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VlVE LA GARDE! HOMMAGE .AU

REV. A. N. ST. AUBIN, C. S. V. Les voyez路vous pas.s er la-bas, Le pas leger, !,'allure altiere?

Ce sont nos barri.bins : rudes gars Ces mo.u cherons a l'ame fiere.

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Sangles comme de vieux gregnards, Passes maitres en theorie, Au defile. tous ces gaillards Sont ravissants de crancrie.

Gantes de buflle. e路pee au poing, Ils vous ont Sliperbe prestance; Leur capitaine, un franc taupin, Porte ses douze ans sans jactance.

II a la voix breve et l'oeil vif; Et lorsqu'il mene l'escouade, NuJ n'a droit d'.e tre in~ttentif': T.out marche comme ala parade.

Fa,ut-il vous narrer tout d'un trait Leurs 'brillants etats de services?

Vous en aurez plus qu' a souhait, Amis lecteurs, et vouslectrices.

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Nes en un jour trois fois heureux, Chacun d'eux se couvrit de gloire; Depuis lors, un nom glorieux L es illustro dans notre histoire.

Toujours sur pied, partout vainquers, N'ayant jamais rendu leurs armes, Ues lionceaux sont de vrais coeurs: Ils vous captivent par leurs charms.

Hier encor, ces chers enfants Pres de J esus montaient la garde; Jamais je ne les vis si grands, Non plus si beaux sous la cocarde!

Debout, messieurs, et chapeau bas: C'est la GARDE COLOMBIENNE, Victorieuse en cent combats Pour la gloire r epublicaine!

ENVOI Toi qui fa<;onnes des heros Pour les supremes epopees, Aux yeux de tes blonds angelots Fais luire ces refiets d'epees.

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Rev. J. Amba.uen, recently ordaJined will celebrate his first mass in D'Odgevill€, Wis., July 3. Sincere ccmgr'a·t ulart:ions to Father Ambauen.

The annual retreat of the community orf St. Via.t eur' takes pla.ce at the colleg'e from June 27 to July 2. I t will be directed by a; Jesuit Father. Several new member will~ r~E;Jjv~ inrt;.Q

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THE RIGHTS OF TJ'l~ CH'ILD•

Whenever and wherever the state has claimed u.1;1due rights and thereby relieved parents. of their nat11ra.I duties to'" wards their offspring, children have suffered. · Everywhere and always these defensel~ss little ones ha.ve been the first victims of the a:bsol u tism of the state. Even as far removed a,s we are fl!om .the pa:g an Gre1eks and Chinese it s:eems: we can disUnctly hear the pJa,i ntive. cry of thousands of phys·icaUy .and spiritua.Uy starved infants yearly sa.crificed ,by unnatura;l parents to . ihe unjust exactions of these misguided states. But u1;1iversal childhood has had its Saviour. Christianity h.a's been and is the triumphant champion of the sacred rights of childhood. No system of philosophy has ever been ,a ble like Christianity, t'o Jnake 1nen understand the ~acredness of human life from its ·e arliest incipe.ncy to its last hour. T'he ~pos,tles of Christianity have been the truest advocates of, and the most eloquent pleaders for the sa.c red right's of childhood. The divin;e Master himself, when He walked amongst men, showed a, speciaJ predilection for the little ones; and impressed upon His apostles who were tO' become the tea,c hers of the nations, the infinite worth of the child. And when this great doctrine wa:s ino.culated into the very veins of the social body, children ceased to be regarded' .as mere chattel, as young animals that might be killed if too numerous or if weak. They had gained this great point, ., viz: to be adndtted into the society of men as persons, with all the individual rights and duties of rational beings. This S'eems ve.ry simple but it was a great ga.in. It was thro' the preva1lence of this a:nd1orther such d!octrines tha;t under christian· guidance the nations gradually em·e rged from the wa,JS of p~.gan . civilization and. uncouth barbarism to th~ . dawn and full daylight of christian civilization. But as the lJplifting of self a,.hove the lowering tendencies. of our corrupt nature ever d~nds a str~nuous effort, the da.nger of rela:psi;ng into the errors o.f. p:;t~ g~nism was never absent. Vigilance was the only safegua;.rd.

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fusion of ideas, such a conflict of views in the matter of educa-tion tha.t we may a k our:selves, if there is not 31 tendency toretrograde, to -return to that old time state ·socialism which Jnalres the state pt~actjcally the owner of childhood? Are not we in pra.tice at lea.st,ignorin'g the inalienable r·ights of children?

Since the quelStion of education can never be rightly solved until it is clearly known who is to educate, parent, church or sta.te,and since this can be settled only by a' recognition of the rights of the child, we must begin by declaring ~nd prO'ving these rights. Evet·y chHd is born with the inaliena:ble right to Uve ;i. e. t o grow arid develope, not only physically, but mora.Uy nnd intellectually . These certain rights ma.y be classro as domestic, religiou s a.n d civil, representing the fa,m ily, church a·n d state, since the child ljves in t hese three so.cieties. The domes· ti.c rights of the: child consist in that native po·wer which the child has to dema.nd and exact that "\Yhich is necessa.r y to susta.i n a.nd perfect his life physically and spiritually. T'h is undeniable right which the child has implies a necessary obligation on the part of t hose who have given him being. The obligation of parents and t he rights of the child are correlative, the right of one implies the duty of the other. The child rightly claims an educa.t ion, physical a.nd moral, simply because parents in giving existen ce t o the child contract the nec~sary obligation of perfecting- tha t being. It is evident thnt the child can justly claim a.n education from his parents.

And is it possible that the nature of parents could become so pervert ed that th ey "\Yould neglect to feed their children and would cease to delight in seeing them grow fair and strong? I s it conceivahle that they could willingly impose upon ~he t-ender shoulders of their ehildren burdens that would stunt their growth and drive thPin to a.n early grave? " Tith what ineffaceable stigma; of n1onstrous cupidity and cruelty would not those parents be bru.nded who would thus prove faithless to their ohligatinns and spurn the sacred rights of their children!

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the bread ~f intellectua.l and n1oral life. Is, parental solicitude so dull that it does not perceive in our day of boasted enlightenment the imperious necessity of SO' equipping children mental ly and spiritually that. they will be ahle to engage ~uccessfu lly in the ~trug'gle for existence and in the ra.ce for excellence? If it is a crime to starve a child physically,is it ·not a doubly deeper crime to allow hi1n to pine a 'iva.y intellectually and morally?

And since God ba:s so marvelously knitted together and closely entwined in the child those wonderful faculties, the intellect and the will, the 1nind and the heart, it follows' tl1a.t the child' ha,st a right to know the truth, and at the smne time to learn wha.t is good and m.orally right that he ma.y do it,and wha.t is evil that he may avoid it. In the fa,ce of such a divine n1arria.ge of living forces tha.t demand equal and sin1ultnneo'Us development, what human foolhardiness is it that will rend them asunder, cramming the child intellectually, but ·starving him spiritually? . 'r'o place the momentous obligation of edu.ca.ting children· where it rightly belongs', to leave this obligation to· the parents upon whom it so evidently iJnpose:d by nature a'nd by God is one of ihe great truths that must be constantly held aloft and sa,ved from the universal confusion of idea.s no\v threatening to render insoluble the question of right e<lucation. Another precious truth \Vhich is to· be sa:'i-ed fro1n imminent shipwreck is the psychological a;x:iom, that the mental and :moral · training of the child n1ust go hand in hand and that no rational and effective 1noral tra.ining can be given without religion. In view then of the clear needs and rights of childhood, it is evident that parents cannort, 'ivithout recreancy to sacred duty commit the education of their children to any a.gency which divorces moral from intellectual training or which would feed young souls with the sawdust of independent ethics, ins.t ead of offering then1 the substantial bread of moral truth. Nor is it necessary in order to maintain our position to ignore the fa.c t that the child belongs in a wa.y to the s~tate. The child does belong to· the state, but only Jnedia,t ely, i.e. thro' the farnHy of which he is a; me1nher. It is1a: fact generally conceded, becauste quite evident, that domestic society can exis·t inderpendently of civil

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society, and it is likewise a truism that the very r~son of thee: ·istence of the sta.te, its primary functi'on and duty is to protect the citizens, i. e. parents, in the exercise of their natural and acquired rights, to assist them in fulfilling their duty and to insure them sa:fe: y in the lawful pursuit of happines. . The business of the state then in the matt€r of educating children is to pro·n iote or faciliate education. 'Ihe state is no·t itself a teaching orga.njzation. It is essentially a governing, a protective aPsociation. ' iV hat in the world has the state to do with cradles· a.nd family firesid es and scho'Ols except tv- protect them from the violence of social maurauders:? The nursery and the family are nature's mvn pri1nary schools of morality and truth and the public school is but a.n extension of the domestic school.

Since then pa.r ents mu st orwn the undoubted and .conscientious obligation of educating their children mentally and morally, and since it is impossible to jnstruct children soundly in morality without religion, is it not clear that in the schools which the generous hands of the state builds for the eager childhood of the nation, the voice o.f religion should be heard daily impa,r ting to, the young tho·s e divinely wise principles of righteousness \Vhich a,r e the foundations of the grandest character? The church is distinctly a,n d essentially a teacher of morality. She holds from her divine founder the high commission to go and teach all nations all truth. Tbis means that the church has a message of a.ll important and saving truth to deliver to all men, to parents and to chilrlren alike. The child has a right to learn from his pa.rents, from the sehool a.n d from the church, who is the God whom we call our heavenly Father ;the child has a right to know wha.t are the commandments of God and to be trained in their o·b servaJlce; he has a dght to know what is the divinely revealed destiny of man and how religion will aid him in the attainn1ent of this higll end. In face of these demands of childhood pa:rents must be the first to realize that they are the naturally appointed apostles of God's truth and that chief among thejr ·sa.c redest obligations is that of pointing out to their children the way from ea.rth to heaven. But the training of children in right CQllduct, in religion a.n d morality is w taek

that is accon1plisheCL not in one day nor in many days, but in ma:ny years and every day of these year's. F'o r the advancing a.ge ·Of the child, the :11\Vakening of pa.ss.ion, the ma.n ifold rela,tions of social life render the moral education of the child're:n such a. fine art that ofttimes pa1r ents· are cmnpelled to look about them for aid to fullfill properly this sacred duty. Since th'e state does not profess to be a. competent teacher of religion and 111or:a lity and since the business of the state is to protect aU citizens, regardless of creed, in the exercise of their rights · and: in following out t.he dictates of con$cience, then parents tan at least: demand of the state that they be not hindered in their. efforts to give to their children mora.l training and in seeking the means of diverting then1 from the corrupting influences· da.ily surrounding them. And to whom will parents address themselves to teach religion to their children? To· the .· ·church of course, because ail christians at least belong to the church thro' the saving· laver of baptisn1 .and are members of it, because the church is divinely appointed to teach ,right human life. Who hears the church hea.rs. God, who despisestthe church despises God. She preaches Christ who called llims.elf the tru.th, the ligbt, and the wa.y.

