VOL. VI. GEORGETOWN COLLEGE, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1877. No. 1.

(Copyright Secured.) Daniel Carroll, jr., the elder son of Daniel, be- bitterness and the increase (to some limited came a member of the first senate formed in degree) of educational facilities, require that THE Maryland after the adoption of its constitu- he should. EARLY HISTORY tion; was a delegate to the Continental Con- Bohemia Academy, however, is said to have gress from 1780 to 1784; signed the articles of sheltered at one time nearly twenty of the sons OF Confederation, and, as a member of the federal of the richer Catholic Marylanders. Among GEORGETOWN COLLEGE, convention of 1787, also the Constitution ; was young Carroll’s schoolmates were his cousin a representative in Congress from Maryland, Charles, the subsequent signer of the Declara- WITH A from 1789 to 1791; voted while in Congress tion of Independence, and Robert Brent of for locating the seat of government on the BIOGKAPHICAI SKETCH OF ITS Aquia Creek, Stafford Co., Ya., whose ances- Potomac, and was very influential in carrying tor emigrated to the Old Dominion from Eng- FOUNDER, that measure through : was appointed by Gen. land in 1687, under a special protection from Washington in 1791 one of the three Commis- James II.; a safeguard rendered necessary in and extracts from bis sioners for locating and surveying the District the condition of the laws of Virginia at that CORRESP ONDENCE. ines. He died in May, 1796,* aged 66. time against Catholics. In 1747, when young John, tlie younger son, was sent by his Carroll had spent a year or less at Bohemia, he John Carroll, the founder of Georgetown parents,—being then about eleven years of age, was sent with these two companions to St. College, born at Upper Marlboro’, Prince —to acquire the rudiments of education at a Omer’s in French Flanders, to complete his George’s Co., Md., Jan. 8th, 1735, was the school kept by the Jesuits at Bohemia Manor education. St. Omer’s was established by the third son of Daniel Carroll and Eleanor Darn- in Cecil Co. Of this school, which may be English Jesuits in 1590, or towards the end of all. The Darnalls were Catholics, eaily set- called the predecessor of Georgetown, no his- the reign of Elizabeth, as a school for the tlers, and at one time, large land-holders in tory is preserved : even the building in which Catholic youth of England, who were denied all Maryland. Mrs. Carroll’s youthful years were it was held was destroyed by fire many years means of education at home except upon the spent in France, where she had been sent to ago,—the fate which has since overtaken the abandonment of their faith. About five years be educated: thus, to a noble character, she old academy at St. ^Thomas’ Manor, and the before the entrance of the three young Amer- added a cultivated mind and accompbshed ancient residences of St. Inigoes and White- icans, an additional establishment for the re- manners. Her husband emigrated’from Ireland, marsh, whereby doubtless much historical ception of young, boys had been opened at St. with his father, Charles Carroll, in 1680. The material has been lost. It is not to be expec- Omer’s by the Fathers: here, these youths latter had been clerk to Lord Powis, one of ted, however, that many details of the school doubtless entered: passing in the course of James IPs ministers, and on his arrival in the at Bohemia should be found on record : it was time, to the greater College. The Carrolls colony, was made Judge and Register of the held in a retired nook of Maryland, and affor- spent six years at St. Omer’s, and Brent prob- Land Office. He was also agent and receiver ded a resource for the education of the sons oi ably did the same. the Catholic colonists which was unattainable of rents for Lord Baltimore. The Carroll fam- At the end of the six years course, namely elsewhere in the colony, under the persecuting ily, an ancient and distinguished one at home, in 1753, John, feeling himself called to the re- laws that then prevailed. A very considerable had lost their estates through their fidelity to ligious state, entered the Novitiate of the period doubtless intervened between active the old religion ; in Maryland, they doubtless Jesuits at Watten, two leagues from St. operations at this old school of the hunted more than made up their losses, for Charles and Omer’s. Charles proceeded for further study Jesuits and the foundation made in happier his descendants became possessed of large and to the establishments of the Jesuits at Rheims days on the heights of Georgetown. There valuable tracts of land in the colony. But as and Paris, began the study of the law at was but one priest, Father Peter Morris,f of the Catholics were at that time as insecure in their Bourges and completed it at the Temple in late Society, residing at Bohemia at the time rights in Maryland as elsewhere under British London. He did not return to his native coun- of the American Revolution, as there was but I domination, Charles was in 1718 expressly ex- try until 1764, when he was twenty-seven one a hundred years later, Fr. George Villi- empted* from any disqualification on account years of age. This pupil of the Jesuits profited ger, S. J., the present resident. The school of his religion. He died about 1747, and left, by his long training among them to become, must have ceased to be kept before Father besides Daniel, a son Charles, born in Mary- soon after his arrival, the foremost advocate of Morris’s time: it is not likely that one priest, land, 1702, who married Elizabeth Brook, be- civil liberty in Maryland. His subsequent I with the care of a mission and the cultivation came the lather of Charles Carroll of Carroll- career is too well known to be further dwelt of a farm depending on him, could take charge ton, and died in 1782. Daniel, the other son of upon here. On the completion of his novice- of scholars: nor did the changed circumstances tile first Charles, became a merchant in Upper ship in 1755, John, our young Jesuit, was sent of tlie time, in the relaxation of anti-Catholic Marlboro’, acquired wealth, and died during to the Society’s house in Liege to make his his son John’s absence abroad; whereupon his *Banman : Dictionary of Congress. J. Carroll studies in philosophy and theology. After the. widow moved to Rock Creek, with her family. Brent’s Biographical Sketch of Archbishop Carroll. completion of a four years course of study, he DaniiJ left two sons and several daughters. 1'Fr. Morris entered the missions of Maryland in 1768, and. died at Newtown, St. Mary’s Co., Nov, was ordained priest in 1759, being then twenty- * Hanson : Old Kent of Maryland.—P. 141. 19, 1783. four years of age : was immediately sent to St. 2 COLLEGE JOURNAL.

Omer’s to teac)! : and subsequently to Liege, dents’ Sodality there, than the brief of Clement the relations between England and her Ameri- can colonies, warned him not to delay the exe- where he wasjlrofessor of philosophy and then XIV. suppressing the Society was published. cution of his intention. Moreover, a venerable of theology. 1 His theological manuscripts, It had been signed by the Pope on the 21st of mother, now in her seventieth year, and to which he prepared for his own use, either as July, but was kept secret in the interval, or at whom he was ever devotedly attached, still student or professor, are still preserved in least until announced to the Fathers in Rome Georgetown College library. on the 16th of August. It reached Bruges only awaited him there. The state of religion, too, called for such service as he was able to render. In the meantime, the conspiracy against re- on the 5th of September, and was immediately He accordingly set sail, and after the usual ligion and social order which met its culmina put into execution by the Austrian authori- tedious voyage of those days, landed upon his ting point later, in the French Revolution of ties, as it had been everywhere else under the native soil, in the vicinity of Richland, the 1789, made an important advance by the ex- Bourbon governments, with great brutality. seat of the Brents at Acquia Creek, June 26th, pulsion of the Jesuits from French territory in Father Carroll, writing to his brother on the 1774. Here, two of his sisters resided, one 1762* In consequence, both St. Omer’s and 11th September, six days after, announces the married to William Brent, the other to his the novitiate at Watten were closed, and their catastrophe that nad overtaken himself and his kinsman Robert, the former schoolmate of inmates transferred to Bruges in Austrian brethren, and adds: “I am not, and perhaps John Carroll at Bohemia Manor and St. Netherlands, whither they were invited by the never shall be recovered from the shock of Omer’s. The two younger sisters resided with people, the magistracy, and even the Austrian this dreadful intelligence. The greatest bless- their mother at Rock Creek, in what was then imperial authorities : invited, only to be again ing which in my estimation I could receive Frederick Co., (now Montgomery Co.,—set olf plundered, maltreated, and banished twelve from God, would be immediate death : but if in 1776), a few miles north-eastof Georgetown. years later by these same authorities on the he deny me this, may his holy and adorable Hither, he hastened, after a brief stay of two publication of the Brief suppressing the Socie- designs on me be wholly fulfilled.” He refers days witli the Brents. The emotions of mother ty, in 1773. A most affecting narrative! of the to the functions exercised in times past by the circumstances attending this later event was Society, and to the labors and charities to and son on embracing one another after a sepa- ration of twenty seven years—years so event- subsequently written out by Rev. Mr. Carroll, which its members devoted themselves, and ful to him,—may well be imagined. The during his stay in England. At the time of the continues: “Such I have beheld it in every suppression, there were 220 students at part of my travels, the first of all ecclesiastical change that time had made in him from a lad of twelve to a man of forty, made her fail to Bruges, many of them members of ancient or bodies in the esteem and canfidence of the recognize him at first, so it is said. noble Catholic families of England. Mean- faithful, and certainly the most laborious. while, in 1771, before the final crash came, What will become of our flourishing congre- At the time of Rev. Mr. Carroll’s arrival, Father John Carroll took his last vows as Pro- gations with you, and those cultivated by the there were living in Maryland and Pennsyl- fessed Father of the Society of Jesus. By ap- German fathers ? These reflections crowd so twenty-two priests who were members pointment of superiors, and at the request of fast upon me that I almost lose my senses of the Society when it was disbanded. They Lord Stourton, whose son was doubtless among He then announces his intention, now that he were* : Thomas Digges, Benedict Neale, John the students at Bruges at that time, he took is left to his own direction, of returning to Lewis, Mathias Manners, Ferdinand Farmer, charge of the latter as travelling tutor during Maryland the next spring, if possible. Joseph Moseley, James Frambach, James Pel- 1772-3. They visited together, France, Ger- After the suppression, the English Jesuits,— lentz, Lewis Reels, John B. De Ritter, John many, Switzerland, Italy, &c., an account of or rather now ex-Jesuits,—returned to then- ■Boone, James Walton, Ignatius Matthews, the tour being preserved in a journal kept by own country, and Rev. Mr. Carroll accom- Peter Morris, Lucas Geisler, George Hunter, Fr. Carroll .