South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-03
SUMMER SCHOOL
FOR SISTERS ENDS
Classes For Members of Holy
Cross Order Close Sat-
urday August 5.

me summer school for the sisters
OF the Holy Cross. held at st. Mary's
college. Notre Dame viii close on
Aug. 8. Few people even in south
Bend are aware of the character or
even OF the existence of this school
Regular classes in mathematics.
rhetoric, grammer and drawing pre-
sented and discussed plans and meth
DDS OK teaching these subjects In the
graGss and high school Apart from
these the special features of the
summer school were classes IN Eng
Iish. philosophy and political science
The classes in college and post
graduate English. under the direc-
ton of Rev. Charles l.. O'Donnell.
T.. S. c., Pm. D.. embraced class or
asanization. class procedure, theme
correction. the teaching and writing
of verse. methods of teaching poetry.
with studies of Browning. Francis
Thompson, and the contemporary
poets. The course concluded with a
lecture on Present Day Catholic
Writers, a subject upon which
Father ODonneI speaks with au-
thority. being personally acquainted
with the foremost writer's of the day.
and himself occupying a place of
prominence and promise among
them.
An Author of Note.
Father O'Donnell is professor of
English az Notre Dame. and assistant
editor OF the Ave Maria. He is the
author Of An Appreciation Of Francis
Thompson. and has brought out this
year a fine critical work. Newman
Gentleman" and % book of poems
entitled The Isad Musicians and
other Poems
The courses in logic. ethics and
epistemOlogy were conducted by
Rev. John c. McGinn, c. :. c., b. A,
$ T. l., and included a study and
REPUTATION of modernism and es-
pecially pragmatism. The subjects
of logic and ethics were studied as a
whole. with the consideration of
special questions such as the rela-
tions of church and state. the rights
Of the state over the child and a
number of social problems which
spring from economic conditions and
which will. in a few years. change
the import of ethics. Father Nc
CHM is a recognized authority on
these subjects. being the head of the
department of sociology ut Not~e
Dame and a member of the state
conference committee ON charities
and corrections His exhaustive
study of the different phases of Mod
enrists' PHILOSOPHERS ne has embod-
led in an authoritative work Truth
and Pragmatism. an Appreciation
To Receive Degrees.
The classes ia English and phiIos-
Cphy were attended by about 20 Sis
tiers doing college and postgraduate
work. Fifty OF these sisters are
qualifying for bachelors degrees. anC
a number OF others viii receive Mas
terS' and Doctors degrees at the enc
Of their research work.
a postgraduate course in politi'
cal science was given by Rev. Will
liam A. Bolger, @. s. c., PHI D.. 10 tins
sisters holding PHI b. degrees. Father
Bolger is head of the department o
economics at Notre Dame university
and has psent twelve years i'm spec
ialized study of his subject The
subject of Christian education wa.
handled by Rev John b. DeLaunay
c. =. c.. PHI. r.. j. G. D.. at presen
head of the department OF canoI
law at Holy Cross college, Catholi,
university. washington.
Besides the above courses. a cours,
in methods of school music and Ssh
singing was given by Miss Mabel,
Marie Shelton. director of music a
the state normal school. Steven
Point. Wis. This course has beer
put into 80 schools of varying grade
conducted 10y the sisters of the HoI
Cross. Miss shelton is a graduate O
Columbia school of Music. Chicago.
To Teach at Conservatory.
Mrs. Bernice Roche Oberwiude
conducted the course in piano music
Nrs OberwiDder has recently re
turned from Berlin where she ha
been studying piano for the past L
years. and where she distinguish,
herself for talent and technique
Mrs Oberwinder has accepted an en-
easement TO teach in the ST Mary
conservatory for the coming year
The sisters at st. Mary's conside
the summer school just closing a
most exceptionally successful ant
profitable.