The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-04-10
WASHINGTON LETTER
SILVER JUBILEE or CATHOLIC
uNlvERslTY-cULTURAL VALUE
or TRAINING GIVEN THERE AND
AT TRINITY COLLEGE.

The following appreciation of the
excellent training impaired at the
Catholic University and Trinity Col
lege. Washington, from the pen of DR..
Thomas O'Hagan, the we'll known
Canadian writer, who is doing literary
research work in the Congressional
Library, will prove interesting to our
readers.
Editor, Catholic Bulletin:
The great Catholic event approach
/ ing is the silver jubilee of the Catho-
| lie University of America which will
take place on April the 18th. The
silver jubilee of any University marks
| its youth and promise only and its
golden jubilee the firm step OF ma
turity.
The Catholic University feels in its
limbs all the vital current and
strength of youth. 1t has had a goodly
growth and it's fruit abounds not alone
in its graduated scholars of eminence
in every part of our country, but better
than that in the lofty ideals of scholar
ship which it stands for and it's wise
fostering of every scholarly movement
that makes for the uplifting of our
Catholic people.
In few years Johns Hopkins Uni
versity will celebrate it's golden jubilee.
1t has stood for splendid scholarship
too especially along research work
though its literary courses have been
at all times more academic and philo-
/ logical than cultural. 1t has been
fashioned on the German method
which while ever thorough is not es-
sentially cultural.
| l refer to Johns Hopkins University
because it may in it's growth and aim
| be likened to the Catholic University
minus the emphasis laid upon theology
and philosophy in the Catholic Univer-
sity.
Now if you make study of the be.
/ ginnings of Johns Hopkins you will
see that it had a conservative growth
land development. 1t aimed in its work
at quality and thoroughness again
"a German characteristic of higher
leducation. Johns Hopkins has always
given its Doctor of Philosophy degree
very sparingly-c careful that the
recipients attainments would stand
for genuine scholarship.
The Catholic University is moving
along the same lines and is drawing
within its faculty year by year Catho.
lie scholars of eminence from every
country.
At present there are fifty Sisters
following the courses for the degrees
of A. B. and A. M. in the University
This is really admirable and soon there
will not be a convent in this country
but will feel the impulse and reveal in
it's teaching something of the fine
scholarship and breadth of teaching
that mark the courses in the Catholic
University of America.
/ understand that the attendance al
the University this year has reached
the six hundred mark and this does
not include some three or four hun
dred Sisters who follow its summer
courses. OF these six hundred students
about four hundred are lay students
Trinity College founded for the
higher education of Catholic womer
is also in a most prosperous condi
ton. l had a glance at it's Year Bool
! in which it's courses are outlined anC
II observed the fulness and breadth o
its work. / have never seen on tn,
lcurriculum of any woman's college il
America broader and stronger course
in Classics than is now given at Trim
: ity. The Catholic University ant
! Trinity College deserve well of on
people for they are verify affairs
: shrines of Catholic Culture lit up Will
: the tapers of Catholic truth shedding
l a light at once benefcent, clear, CRATE
: full and strong.
: THOMAS O'HAGAN.
! Washington, D. c., April 8.