| panied them. In England, he acted as the Robert Molyneux, John Bolton, Sylvester He had no sooner restored the Hon. Mr. secretary at their meetings, and also conducted Boarman, John Boarman, Charles Sewall and Stourton to his father’s hands in England, and an important correspondence* with the French Austin Jenkins. The names are here given in returned to Bruges to take charge of the stu- government with regard to the property of the the order in which they came to Maryland: suppressed Society7 in France. Shortly after the first named arrived in 1741, and the two *M the death, in 1764, of the depraved Madame his arrival in England, he was invited by Lord last a month previous to Mr. Carroll. Messrs. de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XY., it was expected by the friends of the Jesuits that they Arundel—a member of a distinguished family Digges, Neale, Boone, Matthews, Sewall, Jen- Would be restored to France, now that one of their that still adhered to the ancient faith—to be- most influential enemies was removed. Father come the chaplain of his household at Wardour •*This list differs materially from the one given Carrol1 seems to have shared in these expectations, Castle. “It was appropriate,” remarks the by Campbell and followed by Clarke: but it is as appears from a letter of his written at this time made up from an authoritative source,—a manu- late lamented B. U. Campbell,! “ that he who script register in the archives of the Provincial of to his brother Daniel. See Brent’s Biography, was to begin the hierarchy of the United p. 29. An interesting letter to the same, written in Maryland, containing the dates of the arrival of 1769, on the occasion of the death of Clement XIII, States in Maryland, should find a home during the several Fathers who served the missions of whose namesake and successor suppressed the exile, in the halls where was born the wife! of Maryland between 1632 and 1784. On a succeeding Society, appears on P. 27 et seq. It gives some in- Cecilius Lord Baltimore, the founder of Mary- page is a record of deaths By comparing the two, this list has been obtained. The first death among sight into the plots against the Jesuits which were land.” During his stay of less than a year even then being actively urged at Borne. those hamed above is that of Father Mathias Man- 1-Manuscript copy from the original, made by with the Arundels lie made many warm friends ners (originally Siettensperger), who died,[June Rev Dr Chas. I. White while assistant pastor at among the Catholic clergy and gentry, whom 15th] 1775: the last is that of Sylvester Boarman. the Baltimore Cathedral: the concluding portion he never ceased to cherish in his subsequent who died Jan. 11th, 1811. The register referred to is lacking. Mr. Brent, in his Biography (P. 21) re- recollections. However, he had, as we have mentions a Father Anthony Carroll as having ar- rived with his namesake John, and on the same fers to two other narratives of Father Carroll’s seen, expressed his intention of returning as from both of which he quotes. One describes the day, June 26th, 1774, but he probably made no stay means resorted to by the enemies of the Society in soon as practicable to the land of his birth and in this country. He is recorded in “ Oliver’s Col- high places to procure its destruction. The other of his love : and the threatening condition of lections” among the Irish members S.J.,but nothing is said of his flying visit to Maryland. He was was “an able andeloauent vindication of the Socie- *RichardH. Clarke, L.L.D., Lives of Deceased ty” from the charges unjustly brought against it born in 1722, ordained at Liege in 1754, was on the Bishops. by its enemies. The latter, having been circulated mission in England, and became a Professed in manuscript form, and never printed, is said to -f“ Life and Times of Archbishop Carroll,” U. S. Father. He died of a violent assault made on him be almost entirely lost. ... Catholic Magazine, 1844. for the purpose of robbery, in the streets of Lon- jAnne Arundel Co., set off under Cecilius in 1650, don, 1794. +The “Journal” appears in full in the Appendix was named after this lady. to Mr. Brent’s book. COLLEGE JOURNAL 3

kins, and the Boarmans, were natives of Mary- during his residence at Rock Creek, though each of the farms a small church was built, or land, of well-known Catholic families. These written in 1779, explains his circumstances at a room in the dwelling set apart for a chapel, clergymen were all supported from the reve- the outset. “ Mo such division of property lias to which the Catholics for many miles around nues of the former Jesuit estates, which re- yet taken place here as you mention in England; repaired on Sundays and festivals* “Some mained intact after the dissolution of the So- on the contrary, everything lias been con- of these chapels are still standing,” says Mc- ciety, and were administered by Rev. John ducted as heretofore. I think the English Sherry,f “as monuments of the intolerance of Lewis, the late superior of the Jesuits, and now plan has too much of the frigidum illud ver- the age before the revolution of 1776, when, in the vicar of the Catholic bishop of London, or bum. I think we unfortunate inhabitants of the general emancipation which that glorious “Vicar Apostolic of the London District,” as the foreign houses are doomed to be the out- struggle secured, religious liberty again be- the title ran until the restoration of the English casts of every society. Robbed and plundered came the proud and holy heritage of Mary- hierarchy under Cardinal Wiseman in 1850. at Bruges, dismissed without any consideration land.” One such is still to be seen at Dough- Rev. Mr. Lewis, as the representative of the or reparation, excluded from a share in Eng- oregan Manor, the former residence of Charles London prelate, held the position of superior land, we must try if heaven will not make us Carroll of Carrollton, a chapel} connected with over all the Catholic clergy in the colonies : amends hereafter for all our losses here. As the mansion by a continuous roof, and in those and when the colonies became states, still held you are shut out from a share in England, so days attended once a month by a priest from it until the appointment by the Holy See of am I here. I have care of a very large congre- Whitemarsh, who then passed on to “Balti- Rev. Mr. Carroll himself as superior in 1784. gation, have often to ride twenty-five or thirty- more Town” to say Mass in Thos. Fotterall’s Although the late members of the Society miles to the sick ; besides which, I go once a unfinished building, near the site of the present were no longer bound by the vow of obedience month between fifty and sixty miles to another Battle monument. Or, for the accommodation to the superior, they acted under Rev. Mr. congregation in Virginia”—the Brents and of the Acadian French, a portion of those who Lewis’s direction, and'he expected the ac- their Catholic neighbors at Acquia Creek.— had been banished by the British from Canada knowledgement of his authority to assign them “yet, because I live with my mother, for whose in 1756, and had settled in South Charles to such stations as he thought proper.* Rev. sake alone I sacrificed the very best place in street, he held service in one of their houses in Mr. Carroll, having chosen [Rock Creek as his England, and told Mr. Lewis that I did not that section, a section then and long after residence, and being unwilling to be separated choose to be subject to be removed from place known as French-town. Old St. Peter’s, in from his venerable parent, was held by Mr. to place, now that we had no longer the vow Baltimore, a little structure of twenty-five by Lewis not to be entitled to any salary or emol- of obedience to entitle us to the merit of it, he thirty feet (afterwards enlarged when the ument from the means of the former Society. does not choose to bear any part of my expen- Bishop made it his Cathedral church) was at With that disinterestedness which was a ses. I do no not mention this by way of com- last built in 1770-1,—at whose instigation it striking feature in his character, he acquiesced plaint, as I am perfectly easy at present,” &c. does not appear,—but remained unfinished and in this decision although not possessed of any These old estates of the Jesuits which fur- unopened until after the Revolutionary war, on means of his own : unless indeed, his brother nished them with a support even after the dis- account of the bankruptcy of the builder, a and sisters restored to him the patrimony he solution of their Society, it might be well to certain John McNabb. Had it even been used had divested himself of in their favor on be- remark, were acquired by their first mission- sooner, in contravention of the act of 1704, coming a Professed Father in 1771. This aries in Maryland in 1634 and subsequent “for preventing the growth of Popery”,§ it is seems not unlikely, for otherwise he would years, under the “conditions of plantation” hardly likely, in the ameliorated temper of the have been wholly dependant upon his mother, which entitled every settler who brought five times, that the officers of the law would have as he brought nothing with him from Europe. able bodied men into the province at his own seriously molested anybody connected with it. When he and his brethren were expelled from expense, to two thousand acres of land, at a Elsewhere in Maryland, however, no experi- Bruges, they wore deprived not only of all the small quit rent. These possessions were in- ments of the kind were tried until all these property belonging to the Society, but of their creased by a few donations of land from the persecuting enactments were struck from her personal effects, even to the books of which Indians during the first years of the settle- statute-books by the effect of the Revolution. they were individually possessed. Yet at Rock ment, for building churches and supporting When Rev. Mr. Carroll established himself at Creek, in addition to the ordinary expenses of priests in the Indian nations.