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Book/Printed MaterialImage 81 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 65 CHAPTER IV IMPRESSIONS OF CHICAGO. THE NEW WORK OF CATHOLIC EXTENSION VIEW OF LAKE MICHIGAN—UGLINESS AND BEAUTY OF CHICAGO—AN OPTIMISTIC DOCTOR AND CHAUFFEUR—IN THE BELGIAN COLONY—A GALLIC-CANADIAN SERMON—THE SUBURBS. NATIONAL GROUPING—HOW...- Contributor: Klein, Félix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 82 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 66 white wood painted green serve as a balustrade; the rocking-chairs combine the maximum of solidity with the minimum of grace. Everything denotes a true monastic simplicity. But if you refrain from...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 83 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 67 among its citizens some that are destitute, anarchists, unemployed, crooks, disabled immigrants, and believers in extravagant creeds. There are some streets that are not finished, dirt roads that alternate between dust...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 84 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 68 and which on Sundays afford the working people all the benefits of the country? As to the leisure class, or rather as to the rich, for the man of leisure does...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 85 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 69 case of a previous engagement, to accept all invitations, and usually it is well worth while. For instance, on this occasion I made two interesting discoveries, one of a typical American...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 86 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 70 and they will see what fun it will be, what lots,of fun; only we must not discuss politics or metaphysics; rather we will talk of hygiene and ethics, or rather, for...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 87 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 71 surrounding streets, as well as the boulevard, still under construction? Do not buildings everywhere alternate with empty lots? And is not the grade-crossing close by as unguarded as it would be...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 88 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 72 sermon as being “to the utmost Canadian and Gallic”! Canadian perhaps, but Gallic,* never! * Gaulois (Gallic) has in French the signification of coarse, brutally frank, or lacking in refinement, with...- Contributor: Klein, Félix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 89 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 73 Paris, undoubtedly the only place she knew by name in France. After New York, Chicago seems to me to be the city receiving the greatest number of immigrants. It has a...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 90 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 74 the interesting and instructive day that he was kind enough to devote to me. The automobile, lent as well as driven by an obliging member of the Congregation, bore us over...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 91 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 75 I inquire now, with what resources the parishes are founded. When I was here four years ago there were 130 in the city, now there are 165; besides; 131 parishes, 46...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 92 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 76 “From the banks. First he must submit his choice of a site to us, and the choice being suitable, the archbishopric approves and stands surety. Nevertheless, it is the priest who...- Contributor: Klein, Félix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 93 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 77 of manner. Indeed, in general, and in spite of what is said to the contrary, the average Catholic priest in the United States is quite as learned and more of a...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 94 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 78 the last hundred and twenty years; and yet it is not satisfied. But no time is wasted in wondering where more advancement might have been made in the past; it is...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 95 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 79 benefit to the foreign Catholics who come to her by six or seven thousand yearly, many of them more destitute spiritually than materially; and if she be prepared to receive them...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 96 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 80 hundred thousand more. The Pope had solemnly blessed the Society; almost the entire Episcopacy, a thousand priests and twelve thousand laymen, had lent a real cooperation. Mr. Petry had already promised,...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 97 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 81 In fact, The Extension has recalled the examples and lessons to be learned from the French society of St. François de Sales and the German society of St. Boniface;* but what...- Contributor: Klein, Félix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 98 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 82 together gave the same amount; this would make one hundred forty-two million dollars for all the Catholic missions combined, while in the same space of eighty-three years the Protestants have expended...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 99 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 83 longer engrossed as formerly, in the acquiring of the necessities of their religious life, should consecrate at least a part of their surplus to the maintenance of a home mission, to...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 100 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 84 Nor is there any delay in applying the funds. At each meeting of the board of governors, of whom the Archbishop of Chicago is the president, and which is composed of...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 101 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 85 and the quantity of church ornaments and pamphlets of the propaganda distributed. With the steady increase of funds, the power for good of the young society is rapidly augmenting, and it...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 102 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 86 CHAPTER V THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO INTELLECTUAL LIFE—HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO—JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER'S TWENTY MILLIONS, AND THE EIGHT MILLIONS OF OTHER FOUNDERS—RESOURCES AND BUILDINGS—AN OUTLINE OF THE REGULAR COURSES—THE...- Contributor: Klein, Félix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 103 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 87 to meet by the young editor of The Tribune , Mr. McCormick, as well as by Mr. O'Keefe, a lawyer, and by the Dean of the University, who replaces the President...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 104 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 88 having given me the opportunity to observe the young and prosperous University of Chicago at closer hand than any other, I wish to speak of it at some length. The conscientious...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 105 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 89 at once six hundred thousand dollars on condition that four hundred thousand more be raised before the first of June of the following year. The new University was incorporated in September,...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 106 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 90 The sixteen years of existence of which the University of Chicago can boast at the time of my visit, give it, for America, an air ancient and honorable and full of...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 107 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 91 buildings is estimated at $4,422,874. There are more than sixty-six acres of land that, with the improvements, cost $2,761,803. The last two figures are rather imposing. A university whose buildings and...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 108 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 92 The outlines of the tuition, less rigid than in the Old World, allow American universities to offer a far broader and more varied instruction than can be obtained at ours. Speaking...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 109 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 93 and the biological sciences each has its own laboratory; just as of geology and orientalism each has its museum, and astronomy has its observatory. It can be seen that the whole...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 110 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 94 rest of Illinois 27, Michigan 21, and the 62 others were distributed all over the country, California having 4, and the far-away State of Washington even hearing one. The total number...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 111 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 95 of equalizing the chances for those who are truly capable. The summer term is therefore not the same as a summer meeting, a special and popularized form of teaching established at...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 112 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 96 to put aside their prejudices in order to appreciate, for itself alone, a situation which has no analogy with us, I am going to recount, with perfect candor, the most touching...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 113 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 97 Harvard student, and having had to deliver a sermon in that celebrated university, as remarkable for its breadth of view as for its doctrinal and disciplinary soundness, he was the person...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 114 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 98 having arrived at the chancel, hymns and Psalms, given out by the Superior of the Paulists, were sung. Afterwards, he spoke a few words to bring out the touching character of...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 115 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 99 “Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead thou me on!” And I recalled having heard this same hymn in London, twelve years earlier in Westminster Abbey, while lost in a...- Contributor: Klein, Félix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 116 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 100 realizing our too real difference (notably concerning religious authority), I recalled the fact that we all, as Christians, held in common the respect of the same holy books, the same moral...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 117 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 101 the Providential plan which henceforth and forever binds us to each other and Christ by the communion of saints,—which even raises material creation to God through the resurrection of the body,—and...- Contributor: Klein, Félix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 118 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 102 usually appear to them under a combative form, and they would be much surprised to learn that the University where a Catholic priest received such a welcome without concealing one of...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 119 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 103 in this group which will seem farthest from our categories, is certainly the College of Religious and Social Science. The students to whom this course is especially offered, we read in...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 120 of America of to-morrow,
America of tomorrow 104 colleagues, had he not left in Germany, London, and Paris many precious friendships, and shown to what a degree of moral and intellectual supremacy these Americans can arrive, whom we look...- Contributor: Klein, FĂ©lix - Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
- Date: 1911-01-01