The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-31


countries was appointed In 1851 IN s,,a,
mo question, and three years ,sfsr s,,'
otner commission Of six. representing dir.
ierent countries. began tho lab6r ~ n,a,
pairing course OF study. Their vorL we,
not completed until 1902, and II was caIlsd
the Ratio StudIorum.'' This has We.
NAMED the guide OF Jesuit institutions n,
learning Till the present day
1t is worthy OF especial note ,ba, al,
.eacners of the Jesuit schools were care.
luiy framed before they were allowed "a
Sive instruction. This is the first ti,ns a,
history that the necessity OF speoial nrs :
paration for the work OF teaching was
recognized as an essential element in inc
work of education, and required Inv any
! system OF schools.
me usual course OF training was; m
gNovitiate OF two years; t2) scholae,icns
.ior nve years; (S) regency or professorshIn
LOT from four to six years; C4) tbeoloejcal
studies ending with priests orders.
me Jesuits were the first to bring thu
inaivieuai teacher face to face with thu
individual pupil provincial WRITES :.
Let not the projects consider their az
thcrity to consist in this. that the students
are on hand In obedience to their nod. INT
III this, that the boys love them a.
proacn with confidence, and mako tbo,r
luiihculties known" Vitellescbj Aonavi.
vas successor. writes in his dlreotions,
~ VIII DO very useful, II from time To
.,nie me professors treat with their schol
a., als ana converse with them, showing them
IN familiar way how they ought 10
conduct themselves In studies and niotv
Let the professors be persuaded that n
single talk in private, animated with true
Aeai and prudence on their part will
penetrate the heart more and work more
powerfully than many lectures and SER
mons given in common" Voltaire writes.
During the seven years that lived In
me mouse OF the Josuits, what did | see
among them? The most laborious, frugal
ana regular life. all their hours divided
between the care they spent ON us and
the exercises of their austere profession.
attest the same, as thousands of others
Drought up by them like myself: not one
Will DE found TO contradict me- The
same man writes of one of his teachers:
Nothing will efface from my heart the
memory of Father Poree, who is equally
dear to all that studied under him Never
did man make study and virtue more
amiable. The hours of his lessons were
delicious hours TO us. / have had the
good fortune to be formed by more than
one jesuit OF the character of Father po-
rec, and know that he has successors
worthy OF him"
Boys were admitted to the schools OF
the Jesuits without regard to their low
birth, or poverty, and all instruction was
gratis. It was studiously aimed at by
the order to eliminate, in matters of edu-
cation, all distinguishing marks or pryi-
leges. Descartes writes: The equality
which the Jesuits establish among all, by
treating just in the same way those who
are most illustrious. and those who are
not so, is an extremely good invention"
The division in classes was in those
times a novelty. TIE term class was
an expression of the renaissance. The
first authentic act in which the term is
used dates from 1888 at the Paris uniyer-
sity. From 1886 the division of studies,
by means of classes. was being acco'a-
plished Still there was no definite num-
Der of grades. Loyola was studying in
the Paris university from 1928 TO 1885.
and his companions remained ill 1888.
BY the time he published the constitution
15j3l as rule Of guidance, he had be-
come surrounded by mss who were not
merely graduates OF unisTersities, but hat
been doctors, professors eand rectors in
Spain. Franco, l~sly. Ge!sn-ny
One conseauence kht htaht 10y
ola. from the very begtnnins, could formu-
late u complete system of graded classes,
having a sufficient number of professors
md teachers.
The typical form of Jesuit instruction
S called "praelectio," which, in the lower
ilasses, is largely the equivalent OF EEK
,lanaton, in the higher of 'lecturins,
This explanation in the lower classes is
,ral in its most SPECIFIC sense But it is /
he tutorial manner, which includes /
und OF sympathy, Of that tact which sup |
,oses sympathy. Of such superiority, !
10Th moral and intellectual, as knows how
o stoop, and elevate the boy by stoopinS.
md does it all naturally. instlnctiyely'
PEACEFULLY
After the "praelecto' follows the repe-
tion which rehearsss in full class, under
-arious forms or notifications OF that ex-
,rcise. what the teacher has explained
n class Repetition in the higher courses
axes more the form Of ''dis9utation.