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^ISGE'QMSI. SEHPia-YIGTURHS ^lYE- QU5SI • CRflS -HORITaRus

VOL. XXII. NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, DECEMBER 8, 1888. No. 16.

O'er that darkness, whence is thrust South-well, Orasha-w and Habing'ton. Prayer and sleep, oft governs lust. '• She her throne makes reason climb. While wild passions captive lie, . BV PROK. MAURICE F. EGAX, A. M. .A.nd each, each article of time Her pure thoughts to heaven fly. (CONCLUSION.) A11 her vows 7-eligiojis be. And he?' love she vows to me" His description of Castara is the most exquis­ ite passage in his greatest poem: He was friendly with all the great literarj' men of the time. There is a tradition that he " Like the violet which alone Prospers in some happy shade. was not absent from those feasts of reason and My Castara lives unknown. flows of sack in which Johnson, Massinger, and To no looser eye betrayed. the jolly crew of the famous old inns indulged; For she's to herself untrue with him all things were enjoyed in moderation. Who delights i'th' public view. Tranquil, serene, surrounded by his children and " Such is her beauty, as no arts supported by a firm faith, of which "The Holy Have enricht with borrowed grace; Man," the fourth part of "Castara," is an evi­ Her high birth no pride imparts, dence, he ended a happy and peaceful life in 1654. For she blushes in her place. He had not been unaccustomed to the pomp Folly boasts a glorious blood: She is noblest being good. of that court in which Charles I and Henrietta Maria reigned, in which Waller sang and Van­ " Cautious, she knew never yet dyke painted, and in his volume of poems (re­ What a wanton courtship meant: published by Arber in 1870) the most celebrated Nor speaks loud to boast her wit, In her silence eloquent. names of the epoch appear in dedications. His Of herself survey she takes. tragi-comedy of "The Queene of Arragon" was But 'tween men no difference makes. acted in 1640 at Whitehall. The favor of the •' She obeys with speedy will court did not disturb him, nor did the Civil War Her grave parent's wise commands; . draw him from his seclusion. He was not a And so innocent that ill man to act except under strong impulse, and it She nor acts nor understands. is probable that neither the Cavaliers nor the Women's feet run still astray, Roundheads wholly had his sympathy. If once to ill they know the way. "Castara" is divided into four parts "The " She sails by that'rock, the court. Mistress," "The Wife," "The Eriend," and "The Where oft honour splits her mast; And retiredness thinks the port Holy Man." It speaks well for the unpoetical Where her fame may anchor cast. constancy of Habington that Castara as the Virtue safely cannot sit, wife is even more beloved than Castara the Where vice is enthron'd for wit. mistress. The muse did not say imperatively to him, as she did to a later and very different " She holds that day's pleasure best When sin waits not on delight. bard,* "Poete, prends ton luth." Indeed, one Without inask, or ball, or feast, Sweetly spends a winter's night. * De iVIusset, " Nuit de Mai." ^58 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