It may be sa.i d t.ha.t children need also be taught profane science and that the church is not a competent teacher of secular knowledge. Tho' the church does not pose as a professor of history and philosophy; still the knowledge of these ·things is, not the exclusive 1nonopoly of secular people. There is abunda.n t evidence that religious· teachers can make themselves . competent to impart this. useful knowledge and at the same time permeate their teaching with the religious element which will ·make of children not clever rogues, but revereJnt and :intelligent youths, the pride of their parents and the hope of the state. I do not think I cla.im more than is wa:rra;nted by . the , arguments advanced, when I conclude tha.t irreligious s·ch'ools are a crying injustice aga.i nst the defenseless child· because they practically shut. off from his vision that whick he has an undeniable right to know and' lea!rn from th'e scho ol. T'liey are an open violation of the conscience of parents, making·it im:pos..

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sible for thcn1 to diseharg,e their obligations towards their children. Let us not disbelieve in the good se·n se of our fellow· citizen, no·r cle,gpair o.f the :final triumph of fair play; but let us hope for the Jay whe;n every child horn in this broad a.nd beau· tifulland will own parents -vrho will tenderly care for his budcling life,pa.rents who will not enforce upon him pre1nature hard labor,parents who will be personally solicitous about his. intell ectual and moral development, parents who will lead him by the ha.nd to church a.n d to a scho·ol where the child will learn to reverence God,love his co-un~ry and his home. I.-et us ho·p e for the day when the church, unhindered by any unfair dealing, may be free tn break the bread of all truth to her own children and then every child thus no·u rished will grow to. be the sola,ce and ornament of his home, the pride of his church and the stanchest lover and defender of his country. w. J. s.-'04.

A PLEA FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION·

You ha;ve just heard the plea, of my colleague in behalf a.f the rights of tl1e cldld in m.atters edu cationa..l, and it is hut due to your o-pen-mindedness., your intellig~ence and fine 1noral sense, to suppose th at you are already disposed to grant that the child has rights which parents, church .and sta.t e a.r e bound in honor an(l justice to respect. However, as the question of education is so vast, so paramount and cnmplicate:d, as education itself so· vita.Uy affectS! man's present and future, as it so powerfully inflences social and national life, as the question of r eligious educatio·n is one that will not do·wn until it is fairly settled and as this very issue is now otccupying the attrention of serious minds, we ma y be indulgently pa.rdoned our presumption, if we ask you to con sider a few of t he many reasons which r emajn to be urged in behalf of what we consider the complete and the only right education. vVe are only youths, it is true, and do not pretend jn our inexpffrience to . peak :final words upon a question whose solution will tax the wisdom of t he

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\visest and best men of our a;ge. But we have listened to the lessons of our learned preceptor8, and \Ye ha:ve consorted these 1na:ny ye!ars with the wise ~who' inhabit the \Vorld of books, the rea1m of thought~ and 'Ye therefore feel confident that the convictions we have upon this subject, the co,n victions which we bea:r with us, and which we \vould here briefly expose are neither ra:sh nor unsoundly formed.

We a.re frankly in favor of religious educat iun for our day and country .a s \veil as for all times a.nd for all countries. But in urging our special plea of justice and exp ediency in behaH orf religious' schools for our country and thne::~, "\': e a,ye a.1vare of the fact tha.t, \vhile we must speak and a,ct with the fearlessDES'S and deter1ninatio•n chara,c teric of ap ~)stie:;;~ who arf: convinc. ed they speak the truth, yet mus.t we proceed with the utmost ·caution and delicacy; full \veil do we know that the advoea~y of any and a.U violent .a.nd radical meu~nre~ must be avoicled 1 . that indiscreet zeal, fanatic entil.it:~wsm,instcad of calm judgment and a cool manner of procedure, would be sure to prove detrhnental to the cause we would see triun1pll. vVhile it appearS: upon the surface that the odds are overwhelmingly a,gainst the: advncates of religious schools in this tountry yet do we know a:nd are vve happy to say that Americans have at home and abroad a; very enviable reputation of fair1nindedne:s:s and if it is·. eveT· brought clearly a1nd forcibly before the American mind a.nd kept there, that the legal exclns'ion of religio·n from the schools' is not only inexpedient and all but suicidal, but that it is unfair and unjust, then the people \:rith the: cha.racteristic fa.irness. and honesty '-rhich is a.scribed to them, will ta.l;: e np this question, consider it cooly and decide it justly.

But let us not rock oursel v ~.:s in rlehJ ~\ ion and think \V €' are near such a, happy consu1nn1.ation. 'Action,' 'agita.t ion,' are the rna.gic words which we 1nust pass along the line. "Give us our rights!" n1ust be our motto. Let us impress deeply upon the minds of our country-n1en that nJ.it;iuu~ euuca.t ion is a. question which will no~t dorwn, =or it rwt only vitally affects the: sacred rights of thousands. of individuals but the very welfa;r'e of the nation as wen. :Much aS' we admire the efficient

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trai:J?-ing· given in the public scho·o ls as fur as they go, tho·r{)ngh Jy 3ippreciative of t he honor and esteem in which the e p~blic bchools are held by our fellow-citizens, still we are not able to escaipe the conviction that insnfal' a.s our state institutions of lea.rning legally exclude a religious and moral tra.ining they are deficient and h ave strong infidel and agnostic ethical tendencies. Vve, of this age and country, are surrounded by conditions and circumstances that generate honest differences of opinion. 0 i\ring to the differenees of reHgious belief many cnnten(l that religious· instruction should be divorced from secular training in all schools supported by public ta~Xa.tion; wbile the Roman Catholics ~.nd German Luthe~--ans ho-ld that a system that does so divorce religious and secular instruction is so far imperfect and .accordingly these two denomina; ions ar'e building and supporting all over the land a systen1 of private schools at a great sacrifice, notin protest against secular tr:-d ning, but in behalf of religious instruction along with secular. Not only does the cause of religious education in the · schools number nmong its votaries some fifteen million Roman Oatholics and German Lutherans, but nea.rly all the leading protestant denominations are clamoring for religion in the schools and the gr eatest edu cators and profoundest thinkers of our day,rea.lizing that our presen t. public sehoul system is rollossal a.nd permanent mistake could be cite~~ as in fa-vor of a change in our educational methods' and the adoption of the p·ro·posed plan.

Briefly, then, our pos ition I S tld~ ~ At least one thir£1 of the A·,ncdcan people, recognizing t he rights of parents as citizens to d elegate the education of their child to the 'citizen's social agent the state, if they so desire; a nd at the same time, keeping in mind th e moral obligations of pa.rents and the inviolability of the religious rights of paren t-; aLd children. both of which are completely · disregarded and practically denied by u1n· present educational system; J r-5ayJat least one third of the American people, promp-ted by su ch nobl'e motiv-es, stirred! by such " -'eighty rea ons, desire the sta:te to suppmt by public tatXation those schools in "hich a rel i~: otB and moral training is

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m:ately solved only by the co-operative efforts of the C!hurch and state. Nmv, the beSit and! principal, if not the only · means at the disposHl of the state for the amelioration of the lamented' condition of the American negro, is right education, which the state is· not giving him. T'he state has at hand this excellent and powerful medium, it can reach and uplift the AfroAmerican, but it refuses. to use it. It turns him loose in the man·hood of hi8 physical strenght, in the maturity of his physical passions:, with no linorwl~dge of the sa,ving precepts of the .gospel, with no motives fo·r right Christian living, with no lofty aspirations, in fine, it fails to give him moral direction in the s.chools, ·without which the negro must. continue. a, source of trouble to the state and a dangerous menace to in'¢lividuais.

Our pre:sent educationa:] systen1 touches the divor-ce evil . ' for ha.rm, that curse which' unla,wfully severs the saeredes;t and' closest bond that ca,n exist betwe:e n man a:n d woman, which . begets· the most shameful immorality, which destroys the hmne andJ makes innocent children suffer, aH, it is conceded, to the peril of our existence as a. natiion. Not only doe's' state educa· ti.on fail to strenghten the mora.l fibre of the pupils in its school but it necessta rily conduces to religious indifference a.nd a disregard for virtue and high c~ristian Inorality and thus by its ha,r mftil intervention it deprives the -church of one of her best · opportunities to do effectively in the schools of the nUJtion tha,t Christian work and teaching which would reduce the divorce evil to the lowest possible point.

