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THOMAS JAMES CONATY
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duct; reverence for God; devotion to his church; earnest religious life; hatred for wrong wherever found; no compromise with evil; straightforward honorable purpose lived up to in public life." He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Georgetown university in 1889, and from Laval university in 1896, and that of J. CD. from Laval university in 1896. He is the author of a work for parochial and Sunday schools entitled : "Bible Studies" (1897).

For four years, 1893-97 he edited and published a magazine called "The School and Home Magazine," in the interest of the schools of the church to which he has always devoted his best talents in his desire to forward high educational ideals.