The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-29
ROUNDED TRAINING
THE AIM OF JESUITS
with All Our Teaching, We Train Nobody"
Said Wilson; Jesuit System Intends Moral
Mental and Physical Development,
Says Its Exponent.
ny the VERY REV. THOMAS }. McCLUsKEY, 3. j.,
President of Fordham University.
Says Its Exponent.

r the twenty-frst annual conven-
y ton OF the Association OF Col
-. \ loecs and Preparatory Schools of
tuc Middle states and Mary
land President Wilson delivered a me-
mortal address. Mr.. Wilson was then
resident Of Princeton University and pre-
+. led al this convention. He took M the
,.blc.t az his address "School and Col
.,r, It's main topic may he best ex-
pressed lu HIS own words. we ought to
rillze that the school IL not preparing
'se boy FOR college. but that school and
college are alike endeavoring, 80 far as
time and opportunity permit, TO educate
,Ia b', Iuul We realize that the school
ant college are doing the same thing eX-
Uy 81" shall not get anywhere. We
t.s al ot one family We are all engaged
Lron the same thing. and we cannot do
4. 10 two ways. We must do IL in one
way /. We do II IN two ways we shall
mss Connections. am asking you to
consider liberal education as "A task Of the
r bool as well az task OF the college"
Mr. wilson's idea OF uniformly
-.,iei course Of education has always
BEEN the object Of the Jesuit high school
s.i college For centuries the high school
and the college were one In the Jesuit
system The course occupied six years.
Z. Ia only iu accordance with State edu-
,l'nnal regulations that the Jesuits have
I.vIled their perfectly coord,nated sys-
.an into high school and college. The
object ~ the Jesuit colleges has always
N,an 20 educate the boy--tO develop his
% oral. mental and physical powers. 1t
H.. intended that every student who fin-
!-Nrs a course OF studies in these colleges
may have q sound body, n well trained
intellect and noble character Attn
'.'f,s wisely directed. develop the sound
l.IN The mental faculties are exercised
b., u course Of graded studies which are
,tucht according TO the famous method
81 ths Ratio Studiorum. The Will Is
trained ;u high morality. so that the edu-
,.'el man may observe the laws OF God
aed his country and be a blessing to his
family and his uelghbor Thus the stu
dent Is made capable of high achievement
and enabled TO use his faculties for the
list results IN whatever line of life work
he may choose
Th4' this object was not intended or
certainly not attained 10y most OF the
Hu is ami colleges Of the United states
N- wilson very clearly and cmphatically
ta,d the convention when he said; we
ave iust passed through a period abound
li- !u pedagogical theories. We have
zen doing nothing else than making reck-
l.ss experiments upon lads and youths,
,.r "a" purpose OF testing newfangled
notions which we put forth out OF in
'eI'rctu1l curiosity more than out OF deep
conviction You know that the
children " the past two or three decades
our schools. have not been educated
You know that the pupils In the colleges
.' the last several decades have not been
,lu'1trd You know that with all our
Ga hing We train nobody. | say you
t.ow th.s-not meaning that you will
init 70 In a public discussicn. but that
oaen you are alone on your knees VI
-lt you would feel Obliged 10 confess
g" / remember distinctly no one present
attempted to rcfute any OF the state
rerts made by President Wilson. | felt
quito certain that he was not talking
s'.It Jesuit schools and colleges be
tgso as n" had never entered Jesuit
college Tor th" purpose OF invest eating the
methods and results he would not con-
denim what ne had not investigated As
a matter Of fact the Jesuts have not
h.on Experimenting in education. They
have adhered 10 their well tested system
of which Mr.. Quick wrote: mo other
school system has been built up by the
united Efforts OF so many astute intel
le''s. no other system has met with 50
great success or attained such widespread
influence" Educational Reformers"
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