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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Greece and Rome: the Influences of Philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 11/17/1894 | See Source »

...only prudent but delightful to keep the best company. By that means the brain becomes at last plenam semper et frequentem domum concursu splendidissimorum hominum, and our minds acquire that tone of good society which only such intercourse can give. Remember, that as all roads lead to Rome, so from a really great book avenues open out that invite our curiosity and interest toward the most various and seemingly alien domains of thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/30/1894 | See Source »

...summoned him. Inspite of the taunts of old friends and the violent remonstrance of his father he devoted himself enthusiastically to the care of the poor and of the sick and to utter self-abnegation. He drew followers to himself and in the course of time, obtained permission from Rome to form an order. Since his time, the Franciscans have been among the most active in the furtherance of civilization and Christianity. The great lesson of St. Francis's life is that true reform can only begin, like leaven, from within, not by destruction, but by the steady and quiet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture on St. Francis. | 3/22/1894 | See Source »

...time of the higher Renaissance in Florence, he said, was the sixteenth century. This was a period in which all Italy was undergoing a great change. For the first time since the fall of Rome Italians were beginning to feel an interest in science and philosophy, to look to reason rather than to religion for explanation and for truth. Still the age was in a way a religious age, though the religion was of the intellect rather than of the heart. But while the character of the race was rising from an intellectual point of view it was deteriorating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Art Lecture. | 3/17/1894 | See Source »

...Catholic Club held a "smoke talk" last evening. There was a large attendance of members. Rev. Father W. H. O'Connell of St. Joseph's Church, Boston, gave an interesting talk on student life in the American school at Rome. He spoke feelingly of the inspiration to study in Rome, the centre of Christianity and the receptacle of the best relics and works of art of all ages and men. He said that the associations of Rome, which so firmly fix upon the young ecclesiastic the importance of his calling, are almost of more importance than the immediate study that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Catholic Club. | 2/28/1894 | See Source »

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