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amounted to a methodical and business school. direct. ... His clear “It was the arrangement of kind of thing the the subject matJesuits did by lister enabled the members of the tening to the needs class to underof the time and responding as well stand the subject as they could as a whole and the component within the strucparts in their tures of the interrelation.” charism of the Hill wrote Society itself,” two textbooks, Padberg said. “Elements of “Some of the Laying the cornerstone of St. Francis Xavier (College) Church on June 8, 1884 Philosophy” Eastern schools (1874) and at one point in “Ethics” (1879) that were the first 1863 really thought that St. Louis Mountain missions, there were no attempts to make the principles had betrayed the whole nature of the histories until Hill began to write of scholastic philosophy available Society of Jesus.” about the pioneer Jesuits, men he to American students in English Hill gave up teaching in 1884, the knew from his early days at rather than in Latin. “Elements of year that the cornerstone of the new Florissant. Philosophy” became the accepted St. Francis Xavier (College) Church In 1879, on the occasion of its textbook of metaphysics in the was placed. Hill devoted himself to 50th anniversary, Hill published English-speaking, Catholic world, priestly ministry at Sacred Heart “Historical Sketch of the Saint Louis Parish in Chicago. When an accident and both books were used extensively University.” impaired his eyesight, preventing in Catholic academic circles. Hill’s willingness to try new him from active parochial work, he Writing “Ethics” was a tougher things, like making philosophy returned to St. Louis in 1896. assignment. “It is a hard, dreary accessible to English speakers, Hill died on May 18, 1907, at the undertaking,” Hill said. echoed other risks taken by Jesuits age of 85. His funeral Mass was celThe Kentuckian found a of what would become the Missouri subject much more to his taste ebrated at the College Church which Province. While normal practice when he recorded stories of the was in use by then, although the bell said Jesuit schools should teach early Missouri Jesuits. Except for tower was not finished until 1914. just the classics in Latin and Greek, De Smet’s accounts of the Rocky Saint Louis University started what
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