The Washington times., 1912-03-03
DEVELOPMENT
OF THE CATHOLIC
UNIVERSITY NEAR
Great Growth in Institution
and New Buildings Now
Assured.

officials Of the Catholic University
are jubilant, not only over the recent
action of the Pope in removing the
university from those institutions
treated as missionary, but in the pros
pect of consummation, in a compare
lively short time, of far-reaching
building plans. Great development of
the university at Brookland within a
year. and the erection of number of
new buildings within little more than
year, are assured steps in the prog
ress of the institution. An increase in
students is also a certainty, accord
ing to the predictions of university
officials. Two new colleges are com
paratively soon to be opened, and
more will follow.
Plans have now been completed by
the architects for the imposing group
of buildings for the Sisters College
to be erected on a tract of land ad-
joining the university proper. Work
on these buildings is to start at once.
Meantime, the beautiful building
which is to house the st, John Kantius
College is nearly done.
st. John Kantius College.
The st. John Kantius College is to be
a national college of the university for
Poles. 1t is named after a Polish saint
and theologian. Establishment of this
national college is expected to be the
forerunner of similar colleges for
Catholic Germans, French, Italians,
and those various Slav races which
are strongly Roman Catholic and who
have many sons in this country.
The Sisters College is to afford
graduate instruction for sisters of the
Roman Catholic communities, and
practically all the great sisterhoods
are expected to keep students in res
idence at the college. Many of these
ssterhoods have, in fact already
made promises to. instruction will be
| afforded nuns not only of the teach
ing orders, but those of ministering
sisterhoods will attend and receive in
| structions.
Within two years of the opening an
attendance of 1000 is predicted and
| the most optimistic assert that five
| times that number will be simulta
| neously matriculated within a decade.
The ground on which the buildings
of the Sisters College is to arise was
bought last December. The fifty
seven acres lie across the tracks of the
Baltiomre and Ohio from the univer-
|
! MILAN boulevard will skirt the north
ern border of the latter and the south
ern border of the Sisters College
grounds.
Two Groups Planned.
Two groups of buildings are planned
for the Sisters College. One will be
the educational and administrative
building, the other the CHarious clois-
ters where the sisterhoods studying
at the college will be sheltered durin e
their stay at Brookland. The college
proper will have residences built fol
its faculty. Other buildings will be q
refectory, a building for the school oi
domestic science, and one for admins
tratiOn. An electric power house anC
stables complete the list of buildings
planned by the architects, +. b. Muir
ply and w. B. Olmsted.
| The architects have decided tina
the educational and administrative
buildings shall be in Italian renals
sanCe style, and the dwellings of the
Spanish mission style so successfully
employed by the architects of thu
Leland Stanford University in Cali
fornia.
The chapel is to be the dominan
building of the administrative group
and this building is to cost 5000. 900
A school of art and music is to flanl
| the chapel on one side and on thu
other will be a laboratory and lecture
hall. Fronting all of them will be
statue of the Virgin Mary, cast il
heroic size.