight
changes have been made in the names
OF the various professional departments
of the institution. The department OF
arts and sciences now comprises
Columbian College. Corcoran Scientific
School. and the Columbian school Of
Graduate Study
These three departments now have $50
students. and are located in the large
red brick building on the southeast cor
ner OF II and Fifteenth streets northwest.
This structure is four stories high. 121
feet long. and 81 feet wide, and in it are
the university library. auditorium with
a seating capacity of 200. the office OF
President Needham. and the recitation
rooms and laboratories used by the three
The department OF diplomacy and de-
partment of law occupy the handsome
new white brick building in II Street
south of the structure devoted to the
use of the college and the scientific de-
partment and graduate department. This
building is three stories. and contains a
large auditorium. a number of lecture
rooms and Offices. The department OF
law has 45l students aud the department.
OF diplomacy has sixty-four students.
Since the reorganization OF the uni
versity its entrance requirements have
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-07
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BOOTHS IDENTITY.

Tho Baltimore newspapers discredit the
Oklahoma story coming via st. Louis,
TO the effect that IN January last. there
died at Enid, in that Territory. man
who went under the name of David y,
George. but who really was John Wilkes
Booth. They say, az we did yesterday,
that Booth Is buried in Baltimore In
Greenanount Cemetery and that before
his interment there no was fully identl-
fled by near relatives,
Az a matter OF fact Booth was identified
after death by friends and enemies alike.
Pursuers were he ION his trail from the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-07

lustry they would not find 1t necessary
to 90 away from horne for a profitable
! investment We asked our contempo-
| rary IL the large ship yard at newport
News had proven TO be profltable IN
vestment to Its stockholders. In reply.
| tho Press says 1t is unable to answer
this question, but 1t knows that the snip
| yard has never missed a pny day, ana
has gone ahead steadily improving and
expanding tho plant, and increasing Its
| force. until 1t now stands at the head OF
the ship building industry in America.
We do not dispute these statements.
The Newport News ship yard Is splen-
did Industry, and seems to have plenty
of money behind 1t. But the old esuap-
lished yard OF Cramp & Sons, IN Phlihoei-
phia, also mot It's pay-rolls and enlarged
Its plant. yet by reason of the unfavor-
nble conditions in this line of Industry
the company was recently forced 70 Dor
, row 5000, 900 and to put lis affalrs III
the hands OF It's creditors.
The Fore River Ship Building Company,
located at Quincy, Mass, has been com
PEELED to pass It's regular quarterly oiVi-
dend. and the Columbia Iron works ana
Dry Dock Company, of Baltimore, re-
Gently had to reorganize. All these con-
Germs we're favorably located. but 'hey
did not pay.
The Press says that the Trigg plant
might have failed even II 1t had oeeh
located at Newport News, but that us
,ho,oos NJ success would have been
,roater where the Limitations OF nature
are less disconcertins. We DOUBT II tie
Trigg ship yard would have done as "eii
| nj Newport News as 1t did at Rlchlho'iu'
| for II had here all the water necessary
| for the work it set out to DO, ana IL i'siu
| ,dv.ntares In OTHER respects which IL
would not have had at Newport News.
Mr.. Trigg could just as well have stai.eu
his Industry on the seaboard, put ne hau
renson to believe that the chances Oh e u1
cess in Richmond were better, ana II ie
had lived. and If conditions had been 1aV-
orable he would probably have mnde
his ship ward great success. we tell
our friends again that tho EN- o t'Irl
ment of the William r, Trigg. Ship BUD t1ld
ing Company was notgdue2 to us geo geo
graphical location Natural location
counts for something, to be sure put
energy and enterprise counts for Ilore'
and had conditions otherwise been raw
orablo the Trlgg ship yard would have
been as successful OF Richmond as ~
would have been at n,% mouth Oh Inc
James.
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moment that he shot Lincoln. and though
he was lost sight OF for awhile, his track
down the country and across the Poto-
mao into Caroline county, Va. was easily
followed, where he and Heroid were found
in Mr.. CARROTS barn. Iierold came out OF
the barn and surrendered. Booth could
mike no terms for his own life and was
shot and died In two hours. He was
Identified then and there. he was identi-
fled lii Washington, where hundreds knew
him. and he was identified. In Baltimore,
when at last his relatives were permitted
to have his body for burial.
The Times-Dspatch a few weeks ago
republshed communication written by
MIR. Louthan, and which originally APP
peared in the Confederate Veteran, show
Ing that SO far from the Confederate
government approving any scheme 1or
the assassination OF Mr.. Lincoln, Presi.
dent Davis positively disapprowed of a
plan laid before him In which 1t was
purposed to abduct the Federal President
No one nowadays derams OF connecting
our Presidents name with Booths insane
folly, but It Is not SO we'll known as IT
ought to be that he went further and put
stop to project to kidnap him and
run him across the Potomac into our lines,
Mr.. Davis believed that Mr.. Lincoln, how
ever SUDDENLY surprised and taken would
fight his captors and that the result might
be that he would be killed. Nor did Mr..
~ I,.,o pipiont Hf fhnap who
advanced this project that the capture
OF Mr.. Lincoln, If successfully carried
out, would be beneficial to our cause.
Mr.. Lincoln came to Richmond within
a few days after the Surrender OF the
city to the Federal forces and seemed
to have no fear for his life while among
Jig. The fact that neither Lincoln nor
Davis ever seemed to fear assassination.
Not until Wilkes Booth appeared, pistol
In hand, had the crank or assassin begun
to make the life OF President dangerous.
Mr.. Davis walked and rode about Rich
mond unattended, and for moro than four
years Mr.. Lincoln did the same In Wash
ington Without apparent dangec. Truc. It
is said that O fruitless shot was fired ut
Mr. Davis when he was horseback on a
suburban road near Richmond, but 1t may
BIO surnnised that It was chance shot
and not aimed Mt him. It remained for
Booth to set an atrocious example for
do boundless injury to the South. from
whose people he got no particle Of
sympathy, except in so far as he was
believed to be demented But, all that
question as to the identity Of the man
who was killed on Garrett.s farm, and
whose body lies buried under the name
OF John Wilkes Booth. ~
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North Carolina Sentiment.
,he contented Raleigh Post boastetn

