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Below: St. Xavier Church and College, 1895. came a common figure walking the streets of the Queen City. Another plague occurred in 1849, far worse, which doubled the death toll. The students of Xavier feared for the survival of the school during this second panic. In a body the pupils and faculty vowed that if the school were spared, two crowns, one for the Blessed Virgin and the other for the Infant Jesus, would be fashioned and installed in the chapel. with proper ceremony. One student 11ed the City in panic and was not a part of the vows proceed- ings. Before he reached his home in Mexico he died of cholera. All the other students, without exception, were immune. At mid-century the city returned to its original prosperity although a shaky government strug- gled under riots and other setbacks. Xavier op- erated as a day school. At the encouragement of the schoolts president, Rev. Maurice Oakley, S.J., a new church was begun in 1860. This hrst ex- pansion was the largest, finest church the city had yet seen. It stands today as a landmark, hav- ing undergone only one disaster, a serious fire in 1869. The outbreak of the Civil War put Cincinnati in the perilous position of a border city. The citizens remained faithful to the Northern cause and the town was a mecca for escaping slaves. Harriet Beecher Stowe, a Cincinnatian deeply aEected by the trouble of the times, wrote her. Father James T. Daly, S.J. phenomenal Uncle T omts Cabin in 1867, short- ly after the civil scourge had subsided. And in that same year a secOnd addition to the Col- lege was erected on the southwest corner of Seventh and Sycamore: the Hill Building, named for Rev. Walter Hill, S.J. the president at the time. It was used to house the faculty. Two years later the College was granted a permanent char- ter. In 1885 another expansion, the Moeller Building, was built behind the Hill Building. This edifice now houses the school library and cafeteria. The final building of the campus was Father Francis J. Finn, S.J.
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Formal acceptance was made by the Provincial of the Society in Missouri and Louisiana, Very Rev. Father Verhaegen, and an announcement was made to the public that the College would open in early November under Jesuit auspices and would be named after St. Francis Xavier. In accordance with the announcement, St. Xavier College was opened November 3, 1840, under the presidency of Rev. John Elet, SJ. Seventy- six students were in attendance that year, and since that time the school and its tradition have grown hand in hand with the Queen City. St. Xavier remained a boarding school till 1865 when it adopted the policy of accepting day students. The college course during the boarding school period lasted for six years, after which the student merited a Bachelor of Arts degree. Sub- jects were varied, but leaned heavily toward the classics. Everything from mythology to mathe- matics, from philosophy to bookkeeping were offered; and students of any religious denomi- nation, from the ages of ten to sixteen years, were accepted. Classes began at eight oicloek and continued, with a two-hour break for lunch, un- til four forty-iive. The average freshman read Aesopls fables in Greek, and when he reached his sixth year he was at home with cosmology and Aristotle, The College was immensely famous, attracting students from as far away as Natchez and Mex- ico. The yearly tuition for the boarding school was one hundred fifty-live dollars. In the eighteen lifties, a page in the school catalogue was titled Special Directions for Parents and Children. This one page is indicative of the conservatism and formalism of the times. A condensation follows. On entering, each boarder must be provided with a uni- form, to be worn upon public occasions: it consists of a blue or frock coat, with pantaloons of the same cloth for winter, and white pantaloons for summer. He must also be provided with at least two suits of clothes for each season, eight shirts, four pair of shoes or boots, a black fur hat, a cloak for winter, a knife, fork, spoon, tumbler. Bed and bedding may be furnished by the parent, or will be furnished by the Institution for $8 per annum. The bedsteads will invariably be furnished by the College. No student will be allowed to have pocket money in his own custody. With regard to pocket money, it is the wish of the President that no more than lZVz or 25 cents a week be allowed to the Students. Parents who live at a distance are requested to appoint an agent in Cincinnati or New Orleans, who must be answerable for the payment of all expenses, and to whom the pupil may be directed, on leaving the institution. During this same period, the city underwent a sharp Iinancial depression; and to aggravate the situation, plague hit Cincinnati. Asiatic cholera, introduced into Quebec, had spread by way of the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes into the Ohio Valley. The death toll of the plague of 1832, the same one which took the life of Bishop Fenwick, was astonishing. At its peak, one hundred persons died each day. Death be- 12 The Courthouse Riot, Friday, March 28, 1884. Coney Island during the catastrophe of 1937.
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