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244 be given to the recent progress made in those branches. In the lower classes new provisions are made for learning modern languages, both the vernacular and foreign, and for the study of history." – Kiddle and Schem, The Cyclopedia of Education, article "Jesuits," p. 492.

"Another instance of uniform prescribed education may be found in the curriculum of Jesuit colleges". But "the immense deepening and expanding of human knowledge in the nineteenth century and the increasing sense of the sanctity of the individual's gifts and will-power have made uniform prescriptions of study in secondary schools impossible and absurd." – President Eliot (in 1899).

"A uniform course of study for all schools of a particular grade, and a common standard for promotion and graduation, can be made most serviceable in a national scheme of education." – Dr. Russell, Columbia University, (in 1899), German Higher Schools, p. 409.

"The Ratio Studiorum is antiquated and difficult to reform. ... We have little to hope for them in the improvement of education at present." — Oscar Browning, Encyclopedia Britannica, article "Education."

"A republic is a field far more inviting than a monarchy for the agency of an organization so vast, so able, so secret, so adaptive as that of the Jesuits." – Prof. N. Porter, (Yale College), Educational Systems of the Puritans and Jesuits compared, p. 79.