# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1898_S284
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

28⁴ Kirchlich⸗Zeitgeschichtliches.

tenswerth erscheint, was der vor Kurzem von Rom zurückgekehrte Bischof Meßmer
erzählte, daß nämlich Leo XIII. ihn beauftragt habe, die Glieder einer gewissen
Gemeinde zu grüßen und in seinem Namen zu segnen, weil sie trotz längeren Wider⸗
standes eine Gemeindeschule errichtet hätten. Daraus gehe deutlich hervor, wie sehr
dem Vabste die fatholischen Schulen am Herzen lägen ꝛc. Auch Erzbischof Katzer
betonte dies in einer längeren Rede. Auch bei anderen Gelegenheiten zeigte sich
deutlich, daß die Versammlung sich gegen die Behauptungen und Umtriebe der eng⸗
lischen und irischen Katholiken unsers Landes kehrt, und von dem „americanischen
Katholieismus“ des Erzbischofs Ireland von St. PVaul und seiner Gesinnungs⸗
genossen nichts wissen will. Ob sie aber wohl Erfolg haben werden gegen den
schlauen und einflußreichen Ireland? L. F.

Die geheimen Verhindungen auf ameritanischen Colleges betreffend theilt
das anti-Logenblatt, “„Christian Cynosure““, das Folgende mit: „ student of
the Northwestern University at Evanston tells us that nearly all the intem-
perance and licentiousness among their students is sheltered behind the
Closed doors and screened windows of the college kraternities. — The New
IOrk Voice' of June 9th turns its searchlight upon the Michigan State Uni-
versity at Ann Arbor, and reveals a deplorable condition of student morals.
It says: All that is fOul in the dark side Of College Iife here is represented
in the secret fraternities. — The Voice, Wwhich has ever maintained à sin-
gular reticence on the secret society question, is now compelled by the logic
Of events to publish a most severe Condemnation 0rf these dens Of Corruption.
It declares of the Ann Arbor College fraternities: All but two or three of
the chapter houses bear 4 most disreputable reputation. Some are com-
monly classed as houses of assignation, pure and simple. —Many of these
chapter houses, says the Voice, have telephones which are used in mak⸗
ing appointments with loose women around the city. They are located in
various parts of the city, off university property, and are completely ignored
by the faculty, unless the boys are caught by the police in some of their
drunken scrapes.“ When will the people learn, as the Voice' is beginning
to See, that any attempt to clean up the morals of aà nation as Well as that
Of àa college must fail so long as secret lodges exist. They are being used
the world over as 4 shield for vice and crime. — The painful escapade, Says
the Voice,“ in the Delta Sigma Delta fraternity is still fresh in the minds
Of people here. A daughter of one of the most prominent citizens of Ann
Arbor was debaucbed and ruined in this chapter house. She begau making
à practice, with other silly girls, of communicating with the students of this
Traternitx be telephoue, and meéeeting the bhoys at nignt in their frateruity dive.
Eventually her condition became such that she Hed to Kalamazoo to avoid
EXPOSure. For days detectives searched everywhere and her parents Were
Trantic with distress. The faculty itself was smirched with this awful muss,
the vame of one of the instructors being bandied about in connection with
the escapade.“ — The staff corrèespondent of the same journal says: The
Delta Tau Delta is held in special disrepute. Two years ago the sheriff
levied on their property on complaint 0f various local business men. One
account was aà whisky bill of S200. They were forced to give up the house
they then occupied. It was their practice to buy aà whole cart load of beer
at 4 time, and haul it out to their dive, yelling like a lot of Comanches. The
Sigma Alpha Epsilon house is out in the Suburbs and is recognized as à dive.
It is not only à resort for drinking, but it is frequented by loose Wwomen.“ —