The Irish standard., 1910-01-08
SOME DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS Of
THE GREAT DOMINICAN ORDER
The Rev. Thomas AK Reilly Whoas Just Returned America
After Devong Three Years the Higher Studies European
Institutions Has Enjoyed Peculiar Advantages and Won
New Scrptural Degree at Rome

It is quite we'll known that the
American Dominicans spare neither
time, trouble, nor expense in securing
competent professors for their college
near the Catholic University at Wash
ington. The eleven professors there
engaged have all been educated abroad
says the N. Y. Freeman's Journal.
The Very Rev. Dr. ID. ]. Kennedy, o.
p, S. T. M. ordinary professor of Sac
ramental Theology at the University,
was crowned at Louvain. The Rev.
Victor O'Daniels and the Rev. Nj. A.
Waldron, also of Louvain, were re-
Gently made masters In Sacred
Theology by the Dominican faculty at
Rome. They have enjoyed the distinc-
ton OF S. T.. L.. since they completed
Catholic learning and have moreover,
as their degree requires, taught credit
ably for period of thirteen years. The
remaining professors at the Dominican
college were matriculated at Fribourg.
Rome. and Jerusalem, the Rev. James
Aldridge, Q. p, S. T. L., having been
. among the first to take the doctorate
in Canon law at the Minerva. To DR.,
Aldridge has been confided the rigor-
: ously responsible charge of novice
\ master
e Fathers Fitzgerald, O. p. S. Il. L..
/ and Thomas ak. Reilly, professors OF
3 Sacred Scripture. completed thei,
i. studies at the Dominican Biblical
4 school at Jerusalem. They, together
t with the Very Rev. A. l.. Mcmahon
). o. p, s. r. L., former professor OF cX-
!. egesis at Washington. but now the
@ popular, jealous. hard working vicar
general Of the Dominicans west Of the
:. Rocky Mountains. had the rare ad-
K vantage Of being formed as scripturists
q by the renowned FIR. Lagrange BY him
q they were solidly grounded in those
q modern methods of scrlptural study
which harmonic so closely with the
!. "Providentissimus Deus" and the sub
= sequent documents OF Pope Plus X
The Dominicans. whose happy device
!. 1s 'Veritas" had already marked out
. for them in the constitutions they were
), observing. the principle formulated BY
Pope Leo XIII, VIZ, that the whole cir
Gle Of theology should be completed by
the candidate for advanced studies, be.
fore he begins to specialize.
All Of the Dominican professors have
= taken post graduate courses. Most OF
- them have studied at least two years
u after having taken their degree ii
: theology. DR.. Kennedy was formerly
u professor at Fribourg in Switzerland
Fr Ambrose McHugh was last year Of.
. fered the chair OF apologetics at thu
!: Minerva, Rome, but declined.
FIR. Reilly, who has just returned
8 from Europe second time, has en-
: joyed peculiar advantages. After tn
Is ordinary six years course in theo
= logy required by the order, the las
r, four of which are devoted to ST
Y. Thomas, the favored candidate took hi
3 degree and was allowed three year
d time it was his singular privilege t.
assimilate the Inspired Word in tn
very place where it's ennobling scene
10 were enacted.
T. 1t is unique advantage held out t
members of st. Stephens school tha
j. they may live the life Of the east
l. breathe the air of Galilee and Judea
9. eat the food and enjoy the drink o
which our Savior Himself once tasted
The customs of the cast, 80 differen
rs from those of the west, become an OBJ
= ject Of daily observation and practice
l. The tent-life Of the partriarchs an
as judges becomes that Of the student, a
d, he goes about with the caravans regu
larly conducted by the school and, un
~ der professors of acknowledged abilit,
hears what he has learned thorough
I'd ly in the lecture hall being endowe
~ with life, so to speak, by the clea
Of forcible, pointed, and vital illustration
given on the spot.
do At the time Of his examination fe
Ie, the licentiate in theology, FIR. Refill
had already been enjoying thes