The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-10-18

stranger for pay. it is then that he is
accountable for his crimes That is
what you may call law of hospi-
tality!'
This warm Irish hospitality was
appreciated and accepted. For three
centuries Ireland was the asylum of
the higher learning which took sane
tuary there from the uncultured states
of Europe. At one time the religious
capital of Christian ireland was the
metropolis Of civilization
1.-THE quotation is from Hyde's lit
erary history of Ireland. The htany
of Aengus the Culdee invokes the
name Of many sanity and scholarly
stranger who had come to Erin's clas-
sic shore to find such peace as Dante
sought within the cloister of Fra Hill
ario. Romans, Gauls. Germans and
Britons find mention in this document
and even Egyptian monks. OF whom
seven are listed.
1.-THE greatest number of foreign
students came from Great Britain.
They came in 'f1eetloads.' according to
a letter written about the year EOS by
Aldhelm. bishop Of Sherborne, to Fad
frid, bishop Of Lindisfarne. The Ven
cradle Bede, himself an English poet
tells US that the scholars of his coun-
try went over to Ireland in great num-
| Der in the year 664, the time of the
great plague, and were warmly re-
ceived by the Irish. who provided them
with food and gratuitous education.
"In the ninth century we find Alcuin
sending letters from the court OF
Charlemagne to his friends at the
school of Clonmacnoise. Dagobert IL.
king of France, spent 10 or 20 years OF
his youth in the school OF Slane, In
Meath, near the residence Of the high
kings of ireland.
THE English prince. Albert OF
J Northumbria, was educated In Erin
and Aldhelm, abbot Of Malmesbury
expressed the sentiment of other Eng
lish scholars when, in Latin epistle
he congratulated the king on his good
fortune In obtaining an Irish educa-
!, ton. The same Aldhelm is also au-
! thority for the statement that the Eng
lish scholars were swarming like bee.
to the Irish schools while the great
school of Canterbury was far from
! overcrowded. King Aldfrid when leav.
ing Ireland, composed the following
! poem:
In Ireland, while in exile there,
"I found in Innisfail the fair
Women of WORTH both grave and gay
u men.
Alike in church and palace hall
Abundant apparel and food for ALL
est. Willibrord, noble Saxon. edu-
Gated in Ireland. became the archbish.
OPP of Utrecht; Agilbert, Frank by
birth, became bishop Of Paris after hit
studies in Ireland. And now, just {
little pedagogical touch before W,
come to speak of COLUMBIA.
! 1.-THE Irish schoolmaster has Away.
J been a firm believer in the efficacy o
J, corporal punishment as balm to tn
!, feelings of both master and pupil
!, From the days when the saints them
! selves were teachers down to the day
!, Of the hedge schoolmaster who mad
, some OF our more proximate ances
tors smart, the sentiment of Irish in
, structors has been thoroughly in &C
cord with the latest findings of a grea
: pedagogical authority. as recent,
made known to the teachers at theil
convention in Chicago. It might b.
: given to the pedagogical world as TIN
ancient precept of Irish school discip
;, line: Swat while your ire is hot!
, IAN application Of said rule and al
, illustration of its benef1cent results
} comes to hand in the story of st. Bao
!, thin. When this young scion Of ;
noble race-for in truth he was {
nephew of st. Columba-was studyin,
in the school Of st. Colman Ella, hi,
| voluntary dullness so tried the patience
, of the saint that one day the latte
without word or warning suddenl!
smote the young blockhead hard upol
!, the jowl and was endeavoring to maxi
even more Of an impression. whe,
; Baothin, taking the first blow TO
marching orders, quickly hied himsel
Z to the neighboring woods.
There he became interested in tn
work of q man who was building /.
house by weaving rods one after an
, other between posts that had been Sc
up in the ground. Baothin moralizet
I, on the manner in which the house wa
rising slowly but surely through tn,
| rods being woven in one by one. ant
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