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PUBLISHED BY J L of LA SALLt COLLtGt PHILADELPHIA, PA.
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The Faculty Walk EXPLORINGS tN SEPTEMBER, 1862, the nucleus of the present La Salle College was formed i in what was then known as the Christian Brothers ' Academy, which was attached to St. Michael ' s Parochial School at 1419 North Second Street. Seeing the necessity of a college for the higher education of young men in his diocese, the Most Reverend James F. Wood, then Bishop of Philadelphia, in conjunction with a committee consisting of Brothers of the Christian Schools, members of the clergy in Philadelphia, and several prominent Catholic laymen, obtained in 1863 a charter incorporating La Salle College in Philadelphia. By 1867, the increase in the number of students attending the academy became so great that the accommodations afforded by the building on Second Street proved inadequate, and the property at the north- east comer of Filbert and Juniper Streets, where the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Building now stands, was leased. Two years later. Brother Oliver, president of the college, purchased the buildings from the diocese for the sum of $30,000. For nearly twenty years La Salle College occupied the buildings at Filbert and Juniper Streets and was a landmark in central Philadelphia. Finally, increasing enrollment necessitated the Brothers ' moving into larger quarters. The property at the corner of Broad and Stiles Streets was pur- chased in December, 1882, as the future site of the college. By building an addition to the Bouvier Mansion, which already occupied the grounds, suffi- cient space was provided to accommodate all the students. Four years later, one of the first modern gymnasiums in Philadelphia was installed in the college. The work of reconstructing the Bouvier Mansion to give sufficient room for the needs of the college was completed in 1896. In the original Constitution of the Christian Brothers, as provided by their founder, St. John Baptist de la Salle, there existed a clause prohibiting the teaching of Latin and Greek in the schools under their control. By special
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