at a public school, is any ground for refusing them the benefit of attending. They should, however, attend as individuals and be subject to the control only of the school authorities who undertake to give the instruction desired.

"That is, if the school board thinks it wise to admit special students who are not required to attend public schools for any other instruction to special courses in manual training, I see no reason why they may not do so under reasonable restrictions. The fact that the pupils so admitted obtain the remainder of their education at a parochial school would not necessarily debar them."

GIFTS TO CATHOLIC COLLEGE

At the Commencement Exercises of the College of Mount Saint Vincent-on-Hudson, held June 6, announcement was made of the following generous gifts received during the year:

The Elizabeth Seton Scholarship, presented in honor of the Golden Jubilee of Mother Mary Rose, by the Alumnae Association. The Louise Le Gras Scholarship, also a Jubilee gift from several friends. Our Lady of Good Counsel Scholarship, presented by the Misses Mackey, of New York. An endowment fund of $1,000, by Mrs. Joseph J. Donohue, of New York, for a prize of $50 to be awarded annually. An endowment fund of $1,000, by Miss Mary Hogan, of New York, for an annual prize of $50. A purse of $50, for 1911, by the Rev. James W. Powers, of New York. A purse of $25 for 1911, by Mr. William P. O'Connor, of New York. A donation of $500, from Rev. Charles W. Corley, of Yonkers, N. Y., the first contribution to the Building Fund. A purse of $25 for excellence in the course in Religion, from a reverend friend. A valuable painting from Miss Anna Dunphy. Several rare books from Mr. and Mrs. Julian Detmer, besides 2,000 volumes donated by various persons interested in the College library.

AN EFFICIENT SUPERIOR AND ORGANIZER

Rev. Mother Scholastica Kerst, who died June 11 at Duluth, Minn., was the foundress of the Benedictine institutions conducted by sisters in the diocese of Duluth, and one of the most

widely known religious of the Northwest. In 1892, a few years after the creation of the diocese of Duluth, the Rt. Rev. James McGolrick, D. D., invited Mother Scholastica to establish her order in the diocese. From a very modest beginning the community has grown rapidly, and now numbers 175 members. Under Mother Scholastica's administration many important foundations were made, among which were five hospitals, the Sacred Heart Institute, the Villa Sancta Scholastica, mother house of the order and academy for young ladies, and several parish schools.

Mother Scholastica was born in Mueringen, Germany. Her parents came to this country in 1852, when she was five years old, and settled in St. Paul, Minn. She entered the Benedictine Order when fifteen years old, spending her early years principally in Shakopee, and St. Joseph, Minn. Elected Mother Superior of the Benedictines of St. Cloud diocese in 1880, she was there engaged in the constructive work of her order until called in 1892 to her long and fruitful mission in the diocese of Duluth.

SUMMER SCHOOL AT DE PAUL UNIVERSITY

The success of the first session of the De Paul University Summer School held in Chicago, has induced the faculty to announce that the same will be continued next year and that during the coming school year educational courses will be offered to teachers of the public and parish schools. The latter will be known as the University Extension Work to distinguish it from the Summer School courses. The registration of the Summer School was 125 and included: Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary from Chicago, Ill., and Dubuque, Iowa; Franciscan Sisters from Joilet, Ill.; Dominican Sisters from New York; Sinsinawa, Wis.; Springfield, Ill.; Adrian, Michigan, and Chicago; Sisters of Mercy from Ottawa, Ill.; Sisters of Notre Dame from West Pullman, Ill.; Sisters of St. Benedict from Nauvoo, Ill.; Sisters of Providence from St. Mary-of-theWoods, Ind.; and lay teachers from Chicago and various places in Ohio and Kentucky.

The professors of the different courses were as follows: Philosophy, Dr. Corcoran, of Kenrick Seminary, St. Louis, Mo.; English, Dr. Osthoff, of St. Thomas Seminary, Denver, Col.; History, and Literature, Dr. O'Hagan, editor of the New World, Chicago; History, Very Rev. F. X. McCabe, President of De Paul University; Astronomy, Rev. D. J. McHugh, of the University; Latin, Rev. William J. Kelly, Johhn E. Green, James E. Lilley, of the University; Mathematics, Martin V. Moore and John E. Green, and James E. Lillie, Director of Studies of the University; Oratory, Miss Farrell, formerly of Northwestern University; French, Miss Garnier; Drawing, Mr. George W. Barnard, of the University; Chemistry, Mr. G. W. Heise, Dr. Arden J. Johnson, Mr. G. W. Lawson; Biology, Dr. N. A. Alcock, of the University faculty.

PATRICK J. MCCORMICK.

Educational Review

OCTOBER, 1911

WHAT THE FIRST SUMMER SCHOOL AT THE
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
WAS TO THE STUDENTS

For years my friends and I had longed with a great longing to attend a Summer School. The attainment of our desire, at first, seemed most indefinitely remote, and, finally, began to look as if it was to be reserved as the very special triumph of a later generation. Yet we still dared to hope, even in the hour of deepest darkness. Then the unexpected happened. Some God-inspired men took thought of us, the army of struggling Convent-school teachers; they examined our work closely and deemed it worthy of encouragement. How good it was to feel that we no longer stood alone and unchampioned! The climax of our happiness came in the spring of 1911. It seems to me the joy we experienced when our Mother General announced the Summer School a fact, and we, her students, chosen to attend, could not be exceeded on this side of eternity. May God bless everyone, from the Apostolic Delegate and the Cardinal down, who had anything to do with permitting, or promoting, or organizing the Summer School is, I am confident, the oft-repeated prayer of every teaching Sister in America.

Years of waiting added zest to enjoyment. But no words of mine can ever tell what the Summer School was to us when it did come. In the first place, it far surpassed all our hopes. Not, indeed, in the equipment, nor in the

spacious halls of the University, not in the beautiful grounds with hill and dale, with their vastness and country solitude, and their remoteness from bustle and hurry these were delightful, but they were only the setting fair and lovely of the richer jewels of culture, scholarship and kindness which we found in Brookland. It was these that went beyond our fondest hopes, and to such an extent that we began to think that at last we understood a little of the things the angels know, and something of what the Israelites must have felt when God manifested Himself to them on Sinai.

"The happiness of Heaven must be intellectual enjoyment," I said to a friend in an awed whisper as one of these soul-stirring lecturers left the platform, "an eternity like this could never pall on me."

"It is perfectly grand," she replied as thoroughly wrapt in spirit as myself, "yet I think there should be more than intellectual delight in the life beyond life."

It was good to be there in the calm of that higher, holier atmosphere, to compare the products and results of an age run mad with the erudition and earnestness, with the zeal and simplicity and faith of those who were spending themselves that we, also, might drink of the deep Pierian waters. Language could not be extravagant when applied to the Faculty of the Summer School of the Catholic University. We did expect to find ripe scholarship at that central seat of learning, else why travel across a continent, or from 'neath another flag to profit by what it had to offer? But we did not expect to find with "the wisdom of all the ages," the zeal of the early Christians, an abiding love for souls, and the sweet lowliness and simplicity of Christ the King. We, who were strangers to the home-life of the University, were captivated from the start by the rare Catholic spirit of the place. The University deserves to bear its name. Truly, in its establishment, God must have again looked over the void and