Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-26
BISHOP FREEMAN
EXPLAINS G|F is
Cochran Request Carries Out
Donors Plans for Annual
$4,000 Fund.

The 81 100000 bequeathed to WASH
ington Cathedral in the will of Alex
ander Smith Cochran, manufacturer
and philanthropist, of Yonkers, N. Y.
made public yesterday, it was explained
by Cathedral authorities today, carries
out Mr.. Cochran's previously expressed
intention of founding a perpetual en-
dowment fund of $4,000 annually for
the $350,000 College of Teachers now
in course of erection on Mount Saint
Adams.
In making this explanation. Right
Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop Of
Washington, said that Mr. Cochran, who
provided anonymously for the College
of Preachers, gave the building as a
memorial to his mother, the late Mrs.
William F. Cochran.
Expressed Intention in 1927.
The original gift, announced in Oc-
tober, 1927, provided for a $3.50 600
structure and at that time, the Cathe-
dral authorities explained today, Mr..
Cochran expressed his intention of pro-
viding a $4,000 annual income to be
used in carrying forward the institu-
tons activities. In 1928, Mr.. Cochran
gave $4,000 to the Cathedral as the in
come for that year, and is understood
to have made provision for the 1929
income.
After his original gift of $3.50 900 for
the College of Preachers, Mr.. Cochran
later gave $l50.000 for the construc-
ton of chapel, fer furnishings and
landscape, making a total of $500 900
in cash, which includes the income for
1928.
Aims Of College Set Forth.
The terms of the gift set forth the
aims OF the college, Bishop Freeman
announced today. They were as fol-
lows:
THE supreme end and purpose of the
Christian religion Is the enfranchise-
ment and enrichment of the human
soul. To interpret to men the mind of
the Master; to give them an under
standing of the deep and satisfying
values OF life; to teach them to employ
rightly the means necessary to saliva
ton, is the high and holy privilege of
the Christian ministry. To this end
the college is founded, in the sure con-
fidence that the bulwark and sustaining
strength of the Nation is in an abiding
and unchanging practice of the Chris
tian religion. The college is designed to
give to its students a comprehensive and
broadly Catholic vision of the history
and unity of the Christian church since
its inception. 1t will lay unfailing en-
phaSis on those central and eternal
teachings OF the Master which secure to
the Christian ministry its power and
enthusiastically its sacramental Of
flee In the priesthood; through its edify-
ing and inSpirational office in the
prophethood, and through its comfort
ing and consoling Office in the pastor
hood"
Mr.. Cochran" Bishop Freeman said.
was man of such retiring and mod
est habits that he was little known
to the public. He scrupulously avoided
anything that would give him distinc-
ton or notoriety as a man of large
affairs or as philanthropist. Repeat
edly, in large gifts that was privileged
to administer for him, he insisted that
no one was to know who the donor was.
Discussed Work on Cathedral.
when on a visit to him in Paris
two years ago, he discussed with me the
large work now going on In connection
with Washington Cathedral At that
time told him about then new en-
terprise, known as the College of
Preachers. He Immediately disclosed a
keen interest and offered to erect a
suitable building and to guarantee its
maintenance by an endowment"
The corner stone of the building was
laid by Bishop Freeman in May, 1928,
and construction now Is well advanced.
1t Is planned to hold the first confer.
ence in the new structure in Septem-
Der, with the formal dedication sched-
uled to take place later in the Fall.
The design is collegiate gothic to
harmonic with the architecture of the
Cathedral
The building will have accommoda-
tions for IS resident students and
apartments for the warden and his two
assistants. There will be q chapel for
devotional exercises and a great COM
mon room about which the life of the
college viii revolve. The refectory, or
dining hall, will be unique in that it
will contain reading desk, from which
one of the students will read aloud dur
ing meals in accordance with q me-
dieval custom.
Oxford Method to Be Followed.
The Right Rev. Philip M. Rhine
lander, former Bishop of PENNSYLVANIA
and canon of washington, is warden
of the college and now is assembling the
faculty and preparing the curriculum
The oxford method of instruction, with
small numbers of students living In
close contact with the faculty, will be
followed, although large conferences Of
clergymen are planned.
The College of Preachers, according
to Bishop Freeman, will not compete
in any way with existing theological
schools or Seminaries, as 1t will func-
ton as post-ordination school for men
already in the ministry.
Hungary will spend nearly $4,000 900
In improving some of its international