The daily gazette., 1880-04-21
jesuit Schools.

SKETCH OF A FAMOUS PARTISAN IN.
sTITUTIoN.
The Jesuits have three large schools
in Paris, one of which owes it's estab.
lishment to the desire of Louis Phil
lippe to have Queen Victoria, when a
gill, marry his son. These schools
are of an interesting character, and
one of them has graduated 1900 Off
GERS and cadets for the French army.
line resident correspondent of the
Tribune writes as follows =
have been to visit the Rue des Pos
tes. 1t now contains between 500 ard
600 pupils. The parloir, where stu
denJs see their parents and guardians,
and their reverend teachers, lady visi-
tors, is at the side of large court,
surrounded on all sides by lofty build
ings. This chamber or hall is very
spacious, well lighted, well ventilated,
and not speck of dust is to be found
on either the polished oak floor or the
furniture. The latter is of the sim
plest kind, and consists of rush-seated
chairs and plain oak tables, covered
with oilcloth. But all round the walls
there are pictures. Some of them are
photographs, some miniatures, some
pencil drawings, some oil paintings,
and all are Hkenesses of officers who
have fallen in the defense of their
country, or in executing heroic deeds.
In the first pile of buildings facing the
grand entrance to the College Court
nearest to la Rue des Postes, there are
a chapel, club-room for ci-devant
pupils, chamber containing Father
Secchi's barometrical instrument
which notes the variations of weather
in every part of the globe with which
it is in telegraphic correspondence,
and vestibule that serves as pro-
memoir in winter to one of the senior
classes.
This hall is glazed on the north side.
The wall on the south side is decor ated
with pictures Of tn: ::Jesuitcal houses,
which are scattered over almost every
quarter Of the globe. Lads are made to
feel that wherever they fall down, they
will, if they earn the esteem of their re-
verend teachers, have powerful friends
to back them. They will have protec-
tors in California, Australia, Japan
India, South America, the Pacific
lSlduuSJ 0IedJ DslJdlIl, Au oLild, IOpdlU,
Algeria, Eyyp', Palestine. From this
pictorial exhibition one draws insensi-
bly, the moral that the S ,clety of Jesus
is invested with gigantic power to pro-
tect or to injure.
The chapel is beautiful. Its beauty is
of a serene and cheerful character. In
no part of the house gloom reigns. No
where, though severe simplicityis therule,
has it harsh, prison aspect. Class
room are on the first floors Of the differ
mt blocks of buildings A Jesuit who
took me over the establishment called
my attention to the wormeaten desks.
'rhey are DID," he SAID, "but, you will
observe, they are not hacked and disf-
cured by the penknives Of mischievous
youths. All our pupils have penknives.
They are never ordered not to be des-
tructive; butwe have thaertof tanning the
demon of destruction which turks in the
breast of nearly every male child. Our
pupils are made to feel that they are the
of the house; that all our re-
sources will be put forth to sustain them
whenever they may need our protec-
ion, and that our glory is their glory"
At the Rue des Posles, il pupil is
homesick or out Of spirits, father, a
mother, an uncle, an aunt, is asked oa |
4 visit and lodged in this wing. If this
ioes not make up for the absent family, |
uvenile relatives are also invited with |
he par mt or parents. According to the
lumber to whom the college extends
lodgings are given. There
IRE suites of apartments, with sitting
'oom and several bedrooms. In all
,ases invalieds may have those near and
lear to them in the hostelry, and they
Ill meet in a common sitting-room.
Board is also provided. The furniture,
without being luxurious, in this part of
he college is elegant. This led me 20
INQUIRE the yearly cost Of maintaining a
ad at the Rue des Pos er. 1t is about
!, 500 francs, which covers all expenses,
lot including weekly excursion to the
Iesuits' house at Aths, This was form
lily the country seat of Mile. te Scudery,
and the chateau stands in the midst of q
-ichly wooded park intersected with n
leep canal, IN which pupils learn to
swim. In winter some of the courts in
he Rue des Postes are flooded to enable
he lads to skate. Robust exercise Is
insisted upon in all the Jesuit schools in
he play hours, and the reverend ushers
are bound to set an ex ample of muscular