The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-31
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!: SCHOOL OF THE JESUITS. (:
Observation-Disclosures

poy before the Houston Teachers institut
and published by unanimous request O
that body :.
The first Christian schools were tn
Cathedral or Canonical schools in tn
cities. and the cloistral schools in the alb
beys ana monasteries Owing to a change,
condition OF Christianity. partly produced
by the Crusades. instruction took new
turn with the rise and progress OF tn,
university system. AT first. the univers,
tiles wre mostly annexed to cathedral
rhurch.s. AS they developed, the clostra
influence waned And again, as they de
veloped still more, they presented phenom.
cna which originated the subsequent sys.
TEN OF the Jesuits.
turtles as many as sixty-six of these uni
versitles were in existence; sixteen oil
them are credited to Germany absut AZ
many to France, and the rest TO Italy
Spain and other nations. Some of the uni
yersities had law as their specially, OF
as tnelr distinguishing faculty, as Or
leans, Bologna, Modena; others medicine,
As MontpeiDer, Prague. Salerno; Others
mathematics. as Toledo. Salamanca; still
others general culture, philosophy and
theology, as Paris These univ ersities be-
came such we'll springs of learning that
they atti acted immense numbers oil stu
dents, thus we iind at Bologna 10000, at
Oxford $4,000, at Paris 10000.
An indisciiminate mass of humanity
like this, pressed, thronged and crowded
together. stimulated with all the ardor,
and alive with all the passions OF youth,
could not fail to be little better than a
nursery for indiscriminate license. What
ever might be the vigilance of tne church,
Or however strenuous theseXercise of legit-
Innate authority, nothing in the usual
course OF human society could prevent its
becoming IA prolific soil for the propaga-
tion of every special OF error. And. as
during 800 years the Intellectual and edu
cational powers of Europe followed this
course. the law OF evolution asserted it
self in many directions. The Paris uni
rersity, where Luyola entered in 1o2S, is
described by contemporary writer as fol-
lows 1T was fallen from the ancient
splendor The bonds of discipline had
been gradually reiaXeui studies were aban-
doned; aud with masters, as with scholars,
all love of letters and respect for the RUE
had gwen place TO somber passions, TO
political hate, to religious fanaticism and
absolute habits"
Loyo.a looked with compassion on men
living like the blind, dying and sinking
into eternal depths; on men talking,
reviling one another; on
their assaulting. wounding, Staying one
another, and altogether going to eternal
perditon. 1t was from this moral point
in view that he descended into the arena
Of education
But be.ore he can teach men or mould
teachers of men or even conceive the idea
If l1gislating for the intellectual world
ne must himself first learn. There are
TWO fundamental lessons which he does
earn. nd they go to form him. One Is
hat among all pursuits the study OF viz
he is supreme; the other that supreme as
virtue is yet without secular learning the
highest virtue goes unarmed, and at hest
5 profitable to oneself alone. He learns
hose two lessons, not only in theory. hut
n practice. To accomplish the purpose
If the latter he takes his seat upon the
cholsr's bench and begins to learn with
title children. Though he may not meet
With brilliant success in the art of learn
ng still in the art of understanding what
earning is and In the lessons CT expert
inca he becomes a finished scholar.
The order of the Jesuits. Societas Jesu,
vas founded by the Spanish nobleman, lg
Iatius LoyoIa. and formally recognized hy
Paul III in 1910 The Papal Bull stated
hat the order was formed among other
hings, especially for the purpose of in
boys and Ignorant persons in the
religion" Why schools for ser
liar learning had to be established has
'een stated in the Introduction.
A number of years before Loyola thought
# establishing his order, voluntary asso-
atoms of students and teachers. who
ere anxious to preserve better morals,
etter discipline and better studies, had
riginated in their midst the college
ystem Salamanca had twenty colleges,
forty, Paris fifty. This system OF
olleges was the fundamental idea of
.oyolas schools, and thus he began the
econdary and superior education of the
hristian world, as far as his services
Tere called for.
The work was begun by religious body,
ound to poverty, and it was understood
hat the members would endow the work
t their own cost with that which Is the
st, the essential, and most expensive
dowment-the labors, the attachments
nd the lives of competent men, all era
iitously given. What there was to be
rovided for were the necessaries of life.
e houses and tho apparatus for their
ork. For this reason Loyola required
ertain material and temporal conditions
" the establishment of their public i
,hools. The foundation. or bequest, was Z
ways to be received as a gratutous do I
alton, for which the order owed perma
emit gratitude In turn 1t gave gratui- I
usly and allowed OF no recompense
oyola says in his Constitution Of the
RIDER: NO obligations or conditions are
be admitted that would impair the in.
gritty of our principle, which is to give
atuitousy what we have received
rats"
The first two colleges were established
the same year, 1912, one of them in the
,yal university at Coimbra ir Portugal ,
lie other at Goa in Hindustan. At the
cath Of Loyola. fifteen years after The ,
OF the order. there were about 4
10 colleges and horses, distributed over ,
1elve provinces Portugal, CASTLE, Anda- ;
sia Aragon, Italy, Naples, Sicily. Upper |
I'd Lower Germany, France, Brazil and ,
e East Indies. After some considerable !
ruggle the order secured in 1861 foot
& in Paris, and a hundred years later /
counted nearly $4,000 pupils in the prov /
CO of Paris alone. The college at Cler- :
ont had, in 1861, 1000, and In 1875 30on i
udents. In 17i0 the order possessed 6l2 /
lleges, 157 boarding and normal schools. i
houses for novitlates, $40 residences, Z
o missions and "a universities. The :
,mbers OF this order became the real
asters of education and maintained this