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Rh expedient to send select members to the universities to obtain the degrees which empower them to teach in the public [i. e. Government] schools." We learn that the English Jesuits in late years have opened a Hall at Oxford (Pope's Hall), to afford young members an opportunity of attending the university lectures and of taking the degrees. We learn further that a number of Jesuits from other countries are there pursuing linguistic and scientific studies. The same is done in Ireland, Belgium, Holland, Austria, France and other countries. In some places, as in Austria, several Jesuit colleges are wholly under the supervision of the government, and all the teachers have made the prescribed studies at the universities and passed the rigid "state examinations". One of the professors of the Jesuit college at Feldkirch, Austria, has been chosen as "one of the seven prominent Latinists who are working at the great Historical Grammar of the Latin Language." It is evident that in all professional schools conducted by Jesuits, as in the Medical and Law Departments of Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., the instructors and professors are able professional teachers.

As far as America is concerned there existed peculiar handicaps to the cultivation of scholarship especially in Catholic institutions. Throughout the nineteenth century missions had to be established, chapels and churches built, and missionaries found to care for the spiritual wants of a rapidly increasing population.