Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-02-26
The George own Catholic University
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| Especial Interest dlldGflts 10 Tile uni
versity at Georg stown, in the District q
Columbia, BECAUSE this was the frs
| Catholic Institution of the higher learnns
founded in the United States. student,
| having entered IL as early as 1871. Sine,
| 1906 Ii has been under the direction OF
members OF the Society of Jesus In 1871,
| IL acquired from Congress the power OF
| comforting ordinary degrees. and In lS}.
| II received from the Holy See authority
to grant degrees in philosophy and the
ology. IL deserves the name of univer
| sty for the reason that In addition e
| the college proper, or school OF arts and
sciences. 1t comprises an Astronomical
| observatory, a law school, and schoO
! of medicine. If the requirements for aG-
| mission to the professional schools seem.
| inadequate. when compared with the con-
| dt.ons imposed in Germany, the short
| ming Is common TO almost all AmefI
| can institutions. while the precautions
taken at Georgetown to assure the proper
| significance to the A. II. degree are de-
| serving of very high commentator.
| The faculty and officers OF Georgetown
| University number 66, and there are 81.
Students, exclusive OF III in the prepare
tory department. II we looR at the class
ifcation by residence. We find that c,
| students come from the District OF Co
| lumbia, ~ from the five States Of New
| York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Della
ware, and Maryland; 26 from New Eng
| land, and that "a other States are repre-
| scented by from u TO l each. There are,
| also, undergraduates from Central Ameri-
| ca. Cuba. Canada. and France. We have
| referred to the preparatory depart
| ment, which is a distinctive feature
| to qualify boys for entering the
| college proper. The prescribed age
| for admission 10 this school is now
| 10. and a candidate must have re-
| ceived Il good elementary training In what
are known as the English branches, in
Guiding "A thorough acquaintance with
arithmetic to the end Of percentage. The
graduates Of this school, In which the
study of Greek and Latin is compulsory,
are admitted to tn college proper az a
| matter OF course. From other prep1ra-
tory schools of established reputation,
students are admitted on the principal s
certificate. but that knowledge Of the
ella ssical languages is demanded Is clear
from the examination which all appli-
cants not provided with acceptable GER
tiiicates must pass. The subjects OF the
examination comprehend English compo-
sition, a general outline of ancient and
modern history, and the elements OF either
French or German grammar In arithme-
tic an applicant must. offer the
whole of arithmetic, algebra TO
the end OF quadratics, and the
elements of plane and solid geometry;
in Latin, the entire grammar including
prosody, Nepos's Lives, two books Of
Phaedrus's Fables, selected letters OF
Cicero. two books Of Caesars Commenta-
ries, and a thousand lines of Ovid's Meta
morphoses; In Greek will be required
complete knowledge OF etymology and an
acquaintance with the outlines OF syntax
two books OF Xenophon's Anabasis. and
certain of LucLan's Dialogues. AS regards
facility I'm prose composition, the candi-
date must translate at sight complex sem
fences into Latin and simple sentences
into Greek. a careful inspection OF these
requirements VIII convince the reader that
Georgetown may fairly be compared. from
this point of view, with most OF the lead
ing American universities. and that 1t Is
actually more eXacting than Harvard
where a knowledge OF Greek Is not de-
manded of applicants.
1t should further be remarked that at
Georgetown an undergraduate Is not
permitted to abandon the classical Ian
guages soon after entering college. but Is
Obliged to study them during the first
three years of the quadrennial course
leading TO an a. b. degree. This Is the
only American college known to us where
the student is for three years trained
In speaking as well as in writing Latin,
and in reading II at sight. The Latin
authors with which a Georgetown man
must become conversant comprise the
whole OF Horace the Aenld and Eclogues
of Virgil. Juvenal. Sallust, Livy. and the
Agricola and Germania of Tacitus, Quintl-
Ian. and the Orations. Letters, De Sc
nectute, and De Amicitia OF Cicero. In
,lar 1ttlta ~
Had. the Hellenica OF Xenophon, the
Olynthiacs, and De Corona OF Demos
themes. and the Oedipus Tyrannus of
Sophocles In mathematics. which >be
cannot avoid by soft elective he must
have finished algebra, and mastered ana
lytic geometry. trigonometry, and sur
veying, and the differential and integral
calculus. He must carry on the study or
that modern language. French or German,
which he offered for admission, and must
also acquire the rudments OF the alterna-
tive one. Other prescribed studies dur
ing the two last years of the course are
chemistry. mechanics, physics. astronomy.
and geology; and, naturally, a good deal
of attention Is paid to logic, metaphysics
and ethics, Altogether. IL Is evident That
an excellent education IL attainable In the
college proper at Georgetown. and that
its A. y. degree possesses the value winch
ought always TO pertain TO diploma OF
the kind We add that the Masters de-
gree is given, not as a matter OF course
hut only to those holding the correspond
ing baccalaureate degree after one year
OF residence during which certain pre-
scribed lectures have been attended ana
certain examinations have been passed
THE number of students in the medical
school belonging to the Georgetown UNI
versity is 1885, The complete course or
study in this department comprises -FOUR
sessions of seven months EACH At the
end OF each session written examinations
are held. and no student falling TO pass
these can obtain the NJ. ID. degree.
unfortunately. the possession OF a
college education Is not required for ad-
mission, nor indeed Is II by any medical
school in the United States. The graduate
of any high school or academy may
enter the medical department of George
town, but on other candidates a pre-
lminary examination Is imposed. In the
law school, which has 26I students, no
examination for admission Is prescribed,
and 1t follows that young men having
merely common school education are
admissible. The course leading to the
degree OF bachelor Of laws covers only
two years, but there is postgraduate
course open 10 those DESTROYS OF securing
also a masters degree. We should note
that these diplomas are conferred only
upon those who successfully pass ex-
aminations In the several subjects OF
study and thus an effort is made to COM
pensate for the deficiencies which. owing
to the freedom of admission TO the school.
must be observable In many OF Its STU
dents. TrA-
on the whole, there can be no doubt
that under the direction OF the Jesuit
Fathers a great deal OF sterling work Is
done at Georgetown, In the field OF the
higher education. The progress made by
this institution is the more remarkable
because II Is unendowed and destitute Of
pecuniary resources save the income de-
rived from the fees of students. Yet
much as this struggling university may
have felt the need Of money. 1t has firmly
refused to swell the number OF its I'M
dergraduates by lowering the require
ments for It's A. Il. degree.
Railway Mortgages Foreclosed.
MONTGOMERY. ALA. February 25.-
In the United States Court here to-day
Judge Bruce granted a decree foreclosing
the mortgages Of the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company of New York on the CO.
lumbus and Western railway. This line
Is a division Of the Central OF Georgia