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

1t is gratifying to note that Catholic
parents are more than ever alive to the
need and duty of giving their boys the
advantages of higher education. The
reasons that appeal to them are many
and varied, but they may be briefly
summed up under few heads.
The call today in every walk of life
is for trained men. knowledge is
power, and without it there can be but
little hope for those who wish to win
success. This is in the very nature
of things, for just as the trained hand
of the skilled artisan gives him an
enormous advantage over the unskilled
it's. possessor an immense advantage
over the man whose faculties remain
undeveloped. 1t would be pitiable
thing to send out youth manned in
body to compete with those who are
sound of limb and fleet of foot; it is
hardly less pitiable to send youths
MANNED in mind to battle for the
prizes of life with those whose pow
ers or faculties have been care
fully trained for the struggle. The
chief difference between one man and
another is not a difference of intel
ligence; rather does it lie in the I'M
equal efforts men make to develop the
powers God has given them. Stats
tics show that 80 per cent of our
boys and girls do not go beyond the
eighth grade. About 5 per cent COM
plete the high school course. Less
than 2 per cent pass through college.
But statistics also show that from the
ranks of those who have passed
through higher institutions of educa-
ton are drawn the men who have to
do in large way with shaping the
course of affairs in every department
of activity throughout the country. To
the colleges the nation is looking more
and more for those who are to be
the leaders in the various fields of
business, politics, etc. Education is
the road to success, and those who are
debarred from it must be content to
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-08-01

do the rough work of the world-to
be hewers of wood and drawers of
water
Again, the habits and qualities
which higher education develops make
for success. The wisest of the Greeks
wrote that all men desire knowledge
but that few desire the labor necessary
to acquire it. knowledge can be won
only by toll. Who fain would develop
the mind must "scorn delights and
live laborious days" And it is this
toll of mind, stern and unremitting,
that fits men for struggles which they
who would reap success must ever
undergo. Habits of industry and of
close investigation, the power to
think for oneself, the love of work,
the ability to wrestle with difficulties
these are some of the qualities
which higher education calls out and
which are the guarantee of success
full career wherever they come into
play. Indeed, if more of our young
men were submitted to the discipline
that education in the true sense of the
word entails there would be fewer
spoiled children, fewer prodigal sons,
fewer 'lounging animals on the
prowl for mischief for the world to
deal with.
Knowlege is power, and for this
reason parents should do everything
they can to equip their children with
the best possible education. But
knowledge is also a sweet and beau
tiful thing in itself; it is, apart from
all other considerations, a thing de-
sirable for it's own sake. It is a tru-
ism that on earth there is nothing
great but man and in man there is
nothing great but mind. It is the
mind that makes us rich or poor: a
man is what his mind is. Now If men
toll with patience that never flags
over a block of marble to bring out
the lines Of beauty latent in it, or over
some fragment Of translucent stone
to bring out the fire and the flash of
it, with what Joy and patience should
they not devote themselves to wax
ing every power that slumbers in the
soul, bringing the mind into contact
with the best the world has thought
and felt in all the ages, and leading
it into the grand Inheritance of human
ity which has been purchased by the
toll and thought of countless genera
tons.
And yet these are not the reasons
that most powerfully influence our
Catholic people in sending their boys
to higher Catholic institutions of
learning.
The chief aim of education is the
formation Of character To prepare
men for life-this is the supreme pur-
pose of the college. The great object
of education, says Emerson, sHouId be
commensurate with the object of life.
There is no parent who does not wish
above all to see his boy grow up man
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-08-01

ly apd modest and reverent, loyal and
courteous and truthful, bearing with
him into his manhood all that is sweet
est in childhood, loving honor as he
loves life itself, faithful with, lifelong
allegiance to his religion, and ever
shaping his course by the high and
holy law of Heaven. These are the
fruits of training that parents most
covet for their children, and without
them mere aptitudes for working
problems would be travesty on edu-
cation. But these things are the spe-
cial appanage of religion, and without
religion they cannot be fostered.
Without religion knowledge may be
power for evil; it is possible to have
an excellent grasp of science and liter
allure and to have but slight hold
on whatever things are good and true
and pure. Indeed, knowledge without
an enlightened conscience to direct
its use may be formidable weapon
for evil. Now morality is simply re-
ligion in practice. It is religion alone
that can furnish the ideals that the
mind must have, and the motive power
that the will must have, and the
authority that the conscience must
have. Beautiful generalities which are
offered as motives are but sorry sub
stitute for religion. The Catholic
Church is the one great school of
virtue the world has known-the only
school that can appeal to the magma
ton and stir the will and warm the
heart and illumine the conscience
the only school that can offer the COM
plete ideal of virtue in the life of One
Who, on the lowliest plane of human
J ity, showed men how to live human
lives divinely. It is because the
Church is the school of virtue that
parents entrust their children to the
hands of it's teachers. In doing so
they show that they know what edu-
cation in the highest sense of the
word means, and give proof that they
love their religion and the souls of
the children committed to their care.
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(Ry the Most Reverend Archbishop
IreIand)

