The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-08-02
ST. MARY JEFFERSON COLLEGE ST. JAMES, LA


ANNUAL. EXAMINATION AND EXHIBITION
Editor Morning Star and Catholic Messenger
TO Catholics, it is, of course, always
gratifying to note the progress of Catholic
institutions. And even to our " separated
brethren who, when their cherished
"pUblic schools" were in their apogee,
could not withhold their admiration of
Catholic efforts in the cause of education
it must be, now, that a vicious legislation
is doing its worst to impair whatever of
efficiency those establishments ever pos
sessed-it must be, say, a matter of no
small interest to learn how undeviatingly orr
schools and colleges pursue the even tenor
of their way-leading their youthful charge
along the true path of enlightenment OBJ
serving the distinctions and differences
which nature herself observes, and to which
circumstances (wi,ose creatures we are) give
rise: but permitting none which these
ignore.
at this critical juncture of social affairs, our
Catholic school concerns-unmoved and
immovable by social or political fallacies-
arc of deep public interest, that we choose
to make our report to yoa, rather than to
your secular Tor more secular y cotempo-
ralies, whose prejudices, predictions. or
interests, constrain them, sometimes, to
mutilate our - correspondence"
Assuming then that it is ut once the
pleasure and the duty of the MORNING STAR
to place before it's readers, the truth land
the 'rbo'C truth,) we proceed to inform you
of what trauspired at St. Mary Jefferson
College during the five days commencing
with the 23d, and ending with the 27th)
devoted to the Annual Examination and
8. Exhibition.
According - .he custom adopted both in
Europe and America in the colleges of the
= Marist Fathers the pupils were eXam-
ined in .! CUPS uI fou. or tivc-the answers
nd fo nnin LODI ON In
thus, in the apportionment of honors and
rewards, leaving nothing to chance.
The English department. - the great
Anglo SaNOn--since it has acquired kind
of conventional pre-emincncc in American
affairs. SO with the Marisu Fathers lever
to ga!i4 ali IL Cody it had the precedence.
In the exercises, ElocutioL. and the other
departments of Rhetoric, alternated- with
Grammati, al ParsirS and Logical Analysis
and these again with History, Geography
and those spec...l Commercial Branches
Arithmetic and Book heeping.
In the French department, we witnessed
pretty much the same literary routine. with
die additional attraction of "a peculiar
cour Il IF Frcnch Literature for the more
advanced students.
In tic Mathematics, between Natural
Philosophy and Algebra, we have not vet
! been anlr 10 decide which excited the great
est lnterest-HUt, with its rice applications
to the practical concerns of life; this, with
Is curious facility of evolving "aEswers :
iF"E! caballstic lines and dots, and other
SYMBOLS,
The departments of Latin, Spanish, and
German re"clN " due attention; while the
| exercises in - 'iau Doctrine-common
to all the class Il Illustrated the pupils
proficiency Ill the .rnce of the Saints
that scie;,ce which butterflies alike, indiyid-
ual happiness and social stability. Three
days devoted to these exercises must be q