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Bishop Shiel Pr esided at Afternoon Exercises; Father Bergin completed the prescribed course of Monsignor Connor Chairman of Evening Ceremonies; Father Delivered Commencement Address studies and submitted an acceptable O'Mahoney Addresses Youthful Gr aduates The Class Day exercises of the were held June 11. The 8ommencement Day exercises took >lace the following day. The Class Banquet was at noon in the Student ~efectory; the graduates marched in :ap and gown from Marsile Hall to :he Refectory, a nd occupied pla.ces 1f honor at the banquet. Gracing t he Jccasion was His Lordship, the Rt. ~ev. Bernard J. Shiel, D. D., Auxilary Bishop of Chicago. The President of the Senior class, 11:r. J. Allen Nolan, was toastmaster 1t the banquet. The first toast, "To )ur Professors," was responded to •Y Adrien Richard, A. B., '29. The ~ lass Memorial, a $5,000 Life Ins ur<nce Policy, was presented by Steph·n Long, A. B., '29. John F. Cox, A. 3., '17 was to make a presentation ,f the Memorial of the Class of 1917 .ut was unable to be present. Donald . McCarthy, A. B., '29, responded to he toast "To Our Alma Mater." A ribute was given in the toast "To )ur Monsignori," by John T. Smith, \ . B., '29, to the three new MonsigLori of the a lu mni., the Rt. Rev. Msgr. ames Burns, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. J. 1. Maguire, and the Rt. Rev. Msgr. i' F. Connor. Monsignori Maguire esponded to Mr. Smith's tribute. The Voice of '30" was heard in the oerson of H. Paul Mills, the President ,f the Class of 1930. The las t toast ·f the banquet, "To My First Senior ~lass,'' was res ponded to by the 'ery Rev. J. W. R. Magui.re, c. s. v. The College Graduation was held o the College gymnasium at threehirty P. M. There were two bachelor ::; 0 Uege
orations: John L. McMahon, A. B. '20, spoke on The Winning of Catholic Emancipation; Donald T. La enhardt, A. B. '29, delivered his oration on The Results of Catholic Emancipation. The Validictory was given by the President of the class, J. Allen Nolan, A. B. '29. During the exercises this afternoon, Mr. Nolan, president of this year's class, invested the president of next year's class, Mr. Mills, with the academic cap and gown. The Very Rev. W. J. Bergin, c. s. v., of the University of Illinois, delivered the Commencement Address, an eloquent and thoughtfu l discourse on Education. The Rev. E. V. Cardina l, Dean, read the narnes of graduates, the titles of their thesis and the names of the w inners of scholastic honors. His Lordship, Bishop Shiel, awarded the diplomas and presented the medals; Father Maguire conferred the bachelor degrees. Bishop Shiel closed the exercise with a few very brief remarks to the graduates.
College Honors - -Class honors for the College Department were awarded as follows: T he Medal for Hig hest Scholarshi p : Presented by the Very Rev. W. J. Surprenant, c. s. v. of Bourbonnais, m., awarded to JAMES ALLEN NOLAN, Rockford, Ill. T he P hilosop hy Meda l : Presented by the Rt. Rev. G. M. Legris, Ph. D., Bourbonnais, Ill., awarded to Joseph (Continued on page ten)
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thesis, were awarded the Bachelor's Degree: The Class Day Exercises this year, 1 graduates some of the dangers they Bachelor of Arts, 'Summa cum June 11, began with the Academic would meet in life, exhorting them laude', to Procession from Marsile Porch to especially to seek pleasure, wealth JAMES ALLEN NOLAN, Rock- the Chapel. The president of the and fame with moderation, and emCollege, Very Rev. J. W. R. Maguire, phasizing the importance of profiting for~, IlL Thesis : tiThe Religious and c. s. v., sang a Solemn Mass at which by the experiences of others. Before Eth1eal System of Herbert George the members of the High School and Father O'Mahoney's speech a terrific Wells from the Standpomt of Cathohc College graduating classes received storm had been raging t hat exPhi losophy." Holy Communion. The Rev. A. J. tinguished the lights several times Bachelor of Arts, 'Magna cum Landroche, c. s. v., was Deacon of the and made it very difficult to hear the laude', to Mass and the Rev. J . P. Lynch, c. s. speaker; but, as Monsignor Connor JOSEPH LECOUR DROLET , v., Sub-deacon The choir, under the said, "Father O'Mahoney must have Bourbonnais, Ill. Thesis: ~'Bossuet et direction of Joseph Drolet, a senior, driven the storm away for the ele!'Eloquence au Dix-septieme Siecle." sang Carnevalli's HMissa Rosa Mys- ments became peaceful once more Bachelor of Arts, 'Magna cum tica;" appropriat~ anthems were when he began." At the evening laude', to sung for proCessional and recessional, exercises Paul LaMontagne presentADRIEN M. RICHARD, Bourbon- and the . Proper of the Mass was ed the F lag to the College in the nais, Ill. Thesis: "Conference sur la chanted. After Mass there was to name of the Academy graduating Tragedie et la Comedie Francaises be a Procession to the flag pole for class; Father Maguire made t he au XVII Siecle." the traditional flag pole presentation, speech of acceptance. Next followed Bachelor of Arts, 'Magna cum but ra.in interferred; instead, Father the awarding of diplomas to t he laude', to Maguire blessed the flag in Chapel academy graduates, and the conferJAMES P. FITZGERALD , Chicago, and postponed the formal presenta- ring of medals. Monsiguor Connor 111. T hesis: t'Bismarck and German tion until the evening. The gradu- closed the exercises with a few Unification." ates breakfasted in the Faculty Re- words of congratulation and advice Bachelor of Arts, to fectory. to the young graduates. JOHN LASALLE McMAHON, The Academy Commencement ExClinton, Ill. Thesis: "The Philosophy ercises were he ld in the evening at of Thomas Hardy." eight o'clock in the gymnasium, with Superior General tne Rt. Rev. Msgr. F. F. Connor, Honors St. Viator Bachelor of Arts, to Chancell or of the Rockford Diocese DONALD T. LAENHARDT, Chi- pres iding. The choir sang a couple cago, Ill. Thesis: "Religious Tolera- of anthems and Mr. Roch of the Music The Very Rev. F . M. Roberge, c. tion in the Constitution." . Department performed with a pro- s. v., Superior General of t he Clerics Bachelor of Arts, to of St. Viator, arrived in Bourbonnais cessional on the piano. The Academy JOHN THOMAS SMITH, Manteno, graduates presented the usual Acad- Friday, June 14, for his Canonical Ill. Th esis: "Galsworthy, The Novel- emy Commencement speeches: Joh n Visit of the houses of the Community ist of Manners." Hodge delivered the Salutatory; John in the United States Bachelor of Arts, to Since arriving in America abo ut Gallagher read the Class History; SIMON NAPOLEON LEGRI S, the Class Will was read by John April 1st, he has been visiting t he Bourbonnais, Ill. Thesis: "Napoleon Kells; and the Class Prophet was houses of the Canadian Province, Bonaparte: The General." read by Paul LaRocque; t he Vali- whence he comes to this country. He dictory was given by Norbert John- will remain here several weeks at Bachelor of Arts, to least and will preside at the Annual ROGER C. DROLET, Bourbonnais, son. The address of the evening, the Ill. Thesis: "A Philosophical Treat- Address to the Graduates, was de- Retreat next week. Fa.ther Roberge is staying at t he ise Showing the Possibi lity of livered by the Rev. John P. O'Mahoney, c. s. v. Father O'Mahoney Provincial Residence in Bourbonnais Miracles." eloquently pointed out to the young (Continued to page seven) Bachelor of Arts, to MARIO CHANOUX MASCARINO, Bourbonnais, Ill. Thesi s: "My Method of Teaching Modern Foreign LanAcademy Honor Roll- Second Semester, 1929 guages." Bachelor of Commercial Science, to JOH N AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Rockford, Ill. Thes is: "The Wastes of HONOR ROLL STUDENTS Competition." Name Year Pts. Subj. Bachelor of Commercial Science, to "A" STUDENTS THOMAS HANAHAN, Broadwell,
Ill. Thesis: "The Struggle for a La Montagne, Paul M. Federal Child Labor Law." Clay, Paul E. Bachelor of Commercial Science, to McMahon, Francis J. CYRIL J. RYAN, Seneca, Ill. Cinquina, Vincent Thesis: "The Effect of Machinery on P eckham, Cyri l G. Labor.u O'Brien, John P. Bachelor of Commercial Science, to DONALD J. McCARTHY, Rockford, Ill. Thesis: "The Advantages and Disadvantages of Electric Rail- Michels, Phillip B. I roads over Steam Through the Moun- O'Neill, Thomas C. tains. " Kennedy, Bernard G. Bachelor of Commercial Science, to Hartigan, Ha,rry J. JOHN HERBERT, Gifford, Ill. Kelly, Vincent J. I Thesis: "The Effect or the Collection Crowley, Richard A. of th e War Debt on American Bus i- Crow ley, James .1. Hayes, Lawrence P. ness." ' Kane, \Villiam F. Bachelor of Commercial Science, to Mockler William R ST EPHE:--1 FRANC I S LONG, Sym- Hartqui ~t, Donald merton, Ill. Thesis: "Th e Wage Johnson, Nor bert ,J. Drassler, Loui.'i N. 1 System as Yiewed by the Worker." Bachelor of Commer cial Science, to Hebert, Louio A. LINUS B. ~lEIS, Fairbury, Ill. )!ailloux, Leo E. Thesis: ··The Development and Oper- Sheridan, James B. ations of Agricultural Banks." Walsh, Walter J. Bacbt-lor of Commercial Science. W Diai, \\'illiam N. GEORGE COLLI:--I S, Franldort, Keegan, ~ormoyle T. 1 K}·. The~i-:;: ..Timber Depletion." : Devine, Francis P.
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Emerson has tu.de of hi s own heart a nd energetic Your Banking Home Ent,ered as second class matter at the Post-office uf Bourbonnais, Illinois, mmd. Hence, the rea l_ man wa lks appointed the Rev. Joseph Lonergan 105 Court Street under the Act of March 3rd, 1379. thro ugh the wor ld With a . heart of Rockford, Ill inois, chapla in of the ======== = hungry for the attamment of JUStiCe 33rd Division of the Illinois National KANKAKEE, ILLINOlfl Toast: Th is we have taken to be t he between men, fi 1l ed wit h huma n sym- Guard This comm ission former ly high task set for us by our Alma pathy for the poor and t he dis tressed, held .by the late Fath~r John L. 0 Mater, and this ideal we ha ve 1mpelled by a hope t hat good r ims O'Donnell, carries with it t he rank Everybody Likes --striven to attain durin g our four and g laddens t he horizons of men, of li eutenan t colonel. Father LonerBy Donald .J. McCarthy, B. S. '29 years here. The message was a strengthened with the co u,·a.ge of gan was formerly natio nal chaplai n ___ lofty one, and how far we have sue- Chris t to make the Evangel of th e of the American Legion. I do not fee l obliged to trans late ceeded ca n at least be partly s hown Saviour des ired and cheris hed by We Supply St. Viator College into Engli sh the title of my toast by Alma Mater herself, who lays her men. Fired with the noblest of a ll James (Chick) Evans was down becau~e , not being in t he a rts de- :·.and of ap proval on us today, her idealism are t hey who dedi cate t heir F. 0. Savoie Company par tment, I fee l that Latin lies jus t parting sons. li ves to making the fa ith of Christ recently to vis it his friends. He is 1 Distributor now working in ihe brokerage office outside my province. I did hear There were times when the high known and to preserving it pure in some of the classica l graduates trans- mission to which she called us seemed the mind of the modern world, which of Farnum and Winter, Chicago. late it, kind mother, but t hat is too impossibl e of at tainment. For four they desire to transmute according , - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - suggestive of t he joke abo ut the years her kind and helpful teachers, to t he pattern of Chris t- the master kind face, funny kind; then some men of t hat g r eat Fourth Order of of poetic vis ion, and tragic son. They Ciceronian sa id nourishin g mother Kings, have given to us the necessa ry are the bu ilder s of arches and t he Sidney Herbst, Pres., and General Manager but I thought that had somethin g to encouragement and ins pira tion to arc hitects of li ves where through DINING ROOM MAGNIFICENT BALL ROOM do with the mea ls, a to uchy subject susta in us when it seemed that the t here gleams to the heart of men t he for all college men, a nd I wou ld not ni g ht of disco uragement and fa ilure comfort born in Bethlehem, and t he A hearty welcome awaits the student and have any one t hink me ironic. I could woulU envelop us in im penetrable hope of the resurrection. It is befriends of St. Viator College not admit benigu mother for I do darkness . They have guided our cause men have attempted and not kn ow what the word means and f altering steps t hrough the intr icate achieved this that t he world chants NORTHEAST CORNER SCHUYLER AT MERCHANT besides, it so unds too much like be- maze of knowledge, taught us to their praises a nd that the true per- 1 .. ni g hted whi ch wou ld never do for a avo id the spacious attractions of t~ip i ents of real g reatness vis its them seat of learn ing. error, and fina 1ly led us to th e sacred with the crown of dig-nity and honor. 1- - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - Alrna Mater , I take it, means one s hrine of tr~th, ~ability, and beauty. Today St. Viator honors three of thing to a Har vard man, a nother to By s uch htg h 1deals have we been her sons, who have received such a Notre Dame mall, and quite some- g uided and thus have we striven to dignity and in honoring them, she thing else to an Illinois grad ua te. It attai n their nobility, by which I also honors herself. Some years ago implies something individual and I mean, that excellence of m ind, char- they walked her campus and her hall s, s pecia l, intimate and close but to us acter and morality which lifts a ma n wherein they dreamed the dreams and I' ' ' and other g r aduates and students of above th~ mere mundane and makes saw the vision by which th ey were on this co ll ege it means St. Viator's. him aspire for eternal truth as his their way attended. From her they Not, mind you, the buil d in gs, the ultima.te goal. But there can be no received t he inspirat ion to turn their gro un ds , the class r oo ms, professors, morality without reli gion and he 1·e faces to the East only to behold the 32 SOUTH SCHUYLER AVE. and students, as individuals and in t hese class ic halls, we have learn- vision. of heaven s hining through the se parate, for these are formal, but ed t hat religion is the very soul of gateway of the moon, w hich was it means a ll of these fused together, m an. These, in brief, are the lesso ns consecr a t ed f or them, beca.use behind · - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ftom which arises the s pirit of St. which our Alma Mater imparted to the splendor of the day, Christian Viator , far more beautifu l than the us as we sat at her feet and dra.nk ed ucators had taught them to see the We have clothes for young men, mature men, University fabled goddess born of the sea s urf. deep of her sacred !ores. infini te and unspeakable beauty of men-in short we're now showing It is the warmth of that fire of love, Alma Mater, the ver y words con- t he ete~nal God a nd the fair chivalry holiness and lea.rning t hat was lit note Alu mnus or Alumni, foster sons. of Christ rid e on fair horses, whose many years ago by the brave pioneers We, her new born a lumni, pledge to banners a.ttracted them to the quest who founded this College; that fire her t his day our life l on~r fid elity. As of personal sanctity and to their own that has g lowed eve r s ince, nourished a son loves his mother a nd makes enrichmen t in such companionship. by the self sacrifice and devotion of a ll his actions tend towards her It was in t he s ilence of our halls the men of St. Viator's, where we greater honor, a<S he carrier her name that they heard the loveliness of God come from out a bookless and Godless hi g h in his mind, as he esteems and echoing and appealing to them, that world to gather round its hospitable respects her, so we love, honor, if they would be great, they should hearth. It is more, it is t he wa.rmth esteem and respect our Alma Mater. leave the tarnished la.nd of the orof a mother's love where we callow 'We s hall assist her as we wou ld our dinary and the spurious and soar to The House of Kuppenheimer Good Clothes fledglings nestle close to feed on her own mother a nd we shall r eturn to the heights, where many fear to very life's blood and to grow strong vis it her as dutiful sons, knowing tread. It was here they r ead the in truth, justice and the lo ve of God. that we shall receive with our foster mystic and beautiful volumes that Four years ago we carne to this brothers, her Alumni, a hearty and the secret of life consists in personal college seeking wisdom and know- ~ generous welcome. These things we fulfillment and that gave t_h em the ledge and that training which we promise her today. courage in age to accomplish the need either to continue our higher Across our brow she has left t he dreams of their youth. In the s low learning or to face the problems of impress, deep cut, of nobility. This rotation of our school year, they Forty,two years' experience in supplying Qujllity Food life. 'l'h~se four years have fled as is her _mark upon us and we shall learned the sanctity which they later Products for institutional and restaurant requireon the wmgs of ft~ncy and today we carry h1gh our heads to s how it to gave to their flock enabling them to ments has perfected our service and our stand about to say 'farewell.' Four the world at large, that the world walk in virtue and righteousness. In years ago our Alma Mater said to us may know the kind of sons which St. J the chapel they heard and -felt the values beyond ordinary comparison. jj\VE' give you welcome, your flight Viator produces. allure of Christ and learned the Our Edelweiss trade mark has become the syml:>ol of fine from out your book less wilds would j beauty of his mission to help the quality foods economically packed. Wherever, close and seemJohn Ellis, of the class of 1928, poor, to aid the sick, to comfort the As arguing love of knowledge and and Warren McClelland, of the class 1 afflicted and to bring the peace of intelligent buying prevails our Catalog is of interest. of power of 1928, are back from Washington, / Christ to the distressed of heart and Knowledge is no more • fountam D C. and were present at the Com- the broken m spirit, nay the magic sealed ,mencement exercises last week . Leo of Viator taught them the glory in Manufacturing Wholesale Grocers Drink deep! Dee, William (Tiny) Kelly and Gus which the philosopher speculates and l But better not come here than not Sheedy were also seen around the 1 the poet dreams-to become as other CHICAGO be noble." ·campus last week. I Christs to free the heart from the ~-------------------------------
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RECENT ADDITIONS TO VIATOR ALUMNI baritone voice provided some really in~·piring solos. At the village church j he attained t_h e reputation of drawing people espectally to hear him sing. A f~er graduati~n he entered the Via-. 1 tonan commumty and spent a year of novitiate life in South Dakota. Relurning to college in 1925 he began the struggle for a bachelor's degree. Progress was slow and s uecess came only after long and perI severi ng study . 'When it did come it was we ll worth while. He won fint honors in Philosophy and in F1ench. At the close of his college career he revea led hidden tal ents in oratory by delivering the Decoration For a number (Jf years the "Rock- day £peech in the style of a dyed-inford Club" at St. Viator College has the-wcol orator. He wi ll be rernernbeen one of the best known and most bered by hi s classmates fo r his prominent of the undergraduate courteous and amiable di spos ition groups. This year, the Senior class and l;y the unflagging energy which of 1929 is s ignally honored b)' having he put into every undertaking.
