The courses offered by the School of the Sacred Sciences are for graduates only, i.e., for students who have completed both their col legiate studies and the usual course (five years) of the theological seminary. In other schools, some of the courses are for graduates only, but most of them are open to undergraduates, i.e., to students who have completed a four years' high school course. Students who apply for admission without certificate of previous study must take an examination in accordance with the requirements of the college entrance exami nation board.
Grouped about the university are the houses of study of the religious orders: the Paulists, Marists, Fathers of the Holy Cross, Franciscans, Sulpicians, Dominicans, Brothers of Mary, Carmelites, Oblates and Missionaries of Divine Love. Each order maintains a col lege which is open only to members of the order, and in which courses of instruction are given with special reference to the needs of the students and their training as religious. For advanced courses these students attend the university. Other institutions affiliated with the university are the Saint Paul Seminary, Saint Paul, Minn.; the Institute of Scientific Study, New York city; Mount Saint Mary's Seminary of the West, Cincinnati, Ohio; and the Apostolic Mission House, Washington, D. C.
The Catholic Sisters College (50 students), established in 1911, receives only members of female religious communities who desire to prepare for the work of teaching. The courses of instruction are given by professors from the university and the requirements for degrees are the same as those prescribed for candidates within the university.
Trinity College (256 students), founded in 1897, has for its purpose the higher education of women. It is conducted by the Sisters of Notre Dame of Namur and is affiliated with the university, some of the courses being given by university instructors.
Since 1911 summer courses have been given by the university at Washington and since 1914 at Dubuque, Iowa. They are followed by members of the teaching conunimities and by lay teachers, the average attendance being 600.
In 1912 the university adopted a plan for the affiliation of colleges and high schools. The course of study in the affiliated institution must be approved by the university which also sets .the examination. At t 10 .colleges and 112 high schools are aSdiated.
The publications that issue from the univer sity are: The Catholic University Bulletin; The Catholic. Educational Review; The Corptu Scriptorum Christianornen Orientalium; The Catholic Historical Review and The Catholic Charities Review.
Bibliography.— Becker, 'Plan for the Pro —Becker, Catholic University' (in Americas Cath olic Quarterly Review, 1876, p. ' 655) • Hewitt, 'The Catholic University of America On Cath olic World, xlii, 223); Keane, 'The Catholic University of America and its Constitutions' (in Catholic World, xlix, 427); Mulvany, 'The Catholic University of America' (in American Catholic Quarterly Review, July 1903) ; Shahan, 'The House of God' (New York, 1905, p. 326) ; id., 'The Catholic University of America, 1889-1916' (in Catholic World, June 1916).