there are difficulties here in England which are unlike those that had to be faced in the United States. But difficulties must not daunt us in our efforts for the church. They have not daunted us hitherto. We have met and matched, successfully on the whole, innumerable difficulties already in our struggles to provide facilities for higher education. And if we are to keep the higher education of our more leisured classes in safe hands we shall have to face more difficulties still. That education must be Catholic and it must be up to date. If not, then we shall soon find out that Catholic parents will obtain elsewhere what they do not find provided for them by the church. And of this fact signs are not wanting already. All over the country we have higher schools, and in many of them there are men and women of superior ability. But in these days no teacher can possibly keep abreast of the literature, the science, the research, the speculation, by his unaided efforts. The best among us after a time grows deeply and sadly conscious of his inability to keep up with the rushing current of thought. Could any better and more economical solution be found than that of consecrating say one week of the annual school holidays to the delightful pleasure of a Summer-School, where men of the highest talents would, each in his own sphere of work, pour forth to the eager listeners the treasures of knowledge of which he was the acknowledged master? How better or more easily could you learn just where truth is suffering hot attack, just where insidious error is slowly creeping in? And the while, leisure and recreation and social intercourse would make the days pass in pleasure and instructive interest. To many a wearied teacher, to many a weary thinker, such a week would be an oasis in the desert. Have we no men of zeal and leisure who would undertake this great work for the Catholic Church? Some time ago its inauguration seemed on the eve of accomplishment. 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