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within its •·a nks three of Rockford's most representative young men. To the fore, in this di stinguished group, stands t.he name of James AJlen No lan, better known to every single ((•llow on the campus as plain ' ·A 1. 11 lie came to St. Viator from St. Thomas ll igh School wilh a hislo ry and a r8puta.tion and has s pent his four years here in adding to that good name earned in hi s earli er yt-ars. I n dcpat·ting from his chosen t•ducational resort, "AI" takes with him more than hi s share of graduate hono t H. During each of the four years !'pent h£'re, he waR a member of t.he St. Viator Debating t.cam a nd, Ln ADRIEN J\1 . RICH AR D. A. B. his !'>enior y('ar, he managed one of the most suceessfu l debate schedules During the eight years that Adrie n that has <~ver Ueen und ertaken by any of Viator's forensic n~pr·esenta has spent in t he rooms and co rr idors tive~. As a .Iuni(Jr "AI" was elected of Marsi le Hall in wi nn ing a college one of Viaprt-~id<'nl of the- Collegl' Club and he education, he has been dit·l•cted lh<~ courst' of lh<:> club dur- tor':; mos i respected and honored ing 1H27-2H with t.he very admi rabl e gentlemen. Yout hful in appea 1·ance, uhi li ty thut is s(' charatt.eri stic of sm iling, and brightly intelligent alhim. Thi ~ yt:a r , the politil-al an d ways; hi s per sona.li ty was s uch to the li ves of hi s pl·obusin<'~H Hll'uirs of the Senior class bring joy into Wt-re plill'NI in his <'Xl·eedingly cap- fe~:sors and warmth into the hearts of his fellow students. There is no nhl(• humh;. llis s<~ll'<'llon as Validictnriun of t lw graduating e lu ~s <:li- cause to wonder thai he was chosen nmxcs l'uur yf'nn.; of sp lendid and I to give t he toast (" r o Our Professor s" Uflt>'Ct:£•11t·d ~<· holaJ·:~.hip, which at:- at the Se nior Class Banquet. A more t'fllllpli~hnll'nt was honon•d hy the appropriate <:hoi-.:e <:ould not have cl\\ nrd uf tla· nwdal for t IU' lllghest b~eu mad€' \\"hat student, other than ,.;dmlat ship annually pn•Sl•nlcd tu t·ongemal, Willi ng: studtou..c:; Adnen, till' dt' !'\l'l \ tnf{ stthh.·nt U) tht· Very would have JU::itlhed the honor that Ht•\. \\ .I. Supl'rnn nt , <. !"'. v. Ut( ompamed hts ~e l ect ton fo 1· the "AJ',.." ub~t·Jll'l' 1wxl yt•ur will be toast., The sim ple phrase "magna '~utt•ly ft·lt hy hoth fnnllty and ~tud t·um laud e" that rt'poses on his t·nt . lit• hn truly ht•t~ n •·the f.-iend diploma is a ~imple declaration of ttlld hl·lpmult• uf tlw uld<•J f.-llow~. thl· qualities and virtues of the man. tlw dirt•etur und l'Utlnst-"1Jo 1 of thf" Tht' students of the college, his class1 yuuugt·r um•s." mate~ in the graduating cla!i:;, and hi; fri<•nds without number in his homt• town. Bourbonnais, may well ht· proud to know und to t:laim as a f1·iend, able and highly esteemed \drit-n.
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Ition very near the top of the list and I his name was among those illustrious five that were given honorable mention by the Dean at the graduation ce1emonies. This year, John went out for debating and his success in this line is attested by the very phenomenal s uccess e njoyed by t he Bergin Del:ating Society as a whole. He played his part ·well and his name wi ll be ;dentified in the future with those memorable sgnatures that now grace the scroll of Viator's great orators of the past. He was chosen to favor those w ho attended the graduation e..xercises with the bachelor oration, uThe Winning of Catholic Ema nci patio n. " His experience as a debater s tood him in good stead as he made his final appearance as a Viator student speechmaker. John's brilliance a nd appli cation s hould carry hirn far in his journey through lile no matter what path he may choose to fo llow.
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DON T . LAENHARDT, A. B. Dan's accomplishments during his three and one-ha lf years at St. Viator were eq ualled in number only by the many and va ri ed activities in which he took part. And the degree of perfection which he attained in eac h of hi s chosen pursuits is easily proved by the adm iration and esteem of hi s numerous fr iend s. Don tired or life at the University of Illinois very early in hi s fres hman yea r and joined Viator's ranks as the second !'lemester opened . As an at hlt'le, he earned an envia ble reputat.ion; on the gridiron, on the indoor court, and on the diamond. Baseball was his forte and his ability in this line won for him the captaincy of thto nine Um·ing the past year. Dan's prowe:;s was not confi ned to the playing field, however. His very exc~ptional
JOHN T. SM ITH, A. B. In bewailing the loss to an institution of a Senior class as a whole, one does not overlook its most representative member s. T o begin: Many years ago a. small, fla xen-ha ired lnd in knee breeches drifted across the furrowed fields fr om Manteno, I llinois, kn ocked at the registrar's office (just below the do orknob) and asked to be a dmitted into the Academy freshman class. The good s ister$ of Manteno had provided him with the necessary credentials in the for m of an eig hth grade diplorna, so the doors of St. Viator Academy wer e thrown open to him. For eight long yea1·s no one was closer to St. Viator College, her stud ents, her fac ulty and her a lumni. Each s um (ner vacation found John onl y a s hort seven miles fro m school; each fall term found John again prepared to matriculate at Viator. Amiable, talkative, r eminiscent, a lways; he was ever the goal of a r eturning a.lumnus of both Academy and College. Truly, t he s tudents are not alone in their g ri ef at Smitty's leavetaking; the a lumni also, in gaining him, Jose a valued friend at the College. Prominent in intra-mura l nthletics, Smitty lacked only the stature necessa.ry f or vars ity material. This fact was a great str oke of good fortune f or Father Kell y, who elected Sm itty to manage the athl etic teams of St. Viator during t he year 1928-29. Th e little manager's pronounced liking for clean sports, his knowl edg e of ath letics in ge neral, a.nd hi s excellent managing ab ility placed him far above any other athletic managers in the state. Surely no one would co ntJ·adict "Brick" Young's la udstions in t he "Swishn co lumn of "The Daily Pantagraph" w her ein he s poke of "state universities hoping and praying for the type of manager that J.,r. Kelly possessed this year." Beloved alike by students and facu lty after so long a sojo urn on Viator's campus, Smitty departs, loaded with the felicitations of a host of friends and well wishers.
brilliance in his studi es ------placed him among tne honor students in hi s {.')ass. As a member of the Bergin U<·bating Society he won his spurs ulung with hi~ classmates, I Solan ami .\£cMahon. His bachelor oration, t-ntitled, "The Results of I <'u tholic . Emancipation" was typical of his ability both a.; u. writer and as un 01 a tor. Hi· <·upability as a scribe \\a.; rt>l:O,KIIU.t-<.1 and wa:; offered a dwn~.:t• fur t>xpr·esston in hb office a s PuLli(·rty 'tunagt-r and again, as a ft•ulun· \\ ritt-1· for the Viatorian. "Lt-fty'" ali'tJ dabbt:d iu politics, being .1 nolll!nH' unJ a l'lO~~ ii€COnd to SDIO:-. ~. LEGRIS. A. B. tht~ yt"ar' <~ollt!gt- ( lub Pre:-iiclent, .Itt} \\ .ul on. In tht" St'nior cla~:-. re~ t>lectu.m 1o cu "itJnt>d by the with· Still another Legr i::, ha~ bf·..-n gradJllH"\ l.. ' " " \110' . \ . fi . Jr:.l.\1. ~ll of Prt-Sh.lt-nt .\lit: had Delaney uat~:d from Viator's halls. ()nc·..- morf' .... J 11mOng the in \vr• ) hl.t'fty• 9ia madt- \'iee· the namf:" that ha'i long b£"f'n idPntifif"d de'olote-t.· of ;-;t. \'istor pr 1dt>nt. Takmg 11.ll m all, Don•s with thE- Bourt.J,r.~nnais I(JII~<ge is t...-pre1t"O '-' ~' " tuJent wa ftlt in in~ carrl.-d int() th~> world tJn thf< r\it'r) braoch ()( t-nJeavor and it IS cap~ bit- lhr.~uld··r or a hi~h roind~d. vilth a !t: ling of deep anJ sinc.-re studious yt>ung g€'ntleman, Simon rrgrt>t that the undergl'1lduate~ of lA-Y"rU:. After f-i~ht ytar:!l llpt:nt in pht.JIDO"-" )it!' r. })t,trtng the thr 1thP Aead~my and 10 C:viiF-g£-, ,:,unt.~n t:m ten that tht:> .bollOr ron·· ha Vtator WltnHS his departure-.
has completed the journey and has been released in to the world with a reputation already secure. H e is a student. His final act before sailing away from his chosen educat ional plant was to pluck for himself one of the rnost difficult awards, the History Medal, donated by R ev. Dr. Peter Guilday of the Catholic University of Washington, D. C. With his passing the Viator student body loses one of its learned and able histori ans.
ROGER C. DROLET Thoug h prophet' be disregarded in their own coun ty Viator r eceives full r ecog nition by her ow n. Roger C. Drolet, together with his three brothers acknowledged his home Collego's ability to g ive h im a thorough Catholic educa.tion. Daily for the four years of hi g h school he made hi s way over to the classrooms to absorb the elern ents of secondary education. He was ever a dihgent and consc ientious stud ent but at this peri od of his life matters of far g r eater interest absorbed his utten · tion. It was the t im e of t ho radio 's first entrance into pub lic life. And Roger with his roorn full of wireless broadcasting apparatus spent hi s s pare moments in con vers ing ucross the contin ent with other adventurer & in the fi eld. After graduation, with six of his classmates, he lis tonC'd to the call of his Divine Mastet· and e mbraced the relig ious life in t he Vi.ator ia n commu nity. A yeut· inte r vened in w hi ch he devoted hirn se lf to a study or the r eligious life. ~rh e n returning to college he began four arduous years of intensive st udy. Before the end of th e lost year s ickness p1·evented him from fini shing. He added a fifth ycu r of co ll ege work and comp let.ed hiM cou rse with ease. ll e majored in philo,ophy and wrote a thesis on miracu lQuB intcrvention!:J. His co llt"ge care(lr marks him out as & man of strong character. Unassuming, gl!nia l and cou rteous h€! was a so urc<· of happinesM and edification to hi K fellow eta_.. m(~n. Men of his <:nlibre will ever bring re~pect and r('cognition t.o th<• colleges they attend. (Continued on fo urth page) Thf' tE:-n Vu:ttQrilln S<·minarianK who have bc•·n •tudying Theology at tho ( 'ut htJii<· UniVf·rsily in Wa!'lhington, [J. ( '. thf• past yh..tr h&v~ rl~turm·d to thf' ('ollf'g(• for th(· vacati()n. The YNH dr,~~f·d with tht· unnua l t1rdl na tif,n <·f·remcJOihi, at which Brr,th f' r •.Jarrtt!s SN.-. and BrtJlhf•r .1. B. Wllliama wf·n· fJrduinNJ ~uh-dNJ.('fJOR, and HrMhf·r .}. 'f. f<yan a.nd JJrc,thr,r .1. K Surprl·n&nt giv,·n tonKurr· and mint,r t,~rdf~r:t. Brothf'r \Villiam, u.ll'J'' n•ct-ivtd hi .\ta ... tN t,~f Art ri~>gr~>t· at th~> Ca.tht,}k Univ~>nity C(Jrnmforll'~nl,..nt; hv rnajr,rtd in Polititlt amJ wo.~te his thv:::tll r,n thv k,..Jation~ bt·tWfotn th~> UniUd Stat~" and • :ir&r&.V,u;.a.
