The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1917-06-30
Catholic Educators Meet in Buffalo
Fourteenth Annual Meeting.

held, the chief of which was the an
nual meeting of the executive board
when the executive work of the assO
nual reports read. There was meet
ing of the Advisory Committee in the
afternoon. In the evening the priests
and brothers, delegates to the con
vention, were rendered a reception at
the Lafayette Hotel, when they were
greeted by all the priests of Buffalo.
The Convention.
The opening mass of the conven-
tion was on Tuesday morning at $3.50
in the Church of the Holy Angels,
Porter avenue, when splendid ad-
dress was given by the Bishop OF
Buffalo, Rt. Rev. Dennis ]. Dougherty,
D. D., in the presence of all the dele
gates and a large congregation of 10.
cal Catholics.
The convention proper opened at IL
o'clock, in the beautiful auditorium of
Holy Angels School. The president
general, Rt. Rev. Bishop Shahan,
made a brief address and declared
the convention opened. After the
usual routine business paper was
read by Rev. William J. Bergin, G. s.
w., st. Viatur College, Bourbonnais,
ILL.,, on "The Conservation of Our Edu-
cational Resources" The discussion
of this paper was led by Father Tier
ney Of america" .......
Tuesday afternoon was given over
to departmental meetings, beginning
with the initial meeting OF the Col
lege Department in Hall A of Holy
Angels School. The president, V.
Rev. J. P. O'Mahoney, G. s. ", opened
the meeting with an address, and af-
ter the usual business session Rev.
Henry Spalding, S. j., of Loyola
Academy, Chicago, read a paper on
differentiation of Departments of
instruction in Colleges With Special
lists in Each Department" and there
was a paper by DR.. Frank O'Hara of
the Catholic University on Content
of the Curriculum in Sociology and
Economics"
Women's Colleges.
It was the first year for the meet
ing of the Section of Catholic Col
leges for Women, definitely organized
at last years convention. There was
a larger attendance of sisters and
teachers. The first paper was pre-
sented by Dominican sister OF the
College of Santa Clara, sinsinawa,
Wis. Her subject was "The Curricu-
lum of the Women's Catholic Colleges
in Relation to the Problems of Mod
ern Life" This was discussed by DIR.
Mary Molloy and Rev. James H. Ryan.
Parish School Department.
Rev. Joseph F. Smith, president OF
the Parish School Department, pre-
sided at these sessions, which were
held in the auditorium of DYouvllle
College. There were two interesting
papers at the first session Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock-"Supplemen-
tary Reading" by Rev. Brother A.
Edward, F. S. c., Manhattan College,
New York City, and "The Problem of
the Rural School," by Rev. Brother
Bede, G. F. K, st. Joseph's Prepara-
tory College, Danvers, Mass.
At the meeting of the Superintend-
ents' Section the subject Of introduc-
ing the study of foreign language
in the seventh grade was discussed.
Deaf Mute Conference.
There were many interesting pa
pers in this section, the meetings of
which were presided over by Rev. f..
A. Moeller, S. J.
Seminary Department.
spiritual Reading and Spiritual
Conferences in the Seminary" was
the subject of the paper presented at
the opening meeting of the Seminary
Department, v. Rev. John F. Fenlon,
S. S., D. D., presiding. At all the
meetings of this department the gen.
eral topic was the spiritual training
of seminarians; and at other meet
ings the papers were by Very Rev.
E. R. Dyer, S. S., D. D., rector OF St
Marys Seminary, Baltimore, on 1.-The
Seminary Council, and the Call tc
Orders; and by Rev. Martin j. Blake
C. NJ, on "The Training of Sem1na
rians in Meditation"
Bishop Shahan Addresses the Siste'
Delegates.
One of the most largely attended O
all the meetings was that of the rep
resentatives of Provincials of Re
ligious Communities, held under tn
auspices of Bishop Doughert!
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, IL
the assembly hall of D'Youville Col
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