Evening star., 1937-11-05
BISHOP FREEMAN
LAYSCORNERSTONE|
New Activities Building,
Costing $500, 900 Dedi-
Gated at st. Adams.

Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, yesterday laid
the corner stone of new building in
the close of the National Cathedral
"to be erected to the honor and
praise of our most blessed Lord and
Saviour, for the strengthening Of the
body, for the enlightenment of the
mind, for the ennoblement. of the
spirit of this and future generations
Of those who may be members Of the
school"
The school Bishop Freeman re-
ferred to is St. Adams National
Cathedral School for boys. for whose
Activities Building the corner stone
was laid while more than 500 students
and their parents, patrons of the
school, members of the faculty and
other friends of the Cathedral enter
prise watched. The building, 180
feet by 70 feet, is to be completed in
the spring at a cost of 100000.
. IF may say here a very personal
word for the young men and boys OF
st. Adams School, would commend
to them and those who follow them the
words cut in this corner stone, Quit
you,like men-be strongp" the Bishop
said. The quotation is taken from St.
Paul.
Provides New Space.
The Activities Building, which was
designed by Waldron Faulkner, Wash
ington architect, through its two main
floors and its basement is expected
to afford the school such highly de-
sirable facilities as an office suite for
the athletic director, carefully
planned room for the government
class, q dispensary, five work rooms, a
dark room for photography, quarters
for st. Adams publications, and room
for boxing, wrestling and fencing.
The second story will contain the
main playing floor 100 feet long by
70 feet wide, trophy room and lounge
with connecting pantry, games room
and a faculty locker room and showers.
The basement is to house the manual
training room, where wood and metal
work will be taught, as we'll as a
draughting room and space for the
study of automobile engines.
The government class provided for
in the new building is under the gen.
eral direction Of Harold Hinton of the
Washington bureau of the New York
Times. The class makes possible first
hand observation of the Nations busi-
ness in the making.
Bishop Makes Speech.
The ceremonies yesterday opened
with the singing of a hymn, Men of
the Future, Stand" and closed with
Bishop Freeman's speech, which was
followed by the annual faculty tea,
served in the Lane-Johnston Building,
where Canon and Mrs. Albert Hawley
Lucas welcomed the friends of the
school, of which Canon Lucas is head
master. Bishop Freeman said:
In one of the most suggestive and
significant words that came from the
lips of our Lord, He declared concern
ing the healing of one who had come
to Him in his extremity, I have made
= man every whit whole 1t may be
that it has been reserved for this later
generation to discover that the min
istry of the Master was to bodies as
we'll as to souls. His concern was for
the whole man, for everything that
had to do with his physical, mental
and spiritual life
I'VE have delimited the area in
which the ministry of the Son of Man
is exercised. We have segregated and
partitioned life, and by the terms
secular and religious have divorced
these two vital interests.
1T may be that, in putting an undue
emphasis upon beauty of holiness we
have failed to relate it to those vital
concerns that have to do with our
daily habit and practice. To youth in
particular there is confusion of mind
Is to the relation that Christian faith
and practice bear to the everyday con-
Germs Of daily habit.
This building is being erected in
the confines OF a cathedral close. 1t
Is an essential and integral part of a
broad and comprehensive cathedral
plan. In such setting we are COM
PEELED to see the relation that the ca
thedral bears to this building. 1t fur
nishes q fine illustration of what the
Master meant when He said, L have
made . man every whit whole"