{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2734", "width": "1742", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "^o-\\nxO^\\n0 ^-v c.\\n^0\\no^\\npq.\\n1\\n(b^\\n,0^\\n.1\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0V\\n.o^\\ni^k^j -^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0:^s J\u00c2\u00b0^^- -y\\noo\\n\\\\V ^r.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "A PLEA r^-...\\nHigher\\nEducation of Catholic Young Men\\nof America.\\nWITH AN\\nKxposure of the Frauds of the University of\\nNotre Dame, Ind.\\nPRECEDED BY\\nA Circular IvKTTEr to the; Archbishops, Bishops and\\nProminent Clergy of the United States.\\nCHARIvBS YENl^ZilANI, A. M., Ph. D. (Heidelberg).\\nProfessor at the Univerf ity of Notre Dame from 96 to 99.\\nu", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "hil^iof\\n56(!25\\nCopyrighted 1900\\nCHARI ES VENE2flANI, A. M., Ph. D.\\nChicago, III.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "TWO COPIES RECEIVED,\\nlibrary of Corjg?ei%\\nOffice of tjjo\\nFEB 1-1900\\nRegister of Copfrlgfefs,\\nSECOND\\nCOPV,", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCircular to the Archbishops, Bishops and prominent\\nmembers of the CathoHc Hierarchy of America.... i\\nTestimonials 3\\nOpen letter to the Very Reverend J. A. Zahm, Ph. D.,\\nProvincial of the Congregation of the Holy Cross\\nand President of the Board of Trustees of the Uni-\\nversity of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 7\\nBrief History of my connection with the University of\\nNotre Dame ii\\nPlea for the higher education of Catholic Young Men. .22-55\\nOrigin of Catholic Colleges 24\\nWhy Catholic Colleges and Universities controlled by re-\\nligious Congregations cannot dispense the bread of\\nhigher education 25\\nBrother Professors in the University of Notre Dame. 26\\nPriests Professors in the University of Notre Dame 2^\\nLaymen Professors in the University of Notre Dame. 28\\nEvils resulting from religious Congregations controlling\\nthe higher education of Catholic Young Men 31\\nRemedy of these evils and the Catholicity of the new\\nCatholic Colleges of the future 51\\nFirst communication of the author to the Board of Trus-\\ntees of the University of Notre Dame 55\\nAnswer to the first communication 62\\nSecond communication 63\\nLetter of the President of the University to the Author. 65\\nAnswer 65\\nMy protest in the faculty meeting against allowing my\\nname being used as Professor of Romance Languages 70\\nThird communication to the Board of Trustees of the\\nUniversity of Notre Dame 82", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Circular to the Archbisliops, Bishops and Prominent Members of\\nthe Catholic Hierarchy of America.\\nMost Reverend Sir:\\nI deem it my duty to present you with a copy of my\\nPlea for the higher education of the CathoHc young\\nmen of America. I have not the least doubt that\\nthe plan expounded in this book of having Catholic\\ncolleges and universities in every State with Bishops\\nas presidents of the board of trustees and learned lay-\\nmen as professors, will meet with your approval.\\nThis book is not only useful for advocating this plan\\nand showing how easily these new Catholic colleges\\ncould be started, it may be also useful in correcting\\nabuses and frauds which would not be tolerated in any\\ninstitution of learning, and which should not certain-\\nly be found in a Catholic university.\\nIt will most certainly be the cause of putting a stop\\nto one of the blackest frauds, whereby the University\\nof Notre Dame, with the connivance and abettment of\\nVery Rev. Dr. Zahm, Provincial of the congregation\\nof the Holy Cross, and President of the Board of\\nTrustees, allures within her halls Spanish speaking\\nyoung men, holding out the inducement of a post\\ngraduate course leading to the degree of Doctor of\\nPhilosophy and several Doctors degrees on imaginary\\nconditions, in her Spanish catalogue, thus prostituting\\nthe prestige a religious congregation enjoys in the\\neyes of Catholic nations in order to obtain their\\nmoney under false pretense.\\nThe University of Notre Dame does not dare to\\nprint such patent falsehoods about Doctors degrees,\\netc., in her English catalogue, although of later date\\nand much largfer.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "2 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nThe Catholic University of Notre Dame, after the\\npubHcation of this book will never dismiss a layman\\nProfessor for addressing the Board of Trustees, asking\\nthat the written statements of the President be made\\ntrue, because in the future no President of the Catho-\\nlic University of Notre Dame will ever write false\\nstatements to a layman Professor when engaging him.\\nThe Catholic University ot Notre Dame, after the\\npublication of this book, will never rob her waiter\\nstudents of the instruction due to them, nor use this\\nrobbing as a pretext to try to rob her layman Profes-\\nsor of 2-5 of his salary of $600 per year.\\nThe good accomplished by this book, however, may\\nbe counterbalanced by the evil of increasing the preju-\\ndices against the clergy, which are unfortunately too\\nstrong in the minds of some of our non-Catholic\\nbrethren.\\nBeing a layman, without much experience of men\\nand their way of thinking, I am not able to decide this\\ndifficult point, and therefore I address you, leaving the\\ndecision to you. I shall listen with respect to the\\nopinion of the prominent members of the clergy, and I\\nshall consider the advice of the Archbishops and Bish-\\nops as a command.\\nIf the exposure of the fraudulent methods employed\\nby the University of Notre Dame be deemed harmful\\nto the interests of Cathoficity, I will withold my book\\nfrom the public. In case of disapproval I trust you\\nwill promptly inform me.\\nVery Respectfully,\\nCHAS. VENk^ lANI, 117 S. St. Louis St.,\\nSouth Bend, Ind.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 3\\nTestimonial ot the Very Reverend James French,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Vice-President and Director of Studies of the Uni-\\nversity of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.\\nBeing the Director of. Studies I am situated so as\\nlearn and see the effects of the Professor s method in\\nteaching, and I must say, as far as I could see, he is\\none who takes great pleasure in imparting knowledge\\nto others, and posseses the facility of eliciting much\\nstudy and work from his pupils. He is a conscientious\\ninstructor and punctual to duty. He is a university\\nscholar and of his ability there can be no question.\\nJAMES FRENCH.\\nSt. Mary s Academy,\\nSalt Lake City, Utah,\\nAug. 25, 1894.\\nHaving learned with extreme regret that the bearer,\\nProfessor Chas. Veneziani, is about to leave this city\\nwith the intention of continuing his work of teaching\\nelsewhere, it gives me great pleasure to testify to\\nhis high personal character and his great merit as an\\ninstructor. For a year past he has given a course in\\nLatin to a number of teachers in this institution, with\\nthe most satisfactory results.\\nI most cordially recommend him to any one desiring\\na teacher of exceptional ability and irreproachable\\ncharacter.\\nI am, very sincerely,\\nSISTER SUPERIOR.\\nNautical Alrhanac Office,\\nBureau of Navigation, Navy Depai -ment,\\nWashington, D. C, April 25, 1885.\\nI have been favorably acquainted with Dr. Vene-\\nziani for more than a year. He has attended the math-", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "4 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nematical lectures at the Johns Hopkins University,\\nmy own included, during the present college year. He.\\nis an Italian by birth, Doctor of Philosophy at the\\nUniversity of Heidelberg, and a very able mathema-\\ntician, as shown by a recent number of the American\\nJournal of Mathematics. He has also had some ex-\\nperience in teaching methematics in this country. His\\npersonal character, as well as his scientific abilities, is\\nof the best. I would cordially recommend him to any\\ninstitution where the instruction of somewhat mature\\npupils in mathematics is desired.\\nS. NEWCOMB.\\nAmerican Journal of Mathematics,\\nJohns Hopkins University,\\nBaltimore, May 12, 1885.\\nI take great pleasure in being able to recommend\\nDr. Carlo Veneziani for the position of Professor of\\nMathematics.\\nDr. Veneziani is a graduate of the University of\\nHeidelberg, and has also studied in Paris and other\\ncontinental universities. During the past academic\\nyear (1884-85) he has been working in the Johns Hop-\\nkins University and I have personally seen a great\\ndeal of him.\\nDr. Veneziani is a well trained mathematician and\\npossesses a high degree of mathematical talent in ad-\\ndition he possesses the ability to impart instruction in\\na marked degree. I repeat it affords me the greatest\\npleasure to be able to testify to the above statements.\\nTHOMAS CRAIG,\\nAssociated Professor of Mathematics in the Johns\\nHopkins University an 3 Associate Editor of the\\nAmerican Journal of Mathematics.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. i)\\nI had the pleasure of knowing Mr. C. Veneziani\\nsince his entering the Johns Hopkins University, and\\ncan attest that his knowledge of ancient and modern\\nFrench literature renders him very competent as a\\nprofessor of the French language. Though a foreign-\\ner by birth, I judge by our frequent conversations that\\nhis accent is excellent.\\nLEONCE RABILLON,\\nFrench Lecturer of Johns Hopkins University.\\nBoston University,\\nBoston, April 22, 1886.\\nThis may certify that Sig. Carlo Veneziani, Ph. iD.,\\nhas been employed nearly three terms as instructor in\\nItalian and Spanish in the College of Liberal Arts of\\nBoston University. Beginning under some embarrass-\\nments from lack of entire familiarity with the English\\nlanguage, he has constantly improved in this respect\\nand has shown the promise of real excellence in the\\nteacher s work. We hope to retain his service the\\ncoming year, but if a better position is open to him\\nwould gladly be of assistance to him in obtaining it.\\nSincerely,\\nW. F. WARREN,\\nPresident Boston University.\\nUniversity of Texas Library,\\nAustin, Texas, June 22, 1888.\\nThis is to certify that Dr. Chas. Veneziani has been\\nassociated with me for two years as Instructor of Mod-\\nern Languages. As to his acquirements in the field of\\nmathematics and of the classics others more compe-\\ntent than I have very favorably passed upon them. In\\nModern Lansfuasres I have found him a most excellent", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "6 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nscholar, and what goes ahnost without saying, a per-\\nfect gentleman in every respect.\\nH. TALLICHET,\\nProfessor Modern Languages.\\nUniversity of California,\\nBerkeley, Feb. 26, 1890.\\nI take great pleasure in testifying that Dr. Carlo\\nVeneziani, who was temporary instructor in Mathe-\\nmatics at the University of California during the re-\\ncent ,illness of Associate Prof. Clarke, proved himself\\nby his work in that capacity, to be an accomplished\\nmathematical scholar and a thoroughly reliable man.\\nA careful examination of the records of his work has\\nconvinced me that every duty assigned him was fafth-\\nfully performed under all circumstances.\\nScholarly modesty is one of Dr. Veneziani s good\\ntraits of character, his qualification in Mathematics are\\nall that he has ever laid claim to. Considerations of\\nthis nature lead me to believe that he is a ^iian whose\\nword can always be relied on.\\nIRVING STRINGHAM.\\nProfessor of Mathematics, University of California.\\nExtract from the testimonial of J. B. Toronto, Vice-\\nPresident, and Professor of Mathematics, University\\nof Utah.\\nI made it a point, while Dr. Veneziani was teaching\\nhere in the University of Utah, to inquire of his stu-\\ndents, especially those in the more advanced branches\\nof mathematics, as to the work they did under him,\\nand found from all of them that he was in all respects\\nan ideal teacher, and just such a one as the industrious\\nand ambitious student would choose for his guide and", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 7\\nassistant in the difficult and perplexing work which no\\nstudent can escape, who desires to go beyond the ele-\\nmentary mathematics of the common schools.\\nAs to his character, I cannot say too much, and for\\nanything further on this point, I think I can safely\\nrefer you to Bp. Scanlan, of the Roman Catholic\\nChurch here, at least if I am able to judge from his ut-\\nterances to me.\\nWhoever knew truth put to the worse in a free and\\nopen encounter? Milton.\\nAn open letter to the Very Reverend J. A. Zahm,\\nPh. D., Provincial of the Congregation of the Holy\\nCross and President of the Board of Trustees of the\\nUniversity of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.\\nDear Sir:\\nI addressed you on March 23d, when I sent you a\\ncopy of my second communication, in which I pro-\\nposed to the Board of Trustees of the University of\\nNotre Dame to leave the decision of my claims to\\nBishop Scanlan, of Salt Lake City, a man of the most\\nsterling honesty and integrity. No answer was vouch-\\nsafeci by you, nor received from the Board of Trustees.\\nI addressed you several other times, when, in your\\ncapacity as President of the Board of Trustees, it was\\nyour duty to have justice done to me. The only in-\\nterpretation for your silence is that, in your conceit,\\na layman Professor of the University of Notre Dame\\nhas no rights which a man of your great qualities is\\nbound to respect, and while you wrap yourself in a\\ncloud of silence, like an Olympic Jupiter, you are in\\nreality like the dumb man of the Gospel, possessed\\nby the demon of avarice when it is the question of pay-\\ning what is due to a layman Professor.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "O HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nThe following undeniable facts clearly prove the\\ntruth of my assertion\\n1. You cannot deny that my teaching in the Uni-\\nversity of Notre Dame has been highly satisfactory.\\nYou knew this long ago, and you may see the testi-\\nmonial of the one who is in a position to observe and\\njudge the -Director of Studies of the University of\\nNotre Dame.\\n2. You cannot deny that my conduct has been ir-\\nreproachable, and this is a very important item, sir,\\nin a university like Notre Dame, where most of the\\nProfessors were discharged for drunkenness or dis-\\norderly conduct.\\n3. You cannot deny that the President of the -Uni-\\nversity of Notre Dame, when he engaged me, lied\\nwhen he wrote that six hundred dollars is higher than\\nwe give for the first year; lied about our chairs of\\nmathematics about making it an object for me to\\nbecome a permanent member of the staff. You, Pres-\\nident of the Board of Trustees, are aware that six\\nhundred dollars is not higher than the university ever\\ngives for the first year you are aware that there are\\nrio chairs of mathematics in the University of Notre\\nDame you are aware that the salary of the permanent\\nmembers that received a fee less than six hundred dol-\\nlars for the first year is not certainly an object for any\\nteacher to Secome a permanent member of the stafif.\\nWhy did your own brother leave the university\\n4. You cannot deny that when I sent my first com-\\nmunication to the Board of Trustees of the University\\nof Notre Dame, asking for redress, namely that the\\nPresident s written statements be made true, the Board\\nof Trustees referred mv communication to the Presi-", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 9\\ndent, who has exclusive authority to act in the mat-\\nter. By so doing the Board of Trustees proved them-\\nselves to be either a set of liars, if they meant that the\\nPresident has ex-ofificio exclusive authority, or men\\nwho have not the least conception of justice, if they\\ngave that authority to the President the Priest who\\nwrote those lying statements to me, and therefore the\\nlast^person fit to be appointed a judge of my claims.\\n5. You cannot deny that the President of the Uni-\\nversity, to whom the Board of Trustees, in their wis-\\ndom and justice, referred me for my claims, by dis-\\ncharging me when I called for an answer to my claims,\\nhas clearly shown by his action that the University of\\nNotre Dame, controlled by the Congregation of the\\nHoly Cross, instead of being a university where truth\\nand justice are enthroned, is a university where lying\\nand dishonesty are openly and shamelessly practiced.\\n6. You cannot deny that when the President of the\\ngreat University of Notre Dame brings as a reason\\nfor discharging me the example of Mr. Studebaker,\\nwho can discharge his workmen at a moment s notice,\\nwithout assigning any reason whatever, the compari-\\nson of the laymen Professors of the University of\\nNotre Dame to the workmen in the shop leaves noth-\\ning to desire. Unfortunately the comparison between\\nthe President and Mr. Studebaker is not so perfect,\\nsince Mr. Studebaker might object, saying, that not\\nbeing a member of the Congregation of the Holy\\nCross, nor the President of the largest Catholic uni-\\nversity in America, he is a man of his word, and there\\nis no danger of his workmen being discharged for ask-\\ning him to keep his written word.\\n7. You cannot deny that the only answer I re-", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "10 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nceived from the moment I addressed you was the let-\\nter apprising me of my dismissal, written the day after\\nyour eminent guest, Monsignor Martinelli, left Notre\\nDame, and you are the best judge of the amount of\\nyour share in this transaction.\\n8. You cannot deny that the assistant treasurer, in\\nJune 99, had received orders from his superiors not\\nto pay me the one hundred and forty dollars due as\\na balance of my salary of six hundred dollars, unless\\nI would accept a check with the words in full of all\\ndiemands written thereon. You knew that the differ-\\nence of house rent promised had not been paid since\\nMarch, 1898. You knew that I was never paid for my\\nextra teaching, therefore when I requested you, Presi\\ndent of the Board of Trustees of the University of\\nNotre Dame, for an explanation concerning this or-\\nder, it was your duty to reply.\\n9. You cannot deny that you not only gave no ex-\\nplanation concerning this order, but you never took\\nany measure that the difference of house rent be paid\\nto me, nor the salary for my extra teaching be paid to\\nme, nor did you take any measure to have justice done\\nme, who had been lied to when engaged, and dis-\\ncharged in order to defraud me of my just claims.\\nI send you this book, and if you find in it any un-\\ntruth derogatory either to yourself or to the university,\\nI heartily hope that in your capacity of Provincial of\\nthe Congregation of the Holy Cross, and President of\\nthe Board of Trustees of the university, you will not\\nfail to have me prosecuted to the full extent of- the law.\\nCHAS. VENEZIANI.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 11\\nA Brief History of My Connection witli tiie Uniferslty of Notre\\n.Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.\\nThe promise long with the fulfillment short\\nWill make thee triumph in thy lofty seat. Dante s\\nInferno, canto xxvii.\\nBefore entering upon the plea for the higher edu-\\ncation of the Catholic young men of America, I think\\nit of the greatest importance to relate my experience\\nin the University of Notre Dame, the largest Catholic\\nuniversity of America, controlled by the Congregation\\nof the Holy Cross.