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ULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OF
CHICAGO ARE CROWDED
Despite Erection of New
Buildings, All Are Filled to
Capacity.
Religious Orders In Exile In
England Returning To France
Chicago.—In spite of the opening
of a number of new school build
ings during the past year, the Cath
olic schools of Chicago and the col
leges are crowded to capacity at
the opening of the year. This is
particularly noticed in the high
schools for both boys and for girls.
In many of the latter, the Sisters
are having to fill lecture and art
rooms with desks to seat the pupils.
The advance enrollment at De Paul
University is reported by Father
Thomas L. Laven, the president, as
indicating an attendance far in ex
cess of that of last year in all its
branches.
Rev. William H. H. Agnew, S. J.,
President of Loyola University re
ports registration hoth in the uni
versity courses and at Ignatius Col
lege to be far above normal.
Practically the same situation ob
tains in the academies and colleges
for older girls.
A system of standardizing the
elementary schools of the archdio
cese under the direction of the dio
cesan hoard of education and a
corps of especially trained super
visors introduced by Archbishop
Mundelein several years ago, has
been extended to the high schools.
Under this system the various paro
chial schools, although conducted by
a number of different orders of
Sisters have been brought to a
standard uniformity throughout the
archdiocese.
Archbishop Mundelein through his
educational bodies is gradually and
rapidly portioning the city off into
high school districts, each with its
girls high school and boys high
school centrally located.
The new Divinity School at Area,
which opened last year with a class
of fifty in the first year of philo
sophy, opened its second year with
more than three times that attend
ance in the philosophy course. Such
progress has been made in the
building program that the students
this year are occupying the new
building in comfort and with ample
facilities.
A noted addition to the educa
tional system is Rosary College for
women at River Forest, the succor*
sor to St. Clara College which hai;
been removed to the western suburb
from Sinsinawa, Wisconsin. Rosary
opens in October with a large ad
vance enrollment. It is under the
auspices of the Dominican Sisters.
It is destined to be the women’s
college of the University of St.
Mary of the Lake.
Communities Which Found Refuge in Britain When Driven
From Home by French Government Are Now Welcomed
Back by Those Who Expelled Them.
NEW PRESIDENT TELLS
OF NOTRE DAME IDEALS
Rev. Matthew Walsh, C.S.C.,
Scores Material Without
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London.—When the French gov
ernment drove out the religious or
ders it was a loss to France, but a
very distinct gain to England- And
now that the French government
seems to have repented, and to have
invited the exiled religious to re
turn to their native land; it is
France’s gain and England’s loss.
About two years ago this exodus
began, and some French nuns from
the Isle of Wight went back to Brit
tany. But the present movement is
much more serious, for the Isle of
Wight is losing the great Benedic
tine community of monks at Quarr
Abbey as well as the nuns at St.
Cecilia’s Abbey in the neighboring
town of Ryde.
might be to admit the fact, the com
ing of the French monastic orders
to England brought an appreciable
amount of local prosperity, and
many who were indifferent to the
religious ministrations of the monks
and nuns, were the beneficiaries of
the local industrial prosperity that
followed their coming.
The community of Benedictine
nuns that goes hack to France from
St. Cecilia’s Abbey, in the Isle of
Wight, is one of the greatest im
portance. Numbering some 80 choir
nuns, not counting the lay sisters
and the other persons of the abbey,
these nuns celebrate the Divine Of
fice daily in choir with a dignity
and solemnity hardly to be met
wn 01 nyue. “““ ■
When, the Quarr monks first came ^ev^uBt.wHh it;
to English shores they settled at a
great country mansion in the Isle of
Wight known as Appuldurcombc
House. Later on they acquire a prop
ual church which they built, with its
imposing nuns’ choir at' the side,
was daily crowded with visitors at
both High Mass and Vespers, when
erty known as Quarr
SCHOOL BILL ISSUE
IN FIGHT IN OREGON
Portland, Ore.—Freedom of educa
tion has been brought to the fore
front as an issue in the Oregon gub
ernatorial campaign by the an
nouncement of Walter M. Pierce, De
mocratic candidate for governor,
that he will support the public-
school compulsory education bill,
which is sponsored by the Scottish
Rite Masons.
