The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-27
VICTORY WON IN HOLLAND

head entitled to another grant of 200
gulden per hour-lesson a week. With
the standardized college program for
| all the colleges in the land the sum
total of the subsidy for an institution
without spliced classes amounts to
$4,000 gulden a year. However, the
| State assumes further Is per cent OF
the expenses for the upkeep of the
buildings, Fairgrounds, equipment and
| of the payment of janitor and school.
clerk, and will pay Is per cent of the
building costs of all secondary educa.
tional establishments to be erected in
the future, and repay in yearly install.
ments Is per cent Of the money in
vested in such existing school struc-
lures. 80 '@,T -slzs -
All the diplomas delivered by pri.
vate institutions adhering to- the
standardized program have the, same
official value as the diplomas delivered
by the State schools. ~,
Albeit there are Catholic
high schools for both boys and girls,
they by no means. meet the present
needs; so that admission to them is
secured by competitive examination of
the candidates whose primary school
diploma entities them theoretically to
admission. Thus only the better ele.
ments find admission to the religious
institutions and the eliminated youths
increase the attendance at the States
high schools. Certain church board
ing schools are particularly in vogue.
So I was told of a Jesuit College whose
closed the door Of late years to an
average of fifty prospective scholars
every year. 1t makes for the higher
efficiency of such schools, of course;
but it is detrimental to the religious
training of a large portion of the edu-
Gated classes of the patton, since many
youths are thereby deprived through
no fault of theirs of the higher cultural
preparation under religious auspices.
Watchmen upon the tower see therein
an explanation of the Indifference of
many educated Catholics to Catholic
social action and to the superior inter.
ests of the Faith.
More Money Now for High Schools
The consciousness of the evil dates
back some few years, when efforts be
gan to be made to remedy it; but what
with the heavy burden of caring fol-
the masses first, there were no means
left for the higher education of the
chosen few. The common peoples ed
ucation, the foundation of a nations
moral and economic welfare, being
I now secure for the children up tc
their fifteenth year, the money for
merly spent upon the primary schools
is available for high schools. They
will be opened in respectable numbers
without delay; for, with thoughtful
foresight, earnest lovers of theil
Church and country, taking time b,
the forelock, founded seven years agt
in North Brabant lecture courses TO.
the preparation of high school and col
lege professors. They sent thei
graduates to the Government examin
ing boards to obtain official degrees
pending recognition by the State o
the diplomas conferred by the Institut,
itself. This privilege cannot be lon'
deferred. 4~.a.. =. EN-
Thoroughly qualified Christian
teachers are thus on hand for imme
diate needs and more will rapidly b
trained at institutes with a like scop
in process of formation in the Pro,
ince of Utrecht, Gelderland and Lin
burg.
Before many years the Catholics Q
Holland will have all the needed CO
leges and high schools, to perfect tn
Christian education of their sons an
daughters until these feel either read
to face the world and play their a
lotted parts in their country's de-
TIMES or inclined to pursue still flu
Their studies, to take rank among tn
elite of the Nation.
Following the enacting of the ne
law which places the primary tuitio
given in private schools on the sam
, footing with the official tuition give
in the State schools, and which ais
provides that three-quarters of tile e.
penses of the private high schoo
r shall be supported by the State, til
< Episcopacy has decided on the found
ton of a Catholic University which
to be located at Nimegue.