St Xavier College - Xaverian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Fifty-stx THE XAVERIAN NEWS The FutUre St. Xavier College A definite and comprehensive plan has been adopted for the development of St. Xavier College. The three build- ings now erected; namely, Hinkle Hall Uhe Administra- tion Buildingi, Alumni Science Hall and the Club House. are only the beginnings. First in importance is the Domi- tory, with other Dormitories to come later, and, with the initial Dormitory. to accommodate 4'00 'out-of-town stu- dents. Then the College Chapel, with seating room for LOOO. With this must come the Arts Building, to be de- voted to recitation purposes, and receivethe 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 be- yond that. ion the northeast corner of the property, a large Normal gehool. The site of the Arts Building is just south of Alumni Science Hall andl beyond the private road. A large gymnasium is to be erected on the west side of the Campus in the depression of the hill, and with entrances both from the Campus and from Winding Way. The north- west corner of the prOperty, on Marion avenue and Wind- ing 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 complete the plan as outlined. 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 mainte- nance. The grounds. too, have to be arranged and beauti- tied in order to become the splendid setting for the group of buildings, and the maintenance of the grounds will entail further considerable expense. But St. Xavier is devoted wholly and entirely to God. the Church and Country. and it can not be that the Catholics of Greater Cincinnati. whose pride this new College is to become, and for whose children in the future years the Jesuit Faculty will labor with all the zeal and devotedness that their predecessors have manifested during the greater part of a hundred years, will fail .to do what they can well do, and erect this monument to their sense and appreciation of Catholic education. In this outline of the future development of St. Xavier College there is no provision directly contemplated for the changing of the College into an university. For there are no day-courses of university grade, and it would be unseemly to claim to be what one is not. With the adventvof day- courses of university grade must come the question of a university charter, and possibly of a new name for the new university. Whether Xavier be the name of the new in- stitution or some other name be selected must be determined when the proper time comes. The name HFenwick Uni- versity meets with no slight approval, and it would seem a fitting thing that the name of the saintly Bishop who first established the institution should be the name that institution would hear in the fullness of its development. No other name could more clearly heraldlthe purpose he had in found-t ing the institution, and the purpose those who have suc- ceeded him have had continually before their eyesullPro Deo et pro Patria.

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?HE: XA VERIAN NEWS Al metde St, XaVIer in the Last F our Years What a remarkable difference has come over St. Xavier College in these last four years. Those college students, who entered in nineteen eighteen and are leaving now, have seen the transition. the glorious Zhange from the Old St. Xavier to the New. They should be proud to think that they have seen things come true which for years had been only thought of. For years had everyone seen the wonderful word- paintecl pictures of the hills in Avondale decked with college buildings. We thought them dreams. dreams which only would come true in years. But now the realization of those dreams burst upon us and we have a St. Xavier in a new era of success. glory and advancement. We have the build- ings long sought for and a reputatioii which has spreadlfrom a local to a nation-wide character. Her name has traveled from city to city, and from state to state. Who is responsible for this success? Who has brought about this wonderful change?- The spirit in a' school is what makes that school. The New St. Xavier is due to the splendid co-operation of Faculty, Alumni, students ahd friends of St. Xavier College. In former years it seemed as though that spirit of co- operation was asleep, but now that the spirit is there the school awakens. Nothing lives with0ut a soul. and loyalty is the soul of a school. Athletics is one of the most fundamental builders of college spirit, and St. Xavier has put out the finest brand of athletics ever prodiiced in this section of'the country. That'spirit which was cultivated by athletics has been of wonderful benefit to the school. In the last four years St. Xavier College has arisen from' a, slow, conservative College. to a progressive one, which will carry on in its progressto a glory envied by all. We who have seen-it are proud to think we were at College during this splendid transition, and hope that we, too, will be able to help in the work of those who have been an honor to St. Xavier. t

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