The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-08-01
SCHOLARSHIPS AT ST. THOMAS.


grade of the parochial schools of st. |
Paul and Minneapolis. Each scholar
ship is valued at sixty dollars and will
be tenable for one year. To determine |
the most worthy candidates a written
examination will be held at the col
lege on Tuesday, August %, at two
o'clock p. m. This year the examina- !
ton will comprise only arithmetic and
English Grammar.
The ceming competition inaugurates
a movement which the trustees of the
college have had under consideration
for some time, and which they hope
ere long to extend to all the parochial
schools of the Archdiocese. 1t will
help to foster among the pupils of our
schools an ambition to secure a, higher
education, and will afford many prom
Using boys an opportunity which they
are sure to turn to good account.
THE COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT..
st. Thomas offers three collegiate
courses of study leading, respectively,
to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts,
Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of
Philosophy. In these courses wide
range of subjects embracing ancient
and modern languages, history, mathe-
mates, science and philosophy en-
ables students to prepare themselves
for professional studies of all kinds.
Sound and careful teaching is the
watchword in each department.
A special feature of work in the
college courses is the provision made
for students who intend to enter the
legal and medical departments of uni
versities Those who are preparing
to take UP law find in the courses of
rhetoric, constitutional history, politi-
cal science, economics, logic and
ethics an ideal preliminary course for
legal studies; while those who have
medical studies in view are specially
trained in biology, advanced chemis-
try, advanced physics, German and
French and the other branches on
which the best medical schools now
insist as an entrance requirement. In
the scientific department two chemical
laboratories, a physics laboratory and
a biological laboratory, equipped with
everything necessary for a thorough
scientific training, are at the service
of the students. Three professors,
trained in the foremost universities
at home and abroad, have been Sc
cured for the scientific work of the
college.
THE HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Few, if any, Catholic colleges of the
country can boast of an academic de-
partment as large and as efficient as
that which st. Thomas has built up in
recent years. Experience shows that
the first two years of high school work
are the critical period in boys men,
tai training. If the foundations are
not well laid, failure is the inevitable
result. Statistics demonstrate that a
large percentage of high school stu
dents never complete more than one
year of academic work. This leakage
is chiefly due to the fact that boys are
discouraged by the difficulties that be-
set such studies as Latin, algebra
and rhetoric, upon which they are
often ill-prepared to enter on emerg-
ing from the eighth grade. AS a slim
illus to thorough work st. Thomas re-
Quires it's academic classes to under
go the state high school examinations
at the end of each scholastic year. 1t
is found that this ordeal constitutes
an excellent test of the work accom-
plished and stimulates the hundreds
of students enrolled in our high school
courses.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.
The course in this department is
essentially practical and comprises all
the branches which are necessary to
equip young men for business career.
Accuracy, neatness and rapidity are
insisted on throughout. While purely
commercial studies constitute the prin-
cipal portion of the programme, stress
is steadily laid on the need of good
English education, and nothing is left
undone to impart to the students a
sound training in rhetoric. The prox-
unity of two great centers of COM
merce affords inexhaustible opportuni-
ties for promising young men. In
deed, the difficulty is not so much to
secure positions for graduates as to
secure well educated young men for
the lucrative positions which are call
ing for men of exceptional training.
Thousands of st. Thomas graduates
are now holding posts of trust and
emolument throughout the country.
MILITARY DEPARTMENT.
During the past nine years st.
Thomas has been a military school.
Oficers Of the United States army,
detailed by the Secretary of War for
work exclusively in the college, have
had charge of the military training of
the students.
The means adopted in many schools
to promote the physical development
Of pupils are deplorably inadequate.
Everything is done for the mind, lit
tie or nothing for the body. Surely, a
due amount of time should be devoted
continuously and systematically to the
harmonious and vigorous development
Of the physical powers. The schools,
however, In which this is done are the