Taylor University - Ilium / Gem Yearbook (Upland, IN)

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vanl l. ' iii trsity, lit- ik-voted the following five years to teachini, ' .Matheiuatics, Chemistry, Physics, German and French at several Roman Catholic Colleges. Under the guidance and teaching of the Jesuits he then entered upon and completed, at Woodstock College, Howard County, Maryland, which is the house of studies of the Order in the United States, the required course of four years of continuous application to Dogmatic, Moral and Scriptural The- ology and the collateral branches of Canon Law and the Latin and Greek Fathers. All these studies according to the invariable custom of the Jesuit Order, were taught and recitations were heard in the Latin Language exclu- sively ; in the final examination also in which every candidate is required, during four hours to answer orally the questions proposed to him dc uni vena Philosophia et Thfologia hy ?t e specially appointed examiners, not one word of the vernacular was allowed ; every question was proposed in Latin, every answer was then and there required in Latin. After he had successfuU} ' passed this ordeal, he received the ordination to the priesthood at the hands of the then papal delegate. Cardinal Satolli and resumed his teaching career at Georgetown I ' niversity, Washington, D. C. A growing disgust, however, for the exaggerated church worship and mummery exacted by Romanism, doctrinal difficulties concerning the dogmas of the innnaculate conception, priestly absolution and papal infallibility, as well as the ever in- creasing desire for something firmer than the dogmatic Ipse dixit of the Catholic Church, induced him to give up his priesthood, separate himself from the Roman Communion, and become a member of the M. E. Church in Washington, D. C. Naturally his co-religionists were put out by tliis step. Notwithstanding this, however, his former superiors declared officially and in writing that his life as a man, as a teacher and as a priest, had been without fault, that his defection from the Catholic Church was the one error of his life. His teaching career embraced eight years spent at St. Francis Xavier ' s College, West Sixteenth Street, New York City, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C, and St. Joseph ' s College, Philadelphia, Pa.

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CLASS ' 01 MOTTO— NoH Xohis So tn i.- COLORS— Cardiiia and Old Gold. OFFICERS D. S. Duncan President Chas. S. Coons Vice-President Ida E. Tavi.or Secretary William C. Asay Treasurer Adam A. Irelan Sergeant-at-Arms MEMBERS I ' ocal and Iiistninicntal Ida E. Tavi.or Ctassiml Course E. W. BVSHE F. W. Gress D. S. Duncan E. S. Underhill P iilosop ncal Course C. S. Coons E. M. Scholl Seientifie Course N. G. Lenhart Literary Course Grace Wiest Latin and Creek Theolos ieal Course William C. Asav L i!i;lis i T ieoto i ieat Course A. A. IkELAN J. L. Si ' EICHER Aeadeiiiic Course D. D. Metcalf a. V. Roberts Normal Course Caroline Hettlesater Bae ielor of Divinity W. L. Holly ■H