\\nIn September, 96, I came to Notre Dame. Gazing\\nupon her gilded dome, the fine buildings, the spacious\\nhalls, the beautiful frescoes of Gregori, and the pic-\\nturesque grounds and lakes that surround her, I was\\nenchanted, and concluded that this was one of the best\\nspots where a man could give himself to study and re-\\nsearch. According to the letters of the President of\\nNotre Dame (see my first communication page 56. I\\nwas to be chiefly employed in teaching French, until a\\nvacancy would occur in such departments as would\\nbest suit me, and this was due to the fact that the va-\\ncancy in the Mathematical department, which the\\nPresident expected, did not occur, and consequently\\nthe Chairs of Mathematics were all filled just then.\\nMy salary for the first year was six hundred, a fee\\nhigher than the university ever gives for the first\\nyear, and it was given to me in view of the distance\\nand circumstances in my case. In course of time the\\nuniversity could make it an object for me to become a\\npermanent member of her stafif or, to use the expres-\\nsion of the President in another letter: I think we", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "12 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\ncould make it an object for you to join our Profes-\\nsorial staff.\\nI never was deceived in universit} matters before.\\nI suppose that every statement the President wrote me\\nwas true, and I would have considered it a lack of good\\ncommon sense to doubt the written statements of a\\nPresident, who was besides a priest belonging to the\\nCongregation of the Holy Cross. The first shock I\\nreceived was my learning through the newspapers that\\nI was holding the Chair of Romance Languages in the\\nUniversity of Notre Dame, as the term Romance\\nLanguages is not even to be found in the letters of\\nthe President. This news was certainly given to the\\npress by order of the President, because these words\\nRomance Languages, appeared for three consecu-\\ntive years under my name in the catalogue, and the\\nPresident is the only one who has power in such mat-\\nters.\\nTruthfulness, in my opinion, should be the great\\nvirtue of all institutions of learning, but of Catholic\\ninstitutions in particular, and I could not help think-\\ning that by advertising me as the Professor of Ro-\\nmance Languages, the President of the University of\\nNotre Dame was playing false to me as well as to the\\npublic at large, since there was no department of Ro-\\nmance Languages in the University of Notre Dame\\nto take charge of, nor is there any at present.\\nThe second shock I received arose from this amus-\\ning incident. A priest, who was teaching very ele-\\nmentary branches of Mathematics in the Preparatory\\nCourse, was relating his experience on the silver\\nquestion in Colorado. The silverite papers lavished\\ntheir praises on him and styled him The Professor", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 13\\nof Mathematics in the University of Notre Dame. I\\nsmiled at the journahsts of Colorado, who, in order to\\nenhance to the public the value of the priest s opinions,\\ndubbed him Professor of Mathematics, but glancing\\nover the catalogue, I perceived with dismay that he\\nwas really set down as the Professor of Mathematics,\\nand the suspicion dawned upon me that the University\\nof Notre Dame, with her big buildings and her big\\ncatalogue, was perhaps a big fraud.\\nI had cherished the idea of holding one day a chair\\nof Mathematics in this university, being entitled to the\\nvacancy that best suits me. The chairs of Mathemat-\\nics, however, being for the present well filled, I had to\\nwait until one became vacant, and then I could rejoice\\nin possessing that which my heart was longing for a\\nchair of Mathematics but I was doomed to disap-\\npointment. I am no more able to discover in Notre\\nDame a chair of Mathematics than I am able to dis-\\ncover a chair of Romance Languages.\\nThe matter of salary is a very important question\\nwith a Professor who has a family to support, and I\\nexpected that after the first year the university would\\nmake it an object for me to join her Professorial\\nstafif, but on this point also I was doomed to disap-\\npointment.\\nIn the first place I discovered that the written state-\\nment of the President, that six hundred dollars is\\nhigher than we ever give for the first year isa lie\\nsecondly, I learned that the permanent members of the\\nstafif, who had not been at the very beginning engaged\\nat a higher salary, did scarcely receive over seven hun-\\ndred dollars per year and lastly, when I asked the\\nPresident what would be the increase of my salary for", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "14 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nthe ensuing- year, I was told that the university had\\nto support the missions in India, therefore no salary\\nwould be increased. I appreciated very much the re-\\nligious zeal of the University of Notre Dame in sup-^\\nporting the missions in India, still I am a strong be-\\nliever in the proverb that Charity begins at home,\\nand teachers should not sufifer in order to support\\nmissions in India. Later on I discovered that it was\\nthe policy and diplomacy of the University of Notre\\nDame when engaging a new teacher to give him as\\nlittle as possible for the first year, promise a great\\ndeal in the future, and perform nothing of what has\\nbeen held out to him.\\nOne might ask why did you not, under such circum-\\nstances, shake the dust of Notre Dame from your feet\\nand try new fields? A man with a family, and not\\noverburdened with this world s goods cannot give up\\none position until he has found another. In looking\\nfor a position in a Catholic college there would be\\nnothing gained as the salary would be no better, and\\nto obtain a position in a State University must certain-\\nly take some time, as I never heard of a Professor in\\nNorte Dame who succeeded in getting a position in a\\nState University, and the University of Notre Dame is\\nin the fifty-sixth year of her existence.\\nI heartily regretted my having declined, a few days\\nafter coming to Notre Dame, the kind ofifer of a Presi-\\ndent of a State University but I trusted so much to\\nthe letters of the President of Notre Dame University,\\nconcerning making it an object for me to join his\\nProfessorial staff, I was so sure that my teaching\\nwould be satisfactory and the written testimonial of\\nthe Vice-President and Director of Studies of Notre", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. IS\\nDame University shows I was not wrong- I felt so\\nconfident that my conduct was irreproachable, as far\\nas it concerns the eyes^^f man I was so buoyed up\\nwith the hope of a chair of Mathematics, that I thought\\nI was acting very wisely to remain with Notre Dame.\\nWhen the President perceived that I wished him to\\nkeep his written agreement he told me, of course, I\\ncould remain at Notre Dame until I had found a bet-\\nter position, but my abilities were so great, and the\\nbranches taught in this university so elementary that\\nI could not be of much use there, and therefore I had\\nbetter look for a position where my scholarship could\\nbe better utilized. On another occasion he told me\\ntheir idea was to get rid of the laymen Professors as\\nsoon as they can be replaced by members of the Con-\\ngregation of the Holy Cross, therefore I had better\\nlook elsewhere.\\nI suggested that, perhaps, it would be well to raise\\nthe standard of Mathematics in this university, but\\nthe Pt-esident answered the higher branches of Mathe-\\nmatics bring no money. I cannot reconcile the Presi-\\ndent s written statement In course of time the Uni-\\nversity could make it an object for me to become a\\npermanent member of her stafif, with the idea of get-\\nting rid of laymen Professors as soon as they could be\\nreplaced by members of the Congregation of the Holy\\nCross.\\nWhen the President engaged me, he also knew\\nfrom the testimonials of my abilities, whether a man\\nof my acquirements would be useful in a University\\nof such low standard as Notre Dame. However, from\\nthe opinion of the Very Rev. James French, Vice-\\nPresident and Director of Studies of the University", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "16 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nof Notre Dame, it appears that I have been very use-\\nful in this University see testimonial, page 3.\\nAt last, in January, 99, I decided to take a step\\nwhich clearly shows that no matter how long we may\\nlive in this world, we have never learned enough. In\\nmy simplicity I was thinking th^-t if I should send a\\ncommunication to the Board of Trustees of the Uni-\\nversity of Notre Dame, enclosing an affidavit of the\\nwritten statements of the President, stating my claims\\nbased upon them, namely that a real chair of Mathe-\\nmatics should be given to me with a salary really\\nhigher than we ever give for the first year, I would\\ncertainly obtain justice from the Board.\\nThe Board of Trustees was then composed of three\\npriests, and one Brother, besides the President of\\nthe University, and I sent a copy of my (Communica-\\ntion to every member, and to the Very Rev. Daniel\\nHudson. President of the Board, the original. I ex-\\npected I would be asked to send them the letters of the\\nPresident, and, if they thought I was correct, that my\\nclaims would be granted, but if not, they would state\\nthe reasons why they were refused. That is what I\\nhad insinuated when I wrote in my first communica-\\ntion I beg to remind you, gentlemen, that I am\\nopen to conviction, and in case my reasoning does\\nnot seem correct to you, I wish you would state the\\nweak points, and, if I perceive my mistake, you will\\nfind me quite amenable to reason.\\nTwo days after, I received the answer: Having\\nread and considered the same (communication), it has,\\nby order of the Board, been referred to the President,\\nwho has exclusive authority to act in the matter. I\\ncalled upon the President, who told me he did not", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 17\\nneed my services after June 15th. His verbal answer\\nis to be found in my letter addressed to him of June\\n1st, where every statement of his is fully analyzed:\\nsee page 65.\\nAfter two months I concluded to send a second let-\\nter to the Board, stating- the answer of the President,\\nand asking them to have my claim referred to Bishop\\nScanlan, of Salt Lake City, whom they know to be a\\nman of the greatest honesty and integrity, with the\\nunderstanding that, if I were found to be wrong, I\\nwould lose two hundred dollars fee, and if right, the\\nUniversity would be the loser. No answer.\\nOn May 17th, the day after the Papal delegate,\\nMonsignor Martinelli, left Notre Dame, the President\\nwrote apprising me of my dismissal. I answered his\\nletter on June ist.\\nI have been told that the authorities of Notre Dame\\nfelt highly indignant, because I called to pay my re-\\nspects to my illustrious countryman, and held a con-\\nversation in Italian with him. I do not know why\\nthey should feel such indignation, nor can I under-\\nstand why the President of the University suddenly\\nleft the company when I entered.\\nWhen the fornier Papal delegate, Monsignor Sa-\\ntolli, was on his way to Salt Lake City, the Right\\nRev. Bishop Scanlan did me the honor of calling, and\\ninviting me to accompany him to Ogden to nieet the\\ndistinguished Prelate. Monsignor Satolli, Bishop\\nScanlan, and myself, visited the several Catholic In-\\nstitutions in Salt Lake City, and I was an invited guest\\nat the banquet given in the Prelate s honor.\\nOn September 5th, I sent my third communication\\nto the Board of Trustees, and one also to the Very", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "18 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nRev. J. A. Zahm, Ph. D., the author of EvoJntion\\nand Dogma and Provincial of the Congregation of\\nthe Holy Cross, with a letter. I did not know then\\nthat lie was the President of the Board of Trustees. I\\nadvocated the principle of leaving the decision of my\\nclaims to either Archbishop Riordan, of San Fran-\\ncisco, who, as a pupil of Notre Dame, would not\\nwrong his Alma Mater, or to Bishop Scanlan, offering\\ntwo hundred dollars fee, to be lost if either party de-\\ncide against me, but no answer could be elicited from\\nthe Board.\\nIt might be objected that my letter to the Presi-\\ndent, dated June ist, was rather too strong, but the\\nquestion is, whether the facts stated in it are true, and\\nif not true, any President would have forbidden me to\\nenter the University on the receipt of that letter.\\nThe evil, however, was done before June ist. It\\nhad begun with the ansu er the Board wrote me Janu-\\nary 2 1 St: referring me to the President, who has\\nexclusive authority to act in the matter, and the\\nevil was consummated May 17th, the day after the\\nillustrious Mionsignor Martinelli left Notre Dame.\\nWhy should I suffer without protest such intoler-\\nable wrongs, from people who by their very calling\\nought to be patterns of justice, thus encouraging them\\nto inflict the same upon others\\nTruth requires that the written statements of the\\nPresident of the University of Notre Dame should be\\nclassified as lies, justice requires that I should not be\\nthe sufferer on account of the lies of the President.\\nWhen the Board of Trustees of the University of\\nNotre Dame, with the Very Rev. J. A. Zahm, Ph. D.,\\nthe author of Evolution and Dogma as President", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 19\\nof the Board, moved by pride and avarice, make them-\\nselves the abettors ond supporters of the Hes ajnd in-\\njustice of the President, the Very Rev. A. Morrissey,\\nby so doing they show themselves unworthy of wear-\\ning the crOss, the sacred emblem of our religion, and\\nthe mask of the Congregation of the Holy Cross un-\\nworthy of the priestly gown only deserving that the\\nfinger of scorn be pointed at them. And the best\\nproof of my assertion is, that they shall not dare to\\nprosecute me for what I state, knowing too well that\\ntwelve self-respecting jurymen would find me only\\nguilty of not using expressions strong enough to stig-\\nmatize such villainy.\\nLet no one suppose for a moment that if the Board,\\nheaded by the Very Rev. J. A. Zahm, Ph. D., fails to\\nprosecute me, it is due to their kindness of heart far\\nfrom it Where truth and justice are despised, char-\\nity cannot abide. They do not wish to make them-\\nselves notorious before the public they would not\\nlike to go to court, and have the veil, which covers\\ntheir shame, lifted up before the world.\\nThey know too well that the written statements of\\nthe President are a set of lies that by referring my\\nclaims, based upon the written statements of the\\nPresident, to the President, the Board made them-\\nselves abettors and supporters of the written lies of\\nthe President; that if they refused Archbishop Rior-\\ndan of San Francisco, or Bishop Scanlan of Salt Lake\\nCity, as arbitrators, when I was willing to lose two\\nhundred dollars fee, if either party decided against me,\\nit is because they are conscious of the injustice done\\nme. They know too well, that the difference of house-\\nrent, of which the President boasted as the increase", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\ndue to my good teaching in the University, has not yet\\nbeen paid since March, 1898; that the salary due for\\nmy extra teaching was never paid; that my mail has\\nbeen purposely and maliciously delayed in the post-\\noffice of Notre Dame, of which the Very Rev. A. Mor-\\nrissey is postmaster; they know too well the despica-\\nble trick played upon me June, 99, in order to cheat\\nme out of my just claims. The assistant treasurer told\\nme he had been instructed by his superiors not to\\npay me the $140.00, still due of the $600.00, unless I\\nwould subscribe that I had been paid in full of all de-\\nmands and when the Board was asked for an explan-\\nation, no answer was received.^ They know too well\\nthat if last year I have not been cheated out of two-\\nfifths of my salary, it was due to the fact that, rather\\nthan subscribe to such unheard of roguery of the Uni-\\nversity of Notre Dame, I resolved to remain, and did\\nremain six months, without drawing a cent of my\\nsalary.\\nThe University of Notre Dame has money to erect a\\nmagnificent building in Washington, D. C, has money\\nto erect a fine gymnasium, and has money for many\\nother purposes.\\nFrom the history of the University of Notre Dame,\\nprinted in Notre Dame, page 94, it is known that\\nFather Sorin often said that if he had two hundred\\nstudents he would feel that the future of the Univer-\\nsity was assured and now the number of students is\\nalmost four times as many.\\nOne may ask, why should such a wealthy corpora-\\ntion, composed of religious members of the Congre-\\n1. The University later on sent me a check without in full of all de-\\nmands but as I thought I was entitled to an explanation I did not\\ndeem it proper to accept the clieck.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 21\\ngation of the Holy Cross, be so heartless and soul-\\nless as try to cheat the Professor of Romance Lan-\\nguages out of two-fifths of his salary of six hundred\\nper year? A crime which would never be perpe-\\ntrated by any Agnostic or Atheistic University, if such\\nexisted.\\nThe answer to this question shows the difference be-\\ntween, the heroic band which came from France,\\nheaded by a man like the venerable Sorin, the founder\\nof the University, slnd the degenerate leaders of today.\\nIn March, 98, I was ordered by the President to\\ndrop one one of my classes, because the pupils were\\nonly waiters and too few in number. I remon-\\nstrated, stating that it would be a pity to drop in the\\nmiddle of the year, a class composed of such earnest,\\ndiligent, and fine pupils as these waiters were.\\nMy remonstrations had only the effect of my being\\nrebuked by the President, who stated that the Uni-\\nversity could not afiford to have classes taught for a\\nfew waiter students, and gave me the peremptory or-\\nder to drop the class. From my own experience, I\\nknow that the University of Notre Dame could afford\\nto have classes taught where there was but one pupil\\nwho paid full tuition. The waiter-students, however,\\nare so eager for an education, that they give many\\nhours a day of their time in the service of the Univer-\\nsity, besides fifty dollars a year, but, nevertheless, in\\nthe opinion of the President, the class should be\\ndropped. Moreover, a fine opportunity presented it-\\nself of robbing the Professor of Romance Lan-\\nguages of two-fifths of his salary, and it must be im-\\nproved.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22 HIGHER EDUCATION FQi*\\nI do not blame the President of the University of\\nNotre Dame for his ignorance of the common rules\\nof arithmetic, when he inferred that I was not earning\\ntwo-fifths of my salary because He ordered me to drop\\none-fifth of my recitations but, I find that his heart\\nis blacker than his robe, when he robbed such fine\\nstudents of that instruction for which they were work-\\ning so hard in the interest of the University.\\nNo Agnostic, no Atheistic University would make\\nsuch odious distinctions between a student who is a\\nwaiter and a student who is the son of a millionaire.\\nSuch distinctions can only be made in the Catholic\\nUniversity of Notre Dame, controlled by the Congre-\\ngation of the Holy Cross, under the Presidency of a\\nman like the Very Rev. A. Morrissey. In no Agnostic\\nor Atheistic University could the President use such\\na pretext, to rob a Professor of two-fifths of his salary,\\nas no members of the Board could be found so sub-\\nservient to his criminal actions as the members of the\\nBoard of the University of Notre Dame.\\nLet us not speak of them, but look and pass.\\nDante s Inferno, Canto III.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 23\\nWer die Wahrbriet kennet und saget sie nicht.\\nDer ist Furwahr ein Erbarmlicher Wicht.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 German Kommersbuch.\\nA PLEA FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF\\nCATHOLIC YOUNG MEN.