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Memorial of the First Century of Georgetown College, D. C.; Comprising a History of Georgetown University
Memorial of the First Century of Georgetown College D C Comprising a History of Georgetown University Author:John Gilmary Shea General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1891 Original Publisher: Pub. for the College by P. F. Collier Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-B... more »ooks.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. REV. ROBERT MOLYNEUX, S. J., Fifth President, 1806 -- 1808. Georgetown College now became an institution under the direction of the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, and was assured of a uniform system of education and a permanent supply of teachers trained m the Ratio Stu- diorum, which has proved so successful m all civilized countries. When the college entered on this new phase of its existence, it no longer stood alone as a Catholic seat of learning. Another similar institution, St. Mary's College, at Baltimore, directed by the Sulpitians, and chartered by the Legislature of Maryland, was competing formidably with it. " Although Georgetown College holds its own, and has a very fair number of scholars boarding there, this number has for the moment necessarily declined. Moreover it has not the powers of a university, like that m Baltimore; but the number of professors and managers having recently been mcreased, matters are on a better footing and inspire sanguine hopes for the future. The Jesuit Fathers, recently arrived from Europe to the number of five, will give a greater celebrity to this establishment." Thus wrote a priest of St. Sulpice about this time. Father Molyneux became president on the 1st of October, 1806, and continued in oflice till his death, December 8, 1808. Though advanced in life, and without the vigor and energy which characterized him when, as professor at Bruges, John Carroll was one of his pupils, Father Molyneux was able not only to reorganize the Society in Maryland, but to give a new impulse to the...« less