Irish Jesuit Province

Last WordsAuthor(s): John FitzpatrickSource: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 26, No. 297 (Mar., 1898), p. 122Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20499251 .

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122 The ltish Monthly.

past. Whatever change has meanwhile taken place in the philosophical and religious spirit of the Institution has certainly not rendered it less perilous to Catholic youth.

We had at first given to this patper a subtitle stating that it does not bring the question ur to date. But let us bring it so far up to date as to refer to a meeting held in Wexford in support of the

Catholic claim so late as the close of January in this year of Our Lord 1898. We refer to this meeting, not for the sake of the generous sentiments expressed by Lord Maurice Fitzgerald, but for the sake of a practical point developed excellently by one of the speakers, Mr. P. Hurley-namely, that the question of an Irish Catholic University is not the rich man's question only, but the poor man's question also and chiefly. By means of the prizes of the Intermediate Examinations, &c., a boy of a household of straitened means can help to support himself from his 1Pth to his 18th year; and, if the faeilities of higher education were then safely within his reach, a youth of talent might lawfully aspire to the most desirable prizes of life-as a certain Headmaster of

Harrow urged his young hearers to a course of virtuous conduct which (he said) "may lead on to positions of considerable emolument, even in this world." The University Question in Ireland might in some aspects be made more practical by looking to Scottish and German ideals rather than to Trinity or Oxford or Cambridge.

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fH lift me up!" she softly said, And answered was her dying prayer,

But in a momenit she was dead. " oh, lift me uip! " she softly said;

And lo! to God the words had sped That scarce had died upon the air: " Oh, lift me up! " she softly said,

And answered was her dying prayer.

JOH, FITZPATRICK, O . M. I

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