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people from all nations flocking to this country, Washington Hall. and in the breasts of all the struggle for the material was rampant. The intellectual seems oh 00K on these walls, and ask their stoical frame. to have been forgotten or lost in this Babel Unbending now from silence deathly deep, of mixed races. It was but natural for these m To tell their tales of life, to laugh and weep people to look to their mother countries for In sympathy with each faire knighte that came their intellectual sustenance, whilst they strug­ And strutted proudly on yon stage, to name gled hard here to satisfy their bodily wants. With gladness those who up the rocky steep Have climbed, to whisper low of those who creep Such a people, divided in languages, nation­ Along the dusty way, nor taste of fame. alities and temperaments, naturally lacked individuality in thought. Men were engaged in For every cycle—be it day or year— the completion of the temple of state rather Is full a lifetime in the one great life than in adorning their language with rich Made up of smaller sweeps of Father Time. And each one daily suffers joy and fear. intellectual trophies. A people's cultivation Ambition dulled and hopes brought low; the strife and appreciation of literature is gradual. It is Goes daily on with confidence sublime. dependent, to a great extent, on its environ­ J. A. MARIMON. ments; and certainly the surroundings of an infant nation seldom contribute to the advance­ ment of literature. After the horizon of state A New Nation's Literature. had been cleared of the dark clouds of oppress sion, and the thunder of a revolution ^which FRANK A. BOLTON. had molded these people of almost every nationality into a distinct nation had passed A hundred years ago we find America a young over, the sunshine of culture burst forth, and a and rapidly rising country, society continually people of new temperament and character- in uneasy movement, and shifting westward. gave vent to their individuality, and literature In New England, with the prolonged struggle began to take root and grow. of the colonists, and the severe puritanical Our mental vassalage outlasted our political spirit that cramped their intellectual growth, subjection. Not even our minds, still less our culture had an unfavorable start. Elsewhere life and manners, were deemed worthy of all less pressing considerations were sacrificed recognition. Imitation held the'place of crea­ to the irresistible struggle to move on and tion. We justly date from the successful become richer. Poor men with their "way to authorship of Brockden Brown the era of our make" were heavily handicapped, and strained literary independence; and we trace to him the :- > " every nerve to hold their own. The minds of first declaration of that independence. Brown's all were absorbed in the interests which lay novels indicate the adequacy of strictly Amer­ nearest to their hearts. The only literature ican subjects to a place in the higher, walks of that could really excite or interest them was literature. He complained of the anglicanism either political, industrial, or financial. We find of American writers and readers, and dwelt 4o6 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. strongly on the development of our own intellec­ "The Marble Faun." Its plot is laid in Italy, yet tual resources with the elements of our material through it all we breathe the fresh and invigor­ growth. Our writers before Brown, with but ating air of New England. There is something very few exceptions, might as well be European. remarkable in the fact that all our great- Thej'-thinkafterEuropean models, drawing their romances, English and American, take their stimulus from European books. They fashion scenes from continental Europe. We find a themselves according to European tastes, and great many critics censuring our writers for their tones are anything but American. This doing so. Hawthorne says that romance and certainly had a tendency to denationalize the poetr}^ ivy, lichens and.wall-flowers need ruins American mind. The voice of Brown was as to make them grow. Every great romance that of one crying in the wilderness; 4iis lungs seems to verify his statement.. George Eliot were strong, and his will good, but his tones goes to Italy for her scenes, labels her charac­ unmodulated and discordant. But with all his ters with Italian names; but are they Italians? shortcomings it must be confessed that he No: they have the manner and vigor of Eng­ made the move towards a distinctively Ameri­ lishmen; they are Englishmen. Even Shakspere can literature. laying the scenes of his best tragedies and There is no doubt but that the revolutionary comedies in France and Italy, cannot shake off period was rich in its speeches and declarations, the atmosphere of the Avon. It is evident that often elevated in sentiment and massive in our country is not old enough, has not that thought; but they were saturated with parti­ enchanting mysteriousness that lends the charm sanship, and necessarily lacked the repose and to the romantic. Hawthorne did much for it in balance that belong to true literature. Up to his "Scarlet Letter"; butthere has not existed this time we accomplished less in literature than since his day such an original force. His pictures in any other branch of human effort. That have all the warmth and color of life. He sees intellect which chose its field of work with so human figures, hears their voices and witnesses much success in commerce, in manufacture, their joys and griefs. He knows their names, in invention, in science, in politics—things faces and habits; for they are the people—not necessary to the development of our country of his imagination, but people imbued with and the furthering of our people's interests— New England life—the people he knows. might have, under settled conditions, achieved Ralph Waldo Emerson is a great and original triumphs in literature. force in the literature of America—a type of A national literature is the s^rowth of time and pure human innocence. He seems to have leisure, and its evolution is due to the change been an inhabitant of sub-ccelum rather than a of the nature and tastes of the people. In all creature of this nineteenth century. forms of literature we are, in some indefinable Oliver Wendell Holmes adds a new flavor to way, drawn into the atmosphere of the age. this New England life. His character-drawing We feel the life and spirit of its locality. We is graphic; he penetrates as far into human become acquainted with the peculiarities that nature as common-sense, sympathetic intelli­ climate and social environments have pro­ gence and learning can take him; and the result duced in them. Every man who has read, and is to simplify and brighten our conception of read much of the works of the brilliant coterie men and things. It is in the current of everyday of men that have lived in New England, is life that he allows himself to be, carried along acquainted with New England, knows its life willingly; for he wishes to study its changes. and its people, and cannot help but long for its Nothing morbid attracts him. He watches pure and enlivening atmosphere. everyday occurrences, characteristic traits, and Irving was the first to cultivate literature for its comments on them with a humorous accuracy. own sake. He was the first to discover the true Longf ellow,Whittier and Lowell have roamed native vein, and in his "Knickerbocker Tales" through our gardens, picked the fairest and and Catskill legends he worked it to admirable most delicate beauties of nature, and presented effect. Cooper chose the Indians who now them to us with becoming grace. have become almost extinct. Melville, in a Up to this time we find that our literature fascinating manner, told of sea life in peace. has been confined to New England. Then, as Then Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, the West grows up,Bret Harte draws for us the Holmes and the rest arose and proclaimed our unconventional pictures of the Cajifornian literary emancipation. miner; the lives of men who have left civiliza­ Hawthorne has given us our best romance. tion behind them—men sometimes barbaric,

