The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-07-17


DEAu.-We have been honored with visit
from the Rev. T. M. O'Donoghue, c. NJ,
the worthy vice-President of St. vincent's
College, Cape Girardeau, Mo-, of which
popular educational establishment he comes
amongst MS as the representative. We
are sorry that the business part of our
paper was already printed, and the edi-
torial nearly all in type, when we received
this highly appreciated visit, else certain
notifications in the college card, necessari-
" deferred to another, should have been
made public in this issue. The numerous
End gratified patrons of the institution can,
however, supply the deficiency themselves
by calling at ST. Joseph's Church, opposite
ahe Charity Hospital, where the Rev. Fa-
ther has taken up his temporary abode.
There they can obtain from himself any
and all information they may require.
With no little qualification on our own
part we learn from Father O'Donoghue
that st. Vincent's College is in a most
prosperous condition /; that the number of
Rstudents is larger than it has ever been
since the College was founded, and that
the prospect of its more widely diffu sed
usefulness to State as well as Church is
henceforth permanently photographed. Du-.
ring the war the College suffered much,
At one time it was proposed to convert its
peaceful halls into noisy barracks for a
mercenary and brutal soldiery, and only
for the well-timed Intervention of an octo-
generian Maryland friend of ours, whose
name and merits are not unknown to the
older Catholics of Louisiana, the revolving
sacrilege had been committed. Thanks.
however, to the prudence of the veteran
mountaineer, literature, as we'll as religion,
was spared the humiliation. The college
survived the insult; its scattered students
returned classes were re- formed, and the
several professors resumed their functions
without word of recrimi nation lust as
calmly imperturbable as that old Spanish
Monk Professor, who, after years of i'm
prisonment for the utterance of Gods
truth, on his liberation, simply took ND his
cid subject, with this nnpretending pre-
face: Herr dicebamus-" Yesterday I was
going to say"
This College we can conscientiously |
recomme nd to the consideration, and for it |
~ $3.50 10y AANVA0 buC phGLOuu20y OF our |
Catholic readers. We know most of the |
professors, and, If our friends give us any |
credit for experience in college matters,
We can pronounce them fully qualified to
occupy their respective chairs. The course
81 study is complete, and the plan of edu-
cation adopted, comprehensive yet full.
FROM tho Prospectus, which we have not
oniy read, but studied, we conclude that
there lie no display, which may for the mo.
nent crafty the professors self-love, but
eften blasts, and that too for all time, the
prospects of many bright youths intelli-
gence. The finer arts are not neglected at
st. Vincent's College, but they are merely
Ruxilliary to q thorough and solid educa-
ZION. Our views on education we promise
TO give fully at no distant day hero we
have said enough to justify the esteem in
which we hold the Lazarist Fathers, not as
priests, for as such their good works are
,beir best recommendation, but in the
hght in which we are reviewing the M now,
10 educators of youth. IL
The INFALLIBuITY DoGMA.-Tbe telegraph