Box 4

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Cards from students (1873-1877) and notes from colleagues in celebration of Fr. Ward's Golden Jubilee (1882).

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Recollections of Fr. Ward on the history of the Society and some of his classes (1839-1841) as well as stray notes from Fr. Francis Barnum inserted later.

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Includes "salutary instructions for those who leave the noviceship to enter a college"; "the method of instructing youth in a Christian manner"; "manner of forming scholars to learning"; "conduct of a professor of the Society"; and "regulations of studies for the greater glory of God & good of the neighbour." Possibly from when Fr. Ward was stationed at Georgetown College in the 1860s.

Scope and Contents Consists of correspondence with parents of Washington Seminary students while Fr. Ward was treasurer (1852); a letter from Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan regarding research of the early fathers of the Society (1847); a letter from Fr. Patrick J. Healy regarding the election of Superior General Luis Martin in Loyola, Spain (1892); and letters of condolence after Fr. Ward's death (1895). Further includes an affidavit and transcription, by Fr. Ward, of a letter from Fr. Benedict J. Fenwick to his...

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Notes on Hebrew, the Greek Olynthiacs, Shakespeare's Coriolanus, calculus, trigonometry, and geometry. Possibly from when Fr. Ward was stationed at Georgetown College in the 1860s.

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Poetry written by Fr. Ward including verses in honor of Archbishop James Gibbons (1893).

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An essay on institutional ethics, including discussion of honesty, morality, conscience, natural law, duty, and society.

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Notes on two sermons given by Fr. James A. Ryder.

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Two speeches comparing Europe in 1854 (Crimean War) with Europe in 1097 (preaching of Crusades).