Our industria.! problems. a,r e a:ffectetd for ha,r m . and f.ar removed from; solution by our much lauded irrelig·ious state education. The labor difficulty, which is at present engrossing the undivided attention ·of the .t\.1nerica.n people, finally resolves. itS'elf into a religious and ethical question, and this, view of it is corroborated by all advanced· thinke:rs. and d eep stt~dents of social and industrial institutions. Think you these would be thus constant and fter·ce warfare between the un1ons. on one side and collosal lew-defying trust:s1on the oth er, if both pa.rties were influenced and guided by religion Think you the dis-

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sited and violence and wouloif.<Ca~Use him to imperil the lif 'and property of the·capit,alist,-if -the former as well as the latter acted in a:ccord.anc 'vith -the dietatiffi: of rcligio'n and· rn ra1 principles? If each " ·ould recQgnize and respect the ribht of the other, a:nd above all', exercise Christian charity? I hiJik not; given religion and higher and more m'C)Irali y among the cl_asses in A1nerica, rich and poor, then and only then will this cou-n_try be able to extrica.t e itself from the meshes of the labor diffi culty. Th e one great barrier, however, is our present ~s­ tem. of state education; which excludes religion and true Oh·ristian ethics fr01n the t raining of the rich and poor alike, and as a consequence increases and! renders more difficult of ~ olution our ind-uEl'trial problems. By n1ultiplying tlle numbers wh,o.s.e election ballots are purchasable for a few paltrydolla.r SibeC'a!use they lm_NB not hcnd princi pl~ of honesty instilled into their heartR and- cons'cience, our state education affects our politiea.l proble-ms for harm; and begets much of the political corrupti® for which this country holds a unique and unenvia:h le position a.mong tJ1e nations of the world. Til-e problem involved in the marked falling off in church attendance is touche.d for harm, by our state education and is largely due t.o it. It is a fact a.t on-ce regret3bly sta.I·tling that our temples of worship are beeoming daily more and more em·p-ty.

Religious indiffelf'ence a.nd ail its perilous consequences are abroad in the land. Our Amm·ican. youths are growing up with little or no- regard for their obligations to the church. Their religious fervor and enthusiasm is chilled or ra.th-er not called into· existence, and a.ll this should not -be a matter of surprise. 'Vben . during six of seven days of the week they ·bear or recite nothing but mathematics, literature, the sciences, etc., they· are liable to come to the consist;en.t conclusion · th>at these branches are of more neeeS'Sfity and- importance thMl' r eligion and christian in ruction, and the religious indifference shown by many of them on· the Lord's da.y is assuredly not at variance with their convictions.

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substantiates 1ny assertion that: all our gr'e at na.tional problems are affected -for harm by the educart.io,nwl methods in vogue at present in this coruntry.

Here I de'em it pro1p er and a: looading point in favor of our· position to quote the wo~ds1 of a distinguished American prela:t le on the subject under consid'e~ation: "As a1 subje~t of i:ne!dita:t ion," .he says:, "for those especially vvho a.r·e sl(} sensitive on the question of :srectarriani.stm · and so fearful · I~est the start e be as:ked to pay for s'e cta;r ian instruction, did it ever occur t'o them that Agnosticism is a1s much a: s~ct as M:e thodism.? Agnos:ticism· for the A·gnOistic is his- special b-elief ahorut religion, jus:t as much ·.as :M ethodism is the belief of the l\1ethodist about religion, and since the int~nt of the gchool sysrtieffi, in oDder to be fair to a'll, is · theoretically based' on the idea, tha.t it will pay for no man's religious belief, but pratically without intending it, does as a m'a tter of fa:ct, foster most tenderly the Agnos-tic religious belief and practice, by th:e very exclus-ion of all instr11ctions1 on supernartu~a1 religion; why should not the :iYiethodi.srt or atny other christian denomination consistently and logically :find fault with -~ sytem tha,t carefully provides fo,r one s·e ct,the Agnostic,a.nd excludes the tea;ch ill!g'~ held b~ all others.?

These are striking words, freighted with .truth. The advoea tes of esta~blished and st:a te endowed' religious s~ho:ols grant, and are perfectly right, that the . Agnostic should be protected in the exercise of his1natural rights to believe in Agnos!t icisin for him'self, but they think that it is unjust and unreasonable to a:s k them to support without a. murmur, a sy.sltem o·f educa.tion whose practical working furnishes to the Agnos.tic the teaching of the Agnost:ic religion for children, and absolutely discrimina1tes agminsiJ every for1n of Christianity, a:nd1 all this, J1!ind you, on the plan of absolute fa.irnes:~ to' every religion, in a · country an:d under a government where we heatr s~ , much about equal rightsr to all and special privileges to none.

I paus'e now to1review -t h'e gr'o und over which we have passed w ·e have seen that sheer justiee and fa:irn~s pla.ees th'e stfurte under a m:o ral obligation to support denominational schools~.

We hla ve s1e en tha,t all our' great national problems a1re tou·ched

for hall'Jn by state education from wlHrh· religion and· Chri .tian nlGr,ality are lega.lly excluded. We bav:e then: .beheld the state supporting, by public taxation, the land over, Ag'nostic public schools, and we ha·ve consistently and logically asked to d~ . for other religions wl~a,t it clo.e.s for Agnosticism. Our present system of gta.te education has been patiently and diligoo:tly , tried and has been found wanting. But nDtwiths.:tandirig. this, let those who are satisfied with it continue to take advantage. of it, if they so wish. _'Ye do not aim at the destrcution. of pub~ lie schools, but we advocate the esta'b lishment of better and · higher pu hlic schools in which religion and morality wHl be taught in a:clditio·n to the serular knowledge demanded by the state. Principles of religion as well as the history of the human race, clea.r ly an<l forcibly teach us the awful effects wrought by infide1ity, immo·r ality and sorid mUJt€rialiSIIll. vVe point to an,c ient Rome, the superb mistress of the ancient ~·o·rld, ruling \Y'lth queenly prid-e frQIIll! her seven hills. · V\"'e point to• modern France, the pride and glory of Christian civilization, once the tld'e st daughter of the church, and we say to our legislarorB and sta.tesnl(:m : "Behold thes·e splendid r11ins of Empire, caused by irreligion and mor.al corruption, which you are fost~ ~_.ring in this country today, by divorcing religion and scien.ce in the s:chools' of tl1e nation. Look to the founili1tions of the re~ public, 0, Fathers, they a.r e shaking a.nd it bodes ill for the future.''

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Owing to the recent divisdon of the ca.t hedral parish, Chi~ cago, the schools of both the Holy Nan1e and St. · DOminic's parisl~es will henceforth be taught by sisters. The · teaJCning force of Holy N arne school for borys will be added to the faculty of tlie college.

Brother C. Raymond·, 0. S. V., ()if St. Viator's Normal school, rendered val uahle service here during the la weeks of the scholastic year, putting finishing t&uehes upon the terpslcho·rean pe:rfo'rmances of our juvenile dance-I"S.

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One does not have to grow very old in this busy and practical world to realize that it is one thing to theorize and quite another to, successfully apply theory to practice. Idle speculators soon find tha.t their unworkable theories, after a speedy trial, must be relegated to the ga:rret of inutilities.. And even the earnest men, the profound thinkers who con1e to their a.ge with the full light of heaven born truth s4ining on their brow and messages of beneficent refor1n sounding on their lips: will not be allowed,unchaJlenged, to deliver to the world the redeeming truths which they possess; nor will they fail, in their . attempts to make the world' better, to encounter the most obstinate and vehement opposition from the very ones whom they aim to instruct and to uplift. It was thus with the great .Socrates, whose bitter opponents clasped too blindly to their hearts their dear prejudices, their many passions and their many gods. It was thus with Ohrist, whose exalted tea;c hing so mightily dis.p leased alike the Jew and the gentile. . What. martyrdoms of consecrated devotion and what loyal seTvice of genius it has take;n to make the good' cause prevail is. fully attested by the history of Christian civiliza.tion in its. slow advance thro' the centuries. \V e may not be surprised therefore if history should repeat itself when the attempt is made by the wisest men of this age and the best lovers of humanity to make men more human and to make nations m~re Christian, to make 路parents tnore parental and rulers more just. The路 plan of com路p lete education which has been briefly pro1po~ed is one of the most radieal world reforms: it is one which would do away with those cherished evils to which, like the old Athenians路, the men of our times and country so tenaciously cling. That the attempt to put this plan of educa.t ion into execution should m~'t with strenuous objec.tions should be no subject of wondermenh Nobody submits with good grace to a surgical operation. And the worrld in its wo'fldliness ha.s always been afraid of any religious or social theory that woold wean it of its pet vices, and ma.ke it too good ! . . .. . . . . \

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However, i.t is not necessary to ta.k e this severe, or as some might call it, this pessimistic view of those who do not think like us, in order to 'appreciate the practical difficulties that ·present themselves to ma.ny excellent and sincere poopleJ It is but due therefore to the importance of the subject as well as to honesty of our opponents that we consider some of the principal reasons which they urge against our positionJ In the first place there _a re not a few who admit the rights of children to be trained spiritually a.nd to learn religious and n1ora.l truth; but they hold that this teaching is to be imparted solely by the Sunda.y ~chool where it exclusively belongs. Now wit4out saying any ha.r d things about the Sunday schools which are accused of being ill-taught and poo·r ly attended, let me be a.llowed to say that even the most skillfully taught and most numerously attended Sunday schools would not prove a sufficiently strong antidote against the moral poison abso·r bed daily by the child in schools from which the very name of God is banished . . It is not nece.ssa.r y tha.t a school be professedly immora.I or a.t heis tic in order to exert a.n unwholesome influence upou its pupils. 'l'he studied silence of teachers· on things that rela.te to God, their careful ignoring of any religious motives fo-r righteous conduct cannot but soon p-roduce upon the children the wrong impression that God, religion and righteousness are a.fter aU things of very slight importa.nce. And any body who knows llnything a-bout the psychology of childhood will agree tha.t the weekly Sunday school is totally inadequate to undo in one sho·r t hour the evil impressions received by the children during the whole da;ys of every week.

