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ti sjmmMMtaKm" •i^'^-<:^Xv^K:::^>^:::v^--::•-:::;:^.^--.-^^•^ anidMcholastic DISCE- QUASI- SEMPER- VICTVRVS- VIVE • QUASI- CRAS- MORITVRVS VOL. L. DIAMOND JUBILEE NUMBER No. 35- ^ f utiitee itipU ]BV tije Bcb. fofjn tKalbot ^mitij, ILH. M, '07 ^^T IS the good fortune of Notre Dame to be so placed that the most glorious pageant ^JJ which crosses her grounds finds a setting worthy of it, and the humblest gains in splen­ dor. Never did our Alma Mater array herself more beautifully to greet her children and her friends and guests than on the occasion of her diamond jubilee". June crowned her with sunshine, foliage and flowers; by day the golden dome and the sublime figure of the Virgin towered into the marvelous blue like prophecies; by night a mystic radiance filled the upper air while below lights twinkled in the great buildings and shone in the green spaces of the lawns. Noble processions moved across the grand quadrangle in stately costumes; the church received them with triumphant harmonies, and the auditorium at other times with applause. ^The Cardinal of Baltimore, the modest and charming Apostolic Delegate, and the Arch­ bishops of Milwaukee, Chicago and San Francisco, bishops from twenty-five other sees, prelates from all the dioceses of the country, distinguished priests, judges, governors, senators, members of the learned professions, poets, novelists and journalists, educators and missionaries of renown, celebrities, walked in those processions, doing honor to her and to themselves. Her children, old and young, filled her halls with greetings, with reminiscent tale and song, and laughed and wept over the beloved past forever vanished. The preachers, orators and poets from dawn till dark praised her achievement and foretold her greater glories to come, amid the applause of delighted audiences. Gracious, delighted, serene, the Beloved Mother accepted all tributes, and dispensed hos­ pitality from that lofty height which sees the past and the future with equal and reverent eyes. The festival wanes and the guests depart, the lights die out and. the music drops to silence; but she remains, lofty and serene, considering many things in her heart, for she is the deathless oner, mindful of the little old college on the lake shore, of the peaceful acre where her friends await the resurrection, of the nests where her fledglings are tr3ring their wings, of the workers that labor for her present glory, and of that great highway of the future which she must walk, unafraid, in greater glory. 0/- S 'THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC (Kf)E ©iamonb Jutiilee. THE COMING OF THE CARDINAL. for a moment before the Administration Build­ ing while the students gave a Notre Dame 'HE first note of cheer. The Cardinal smiled benignh'-, lifted his ,-jubilee that-woke hand in blessing, and retired to the convent C-an echo at Notre chapel to say liis Mass. The jubilee was begun. Dame welcomed to her precincts the chief guest GUESTS ARRIVE; of honor during the days All. da}'- a steady flow of guests poured into of festivity—the venerable the University. Bishops from every part of Cardinal of Baltim.ore. the States and Canada; priests from almost Early on the morning of ever}'- diocese; representatives of nearly every Friday, June 8, the faculty religious order of men in the country; brought of the^ University, mem­ gi'eeting and congratulation to the University. Father Francais, C. S. C, bers of the Community of Superior-General Old students in crow'ds, with the jo}'- of home­ Holy Cross and a delega­ coming on their faces, greeted teachers and one. tion from the graduating class of 1917, left another with the warmth of long afl'ection, the Universit}^ in automobiles to escort His and in the course of the afternoon, found Eminence from the train. They were joined quiet nooks and an idle hour to live~ over in on the wa}'- b_v delegations from the Catholic reminiscence with their school-fellovvs the joys societies of South Bend, and the wide square and delights of days foregone. in front of the depot as well ^as the streets The Administration Building, under the on either side, was packed wdth serried ranks artistic direction of Mr. Ra}'-mond Dashbach, of automobiles, ga}^ with flags and flapping was arrayed as a bride. Flags and pennants pennants. Cardinal Gibbons had in his part}'- .fluttered from ever}^ window; gold and blue a number of bishops and cloxgy from eastern bunting dropped in graceful folds from cornice and southern states, -who took their place near to pillar, and two large American flags fell the end of the long procession. The automo­ away to either side of the main entrance and biles filed through Michigan Street, wdiich the kept a quiet shade for knots of visitors who merchants