The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-11-10

Du1LIN, Dot. 18th, 1871.

= Qaeen's Univefsity and tho Codes Col = !.
-, aud promieed when writing next to 70 =
Is tho consideration of the subject. The
6ity took place ON the day SITTER wrote, :
before proceed to toll you what occurred 4
Rest let me tell you what conversation il.
Ewo years standing who pay Zee Of ave
Nlings yearly, and Of the Presidential and Il
ofsssqEs of the three Queep's Colleges. II =
~ ask me what it, function is, cannot say.
1hArge Of which would put the University I
= hilnery out of order for moment; and In Z
~ = Of fact. all 1t dees is to meet once year .
noe OF two resolutions expressing admira- !
$Sat the working of the mixed or Goddess J
IN OF EdncatiOn and approval Of the sys- !
Up to Two Of three IRE hears s sgo, y.
nimity. It was 3 perfect family party; 1t
y pntiDely composed or almost entirely com,
I'D of Protestants aud Presbyteriens; and
S6tulation. Two OF three years ago. however.
Hkebellious Catholic graduate-Mr. F.. H.
8Donnell, NJ. A., came In to disturb the har.
|SSny of the proceedings-or rather, should
=, came in and the harmony was disturbed.
y sought to prove to the faces of these COM
tacent friends of the institution that when
lay talked of its success they were talking
1i1sehoods. He sought to do 80 unaided and
Itene. Afraid Of exposure and exasperated ut
NJ daring, conversations shut his mouth by
sies ofexpedients, clumsy, brutal, and dis
XI00t8Dl0. lDl8, uOWoSoE, Olu uOb u8uHu SAAAs
EDonnell. Last year he returned to the
sarge but again he was summarily shut up, !
e chairman and the meeting trampling ruth
[lssly not only on the special rules Of convoca-
aos, but ON the ordinary rules Of debate. On
siday last, for the third time, he essayed his
&ERventurous task. He was not alone on TINS
session. Three other Catholic graduates as
(ebert Kane, the President of Queen College,
&Icrk and chairman Of the meeting, the four
Ssre the only Catholics present against thirty
IkNo Professionals ana P1esoyteri;ane;; . UnS
Soseii to listen to Mr.. O'Connell but these
ssresohers of federation arc in practice the
~ I have said, afraid of having the true
s eats of things in the Queens Colleges made
$Slain to the world. So they determined to
zShut up Mr: ODonhell and his friends on tins
3necasion, also by every means in their power.
NJ. O'Donnell had placed SEINE notices OF mo
zion ON tho paper, the rejection and adoption
s6f which would have been equally inconven'-
&ent to the friends Of the Queens University,
:jnsy, even the mere discussion Of which would
have been very inconvenient. The first thing
Z done was to decide that they were q day tate,
> days notice to be given, and because, though
the meeting was announced to be heia aooa'
&the 10th inst, it was cleverly contrived 70 an
4 ticipate this date by q day, and OF this CIR
: 5eurstapce the astute chairman took adyan-
Z tage to drive Mr.. O'Donnell out of court. Next
& IS rule was carried that no speaker be suffered
& 10 speak for longer time than fifteen minutes
81 without the leave of convocation. There
WAS no possible object in this except to shut
MP Mr.. ODonnell and his friends. Notwith'
4 standing all this, however, that gentleman
contrived to let in some light on the DARK re
5 cesses of the Queens Colleges. He got speak
ing on the motion for the adoption OF the an
nnnl report of the committee of convocation
That report advocated the representation O
4 nell moved it's rejection on the ground that
e did not deserve parliamentary representation
3slHe contended that the University did not per
form the functions Of un,yersity al amt ma
eutterly absurd. Its Professors sign q declare
ton on entering office not to say or do singl
thing that would be displeasing to any porto
+ Of their respective classes; and consequentl
"A fhey cannot allude to the Reformation, for in
& stance, or any other disputed portion OF his
II tory, nay, if Mahomlnedan attended tn
& lessor could not tell his pupils that NJ:
homet was an impostor. At the sam
time, as Mr. ODonnell said, by referring, 9
j the Professors constantly do refer, their pupil
q "a certain passages in such books as Hume an
Gibbon, without confuting these authors, the
iudirectly influence students in q manner no
tile to Catholicism. They, for instance, a,
dealing with the Wars of the Roses. Well, The
>. refer their pupils for certain facts concern
y mo these Wars to Dawson Turner's Compel
dunn of English History. Thestudents being
referred, purchase Dawson Turner'S Iar book an
contain most Insulting and calumnious niisr
s nresentaSions of facts relating to Catholics
and Catholics, and the Queen's College Pr
feasor is NOT able to say word upon the pon
z Ho must not even touch it, because If he &C
- rected the misrepresentation Protestan
Wopld be ipsulted, and if he said the misrepl
& sanitation were not misrepresen tations at all
might offend the Catholics and 80 the Cath
lie students may 90 away with the falsest pr
s;bie Impressions. Mr.. O'Donnell had quot
M from some of tho obnoxious textbooks, VIII
the friends of the Institution prevented b
from going further by an ingenious but, rath
disrepnta6le device Sir Robert Kane, wou
not allow quotations from any books that we
not mentioned in the College Calendar, o
+ ~ these were not 80 mentioned. But it was pt
If Mr. O;Donnell's case to prove that the q
leue Calendar told lIes-did not contain all t
stext- books in use-that by its being possible
ikeep book of the College Calendar, the
fessors might instruct students IN Noitai
Rousseau and Buckle, and other anti-Chl
4ian writers. But Sir Robert Kane wo'
neremptorily stop Mr. O'Donnel. Howev
that gentleman succeeded to considera
axtenT in effecting his object. His second
effectually showed that the pretence that
(yatholics of Ireland accepted the mixed
GodIess system, was false pretence, by poi
inn out that only thirty Catholics attended !
session the arts classes in three queens I
leQes And now came probably the worst
oosure of all. A defender of the Queens l
fcres had asserted that the members OF
JJniyersity were all but unanimously in ia
hat