Pere Barnez, when defending the Jesuits of the College of Clermont. ' They have not,' he says, ' repulsed the poor, and invited the rich ; their exercises have been regular, without intermission or remissness. No courses have been begun and left unfinished ; order has been kept in the classes ; the regents rise early, prepare themselves before they meet their pupils, and enter the schools the moment the clock strikes, not loitering and idling in the court; neither do they conclude till the hour is over.They do not allow the students to attend only some of the lectures, or to fail in rendering an account of what they are taught, or to omit the compositions required of them.' A ' more vigorous emulation, and a more uniform scheme of discipline' was wanted, and, above all, a more. LETTER TO DONA I
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