The Irish standard., 1915-03-20

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THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.
The Catholic University of America
will celebrate on Thursday, April 18th,
the Twenty fifth Anniversary of the
opening of its doors to students. The
exact date of the opening was Novem-
Der 10, 1889, when four professors and
thirty-seven theological students began
the academic career of the new univer-
sity. Today, the teaching staff numbers
about eighty, and in all the branches
of its activities the university gives in
struction to over thirteen hundred stu
dents. twenty-five years ago it began
with Divinity Hall; at present the uni
versity edifices are seven in number,
the newer ones, Mcmahon Hall, Glib
bons Memorial Hall, Graduate Hall and
the Martin Maloney Chemical Labora-
tory are among the finest in the coun-
try.
The university site in Washington
covers 80 acres, adjacent to the Ma
tional Soldiers Home, and paralleled
on its entire length by the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad.
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communities: the Dominicans, the
Franciscans, the Paulists, the Marists,
the Sulpicians, the Holy Cross Fathers
and the Apostolic Mission House have
been built around the university. The
original edifice of Divinity Hall was
developed into fifteen stately buildings
that scarcely suffice to shelter the
ever-growing activities of the univer.
sity.
The exercises of the celebration will
open at 10 a. m. in ST. Patrick's church,
Washington, there being now no relig-
ious edifice on the campus of the uni
versity capable of meeting the demands
of the celebration, but through the gen.
crosby of the Catholic women of the
United States this want promises to be
supplied by the building of the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
as the University church. The three
American Cardinals will honor the
event with their presence, this being
the first time that they have assisted
simultaneously in a great ceremony in
this country. Cardinal Farley of New
York, will celebrate the Pontifical mass.
Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, Chan
cellor of the university, will preach the
sermon. Cardinal o 'Connell, of Boston,
will deliver the opening discourse at
the academic exercises. The Apostolic
Delegate Archbishop Bonzano, is ex.
pected to conclude the academic ex.
ercises with benediction.
The academic exercises will take
place at 3 p. m. in the New National
Theatre, and Cardinal Gibbons will
preside. Honorary degrees will be con.
ferred on number of distinguished
Catholic laymen. President G. Stanley
Hall, of Clarke University, Worcester,
Mass, will represent the Association of
American Universities on the program,
while Very Rev. John Cavanaugh, G. s.
c., president of Notre Dame university,
will speak in the name of the Catholic
institutions of learning.
The Alumni will hold their reunion
and banquet on the evening of the 18th
Of April in the New Dining Hall of the
university, and the"t following days
will be devoted to welcoming the
university delegates of other institu.
tons of learning, and all friends and
visitors.
Invitations have been sent to the en-.
tire Hierarchy of the United States, to
many distinguished clergymen, to the
entire body of the Alumni, and to the
benefactors and friends of the univer.
sity. The responses already received
insure a very large attendance at all
the exercises of the celebration.