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sometimes chivalrous. Mr. Harte's success is writers; they are not the highest form of litera­ due to the novelty of the characters and scenes ture, but such as they are, they show a delicacy he describes. Cable has given us pictures of of touch that is truly wonderful. Creole life in the South. Eggleston shows us The greater part of our modern fiction is un­ the life of the frontier, but not the romantic worthy of the paper on which it is printed. Men and barbarous life Harte describes. Howells and women have made writing a business, gives us Americans—conventional Americans— and the result is, our literature has become men and women with whom we meet every somewhat stagnant. The increase of really day. It is his contemporaneousness that makes good books is probably very small. The him popular. He takes his camera and photo­ demand for books ?s great, and the supply still graphs us, and his pictures are so true that one greater. The laws of mortality will soon recognizes every shade and contour as being include them, and then we may expect the rise natural. Page gives us short tales of negro and of a literature which shall be as great as our country'life. rise in invention and science—a literature as For the most part our literature is yet con­ truly strong and broad and startling as the fined to the East. It is but natural that our new nation which sprang from the wilderness, literature should be mostlv Eastern as all the and which holds the admiration and respect of great publishing houses and all our great mag­ the whole world. azines are Eastern. But our literature should not be confined to New York and Boston; it should be as large and broad as the best thought The Author of "Dream-Life" and "Beveries." of the nation. Western and Southern writers do not care to have their work judged by Eastern critics, for they dread a lack of sympathy. BY FRANK L. CARNEY. This has a tendency to keep down writers who would write as they feel, and describe life as Realism is the literature of to-day. All our they see it. They write within a space narrowed modern writers have been influenced more or by their section, and limited to their provincial less by the French school. The realistic ten­ magazines. dency is to be noticed not only in American England's criticism of American life and fiction, but our drama and even our poetry have literature has been too severe. Things peculiarly felt its touch. From the sweet, simple, earnest Western, or showing some sort of eccentricity, Hawthorne and the picturesque, poetic Irving, have met with tremendous applause in England. we have turned to the coarser, materialistic Such examples of literature which are pointed school of naturalism. To paint nature as one out as noteworthy examples of our life and social really finds and knows it is now literary art. condition by the English, are generally the sort Our literature is flooded with the demoralizing of "prairie stuff" we find in the "Beadles." fiction of this school. It is to be found every­ Thus-it is that people of refinement and culture where. Americans are an exceptionally in the West have to endure the humiliation of notional people—impulsive, eager, ever willing being represented by men who have neither cul­ to accept on trial anything and everything; ture nor refinement. The West and the East are and realism—a distinctively new element in peopled by the same kind of men and women, our writings—has found rapid favor. and the barrier that critics would raise between The realistic influence cannot last, however. them is in name only. It has come to us merely as an experiment, To-day the short story seems to be absorbing and already it has proved itself a failure. We the attention of our best writers. American have granted it the liberty of our literature, life seems to be but a series of episodes. There and it has overstepped our confidence. From has been no such thing as a fixed condition the pure realistic school, which gives us life, of society—a society not subject to change true and simple, it has led us unconsciously to and capable of furnishing a foundation for the the pernicious, materialistic school of Zola. novel. The novel is not an episode, nor is it an Immorality, even coarseness in literature, is aggregation of episodes. It is an analysis of repugnant to the American taste; and when character and a description of life. It seems as realism degenerates into the mere painting of if we were not ready for the novel. Our nature animal man it naturally must cease to be demands something lighter and more delicate. American. These stories have never been equalled by any But realism has reached the height ol its 4o8 jyOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. popularity. It has lost the public favor through at times vague and unfinished. The panorama its suspicious tendency; and its waning power which he carelessl}'' passes before us, however, plainly shows us the popular taste. Already takes us captive. We love to dally with the are we turning from the shallow, debasing writ­ . sweet thoughts which he whispers, and to ings of this materialistic period back to the taste again the joys of years ago. He draws invigorating, cheering atmosphere of our own for us the misty lands of sentiment and beau­ true American literature. We have grown weary tiful stretches of charming meditation. He of the coarse frankness and moral weakness so paints the love and sorrows in life with a soft, characteristic of the times, and again we long gentle, almost feminine touch, and he picks up for the pure, the sweet, the beautiful in life; and the common, everyday triflings of the world, I know of no one who can better satisfy this and entwines them around our very lives. He thirst for the true, the human in man's everyday seems to cling to those good old days of happy life than Ik Marvel. youth, before the breaking of our air castles The author of the " Reveries of a Bachelor" and the shattering of our hopes. is a natural man, and his works are as near to The "Reveries of a Bachelor"—"a contem­ life as he is true to nature. He is a delightful plative view of life from the slippered ease of writer—pure, simple, musical, he touches the the chimney corner"—is delightful. If one sweetest chords of the human heart. His loves beauty and grace and naturalness of style, knowledge of our affections and our mind is one must surely be charmed with this work. It such that his writings seem personal to each of gives us the best example of Ik Marvel's pecu­ us. He tells us just what applies to our own life, liar style. He is a very impressionable man, or what we have realized by our own experi­ and the "Reveries" naturally grew out of the ences, and he whispers to us all these little dreamy pensiveness of his sensitive mind," even truths so naturally and so gracefully that he as one bubble piles upon another from a pipe pleases us as much by the manner as by the mat­ out of which young breath blows them into ter of his writings. He is not, it is true, sublime bigness." Dream-like,the "Reveries" are poorly or powerful. He is no Hercules of thought, arranged in the book—the chapters are ram­ but rather the graceful, delicate, dreamy painter bling and disconnected,—but in it there are of the fire-side. We find in his pictures none of some tender, life-like pictures which it does the bold carelessness of Hawthorne, nor the one good to study. Melancholy is the keynote poetic force of Irving. He paints onlj^the gentle, of the book; but it is subdued and richly toned. the pathetic and the beautiful. The sobbing No querulous wailings or loud laments, but heart of a mother, weeping over the grave of rather soft and gentle minor notes of a harp, her son of fifteen summers; the soft step, over which sweeps a suriimer wind, laden with gentle voice and hidden agony of a husband, the breath of flowers. stealing into the death-chamber of his young The Bachelor dreams—perhaps the dreams wife; a love scene between a youth and maiden, of disappointment and of failure—but he turns where sentiment breathes itself into a dreamy even these into a melancholy pleasure. He mist, encircling both of them and softening plays on the chords of tenderness, beauty and their outlines to our vision until they melt pathos, and by the gentle murmur of his poetic away in a cloud of peaceful happiness—these muse he unconsciously creeps into the very and similar subjects Ik Marvel depicts. secrets of our hearts; he softly whispers to us, Simple, keen and varied, he is ever recalling and what^he tells, cheers and pleases us. our own experiences in the most unexpected Ik Marvel is, above all, pure. His writings turns of expression. Now dipping into the are free from everything low, mean or morally human heart, and now skimming the fields of unhealthy. His style is clear, expressive, fancy, his imagination carries us back to those natural, full of grace-and beauty. His word good old years, dear to every one of us, when pictures are charming. Like most American life seemed as careless as the happy murmur authors of the sentimental school, his model is of the old familiar stream, as it patiently crept Washington Irving; and he could scarce have through- the quiet mill pond and slyly stole one purer or better. We find Irving's influence its way down past the little country school House. all tlirough Marvel; he has much of his rounded Ik Marvel is a natural' dreamer. He has gentleness in construction and the same dreams within dreams. He pictures his own remarkable picturesqueness. His writings .are life and the lives of those in whom he is inter­ marked by subtle imagination, curious power ested in an endless chain of reveries. He is of analysis and exquisite purity of diction. He NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 409

