Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1916 — News Letter From St. Joseph’s College. [ARTICLE]

News Letter From St. Joseph’s College.

Compared to the work done at the college the past two or three summers, very little has been undertaken this year. The ordinary repairs that are necessary after the close of school are about completed. A system of indirect lighting has been laid out by the Hatfield Electric Company of .Indianapolis for the three large study halls and will very likely be put in this summer. In order to obtain the best effects two of the study halls had to be repainted and the wiring laid out anew. The faculty building has also been repaint#d and rewired. All the wires are now" laid in onduits to reduce the risk of fire. Two large fire escapes will also be erected at the rear of the main building. Th prospects for students for the coming fall term are very good, although it is a little too early to judge. Quite a number of the old -boys have Already reported their return. Father Sylvester Hartman, professor of junior Greek, is spending the summer in the Latin seminar courses at Indiana University., He will continue the same work at the Catholic University of America next year. Father Bernard Condon, C. PP. S., who received the degree of Master of Arts for the Catholic University at Washington,. D. C., in June, will be a member of the college sftaff this "year; also Revs. Theodore Koemn, Leo Spomhauer and James Mclntyre, recently ordained. . Father Justin Henkel, C. PP. S., who held the office of treasurer of the college since June, 1913, recently asked to be relieved, and the Provincial of the Society of the Precious Blood, who was at the college for several days this week, has appointed Rev. Pius Kanney, C. PP. S., in his stead.

The V. Rev. Provincial also reduced the membership of the College Board of Administration from seven members to five. The members for the coming year will be: Rev. Hugh Lear, C. PP. S., president; Rev. Nicholas Grciwe, C. PP. S., vice-president; Rev. Pius Kanney, C. PP. S., treasurer; Rev. I. Wagner, C. PP. S., secretary; Rev. B. Besinger, disciplinarian. Among the visitors at the college during the past week Was Rev. M. Hamburger, C. PP. S., of Cincinnati, Ohio. Father Mark was well known in Rensselaer during the late nineties, as he was at that time a member cf the faculty. He has just completed a new church at a cost of $160,000. It is in Italian Renaissance, and is said to be one of the finest, if not the finest Catholic church in Cincinnati and suberb's. There are about sixty churches in the city. Rev. William Sullivan, of Wabash, Ind., the alumni historian, is at present at the college gathering data for the history of the institution, in as much as there has 3een any made in the past twenty-five years.