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Mount St. Mary's University (also known as The Mount) is a private, liberal arts, Catholic university in the Catoctin Mountains near historic Emmitsburg, Maryland. The undergraduate university is divided into four schools: the College of Liberal Arts, the Richard J. Bolte School of Business, the School of Education & Human Services, and the School of Natural Science and Mathematics. The university has more than 40 majors, minors, concentrations and special programs, including bachelor's/master's combinations in partnership with other universities. The university also offers eight master's degree programs and six postgraduate certificate programs. The campus includes the second largest Catholic seminary in the United States, where future priests study in the Ordination/Master of Divinity program. Lay students can pursue a Master of Theology Arts at the seminary. Mr. Simon P. Newman is the university president. The seminary's rector and president is Monsignor Andrew R. Baker. The chancellor of the seminary is the current Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, the Most Reverend William E. Lori. == History == Mount Saint Mary's was founded by French émigré Father John DuBois.〔The university's Latin name ''Universitas Sanctae Mariae Ad Montes Fundata Ab Joanne DuBois'' literally means "Mount St. Mary's University founded by John DuBois".〕 In 1805, Father DuBois bought land near Emmitsburg, Maryland on the mountain that Catholic colonists had christened “St. Mary's Mountain," and laid the cornerstone for Saint-Mary's-on-the-Hill church. Parishioners from two local congregations built a one-story, two room log cabin for Father DuBois, and that cabin was the first structure of Mount Saint Mary's.〔 ''Emmitsburg.net'' History of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church: Historical Highlights of Saint Joseph's Parish〕 The church was completed in 1807. Father DuBois first opened a boarding school for children.〔The Archdiocese of Baltimore: Mount St. Mary's Seminary〕 Then, in 1808, the Society of St. Sulpice closed Pigeon Hill, its preparatory seminary in Pennsylvania, and transferred all the seminarians to Emmitsburg.〔The Story of the Mountain: Mount Saint Mary's College and Seminary: Mary E. Meline & Edward F. X. McSweeny Published by the Emmitsburg Chronicle, 1911〕 This marked the official beginning of Mount St. Mary's.〔〔Spalding, Thomas W., The Premier See: A History of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, 1789-1989〕 Father DuBois was appointed president of the college. Father Simon Bruté, whom President John Quincy Adams called "the most learned man of his day in America,"〔History of Old Vincennes and Knox County, Indiana, Volume 1 p. 412 by George E. Greene〕 〔''The Old Vincennes Cathedral and Its Environs'' p. 12 by Curtis Grover Shake〕 joined Mount St. Mary's as teacher and vice-president in 1812.〔''The Story of the Mountain: Mount Saint Mary's College and Seminary'' chapter 4, Mary E. Meline & Edward F. X. McSween〕 The small faculty of Mount St. Mary's strove to offer a full high school and college course to lay students and potential priests and developed Mount St. Mary's into "one of the most important ecclesiastical institutions of the country." 〔Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889 and 1999; (available online as "John DuBois: Hall of North and South Americans")〕 DuBois Hall, named for Father DuBois, was completed in 1826 in what had been a swampy thicket on the mountain. The first charter for a university was obtained in 1830. Until the early 1900s, Mount St. Mary's also acted as a boarding school. Some remnants of the boarding school, such as Bradley Hall (one of the oldest buildings on campus), still exist. The Mount was known as Mount Saint Mary's College and Seminary until June 7, 2004, when the name was changed to Mount Saint Mary's University. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mount St. Mary's University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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