studies the human heart and mind, and he is the tourist, who in Ireland is at their mercy, ever ejcploring the secret depths of emotion. ends by liking them; yet it must be confessed The "Reveries" and "Dream Life" are remark­ that the preference for the car is an acquired able for their originality and suggestiveness, taste. You sit on the wheel-house facing the and are characteristic of his almost feminine fences and hang your legs over the side of the delicacy and gentleness. His humor is not car. Your companion sits with his back to you, boisterous, but is mellowed into a rich and and the driver, whose heels are over the nag's delicate hue which makes all his writings lively tail, forms the third side of a hollow square. and interesting. There is no purity or grace or Then you dash along over the smooth Irish depth of feeling in his books that does not road. You have an irresistible inclination to belong to the man. Simple, modest, frank, hang on to somebody or something; but prac­ manly, the gentle influence of his drearny mind tice makes perfect, and you end by becoming sweetly and unconsciously leads us away from self-supporting. the fretful triflings of earnest life, back to the On this particular day we left Dublin in the realms of careless fancy. He leads us on by morning and sped along the hard road towards his natural eloquence, which gushes forth from Kingstown. The scenery was picturesque, and the very depths of his large and generous heart. every now and then we were favored with a Ik Marvel cheers, encourages and consoles. glimpse of the Atlantic and sniffed its ozone. His grief glimmers like a twilight, soft, hazy The scenery between Dublin and Kingstown is and indistinct, and the tender feelings of a charming—a veritable Eden. On either side heart in sorrow are drawn with quiet precision. of the road are to be seen beautiful homes, His keen insight into our very lives makes him with green^ lawns, shrubs and flowers. The a true and loving friend. We turn to him, lawns are well kept, and will bear comparison always sure of finding cheering comfort and with the most pretentious in America. earnest aid. Ik Marvel has endeared himself Kingstown is about one hour's drive from to the American heart, for he has increased the Dublin, and is a city of residences rather than joys and lightened the sorrows of countless of business. It has one of the finest harbors in homes. After reading his "Reveries" and the world, with a breakwater stretching for "Dream Life" one cannot but love him; and about a mile on either side into the Atlantic. once knowing him, I am sure no one will deny The piers, as they are called, form a fashion­ him a friendly corner in one's library. He able promenade, and here during the summer certainly merits our affectionate remembrance. months open air concerts are given. From Kingstown to Bray is about another •* * » hour's ride. Bray itself is a popular place for summer residences. It is picturesquely situated, Recollections of Picturesque Ireland. and the prettiest nooks are in the vicinity of Dargle, Indeed the prettiest glen or ravine is BY iM. J. Ji GARRY. the Dargle, and it certainly has attained to greater celebrity than others. The ravine is of It was the writer's good fortune, whilst great depth; the hills on either side are dotted making a tour in Europe, to visit Ireland in by gigantic trees and covered by underwood company with his father and mother, through out of which protrude bare and rugged rocks. whose kind indulgence the tour was made The thick foliage provides continual screens, possible. Most of the famous places in Ireland so that the river, though heard, is often unseen; were seen, and in reviewing them he will ask but a step or two in advance and its full glory the reader to accompany him in spirit as they meets the eye. pass before his mind. It was in May, 1890, that After we left Bray our course led us to the this particular trip was made. residence of that one-armed patriot, Michael Instead of being whisked rapidly from place Davitt. His dwelling is called Land League to place by steam, an Irish jaunting car was Cottage, and was presented to him by his engaged. To Americans, accustomed to four- admirers. It is a pleasant nook and a charm­ wheeled vehicles, an Irish jaunting car is a ing retreat for a man fatigued with the cares -curiosity, and their riding on them is a doubt­ of political life. ful experiment. Those "low-backed" cars are After leaving Land League Cottage our a novelty that one first laughs - at and then objective point was the Wicklow Mountains. grows used to. It is more than probable that To picture adequately half the beauties of 4IO NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

Wicklow would require a large volume. It is there is not enough of it left to console you for indeed a rich bouquet which nature has pro­ that which is gone forever; and there is too vided for the tourist.. Wicklow is the garden much of it gone to permit you to forget the of Ireland. Its prominent feature is sublimit}?- magnitude of your loss. It is like a torn vol­ —wild, grand and refreshing. Among its high ume of history, or a broken statue of a saint. and bleak mountains there are numerous rich The chapel is full of shadows, crowded with and fertile valleys, luxuriantly wooded, with weeds breast high, with the ivy folded about the noblest of rivers running through them and the windows like a mantle. Of the other forming a series of cataracts. The chief attrac­ six there is nothing remaining of their former tions of Wicklow are its glens, through which strength but their stone foundations. St. Kevin's the hill torrents have burst. Down the sides of bed is in the side of one of the mountains. It is each the perpetual dripping of moisture has a hole in a rock, quite a distance up from the nourished the growth of trees and underwood. surface of the lake. The ascent is exceedingly It is impossible to imagine a scene more sub­ difficult, and somewhat dangerous; for a slip lime and beautiful than one of those ravines, would inevitably precipitate the adventurer of which there are so many. Descending from into the lake below. The cave is low, and in any of the hills, the moment the slope com­ entering it a crouching posture must be assumed. mences, the prospect becomes charming beyond 'The rocks are covered with inscriptions and conception. Trees of every form and hue, names. What strange feelings of awe come from the lightest and brightest green to the over a person as he thinks that it was here most sombre brown, are there with their grassy that St. Kevin lived and raised his voice in base, which Dean Swift called "frieze mantle prayer. fringed with gold lace." As we ascended, From Glendalough we went to the Vale of mountains surrounded us on all sides but one, Avoca, where the. Meeting of the Waters which was left open to the sea, where, beyond begins. The genius of Moore has immortal­ Bray Head, the island of Dalkey gladdened the ized the spot; but those who approach it with bosom of the ocean. Farther off, to our left, imaginations excited by the graceful and was Powerscourt manor. A short distance from touching verses of the poet will be disap­ that is Powerscourt waterfall, one of the pret­ pointed unless they bear in mind that tiest imaginable. It looks like a broad silver band upon the dark mountain side. It turns " 'Twas not the soft magic of streamlet or hill" and plunges into a vale, and awa)?- it goes to which gave enchantment to the scene; but it make other miniature waterfalls. was the fact that "the friends of his bosom were near." The Meeting of the Waters is From the Wicklows we went to Glenda- riot without beauty, far from it! but its attrac­ lough, and incidentally called at Avondale— tions are small in comparison with those of the residence of ..the late Charles Stewart other places. We paused awhile on the pretty Parnell. Avondale is an ideal country home— bridge under which rolled the blended waters spacious dwelling house, lawn in front, large, of the Avonberg and Avonmore. Before us lay umbrageous trees in the back-ground, ample the opening to a scene of exceeding loveli­ barns, etc. It is really the only residence that ness—"a valley so sweet" as scarcely to require carried us in memory back to America. But to the poet's aid to induce a belief that nothing describe Glendalough and convey'to the reader "in this wide world" can surpass it in grandeur a faint idea of its silent beauty would be and beauty. With this charming scene before exceedingly difficult. The absence of trees is our minds I close the description, hoping that felt as an evil far less at Glendalough than the reader may some day see and appreciate elsewhere. It is mainly indebted to fame for it as I have done. its naked grandeur. The shadows that fall" upon the lake from the bare mountains that •^•^ so completely environ it grvc it a character IF there is any point which, in six thousand of peculiar gloom. Churches stand unroofed years of thinking about right and wrong, wise and and crumbling; oratories are levelled to the good men have agreed upon, or successively by height of humble graves, and standing high experience discovered, it. is that God dislikes above them all is the mysterious round tower. idle and cruel people more than any other; that Of the original seven churches but one remains, His first order is: "Work while you have light"; which is in a wfetched state of preservation. and His second, " Be merciful while you have This on^ has the walls and windows yet, but XQ.&rcy\"—Ruski?i. \/K - ; ,