\\nWhy do Catholics, in spite of their wealth and num-\\nber a number reaching perhaps over twelve millions,\\nplay such an insignificant part in the progress of the\\nintellectual development of the country\\nIs it not because Catholics do not have universities\\nlike Chicago, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Northwest-\\nern, Brown, Boston University, etc.\\nWhy do Catholics not have such universities, and\\nwhat prevents Catholics from having them? How\\ncould they be started\\nThese are questions which should interest not only\\nCatholics, but every lover of hig-her education, every\\none who has at heart the interest of the country.\\nIt is true our catholic colleges and universities are\\nof a very low standard compared with the above in-\\nstitutions of learning founded by our non-catholic\\nbrethren, still it would be wrong to suppose, as some\\ndo, that this is due to the fact that the Catholic\\nChurch is afraid of science that the Catholic Church,\\nin order to better domineer over the masses, wishes to\\nkeep her people in ignorance and darkness.\\nNo fair-minded person who has studied the ques-\\ntion could hold such a wrong opinion. If we look\\nclosely into the origin of catholic and protestant col-\\nleges, we will be able to perceive that protestant col-\\nleges could become first-class universities, but catholic\\ncolleges never.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "24 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nCatholic colleges and universities controlled by re-\\nligious congregations are corporations, quite inde-\\npendent of Archbishops or Bishops, or any ecclesias-\\ntical authority except their own congregation so in-\\ndependent, that when I proposed to the authorities of\\nNotre Dame university, the largest catholic university\\nof America, to have the decision of my claims, based\\nUpon the written statements of the President, referred\\nto either Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco, who,\\nas a pupil of this university, would not likely wrong his\\nalma mater or to Bishop Scanlan of Salt Lake City,\\na great friend of the congregation of the Holy Cross,\\nofifering two hundred dollars fee if in the judgment of\\neither party I were wrong, my proposal was not an-\\nswered in writing, and refused verbally as the height\\nof folly, because, I was told, this congregation allows\\nno interference\\nThis is a very important point, because I observed\\nthat among non-catholic educators of the highest rank,\\nthe notion prevails, that catholic Bishops. have much\\nto do with the management of catholic colleges.\\nWith the exception of the catholic university of\\nAmerica, in Washington, D. C, and one or two col-\\nleges, all catholic colleges and universities are con-\\ntrolled by religious congregations. It would be more\\nproper to say that the higher education of catholic\\nyoung men was in former times forced upon the con-\\ngregations by circumstances rather than sought after.\\nIt came about in this way.\\nORIGIN OF CATHOLIC COLLEGES.\\nThe catholics being widely scattered, and the priests\\nfew in nvmiber, religious congregations of sisters.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 25\\nchristian brothers, and fathers were invited by the\\nBishops to found academies, schools, and colleges as\\na rule, the Bishops offered inducements to religious\\ncongregations to settle in their dioceses.\\nThe good sisterr\\nWhose admirable life\\nBetter in glory of the Heavens were sung,\\nDante s Paradise, canto xi.\\ncould never be adequately praised for the amount of\\ngood they did, and the prejudices they dispelled, and\\nhere is not the place to mention them, as we are con-\\ncerned with the higher education of catholic young\\nmen.\\nThe christian brothers, and several other congre-\\ngations, opened schools and colleges. It would be\\nunjust not to praise the good will, the self-sacrifice,\\nand the good results of their abnegation by helping to\\nform the character of hundreds of thousands of young\\nmen, who, if in the storms of life they persevered\\nfaithful to their conscience, owe it tO the early train-\\ning of these good christian brothers and kind fathers.\\nThus came into existence the catholic colleges and\\nuniversities, a source of delight to the Bishops, who\\nsaw the catholic youth provided with institutions of\\nlearning where religion was not neglected.\\nThe labors of those who thus labored with zeal and\\ndevotion have helped to educate many who are now\\nthe pillars of the Catholic Church in America and the\\npraise of their former teachers from such pupils is the\\nbest eulogy that could be bestowed upon them in this\\nworld. Many went to receive the reward of those who\\nhave worked diligently in the vineyard of the Lord.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "26 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nWe do not, however, intend to discuss the work of\\ncathoHc colleges of the past, as we are concerned with\\ntheir actual work now, and the question arises,\\nwhether the catholic colleges of today, in the present\\nstate of science, keep pace with the advanced non-\\ncatholic colleges or universities, in dispensing the\\nbread of higher education to catholic young men.\\nWHY CATHOLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVER-\\nSITIES CONTROLLED BY RELIGIOUS\\nCONGREGATIONS CANNOT DISPENSE\\nTHE BREAD OF HIGHER EDUCATION.\\nThe function of a university is to preserve and dis-\\ncover the truth. The function of a college is specially\\nto preserve the truth, but it should lead at least to the\\ndiscovery of truth.\\nThe mind should not simply exert its activity in as-\\nsimilating truths, but in starting from received truths\\nto new truths. The college should be a preparation\\nfor the university, but it is, in my opinion, almost im-\\npossible to sharply determine the limit and, as a rule,\\nmany branches in a college belong properly to the uni-\\nversity. For college I mean the collegiate depart-\\nment of such institutions as Harvard, Yale, Chicago,\\nJohns Hopkins, etc., etc.\\nWhat Jreally constitutes the college or university is\\nnot the bricks and mortar, but the professors and\\npupils. The formation of the pupils depends large-\\nly upon the teacher, therefore, let us examine the\\nkind of teachers the congregations can aflford, and in\\norder to relate what I know from personal experience,\\nI will describe the teachers of the Universitv of Notre", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YCXUNG MEN. 27\\nDame, the leading catholic university controlled by a\\ncongregation.\\nThere are three kinds of teachers in this university,\\nbrother-professors, priest-professors, and laymen-pro-\\nfessors.\\nBROTHER PROFESSORS.\\nThe brother-professors who teach many boys at\\nNotre Dame are so proficient in know^ledge that they\\noould not be admitted to the second of the three years\\npreparatory course of this university. In many non-\\ncatholic universities there are preparatory courses, but\\nthe professors are, as a rule, college graduates here\\nin Notre Dame, however, we are confronted with the\\nanomaly of brother-professors that could not even\\nbe admitted to the second of the three years prepara-\\ntory course to enter the college.\\nSuch an anomaly m ust be explained, because it is\\nsomething inconceivable tO the public outside, and\\nstill the reason is very simple. There are brothers\\nwho look after the cattle, others till the ground, etc.,\\nand others are utilized in the university, and in other\\ncolleges of the Holy Cross, as professors.\\nSuppose these brother-professors were taught a lit-\\ntle algebra, a little geometry, some Latin, Greek, the\\nrudiments of some science, literature, they might, per-\\nhaps, think themselves fitted to earn their living in\\nthe world, and yield to the temptation of exchanging\\nth e safe harbor ol a religious life for the stormy ocean\\nof the world. By so doing the congregation would\\nlose both the brother-professor and his education,\\ntherefore, the surest way both for the spiritual welfare\\nof the brother-professors and the temporal welfare of", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "28 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nthe congregation is, that brother-professors be taught\\nenough to be used as professors in the colleges and\\nuniversity of the congregation of the Holy Cross, but\\nnot enough tO earn their living as teachers in the\\nworld.\\nPRIEST-PORFESSORS IN THE UNIVERSITY\\nOF NOTRE DAME.\\nThe priest-professors, generally, were educated in\\nthe same college by other professors who, as a rule,\\nnever studied in first-class universities, and what kind\\nof university professors these priests as a rule can\\nmake, is left to the intelligence of the reader. By\\nchance one may find a really bright priest, entirely de-\\nvoted to his studies, but such priests are exceptions.\\nThe college work of religious congregations was\\ncertainly useful in the past, as they could not have\\nbeen replaced but, it is a nuisance now, and the\\nfounding of the Catholic University of America in\\nWashington, D. C, by the council of Baltimore was\\na godsend, thus enabling the congregations to send\\nthere their members intended for teachers, and some-\\nwhat improving the low standard of their colleges and\\nuniversities.\\nThe next step will be the founding of catholic uni-\\nversities, with undergraduate courses, in the diflferent\\nstates. Large cities like Chicago, New York, etc.,\\nshould have such universities^ with Bishops as Presi-\\ndents of the Board of Trustees and competent laymen\\nas professors.\\nThe training and education of the members of a re-\\nligious congregation will make a good priest, but not\\na good college professor. Even if the opportunities", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 29\\nwere oft ered, it would be hard for a congregation to\\nfind a sufficient number of her members endowed with\\nthose natural quahties love for learning, constancy\\nin the pursuit of knowledge, enthusiasm in imparting\\nit qualities mdispensable to a college professor.\\nLAYMEN PROFESSORS IN THE UNIVER-\\nSITY OF NOTRE DAME.\\nThere are three types of laymen-professors, stu-\\ndent-professors, graduate-professors, and permanent-\\nprofessors of the staff.\\nThese permanent professors, the pillars of the uni-\\nversity, receive a salary, as a rule, of scarcely over\\nseven hundred dollars per year. It would not be\\nworth while to mention the salaries of the student or\\nthe graduate-professors. One of the brightest of Notre\\nDame s graduates, in his third year of teaching, re-\\nceives a salary of three hundred and fifty dollars per\\nyear. An exception should be made in favor of the\\nprofessor of English literature. The former profes-\\nsor, Maurice Francis Egan, received a fee of one\\nthousand dollars a year, and the present professor re-\\nceives one thousand, five hundred per year. It would\\nbe a great mistake to suppose that this large salary,\\naccording to the view of the university, given to the\\nprofessor of English literature, is due to the great love\\nthe university bears English literature. It is due to\\nthis. The university publishes a weekly paper, the\\nScholastic which has a large circulation, and helps\\nadvertise the university. The Scholastic is written\\nby the students, hence the necessity of a competent\\nprofessor to drill the pupils in writing themes, etc. As", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "30 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nthe congregation of the Holy Cross had no professor\\ncapable, a layman professor was indispensable.\\nWere it not for the importance of making a good\\nappearance before the public, if it were simply for the\\nsake of teaching English literature to the pupils o^\\nNotre Dame, this layman professor would be replaced\\nby any member of their Order. For instance, the\\nauthor, a Ph. D. of Heidelburg, was teaching an extra\\nclass, for which extra pay had been promised. After\\na few lessons the president of the university concluded\\nto give this extra class to a brother a former porter\\nof the university, to teach and thus the university\\nwas saved the extra pay I was promised.\\nThe salaries paid to laymen professors are by no\\nmeans higher in other catholic colleges or universities\\ncontrolled by religious congregations, and while I do\\nnot assert that all laymen professors are of a very low\\nrank, one cannot expect a fine set of college professors.\\nMy conclusion is self-evident, still I will quote part\\nof a Special Correspondence of the Chicago Record\\nheaded, For Catholic Students, Notre Dame, Ind.,\\nFeb. 26, 1899.\\nThe zeal displayed by the Very Rev. J. A. Zahm,\\nprovincial of the Order of the Holy Cross, during the\\nyear that he has been at the head of his order, is grat-\\nifying to the great number of catholics who are de-\\nsirous of seeing catholic educational institutions offer\\ncourses as varied and thorough as those of non-catho-\\nlic colleges and universities. He has realized that\\ncompetition in brains is a reality that the institution\\nthat offers the largest salaries gets the best teachers\\nand that a competent faculty and modern equipment\\nswell the class rolls.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 31\\nIt is indeed gratifying to learn that the Very Rev.\\nJ. A. Zahm, provincial of the Order of the Holy Cross,\\nshould have realized that competition in brains is a\\nreality that the institution that offers the largest\\nsalaries gets the best teachers, and a competent faculty\\nis necessary to swell the class roll, but I am not able\\nto understand why the great number of catholics, who\\nare desirous of seeing catholic educational institutions\\noffer courses as varied and thorough as those of non-\\ncatholic colleges and universities, should rejoice.\\nThe salaries above mentioned are the best proof\\nthat no university or college controlled by religious\\norders can offer courses as varied and thorough as\\nthose of non-catholic colleges and universities, and\\nwhat is sure is, the Very Rev. J. A. Zahm, provincial\\nof the Order of the Holy Cross, and president of the\\nboard of trustees of the university of Notre Dame,\\ndoes not certainly intend to offer salaries, as the non-\\ncatholic colleges and universities do, nor increase the\\nsalaries of the present professors, as a rule, if he can\\nhelp it.\\nWhat the university of Notre Dame has realized is.\\nthat, in order to swell her class roll, she needs a good\\nteam of foot-ball and base-ball players, and plenty\\njpufifs in the newspapers. The university knows\\nhow^ to secure both these factors so important to swell\\nher class rolls, and whatever may be the price she\\npays for them, it is certainly cheaper than to secure a\\ncompetent faculty.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "32 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nEVILS RESULTING FROM RELIGIOUS CON-\\nGREGATIONS CONTROLLING THE\\nHIGHER EDUCATION OF CATH-\\nOLIC YOUNG MEN.\\nMany are the evils resulting from religious con-\\ngregations controlling the higher education of our\\ncatholic young men.\\nI shall briefly enumerate a few.\\nI. These religious congregations with, as a rule,\\nincompetent priest and brother-prqfessojs, and\\na poor se,t of layman-professors, cannot ofifer courses\\nin their colleges and universities, as varied and thor-\\nough as those offered in non-catholic colleges and uni-\\nversities, and thus the intellectual development of our\\ncatholic young men is nipped in the bud.\\nII. These incompetent priests engaged in teaching\\nwhich could be far better performed by competent lay-\\nmen-professors, are thus debarred from attending to\\ntheir sacred calling preaching the word of gladness,\\nadministering the sacraments, visiting the sick, re-\\nclaiming sinners, and giving examples of Christian\\nperfection.\\nHI. It strengthens the prejudice among our\\nlearned non-catholic brethren that the Catholic\\nChurch is opposed to science. They see our catholic\\ncolleges controlled by religious congregations, there-\\nfore, in their opinion, they are controlled by the Catho-\\nlic Church. They know that these catholic colleges\\nare of a very low standard compared with non-catho-\\nlic colleges, and they infer that the Catholic Church\\ndoes not wish a high standard, because, forsooth, she\\nis afraid of science", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 33\\nIV. Some of the essential differences between cath-\\nolic and non-catholic colleges, are (i) that the pro-\\nceeds of catholic colleges belong to the congregation\\nthat controls them, just as the proceeds of a railroad\\nor sugar trust belongs to the stockholders, whereas,\\nthe proceeds of non-catholic colleges belong of right\\nto the college. (2) The catholic colleges having, as a\\nrule, incompetent priests and ignorant brother-profes-\\nsors, not drawing a salary and a set of poorly paid\\nlaymen-professors, are really in a position of being\\nnot only self-supporting and erecting fine buildings,\\nbut also of making money for the congregation the\\nnon-catholic colleges, on the contrary, offering better\\ncourses and dispensing with professors that receive\\nonly their board and clothes, are more in touch with\\npeople, who realize that in order to engage a good\\nstaff of professors, money is needed thus through\\nbequests under an able president, institutions of sec-\\nondary rank rnay suddenly become first-class institu-\\ntions witness, among many other instances, Colorado\\nCollege, Colorado Springs, Colorado, under the Presi-\\ndency of Dr. Slocum. (3) Catholic colleges, as a rule,\\nuse the higher education as a bait in order to attract\\npupils into the elementary courses, and thus they make\\nmoney, whereas non-catholic colleges spend money\\non the higher education. The consequence is that\\ncatholic colleges, with their big buildings, convey the\\nimpression to our catholic people that the higher edu-\\ncation not only needs no support, but can fatten the\\ncongregations that control them. This impression\\nwill prove the greatest obstacle in the efforts to secure\\ngood colleges for our catholic young men, although\\nthe movement for catholic colleges with Bishops as", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "34 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nPresidents of the Board of Trustees, and competent\\nlaymen as professors, once started, our wealthy catho-\\nlics will not be behind non-catholics in making be-\\nquests.\\nV. St. Paul rightly advocates the principle that he\\nwho serves the altar has the right of living from the\\naltar, consequently, he who serves Science ought to\\nbe able to earn a modest living from Science. Non-\\ncatholics have a number of colleges where bright\\nyoung men who wish to devote themselves to Science\\nby fitting themselves, may find employment. The case\\nwith our catholic young men is quite different, and\\nthey are thus driven into other professions. This is\\nwhy we catholics have so fewx^ally learned men in\\ncomparison with non-catholics. Incompetent priests\\nand most ignorant brothers occupy the positions\\nwhich should be held by bright and learned laymen,\\nand the evil resulting from this exchange is incal-\\nculable.\\nVI. It thwarts the object the Council of Baltimore\\nhad in the founding of the Catholic University of\\nAmerica. Our catholic young men who complete the\\npost-graduate courses of the Catholic University of\\nAmerica could find no suitable employment in catholic\\ncolleges where laymen-professors are employed, sim-\\nply through necessity and only until they can be re-\\nplaced by some priest or brother-professor. They\\nmust compete with priest and brother-professors who\\nwork for their board and clothes therefore, the num-\\nber of catholic young men studying in the Arts and\\nSciences departments of the Catholic University of\\nAmerica will always necessarily be limited until we\\ncatholics shall have colleges with Bishops as Presi-", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 35\\ndents of Boards of Trustees and learned laymen as\\nprofessors. The Council of Baltimore did not wish\\nto withdraw the patronage from the catholic colleges\\nand universities controlled by religious congrega-\\ntions, and thus the Catholic University of America\\nwas intended to offer only post-graduate courses. One\\nmight naturally suppose that this kindness would be\\nrepaid by the catholic colleges using their influence\\nto send their graduates to the Catholic University of\\nAmerica, to gursue the higher branches. Several cata-\\nlogues of the Catholic University of America, are sent\\nto Notre Dame, to be stored away in places to which\\nneither professors nor students have access.