* The Indians of Rock Creek, he was content with fitting up a living, he was obliged to keep a horse for the Maryland were faithfully served while they re- room in his mother’s house, which served as a long journeys required in visiting the scattered mained on the soil, and by their docility and chapel, and could even perhaps accommodate Catholics of the adjacent region, and it is not gentleness gave evidence of the good effects of at first all the Catholics of the neighborhood. improbable, besides, that he observed the cus- the Catholic instruction they received: while, He afterwards built, upon a knoll within view tom of his clerical brethren in Maryland at as to the whites, they were at no further ex- of his mother’s house a little church, which that time, of inviting to breakfastf those who pense for the support of the missionaries, who was thus described in 1844 :f “an humble had come from a long distance (fasting, of maintained themselves, at least after a time, frame building of about thirty feet square, course) to partake of holy communion,—a kind on their own farms. Some of these farms are which still remains, though often patched and and thoughtful proceeding no doubt, and char- still preserved : it was from their revenues or seldom painted, a frail and tottering memorial acteristic of Maryland hospitality, but none from sales of lands that Georgetown College of its saintly pastor, and an evidence of the the less a pecuniary burthen to the host. was mainly built, before the Society was re- humble condition of Catholics sixty years ago.” A letter to his friend Plowden in England, stored : and after the restoration, that the Since that time, the old building has been re- ^Campbell: “Life and Times,” &c. means were found for the support of the novi placed by a larger frame structure more tOampbell: “ Life and Times,” t&c., U, S. Cath. tiate, and in later days, the Woodstock scho- neatly kept, and attended twice a month by Mag. for 1S4S. lasticate. the pastor of Rockville. It bears the name of The letter quoted in the succeeding paragraph to When, in 1689, the persecution of the Catho- the above, is from, the Yol. for 1814. It appears lics began at the hands of those to whom they ^Campbell. from it that the English ex-Jesuits, with the excep- had given a shelter from persecution else- t History of Maryland, P. 96. tion of those who lived abroad at the time of the where, these farms served another useful pur- JEn this chapel is the tomb of the venerable ■'Oppression, were supported, like those of Mary- pose; Catholic worship, forbidden everywhere Signer. land, from the former means of the Society. Fr. else, was permitted in private houses; and on §Laws of Maryland, 1701, Chap. 95 : quoted by Plowden, having been a resident abroad for many Campbell. years, was thus excluded. ♦Campbell, ^TOampbell. ft

(alas for human resolutions!) The No Names “St. John’s,” as doubtless its predecessor did, at the bat, Livingston led off for them, with On Tuesday Sept. 18th, the Philonomasian a tribute by the original builder to the apostle “three strikes and out,” and then retired to whose name he bore and whose virtues he imi- Society held their first meeting for the purpose take a back seat. The two next men thought of reorganizing, and electing their officers. tated. Around it lie the graves of many Car- it proper to follow their example, and judging The result of the election is as follows ;. rolls, relatives of the first pastor, as were also from the score, so did the whole nine through- Mr. John A. Conway, S. J., President. the Brents, Digges’s, and perhaps Fenwicks, out the remainder of the game. McMeal led Conde B. Pallen, Vice-Pres. Neales, &c., who are buried here. Within the off for the College Nine with a sweeping base Ignatius P. O’Neill, Secretary. enclosure of the Brents is the grave of his ve n- hit, and finally scored, coming in saluted by Joseph P. O’Brien, Treasurer. erable mother; the head-stone, now, after the enthusiastic plaudits of the spectators Robert 0. Jenkins, lst Censor. more than four-score years, sunk so as partly Having made eleven runs, the College Nine Raphael S. Payne, 2d Censor. to obscure the inscription. The old mansion went to the field again, and in base-ball phrase Harry C. Walsh, Amanuensis with its holy memories of mother and son, was ology “skunked” the No Names with great destroyed by fire many years since, and its site The following gentlemen constitute the Li- ease, doing the same in each succeeding inning brary Committee : J. P. O’Brien, Chairman; is occupied by a modern dwelling. The Washington boys were greatly discomfited H. C. Walsh, R. 0. Jenkins, Walter S. Clarke (To BE CONTINUED.) at Turner’s effective pitching, and were ex- and R. S. Payne. The Society bids fair to at- tremely puzzled how to hit his balls. Imnei s A SEMI-CEHTENJflAk.. tain a higher standard than it has held for splendid delivery and Walsh’s magnificent some years back. The new system as to the On Saturday, Sept. 29th, Father Curley com catching behind the bat completely demoral admittance of applicants will undoubtedly pleted his fiftieth year in the Society. M hen ized tne opposing club, and before the third prove of immense benefit. (None below Sec- he entered it, at Georgetown, the main build- inning they despaired of even scoring a single ond Grammar are admitted, unless for excep- ing and the old College were the only structures run. Timmins’ captaincy shows that he has tional (reasons. The members of the lower here: and the latter building sheltered, the lost'none of his old zeal for base-ball, and we classes have their recourse by re-orgamzmg novices. On this anniversary, the President commend the gentleman upon his manage- the Philistorian Society, which has lain dor- called the students together just as they were ment of the Nine. Callahan, Timmins, Mc- mant and unorganized for several years, not- going to middle studies, and, with Fr. Curley Meal and Kernan, shone conspicuously in their withstanding that it has a fine library. ED.) by Ids side, announced the fact from the porch batting qualities, the third mentioned making of the old College; adding, that in view of so two home runs and the last one home run. The Beading' Boom. extraordinary a circumstance, he would give following is the score of the seven innings The Reading Room Association reorganized them holiday for the remainder of the day. played: NO NAME. R. 0. on^Sunday, Sept. 16th, and elected the follow- Bis last word was almost drowned by the shout COLLEGE NINE. R. 0. that went up, the announcement having been McMeal, s. s. Curran, 3 b. 0 3. ing officers for the ensuing year : Livingston,2 b,0 3. Rev. W. T. Whiteford, S. J., President. entirely unexpected. The College flag was im- Timmins, 1. b. Walsh, c. Ringold, lb 0 3. John K. Bradford, Vice-Pres. mediately called for, and soon floated from the Page, c. f. 0 3. Callahan, 3. b. Thomas C. Blake, Reo- Sec- summit of our eighty-foot staff, the College Sweeney, 2. b Cruger, c 0 1. Band came forth, and gave, with great ap- W. Kernan, c. f. Cromwell, p 0 3. W. Gaston Payne, Treasurer. Seeker, 1. f. 0 1. John N.Fleetwood, -Librarian. plause, an exhibition of its proficiency, the , Clarke, r.f. O’Brien, 1. f. Tabalt, s. s. 0 2. William B. Carvill, Ast- Libra’n. earliest appearance in any year, of a Band. Darris, r. f. 0 2. Turner, p. Chas. O’Donovan, Frank McManus, Chas. B. Even the redoubtable C. Cowardin never got his men forward so early. . 29 21 0 21. O’Donnell, JohnD. Harvey, and John H. Bur- Father Curley’s wide circle of friends will Time, 2 hours and 5 m. leson, Censors. Umpire, Geo. Oxnard. Chas. A. DeCourcy, ) _ be glad to know that although he reaches Ins Jos. L. Morgan, > Correspond g Com. eighty-first year on the 25th of the present Scorer, A. Bodisco. Eugene S. Ives. J October, his health is excellent, with the ex- The papers with which the Reading Room ception of an occasional vertigo. It soon pliilodemic Society. opens are as follows: . passes away, with very little disadvantage un- Washington Republican and livening Star. less it happens during the celebration of Mass, Baltimore Sun and American. At a meeting held Thursday, Sept. 20th, for Philadelphia Times. An occurrence of this kind of the 18th of Sept the purpose of reorganization, the following New York Graphic, Herald, Catholic tie- ember, caused him to give up his practice of officers were chosen view, Catholic World, Semi-weekly Post, going to the Visitation Convent to say Mass President, Rev. Jas. A. Doonan, S. J. Scientific American, Turf, Field & Farm, which it had been his daily habit to do, with Wm. F. Smith. Appleton's Journal, Scribner’s Monthly. Vice-Pres., Boston Post. but few interruptions, during the last forty Recording Sec. Chas. O’Donovau. I Charleston News & Courier. three years. Assist. Rec. Sec. John N. Fleetwood. St. Louis Times. Treasurer, John K. Bradford. Base Ball. Chas. A. DeCourcy. Correspond’g Sec Billiard Boom. Chas. E. O’Connor. The first match game of the College season First Censor, was played on Tuesday, Sept. 25th, between Secondw Censor, W. Gaston Payne. The Billiard Room Association was reorgan- the No Names of Washington and the College The members of the Library Committee are ized on the 16th Sept. The officers for the Jos. L. Morgan, Eugene S. Ives, V. Howard Nine upon our Campus. A vast concourse, ensuing term are as follows : consisting chiefly of students, gathered upon Brown, Redmond D. Walsh and Thos. P. Kei- President, M. A. O’Kane, S. J« the grounds at the appointed hour, all waiting nan. Vice-Pres., Jas. E. Callahan. with impatience to see what promised to be an Secretary, Jos. L. Morgan. irterestinggame. At 1.55 P.M., the Umpire The members of the Philosophy class have Treasurer, J* C. O’Donnell. called the game, and both clubs set to work Censors—Geo. Oxnard, Wm. B. Carvill, Jno, seemtngly^etemined't^fight0!!! out'manfully'j the funeraloftlie late’ Archbishop Bayley. COLLEGE JOURNAL. 