Nor can this sHent, this continual and practical negation of religion in the school be counter-balanced by horne influence, as is- claimed by ot.h ers. Assuredly there is no more sacred school of goodness and of Godliness than a good home ruled IJver by God fearing parents. But I dare say that, p~a.king generally of the American people and America.n homes, the home influence of our day will never, su ch as it is, prove able to brace children aga.inst th e spiritual starvation to ·whlch they are submitted in th·e school. And why? Because the average home in

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America is cont:rolled by pairents: who ,a['e themselves' victims of those very irreligious schools;, parents. in whom the religious sense is co;n sequently so weakened' or so completely atrophied that they themselves have ceased to he morved by the a.p~.aling beauty and truth of religion. Is, this possible? · Alas yes! the extinction of the: religiouS' spirit in American families' is a fact as strongly as it is pathetically proved by hollow emptiness of American churches. And how can we ask the American home to exercise ru religious influence which it no longer possesses? 'fhe American home is fast becoming little else than an ela;borate gymnasiu1n where the young American athlete is trained by his parents for the race after the almighty dolla,r. He hears but of gainful s·chemes and of means to win in the race ·f or wealth.

The intense a.n d aU absorbing business life of the fa.t her awa,y from home and the thousand cares- of the mother aU tend to reduce to a very small1ninimum· the home influence of even relig· iously minded parents. It is the actual and well grounded con~ viction of the serious thinkers of this country that the family its:e lf needs to be religiously toned, that it must become rechristia.nized, before it can be reckoned upon as: a safeguard aga,inst the dangers to which childhood is exposed; and that the family can again become religious only through the joint efforts of the school and the church.

But even after we have clearly shown that religious schools ar·e a necessity because their morally toning influence cain not be supplied by either the Sunday school or the home, we are greeted with the cry that any plan of religious schools is here wholly impr:a ctica,b le and impossible of realization. We n.re surely not unaware of certain minor difficulties- in the way of the complete realization of a mos.t perfect system of religious schools.. This objection of impracticability is without any firm foundation, however, and has much the apP'earance of a specious ·pretext. vVhy, that which actually exists is surely not impossible, is it? Catholics, Lutherans and Episcopalians have already large numbers of denominational s·chools in this country. T'hese could easily be improrved and multiplied: in th~se and in other religious denominations if th·e st'ate would

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but pay for the educational goods delivered to it by these religious bodies. :Moreover, let it be borne in mind that we are not now discussing a pro.Plem never yet solved, a plan not yet tried and found .successful. Germany, England, Oa.nada and Australia, countries whose population is as cosmopolitan as ours and 'vhere there exists as much divergence of religious opinion a in this country ; Equador, the most perfectly organized political state of modern times-these have executed the plan with splendid success; and H is a sign_i:ficant fa.c t that in these countries the religious and moral calibre of the people, both in public a.nd private life, far surpus~â&#x201A;Ź1~ that existing in this country. Wba.t these have clone why ~annot practical Americans accomplish?

But ~s soon a.s "~e ha;ve demonstrated the necessity and the workableness of the theory of religious schools we hea.r dinned in our ears th e stunning, the mystifying shibboleth: "No Union of Church and State!" a, cry which,a.s John Talbot Smith says, one man in seventy-five under stands. Your plan, sa.y our adversaPies, to have the state support by public taxation schools in which both secular and religious teaching is given may be in itself a good plan ; and proba,bly the youth of the country a.re in need of a th orough r eligious as well as secular training ;but an inevjta.bl e consequence of your intended system would be that drea.d ed union of church and state. Now we a:re Jree to confess that it is not easy to understand how and why this union would res-ult. I t ¡would surely be little short of :wild folly to say that the America.n state would unite itself and its interests with any established church in this country, where there are hnndred.s of regilious denominations and some forty or fifty million a.gno~tic ailld religious -indifferentists. And _to try to make us believe tha.t the. state would unite with ehristianity in general or with all the christia.n denominations taken collectively is to admit frankly the need of treatment in a sanita.rium for mental aberration. \Vhile we. do not favor the t.h e union of church a.nd sta.t e in this c-ountry, we wan t harmony .of church and state, in other words, the ha.rmony of public .a uthority and individual conscience which would be admirably ..r~.lized .if t4e state would consent to reli~ious edu cation in th~

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"Oh! the State cannot, for this would be unconstitutional!"

- This then is another o·f the strongholds of our opponents-the constitution. Now ·when it comes to the point of constitutionality, it is easy enough fnr any clear sighted An1e-rican to immediately perceive how the constitution, instead of being an obstacle, admirably le:nds itself to the promo1.ion of religious s·chools. r~Phe constitution calls for schools on the one hand, and on the other it secures to all the free and unhampered exer·c ise .of the rights. of conscience. But the eo·n science o·f enlightened parents demands that the schools to which they commit the ed~ ucation of their children be religious schools, and that same conscience vehe1nently ptotests against schools :Yithout religion.

Catholic parents alone are at present instructing a.t their own expense and in s:epa.r.a,te schools upwa.r ds of one 1nillion children 'Vhen people thus r evel in ~aerifice for the sake of conscience, the voice of such a. conscience ought to sound loud enough to make itself heard in the ears· of those ·who spell out to people the sense of the constitution. And ·w hat else can clea.r headed statesmanship conclude than that those pa.rcnts who dema:n d religious schools supported by the state are clearly \vitbin their constitutional rights. and that these should not be denied? The · present enfor,ced taxation of christian parents. for the support of schools which their conscience forbids them t o use is- a clear ea~se of taxa.tion without r"epresentation. Is this not an open vi~ Ia,t ion of the fundamental · :principles nf this republic'? Our pl"es.e nt s-ystem lega11y compels the "less pros,pm~ous mino.r ity to•

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furnish pe·cunia.ry aid for the S·c hooling of the children of the more opulent rna.jarity. How long will it be lawful for a man or for any number of men in this country to get something for nothing? How long will the constitution be made a shield for the legalized robbery which persistently deprives heroically law-abiding Christians of their own contributions towards the education of the children of the nation? I feel confident that as soon as the law maldng· people of this country hegi~ to perceive the flagrant and shameful injustice that is being practiced in the name of the law upon a. large number of their fellow citizens they will not be slow in seeking and finding means to make justice and fairness prevail.

In the next place it is objected to us with loud noise that our present public schools a.re an absolute .necessity for fusing together in harmonious unity the heterogeneous elements of our popula.tion. In these schools, it is claimed, and in these alone, will all the widely dissimilar contingents of foreigners forget their differences and contract that community of feeling and of aspiration which constitute the solidity of the national fabric This is really a very superficial objection against religious schools. For these schools wil~ in reality only a.dd a new element of strength to the nation by building up stronger character in the individual citizens that compose the nation. These schools teach now and will teach ever the various useful . branches of profane knowledge in the common langna.ge of the country which is the one great medium that unifies all the heterogeneous elements that enter here. Thus will all the pupils of the schools learn to love a country which stands for true liberty and for justice to all and thus will the aspirations of a:ll be Rtrongly twined around its loved banners which all will · stand ready to defend with their life's best blood.

I 'vould pass unnoticed as unworthy of refutation the objection that religious schools dead'e n patriotism,wera it not that this aspersion was cast upon our s.chools by a Chicago divine not very long ago. This accusation might be considered as a mere repetition of the traditional argument of poltroons who ever pra.te SQ loudly of p~.triotism ! In reality what a very ig·

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In this solid truth and in this generous sentiment she Feared an the patriots who built and gua;r ded the national gran·lleur .of the civilized races of Europe. She is teftching ·every 'Catholic child in this country today that this government, Jike .all other lawfully established governments, is a divinely willed .institution which it were a profanation for stateS'men or politi·cia.ns to use for unjust purposes or tyrannical end's, and · she teaches every child the utmost reverence for this .as for evmw. -rightly constituted government, trains him to obey .Hs laws, teaches him that it is his duty to die for the m.a intainance of ·Civil order, and sends to the bloody grounds of battle her sisters .of ·charity to staunch the wounds of our dying soldiers. How little those know the church who·S'ay she will teachusto unlearn patriotism! vVhy, the church is the profoundest school of .patriotism everywhere, and every Catholic school in this country, is a, sacred shrine "vhose altar fire radiates the purest ·flame .of ·the most exalted American patriotism. If the church >has inspired heroic devotion for the sacred cause of religion and liber'tY, if she inspired the valiant crusaders to deeds .of ·matchless :heroism in a.ges past, if she schooled in the love of ·liberty those -magnaniinous patriots of F;r auce,of Ireland a:nd of Foland, ;who 'helped America to become the home of liberty, will (her schools think you, fail to.fire us with the ·same enthusiastic love and 'heroic devotion for our altars and our flag?

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ly idiotic to say that we who claim religion school for the children of religious parents would destroy the ma.gnifi nt fabric of the public school. vVe are only aiming at perf ting the public school.

Let me merely r call to your mind tha.t such statesmen as 'Vashington and vVebster considered that the Christian s hool~ ing of the youth of this land is the pledge of the security of our national institutions. Let me but say that the number of thooe who kno\v a.n d bew:Jil the shortcomings of our present education al methods and who demand a change is daily growing larger.

Scores of e1ninent non-Catholic thinkers could be cited in favor of religions state paid S>chools. Lea.ding protesta.nt divines a.nd professors of our great universities aln1ost daily assert that i~ ver;y self-defense against the on-coming tide of crime, which is due to the irreligious quality of public training, the strong men of the nation will soon find themselves compelled to take speedy action. It wa.s but yesterday that Professor Earle Spa.r ks, of the University of Chicago, declared that "the public schools, by cultivating indi-vidual license·, a.r e responsible for ma.n y of our industrial e·vils, and for much of the crime that is rampant today." In a. recent book on "'rhe Church and Young ~fen," :\1r. Frank Oressey, also of the University of Chicago, deliberately asserts that "the larg~ majority of American young men are already outgide of church membership and are actually under forces that a.r e working their temporal and eternal ruin."

George Colly, euito-r of the New England .Journal, after recently' commending the old Puritans for their deeply religious sense a.nd lamenting the decay of religious interest the country over, says that "if a man is worth n1oi'e than a d<?g the Catholic church is right in training mothers to teach their faith · to the infants at the l>rea.st in their Julla.by songs, and in raisino- up brotherhoods and sisterhoods whose members will ingrain their faith in human hearts when most plastir to the touch."

