[7] Secondly, repairs and enhancements were completed in the College itself, redecorating the interior and opening arches into the garden, and appointing a new sacristy for the chapel.

[9] That property, located in Grottaferrata a few miles outside of the city, would be used for the lodging and recreation of the students during the hot summer months in Rome.

[10] The extent of his duties is adequately summed up by Hostlot himself, who wrote in a letter to his friend Father John Farley of New York in 1883: Caro mio, if you knew how busy I am.

I am the servant of all, Rector, Vice-Rector, Ecclesiastical Consul, Spedizioniere Apostolico, Mezzo-Cameriere di S. Santità for our Americans, Cicerone for our Rt.

Prelates; as for Cicerone to the Catacombs &c., I have given Dr. Smith a special Brevet for that mission...[11]Despite his accomplishments, students at the time generally judged that Monsignor Hostlot was rather harsh in his governance of the school.

"[13] The result of that ill will from the student body reached a head in Hostlot's attempted dismissal of the College's vice-rector, Father Francis Wall, in 1880.

[14] The attempted move broke the College into both pro- and anti-Hostlot camps, leaving a division that persisted even beyond Hostlot's subsequent appointment a new vice-rector.

[15] When Wall's successor, Father Hugh McDevitt, refused to continue on as Hostlot's assistant, the College's board was forced to investigate the issue.

[15] The list of charges against Hostlot has not survived, but the outcome was in his favor: the rumors of professional or personal malpractice were found to be either untrue or insubstantial, and he was kept on as the College's rector.

[1][17] Despite his somewhat tumultuous term as rector, his good character and generosity were remembered by the "relatively large crowd of mourners" that came to view his body laid in state in the College's church of Santa Maria dell'Umiltà.

[18] Nearly twenty years after Hostlot's death, his brother, John Hasslocher, contributed $500 towards the College's purchase of a new wing to expand their campus near Piazza della Pilotta.

[18] Finally, in 1913, John Hasslocher and his sister, Anna Ehret, financed the construction and adornment of the American College's current Romanesque mausoleum in Campo Verano.