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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
Boston Catholic Night School
Perhaps the Largest in America
Registration Grows in Twelve Years from 65 to 2,500—
Students from 100 Cities in Three States Travel to It
Daily—Attracting International Attention.
By WIULARn. De LUE
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)'
Boston.—Twelve years ago the
Young Men’s Catholic Association of
Boston instituted evening classes in
a few subjects for tile benefit of its
own members. Sixty five person;
enrolled.
This winter the Young Men’s
Catholic Association night school,
open to men and women regardless
of race, creed or color, is believed
to he the largest evening school in
America. Certainly it is one of the
largest.
From 05 students, the school hay
grown to a registration of 2,500.
Five nights a week the classrooms
of the Boston College High School
are jammed to capacity’. Students
come from more than 100 cities and
towns in three slates, some travel
ing from places nearly 50 miles
away to attend classes.
The remarkable growth of the
school has attracted attention
throughout the country, and in
quiries about its methods arc re
ceived from educators and educa
tional institutions in many states.
Yet there is no secret to it. ‘Sound
instruction by recognized experts”
has been the rule followed from the
beginning. Frills and fads liave
been cut out. Common sense in,
struction by the true and tried
padagagical methods, instruction
upwards from a solidiylaid base
have produced the results.
Success in Civil Service.
If you want an idea of results,
note this:
A few years ago a civil service
examination for post office em
ployees was held in Boston, in
which 3,000 participated. When the
result were announced, it was found
.iat 43 of the 100 leaders were
.udents in the school’s civil ser
vice course.
So many graduates of the school
obtained post office jobs that the
Catholic Association’s instructors
were charged with being in collu-
ion with the examiners. And a
former postmaster of Boston used
to call his force of clerks the
Voting Men’s Catholic Association
alumni.”
in a recent state examination for
an excutive position under civil
service, five out of the first seven
on the list were graduates of one
of the Catholic Association school
ourses. And in another examina
tion for a similar place, graduates
of the school captured 42 places out
f the first 50.
One of the most popular classes
s the three-year course in account-
ng claimed that no finer course
>f instruction in this subject is to
be obtained at any price. The
uthorities at the school tell of in
stances by the dozen in which men
lave benefited themselves by put-
t ng in a few hours a week at this
work.
One man was getting $24 a week
vs a bookkeeper when he started the
course. After three years of hard
work in the night school he entered
:pon a series of rapid advance
ments in his profession. Today his
salary is $9,000 a year.
Six years ago a young chap, then
a $10-a-week ledger clerk, enrolled
or the course. That man is now
aming more than $6,000 a year.
So it runs with all the other
onrses—stenography, salesmanship
Ivertising, languages, English,
mathematics, philosophy, real estate
ractice—about 30 subjects in all.
And in spite of me excellence of
he instruction, the tuition charges
rc probably two-thirds lower than
hpse of other evening schools in
his city. The highest fee charged
s $85 a term, for viost Accounting.
This includes the cost of all books
and supplies. There are plenty of
ourses at $5 and $10. The school
.as been made self-supporting and
hat is all. It is not a money-mak-
r. It lias no endowment. It is run
ntirely on a pay-as-you-go princi
ple.
■Sacrifices Made for An Education.
How far it has reached out among
be people may be judged from the
he fact that students are iicre this
,inter from as far away as Nashua,
H„ and Providence, R. I. The
udents who reside in those and
her distant communities have to
imp a train almost as soon as they
id their days work, travel nearly 50
dies, attend classes, and return
he midnight trains. That
is studying under difficu!
. a go the
postmaster in a town some 40 miles
from the city enrolled for a civil
service course. He had to take a
train for Boston at 5 o'clock, did
not get back in his home town until
after midnight, and then had to
walk two miles to his residence.
Just before he finished the course
his father died. The young man
became a candidate for the post
mastership, took the examination
headed the list, and was given the
appointment.
Hoarv haired men and women
come here and drink in the “learn-
in, ” that has so long been denied
to them. They know that there will
be no “showing up" of their lack
of education. There are no roll-
calls. No names are mentioned.