“I am in favor of and shall sup
port the compulsory school bill
sponsored by the Scottish Rite Ma
sonic bodies of Oregon,” declares
Pierce, in a statement given the
press. “1 believe we would have a
better generation of Americans, free
from snobbery and bigotry, if all
children up to and including the
eighth grade were educated in the
free public schools of America. I be
lieve we should have legislation pro
hibiting the wearing of sectarian
garb by teachers in the public
schools.”
Despite Pierce’s declaration, how
ever, which should be eminently sa
tisfactory to those who believe in
the suppression of freedom of edu
cation, the Ku Klux-Orange combi
nation has nominated Charles B.
Hall of Marshfield, who was defeated
by Governor Olcott in the Republi
can state' primary, as an independ
ent candidate for the office, thus
making a three-cornered fight. This
action is said to have been taken as
a. result of Pierce’s refusal to .make
the school issue the principal plank
in his platform.
Hall’s independent candidacy how
ever has met with legal difficulties
as there is a statute which prohibits
a candidate who has been defeated
in a primary election from prosec
uting an independent candidacy. The
matter rests in the hands of the at
torney-general of Oregon for an
opinion. ...
which were the ruins of an ancient
monastic house of that name, and
here was built a huge abbey with a
fine church, in which the choir
monks celebrated the Divine Oflices
every day, attracting to this island
students of plain chant from all
parts of the world.
The abbot of this community en
joyed a double title. For although
he was both the canonical and terri
torial sense Abbot Of Quarr, he was
also Abbot of Solcsmes, the monastic
home in France which is the head
quarters of the Benedictine Congre
gation of France. So the Quarr
monks have packed up their belong
ings, including the valuable library
in which is the material on which
the reform of plain chant was con
structed, and only a small band will
be left to keep the'monastery going.
The Exodus from England.
But this depletion of the ranks of
the religious orders in England will,
no doubt, go on all over the country.
Many years ago there was a rumor
that the French government was
about to expel the Carthusians, and
so the Fathers of this order bought
property in Hilaire Belloc’s favorite
country of Sussex, and here they
have built' a gigantic monastery,
which is reputed to be large enough
to contain all the French Carthu
sians. As a matter of fact, the Fa
thers of the Grande Chartreuse went
to Spain; but there is a very large
Carthusian community in England,
and it is not expected that these
Fathers will be returning to France.
Among the exiled Benedictine
monks is the flourishing community
at St. Michael’s Abbel at Farnbo-
rough. The Abbot of this house is
the famous scholar, Dom Fernand
Cabrol, who is known throughout
Ihe learned world for his liturgical
researches. This abbey was^ found
ed and endowed by the late Empress
Eugenie, and in the crypt of the ab
bey church the Empress lies buried,
together with the Emperor, and her
son, the Prince Imperial, who was
killed in the Zulu War.
There are numbers of convents al
so scattered up and down the coun
try, founded by nuns exiled from
France. Their return to their na
tive land will leave a serious gap
that will be hard to fill.
Small Communities Left Weil.
But it is possible that these vari
ous communities of monks and sis
ters will leave small communities
behind. In almost every case large
establishments have been set up-
particularly in the case of the Be
nedictines t Ryde, Quarr, and bain-
borougli, and in any case the reli
gious life will be maintained, though
j’n a perhaps less comprehensive
form. , „ „„
In some instances the war was ic-
sponsible for the return of religious.
For example, the Abbot of Caerma-
ria in Wales, who came over from
France with his community fo.und
his monks so scattered as a result
of the war that he was obliged to
close the house, and return to
France. A like fate overtook the
once flourishing Benedictine abbey
of Erdington, near Birmingham,
whence the monks have gone back
to Germany and the Redcmptorist
Fathers have taken over their parish
and house. The French Cistercians,
who settled in the county of Devon,
where they revolutionized the in
dustry of sheep breeding, have also
gone back to France; and although
the English religious orders are in
a flourishing state, the loss of these
great monastic centers from the En
glish countryside is serious both
from a religious as well as an eco
nomic point of view- For, however
unwilling the Protestant English
Abbey,^Tn the nuns rendered the plain chant
with a singular beauty.
