The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-05-19
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.

Correspondence Intermountain Catholic
. Washington D. c., May 1.-THE uni
versity degrees will be conferred thi!
year Thursday, June Z, at 10 o'clock a
m. His Eminence, the Cardinal Chan
cellor, will preside at the exercises. The
alumni sermon will be preached on
Sunday, June 8, in the Divinity Chapel
Caldwell hall, by Rev. William ]. Kir-
by, Pm. D., president of the Alumni so
ciety. At the close of the Mass the
tie Deum" will be sung.
The year book of the university for
1900-0t has just been issued, and shows
a marked improvement in the attend
ance in all the departments of the uni
versity. From an analysis of the cata-
| logue it appears that there are III reg
istered students. OF these 10 are mat
REGULATED for degrees; the other sixty
| seven being either special students Or
auditors. In the school of the Sacred
! Sciences there are seventy-five stu
! dents, of whom thirty-siX are matricu-
! lated, thirty-eight are auditors, and
! one is a Fellow. In the School of Phi
| losophy there are three Fellows, eigh-
! teen matriCulatOrs, eleven special stu
! dents and sixteen auditors. There are
] lOIty SEVEN IlalIlculdI6u SIuQenIS III
| the School of Law; while in the School
of the archaeological Sciences there are
nine matricuiated and one special stu
dent. Among the students there are
forty-f1ve Priests, thirty-five of whom
are in theology, and ten in philosophy
and science. OF these forty-five eleven
are Religious; one Sulpician, two Bene-
dictines. three Paulists. and five be-
longing to the Congregation of the Holy
Nr-rNG-S 1fsrfsN
Priests. there are seventy eight in diff
ferent departments of university work
as matriculates, special students or
auditors. the greater majority being
auditors. There are seventy-One lay
men following the courses, forty-seven
in law. fourteen in philosophy and ten
in technology. Seven are special stu
dents in philosophy and sciences, one
a special student in technology, and
sixty-three are matriculated for de-
grees. OF the III students following
the various courses of instruction, 102
have received either the baccalauerate
or higher degrees, conferred by forty
nine universities, colleges or seminar
les. Twenty-Five states and territories
and four foreign countries are repre-
scented in the students.
The Right Rev. Rector, as chairman
of the Conference of Catholic Colleges
at Chicago, is preparing a report of
the proceedings of the conference. He
expresses himself pleased with the re-
suits of the second meeting OF college
representatives. 1t is not possible in
single conference to consider all OF the
questions that are important in col
legiate work. 1t must necessarily take
time and careful investigation to find
what is needed, to study the different
systems that govern our collegiate in
struction, in order to see wherein 1t
may be strengthened and improved. |
The conference took a step in that di- |
rection by establishing a permanent or
ganization and investing its standing
committee with authority to make in
vestigations and report plans for fu-
ture consideration. Subsequent confer
ences will reach conclusions which |
must commend themselves to the diff
ferent college systems. There is very
evident purpose on the part of our col |
lege representatives to study carefully |
the demands made by the people, and !
to utilize the means at their disposal !
in order to do the best work possible !
under the circumstances. The report OF /
the conference will include the papers !
that were read, and the discussions
that followed. 1t will prove Of value
to all who are interested in our college I
work
The knights of Columbus in the Dis
trict of Columbia are beg inning to man. |
ifest a great interest in the endowment |
of the Chair of American History IN
the university. 1t was unanimously
resolved at the Knights of Columbus
convention of March, $780, at New
Haven to make this endowment, and /
it seems that a goodly number of the !
Jurisdictions have taken the matter up I
and are pushing it foI ward energetl- (
cally. The Councils in Washington pc /
gin TO realize that they should set the /
pace in this matter for the rest of the .
country, as they live under the shadow,
as it were, of the university, and snare 4
more generously in all It's privileges.
They will soon take concerted action |
towards raising their portion of the |
fund. and are most anxious that the
endowment of the Chair of American
History should be presented to the
board of trustees of the university at
their next annual meeting in Wash
ington. Oct. II. Very Rev. DR.. Garri-
gan has recently addressed the separ-
ate Councils here on this subject and
has set forth the motives for prompt
ness and generosity in accomplishing
this great work.
We are glad to hear that the book,
Religion and Morality" presented by
Rev. DR.. Fox for his doctors degree
last June, has entered into second
edition. The Museum has to acknowl-
edge the gift of several valuable con-
tributions to its geological department..
Among the books that came to the uni
versity this month was one received
through the Rector, valuable work
in German, the gift of DR.. L. w. D.
Hughes, United States consul at CO.
burg.
Great interest is manifested in the
new Trinity College, the work of
which is progressing favorably. The
Sisters are confident that the college
will be ready for classes in October.
The prospectus containing the condi-
tons for entrance will be issued in a
few days. Bishop Harkins of Provi-
ience, and Bishop Beaver of Springfield
we're visitors at the university during
the rast week.