The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-08-08
COMMITTEES REPORT MADE TO
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF
THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
RECOMMENDS EclALLY
CATHOLIC LECTURES.
To the Supreme Council, Knights o
Columbus:

ColumbuSs
The members of your Educational
Committee have to report very salts
flying increase in the numbers who
are in attendance at our Catholic Col
leges. Everywhere it is the same
story. 1t is evident that more and
more of our Catholic people are COM
ing to realize how much higher educa-
ton can mean for success in life, and
more of them are in a position to
secure it for their children. The
number of Catholic young folks then
who are sent. by parents for High
School work and even further for Col
lege and University work, is con-
stantly on the increase. This is
consummation deyoutly to be wished
1t has been calculated that more than
half of those who find place in Whos
Who in America because of their &C
complishment of something that
makes their careers of interest Tor
the general public are college gradu-
ates. AS only very limited number
of the people of this country have the
opportunity to attend College, it has
been estimated therefore that there
are at least ten times as many chances
of a college man making a success
in life as there is for one who has
not had this opportunity Your Com
mittee can only emphasize this fact
and hope that members of our Order
will appreciate how much they may
be doing for the increase of the lntiu-
ence of our people in America, by
providing opportunities for the higher
education for their children.
Hiuher Education of Women.
A most satisfying increase in the
numbers in attendance at Catholic
Women's Colleges makes it very clear
that many of the rising generation OF
Catholic women are anxious for oppor-
tunities for the higher education and
that these are being provided for them
in satisfactory fashion. Almost need
less to say, your Committee are de-
cidedly of the opinion that the con-
ditions under which young women re-
ceive the higher education in secular
institutions present many more dan
gers for them than for young men.
Above all during the impressionable
period of young womanhood women
seem to need more the steadying in
fluence of religion with all it's safe
guards and the conservative influence
of religious teachers. Only too many
examples of very intellectual young
women drifting away from their re-
ligious base are at hand. The more
intellectual they are the greater, ap-
parently, is the danger, so that the
development of Catholic feminine
higher education is welcome sign of
progress.
Now that opportunities are being
provided, knights of Columbus, above
all, are everywhere showing their
readiness to realize how much the
higher education may mean for their
daughters as we'll as for their sons,
and have shown their willingness even
to make sacrifices to secure it. There
is no doubt that in the near future
women are to have much more of in
f1uence in political and social life than
has been expected of them in the past
and our Catholic women must have
an opportunity to share this with the
proper advantages of education and
intellectual development which will
give them place as leaders and not
merely followers of others.
Selection of a College.