HOLY GROSS COLLEGE, MOSGIEL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3517, 9 August 1921, Page 37

HOLY GROSS COLLEGE, MOSGIEL.

The professors and students of Holy Cross College, Mosgiel, tendered an official welcome to his Lordship the Right Rev. Dr Whyte, bishop of the diocese, on last Monday evening in tho college library. The Very Rev. Father Coffey, Adm., accompanied his Lordship. The rector (the Rev. Father Morkane) extended a cordial welcome to the bishop, and an address was read by the Rev. J. Fenton. An excellent concert was given by the students. His Lordship the Bishop, in replying, said it gave him keen pleasure—greater perhaps than the students realised —to be among them. He had always taken a deep interest in educational matters, and had already learned with pride of the success of the students of Holy Cross in the University examinations. Has Lordship referred in grateful terms to his revered predecessor, the late Bishop Verdon, who had done so much to bring Holy Cross to its presea* high standard. He further expressed his sincere appreciation of the sterling worse of Bishop Liston as rector of the college to whom not only tho Dunedin diocese, but all New Zealand owed a very great debt. Right through New Zealand Mosgiel students were found doing splendid work. Dr Whyte, while exhorting the students to aim at the highest ideal of 'earning, pointed out that sanctity was the real foundation ot tho priest’s life and work. In, conclusion, his Lordship promised to visit tho college frequently, and to take a deep, practical interest in all that tended to its welfare.