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the head, felt called upon to commend the Oatholic S·c hools for •'giving a practical education in both the head and t~e heart, thus fitting the boys for the active, sha,r p competition of life, and the conditions of modern civilization."

1\'Iay we not hope that the eyes of all those who ha,ve thus far been u:ri.3Jble t(Y see will be at length opened by the luminous tes.timony of ·s uch learned, such honest, and patriotic men? If we hearken not to the warning voice of those who· stand upon the watch to·wers may we not soon be all individually eompelled to ass.i st at the universal orgy of anarchism?

If the vast majority · of the crimina.ls, who fill our ja.ils and who are educated as the nation now educates; if the alarming in crease of youthful cri~inals, if the unbearable arrogance and the unfilial irreverance of n1ere boys and the unm.aidenlike '\vorldUness of mere little girls, if the increa1s ing frequency of divorce, if the deserted temples of worship, . if the swelling ranks. of socialism and .anarchism, if the greed of trusts and the · revolts of labor, if the political corruption tha,t mars our public I i fe, if--but I stop ; if all these evils are growing apace; if they are all in large measure tra.c eable to the wrong moral start given the young citizen in the school, it is highly time that we <:'ease ma.gnifying obstacles that ca,n easily be overcome, and that laying aside all prejudice and all animosity we begin in earnest to give the schools the power to fashion citizens of such strong m.old, citizens of such uns.hakable integrity and large m indedness. that they will wrestle victoriously with all these evils and thus make America what it is destined to be, the most free, the most prosperous, the most christian country in the world. It is by faithfully following the enlightened leadership of such fearless champions of educa,ti.onal liberty as His Grace of Chicago ,has- proved himself to be that we may hope to plead SO' effectively for the rights of childhood, for the rights. of parents:, the rights~ of conscience, the rights of God and the highest good of the state that our caus'e will win the staunch support of every American who loves. true liberty, who loves justice and who cherishes the loftiest ideals· of American citizenship. .... -- · T'. B. C.OSGROVE,~'04.

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Herewith and heraby we formally descend from the edito.r· ia1 tripod from "hich ·we ha.Ye poui·ed forth floods of ora.c ular wisdom into the eager ears of the astonished world, and we: be· queath to our successors the sacred right to use the "We~" the glue and the scissors. As we are rich in gratitude we roy· ally thank all those who have assited us in supplying copy to the line-n-type ·machine and thus afford the public the .immense advantage of reading the Via:t orian each .month. We thank the .public, really now we do, for listening to our prat· tling. vVe thank the college fraternity for the welcome things they said to our address, and we tha.n k our subscribers for ·the generous support they accorded us.

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The ·community of the Clerics of St. Via.teur ·has recently susta.i ned a severe loss in the death of the Very Reverend Father Beaudry, form erly superior of the province of 1\fontre:H, ·C'anada., and 'l ate president of Joliette College, one of the pro.minent educa.tional institutions of the province of Quebec. From his very entra.n ce into the community, we learn, Father ~Beau· dry was distinguished for the downright spirit of faith ·which

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But the best monu1nent he leaves behind him are the true Ghrsitian men who have gone forth from J oliette with souls strongly tempered in truth and in virtue, men who in their college days lorved the venerable Father Beaudry, as a! father indeed, and who now worship his memory almost as that of a saint. vVe are not unmindful of the far reaching influence which Father Beaudry exercised in the cause of education. It was during his. term of provinciaJship that this distant offshoo·t of the Canadian tree was erected into a province which has give:n to our college so 1nany capable men. 'Vhile we gratefully la.y our wrea.t he of respect and prayer upon the tomb of the deceased patriarch of .J oliette we respect.full1 offer our tribute of heartfelt· sympathy to the students and fa.cult.y of J oliertte College.

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The faculty;the students, a;ncl the chapel especially, los.t a dear a,nd devoted frjend in the person of the pious· Fatl1er Letellier, "'VhO a.fter a brief illneSS SUCCUmbed to an attack Of COnges,t ion of the lungs, :Ma.y 3, at the age of 73. 11-,.ather Letellier was a native of Quebec, a.n d a.fter pursuing studies in La.va.l, and in St. Anne College, he b€came associated with the1work of cleries of St. Viateur in the province of J oliette, Gan.a.da.

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the :rnatePial and spiritual edifice of religion in St. Anne, Ill. "~h ere schism had wrought ~u ch havoc in the OathoHc fold. !laving built a b.eautifuf stone chureh and firmly established his favQrite devotion of St. An ne, b.,ather Letellier, after twelve years· of labors in these fields, went to ~Iuf.~~~on, where he he built another large a nd beautiful church for the then numerous F rench:Canadian congrega.tion of that prosperous town.

A few yea.r s afterwards he did a S·i milar service to the Ca.n adian Ca.tholics of :Menominee, ~1ich., whom he o~rga.niz ed and left endo-vveu with a perfectly equipped parochial establishment. R etiring from active service, this zea.l ous priest sought r est among his old friends here at the college, where he spent the las t six years of his life, edifying young and old by his true piet y.

Father Letellier's predominant trait was an eagerness to builcl and to adorn churches. IIe loved the beauty of the house of God After withdrawing from a.c tive parochial work there was nothing he loved so well to do as to make princely gifts to the many convent and college cha.pels of his large a.equa.i ntance. '.rhe richest vestments· and some of the co~tliest ornaments of our O\Yn cllapel are gifts of F'a,t her Letellier's generosity. Now that he lle sleeps in the priest's circle beneat h the ceinetery cross, his maJly kindnesses, which no doubt God has already rewarded, will often recall him to grateful n1e1nor;,~ . The last rites over his remains were performed :M ay 5, in :M aternity church. R.ev.

E:. L. Rivard, C. S. V., sang the solemn Uequien1 :Mass, assisted

by Rev. A. L. B ergeron, of Notre D.aJue, Chicago, as deacon; Rev. T. J·. ~fcCormi ck, 0. S. V., of Holy Name School, a.s subdeacon, and Rev. Dr. J. K-eough, of Chi cago, as master of ceremonies. His Grace, Archbishop J . E. Quigley, _a ssisted from the throne. In the sanctuary were Rt. Rev. ~Igr . Legris, D. D., and more than fort.y priests. The college choir rendered t·h e Gregorian ~fa.~s for the dead in a ver.y credibrble manner. II is Grace prea,c hed an appropriate sermon and gave the last absolution. Tlte body ·was then accompanied by the large eongrega.tion to its last resting place, where V. R.ev. C. Fournier, C. S. V. blessed the grave with the lit urgical prayers for interment.

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"'rhe Ballads of Bourbonnais," by W. B. Amshary, are a collection of dialect poems dealing with the French Canadians of Northern Illinois, or rather of l{ankakee and Iroquois counties. The attempt to verbally photogr~aph the: English "as she is, spoke," by the French Canadians of these parts~ is· fairly successful, and approaches in pla,ces the artistic work of Drum,m ond in this· line. As the French Canad_ian experiences no difficulty in pronouncing ""T" it seems to us that the author errs in making them sa;y "vel" instead of "well." As to the subjects handled in these ba.llads:,they are mostly of the trivial and commonplace kind. The author is so prodigal of black eyes in the recounting of the boys' love affairs that one would gather the impression that every marriage is precede:d by at least a few tiS~- . tic encounters· between rivals. T'he songs tha~t deal with thes~e subjects are no doubt only highly ideaHzed ( ?) reproductions of the stories of certain harmless braggarts, who, not unlike F·a lstaff, may have filled the ears of N[r. Am ba.ry when he visited the French settlements. It is regretahle that the writer did not dare approach such subject:s a~s "La Fete D'i eu-a Bourbonnais," or "Un Pelerinage ru Ste Anne," or "La. Messe de Mfnnit a Ste HoSie," or "Le Moi·s de M:arie," or "Le Bouquet chez Latulipe," or "La Gorvee chez :Morin," which would have affor-ded him a rich opportunity for poetically setting forth the pronounced religious and social fea,t ures of Canadian life on these American prairies. The booklet, such as it is, is written in a · friendly spirit a,n d will afford an hour's amus:e ment to a reader who is not too exacting in the matter of loca~l color in the descriptiorn of distinct.ively Ka.nkakeean scenes,nor already too fa:milia~r with the finer distinctive · traits of the Canadian Americain. T'h e book is published by Bobbs, :Merrill & 00·., Indianapolis, Price $1.00.

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The 22nd., of ~lay, the feast of :t>entecost, will long be ~~ membered by twenty of our young students,for on that da~ they had the happiness of receiving First Holy Communion. The weather was ideal and in consequence a large concourse of visitors assembled in the cha.p el at 8 :30 a. m. to witness the impressive ceremonies. Solemn high mass was celebrated by Rev. 1'1. J. l\1arsile, C. S. V. assisted· by Rev. J. Armstrong as dea-eon, l\1r. J. Mcl\1ullen as sub-deacon and Bro. P. Brown, C. S. V., as l\{aster of ceremonies. The college choir rendered the following program: Kyrie, La Hache; Gloria, :M ozart's Twelfth; Veni Creator, Millard; Credo, Bollman; Sanctus·, Gounod; Agnus, Dei, La Ifache. The singing was excellent and too much credit eannot be given the directors and 1nen1bers of the choir for theiJl splendid work. The sermon was deliyered by Hev. E. L. Rivard 0. S. V., who chose !or his text those appealing words of the Savior, ":My child, give me they heart." Addressing those who were about to pa:rtake of the Bread- of Life, the speaker in most beautiful Iangua.ge pictured to them the Divine Child that was to come in their midst, dwelling on his· loveliness, goodness and above all His burning love. He told them to welcome the child who would bring to them gifts inestin1able a.n d asked in return only th~ir youthful hearts. They should prepare for his coming by fervent acts of faith, love, contrition a.nd humility, considering their own unworthiness. When the happy moment had ('Ome and the God of every God should be resting in their hearts they 8hould spea.k to him with confidenc-e and s-incerity, adoring. and praising Him and above all petition from Him gra.ces for theinselves·, their friends, their te.a.chers and parents, who have sa:erificed so much in their behalf. He conclud-ed by appooling to the senior students, and instructors to increase in their appreciation and veneration of these children after they had been sa.nctified by the abiding presence of the child God. . As the ha.ppy boys entered the sanctuary to receive their Lord and God for the first time, Ma.rven n·~

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In the everi.ing took p1ace the enrolln1ent in the Sca.pula.r, the formal act of Gons'e cration to the Bles sed Virgin and the renewal of the Ba.pt.is1nal VowS'. Solemn Benedictions of the :Most Blessed Sacrament closed the exercises of that memor• able da.y.

