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Show : Colorado news': I DENVER. ji Office of The Intermountain and Col- ' orado Catholic, 409 Charles Block. Curtis and Fifteenth Streets. Correspondence Cor-respondence for Kev. T. H.. Malone should be addressed P. O. Box 1556, j ,j Denver, Coo. j I f THE SACHED HEART SCHOOL. i I Ppnvor, Colo.. April 24. Lat week we cpoke of the Immaculate Oorcr-ption j I Kt honl. hut we miisr not slipht its sis- j 1 ' the Sacred Heart school, whlrh in 1 :i1sm conducted by the Sisters of Char- I Ul'- I It is beautifully located in Ea?t Den- j v'i" "n Lawrence Ftrect, between I Twf-nty-ehrhfh ami Twenny-niimh ' J K.;ren?. This is one of the oMest Pa- ! I JNH-hial schools in the city, having- been Jirxi oponc-i in the-basement of the I aejx-d Heart Church in IST9. j 5 The cornerstone of the new etruottire ! ';t iid Nov. 1SSS, buit the building j J w.is n-ot ot-eupW uixil the 1st of Feb- In the womls of Pope, it is "a ftruc- I ture or majestic frame." n the center. j vxor th arched entrance, is a statue of j f LI,- eu ncan, ana oeneam it t- vordts: Suffer the little ones to come uiko me. and forbid them not." What 1 an tippropriate motto! .1 The main entrance to the buildiner . It adt- directly into the Adelph'ian hall. rho ind-T school hall in the city. It K-c-iiitH the cenw r of the liiv-it and ec- ond lloorp. the latter be'ini;- used as -a fralkry. The stage is large and has a j .? drop curtain. j n each s;de of the hall are two ' ' roum?. Three of these are used for i vliool rooms, and the fourth as the i club room. I The Hijrh School department is on t the tirt-u lloor. Here will be f.uind the cabinet, which con'tairus many interrst-ins interrst-ins ol.'iects. I On the second floor are four school I rooms and the library. I The whole initorior is very attractive 1 ih.mks to the Sisters. I When tin; fchvvjl was first opened there were but r-'von Sillers engaged, ? but now it iri with considerable over- work that ten of them manage to con- dud it. . ! The enrollment this year is over 400. i with an average daily attendance of 30, vhiJh makes the Sacred' Heart I school the largest Catholic educational ins; i t u t : . i n in the city. . The music class is very large, and at seems1 that the pupils appreciate the fact that they have an excellent cpjxvr-3 cpjxvr-3 tunityof beerming accc.mplhed muuic- l a ns. j The Sir-ters number amnngpt their ! former -pupil-a some of our highly es- leemed citizens, namely. Justice Mul-i Mul-i J-ns. Met-.rs. George Dotal. Joseph : Newman, the popular comedian, and -urge Kempton, the we.ll known mu-j mu-j ni!'?;in. ,j When the?e gentlemen attended the Sacred ic-art schviol there were but the oigilip grades taught, but when Mr. Newman took the examination to enter en-ter the Denver Hig'h school, the princi- j pal was afitonhshed at his exceedingly brilliant answeiis tha.t'he agretd -to admit ad-mit anyone fn.m the school on the Sie- ii w' recommendation. Mr. !ostal has become well known to all the pupila by his exceeding gerf-ciosity. gerf-ciosity. Each year he gives two medals for . elocution. The first year 18HS these medals w ere wen by Miss Georgina Ed- '. n and Mr. William J. Reidy: the sec-; sec-; ond year by Mirs Mamie Kennedy and - Mr. Jlobert Thoim?on; and the third year well, it remains to be seen. The first graduating clas-s was in 1S92, when there was but a two years' high choni course. Since then the course Las been lengthened to four years, and th" alumni iis now verv laree. The curriculum In precisely the came as that "f the Immaculate Conception h il. with the exception of Spanish, whieh 'as recently been added to the Hii;h a.hool course at the Sacred Heart t- h -1. Greai attention is paid to composition ' fill for this reason the Sisters number amongi-t their pujw'la many a promising : jniins literateur. The High School students have formed form-ed the, "St. Thom'as Airuina-s Literary cieiy." They meet on certain evenings to discuss The worka of great writers, hii.l to encourage one another in their nitaiden tfforts. In cunclufiif.n, let us eay that great o:-id;t it? due the Sifters of Charity for tii- ir manner of conducting' their f-hoolrt in lxth the east and the west, tin 1 also to the Hi shop and reverend j clergy f-.r their kind'i;' encouragement. |