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The last meeting of the Coli•~ was held Monday e\·:~ing, llay 1l, tn the Clu b room. Retmng Pre<i. dent \r atson presided at the m~ting j unt il the regular business of th e meetmg :vas c~ear~d. Then the process of mstallmg the newly elected officers of the Club was in order. President \Vatson gave o ''ery tin~ fatewel l talk to the assemb led mem ~ b7rs. in w hi ch he .parti cul arly s tressed his mtense des ire to see a closer union and a more perfect s pirit of cooperation existing between the facul ty a nd the s tudent body of SL Vistor Coll ege. Mr. Watson also made a suggestion in regard to n proposed new plan for co llec ting the insurance assessment from each mem. ber. In concluding, the retiring p1 esid ent expressed his appreciation of the genuine spirit of fraternalism that existed in the Club. After Mr. Watson had closed his remark s, Mr. Vallely claimed the ftoo1 and proposed that the Club give the pr es~dent a ri sing vo te of ap. 1STEPHEN FRANCIS LONG , B. C. S. preciation for his work in their be~ half during t he past year. The memOne of the steadiest, most reliable bers present responded unanimously : men on the campus, Steve was pri- and Mr. Watso n very earnestly and 1 maril y a s tudent. H i.s grades for blushi n gly thank ed them. Pres ident-e lec t Warne was then The big boy from Fairbury had j th e four years prove this; .his prointroduced to the members and the one great ambition as he climbed the fess~rs, every one of t~ em , will vouch oath of office was administered by ladder to his senior year and his fo r Jt. He played. an Important part the retiring pres ident, who handed degree. Studies were easy f or him; each year in Semor L eague basketthe gavel to the new chairman, Mr. he took them and passed them as a ball and base bal l. He made the varLloyd 0. Warne. matter of course. But he lo ve d and s ity nine in his se nior year and was In his inaugural address the new li ved athletics, and footba ll held th e a va luable asset to the fieldln g forces president stru ck an optimistic note spotlight for him. There has never of th e outfit. That his re liability in predicting g1·eat things for the been a greater, more va luable end j was r ecognized b~ .his _fellow. studco ming year under the new regi.me. on the Viator gridiron, nor one w ho ! ents was confir~ec.t m h1 s election to H e dwe lt in particular on the problem played t he game with such avidity t he secretarysh ip . of the College Club of making St. Viator College a better and evident joy. In losing Linus, the I last yea r . Th1s JOb entailed a great known and a better liked institution, Viator grid machine loses a stern arnount of wntmg and note-takm~, pointing out th e various means by bulwark in the defense and an ef- 1 and the very ca.pable manner m which the High School students of fici ent battering ram in the offense. 1 which Steve disc harged the duties of Kankakee might be attracted to St. Do not conclude from this that Linus his offi.ce speaks well for his future Viator at the end of their prepara· was all meat and muscle. Far from j success as a man of the world. tory course. In co nc lus ion, President it. Hi s name held a prominent pos iWarne made a s pecial plea for studtion on the honor roll both semester s ent assistance during the ensuing this year and his work in the comyear, prom1smg in return his un~ mercia l departments was of a very I divided and untiring attention to the s up erior calibre. The story is cur· program which he had outlined. r en t, too, that he intends to go on Refres hments in the shape of ice with his outdoor sports, but in a 1 I cream and cooki es were served to new and different field. The morn· I th e entire group of members present. ing after graduation exe rcises were over at t he college Linus sa.t at a I desk in Rantoul, Illinois, puzzhng over the entTance examination that will act as a passport into the 1 United States Aviation Corps. H is The recent clergy changes anaggressiveness a nd love for the game nounced by the Rt. Rev. Edmund M. w ill carry him to heights equally as Dunne, D. D., Bis hop of Peoria, con· ' great as those attained at Viator. GEORGE COLLINS, B. C. S cern a number of the clerical alumni : of St. Viator College. Rev. John F. Barrett, who was graduated from Six years ago a red-haired, tall, the College in 1924 and ordained from DONALD J . ~ l cCA RTHY , B. C. S. be-spectacled yout h dropped off the st. Paul Seminary las t sp ring, has train that had just came up from teen tra nsferred from St. Columba's Another Iri shman from the Swedish Kentucky and immediately took up Church, Ottawa, whe r e he has been Settlementl \Vh en the O'Malleys the march toward s that coveted goal I ass istant pastor, to St. Patrick's and the Nolans made t heir exodu s J of ~II fres h m e~, a college degree. r Church, Bloomington. The Rev. E. from Rockford la te in 1925 a nd ended Durmg those SIX years George was S. Dunn has been remo ved from the their journey in the village of Bour1ather quiet, keeping to his studies, pastorate of S t . Patrick's Church, bonnais, they found that one of the enjoying an occasion! tri.p to the 1 Wapella, and has been given charge i\IcCarthys hnd tf.gged along behind ravine, a strenuous hour or two on of St. Mary's Parish, T iskilwa, where t hem . Don went ou t for football as the tennis cou~·ts, and more often, a he succeeds another alumnus, .the soo n as he gol to College because it round or two In the hand ball a lleys. Rev. E. J. Walsh, w ho recently d1ed. seemed that most of the ot.her boys "Smi ling J awn" from Gifford deGeorge's chief ability and interest, Rev. Paul H. Kurzynski, ordained were doing that same thing. Sue- serves to have a book written about hcwever, seemed to center about the from St. Louis in 1927, and now of 01 cess came slowly to 1\Iac." His own him :nstead of a short paragraph. swimming pool and it was in the S acred Heart Church, Moline, will terminology used at a pep meeting The eig ht years that he spent at THOMAS HANAHAN , B. C. S. capacity of dash man in the "Little exchange places with the Rev. last fall might best describe his Viator were profitable ones for t h e Ninetee n swimming meets of the Eugene McLain, ordained in 1928 1 l ise to fame. '"Mac" says, 'You see, old schooL Prominent in every spor t The young gentleman from Broad- 1 past two years that he earned quite from St. Paul, and who ·has been for we were gettin' beat about 63 to 0 both in High School an d in College, well joined us at the beginning of a name fo r himself, not to mention a th e last year at H oly Trinity Church, and things looked pretty bad for the Jchnny's specialty was basebal l. Dur- 1his Junior year and almost immedi- 1 number of conference medals and Bloomington. Two priests recentlY Irish . All the football players on ing the past three years he regularly ' ate ly dropped into Viator ways and other awards. He took part in orda ined have been given their first our bench were either injured or occupied a berth on McAllister's Viator habits. Tom was an ath lete I Senior League basketball and two ap pointments: Rev. Edward Farrell sick . except the water boy, who had pitching staff. On the gridiron, he of some note, although, since he had games can be distinctly recalled that , will go to Sacred Heart ehurch, Rock n sore toe. and myself. The coach j fought side by side with his buddy transferred from another sc hool, he were won single-handed by his I sland and Rev. E. A. O'Connor has looked at me rather doubtfully, rnd roommate, Meis, in the line. was not eligible to take part in timely work i.n shooting the winn ing been appointed assistant at St. scratched his head, and finally said, ] In his Junior year during the basket inter~ollegiate sports during his basket just before the final gun Mary's, East Moline. 'l\lac. you get in there and fight!' ball season, Jo hnn y's legs went back first year with us . In his Senior sounded. H iS'· unassuming and gen- 1 1 \Veil. ahem. l went in there and let on him and he was forced to give up year, howeve r, Tom carved a name tlemanly attitude, coupled with his fellow students. Viator will not be some b:g ~30 pound guard walk all t~e game and with it, h.is g~ard posi- for himse~f in t~e V:ato.r ha ll of amiable and nev~r-failing good- ~ the same place when sch ool re:ope~ O\'er me for the rest of the game. tton on the team. Easy-gomg, good fame by his work m the hne on the ! natu1·e gained for him a place close next fall when George Colhns lS After the game was O\'er, the coach natured, and smiling, he was always \ football team and by his superb: to the hearts of his classmates and not here to begin another year. 1
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hands with me and sa 1d I was a tighter. Ever smce that day I've been m the line as a sort of obstacle for the b1g guns in t he bpposing !me to cl1mb a ll over before t hey get to our back field." \Vhatever the break that. put "Mac" in a regular football s uit, ~t was a fortunate one for Viatcr Though com paratively small, "Mac" carries more fight m his stocky frame than man y a wi ldca t trai ner. With his graduation passes one of the most original of co11 eg·!ate "wits." Seldom serio us, ever joking, he carri es with him a truly great JOH N A UST I.'I (J'M AL LE Y, B. c. s. an d .wond erful per sonality. Every pet son who eve r came in con tact with otory about John Austin Don is his deep and li.felong friend. A " Ducky" O'Malley and hi s life at St. Viator College, especia ll y of his seni or yea r , dO(~s not see m co mplete i without some mention of hi s c l ass~ mate and roommate, Stephen Francis Long. Indeed, lt is with great diffi culty t. hat one attempts to write se p ~ra t e acco 11n ts about these two inse parables. 41 Ducky'' leaves hi s A lma Mater w:th th e r eputation of bei ng one of the greatest a ll-round J a thl etes ever produced here. Starr in ~, I actually eclipsing, the work of h1 s teammates in each of Viator's th ree major sports, he has pract.ica lly se t the "Li ttle Nineteen" wor ld on fire . Great in baseba1l ; greater in footCYRI L J. RYAN, B. C. S. ball , a.nd s upl'eme in basketball; his name appeared on more a ll-conf erence selections in the last two years Seneca, Illinois was again represt ha n has the name of an y other I ented in th e graduating class, this "Little Nineteen" ath lete. As far as time m the person of Cynl Ryan . perso nality is co nce rn ed, "Ducky's" "Cy" came to St. Viator in the fall loft y position in the wo1·1d of sport of 1925 a nd enro lled a.s a freshman . made no impress ion upon him . I For four years he labored and now, Modest, a lways beam·ng a good- ' in the spring of 1929, he has reached natured word to everyo ne, he s~t [ the ~ovet~d prize, h is ~- C. S . degree. enthron ed deep in the hearts of his Durmg h1s years at VIator 11 Cy" ha s sc hool mates. Hi s graduation leaves I been more sociall y inclined than a vaca ncy in Via t.o r athletics that athletically or otherwise . Before a wi ll l::e very d ifficult to fill. So long prom or any other socia.l function as hi s memory is ch eri sh ed at ViatOI:, ! "Cy" was to be found in the midst of he w: ll ever be to t he idoli zing stud - t he preparations for the affair, aident a lesso n in unass uming greatness . ing the "bosses," more often, acting j ''.S chairman of a group of workers. He was intensely interested in intra mural spo rts, contributing his share to the keen co mpetition in both ba.sketball and baseball. His se!ection as acti ng secretary of th e Senior class attests his popularity, his ability, and his ever-present spirit of good fellowship.
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THE VIATORIAN
Monday, June 17, 1929.
O'Connell and Catholic Emancipation lli;h
This year the Centenary is being Catholic Emnncipalion." Wit hout., and l~nglish Cnlholics. These ca useR celebrated of something t.hnt. goes by however, ce11tering the whole rnovc- WC're, rnore than anything <'lsc, the the nnme of gnglish Cntholic Ernan- ment .for relig ious freedom in this revolutionary idea~ disHcminaled by cipntion. Although a eertain Irish- one net, thi::; paper will exarninc the the Fre nch Revolution, u.nd lhc.• growman, Daniel O'Connel1 1 i!m't exactly influences responsible for this telieC ing ~pir it of fn•(.•dorn in the world up for canonization by the Holy und then consider it~ signillc;tnCI:' and due to the new Liheralhnn in t..hought. ~. ; Roman Church, Ol' isn't 1wofessedly consequences. The fin:t o[ these influence:-;, the t' being proposed for deifi cation in the It has been sa id above t hat thC' Frenc.:h Jacohini s m, nffccted thC> hearts of Jri.sh pntl'iots, nevertheless Relief Act of 1829 was by no means Catholic~ of Irclnnd and r•;ngland judging from the volume and tone of an epito1n e of Catholic Emancipation. nn d helped to conv ince lhem they ~~ the literature npeparing these dnys Yet it can truly be cnllecl the cu lmin - s hould win lheir complete religious on the subject of O'Connell and ation of the movement in that a ll tho freedom. Tho second, tho New Emancipation, the poor casual reader varied influences res pons ible for that Thought, in Ro far as it was active is impressed with the conviction that 1elurtant r elief obta1in ed from 177J at al l, was infiuencing Engli s h public Irish nnd Engli~h Catholics were onwards reached a clim ax here: all opinion, not to regard Crvtholic~ with sti1l in\'olved in the darkness and Lhe conditions necessar y were pres- any 11cw and unusual sympathy, Out blo~dshed of the worst penal days ent for O'Connell to appear and ac- Lo look with a trifle more condescenuntil Daniel O'Connell ca1rte dashing complis h what he did. si on lhan before on religious differ· over the hills of Kerry to liberate his It is precarious to state dogmatic- cnces and with a good deal more conpeople. That he did liberate them ally what we1·e inAuenccs and what l.cmpt than ever on w hat it thought from something is certnin; and to we r e not. Nearly everything f1·om a dying sect, the Roman Catholic know from what he did not 1ibet·nte German metaphys ics to the Iri sh Church. them is to know precisely what potato famine has been connected. up The chaos in the nations of 8uropc Catholic Emancipation was not. in some sort of n casual wa.y with and the deep disturbance in itR Active persecution of Catholics the Catholic Emancipation of 1829, thought can be mention('d as innu. both in the Isle of Saints and in the and hns been lauded or blamed ac- ences, at lea st, of the bolter days for Isle that lies to the east had prac- cordingly. (Blamed is not used care- Catholics. But the scene can be viewtically succumbed to a sense of jus- lessly, for the thinkers, and editors cd much more rninutely by fo cu!:;ing tice, to fear, to satiety, or to what· too, are not at all unanimous in rc- first on England and then on Ire lan d, ever else you will, by the time Daniel garding the Emancipation of 1829 as and by scrutinizing clo,ely the poliO'Connell first saw the light of da1y an unmitigated good). Quotations tical, religious and intellectual land. over in Kerry in 1775. The laws had could be given ad nauseam from scape of the British Isl es. not been repealed: most of them had writers in current journals explaining England was not only disturbed: s imply become obsolete. In 1771 the the cause of the rnovement, and the she was quite unmi stakably a larmed. American shouts of "no taxation same quotations, and others too no Her concern was caused in some wjthout representationH had become doubt, could be culled from the musty measu re of course by the general sufficiently disturbing to the mother pages of learned historians. My spirit of revo lt sta lking through the c:ountry to aiJow the Irish Catholics theory concerning the causes of world during that dreary and bloody their first concession: the right to Emancipation may be but an echo of night whose twilight began in the <~take fifty acres of unprofitable bog many that have preceded, but it has seventeen.eighties and whose dawn for sixty-one years, with half an this advantage, namely, that it isn't wa s not to come until the third deacre of arable land adjoining, pro· long nor laboriously learned: it is cade of the next century. Napoleo ni c vided that it should not be within embodied in one word-chaos. exploits had done much to break one mile of a town." In 1774 ParliaThe idea is this: Europe was in down the insularity of England and ment graciously passed on a "relief" chaos politically, and above all, in- had enlarged her vision, making her bill that recognized the existence of te llectually. England wa.s chaotic more aware than she had been since the Catholics,-consoling ureliefu in· and was approac hin g an impasse. the Hundred Years "\<Var of the exist~ deed, but the Schoolmen tell us ex- Ireland was a seething volcano. And ence of the rest of the world. And istence is better than non-existence, what of O'Connell, for he is sup- the new vision alarmed her: for she and recognition of the existence of posed to figure a~ a cause 1 Chaos saw and tremb led. She saw what Catholics as subjects was certainly a again. The patriotic chaos in his own oppressed peoples were doing and 5tep forward toward emancipation. heart whipped his countrymen into s he trembled lest Ireland a lso s hould Four