Catholic Growth and Protestant Education
A correspondent of the New York Evangelist, writing from Washington, D. C., says:— "Besides convents, parochial schools, and collegiate institutes difficult to number, the Catholics have in this district three establishments for higher instruction, the Georgetown University, the Gonzaga College, and the new Catholic University. The institution in Georgetown is the largest and best endowed center of learning in America founded and owned by the Jesuits. . . . Meanwhile there is not in this city of magnificent resources a single Protestant female college, and the only male institution is Columbian University, poorly endowed, crippled all along the line of instruction for want of means." Only those who know little about it imagine that the rapid growth of Romanism is not a menace to this country.