If Germans can proudly boast of their twenty-seven Universities--if Italians can point to twenty-one Universities, awaking from their slumbers at the call of liberty--if little Belgium can support her four Universities, all active, and required by the wants of her people--surely it cannot be too much for the Irish people, divided as they unhappily are by distinctions of religion and bitter recollections of ancient feuds, to ask that the Protestant University of Elizabeth, and the Secular University of Victoria, shall be supplemented by a Catholic University, possessing the confidence of Irish Catholics, and sharing with her friendly rivals, no longer jealous sisters, the glorious task of leading the youth of Ireland into the pleasant paths of Literature and Science. The milk-white Lily is not less beautiful than the crimson Rose; let them flourish side by side in the garden of Ireland. FOOTNOTES: 1: Roman Catholics were first admitted into Trinity College by an Act passed by the Irish Parliament in 1793. End of Project Gutenberg's University Education in Ireland, by Samuel Haughton