Success of Catholic Colleges

New Zealand Tablet, 20 September 1906, Page 11

Success of Catholic Colleges

The Honors lists of the Royal University Arts Examinations, which were recently held, have -been published (writes a Dublin correspondent), and they prove more conclusively than ever the great superiority of the unendowed Catholic colleges of Ireland over the Queen's colleges that receive £34,000 a year, from the State. University College, Stephen's Green, as usual, heads the list with seventy-one distinctions, while the Queen's colleges of. Belfast, Cork, and Gafway combined only muster forty-one. Blackrockr College, County Dublin, conducted by the Fathers of the Holy Ghost, won twenty-one exhibitions or four- more than tne Cork and Galway Queen's colleges together obtained. Seeing, that Blackrock does not 'get one penny endowment either -directly or indirectly, this is a most creditable performance, and speaks volumes for the excellent education imparted in this old-established and widely-known college. Maynooth College and Loreto College for girls, Stephen's Green,, won each thirty honors. Owing to the quality of the distinctions won by the latter it is placed second in the Honors list. Both obtained six distinctions more than the Queen's College, Belfast. Among the successes may be men- . tioned St. _ Mary's College;- Eccles street, and Mungret College, Limerick ; they received twenty-one and ten honors respectively.