LOW OHUBOH 471 LOYOLA.
Universit7 buildings were destroyed— the Ecole less occupied with purely Catholic interests, his
commerciale et coasulaire, the ancient and world political activities lessened. His wife died in 1899.
famous library— which according to the Hague Con- In 1907 he joined the Dominicans at Venlos in
vention was mviolable — and the administration of- Holland, and was ordained on 8 December, 1908,
fices situated in Les Halles. The conflagration being thereafter known as Father Raymundus. At
destroyed 300,000 volumes, a thousand incunabula, his funeral held in the chapel of the castle of Elein-
andhimdredsof manuscripts, as also the University's heubach the ofliciating priest was a convert, a
title of nobility and its charter of foundation, dating former army captain, one of the princes of the
from 1425. On 27 August the faculty and students Protestant branch of the family, the Lowenstein-
were dispersed. Classes were not resumed until Wertheim-Freudenbergs.
21 January, 1919. when Mgr. Ladeuse, rector j,^ j University, in Chicago Illinois, con- magn%ficv8, dehvered the openmg discourse m the j.*v-, u • It t •* t. Tu *^'"V^°' uunoi^con- auditoriuii of the College du Tope Adrian IV. S?*1^ ^^ *^ «**'"*/**^*7',?JK**"i^*'^^^ Meanwhile the interest anil fympatfcr of the Intel- St. Ignatius College, founded 1869. In June, 1921, lectual world had been arovied in behalf of the the golden jubilee of the university was celebrated. University and a movement was set on foot in Ounng half a century it had grown from a strug- Europe wid America to assist in the work of re- ^^ ^8^ school with two classes and ninel^r-nme storing the library. In the Peace Treaty it was students to a umyersity with ax departments and providfed that Germany should repair to the fuU more than two thousand emoUed m over fifty the damage done to the University, which benefited ««^ , The growth smce 1906 has been phe- further by being -the recipient o/ a share of the Tf^'^- The last fifteen years have beai marked 150,000.000 frand distributed among the four Bel- °y the mirchase of a splendid site on Lake Michi- gan universities by the American Committee of ^ ""3°?^ Park, the erection of Loyola Acad- Relief at the conclusion of its activities. On 2 emy.and the Cudahy Engmeermg Building, the
August, 1921, the cornerstone of the new" Ubrary °W8 *»^ the departmente of law^ medicine, en-
waJlaid in the presence of the King and Queen, ff^^^'J^ ^'°}^' "^.,^^,^«^*^°^?^ '
Surtib!e"stone""'S; t^^ncrof"l92i about"60o'o00 The Department of Arts and Sciences, at Blue
vdumes had been received, about half by gift, knd J^f^^ tlf^^*^^ ^°°f'\f*' ^°*5 " -^t ^^^
the other half by German reparation. The number ^.the university. For half a century it has .fur-
of students enrolled in 1920-21 was 3248, divided S?l4 to, ^J^^"'. ^<^«h engmeer^ and pnesta
as foUows: theology 67, law 478, political and social ^...^fe!'?i,!l"?**'?St ^a*^^ f- ^""^^TV^ ^T
sciences 22, schoofof ^mmerc4 218, medicine 845. ^HS^^v^""^,*^? postgraduate studies. The locality
philosophy and letters 357, Thomistic philosophy 68, J?,-!^^^. ±f situated has become the city's
science 477, special cours^ 444, Ecole de Biiulserie ,9^^^!^J^^J'*' P'T foutemplate movmg
10, preparatohr institute 40. The University has rl.5.*?"^*,*S.*?,H,°^*'»« ^^ ^"S* »* ^^°"
amounced its intention of admitting women to the Avenue and Shendan Road as soon m the necessary
full course of studies. JP<^ "? available. At present the coUege has
about 160 students, and there are about 6000 alumm
Low Chnxeb. See Anoucanism; Book op Com- ™ °' ue»r Chicago. The dean of this department
MON Pbatkb: RrauALiSTS. ^ Kev. Geo. P. Shanley, S.J. Total registration
(1921) 1825
Mwenstein-Wertlielm-Eoseiiberg, Prince K^rl The Department of Law, established in Septem-
H. VON, statesman and Dominican, b. on 31 May, ber, 1908, was due to the persevering energy of
1834, a,t the Castle of Haid, Bohemia; d. in the Mr. Patrick H. OTDonnell, who hacf urged the
Dominican convent at Cologne on 16 November, opening of a law school for several years, and had
1921. His mother was Princess Agnes of Hohenlohe- actively interested himself in securing a represen-
Langenburg, and his father the head of the junior tative faculty. With the co-operation of Rev.
branch of the Lowenstein family, with its chief Francis Cassilly, then vice-president of St. Ignatius
German residence at Kleinheubach, the elder College, the project was launched in the fall of
branch being Protestant. He married Princess 1908 m the Ashland Block under the name of "The
Adelheid of Isenburg in 1869, who died two years Lincoln College of Law." This name was subse-
later, and later (1863) took as wife Princess Sophie quently changed to "The Loyola Law School." For
of Liechtenstein. Two of his daughters became tnirteen years it has maintained a night school,
religious, Franziska de Paula joining the Sisters of with a four-vear course leading to the degree of
St. Francis at Aachen, and Agnes entering the LLS., and the present year marks the opening of
Benedictine convent in the Isle of Wight; a third a three-year day course with a prerequisite of two
daughter became Princess Miguel of Braganza. years of college work. The dean of the law school
Prince Lowenstein was a Knignt of the Golden is Mr. Arnold McMahon, and the faculty regent
Fleece, and a hereditary member of the Bavarian Rev. Frederick Siedenburg, S.J. Total regiSxu-
Parliament and of the Upper House in Wiirtem- tion (IS^l) 155.
burg, Baden, and Hesse. He was a leader in the The Department of Medicine represents the
most intensely Catholic element in Germany, and fusion of no less than four pre-existing medical
was active in social reform. He was the founder schools, the Illinois Medical College, the Bennet,
and president of the Anti-duelling League. For Reliance, and Chicago Colleges of Medicine. These
years he had been in charge of the committee pro- schools were for the most part what are known as
moting Catholic congresses; he was Windthorst's "proprietary schools," and the long and difficult
chief associate in forming the Center Party, and ta^ of raising them to a standard which complied
fought Bismarck energetically during the Kultur- with the exacting Class A requirements of the
kampf . When Bishop Blum of Limburg was exiled American Medical Association is a storv of splendid
in 1876 for refusing to obey the anti-Catholic legis- achievement in medical education. The credit for
lation, Prince Lowenstein invited him to his castle this sucoessful accomplishment is due in large
at Haid in Bohemia, and kept him there during his measure to the faculty regent of the department,
seven years' exile. When the Center Party became Rev. Patrick J. McMahon, S. J., the dean, Doctor
