The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-07-18
MAMMOTH College.

Tuesdays proceedings at Maynoot,
college were unusually important. TIL
bishops had to fill the vacancy in tn
vice presidency caused by the nomina
ton OF DR.. Q'Dea to the See of Clon
fert His eminence Cardinal Logu,
expressed the general sentiment whe1
he said that the feeling of satisfaction
at DR.. IDEAS elevation must be tenn
pered with sorrow in Maynooth fol
the loss sustained by the college. AS
Cardinal Logue reminds the public
Maynooth is not merely a great Di
vinity school. it is also a great Arts
school. In its junior houses there are
more arts students than in all the
queens colleges put together. The
Arts school has staff of twelve COM
petent professors, three more than are
engaged in Arts work at Belfast. 1t
has all the elements of a successful
constituent college of which any uni
versity might be proud. Cardinal
Logue, we are glad to see, strikes no
minor key in speaking of the work
done in Maynooth in general educa-
ton. If he were in sporting mood,
the cardinal says, he would pit the
three or four best art men of May
nooth against the best men of any
university in the country His emil
nence would certainly have no reason
to doubt the result if they had only to
meet the products of the Royal uni
versity. But sound as is the work at
present it would inevitably gain, if not
in value, certainly. in prestige and
superiority to the sheer of the secu-
lariSts, if it were embraced in a Ma
tional university. 1t would be a mis-
fortune if the Arts men of Maynooth
were to be excluded from the influence
of the university by objections that
have no real root save a desire to pre-
vent the priesthood of Ireland from
effectually throwing off the unjust re-
proach of being an uneducated priest
hood, reproach too lightly accepted
by many. In appointing DR.. Mannix
to the vacant vice presidency the
bishops have devolved responsibility
upon another of the younger genera
ton of Maynooth men who has given
proof Of great powers of organization
and fruitful ideas of advance The
Maynooth union owes much to DR..
Mannix, the college itself will owe
more; and the already large debt of
Maynooth to Cloyne will be increased
by the selection.
The bishops adopted another resolu-
ton on Tuesday that will increase the
efficiency of the college. They re
solved to establish a college museum
of an ecclesiastical and educational
The museum is now a rec
ognized institution of the kind and is a
valuable educational aid; and it is i'm
portant that the students of May
nooth, who will be called on in later
life to take such an important part in
the educational work of the country,
should be familiar with it's equipment,
and use. But, quite
apart from it's educational character,
it is desirable that there should be a
National home for the remains of
Irish ecclesiastical art that have not
yet reached other hands. If a mu-
scum had been opened in Maynooth a
hundred years ago many of the chal-
ices, pyXes, crosses, and other sacred
objects now in other and less rever-
ent keeping would not have passed out
Of Catholic hands. The past ten years
have seen rapid development of
professional studies at Maynooth. |
Philosophy, Canon Law, Higher Scrip
.ure, has each in it's turn engaged the |
attention of the bishop and the college
so as to make the instruc-
ion complete. The arts faculties have
lot been neglected. Classics, mathe- |
natics and science have all been more |
amply provided for; and the college |
las invited and secured the co-opera-
ion of the best lay talent available in |
he work. We are all the witnesses
If the big stride made in the Gaelic |
studies within the college. In fact the
original impulse of the Gaelic revival
,ame from Maynooth, and the name
# Father Eugene O'Growney will new
r be forgotten in that connection.
III these are evidences that the grand
I'D college founded by Grattan's par
lament is fulfilling the hopes of its
ounders. 1t is renewing its youth to
axe full advantage of the new era in
Ireland and to help in the realization
f the best hopes that are stirring
us today. The college has
great place and a great function in
he life of Ireland; its guides and di-
ectors realize their responsibility and
re alert not merely to fulfil, but to an
icipate duty, and be ready for it's &C
hour by hour. Such an
Institution cannot be shut out from
he national organization of education
l Ireland.
On Saturday evening, about $50
clock, Mrs. Mary E. Guinness, Te-
radden house, Whitechurch, was re
1rning from a garden party in her
arriage with her daughter, Miss GUM
ess, from the direction of Dundrum.
Then nearing Sandyfort Hill cross
Dads a gentleman who was riding a
rotor bicycle collided with the horses
nd carriage, with the result that the
vo horses attached to the carriage
olted and ran away. The carriage
as upset, and Mrs. Guinness sus-
lined some injuries about the body
I'D head. and the cOachmaD and foot