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CRITICISM. DANIEL V. CASEY. 'Conceal your dagger in a velvet sheath!" The editor unto the critic cries, Carleton came to Fairmount when I was in ' I cannot stab, sir, while the steel beneath my Freshman year. He entered the "Prep" The pleasing texture of the velvet lies." DuB. department, and if I had been loyal to Fresh­ APR^S LE BAL. man principles I would have, seen very little of I stepped on her toes. him. He was such a queer sort of a chap, Will she ever forgive me? though, and my fellow townsman at that—we She gave me a rose,— were both from Indianapolis—that I couldn't But—I stepped on her toes. And now everyone knows. help taking a lively interest in his doings. He And the tale will outlive me. was not at all ill-looking; but beauty is so I stepped on her toes. seldom associated with red hair, worn rather Will she ever forgive me ? long and parted precisely in the middle, that D.V.C. MUSIC. poor Guy was set down at once as the home­ Ah, music is delight! my brain liest " sub " in college. They did not call him Goes mad with strains so gay; Guy—in fact, I don't think they, ever knew his What can be gayer? first name—he was "Reddy" from the very But now I gnash my teeth in rage, beginning, and within a month he had added And plot the man next door to slay— A trombone player. "the plunger" to his official title. J. A. M. He was a good fellow at heart, but pitifull5r "BABY FRED." weak in some ways, and utterly regardless of Baby Fred's our sovereign lord, Though his father rules the fleet. consequences. You know what the tempta­ With his-epaulettes and sword. tions of a college town are, and you can easily Baby Fred's our sovereign lord; guess how Carleton killed time that session. In obeying, all on board To make matters worse, Fairmount had no Admiral to ship-boy meet;— dormitories; the students were scattered Baby Fred's our sovereign lord, through the town wherever they chose to settle . Though his father rules the fleet. E. C. themselves, and there was not even the shadow A REMINISCENCE. of restraint put upon their actions. '" Sub rosa," the maiden who's the dearest It was Carleton's first plunge. He had been -. In all the world to me, once whispered low. kept in leading strings all his little life, and his I didn't note it then, but 'twas the queerest Mistake—we were "beneath the mistletoe." reputation at home was something to marvel D.V.C. at and wish for one's own; but with his first A COMMON'FATE. taste of liberty, a reaction began, and long^ They bite the dust, their tale is told— before Christmas he knew more about "full So fared the ancient warriors bold— hands" and "Extra Dry" than lie did about And then some minstrel sang a lay And praised their deeds; but, sad to say. Caesar and simultaneous equations. Ye lady loves were ne'er consoled. I tried a dozen times to reason with him, but But come, some newer tale unfold. he was obstinate and even more unwilling to This one has really grown so old break with his friends, the fastest set at Fair- That whiskers, ah! excuse me, nay, mount; and so one day when my "sermon" They bite the dust. had been more than usually prosy, we quarrelled '-- Why, e'en in buying fruit that's sold outright and agreed to disagree. More than, On corners, smelling rank with mold, once I was tempted to write to his mother— Just notice, 'fore you turn away. Mr. Carleton had been dead for years—but L That when the venders get their pay, have always had a horror of outside interfer- If they're not sure the coin be gold. They bite the dust. ence in family affairs, and I don't think she- F.W.E. would have believed me if I had written. AFTER THOUGHTS. We had been living—Guy and myself and: - How sad it was the line to try. two Sophomores—at the old Holmes' place on C And there to meet a solid wall; But sadder still to hear the cry, Water Street, about fifteen squares from the;,, "Four downs," and you have lost the ball. college. Shortly after my. last little talk wititf \:.^ ' . , DuB. Guy I had a chance to take a room miicli' A S5^

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nearer, made vacant by the departure of a erts and I—and we talked about the Carletons home-sick "sub," and I moved in at once. allthe way. "Honestly, old man," he said, "it There was another student rooming in the makes my blood boil to think how that young same house, a "sub"—^John Roberts was his scamp is deceiving that gentle little mother of name—and one of Guy's classmates. He was his. I never had a mother's care myself; if I had, rather old to be in the "Prep" school—he must God knows I might have been a far different have been quite twenty-five—and a bit unso­ man; but I will not see any woman imposed ciable; but we soon became fast friends. Such upon. Guy spent nearly three hundred dollars good friends, indeed, that even when he told last session, and I know their whole income is me one day, while we were making mutual not more than eight. It would break her heart confidences, that he was a professional gambler, to know that he gambled and drank; and, by it did not make me dislike him any the less. George! she shall never know it if I can help Of course, I tried to persuade him to drop it. Guy has sown the last of his wild oats!" gambling—I was something of a prig in those Carleton came back a week later, and for a days, and I was great in the converting line,— time all was well. He cut Foster and all his but he only opened his eyes very wide and old friends, and settled down to study; but the asked me how he would live if he did. I old leaven was in him still, and it came out on suggested book-keeping, and he turned the the eve of Washington's Birthday. The 22d is conversation to the comparative merits of a fcie day at Fairmount and the students gen­ double and single entry methods, and we never erally "celebrate" the night before, and plead returned to the gambling question. guilty and pay their fines the morning after. He knew Carleton; he had met him once or Guy was out by himself that night and Foster twice at class "blow-outs," and he rather met him andpersuadedhimto join the old crowd ' fancied the fellow. Many a talk we had about "just for the evening." After the first bottle Guy poor Guy while that innocent young fool was was the wildest of the lot. Fate led them to out with his "crowd" setting the pace for it, Brown's, the one faro room in Knoxville, and Guy and paying more than his share of the reckoning. began to play. Everyone was betting on favorite The short autumn days slipped hy unnoticed, cards or combinations; but Guy, after the and almost before I knew it the holidays had manner of amateurs, played.only the high and come, and I was bidding Roberts and the rest low. He lost on every turn; first his own ready of the fellows good-bye. Then home and money, then all that Foster and his friends had father and mother and all the folks, and no with them. Curran, one of the fellows, offered time to think of Fairmount.^ him a draft for two hundred which he had just- A day or two after Christmas I was down at received from home, but Guy refused it. When the Capitol with a cousin of mine, showing her the case was emptied he rose from his chair and the sights; and there, of all men the least stood idly watching the dealer as he shuffled expected, we met .Roberts. " Oh, I just ran the pack and began again. He saw the high over for a day or two," he said, when I took' win again and again, five, six, seven times in him to task for not calling," to keep from dying succession. "It must come low the next.time," in a blue funk. Knoxville is insufferably dull, he thought. " Give me that draft," he said to and all the fellows have gone; so I packed my Curran; but the card was turned already, high bag, and, behold, I am here!" again. "Two hundred on the low," he whispered That was quite a speech for Roberts—he to the dealer, and dropped the draft on the ' generally talked like a phonograph,iull of very table. The first card uncovered was the nine short quotations and very long dashes,—so we of spades, the second the jack of diamonds, -carried him home to dinner. All the folks, and Guy fell to the floor in a dead faint. from father to Maggie, the cook—she was also He did not come to chapel in the morning, and the butleress—^were delighted with him and Avhen I went to see him I found him delirious. pressed him to stay with us, but he could not. The doctor l9oked grave when he called. "I'm Our friend Guy had met him before I saw him, afraid it has gone to his brain," he said; "you and he was promised to them for a week. Mrs. had better send for his mother." She came Carleton was kind enough to ask my cousin and that afternoon, and how Roberts kept from her myself to dinner, and it was easy to see that the knowledge of what Guy had done, I cannot Roberts 'had won her heart—an easy task for tell. Guy pulled through, but it was a month anyone' who was a friend of Guy's. before he was able to be out. Then Mrs. We went back to Fairmount together—Rob­ Carleton left, and Curran and Foster and the NGTRB DAME SCHOLASTIC. 413 rest called to settle up their little account, I and he picked them up, and began shuffling was with Guy when they came in, and I thought them. 'Let's have a game of poker,' said he, the boy would faint again when they asked and I was willing to do anything but think. him how soon he could pay. He kept his nerve, We played penny ante at first, but he soon however, and said," Give me a day or two, boys," raised the limit. I was winning, and I did not and they marched out and he broke down care. I never had such a run of luck—straights completely. "Two hundred and eighty-four and flushes and fulls every time, while his dollars!" he sobbed, " why, I haven't that many hands were hardly ordinary. All his money was cents, and I can't ask mother for that much." gone within an hour. I tried to stop the game I tried to comfort him, but it was of no use. then; he insisted on having his revenge, and Then I thought of Roberts; perhaps he could we kept on. He began to make I O U's. His do something for him. So I left Guy alone luck never changed, and when we quit playing and went and told him about it. "All right," some time after eleven I had his notes for two he said, "I'll go to see Guy, and I'll come and hundred and sixty, and nearly thirty dollars in have a talk with you afterwards." bills. He wrote me a check on the Citizen's; I waited till ten oclock for him, but he did I cashed it to-day, and paid Curran and the not come, and I went to bed. I was hardly other fellows. I'm awfully sorry it was Roberts, dressed when he knocked at my door the next but he did it all himself." morning. "How did you leave Guy?" I asked. In the evening mail I received a letter post­ "Oh! Guy's all right," he said. "I came in to marked Chicago. It was from Roberts. "My bid you good-bye for a day or two. I've got dear old fellow," it ran, "you will never dream to go to Indianapolis on business, so if you how hard it was for me to leave you this morn­ have any messages I'll take them