years later saw the repeal of activity. Ireland stirred because see-and not only see, but imitate. the worst of the penal Jaws respect- O'Connell stirred: England could not That is the political picture. Reliing "bishops, priests and Jesuits/' look on unmoved. giously, England was bankrupt; the law condemning the unfortunate Europe was in revolt in 1829. The justice, charity, principle, hurnanity, Catholics found keeping a school to Greeks were tired of Turkish domin· re-awakened syrnpathy for Catholics, perpetual imprisonment, and the ation and were searching the ca.pitals are all notoriously absent from laws that had made Catholics incap- of Europe for a king. Constantine arnong the possible causes of Eman•ble of acquiring real estate. Irish of the Poles was a ttempting to sever cipation. That is sufficient for the Catholics were allowed by la.w to his people from the tyranny of the re1igious picture-or perhaps I s hould teach from 1782 and English Cath- Russian Czar. Don Miguel had say, the religious negative. From an Jlics were given the privilege in 1791. usurped the throne of Portugal and analys is of the intellectual stat..e of [n this year also the English Parlin· plunged his country into civil war. England it is possible to conclude ment enacted that the Oath of The King of all the Belgians was just this much and no more: the Supremacy, which recognized the being set up independent of the libel·al s and rationalists, and their King of England supreme in spirit- Dutch Monarch of the Netherlands. number was not neglible, were comuals as well as in temporals, need Spain was testing with blood and ing to look with positive contempt on :~at be taken, and that hereinafter no fire the validity of the Pragmatic religious differences and could see )TIC would be called upon to declare Sanction. Pius VIII was dying in no harm in admitting to Parliament against the Doctrine of Transnb- Rome and the troublous days of men professing a creed that was stantiation. The modified and un- Gregory XVI, Mazzini, and 'Young believed to have pract..ically expired Jbjectionable Oath of Allegiance Ita.ly' were soon to dawn. France with the rnartyrs at Smithfie ld and Parliament allowed English Catholics was on the eve of its Revolution of Tyburn. Such men they may have :o take from 1791, admitted Catholics 1830. Even Prussia was troubled, thought a trifle fooli sh, but certainly nto the king's presence, and opened preparing for the Ir.nperial Germany most harmless. llp to them the legal and notarial that was to come. . As if an echo to Certainl y nothin g appears in the professions. In 1793 the first relief all this turmoil, far across the blue above review of European, an d more was given to the Catholics of Scot- Atlantic South America was in the particularly of English, conditions in land. Catholic 1·elief then ceased and birth throes of her Bolivian freedom. the second decade of the Nineteenth !10 more was obtained until O'Connell But wha.t has all this to do ·w ith Century capable of bringing about forced the English Parliament to Catholic Emancipation? It is rather that event whose Centenary we are in keeping. The most proba·ble inftu0 6:~~ ~~ce ~~~~!i::~!on of e~~~~d ~~:J~~:eslve~ha~ant~::e b: vc~;ses:~~ as ence was the downright fear possess·
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But. O'Connell i~ th(' F.:iHhopH, guilLy, for wil.,hout hirn I re la nd wou ld cd wi lli nR' to acquie~we a little in hu vc w•maint·rl impotent. favor of Lh(· I'~ngli Rh government on ThiH pHpc:r thu H far may f-fcem lhf• qtH·~tion of' the nomination of fdg·hlfully rhapsodical, hat. more l1is h Bi s hops, but O'Conn(•rl said that t·hari lnh ly il Hhould be considerNl allhough he wa.g wining to have his r~d..hcr a complicated Mo nala. 1L iH rf·ligion from Rom(· he must have nol t..hernclc·Hs, likC' a rh armody, hut hi s politics from home, and that the haH a definite theme, conH tantly re- f•:ngli!ih Crown s hould not be allowed fl•PPNlt' in g, f'VCn if in tran~po~cd keys · to tyrannize over Irelan d by control4 and amid di~L,.n.cting variation~. That ling it~ bi ~ hops. Something going Lhcmc is Lh c propoHition that chaos by the name of f~mancipation could brought.. abou l the Calho lic Re"Jief of have hecn obtained as early as 1800 182fJ. And the selling for Lhf.! next if the English government were movement is the heart of O'Connell, ~'l'ante d Lhe power o.f veto in the tlw th('me s till being chaos. nomination of Irish Bishops, but IliB hea1·t had been in chaos s ince O'Connell held out for complete the Sturm an d Drang period of hi s ~:manc·ipation, preferring strife and you th, when skepticism fought and dis sension to a fruitless peace. lost the duel with faith. O'Connell Th e stirring of the Irish people to was educated in the famous Cat holic a legal and bloodless resistance to coll egf's of F1·anc(', Douai and St. the power that had so long enslaved Omcr, where quite naturally he im - their co nscience is O'Connell's 1"9ost bibe-d other than .Jacobin principles. s ingular achievement. The story has When he studi ed law in London lhere often been told of his constant strugis evidence from his own journal to glc to arouse that broken s pirit of prove that his mind was wande1· ing his people to constitutional and throug·h philosophies dangerou s W peacefu l revolt. The culmination of th e faith and principles of the all this activ ity was, of course, the French colleges and of hi s Catholic Clare electio n of 1828, in which ancestors. Gibbon, Godwin and O'Connel1 defeated by a two-thirds Paine wet·e hi s :favorite authors at majority the Government candidate this time, and he also r ead with zest for the English Parliament. This was Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot and the beginning of the end of English Hume. Th ese men, not unnaturally, resistance to the Catholic claims for shook his .faith profoundly-but that complete Emancipation. The Prime faiih was profounder yet, and sur- Minister, who was the great Duke of vived. But with this we have little \Vellington, and Sir Robert Peel, his concern here. What is of interest ab le and patriotic colleague, whom here is that the reading of these men O'Connell loved to call 'Orange P eel', inclin ed him toward liberalism and saw that the good of England demade him long more intensely for manded that relief be given to the the deliverance of his people . It Catholi cs. The possibility of three must be remembel·ed also that it was million Irishm en being angered into not the blood of a common Irish pat- ~pe n revolt because their most popriot that flowed in hL-3 veins, for he ular countryman was denied his seat was sprung from a family that wor- at \Vesminster for the sole reason s hipped freedom almost as a god. that he 'vould not take an oath reThe exploits of his Uncle Count pugnant to his conscience, was what O'Connell are familiar to all students caused the alarm and disturbance in of Irish history, and Maurice O'Con- England mentioned some place above. nell, ano ther uncle, was a free Irish- Fear, and fear alone, compelled Peel man to the soul. to force through Parliament the Daniel O'Connell, then, had a heart Catholi c Relief Bill of 1829, which that was in turmoil for the deliver- finally admitted Catholics to Parliaance of his people. But all was not ment, and to practically all the higher chaotic, for hi s profound knowl edge milital'y and civil offices. Emancipaof the law, his brilliant intell ect, his tion then was won. sane and prudent reason, ordered his I hinted above that some maintain life and taught him that victory that the Catholic Relief of 1829 did co uld ultirnately be won only by sane more harm than good. These men and peaceful means. But the peace- base their contention on the fact ful m eans would never have been em- t hat some two hundred thousand ployed were O'Connell not the pat- Irishmen were deprived of the right ri.ot he wa s, had he not been stirred to vote by the very Act that admitso pass ionately over the oppression ted the Catholic to Parliament. But of hi s countrymen. O'Connell says t.he objection is weak, for the voters him self that "he whipped a race of in Ireland after a while became pre4 s la ves into manhood," a.nd it is pre· ponderately Catholic, and the denial cisely because he put the agitation of the franchise to a number of of his own heart into the breast of fris hrnen is not an evil at all proIrel and that Emancipation was won. portionate to the benefit of opening I have no intention of following the Parliament to the Catholics. act ivi ties of O'Connell durin g the But we should look for broader years from 1800 until 1829, when he l"esults. The first and most obvious accornplished thi s res ult, for this of these was that the principle of a paper is not a sm·vey of facts, but a Protestant State was surrendered. study of influences and efrects. It i.s [t now beca,me theoretically possible s uffi cient t o investiga te t.he r eaction in Ireland of th e emancipation from for a Parliam ent to be elected with the soul of O'Conn ell of hi s own deep a Catholic rnajority 1 and this would national f eeling. Bahac called O'Con- have been anomalous indeed in a nell the 1 in carnation of a people'; State that had long been in principle that is true, but at this time in its absolutely Protestant. It wa.s a sign
;;ct~:n~·~lie~h~~~t d::ss ;~~n~:~~a~n ~~~ ~~~s:~m~~etl:.:a~e~iet~~il~no~~!;:·c!~~ ;~~n~~,: E~;~is;e;~;eg, ~~:~~i~::~~~t;,i~r~ ~1i1~!~:~;,a:i~~a:;l 0~·~~~~~~~~ecame leries of enactments between 1771 not precede lts cause, and the speedy lnd 1793. Nor does it exclude the granti ng of relief to the Catholics ;vas inevitable after the autumn of ~estrictions aga:inst Catholics remain- \ ng after 1829, for it was not until 1828, when O'Connell was elected to
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O'Connell did hvo thin gs. Fh·st, he stirred up by his eloq uence and by the activities of hi s Catholic Associalion, the lively blood of his countrymen to a pat..riotic frenzy; secondly,
Again, this Relief Bill demonstrated what a present-day publicist has caned 'the power of constitutional ag·itation'. It was a revolution in politiC"al action, for it was the win-
Consequently, the cause of this fear, he refused to be satisf1 ed with com· whatever or whoever it is, must be promise. He made chaos in the l'ecognized as the real cause of hearts of Iri s hmen, and he preferred Emancipation. Therefore let us cross a virtual chaos to a. cringing and St. George's Channel. subservient lethargy in his dealings Ireland and O'Connell are the cui- with the bi shops and the English prits guilty, if you will, of terroriz- Catholics on the question of the veto. ing England into tardy and reluctant , The English Catholics, the Irish
ning of complete religious freedom, for which millions throughout the ages have given their blood, without the loss of n s ingle life. It taught the Catholi.cR, and especially the fri sh, what a powerful weapon they had in legal organization and consti(Continued to seventh page)
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and consl!itency and well compo~ed m part.~. It was a machine of wh:e and elaborate contri\·ance and as well fitted for the oppr~sion, impoverishment and degradation of Bachelor Oration by .John ;\fcMahon, A. B. people and the deb:c<cment in them of . . , . I human nature ibelr ns ever proIt ht hut filting and proper to "table at ( hn~.t s b1rth, there was. reeded from the pen·ertcd inli!enuity hr1 n()r thiJ~E- who have honorf•d and lxJrn a light. that trengthened them of man." f•nnobiNI u:. Ont· hundrtrJ yPars ago, with a wil1 to libf!rate their Church . . . . ('h r1s . t , at I h oug h th cy t h em- theIt '"condition but httleo[ wonder mdeedeothat thf' ('ath(1lit·H of In::lnnd won thtir :.tn( I t h('lT lht• Irish >le, ,(,)itic•tJI ttn<l r<.'liJeif,U~ (·mandpaliou selvc~ had to hear the clank of the . h . . p 1 h r • • 11U1mg t e~e two centunes wa~ sue fmm un unwilling Prole~. tant tyranny cham and to Ret> then noble3t sons h t l 1 h d h _ If 1 und today tht= ('ntho1ic \Vorld with walk the tragic ways to per~onal \a rC' anc .as ;a~~e for er~e juflli('e, with prirl<· und with thank!{ hopclt~sness and death. Smarting ~.at 7ost tragac todtlt e~:-l "the mohst .ltterofy the persecu e pcop t e lh c w h .IP o f persecu t'100, d en'd e d face IMul!i llw rne-n who achit·V<·d thi~ gift. f rom .. earth." Not. eon)on were
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should wc, who hav£> Lt•nt•f'•ltt•ll an 11 who even now are rf'fLpinj.{ lh(• fl'uil!'\ of their work return prui!1<' t(' llu·m. It i.<~ (•mint'ntly l,f~rcuning that W(• tlo thiK. Thc·y gnve to 11 ~ f•V(•rythim{ th(·y po~K('~~ed indudinv life it~Pif, in ord('r that thcfoith that they c·lwri~hed and prized might tw hundl'CI untarniRhed t.o theit· Cutholk po~tl~rity. Jn winning freedom for tlw Chu1·<·h or th<"ir own nalion, they lib(·ratNI th<• C'hurch throughout tlw wor ld. Catholic 11
by cntJc~. they brought the church from Tyhourn, from the Tower of LtJndon and from the caves of lrcland lo walk in all her beauty across the \'ale~ of England and Ireland. Across the ins<'curc bridge that span ned the nooded and swollen rivers of the Reformation and Hanoverian ignorance, th(•y carried the remains of an ancient, yet brokt:n, Church to meet the transfiguration of 1829. They watc hed at its death und er Tudor tyranny and desperately fought to
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pC'ople had the l ea~t freedom bec·amf' the· sla t· ttnd thC' hope of oppre HHC'd Catholic:-~ throughout the worlc.I I Jt:spis<'d hy ot.her~ lhe na tionul church of Catholic lt•eland was, on ly to huve it become, through the i.nsi rum c ntu li ty of it.s adhe l·e nls, the ittHpirntio n that infused hope and joy thl'oughout the Catholic world . H proved thnt a li ving and active faiih whi('h wns t he VC' I'Y spit·it oC the Irish Church could overco me the embattled power!'\ of l'mph·cs and the prejudice of nat!on s, thnt rait h in the form of living r<' ligious tonviclio n co uld co nfound lh<' world with its wisdom and thut by its light n ndlhe nations cou ld HeP lhC' way to freedom and to peace. Theirs wn~ no ins ular triump h betau!\e fi'Or~ their example world libt?l'ty look on an insp iration and a hope hy whoso power the Cntholics of the world were inOuenced and mov('d. They g-ave to lhe entire ralholic world n li bC'rty and a co nvi ction of ('cclcsiasticnl frC'edom which wn~ indis pensnble to our fnilh. Theirs wns n terrific, heroic and supreme ~t rugglc, compOI'nble in the sac rifi('(' ~ mndc nnd the work uchieved to t he g lorious achicverne n ts of the t.•a l'l y maa·lyrs of the rhurch. They, like the martyrs, wet'e a proof t hu t Chri~t living in the heart nnd touching- the mind co uld g lo1·Lfy nnri ennoble the humble and h umi liate the proud, that Christ, li ving in man's lift', rcg-enernlcs him and from a mnn's poverty and a nation's weakness. It was the peaceful war of n nation nnd n people h eld in s lavery that now put on the strength of but that now put on the st reng th of the indignantly oppressed, n ow arising lo hreak the chains that had bound them to defeat. Through it they l'Ose above nil obstacles and ha vE' cn rved for themselves imperishable names in the hearts of all who hold our faith holy and sacred. Ireland arose in the name of freedom to demand its. rights, at a ti me in which a C'atholic wns u pauper and n slave. ln the days in which the Catholic Church was placed in the pillory to bC' derided by the wise--they, the un· · d an(1 w1g~. t.•onver t c·d tlle b'tase<:1 mm ironic lau~;rh into wonder ~lnd dismay. Th~y found the C'hurC'h in the valley of unguigh with their nation. They had lk'en pr~sent when she chanted her rt>qui~m OYer the loss of their nuti onhliOJ. They h;ld heard her wail, her myriad .Jeremiahs to the nations nt tht" approac-h of the reformation, they heo!lrd her dirge on the mount n.nd ~n tlw v:.11ley during the ptniod of teligiou::. pet'S~·ution. nny there came ~' time wh~n the- C'hul'('h of Christ disuppt>Hr,~d from the hlnd and whe-n the pt>Oplt> hnd to liv(' with but the memc.wy of Christ. They htld but a glorious memory ffiltn \Yhich. ss in the
For ovt·r half a '-'C'ntury it hn..... heen the praiseworthy t.:ustom in thi"S part of the- country. to ~et aside one dny o r {'8t.: h year on w h 1~ I1 t o I1onor tl. l(' memory of thf! sol<hcrs. who wert• • . . xummonC'd hy the \ otce of thcJT Maker during the Civil \Var. It is not cv('ryonc who can understand th e f u II s1gm . .fi c~n~e o f Dt.•corn t'1on Day. To r~any. 1~ 1s merely an extcrnal mamfest:.ll1on of the natural love and esteem that is common among all relatives. The dct·oratinR of grave!i CeJ·tainly is a highly commendable deN!; but unJeg~ the motive is supernaturalized, this nctio n loses much of its merit and sweetness. lt is for this reason that Our Holy Mother Ch urch ha s rai sed I-Ier Hand in benediction on all who, in the spirit of faith perform corpora l and ~ · spiritual works of rnercy! She not
...:.on..;; nnd l'Hnstantly pr:\yt._'\1 ('-lf lht•m, looking nrt.._-r tht~nl with tlw tt·nder ~olkitudt• of un atrt•l..'tion~•h· pnrt.>n t . ~· ,.,m~,·t.• our t'O 11 t'Jott.' trt•ah·d tht.l:-<t.~ nwn as ht•r :-;.nn~. n.•rtninly Wt.. ht>r ~tudt•nl!' are nnxiou~ . nny, t'\'t•n Jlroud to call them, "Our Hrotht•rS~.." F'ricmls., loc.hl). we.• nrc galh('rt•tl I I. t th b t'f I I' lt'Tl' accon: mg o l' ('fill 1 u lrnt 1
