St Louis University - Archive Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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The 1948 Archive is an attempt to present an over- view of the activities of the past school year. It at- tempts to survey the classroom, athletic field, and extra- curricular activities of the University and its students in this the University ' s biggest year.

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The Waterfront as it was during the early days of the city. A History of the University In 1 81 8, the Rt. Rev. William Louis Dubourg was consecrated Bishop of Upper and Lower Louisiana, which included the present state of Missouri, and in January, 1818, he began a temporary residence in St. Louis, then a strug- gling frontier town. In November, of that year, Fr. Dubourg opened a Latin Academy connected with his humble Cathedral Church, which be- came St. Louis College in 1820. It was conducted by the secular clergy. Their clerical duties, however, absorbed so much of their time, that the College was finally discontinued in 1827. In 1823, Bishop Dubourg had visited Wash- ington and the secretary of war, John C. Cal- houn, in a project for educating the children of Indian tribes roaming through his vast diocese. Mr. Calhoun suggested that the Jesuit Fathers of Georgetown College, District of Columbia, be invited to furnish some of their faculty to settle in Missouri and found missions and schools among the Indians. As a result, a band of 12 Jesuits, 2 priests, 7 scholastics, and 3 lay broth- ers set out from Whitemarsh in Maryland. A day or two later they established themselves in three log cabins situated on a farm donated by Bishop Dubourg near the present town of Florissant. After four years of teaching the children of the Indians, even the white families began send- ing their children to the Indian Seminary, for want of better school accommodations. The courtyard entrance to Clemens Hall, the new Dormitory te2 ' fa ? ' i