of the cit}^ had made bright with sat and chatted on the spacious veranda. flags and bunting, and took the Niles road to the" When the guests filed out' of the dining roonl Universit}'-. Long before the first automobile had after supper, the university band gave a concert turned, up the avenue that leads into the college from the front porch, and great crowds moved - campus, • the boom of the great church bell about the. quadrangle, or lounged on the grass, rolled its thundering welcome over wide fields laughing and humming and swaying to the asleep in the gra}'- of morning, and when the rh}'i;hm of the music. procession wheeled into the campus, the brazen clamor of multitudinous bells from tower and THE CAMP-FIRE TALK. steeple cried "jubilee" to the visiting guests. At eight o'clock Washington Hall was filled The automobiles ^rew up on the left side of with an enthusiastic audience. The Reverend the main drivewa}'-, and their" occupants stood jMichael Ouinlan, C. S. C.j gave^ a running com-' in two lines to greet the Cardinal. The porch mentar}'- on a,series of stereopticon slides which and steps of the Main Building were filled with, _ depicted scenes and people'of. an earlier Notre professors and members of the community, Dame, and the old students who sat in the hall while the students, crowded upon the green of applauded heartily as; some familiar face or the quadrangle, , with waving hats and wild scene brought, back the days long past. Father cheers, hailed welcome to the venerable prelate. ' Granger -. was there, sweet and' solemn; Father He "was accompanied by. the Very .Re;verend iCorb}'- cheery-andh.eart}^; Howard and Zahm President Cavanaugh aiid, the -Very. Reverend ."and Edwards andXyons and Stace; • and, link­ Andrew Momssey,,Provincial/pfithetCpngrcT ing the.old days; with the, new,- the much4oved gation of Holy-Cross. The autornobile; stopped Colonel. Hdyne^,r—now '%rrayed-; in the grey THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC ::579 uniform of the Hoynes' Light Guards, again which had ushered in the jubilee. But ;6ne ,. in the dignified morning coat of the Professor o'clock found the sky clear and the sun flooding- of Law; but always wearing the bright, cheery field and lawn with light. Again the faculty > smile of "The Colonel." The baseball team and a large number of the jubilee guests left that first defended the gold and "blue was the University in automobiles to escort His there, and the football team that did battle Excellency, the Apostolic Delegate, and Admiral ' when the American fashion of game was young; William Shepherd Benson, the Laet'are Medalist and then, for the pleasure of a more modern of 1917, to the University.' When the long . group of alumni, Mike Powers and Fred Powers, procession drew near to the campus the hoarse: Gibson and Salmon and ^^^ey and Eggeman call of hundreds of klaxons set up a.wild din looked youthfully down on old companions which wais answered by tolling bells and the. who made the hall ring again with cheers. enthusiastic cheers of hundreds of visitors who After this hurried glance into the past. crowded upon the lawn. The distinguished President Cavanaugh intro­ . ^ests stood a moment duced the Very Reverend while the students saluted -W^alter Elliott, C. S. P., them with Notre - Dame who was a student at Notre cheers, and then retired, to Dame, in the days before the Administratioii Build- - the war. With magic ex­ ing where they were greeted pression and a winning by hosts of friends. >. humor the great American missionar}'^ painted again THE CONFERRING OF THE ", the life of the early ^ days LAETARE MEDAL. ; - which he knew at Notre In the evening the high,: Dame, and gave speech and stairway that leads into movement to the silent fig­ Washington Hall was ures that had looked down packed with eager crowds that night from the screen. anxious to witness/the . He wandered aoain over ceremony of conferring . the college campus, playing the Laetare Medal. Ten the old games, singing the minutes after the doors were - old songs, devising the old opened every seat in :th'e - schemes; he went in pro­ building was occupied^ and cession again to the refec­ a large crowd filled .the tory and listened to the standing room at .the rear reading of the great, good of the hall.' The academic books of those days while procession moved from the he ate his frugal meal; and main building just before then he told the sacred eight o'clock. The gradu­ story of the religious influ­ A Great "Old Boy." Rev. Walter Elliott, C. S. P. ating class in cap and gown ences that fell like a refreshing dew upon the were followed by the faculty; then, came the * garden of the soul making it flourish with visiting clergy, the monsignori and the bishops.

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