The First Communion class of 1904 directed by the R.ev.

Bro. Sf. Aubin, C. S. V., is as follows: Arthur- Bergeron, Columbus Boyle, Rowen D·elaney, Bernard Cunningham:, Irvin J1"ernekes, unnbe'l·t Grogan, George L·ong, :Matthew :McDevitt, Edwa~d O'Brien, "\Villia.m Richer, Ira "\Valsh, Arthur La. Salle, T hos. Keenan, Ge!orge Lyons, Charles :McBride, Albert Ledoux, · E(lwin Healy and Harvey :Marcotte.

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There may be1more important ervent·s: in the life of every man, but it is doubtful if ther e be any whieh impress the: fresh and plastic heart of youth more profoundly.

Let us today, rn.y de1a ~rly beloved classinates, forge·t for a 1noment the august pr'esence of this: prelate of the: church, of this numer ous asserJ.nbly, let us ma ke unto · orurselves a solitud'e " rhe1r ein we ma.y commune with our own· s:ouls, and ma ke a. la.sting r ecord on the t:a blets of memory of the va,r i ed ·emo:t.ious which stir them t'o their d€1pths. i

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As in musical acc{)rd, a multiplicity of notes are combined to produce harmony and yet one or two notes predominate, mas ter and unify the whole harmony so it is with the heart on a.n O'ccassion like the present, when its every fibre is vibrating under the rhythmic touch of feeling which only the heart (:an kno·w. But this soul ha.rmony, has also its master notes, for one or t"\vo emotions predominate over all others.

Guided by the intimate kp.owledge which long associations h2s given me o.f each one of you a..nd looking into your dear, familial~ faces, aglow with a new light which was never in therm • before, I think I do not misinte11>ret you when I affirm that this one mastering and harmonizing norte, dominating your whole soul at this moment, is a feeling of gratitude-gratitude to parents whose generosity and sarcrifice ha.ve created for you th e opportunity of sound and complete ed u ca~tion~gratitude to your a,l ma. ma.ter who is about to crown your labor-gTatitude to your professors, endeared to you by ties sca.r cely less sa.cred than those which bind you to you r parents. Yes, belov('(i profess ors, we O"\Ve you a.n immense debt of gra.t itude. Your lives of devotion and sacrifice. re1;1d·e1'" possible such institutions as St. Viateur's, where the heart and will are trained as well as the intellect by the earnest, frequ ent aud forceful presentations of strong moral principles. ' Ve rea lize now more fully tha,n ever bef.o re that there is a latl'ge measure of truth in the oft repeated saying of Alexander the Great that he owed more to his instructor, Aristotle, than he owed to his father. You are the parents of our intellectual and rnnral being. Under your watchful eyes we have grown and developed; by your wise guidance, your unwearied paterni·~y, your infinite pains and ceaseless efforts, these nobler and more precious faculties of the soul ha,ve been unfolded in the genial invigorating light of moral a1n d intellectual truth'. But it is noi by your worrds alone that you bring home to the mind and h~art of youth the divine precepts of Christian morality, your example is a still more po·werful incentive to high moral conduct. We beg to assure you, beloved professors, tha.t this forceful object lesson has not been lost upon us. vYe feel within our souls the

304 consciousness of stronger moral purpo~ses, of higher ideals:, of nobler resolutions, because we have co·n1e under the influences of your compelling e:x.a1nple. You ha,ve taught us not by mere logical deductions, but by the irresistible power of your O"\vn lives that a noble cause cles:e rves the heart's. best service. vVe know that many of you are fitted by your learning a.nd culture, by your varied talents and nobility of character to gi~a, ce the highest positions: in Ohurch and state. And yet at the hnpera.tive ca.U of a, Godinspired vocation you cheerfully gave up all that men hold dearest to devote the undivided energies, of your life to the moral and intellectual uphuilding of youth.

For this we honor you, for this we love yoll, fvr this we owe you an unmeasur.a ble debt of gratitude. Your na~mes may never · be emblazoned upon the roll of fau1e. They may never elicit the applause of admiring multitudes, your sphere of influence lies beyond the ohseMratio:n of the public eye, but they will be forever enshrined in the grateful hea,r ts of tho,s:e who a,r e guided by your wisdom, enlighte·n ed by your teachings. and inspired hy your loft example's.

And norw, de:a,r · clas~s,ma.tes, it re1nains for us to, prove tha.t this' gratitude is son1ething 1nore than a mere barren sentiinent, ~omething that deserveSi and shaH receive a more fitting eJCpression than empty words. Something that is deep rooted in the soul.

The best evidence we can give Alma Mater that this harJnonizing sentiment is' .alive and atc tive within us, may be expressed by one vvord, fidelity-fidelity to tho teachings vve have received; fidelity to the noble traditions: of the' distinguis.hed .society of which we are ahout to become n1embers, the Alumni of St. Viateur's! Oollege; fidelity to the grand examples: of the devoted body of n1en guided by that ideal · gentleman, that grea,t souled priest to whom we may apply thes words: with fear of contradiction : "None have known him but to love him, none: have named bim but to praise Fath er l\1arsile." Ye.s to yot-:. we pledge our g,r a.titude, our love, our fidelity, now and forever.

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After a brilliant course of study in the Chicago Law College, :Mr. E·v ariste :M arcotte, received his· degree with first honors of his class at the recent commencement.

At the closing e.~ercises. of St. Patrick's School, Butte, nfont3.na, the operetta "St. Patrick" was enacted with splendid success. Some days before the production of this: hea.utiful musicaJ drama the "Butte Inter-Mountain" contained the following nature of the pla.y .: 'rhiS' operetta was written by Rev. Father 1\farsile, president of St. Viateur,s college, Bourbonnais-, Ill., Father Marsile was a guest of Father Gallahan in this city during the winter and made ma.ny friends. The subject trea.t ed in the play has to do with the conversion of Ireland by St. Patrick. T'h is is the first time it has been presented outside the college, a.n d the sisters anticipate a great success.

Ex. Revds-. J. Armstrong, E. Barnes, and J. Kleinsorg were· o:r dained priests in the Cathedral of Peoria by Rt. Rev. Beshop O'Rielly, Ju:p.e 16. Our hea.r ty congratula.t lons and best wishes to t11e young priests.

Rev. A. L. · Bergeron and his brother, Dr. Jos. Bergeron, of Chicago-, sailed for Europe early in June on a two months vacation. Bon voyage.

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abence of Father Bergeron~ who has gone . t0Ett¥<9'pe, .F ra trlller · J~ Lamarre is acting .past~~r ·of No'ttl''e' D~rme Ohnr:~lly · Cht~ag,o..

llev. F. Hudon, late of ]1a:u istee, :Mich., was recently transferfed'''to,1Fond du Lac; .W is:, where' he has talren . charge·; of a Ja~ge .congregatio:u.

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Friedrich ·were orda1ined pri~sts in th·e ·eathe'l'.al 'Of Chica.go~,'Juue 11; b~r his, Grwce, Arch. bi·s hdp; <.~nig:iey.· Rf~v. Lionel . Legris san:g :his fit'st :nt:a:S!Si in ~:fa.­ te:t·t:l'itty' dlti':rdJ., B<:Htrbouna.is, JuTI!€ 19. R 'eV. ~1. J: M~wsHe, C. 8: V r.,. p.r e:ttdted an doquent·sermo'n on :the:~ occa!s:ion~ We··h·e:a.rtilvJ '· C0:ElP't 'f:\ttula,te' th·e: voumr pre!ists. a:n d wis:h the'ln abundant 0 fr·u i t ''in the· ho1ly'·rninisit.:ty: Fa.ther' Lionel is: assista.nt .at Bri~h toiJJ Park.

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Rev. F:a tber Milot, who _ was recently employed in the Pulington missions near Pullman, wa.s transferred· to Bradley, where he has taken charge of the mixed congr~o-ation of tha.t district.

V. R.e-v. P. D. L'ljoie, C. S. V., the venerahle superior genera l of the co-m munity of St. , ,;riateur, ·whos·e Yisit "'e had a.nticipa ted the pleasure and honor vf having befor-e our departure for the holida1ys~, will be detained in Ca-n ada by importa.n-t af~ fa-irs and will arrive in Bourbonna.is tol'\vards the end of August H-ev. Fr. T·ranchemontague, late vicar of St. R-ose's, Kankakee, has gone to Escanaba. to assist Fa.t her :Mena.r d. Rev. W. Granger will be Fart-h er Granger's assistant. at St. Rose's.

ELOCU'r~ION

AND· ORATORY CONT'E STS. The elocution cont'est was held in the study hal! Tuesda,y afterno-on. The :Minims' medal ·was won by Elmer Russell, with Orion Ford next 1n merit. The junior conte t was the most interesting,the competition being very cloSie-. Ra~ymond Daly was a.wardecl the medal, with Edmund Burke second.

The senior mednl was easily won by Fred Shippy, _with J. ~I. l\la ll a~n ey and 0. :MahonE-y equally deserving second mention The o-ra.t.orical contest took place the san1e e~Vening in the gymnasium, a.llld was prono-unced th-e best held Lere in many years.

