The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-15
PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS.

We print in this paper the following
article from the New York Herald oil
March 26th handed to US by Catholic
with the solicitation amounting almost to
request for its publication. We print
the Herald article entire except wlat
the Herald says Of the appointment OF
the Committees of conference and their
residences, for the merging Of the
parochial and public schools liz New
! York.
HOW INAUGURATION WORKS IN POUCH
KEEPsIE.
The following article from the
Poughkeepsie Weekly Neeos is explane-
tory of how the amalgamated system
works in Poughkeepsie. An interest
ing extract from the New England
Journal supplements the article in the
Nea0s and from the tone of both it
woald seem that pprehensions OF con-
| fict in this city, were the parochial and
public schools merged, are not entirely
we'll founded -
| Under the auspices OF this Board our
lefty, nearly two years ago, passed
through one of these semi-religiors agi-
tations which have elsewhere resulted
disastrously, or which have kept conn.,
munitiea in continual disagreement and
turmoil We refer to the question of
uniting the public schools upon basis
agreeable to both Protestants and
Catholics. At the moment this subject
is attracting excited attention in the
city Of New York, and it would be well
in that ciey it could receive the same
candid and dispassionate consideration
which it has received here. Fortunate
ly though our Board was at the time
and were entirely in the hands OF
Protestants, they were and are nom
political and intelligent body anxious to
compose all questions upon basis fair
and Just to all More fortunate even
were we in the fact that in Rev. P. F.
McSWeeney D. D., pastor OF St. Peters
we had man of those rare qualities
which enabled him to apprehend that,
upon the subject of mere secular educa.
tiOn, the interests of all Americans were
alike, and that a religious education
was matter quite separate and apart
With such priest and such Board il
was not difficult to make an arrange
ment which was not only then, but has
from the time forward been one of EN-
tire harmony, and not only so, but has
elevated the tone and has increased the
interest and emulation in all the schools
Il cannot bat be gratifying TO all these
! gentlemen that the result here have
been so eminentlY beneficial in all re-
spects. They may be pardoned more
over for u great pride in the fact that
their experiment has not only attracted
the attention and emphatic approval OF
the State Board of Regents. but of all
educational observers within and be-
You'd the bounds Of the State. Among
other notices of our local action in this
matter we copy with very great pleasure
the following recital of the facts from
the Mao England Journal Of Education.
Of this journal we need only to say that
1t is the leading educational publication
OF New England, being the representa-
tive and legatee of five former educational
papers, and that it is published under
the auspices Of 1.-THE American Institute
of instruction" and "The Teachers
Association Of the New England States,
:, The facts 1t has gathered are entirely
! correct and need no emendation what
ever. We can add, with special en-
phssis, that the arrangement here has
been productive only Of most excellent
results. The most complete harmony
has prevailed, and since its operation
|, not less than dozen pupils have passed
from the lower forms of schools II and
10 into the high schools, where they
rank most favorably in all respects witt
; their competitors. The article fron
the Journal is as follows -
+ e"RoMAN CATHOLICS IN THE PUBLIC
, SCHOOL SYSTEM We alluded in latc
number Of the Journal to the hostile at.
titude assumed by the Roman Catholic
!, to our public schools, and their eviden