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her 5 iritual ri hts taken her b ut 1er p po 1ltca . ng . h ts . . lg and econom1c 1 1 l t d Sl 1 1 1 were a >so u e Y u~roo e_ · le was a corpst:' on the diS!';CCtmg labl~o~~ F:nglish }('~i~lation. She was that she was not to be treated as ot her nations and that her people were to be Pariahs in their own land. She was a nation that by the laws of God and rnan s hould be free, yet in reality she was but a vassal under the heel of a crue l and inramous master. Faced with s uch conditions
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honoring all tho~t' who st•rn•d in tht• gn•nt war, nnd in particular those tt•n young ml'n who~e rnen'lory is clear to our ht>nl't:"'. Again, W<' have rome hl'rt.' [llr a hight•r nncl purer mott\·e still-"to pray for the dead that llwy may be loosed from their ~in~." \VhibL we p~l·form lhi !'\ acl of charity, let Wi turn ou r t'Yl'~ upon the rnao--nifi<.:ent ~latue of th£' Snered t'>" Hearl which ble~~e~ all who enter
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as these could we, of t hi s age rise to night of the 17th and l Rth centur y ~uch superb heights as s he did in wise reminds us of the works of the love. He it was who guve strt:>ngth 1829 persecutions. Perhaps you think r ? \Vould we give all as s he gave pl'Ophet Malachy who exclaimed: and courage to the boys who fought exaggc n1lc w hen I ~ay theirs was a a ll for the fa ith that was hei'S? Her fi JL is a holy and wholeso me thought a nd died for u:-;, Lcl u~ knee l nt the task at the end o f the 18 th ce ntury to IH·ay for the dead, that they be st ruggle compat·able in th e sacri fi ces ~eemed a lmost hopeless. Nowhere loosed froln the,·,. s•' ns." Thus, as foot of this statue nnd humbly say to made to those by the martyrs of the th f h . h k Our Loving Savior: cal'ly Church. Let us fot·get for the wa~ e~e a ray o ~pe m t e blae - fait hfu l Catholics, we feel, might I 0 Lord .Tesus, Thou who did Mt enmoment that w e a re li ving in 1929 e~c . s ~ ~~cep~h t le light f~! ~:~ say , a moral obligation urging us to dure s ufferings and death fol' love and let us go back to 1750, in order !:~·w~:ffi~~tnt. It a~=~on:nough to the performance of these duti es. of us, grant, we be~eech thee, lhnt lhat we rnay rea li ze what the condi- change a heart fill ed with despair in'rhe large attendance at the various these men \1 ·ho also died for love of lion of the Church and Ca tholics to one where flared the cross of ~xerci ~es t h i.s m orn ~ng is ~ ~on ~inc-, us , _may find re~u~e joy n nd eve rwe re then. Henry V UI had broken Chri st, the hope of t he oppressed. mg p1oof that om conv1clions re- lastmg peace wit hin the s helter of wilh the s uccesso r of St. Peter. From To rise from the oppression Ire- garding these hol y obligations l"Lre thy Sacred Heart. :1.11 is land exclusively Catholic, Eng- land had to rid h erself of the terrib le firmly grounded on the foundation of , . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . , land overnight became one of t he penal code. Hi sto ry teaches us t ha t an enlighte ned faith. Furthermore, homes of Protes tanti sm. Those who there is nothing harder for man to lhe fervent prayers offered up during NEW KANKAKEE HOTEL retained the faith afler Henry's in - perform than to undo the work of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, BARBER SHOP s tincts and se nsua lis m and denied the his own var ied attempts at human demonstrate that our motive in Church of Chri st, became like t he and nationa l degradation. At such honoring our dead, is in truth sup erJ. LAMB, Prop. lepers of old. Not only wer e they times, pride rend ers him blind to naturalized. £hunned ns outcasts, they were perse- justice, anoga n t to charity and imS ince the opening of the great It Pays To Look Well cuted as wel l. E li zabeth completed pet vio us to truth. The way to free- \Vor]d War, Memorial Day has taken the aposlacy begu n by her fat her. dom is the wo l'l d's Via Dolorosa, on a broader and more universa l We Solicit the College Men's S he de lug ed Ireland in a sea of blood. a long which men and nations have meanin g, which indeed casts a beaut iPatronage S he created th ere an economic and marched hounded by the conqueror· ful reflection on the generosity of · - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ' political desert and ca lled it peace. and hi s fellow man's inhumanity to man's heart. Fon11erly, it ha s been The Ghoul s of the new aristocr acy man. The lo t of t he slave is a gia nt customary to co mmemorate only the 1 ; - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - · - ; watc hed t he spoilation of eternal task ; he must forge hi s ow n tools departed members of the fami ly things, that they might enrich the for the achievement of his liberty; he circle. But after the fathe 1·s and coffers of tirne. A malign fury grip- must create unity out of personal mot hers had watched t heir own sons PHARMACY ped t hem w it h the rage of a Satan and national cowa rdi ce, and from s ub- march side by side with t heir fe llowa_.g-ai nst t hin gs Catholic, because in ject i.on he must wield a n adamantine so ldiers their hearts swell ed with its bankruptcy they cou ld ride to strength to way lay and overcome the emotion and could no longer contain Age nt fo r Eas tman Kodaks pel'so nal aggrandizemen t . "Confiscate oppressor. Out of poverty he must their fu ll measure of affection. They Prompt Developing and Printing and k: ll the old religion," beca me t he create wealth and powe r but above stood on the roadside cheeri ng the 119 Court S t., Kankakee. Ill. war cry, beca use instinctively they a.l l in t he hearts of men degraded he lads who followed the flag and ca lli ng felt that their ow n power over the must create a fire and dedicate it to them "Our Boys." 1, '- - - - - - -- - - - - - - - ' future world depended only on the libe rty 50 that its heat w ill thaw the Scarcely had t he bul:le call so und- 1 extin ction of Catholicity from t he bu r dened ice of tyra nn y's w in ter. He ed, whe n fro m the porch of t hi s island. It was during the re ign of must teach the poor and the slave floated the service flag. Day by day DEMAND Elizabeth t hat the diabolical instru- reliance· and give to the outcasts a the number of sta rs increased with ment of a supposed ly civilized coun- spil'it burni ng for lndependence and astounding !'apidity until it counted ARSENEAU'S UNIFORM try, the penal code, was first placed freedom. • O'Connell a nd other Irish- in excess of 225, includin g faculty BREAD in operation . Not only did this reli- men did this and did it in a manner members, students and a lu mnigious fury operate in England, but in that makes the pages of history you ng men in the prime and vigor of "Its Quality Satisfies" · as we 11 . I re 1anc1 t•·,·~ht ,v,'the the g lory of their ac- f r e s h man ho o d-y o un g 1ne n w ho had u 11 h er (1epe n d enctes ~ G. Arseneau Bakery had never for a moment rejected the complishment. \Ve know of the early studi ed, played and lived in the same faith which Patrick had given her. work of the Catholic Association, an halls whic h we now occupy. Today 1 Bourbonnais, Illinois The English government, by the most association formed for people willing that glorious flag again is unfurled · · · f or us th e sym bol V'ICIOUS an d d'ta b o1·1ca 1 se t o f 1aws to contribute the needed penny, so an d ever remams ever known to man, was to try the that the struggle for emancipation of true patriotism. It speaks a les- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -1 strength and fervor of Ireland's might be won. \V e realize the great son of undaunted and genuine wholeCatholicity. If we were to be told work of Keough, Emmet, Grattan and hearted sacrifice on the part of every tomorrow by our government that no Tone, the latter, men alien in reli- soldier. Every star upon that flag longer could \Ve hear mass; that no gion from the majority of Irishmen sha ll ever remain there to shed the BARBER SHOP longer cou ld a priest practice his but men whose hearts throbbed to beauty of its luster upon us. Yes, sacerdotal functions and live, that the beat of human liberty and jus- that flag is an inspiration to all who Age nt for down-town cleaning pressing and r e pai1 i ng establish· no 1anger cou ld h e \V h o was a c a th - tice. '\Ve know how these men work- gaze upon 1't • S ure 1y we f ee1 th e olic \'Ote; that no longer could he \vho ed unceasingly for Catholic emanci- blood grip in our veins at the thought ment. wns :1 Catholic hold land or property; pation and that their la bors resulted of all the sufferings and hon·ors Bourbonnais, m. that no longer could the so ns of in the measure of 1793, which gave that these men endured for our Catholics be educated, then great and to Catholics such rights as education, sakes! Alas some of our friends inten::.e, indeed, would be our grief, voting and tenching. Indeed, so were required to make the supreme our consternation and our dismay. successful \vere these men that the sacrifice of their lives, but they gave Yet this is precisely \vith what the Emancipation Act of 1793 is consid- them generously and unflinchingly. Catholics of England and of Ireland ered the greatest of emancipation Ten fel1 victim to the enemy's sword. especially were confronted, when the acts. Catholics, however, were yet ITen stars whose natural light has odious and t-yrannical penal laws in bondage. been e:>.:tinguished forever suddenly were imposed upon them. Edmund There was a man destined to lead were transfom1ed, and shone forth Burke in a \'itriolic. but just criticism the Catholics of the British Isles ~;th the radiance of a golden splenof these laws, says, "You abhorred from the bondage as ).loses led the dor. it as 1 did for its v·icious perfection. Israelites of o}d. Tbe man, Daniel Throughout this bitter struggle, For I must do it justice; it was a St. Yiator took the part of father complete system, full of coherence (Continued on se\·enth page) 1and mother to these, her cberished
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If we can go out in life, and wit h us jus t a fe w of the 1man y vi r tuo us characteristics disBy Adrian Richa rd, A. B. pla yed here, bef ore us, our sojo urn . j among " Our Professors" will ha v~ It is wi th a feehng of extreme been fru itful to us. timidity, s uch as I might say, a So t oday, we go out to conquer rookie at bat in th e ninth with the t he world Armed a s we are drilled bases "loaded,'' that I rise, this day as we ar~ against the ene~ies of of days, to r espond to the toast: virtue, we feel confident that we, the "Our Professors.~' ~u:ely no s ubje.ct class of '29, will alwa ys be s uch a s could be mor e msp1r1ng tha n this, " Our Prof essor s" will be proud to "Our Professor s," for they are the point t o and sa y: " Our work has not men who have directed our steps been in v ain." along the winding and intricate pathways of learning. They are t he men, who ha vi ng a nswer ed the Master's call to teach His fl ock, have pointed out to us the principles of knowledge, and w here they were to be By J ohn w. Stafford found. They have ta ught us to gras p these (Continued from page six) gem s of knowledge and to implant tutional action, and ga ve them the them into our ow n m inds, until a means of winning furth er victories . time has come, when that vault of E mancipation raised up Catholics learning is filled with the riches of f rom the s lough of contempt in which God's own truths. But furth er yet, t hey had been content to wallow, and they have nouri shed our soul s, with r es t or ed to them their self-respect, the truths of our r eligion to that t ea ching them that they were in degree where we know God better every way t he equals of their fellow and can perform our daily tasks with citizens. It produced this very ima less burdens ome f eeling. They ha ve portant change in Ireland, namelylabored faithfull y a nd diligently to tha t, whereas before O'Connell 's time enrich our intellect s a nd t o f orm our the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland wills to th a t extent where th ey will had originated all the national popucome into harmony wi th those duties lar movements, after th e time of the that mus t be fulfill ed by us to gain Liberator the Catholic Majority took that everlas ting destin y. the lead in matte rs Irish. For, after all, wh a t is education The Catholic Emancipation of without th a t ch ar ac ter forming ele- 1829 re ared the ground for th e ~ent ? It is not simply . th a t, ~~h- re-est~bl!hment of the Hierarchy in mea l, ~nowl e.dge of r eadm g, rthng 1854 , f or even if in th a t late year and r1thm et1c, that kn owledge f ound a nt i-Catholic feeling was s till intense, only between two cover s ; we mus t yet Engla nd would not for a long go further; I have r ef er ence to that time to come have seen the official knowled ge gained thro ug h per sonal ! r eturn of the cr ozier a nd the mitre contact with " Our Professo r s," the had not O'Connell triumphed in 1829 . element of cheerfuln ess, the element The H lls of Learning echoed \vith of. indus tr y and th e element of f aith less sc~rn th a n before, whenever the gamed from the1r cons tant good ex- ~ Church of Rome was mentioned in nmples. And onl y w hen know ledge r eligious deba t e· intelligent men had is infused into us in this m a nner,_ is become a t r ifle ' more broad-minded educati on a nd the end of edu catiOn because of the Resurr ection of the complete. Chur ch. The Oxford Movement was Yes, a t times, we d id think th a t we 1cert a inl y rath er helped than hinder~ere being wor ked .too ~ ard , but is ed by O'Connell. Literature a s a 1t not complete sat1sfactwn a nd r e- whole may not have become more lief to a s tu de n t, to complam of bemg 1 Ca th oli c, ye t th at wa s due to the overworked? However, dow n deep pre ponder ating influence of the in our hea rts , we r eali ze now t ha t Scientific Revi val; a nd yet a distinct the work was no t so onerous, a nd I Catholic litera ture was fl ourishin g that ever yt hin g was in the end for g lorious ly once mor e by the end of our ow11 good and benefi t . But t he I t he Century. Architecture, eve n, and murmurings, 1 am sure, were con- the Gothic Revival fe lt the influence fined to t he classwork, for as soon of 182 g for the num ber of Church ae the day's litt le. tasks were done, bui l d in ~ constru cted in th e yea r s Our Professors e.nJoyed th os_e hap.py immediately succeeding E ma ncipation nnd r estf ul hours of rec r eatiOn With was tremendous. Certainl y the efue. fects of the triumph of 1829 ar e not Yon see, my frie nds, that our edu- negligible. cational course was not confined to hrief conclusion will help cla rify the classroo m or to the chape l onl y. the idea of th e pa per. F rom the. They labored to shape ur lives, even a na lysis of possible infl uences and on the playi ng field. Th e he lping causes beari n~ on Catholic Emanciha nd was •xtended from t he class- pation, it can be concluded t hat a l· room to the- cha tw l a nd from the though, because of chaos, the times chape l to o il corners of t he campus . were unusua ll y ripe for religious re\\'hat • great act of charity, the lief, nothing would have been done combined lives of Our Pl·ofessors were it not fo r Daniel O'Connell, and for m. secondly, that it was t he patriotic Notwithstanding this 5 pirit of pat- agitation in his own breast that fired t•rna l love nnd intimacy, yet the wall Ireland into activity, th is in turn u f dignity wa~ nt.'\'t:'f transgressed, being the immediate cause of the insurmountllbh:·, but the walls of English alarm, which was what distanct' und inditTe-r(•nce-nt.~\'~r. brought about relief. So O'Connell \\~ith aU dut rt-spt.>cl to the great and chaos are the explanations Catholir C'ol!eg<s of this country. I ·.ouaht. .':-\. nd the effects, as we _... ~ hulll·nl{t' anyone- to find anoth~;>r in- saw, were chiefly these: English and .;titution wtwrt-in the studenL"' t>njoy lri~h Catholics \\'ere turned from ~u··h a ~.~lo~t- fn~nd~hip with their ~l&\'t:'s into men, the Reformation had pro(.. ,_ o" to the .l<gree that it is been dealt its first severe wound in '1\JOy...U h<re at St. \'iator. Ye'. my £nstland. and the Catholic Church fri~ntl:-;. tht> Y~atoria.n~ art:' t'~pt:'dallyd .., 01 .r.,ed once more " 1'n all its blended , e .. nuv.; n for tht- l(r.,-ut nd~ of lovt." an appt:'al of univer~ality, historic · hanty that tht'~· ton~tantly per- grandeur. speculative ingenuity and , rm. l am -:<u~ thtt.t my fellow- poetkal allurement."' rraduat :;, a5 ''ell a tht:" entire ::..tud· ·nt botly and th~ alumni will a~rff xnh llltt tn thi~. Tht:' Rev. \Y. J. Bergin, c. s. v., .\nd Ia t!y, m) fri•nd•, w~ have d•li,·•~ th< Commencement ..l.ddre'> tb~.. graduat 1on t!Xerct e-s at ,~ at la,c( tht:"~t" n'-""~ hi t> m n. .ruidm .;,tars \,·ht>u th~ ~ turm~ of Dt> Paul Uni\~ity la:o.t Wt.>ek. The J. W. R. )(alt1Jire, c. s. v lfe't joum<) will ..,I. to ha-. u; \ ·,~· ,., R""· < - • the ~duate•. of St. Mel'• •t.rt,y fl'\)m our cour"'eo~ Tb~ir I'' ~ • u'Jr•,· ~ ..,._ ,...., th.,... o( nob!• and •If oriikino: High School. June 13.
