The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-11-26
rpnu CARDINAL GIBBONS.
.r,,.. following letter is addressed tC
hisbnps of the United States:
hs cardinals Residence.


me Cardinals Residence.
p.ltimore. Md. Nov. 4, 1910.
10 great pleasure in bringing
,,. attention the excellent con
10 r The Catholic university as
diu'u IN the r5ctor's annual report.
sh"' MIN observe that the endowment
l"u Iarger than ever before. a re-
,bar viii be gladly welcomed
sd. ,, peolle whose generosity has
5 me university on its present
n.s,,g,.;aI basis. During the past year
instructors have been added
,,a teaching corps and the regis
I' l,. rar the academic year just
ila re- shows considerable increase
ra number of students 1t is
,'s,., gratifying to note that this in
is largely in the School of Sci
.,ss ia ,hat section of the university
t:,b offers to our young Catholic
io,-mer a career as chemists. engi-
&c architects. etc, that is. the
adyartages of education along prac-
tica lines.
ia steadily growing number of Cath
.ic colleges and high schools whose
o.,5,sfps enter the university for ad-
5r,,.oad studies. thus corresponding
;,b +he oft-expressed wishes of
p,na leo XIII. the founder of the
University. and Of his Holiness Plus
Y vino has manifested the deepest
interest i'm this great work and in his
ra,ent encvlical has uttered a timely
n.s.pfng against the dangers which
", manv OF the purely secular insti-
,,tions present. Through the univer-
,.;,,. we are thus enabled TO realize
more and more completely the scope
90 wisely appointed by the Holy See
f,r this work. and we have therefore
abundant reason to thank Almighty
cod and to implore His blessing upon
tho faithful in our various dioceses
u.ho have so nObly furthered our eff
for-s in this holy cause.
As the university owes its prosper
a., and growth to the liberality of
o,r reople. il was but fitting that it
sbouId welcome TO its halls the rep
rssen+atives of Catholic charity from
ivory section of our country. assem-
bled this year for the first time in a
national conference. 1t is indeed sig
njficsnt that this movement which
= destined to benefit so many Of our
,sonie and 10 advance the work Of
charity i'm ali directions. should have
been inaugurated in the university.
This tact of itself Suffices to show
that in building up the university we
are AT the same time establishing a
center of Catholic life from which
new impulses and new forces will go
out continually to every part of the
land and supply our manifold needs.
THAT these needs will become more
numerous and more urgent each year
Is whar we may naturally expect. To
meet them adequately the university
should be fully developed in order
that it may train men to initiate and
carry on as competent leaders the
work of cooperation and organiza-
ton. The very fact that the church,
activity is spread out over So vast a
territory. that the interests of relig-
ion are so varied and that the prob
lens 10 which they give rise are SO
complex. makes it plain that the
university should be built up on a
scale proportioned TO all these re
Quirements.
i am confident that this much
deserved development has already
been we'll begun and that the recipro-
cal action of our Catholic people and
their university will result in the
greatest benefit for both.
In my own name. therefore, and in
that of the board of trustees, / APP
peal 10 YOU and to your generous
clergy and people for a continuance
of the support YOU have so Loyalty
given Us in the past. No form of
Catholic charity is more noble or
more fruitful than that which is
given to education in all its degrees.
and nowhere can the generous CIV
or better bestow his gifts than on an
institution destined under divine
Providence To confer on all our peo-
pie such lasting religious and edUca-
uonal benefits as the Catholic Uni
yersiy. TO multiply its schools and
departments to increase the num-
her Of its professors and instructors,
10 make provision there for every
Kind Of useful learning, to enrich its
Libraries. equip its Laboratories, and
provide for teachers and students all
necessary facilities, should be our
pride. Generations TO come will
bless us for the open-handed gener-
oSiiy and the far-seeing wisdom with
which we supported the young insti
luton during the first decades of its
IRE, when affectionate help and prac-