The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-02-17
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY ITEMS.

! Correspondence Intermountain Cathollc.]
Washington, Feb. 15-The second
conference of Catholic College repre-
sentatives will be held on Wednesday
aand Thursday of Easter week, April Is
and 10. The conference will take place
in st. James School Hall, Chicago. and
} will be presided over by Right Rev.
! Mgr. Thomas J. Conaty, D. D. The
] place of meeting was decided at a
! recent meeting of the standing COM
mittee appointed at the last confer
| ence, and the programme for the COM
ing conference was then determined.
A schedule of topics was drawn up,
and invitations were sent out to promi-
nent educators, asking them to pre-
pare and read papers on the different
/ topics selected. The following is a list
of subjects and the gentlemen who will
prepare papers:
p l. Uniformity of Conditions for En-
trance to Freshman Class" Very Rev.
Lawrence A. Delurey,- o. S. A, presi-
dent Villanova College.
2 Relative Merits of Courses in
Catholic and nom Catholic Colleges for
a. B. Degrees" Rev. Timothy Brosha-
han, S. j.. Woodstock College.
8. Elective System of Studies" Rev.
James A. Burns, c. S. c., Notre Dame
University
4. Religious Instruction in College"
Very Rev. Patrick S. McHale, c. NJ,
president Niagara University
5. Teaching of Modern Languages, -
Rev. John P. Carroll, d. b, president
St. Joseph's College, Dubuque, Ia.
6. Development of Character in
Students" Rev. NJ P. Bowling. S. J..
president Creighton University, Omaha,
Neb.
After the reading of the paper there
will be a general discussion of the top
Eics by the conference. The first con-
ference was a great success and many
educators throughout the country have
expressed themselves very warmly and
enthusiastically on the subject. The
bringing together of the different edu-
cational bodies of the Church in this
country for the interchange of views
and for the promotion of the best in
education must be productive of great
good to the cause of Catholic collegiate
studies
The attendance at the annual meet
ing of the Alumni Association of the
Catholic University in Philadelphia on
the 14th promises to be unusually large.
Aside from the annual dinner, which
will be given at the Hotel Bellevue,
and the election of officers, two papers
are to be presented and discussed. One
on The Problems That Confront the
University" will be read by MIR. Fran
els P Guilfoyle, attorney at law, of
Waterbury, Conn; the second, on
How Can the Association Best Serve
the University?' by Rev. E. Fitzgerald,
S. T. L. Of Clinton. Mass. The asso-
citation is developing in a way that
promises TO make it a most efficient aid
in the work of the University.
A large audience filled the Aula Max
ina of the Catholic University on Fri
day afternoon, Feb. 2, to listen to Rev.
DR. j. ]. Griffins lecture on The Lii
quefaction of Cases. and witness his
demonstration of the properties of
liquid air. He began his lecture by
aIluding to the earliest ideas in regard
to the atmosphere, and sketched briefly
the different steps in the development
of our knowledge of gases, illustrating
his remarks by means of lantern slides
of the men by whom this progress was
accomplished. After reviewing the diff
ferent processes for the liquefaction of
gases the Ostergren process employed
by the General Liquid Air & Refrfger-.
ating company, of New York who fur
nished the air used in the lecture. was
then described. and shortly afterward
the consignment of liquid air arrived
and was brought upon the stage in a
large feit-lined can. The can was I'M
covered and clouds of vapor appeared
to ascend from it. giving the audience
the impression that it contained a
quantity Of boiling water but the ex-