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distinguished V. President of the University of 

 St. Mary's of the Lake, Very Rev. Jeremiah A. 

 Kinsella. 



On the 5th of May, as we have seen. Bishop 

 Quarter arrived in Chicago, and on the third of June 

 he opened the new Catholic College, the germ of the 

 present University, in the building formerly occupied 

 as the old church. This establishment commenced 

 with two professors and six students. 



He was ever a most liberal patron of education, 

 considering that among his first duties he should 

 provide means for that end. Not for that education 

 which the world generally dignifies with the title; 

 but for an education by which the mental and 

 the moral man would be cultivated together; in 

 which the being would be taught to consider the 

 instructions of this life as merely the means for 

 obtaining the great end for which we were all 

 created. 



There is a physiological law which teaches, that 

 Practice or Repetition is essential to induce facility of 

 mental and moral, as well as of bodily action; and, 

 therefore, in mental and moral education this fact 

 is so important, that it should be engraven on the 

 heart of every one interested in the welfare of 

 society. It is only by repetition, that impressions 

 can be made upon the mind, so as to render them 

 permanent. A truth may be enunciated; but it is 

 only by repetition that it escapes oblivion. As no 

 accomplishment can be attained by a single effort, so, 

 when the mind is engaged upon any new subject, it 



