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Show THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN. The Catholic University Bulletin, the oniciai organ oi me viciiunc uiinersuy at Washington, says that there is every reason to hope that the new Trinity College for women, which is' to be opened open-ed next year in the city of Washington, will "respond to a wide and serious demand on the part of Catholic women wo-men for opportunities of mental improvement, im-provement, not inferior to such as are already enjoyed by their sisters who are not of our faith." But will it so respond. re-spond. It iviil all depend, to be sure, on the opportunities given by Trinity College whether the thousands of Catholic women wo-men now in non-Catholic colleges will, in part, avail themselves of such an institution in-stitution as that now being built in Washington. If the Catholic University opens its doors to the students of Trinity college and they are given equal opportuni-i opportuni-i ties with the students of the former, then little fear need be entertained for the success of the latter. But if this new institution is to be a kind of left-handed left-handed appendage to the Catholic Uni versity, nominally in connection with it, but really not fully enjoying its privileges, privi-leges, it seems to us fatuous to hope that Trinity College can. draw to it Catholic young women who are now ai, such places as Chicago, Ann Arbor, Cornell, etc., where they know they enjoy en-joy opportunities not inferior to their non-Catholic sisters. The University Bulletin is full of hazy promises of what Trinity College is going to do; promises, however, it will be found, avail but little, if a distinction dis-tinction is to be made and the halls ofi the university itself are kept closed to the young women students of Trinity, j In such a case Catholic young women will simply continue to go to non-Catholic colleges, and the sooner this fact is made apparent and driven home to those in charge of Trinity .College the, better it will be for all concerned. . The day has gone when you can deprive de-prive our brainy, ambitious young women wo-men from the highest and the best in education. She insists on having all the advantages of her brother, and she is right. The world "do move." |