Enoch Fenwick (May 15, 1780 – November 25, 1827) was an American
Catholic priest and Jesuit, who ministered throughout Maryland and
became the president of Georgetown College in Washington, D.C. Born in
Maryland, he studied at Georgetown College (pictured). Like his brother,
future bishop Benedict Joseph Fenwick, he entered the priesthood,
studying at St. Mary's Seminary before entering the Society of Jesus,
which was suppressed at the time. He became the rector of St. Peter's
Pro-Cathedral in Baltimore for ten years, and was briefly also the vicar
general of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. In 1820, Fenwick reluctantly
accepted his appointment as the president of Georgetown College. While
he made some improvements to the curriculum, his presidency was
considered unsuccessful by contemporaries due to declining enrollment
and mounting debt. In August 1825, he abandoned the presidency
following a disagreement with the provincial superior. Two years later,
he died at Georgetown College.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Fenwick>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1855:
Thieves stole 224 pounds (102 kg) of gold from a train
travelling from London to Folkestone, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gold_Robbery>
1904:
Russo-Japanese War: The Japanese battleships Hatsuse and
Yashima sank after striking several mines off Port Arthur, China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yashima>
1916:
Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was
lynched in Waco, Texas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Jesse_Washington>
1979 :
Uganda–Tanzania War: Tanzanian forces captured Lira in
central Uganda in what became the last organised stand made by the
Ugandan Army during the war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lira>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
once a man, twice a child:
A man is born as a child, grows to adulthood, and consequently enters
old age, when he deteriorates and reverts to a childlike state.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/once_a_man%2C_twice_a_child>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have
in you has to come out, that you can’t suppress true talent. People
can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted and completely crippled.
To say that you can’t destroy yourself is just as foolish as to say of
a young man killed in war at twenty-one or twenty-two that that was his
fate, that he wasn’t going to have anything anyhow. I have a very
firm belief that the life of no man can be explained in terms of his
experiences, of what has happened to him, because in spite of all the
poetry, all the philosophy to the contrary, we are not really masters of
our fate. We don’t really direct our lives unaided and unobstructed.
Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many
things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are
so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
--Katherine Anne Porter
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Katherine_Anne_Porter>
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