Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-09-19

| they will need while attending uni
Nersity courses.
! The Scholasticate OF the Missionary
Oblates of Mary Immaculate. first
! American province, is located at 391
| Michigan avenue northeast. Rev.
{. ]. Mccarthy. q. VI. l., professor of
holiietics is superior. The domestic
| department is in charge of the Sisters
| OF st Dominic, Caldwell. y. J.
This Institution erected on u tract
df six acres opposite the entrance to
| the university grounds and solemnly
| blessed by his eminence Cardinal
Gibbons. on November 16, 1916, is
the house Of studies Of that portion
| Of the congregation of the Mission
airy Oblates of Mary Immaculate,
which constitutes the first tnorthern)
American province. 1t has for its
object the training of the oblate
scholastics in philosophical and theo-
logical sciences. On November 3.
1915, the professors and students
were transferred to the present home
from the former house of studies.
Fifty-two students at present follow
the seminary curriculum in this
| scholasticate.
st. Francis Capuchin College is on
| Hardwood road. 1t is a house of
STUDIES. ieN. lhaHaSluS Marlin, ~.
NJ. Cap, is superior.
The Carpuchin Fathers in 1916 Sc
cured a tract of land lying north of
the university grounds and facing
HARDWOOD road They have erected
thereon house of studies adapted
to their special needs. The college
| is open to members of the Capuchin
order, particularly of the United
States and Canada, who desire TO
Catholic University.
House of Studies Here.
The house of studies for theological
students of the Augustinian order,
| st. Augustine's College, is located in
costly new building off Hardwood
road Very Rev. Francis j. Nc
Shane. o. S. A., is rector.
This college had it's beginning in
temporary quarters at 1O41 Lawrence
street, Brookland, with a few Angus
tinian priests taking special courses
at the university. A building site
comprising IS acres was recently Sc
cured on Hardwood road near the
university grounds. A permanent col
lege structure has been erected large
enough to accommodate at first so
students and their professors. The
theological scholastics of the Province
of st. Thomas of Villanova. Order of
st. Augustine, will in the near future
be transferred to this building. Many
of these will study the courses of the
university.
Other affiliated institutions, which
are not located in Washington. but
through which the sphere of inf1u-
ence of the Catholic University is eX-
tended, include the ST. Paul Seminary.
at st. Paul, Mimi, opened in Septem-
l.
| dates for the priesthood. and whose
students now number $50.
Institutions Elsewhere.
St..Mary's Seminary of the West, at
| Norwood, Ohio. for the archdiocese of
| Cincinnati.
| st. Francis Seminary. at st. Francis,
Wis, for the archdiocese of Wiscon-
| sin.
Still other institutions at the Catho-
| lie University are:
Chaminade Institute of which Rev.
Andrew 3. Helder, S. NJ, A. NJ, is SUI
| perior The Brothers of Mary, whose
provincial houses are at Dayton, Ohio.
and Clayton, Mo-, purchased in 1915
| a tract of land near the Catholic Uni
| versity and located in temporary
| structure. their house of studies. The
| institute, named in honor of the Rev.
| William Joseph Chaminade, who
| the HaS Ioi It's pun
pose the training of young men as
| teachers in the colleges conducted by
| the BROTHERS.
The Claretian College. 70s Monroe
street northeast, has as rector Rev.
Leon Monasterio, c. M. r. On Novem-
| Der so, 1922, the Claretian Fathers
| tthe Congregation of the Missionary
: Sons of the Immaculate Heart of
! Nary, secured the estate formerly
/ known as St Gertrude's Home, near
! the university, and established there
house of studies known as Clare
| tian College. The object of the foun-
| dation is, the training Of the clerics
| and advanced students. of. the congre-
cation for missionary and educa-
! tional work in the United States.
| In considering Washington as a
| center of Catholic education, it must
| be remembered that these institutions
! clustering around the Catholic Uni
| versity, are only one unit. There is
also the great Georgetown University,
| founded in 1889 by Archbishop Car
| roll; several colleges, a number of
| academies and some 30 parochial
| schools. In fact, Washington Catho-
| lies have won an enviable reputation
| all over the country by a remarkable
| demonstration in contributing nearly
years for parochial school buildings.
college 135 Years Old.
In the last 10 years more than
twenty-five million dollars has been
spent in erecting Catholic institu-
lions in the National Capital.
Georgetown University 10 probably
| the best known Catholic school in