The Catholic University at Washington
The Pope has graciously approved the statutes of the new Catholic University at Washington, and has permitted the institution to be under the control of the American Primate, reserving to himself, however, the right of revising the program of instruction. As the Pope has lately denounced the public-school system of the United States, he may have been afraid to trust the choice of studies entirely to Catholic bishops and archbishops, who are also American citizens, lest the university should teach too much veneration for the American Constitution in connection with that for the spiritual and temporal power of the voice of Rome. American youths who are educated under the critical eye of the "prisoner" of the Vatican are not likely to learn many lessons in American patriotism within the university's walls.—Selected.