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Show r ' ' ". " : . : I . VI f ' l r" ' " " - -vj- !T?f t t ir ' 5- ' B i t ' ft' .) " r . ' ' '- ' " " - ' ' ' ALL HALLOWS COLLEGE, SALT -LAKE, tJTAH. A . . -Among: the many institutions of learning in the vast intermoun-tain intermoun-tain country. perhaps none impresses the casual visitor more favorably or appeals for recognition and support to western Catholics than Ail Hallows College, located here .in the very heart of our city and in th center of the mighty west. The College was founded in 1886 by Rt. Rev. Bishop Scanlan, D. D., and was for some years under his efficient presidency, but the needs of the growing diocese claimed all his care and attention, and in course of time the young institution was placed in charge nf the Marist Fathers. The wisdom of this transfer was at once apparent and reflects credit on all parties concerned. Tho Fathers infuse into their work the traditions and experience! of successful years of srhool and college discipline, and have laid down a system at once broad, thorough and 'comprehensive, and peculiarly adapted to the needs of the western country. There was a time, and that not many years ago, when Catholic parents considered it necessary to send their Fons to the cast for an education. This necessity no longer exists. The many courses offered by All Hallows conclusively prove that, the -west is more man abundantly able to cope with the great problem of Catholic education. While AH Hallows is strictly a Catholic institution, institu-tion, the Fathers make no discrimination as to creed, and all denominations denom-inations are received on an equal footing. The classics have from the first held sway in the College, as have the various sciences, the higher mathematics and music. There is also a completely equipped commercial commer-cial department, which has been well patronized even from the early dayis. Junior, intermediate and academic departments, in charge of experienced professors and able instructors, pave the way for all the higher courses, and ample provision has been made for children of ten- 1 Of all the questions that engage the attention--of those who have at heart not only the material, but the social interests of the human race, is there any other so radical, so far-reaching as that of education? Not only those whose lives have been enriched by a good scholastic training, but also, and even more emphatically, em-phatically, those who feel the lack of liuch an advantage, advan-tage, agree that in this age mure than ever a young person without an education has a poor chance of success in life. Put when the meaning of this word education comes before us in its height, its depth, it.i fullness, we must pause under the weight of all that it implies; for any amount of learning is not adequate to, the idea, nor even the -splendid development of the faculties facul-ties that such learning involves; none of the line arto nor any number of accomplishments would justify the term. An education means more than this, namely,' the moral development, the building up of grand and noble characters on a solid foundation of Christian principles; it nieanis the making of the men and women wo-men of the future. , This is the answer to those who would ask why we should have Catholic schools when the land is full of public schools. The very existence of so many parochial paro-chial schools, academies and colleges, the lives of so many religious teachers, self-sacrificing, laborious, heroically devoted to this wearing, confining, alUab-sorbing alUab-sorbing work these are the strongest arguments to der years, who are received into the minim department and there thoroughly thor-oughly grounded in the rudiments of all that pertains to a sound and thorough education. The Fathers are staunch believers in the fact that a strong mind must have for its tenement a strong and healthful body, and for this reason gymnastics and the manual of -arm3, as well ae the various forms of athletics, receive due attention and encouragement, but only in so far as they prove a means to attain the end in view. One feature of the College which strogly commends itself to parents and guardians is the excellent facilities offered to either boys or young men, who from long continued illness of for any legitimate reason have been prevented from following regular class work or completing any course. It has always been the aim of the Very Rev. President and the Faculty to safeguard the interests of all students placed in their charge, and backward pupils are given the advantage of special classes and coaching until they are competent to follow any of the regular . .epurses. Provision has also been made fcr students who may desire private 'rooms," and the" low rates charged "Tor "the" same have been an inducement which many have not been glow to accept. Applications have been received from students in the far eastern states, who look to the west as a health resort, and who at the same time are not unmindful un-mindful of the many superior advantages of the College. The management manage-ment are ever "on the alert to promote and extend the efficiency of their work, and while keenly alive to the opportunities afforded by location, they, have in mind as well, the needs of our country, which they, in common with all, believe is destined to become the keystone of the entire wect. A -V - : ' ST. MARY'S ACADEKY, SALT LAKE, UTAH. a thinking mind, not only for the superiority, but even for the absolute necessity of Catholic education. Other denominations are awaking to a realization of the fact that youth is the seedtime of their creeds that there is no surer method of .securing a large membership than that of establishing schools in connection con-nection with their parishes. No Catholic earnestly desiring that his children should be able to give a reason for the faith trat is in them, zealous for the preservation of his offspring from the temptations of youth, keenly alive to the best interests of hi.i children's chil-dren's temporal and eternal welfare, needs the .spur that lies in such an example. No Catholic, aware of the vita! issues of this question, will feel exempt from his share of responsibility in the matter of encouraging encourag-ing the cause of Catholic education, in the matter of toyalty to its institutions. lis any intelligent man or woman of today ignorant of those time-honored marks of superiority that distinguish dis-tinguish the convent-bred girl? The peculiar discipline, disci-pline, the atmosphere these are sufficient inducement induce-ment to those who realize the influence of environment and who wish their daughters to. have the very be.Bt. St. Mary's Academy in our own city is a school of this kind, and the Sisters of the Holy Cross who conduct con-duct it are numbered in that valiant ."army of the Lord" whose energies are untintingly consecrated to the little ones of Christ's kingdom here below. For well nigh thirty years these Sisters have proved to us their untiring zeal, their unflagging courage, their sub- lime indifference to any consideration below their one supreme aim the adaptation of every available means to the improvement of their pupils. Their building and all its appointments testify to this fact: for, in whatever measure, disproportionate as it must ever be, their educational labors have been remunerated, the proceecVs, exhausted as they are in defraying expenses, have been returned, as it were, in value to their patrons and the local community at large. Personal, temporal remuneration? It is a foreign for-eign idea to the religious teacher. And yet the bond that exists between these selfies women and their avocation is something beautiful to behold in this age of wage-earning and -monetary calculation. St. Mary.'s Academy wai the first Catholic school In Utah, and the fir.?t mission of the Sisters of the Holy Cross in the west. Of the pioneer band of this foundation, some .remained here for many years, spending themselves them-selves in their chosen service with such glad and loving lov-ing zeal that when called to other fields of labor, it was like uprooting a tree from the h'ome-gro'Td. Some few, after bearing with sweet and holygraciOus-ness holygraciOus-ness their self-imposed yoke of toil and immolation, laid down life's burden here, while still in the harness, as it were, at the Master's feet. All honor, then, to the convent sehoolfl, to the Catholic Cath-olic educators, and to those whoae noble and unremitting unremit-ting labors in our own educational field in Utah have inspired this feeble tribute to their more deserving merit the Sisters of the Holy Cross! , . 1 |