\\nIt is true that the Catholic University of America\\ncan really be of great benefit by improving those\\nmembers of the different religious congregations, who\\nare intended to become college-professors but is it not\\nright that these religious congregations should endow\\nchairs in a university of which they avail themselves\\nfor the education of their members Is it not a shame\\nthat laymen should endow chairs which will benefit\\nmembers of a congregation like the Holy Cross, who,\\nto use the words of the President of Notre Dame, in-\\ntends to treat their laymen-professors as hired help to\\nbe discharged at a moment s notice, without assigning\\nany reason whatever? Why should not the university\\nof Notre Dame help to defray the expenses of the\\nCatholic University of America, since she enjoys the\\nbenefit of profiting by the instruction of such an insti-\\ntution of learning?\\nVII. The religious congregations, having the mo-\\nnopoly of the catholic colleges, and not offering\\ncourses as varied and thorough as those offered by", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "36 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nnon-catholic colleges and the expense of education\\nbeing, as a rule, higher than in non-catholic colleges,\\ncompel many of our catholic young men to seek in-\\nstruction in non-catholic colleges. The evil lies not\\nin our catholic young men, studying in non-cathoHc\\ncolleges, but in their being compelled to do so, be-\\ncause they cannot pay the expense of education, and\\nalso in order to receive a better education. We must\\nanalyze at length this evil, and the remedy the Uni-\\nversity of Notre Dame offers, then we may better real-\\nize the necessity of founding catholic colleges with\\nBishops as Presidents of Board of Trustees and\\nlearned laymen as professors.\\nOn page 192 of the catalogue of the University of\\nNotre Dame, for the year 1898- 1899, we find this sad\\nstate of affairs so described There were last year\\n1452 catholic students in 6 per centum of the noii-\\ncatholic colleges of America, and very many of these\\nwill lose their faith, and all will be weakened in that\\nfaith, because our people look upon collegiate insti-\\ntutions as the property of private corporations which\\nare to be left to take care of themselves.\\nNotre Dame asks for scholarships for boys that can-\\nnot pay the expense of education, and who therefore\\nare obliged to go to non-catholic colleges to the detri-\\nment of their faith. A foundation of $5,000 will edu-\\ncate and board a student as long as the University\\nexists.\\nHere we find ourselves in presence of three very\\nimportant facts. First, there were last year 1452 catho-\\nlic students in 6 per centum of the non-catholic col-\\nleges. Second. Boys that cannot pay the expense of\\neducation are obliged to go to non-catholic colleges.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 2\\nThird, the root of the evil is that o_ur cathohc people\\nlook upon collegiate institutions as the property of\\nprivate .corporations which are to be left to take care\\nof themselves. The University of Notre Dame takes\\na great interest in the spiritu al welfare of the 1452\\ncatholic students, in 6 per ceaitum of the non-catholic\\ncolleges of America, very many of whom will lose\\ntheir faith, and all will be weakened in that faith, and\\nnaturally she suggests a remedy conducive to the spir-\\nitual welfare of the students and the temporal welfare\\nof herself. Give $5,000 to the University of Notre\\nDame and the faith of a catholic boy will neither be\\nlost nor weakened.\\nWejniay smile at such a holy and unselfish request\\nof the University of Notre Dame,, we may smile at the\\nidea that very many of these catholic young men will\\nlose their faith, we may laugh at such nonsense, that\\nall will be weakened in that faith, but, we cannot laugh\\nat the fact that catholic boys who cannot pay the ex-\\npense of education are obliged to go to non-catholic\\ncolleges. This means that relatively poor boys can\\nreceive an education in non-catholic colleges and can-\\nnot receive an education in catholic colleges. This is\\na very important matter. If the catholic clergy really\\nbelieve that very many of our catholic young men who\\nstudy in non-catholic colleges will lose their faith, and\\nall will be weakened in that faith, as they are barred\\nfrom entering catholic colleges controlled by religious\\ncongregations, the expenses being too high,, and are\\nobliged to go to non-catholic colleges, these catholic\\nyoung men should be provided with catholic colleges,\\nwhere they could receive an education as good and\\nas cheap as in non-catholic colleges. Moreover, since", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "38 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nthis evil is due to the fact that onr cathohc people look\\nupon collegiate institutions as the property of private\\ncorporations which are to be left to take care of them-\\nselves, it is now time that our catholics should be\\nthoroughly aroused to the great need of these new\\ncatholic colleges, and it is to the Bishops that bequests\\nshould be made for this holy purpose.\\nEven in the hypothesis that the danger of our catho-\\nlic young men losing their faith or being weakened\\nin that faith by studying in non-catholic colleges is\\nnot so great, the fact remains that the more centers\\nof light the better it is for the nation. It is a shame\\nthat we catholics of the twentieth century cannot boast\\nin the United States of educational institutions, where\\ncourses are offered as varied and thorough as in the\\ncolleges of our non-catholic brethren, and we should\\ncertainly have universities doing collegiate work where\\none might be sure that our catholic young men in get-\\nting the bread of higher education receive nothing\\nmingled with it which might be detrimental to their\\nfaith, as for instance in the study of history, philoso-\\nphy, etc. The proposition of the University of Notre\\nDame to be entrusted with the faith and education of\\ncatholic students who go to non-catholic colleges be-\\ncause t ney cannot pay the expense of education, and\\nasking only $5,000 apiece for each student, could not\\nbe considered even for a moment by one acquainted\\nwith the crooked ways of dealing of the University\\nof Notre Dame, besides, there are other drawbacks\\nwhich .should not be passed over in silence.\\nIn the first place many catholic :students go to non-\\ncatholic colleges because they ofifer courses more\\nvaried and thorough than our catholic colleges. The", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 39\\nprincipal degree of the University of Notre Dame is\\nher Bachelor of Arts. Only one or two students take\\nthis degr^e_ every year, besides a few who pre-\\npare themselves for the priesthood still the num-\\nber of beginners in Latin is very great. The reason\\nof the fewness of such advanced students is, that seven\\nyears Latin live hours per week, six years Greek\\nfive hours per week and plenty of English, are not\\nenoug njo retain students who want a university educa-\\ntion; and although the university offers to those stu-\\ndents who are in the Junior and Senior year a room\\nfree of cost, for which she charges fifty dollars per\\nyear to other students, the advanced students go else-\\nwhere.\\nThe University of Notre Dame is more successful\\nin atjtracting new students, with her pufifs, athletics\\n-and big catalogue that makes her appear a big univer-\\nsity. One of the biggest frauds of the University of\\nNotre Dame for which she rightly deserves the name\\nof Quack University, is her degree of Doctor of Phil-\\nosophy held forth in her Spanish catalogue, page 79,\\nin order to decoy the Spanish speaking youth, especially\\nthe Cubans. The fraud is so patent that in order to\\nshun the ridicule such pretensions would rightly draw\\nupon her, she is silent in her English catalogue,\\nalthough printed later, about the degree of her Doctor\\nof Philosophy. It seems almost incredible that men\\nwho_become priests and join a religious congregation,\\ntaking three vows in order to better serve God and\\nbe useful to mankind, should _stoop so low to deceive\\nthe Spanish speaking people with glaring falsehoods,\\nimaginary buildings and the fraud of a three years\\npost graduate course leading to the degree of Doctor", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "40 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nof Philosophy, all to be found in her Spanish cata-\\nlogue. It is the duty of the State of Indiana not to\\nallow an institution of learning like Notre Dame,\\nderiving her authority of granting degrees from the\\nstate, to abuse this authority in order to deceive\\nthe Spanish speaking people. How could the Spanish\\n^^peaking people believe that a university which is both\\ncatholic and American should purposely state false-\\nhoods in order to decoy them? Yet it is with these\\nfraudulent methods that the University of Notre Dame\\nsecures her Spanish speaking students.\\nLet us suppose that a good soul bequeaths tO the\\nUniversity of Notre Dame, sufficient funds to endow\\na number of scholarships, how would the students\\nenjoying the scholarships be treated by a university\\nlike Notre Dame who robbed her waiter students of\\nthe instruction due to them, for paying fifty dollars\\na year besides giving many hours in the service of the\\nuniversity, and who used the dropping of this waiter\\nstudent s class as a pretext to try and rob her Pro-\\nfessor, a married man with a family, of two-fifths of\\nhis salary of $600 per year? Other universities that\\nhave scholarships state on what condition they can\\nbe obtained and the names of students enjoying schol-\\narships are mentioned in their catalogues. Not so\\nNotre Dame, although according to page 192 of her\\ncatalogue she has one ^scholarship. Who knows\\nwhether these scholarships would not be offered to\\nydung men who have distinguished themselves in ath-\\nletic sports in order to induce them to enter the uni-\\nversity? It is a well known secret that during the\\nvacations the University of Notre Dame hunts up ath-\\nletes and offers them inducements to join her athletic", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 41\\nstaff. What is more natural that in a university where\\nwaiter students are robbed of their instruction, a\\nteacher of his salary, scholarships, instead of being\\ngiven to really bright and studious young men, should\\nbe given to football and baseball players, who by their\\nfeats of agility and dexterity help so much to swell\\nthe class roll? Scholarships in a university like Notre\\nDame instead of helping the higher education would\\nonly help to foster ignorance. It is certain that this\\nmoney would help swell the funds of the congrega-\\ntion of the Holy Cross and perhaps in the near future\\nneither board nor educate students. The reason is evi-\\ndent. The university expressly stipulates that a. foun-\\ndation of $5,000 will educate and board a student as\\nlong as the university exists. The moment the uni-\\nversity ceases to exist as a university she will no long-\\ner be obliged to educate and board students enjoying\\nscholarships. The existence of the university depends\\nupon the state of Indiana. The charter was granted\\nwith a very wise proviso Provided, however, that\\nno degrees shall be conferred nor diplomas granted,\\nexcept to students who have acquired the same pro-\\nficiency in the liberal arts and sciences, and in law and\\nmedicine, as is customary in other universities in the\\nUnited States. The legislature has full power to have\\na thorough investigation made in every university in\\nthe state, in order to be assured that the power given\\nto confer degrees is not abused. The fact that such\\ninvestigations have not been made in the different\\nstates does not prove they will never be made, and it\\ndoes not require the foresight of a prophet to perceive\\nthat in the near future the charters of those institu-\\ntions of learning which do not compare favorably with", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "42 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nstate institutions in the departments in which they\\ngrant degrees will be revoked. It is for the benefit\\nof the public as well as the institutions of learning that\\nthe exercise of the power of granting degrees should\\nbe used only in those courses in which colleges have\\na competent faculty.\\nA standing committee of Presidents and Professors\\nof different colleges of the state appointed by the gov-\\nernor to report at every session of the legislature any\\nshortcomings which need the action of the legislature\\nseems for the present the best remedy for correcting\\nabuses which become more and more glaring in a uni-\\nversity for example like Notre Dame.\\nSuppose such a committee visited the University of\\nNotre Dame the gentlemen would certainly go to\\nadmire the law school which is not one of the seven\\nwonders of the universe, but something incomparably\\ngreater. With a faculty where are to be found Pro-\\nfessors who do honor to the University of Notre Dame\\nby allowing her to use their names and that is all, in\\nthe twenty-five pages devoted by the university to the\\nexplanation of her great course in law, she modestly\\nstates in her catalogue: It is believed that nowhere\\nin the country is the course in law more comprehen-\\nsive, thorough and practical than at this university.\\nThis may be supposed by the gentlemen of the com-\\nmittee to be only a figure of speech used in order to\\nshow the excellency of the course in law of this great\\nUniversity of Notre Dame. It is a mistake. God s\\ngreat wonders can be excelled by others still greater,\\nbut the course in law of the University of Notre Dame\\ncannot be excelled. The university expressly states in\\nher catalogue: This course of instruction is com-", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 43\\nprehensive, thorough and practical. It is not and can-\\nnot be excelled. The inspection of this course may\\nlead the committee to investigate the fraud of the\\nRomance Languages chair, the fraud of the chairs of\\nMathematics, the fraud of the course in Architecture\\nleading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Archi-\\ntecture with no architect in her staff, the fraud of her\\npost graduate course leading to the degree of Doctor\\nof Philosophy, the fraud of her degree of Doctor of\\nScience, the fraud of her degree of Doctor of Letters,\\nthe fraud of her degree of Doctor of Laws granted for\\nsome remarkable w^ork on law, the fraud of fitting stu-\\ndents to become professors of mathematics or leading\\nthem in the difficult path of original investigations\\nwith not one professor in her staff who could be called\\na mathematician, etc.\\nThe committee may come to the conclusion that\\nwhere such glaring frauds exist the students cannot\\nacquire the same proficiency in the liberal arts and\\nsciences as is customary in other universities in the\\nUnited States, the legislature might revoke the charter,\\nand the University of Notre Dam.e ceasing to exist as\\na university, she would no longer be obliged to educate\\nand board students enjoying scholarships. These cath-\\nolic students would be compelled to avail themselves\\nof non-catholic colleges, and very many would con-\\ntinue losing their faith and all would be weakened in\\nthat faith because the University of Notre Dame, who\\nhad asked and received $5,000 for each student in\\norder to be entrusted with their faith and education,\\nhas been found to be a fraud rightly deserving to be\\nwiped out of existence as a university.\\nThe usefulness of religious congregations, if the", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "44 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\ncharters were revoked, would be increased. Their\\ncolleges and universities would then become S^aA pre-\\nparatory schools the feeders of the new catholic col-\\nleges with Bishops as Presidents of trustees and\\nlearned laymen as Professors. The cause of the higher\\neducation of our catholic young men would be greatly\\nbenefited by this change.\\nOne might reasonably object that although the\\nPresident of the University of Notre Dame did not\\nwish to introduce the higher branches of mathematics\\nbecause they do not pay (see page 15) the fact is, that\\nhigher branches of mathematics are offered. On page\\n40 of her Spanish catalogue elective studies are to be\\nfound for students who wish to make a deep study\\nof pure mathematics either to fit themselves to become\\nprofessors in mathematics or with the object in view of\\nmaking original researches. This requires an explan-\\nation. About twenty months ago I was approached by\\na priest-professor on the veranda of the university\\nwho handed me a proof of a part of the English cata-\\nlogue containing the elective work of the advanced\\ncourses in mathematics asking what I thought of it.\\nI replied that the mere fact that Dr. Craig s Differential\\nEquations, the study of which requires a knowledge\\nof Theory of Futictions, is one of the textbooks, and\\nknowing positively that no professor in Notre Dame\\nengaged in teaching mathematics has any conception\\nof Theory of Functions, it is a clear proof to me that\\nthis course is a fraud. Any mathematician could per-\\nceive it because a course in Theory of Functions is\\nnot to be found either in the prescribed or in the\\nelective studies but Dr. Craig s Dififerential Equations\\ncould not be studied without the knowledge of Theory", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 45\\nof Functions therefore the professor who wrote the\\ncourse had not taken the trouble of examining the\\nbook in fact, he had never seen it.\\nIt is useless to state that Dr. Craig s name was\\nscratched and later replaced by Murray s. When I met\\nthe layman-professor entrusted by the President with\\nthe writing of this course of advanced mathematics for\\nthe catalogue he acknowledged frankly that he had\\nnever seen Dr. Craig s Differential Equations, but he\\nsupposed it was all right because he had seen that book\\nin the catalogues of great universities, and of course it\\nshould find its place in the catalogue of the University\\nof Notre Dame. To study Dr. Craig s Differential\\nEquations after Osborne s Calculus is the same as to\\nstudy calculus after arj^thme^^^^ It is with such mathe-\\nmaticians that the University of Notre Dame offers\\nto the Spanish speaking students opportunities for\\ndeep studies in pure mathematics to fit them to become\\nprofessors in mathematics or to lead them in the\\nobstruse path of original research\\nTo think that the newspapers unwittingly help to\\ncheat the public with their puffs, enhancing the work\\nof such a lying institution as Notre Dame To think\\nthat the Very Reverend Dr. Zahm is so highly praised\\nfor his zeal displayed in the interest of higher educa-\\ntion The great number of catholics who are desirous\\nof seeing catholic educational institutions offer courses\\nas varied and thorough as those of non-catholic col-\\nleges and universities may indeed be pleased with the\\nzeal of the Very Reverend Dr. Zahm who has realized\\nthat competition in brains is a reality that the insti-\\ntution that offers the largest salaries gets the best\\nteachers and that a competent faculty and modern", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "46 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nequipment swell the class rolls! But this is sheer\\nnonsense and the facts prove it.