The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-11

The sisters here are not cloistered
nuns. but they are strictly of an ed
ucational. teaching order. which ha.
its mother house at Namur, Bel
gfum. and in following the require
ments Of this order of Notre Dame
dc Namur they seldom venture from
the school. During the "flu" cpl.
demtc, they did 80 in some cases, in
order to nurse the sick, but this was
an exception. Yet although they
confine their work in general to the
college. every opportunity Is given
them for study and keen mental
activity. for they have come in con-
tact with some Of the greatest
minds Of the country. and are In
constant communication with the
professors Of the university, who
themselves are among the most
learned men in the world.
Tho teaching Of the sisters IL a
labor of love. az they receive no
salaries. The president and every
teacher Of the faculty of Trinity has
her masters degree. and several
have the doctors degree. The found
ress Of Trinity was a very notable
woman educator, the late Sister Ju.
liza, provincial superior of the Sisters
Of Notre Dame in America. With
the encouragement and help of Car.
dinal Gibbons and other notables.
and after several years Of considera-
ton and effort. the college was or
ganized some twenty years ago, in
1900.
1t is accorded rank with Bryn
Mawr. Vassar. Wellesley, and other
leading women's colleges. The fac.
ulty is composed Of professors from
the Catholic University and sisters
of Notre Dame of Namur. De-
grees were first conferred in 1904 on
sixteen young women. The growth
has been remarkable. for in the past
June, 1921. eighty students received
the bachelor Of arts degree. one the
master of arts. and one the doctor of
philosophy.
The sister who teaches art and
who will be our guide is herself an
artist and has studied widely. She
was a pupil Of the late Howard Hell
mick, so favorably known in both
America and Europe as a painter,
and for a number Of years head Of
the Corcoran School Of Art.
MOTHER OF ALL ARTS.
As the sister unlocks the door of
the o'Connor Art Gallery. with it's
hundred paintings. and we enter, a
hush falls upon the group. so awe
inspiring is the influence of great
pictures. The words of Right Rev.
erend Bishop Shahan, rector of the
Catholic University. at the opening
Of the O'Connor Art Gallery, NAV be
recalled: "The fine arts tend to
withdraw man from an excessive
devotion to the individual and the
transient, the specific and merely
useful In life. to fix his gaze upon
the eternal verities of the moral
life. and to bring him into closer
union with his Maker" And again
Bishop Shahan said:
"The sense of the beautiful il
truly innate and original with man,
even as the sense Of the good and
true. The church Is truly the
mother and nurse Of the fine arts,
and can never rid herself of the pre-.
dilection for them that she has
brought along the ages from out the
old classical world. Here among the
works of the greatest masters of fine
arts, we may hope to see grow in
each ardent intellect. more by the
noiseless incubation of daily inter
course with an aristocracy Of gen.
ius than by severe instruction, all
the principles and criteria of TASTE
In this room we find principally
Italian masters, Florentine and
Venetian. Most of the works are
religious themes. naturally, old yet
always new. the Annunciation. the
Nativity, the Madonna and Child,
the TRANSPORTATION. the Crucifixion.
Saints and Angels. But there are
others, two At least from Greek