Misericordia Hospital
...ued to expand and would add two more wings over the years, bring the total number of beds to 400 by 1968.[12] The Nursed Record of the First Graduating Class of the Misericordia Hospital (Philadelphia 1921), 32. An important component of Misericordia hospital was its use as a teaching center
Roman Catholic and Archdiocese High Schools
...the Catholic Girls High School, the first Diocesan Catholic high school in America. A few years later at the request of Mrs. McMichan, it was renamed the J. W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School after her brother.[10] Hallahan Opening Day With only one high school for boys and girls for
Education
...ools caused concern that public schools would be completely replaced. “The American River Ganges. The priests and the children,” December, 30, 1871 One of Nast’s most famous cartoons, “The American River Ganges,” depicts bishops shaped as crocodiles coming to devour children as a public school lays in ruins. Nast believed