The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-05-27

ecclesiastical as the goal of their am
bitions. All of them follow the discf
pline of military life in it's daily roll-
accompaniments. Most of the stu
dents likewise live at home, come long
distances to school and incidentally
are submitted to the fatigue and dis
traction of the hours spent on the way
to and from college.
AS it was the desire to build up a
clergy from the young men of the dio.
cese and to prepare them on the lines
of the best ecclesiastical models, it
was soon determined that the school
in contemplation should be boarding
school and as far as possible situated
outside of either of the two cities yet
adjacent to them. Nearly half the
Catholic population of the archdiocese
lives outside the Twin Cities, and fire.
quently the inclination to an ecclesias-
tical career is stronger in the country
lad than in the city boy.
When it came time to choose the
site forithis new enterprise, there was
not much time wasted in choosing the
Lake Johanna site. In the first place,
it already belonged to the corporation
of the diocese which had owned the
AZ acres abutting on the lake for
over so years. No difficulty was found
in transferring these SO acres-for in
1915 an additional AZ acres had been
purchased-to the st. Thomas college,
whose grounds it at once became.
A Wonderful Site.
The site recommends itself to all
who visit it. 1t is just about six miles
north of Summit avenue on line with
Smelling avenue which runs into it.
On an air line it is shown to be about
equally distant from the Cathedral in
st. Paul and the Prof. Cathedral in Min.
neapolis and is quite as accessible
from Minneapolis as from st. Paul.
The roads in that vicinity are uncom-
monty good and the pavement on Smell
ling avenue runs to within a mile and
half of the property. The site it.
self is about one-half mile north and
south by quarter of a mile east and
west. 1t is thickly wooded, and as no
part of it has ever been cultivated, it
has long been a favorite resort for
picknickers and those dwellers of the
cities who sought the out-of-doors near
their homes. The meandered line OF
the shore is probably sixteen or seven.
teen hundred feet. The dredging of a
narrow neck of land to improve the
f1owage of the lake has added a pic.
turesque little island to the property
No more charming spot could have
been chosen for school or the re-
treat of a scholar.
Nazareth Hall.
On this very attractive site an ad
! between two hundred and two hundred
| and fifty youths is being erected. In
| many respects it will be building tc
| challenge attention. In the first place
| its dimensions are unusual. The archi
tects, Maginnis & Walsh of Boston
| perience in this type of building may
| be considered experts, have seized the
possibilities of the setting among the
| trees and by the lake side and have
designed a building that seems at first
sight to disregard the conventions o.
order in it's effort to fit into the land
scape. A closer study of the organ
ism of the building shows, on the con
| trary, very minute attention to the
conveniences and the requirements o
community life. It's extreme length
from the apex of the absidal wall tt
the end of the gymnasium wall is fou
hundred and twenty-four feet. From
this axis two large wings reach out
one running to the southwest, parable
with the lake some two hundred an,
twenty-five feet-the other rectangu
lar wing of almost equal dimensions
though the DETECTED direction of tn
convent building reduces it's apparen
extent. The height varies in som
places three in other two stories owe
a basement that, because of the fal
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