\\nThe Very Reverend Dr. Zahm, Provincial of the\\ncongregation of the Holy Cross and President of the\\nBoard of Trustees of the University of Notre Dame, is\\ni simply an abettor and conniver of detestable frauds.\\nAs President of the Board of Trustees of the Univer-\\nsity of Notre Dame, Dr. Zahm is responsible for the\\nspreading of the falsehoods set forth in the Spanish\\ncatalogue to deceive the Spanish speaking students of\\nCuba, Mexico, Central and South America. As Presi-\\ndent of the Board of Trustees it is his duty to see that\\nall informations in the Spanish catalogue sent or con-\\nveyed to the Latin Americans are correct. It is his\\ndutyto see that the Latin-American young men should\\n(not be decoyed by the most _shameless. misrepresenta-\\ntions of the greatness of the University of Notre\\nDame.\\nThe Very Reverend Dr. Zahm understands Span-\\nish. Let him open the Spanish catalogue on page 8i\\nand read The degree of Doctor of Letters is hon-\\norary, and is granted to former pupils of the university\\nwho write some remarkable work in literature or in\\n/any other branches of the course. This is a false-\\n[hood and Dr. Zahm is aware of it. The object of this\\nfalsehood is to convey to the Spanish speaking people\\nthe impression that in the faculty of the University\\nof Notre Dame there are Ijterary men of the greatest\\nrank and that such a degree is really granted. It is\\nnot so, however, and the English catalogue of the Uni-\\nversity of Notre Dame is silent on this degree as well\\nas on what is further quoted on page 8i, Spanish cata-\\nlogue: Bachelors of Letters may enter the course", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 47\\nof Doctor of Philosophy and obtain the degree in three\\nyears see conditions, page 79. Let the Very Rev-\\nerend Dr. Zahm open the Spanish catalogue on page\\n87. The degree of Doctor of Science is honorary\\nand is only conferred on former pupils of the univer-\\nsity who distinguish themselves by some remarkable\\nwork in any of the sciences of the course. This also\\nis not to be found in the English catalogue, and the\\nVery Reverend Dr. Zahm is aware that the University\\nof Notre Dame do es not have in her stafif such special-\\nists to enable her to confer such a degree without mak-\\ning herself eminently ridiculous, and yet Reverend\\nDr. Zahm, President of the Board of Trustees, con-\\nnives and abetts such falsehoods by allowing the Span-\\nish catalogue to be spread abroad. Let the Very Rev-\\nerend Dr. Zahm open the Spanish catalogue on page\\nno: The title of Doctor of Laws is honorary, and\\nit is granted only for some remarkable work on any\\nbranch of laws. This falsehood is so. patent that the\\nUniversity of Notre Dame would be ashamed of hav-\\ning it reproduced in her English catalogue, although\\nshe devotes twenty-five pages of her English catalogue\\nto the course in law, which is not and cannot be\\nexcelled.\\nIt is evidently wrong for a catholic university like\\nNotre Dame, controlled by the congregation of the\\nHoly Cross, to take advantage of the unbounded con-\\nfidence the catholic Spanish speaking people have in\\nthe truthfulness and honesty of priests belonging to\\na religious congregation, in order to deceive them with\\nabominable falsehoods and thus induce them to send\\ntheir young men to study In the catholic University\\nof Notre Dame. The end does not justify tKe means.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "48 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nWhatever may be the spiritual advantages the Spanish\\nspeaking young men will receive by becoming stu-\\ndents of this university, no lies should be used for this\\npurpose.\\nIt is the duty of every catholic, of every lover of\\nhigher education, of every patriot, who does not wish\\nthat an American institution of learning should bring\\na lasting disgrace on the United States, by spreading\\nfalsehoods in catalogues to cheat our neighboring\\nSpanish speaking nations, to see that a stop should be\\nput to it.\\nIf the state of Indiana on account of some techni-\\ncalities of the law cannot restrain the Very Reverend\\nDr. Zahm from continuing such disgraceful methods,\\nthe Archbishops, Bishops and prominent members of\\nthe clergy should be applied to, in order to use their\\ninfluence and authority with the Very Reverend Dr.\\nZahm.\\nIf it happens that the Very Reverend Dr. Zahm,\\nProvincial of the congregation of the Holy Cross, and\\nPresident of the Board of Trustees of the University\\nof Notre Dame, brooks no interference from Arch-\\nbishops, Bishops or prominent members of the clergy,\\nGod be thanked there is a power that can crush him,\\nand bring him to submission Rome.\\nRome sanctions the existence of the congregation\\nof the Holy Cross for the edification of the world, but\\nnot in order that this congregation of the Holy Cross,\\nenjoying the prestige of the recognition of Rome,\\nshould cheat catholic nations.\\nThink for a moment, what a scandal such frauds\\nwould occasion, if a patriotic Cuban, having been de-\\ncoyed through the open falsehoods of the Spanish", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 49\\ncatalogue to the University of Notre Dame, should\\nbring a suit before the United States court, praying\\nthe United States court to have the University of\\nNotre Dame re strain ed from continuing to cheat his\\ncountrymen. He might rightly state The University\\nof Notre Dame is deceiving my countrymen by lead-\\ning them to believe through the false statements of\\nher Spanish catalogue, that she is a great university;\\nthat her work is exceptionally high; that her staff is\\ncomposed of eminent specialists. I shall limit myself\\nto the most glaring falsehoods in her Spanish cata-\\nlogue and which the university does not dare to print\\nin her Eji^lish^atalogue. i. The University of Notre\\nDame lies when she asserts on page i8 of her Spanish\\ncatalogue Notre Dame and the principal universi-\\nties of this country have endeavored to make the title\\nof Doctor, a degree granted only for exceptional work,\\nand when the pupil shows that he possesses special\\n/aptitude for original research. The University of\\nNotre Dame has not granted one degree of Doctor\\non the above conditions. It is entirely unknown to\\nthe students and professors of Notre Dame, that there\\nexists a three years post graduate course leading to\\nthe degree of I^Qctor of Philosophy a course printed\\nin the Spanish catalogue and which does not exist in\\nthe University of Notre Dame. 2. The University of\\nNotre Dame lies when she asserts on page 19 and in\\nother places of her Spanish catalogue That her de-\\ngree of Doctor of Science, Doctor of Laws and Doctor\\nof Letters are honorary and granted only for some\\nremarkable work on those branches. This is a false-\\nhood leading us to beHeve that the University of Notre\\nDame has a faculty in which there are eminent special-", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "50 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nists in such branches, and I defy the University of\\nNotre Dame to show that she has ever granted her\\ndegrees of Doctor of Science, Doctor of Letters on\\nsuch conditions. Everybody is aware that her Doctor\\nof Laws is not granted for any work on law. 3.\\nThe University of Notre Dame lies when on\\npage 40 of her Spanish catalogue she states that stu-\\ndents can make within her halls a deep study of the\\nhigher branches of mathematics, either to fit them-\\nselves to^become professors in mathematics or to make\\noriginal investigations. The University of Notre\\nDame does not have in her staff one specialist in\\nmathematics, and she is aware of it.\\nThe Spanish catalogue is intended, as may be seen\\non page 15 (Spanish catalogue), for Cubans, Mexicans,\\nCentral and South Americans, to decoy them with\\nfalsehoods thus Spanish speaking young men, instead\\nof profiting by the advantages of the best universities\\nof the United States, are decoyjsd to Notre Dame to\\nreceive an inferior education.\\nSuch being the case, I, a Cuban j having the interest\\nof my countrymen at heart, and knowing that my\\npeople could never be made to believe that a catholic\\nand American university controlled by the congrega-\\ntion of the Holy Cross would take advantage of their\\nunbounded confidence in priests, in order to deceive\\nthem, I pray the United States court to put an injunc-\\ntion on the Spanish catalogues of the University of\\nNotre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, wherewith said\\nuniversity floods my country and deceives my coun-\\ntrymen.\\nI pra^ the United States court to compel the Univer-\\nsity of Notre Dame, controlled by the congregation", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 51\\nof the Holy Cross, to have advertised in the Cuban,\\nMexican, Central and South American newspapers\\nthat her Spanish catalogue is not to be rehed on.\\nThe University of Notre Dame is guilty toward her\\nLatin American students of breach of promise, since\\nthe University of Notre Dame did not furnish us with\\nthe eminent specialists which her several doctors de-\\ngrees, granted only for some remarkable work, re-\\nquire. The University of Notre Dame is guilty of\\nbreach of contract because the University of Notre\\nDame exacted our money on conditions which she\\nknew at the time she could not fulfill.\\nThe University of Notre Dame is guilty of obtaining\\nour money under false pretense, since her Doctors\\ndegrees and eminent specialists are only imaginary\\nand not to be discovered in her institution of learn-\\ning.\\nSuch being the case, the Latin-American students\\nof Notre Dame university have a perfect right to pray\\nthe courts that their money should be refunded, and\\nthat damages should be granted them for losing the\\nbest_years of their life in a university a university\\nentirely different from what she represented herself\\nto be.\\nThe catholic University of Notre Dame should feel\\nhappy of a judgment in favor of her Latin-American\\nstudents, because, according to one of her religious\\ntenets there is no absolution without restitution. I,\\nhowever, waive all claims to any indemnity to which\\nI may be entitled, provided the catholic University of\\nNotre Dame ceases to deceive Latin-Americans.\\nWhat a disgrace that would be to the catholics of\\nAmerica, and to think that such a disgrace should be", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "52 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nbrought about by a religious congregation whose\\nobject should be the edification and not the cheating\\nof the public\\nREMEDY OF THESE EVILS, AND THE CATH-\\nOLICITY OF THE NEW CATHOLIC\\nCOLLEGES OF THE FUTURE.\\nWe have seen what is almost evident, tliat it is a pre-\\nposterous idea to suppose that religious congregations\\ncould furnish our catholic young men of America with\\ncolleges where the bread of higher education is dis-\\npensed.\\nLet us bear in mind that for colleges is meant the\\ncollegiate departments of universities like Harvard,\\nYale, Chicago, Northwestern, Brown, etc.\\nWe have seen that the root of the evil is that our\\ncatholic people look upon collegiate institutions as the\\nproperty of private corporations which are to be left\\nto take care of themselves. We have seen that it would\\nbe dangerous to furnish religious congregations with\\nmoney in behalf of those boys who cannot pay the\\nexpense of education and are therefore obliged to go\\nto non-catholic colleges, besides other drawbacks all\\nthe profit goes to enrich the congregation. Who is\\nnot acquainted with the evils with which the Catholic\\nChurch has been afflicted on account of religious\\nbodies owning too much, and their avarice increasing\\nin proportion with their wealth?\\nThe only way left is to found colleges with learned\\nlaymen as professors and Bishops as Presidents of\\nTrustees.\\nTo start the new catholic colleges, the real difficulty", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. S3\\nis raising funds for this holy purpose. The cathoHcs\\nhave been so accustomed to see reHgious congrega-\\ntions found colleges and universities, and make money,\\nthat it would be hard for them to realize that a good\\ncollege or university cannot be self-supporting, much\\nless make money.\\nThe respect that the majority of catholics feel toward\\nthe priestly character of the members of congrega-\\ntions is s^_gTeat that it would be difHcult for them to\\nrealize that everything religious congregations under-\\ntake is not perfect, consequently catholics do not see\\nthe necessity of having catholic colleges with learned\\nlaymen as professors.\\nIt. is true, that the priestly character gives rights to\\nthe one who possesses it, that angels and archangels\\nmust gaze at the performance of them with awe and\\nreyerence but priestly character will make neither a\\ncollege professor, nor a carpenter, nor a shoemaker,\\nand unless a priest has spent several years in univer-\\nsities in close contact with masters of seciilar learning\\nhe will remain as a rule a very incompetent college\\nprofessor.\\nIt is no wonder that the bequests our catholics make\\nin the interest of higher education are nothing com-\\npared with those of our non-catholic brethren. This\\ndoes not prove, however, that catholics are not inter-\\nested in higher education it only proves they have\\nnever felt the necessity of making any effort in that\\nline.\\nIf an Archbishop of one of our large cities like Chi-\\ncago, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, etc., should\\nannounce to the public his intention of founding a\\ncollege with a layman President and laymen profess-", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "54 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nors, the Archbishop himseh being ex-officio President\\nof the Board of Trustees, and the Board being com-\\nposed of some few priests of wealthy parishes, and a\\ngood number of wealthy catholic laymen, very soon\\nsufficient funds would be raised to start the college.\\nIf, moreover, the Archbishop informs the public\\nthat one of the objects he has in view is to furnish his\\nseminarians with a good secular education so that the\\nfjuture priests might be college J)red men, and there-\\nfore he wishes to join the college to the seminary, the\\nmanagement, however, of both remaining quite sepa-\\nrate, the contributions of catholics would be ^reatj^\\nincreased. The idea that this college, besides being\\nfor the higher education of catholic young men, will\\nalso greatly benefit the Catholic Churcfi of America\\nby being the means of irnparting a better secular edu-\\ncation to the clergy, would greatly stimulate the good\\nwill of those who are able and willing to contribute.\\nI feel almost certain that even wealthy non-catholics\\nwould help, because, considering the priest simply as\\na teacher of morality and as such of great service to\\nthe people, everything being equal, his usefulness will\\nbe ijicreased by a good, broad, secular education. The\\ncollege would help the seminary, on the other hand,\\nthe seminary vvould be of the greatest advantage to the\\ncollege, by offering opportunities to the students of the\\n.college to acquire a deeper knowledge of branches\\nmore or less intimately connected with their catholic\\nfaith.\\nThis is what T call the catholicity of the new catholic\\ncolleges.\\nFor instance, can we blame non-catholics for their\\nprejudice that we catholics are forbidden tg.read_tbe", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 55\\nword of God, transmitted to us in the Holy Scripture\\nthat Book that surpasses ah books, past, present and\\nfuture, and which, alas, is not read by our catholic\\nstudents studying in catholic colleges and universities\\ncontrolled by religious congregations\\nIs it not a shame that while Pope Leo XIII. so\\nstrongly recommends to cathohc laymen the study of\\nthe Bible, religious congregations controlling catholic\\ncolleges and universities offer no opportunities for the\\nstudy of this great Book The Bible is a sealed book\\nto our catholic students in catholic colleges controlled\\nby religious congregations.\\nIt is evident that no college can be cahed catholic\\nunless it offers opportunities to students to become\\nthoroughly acquainted with catholic topics.\\nIn a real catholic college there should be in every\\ncourse leading to a degree a certain number of elective\\nstudies, and the students should be strongly encour-\\naged to take some religious topics, which should count\\nas much as any other secular branch.\\nWhy should catholic students who are advanced in\\nLatin not have the opportunities of becoming\\nacquainted with some of the Latin Fathers of the\\nChurch\\nThey might read, for instance, with a professor of\\nPatristic Theology, The Confessions of St. Augus-\\ntine and many other works in which their knowledge\\nof the Latin language would be utilized both to exer-\\ncise the brain and at the same time to more rationally\\neducate them in the catholic faith.\\nThe same method could be even better pursued with\\nthe Greek Fathers of the Church. The motto of\\nEmerson should never be forgotten I do not ask", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "56 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nwhat my child studies, but who is his teacher. There\\nis dfipLh in this saying.\\nOne of the differences between a genuine college\\nprofessor and an incompetent college professor is that\\na good student taught by a genuine college professor\\nwill acquire a jtaste for the subject taught, and some\\nfew hints given in the right time will be the cause of\\nstimulating the student to further pursue the subject,\\nor at least give him a desire to do so whereas a stu-\\ndent taught by an incompetent professor may study\\nbecause he wishes to graduate, but after graduation\\nhe has no desire to further pursue his studies.\\nIt is for this reason that the real worth of a genuine\\ncollege professor is thoroughly appreciated only later\\nin life by a student.\\nThese new colleges will certainly offer opportuni-\\nties for the study of Hebrew, Ecclesiastical History,\\nNatural Theology, etc., but what is sure is that the\\nWord of God will be most zealously read and ex-\\nplained.\\nNo college can rightly be called catholic unless with-\\nin its halls the catholic students have opportunities to\\nstudy the Word of God, so strongly recommended by\\nour Holy Father, Pope Leo XHI.\\nCOMMUNICATION OF THE AUTHOR WITH\\nTHE AUTHORITIES OF NOTRE\\nDAME UNIVERSITY.\\nSouth Bend, Ind.. Jan. 19, 1899.\\nTo the Board of Trustees of the University of Notre\\nDame, Notre Dame, Ind.\\nGentlemen I send this communication, to present\\nbefore your most honorable body some claims based", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 57\\nUpon Statements to be seen in the letters of the Presi-\\ndent of N. D. U., and of which I enclose an affidavit.\\nThese are the statements\\nI. Our chairs of Mathematics are well filled at\\npresent, still it is possible that a vacancy will occur\\nat the end of the year, and if it is the one I suspect, I\\nwould be able to locate you nicely.\\nII. The vacancy in our Mathematical Department\\ndid not occur. However, I am willing to hold out the\\ninducement of a place on our staff in the line of lan-\\nguages, particularly in French, if you are willing to\\ntake such classes as we can give you until a vacancy\\noccurs in such of our departments as would best suit\\nyou.\\nIII. I think that in the course of time we could\\nmake it an object for you to become a permanent mem-\\nber of our stafif.\\nIV. Your salary for the first year will be $600,\\nwith board and lodging included. Thi^ is higher than\\nwe ever give for the first year, but in view of the dis-\\ntance and circumstances in your case I shall make the\\nfee six hundred.