The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-10-02
100000 INCREASE in the PARo-
cHiAL SCHOOLS OF U. So
STANDARDIZATION BEING Eff
FEcTED I'M SEVERAL CITIES
MANY; NEW BUILDINGS.

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(By N. C. w. C. News Service.)
sF Catholic educational institutions
throughout the United States have
thrown open their doors for, the school
term 1920-21 with an estimated in
crease of more than 100000 pupils,
making. a total of approximately
Il 800, 900 boys and girls in parochial
schools and Catholic high schools and
colleges.
Every archdiocese in the United
States has reported a substantial in.
crease in the number of registrants.
There is no Indication of any grave
shortage of. accommodations although
in some cases, anneXes have been
made necessary. to care for increased
enrolment. The problem of shortage
of teachers, one of the most serious
that faces the public school system
today, is not a grave one in the Cath
Ollie institutions of learning, of which
there are more than 1000 in the
United States.
In Chicago, which has the largest
school attendance of any archdiocese
in the United States, it is estimated
that more than 10000 students have
registered for the fall term, including
close to 10000 in high schools and
colleges. Through the encouragement
of advance registration the pupils
were enabled to give immediate at
tention to their class work from the
opening hour. Standardization of the
elementary school system, as am
nounced by Archbishop Mundelein is
to be perfected during the present
school year under the direction of the
I diocesan board of education, aided by
an advisory committee of practical
educators selected from the forty-six
educational communities of the arch
diocese. The Chicago archdiocese has
more than three hundred educational
institutions. -. n
| The New York archdiocese enroll
ment, in more than $50 schools, will
exceed 100000, according to every in
| dication. This is the largest in, the
history of the archdiocese. The build
| ing of new schools has been practi-
cally impossible on account of the
shortage of material and the high cost
| of labor, but many pastors have Sc
cured sites for new buildings and are
anxiously waiting to begin construc-
ton. The only notable addition is the
magnificent new Regis High School
for boys in East, Eighty-fourth street,
erected by the generous parishioners
of the Rev. David J. Hearn, S. j., rec.
tor of the Church of st. Ignatius
Loyola. The Brooklyn diocese has
also substantial increase in the
number of students registered.
/ The establishment of annexes in
different parts of the city was found
necessary to accommodate the largo
number of students who registered
4 for first year work in the Catholic
| high schools of the archdiocese OF
| Philadelphia More than $4,000 stu
dents were reported enrolled in the
city parochial schools, and more thar
$4,000 in schools outside Philadelphia
In the Boston archdiocese more thar
10000. pupils are registered.
II Approximately 10000 children, al
increase of more than 1000 are en-
4 rolled inlthe parochial schools of New
Orleans, which number little less thar
100 In the archdiocese of st. Pau
the registration is expected to ap
4 proach close to 10000. In the city O
st. Paul there has been an increase
of 500 students, bringing the numbel
to 5000. The college of st. Catherine
which opened September Is, had al
increased attendance of 100, bringing
it's total to 600 students.
In the Kansas City diocese NOR,
than 1000 children were enrolled il
parochial schools, while high school,
4 and colleges showed substantial in
creases. Rockhurst College began it
seventh year with forty per cen
increase in attendance, and St Agne
and Loretto Academies, which grad
uated record classes in June, also re
ported greatly increased registrations
In the archdiocese of San francisco
which enrolls about 10000 pupils
there have been additions of severa
/ handsome school buildings, includin!
that of ST. Anne, which is availabl
to thousands of Catholic families liy
ing in the new residential district Q
San Francisco south of Golden Cat
Park and bordering on the Pacifi
H Ocean. In the Los Angeles dioces
II new. school buildings have also ybeel
ferected to satisfy the needs of. an en-
rollment of more than 10000 pupils
Ramona Convent of the Holy Name
at West. Alhambra, one of the leadin!
institutions for young women on TIL
Pacific Coast, announces an increase,
attendance.
n Many of the schools in the archdic
II cese Of Oregon City, which educate
II approximately 5000 students in sixt
institutions, have reported increase
in attendance, Of more than Invent.
\ per cent. In the Buffalo diocese NOR
J! than $4,000 pupils are Registered il
1872 parnchial schools. The District D
Columbia has 5000 registered.
ms many archdioceses, SincIudin
New York, San Francisco and 81
Paul. the lack of accommodate Q
the public schools, making necessar
part time schedules and double shift
for teachers has resulted in parent
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