5 Malian, Chas. F. McGahan, R. S.Murphy, Jno. Assist. Cox’n. Henry V. Turner. former students, a commendable feature in D. Harvey, E. Uribe. Thomas C. Blake, ) any college paper. Of the Niagara Index we From tlie remarks made by the President of Robert 0. Jenkins, \ have no occasion to say anything : it does not the Association, there can be no doubt but Chas. E. O’Connor, Executive Committee Conde B. Pallen. seem to care for praise, and it is equally in- that the organization will be well conducted, different to censure: so that in its .case, the and that the game of billiards will be made There being no further business before the least said is the soonest mended. We read even more attractive than it was last year. house the meeting adjourned. with great interest the American Newspaper Hew fittings have lately been added to the W. F. SMITH, Reporter, Murray St., New York : no journa- tables, and new cues, as well as the implements Secretary. list could well dispense with it. The Scholas- for keeping them in order, have been provided. tic, Notre Dame, Ind., keeps serenely on its As billiards is the only in-door sport the stu- Exchanges. way and is too busily engaged in teaching the dents have, there is no reason why any should Taking up our exchanges, as they come, in young idea how to shoot, in the line of litera- hesitate about joining the Association. Those ture, the fine arts, &c., to bother itself about its that have played the game know the enjoyment the portentous pile before us, we find first the exchanges : thus divesting itself of a rather it gives. Those that have not can never learn Earlhamite of Richmond, Ind., grave and irksome burthen. The Rapid Writer and younger either the game or the pleasure it lather utilitarian in character, as becomes a Quaker magazine, but printed upon tinted Takigrafer, Chicago, is a most useful publi- affords. cation in its line. The St. aMry’s Beacon, paper, which seems to smack rather of the Poit Tobacco limes, and Prince Georgian, Tine College Band. vanities of the world’s people. Bentley’s Book Buyer, 1420 Chesnut- St., Philada., tells us are three Maryland papers that we and others here prize very highly. Our Catholic ex- The Band practice has begun, this year,with what the publishers are doing, and gives brief great prospect of success. Last year very lit notices of recent publications. The Besom changes were noticed in a recent number. P. S. Since the above was in type, the Bates tie was done, either in vocal or instrumental fi om the University of California, is thoroughly music, for several reasons ; but the acquisition devoted to the interests of the institution Student, Lewiston, Maine, has been received. It was this monthly, we now remember, and of a number of new students who possess not whence it is published, and otherwise confines only good voices but also considerable skill in its attention chiefly to matters likely to interest not the Colby Echo, which impressed us so un- the manipulation of instruments, gives good college readers. It has a prosperous air about favorably last year. Its character remains as reason for the hope that the dreary days of it. The National Teachers’ Monthly, A. S. before, frothy and superficial. It is full of winter will be enlivened by concerts and Barnes & Co., Chicago, is full of varied matter wishy-washy attempts at high themes and high dances. The indefatigable leader tells us that pertaining to the scope of such a publication, flights,and redolent of the ignorances and bigot- he is determined to organize a Band that will as is evident from such a cursory examination lies,political and religious, of its section. It is eclipse any that have preceded it, and says that as can be afforded without cutting the leaves, therefore provincial, ad nauseam. We grieve there is talent in it, which, if properly devel- a task that really ought not to be imposed on to have to speak in these terms of any college oped, will do credit to the College. editors. The Colby Echo of Waterville, contemporary, but candor compels us to it. The following is a list of the players : Maine, is, for this year, if we are not mistaken The College Message,another late arrival, has Robert 0. Jenkins, Leader, E flat Cornet. in our recollections of last year’s issues, in the disadvantage of presenting an extremely J. N. Fleetwood, 1st B flat Cornet. better hands than before. It is so conspicu- homely appearance, but we find it filled cred- A. J. Laplace, ously2d printed, B flat Cornet.that it ought to contain nothing itably enough. J. F. Larkin, 1st Alto. sharply amenable to criticism. The Buffalo Publications Received, R. Couturie, 2d Alto. Public School Journal is a specialty, as its C. Bloise, 1st Tenor. name indicates. The Golden Sheaf, of Troy RITE OF ORDINATIONS according to the Roman 2d Tenor. Conference Academy, Poultney, Vt., is more A. A. Sweeney, Tuba. Pontifical, by Rev. J. S. M. Lynch. We are florid in name than in character, though we indebted to Benziger Brothers, the publishers, C. B. O’Donnell, Bass Drum. suppose it answers its local purpose. The for a copy of this remarkably neat little mau- J. T. O’Connor, Snare Drum. Pen and Plow, 20 Vesey St., New York, is a ual. Ordinations are now so frequent that the R. Payne, Cymbals. very happy combination of the literary and the work will be welcomed by the laity who wish The discordant sounds issuing from the agricultural. The True Citizen, 350 Pearl to have the words of the rite that is passing practice-room at all the recesses of the day are St., New York, is a mercantile journal, well before them: and here, the Latin is one side sufficient evidence that the members enter into tilled with original and selected matter bearing and the English on the other. the undertaking with energy. upon the interests of its patrons. (What odd CATECHISM OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE, for acad- visitors our sanctum has, to be sure! But emies and high schools. This little volume, Boat Club. they come of their own accord, and we neither which is the same size as the one above, and invite or repel any. Only, as we are single- GEORGETOWN COLLEGE, D. C. by the same publishers, belongs to'the series handed, we have not the time to notice our ex- Sept. 30% 1877. of catechisms prepared by the Rev. M. Muller, A meeting was held to day for the purpose changes critically, and rarely have the space at C.S.S.R. The book has of course undergone of electing the officers ?of the Club for the en command for even a reference to them.) The the rigid scrutiny of the ecclesiastical authori- suing term of six months ; viz : from the 1st Atheneum, Springfield, 111., occupies a pecu- ties, and therefore we have nothing more to of October to the 1st of April. The house was liar field of its own. It is a monthly publica- say of it than to commend the clear typogra- called to order by the Vice-President, and the tion which supplies choice elocutionary pieces phy, and to approve the idea of adding prayers election resulted as follows : in verse. The Berkeleyan, from the Univ. of at the end, together with a “Summary of President, Rev. W. T. Whiteford, S. J. Cal., seems to occupy itself with more recon- Sacred History.” Vice- Pres. Thomas P. Kernan, dite productions than the Besom, but is well ~ec Arthur A. Sweeney. filled, nevertheless, with local matter. The J. CARROLL PAYNE, ’76, after a year in the Treas. B. CollegeC Courier of Monmouth,ampbell III., is McMeal.a new aw school of the University of Va., will finish Coxswain Robert J. Slater. his studies with his uncle, Hon. T. J. Semmes, visitor: pays special attention to notices of A. U. lie called here on his way, Oct. 7th. GEORGETOWN 6 devoted to the discussion of partizan and polit- THE GEORGETOWN the JOURNAL, wo trust that they will find in the following suggestive article contributed by one ical questions. The subjects treated in them COLLEGE JOURNAL of their own fellow-students, ample motives are, generally, of a literary chaiacter, which for sustaining the paper, both by material aid tend to instil into the minds of the readers a ESTABLISHED 1873. and moral encouragement. taste for the study of literature; and this, ac- cording to one of our modern sages, is the A TWELVE PAGE QUARTO, PUBLISHED MONTHLY DURING THE TEN MONTHS AMATEUR JOURNALISM. basis of all true civilization and refinement. OF THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR. Many of the subjects give rise to frequent Iii estimating tlie astonishing and almost controversies and disputations which awaken TERMS:—One dollar a year in advance. unparalleled progress that lias been made in a spirit of enquiry and an ardent desire for the Single copies, ten cents. Business cards the arts and sciences during the nineteenth truth. As an instance of this we need only (one inch) inserted tor $5 a year, inclu- century, even the superficial observer cannot refer our readers to the Shakespeare ns.Bacon ding a copy of tlie paper during that fail to be impressed with the wonderful per- period. Additional space furnished at controversy—in reference to the authorship of fection that has been attained in the art of the rate of lifty cents an inch, or Four the works attributed to William Shakespeare,— dollars acolumn, each issue. printing, at least in this country. Not only which, though not originated, was revived in lias it kept pace with the other arts in their the columns of the JOURNAL by one of our for- The COLLEGE JOURNAL is published by a rapid march towards perfection, but it has stock association among the students. Its mer students. He only published three or proved to be more than commensurate with purpose is to aid, their literary improvement, four short articles on the subject, in which, the general standard of advance. To appre- to chronicle the news of the College, etc. The however, he defended the claims of Bacon paper being principally devoted to matters of ciate the justness and truth of this observation with considerable plausibility. After receiving local interest, it must rely for its support we need only contrast any one of the leading ■ chiefly upon the students and Alumni of the several imperfect replies, which were not re- newspapers or magazines of the present day College and its Departments, and their markable either for their composition or the with the humble and unpretending issues of friends. These and all former students are arguments they embodied, he abandoned the exhorted to sustain it by their patronage. the rising press a century ago. undertaking. Those whose address is not known, are re- This marked improvement in the art of quested to communicate it, or their friends Although the controversy in the JOURNAL printing and in the facility of multiplying willdoso for them, as a s pecimen copy can was thus brought to an early issue, the ques- issues, we regard as one of the most favorable a any time be furnished gratuitously, ihose tion still continued to be very generally dis- who wish the back volumes wiii be supplied at and encouraging characteristics of the times; cussed amongst its readers in the College ; and a reduction. because it is a certain indication of a corres- Address, it gave vise to an infinite number of spirited ponding progress in the diffusion of knowledge; COLLEGE JOURNAL, disputes. The debating societies, too, soon and whatever tends to instruct the mass of the Georgetown, D. C. took the fever. The different libraries, in con- people, will he most conducive to the welfare sequence, were invaded; authorities were con- of the Republic. The existence and direction GEORGETOWN COLLEGE, OCTOBER 1S77. of governments of a monarchical cast depend sulted ; the works of the two writers were read and compared ; and the history of their lives upon the intellect and ability of a few, who are VOEEME SIX. and the times in which they wrote was care- called the Aristocracy; but a democratic form fully studied. Such was the