There are no compulsory recitations,
no embarrassing questions. But all
the plain every-day subjects arc
presented by skillful instructors.
And by dint of much individual at-
ss( i
tention rapid progress* is made by
nearly all who attend the classes.
A man of 30, a gifted mechanic
and automobile repairer, was pro
mised a position as superintendent'
if he would fit himself to do the
required clerical work. He had very
little schooling, but entered the
Association’s evening class and at
the end of a season was given the
promised position.
There are hundreds of just such
cases as the foregoing. Every year
men and women come to the associ
ation, rather timidly, to say that
they liave had only two or three
years of schooling. They wonder
if the association will “bother witli
the likes of them.” Tnose are just
the ones that are wanted. Personal
interest is taken in their cases—a
personal interest such as can he ob
tained. in few educational institu
tions.
In contrast with these carly-grade
lessons are the wonderful classes
on philosophy, social service, civil
government, governmental finances
and municipal and constitutional
law, and the college prepartory and
advanced groups in Latin and high
er mathematics.
Chief Aim of School.
The chief aim of the school is to
increase the earning capacity of its'
students in the shortest possible
time. It teaches bookkt^jping, or
shorthand and typewriting so
throughly and efficiently that its
students arc able to go out and ac
cept positions after a single term of
instruction.
'the Young Men’s Catholic Asso
ciation was formed nearly 50 years
ago, under the guidance of Rev.
Robert Fulton, S. J., then presi
dent of Boston College, and has
since been identified with Boston
College activities.
But its evening classes (started at
the suggestion of Rev. Thomas I.
Gasson, S. J., then at the head of
the college, and now of the faculty
at Georgetown University) have no
corporatd or directional connection
with the college. Occasionally the
college faculty is drawn upon for
instructors. Most of them how
ever, are recruited from the staffs
of Boston’s leading public and pri
vate secular educational institutions.
Cardinal O’Connell has shown a
great interest in the work of the
Catholic Association’s evening class
and has taken the work under his
special patronage.
BREAK PRECEDENT
Greeks Acknowledge Vatican
Delegate.
Rome,—Word has been received
here that for the first time in 1000
years the represenative of the Greek
Orthodox Church in Constantino
ple have acknowledged a represen
ative of the Catholic Church.
A delegation from the Greek Ecu
menical Patriarch, headed by the
Great Archdeacon Monsignor Nco-
fiaos, lias called officially on Mon-
signor Dolci, Apostolic Delagate in
Turkey, to express condolence over
the death of Pope Benedict and
good wishes for his successor, Pope
Pius XL
This recognition, which is sajd to
he due to efforts in the direction
of reunion of the Greek Orthodox
Church with the Catholic Church
made by Pope Leo Xlll, Pope. Pius
X and Pope Benedict XV, is regard-
some as ah important step
the advancatnent of the Va-
FRENCH AND GERMANS
UNITE TO HONOR POPE
Recent Enemies Meet In Me
morial Service
Pontiff.
for Late
Paris.—The soul of the “Pope' of
Reconciliation” must have rejoiced
in heaven over the solemn service
in the CathedraJ r >f Mainz in mem
ory of Benedict XV, .where French
and German Catholics assembled to
pray together for the father of the
faithful of all nations.
Invitations to the ceremony were
sent out in the name of Msgr. Hugo,
German Bishop of Mainz, and Msgr.
Reniond, French Bishop of Slisma
and chaplain general of the French
Armies of the Rhine.
In the choir, which was draped in
black, the German and French civil
and military authorities took tlieir
places at each side of the altar. On
the epistle side were Herr Brentaiio,
minister of Worship and Justice of
Darmstadt, the mayor and all tile
high officials of administration, ed
ucation, arid all the Catholic organ
izations. On the Gospel side were
M. Tirard, High Commissioner of
the French Republic; General De-
goutte, Commander in chief of the
French Army of Occupation; General
Pellc, High Commissioner in Con
stantinople, the Consul-General of
France, seven generals, the French
officials of the High Commission,
professors from the Lycess and the
personnel of the French consulate.