Toast: The Voice of '30 By H . Paul Mills, Presiden t of Seni or Class of '30
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from your hands, and, with a voice bursting with pride and j oy, we shout to yo uand to all the ideal of the class of '30: " Onward, to a great.. er Viator." For us you have made life at college noble and happy. Now we hope that the world will receive you with gladness and that to it you will give the honored merit of your distinction. We hope that our halls may soon again ring with the gladness of yom· laughter as you return to them, bearing the fruits of Christian lives and great achievements.
Anot her year has swiftly passed on t he golden wheels of time, and another class is preparing t o leave these halls of learning, never to ret urn aga in a s students. For them, t he long awaited day has dawned. They are now basking in the s un of their past success. Today they s tand up on the peak of the mountain, Achievement, the fini shed products of mas ter hands. College days with The Winning of their memories a r e almost to be but Catholic Emancipation a dream by which the future will be gladdened and the labyrinth of the Bachelor Oration by world w ii! be made joyful with th e John McMa hon, A. B. ~eacefu l deeds of college days. Now they pause awhile to cast a last lingering look back over the tedious road (Continued from s ixth page) they have traveled. In retrospectio n, O'Connell, more than a ny other is they r emember the four years they responsible for Catholic Emancipa.ha ve spent here, years f ull of joys tion as we know it today. Lacordand sorr ows, dreams and realities, aire in speaking of the rise of O'Conhopes a nd disappointments. All their nell says, "Then appears one of those ambition s are now realized, soon they men whom Providence prepared bewiil t ake their dest ined places in the fore ha nd in the omnipotent secrets turmoil of t he world. of his counsels: a Moses, a Cyrus, a As we, the Juniors, see these cap- Judaeus Maccabeus, a Constantine, a and-gowned gentlemen today, we Charlemagne, a Gregory VII." Balzac pause only to reflect. We are now on has called him , "the incarnat ion of a the thres hold of Seniordom. In our people." Ireland and our Church call ca.re is left the sacred call of the him the liberator. It remained, howleaders hip of the student body. It ever, for hi s Ma,jesty, George IV, hardly seem s possible, yet it is true, King of England to give him that when we were Freshmen, we looked title which is to his undying honor, upon the Seniors as veritable gods- a "damned scoundrel." Such was s upermen whom we held in awe. We Daniel O'Connell. Few men have dreamed of the day when we our- been better prepared to wage the selves would arrive at such an ex- battle he undertook. Dominant in alted position. As Sophomores, we personality, eloquent in speech a nd hon or ed a nd res pec t ed the Seniors, ever noble in principle, he began his and s t ill kept locked in our hearts part of the struggle in 1800 and carthe cherished dr eam s of our Fresh- ried it to its victorious conclusion men da ys. This past year we have in 1829. always looked to them for help in Causes without number have been solving our problems; we have al- given to explain why a Protestant ways solicited their advice when in a Parliament a nd King granted the difficul ty, and have r ecognized a nd emancipation measure of 1829. Some respected their leadership. And now, say England feared the power of our sweet dream and noble ambition revolution that wa.s then sweeping of the preceding thre years is about and burning in Ireland and E urope. t o become a r ea lity. Soon we will The American colonies had rebelled. a ss ume the r esponsibility that the The French Revolution was yet fresh Seni ors have bequ eathed to us. in the minds of the world. The godOur pas t three years have been dess of liberty had then charmed the years of happ iness. We tra..veled o'er world; fair and beautiful was her the way of college life, blithe and voice to man after his trav&i! and carefree. We always had an advisor woe. Through rad ica lis m and revolu a nd a leader in the Seniors. The t ion the nations had heard the call more serious a nd more important made by men chained and ens la ved. matter s we refe rred to th em. But Then there a scended from the human si nce we m us t s tep into their shoes, hea.rt the a spiration for freedom and our fervent pr aye r is that we may liberty whose mus ic called the mind preserve th e d ig ni ty of our position, of man to the achievement of noble and become as g r ea t a cr edit and de eds and the accomplishment of ho nor to our college a s t hey, a nd the hero ic undertakings. Men pa nted precedi ng Senior classes, have been. after the f ountain of liberty and Yes, their parting leaves an im- wo uld not r es t until thrones wer e mense gap-can we fi ll it? Can we destr oyed, emp ir es wrecked and until assume the leader s hip that they ther e was lifted from man the opwielded so we ll a nd with s uch dig- pression that injustice wrought. With nity? I, as spokesman for the Jun- the dawn of the next century libert y ior class, can readily assert that we was in the air a nd th e nobles and the will do our utmost to prese r ve their bes t of m en se t their eyes on its a t high standards. We wi ll conduct t a inment. ourselves as \vill become yo ung These th ings we r e a ll ca uses . They Catholic gentlemen, in order to win wer e, however , but contributing the respect of the students and the causes. Remove O'Connell from the faculty. ln all our tasks an d under- s truggle and the E mancipa tion takings we will strive to gain grea t er Meas ure wo uld not be achieved fo r perfection, so that one year fr om the Chur ch. It was he who made today we may, as t h_ese gent I emen Ir eland feared by the E ng ,.ts h ~overnnow before us, say wtth a clear con- me n t , it was he, w ho by hts fiery science: H\\'e have been a credi t to l eloquence, stirred t he Ir is h peop le our Alma )later, and an honor to mto a realization of thell' power, it our God." was he who k~pt. the. Catholic AsTo me is given the sad office of soc1ation functwmng m a manner N d •t · tru e t to fright bidding you gentlemen adieu. o l that rna e 1 an ms ~ n . mor~ wlll your voices be heard on en tyranny and to wm concessiOns the campus and the corridors. Never from the r eluctant. It was he who again will we cheer your distinguish- secured the measure withou_t the obh ld ed athletes on the g-rld.iron, court, or jectionable veto clause. whtc wou h E 1 nd d diarnondi nor listen in rapturous de- have made the Cburc m ng a an hght to the .-peeche; of your ill115t- Ireland subservient to the Protestriou.:s orators at our club meetin~. ant English government. It was hE: f b Aye. 91·lth intense grief we see you alone who secured the pa.:;aage o t e depart and with aching hearts we Emancipation Mea•uY_t of 1829 and 11 tdt bid ,.ou adi.tu; the while we firmly to him should be gwen a bic.r 11 • " grasp the leader-.hip that h falling I When he, in one of the most tteY Y
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Superior General Honors St. Viator (Continued from first page) as the gues t of the Provincial, Father Surprenant. Tuesday he will be the guest of the College at a dinner, and Thursday he will vis it St. Bernard Scholasticate. Monday he is to be presented to His Eminence, George Cardinal Mundelein. Father Rober ge res ides a t the General Direction or Motherhous e of the Community at Jette-Saint-Pierre, near Brussel s, Belgium. ~--------------;
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VALEDICTORY By James Allen Nolin, A. B., Senior Class President This year the Catholic World ce l e-~ day brought to man. The novel has brates the centenary of Catho~ic left behi.nd it _the ~ove st.ory and. adF.mancipation. A century ago Damel l venture m whtch ttred mmds delight. O'Connell, when he so unded the note For good or il1, the writers of the that united Catholic Ireland, earned new generation have compelled the~r for himse lf the sobriquet: Father of pages to s peak the message of thetr Emancipation. From the binding deepest thoughts and to express the s hackle ~ of a servitude more brutal mystery of man to men. Thus all and barba1·ous than was ever before form s of art are cutti ng t he cables conceived by man, he liberated a that bind them to old landmarks. bleeding people. He gave them free- Yes, the last fifty yea r s were years dam, life, hope and inspiring leader- of s ubtle questing and h uman quesship. Bowed down in abject. slavery , tion ing because over them t he spirit a century ago the Catholics of "Ire- of rationa lism has hovered, proland had but sickened memories and pou nded and spoken. '\Vhat part has hopes s hot through with the darkness Catholicism played in t h is progresof despair for their asp irat ion was sio n of t he wor ld? O'Con nell gave a lways mocked by fut ility, their Catholics freedom! Yet we are noblest passions were congealed in slaves; we a.r e t he hewers of wood the heart by the withering blight of and the drawers of water to the enper manent and inescapa.ble tyra nn y. li g hte ned P ro testant a nd Sceptic of Today they hold their heads a loft in the day. O'Connell f reed our bodi es majes ty for they have prese rved to but our minds are still embedded in the wol'id the vision of a splendid the lowlands of men ta l lethargy fait h yet to be dimmed by fai lure or whic h is nothing less t ha n serfdom . opposition. T he truth of t hi s statement may The faith th at Ireland held so readi ly be seen from the fact that jea lous ly ha s been given to the we have contributed li t tl e or not hi ng world. Has the world accepted it? in t he line of Catholic culture, Cath\Vhen we look back over the past oli c thought or Catholic art to the hun dred years, instead of fi nding romance of t he past century. Concause to rejoice, t he position of Cath- sider t he Catholic Chu rch in t he past ol1cs in t he Engl ish speaki n g world and her power fu l contri butions to gives us cause to lament and weep. civilizati.on. S ile erected empires and ' Vhen we li berate our minds from fired t hem with superhu man energy. racia.! prejudice and sympathy, we S he founded sc hools an d probed t he must admit that Daniel O'Conn ell depth of lea.rn ing deeper t ha n p lumgave to thet I rishth?eopfl e tmhereiTyhtehree right to vo e-no mg ur er. has been n o Cathol ic Ema ncipatio n. Th e wo·rld ho lds t he same view of Catholics today as it did a cen tury ago when Ireland was suffering s tre nuously for t hat faith she ha.s never forsworn, as it did w hen Pur itan ism swept over England and drowned her in a sea of melancholy, as it did when t he early Ch ristians practiced t heir fa.ith in w ind·i ng, narrow and obscure catacombs, as it did when a d isciple of t he Nazarene for m ed the major sport for a Ro man holiday a nd was cast to the lions. Yes, today the wor ld of learn ing and culture looks upon Catholicism as it viewed it when Peter first preached its doctrines-a reli gion to be laughed at, scorned, despised- an institution meant to wa lk in the sh adows of darkness with a phil osop h y t hat shou ld not come into co ntact with life, for to the worl d it lacked all that was vital, living, necessary! To dispute this v iew, ladies and gen t leme n, is to flatter ourselves. There is today no one who will deny t hat t he last one hundred years has seen the greatest in te llectual revolution in the mental and re ligious affairs of men, the g~·eatest change that any century in the history of the world has witnessed. If we trace in history the progress of science, literature and art since 1829, we must agree that were O'Connell to revisit the earth in this year, he wou ld be a virtua l Rip Van \Vink le, unrecognlzed eve n by his spiritual descendants. Compare only fifty years ago with today and an idea of the great transfonnatton may be more readily conceived. Philosop hy has left behind it its s lender phraseology and has descended from the mountain tops of rarefied and metaphysical spec ulation to become the heritage of the common man. It has divested itself of its learned, ponderous and technical language and has attempted to unfold its \~ s ion of beauty and truth to the ·world. A Mill has made it less )>edantic; a Shaw has brought it to the homes of those that think; a \\'eils is now unfolding the panoratna of its future but most human glory. The essay and the nove l have become the great intellectua l power through which enlightenment is to-
m edt I' cot ul ? .e.vert. sotuhnd. Ov erf her 1or tes ctvl 11za 1on e ange 1 o reason brooded in co ntempl ation and scaled the heig hts of speculatio n wi th burning ecstacy. S pace and time, earth and etern ity ca me w it h in the quest of her sCh ofar s a nd t he zeal of her h a-lls. Yet today her art, her science, a nd her wor k in perfecting sound social organis ms and her p hil osophy of th e Middle Ages are a lmost un known to t h e world of t he present, except to a n obscure few w ho live in t he peaee of cloistures. To t he vast maJ'ority of men, eve n to the finest sch olars of t he day, Cathol ic t hough t an d Cath olic culture are un kn own. YV hen t he ba.ttle of ideas rages today, w hen t he basis of science are bemg searched with scrutiny greater t ha n ever befo r e, the th inkers of t he d ay, if t hey do not tota ll y ig nore, openl y der ide Cathol ic p hilosop hy a nd Catholic thought. We, as Catholics, are pr one to accuse t hese men of prejudices, but instead we s hould be co mmi serating ourselves because we are standing immovable on t he ban ks of t ime's river w hilst t he eddying curre nts of modern t houg ht go sweeping by. At times we go into t he r iver of life, but we take the easiest way, we stand in th e shallows as spectators. \Ve are like sphinxes overloo ki ng the tumult of the N ile's fl ow, dumb, immutable, unthinking, with the res uit t hat there is no transformation of secular .thoug ht according to Catholic phil osophy and Catholic truth . \\' here we should cast our Jot WI"th · th e s t ream an d exchange views with men a nd t he world, we stand aside chanting apo logias. Persecution in the past has so beaten our minds that today we are still on th'l, defensive, when ours should be t he offens ive. We still suffer the pangs of s lavery when in truth we are, and should be, free . It is not t he fau lt of those t h inkers if t hey go on with their work heedless a'f Catholic philosophy, because th.e y start their phi losoph ic demonstration with premises entirely a lien frorn ours. We Ca tholics of the · English-speaking world have. done nothing during the past century to transform nonCatholic th9ught, neither have we brought in intelligent language the message of the Catholic Church to light the philosophic darkness, doubt
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and scepticism of the period. We have not made living nr interesting the great heritage of Catholic philosophy or culture with which the Middle Ages have enriched us. We have handed, instead, to the most revolutionary of centuries a sealed book. \Ve have bidden them open it and interpret it as best they may, for with the exception of a very few Catholic thinkers we have come to the conclusion that all that is necessary is for ourselves to possess the truth. And until we make human and appealing the philosophy and literature we possess by writing in a n engaging and interesting style, the non-Catholic world wi ll look upon us as a people living in a world circumscribed, which has no defi n ite contact with the most li ving of all worlds, t he world of modern thought. Non-Catholic t hinkers w ill go on accusi n g us of l ivi ng in the pas t when we s hou ld instead be vividly and actively en gaged in actual contact wit h the great fo r ces of t he day. Today the world is looking for reason and for truth. We h ave the t'futh g leaned by the nob lest minds of a 1l the ages, we are enriched by the promise of Christ an d fortified by a livi n g an d n oble tradition , yet we have not t he co urage to make it acceptable to t he modern mind. Lonely, t he ti.mes must fo llow their own unaided counsel, because we, th e children of Lig ht, 1·efuse to speak . Today the mastery of t he worl d is in t he ha nds of those w ho can catch t h e ea r s of t he read ing world t hro ugh t he expression of t he phi losophic
so that it would be in harmony and save and perpetuate. They would ~:>e unity with our day. acting in accordance with the desires Catholics must come to face facts of a Thomas and n Scotus who Wl'Ote as they are if they would progress in the terms of their day but not for with the world. Our day will not ! all times. But even greater than thi)\ be saved by syllogisms or by the would be their triumph because thoy rigid beauty of scholastic reasoning. would be the heralds of Christ unto Today we are living in an age that ! men by unfolding the secrt!t of Hh~ requires simplicity in philosophy, lovliness and the truth of his divine that demands a philosophy be writ- 1 rnessage to all. Through thi.~ chnnten in an interesti.ng manner. that nel they would turn the attention of exacts literary beauty from an author the world to Christ \Vho came that all who is to be read. Manua ls and might have light, life a nd truth. Bv text-books and as dry-as-dust philo- dedicating themse lves to the noble~t so phy borrowed from the technique of human works, Catholic colleges of the schools, wi ll not save the would be changing the hea1't of theworld. It is in the escape from woild and attuning its ears to hear these that the new Ema.n cipation the me lodious trumpet that ever and should conduct itself. Catholic truth anon sounds from the hidden battlewi ll never transform the world ments of eternity. By doing this, through syllogism s. It mus t meet the world wou ld be brought close to the needs of t he average readin g t he Ch urc h because it. would be comcitizen, it must be humanized. pelled to feel her philosophic power. But are we doing anything to pop- Then, w ith the mind of the world ularize it? Undoubted ly we have as open to truth, it wou ld slowly ascend learned men as the non-Cath olic to t he rnount of Catholic beauty world possesses, men that have as where the storms of the wind-swept gTeat a knowledge of the ebb and world beat in vain, for man, nestling flow of ph ilosop hy and t hought. H ow- close to t he wonder of t he ages, the ever, they render t he ir wr iti ngs Catholic Church, and assimilating abortive by using a terminology that her wisdom could wa lk sec urely the modern wor ld cannot understand. through the labyrinth of the world We need but look to our Catholic un dismayed by t he chaos with which colleges to see t hat un less we change secular phi losophy is ever s unoundour tactics, the future will be as i.ng him. Serene, men could t hen alien from us as the past. The wa lk under the leadership of t he teac h ing of Catholic phil osop hy even saints and t he mys tics who have carin t he Catholic coll ege, because of r ied in the past t 1·iumphantly t he u n in te llig i ble ten11 ino logy, does not banner of Catholic learn ing and fit t he college graduate to cope with sanctity. It is from the ha t·monizing t he current p hil osophies of t he day. of trut h t hat t he Churc h, by dediThe present battle in life is between eati ng that truth to Christ, can en-
in terpretation of t heir ideas, who can write plai nl y, clearly an d simply on t he p hil osop hy w h ich t hey hold, whether true or fa lse. 'Ve Catholics have a ph ilosophy w h ich is the most human, the most rea-sonable, the most ill uminat ing of a ll p hil osop hi es,
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velop tand safve.t the wortlddfrobmt the mae 1s rom o 1 s presen ou an<1 discon te nt. It is because St. Viator Coll ege has fortified us with Catholic truth, because she has made us sit at t he knees of scholast ic phil osop hers, be· cause she has inflamed our souls w ith a love for truth and ... has ins pired us to follow the fl ight of truth into t h e land where myste r y, phil o. sophy and song combine, t hat we are sorry to leave, yet we a.re hopefu l and happy because she has done and is doing a n oble wo r k toward the progr ess of the new Ema ncipation. She is now but standing and meditating upon the beauty of its dawn, yet her eyes are set and h er energy bent upon its consummation . F or her we, the class of 1929, wish every success in t his noble work-the br in g ing of happ iness to men.
