CARDINAL HINSLEY AT THE BEDA A Memento that " Talks Italian "

Cardinal Hinsley, accompanied by Mgr. Godfrey (rector of the English College), and Mgr. Ewles, lunched, on January 3, at the Beda College, where he has ten students, Acknowledging the enthusiastic welcome accorded to him by the students, he spoke of the developments of ecclesiastical education in Rome in the last twenty years or so. When the two col'eges for English students were in the same house, their combined number reached little more than fifty. After the separation in 1918, both colleges developed, and now the English College had eighty and the Beda fifty members.
The rector, Mgr. Duchemin, after congratulating His Eminence on behalf of the staff and students, referred to that illustrious predecessor in the See of Westminster, Cardinal Vaughan, who had urged Pope Leo XIII to set up an additional college in Rome for Englishmen, where older men could be prepared for the priesthood. He referred to the remarkable stream of priests (rhany of them became martyrs) who had flowed from the Venerable English College for four centuries, and hoped that Beda students would always live up to the reputation gainea by those who had already been through the college. His Eminence, he said, was an outstanding example of a priest from Rome. He had been a student and then rector of the English College, and when he had reached an age when most men thought only of the ease of an armchair, he entered vigorously into the task of guiding the See of Westminster.
Mgr. Duchemin asked the Cardinal to accept a small token of the esteem and affection felt for him at the Beda. Knowing his love of Italy, they had obtained a little desk clock which " talked Italian "that is, in addition to telling the time of day it recorded the passing of the days of the week, the names being printed in Italian!
After luncheon His Eminence stayed for some time talking with the students, and in giving his blessing he asked that a special holiday should be granted in hip honour.,