gladly. You ing. I suppose Guy has been to see you before can't think of anything, eh? Well, good-bye, this, and you know how it was. I would have old fellow, and take care of yourself while I given anything to finish at Fairmount, but it am gone, and keep an eye on Guy too. I've was not to be. I have gone back to my old got to catch that seven-three, so I must go. business and my name is Roberts no longer. Good-bye," and he wrung my hand and hurried You need not write; your letter will never reach out. me. Good-bye, old man, and God bless you. I was digging away at my Virgil that after­ Good-bye." noon, and, oddly enough, it was the departure ^ • »• of ^neas from Carthage that'I was reading, Scribner's Magazine. when I heard a knock at my door. "Come in," and Guy entered as merry and happy as I had The March number opens with the second ever seen him. " Hello, old man, how are you?" article by Joel Chandler Harris on "The Sea he almost shouted as he dropped into the chair Island Hurricanes," this one dealing principally I offered him. "What do you think," he went with the relief work which is being conducted on, " I won over two hundred and eighty dol­ by Miss Clara Barton and the Red Cross lars last night, playing poker." "Two hundred Society. Two articles of practical interest to and eighty dollars!" I gasped. "Why! how did dwellers in American cities are entitled "The you do it?" High Building and its Art" and the "Cable "Well, it was just this way. Last night I was Street Railway." A travel article of peculiar feeling horribly tough and I was just on the interest at this season is a description of "Sub­ point of writing to mother and making a clean tropical Florida," illustrated by Chapman. The breast of the whole business, when Roberts special frontispiece this month is Tito Lessi's dropped in. We got to talking, and I told him " Milton Visiting Galileo," whichis accompanied what I was thinking of doing. 'You must by a brief notice of the work of Lessi with his never do that, Guy,' he said; ' it would kill your portrait. The fiction of this number is notable, mother to hear that you gambled and drank. containing the first installment of a four-part Whatever you do, she must not know.' Then he story, "A Pound of Cure," a tale of Monte Carlo asked me about my pocket-money and my by Wm. Henry Bishop. The first of Octave extra clothes and things; but all my stuff Thanet's Sketches of American Types is pub­ wouldn't bring a hundred dollars, and I told lished under the title of "The Farmer in the him so. * 'Oh well, never mind,'he said; 'we'll North" with illustrations by A. B. Frost. The not build our bridge till we "come to the river.' third installment of "John March, Southerner" "There was a pack of cards lying on my table, by Cable is good. 414 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

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Ifotre Dame, jStarcli 17, 1894. tion to the diploma of merit "For original drawings, paintings, publications, literary and ^uiilistltti tSttl! JSaturSag Tiurinfl tICtrtn Etntr »t S". B. Sntfttrsits. scientific class work and mechanical engineer­ Bntered as second-class matter at the Post Office, Notre Dame, Ind ing," special awards were made to Bishops', Terms, Si.'jO per Ajinum. Postpaid. Memorial Hall and to the Catholic Archives of Address EDITOR NOTRIS DAME SCHOLASTIC, America. For his zeal in-collecting and pre­ Notre DamCj Ind. serving the paintings, relics and documents, which make the Hall and the Archives here so Staff. valuable. Professor Edwards has received a special diploma of merit. The medals which ERNEST F. DU BRTJI,, '92; TH0:MAS D. 3HOTT, '95; JAMES J. FITZGER-^O^D, '93; should have accompanied the diplomas will HUGH A. O'DONNELL, '94; FROST THORNE, '94; be received later. JAMES A. aicKEE, '93; FRANK A. BOLTON, '94; JOHN 31. FLANNIGAN, '94; ^ • » DAKIEL V. CASEY, '95; FRANCIS X,. CARNEY, '94; JOSEPH M. KEARNEY, '94; —The late meetings of the Athletic Associa­ J. JOSEPH COOKE, '94; tion made plain the need of perfect unity FRANK MCKEE, '94; M. J. JIcGARRY,'94; JM. P. McFADDEN,'94. among the members. If Notre Dame is to boast of her athletic season of '94 there must be a generous disposition on the part of each —^The annual recurrence of the Feast of St. one to sacrifice personal interests to the good Patrick is always a gala-day at Notre Dame. of the body. The formation of cliques is ruinous The religious character of the celebration is to any organization, and the captains of our attended with all the pomp and grandeur of teams would do well to hold aloof from all the Church's ritual, whilst the exercises in parties, and to use their own judgment in select­ Washington Hall are usually of a high order. ing their men. No good can be effected by Our early going to press prevents us from foisting into prominence any class or hall. It giving a report of to-day's celebration. will only cause rivalry, and rivalry of an unwholesome kind. It begets childish conten­ ^ • » tion—a lesson taught by last year's champion­ —^"The NOTRE DAME ScHOLASTic.which is decidedly ship series. Let it be the aim of everyone to tbe best of our college papers, has recently published many bright original specials from student contributors. put the best men in their proper places! Evidently the institution, which the SCHOLASTIC so well represents, is experiencing a literary infection."—Catho­ ^ • »• lic Citisen. . The "Staff" bow acknowledgment to the —The Very Rev. Andrew Morrissey, President Citiseu^hnt beg to say that a "literary infection'' of, the University, has received the following does not come to Notre Dame at intervals, communication from Mr. Augustin Daly: but is present here all the year round. "DALY'S THEATRE,LEICESTER SQUARE W., ,• " LONDON, Feb. 23. " It is very generous of the trustees to select so —Announcements of the courses offered at unworthy a person for this most distinguished and dis­ tinguishing honor. I am without words to properly the Catholic Summer School for the session thank them. Whatever I have done in the past to make commencing July 14, show that the standard them believe me a fitting subject for the presentation of will be as high as ever. The list of lecturers the Lie tare Medal that I hope to continue to do in the includes some of the greatest of our American future, so as not to discredit their choice. Catholic educators. It is to be'hoped that the " I shall not be back .in New York until August. I will School will be well attended. Such oppor­ be in Chicago in November next. I close here in May. I shall then make a brief visit to Spain and Italy. Now tunities for combining learning with pleasure are- ; you; know my .whereabouts and whatabouts, and you .seldom offered. Lake Champlain is one of the : m^ay determine either to reserve .the Medal until I am garden spots of the country, and nowhere could • near you, or send it to me as above." a better site for such an institution be found.. i It has been.decided to await Mr. Daly's return The whole regioh^thereabouts is impressive. to New York, when the Medal,>yill be formally The; very surroutidings. are conducive to earnest presented to him. The .Most Rev. Archbishop work and, healthful recreation, i ' Corrigah willread the address on the occasion.

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cient for anyone. There are a great many things which we can accept by inference as 'Sowing- "Wild Oats." existing in the world without our going any farther. It is unfortunate that young men about the It is deplorable that so many of our young age of twenty and ready for graduation in men seem to have an unquenchable thirst for some of our colleges are so slow in making wickedness; not that they wish to take part in their superiors confidants in their doubts and it, but simply to see it. The thousands of men troubles. It certainly would save them a great who have never known it have never felt that many mishaps in after-life if they would be they have suffered any loss. And, indeed, they less backward in asking practical questions have not. They consider themselves fortunate. when they have the opportunit}''. "Experience The young American, as a rule, has too little is the best teacher," they argue; and yet they respect for sacred things, for age and goodness. hesitate in seeking advice and a bit of wisdom Surely, it does not raise him to a better plane from the long-learned lessons of hoary-headed of thinking and believing, nor does it make men. Recently we noticed in a neat little him more many-sided, manly or^ nobler in pamphlet^ by MrT Edward W, Bok, entitled morals, or in any other way, to come in con­ "The Young Man in Business,"an answer to tact with certain men and women who have the question—whether for a young man to have degraded themselves and who have dimmed a broad view of life, it is wise for him to see the image which God impressed on their souls. every phase of it, including the darker side— If there is any time that a man should form the side of it where he meets men and women high ideals it is when he is young. That is the who are different from those who visit his most impressionable time, and the mind is, then father's fireside? or can the theory really be most plastic. As the poet says: proven true that it is best for a man to "sow " The thoughts of youth are long-, long thoughts." his wild oats " in his young manhood days? And since women have so much to do in the . It is difficult to imagine a question like this influencing of the lives of men, the young man coming from a student who has passed through cannot do better than make his loftiest ideal a collegiate course. Why should anyone — that of true womanhood. After