\\nAllow me to state that on the 15th of June, 1896, I\\nreceived a letter from Dr. Smart, President of Purdue\\nUniversity, stating that in case a teacher should be\\nwanted in Mathematics he would make me an ofTer.\\nI should let him know my address in case of moving,\\nas he would notify me toward the loth or 15th of Sep-\\ntember. I have the letter and it remains at your dis-\\nposal.\\nBeing fully persuaded that every statement of the\\nPresident of N. D. U. was true, as soon as I arrived\\nhere, September 7, 1896, I wrote Dr. Smart, declining", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "58 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nhis offer. The position was filled, as you may see in\\nthe McMillan s Book Review just under the announce-\\nment that the University of Notre Dame had en-\\ngaged me.\\nIt is not necessary to have studied in the universi-\\nties of Rome, Naples, Louvain, Paris, Madrid, the\\nPolytechnicum of Zurich, the University of Heidel-\\nberg, the Johns Hopkins University, and to have\\ntaught in the Boston University, University of Texas,\\nUniversity of California, University of Deseret, now\\nUtah, in order to find out that there are no Chairs\\nof Mathematics in the University of Notre Dame,\\nsince I have not yet found here a teacher of Mathe-\\nmatics who did not laugh at such words as Chairs\\nof Mathematics in connection with the University of\\nNotre Dame.\\nI do not wish to touch upon the disappointment I\\nfelt, since it was specially on account of such expres-\\nsions as our chairs of Mathematics that I decided to\\ndecline Dr. Smart s offer.\\nAs to my salary of $600, being higher than we ever\\ngive, I am afraid that there is as much truth in this\\nstatement as there is in the chairs of Mathematics.\\nStatement No. 3 I think that in the course of time\\nwe could make it an object for you to become a per-\\nmanent member of our staff may be true, but in order\\nthat any reasonable person should believe it he should\\nbe shown that Dr. Egan, Dr. O Malley, Col. Hoynes\\nwere engaged at a salary less than $600, according to\\nstatement No. 4, and that there has been such an in-\\ncrease as to make it an object to become a permanent\\nmember of the staff of N. D. U. When I perceived\\nthe clear state of affairs I tried to find_s.Qme other place", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 59\\nand leave quietly and gea-Cefully, but did not succeed\\nand it is not to be wondered, because no teacher of\\nNotre Dame ever got a position in a state university,\\nand whatever my abilities, my connection with a catho-\\nlie institution is a great drawback. It should not be\\n\\\\so, but it is nevertheless so.\\nSuch being the case, and for reasons which I do not\\nintend to state in this communication, I came to the\\nresolution of laying before you my claims, trusting I\\nwill get full justice from you.\\nThis is my reasoning concerning the rights I think\\nI have. The statement No. 2 gives me the right of\\nchoosing in case a vacancy occurs which best suits me,\\nbut there is a vacancy in the chair of Mathematics, as\\nit is not occupied, ergp J choose it; and beginning\\nnext September I intend to be the Professor of Mathe-\\nmatics of the University of Notre Dame.\\nConcerning my salary, I reason thus According\\nto statement No. 4, my salary is higher than you ever\\ngive for the first year, therefore I am entitled to a\\nsalary higher than Dr. O Malley, or Col. Hoynes, or\\nD r. Egan got the first year when they were engaged\\nHence I respectfully ask you to let me know what\\ntheir salaries were when they were first engaged and\\nthen I will be in a position to let you know to how\\nmuch more I am entitled.\\nI vmderstand very well the objection that could be\\nmade to this last reasoning.\\nWhen you came to Notre Dame you accepted the\\nposition with a salary of $600. Your salary was paid\\nto you, hence you have no claims on this score.\\nMy answer is that when the President of N. D. U.\\nwrote he would like to have me make any suggestions", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "60 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nthat I wished on this score (salary) I answered him, I\\nleave the matter entirely in his hands, because on the\\nsame page is written, I think that in the course of time\\nwe could make it an object for you to become a per-\\nmanent member of our staff.\\nWhen the President of N. D. U. writes me my sal-\\nary for tne first year is $600, higher than we ever give\\nfor the first year, I accept in view of the future and\\nsupposing that there is truth in every statement of the\\nPresident of N. D. U., I decline the profifered offer\\nof Purdue University.\\nNow if that statement is incorrect (I wish to use a\\nmild expression), the University of Notre Dame is\\nliable for misleading me. When I declined Purdue I\\nthought I was connected with a university where there\\nwere chairs of Mathematics, to which I would be enti-\\ntled as soon as a vacancy would occur, that it would\\nbe an object for me to become a permanent member\\nof the stalT of N. D. U., and that if I had $600 for the\\nfirst year it was simply because this is higher than\\nthe University of Notre Dame ever gives for the first\\nyear.\\nIf any of these statements are incorrect (to use the\\nsame mild expression), the university is bound to make\\nthem correct, and I have a perfect right to ask you\\nwhether it is true or not that $600 is higher than you\\never give for the first year.\\nI beg to remind you, gentlemen, that I am open to\\ncomdcti^in, and in case my reasoning does not seem\\ncorrect to you I wish you would state the weak .poiats,\\nand if I perceive my mistake you will find me quite\\namenable to reason.\\nIn the hypothesis that my reasoning is correct and", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 61\\nthat 1 am entitled to the chair of Mathematics, I wish\\nto make some few sug-gestions which if adopted by\\nyou, the University of Notre Dame wih soon have a\\nmagnificent mathematical department and the engi-\\nneering courses better attended than they are now.\\nIn my opinion the University of Notre Dame offers\\na fine field in the line of Mathematics, but it must be\\nproperly cultivated.\\nThere should be a Department of Mathematics lead-\\ning to the degree of B. S., requiring the same amount\\nof Physics, Chemistry, English and Philosophy as it\\nis prescribed in the Civil Engineering course, and a\\nreading knowledge of French and German. It would\\nbe advisable to offer a one year post graduate course\\nin Mathematics leading to the degree of M. S., just\\nas it was offered in the University of Deseret, now\\nUniversity of Utah. The pupils of the Mathematical\\nDepartment would liave at least one elective study\\nevery year, if not more. Advised but not compelled to\\nchoose them in any one of the Engineering courses,\\nwhen they take the degree of B. S. they will perceive\\nthat very little is left them to graduate in the Engineer-\\ning course from which they choose their elective\\nstudies, and by remaining one year longer they might\\ngraduate in it and perhaps by taking some postgradu-\\nate courses in Mathematics, if fitted, they will receive\\nthe degree of M. S. Of course, next September all I\\ncould do would be to take charge of the beginners of\\nGeometry and third Algebra. These two studies\\nshould begin simultaneously, divisions shall be made\\naccording to fitness, and I shall take charge of the\\nbest division and keep it with me to the end of the\\nyear. I purposely refrain from stating the amount of", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "62 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nground they will be able to cover with me during the\\nyear, because I do not wish to be laughed at, only\\nremember that I advance nothing but what I know\\nby experience I can perform.\\nAt the end of the first year I shall have a good\\nnumber of pupils enthusiastic for Mathematics, then\\nshall my real work begin. Concerning my fitness for\\nteaching elementary branches I only wish to relate\\none instance.\\nIn St. Louis I left Mr. X s school, as he did not\\nwish to augment my salary, as I thought he should.\\nA committee of the pupils came to me asking me\\nwhether I left because I had been engaged in another\\nschool, as they were told by the principal. I told\\nthem the reason. Two days after Mr. X came to\\nsee me, acceded to my terms and told me that the\\npupils were so pleased with me that they threatened\\nthey would leave the school if he did not continue\\nto employ me as their teacher in Algebra and Geom-\\netry.\\nAs to my fitness for teaching higher Mathematics, I\\nleave the matter to the testimonial of Prof. J. B.\\nToronto, Vice-President of the University of Utah,\\nsent to Dr. Smart, and which I enclose, also the letter\\nhe sent me concerning it. I submit also copies of\\nother testimonials, and the programme of the Mathe-\\nmatical Department of that university.\\nIt is exceptionally high, but it must be borne in\\nmirjd that, in the first place, I found there well pre-\\npared and exceedingly bright pupils, besides they were\\nnot allowed to take more than fifteen recitations a\\nweek, each of three-quarters of an hour, and as a rule\\nthey had less than that.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 63\\nDuring the first year I had only Freshmen, that is\\nto say, pupils who took Algebra and Geometry, and\\none single Sophomore, who took Analytic Geometry\\nand Calculus, who soon left, having obtained a posi-\\ntion as teacher. In the second year, as you may see\\nfrom the report of the Board of Regents, which I en-\\nclose, I had pupils in Quaternions, Rational Dynamics,\\nMethod of Least Squares, Cremona s Projective\\nGeometry, etc.\\nHoping, gentlemen, that the Giver of all lights will\\nenlighten your minds that you may clearly see your\\nduty, and strengthen your will, that no earthly con-\\nsideration will prevent you. from performing it, I re-\\nmain, gentlemen,\\nYours very respectfully,\\nCHAS. VENEZIANI.\\nNotre Dame, Ind., Jan. 21, 1899.\\nDr. Charles Veneziani, South Bend, Ind.\\nDear Sir I am authorized to state that your com-\\nmunication of the 20th instant, with enclosures, ad-\\ndressed to the Board of Trustees of the University of\\nNotre Dame, has been received.\\nHaving read and considered the same, it has by\\norder of the Board been referred to the President of\\nthe university, who has exclusive authority to act in\\nthe matter.\\nHerewith I return the enclosures, which were also\\nr\u00c2\u00bbad and considered. Very sincerely yours,\\nJAMES I. FRENCH,\\nSecretary Board of Trustees Notre Dame Univer-\\nsity.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "64 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nSouth Bend, Ind., March 2^, 1899.\\nTo the Board of Trustees of N. D. U., Notre Dame,\\nInd.\\nGentlemen Your answer to my communication\\nwas received. You referred me to the President of\\nthe University, who has fuh power to act in this mat-\\nter. I went to him and he told me my services will\\nnot be needed any longer at the end of the year, and my\\ncommunication was an impudent one. I asked him\\nwhat he thoug-ht abo t our chairs of Mathematics\\nhe replied that the chairs of Mathematics have a real\\nexistence in the University of Notre Dame. I asked\\nhim whether he thoujoht my salary of $600 per year\\nhigherthan we ever give for the first year he replied\\nthat his statement about my salary is correct. To my\\nquestion. Do you mean to say that Dr. Egan was\\nengaged on a salary less than $600? he answered I\\ncould not compare myself with Dr. Egan. Hence I\\ninfer that the statement No. 4 of the President of N.\\nD. U. in the affidavit is incorrect. As I have reasons\\nto suppose that either my memory or that of the Presi-\\ndent of N. D. U. is not to be trusted, I asked him to\\ngive me his answer in writing. He flatly refused to do\\nso, but afterwards he told me he would do so later oji.\\nI have not yet received his answer. The President of\\nN. D. U. has left for Europe, hence I apply to you\\nagain to suggest to you a plan of action which seems\\nto me the most equitable before God and men.\\nI am afraid that you do not fully realize my position.\\nThe incorrect statements found in the letters of the\\nPresident of N. D. U. have been the cause of my de-\\nclining the best chance I ever had in my life. I mean\\nthe position in Purdue University.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 65\\nWhat I suggest is that the claims stated in my for-\\nmer communication, as well as other claims which I\\nhave, be referred to Rt. Rev. Bishop L. Scanlan, of\\nSalt Lake City, with full power to arbitrate that no\\npapers shall be sent him unless previously submitted\\nto the Rev. Dr. Zahm and seen by myself, that I may\\nhave an opportunity of answering any statement which\\nmay appear to me incorrect. A check of $200 shall\\naccompany the documents sent to Bishop Scanlan as\\na fee for his trouble. I shall contribute $100 and you\\nshall contribute the other $100, with the understand-\\ning that i shall repay you the $100 you contribute if\\nBishop Scanlan finds that all the claims of my first\\ncommunication are groundless, that you shall repay\\nme my $100 in case he decides in my favor.\\nIf you think, gentlernen, you have some better way\\nof adjusting our difficulty I shall be pleased to hear\\nfrom you. I wish to be clearly understood that whilst\\nI abhor with all my heart and soul to take any steps\\nwhich cannot fail to attract a widespread attention\\nthroughout the United States and will afford great\\npleasure to those who antagonize catholics, I do not\\nintend to tamely submit to what I consider a rank\\ninjustice.*\\nI wish you would reflect upon the responsibility\\nwhich each and every one of you incurs. If you are in\\ndoubt about my claims, why not lay the matter before\\nsuch an uninterested party If you are sure of being\\nin the right, why be afraid of the judgment of a man\\nof such sterling integrity, of such sound judgment,\\nand such a friend of your order as Bishop Scanlan is\\nI enclose an affidavit of Dr. Smart s letter and a leaf\\n*NoTE.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 At that time I thoug-ht I could enforce my claims. By doing-\\nso it would have produced the scandal alluded to in this letter.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "66 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nfrom McMillan s Books Review, that you may see\\nthat the position of Purdue was actually filled by Ed-\\nwin M. blake.\\nI remain, gentlemen, yours very respectfully.\\nCHAS. VENEZIANI.\\nNotre Dame, Ind., May 17, 1899.\\nMr. Chas. Veneziani, South Bend, Ind.:\\nMy Dear Sir In an interview with you some\\nmonths ago I told you that I would not need your\\nservices at the universily after the present scholastic\\nyear.\\nYou requested me to put this decision in writing,\\nand I said I would do so before the close of the term.\\nI, hereby, notify you again that your services will\\nnot be required after the closing of our school on\\nfune 15, 1899. Smcerely yours,\\nA. MORRISSEY, C. S. C.\\nSouth Bend, Ind., June i, 1899.\\n117 S. St. Louis St.\\nVery Rev., A. Morrissey, C. S. C, President of the\\nUniversity of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind.\\nMy Dear Father Morrissey Your letter of May\\n17th, in which you notify me that you would not need\\nmy services after June 15th, is at hand. In the same\\nletter I notice you made a big mistake, which is quite\\nexcusable, because, as once you told me on the\\nveranda, you easily forget many things. In your letter\\nI see You requested me to put this decision in writing\\nand I said I would do so before the close of the term.\\nAllow me to tell you. Father Morrissey, that I am\\nfar more logical than you suppose. What you should\\nhave written is You requested me to put this answer", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 67\\nin writing, and I said I would do so before the close\\nof the term. A word makes an immense difference,\\nmy dear sir, and you will soon see the reason. If you\\nremember well the interview took place when I came\\nto you in order to know the answer to my first com-\\nmunication to the Board of Trustees, who referred me\\nto you, who has exclusive authority to act in the mat-\\nter. I sent you a copy of my communication, and in\\nthe first line you may see that my object was to present\\nsome claims based upon statements to be found in\\nyour letters and of which I enclosed an affidavit.\\nAfter having set forth my claims on page 4 you may\\nread: I beg to remind you, gentlemen, that I am\\nopen to conviction, and in case my reasoning does not\\nseem correct to you I wish you would state the weak\\npoints, and if I perceive my mistake, you will find me\\nquite amenable to reason. It is evident that what I\\nwanted was an answer to my reasoning and what I\\nrequested of you was to give me in writing your verbal\\nanswer.\\nHowever great may be the respect I have for you, I\\nhave a far greater respect for truth, and in this letter\\nof mine I shall follow the example of Adam, who\\ncalled things by their right name.\\nIf you do not remember the verbal answer you gave\\nme I am most willing to refresh your memory. You\\ntold me my services would not be needed at the end\\nof the year, my letter was an impudent one because I\\nwanted the chair of Mathematics without your giving\\nit to me you told me the chairs of Mathematics have\\na real existence in the University of Notre Dame you\\nsaid that the statement concerning my salary of $600\\nper year being higher than we ever give for the first", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "68 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nyear is correct, when I asked you: Do you mean to\\nsay that Dr. Egan was engaged at a salary less than\\n$600 per year? You answered I could not compare\\nmyself with Dr. Egan you stated that my teaching\\nwas poor, and to my asking Did you not tell me once\\nthat my teaching was very good you answered you\\nnever said such thing to me. To my question, Did\\nyou ever say to anybody that my teaching was so good\\nthat the university on this account increased my sal-\\nary? you replied it would be impossible for you to\\nhave said such thing, since the university never in-\\ncreased my salary you expatiated on your great kind-\\nness in having promised me that I could remain here\\nat Notre Dame as long as I had not found a more\\nsuitable place, when I answered that I did not see your\\nkindness in taking away the teaching Dr. Zahm in-\\ntended to give me during the vacations, and you replied:\\nHow can you prove that? Besides, it is my duty to\\nsee what kind of men are employed at Notre Dame\\nand when I asked was the vacancy alluded to in state-\\nment No. I of the afihdavit that of Prof. McGris-\\nkin, whose house you promised when you wrote about\\nlocating me nicely, you replied you did not wish to\\nanswer that question.\\nThis was the verbal answer I requested you to put\\nin writing, because before you would have finished it\\nyou would have perceived so many contradictions and\\nso many lies that the answer instead of being sent\\nbefore the close of the term would not have been fin-\\nished before the close of your life. There is no need\\nto be a Doctor of Philosophy of the University of\\nHeidelberg and to have received the prize bestowed\\nupon the best mathematical scholar in that great uni-", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 69\\nversity in order to see the complete absence of sound\\nlogic in your verbal answer.\\nIn the first place, if you have promised that I could\\nremain here until I found a better position, what great\\ncrime have I committed that you may break your\\npromise? If I had had the misfortune, as it has been\\nordinarily the case with the teachers discharged in\\nthis institution, of being found drunk, or arrested for\\ndisorderly conduct, I could easily understand the\\nnecessity of discharging me but to suppose that be-\\ncause I sent a communication to the Board of Trustees\\nof the University of Notre Dame, stating my rights as\\nI see them, you are exonerated from keeping your\\npromise, I must frankly acknowledge that there is not\\nonly a lack of sound logic, but also a want of honesty,\\nsuch as you would find in a heathen and certainly\\nought to be expected of a Christian, a priest, one who\\nbinds himself with three vows in order to reach heaven\\nwith more surety.