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Tulane University was founded in 1834. For a long time it was the only important school of the South. In 1886 came Newcomb Memorial College for Girls; in 1911 Catholic Loyola University. These schools lie on pleasant adjacent campuses on the city's outskirts, opposite splendid Audubon Park, which in turn stretches between St. Charles Street and the Mississippi...
Seeing so much organized interference with religion and morals, a liberal minded Loyola, inspired by the proverb, "Set a thief to catch a thief", has gathered together a few chosen souls and gone hunting for fanatics with their own weapons. At all events, it ought to be good sport. The woods are full of game...
...Loyola early learned the importance of breathing. By taking long regular breaths he could soothe the mind and the heart to restfulness. Otherwise, he found, the heart and the brain were filled with flutter and disordered emotions...
...this reason that Loyola, in establishing the rule of prayer for his monastic order of Jesuits declared that each word of the Lord's Prayer should be uttered in the intervals between breaths...
...subject of so many experiments, and is so readily put into execution, that every man can try it for himself. Mysticism is not the monopoly of a few souls,--it is the possession of every Christian man and woman who cares to employ the ascetic exercises established by Loyola...