The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-10-15
FAMOUS CATHOLIC
CENTERS OF LEARNING
The University of Louvain is the
Model For All Catholic
Universities.
Catholic University of America
Ranks in Size and Equipment
With the Best.
Teachings of Catholic Universities
Are Orthodox as Teachings
of the Curia.

Mgr Baudrillart writing in LIE Cor
respondent (Paris), of the Catholic
Universities of Montreal, Washington,
Beyrouth, Fribourg, Madrid, Paris,
Lille, Lyons, Anglers and Toulouse,
says:
About these institutions of learn
ing there is nothing doubtful, says the
Bishop. In all respects, that which
emanates from these Catholic univer-
sites is as orthodox as if it came from
the Curia itself. All have sought, he
says, to form themselves on the model
of the famous University of Louvain.
1t was in emulation of that famous
establishment, for example, that the
Bishops of Ireland sought, in 1852, to
establish a distinctly National Cath
olic University, an attempt which was
begun with the cooperation of the il
lustrious Cardinal Newman.
The Bishops of Belgium had made of
Louvain a national work, and this
was what the Irish bishops sought to
do. After six years, Newman had,
however, to resign, and his failure has
been, with some justice, attributed to
the fact that he tried to impose an
English form and style of teaching
upon the Irish; and that, too, by en-
ploying English university men who
like himself had been converted dur
ing the Oxford Movement.
The University of Laval in Montreal
and Quebec, sprang also in 1852 from
the famous Quebec seminary of that
name. 1t now has a branch in both
Montreal and Quebec, with in all some
sixty-five professors and one thousand
pupils, of whom three hundred and
seventy are students in Theology. 1t
is an entirely free University, sup
ported by the clergy, and unsubsi-
died by the state. The Rector of the
University holds his seat at Quebec;
the Vice Rector, in Montreal.
In 1866, at the second Council of
Baltimore, the Bishops of the United
States decided on the founding of a
Catholic University. A timely gift of
100000, the gift of Miss Mary G..
Caldwell, enabled them to buy site
at Washington; two years later gift
of 100000 allowed them to extend,
and (says Mgr. Baudrillart), in twelve
years after it's founding, the young
American university was as we'll
equipped as any university in the
world. 1t has threee faculties, namely,
theology, philosophy and law. 1t has
also it's departments of applied sci
ence. Besides the episcopal and cler-
ical members, the board of. governors
includes three laymen, chosen for
their social or commercial standing.
The University of Beyrout (or Beir-
ut) in Asia Minor, is conducted by
Jesuits. An Eastern Catholic semi.
nary was found to be necessary in
1843, and accordingly the Jesuits un-
dertook the task of founding one. 1t
now has, on the average, some five
hundred pupils, and its success may
be gauged from the fact that it has
already given twenty-one bishops and
two hundred and thirty priests (of the
Eastern rite) to the Church. The
French Government withdrew it's an
nual subsidy of $4,000 in 1906. The
lay academic diploma of Beirut Uni.
versity is recognized in Egypt, but is
discountenanced in Turkey. It's School
of Medicine has given, however, near
ly four hundred doctors to the Turkish
Empire. It possesses an Eastern fac
ulty, has a library of one hundred
thousand volumes and fifteen hundred
manuscripts and affords it's pupils ev.
cry opportunity for the highest kind
of education. It's name is the Uni
versity of St. Joseph.
The University of Fribourg in Swift.
Zerland was founded in 1889 by a
States official called Python. 1t takes
Catholic students from all over the
world, and it's most recent roster
showed that it had students of the
following nations enrolled: Swiss
17q. German az. Polish and Lithuan.