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Show ' CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY. (Correspondence Intermountain Catholic.' Washington, D. C, May 14. The university uni-versity degrees will be conferred this year Thursday, June 7, at 10 o'clock a. rh. His Eminence, the Cardinal Chancellor, Chan-cellor, will preside at the exercises. The alumni sermon will be preached on Sunday, June 3, in the Divinity Chapel, Caldwell hall, by Rev. William J. Kir-by. Kir-by. Ph. D., president of the Alumni society. so-ciety. At the close of the Mass the "Te Deum" will be sung. The year book of the university for 1900-01 has just been issued, and shows a marked improvement in the attendance attend-ance in all the departments of the university. uni-versity. From an analysis of the catalogue cata-logue it appears that there are 177 registered reg-istered students. Of these 110 are matriculated mat-riculated for degrees; the other sixty-seven sixty-seven being either special students or auditors. In the school of-the Sacred Sciences there are seventy-five students, stu-dents, of whom thirty-six are matriculated, matricu-lated, thirty-eight are auditors, and one is a Fellow. In the School of Philosophy Phi-losophy there are three Fellows, eighteen eigh-teen matriculators, eleven special students stu-dents and sixteen auditors. There are forty-seven matriculated students in the School of Law; while in the School of the Technological Sciences there are nine matriculated and one special stu dent. Among the students there are forty-five Priests, thirty-five of whom are in theology, and ten in philosophy and science. Of these forty-five eleven are Religious; one Sulpician, two Benedictines, Bene-dictines, three Paulists. and five belonging be-longing to the Congregation of the Holy Cross. Besides the Religious who are Priests, there are seventy-eight in different dif-ferent departments of university work as matriculates, special students or . auditors, the greater majority being auditors. There are seventy-one laymen lay-men following the courses, forty-seven in law. fourteen in philosophy and ten in technology. Seven are special students stu-dents in philosophy and sciences, one a special student in technology, and sixty-three are matriculated for de grees. Of the 177 students following the various courses of instruction, 102 have received either the baccalauerate or higher degrees, conferred by forty- . nine . universities, colleges or seminar- . ies. Twenty-nine states and territories and four foreign countries are represented repre-sented in the students. The Right Rev. Rector, as chairman " of the Conference of Catholic Colleges at Chicago, is preparing a' report of -the proceedings of the Conference. He expresses himself pleased with the re- ., suits of the second meeting of college representatives. It is not possible in a single conference to consider all of the " questions that are important in col- -legiate work. It mu-t necessarily take time and careful investigation to find what is needed, to study the different systems that govern our collegiate in- struction, in order to see wherein it may be strengthened and improved. The conference took a step in that di- rection by establishing a permanent or- ganization and investing its standing H committee with authority to make in- vestigations and report plans for fu- ture consideration. Subsequent conferences confer-ences will reach conclusions which must commend themselves to the dif- ferent college systems. There is a very h evident purpose on the part of our allege al-lege representatives to study carefully the demands made by the people, and to utilize the means at their disposal, in order to do the best work possible under the circumstances. The report of the conference will include the papers ( that were read, and the discussions ; j that followed. It will prove 6t value ; to all who are interested in our college work. ' The Knights of Columbus in the District Dis-trict of Columbia are beg nning to manifest man-ifest a great interest in the endowment of the Chair of American History in the university. It was unanimously resolved at the Knights of Columbus' convention of March, 1S99, at New Haven to make this endowment, and it seems that a goodly number of the jurisdictions have taken the matter up and are pushing it foiward energeti-callv. energeti-callv. The Councils in Washington begin be-gin "to realize that they should set the pace in this matter for the rest of the country, as they live under the shadow, as it were, of the university, and share ; more generously in all its privileges. They will soon take concerted action towards raising their portion of the fund, and are most anxious that the endowment of the Chair of American History should be presented to the ; board of trustees of the .university at . their next annual meeting in Wash- ; ington, Oct. 11. Very Rev. Dr. Garri-gan Garri-gan has recently addressed the separate separ-ate Councils here on this subject, and has set forth the motives for nromot-ness nromot-ness and generosity, in accomplishing this rreat work. We are glad to hear that the book, "Religion and Morality," presented by Rev. Dr. Fox for his doctor's degree last June, has entered into a second edition. The Museum has to acknowledge acknowl-edge the gift of several valuable contributions con-tributions to its geological department. Among the bqpks that came to the university uni-versity this month was one received through the Rector, a valuable work in German, the gift of Dr. L. W. D. Hughes, United States consul at Co- burr. ! Great interest is manifested in the . new Trinity College, the work of j which is progressing favorably. The , Sisters are confident that the college will be ready for classes in October. . The prospectus containing the condi- j tions for entrance will be issued in a 1 few days. Bishop Harkins of Providence, Provi-dence, and Bishop Beaven of Springfield t were visitors at the university ..during 1 the rast week. |