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thirty years he has been professor Of
dogmatic and moral theology. His
long experience both as student and
professor, and lifetime spent among
young Levites, more than justify Dr..
Hogan's choice for the position Of dis
| ciplinary director of the divinity school.
| In providing for the department of
philosophy the managers Of the Univer
sity have chosen DIR. Joseph Pohle.
Born, like DR.. Schroeder, ON the banks
of the Rhine, Prof. Pohle has com
pleted his tuirty seventh year. His
physique combines the refinement of
the scholar with the vigor Of man in
the bloom of his years. He was enrolled
as a student of the gymnasium at
Treves, in 1856, and is said to have out
stripped all his fellow students as a
scholar. His superior merit gained for
him scholarship in the German Col
lege at Rome, where he attended the
Gregorian University from 1871 to
1870. After his ordination we find him
studying the natural sciences at the
University Of Wurzburg, where he en-
joyed the friendship and advice Of the
celebrated botanist. Prof. Sachs. Hay-
ing thus rounded of his education and
prepared himself for professors chair,
he found the 'Kulturkampf" bar to
his exercising his sacred ministry IN his
native country For several years he
was professor in Switzerland, and in
1888 be was called to ENGLAND to teach
morals and dogma in thu diocesan sem
mary of Leeds, where be Immediately
won golden opinions on all sides. As
soon as the episcopal seminaries were
reopenesl in Germany, DR.. Kopp, then
Bishop of Tulda, summoned him to
teach IN his re-established seminary.
There he will remain until his duties
call him to Washington.
| DR.. Sebastian Gerhard Messmer will
be professor of canon law. DR.. Mess
mer was born near st. Gall, in Switzer-
land, on the 9th Of August, 1847, and
from early childhood was distinguished
| for his piety and love of learning. On
completing his course at the Realschu)e
Of Roeschack, he entered the petit
seminaire Of st, Gall, at the age Of
thirteen. There he gained many friends
by bis exuberant spirits, combined
with good nature, whilst at the same
time he made an excellent record as a
scholar. His father next sent HIM to
Innspruck. where he attended the
lectures OF the distinguished jesuit
professors OF the university for four
years. He was ordained priest on July |
81, 1871. Arriving IN America early in !
September Of the same year, he was
appointed to the professorship Of dog
matte theology at Seton Hall, the semi
nary of the diocese Of Newark. This
position he has filled for the past eigh-
teen years, to the entire satisfaction Of
his superiors, as we'll as of the students
to whom he iectured.
10 fill Che Chair Of moral theology,
Bishop Keane has been fortunate
enough to secure DR.. Bouqulllon, until
lately professor in the University of
Lille. DR.. Buuuuillon's merits as a
morallst are we'll known, not only in his
native country-Belglum-b also in
France and Germany. He was born at
Bruges, about forty-two years ago. and
received his education in his native
country. His reputation as a scholar
soon passed beyond the limits of Bel !
GUM, hence his appointment as pro
lessor at Lille, one of the most success
full bf the Catholic high schools founded
by the enthusiasm and self-sacrifce of
the Catholics of Francs.
Father Hewitt of the Congregation of
st. Paul will lecture on Church History.
Few priests Of the Union are better
known than Father Hewitt. He was
born at Fairfield, Conn. in 1920. being
the son Of a Congregational minister
He graduated at Amherst, and then
took up the study of law. In the year
1916. he was received into the Catholic
Church. and the year following he was
raised to the priesthood. For fDar
years he filled the Office 0fvice principal
Of the Charlestown Collegiate Institute.
In 1850 he babe adieu to the world and
became Redemptorist, Eight years
afterwards when Father Hecker found
ed the Congregation of st. Paul, Father
Hewitt became one of its first and most
active members. He is an untiring
student. interested in every branch of
philosophical aud theoloQical literature,
equally familiar with the early Church |
Fathers and the most modern theolo |
gical authorities.
Father oearle will lecture on as