as the greatest evil that can be spread among the young. Hence the virtue of purity is fostered with all possible care and solicitude, and even Protestants have borne witness to the high moral purity of Jesuit students." (See, v. g., Mr. Körner's words quoted above.) So also another writer, the German Protestant Ruhkopf: "In Jesuit colleges a moral purity prevailed which we look for in vain in Protestant schools and universities. Such as were totally corrupt, the Jesuits did not tolerate among their pupils, but sent them away. In their colleges, impurity and demoralization could not easily arise, as with the utmost care they kept away everything that could taint the imagination of the youth committed to their charge."[1]
Boarding schools, in particular, may easily, and, if precautions are not taken, will almost invariably become hot-beds of immorality.[2] Hence the anxiety of the Jesuits in guarding their pupils. Yet they have been attacked more than once for these very precautions. Great educators, however, have been one with the Jesuits on this important question. Thus we read in the life of President McCosh: "The notion that a professor's duty began and ended with the instruction and order in the class room, was abhorrent to him. He thought it the most serious problem of the higher
- ↑ Janssen, Geschichte des deutschen Volkes, vol. VII, page 82.
- ↑ See, for instance, what Arnold said on this subject, in Fitch, Thomas and Matthew Arnold, page 77; further, the Dublin Review, October 1878, p. 294 foll., in the highly instructive article: "Catholic Colleges and Protestant Schools." Also "Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby," especially the Preface to the Sixth Edition, will furnish interesting material.