\\nConcerning the comparison with Dr. Egan, I an-\\nswer that comparisons are odious, but the question\\nhere is whether my salary is higher than Dr. Egan s\\nsalary, and since it is not higher you lied when you\\nwrote the statement that $600 is higher than we ever\\ngive for the first year, and you know very well your-\\nself that you were lying when writing such a statement,\\nand that you were only confirming a lie when you\\nasserted the truth of that statement.\\nAs to my communication being an impudent one\\nbecause I want the chair of Mathematics in spite of\\nyou, I answer the question is whether according to\\nyour written statements I am entitled to it and I proved\\nthat I am. When you said You never told me that", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "70 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nmy teaching was exceedingly fine you were lying.\\nAs a matter of fact, I am ready to call God as a witness\\nthat you really said so, whilst you would never call\\nGod as a witness that you never said that, as you\\nwould not wish to become a perjurer. You most\\nstrenuously asserted that you never told anybody that\\nmy teaching was so good that the university increased\\nmy salary, but as I was told this by Mother S\\nMother Superior of the Novitiate of St. Mary s, who\\ncongratulated me for this good news she heard from\\nyourself, you understand very well that I fully believe\\nyou said so, and moreover, Mother S s word is\\nabove suspicion- not so yours.\\nAs to your reasoning that you could not have said\\nso because the university never increased my salary,\\nyour reasoning proves just the contrary. My salary\\nhas been increased the difference of the house rent;\\nthis you granted Mrs. Veneziani, and Mother S\\ncould never know that, unless you told her, and nat-\\nurally when you speak you are liable to make a moun-\\ntain out of a mole-hill. If you want some instances, I\\nhave no objection to quote two. Take for instance\\nour chairs of Mathematics in the University of Notre\\nDame. Any teacher here connected with Mathe-\\nmatics laughs at the idea of chairs of Mathematics in\\nthe university and one teacher asserts that it is the\\nPresident of the university that holds the chair of\\nMathematics, meaning that it is the President who has\\nthe power of creating the chair of Mathematics, and\\nyet you write and speak of chairs of Mathematics hav-\\ning a real existence with such earnestness that were\\nit not that I am a specialist in Mathematics and have\\n*Tlie fuU name is withheld ir: print.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 71\\nI\\nbeen in the University of Notre Dame for the last three\\nyears you might really make me fall into the mistake\\nof supposing that you are right, and were it not that\\nI know positively that the teacher who according to\\nthe catalogue holds the chair of Mathematics does not\\nteach one single branch of Mathematics connected\\nwith the University of Notre Dame and has nothing\\nto do whatever with the Mathematics of the University\\nof Notre Dame I might make the blunder of supposing\\nthat the University of Notre Dame has a chair of\\nMathematics. Another instance is the Romance lan-\\nguages fake of the University of Notre Dame. When\\nI was engaged you advertised the great acquisition\\nthe University of Notre Dame made by engaging your\\nhumble servant to take charge of the Romance Lan-\\nguages Department. It served your purpose, which\\nis Videri, non esse, the great point is to appear, not\\nto be. The only flaw I find in that advertisement is,\\nfirstly, there was no Romance Languages Department\\nto take charge of, and secondly, I never was engaged\\nto take charge of it. There is not a word concerning\\nRomance Languages in your letters written to me.\\nThe fine point is that you gulled the public so well\\nthat some persons who must have known me praised\\nhighly the wisdom of the University of Notre Dame\\nin bestowing upon me the chair of Romance Lan-\\nguages. A chair paying $600 per year When lately\\nthere was a meeting of the faculty whilst you were in\\nEurope I moved that the whole string about Romance\\nLanguages be stricken from the catalogue, as well as\\nthe words Romance Languages written under my\\nname, because it is highly unbecoming for a catholic\\nuniversity to cheat the public, but I was told by the", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "72 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\ni\\nchairman that Father Morrissey alone had that power,\\nnot the facuhy. Let us see what that increase of salary\\nmeant. When my family came to South Bend in No-\\nvember, 1896, I engai^ed a house according to my\\nsalary of $600 per year, with the intention of moving\\ninto better quarters as soon as my salary was increased.\\nWhen the proper time came I asked you how my\\nteaching was and you told me it was exceedingly good.\\nYou had already let Mother S know that you\\nwere pleased with my teaching and I had been ap-\\nprised of it by Sister A and Mother S\u00e2\u0080\u0094 who\\nfrom the moment I met her in Salt Lake City al-\\nways took a great interest in my welfare. I was\\ngreatly surprised when a few days later, having asked\\nyou what would be the increase of my salary for the\\nensuing year, you answered that the university had to\\nsupport the missions in India, hence no increase would\\nbe granted besides, my teaching was very poor, I\\ncould remain at the same salary. I wished to show\\nyou your letters, but you replied you knew everything\\nin them. I showed you the letter of Dr. Smart, Presi-\\ndent of Purdue University, and pointed you out these\\nwords Should I find it necessary to employ an\\nadditional instructor in Mathematics I will make you\\nan of\u00c2\u00a5er. I showed you the McMillan s Books Re-\\nview where, just on the same page where was an-\\nnounced my coming to take charge of the Romance\\nLanguages Department of the University of Notre\\nDame, is to be found the name of the additional in-\\nstructor of Mathematics and I told you that I might\\nhave been connected with Purdue University, but I\\nhad written Dr. Smart a few days after my arrival here\\nthat I did not wish to be considered any longer as an", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 73\\napplicant since I was connected with Notre Dame.\\nYou replied that if I could see the prospect of a posi-\\ntion in Purdue University from that letter of Dr. Smart\\nI must certainly be a dreamer. I asked you then how\\nyou could say my teaching was very poor when only\\na few days before you told m.e it was exceedingly good.\\nYou answered by saying you never made such state-\\nment. It was then that Mrs. Veneziani, perceiving\\nthat I had been tricked by you, asked you for the\\ndifference of house rent which you granted and paid\\nuntil March, 1898, included. When I presented you\\nthe next receipt due for house rent, after looking it\\nover you remarked you had no time to give me an\\norder for the money. Later on, when presented again,\\nyou told me to come tomorrow. I supposed you were\\nvery busy, and I waited several days. When I pre-\\nsented the receipt again you told me I should have\\ncome the very next day. You added that you were a\\nman of your word and the word you gave Mrs. Vene-\\nziani shall be kept this money, however, shall be paid\\ntogether with my salary. I answered that Brother\\nEdward, the Treasurer, had received orders from you\\nnot to pay me my salary, and I added, concerning the\\nreceipt for the diiYerence of house rent, if the bill is cor-\\nrect it might as well be paid at once if there is any\\nmistake please show it to me that we may square this ac-\\ncount. Your reply was, everything must be paid at the\\nsame time thus nothing was paid. For six months I\\ndid not draw a cent of my salary, until you asked me on\\nthe veranda whether I had been paid, and I answered\\nthat in the first place Brother Edward had received\\nthe order not to pay me, and afterwards you told me\\nI could draw the three-fifths of my salary, but not a", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "74 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\ncent more, because I was not earning the rest, and as\\nI would not accept the three-fifths I had not yet been\\npaid. You answered, I might go now and draw the\\nwhole, and I did so. When, however, I presented you\\nthe receipt for the difiference of house rent you told\\nme you did not agree with Mrs. Veneziani to pay\\nmore than $5 per month, I should tell her to come and\\nsee you. I answered you that as I did not send Mrs.\\nVeneziani to you before, I do not intend to send her\\nnow if there is any mistake it is your fault, since when\\nI presented you the receipt instead of postponing pay-\\nment under various pretexts, if you had made me this\\nremark -I would not have engaged the house for a\\nyear, and I cannot afiford to lose money for your fault.\\nYou replied I am not worth any more than $600 per\\nyear, my intention was to grab the world, but you\\nwould not pay any more than $5 per month anyhow.\\nAfter having thought over this matter, I concluded\\nthat I had been tricked and cheated quite enough and\\nit was time to present my just claims to the Trustees\\nof the University of Notre Dame. This is the increase\\nyou spoke of to Mother S as a reward for my\\ngood teaching\\nNow that I have presented my just claims you\\nthought the best way of answering was, not by using\\nthe rules of logic beginning with Barbara, but by using\\na rather barbarous method that of chopping off the\\nhead of the claimant and thus silence him. You think\\nthat bv affirming my teaching is poor you have a right\\nto set aside the just claims your letters have given\\nme. I warn you, my dear sir, you are treading\\nrather dangerous ground. Firstly, the question is not\\nwhether my teaching is good or bad the question is", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 75\\nwhether your written statements set forth in the affi-\\ndavit accompanying my first communication and on\\nwhose account I declined the Purdue University, are\\nnot a set of lies, and whether the university is not\\nresponsible for your writing as President. Suppos-\\ning even that my teaching is poor, as I am teaching\\nLanguages, it would not follow that my teaching\\nMathematics is poor, and as I am entitled to the chair\\nof Mathematics your pretext would fall flat. Besides,\\nfrom the testimonial of the Vice-President of the Uni-\\nversity of Utah, my teaching of Mathematics is an\\nideal one, according to you my teaching of Languages\\nis poor then why should you hesitate to give me the\\nchair of Mathematics to which I am entitled By thus\\ndoing the University of Notre Dame would gain an\\nideal teacher of Mathematics and get rid of what you\\nstyle a poor teacher in Languages. When I asked\\nyou at the close of my first year whether I would have\\nto teach Mathematics the ensuing year you answered\\nthat my services were needed to strengthen the Mod-\\nern Languages Department. No person could under-\\nstand how (what you st3de) a poor teacher would be\\nable to strengthen a Modern Languages Department\\nin a university. There are three reasons, besides, why\\nyou should not slander my teaching, ist. Your testi-\\nmony is worthless, having just told the contrary to\\nMother S 2d. I have in my possession irre-\\nfragable proofs of the contrary. 3rd. The work itself\\nis the best proof. My pupils, the beginners in German,\\non three recitations a week, of three-quarters of an\\nhour each, at the end of the first year understand\\nSchiller s Wallenstein and Goethe and you have only\\nto elance at the catalogue to see the immense work", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "76 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nthe beginners in French did under nie last year, and\\nthey would have done still more were it not that you\\nthrough your criminal weakness retarded the progress\\nof my class. When my pupils needed a dictionary\\nthe Brother in the office refused to order the one I\\nwanted for the class because he wished to dispose of\\nsome worthless dictionaries which the university had\\nfor sale. Whenever I told you about it, you would\\nsend me to the Brother, and meanwhile for several\\nweeks the class could not do the work it would have\\ndone otherwise. At last I spoke to the Director of\\nStudies about it and added that if the parents of the\\npupils had any conception of such shameful proceed-\\nings of the University of Notre Dame they would be\\nindignant. The Director of Studies told me to come\\ninto the office the following day and he would see\\nthat the dictionaries were ordered thus what you left\\ndragging for several weeks was dispatched promptly\\nby the Director of Studies, and the dictionaries were\\nordered at once. Now, my dear sir, compare your\\ncriminal weakness in allowing a Brother who has no\\nconception of French, but dictates under your very\\nnose to the so-called Professor of Romance Languages\\nof the University of Notre Dame what kind of French\\ndictionaries must be used in the French class, to the\\ndetriment of the pupils compare, I say, such criminal\\nweakness in regard to thaf Brother with your criminal,\\nidiotic and tyrannical proceedings toward the same\\nProfessor of Romance Languages on the occasion you\\nrequested me to take charge of the beginners in Latin.\\nI told you I would take charge of that class as a favor,\\nnot as a duty, because we agreed that I would not\\nhave to teach beginners in Latin you answered it", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 77\\nwas true you had agreed that I would not have to\\nteach beginners in Latin, but when you agreed you\\ndid not know you would ever need my services in that\\nline, had you known it, you said, you would never have\\nagreed, hence it is my duty to take charge of that\\nclass. I replied that I was unable to see the correct-\\nness of your reasoning as a favor I would take charge\\nof the class, but not as a duty. Then began your\\nthreats, which you carried into execution. I should\\nnot draw any longer my salary, you would take away\\nfrom me a private pupil I had, the teaching Dr. Zahm\\nwanteu to give me during the vacations would be\\nwithdrawn an extra class which you had given me\\nand for which I should be paid extra would be with-\\ndrawn. Utterly undismayed I repeated, I don t see\\nthat 1 am obliged to take charge ol that Latin class on\\naccount of our previous agreement, still as a favor\\ntoward you I am willing to do so, as a duty never.\\nWhat threats could never have extorted from me a\\ngood word did. A priest in the university requested\\nme for the sake of peace to yield, and I promised I\\nwould. I came to you a few hours later and told you\\nI would take charge of the beginners in Latin, but\\nyou answered you needed my services no longer and\\nthat I should not go to teach that extra class you had\\ngiven me, and for which you had promised me extra\\npay. I never thought you would demean yourself so\\nlow as to carry your threats into execution except\\nso far as to take away the extra class, which you gave\\nto the former porter of the University of Notre Dame.\\nI was really astonished when I went to draw my\\nsalary, and I was told you had put an injunction on\\nit. I soon perceived that you tried to take my private", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "78 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\npupil away, but you did not succeed. Is there any\\nneed of proving that you withheld the teaching Dr.\\nZahm would have given me, when you yourself told\\nme so? And are you not ashamed of bringing as a\\nreason that you must see what kind of teachers are\\nemployed in Notre Dame, as if insinuating that there\\nis something in my conduct which might lower the\\nmoral standard of those who come in contact with\\nme. when the real motive was your spite? What kind\\nof arithmetic did you use to infer that I was entitled\\nto three-fifths of my salary when I was giving four\\nlessons a day? Was it not yourself who forbade me to\\ncontinue teaching the fifth lesson, alleging as a reason\\nthat the pupils were only waiters and too few in num-\\nber, and after you ordered me to discontinue this class\\nwith this fine reason you want to take away from me\\ntwo-fifths of my salary. You know very well that I\\nhave a family to support and do you think it was right\\nwhen the difTerence of house rent was asked over and\\nover again to postpone payment with pretexts of which\\na dead beat himself would be ashamed? I am per-\\nfectl} convinced that no man in the country would\\never believe that such things actually took place in\\nthe University of Notre Dame, the great catholic uni-\\nversity of America, and still you know yourself that\\neverything I am stating is correct. I wish you now\\nto consider the way I stood under your unfair treat-\\nment. Instead of legally proceeding against the Uni-\\nversity of Notre Dame for withholding my salary, and\\nthus bring disgrace upon you, I bore everything con-\\nsidering your actions as the antics of a spoiled child,\\nwho if only given some few months time, and no\\nnotice taken of his sayings and doings, would come", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 79\\nback to his senses and act more dutifully. As a mat-\\nter of fact, it was nearly six months after when you told\\nme to go and draw my salary which you had withheld.\\nIt is true, you gave me much useless trouble, and you\\ndid also much real harm, but I had decided for the sake\\nof peace, I would overlook many things. Had I been\\nFather Morrissey, the President of the University of\\nNotre Dame, and you Veneziani, instead of keeping\\nyour salary and then afterward claim that only three-\\nfifths are due, I should have deemed it my duty, be-\\nsides the claims set forth in the first communication,\\nto pay you for the extra hours teaching since for sev-\\neral weeks I had seven recitations a day during 96-97.\\nAt the beginning of the scholastic year 97-98, I had\\nsix recitations a day for over a month. That lesson for\\nwhich extra pay was promised, should not have been\\ntaken away to be given to the former porter of the\\nuniversity, and if I requested you for transla-\\ntions from foreign languages, you certainly should\\nhave been paid either in money or in acts of kindness.\\nHad I been the President of the University of Notre\\nDame, I would have remembered that when I wrote\\nOur chairs of Mathematics are well filled at present,\\nstill it is possible that a vacancy will occur at the end\\nof the year, and if it is the one I suspect, I would be\\nable to locate you nicely. That phrase locate you\\nnicely meant that in case of Prof. McGrisken leaving\\nthe university the house called the Lilacs was prom-\\nised to you, and you may rest assured that neither pre-\\ntexts nor lies would have been told by me in order to\\nbreak my promise to you. I would not, after many\\nsubterfuges come out saying that the giving of the\\nhouse lies with the Council, and you by going to Dr.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "80 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nZahm, who is the President of the Council, might have\\nfound out, as I did, that the Council has nothing to do\\nwith the house that it lies entirely with the President.