Propaganda College.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 16, 17 April 1902, Page 6

Propaganda College.

In a p-evioua issue we gave some particulars regarding Propaganda College, which we now supplement by the following written by the Rome correspondent of the Phil idelphia Catholic Standard : I am indebted to the Rector of the Urban College of Propagandi, Mgr. aunaspei, for au interesting account of the condition of the in»titution in this the first scholastic year that has opened during the new century. Probably thia ia the most celebrated college in the world The se it of the college is small ; the means of eunport are fair ; the demands for admission are enormous. The arrivals in the college during this scholastic year are four Australian students — two from the diosese of Geraldton, one from the diocese of Lismore. and one from that of Wiloannia ; four Ameri an students — one from the dioce-se of Ogdensburg, one from the Josephinum College, which lies wiihin the diocese of Columbup, ard two from the diocese of Buffalo ; three Oriental students, one Swiss student, one fr >m Zmte, one from Albauia, and one from Zululand. whence have come three students already in the college. As many as 22 students took the mission oath at the hands of the Cardinal Prefect of Propaganda this scholastic year. Mr Albert Nequahnquet, a member of a tribal family in Indian Territory, was a newcomer in the college, as were two of the three Chinese, whose conduct keeps up the very satisfactory tradition established by their compatriots in the Urban and the reputation of its Chinese students for aptitude in philosophical studies, and these facts, with those just cited, show that the variety of races which is the distinctive of the Urban grows with the growth of the college. With the arrivals of thiß year counted, there are in all 122 students from all parts of the Christian world, taken in ite widest, general signification. The first ten students stand as a good example ; they are respectively for the Patriarchate of Chaldea, the Vicariate Apostolic of Constantinople, the Apostolic Administration of Cephalonia, the Diocese of Cattaro, the Apostolic Vicariate of Norw»y, the Maronite Patriarchate, the Diocese of Harbor Grace, that of Smyrna, and that of Mo-sul. Beginning with the second hundred, the first tea students are for the Diocese of Buffalo and Halifax, N.S., the Viearistes Apostolic of Constantinople, St. George, N.F. and Southern Ho-Nan (three students;, the Dioceses of Damascus, Lismore, Dublin, and Lugano.