The forur contestants-, with their subjects, were: 1:1-,red :Mueller, P'ius IX.; Richa.r d vVue.rst, Inno1cent Ill.; Peter Wall, Gregory I., the Grea~t; J. B. Shiel, Leo. III. The orations of a.ll four young m·en were fine, both in composition and delivery, bu especially com1nenable was~ the work of 1\fr. '\Vu rst, who wa.s awarded the medaJ, a.nd 1\fr. Shiel, who fini ·hed a close s·e~<md.

The judges1for both the elocution and oratorical contests wer-e Rev. P . .OonVi-:ay and R.ev. 0 . J. Quille, of Chicago.

R ev. 1\f. J . Marsile, C. S. V., will take a trip in durino· t!t~ ~~m~ fl'J!d will ~~t "\. Rev. Iri:Vtl!er W,j 1{, .

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runs: St. Viateur's 1, Oorby Hall 1. Bas1es, s1tolen: S~. Via:t;eur's: 5. 2 base hits.: ))1a.rtill1 2; Lonergan~ Bases1 on . b~,Us,: by l'l1a:rtin 1. Struck orut by Martin 11; hy Burns· 2.

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The: m.u eh touted :Morgan Park Academy team w.as: ea.s ily defate'd by our boys :M.ay 7th. As the s:cor·e clea:v ly shows th:e g;a,m e was, uninteresting,the Acade1ny bo~rs being farr outcl:as:s:ed l)y our faster _and better trained tea.m. :Martin_wa~s on the· firing. line' for us 3Jnd though he onl:y to~S: s:ecl the ba.ll, the visitors were unable to bunch many hits.

Roe and Phelps twirled: for the .Academy a.n!d. were hit a.t will by our hatsrm en. Jones led with four hits, two of whi.ch 'vere home! runs.. Out of five times a:t ba.t. :Martin, )){cDronu,ld and Lon~rgarn, each received five hits out of sri x tin1es: at; 'ba.t.

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Passed balls: Bukouski; Hickey. vVild pitches: Sta.ck; Hoag 3.

On l\1.a·y 22nd, the fast temn from St. Ignatiu.s College appeared on our diamond: boa.cstjng the chan1pionship of 'vestern colleges, but a.f ter a.n interesting· and ha.r d played game, were convinced that their clailn to the championship was not well found'ed, _a.SI our tean1 out played them in every point of the game.

Ca.p t. 1\Ia.rt.in was again on haJ1d with a. bunch of speedy twisters tha,t \rere Cl1inese puzzles to the Chicago men. He all<Y\Ved but five scattered hits while thirteen were retired ·with three strikes. Keane was in the box for St. Ir;na.tius and 'va hit freely .a: critical times. :Meany did excellent work behind the ba.t. Other· fe~atures of th.e game were the ba.tting of l\1a.rtin a.n d Shiel for uSJ a.nd Killian for the. visitors.

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AR.lVI:OUR INST'IT'U T'E 3.

For the firsrt time in1three yea,r s' the: 'varsity was able to establish its sraperio,r ity o;ver Al"''DOlH' Institute on lVIay 28th, defea.t ing them by the score of 7 to 3. At no time during the g.ame wew~1 the Annour>~ boys' dangerous,, our tean1 taking the lead in t:J1e firs-t inning and holding it throughout.

Shiel did slab work for us and aHow:e d the vis!itor:si hut two . hits, while nine struck out.. Hickey did excellent work behind tlH~ bait, while ~1cDona1d at second and Sta:c k a1t first cle:sterve: s·p ecia,l praise. 1\1a.rtin brought .appla,u s1e from the Stp ecta.t ors by a sensational catch and seop a:t short. Thorugh Slocum pitch ed a! good gan1e: for the visit:o rs, our boys bun:ched hits· with t elling effect.

E:arned! runs: St. Via:beur's 4; Armour 2. Stolen bas:e,s,: St. Vi.ateur's 6; Arrnour 4. . Double: pla.y s: vV. Burke to Hiekey.

Bases olll ba.lls1: by Shiel 4; by Slocum 1. Hit by pitched ball: Lonergan; Strube:; HilL Strcuk out by Shiel 9; by Slocum 1. ~'he 'vars·i ty defeat ed the Illinois University second team in a clo~e and very exciting ga,n1e on May 30th. The honors; of the victory belong to Capt. l\fartin, who, as usuwl, ·was very effective, allowing the University boys only four hits. But fo·r Shiel's costly error in the: fifth ill!ning, Illinois would have bad but ·one

TEtE; VIAtl''ORtAN. s-cGre, while four of our five s:cores were earn-ed runs. The . game wil.s .won.in the last.of the seventh inning, when, wi h .the score 3 to 4; in favor of Illinois, Shiel and Lonergan re:ceived.passes to first, while A. Burke., Hickey and Jnnes· hit srue, thus bringing in t\vo s·c ores and winning the ga.n1e with no outs and three ·men . on bases. Comsto:ck and Sawyer did battery work for the visitors.

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BATTING AVB·R AGE. Tha batting; a-verages1for this. seas-on are : AB Lonfi'gan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 :rvr art in ..... .•........... , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Hickey . .. ....... .. .............................. 56 Burns ......................•••.................. 12 !\1cDonald ........................ ·.............. 64 Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .......................... 50 A Burke ........... . ............ ·................ 61 Shiel ....... , ..... ,, . ...........·.... .• ........... 60 W. Burke . . .. . .............. , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Stack ................... . ................. ...... 38 Kelly. ·........ , ............................... 63

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ApriL 24, St~ Via.teur's. 23; Kankakee Anchors; 0. ' April 30, ·St. Via.teur's 25; ·St. Cyril's College 1.

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1, St. Viateur's 13; Kankakoo Anchors 1. v ~lay 5, Sf. Viateur's 6; Corby Hall 3. }'lay 7, . St. Via.teur's 17; Morgan Park Academy 6. l\tlay 8, St. Viat:eur's 5; :Momence 15. ~£a.y 22, St. Viateur's 6; St. Ignatius· 3. :May 28, St. Viateur's 7; Armour Institute 3. ~ia.y 30, St. Viateur's 5; Illinois Scrub~ 4. ,June 1,. St. Viateur's 12; E . I. H. I. 7.

June 13, St. Viaterur's 12; Chicago Clerics 4. vV. C. :McKENNA.

VIATORIAAN. Derby. vVatermel on. vVarm Irish; Cold Scocth.

H urra.h for vacation.

Are you going to St. Louis?

Little fried pies and 1nelets.

D·o they think he is in da.nger. ; Please pass the Oottage cheese to P eter.

The Orioles are going to g·et a gilded cage for the ca,t cher, since he is· so fond of Gana:r y Pudding and potted shrimps.

Al;ex .says : Tl1e mela~ncholy days a:re ahv.ays here ;for man \vilt sa. ~l, . ?tO Inatter \vha.t his lot. 'r4is \:Y.eek he kicks: hecause it's wet and eold~ and next he'll kick because it's' dry and h'ot.

The Bourbonnais fire department has ordered a new R·e d Asbestos curtain for the Village Editorial Sa.nctum. A sincere tribute to their bright., burning thought.

A young student of the s:eC'ond grammar class. was. asked to ·write something original in au autogra.p h book wrote the following: "You asked me to write s:omething original, But I clon~t know where to· begin: r.l;'4er.e's nothing original left in n1.e, Not erven origina.l sin."

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Visitor from Ohicago-"Doesn't anything ever happen out here?"

Student-"Of course. The street cars go by every haJf hour.

Professor-Name the booes of the skull?

Student-1've got them all in my head, but ~ can't think of them, sir. l're.fect--Why, Teddy, what's the 111atter?

Teddy-Boo-ho·o. :Thiy teeth stepped on my tongue.

H.a.Stpberries: and tooth picks ha.ve arrived.

Visitor (to senior)-Please ask the :Manager of the Vjatorian if he is too· busy to see me.

Senior (a moment latt.er)-Yes ; he &'lys he is too busy.

Visitor--Very ·well. T'e ll him that I will call agajn next year. I 1\'a.nted to pay my subscription.

The Prefect, meeting a minim on the Seniors campus, said-" Good morning, little cha.p; I can never te1l you aJld your brother apart. ·vvhich of the twins a.r e you? "Oh,'-' answered the Ininim, "I'm the one that's: out walking.'' llo ! For the Orioles! Turn on the golf links, the tennis court, and paint the Club House.

Boys: R.e rnember the first Tuesd.a,y of next Septen1ber.

A hook of charming reflections, cbkfly on literary, religious a.n d philosophical subjects is Ji'ather Sheeha.nJs "Under Ceda.r Trees and Sta.rs'', recently publi~.hed by Benziger Bros. b.,ather Sheehan in this intimate r evela,tion of hi:tn 'elf will prove an agreeable companion with \Yhmn to while away vacation hours:.

The K.ankaJ\:ee Browns by good ba.ll playing a.nJ. with the

good \viii of the umpire, it is thought, won from the strong negro t eam, the Chicago unions, a. closely contested game, June 19. Score 3 to 4-.

Hev. ~.,a,ther Ryan is contempla~ti:ug seV-eral improvements in the class rooms and domitories.

PXCHANGES. In the Fordham. 1\1onthly, "'I'he La.y man's Call" is very appealing, sensible .and' timely. T 'o I. R,uhl, \\rh'o write~ on Da.nte and Beatrice, we would sa.y that \ve believe ,~vith Ozanam, that Beafrice was both a. real arnd an aUe:g1orica1l per.son; re:a:l in the life of the poet and allegorical in his poem. vVe think tha.t the writer e1rrs in: his estimate of Dante's路 loiVe of Beatrice. There is as much difference between Dante's; lofty and. intens1e love of Beatrice amd adulterous~ love as there is- between the Divine 1\Iast er's precept to love our neighbor as ourselves1and the degrading doctrine of modern free love. . So there.

It is regrettable that the other mre mbers of the editoriarl boa,r d of the 8. V. C., Index could not or did not prevatil upon their exchange editor 路to withhold from that. recent unsee::m.ly exhibition of bad te1nper and wor:s:e E ng1ish. vVhy should a; journal which is othe1~wise presentable .a llow its dignity t!o be I thus trifled with'? The air-brakes. of n1oderation .a:nd: the safety v.a,l ve of counsel are not useless appurtenances in an editorial sanctum. Cool off. You will think more logically and s:pe;ak more politely.

