Posts with the tag: Trinity College

The Archivist’s Nook: A Flapper, a Nurse, and a Nun Apply to Catholic University…

I am not pleading for co-education or the admission of “flappers” into the University, but I am pleading for the cause of the women who mean more for the Church in America in one sense, than all its Hierarchy and all its Priests. – Archbishop Michael Curley to Peter Guilday, October 10, 1924 Among the Read More

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The Archivist’s Nook: Roving Students Save Rector from Wreck

Catholic University, Fall 1904: Unpaved roads. No streetlights. A moonless November evening. A horse and buggy, and a wobbly trolley car. A formula for disaster? As it turns out, that night it was. But guess what? A fearless group of wandering CUA undergrads saved the day! The first thing you need to know about this Read More

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