Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
CATHOLIC j. UNIT
TO ISSUE REVIEW
Philosophical Association Will
Publish Articles on New
:, SchoIaSticiSm."

The first number of the new
philosophical review, entitled New
Scholasticism, edited by Mgr. Pace
and DIR. James II. Ryan. will
appear in January. 1t is the organ
of the American Catholic Philosophi-
cal Association formed a year ago at
the Catholic University with a MEM
bership of nearly 200 professors and
students of philosophy. drawn from
all parts of the United States. The
new review is a quarterly of about
100 pages, and the first number con-
tains articles from several celebrated
European writers. like DR., ellison and
Father Sestillanges, o. p. Prof. De
Wolf of Harvard and Louvain con-
tributes a profound study of Cardinal
MERCER as a leader of the new school
Of Catholic philosophical thought.
DIR. Romanus Butin, professor of
Hebrew and curator of the University
Museum, has been for some months
Ia charge of the American School OF
Oriental Research at Jerusalem. Re
Gently he had the good fortune OF
discovering a new section or the
famous north wall of the Roman
governor, Agrippa, including TWO
towers and IA gate. whose existence
had been hitherto unsupported.
Discovery ArOuses Interest.
The discovery has aroused much
interest at Jerusalem, and many come
to visit these ruins of the Roman
mowers. The details of this interest
ing find will appear in the records OF
the Jewish Archaeological Society,
under whose auspices excavations or
the Wall of Arippa are carried on.
Mgr. Pace and DR.. James I'll.
RYAN. professor of philosophy. will
attend the second annual meeting of
the American Catholic Philosophical
Association at Notre Dame Uni
versity. December % and 29. Mgr.
Pace will deliver the presidents
address. DR. Fulton J. Sheen. pro-
lessor of apologetics, and DR.. John A
Ryan, professor of moral theology,
will take part in the meeting.
The Mullen memorial library is
RAPIDLY approaching completion. Inc
2S beautiful columns of Itallan
marble are in place on the first moor,
and the vestibule and staircase, also
of choice marble, will soon be ready
The reading room. lao feet in length
and 40 feet in height. is finished, and
will seat 800 readers. The transfer or
books to the Stackage OF the new
library has begun, but will take sew
eral months. Mr. Charles l.. Maloney
OF this city and a graduate of the
university is the successful bidder Tor
the grading of the library approaches
front and rear. This will entail the
rebuilding of the Brokland road from
the library to the chemical laboratory
Pedagogical Work Published.
DR.. Joseph Patrick Christopher,
associate professor of Latin. has Just
published an important pedagogical
work of 3S5 pages, the treatise or
Saint Augustine 'de Catechizandis
Rudihus," on the instruction of per-
sons ignorant of the Christian religion.
Besides the Latin text and an Engllsh
translation, DIR. Christopher has com
posed an exhaustive commentary on
this famous work that opens the long
lists of Christian educational writings
A historical introduction and copious
indexes add to the value of the work
for all interested in the history and
theory of ancient education.
Rev. DR. Guilday will take part in
the annual meeting of the American
Catholic Historical Association at
Philadelphia December q and 2S. The
meetings will be conducted under the
presiding of DR. Thomas Parker Moon,
assistant professor Of international
law at Columbia University. DIR. Gull
day will conduct the conference on
Guide to the Printed Materials for
American Catholic History" DIR.
Guilday's long -awaited life of John
England, first Bishop of Charleston,
S. c., is expected TO appear in two
large volumes early in March. With
his life of Archbishop Carroll. it covers
the history of American Catholicism
during the first 60 years of American
Independence.
college Hygiene" Topic.
Rev. DR. John w. Cooper, associate
professor of sociology, met with
the presidents committee of so on
college hygiene" in New York Decem-
Der 81. He win also read paper at
the annual meeting of the American
-Anthropological Association at Phila-
delphia December $3.50 held conformity
with the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and the
American Folk Lore Society. The title
of his paper viii be The Waswanipi
Indians OF the Hudson Bay Divide" a
tribe concerning whom no scientific
data has yet been published and with
whom DIR. Cooper spent several weeks
last Summer. DR.. Cooper will also be
present in New York December 81 at
a meeting of the committee on health
education sponsored by the Metropoli-
tan Life Insurance Co.