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The Dial and the Academia both contain critical ess.a:ysron "The: Dre:a m of Gerontius," which is. proof that this, much praised poen1 is becon1ing a. general fa.v orite.

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Before closing our a ecounis with th-e Spect..aJto.t: ma~ we be allowed to express the hope and -earn·est wish that our eSteemed cdritempora.ry·may some ooy recover from his childish ·feat~ of the pope and· the ·Jesuits:-? No? "'\1V'e may n.ot? FOOJr· -n then and: fear :a,wa.y, u:ntil you get old-er.

Among the items to be considered by next year's Schola.s.. tic, St. J oh!n'-s Collegian, etc., is the introduction of a.n e.,~­ change column. vVe agree with pretty m·uch everything 'that is said in .the Davidson :M onthly's thoughtful article oo '<T;he 'ljr-ranny of W ealth."

That is a:n interest ing discussion in the ·Floor de Lis a nent the pla1ceman.t of American sympathy. '\iVhy no ex-change this tim·e? \Vill Power of H·a.m let" is a. good es·sa,y lli!ld more thorough than the others that follow it· in the la:s t· is:sue of the Pittsburg·Bulletin. ~'The

'rhere is an interesting a.n delectable va['iety of ma tt..er in t.he contents of the June Abhey Student. The stories a.OO orations are. good a!ll'd the exchange column amr compus record are excellently ed'itted.

The Lincoln ma,n 's descl"ipti on- of- rr-olstoi's moo·e of life is fair, the ·story of M::a.cbeth is too -brief 'to be inter~ng. . '.rhe ·June '!\I.ercury t reats ·well the·seriom:r questions of· Russ.i an Aggression a:nd Soc-ialism. " re·domo-t agree witb the con te-'Illtion of the writer upo:n t he ·P.anama. que-stion. · "Philosophy in Anieriea'~ in the Otta.'·wa Review. is a.n excel lent essay upon an interesting subject. "Ma.i nly A.bou.t Books" always repays perusal. p~

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The gerious and the gay were happily blended in the program of exercises' presented by the students to ov-er a thousand fond parents and kind friends. Seldom do grad'u ating orators succeed in deerply impressing their audience with the s1e rious themes they speak upon. However, it must be said t'o the credit of this year's>class-speakers:, that not only was the selection of their subj ects · felicitous, but their oratorical treatment of them was such as to elicit the wa:r m a.nd repeated applause of their well interested audience. The correctness of their logic was brought out with anr elegance and force of delivering that was as effective as it was pleasing. :Mr. vV. .J. 8oorprel1alnt gave aJ cle:ar. expootit:ion of "T'he Rights of the Child.'~ :Mr. -\V. J. :Maher~s "Plea For Heligious Edu cation~' ·was handled in ma,s terly fashio:n ; and in 'Ans,wering Difficulties;, 'Mr. T. Cosg·r ove a1hley eleared the principal objections. urged a.g ains't state-paid religious: schools. :Mr. A. l\1a;r tin entertained the audience in a. brief, but eloquent French address on the Louisiana Purchas:e E:Xposition. The va;l edictorian., l\1r. Fred Shippy, s1poke feelingly of gr:atitude as the sentiment uppermos,t in the hearts, of the gr:aduate1s. of '04. The brietf space a.t our disposal prevents us frorn repeating the eulogious comments passed upon the orations by s~e:cula~r and clerical critics and by the l\1ost Rev. Archbis1hop.

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In song and gentle stpeech, in tripping dance and artistic drill, the minims next caught the eye and the. ea1• and the heart of the audience. Va,c a.t ion was thoir theme, the joys of home, swee:t home, the SJUbje,c t of their' gla:cT refra,i ns. vVith characteristic grace and a.nhnation did the,y s,p eak and s1ing of rest to thei.r books and teachers a,n d of their parents'' fond emhra;ce.

This new gerrn dropped from the wonder casket of Father l\farsHe's rich imagination is of equal lusi::r~ with his more pre~ious j~w~~

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Young Martyrs," was recently exhibited to the admiring eyes of the friends of St. Charles? School, ' Chicago, while another, "St. Pa,t rick's Operetta," fanned the piece d'e resistance 6Jt the late closing exercises of St. Patrick's Academy, Butte, Monte.

THE' GRADUATES. The degree of :Master of Arts wa.s conferred upon }.fr. J os.

Lynn, M:r. John Mcniullen, nnd ~1r. Francis Byrns.

The degree of Bachelor of Arts wa.s conferred upon :Messrs. W. J. Maher, T. Cosgrove, A. :M artin, W. J. Surperna.nt, 1\I. Breen a~nd W. Clifford.

Com路m ercial diplomas v;rere awarded to 1\Ie~rs. H. Te!Sitin, C. Carden, J. Sweeney, L. Lafond, J. lHur"phy, F. Shippy and H. Pichette.

DONORS OF 1\IEDALS AND GIF'T S. 'l'he faculty and: s~tudents are grateful to the gel!. erous friends who ha:ve lent encouragement to the work of the year by presenting prizes to the successful competitors..

The list of donors is a:s follows : ~fr. P. Hntnsel, R.erv. H. Durkin, Rev. J. J. :McCann, Dr. C. T'. :Morel, Rev. F. J. O'Gonnor, Rev. G. E:. 1\tfcCahe, R,ev. vV. Granger, Rev. D. Ha,yes, Rev. M. A. Dooling, V. Rev. C. F. Fournier, C. S. V., Re.v. L. Kraschowitz, Rt. Rev. l\1gr. G. 1\L Legris, D路. D., Rev. J. H. Nawn, Rev. C. J. Quille, R'ev. H. O'Ga.ra :McShane, Rev. J. R. Kearney, V. Rev. ~f. J. 1\fa.rsile, C. S. V., Rev. J. A. J?:ynes. The W. J. F路eeley Company, Rev. F~. J. O'Reilly, Rev. J. B. Krug, Rev. 1\I. P. Shannon, Rev. lVI. Dermody, :Mr. Thomas; Rowan, l\fr. Frank A!. :Moocly,l\1r. A. J. l\1~ody,Rev. P. C. Conway,Col. vV. J. :Maher Rmr. tT. J. Oregan, C. S. V., Rev A. Granger, :Mr. J. Finnegan. vVINNERS OF PR:IZE'S. Philo....~phy,

W. J. Mather. ExceUence in cla路s sical course, H. Butler. English compo~ition, L. O'CDnnor.

Oratory, R~ Wuerst.

Science, H. Butler. General HistQ~ry, S. ~forgan.

Christian Doct.rine, S. :Morgan.

Bell~ Lettres:, H. Da.rche.

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gxeellencei in conhnercia,l studies:, H. Tiest.in.

Senior Deportnlent, A. O)Connor. Junior · D·e.port:ment., T;. Navin. · :Th1inim D•e portn1ent, vV. Richer. U. S. -IUstory, A. Pepin. Senior E'l ocution; }-,. Shippy. "Junior E.locut.ion, H. Daley. l\1inim E:locution, B. Rus!s ell. · Excellence in junior department, J. 1\l[elloy. Vocal :Music, · :Marvin De . Sousa. Polit-ene<S~S-, F. l\1unsch. 1fa.t hematics, W. l\fcKe:nna.. Spelling, ·vV. Reynoloels.

French, H. Butler. GeTlna,n, J. Birren. Penmanship, U. Foley. E 'x cellence in :.M inim clepartn1ent., H. Dela,ney. First :Military medal, C. Katzenbery. Second :M:ilita,r y meda.l, A. :Nmnanich. Prize Sword, R. Aisqulth. Swordsmanship Ineda1, :Mathew McDevitt. Prize Pennant., Capt.. ' iV. J\1eJ(enna., of Co. C. Berna1rd Light. Guards'. Instrumenta1 Inusic, j a,s:. B. Shiel, French, · A. Savary. · Gold watch and chain for success in studies, J. Finne:gan.

THE. AitOHBISHOP'S AD·D·RE.SS.

His Gr:a.ce, the :Most Rev. J.ames: ' Edward Quigley, a.ft.er wa:1nly congratulatin:g ··,the student:s~ a;nd their t:each~rs upon the happy. termination of thet year's work, especially congratulated and thanked the ·parents1who were making ,~uch s:a,c ritices :in <)rder to place their children in such institutions as this, institutions in which a.lone the: thorough education especially 'needed today ean be had. The pres:e nee of this: l.a.rge a.s1semhly, .all gathered here to applaud the: work done here, said the :a,rchbjshop, is as -practical·as: it -is e.Joquent a1proof that you all :agree with ther principles: a.:iid conclus,i ons so a1b ly e:xposetd by the young gentlemen who treated the question of education ·today. 1fa~y the ponnger students. taste the srwetets of hortne of ·which they ,sang so well; n1ay teachers and pupils enjoy their :vaea:tio-n rest., and n1a.y the s.e:nior:s; "vho are gi~aduated, pave . their way to success by a: noble adherence to the lessons learn.·ed 'in this ins:;titution. ·J . ·p .-'or:o. .o.

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Our h earty congratulations and best wishes to Rev. P . Griffin who was Ol~d a,in ed priest in Peoria.. June 30. l\1r. Jos-eph' l'IL Callah an was graduated irr law ~June 21, at Ann Arbor, :Mich. Ou r hea:rty eongoratulations tD 1\fr. Gallalwn.

Rev. Joseph Carr oll, D. D., president of Duhuque College, preached at t he first mas.s: of Rev. E . Ba·rnes in St. ·l'!I a.rk's church, P eoria, June 19th.

'Ve publish int his issue t he discourses on education delivered hy three of the gra1duates commencement day. Tl1ey do oot dea·l with the fads, but with t he necessities of odu ca.t ion; not with airy opinions, but with pr inciples and convictions.

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