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free, open air — while the College itself, though 

 situated within the city limits, is far enough removed 

 from the business-part to make it favourable to the 

 pursuits of study. 



He had now completed his College, his Seminary, 

 the two Catholic English churches of St. Mary's and 

 St. Patrick's, the two Catholic German churches of 

 St. Peter and St. Joseph in the city, and the diocese 

 was in a flourishing condition. But there was yet 

 a want unsupplied. The male youths of the congre- 

 gation were furnished with good schools and proper 

 facilities for receiving instruction ; the female portion 

 had as yet no such facilities. But if they were 

 unprovided, it was not because he did not feel the 

 necessity of such provision, but because it could not 

 possibly have been sooner made. 



No man living was more deeply impressed with 

 the necessity of a proper training for the female 

 youth than Bishop Quarter. He knew that to 

 them, as mothers, wives and daughters, would in a 

 great measure be entrusted the character of his 

 people. He knew that the society in which they 

 might mingle, would bear the character they would 

 stamp upon it, and that by his mother would the 

 man be marked for weal or wo. It is true that 

 those female children whose parents could watch 

 over them, might fulfil their expectations; but 

 what would have become of the female poor, whose 

 parents, in their hard struggle for bread, had no 

 time to devote to them, and could not provide them 

 with instructors? How could these ever hope to 



