He then taught various subjects, including mathematics, Latin, Ancient Greek, rhetoric, and the humanities in Massachusetts, New York City, and Washington, D.C., and served as minister at many of the institutions there.

He also continued his predecessor's work of reforming the curriculum, and managing tensions with the Catholic University of America.

[1] He then resumed his education at Woodstock College in 1877, taking up the study of theology under Camillo Mazzella, a future cardinal.

[8] He also saw that a new wing of the Georgetown University Hospital was built, as well as Kober operating amphitheater,[9] and the Hirst Library, which was dedicated on December 18, 1902.

Daugherty complied, but the Jesuit Superior General later pressured the university to merge the Graduate School into the College in 1907.

[14] Later that year, Daugherty's health began to deteriorate, and in August 1905, he resigned the presidency,[5] and was succeeded by David Hillhouse Buel.

[15] After leaving Georgetown, he was sent to Fordham University as spiritual father,[6] where his health recovered and he again took up teaching.

He was then stationed for a short time at Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, where he took care of the ill and children.

Finally, he was sent to the Church of the Gesú in Philadelphia as operarius (visiting priest),[a] where he soon fell ill.[17] Suffering from a protracted illness,[18] he underwent surgery at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City, where he died the following day on May 24, 1914.