Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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The execution of Fr. Miguel Pro, Mexico, igzj whereon the father rode up as far as ‘‘York State.” Today in the United States the Society conducts 34 high schools with 16,000 stu- dents and 24 colleges and universities with an aggregate enrollment of 45,000. The American Jesuit colleges were pioneers in seismography. In a prolonged rearguard engagement they retained the classical languages as required courses long after American education had discarded them. From Maine to Florida, America, particu- larly in small towns and villages, possesses a plenty of Mac ' s and O ' s whose forbears gradually forgot the faith due to the scarcity of priests. But American Catholicism today has the power of self-expression largely due to the fathers who, without money or numbers, threw up ambitious colleges and huge churches throughout the 19th Century. The romantic adventure of the faith was not confined to colonial times. 29

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Verbiest took SchalVs place on the board of mathematics and so awed the Orientals by his work in astronomy and physics that he was raised to the highest grade among the Mandarins. But let us leave the missionary fields of the other hemisphere for those of our own western world. A -X. merica has known the Jesuits since it knew the white man. We ' ll have to omit Paraguay, South America entirely and come Among the earliest set- tlers in South America, in Mexico, in Canada, in New York, in Mary- land, in the Mississippi Valley, in California, were Jesuits. north rapidly. The University of Mexico was founded in 157 3. Twentieth- century Jesuits had better omit clerical dress when visiting it. Father Miguel Pro was shot for Christ in Mexico City a few years ago. We all remember Father Heredia and his expose of Spiritism as a fraud. Our Father Jogues martyred in New York Student editor remembers well that well rounded, that “whole” man indeed of the Jesuits, Father Jaime Castiello. But in the north—Saint Isaac Jogues and his com- panions martyred by the Iroquois in New York State and Canada, those letters and reports called “Jesuit Relations,” later the brief Jesuit school at the Battery in 1682, Father Kino in California, Father Font on the site of San Francisco, in the Missis- sippi Valley Marquette and many another, in Maryland Father Andrew White erecting the cross and celebrating Mass for the first settlers in this wilderness, the Jes- uits have strong roots in the soil of America. There is a bank of the Susquehanna that is Catholic today because our Maryland fathers travelled it. There is a permanent quality about work like that. There is a record of a sick call at Conewaga, the Pastor told us. 28

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Holy Communion 1 ,Joyola College opened her doors in 1852 in two houses on Holliday Street, in April 1853 was vested by the State of Loyola definitely a Jes- uit College, an integral part of Maryland and Baltimore. It has re- mained itself. Maryland with ‘the power to confer any degree or degrees in any of the faculties, arts and sciences and liberal professions, which are usually permitted to be conferred in any colleges and universities in the United States of America.” In February 1855 the College moved to Calvert Street whence her roofs surveyed the When the College faculty departed to Evergreen in 1921 a bucolic atmosphere prevailed for a few years — but soon build- 10