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.

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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

_____________________________ 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

___________________________ 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