The contented Raie's" oS
as follows: na a.
The West is great S coHn,sy' SUPERIOR upe
s 10 Morth Carolina: but the West y SUD-
t ect to yisltations Of cyclones t am
blzzards and g r. nny Exempt Besides.
w mnl,ria Who are reasonably Iindustrio,uss
here enjoy measure OIL pr pr1 snptmeSt 1t
has been said that North Carolina, rs IS q
rood State to move from. ~ IS aiso
good sos, State to stay In.
IN MN " Scotland Neck Commonwealth
oones right out on the prohibition pAaeN
form. 1t says:
oa q iarse IN our courts are the result o.
Inc tliouor traffic. either dlrecIly o. lii HI
directly, It b does Of s Sorh Carolina would
See' the arguments for suppresslng th9
l inuor traffic from the standpoint ,,, OK
economy IN taxes ior inc net 9Hs about the
lnoral. social and civil reform ~ Wou'u
bring about.
The Charlotte Chronicle Is cneertu'' ~
says;f .,. ~ ,ha South.
= an, Me WINNER has become q very attrac.
f fM i ne. mis- staple crop5cotton.a,haas
gone 10 prffs whf # the other Other atrac.
tarii''' III: Cash markets for .perishabla
III Io,t; be added to this 1t may pa
s psei" that Ills opportunities have becoma
imme nsely enlarged
The Wilmington Star SAYS
r,ara 90 room and abundant opportun+
NV for fortune in. the. South for tens
Of Of thrifty cSss M anda
i II tia World than those OF this sec-
lion -. once get the tide of immigratl99
started il this direction a r. i W vos
ton ton But getting It started Is the trout
BILE.
After much thought the Durham Hcr-
aid concludes:
IT is not absolutely certain that those
who supported Mr.. Bryan have the cons
fidence In Mr.. Cleveland that some peo-
bic would have us believe.
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CATHEDRAL SITES.

