Spring Hill College - Torch Yearbook (Mobile, AL)

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41724 CO DSA! Q v JP The College Faculty carrying out of this charge in the most com- prehensive manner constitutes his duties as instructor. The chief things with which the Ratio deals are: the discipline to he kept, the matter to be taught, and the methods to he followed. Having the ex- perience of centuries of teaching, the Jesuits are well able to prescribe a course which shall be followed in their various institu- tions of learning. Previous to the revision of the Ratio in 12532, only the essentials were taught in practically all the schools. However the Jesuits inaugurated into their system of education, the teaching of history and geographyg which had become quite a necessary subject on account of the dis- coveries and the various occurrences in all parts of the world. Another thing which Pmfcapvoz' of P11 y 3' 3' Riav. R. 'l'. ISRYANT, Ilmu of llixciplizzf Rizv. CARL BIARING, J. Riav. u'II.LI.XIXI F. WNSIZRING, S. J. Xl.L'X and f:t'l'IlIUIl Pmfrwsaz' of Eflmix um! Fl'I'lIl'1I Rhv. fiH,XRl,l'.b J. Qcmix N J Rizv. INIICVIN Nowlnxx, J. Pm,1'f'.cwr nf Englzx L Pmfcxsm' uf ElZ'g11..YlZ- IJI'1'l'I'fHI' of Ihr Sfillllglll 1111 mul .'llll'lAI'7lf f.ifII.N.NlL'.X' Lilirurifuz ,xr Y av. :W A '74 ' ' ' Q11 9 :gg-J ,N .4 :R . f in z n 4,4 A-it A .55 X45 ef' 1 . ,wi , '25 wn...t.J'

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10iE?YpS M 'Ax.Q , If The College Faculty The teachers and officers in the College for the most part are members of the Society of Jesus, an order which has, since its foundation, devoted itself to higher ed- ucation. Throughout the United States it conducts High Schools, Colleges and Uni- versities, and has more than thirty thou- sand students in its various institutions. The principles of education followed here at Spring Hill College, which have gained fame and renown for the Jesuits, are founded on the Ratio Studiorum, a body of rules and suggestions drawn up by the outstanding members of the Jesuit Or- der in 1599, and revised in 1832. The Ratio develops minutely the duties of the different members of the Society who teach. For every subject to be lectured upon, there is a professor assigned, and the complete Rizv. M. lXICN'ALLY, Dwnz of Sfz1t1'izr'x Riiv. TJANIRL M. CRoNrN, S. J. Rm. GABRIEL EGP-NA, S. I- prnfwso, of Illarlzeuzatifs Pmfrmmz' of Spanislz, Rizv. JAMES E. DEPOTTER, J. Rev. TJ. P. LAWTON, 5. l- PmVf'f'.w.w1' nf Fl't'7lliIL and M1't1zpl13v.wi4'.v Clzapldlln 2 l 3 '93 ff' , Q Q its li Ci' 1 1 9 .Y 8 L

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Q REV. M. J. KIQNNI-Ly, S. J. q'72'COP5Al Q f 5' The College Faculty added materially to the value of education was the introduction of modern languages into the regular curriculum. Before this change was made, all branches of math- ematics, physics, etc., were studied in the original Latin. In the various Colleges in Europe there was a course arranged in such a manner as to have no high school course at all. The College comprised the secondary work and three years of Rhetoric, making a total of tive years requisite for entrance into Uni- versities. On completion of the above men- tioned course the student was in a position to attend the higher institutions of learn- ing and eventually receive his degree. In 1726 when the Society was suppress- ed in France, the Rector of the University of Paris translated the Ratio for his t'Out- line of Studies . Senior Plziloxoplzy UR, il, lomim, 5.1. Dj-l'X.Ylll' nf Hixlury Xlfxium S. R1ai1.i.x', M.l-1 Pl'uff'.x.wr' of Dmfwiizg Miz. -linux 1Jif.i..xNc:1,11.L, 5.1. l'mA1'f-swf' our History and Arzrimzf 'l'ix1o'1'l1x' Y, la, l'1r1.x.xir.x, I,I.lH'llI'llIlZf Pmff'-YSUV l I, 1l'fi0NNUR, B of C'lzv1i1ixtr'y I i A . nf V ' N -. x ' -42.4 .14 A f.., , .Ii 9 Ippfl-if -