St Xavier College - Xaverian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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chased the property, the city has acquired great stretches of land for park purposes. The Park Board is proceeding with its happily conceived idea of constructing wide boulevards to connect the different city parks. For many miles there stretches a double boulevard, one branch skirting the base of the hill immediately east of the Campus, and the other running along the western edge of the College property. The New St. Xavier College is thus situated in a picturesque spot, surrounded by parkways, yet in a location which was chosen chiefly because at the time it was in the very center of Cincinnati and its suburbs. The opening of the Fall Session of St. Xavier College in 1919, marked an epoch in the history of the institution. A complete separation of the College students from the High School students was established. The High School cEasses were. concentrated at the old St, Xavier on Seventh and Sycamore streets. There, too, the evening courses continued to hold their sessions, and there the new St. Xavier Law Schooilbegan its career in October, 1919. The College classes were transferred to the Avondale Branch High School, and in September, 1920, they were perma- nently located in their new building. A definite and comprehensive plan has been adopted for the further development Of the College. One wing of the new dormitory, Elet Hall, is all but completed and will be ready for student occupation at the opening of the school year 1924-1925. Other dormitories are to come later. Then the College Chapel, with seating room for 1,000. With this must come the Arts Buildings, to be devoted to recitation purposes, and receive the Arts classes now temporarily housed in the Alumni Science Hall. The College Library Building is to be erected in the open space between Hinkle Hall and Alumni Science Hall. The Chapel is to be on the north side Of Hinkle Hall, and beyond that, on the northeast corner of the property, a large Normal Schooli The site of the Arts Building is just south of Alumni Science Hall and beyond the private road. A large gymnasium is to be erected on the west side of the Campus in the depressionvof the hill, and with entrances both from the Campus and from Winding Way. The northwest corner of the property, on Nlarion avenue and Winding Way, is waiting for the new St. Xavier High School, which is to have accommodations for a thOusand pupils. A central heating plant, situated on the lOWer ground of the property and at the northern end, will complet the plan as outlined. ' a ' - It may seem a wild dream, this list of buildings that are to round out the plans for the New St, Xavier College, for the cost of construction alone is a formidable sum, and with every'new building comes an additional charge of maintenance. The grounds, too, have 'tti be arranged and beautified in orderito become the splen- did setting for the' group Of'buildings, and the maintenance of the grounds will entail further con'siderable expense. -Yet it is almost inevitable that this dream Page- ngnly-l-wo

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Entrants to Campu: tories not only for the present needs but for the future expansion of the College; and these rooms and laboratories are furnished and equipped with the latest and most approved scientific appliances. Its architectural design and symmetry mark sit as one of the mot distinguished buildings of the City. Another building, which was completed and ready for occupancy in November, 1920, is the Administration Building, Hinkle Hall. This is the muniflcent gift of Mrsv Frederick W. Hinkle, who by this generous donation has ensured the ultimate carrying out of the plans for the Greater St Xavier College in Cincinnati. Hinkle Hall is the central unit of the group of coliege buildings and has a frontage of 150 feet. Besides the necessary administrative offices, it contains accommodations for a faculty of fifty, with dining room, chapel, recreation rooms and a large roof garden from which a magnificent view of the college grounds and surrounding parts is obtained. In architectural beauty this building merits its place as the center of the college group. ' There is a very extensive campus With baseball and football fields and tennis courts situated in the lower grounds. A stadium inclosing a running track and football field, known as Corcoran Field, was added October, 1921. To the north and south, through the generosity of the Bragg estate, from which the College pur- Pagt thnly-anr

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Seriion of New Dormitory will some day come true. The materiat development of the institution, although it has made gratifying progress within the past decade, has not kept pace with the demand for accommodation by young men who are desirous of availing themselves of the exceptional advantages of a course in higher education under those recognized past-masters in the scholastic field, the jesuit Fathersi The enrollment of students for the current year exceeds that of last year by Fifty per cent; and the want of necessary buildings compelled the College authorities to decline quite a number desirous of masriculating. There is a remedy for this condition, and it should b: applied. St. Xavier Col- lege should be fully equipped to fulfill its great mission. The need of the country is educated Catholic an leaders, who can make the salutary inHuence of our rzligious principles felt in the public life of the nation. To supply this need in this com- munity is the mission of St. Xavier College. To aid the Jesuits in accomplishing this mission is the duty hwe might well say the privilege - Of the Catholic laity' of this vicinityi Let us hope that they will see thgir duty, and discharge it as. such a sacred duty should be dischargcd. i 1 Pa gt 'T'wm ly4tfzrn