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| In March 2004, an initiative was begun by Michael Hart and John S. Guagliardo to provide low- intellectual properties. The initial name for this project was Project Gutenberg 2 (PG II), which created controversy among PG volunteers because of the re-use of the project's tremarked name for a commercial venture John Early SJ (July 1, 1814 – May 23, 1873) was an Irish-American Catholic priest and Jesuit educator who was the president of the College of the Holy Cross and Georown University, as well as the founder and first president of Loyola College in Maryland. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States at the age of nine. Upon his arrival, he enrolled at Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Maryland, and entered the Society of Jesus, completing his education at Georown University in Washington, D.C. Early became president of the College of the Holy Cross in 1848, w he unfully petitioned the Massachusetts legislature to charter the school. Four years later, he was charged with establishing Loyola College in Maryland, which was intended to educate the lay students who attended St. Mary's Seminary and College, which the Sulpicians sought to keep as a seminary . While also serving as the first pastor of St. Ignatius Church, he oversaw the early years of Loyola College. He also established its high school division, which later became Loyola Blakefield. In 1858, Early left to become president of Georown University. During the Civil War, instruction continued uninterrupted, despite intermittent occupation by the Union Army and ddling enrollment. Early then returned to Loyola College in 1866 as president for four years, w he resumed the annual conferral of degrees. In 1870, he once again became president of Georown University. He died suddenly in his third year of office. John Early was born on July 1, 1814, in Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh, Ireland. He studied the classics at , before entering the Armagh Acemy in 1832, which he attended for nine months. He then applied for mission to the seminary at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, but t were no vacancies, and he was not mitted. As a result of his failure to gain mission, Early emigrated to the United States in July 1833. Education in the United States Seeking to become a priest, Early enrolled at Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, the follog September to study rhetoric. In February 1834, he vanced to Georown University in Washington, D.C., w he remained until August 23, 1834, when he entered the Society of Jesus, and proceeded to the novitiate in Frederick, Maryland. Upon the completion of his novitiate in 1836, Early returned to Georown for the next nine years to study philosophy and theology. While studying, he also taught and was he prefect during the acemic year of 1843 to 1844. On July 1, 1845, Early was ordained a priest at Holy Trinity Church in Georown. He then taught philosophy at Georown for two years, and ministered as a missionary in Laurel, Maryland. He began ministering at Old St. Joseph's Church in Philelphia in 1847. He professed his final vows on September 8, 1853 |
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