| am not sure that, even today, all
Americans estimate at it's true value
a liberal education.
Give us, some say, an education
which is Immediately serViceable,
which prepares our youths directly
for business or for the professions,
which brings pecuniary results with
out delay. Reading, writing. arithme-
tic, must, of course, be taught; but
these the common school can give. If
to this training anything is to be add
ed, let it be the technics of the trade
or Of the profession in which our
sons are to be engaged But take
away from us-away from this busy,
practical world of our-the college
and the university, with programmes
that tell of ancient languages, or re-
finements of literature, Of theories of
philosophy, of ornamental arts and
sciences. What need have we of these,
and of all such things comprised I'M
der the term liberal education?"
Americans are a practical people,
but at times they are TOO practlcal
for their true Interior good, or even
for the immediate purposes which they
have in view. The fault is not without
it's excuse. The newness of the coun.
try, and the feverish struggle which
this newness imposes, hitherto made
severe demands upon the brain and
hand, and allowed but little leisure
for aims and aspirations that reached
beyond the struggle of the day. Time
will of itself bring the remedy; but
we who recognize the defect should
meanwhile strive to hasten the cor
rection.
The self-made men. of America, who
with the merest elementary education
! have risen to prominence and proved
themselves valued citizens and states
men, are often summoned as witnesses
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-08-01

against liberal education. The re-
ply is at hand. These are men of ex-
ceptional natural talent, who, unaided,
have attained to the culture and pow
er that ordinarily come from educa-
ton; but even their elevation Of mind
would often have been much greater
had their rich natures received the
kindly aid of well-directed art.
The Development of Mind for Minds
Sake.
The chief thing in man, and in all
the works of man, is mind. 1t is by
mind that man is primarily constituted
in the image and likeness of God; it
is by mind that he rules the material
universe, and rises in his self-aggrand-
izement even to the skies.
In the upbuilding of man and of
humanity, give to mind growth and
grandeur, and man will be great
Mind for minds own sake is the OBJ
ject of liberal education. The
branches of knowledge with which this
education deals, and the methods
which it employs, are chosen with a
view to develop and enrich the mind
Independently, for the time being, of
all considerations of the mere useful,
or for the needs of special callings in
practical life. The very word lib
eral" indicates the scope of the studies
pursued in the search after a liberal
education.
Truth-that which is, God and the
works of His creative power, and the
manifestations of His supreme beauty
and majesty; truth, seen in its own
splendor and desired for its own loveli-
ness-is the life and the light Of the
human mind. Mind, nurtured upon
truth, converting truth into it's own
fibre, grows and expands, takes unto
itself the largeness, the sweetness, the
elevation Of truth, and makes man live
his highest and noblest life.
With liberal education a man is
a power in whatever work he may
employ his energies. A liberal educa-
ton must not propose the useful as
its sole and immediate aim. And yet
the useful is attained, and even In a
far larger measure than If it had been
sought directly for its own sake. For
the mind has grown in strength and
versatility. Power has been gained
and this power, i'm whatever direction
you turn it, will produce the desired
results with ease and speed.
The Power Of Educated Mind.
However it may be employed, an
educated mind will never be limited
in its vision or its grasp to the
specific work of trade or profes-
sion. The educated man will never
be one-sided and narrow; he will new
er be fettered by prejudices or dis
posed to take partial views. The la
Dor, or the instrument Of labor,
through which an educated mind en-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-08-01

Man was created for this end: to
praise, reverence and serve the Lord,
his God, and by this means to save his
SOUL All other things have been Gre
ated to assist man to this end for
which he was created, and he must
choose only those creatures that lead
more surely to this end.-St. IOnGtius.
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OF ST. THOMAS

to think that it's chief merit lies in
the admirable order and regularity,
the punctuality and neatness, which it
secures. This, indeed, it does, but
this is only one and not the chief of
it's merits. There are many other fea-
lures still more excellent, but for
which little space is left in the narrow
scope of this article. The cadet of
military school acquires in a high de-
gree a sense of self-respect; he has to
conform to code of courtesy which
improves his manners he learns to
obey and respect authority; he has
many opportunities of exercising self
control-indeed no other system of dis
cipline exacts so much self-repression;
he learns to be just and impartial
punishments and rewards are melted
out without regard to person. Thus
it is that while nothing can take the
place of the moral and religious train
ing given in Catholic schools, as an
aid and adjunct to such training, moth
ing more admirable can be devised
than the system in vogue in military
schools.
Five graduates of the college are
now officers in the United States Army
and Navy; two are officers in the
Philippines service; while two others
will ere long be graduated from West
Point and Annapolis, respectively.
DAY STUDENTS.
The college has large and growing
attendance of day scholars. These
students are on the same footing as
the resident students in every respect.
They are required to devote at least
two hours to study each evening, and
parents are expected to cooperate
with the college in this important mat
ter. Parents are notified each day by
telephone or letter of the absence of
their sons, whatever the cause of the
absence may be.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-08-01

