the university is accessible from both the residential and the 
business sections, as well as the suburbs. The campus, con- 
sisting of about seven acres, was acquired piecemeal by the 
Holy Ghost Fathers, who have conducted the school since 
1878. Eight buildings constitute the present plant: St. 
John’s hall and St. Martin’s hall, both residential, acquired 
from former owners; the main building, erected in 1884; the 
chapel, begun in 1894 and enlarged in 1904; the Science hall, 
built in 1915; and the power plant, the gymnasium and the 
magnificient Canevin hall, all three erected in 1922. In 
addition, three floors in the Vandergrift building, on Fourth 
Avenue, have been rented since 1913 for the use of the School 
of Accounts. 
In 1878, Right Rev. Bishop Domenec urgently requested 
Father Joseph Strub, C. 8. Sp., exiled from his native Ger- 
many by the Bismarck regime, to undertake the work. He 
complied, and after much effort found quarters for his 
confreres and their forty pupils in a business block at Wylie 
avenue and Federal street. The Rev. W. P. Power, C. S. 
Sp., was the first president. His seven years’ administration 
were years of struggle for existence but of constant progress, 
ending shortly after the dedication of the first permanent 
building on what is now the campus. Under Rev. John T. 
Murphy, C. S. Sp. (recently deceased as Bishop of Port 
Louis, Mauritius), who guided the destinies of the college for 
thirteen years, notable material expansion and scholastic 
advancement were made. It was he that purchased most of 
:he present recreation ground, built handball courts, a 
temporary gymnasium and the chapel, raised the standard 
and widened the curriculum of both the classical and com- 
mercial courses, furnished the library, established debating 
societies and the students’ magazine. 
But these achievements, important as they undoubtedly 
were, are dwarfed by those of the present incumbent, Very 
Rev. M. A. Hehir, C. S. Sp., LL. D., who has stood at the 
helm since 1899. A man of profound judgment and methodi- 
cal ways, he has set the stamp of his character on the work 
of the various departments. In his first years he added to 
the courses in modern languages and sciences, and made 
provision for the education of needy students. But it was