Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-24
UP-TO-DATE METHODS APPLIED
TO ADVANCE ST. JOHNS COLLEGE
Plans Under Way to Place
Annapolis Institution on
Higher Plane.
Or. Enoch B. Carey, at Head,
in Drive for 100000
Endowment Fund.

Historical pride and up-to-the min
ute business and educationl methods
are woven into the rejuvenated st.
Johns College that DR.. Enoch Barton
CAREY. the new president. is putting
the institution on new and more
stable basis. Better things are ahead.
however. for DR.. Carey Is busy Just now
with a campaign for milllon-aollar
endowment fund and the board o.
visitors started the ball rolling by con,
tributing 100000. New buildings ana
other physical Improvements are 10 De
sought and the goal is TO make ST.
Johns the greatest small coiiege Az
America
ST. Johns is looking forward TO IN.
heriting the undergraduate work OF
Johns Hopkins when that institution
laws aside its present work and re-
surnes only postgraduate and PROBES
sional work as its sphere of action. III
a connie of wears. Under DR.. Gareys
regime, the student body of the An
napolis college has Increased Az per
cent and it Is endeavoring 10 prlns
about a close contact between the STU
dents and the faculty.
Governing Board Reorganized.
The board of visitors and governors
has been reorganized. The faculty has
been reuodeled. The foot ball team
has been relegated from the position
of the spotlight foreground TO one IN
the scholastic rear. National recogni-
tion has been accorded the college I'M
der DR.. Garey's regime. for 1t has oeen
admitted once more TO the preferred
position of a Class A college. A non
sectarian college of the liberal arts Is
the vision that is squirting the present
workers on. just as it has been I'M
pel!ing those with the colleges inter-
est at heart for over 200 years.
Four famous old mansions that re-
Gently went on the auction block In
Annapolis have been acquired in the
name of st. Johns College. These are
the Hammond house. the Brice house,
the Pinkney house and the Peggy
stewart house. The first will ulti-
nlately be an American museum. re-
plete with the glorious past with when
the college is linked. for the Hammond
house stands now as nearly as possible
in the condition in which the eight
zenith century left it. The Brice house
IN time will become partly quarters Tor
the faculty and partly social center
for the college.
FIcSi0cHt oAiCs AAAhs
President Carey desires to make st.
Johns the spiritual as well as the
physical heir of King Williams School
and the old college that had four sign
ers OF the Declaration OF independence
among its founders and Alexander
Hamilton among its earliest benefac-
tors"
Focusing the telescope Of inquiry
back through the mists of the years.
one can pick out st. Johns College.
the third Oldest college in the United
States. in 1886, under the name OF
King Williams School. Formation OF
a great public school was the inspir-
alton that urged its advocates onward.
Gov. Sir Francis Nicholson In 1896
signed the bill that gave the school It's
being and donated so pounds sterling
from his personal Golfers to establish
and maintain the institution. His fell
low statesmen aided by donating thou
sands of pounds of tobacco, the legal
currency Of the day.
The reigning British monarch. VIII
liam III, was honored by having his
name bestowed upon the new school
In Acknowledgement OF this. King VIII
lam sent TO the institution numerous
rare classical and theological books and
some Of these are still to be seen in the
college library, the golden stamp and
title Of the royal donor being undimmeo
BIZ the lapse of 232 years.
The nov historic walls OF the tnsti-
tuition re-echoed to the tramp OF the
Colonials through the War OF the Revo-
Luton. Some OF the soldiers OF Ro-
charbeau lie buried on the campus.
The present administration building
was originally the mansion OF a
Colonial governor and has borne wit
ness TO the entire history OF the United
States.
Noted Graduates Cited.
When the infant republic was strug-
xisng for It's place in the sun, George
Washington Parke Gusts. step-grand-
son Of Gen. George Washington. and
FAIRFAX and Lawrence Washington. his
nephews, were graduates OF st. Johns.
The lis. Of the iilustrious men who have
looked 10 this college as their alma
mater Is, indeed an imposing one. II
includes: Alexander ConteS Magruder.
distinguished lawyer and justice OF the
Supreme bench Of Maryland: Robert II,
Goidsborough and John Leeds Kerr.
vino represented MARYLAND In the Con-