A Communication
THE TEACHING BROTHER Cincinnati, Ohio. TO the Editor:—In The Commonweal of June 29, Mr. George N. Shuster penned a very able article on the teaching brotherhoods in the United States. As a...
...The Japanese missions flourished likewise from the beginning...
...They came to the Middle-West when the cities were towns and the towns were villages...
...Shuster should have overlooked a very active and efficient organization, the Marianists or the Brothers of Mary...
...We find them in Texas in 1852, and in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1880...
...Assisting their European confreres financially and with members, the American provinces of the Marianists figure conspicuously in several outstanding educational institutions, and so effective has been their work in spreading culture and science that the French Chamber recently voted them 50,000 francs to rebuild their institutions wrecked by the late Japanese earthquake disaster...
...URBAN KOO...
...This marked the inception of their educational successes in the United States amid pioneer hardships, and there developed the present Dayton University, an institution that ranks with the greatest Catholic institutions in the country...
...Saint Mary's College in San Antonio, to name a few of them...
...coast, and in the same year they came to Japan...
...They figured prominently in the central Catholic high-school proposition that so forcibly injected itself in the educational problems of ten years ago...
...Among the alunrni of Saint Louis College is one of the representatives of the islands in Congress, and the present building program sponsored by the alumni is a series of edifices to be erected overlooking the sea, a group that will be the first sight of the islands for the incoming tourist...
...Louis...
...Louis...
...Cathedral Latin High in Cleveland...
...In 1884, the Marianists sent out their first missionaries and have since continued to do so...
...From this centre, the organization spread with impressive rapidity and kept pace with the extraordinary growth of the Middle-West* In all the important cities of the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, we find institutions of merit conducted by the Brothers: Elder High in Cincinnati...
...and when ecclesiastical authority bids for their service, we find them eager to accommodate...
...As a "Brother's boy," I read this article with distinct pleasure, but I was somewhat disappointed that Mr...
...Not so well known in the East, the home of The Commonweal, the Brothers of Mary claim thousands of acquaintances and friends in the Middle-West, the Pacific coast, Canada, the Hawaiian Islands, and Japan...
...The Hawaiian Islands were foreign soil at that time, and Saint Louis College, Honolulu, is the result of their efforts...
...Carrying out the same policies as their co-workers in education, a pioneering spirit nevertheless predominates...
...John Stuart, a descendant of the royal family of the Stuarts...
...There are many amusing stories told of the friendship that existed between King Kalakana and the Brothers, and the monarch was a frequent visitor at the college, delighting especially in the performance of the college orchestra and band...
...At home and abroad the Marianists are known...
...McBride High in St...
...Chaminade College in St...
...Coming into this country in 1849 at the invitation of Father Wenninger, a Jesuit missionary stationed at Saint Xavier College, Cincinnati, the pioneer Marianists secured property in Dayton, Ohio, from Mr...
...in 1884 they penetrated into the semi-barbarous Hawaiian Islands...
...in 1885 they founded establishments on the Pacific...
Vol. 6 • July 1927 • No. 11
