Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-08
PROTESTS
Significant Farewell Banquet Ten
dered Brother Fabrician.
HIGH TRIBUTES 10 his WORK
Alumni Of St. Johns College Honor
the Deposed President.
AN PEAL TO OME

Rev. Brother Fabrician. recently deposed
from the presidency of st. Johns College
by the superior of the order of the Broth
ers of the Christian Schools. Rev. Gabriel
Marie, was rendered a banquet at the
Raleigh last night by the alumni society of
the college over which he has long and so
admirably presided. The occasion was a
significant one in every respect and partic-
ularly so in the outspoken character of the
protests against the removal of Brother
Fabrician. Mr. Joseph ]. Murphy was
POSTMASTER. and about one hundred guests
We're present. Resolutions prepared by a
committee appointed for the purpose were
reported by Mr.. w. II. De Lacy. the chair
man. They were lengthy and emphatic.
They recited the calling of Brother Fab-i-
clan to Paris as mark of dispieasure be-
cause of his fidelity to his conviction that
the welfare of the Catholic youth of Amer
lea required that the classics be continued
in the curricula of the colleges and aca9-
enieS of the Brothers of the Christian
Schools in this country, and referred to the
wonderful improvement he had brought
about in the college, which, by his untiring
efforts, had been placed upon high plane
of influence and usefulness in the eduCa-
tional world.
Importance of Classics.
rhe resolutions further recited that the
sense of the Importance of the classics had
caused the study of Latin and Greek to lie
included in the course of the high schools
of the magnificent public schools of the
country, having a total enrolment of To-
10000 pupils and involving an expenditure
of nearly $500 Goa. 900, a system admirable
in its extent and admirable in the utility- of
its methods and effects, and which for years
past has been the study and emulation of
the other progressive nations of the earth
and that the catalogues of the brothers
colleges and academies, containing promise
of instruction in Latin and Greek, had
caused thousands of students to place them
selves under this Christian order to receive
their education, that good faith and good
morals demanded that the contracts thCs
entered into with parents and guardians be
religiously kept by the noble order which
has hitherto so faithfully observed all its
engagements.
Petitions to the Pope.
1t was resolved. in conclusion. That We
hereby express our sincere regret at the de-
parture of Brother Fabrician, especially
under such circumstances, and that We
hope for his speedy return to our city, in
order to resume his accustomed duties
among us; and
That, as mark of our confidence and
affection, ii copy of these resolutions, suit
ably engrossed, be presented to him: and
That our fellow alumni of the other col
leges and academies of the Brothers of
the Christian Schools throughout the
United States be called upon to join US in a
petition to the holy father for the RECESSION
of the Objectionable order herein referred
to, upon the grounds set forth in the pre-
amble hereof, and upon the further ground
that the enforcement of said order would
destroy the institutions of learning from
which We hold our degrees, thus rendering
oh, j.
ers thereof irreparable injury, contrary to
good faith and good morals: and, further.
that copies of these resolutions be for
warded to our holy father the pope and
to Brother Gabriel Marie. general of the
brothers at Paris, respectively.
The resolutions were unanimously adopt.
ed after several addresses were made on
the subject.
Mr.. DoIan's Remarks.
Mr. John ]. Dolan, formerly teacher at
st. Johns College, said it was difficult to
use temperate language on such an occa-
sion.
THE words of the resolution just Of
fered,' he declared, tell us that because
Brother Fabrician has adhered to a prin-
ciple, in the defense of which several of
his eminent confreres have already been
sacrificed, a principle involving, as We be-
HeVe, the permanence or destruction of a
magnificent system of Christian education,
upbuilded from humble beginnings by the
q al, labors and lofty purpose of the Broth
ers of the Christian Schools, and made nee
essary by the march of intellect in this re-
public, he has been deposed from his office
and sent to a foreign land.
by every principle of right and justice
We protest. If 1t is to be said that the
Brothers of the Christian Schools have, in
this country, lost sight of the objects of
their founder, and must therefore be re-
turned TO their primitive conditions, we
answer that these conditions have ceased
to exist; We say that these men have but
kept pace with the trend OF modern educa-
tional life. If they have advanced. it is
because they have imbibed the progressive
spirit of the great republic.
Hopeful of Fair Play.
And we honor and indorse Brother Fab
rician for continuing to maintain the cur
riculum of his college in its integrity pend
ing the final decision of the question by the
authorities at Rome, exclaimed Mr.. Dolan
in conclusion, land we have abiding faith
in the outcome. We believe that the senu
mentS of the hierarchy and of the laymen
of this country will be respected, and that
the church, which we have been taught to
believe has ever been the friend of educa-
ton, will vindicate these men who have
given their lives to it; that the supreme
pontiff so many of whose august predeces-
sors in every age have been the patrons of
letters, who himself has ever been the
friend of classical learning. will never in
terdict its teachings, whether by the Chris
tan Brothers or any other order of the
church. We believe in fair play. We hope
aa1 wait
Others who spoke were Mr.. James F.
Shea Mr.. Charles F. Johnson, Mr.. Harry
X. Bently and Capt. R. ]. Donnelly.
Brother Fabrician thanked his old stu
dents and friends for the honor they had
done him in expressing their loyal friend
ship, and spoke with much feeling of the
years of close association between them
He did not refer to his deposition, but
seemed much affected when he babe his old
friends goodbye.
Brother Fabrician left today for New
York and viii sail for Paris tomorrow.