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of the high standard of wo:r'k maintained thl~oughout
St. Mary's
college.
practice the i
In addition~ the pupils are taught to put into
/
als of Catholic education which Cardinal
Nemnan has epitomised as follows:-
"I wish the inte ect to range with the utmost freedor:1,
but what I am stipulating for is, that they should be
round in one and the same place, and exemplified in the
same person. I vvant the same roof to contain both the
intellectual and moral discipline. 11
A junior Mercy Guild by its activities keeps the school
children in touch with the needy, and an enthusiastic Old
Girls' Association unites ex-students who joyfully look
f o rv1ard to their ra-union$.
1 85Q_z_ 8'-". PATRICK' 8 AUC;~LANl): T H , the first school in
v;hich the Sisters taught, gave place in 1880 to the new·
convent and schools erected by Archbishop Steins, S.J. on
the
te now occupied by the l!,ai'mers' Parlcing Area, corner
of Hobson and Wyndham Streets. Thousands of scholars
conned their daily tasks in this school which in time gav:e
way to the new st. Patriclc' s, a handsome brick building
erec
d on a new site and adorned with the wooden crosses
of "Old St. Patrick's," which it st
rears aloft as it
dail~r gathers in its three • hundred pupils. To this primary
school is. attached a registered Technical School in which
pupils pursue an efficient post-primary course.
j_862, ST. JOHN'SLPARNSLL:
A little cottage, to which the
Sisters either wallced or drove in the Bishop's carriage,