The Mass was celebrated by Msgr.
Hugo, Bishop of Mainz, assisted by
numerous members of the clergy.
The Sehola of the cathedral, known
as the “Sistine Choir of the Rhine,”
sang the service in plain-chant.
Msgr. Reniond stood near the al
tar, on the side of the Gospel, sur
rounded by his chaplain. After the
Mass he gave the first of the five
absolutions.
Commenting on this event La
Croix says: “Thus for the first
time in many years, French and
German Catholics, remembering that
they arc brothers in Christ, mingled
their voices and their prayers.
“May this manifestation of filial
piety toward the common father of
the faithful have many results. May
the great soul of the deeply regret
ted Pontiff make powerful inter
cession for tiiose he loved so much,
and may these understand that in
the face of radical negations and
materialistic desires, their two coun
tries will find their salvation only in
a return to the Church. The Church
alone, by its charity, can prepare
the reign of true justice by the
reign of truth.
“Our two Bishops, Msgr. Hugo
and Msgr. Resmond have deserved
well of the ‘Church wnose spirit of
charity and universal fraternity they
have understood and practiced.”
Despatches from Dusseldorf re
port a similar service attended by
French and German authorities in
the Marienkirche there.
ARCHBISHOP DOWLING
Labels Birth-Control “De
stroyer of Empires.”
For New Orleans Jesuit
School Starts Soon.
LOYOLA AFTER FUNDS.
Baltimore, Md.,—-Plans for the
erection of two new buildings for
Loyola College at a cost or $300,000
were announced at a banqdet and
reception given recently to the Most
Rev. Michael J. Curley, archbishop
of Baltimore, by alumni of that in
stitution in the Southern Hotel.
A Georgia
Product
0e YOUR OUAHAf*
Made for Our Southern
Climate
Minneapolis,—Addressing the Min-,
ucapolis League of Catholic Women
at the headquarters, 720 Marquette
Avenue on Tuesday, Archbishop Aus
tin Diiwling uigi'tf tiusHnembers to
start a crusaSe a*gaihst’ ! birth Con
trol arid if necessary ’go to the
Legislature ! to Oppose 1 Measures
that Would legalize the dissemina
tion’ of information on methods of
contraception.
“It is not enough,” said His
Grace, “for Mrs. Sanger and her
group of leaders to believe in the
evil, suicidal policy themselves, but
they want their program to go out
to the multitude.
“Birth control has been a curse to
Fraiicc and now the government
never loses an opportunity to give
its benediction or to bestow’ prizes
on the mother of a large family.
“Leaders in the movement come
to us and say that through this
means the country may deal effec
tively with the problem of poverty
lmt I say it is the policy of insan
ity. Empire after empire has gone
down because of it.”
Archbishop Dowling urged the
women to prepare literature in
which was printed the defensive
side.
AGED INDIAN DEAD.
Washington, D. C.,—Word has
been received at the Bureau of
Catholic Indian Missions of the
death of Wab-lia-Gunta, a Catholic
Chippewa Indian, said to have been
the oldest human being in the
world at the time of his death,
aged 137 -
DRIVE FOR FUNDS
New Orleans,—Announcement that
the campaign for a fund of $1,500,000
for Loyola University here would
begin within the riext four weeks was
Matte to a big gathering of the in
stitution’s alumni, state and muni
cipal officials and^olhcr prominent
guests at a dinner given in the Elk’s
Home this week. Tile money is to
be collected for the erection and
equipment of five new buildings for
the university.
The campaign has been approved
by Most Rev. James W. Shaw, Arch- H
bishop of New Orleans, who at- J
tended and addressed the meeting.
The Alumni Association of Loyola
will serve as the vanguard in the
“drive.” About seven hundred of
the organization were present. The
statement that the work of gather
ing the fund will begin shortly was
made liy Very Rev. A. E. Cummings,
president of the University.
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