Elizabeth Sarah Kite papers, 1865-1954 (MC 2)
...1909 to 1918, Kite was employed in the research laboratory at the Vineland Training School, and conducted research in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. She translated Development of Intelligence in Children and The Intelligence of the Feeble-Minded by Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon (translation published 1916). She also researched
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
.... During the Battle of Gettysburg which occurred during July 1863, the greatest number of wounded were admitted to the hospital in a single month. The following month of August saw the greatest number of deaths in any one month, averaging at least one per day. In just one year,
Starting from Scratch: The Story of Msgr. Hawks and St. Joan of Arc Parish
...ocese, the name of the new parish was needed. The Chancellor rung me up to obtain the desired information. I told him without a moment’s hesitation that its name was St. Joan of Arc; and this it became from that moment.” The next challenge was acquiring the land where the
An “Un-American Invention”?: Catholics and the Issue of Prohibition
...d opposition to Prohibition was their belief that it was just a move by Protestants to outlaw Catholicism, since wine is a necessary part of the Mass. Indeed, it was only through lawsuits in states with “bone-dry” laws like Oklahoma did Catholics preserve the right to obtain and use altar