Evening star., 1926-09-19
CATHOLIC i. OPENS
TUESDAY Morning
Registration to Be Followed
Wednesday by Classes
in All Departments.

The Catholic University will open
it's doors for registration Tuesday
morning at s o'clock. Glasses will get
under way in all departments Wednes-
day morning. 1t Is expected that the
adoption of IA new plan, which obliged
all old students to make out their
courses of study before leaving the
university in June. will serve to a
great extent to eliminate the confu-
sion usually attendant on the opening
day. The execution of this plan was
facilitated by bringing to the uni
versity last week all freshmen and
new students to permit them to regis
ter and select their courses ahead Of
time.
There is a general increase this
year in the number of students. In
the undergraduate courses the regis
tration has already reached 500: The
graduate students will number 800. In
Trinity College and Sisters College
are registered now over 500 students.
and a considerable increase in enroll
ment is reported in the 20 religious
houses Of study connected with the
university. The latest addition to
these houses of study Is that OF the
Carmelite Fathers of Englewood, n. J.
The college was recently opened in
the vicinity Of the university and Is
affiliated with 1t.
Formal Opening Sunday.
The formal opening of the academic
year will take place at the university
next Sunday morning, when solemn
high mass Of the Holy Ghost will be
celebrated in the university gym
nasium at 1890 o'clock by Right Rev.
Mgr. George A. Dougherty, d. D., vice
rector. "he academic procession. in
which all students and the members
OF the faculty will take part, will
leave Caldwell Hall at 1915 and move
TO the gymnasium. The discourse
will be delivered by Right Rev. Mgr.
Edward A. Pace, y. D., vice rector in
academies
During the Summer months a num-
ber Of Improvements have been made
to the grounds and buildings. Cald.
well Hall has been repainted, the
roads of the campus resurfaced and
the grounds generally set in good
order. Accommodations have been
prepared for s. additional students
and the 400 available rooms have been
taken. -Four large new classrooms
have been opened and q generous
space has been provided in the base
ment of the new auditorium for grad
uate work in chemistry, and much of
the equipment has been set in place
The quarters of the department of
electrical engineering, the School of
Architecture and the department of
civil engineering have been enlarged
and improved and furnished with addi-
tional equipment.
The teaching staff Of the university
at the opening of the academic year
numbers lis professors. Among the
onnninf Esu1fno I
Sheen in apologetics, DR.. France SEQ
Lucidi In moral theology, DR.. Joseph
r. Barron in philosophy, Brendan
Browne i'm civil law, Francis L. Tai
bott in physics, Eugene r. Mittinger
in English literature and Rev. August
Bolduc in semitic languages.
The new Maloney Chemical Audi
torium has been completed and is
ready for use. 1t will serve as hall
for public lectures, conferences and
other functions of a general nature.
1t has q seating capacity of 500 and
is equipped with the best facilities for
film and stereopticon exhibitions. En-
teriorly the building is graceful meas
uring 80 by so feet, an excellent speci-
men of collegiate Gothic and COM
pletes handsomely the chemical lab
oratory. The entire edifice is the gift
Of Martin Maloney of Philadelphia.
The new library. erected through
the munificence of John X. Mullen or
Denver, Colo, is under roof and the
exterior completed. The interior will
be finished in few months. This
building has stackage for 100000
volumes, and its main reading room
accommodates 800 persons. The main
corridor on the first floor is orna-
mented with IS columns CT Italian
marble.
The crypt of the National Shrine Of
the Immaculate Conception is now
ready for use, though some ornament
is still lacking. Recently the first of
set in place over the chapel in the
tabernacle. Ii represents the Good
Shepherd, seated between lambs, while
angels devoutly offer Him alteration.
Three fine paintings have recently
been acquired by the university. They
are a life size portrait of the late
Archbishop Williams of Boston, by
De Henwood; a large st. Jerome, by
an unknown master of the Bologna
School, and valuable copy of Tin
to,'etto painting his dead daughter.
obtained in South America and do
mated by his eminence, Cardinal
Dougherty OF Philadelphia.
Dr. Roman Butin, S. NJ. professor
of Hebrew and custodian OF the mu-
scum. has leave of absence for a, year
to act as director of the American
School of Oriental Research at Jeru-
salem. His classes are conducted tenn
polarily by Rev. August Bolduc.