result; and we, of government like our own, rests upon a We expressed the opinion in our last, that it broader basis,—the intelligence of the whole do not hesitate to assert, that by this means might be well, for the reasons there given, to there was diffused a more general and more people. Hence it becomes a matter of vital intermit the publication of the JOURNAL for one importance, and is, in fact, absolutely indis- accurate knowledge of tlie lives of those two dis- year : but it has been decided on competent tinguished literary celebrities, than could have pensable for the preservation of our institu- authority that the publication should be re- been effected by a series of labored disquisi- tions that the masses be possessed of education sumed at this time, as usual. We therefore and intelligence. tions from a professor’s chair. And not only commit ourselves again to the generosity of arc these controversies useful on ^account of Now, no one, we imagine, will assume to the kind friends who have encouraged us deny that the majority, at least, of the news- the extensive amount of information that they hitherto, and appeal to others, whose position elicit; but through them violent and excessive papers and periodicals, which are published at as present or former students of Georgetown prejudices are frequently overcome, and after the present day, are most potent and valuable demands of them some recognition of our agents for disseminating the seeds of instruc- a fair discussion we are enabled to arrive at labors, to give us a cordial support. We hope, just and impartial conclusions upon many mat- tion. But by admitting this fact they acknowl- too, that the little circle of friends of the Col ters and questions of importance. edge in a great measure the benefits and im- lege, chiefly residents of the District, who have portance of “ Amateur Journalism.” For the The above constitute a few of the principal been among our most intelligent and apprecia- advantages that accrue from “Amateur Jour- main distinction between the established news- tive readers, may he somewhat enlarged. This nalism” in general. There is a particular paper and the amateur publication is, that the paper is the only medium—as lias been said in branch of it, however, that is especially deser- latter is generally the production of less a circular we have just addressed to our non- ving of notice here. We refer to the various matured minds, and is. intended more for the resident friends-by which they can be fully journals, which, like our own, are edited and perusal of the young than the formei. informed, if they desire to be, of what trans- published within the precincts of a large num- The fact that they are chiefly addressed to pires here : as it is, on the other hand, “ the ber of our universities, colleges, and other the youth, we conceive to be a peculiar advan- only meansby which the present students can classical and literary institutions. tage; for they exert an immense influence in communicate very generally with the mass of A paper of this nature, if properly conduc- the formation of the mind at the period when their friends outside, or with the majority of ted, is productive of incalculable benefits, and it is most vigorous and susceptible of instruc- former students.” These considerations ought deserves to hold a prominent place in the esti- tion. to have weight with a much larger number of mation of those who preside over literary insti- Except a few local items, and a passing com- persons than our subscription-books show to tutions. In the first place, it gives the' student ment upon some leading or remarkable occur- be among our supporters at this time. an ample opportunity of exercising and per- rence, these journals seldom contain any of As to our present students, many of whom fecting himself in the composition of his ' " the current news of the day. Nor are they are new-comers and probably unfamiliar with COLLEGE; JOURNAL gnage, which after all is one of the primary matter was re-written during the vacation of aims of every good system of education. He them on being better informed. The space the following year, and the whole has been will bestow a greater amount of care and at- occupied by the mere biography, will, we are amplified since, in the interval before re-com- tention upon a production that is intended for sure, not be eomplained of by our readers mencing the JOURNAL : so that it is now hoped the publication than upon one which he knows when they consider that any history of the the sketch, as far as it goes, approaches com will be scanned by the eye of the professor. College, however brief, would be incomplete pletion. For the present, the period prior to For lie is conscious that every word will be without a more or less extended reference to 1800 is the only one that engages attention. criticised, and every link of his argument will the great and good man who founded it. Later on, another period will be taken up, and be subjected to the strictest scrutiny. finally the whole history of the College will be The more successful writers, by their produc COEEEGE IM PROVEME5TS. embraced. The task is no easy one, in the ab- tions will oon excite the emulation of many sence, to a great extent, of local records: During the vacation, the western basement of their fellow-students, who may, thereby, be hence, we shall be very glad of suggestions as of the north building—the approaches to the induced to try their merits and abilities in the to sources whence information may be drawn : same line. Then, too, this spirit of rivalry wash-room and Chemistry room,—were over- and any documents or publications bearing hauled, new steps supplied and a new flooring may arouse the latent energies of some who, upon the (subject will be thankfully received laid. though possessed of considerable talents for and cared for. In the Students’ Chapel, considerable writing, are too indolent or indifferent to exert In this connection, we might remark that changes were made. The ceiling was torn themselves. Geor etown newspapers of the last century down and replaced, and as this necessitated Finally, a college paper enlarges and elevates b are greatly needed. The only newspaper of the destruction of the fresco painting, it was all the whole tone of thought within its precincts, that period that we can find is the “Centinel of removed from the side-walls as well, and a and affords the students an excellent and con- Liberty, and George-Town and Washington delicate tii.t of pearl color substituted. A venient medium for the expression of their Advertiser”, Voir HI and IV, for 1799, the cornice, in the style called “mitring,” has been views and opinions on various questions. supplied,—a number cf littlo'pointed arches, We might enumerate other advantages that property of Wm. 1). Cassin, Esq., of George town, and kindly loaned to us, with volumes with a cross in each recess. These changes a college magazine produces, but we have of the Washington and Georgetown “Museum completely alter the appearance of the chapel, already given enough to show that it is a most and the “ Washington Federalist,” covering a greatly to its advantage, as everybody thinks. worthy and valuable acquisition to any class- period to April 1, 1802. To give an instance One of our last year’s students remarked that ical institution. And even from the superficial of the value of publications of this kind for the altar, by contrast, did not now look so manner in which we have treated this very en- researches such as we have to make, we might well as formerly, and suggested that the stu-. tertaining subject, we, in conclusion, feel justi- mention that a fragmenfc%hich remains of the dents ought to procure a new tabernacle for if. fied in affirming that there is no agent at work issue for Dec. 24th, 179f?f contains the addresses This is a very happy thought, and the realiza- in the public mind which exerts a greater in- of the students and teachers of Georgetown tion of it would afford an opportunity such as fluence in promoting the cause of education College to the Rev. Wm. Dubourg, (afterwards has not occurred since the flag for Lourdes Was among the youth of the country than “Ama- Bishop of New Orleans, and then Archbishop procured and transmitted, for a displsyof teur Journalism.” Hence, there is nothing of Montauban, France,) on his retiring from the Catholic spirit. The spirit still exists," no more deserving of the patronage and support presidency. No one of the present generation doubt, but needs to be called into exercise. not only of parents and patrons of learning, ever before heard of these interesting memo- No better demonstration of its existence could but of every one, likewise, who is interested in rials. Again, in the volume for 1800 is found be given than a movement of this kind carried the welfare of his country. the full report of an address delivered at old to success. New and handsome lustres have W. F. S. Trinity Church, by RobertWalsh,—afterwards been supplied, for the side-lights to the sanctu- a distinguished political writer, the founder of ary, and the floor of the entire chapel has been HISTORY OF THE COJ.I.EGE. the Philada “U. S. Gazette,” andU. S. Con- stained. sul to Paris,—in commemoration of the death The heavy stone wall which was put up du-V The sketch of the early history of the Col of General Washington. Master Walsh was the summer to support the road (descending t J lege, the first portion of which appears in this then in his sixteenth year, and this copy of his the barn-yard on the south,—the gathering the issue, will, we hope, prove interesting to our oration is a discovery, as indeed is the fact that materials of which occasioned the blasting readers. Pains have been taken to avoid a the commemoration was held at all. Could a that was heard in May and June,—has been mere dry detail ; and the glimpses that are Georgetown newspaper of 1797, or a file of made the base of a structure 86 by 26 feet given of the men and the events of those stir them, be found, it^might be possible to get a which serves as a loft for stowing away ar- ring days in our national history, or of con- copy of the address made by the same young ticles, and below as a shelter for wagons and temporary events abroad, ought to make the gentleman on the occasion of General ..Wash- other farm apparatus. At one end of the narrative acceptable even to the least easily ington’s visit to the College in that year. structure is a little domicile for John Schaeffer, interested of our College readers. Local des- The events of Rev. Mr. Carroll’s life prior to who has care of the cows and chickens, and is criptions or accounts, wherever admissible, 1800, and the succession of his letters within thus placed in the vicinity of his charges, in will be thrown in to give more body to the the same period, are more exactly stated in stead of at the College gate. sketch. It