Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-26
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES TO
BE HELD TOMORROW.
Some Rumors as to Proposed Changes
Denied by officials OF the
Institution.

Ton,orrov there will be held at the Cath
clio University the annual meeting of the
trustees of the institution. the regular
meetings of the trustees and the afchpsh-
ons of the church are held in the spring,
and this meeting of the frst-named pooy
Is to be held for the purpose OF preparing
a schedule of the work that is to be done
at the regular meeting. Each of the resu-
lar meetings of the trustees and archbisf-
OPS is for one day only, and at that time
there is such vast amount OF work TOT the
body to perform that a special meeting Oh
the trustees in advance is necessary. Car
dinal Gibbons, as the chancellor of the uni
versity. is at the head of the trustees, OF
whom there are seventeen. and all are ex-
pected to att end this meeting.
The voluntary contributions that nave
been made by Catholics all over the United
States for the benefit of the university.
and which began last fall Will De continues
for ten years. at the end of which iengtn
of fine il is believed that the institution
will have been placed on paying basis.
both as to financial and numerical
strength
No Plenary Council.
There was a rumor to the erect eiae
plenary council of the church was TO De
called for the purpose of enaeting chufch
Hesitation intended for the benefit of the
university, but this Is denied at the uni
varsity by members of the faculty, who say
that no such action has been contemplated
by the trustees or any one else connected
with the institution. A plenary council II
may not be generally known, requires apou'
a year to bring together.
Its mission is to revise the laws OF the
church within the jurisdiction OF an the
members of the council and in order TO
call one all of the archbishops and bishops
of the church must draw up petition to
Rome asking for the call. Before signing
such a petition every archbfshop or the
church would necessarily wish TO study the
case and determine if any changes IN the
church laws were required for his diocese.
The last plenary council was held IN 1881,
and the last one previous to that time was
in 1886. Changes in the laws of the church
were at those times made that were deemed
necessary by reason of the growth of the
church and the different changes in its
membership. No such alterations are
thought to be at this time necessary. and
there will be therefore no plenary council
this year. at all events
No Changes in Faculty.
Another question that has been agitating
the public mind in some quarters was the
change in the affairs of the university that
was suggested by the rumor to the effect
that the Jesuits and Dominicans. either or
both were expected to take charge of the
faculty cndlTS, iHStedu VI having theih &c
cupied by laymen, as Is the case at present.
At the university 1t Is said that no such
contemplated change has come to the knowl-
edge of the authorities. AT the meeting of
the trustees this week there will be nothing
definite from the contributions for the benefit
Of the university, the order having only gone
forth last fall. and there not having been
time for a satisfactory accounting of even
a part of the funds that have been con-
tributed for that purpose. 1t is believed,
however that the contributions have not
been as large as was expected. and it is
also known that the active membership of
the students rolls at the university is not
as gratifying as it might be.