There were seventy-eight universe
ties founded by Catholics in Europe
anterior to the Reformation and since
then the number founded by Catholics
amounts to forty, while the number
founded by Protestants during the
same period is thirty-one. The seven
ty-eight universities founded by Cath
nlicS nrinr to the Reformation arc.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-08-01
UNIVERSITIES FOUNDED BY
CATHOLICS.

Seventy-Eight European Universities
Established by Catholics Before the
Reformation and Forty Since That
time-Protestants Founded Thirty
One Universities.
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SPECIAL FEATURES OF ST.
THOMAS.

The college aims to have within it's
walls a select body of students. Under
no circumstances will undesirable
boys or young men be received or re-
tanned.
Particular attention is given to stu
dents who fall below the standard in
the bi-monthly examinations. Such
students receive special care, and are
trained for a second test in the
branches in which they have failed.
In this manner the possibility of fail
ure in the years work is reduced to a
minimum.
The long evening study, unbroken
by distractions from without, begets
habits of study and industry. The Sc
cret of success in education is to ac-
custom students to use their brains
and to rely chiefly upon their own eff
forts for success.
The military training adopted by the
college develops students physically,
forms in them habits of obedience,
punctuality and neatness, and trains
them in good manners.
An education which leaves out moral
and religious training is full of peril
The college regards the formation OF
Christian character as the supreme
end and aim of education.
Resident students leave the college
grounds only by special permission
and at stated times. No permission is
given to leave the college after
o'clock D. m.
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VIOLATIONS.

Since its foundation the college has
always regarded as its most sacred
duty to nurture vocations to the priest
hood. It has given more than two
hundred priests to the affairs of the
Church. Special attention is devoted
to students who are candidates for the
seminary; special programmes are
drafted for them, and special interest
is taken in their spiritual formation.
Nine young men graduates Of the col
lege were ordained to the priesthood
during the past few months, and
twelve of the graduating class of this
year have signified their intention to
study for the sanctuary. The presence
Of large number Of young men pre-
pairing to enter the seminary has an
elevating influence on the entire stu
dent body.
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state Schools and Colleges.

| have, assuredly, no quarrel with
the educational work Of the State. In
this matter, as in so many others, 7
am proud Of my country. America
understands the Importance of educa-
ton; she is most generous in found
ing and endoWing schools, colleges and
universities. praise America for her
love Of education and for the care
with which she fosters fl.
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-11-22

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ing the second year, and oae-eighth
during the third year and until final
proof.
Homesteaders who have already to
ken up their 100 acre tracts may, I'M
der the new act secure adjoining
tracts, provided That their entire
acreage does not exceed 800 acres o.
free land under the present laws.
Reclamation Service Aiding.
The reclamation service is doing
much to help the homesteader
Through this service land which was
not previously ayailtble to the home
steader can be made to yield a suf-
ficient support for his family in
comparatively short time Millions Of
dollars are being expended annually
upon irrigation projects. Most OF
this money has been received from
the sale Of public lands in the states
included in the lists. although now
the receipts from the water rents of
the lands irrigated by the completed
projects have materially added to this
fund.
The money spent upon reclamation
service is not a free gift to the home
steaders. 1t is only loaned from the
sum of money obtained from the sale
of reclamation lands in those states.
Ht does not come ont of the general
treasury. Every dollar expended in
irrigation will be refunded from the
sums paid in annually by the people
whose land Is benefited by this irrl-
cation
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-11-22

