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Excerpt from The Jesuits as Educators
These were, first: to render education free, and next, to safe guard it from the moral contamina tion to which medieval university life was so wantonly exposed. For the purpose of accomplishing the former of these two designs he assembled around him a body of co-laborers. A society of educators was organized. They pledged themselves to give ed ucation gratis. Once sufficient foun dations, made by an original grantfrom municipality or wealthy person age, had been provided for the mainte nance of their colleges and their own individual support, nothing was asked or accepted from the students by way of tuition. No obligations or conditions, wrote' Ignatius in his Constitutions, are to be admitted that would impair the integrity of our principle, which is: To give gratuitously what we have received This object was all the more readily attainable as they were vowed to poverty which reduced their personal necessities to a mini mum and enabled them to operate their institutions upon a compara tively economic basis. How econom ically, is evinced by more than one well authenticated fact in their his tory. As might have been expected this revival of free education was welcomed in some quarters, and vio lently assailed in others. The people at large hailed it as a forward move ment and a relief Hitherto de barred. For want of means, from all participation in the advantages of a university course, the humblest now saw a way opened to them in another direction leading up to the same if.
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