ers of prejudice for r efusing to li sten to us, but t hey wil l co nt inue to close their ears to our tea,ch ings unti l we at least go half-way in bring ing to t hem t he lig h t whic h our Catholic p hilosophy, when reasonab ly presentbut we have few men who att empt ed, will g ive to them. We must awake to express it, to wr ite about it in a to the gravity of t he s ituation. If popular, lucid a nd appeali ng man ner . n ot, t he wo rl d will out d ista nce us Men t hat know it fu ll y seem to keep and we w ill agai n be compelled to it locked in the to m b of the ir own stand a nd meditate at the we ll of minds. It is like a skeleton in a Catholic philosophy, t h ere to g uard closet, h idden so that t he modern its secrets, on ly to cast longi ng world ca.nnot come in con tac t with it. g lances at the advancement made by T he great tragedy of the day, from the sw ift and ever flowi n g current the standpoint of Cath olicity, is t hat in the river of secular ph ilosop h y t he peop le at·e dema nding our cui - which rushes by while we w ill be tu r e a nd our philosop hy and we are even, as now, at a standstill. T oday not g iving it to them. T hey are we need inn umerable men who, a.fter beating and pleading at our gates hav ing med itated lov ingly and f ull y seeking adm issio n to t he ma nsions, on the Cat holic phil osop hy of t he t hat h old t he treasury, yet but few past, and knowing t he impotency of are wi lling to open a n d give them secular phil osop hy, wi ll be able to Gabriel Legris, of the class of entra nce. We have guardianship dam t he rap ids in the current of over a rich treas u ry, but how few a r e secular though t, tuTn ing its flow to- 1928, returned recent ly from a sevus ing t he golden key with w hich to wards the heights of Catholic truth . eral mo n ths ' tour of Europe. un lock the secular heart of the mod- In th is rneeting of modern with . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . ern day. The world is in co nfusion . Cath olic philosophy, the ever-old and NEW MERCHANT'S CAFE and distr~ss. T u rmoi l and strife are t he eve r -new wi ll triu m ph, for it is Nicest and Most Up to Date rampant in t he land, but we are un- scintillating with the armour of willi n g to assuage its spiritual tra- heaven, and from the gateway of Cafe in Kankakee gedy. eternity it has received its origin, Reser vation for Special There is required in t his year 1929 whi lst modern p h ilosop hy sees but Parties a new Emancipation full y as neces- the earth. The rea lism and the N. Schuyler Ave. 141 sary as the political Emancipation idealis m of Catholic philosophy wi ll achieved by O'Connell in 1829. It is conquer the materialism of t he P hone 4954 J . Ber eolos , Mgr. t he Eman cipation of Catholic p hil o- secul ar wo rl d and secu lar p hil osop hy '-----------------'------' sop hy in accordance with the great when it is given t he noble and grand plea of Leo t he Thirteenth concern- expression that non-Catholic phi loin g St. Thomas, the Angel of Schools. sophy has t•eceived. Our p hil osop hy is superior to that of Strengthened by meditation on the Plato, more intellectual and rigid beauty, power and transcendent , Our phot og raph s a r e in ex pens ive yet treas ured for t heir worth as than Aristotle, more reasonable than lovliness of the eternal truths and Kant, but it needs popu l ari~ing in parables spoken by Christ, t he Light : li vi ng portraits. order to prove effective in the mod- of the 'Vorld, and with a living image 143 North Schu yler Ave. ern world. If we leave Medieval of Hi s personality flaming within the ' P hone 407 philosophy as it was written in that heart and evoking noble visions in Kankakee, Ill. cool and abstract method, the mod- the mind , the Catholic student, walkern world wi ll not heed it. It will ing under s uch a banner, fortified byi . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , merely bow at the shrine of high such a dream, coupled with the clear, ; " G G G, Enro reason and pass on, following a luci d and profound truths of the 1 ·h · Sh " t phantom of the more popular philo- Catholic ages and Catholic philo- ~ ot es • Ir S so phers like t he Nietzsches, the sop hy,. can go thro~gh t~e worl.d FE~ Schopenhauers and the Will Durants. unafraid, because hLS hentage 1s - - --We should have a new emancipation. from heaven and earth. To such an ..,. - ----- ME..f!fERs ~ \Ve should not change an iota of our ideal s hould Catholic colleges dedi- J. ~~Tfl -'-'=------=-~ philosophy. We s hould retain the cate themselves! In doing this , they , /1 H otel K anka kee Buildin g mys tic rigor and beauty of our will be alive to the desires of the Th R ll· 't Holeproof 0 1 philosophical heritage, but a style saints and the hopes of the philosoph- ~ Hosiery and an expression s hould be given it ers that they come into existence to !-_:::::a:!:p~_____,.....::::::::.::::..:--._,
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Three Victories Out of Last Four Games End Season
St. Viator Baseball Team of 1929
Reliable Cleaners Kankakee, Ill. Cleaning, Pressing, Repairin,e. Prompt and Efficient Service through our agent-Mr. Senninger.
Lake Forest Retaliates In Close Viator Defeat
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Saint Viator College ran its wm- 1 ning streak up to f oU1· games by 1 burying North Centra l College of Naperville under a ba rrage of bas e hits. The fina l score was 14 to 6. Tom Hanahan s tarte d on the mound Cor. Court and Schuyler for the Irish and held North Central in check all during the gam e. H e Complete Line of Smokers' was never in danger and after his teammates had piled up a commandArticles ing lead he eased up and a llowed North Central eight hits for six Fountain & Luncheon Service runs. Hawbecker s tartetd on the mound for North Central but wa s r emo ved in the sixth after Via to r had hit hi s offerings for a total of eleven runs and eighteen hits. Smi t h r eplaced Hawbecker and was accorded th e same treatment by the Irish batsmen. Viator garnered twenty-three hit s 346 E. Court St. off the combined efforts of these two Back Row : left t o right-N avi g ate, Ha milton, Furlong , P. O'Malley, Morgan, Ross, Manager Smith. hurlers. Evard, O'Malley and Romary Front Row: left t o rightE va. r d, Herber t, Todd, H anahan, Laenhardt, J . O'Malley, Rom ary, Hoog, Ahern. Telephone 137 led the assault for th e Iris h. Evard, =--= -= ··==-=-=-:..__=-~======== the hard hitting second baseman, rap- ----------- - -~=:::::-=--=-ped out five hits in s ix trips to the in the third on an error, a hit bats - 5, Orth 2, Mayer 3. Hi ts off Orth, 4 ILL. NORMAL AB R H PO A E plate while O'Malley and Romary man, two walks, a s ingle by Romary, in 3 innings; off Mayer, 9 in 6 in- Mulera, 2b. .....................3 0 0 2 0 0 0 each had four hits in six times a t bat. d oubl es by Ahern and Herbert. The nings. Hit by pit cher - Ort h (Laen- White, If. ........................ 4 0 O'Malley hit a home run in th e third Irish f orged ahead to lead seven to hardt). Wild pitch- Herbert, Mayer. Key, 3b . .............. ........... .4 2 5 1 Ryan, cf . .......................... 4 2 0 0 0 onning with E vard on base. s ix in the fourth when Herbert Jed Umpire-Naper stek. Rowe, lb. ...4 1 2 10 0 0 Ha.wbecker led Nort h Central in off with a long home run into r igh t. Kingery, rf. ................ 3 0 2 0 0 0 hitting with two hit s in f our times Evard then tripled a nd scored on Only shop in town that uses Aiello, c. ........................ 4 0 Laenhardt's single. La ke F or est tied at bat. 15 2 2 NORMAL DOWNED soft water Reynolds, ss. ....... 3 0 1 0 2 2 ST. VIATOR AB R H PO A E the scor e in the sixth on two hits In a well played gam e St. Viator Nichols, ss. ............... 1 0 0 0 0 0 Ross, ss. .... .4 1 1 2 2 1 and a fielder' s choice . Via to r went JOE LAMBERT, Prop. Evard, 2b. 6 2 5 3 2 in the lead in the eig hth when O'Mal- College triumphed over Illinois State Fonger, p. .................... 2 0 0 0 2 0 Un iversity eig ht t o two. Bryant, p. ........................ 2 0 1 0 0 ... 4 2 11 0 0 ley doubl ed and scor ed on Ahern's Normal Lnenhardt, lb. s ingle. Ha nahan pit ched for Viator, holding _ ___ _ _ O'Mall ey, cf . ................ 6 3 4 1 With the game app ar ently won th e Normal t o t en widely scattered hits. 34 2 10 27 13 5 Ahern, ,c. .... .....6 3 3 5 COMPLIMENTS OF Iris h s aw it sli p f ro m t heir ha nds in The sevent h inning was the only St . Via tor ......................301 010 201-8 Romary, 3b. .... 6 2 4 0 the ninth when Pratt opened the in- fra me in w hi ch Normal was able to Ill. Normal U ............000 000 200-2 Todd, If. ............... 5 0 2 score. In thi s inning they bunched Tw0 b IHamilton, rf . ... .........6 0 ning with a wa lk, he went to second fo ur hi ts t o push tw o runs acr oss the ase hits-Ahern, Romary. 0 on F er zacca 's sacrifi ce hit. He seated p late. Tom imm edi ately: tightened Three base hits-Laenhardt, O'Mal2 Hanahan, p. ..... 5 a moment la t er when J . Burk r a pped down a.nd bla nked the Teachers in ley. Sacrifices-Todd. Stolen bases48 14 23 27 11 out a single. A. Ro ski e drew a base t he r em ai nin g innings. Ross 3, Evard, Laenha.r dt 3, O'Malley, AB R H PO A E on ba lls a nd Or th drove out a single N. CENTRAL Via tor jum ped into the lead in the Romary, Todd, Rowe. Double play4 0 4 2 0 to send Burk acr oss the plate with firs t fra me by scoring three runs and Hanahan-Laenhardt. Triple playErne, 2b. ...... 5 3 0 the winning run. Evans, ss. they were never in da nger from this Romary to Ahern to Romary to Ross. Evar d continued his sensa t ional . . Struck out-Hanahan 3, Foner 7 1 1 0 Smi th, rf.-p. . t t . d mnmg to t he end of the game. Ross B t B b ll B ' , ,-- - - - - ' - - - - - - - - - - 0 0 0 0 hittin g, d n. vm Corel, If. g ou wo smg 1es an walked to open th e first inning. r.y an . 5 . as es on .a s- ryant 1. 1. .. .. A 0 0 0 a triple in fi ve trips to the plate. Evar d s ing led, mo ving Ross to s ec- 'W1ld p1tch-Foner. H1ts off Foner, 8 Miller, rf. 0 I 0 Ahern ha d a doubl e a nd two sing les a nd . Ross a nd E va rd executed Hawbecker, p. m 6 mnms ; off Bryant, 4 m 3 in8 6 C. ~1ill e r, c . to his credi t in fo ur times a t ba t . doubl e s teal a nd both scor ed on n ins. Hit by pitcher - Hanahan 2 KANKAKEE, ILL. 4 l 1 0 1 I Herber t dro ve out a home run in the A hern's doubl e. Ro mary f ollowed (Kingery, Mulera). Bases on ballsOoemer, 3b, Rossea u, cf . 0 0 0 0 0 0 fo urth. J. Bur k led La ke F orest in Ahern with a double, Ahern scoring Foner 2. Welcome Your Banking 0 ba t ting w ith a pe rfect day at ba t. f r om second. Lae nhar dt scored Via0 0 4 Kaufm an, cf. Umpire--Kane. 0 He hi t safely in fi ve a ppeara nces at tor's fo urth run in the third inning 6 2 Cozallo, lb. Business - - -- - - the plate, one of his hi ts being a when he s ing led, s tole second and WESLEY AN GIVES UP 2 38 Cor. Court St. and Schuyler A.