OCR Text |
Show RESEARCH IN GAELIC. Ten Scholarships Established at Catholic University. Washington. April 14. Ten scholarships scholar-ships have, boon established at. the Catiiolic University of America here fer research in Gaelic. - The chair of Gaelic, is occupied by Dr. Josephus' Dunn, and has already been endowed to tbc exten of $.r.0,000. The establishment establish-ment of these scholarships marks as great a stride as has ever been made in the United States in the study of this lan.ruag ;K The Catholic University and Harvard are the two institutions which hare paid most attention to the subject. In a recent article on the ancient Irt?h Sagas, President Roosevelt Roose-velt recommended that other universities univer-sities throughout the country establish chairs of Gaellc. The trustees of the Catholic Univer sity decided Iat week upon the expansion expan-sion of the chair of pedagrogy, now held by Dr. John Shields, into a department depart-ment which will attempt a unification of the systems of the Catholic educational educa-tional ideas throughout the country. The new school of pedadgogy will apply ap-ply to the work of the most medern educational ideas with the purpose of sc" strengthening the Catholic colleges thavt there will be no reason, because of sxiperlor advantages, for Catholic youths- desiring to attend schools or colleges ooher than those within the Church. Irish Ahead. Returns of the English school inspectors inspec-tors show that, the Irish are far ahead of the Welsh as jfar as study of the languages lan-guages is concerned in the schools. Out of 11.577 scholars Vin fifty-six Welsh schools, but 2,730 rssed the examinations examina-tions recently in WftJsh, while in Ireland, Ire-land, out of 6.894 students in Irish, 3,166 students, or f.6 per cent, passed the examinations. ex-aminations. Is this a good showing or not? The Welsh have been studying their own tongue in their schools for a century under the most favorable auspices, aus-pices, while the Irish have, had the chance to study it only for a decade, and then under auspices not the most favorable. Gaelic Fund. The collections for the Gaelic language lan-guage fund taken up during Language week in Ireland, that it from, March 17 to 25, are reported to be the largest ever gathered for the cause. In many sections where before but little was given, the collections have doubled and tripled. In Donegal and other counties where collections were not taken -up in past years, they were Inaugurated successfully suc-cessfully this year. |