There arc sites that nature seems to
have fashioned for cathedrals and
churches; others for fortresses and tow
and others yet for sweet cottages for
the poor. There Is an obvious and fas-
cinating fitness about them.
Typical Of the first class. but where
nature and art are seen In combination,
10 the site long ago chosen and now being
utilized for the new Cathedral here. 1t
is convenient and tranquil spot, fronting
a beautiful park, and Is. as 1t were,
upon tho stem of bunch of avenues
which branch out In every direction Of
the PICTURESQUE and prosperous West End.
No growth of Richmond now conceva-
BILE could impair the value or lessen the
attractiveness of that site,
st. Peters Cathedral. Grace and Eighth
Streets. was built as n church merely,
and was added to as years went by 1t
was the first Roman Catholic house OF
worship here. tho members OF that faith
having heretofore worshipped In O room
down on Main Street
Associated with the old Cathedral, so
dear to Catholic hearts, are the names Of
men great In the church, each Of whom
seems to have been called here for q
special work. and endowed with special
gifts to do 1t. 1t is no small thing that
Bishop Van de yyyer has signalized his
administration by the building OF what
viii be a truly grand Cathedral-a work
made possible at this time by the NUM-
ficent eift Of Mr.. Thomas II. Ryan.
ST. Peters is 10 be supplanted as a
cathedral, but will remain as a parochIal
| church. its deep toned bell calling wor-
shippers TO its altar. as II has done
through scores OF years; its walls still
to remain the stronghold OF Catholic
work on Grace Street and beyond. Prob
| ably St Peters antedates any church
on that etreet east OF old st. Johns. and
may have helped determine tho choice
OF the name of tho street
on the old map Grace Street was @
| Street. which. in the abandonment OF that
system OF nomenclature. was called
Grace" because OF the number of
churches thereon. AT least 50 We have
| heard. but however that may be, st.
Peters Is an old church. 1t was not
built altogether, but extended from time
10 time towards Broad Street.
1t is pleasant 70 remember that while
ST. Peters ever has been the home Of
devoted churchmen, they have prosecuted
their work there, and thence. with plous
zeal. marked by such amabiIiry and tact
as TO maintain the bes, OF feeling be-
tween themselves and their neishbors.
As IN the old Cathedral. so may II bs
In the nav: as II was In the past kenera-
ton, 50 may It he with tbs present and
/ Others 10 como. e.l
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/" 7lo-day's Advertising Talk"
THE cOMMONEsT FACTS

" 7o-day's ADVERTISING Talk"
THE COMMONEST FACTS
about your business are
interesting to the pub
lie and may bring you
excellent returns if told
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through the newspaper.
In one Of the largest
cities Of this country, a
department store made
a strong point in all Of
its advertising that they
would refund the money
on all purchases which
proved unsatisfactory to
the purchaser.
4 This fact made them
famous throughout the
community as the "Re-
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Asa matter Of fact many
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. been doing the same
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From the Church Papers.

Is not to boast. Some Christians are over
modest Mt this point. The songs We sing
AIN scribe the things We long ~. not
HIGH those we have. "Not as though
had already attained" said the
foliow Notwithstanding Christian Advo-
ctae. 5rs
Not what VIC are. but what we would
be- is our measure IN n co. slght may ~
- = reach high attainment. but
THE we are responsible II we fall
PATTERN. to strive toward that attain
ment. One who takes as Ms
pattern the Perfect Life is likely to do
better than one who only wants to be az
good as tho average, It Is N yie1yS !. ot
School Times.
There IS In chemistry what Is known
as the ca1alytic influence OF eeTi n s aie-
9''A's'' SO solving other. substanees into
IN GOOD their elements, though they
COMPANY. themselves undergo 1,, no per, per
ence OF a truly God-like man has a won
derful influence over other men. hls
presence will often dissolve many q marc ,I,s,
in Sodom might have saved It as Pauls
presence saved the crew OF helpless. des-
ia irinp men who had been caugAt py lno
tempastuous breath OF Eurapuilo., II pays
10 be with good people. eSpeclia;ily "h is1
tempests rage.--Religious Herald.
~ "a n cross to many that they can
al % little for the world. They arc not
producers, and not workers, ana c, can
scarcely be giyers, oie en-
nv GRACE. age have come. and the
= = Hands can no longer toll to
win the bread or to help those : apont n US
Rht 10 shine with the peace that G1a
.r;u,s 10 add contentment and cheertu!-
ness TO the home to show patience y, ,nh an
impatient world pray ana az prnIjifS s mala
hmaa,,Iaf,,i nv The grace of God " IS bet-
ter TO be a smiling buttercup than r M
IRON safe or destructive warship'-Seea'
t,,al Presbyterian.