The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-09-26

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OPENING OF THE CATHOLIC
UNIVERSITY.
The Catholic University of Ameri-
ca will open on Tuesday, Sept. 29th,
with the largest registration in its
history.
On Sunday, October 4th, there will
be celebrated the Mass of the Holy
Ghost, to mark the solemn opening
Of the Academic year, when Monsig-
nor Thomas j. Shahan, the rector,
will preach the sermon. The entire
professional body will be present in
cap and gown, and with the lay stud
ents will form in procession at Div
Unity Hall, and march across the
campus to Gibbons Memorial Hall,
where the services will take place.
Many improvements have been
made at the University for the COM
ing year. The new dining hall and
dormitory has been completed, and
in this building, which is one of the
most attractive on the campus, all of
the students who won the Knights
Of Columbus scholarships, will be
CHARTERED.
Saint Thomas College formerly
the Paulist house of students) has
been thoroughly renovated, and in
the coming session will be used as a
dormitory for some fifty lay students.
The new chemical laboratory,
which was erected at cost of $780,
600 will be ready for occupancy by
October LIST, when classes are re-
sumed. This laboratory is equipped
in the most scientific and thorough
manner, and makes provision for 500
students.
Owing to the removal of the chem
zeal laboratory to it's new quarters,
great enlargement of the Biological
and Architectural Departments has
been permitted, which will for the
present share between them the
space formerly taken up by the
Chemical laboratories.
The library of the Law school has
been enriched by two additions of
several thousand volumes, making it
one of the finest of it's kind in this
country.
The Catholic University of Ameri-
ca is growing more and more as the
years come and go, and when the
Academic year of 1914 commences,
it is with the largest student body
ever within her walls.
The Freshman class will number
over two hundred, making total
registration of over four hundred
students, representing thirty states in
the union. In this number will be
the first incumbents of the knights
of Columbus scholarships. The
growth of this great institution of
learning is at once apparent, when
consideration is given to the fact that
about four years ago. the University
had about fifty lay students.
Added to the lay student body of
over 400, there will be $50 ecclesias-
tics, secular and religious.
The student personnel is not con-
fined exclusively to those of Catholic
faith. for we find among those en-
rolled members of families of other
denominations, who desire that train
ing and environment for their sons,
which they are sure a Catholic in
stitution such as the University, will
surely give.
The following members Of the fac
ulty, who on account of the war in
Europe will not return, are Rev. N.
A. Weber, Phi. D., S. T. D., Instructor
in History; Professor Xavier Teillard
B. L., Instructor in French; Rev.
George M. Savage, C. S. c., Phi. D.,
s. T. D., Instructor in Psychology,
and John Joseph Widmayer, Jr., B.
S., B. S. in Civil Engineering, In
structor in Drawing.
The new instructors added to the
faculty for the coming year are: Rev.
Peter Guilday, Phi. D., Instructor in
Ecclesiastical History. Rev. Philippe
Bernardini, ]. U. D., Instructor in
Canon Law, Father Bernadini is
nephew of Cardinal Gasspari, and
comes to take the place of Very Rev.
John T. Creagh, who is now pastor
of St. Adams parish, Brookline, Bos-
ton, Mass.
Harry Edward McCausland. P. S.,
Instructor in Civil Engineering.
university of Penna. 1914); George
Joseph Brilmyer, B. S., Instructor in
Biology (Alma College, 1919 Frank
Xavier Burda, B. s., Instructor in
Physics, Catholic University of
America. 1910; Leo Behrendt, In
structor in German.
Recently there appeared in a
Western Catholic paper a statement
rejecting on the length of the teach
inc form NJ tho Catholic University