ey are not "the pulse of the machine." The
great business of a university is to teach; the highest academic level
should be its worthy ambition. The teachers are the real makers of a
seat of higher learning, they pitch high or low the standard of learning.

This great work will demand from every Catholic a continued effort of
loyal and generous support. The Canon-law, the Councils, the
exhortations of the Pope insists on this support of Catholic
universities. Particularly those who are blessed with the goods of this
world and to whom Providence has been generous, should remember that
"their wealth has a fiduciary character; a character that entails duties
towards the Catholic community at large, none less obligatory because
they are rooted in the virtue of _charity_, instead of the virtue of
_justice_."

But experience tells us that our Catholic institutions are founded and
supported more by the "widow's mite" than by the millionaires' donations.
The support will come from the Catholic communities of Western Canada; it
will indeed come with most gratifying results _if the appeal is lofty in
its motive and proposal, concerted and systematic in its action_.

We are not to go to the Catholics of the West with an appeal in one hand
and an apology in the other. A straightforward, self-respecting
presentation of our cause will bring a no less straightforward and
self-respecting response. To make this appeal an unqualified success
there must be also concerted action. Intensive efforts alone bring
results. This means the canvass of the West for this single purpose, at
a stated time. But any canvass of this kind, to be effective, must be
prepared by an educational campaign. Give the Catholics, we maintain,
the vision of their duty, sound the call . . . and they will respond.
For indifference, profound and widespread,--fruit of ignorance more than
of ill-will,--would be the greatest obstacle to overcome. Arousing
interest will be the initial task. In Australia, Archbishop Mannix
organized a campaign, in co-operation with his suffragan bishops, for the
purpose of the Catholic College of Melbourne and from June to December,
1916, half a million of dollars was collected. The Catholics of Western
Canada are just as ready, we claim, to furnish such annual payment as
would be wanted: if only they are properly called upon. But this proper
calling involves first a systematic and periodical recommendation of its
claims by