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Show . r : n ' tail 11 i I NEW TRINITY COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, WASHINGTON, D. C. The main building of Trinity College, as it v, ill appear when completed, is 1 shown in the accompanying cut. The j church, the cenvent. and about one- third of the college section are now in course of erection. Since ground was broken .on June 21, additional land has been purchased, making in all twentv-seven twentv-seven acres in the college property. The grounds, which are rolling and heavily, wooded, afford excellent sites -for -the loeuion of buildings and can easily be adapted to purposes of exercise and recreation. The grading of .Michigan avenue, upon, which the college faces, is Progressing rapidly, and the extension exten-sion of the City . Suburban electric railway will give a more direct route along North Capitol street to the central cen-tral portions of the city. It is hoped that Trinity College wil' open its doors in October. 1900, for the higher education of women. Already the curriculum of studies is being drawn up. teachers are preparing themselves and the needed helps and appliances for this new departure in the system of Catholic education are being made ready. There is every reason to believe that the opening of Trinity College win respond to a wide and serious demana on the part of Catholic women for op' portunities of mental improvement not inferior to such as are already on0Jf" by their .sisters who are not of our f im,' Tre Plan of tn ,, , -ns faith, j ,f..th commendable alacrity, executed " an firgt dig.nifled granite ! and when in - are dedicated it will ! buildings of &t A long cherished' seem to ma j oFelcss dream has ba:n ! and apparently r. , realized- . f(jr tne Y.-omen of thosci Jlih reak ng races who erne ge Jr. to ?-i;in history, befriended and direc-Ch,"hv direc-Ch,"hv "omen like Bertha and Hilda ted, itJba. and all that noble band of a nips whse good will, wealth, cul-Wn'd cul-Wn'd co-operation were no despic-lw despic-lw element of the success laid up to fhl credit of.the Gregories, -,e Augus- J the Aidans and the jl thberts Kersity Bulletin. ... |