all, "good much less a student and a young man—seek to teachers make good scholars, but it is only know this "darker side of life"? No matter mothers that form men." Bancroft tells us that how many pleasures and comforts we enjoy, all that which we are pleased to call distinc­ what station in life we hold, or what education tively American we owe to the genius, the activ­ or culture we have, or how broad may be the ity and the character of woman. You see how view of the world we take, the span of life is important her influence is. If we could keep short and narrow; and, try as we will, we can­ in our minds the beautiful memories of our not always live in the bright sunshine, and good mothers and sisters we would not wish to often we get more of the "darker side" than peep info a darker world. The.best -that our we bargain for without our ever hunting for it noblest fancy can give when we are young will in the dens of our cities, be none too high for us in after years. To be 'The darker side of life will furrow our brows true to ourselves and our friends is to follow soon enough. It comes without our seeking it. the right dictates of our better selves, and live It is, in a greater or less degree, a part of the as earnest admirers of, and believers in: the lives of us all, and the good Lord knows that best qualities of womanhood. Why should we the less we have of it, the more is our gain. A desire to know any other than the better type? liberal education does not mean that in order to We will not be acting more wisely, and will we know anything we must see and experience it. be happier? ^ •_; The very thought. is absurd and contrary to Now, as for the need of "sowing wild oats." common-sense. Education is the development of A physician once said every, man was com­ the good that is in us—to give the mental eye a pletely insane one hour out of every twenty^ great range of vision. To have a broad view of four. If so, let us in charity hope that the life does not demand the actual knowing, seeing first man whb framed that saying must,have arid feeling of everything by our senses. By done it in his distracted hour.. Each of us may merely observing some of the surface details be persuaded to do good or evil by an angel of -^=m^-:s in the meanest life around us it is easy to brightness or of darkness; but a young man guess what the rest maybe; and this is suffi­ with two or three of the latter kind in him is; 4i6 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

surely possessed and ought to be exorcised: is issued for the pecuniary profit of one or more The so-called "sowing of wild oats" is nothing men, while the former is printed, not from a other than sin, and means self-degradation to money motive, but to bring one body of men anyone. What good can it possibl}'^ do us? into closer relations with others like themselves. Instead of a broad and cheerful, we get a sad, This being' the case, when one judges the discolored view of life. It wrecks the physical merits of college papers one must apply some­ constitution, destroys conscience, scatters what different rules to his criticism than when morals to the winds, and brings darkness and he considers the public press. The latter, ignorance where "sweetness and light" might representing only the men who publish the have been. It unmans a man. There is no papers, are responsible to no one for their such thing as an investigating period in a man's standard of excellence or for tjie matter they life. At all times the obligation to act accord­ contain. It is different with college papers. ing to the best principles of the moral code is A tree is judged by its fruit, and the college binding; and if we do anything that is contrary is judged by the work done under its roof. The to them we will only regret it when it is too late. best example of this work is to be found in its We all can say with Ulysses, paper. One can tell from the tone of the " I am a part of all that I have met;" paper whether or not the education the editors and it is for us to see that what we meet is are receiving is worth having. One can tell if good. Ignorance is sometimes even better they have a foundation of knowledge on which than bliss. The inquisitive few who must needs to rest their superstructure of accomplishments. be drawn into dens of iniquity "only to get a One can judge from their articles how they are broader view of life" will find when they come trained to think; and this is the real province out that the};- have been in foul air, that their of education. One can estimate the value of vision is blighted .and their souls tainted and their literary training by examining into their nothing gained! Instruction is always good; style. One may be reasonably certain in his but let us be careful in drawing the line. Our conclusion; for never does an inferior college self-respect, our strength of will, our manhood put out a good paper. It is an impossibility. is our own, and it rests with us to keep it as far When the student knows not how to think or as possible like unto Him who gave it to us. how to express his thought, when he is never taught how to do so, the fact is apparent in his HUGH A. O'DONNELL. writing. When a paper is found to be full of such articles one must come to the conclusion that the course of training received at the insti­ College Journalisra. tution where they are written must be wofuUy defective in that regard. A.most important factor in modern life is the The life, the surroundings, the faculty, the profession of journalism. It is connected with students of a college—all influence the char­ every occupation. Not a trade, not a profes­ acter of the college paper. For instance, in sion that has not a press of its .own devoted to reading the local columns of some of our its peculiar interests. The college world is no college papers we.find them full of trash. We exception to this general rule. It has its press; find the private business of the students it has its journals. Like the greater world displayed to the world. We find personal affairs outside of college walls it has its reviews, its made the butt of jests. We find nonsense with­ magazines, its newspapers. It has quarterlies, out end. -Now this is a department that con­ monthlies, weeklies and dailies. Its press cerns the general student body more than it reflects the college life, the college thought, does the editors of the paper; the mental the college spirit. capacity of the; editors is to be judged from There is a difference, however, between the the editoriaVand literary departments. Perhaps college press and the regular press. This such stuff is printed because.demanded; then difference is not only the result of less experi- we pity the editor who is forced to do so. ence~ on the part of the student editors and if he prints it from his own volition we pity him contributors, but lies in the very nature of the still more for His lack of taste and lack of brains. publications. A college paper represents the In either case it is a; reflection on himself and general interest of the place it hails from; a on his college. Such'a thing is a disgrace to newspaper or magazine, represents the private both,and admits of noExcuse. interest of the editor or publisher. The latter The mission of a college paper is to,give

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opportunity for comparison \Vith other colleges. trees; and then look up at what were once noble It serves to exchange ideas and to bring the forest oaks—oaks that were old and wrinkled, colleges into closer touch with one another. It and majestic before Notre Dame was founded; shows the work of the college as nothing else —look at them with their hacked and haggled stubs of branches, and melancholy tiift at top,/ does. --OE course," one cannot expect finished reminding one of date-palms' in the Sahara! work from the students, or work that has the Go along further—but let me be more specific. polish which comes only from experience and Yesterday, along the upper walk, I came upon practice. One might reasonably expect decent a tree that stands so gaunt and ghostly amid English, however, even though it have not the even its spectral fellows, that its description will elegance or strength of Newman's. One cannot fully illustrate the prevailing "arboriculture." expect the deepest thought in a college paper; It is a young cedar, and is situated about mid­ way between Calvary and the Novitiate. At but one does hope to see the beginnings of the top, are^7/r forlorn and withering.branches; such .thought. How many college papers show while, along the trunk, 1 counted the stumpy these qualities? Very few indeed. If they really remains of seventy-six once vigorous limbs. As show us the life, the spirit and the thought of a specimen of sanitary "pruning," it will well the colleges they come from, the standard of repay a visit. For whose-"health and com­ education in many of them is deplorably low.. fort," however, this sickly sapling has been One wonders if they are colleges or universities " pruned and preserved," I have been unable thus far to conjecture; but perhaps Critic No.2 except in name—and that by the grace of the will kindly inform me. These, dear friend, legislatures that chartered them. are reasons why I say I don't think the attempt ERNEST F. DU BRUL. to make a park out of that grove, if there was such an attempt, could have an artistic issue; and I believe that most of the SCHOLASTIC'S readers will agree with me. Another Oommunication. A word in reply to Critic No. 2. After devot­ MR. EDITOR: ing a couple of paragraphs to obscure and Some three weeks ago, I addressed you a watery diatribe, he