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Show CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY ITEMS. i (Correspondence Intermountain Catholic. Washington, Feb. 15. The second conference of Catholic College representatives repre-sentatives will be held, on . Wednesday ! and Thursday of Easter week. April 18 and 19. The conference will fake "place in St. James' School Hall, Chicago, and will be presided over by Right Rev. 1 Mgr. Thomas J. Conaty. D. D. The j phace of meeting was decided at it : recent meeting of tho standing committee com-mittee appointed at the last .conference, .confer-ence, and the programme for the coming com-ing conference was then determined. A'schedulo of topics -was ' drawn up, and invitations were pent out to prominent promi-nent educators, asking them to prepare pre-pare and read papers on the different topics selected. The following is a list of subjects, and the gentlemen who will prepare papers: 1. "Uniformity of Conditions for Entrance En-trance to Freshman Class," Very Rev. Lawrence A. Delurey,-O. S.' A.,' president presi-dent Villanova College. 2. "Relative Merits of Courses in Catholic and non-Catholic Colleger for A. B. Degrees," Rev. Timothy Brosha-han, Brosha-han, S. J.. Woodstock College. 3. "Elective System of Studies," Rev. ! James A. Burns, C. S. C, Notre Dame University. j 4. "Religious1 Instruction in College." I Very Rev. Patrick S. McHale, C. M., j 5. "Teaching of Modern Languages," Rev. John P. Carroll, D. D.; president St. Joseph's College, Dubuque, .la. 6. "Development of Character in Students." Rev! M. P., Dowling. S. J., president Creighton University, Omaha, Neb. , After the reading of the paper there w ill be a general discussion- of the topics top-ics by the conference. The first conference con-ference was a great success,-and many educators throughout the country have expressed themselves very warmly and enthusiastically on the subject. The bringing together of the different educational edu-cational bodies of the. Church in this country for the interchange of views and for the promotion, of the best in education, must be productive of great good to the cause of Catholic collegiate studies. , The attendance at the annual meeting meet-ing of the Alumni Association of the Catholic. University in. Philadelphia on the 14th promises to be unusually large. Aside from the annual dinner, which will be given , at the Hotel Bellevue, and the election of officers, two papers are to be presented and discussed. One on "The Problems That Confront the University," will be read by Mr. Francis Fran-cis P. "Guilfoyle. attorney at law, of Waterbury, Conn.; the second, on "How Can the Association Best Serve the University?" by Rev. E. Fitzgerald, S. T. L., of Clinton. Mass. The association asso-ciation is developing rin a. way that promises to make it a most efficient aid in the work of the University. A large audience filled the Aula Maxima Max-ima of the Catholic University -on. Friday Fri-day afternoon, Feb. 2, to listen to. Rev. Dr. J. J. Griffin's lecture on "The Liquefaction Li-quefaction of Gases," and witness his demonstration of the properties of liquid air. He began his lecture by alluding to the earliest ideas in' regard to the atmosphere, and sketched briefly the different steps in the development of our knowledge of gases, illustrating his remarks by means of lantern slides of the men by whom this progress was accomplished. After reviewing the different dif-ferent processes for the liquefaction of trases. the Ostergren process1 employed by the General Liquid Air & Refrigerating- company, of New York, who furnished fur-nished the air used in the lecture, 'was then described, and shortly afterward the consignment of liguid air arrived and Was brought upon- the stage in a large felt-lined can. The can was uncovered un-covered and. clouds of vapor appeared to ascend from it; giving the audience the impression that it contained a quantity of boiling water, but the ex periments which soon followed disillusioned dis-illusioned them. Dr. Griffin poured a I dipper full on a large cake of ice, and ! it sizzled and bubbled like water on a i red-hot stove. Articles of food, fruit, eggs, a beeksteak, were immersed for a few moments in this intensely cold liquid and taken out as hard as a rock. A rubber ball and tin dipper used to ladle out the air flew into fragments frag-ments on receiving slight blows of a hammer. Mercury was poured into a paper mold shaped like a hammer and taken out and used to drive a nail through a board. Thees and a number of other experiments impressed on the audience the marvelous properties of this new discovery, and were followed : with the keenest attention on the part 1 of tho audience, many of whom, at the close of the lecture, crowded upon the i stage and made closer acquaintance j with the frosty liquid. Those who are interested in the old 1 language of the Gael had a rich treat on the"9th inst., when Rev. Dr. Hne-bry Hne-bry delivered his lecture, "Iris-h Liter- I ; ary Monuments ana rneir contents. I On March 2 he will give his second i lecture, "Gaelic Melodic Schemes, in Word and in Sound." The Right Rev. Rector, Mgr. Conaty, is a bye nt at present on business connected con-nected with the University. On his way to Missouri he will lecture in Chicago Chi-cago on the Apostolate of Father Ma-thew, Ma-thew, and later will speak in Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, Kan., on behalf of the Cathedral Cathe-dral of that Diocese. He is expected to be absent for about two weeks. The Paulist Fathers have presented to the University a large bronze me-dalion me-dalion likeness of the late Father Hewit. Father Hewit was a. warm and j constant friend of the University, and I took a deep interest in its grow th. He j resided in St. Thomas' College, the j Pauiist House of Studies, on the Uni-! Uni-! veiyity grounds, for a number of years I before his death. Among the visitors at the University lately were Very Rev. Mgr. Magennia ! of Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.: Dr. Charley F. Thwing, president of West-! West-! ern Reserve University; Dr. Merrill E. I Gates, formerly president of Amherst j College, now secretary of the Board of Indian Commissioners; Very Rev. Dr. I Magnien, of St, Mary's Seminary, Bal-! Bal-! timore; Rev. Dr. Tanquery of the same place, and a number of former students of the University. At the consecration of Right Rev. D. i Sbaretti, D. D., Bishop of Havana, the I Faculties of the University, with the j Right Rev. Rector and Very Rev. Vice-! Vice-! Rector at their head, were present at 1 the ceremony. This1 mark of esteem was paid, not only to the new ly consecrated conse-crated Bishop, but ako to the Papal delegation, of which Bishop Sbaretti wav for many years an honored official. of-ficial. , Mr. Joseph Murphy, a student of the University in the department of English Eng-lish literature, gave a very fine address on Columbus in the Columbia Theatre, Washington, D. C, on Sunday evening, I Feb. 11. The lecture was given under the austs of the local Knights of Columbus', and the proceeds will be devoted towards the endowment of the chair of American history which that order has undertaken to establish at the University. |