The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-02
K. C. COLLEGES
 HAVE MET WITH
 GREAT SUCCESS
Night Glasses Provide Ex- Service Men and Women
 With Great Opportunity.

Nobody wanted to forget about the war more quickly than the men who won it. They were eager to get back into harness and make up for the time they had spent away from civ ilian pursuits
 The Knights of Columbus realized that the service men and women were eager to resume business once they stepped out of their khaki. Not bus mess usual, but business a good deal more brisk and intensive than usual So the Knights, finding them selves with something like $7,000,- 900 of their war fund on hand, de- cided to plunge right into a peace work as productive as their war work They took $50,000 and made a survey of the educational field Re suit? Within six months the K. of c. has established the most effective system of night colleges ever operat- ed in the United States.
 They have fifty-five schools with 1850 students enrolled. How was it done? Simply by giving the ex-ser- vice men what they wanted, not what the Knights thought they should want-providing young men who might not otherwise get the oppor- tunity with knowledge necessary to a good trade, profession or business. The system is absolutely devoid of red tape.
 The first school was started in Ros- ton A Shing1e was hung outside the | K of c. building on Berkeley Street | stating that free night courses were open to ex-seryice men in a variety of ! subject The first days registration I was 500. In a week the school had | 2,50O registranats-
 From Boston the K. of c. schoo- | system jumped immediately to the | Coast San Francisco opened its | school in the. handsome K of C. | building on, Market Street, and there | the day after the school was started
 a former nurse. Miss Monica Clary
 of San Francisco, asked if the
 Knights offered former service wo- l men the same privileges offered for l nner service men, The Registrar wa.
 a little non-p1ussed, but William J Mckinley, of New York, Supreme 1 Secretary of the K. of C., was pres l ent- He registered Miss C1eary, ana hundreds of women are now en | rolled
 The Casey University is now z l national institution. With head l quarters fin New Haven, Conn.,, it ha.
 branches in all the big cities. Tn. New York metropolitan district ha. 1 ten K-C schools In Jersey City ther, l is one. In Chicago two.
 ! St. Paul, Minneapolis, Louisville Cincinnati. Syracuse, Seattle, Utice
 Portland COreson), Los Angeles, Ok
 1ahona City, Denver, New Orleans
 Washington, D. C. and Buffalo, pic | neers in the movement, have school | crowded at every session.
 Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are il | the list, and Omaha and St. Loui J have hundreds of former service me, l enrolled The principals of the schools ar, representative educators in the diff
 ferent cities, and the instructors ar well-paid men who, at day time
 work in the public schools.
 II It may be well to mention that tn entire scheme grew out of the K-t !, college scholarship system, originat ing with Daniel J. Callahan, of Wash
 ington. whereby the Knights maintai,
 502 veterans in representative school
 like Yale and Fordham for a ful college course, free of cost.