tells us that letter, in which I called attention to the steady " A gentleman who has travelled through our country disappearance of the fringe of forest encircling from ocean to ocean several times while walking around the lake, stopped on, reaching Calvary, and St. Joseph's Lake. I characterized it as due to inquired why we did not cut the forest to theTedge of a "species of vandalism." Two correspon­ the banks, and enjoy a refreshing breeze all the way to dents, through your columns, have attempted to the Seminary." undeceive me. The first read me a long lecture He. then goes on to explain that they have on arboriculture, and assured me that what I been working, and working faithfully, on that thought "vandalism," was only artistic decima­ .suggestion ever since. This reminds me that tion. The second, who assumed responsibility George Francis Train once proposed to cut for the work, was candid enough to admit that down all the trees on Boston Common. His the motive was not artistic, and bold enough idea was that they merely obstructed the sun­ to affirm that it was sanitary necessity. Jn. shine, stifled the sea-breezes, and gathered the view of this latter and apparently authoritative city dust. From the Critic's description of the explanation, I will commit No. i and his "gentleman," and from the remarkable co­ learned theories to the risibles of your readers. incidence of the two ideas, I think that at But first I wish to say a few words to him in least a suspicion of their authors' identity is reply. , ' warranted. Heaven help us, however, if the He spoke of Central Park, New York, and of vagaries of an irresponsible globe-trotter are the arborial wonders there. And he was imag­ to determine the fate of our woods! inative enough to believe that they were making The Critic's picture of a man, on a "hot: a Central Park of the .environs of the lake. summer day, flying from the dense shade of *4ss Now, as far as my own tastes are concerned, I Calvary to some open space, where he can- am opposed to any such attempt. I am breathe the balmy air," is too unreal, tooridic-; opposed to it for" two reasons. First, I don't ulous, too puerile, to merit serious notice. It is/ think that a park at the lake is desirable. oh a par with his statement that the thinning out • And, second, if it were desirable, I don't think of that grove is conducive to the "happiness : that the attempt, at least at present, could and health of the students of Notre Dame." A""- ;0M have artistic issue. Why? Let me briefly tell little elementary botany "and physiology, not- you why. to spealc, of experience, would have taugHt,, Walk around the lake, and note, as you go, the him better. :But when.he asserts that the ideas;v,;v§||€l scalped shrubs, the unsightly stumps, the hedges presently prevailing in the nianagement^ of""' '*^^^ "trimmed" here to the very roots, and there that ,grove, are to prevail forever, I beg leaved on one side only, the fire-scorched trunks of respectfully to dissent. I have sufficient faith'i mm^m im^ ^•-^•}{Tpaii

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in the wisdom and aesthetic instincts of the Jr., then continued the argument for the afifirui- authorities at Notre Dame to believe that ative. He was unable to finish, however, but further devastation will not be tolerated. I will close at the next meeting. The meeting believe that the Critic's own communication was then adjourned. must have made certain to everybody, much more clearly and emphatically than mine, the folly of the present system. I am persuaded Personals. that Notre Dame's still beautiful woods—the woods that the great sympathetic heart of —Fred J. Madden, '88, is in the mining and Father Sorin loved so well,.the woods in which ranche business in Montana. he had forbidden even a bird to be killed—will —Frank Krapsar, '69, is superintendent of not be permitted, ere the grass is green upon the railway line at Clinton, Iowa. his grave, to wither away before a policj'- as senseless as it is admittedly inartistic, and —John Keating, '88, is associated with his which could end only with their extermination. father in business at Portland, Oregon. —E. J. Blessirigton, '80, is connected with one A LOVER OF NATURE. of the foremost law firms at Clinton, Iowa. • —R.Brannock,'go, represents the Studebaker o • » Wagon Co. in the capacity of agent in Oregon. Societies. —Edward Hiner, '86, is general agent of the Ohio Southern Railroad at Lima, Ohio. - —Philip Pascal,'87, is the draft and exchange —The Philopatrians met last Thursday even­ clerk in the Citizens' Bank at Council Bluffs, ing. The parts for the play to be given in Iowa. April were distributed. —M. M. White, '§8, is the senior member of —The Columbians met in their room, in reg­ the law firm of White & McGuire at Holstein, ular weekly session on Wednesday, March 7, Iowa. with Rev. Father French presiding. The secre­ —^James T. Brennan, '88, is holding a respon­ tary read the minutes of the preceding meeting, sible position in a prominent safety-boiler firm and upon motion they were adopted.'' The eligi­ in St. Louis, Mo. bility of the members was next decided upon. —D.F. O'Connor,'86, as a member of a flour­ The constitution and by-laws of the society ishing insurance firm at Lima, Ohio, is occupy­ were then read, and adopted. The president ing a niche in the pinnacle of success. stated that a corresponding secretary was to be elected. A vote was taken, and Mr. J. J. Cooke was declared elected. The following committee on credentials was then elected, RESOLUTIONS OF CONDOLENCE. with the first named as chairman: R. Slevin, WHEREAS, It has pleased Divine Providence in His J. J. Feeney and F. E. Duffield. There being infinite wisdom to remove from this earth the brother of our classmate, Mr. Michael Ryan; and. some misunderstanding with regard to the pro­ WHEREAS, We deeply feel for him in his bereavement; gramme for the evening, it was not given in be it, therefore. full. Mr. P. White, Jr., gave Judge Storey's RESOLVED, That we, the Class of '95, tender to him celebrated oration, "The Destiny of America"; and his afflicted pareilts our heartfelt sympathy; Mr. White has considerable oratorical ability • RESOLVED, That these resolutions be printed in the NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC, and that a copy of the same and pleased his hearers greatly. Mr. N. Groff, be forwarded to our bereaved classmate. gave a humorous selection. F W. DAVIS, A. P. HUDSON, D. V. CASEY, D. P. MURPHY, —The Law Debating Society met in weekly T. A. OuiNLAN,—Committee. session last Saturday evening. * The minutes of the preceding meeting, and the critic's report were read and adopted. The following subject was then given out for debate after the other Local Items. questions were disposed of: Resolved, "That litigation \yould be simplified and the ends —Erin go bragh! of justice be enhanced by the codification —'Rah for the Band! • of the laws." The disputants appointed were —To-morrow is Palm Sunday. Messrs. J. Feeney, F. Hennessy, J. Kelly, and .C. —Look out for the field-day programme! Kreighbaum. The subject of debate for the evening—" Resolved, That the public interests —How about the 'Varsity yell? What is it? would be subserved by the levy, of an income —" Go west, young man," does not apply to tax"—was then taken up. W. Conway opened bicyclists. for the affirmative, and-in an able way sup­ —Prospects are very good for an excellent ported his contention. R. Halligan and Leigh baseball season. T. Gibson treated their side of the question in —Who will donate medals for field day? a conclusive and eloquent manner, P. White, Speak up, everybodyl NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 419

—There will be competitions in some of the bound quarto volume relating the history of classes during the coming week. the Irish in Boston, together with a biograph­ .—The "Way Down Yonder in the corn Field " ical sketch of noted men and women profusely chorus should discontinue their refrain. illustrated. —The play to be given by the Columbians —The Director of the Bishops' Memorial this afternoon is entitled," More Sinned Against Hall returns thanks to Prof. M. F. Egan for a than Sinning." large imperial photograph of the Right Rev. —The organ in the church should be attended Bishop of Buffalo, and to Mr. J. Francis Smith, to. Nearly every Sunday it breaks down, to of Dubuque,.Iowa, for a life-size painting in oil the great discomfort of the choir. of Most Rev. Archbishop SatoUi, Apostolic Delegate to the United States. —LOST—A copy of Genung's "Rhetoric" and " Rhetorical Analysis." Finder please —A communication to the Goshen News leave at the Library or the students' office. strongly sets forth the eminent fitness of Col. Wm. Hoynes for representative in Congress. It —Very Rev. Andrew Morrissey, President of speaks in glowing terms of his learning, his the University will lecture in Chicago to-mor­ oratory, his patriotism, his amiability and his row evening on "St. Patrick's Legacy to the untiring energy and industry, and contends Irish People." that he is by far the strongest and most avail­ —The Band is busy practising for the concert able man whom the Republicans could nominate. on Easter Monday. The concert will be one —South Bend Times. of the best that the students have heard for —The students in the Engineering department many months. wish to remind ourreaders that the sun enters —Has any one seen the real gold in the the sign Aries, March 20 about 11 a. m. On that ribbons we sport as college colors? Mr. Ernest date the days and nights will be equal. The sign Du Brul has the best specimen of the real Aries, commonly called the