TUe community is unique in the
fact that among its professed nuns’
are four Royal ladies; three of them
members of the Imperial Bourbon
Parma family, and the fourth a
Princess of the Bavarian Lowestein
family. The Ring of Spain invari
ably visited the abbey on his fre
quet visits to England, and it is
stated on very reliable authority
that more than one crowned Head
has sought the advice of an aged
Royal lady whose experience, be
fore she became a nun, admirably
fitted her to give advice to Royalties
in difficulties. The former Empress
Zita of Austria has two of her sis
ters among the nuns of this alibcj
and at one time there were rumors
that the Empress would settle in the
neighborhood of the convent.
Notre Dame, Ind—With all the im-
presive solemnity of the Catholic
Church the University of Notre
Dame officially opened the new
scholastic year, on Sunday morning.
Marching in a body headed by the
lay faculty in their academic gowns,
the seminarians and celebrants of
the solemn High Mass, entered the
church to the music of the univer-
city-catliedral’s famous old organ.
Rev. Matthew Walsh, C. S, C., new
president of Notre Dame, delivered
the opening address of his three
year incumbency. Emphasizing the
necessity of earnest effort and the
will to succeed, he warned the stu
dents both new and old of becoming
indifferent, and believing the work
of education to be that alone of the
faculty. He told of men who had
come and gone after four years prac
tically the same meii as they had
entered, little ahead of the man
without higher education and in
many eases far behind him.
He decried the tendency of some
to place all their energy in the
search for material success at the
expense of their spiritual welfare.
The purpose of Notre Dame Uni
versity, he declared, is to furnish the
means of obtaining both.
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Washington, I). C.—The seco nd
biennial meeting of the general Sul-
pician Alumni Association of the
United States was held on Tuesday,
ai the Sulpician Seminary, Catholic
University. Solemn Pontifical Mass
was celebrated by the lit. Rev. John
.1. Swint, D.D., Bishop-Auxiliary of
Wheeling, with Rev. John S. Sulli
van, Central Falls, R. L, and Rev.
Denis J. O’Brien, Biddeford, Mass-,
as deacons of honor.
Hev. John W. Lougnot. Seward,
Neb., was deacon of the Mass and
Rev. James E. Eock, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
sub-deacon. The sermon was preach
ed by the Rt. Rev. Louis S. Walsh,
D.D., Bishop of Portland-
At the Alumni dinner Most Rev.
Archbishop Curley presided anti in a
speech vigorously expressed his re
gard for the work of the Sulpicians
in the United States. At the busi
ness meeting which followed the
dinner the Very Rev. Edward R.
Dyer announced and explained the
new Constitution of the Congrega
tion St. Sulpicc and the official ap
proval of the Holy See of the Sul
pician method of conducting semi
naries. A cable was sent to Cardinal
Gasparri voicing the joy and grati
tude of the Sulpician Alumni over
this gracious act of the Holy Sec.
The report of the Historian, Rev
erend Joseph V. Nevins, S.S-, I).I).,
noted that since the last meeting the
Association had lost three ot its
most illustrious and devoted mem
bers, His Eminence Cardinal Gib
bons, Rt. Rev. Bishop Beaven of
Springfield and lit. Rev. Bishop Har
kins of Providence, and also that re
cent episcopal appointments counted
among them members of the Siil-
pician Alumni: Rt. Rev. Bishop
Schrembs, of Cleveland; Rt.. Rev. Bi
shop Hickey, of Providence; Rt. Rev.
Bishop Conroy, of Ogdensburg; Rt.
Rev. Bishop O’Leary, of Springfield;
lit. Rev- Bishop Dunn, Auxiliary of
New York; Rt. Rev. Bishop Hoban,
Auxiliary of Chicago, and Rt. Rev.
Bishop Swint, Auxiliary of Wheel
ing.
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SISTERS ACQUIRE Y. W. C. A.
TRACT
Cincinnati.—The Sisters of Notre
Dame have purchased the tract of
land formerly used as an outing
grounds by the Y. W. C. A. It com
prises thirteen acres on Old Orchard
avenue east to Forest avenue. The
site will be used for a new college
and school within a year. The site
is one of the most desirable in the
city.
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