The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-03-20

On Thursday, April Is, 1915. the
Catholic University of America, locat-
ed at the capital of the nation, will
celebrate the completion of the twenty
fifth year of its labors in the service
of higher education.
The university was opened on No
vember 13, 1889, with all the pomp
and splendor which the Catholic
church surrounds occasions of this
kind. Its only courses of study at this
time were in the graduate school Of
theology. -Four professors and as many
assistants gave lectures to less than
fifty graduates, and as time went on
the faculty of theology was consider
ably augmented, and to this school
were added the school of law, philos.
ophy, letters and science, in all Of
which provision was made for gradu-
ate as we'll as undergraduate study
and research. Today the departments
in the university engage the services
of more than seventy professors and
instructors. The student body is no
longer reckoned by tens, but by hun
dreds. For the year 1914-1915 the
matriculated students number 500, of
whom 81 are registered in two schools.
The lay students number 1913 and the
ecclesiastical 1876. Those in the af-
filiated colleges of the university, but
not registered, are 1854 in number. The
summer schools of 1914 for teaching
sisters had SOC notwithstanding the
total number of all students under the
Catholic university instruction this
year 1873.
The progress of this great institution
of learning is further illustrated in the
fact that when its doors were first
opened one building did service as a
hall of lectures and residence COM
bined; now the grounds are adorned
with seven imposing buildings, while
round about are grouped seven other
structures erected by affiliated institu:
tions.
The Paulist Fathers were the first to
take up residence at the university.
This house was established by the late
Very Rev. Augustine F. Hewitt in
1899, at the opening of the school of
sacred sciences. A new novitiate re.
Gently erected and known as Saint
Paul's college is now the home Of the
order.
The apostolic mission house, which
trains secular priests for the mission
field and organizes and supports dio.
cesar mission bands at the disposal of
the bishops, stands as monument to
the memory of another noted Paulist,
namely, the Rev. Alexander P. Doyle.
The Order Of the Holy Cross has a
beautiful building of marble crowning
the summit of a hill back of the uni.
versity. It is a study house or training
school for cholastics-young men who
have completed their classical studies
and are being instructed i'm philosophy
preparing to enter the priesthood. II
is similar in scope to its near neigh
Dor, the College of the Marist Fathers
or Priests of the Sodality of Mary, who
settled in Brookland in 1891, purchas
ing the property known as the Brooks
mansion, which served as college
for several years. In 1897 ten acres
adjoining the university were secured
and the present college built.
The House of Studies Of the Congre
CATION of the Holy Cross was estab
lished in 1895, and makes a specia
work of preparing teachers for the
various institutions under the charge
of the congregation.
The College of the Dominicans
stands on terraced lawn facing Glib
bons Memorial hall. 1t is built entire
ly of white marble, and statue of thu
Immaculate Conception, just above th'
portico overlooks the sweeping
campus of the university.
On the hills beyond rises the Col
lege of the Holy Land, or the Fran
ciscan Monastery, where students ar
preparing for the priesthood. Her
also are number Of younger mel
gaining their classical education ant
prepared for services at the shrines II
the Holy Land.
Perhaps nowhere in the Unite'
States are so many and so importan
Catholic educational interests Ger
, tered as at the university, which /
classed with the leading institutions Q
learning in the United States. 1t
existence for a quarter of centur
will be observed with fitting an
special commemorative exercises o
Thursday, April Is, and this occasio
will bring together the three grea
American cardinals-namely,H His En-
; nence, Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore
, His Eminence, Cardinal Farley of Me-
York, and His Eminence Cardins
, O'Connell of Boston.
The celebration will consist Of tw