First of Aries, color. He received it from Philadelphia. or the Vernal Equinox, is the intersection of —What has become of the Rosebuds? They the plane of the earth's equator with the have not been seen or heard from for many a ecliptic. This point in the heavens marks the long day. Perhaps they have sought, and are place from which astronomers reckon longitude now resting in the quiet shades of oblivion. and right ascension. The sun on that morning -^McDonald, the photographer of South will rise exactly in the east, and this circum­ Bend, took a photograph of the 'Varsity eleven stance will enable you to locate the cardinal last Monday. On Wednesday another photo­ points with precision and mark them for future graph was taken of the men while actually reference. So do not forget to take a look at playing. him on that day—Tuesday, March 20. —The executive committee of the Athletic —The Carroll specials crossed bats with the Association passed upon the challenges received "Lone S:ars," Brownson Hall's second nine, on from Oberlin, Albion, the Universities of Ohio, the nth inst. Only eight innings were played; Indiana, and Illinois. It was decided to and as the Carrolls had three more chances at play the last four if suitable dates could be the bat it was very doubtful if they could be arranged. retired "in order" in the remaining 45 minutes. —The Rev. Cornelius Delahanty celebrated The "Lone Stars" deserve great credit for the forty-second anniversary of his ordination continuing at the game as long as they did. to the priesthood on last Monday. The Reverend Mr. Steinhaus officiated in the box for the gentleman received the congratulations of his Brownsons, and was enthusiastically encored many friends who promise to assist in the in the dining-room after the game for his grand celebration of his golden jubilee. phenomenal work*. The battery for the Car- —The office of fourth corporal of Co." B." will rolls were: J. LaMoure, pitcher; A. Carney, likely remain vacant. On Sunday three drills catcher. They did very good work; but the were held for it, but each winner declined the team needs more practice to get into good honor. This assures a very hard contest for form. Messrs. Fleming and Lannigan became the gold medal." Captain Scherrer will have rattled once or twice, and, as usual, found it to his company begin drilling for it next month. be an expensive luxury. Mr. Shillington, too, occasionally loses his head. Cornell, the new —B. Valerian desires to thank the following man, played centre well, taking care of all young gentlemen for the assistance which they that came his way. The score at the finish rendered in collecting the large consignment was 25 to 5 in favor of Carroll Hall. of stamps recently received from St. Columb- kille's School, Chicago: Thos. and Jos. Higgins, —The following programme will be presented Michael Gethins, Bernard Larkin, Jos. Cava- in Washington Hall this evening: naugh and Michael Meaghan. Overture—"Echoes from Ireland," University Orchestra Chorus—"Come Back to Erin;" —Mr. Jeremiah G. Fennessy, of Boston, University Philharmonic Club has presented to the Irish National Collection Oration of the Day Mr. J. F. Kennedy established at Notre Dame a magnificently Overture .University Orchestra 420 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

AFTER PROLOGUE. meeting went into executive session, all report­ Cornet Quartette Messrs. E. Chassaing, A. Coolidge. ers being excluded. There is some talk of a ~ J. Marmon, J. Vignos banquet on Easter Day, but whether or not it AFTER ACT I. will reach any definite shape or form remains " Irish Medley " Orpheus Mandolin Orchestra to be seen. AFTER ACT II. Song—"Sweetest Time for Dreaming"—University Quartette—Messrs. Cuneo, Du Brul, Schillo, Bates Roll of Honor. AFTER ACT III. Overture University Orchestra SORIN HALL. "MORE SINNED AGAINST THAN SINNING." Messrs. Ahlrichs, Correll, Cullen, Casey, Crawley. Corry, DuBru!, Devanney, Davis, Eyanson, J. Fitzgerald, (All Original Irish Drama iu a Prologue and Three Acts.) Flannery, Hudson, Hervey, Jewett, Keough, J. McKee, Cast of Characters. H. Mitchell. McCarrick, Marr, Murphy, McGarry, Mott, Squire Hilton, of an illustrious family B. Bates Powers, Ouinlan, Ryan, Scherrer, Schopp, Sinnott, Marmaduke,his son, commonly known as "The Duke." Walker. A. Cuneo BROWNSON HALL. Alphonsus Belhaven, a land agent. E. Duffield Messrs. Arce, Barrett, Beyer, W. Bates, Byrne, Blan- Dick Harvey, an unscrupulous villain R. Slevin. chard, Burns, Barton, Baldwin, B. Bates, Brown, P. Major Lookout, a jolly good fellow, "ye know," C. Roby Campbell, Cullinan, Crane, Callaghan, Cavanagh, Cool­ Teddy O'Neil, a rale sprig of the ould sod J. Kelly idge, Cooke, Cuneo, Chirhart, A. Dillon, F. Dillon. F. C. Captain de Balzac, a remnant of the Empire J. Cook Donohoe, Duffield, Delaney, Esgen, Edwards, Fagan Andy ) ( J. McVean Falvey, Foley, A. Flynn, R. Flynn, Feeney, Gordon, Tom j- smugglers. j T. Cavanagh Grady, Gilmartin, L. Gibson, N. Gibson, Golden, Hal- Joe ) . . ( A.Galen ligan, Hinde,- Herman Hennebry, Harding, White, John Jemison, an aristocratic servant E. Callahan Hesse, Johnson. Kinsella, Kerndt, Kennedy, Karasynski, A sergeant in Her Majesty's service F. O'Brien Kirby, Krembs, Kelly, Kortas. Ludwig, Maynes, Maguire, Molonev, Murray, McHugh, Markum. Manchester, Mon­ —^The Lambs met as usual on last Wednesday tague, O'Connell, O'Brien, Oliver, O'Malley, H. O'Neill, in their Hall. As the President called the G. Pulskamp, F. Pulskamp, Piquette, Roper, Ruppe, J. J. meeting to order it'was to be seen by all that Ryan, C. Roby, E. Roby, Smith, Spalding, Slevin, Sulli­ he was very angry at something; but what it van, Stace, Smoger, Stack, Streicher, Spangler, Tong, Turner, Vignos, Welty, Weaver, Wilkin, Wagner, Wiss, was no one could exactly determine. His brow Zeitler. was contracted into a frown, his e3'-es flashed CARROLL HALL. fire, and his shirt bosom heaved with suppressed Messrs. Alber, Austin, Bloomfield, Burns, Bacon. Ben­ resentment. The usual jokes concerning the son, Benz, Clarke, Connor, Cooke, Cornell, Coolidge, President's much-cherished, but still embryonic Clendenin, Chauvet, C. Cullen, T. Cullen, Carney, Corby, A. Ducey, J. Ducey, Dannemiller, Dalton, Dilger, Dixon, and imbecile mustache and side wings were Druecker, Davezac, Davis,' Foley, Fennessy, Farley, unuttered, and a hush of expectancy fell upon Fox, Forbing, Fitzgibbons, Fleming, Franke, Gavin, all. The President then stated that he [had Gonzales, J. Goldstein, T. Goldstein, Gausepohl, Gibbons, labored long and faithfully during the entire Hurley, Howell, Hutchinson, Healy, Hoban, Howard, Harding, Jack, Jones, H. Jones, KroUman, Kegler, Ras­ past week upon a poetical production, eulogistic per, Klees, Lanagan, Ludwig, Lantry, LaMoure, Lohner, of the societ}'- of which he gloried to be a mem­ Lee, Leonard, Lansdowne, Lowrey, Lippman, Maurer, ber—a production which he thought would bring Munzesheimer, J. Murphy, E. Murphy, T. Murphy, honor and fame both to himself and to "The Monahan, Miers, F. Morris, W. Morris, Massey, Mills, J. Miller L. Miller McPhillips, McShane, McCarrick, Mc- Lambs"; that just as his genius had triumphed Kenzie, D. Naughton, J. Naughton, J. J. O'Neill, Patier, and the immortal poem was finished, some pro­ Pendleton, Pirn, Phillips, Rockey, Reber, Reinhard, fane hand had entered the sacred precincts of " Roesing, Shillington, Strassheim, Stearns, Sparks, his study, and stolen it. He said further that it Strong, Swigart, Trankle, Taylor, Teresa, Tempel, Thome, Tuohy, J. Treber, W. Treber, Wilcox, Wen- was not so much on account of the loss to himself singer, Whitehead H. Wilson, R! Wilson, O. Wright, that he grieved, but because the "Lambs" had Wagner, Weitzel, Wigg, Ward, A. Yglesia, L. Yglesia, suffered an irreparable loss. As the President York, Zoehrlaut. has a penchant for boasting of his. own abilities ST. EDWARD'S HALL. this statement was not as startling as it might Masters G. Abrahams, L. Abrahams, Allyn, Bump, be, and did not have much effect upon his Brinckerhoff, Byrne, BuUene Breslin, B. Clark,R. Clark, L. Clark, Croke, Crandall, Cross, Christ, Catchpole, hearers. It is highly probable that the poem Caruthers, Corry, Curry, Cressy, F. Campau, D. Campau, was taken by one who intends to take part in A. Coquillard, J. Coquillard, Corcoran, Clune, Coolidge, the .competition for the prize which is to be C. Dawson, J. Dawson, Davidson, Devine, Dugas, Dur- awarded for the best original poem on the and, Dalton, Englehardt, Elliott, Everest, Egan, Felten- stein, Flynn, Freeman, Fortune, Finnerty, Girsch. M. Lambs. The President said that he would be Garrity, L. Garrity, Gimble, Green, Go£f, Healy. Ralph on the look-out for it, and if it were handed in Higgins, Roy Higgins, J. Higgins, Herschey, B. Hess, he would claim it as his own. The prize was R. Hess, F. Hess, Ives, Jonquet; A. King, K. King, to have been awarded this week; but the com­ Kilgallen, Kelly, Langley, Lohner, Lysle, Lawton, Mr- Phee, McCorry, McElroy, Mclntyre, Eug. McCarthy, mittee having the matter in charge did not report. G. McCarthy. J. McCarthy, R. McCarthy, E. McCarthy, The poems meriting the prize will be read at McGushin, Morehouse, Minnigerode, Moxley, Noonan, the next meeting. The committee on credentials B. Nye, C. Nye, Otero, O'Neill, Ortez, Perea, H. PoUitz, reported the name of a new member who was W. Pollitz, Peck, H. Rasche, L.Kasche, Romero, Robb, Ryan, Rohrbach, Roesing,'^Shipp,Steele, G. Scherrer, W. admitted with the usual ceremonies. As there Scherrer, Shillington, Swan, L. Thompson, U. "rhompson, was much private business to dispose of the Terhune, Thomas, Taylor, Wagner, York.