lively few such transfers have been
practical Not one in a thousand of
the successful homesteaders have
come from the cities. Experience IN
farming is essential unless the home
steader possesses a considerable re-
serve capital The less experience
possessed, the greater is the capital
required.
The land commissioners officers
have come to realize that the settlers
VINO have already made good are most
likely to make the unoccupied land
valuable and so a law has recently
been passed by which the holdings
may be increased from 1850 to 800
acres in certain states.
Lists of lands which are subject to
entry for these large tracts under the
new law are being issued from time
to time. The designations issued for
November and December are located
in California, Washington, New Mex
leo and Oregon, and include nearly
6 GOO. 600 acres of land. These enlarg-
ed homestead tracts in almost every
case are being taken up by those who
already have had experience in TAX
ing up government land and have
been awaiting these new provisions.
A considerable amount of addition
al land will also be available for set
Element in tracts which have been
excluded from national forest re-
serves in New Mexico. Utah and
Idaho: also a considerable tract for
merly a part of the Grow Indian res
ervatioa in Montana.
Must Locate Free Lands.
The man or woman who desires to
take up government land first must
find and put the locations of the free
lands in the different states. A let.
ter of inquiry addressed TO the com
missioner of the general land office.
| Washington, d. c., will give the To-
cation of these lands, but will not
! give any Information regarding their
climatic conditions or available crops.
lBut the department of agriculture IS
ready to supplement the work OF the
land office by supplying any desired
information regarding the probable
lproducts of land in any part of the
United States The department will
90 further to hold the homesteader
in that it will suggest crops and give
full direction regarding their cultiva
ton.
A considerable part of these new
lands are adapted to grazing and
sheep raising, and full information re-
garding such productions is to be Sc
cured But, even with these aids
the homesteader who has had no ex-
lperience as a farmer will have so
many difficulties to encounter that.
according to the estimates of land
agents long in the field only small
percentage will be able to secure
titles.
| A homesteader is required to estab-
| lish residence upon his tract Of lan1
within six months after entry and to
maintain this residence for a period
OF three years. He is permitted to
absent himself from the land for
period OF five months during each
year. but must leave a record Of the
time Of leaving and return in. the To-
cal land office. Cultivationa OF the
land Is required Az least one-six-
teenth must be under cultivation dur.
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-11-22
POUND NOTICE,

Taken up within the city limits. on
the nth of November, one black mare
mule, no marks. About 20 years old.
If not called for, will be sold within
10 days for advertising and all pound
fees.
D. RYNDERS. Poundmaster.
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-11-22
GAZE eERsMAN's MARKET.

Just re-opened new and well sup
piled with a full stock of fresh
meats, game and poultry, oysters,
and everything in season. Quick de-
livery. 42S Ouachita Ave. Phone
597. 10-l8-tf
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-11-22

You can expect only good results
IL you give baby pasteurized milk
It's pure that's sure. The Pasteu
rized Mix Co. 4-21-tf
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-11-22

since the first Of Tune, and relate en-
tirely to woman homesteaders, show
ing that the government appreciates
the efforts of the women who are am
bilious to acquire land. Last Arril
a bill was passed permitting the in
termarriage of homesteaders. Under
this bill woman homesteader who
had lived a year upon her claim mibht
marry a man homesteader who also
had held his claim for a year. without
imIiiing her rights to her land Stick
lers for equal rights may object to
the provision of the law Specifying
that the husband shall elect, under
the rules and regulations provided by
the secretary of the interior on
which of the two entries the home
of both shall be made after marriage.
residence upon which shall be consid
cred a compliance with the residence
requirements of each entry But, as
before the passage of this act, the
woman who married before the com
iJletiOn Of her term of years would
lose her land altogether, the lawmak-
ers evidently considered they were
taking a great advance toward felnl-
nine equality
May Marry an Alien.
On October II, an act was approx
ed, pioviding tnat any female citl-
zen who has complied with the con.
ditions for the acquisition of a tile
to a tract of homestead land shall not
lcse this title if she marries an alien
bu' shah hold her title to it equally
as though she lad married an Ameri-
can citizen or remained unmarried "
Circulars giving full retails as to the
provision Of this act are now being
prepared
A few days later on October %. an
act was passed providing for the is
suing of patents upon homestead land
to deserted wives This bill provides
that when a couple has taken up a
tract OF land and while residing on it
lpriOr to the submission OF final proof
of residence cultivation and improve.
ment prescribed by law the wife OF
! such a homesteader should be desert
ed by her husband, the deserted wife,
upon establishing proof of the deser-
tiol to the satisfaction of the secre-
tary of the interior, shall be entitled
to obtain the patent for the land in
her own name.
These laws have been passed be-
cause Of the numerous cases which
have come before the department Of
1.-THE interior indicating the need for
the special provisions contained in
them. An increasing number of wom-
en- are taking up land, and they are
more likely to fulfill the requirements
than most of the man homesteaders,
so the government has indicated its
Willingness to lessen their hardships.
Few From the Cities.
While it is advantageous for the ma
/ ton at large 20 have the surplus pop.
ulation of the cities transferred to the
large areas Of unoccupied land il
must be admitted that so far compare.
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Few From the Cities.

While il is advantageous for the ma
tion at large 10 have the surplus pop.
ulation of the cities transferred to the
large areas Of unoccupied land, it
must be admitted that so far compare.