Note 689 — Chapter IV

The Society came to consist of (1) Novices who had been carefully selected (a) for the priesthood, or (b) for secular work, or (c) whose special vocation was yet undetermined—the Indifferents; (2) the Scholastics, who had passed through a noviciate of two years, and who had to spend five years in study, then five years as teachers of junior classes; (3) Coadjutors, spiritual or temporal—the one set sharing in all the missionary work of the Society, preaching or teaching, the other in the corresponding temporal duties; (4) the Professed of the Four Vows, who were the élite of the Society, and who alone had a share in its government. Heads of Colleges and Residences were taken from the third class.