ia), 483
Austria, 1746
Egypt, 500
Toulouse, 1581
Madura, 1800
Aragon, 1414
Manila
Philippine Islands,
Municipal Atheneum, 1123
Normal School, 680
Chili and Paraguay, 4913
Castile, 2073
Cuba, Havana, and Cienfuegos, 397
Colombia, 766
Portugal, 560
Belgium, 6658
Bengal, 983
Ceylon, 35
Galicia, 474
Germany, 3443
Holland, 613
France, 3384
China, 122
Lyons, 2191
Syria, 608
Mexico, 684
Toledo, 782
Ecuador and Peru, 820
England, 1454
Zambesi, 64
Ireland, 883
Australia, 447
New York and Maryland, 2815
Jamaica, West Indies, 60
Missouri, 2061
B. Honduras, 2122
Canada, 511
New Orleans, 504

Thus the total number of students--studying with professors of the
Society of Jesus under one university system in all parts of the known
world--is 52,692.

There has been no going back. Fifty years ago, when the groundwork of
rebuilding the 700 institutions that had been destroyed by the
suppression had to be commenced all over again, there were but 15,000,
to-day there are 52,692.

St. Ignatius was born in 1491. The first College of Coimbra was
founded in 1542. From 1542 to 1773 is a period of 231 years. The
suppression lasted from 1773 to 1814 (41 years). The new work
continued from 1814 to 1899, a period of 85 years.

Among the colleges founded in the chief cities of the world are Loyola
College, at Loyola in Spain; St. Omer's College, in Belgium, the link
between Europe and America; Stonyhurst College, in England; Clongoes
Wood, Ireland; Mangalore, in India, the only first-grade college in
the district; Melbourne, Australia; St. Ignatius College, California,
the