is expected that the subject will be their chronological order, in this sketch, than The small boys’ study-room is now under- continued in each successive number of the his other biographers have attempted to fol- going an important alteration. Two class- paper. The information intended to be con- low. It was hoped that it would thus serve as rooms are being set off, occupying tiie entire veyed by these sketches has long been needed, a skeleton to some future biographer who and efforts were made by the present writer southern side, and a passage-way the length of might undertake an extended memoir of him, five years ago to gather the few materials at- the whole room from east to west separates with the full text of his letters added. We them from what will be henceforth the junior tainable. But the exigencies of this paper and must observe that if, notwithstanding Jhe ac- other demands on his time prevented any sue study room. What is left of the latter is fully curacy of statement at which the writer of this cessful prosecution of the task. Something large enough for all the demands likely to be narrative has aimed, there should be found was written during the vacation of 1876, this made on it unless the number of small boys any mistakes, he will be very glad to rectify who have attended for some years past should 8 GEORGETOWN Sunday after schools opened. The “Veni Cre- become unexpectedly larger, which no one We learn that an orchestra is in process of ator” was then sung as usual at the opening of anticipates. The little fellows, having lost one formation : and that as soon as the U. S. au- the scholastic year. Prof. Glcetzner continues of their dormitories before this,—given over to thorities are heard from in the matter of a to preside at the organ. the Poets and Rhetoricians,—and now half of military instructor and a supply of new mus- their study-room, are beginning to wonder kets, there will be a revival of the Cadets, The usual accessions from the junior side whether they are not going to be left out of whom last winter’s inclemency drove into re- were made after vacation. The new-comers the College programme entirely. Oh no ! you tirement. We wish well to both projects : a take very naturally to the change :—a little have your new gymnasium and your extensive great deal could be said in favor of both one more starch seems added to their collars, and and the other enterprise, and if either needs instead of devoting themselves exclusively to play-grounds, and while these arejnot usurped, you may be sure of holding your own. The special advocacy, our columns are open to gymnastic performances, as heretofore, they large platform which the Prefect occupied in those who wish to present the case. sit around or walk about during play-hours this study-room, has been substituted by the old Our worthy old German blacksmith, Henry more than they used to : that is all. reading stand which was removed from the Dillenberger, who has been in the employ of Soup is now one of the regular courses in Refectory five years ago, when reading ceased, the College for the last two years, arid has done the students’ refectory. It is a naturalized Ansel B. Cook being the last reader. The in that time a great deal of faithful and sub- dish in this country, and we remember the stand, now divested of its railing, has, ever stantial work for it, was taken ill about the time when it was rarely served in American since, reposed in the old barn near the Obser- beginning of the scholastic year, and died at families. Our fellows take to it with great vatory . the Providence Hospital, Sept. 16th. He was gusto. During the last days of September and not a Catholic, but asked for and received bap- Our crews, besides their practice on Tuesday the first of October, the architect (Mr. tism on his death-bed. He was a widower,and and Thursday afternoons, employ the 5 o’clock Smithmyer) and his assistants were actively had a married daughter living in Washing- recess on other days in the same way. The engaged in inspecting and measuring the ground ton. Such little leisure as he allowed himself regular crews have all been appointed, and the lying between the eastern extremities of the here he spent in cultivating flowers, as is the names announced on the bulletin board. As two College buildings ; surveyors with their in- laudable custom of the Germans : so that the the list has not been furnished us for publica- struments were busy running lines and taking vicinity of the blacksmith-shop began to rival tion, we presume the appointments are regar- levels ; and finally stakes were driven that in- the Infirmary garden in the display of flowers. ded as only temporary. Let us hear more dicate the boundaries of a large structure : the We had a funeral here on the 26th of Sept- about the Boat Club in our next. north-eastern angle of it abuts nearly on the ember. Rev. Chas. Bague, S. J., assistant large horse-chesnut that spreads its grateful pastor of St. Joseph’s (German) church, died Opening of the Medical School. shade between the gymnasium and the entrance at the Providence Hospital and was buried in The twenty-ninth series of lectures of the to the Walks, a propinquity necessarily fatal the cemetery of the Community. He was one Medical School was begun Monday, Oct. 1st, at to that fine tree. Our fellows view all these of the exiles from Switzerland in the radical 8 P. M. The Professors were allin attendance, operations with languid interest, having seen revolution of 1848, taught at St. John’s Fred- and the amphitheatre of the School was well similar proceedings before, or heard of them erick, was assistant pastor at Whitemarsh, and filled. Rev. P. F. Healy, S. J., President of from their predecessors : and they smile deris- finally came to Washington four or five years the University, made the opening address. He ively, as if the whole thing were gotten up to since. He had long been an invalid. His age said that at noon-day he had casually taken up impose on their credulity. But we shall see was 68. a book in which were contained the dicta of what we shall see. We firmly believe that Within a day or two after Fr. Bague’s death, the celebrated School of Salerno, and, at the henceforth, and perhaps beginning with the Rev. Peter L. Miller, S. J., (originally Meule- the time, thoughts of the Medical School being next number, we shall have a chronicle in our meister) died at Loyola College, Baltimore, very properly, uppermost in his mind, it had paper, the permanent heading to which will and was buried at Woodstock. Fr. Miller occurred to him to ask himself : What if one be made his theological studies at Georgetown, THE NEW BUILDING. of the professors of that ancient school should was the first pastor of the colored congrega- present himself before the examining board of tion of St. Francis Xavier’s, Baltimore, and re- EOCAX ITEMS. one of our medical colleges? Would he be mained chaplain of the colored Oblate sisters awarded a diploma? The speaker thought on Chase St., until his death. He was a great The College is raising some fine tobacco, not. Thus, it appears, Medicine, unlike some sufferer from asthma. He died in his 58th from Havana seed, on the lot in the rear of the of the other sciences, is progressive. It can- year. His brother is the Burgomaster of Na- JOURNAL office. The first crop was gathered not therefore be a matter of wonder that in mur in Belgium, and his aged father still sur- Oct. 1st. The remainder will be taken in as these days more is expected of the candidate vives him. soon as there is danger of frost. for a degree than ever before. It was a source The seats in the Chapel are now given as the Bro. Richard Dugan,—Bro. Dick for short, of gratification to the speaker that at the last tables in the Refectory have for some time —after his long apprenticeship under Bro. John examination, the Professors had regarded been distributed,—according to classes. The Cunningham, becoming his successor as Infirm” quality, solely, and numbers not at all,—non Philosophers have occupied for the last two arian for these many years past, takes charge quot sed quales—and that the question of years the seats at the left just in advance of of the clothes-room, and leaves the Infirmary pecuniary compensation was to them an en- the choir. The Rhetoricians now take the (and the Infirmary garden ?) to Bro. Dan. Mc- tirely subordinate one to that of the advance- front seats, in the centre, and the other classes Laughlin. The “Captain” is still around, and ment of the standard of their profession. The follow behind them in their regular order, by no means on the retired list. speaker then referred to the congratulations without, however, making any change in the The choir has been re-organized under that had been offered him by eminent mem- old arrangement that gives the right range to Father Doonan, and as the former members bers of the profession here and elsewhere, on the small boys and the left to the non-Gatho- are all, or nearly all, back, things went on learning of the rigid tests of excellence re- lics. The Rhetoricians have now a favorable smoothly as soon as the organ could be put in quired. It was nevertheless true that those to chance to criticise the rhetoric of the preach- order after the alterations to the chapel were whom these severer tests were applied might ers. completed. This was not until the second not always accept them with a good grace. If COLLEGE JOURNAL 9 they feel themselves aggrieved, it is not with- more years to the study of his native language, (Sodality B. V. 91. out some show of reason : for, say they : Have as expressed in prose, before venturing on the we not a right to demand the same terms as extremely hazardous field of poetry. The Sodality of the B. V. M., recently elec- those who have preceded us ? The speaker- Fic&’s Floral Guide, No. 4, for 1877. tec* *be following officers for the ensuing year : had encountered this same difficulty in the Charming, as usual: and this vick-torious gar- Rev. Jas. A. Doonan S. J., Director. Classical Department. There, the examina- dener promises a floral Monthly, the first num- John N. Fleetwood, Prefect. tions had been gradually made severer : and ber to appear in .