Word: church
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Plans that have been under consideration by the church authorities for some time looking towards the establishment of a National Catholic University in the vicinity of New York city, have recently been made public. The design is large and comprehensive, and it is expected that the result will be the foundation of a sectarian university "that shall equal Yale and Harvard in equipments, finish and range of studies, while it shall surpass them in thoroughness and depth." Such is the project now under consideration. Its chief promoter, with, it is understood, the consent and encouragement of the Catholic hierarchy...
There is a large and constantly increasing class of wealthy Catholic laity, it is stated, to whose sons at present a university career is not open in this country, as the sense of the Catholic Church is averse to Catholic youth procuring their education in Protestant establishments. This is the leading motive of the establishment of the university. The sanction of the Holy See to the undertaking, as well as the co-operation of the entire Catholic Church in the United States, has been secured. It is understood that Bishop Spalding has been promised in advance...
Gustave Dore will be buried today from the Church of St. Clotilde, Paris...
...Francis B. Hornbroke, a former member of the Divinity School, is called to succeed the late Dr. Bellows as pastor of All Souls' Church, New York...
Albert Victor, son of the Prince of Wales, is now to be educated at Christ Church, Oxford. Like his uncle, Prince Leopold, he will wear cap and gown only on occasions where they are required by law, and even then he will discard the gold tassel on the cap and silk gown of the cut that distinguishes, or rather used to distinguish, the gentleman-commoner from the nobleman...