Newman Centers
...ics attending University of Pennsylvania, which was greater than the total number of students attending the five local Catholic Colleges.[5] It should be noted that at this time two different Catholic organizations operated at the University of Pennsylvania. First was the Catholic Student’s Organization Committee (replaced the defunct Newman Club),
Roman Catholic and Archdiocese High Schools
...ion rate, Roman Catholic quickly became popular so that by the turn of the century they needed entrance exams to select the incoming students.[6] Roman Catholic football team 1924 As the school expanded academically, it also started to branch out into athletics and other extracurricular activities. The first recorded interscholastic
A “petulant girl”?: Josephine Walsh’s diaries
...be a writer, but this was a tough dream for a woman in the early twentieth century. It appears that her family did not support her ambition. Her brother James in particular had a very strict idea of a woman’s domestic responsibilities, and did not allow her to pursue anything
In Her Own Right: Jane and Marianne Campbell
Sarah Jane Campbell Marianne Campbell As part of the In Her Own Right project through PACSCL, we have been able to digitize the correspondence of Marianne and Sarah Jane (referred to as Jane) Campbell. As discussed in a past blog post, the sisters were actively involved in the suffragist movement