‘December. -Price $1.25 per Chas. O’Donovan, 1st Assistant. whenever a new subject was added to the re- year. Address James Vick, Rochester, N. T. Thos. C. Blake, 2d Assistant. quisites for graduation, there had been more bas- The Anglo-American Primer, by Mrs. E. *-' Schoolfield, Secretary. or less dissatisfaction at first. But the changes Jolm K B. Burns, Burns & Co , publishers, 33 Park - Bradford, Treasurer. both there and here were necessary, and must Row, New York. Considering that the simpli- Gaston Payne, Censor. be maintained, though at the cost of some bas fication of our English spelling is greatly to be *"' ‘ ■ DeCourcy, Librarian. seeming injustice. In reality, however, there desired, we see nothing absurd in this attempt toward Brown Ass’t. Lib’n. was no injustice done any one. Not certainly Albert J La lace to bring the reform home to the youthful - P - Sacristan. to the public, which would be the gainer when fbas mind. The reform may never be carried I * N- Wilcox, jr., Ass’t. Sac’n. the science thus acquired, digested, and through, but if it is ever to succeed it must be- Consultors. proven, should begin to bear fruit; not the gin somewhere. Whether it succeeds or not Chas. E. O’Connor, Harry J. Brady, graduate himself, from whom, in the case of a we are not among those who think that the in- Chas. B. O’Donnell. Robt. 0. Jenkins. medical man, the public had aright to demand teresting history of our language must needs not a remedy, but the best remedies. It was continue to be illustrated by the anomalies that better he should be harmless in a medical NEW SUBSCRIBERS. Our thanks are due to prevail in the spelling of words, as contrasted the gentlemen of the legal and also to those of school for another year than be harmful with- with their pronunciation. The student of lan out, in the premature practice of his profession. the medical fraternity in the District, who have guage will never be without materials for in- added their names to our subscription-list for In conclusion, the speaker announced that, as vestigation, in the world-wide abundance of an additional incentive to thoroughness on the the present volume. The large number of English literature under its present form of members of both professions who are readers part of the medical students, the Professors orthography: the English-speaking people themselves this year offered a prize for the one ...... i of ours> appreciate, we hope, our desire to could turn their backs on the past and change gratify them, as shown by the considerable who should pass the best examination. their spelling tomorrow without fear of any | space we have here given to the affairs of the Prof. P. A. Ashford, the Dean, then an detriment, now or hereafter, to the history of nounced that the corps of instructors would Medical and Law Schools of the Univer- their language. We, who pride ourselves on sity. remain the same as last year, except that Dr our conservatism, in an age of rampant radi Swann M. Burnett had been appointed by the calism, do not consider that we are transgres- BASE-BALL AGAIN. A game was played Oct. head of the Uniyersity as lecturer on Opthal sing our principles by giving utterance to this 7th, on the junior side, between the base-ball mology, a new chair. The Dean then intro- opinion. athletes of that side, and a picked nine from duced Prof. Joseph Tabor Johnson, who opened We are indebted to the International Exhi- the other. The latter were defeated, as is his introductory lecture by some general re- bition Co., and the National Immigration Bu- almost always the case in these contests with marks, calculated to heighten the respect of reau, at the Centennial buildings, Philadel the juniors. After six innings, the score stood his auditors for medical science, dwelling, as phia, for .copies of their publications: also to eight to seven. he did, on its vastness and (s many subdivi- Prof. Edward Roth, of the same city, for the sions. He then proceeded u o treat his own very full and tasteful Catalogue he sends out, OBITUARIES. Not to do injustice to the illus- topic, Obstetrics, and closed with a prettily of the Broad St. Academy. trious dead, we shall give in our next a more constructed allegory descriptive of the vicissi Music. “Don’t put the poor workingman extended notice of the late Rev. John McElroy, tudes of the medical man’s life, from the time down,” “When the blossoms cover us, dar- S. J., Hugh Caperton, Esq., and others, than he enters upon tfie study of his profession, to ling,” “Old Uncle Dan,” and “Dear old home- we can find room for in this number. the moment when in his own extremity, he stead,” the two last illustrated, are the titles of calls in a brother physician to do for him what four pieces sent us by F. W. Helmick, No. 50 Final Notes. he himself had done for hundreds or perhaps West Fourth St.,Cincinnati, who is the most thousands ot others. Although we began work on this first issue easily satisfied of music-publishers if this of the scholastic year at a later period than or- brief notice will content him : but it is all we Pamphlets and Music. dinary, we shall have to go to press (Oct. 9th) can give, without an experimental knowledge f without a report of the opening of the Law DAY DREAMS, a Collection of Poems by P. L. of music to go upon. School. AYe shall supply it in our next, as M-> New York. The cover of this pamphlet also an account of a very unique trial and]trial- Holy Angels’ Sodality. says “Please review.” The book is evidently scene which transpired in the smoking-room, judging from the many love-pieces [in it, the The members of this Sodality, of which Oct. 7th. Any lists of officers of so cties production of same young, perhaps very young Rev. AY. T. Whiteford, S. J., is Director, met omitted in this number will fund a place in the man, who, with that fondness for mystery on the 30th September and elected the follow- next. We shall begin work Oct. 22d, on the which characterizes the youthful poet, hides ing officers: November number, and we make it a special both his own and his publisher’s name. No- Edw. J. Mulligan, Prefect. request that those who have articles or com- thing will come of the mystery, we apprehend. Albert J. Lagarde, Assistant. munications for the paper hand them in at Prom the conglomerate and far-fetched words Damaso Laine, Secretary. that time. In the interval, the Editorial Com- with which the author bedecks his verses, he Wm. L. McLaughlin, Treasurer. mittee will probably be chosen by the stock- appears, to be one of [those numerous admirers Jos. Y. Johnson, Sacristan. holders, and will take charge of all pieces of Tennyson whose corses clog the road-side to Geo. H. Duncan, Assistant. written by the students. Advertisements will Parnassus. Inelegancies of exprestion are so Honore Laine, Librarian. be received up to Oct. 24th. Some came too numerous that the author ought to devote Wm. L. Johnson, Assistant. late for this number. 10 GEORGETOWN

POETRY. Mr. Becket, who is at Loyola this year. Mr. Himmel also teaches German. Mr. T. Mc- WALKER. On the opposite page will be found “POST HOC EXILIIJM.” Laughlin, late of Boston, takes the class of a notice from the Republican and an abbrevia- (F. F.in the London Month. Rudiments taught last year by Mr. Timmins, ted one from the N. 1“ Tribune, of our quon- who now has charge of the. classical depart- dam military and now journalistic friend. Du- After this exile: not while groping here ment at St. Matthew’s Institute, Washington. ring his two years at College here, 1863 to In this low valley full of mists and chills, Father Neale is at Whitemarsh, and his place Waiting and watching till the day breaks clear 1865, he gave promise, by his industry, his Over the brow of the eternal hills— as prefect on the junior side is taken by Ft. ability, and liis conscientious fulfilment of Mother, sweet dawn of that unsetting sun, Loague, who also gives the catechetical lec every duty, scholastic or religious, of occupy- Show us thy Jesus when the night is done ! tures to the youths on his side. Mr. D. A. ing a useful and honorable position in life. After this exile: when our toils are o’er, Keating, S. J.,is the third prefect on that side. We are glad to know that lie is so successful And we, poor laborers, homeward turn our feet; Messrs. O’Kaue, Conway and Sandaal are pre in the difficult field of journalism. Our thanks When we shall ache and work and weep no more, fects on the other side. Some changes have But know the rest the weary find so sweet, are due to his successors at the Nation office Mother of pity, merciful and blest, also occurred in the mathematical andFiencli for a continuance of the favor accorded us by Show us thy Jesus in the “Land of Rest.” classes. him, of frequent copies of the (paper. After this exile: winter will be past, BRENT. Henry Waring Brent, A. B., 1852, And the rain over, and the flowers appear, Our Opening- recently called at the College prior to making And we shall see in God’s own light at last a visit to Furope. All we have sought for in the darkness here: The opening dey of schools, Tuesday Sept. Fox. (’67). The Washington Capital of Sept. Then, Mother, turn on us thy loving eyes, 3d, found a dozen new-comers from a distance And show us Jesus—our eternal prize ! 29th, says : “Mr. George H. Fox left for New waiting in Georgetown and Washington for York last night, to be absent for a brief period. Sir Walter BaleigU’s Last Verses. admittance. On the following day, when Mr. Fox [astonished our natives last week by classes began,there were sixty boarders: the his brilliant base-ball play, showing that there Even such is time which takes in trust next day, eighty : and by Sunday the number was life in the old National yet. One week’s Our youth, our joys, and all we have, bad reached one hundred. By the end of And pays us nought but age and dust, practice and George would be foremost in the. Which in the dark and silent grave, September more than forty more had come list of base-ball athletes.” When we have wandered all our ways, in : so that at this time we have already RIGGS. T. L. of ’78 is at Stonyhurst this Shut up the story of our days : reached the average attendance, 17C, including year and made a trip on the continent during And from which grave, and earth, and dust, day-scholars. The indications are therefore the summer. AVe mentioned on a former oc_ The Lord will raise me up I trust. that the attendance this year will be better casion his visiting Lourdes and seeing our The original of these lines,written by Raleigh than usual, in spite of the hard times. Georgetown flag there. The shrine has been vis- the night before his execution, was inscribed ited this summer-by Albert and Ernest Laplace, on the blank leaf of a Bible which had been IH'.C'I.AMATIO.X AND BEADIXGS. who report it as being the first object that at- the companion of the illustrious captive dining tracted their attention on their entering the his long imprisonment. This identical old The first of these interesting re-unions took church, hanging, as it does, in a conspicuous book was found at a second-hand book stall in place on Saturday, Sept. 22d. Our reporter place over the sanctuary. It is the only Amer- London by our founder, Rev. John Carroll, in did not make his appearance on the scene, be- ican flag there, though other banners have been 1774, purchased by him, and brought to this cause he supposed that the first display of sent thither from the United States. country, where it formed a part of his modest oratory for the year would be no way notable; FLANKER. A. J. Fianner (“Ajax”) of ’72, who library at Rock Creek, no doubt. The auto also because there are so many new-comers left before graduating, is now District Attor- graph, as the late B. 0. Campbell states in liis whose names he does not know'; not having ney at Dead wood, Dakota Ter. with a salary of “Life and Times of Archbishop Carroll,” after- been “introduced”, as the Englishman re $7000. wards came into the possession of Robert Gil- marked when he refused to rescue a di owning mor, Esq., of Baltimore, a wealthy patron of man. We learn however, that many of the Quite a number of former sludents from a art and letters who died long since. speakers or readers ^distinguished themselves, distance have visited us within a month past, and therefore we do all of them the honor of men- some of whom we have probably forgotten to Flianges in tlie Faculty. tion, it being probably the only chance that record. Among them was the gay and genial some will have of ever seeing their names in Jack Normile, District Attorney of St. Louis, Our June number contained a full list of the print in this connection. Readers : Jno. Lar- Harry E. Mann of Baltimore, to whom the Faculty and officers for 1876-7. The opening kin, Rich’d. S. Murphy, Jas. Sloan, W. D. JOURNAL is indebted for manyfavors, and whom of the new scholastic year brings a few changes. Merryman, and Thos. P. Biggins. Speakers: we may expect to hear of as District Attorney, Father Cleary joins Father Bapst at the new Antonio Touceda, Rene Couturie, Boris de one of these days; Jos. E. Washington of Tenn., residence in Providence, R. I. His class Bodisco, Harry C. Walsh, Maurice Claggett, another warm friend of ours, now extensively (Rhetoric) is taken by Father Doonan, and his George Donworth, Jos. J. Collins, E. G. Merry- engaged in tobacco planting; Gerard Alexan- congregation at Tennally-town is attended foi mail, Jos. B. Feild, Chas. B. O’Donnell, J. Col- der of Louisville, who now says he deserved all the present by Father Loague. The President umbus O’Donnell, Arthur A. Sweeney, Harry the lines lie got in College, and who made us a gives the catechetical lectures to the senior Brady, V. Howard Brown, Thos. C. Blake, present of a set of handsomely illustrated jour- students. Father Carroll is atLoyola College, Chas.S. Schoolfield, and EugeneS. Ives. The nals on his specialty of fowl-raising; Franklin Baltimore, and is succeeded as First Prefect by Roberts, on his way to the University of Vir- exercises occupied, as usual, nearly the entire Father Whiteford, who also takes the class of morning, and the criticism was as keen as ginia, for a second year of law; Frank J. Ives, English Literature vacated by Mr. Forney, now ever. ditto, for a second year in medecine; and F. a practitioner of law in Washington. Mi. Snowden Hill, who brings to bear the legal O’Kane takes Poetry, Mr. Conway First Gram- science of Louvain at the courts of Prince mar, Mr. Sandaal Second Grammar, and Mr The rnan who has a good conundrum should never give it up. George’s Co. Himmel Third Grammar, the latter in place oi rEORGETOWM 11 THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE Library of Congress, and therefore lias a rare CSIVEKSITT. THE SCHOOL OF LAW. command of legal bibliography, and is able to -L University of Georgetown. In our advertising columns will be found give valuable aid and guidance to students in notice of the commencement of jthe 29th ses their researches. In conducting the feature of FACULTY. sion of this school of medicine, which is loca the Moot Court, which has been brought to REV. P. F. HEALY, S. J., President of tlie University. ted in the city of Washington. such perfection at the Georgetown Law Col- We take great pleasure.in commending this lege, he will have the assistance of Tallmadge CHARLES W. HOFFMAN, LL.D, department to those of our patrons who have A. Lambert, one of the most finished and Dean of the Faculty and President of the Moot sons or friends studying medicine, as a school highly regarded of the rising leaders of the Court. W ashingtou bar, andthecapable and energetic worthy of their patronage. The faculty, selec- HON. RICHARD T. MERRICK, LL. D., ted from the practitioners of medicine in this secretary, Mr. W. H. Dennis, (vice Mr. Hanley Lecturer on Constitutional Law and the Law of D. C., with special reference to their qualifi who has resigned to enter on active practice.) Nations. cations and capacities as teachers of their re The whole is, of course, under the super- spective branches, have given entire satisfae vision of the President of the University, Rev. Hon. HALBERT E. PAINE. LL. D., Lecturer on Evidence, Pleading and Practice at tion to the University authorities and won the P. F. Healy, S. J., whose profound culture and Law, and Equity Pleading- and Jurisprudence. admiration of the students. The chief aim of genius for practical action and progress is well the faculty is, not to graduate mere numbers, known, and who may be relied upon to pro- MARTIN F. MORRIS, LL. D. but to send forth young physicians, who will duce a memorable era in the history of the Lecturer on the Common Law, Real and Personal venerable University. We are fortunate in Property, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and emulate the virtues and attainments of the the History of Law. noblest of the profession, and reflect honor having such an institute for the training of upon their Alma Mater. our young men, not only in the principles of CHARLES W. HOFFMAN, LL. D., TALL- Washington city presents many opportu- law but in those of honor, morality, and MADGE A. LAMBERT, ESQ., and W. H. nities to the medical student, and the faculty Christian manliness. But, indeed, the National DENNIS, ESQ , Judges of the Moot Court. will afford every facility to enable him to ac- Capital is the place par excellence for the quire a thorough and practical knowledge of study of law, and we are not surprised to see ^®“Terni opens WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3,1877, at his profession. students flocking here from all points for that 6 p.m., in the Lecture Hall, 915 F Street, n.w. purpose.—Sunday Herald. (Washington.) For circulars address— WM. HENRY DENNIS, A Standard Eater Colleg e. [From the National Republican.] Secretary, The College of Law of the University of Court House, Washington, D. O. MR. J. BRISBIN WALKER, who will be remem Georgetown announces its annual opening for EDICAJL D JE I* AItTMENT, bered as one of the founders of the Daily 'M University of Georgetown. the term of 1877-78 in aftiother column. The Nation of this city has entered upon a more Corner of 10th and. L streets northwest, faculty and professors will amply sustain the extended field of journalism by the establish- credit won by the institution in past years. ment of a new daily newspaper in New York The twenty-ninth annual session of the Medical College will begin MONDAY, October 1st, at 8 Hon. Richard T. Merrick, LL. D., stands at or city. The following is the New York Tribune's near the head of the legal profession in the 1 Iruroductor editorial mention of Mr. WALKER’S enterprise, JOHNSON ' J Brof. JOS. TABER District, and his name is now widely known and will, no doubt, be read with interest by FACULTY. throughout the Union for his distinguished his numerous friends in this city : N05kE YOUNG, M. D Emeritus Professor of efforts before the Electoral Commission last lp e a nd Practiee The New York Daily Republicis announced. PiSi® esident ^ S ofi the.t I, acuity. of Medicine and winter. He will lecture on the appropriate I he new journal announces that it is to take FLODOARDO HOWARD, M. D„ Emeritus Pro- themes of Constitutional Law and the Law of hold practically of the question of relief from bs tetncs and Nations. Hon. Halbert E. Paine, LL. D., is the present prostration of business and distress Ohiktren °* ° Diseases of Women and of the industrial classes. Its relief is the inter- also a finished jurist, and thoroughly compe- JO HNSONELIOT M. D., Emeritus Professor of convertible greenback; and the relief for tent to instruct in the advanced branches of Surgery and Professor of Clinical Surgery. itself is to be one cent per copy. The editor, JAMES E, MORGAN, M. D., Emeritus Professor the science of law assigned to him. Martin MR. JOHN BRISBIN WALKER, has heretofore ac- of Materia Medica and Therapeutics and Med- F. Morris, LL.D., lecturer to the junior class, complished the impossible by establishing a new ical Jurisprudence. paper in Washington successful enough to ena is a gentle-mannered and scholarly man, less SAMUEL C. BUSEY, M. D.. ble him to sell it out at aproflt. He has a num- Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine. widely known than his eminent merits deserve, ber of new ideas about printing a paper in New FRANCIS A. ASHFORD, M. D. and peculiarly qualified to be a preceptor of Aork, such as the revival of the carrier system Professor of Surgery. ’ youth in the highest grades. In addition to the adoption of Union Square as a good point JOSEPH TABER JOHNSON, A. M„ M. D his regular duties he will deliver an interesting of publication, a late hour of going to press Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and etc.; and he seems to have energy enough to* Infants. course of lectures on the History of Law—His- make either success or failure conspicuous. C. H. A. KLEINSCHMIDT, M D tory being known as one of his favorite MR. WALKER is an indefatigable, energetic Professor of Physiology. ’ ” studies. and persevering young man, and while here Professorv> r of WM.Materia H. ROSS,Medica Mand D, Therapeutics. Charles W. Hoffman, LL.D., has been con- developed qualities which satisfy us that he DANIEL J. KELLY, A. M., M D nected with the Law School since its inception will be successful in his new adventure, in Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology. and has taken a devoted interest in its progress. which he has our best wishes. CHARLES E. HAGNER, M D His selection for the responsible post of Dean Professor of Clinical Medicine^’ is therefore not only a deserved compliment The treasury of the Hioly Childhood re- WM. H. TRIPLETT, M. D Professor of Anatomy. ’’ but in every way advantageous to the school. ceived last year over twehty-four dollars from I He has succeeded in rousing the liveliest inter- CHARLES V. BOARMAN, M D the Prefect of the small boys. Poor “Humility” Demonstrator of Anatomy. ' est and emulation among the students in the and his favorite charity seem to he forgotten JOHN WALTER, M. D., Moot Court, over which he presides. Mr. on the other side of the house. Prosector to Chair of Anatomy. Hoffman, we may add, though the college cir- For additional information apply toi cular does not, is at the head of the great Law F. A. ASHFORD, M. D., Dean of Faculty The sheriff must take a man as he finds him. 1330 New York avenue. 12 COLLEGE; JOURNAL

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