-e. 8 27 l O home r un. t hi r d a nd we nt home on an error . Illinois Wesleyan University was Two base hi ts-H amil to n, Todd b' vard , O'Malley, Hanaha n , Laen ~ ST. VI ATOR AB R H PO A E In the fi fth inning Laenhard t tripled no match for the hard s lugging Irish hard t. Three base hi ts-A hern, Ross, ss. 0 0 2 3 and scored on Rom ary's s ing le. In a nd succumbed to def eat by a score Romar y. Home run- O'Malley. Stolen Evard, 2b. 5 2 3 3 4 0 the seventh the I r is h scor ed two of 16 to 1. Wesleyan used two Lae nl1ardt, lb. 3 1 12 0 0 mor e runs when Laen hardt s ingled, pitcher s in a vain effort to s top the bases-Lae nhardt, Evard 2 • Rom ary, .2 2 1 1 stole second and wen t t o third when Irish but their efforts wer e fu t ile a s Ahern , Eva ns 2, Sm ith . Struck out - ~;::~1:~·. cf. ...... 4 3 6 2 Key let O'Ma lley's hit go t hroug h Via tor's bats men garner ed sixt een FIVE CAN RIDE FOR Hana han 6, Haw becker 4. Bases on Roma r y 3b 4 0 0 h1m O'Mall ey st ole second. Aher n hits off their delivery. THE PRICE OF ONE oalls-Hana ha n 3, Hawbecker 5. Hi ts ' · 0 1 1 0 0 singled sconn g Laen hardt a nd sendMee ha n s tar ted on the m ound f or 1 IN A YELLOW! 1 0 0 0 >lf Hawbecker, 18 in 6 inn ings; olf ~:~;lt !~. rf. ing O'Malley to th1rd. O'Malley Wesleyan a nd Eva r d, the Viator 4 0 0 3mith, 5 in 3 inn ings. " Tild pitch5 2 2 0 5 0 scor ed on Romar y's smgle Vtator second baseman led off wi th a s ingle No charge for extras. Ra nah an. Herbert, p. _ _ _ _ _ _ scor ed 1ts last r un in t he nm t h w hen to gree t him, Romary followed w ith Umpire--\V a in wl·ight. 35 8 12 26 14 2 O'Ma lley wa lked, stole second and a s ing le and Red O'Mall ey r ap ped out (Continued on page t en ) LAKE FOREST AB R H PO A E scored on Romary's s ing le. C. P1·att, If. 3 2 1 2 0 0 Romary and Laenhardt led Via- 1- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , LAKE FOREST WI NS KNOX HATS Lake F orest proved to be a stumb- Ferzacca, ss. 3 0 0 2 3 0 tor's batting attack. Roma.ry crackROLLINS HOSE mg block in the path of the Iris h by J. Burk,_ 2b. ·- 5 5 2 ed out a doub le and three singles in Who knows? We know what young men want in •nappi ng t heil· whm ing str eak which A. Rosk1e, cf. -· 4 1 four trips to the plate an d played a Clothing and Furnishings had reac hed four straight games. Orth. p.-l"f. 0 great game in the field. Laen hardt l'iator had defeated Lake Forest in Rosthows kl, lb. 4 I 14 1 1 1rapped out a triple and two singles the ear liet· part of the season by a Stang, 3b. 3 2 2 0 0 in five a.ppearances at t he plate. op.siUe-d score and everything indi- Lmcke, c. 4 6 0 0 King ery, Ryan and Rowe led Normal VIC BOUDREAU 2 1 1 0 0 0 in batting. ·a ted a win for the I r ish in this game, M. Burk. rf. Arcade Bldr. >ut the Luke Forest team seemed to Mayer, p. _: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ST. VIATOR AB R H PO A E Arrow & Earle Shirts Mullllinrwear 1aw bolstered their weak spots nnd heir timely hilli ng. combined with 3~ 9 l3 27 14 l Ro ss, ss. 1 0 3 1 1 0 ·------------------------------.. he ine tf..ctiwness of the usually St. Viator 005 200 Ol(}--8 Evard. 2b. 1 1 5 2 0 Leave Your Laundry & Dry Cleaning With eliablt' John Herbert, resulted in the Lake Forest 120 0° 1 0° 2-9 Laenhardt. I b. 3 3 5 0 Two base hits-Ahern, Herbert, O'Malley, cf. ~ 1 3 0 ris h's downfall. .5 I 2 5 1 0 Lal.e Forest •cored four runs in the O'Malley. Three base hits-Rost- Ahern, c. 5 0 ..t 3 3 0 1 nttial mning on two walks, a sa.tri- kow~ki, Evard. Home runs-Herbert, Romary, 3b. AGENCY Domestic Laundry Co. in• and thr..., hit>•. Th"Y tallied two J. Burk. Sacrifices-0':\lnll<y, Hamil- Todd, If. 0 1 0 0 0 \to~ in th'"::. >.;t"\{"Ontl frnme- to l€'ad the ton, F~rzacca 2. Stolen bases-Laen- Hamilton, rf. 0 0 0 0 Dry Cleaners Rug Cleaners 0 0 2 5 oj ri•h ,ix to nothing "hen :\1. Burk hardt. Ahern, Todd. C. Pratt. Orth. Hanahan. p. Kanka. k ee .in~tl«< and scorod wh•n J. Burk hit Stang ~- Stru<k out-Herbert 3, Orth - - - - - , nome- run. Viator ~..~ored tln~ run::; :!, ~layer 3. Bases on balls-Herbert 1 38 8 12 27 12 1 1
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Eo<harat •• Ol'JU mor re~ '" th Tat~mad~. The tu" nt ~r _t. \•ator 0,11~11'• •• well aa tl>e people f' ·" · ,nu.J fn• fi<•t pag•l 1 ___ ,( BG rtJ<,nruLio tak~ pnd• and Uti!· Lecoar Drolet. BourbonruLJ!, Ill. I TO K..\: . K- h.EE TAXI RAT Jn u,nfr,rrruty With the prat!f"· factt.on m this sJa-n,aJ mann~r of e.x. ·ext In ment: John LaS~lle fton~ . r .. 0 Qf Tbr.... Pa D n "'"' hy <1l v.m ~ t.al.h t••<l at onr ~rPSSl'JY their lov~ and adorat1on for Mahun, (linton, IlL ,,u~K• oral y ..a,. I(O, th~ farulty, the huld•n God rlwtlling '" our Th• En ~ l i,h Eo -ay \ltd a l : E\'ening Rate: 50~ Da) Rate: i<>c atntit•nta 1111d rna fly fnf'nrh nf St . ra})l'rnac·l And tht:=y rej<liee In an en ted Ly Lhc Reo"· !:'. :.; ~Ioore of 1 Phone appointment u e-arly as p0 iblt. .. Vlat.r1r'• Kf:llh'·'""'l un tht• rn£,rnmf,! td oppc,rtunlty to ll'l\'f" public exprel.!'ion BlocJmington, 111., awarded t() John BOURBON1'AI', ILL. th~ Ourt:,.th (,,, thP poq~·'l·,. of £,( lh*" faith wbic·h is in them n~·~ard- \\'. Stafford, &)urbonnai . 111. hqr;,,rlnv. \ rifllt•r's ''"~ trho &1·rYf"d inK this vreat myt tery of tht~ "'t>xl in merit. Ra}~mond &y:<~t.'n, t l1t:i r f'fllJOiry tl urtuP,' th1• \\'c,rld \\.'&r. J..u hRri t . ChiC'BJl'O, Til 'f h1s )'f·nr'a 1 tJmrnnno r ati,Jn Wa 8 tJb La tin \Jedal · Prt>sen tcd by Rev. •·rv•••l f>'"""hly w1th vr~•at<·r ooh·mn· .J. T . Bennett, C h.cago, a wa rded to •IY than at any •• th<·r tun• in lh<• Ia t Charle• }furphy, Kanka kee ,IlL ix ,,, I·Vf· n yt-ar.t. 'f h f· p--rarfuate.! ~ext in merit· Raymond Boy<!; en. PRINTERS A D 'TATIO ER' ond furully m•·rnl.n , •n • "P and f'lucago, Il L Printinr. En~rraving. Office ' uppJ,.,.. Loo e Ltaf Forms. 8La.ten' etc. KI)W n . foll ttWf·tf 1,>. llw r,flir-f'r ~~ r th~ Orator} )ledal : P re. e n ted by \' ery Ma and Hw uN,)}'fl , man l11-·d in f('ontmuf"d !J·om pa£f' n ine) Rev. J. P. O'Ma honey, Ch icago, 26~ East Merchant Stre<:t pr oc·1·!'.. irm frorrl t ht· rnt11n ntrri dfJT of 8 trip lt·, Lae nh ardt si ng led, Rossi awarded tf.) C harl E=~ Murp hy, Ka nkaTelephone 406 KANKAK&& ILL. MIIr II <· Hull l~o lh•• f'hup•·l v.hHP wulked and Lon g • •ng led. Af Le r th l5 kee, Ill. lht· Vt·ry 1{1'\'t· r •·ntJ ,J. \\-, R. MuJ(U fr(", balli ng '" PTE-f• ca me to a n end Viator Next in merit: Raymond Boyse n. p n · id•·nt of tht• C'oll t•J(I', ('(• lf'Lratfd had ~<·o red four ru ns. In t he th ird r h ica go, Ill. ~~ .. o J• ·mn Hivh Mo"!" Via tor ta lli ed two more ruM wh en Medal for Excellence in French '] h•· C' hf>lr undt·r thf· rlirN·tio n of Atwrn and Ha milton walk ed a nd Todd L1terature : Dona ted by Ver y Rev . •- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . , llr ol h•· r h ~o<·lzn nn<l P ro f c.· or Roc h, l ·•nt t hem ac ross th e pl a te wit h a! M•gr. Primea u o f Manteno, Ill. , CHAS. C. RIEL Y DONALD l\I. RIELY ~ und und<·r 1hi' •mmNIJat<· · uperv l" •on trip le to dee p le ft fi eld. Two mor e awa r ded to .Jo.e ph Leco ur Drolet , Telephone 995 ,· u f .ro f'.f' Ph l>rolf·t, ~unK Curll ivulli '~ ru ns en me acro~s in th e fourth wh e n Bour bo nn a is , Ill. I & " f{n~n My lir'IJ" Mu w hkh wu~ lit>· o.tLi r y s ingled , Laenhardt was safe Medal for Excellence in French 1 i rw prl·pa lt •fl fo r t hl' ('tunml:' OCNnent on a n err() r, bot h runn ers ~co ring o n \ompos ition : Don ated by Ver y Rev. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS an d DEALERS (•x t· H· i ~ •· o f .l utw 11 . Mr. Donovu n T (Jill Ah f' rn' s d ou ble to cen ter . In 1 ~·f. J. Ma rs ile, c. s . v., Oak Park, Ill., unci Mr. 1\ ncl l' t·"'o n.' t he two. ~niOl "~ts., l t he fifth • ucces•ive s ing les by Hamil - l awa rded to Adrien Ri chard, BourElectricians for St. Viator College u· wt· ll U "~ ll w t- nt Jn• chfllr MUcceNit·d ton, T odd and E vard brou g ht in two bo nn a is, Ill . 370 EAST COURT STREET vt•t y Wt• ll . Bro tl• t· r· 1-i: o(·l;~t· r !'\U ng th(> I mo r e ru n!i. Three mor e r uns we r e His torl Medal : Donated by Rev. 1 " proJwr" of tlw M l:l!\!., thu s bring ing ~cored in th e e ighth on Lae nhardt's Dr. P eter Guilday of Ca th olic U ., Uw nw Mit· of th l· ll oly Sacrifi r<• to wa lk , Ah ern 's s ingle, Ro~s's doubl e \Vashin gto n, D. C. , award ed to S imon th a t ~lltml urd of Jli'OJn·it•ty a nd dig· und Hamil to n's s ingle. Legris, Bourbonnais , IlL r11ty fiL·~irN I by tlw ll oly ~<'C . Bill T odd turn ed in a fin e g am e of Next in me rit : Donald Laenhardt, Aft <• • Mn •• th o p rocession ago in Lw irling f or th e Iris h, holding Wes - 1Chicago, Ill. wu!l fo1nwd , ond followl•d th e s tud - ley a n well in hand all the way and The Debaters ' Medals : Pres ented Practice Limited to pnt hod y t o th c (.'fl t rnn ce of th e lim iting th em to s ix hits. They by th e me mbers of former de bating 1 l'llll1JlU ~ w h ~ re th cy s ur round ed th e sco r ed th e ir lone run in th e firs t teams of S t. Viator Colleg e, are EYE, EAR, NOSE AND TH ROAT l'lntUl' o f tht• Snc r<•d ll ea rt which fram e wh en Thompson walked, went awarded to th e following a s members Bell Telephone 253 w n ~ l'rt•r tl••l in HH R, in honor oi lhe to seco nd on Myer's s a crifi ce and of this year's debating teams : Viator tll l' ll w ho di l'tl durin g the war. sco r ed on Nueh 's s ingle. John \V. Stafford, Bourbonnais, Ill. KANKAKEE, ILLI NOIS 602 Cit y Nat 'l Bank Bld g. Ttw Ml·mori a l o.ddrt'!-4~ wus deli ve r ed E vard again was the batting s tar, Jam es A. N olan, Roc kford, Ill. by ,Jo ~<· ph Drol('t, member of the rapping out three s ingles in six trips Be1·nard Mulvaney, Bourbonnais. St•n in r t· lm~~. Pruyl' r~ lh C' n we r e to th e pla t.e. T om Ahern rapp ed out John McMahon, Clinton, Ill. offt)rl•d for thl' rt' pO~f' o f th <· so uls of two timely hits , a s ingl e and a tripl e Donald La enhardt, Chicago, Ill. 1 Lloyd Warne, Sioux Falls, S. D. th mH' wh o m ud l' till' Mupreme sa crifi ce in fo ur times a t bat. o( tlwir fo•· th o <'Ru se of peace. 1. WES LEYAN AB R H PO A E Charles Murphy, Kankakee, Ill. lmnwdiuld y nft erward s Mr. Drolet Thompso n, 2 b. The f ollowing Seniors have dis3 1 0 6 3 0 clirP<' h td tlw s inging o f two pa triotic Myers , rf. _ 2 0 1 0 0 1 tinguis hed th emselves in being con · u nlh t· m ~. llll' " S tur-Mpa ngled Bunner " Dickenso n, rf. 1 0 0 1 0 0 sis te nt honor roll s tud ents : Jose ph nnd tlw ;o.J\lli C' I' il'n ," bo lh o f whi c h ('at on, ss. 1 Drolet, Dona ld Laenhardt, John Mc4 0 1 3 2 1 Wl' re Mun g with spir it by everyone N uehs, a b. 311 City Nation a l Bank Building 4 0 1 1 0 0 Mahon, Adrien Ri chard, James Nolan. pr~~l· nt. Burows, c. 3 0 0 4 2 2 Craig, lb. 3 0 1 8 0 0 L ae nhardt, lb. 4 3 2 8 00 3 0 0 1 0 0 Ahern, c. 422 3 10 p · Ba ker, cf. S hepa rd, If. 3 0 1 I 0 0 Ross, ss. 3 21 3 00 1 0 0 0 1 1 L ong, If. 401000 Mee han, p. __ 2 0 1 0 5 0 Hamilton, rf. 422400 H ir s t, p. T odd, p. 5 12000 MILK-CREAM On ,hnw 2, Hl29, the S unday Col · 29 1 6 24 13 5 Bul garious Butter Mil k l owin~ ('o rpu• Chris ti th e Bl essed ST . VlATOR 40 16 16 27 5 0 AB R H PO A E 306 South Sch uy ler A venue ~ U(' r l\ m tl nt wu~ sOl l~ mnl y co ndu cled E' , d ?b 100 000 000-1 6 1 3 2 2 0 TIL Wesleya n thro u ~ h Uw ~ trt:>~ts of Bourbonn a is R'ar • ... :ib 402 223 30x- 16 - 6 3 2 1 2 0 St. Via tor _ Always drink pasteurized milk. Our wagons pass your in 1\l..'l'Ordn nce W;t h t h e ti m ~- h onOr('~,.l O om a ~y, f. _ 4 2 1 6 0 0 I Ump ir e-Cusack. door every morn in g befor e you have breakfast cu ~ t om o f th e Yillnge. F or th e firs t ' l\lal ey, c ·
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