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Hinkle Hall and Alumni Stieme Hull HISTORICAL SKETCH The history of St, Xavier College begins on October 17, 1831, when the Right Rev. Edward De Fenwick, O.P., D.D., the first Bishop of Cincinnati, opened what, after the fashion of the times, was called Ha Literary Institute for the higher instruction of youth. This was a daring undertaking for the times, since the census of1830 gave Cincinnati 2 population of less than 25,000, and of that number Catholics were a small and not very inHuential minority: The new institution bore the classic name, wrhe Athenaeumf and in the pro- spectus issued we are told that the 1College course will embrace the Greek and Latin authors e both historians and poets -which are usually read; the Hebrew, Spanish, French and English languages; the various branches of the Mathematics; Reading, Writing, Geography and the use of the Globes? The carrying out of this fairly ambitious program'was entrusted to the diocesan clergy from 1831 to the summer of 1840. Their efforts met with considerable success, but the growing needs of the diocese in other directions made it difhcuit to Matt the College with Page Seventeen
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members of the diocesan clergy, and the Right Reverend John B. Purcell, the sue- cessor of Dr. Fenwick, saw that the stability and progress of the institution would be better provided for by entrusting it to the care 01a religious order. Accordingly he applied to the Provincial of the Society of Jesus in St. Louis and on receiving a favorable reply turned over to the Jesuits 11forever, on condition that they should be heid ever sacred for church and school, the College, Seminary and Church, with the real estate on which these buildings, which I now occupy, are -10cated - that you may have there a college and a parish church to be served by your Society, in perpetuity? The Jesuits took over the institution on October I, 18-13. The name was then changed to St. Xavier College, though the building cantinued to be called 11The Athenaeum until it was removed fifty years later to make room for a new struc- ture. ThelReverend John Anthony Elet, S.J., was the first president of the reor- ganized College. A charter of a temporary kind was granted to the College in 1842 by the General Assembly of Ohio, and a perpetual charter in 1869. Under the presidency of Father Elet and his immediate successors St. Xavier College made rapid progress. It was originally conducted as a boarding school and had a very considerable patronage in the States of the West and South. But the very limited campus space in a growing city soon made it impossible to continue this feature of the College, The dormitories were therefore abolished after the summer of 1854 and since that time St. Xavier has appealed more to its own imme- diate vicinity for patronage. The years 1853 to 1865 were years of hard struggle for St. Xavier. Many causes contributed to this effect, not the least of which were the cholera epidemic, the Know-Nothing movement and the Civil War. But better times came for the College when the war was emied. Property had been secured in 1863 on the corner of Seventh and Sycamore streets, and on this site in 1867 was erected the Faculty building, called the Hill Building after the Reverend Walter Hill, the president of the College at the time. This additional accommodation served the needs of the institution for the next twenty years, but again the need of expansion was felt and in 1885 the Nioeiler Building on Seventh street to the rear of the Hill Building was erected by the Reverend Henry Mueller, president of the College from 1884- to 1887. St. Xavier College celebrated its golden jubilee in 1890, counting fifty years from 1840, the year in which the Jesuits assumed control. The following year the class room buiiding facing an Sycamore street was built as we11 as the College Chapel and Memorial Halt; At the same time the 01d Athenaeum was torn down after having served for college purposes for sixty years. Page Eighteen
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