\\nI would not have said to you that Brother Onesimus\\nhad the renting of the house, but since the university\\nalways got $15 per month rent, you could not expect\\nto have it for less, and then you might go to Brother\\nOnesimus, as I did, and you might hear that the uni-\\nversity never got a cent rent, therefore, he said it should\\nnot be rented to the university Professors. Were I the\\nPresident of the University of Notre Dame, and you\\nthe Professor of Romance Languages enquiring from\\nme where you could find a stall for your horse, I would\\nnever have sent you to Father Connor, the Superior\\nof the Novitiate for a stall, when Father Connor had\\nscarcely room for his own horse, and I, the President\\nof the university, had a number of places entirely va-\\ncant. I would consider such advice the most idiotic\\njoke played on Father Connor, as well as yourself, and\\nwhen I, the President, am asked for a stall with the\\nunderstanding it should be paid for, to answer NO, T\\nshould deem it not only uncharitable, but I should deem\\nsuch a refusal as downright injustice, and if, besides, the\\ninconveniences are taken into consideration to which\\nI would expose you, the Professor of Romance Lan-\\nguages, by refusing that which is granted to pupils liv-\\ning nearer the university, I would rightly classify such\\nrefusal amongst those mean, spiteful actions, which\\nare a sure characteristic of the low standard of the\\nintelligence, as well as the heart.\\nWhat I have written is the reply to the verbal an-\\nswer which I requested you to put in writing, and\\nwhich you wisely refrained from doing. If I were", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 81\\nalone in the world I would have no objection to give\\nup the rights which 3 Our letters gave me. Having\\ndeclined Purdue University for Notre Dame, to ac-\\ncept my dismissal as an answer to my rights, I really\\nthink it would be treason on my part towards those\\nwho have claims upon me for their support. If you\\nremember, you called me an unpractical man, and con-\\nsequently it is very doubtful whether you will believe\\nthat this legitimate resistance on my part will be the\\ncause of disgracing yourself, the university, the Con-\\ngregation of the Holy Cross, throughout the length\\nand breadth of the United States. This must neces-\\nsarily happen, if you persist in your course, not\\nthrough any vindictiveness of mine, but through the\\nnecessary development of those means of which I have\\nto make use to protect myself from what I consider a\\nrank injustice.* I wish to be very explicit on this point,\\nbecause when that which I have just told you will ac-\\ntually take place, I want you to remember that it is\\nentirely due to not following the plan I will presently\\nlay before you in order to adjust our differences.\\nThe Board of Trustees of the University of Notre\\nDame, having read and considered my first communi-\\ncation, has referred it to you, who has exclusive au-\\nthority in the matter. Your decision is final, if ac-\\ncepted by me, and the university is legally bound to\\nstand by your decision. I hope you will have no diffi-\\nculty in agreeing with me that nemo judex in causa\\npropria is an old proverb, in which there is a great\\ndeal of wisdom. What objection could you have to\\nrefer the whole matter to Archbishop Riordan of San\\n*NoTE.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 At that time I thought I could enforce my claims. By doing-\\nso it would have produced the scandal alluded to in this letter.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "82 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nFrancisco, who is a pupil of the University of Notre\\nDame, quite enthusiastic for his Alma Mater, and\\nwho would certainly not wrong the Congregation of\\nthe Holy Cross? What objection could you have to\\nrefer the whole matter to Bishop Scanlan of Salt Lake\\nCity, who is such a great friend of your order, as it is\\nshown by the academies and hospital of the Congrega-\\ntion of the Holy Cross in Utah? We are but men,\\nmy dear Father Morrissey, we can never entirely free\\nourselves from the frailties annexed to our fallen na-\\nture, and the last thing of which we can free ourselves\\nis the inordinate love of self.\\nThe case of which you are constituted the judge is\\nof such nature that one may rationally suppose that\\neven in the hypothesis you have the best intention in\\nthe world of dealing fairly and squarely, you can not\\navoid some partiality, because you are too much in-\\nterested in the sentence you have to pronounce. A\\njudgment in my favor means that you have wronged\\nme during these last three years, whether intentionally\\nor unintentionally.\\nAny reasonable man under such circumstances\\nwould be of the opinion that I have the right to refuse\\nyou for my judge, and that your duty is to let such\\njudgment be pronounced by some other party. A man\\nof such sterling integrity as Bishop Scanlan or Arch-\\nbishop Riordan, not interested in the case, is more\\napt to be impartial, and I, for my part, am willing to\\nsubmit entirely to his verdict. I leave you the choice\\nof the one you prefer. As you cannot deny that you\\npromised me that I can remain at Notre Dame as\\nlong as I have not found a more suitable place, I wish\\nthat this claim also should be submitted and that you", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 83\\nshould show causes which justify you in my dismissal.\\nI am sorry that all I can afford to give as a fee is\\n$200. I wish I could make it $2,000, but it is impos-\\nsible. If you are willing to arbitrate the matter, we\\nwill easily arrange all further details. The only im-\\nportant thing is, that we should wish that the whole\\nmatter should be settled according to justice, for my\\nown part I am willing; if you are also willing, you\\nwill apprise me which of the two you prefer as arbi-\\ntrator. Bishop Scanlan or Archbishop Riordan, and\\nwe will speedily succeed in settling our dift erences. I\\nwill furnish myself the $200, which will be added to\\nmy claims, if I am right; if the judgment is against\\nme, I am willing to lose them.\\nHoping that this suggestion will meet with your\\napprobation, I remain, my dear sir,\\nYours very sincerely,\\nCHAS VENEZIANI.\\nSouth Bend, Ind., Sept. 5th, 1899.\\nTo the Board of Trustees,\\nOf the University of Notre Dame,\\nNotre Dame, Indiana.\\nGentlemen On March 23rd, 1899, I sent you a\\nsecond communication in which, after having stated\\nthe result of my interview with the President of N.\\nD. U., to whom you referred me in your answer to my\\nfirst communication, as the one who has exclusive\\nauthority in the matter concerning my claims, I sug-\\ngested that Bishop Scanlan, of Salt Lake City, be\\ntaken as arbitrator. No answer was vouchsafed to\\nthe second communication.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "84 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nOn May 17th, I received a letter from the President\\nof N. D. U., in which he notifies me tliat he does not\\nneed my services after June 15th. I enclose a copy\\nof my reply to his letter, as it is intimately connected\\nwith the present subject. You will observe, in reading\\nmy reply, that I advocated that the whole matter be\\nreferred to either Archbishop Riordan of San Fran-\\ncisco, who, as a pupil and friend of Notre Dame,\\nwould not certainly be inclined to wrong his Alma\\nMater, or to Bishop Scanlan of Salt Lake City, but\\nthe President declined to accept any arbitration what-\\never concerning my claims, and repeated that my\\nservices would not be needed after June 15th.\\nWell, my dear gentlemen, I intend in this third and\\nlast communication of mine to speak to you the truth\\nand nothing but the truth there is a power in right\\nwhich might alone cannot give, and which constitutes\\nmight in itself, and I feel within me that right and\\nthat might. One would reasonably expect from relig-\\nious people that their actions should be a model, a\\nlight to us laymen, and their honesty in business\\ntransactions above reproach. One would reasonably\\nexpect from the Board of Trustees of the University\\nof Notre Dame, that its members would have enough\\nconscience if a claim is presented by a teacher to make\\na thorough investigation for fear of incurring the\\ncurse of God for keeping a human being out of what\\nis due to him. If the Board of Trustees of the Uni-\\nversity of Notre Dame, instead of being composed of\\nfour priests and one brother, all five belonging to the\\nC. S. C, was composed of four saloon keepers and one\\ngambler, all five belonging to the A. P. A., I am fully\\nconvinced I would have found better consciences in", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 85\\ntheir verdict concerning my claims. Consider the way\\nyou dealt with my first communication. If I had had\\nany prospect of obtaining justice by applying to the\\nPresident of the U. N. D., I would not certainly have\\napplied to the Board of Trustees and any board com-\\nposed of conscientious persons, from the moment they\\nlegally represent the university before the State of In-\\ndiana, would have thought themselves morally bound\\nto look into the matter and see whether the statements\\nfound in. the letters of the President of the U. N. D.,\\nand of which I enclosed an affidavit, give me the rights\\nI claim or not. Instead of that, you answer: Hav-\\ning read and considered the same (communication), it\\nhas, by order of the board, been referred to the Presi-\\ndent, who has exclusive authority to act in the matter.\\nThere is nothing more absurd than such an answer\\nof yours, if you except the one given by the President\\nof the University of Notre Dame, who began it by\\ndismissing me from the university, contrary to his\\npromise that I could remain here as long as I had not\\nfound a more suitable place. You must certainly\\nknow that the President cannot dispose of over $ioo\\nwithout the consent of others, as my claims are much\\nhigher, the President of Notre Dame does not have\\nex-officio exclusive authority to act in the matter.\\nIf your answer means that you confer upon him ex-\\nclusive authority to act in the matter, then I simply\\nobserve that the validity of my claims implies that the\\nPresident has wronged me during these last three\\nyears either intentionally or unintentionally, therefore,\\nhe is the defendant in this suit in which I am the\\nplaintifif, and you, the judges, confer to the defendant\\nexclusive authority to judge the claims of the plain-", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "86 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\ntiff! No Asialic couri: ever prostituted so low its\\nsacred functions of dispensing justice, as did the Board\\nof Trustees of the University of Notre Dame with\\nsuch an infamous answer.\\nFar from accepting the President of the University\\nof Notre Dame as my judge, I denounce him before\\nyou as a first-class liar, a faithless man, a scoundrel,\\nan unjust despot, and a low deadbeat.\\nI brand the President of the University of Notre\\nDame as a liar, when he asserts that he never told me\\nmy teaching was very good, and I call God as wit-\\nness, that he did so.\\nI brand the President of Notre Dame University\\nas a liar, when he asserts he never told anybody that\\nmy teaching was so good that the University increased\\nmy salary, and I call as witness Mother S the\\nMother Superior of the Novititate of St. Mary s, who,\\nwhen she congratulated me for this good news, told\\nme, she heard it from Father Morrissey, himself, and\\nwho shall dare to question the veracity of a Mother\\nS\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nI brand the President of the University of Notre\\nDame as a liar, when he wrote that $600 is higher\\nthan we ever give for the first year and when he as-\\nserts that the statement he wrote is correct, and I call\\nas witnesses you all, members of the Board of Trus-\\ntees of the U. N. D., beginning with you, Father Hud-\\nson, President of the Board you. Father Connor,\\nVice-President; you, Father French, Secretary; and\\nyou. Brother Edward, Treasurer. You know very\\nwell that he lied, still, if you entertain any doubt, you\\nmay go and verify with your own eyes, and you must\\nagree with me, that the President of U. N. D. was a", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 87\\nliar when he wrote that statement, and a confirmed\\nHar when he confirms the truth of that lying statement.\\nI brand the President of the University of Notre\\nDame as a liar when he wrote about our chairs of\\nmathematics and when asked about the truth of this\\nstatement he asserts that, the chairs of Mathematics\\nhave a real existence in the University of Notre Dame,\\nsince even the teachers of mathematics in Notre Dame\\nlaugh at the idea of there being chairs of mathematics\\nin this university and if the President really believes\\nthat the chairs of mathematics have a real existence in\\nNotre Dame, he is not a liar by no means he is only\\nan ignoramus, not fit to be a teacher in a kindergarten,\\nand I, who believed every word he was writing as\\nGospel s truth must not certainly suffer *for the utter\\nignorance of the President of the University of Notre\\nDame.\\nI brand the President of the University of Notre\\nDame as a faithless man, for after having told me, I\\ncould remain here as long as I had not found a more\\nsuitable place, and I call God as a witness that he\\nreally told me so without alleging any cause, he\\nthinks himself exonerated from keeping his word, and\\nas he adopted this method in order to cheat me out\\nof my claims, based upon his own letters, I openly\\nbrand him as a scoundrel.\\nT brand the President of the University of Notre\\nDame as an unjust despot for having withheld my sal-\\nary for nearly six months without any hearing what-\\never before the Board of Trustees, and having done,\\nbesides, as much harm as he could in his vindictive-\\nness, simply because, having asked me to take charge\\nof a class of beginners in Latin, I told him I would take", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "00 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nit as a favor but not as a duty, since we had agreed\\n1 should not have to teach beginners in Latin and\\nI brand him the more as an unjust despot, because a\\nfew hours later, at the entreaties of a priest who wished\\nme to yield for peace sake, I went to the President and\\nexpressed my willingness to obey his orders, and still\\nhe executed his threats as far as he could.\\nI brand the President of the University of Notre\\nDame as a low deadbeat, for, when I presented him\\nthe receipt of my house rent in order to cash the dif-\\nference as it had been agreed, he loudly proclaimed\\nhimself a man of his word, who keeps what he has\\npromised, and his word shall certainly be kept but, he\\nadded, this ^difiference of rent must be paid, together\\nwith my salary, and thus nothing was paid for six\\nmonths, and to my entreaties that he might as well give\\nme an order for the money due, if the bill is correct,\\nand if not correct he should show the mistake, he an- _\\nswered, that everything must be paid at the same time.\\nand thus nothing was paid. p\\nThese are the reasons why I cannot accept the Pres-\\nident as a Judge concerning my claims founded on his\\nletters, and should you persist in denying me justice,\\nor, in refusing to have the matter referred to either\\nArch Bishop Riordan or Bishop Scanlan with the un-\\nderstanding that I shall enclose $200 fee to be lost if I\\nam found to be in the wrong, to be added to my claim\\nif I am right, I shall have these reasons published in\\nthe newspapers in order to start a fund to legally fight\\nthe University of Notre Dame, and should you enter-\\ntain the least doubt about the truth of my denuncia-\\ntions I defy you to prosecute me.\\nRemember, gentlemen, that I am not here begging", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN. 89\\nany favors of you, and that I am rather conferring a\\nfavor upon you in directing your attention to the mis-\\ntake you have made, and by offering you the opportu-\\nnity of correcting the gross injustice you have done\\nme.\\nMy first communication is still in your hands, my\\nsecond was never read at any meeting of yours, and\\nas to my third, I hope you will act according to truth\\nand justice. The worst hypocrisy of man is to en-\\ndeavor to hide a gross injustice with the cloak of jus-\\ntice, of order harmony.\\nReligious congregations have been repeatedly per-\\nsecuted, robbed, and banished, still I doubt whether\\nsuch low, stupid and hypocritical means were ever\\npracticed against them as you used in your answer to\\nme To appoint as a judge the man who did me the\\ninjustice Such proceeding is the more blamable\\nbecause, having full confidence in your honesty, I tried\\nin my first communication to logically set forth my\\nrights, and after my reasoning, I appeal to you to show\\nme my mistake if you find any, with these words,\\nI beg to remind you, gentlemen, that I am open to\\nconviction, and in case my reasoning does not seem\\ncorrect to you, I wish you would state the weak points,\\nand if I perceive my mistake you will find me quite\\namenable to reason.\\nHow was my reasoning answered? The President\\nto whomi you referred me, notifies me that he does not\\nneed my services. Poor logic, the question is of\\nrights, and not of needs. I have a right to the chair of\\nMathematics, and I intend to have it. I have a right\\nto a salary higher than we ever give for the first\\nyear and it shall be given.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "90 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR\\nThe mere fact that you do not wish any arbitration\\nfrom such men as Archbishop Riordan or Bishop\\nScanlan, shows quite clearly that you are convinced\\nthat I am right, and you are wrong.\\nFrom the moment Adam fell, mankind began to\\nuse pretexts to excuse their wrong doing, Adam setting\\nthe example by pointing out to Eve, who, according\\nto him, seemed to have had exclusive authority in\\nthe matter Do I need to remind you that it is you,\\nnot the President, who have exclusive authority in\\nthe matter, and it is to you, that I apply for redress I\\nshould not wonder if you would say. It has always\\nbeen the policy of the Board to leave full authority to\\nthe President in all matters concerning the relations\\nof teachers with the university, because good har-\\nmony is indispensable to the attainment of good re-\\nsults in educational matters. My answer would be,\\nthat in the first place my teaching in the University of\\nNotre Dame has been very successful, and I like har-\\nmony as well as any man, and in the present case more\\nthan the President and the Board of Trustees do. I\\nam in full harm.ony with the statements of the Presi-\\ndent to be foimd in his letters, but, unfortunately, he\\nis not in harmony with his statements, and what is\\nworse, his statements are not in harmony with truth,\\nand you are not in harmony with justice, when you do\\nnot compel the president to harmonize with his written\\nstatements. Let the statements be made true, that is\\nto say, let my salary be higher than we ever give for\\nthe first year let the chair that best suits me be given\\nunto me, and, of course. I choose the chair of Mathe-\\nmatics, and I am in full harmony with the President\\nof the Universitv of Notre Dame.", "height": "2691", "width": "1704", "jp2-path": "pleaforhigheredu00vene_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN- 91\\nIf what I heard is true, the venerable Sorin and\\nFather Corby said that it was the pohcy of the Uni-\\nversity of Notre Dame to never discharge a teacher as\\nlong as he fulfilled his duties as teacher, and did not\\ngive any bad example as man. This policy seems to\\nhave been cast aside and now, a teacher is discharged\\nas soon as he claims his rights, based upon statements\\nto be found in the letters of the President of the Uni-\\nversity.\\nI hope that such loose policy, more in harmony with\\na soulless and heartless corporation, than with a relig-\\nious congregation, will not meet with your approval.\\nI Hope that you will do me full justice, and heartily\\nhope that I shall not be compelled to give publicity to\\nthis matter. I remain, gentlemen.\\nVery sincerely yours,\\nCHAS. 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