Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-16
Bishop Hickey and Distinguished
Laymen Address Graduates
at Convent Station.
HIGHER EDUCATION OF
WOMEN is CHAMPIONED
Roman Catholic Church's Attn
tnde Emphasized by DR..
James j. Walsh.
Especial to the Newark, start

CONVENT STATION, June l6.-The
eleventh annual commencement exer-
cises of the collegiate department OF
the College of st. Elizabeth, following
those of the academic or high school
department on last Thursday, were
held In the beautiful college hall to-
day. It was the first time that the IN
stitution held separate exercises for the
two departments, but the growth oil
both one and the other neoessitateo
the departure this year. The gradu-
ates were addressed by the Rt. Rev.
DR.. Thomas r. Hickey, bishop OF
Rochester, who took for his theme the
golden Jubilee of the,schooi, which was
founded in 1880.
Bishop Hickey, a preacher Of elo-
quence m force, won the large audi
ence by his vtrile and atxtho same time
sympathetic words; he dwelt on the
necessity Of Christian education and
the a~dvisability for the women of our
time of taking up h higher studies
His entire address was listened to with
rapt attention, and several times ne
was applauded when he alluded TO the
work Of the venerable Mother Xavier
and her progressive spirit in the edu-
cattonakf field of Christian, education to-
day.
DIR. walsh on Education.
Following Bishop Hickey. DIR. James
]. Walsh, the distinguished scholar
lecturer, physician and teacher. his
torian and essaytst, a man who's repu-
tation for learning has reached to other
continents, was introduced by the Rt
Rev. Mgr. STAFFORD, of jersey City. DR..
Walsh took as his theme THE Church
and Higher Education of Woman" and
he was followed with the most admir-
ing attention through his interesting
and most Instructive address. De-
nouncing the prevalent idea tina the
Catholic church is opposed to feminine
higher education, and that in the past
her influence hasybeenp exerted against
any development Of this phase OF
human culture. the learned lecturer
advanced to his position as a loyal de-
fender of the church in her further
ance of all forms of progress. notably
that of the advancement of woma In
intellectual fields. He said In part:
Most people seem to be quite sure
that the first serious development Of
opportunities for the higher education
of women came in our time. What
1t ID = feir to ask, was the
attitude of the church in times
past toward education? Owing to her
acknowledged supremacy in spiritual
matters and tho extension Of the
spiritual authority even over h tenn
poral rulers IN many ways. the, church
could absolutely dictate the educa-
tionaI policy of Europe.
LET US see what wa md. At the
great University of Salerne tina, most
interesting feature OF h teaching in
the department of m~edicinefis that dis
eases of women were entirely In
charge of women professors for several
centuries, and we have the books they
wrote on the subject n n much
of the position they occupied. It was,
indeed.sa woman the wife Of tho pro-
fessor of medicine at Salerne and the
mother of another professor. who was
the foundress of what was called the
school of Salernitan women physicians,
using the word school In the same
sense In which It Is employed when
We speak Of a school Of painters or OF
artists, etc. And this II all the more
remarkable because the University OF
Salerne was mainly under mopastio in
nuence.vs But the wise monks who knew
human life and appreciated its diff
c~ulties, recognized the necessity. or at
least the. advisability for women as
medical attendants on women and on
children. and so the first great modern
school of medicine, mainly under mon
astics influence. had the department of
women's diseases in the hands Of
women themselves.
"In Naples find we also that women
were licensed to practise medicine.
Again, at Bologna, we find the first
women students in the law school
there, for we see when Irnertus
founded his great School Of Roman
Law At Bologna, to which students
from all parts. of Europe were at
: tracted. no allowed women, among
sthem his own daughter, to attend his
lectures, and many Of them reached
distinction in the school. And not only
as Students, but as teachers, women
figure IN this great university.
Nrs~rhe assistant to the first great pro-
fessor Of anatomy that Bologna had,
Mundine, whose text-books of Medicine
Anatomy were used in. tho school for
two centuries after his time. was a
young woman It 10 to her that we