cannot help suspecting that he' often took up The exquisite lines, his lute because he had nothing else to do. From " When I survey the bright celestial sphere. lack of perception Habington is often uneven. So rich with jewels hung that night That perfect art that welds all parts into sim­ . Doth like an Ethiop bride appear," plicity was unknown to him or to most of the remind one of Shakspeare's Elizabethan poets. He startles the reader with " Her beauty hung upon the cheek of night. vivid lines which are like the bright scarlet of Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear." the salt-marsh's bushes among the tawny hues of autumn. He cares little for the technical part There is no greater similarity between these of his art. His sonnet to "Castara in a Trance," passages than between Wordsworth's although very fine, lacks the dignit}^ of the son­ " Violet by a mossy stone," nets o'f Milton, which he must have known. To and Habington's those scornful critics who assert that the sonnet at its best is only fourteen jingling lines, it will " Like a violet which alone Prospers in some happy shade." be an interesting comparison with an\-one ol Dante's or with Wordsworth's "The World is But why blame poets for limning coincidences Too Much with Us." which nature makes? The poet who is truest to nature must often seem to plagiarize from "Forsake nie not too soon; Castara, stay, And as I break the prison of my clay those who have been true before him. Habing­ I'll fill the canvas with my expiring breath. ton's worst faults are those of taste. They go And sail with thee o'er the vast main of Death. no deeper. "Castara," as a whole, is a noble Some cherubim thus, as we pass, shall play: poem that deserves to live. Probably in no ' Go, happy-twins of love!' The courteous sea other poet's works—if we except Tennyson— Shall smooth her wrinkled brow; the winds shall sleep. Or only whisper music to the deep; has a higher, yet not superhuman, idea of wo­ Every ungentle rock shall melt away. manhood been given. The most exceptional The sirens sing to please, not to betray; and beautiful characteristic of the three truly The indulgent sky shall smile; each starry choir Catholic poets—Southwell,Habington, and Cra- Contend which shall afford the brighter fire; shaw—is their spotless purity of word and While love, the pilot, steers his course so even. Ne'er to cast anchor till we reach to heaven." . thought. Faith and purity go hand-in-hand. If "Castara" were studied in this age it might This is a jingling sonnet; but it is not the son­ almost make chastity fashionable among men. net's highest form. These striking lines, like This virtue of Sir Galahad was not common in most striking lines in his poetry, are. too epi­ Habington's time, and it has always required grammatic; nevertheless they.are beautiful. He much courage in a man of the world to proclaim addressed roses in Castara's bosom: that he possesses a quality which is generalh- " Then that which living gave you room regarded as the crowning attribute of woman­ Your glorious sepulchre shall be; hood. To this poet, who dared to dedicate, in There wants no marble for a tomb a licentious age, his u^ork to the woman who Whose breast has marble been to me." was to him as the Church of Christ, we-owe In this stanza there is much melodv and truth: honor; it was his Catholic faith and practice "They hear but Avhen the mermaid sings. that made him so noble among the men of his And only see the falling star, time. Habington ought to be studied by all Who ever dare Affirm no woman chaste or fair." young Catholics. Americans have inherited his poems along with that language which was His reverence for the Blessed Virgin, and, forced on the ancestors of some of us, but Avhich after her, for Castara, made him believe in the is none the less our own. His faults of technique,. virtue of all women. Sensuousness, which is so glaringly apparent in this day of almost per- - not lacking in his poems, never degenerated feet technique in poetry, offer lessons in them- - into sensuality. The boldest flight of his fancy selves. No man can read "Castara" without is stayed by the influence of religion on a clean feeling better and purer;.and of how many poets . heart. He believed that can this be said? Since Pope taught the critics . "Virtuous love is one sweet, endless fire." to place execution above conception Habington *To poets who thought otherwise, he said: has found no place. It remains for the rising "You who are earth and cannot rise generation of young: Catholics =who-read-and - Above your sense, tliink to ^vf& him a. niche that will not be un­ •: Boasting,the envied wealth which lies worthy of the poet of that chaste love whicli. Bright in your mistress' lips or eyes. was born from Christiariity. - : Betray a pitied eloquence." •

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If Richard Crashaw, a poet who, by reason of " Poet and saint to thee alone are given. his entire devotion to his faith and his absolute The two most sacred names in earth and heaven!" purity, belongs to this group, had written noth­ It glows with an impetuous devotion which is ing except the finale of "The Flaming Heart," like the rush of a fiery chariot. It carries the he would deserve more fame than at present soul upward, although an occasional earthly distinguishes his name. "The Flaming Heart," conceit clogs its ascending rush. And yet it is marred as it is by those exasperating conceits evident that the devotion of the poet was so which Crashaw never seemed tired of indulging genuine that he did not think of his mode of in,.is full of the intense fervor which the sub­ expression. He tore out the words that came ject—"the picture of the seraphical St. Teresa, nearest to him, in order to build a visible thought. as she is usually expressed with seraphim be­ Pope did not hesitate to borrow the finest pas­ side her"—would naturally suggest to a relig­ sages in "Eloisa and Abelard'-' from Crashaw. ious and poetic mind. After what Mr. Simcox and there are many lines in Crashaw's poems very justly calls "an atrocious and prolonged which unite the perfect finish of Pope to a spon­ conceit,"* this poem beautifully closes: taneity and poetic warmth which the "great classic" never attained. "0 thou undaunted daughter of desii-es! • By all thy dower of lights and fires: Crashaw was born in an "intellectual day" By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; tempered by a dim religious light. His father, By all thy lives and deaths of love; like Habington's, was an author, a preacher in By thy large draughts of intellectual day. the Temple Church, London, near which the And by thy thirsts of love more large than they; By all thy brim-fiU'd bowls of fierce desire, poet was born. He took his degree at Cambridge. By thy last morning's draught of liquid fire, He entered the Anglican Church as a minister. By the full kingdom of that final kiss But his views were not orthodox; he was ex­ That seized thy parting soul and sealed thee His; pelled from his living, and soon after he became By all the heav'n thou hast in him, a Catholic. From his poems it is plain that (Fair sister of the seraphim!) By all of him we have in thee, Crashaw was always a Catholic at heart. He Leave nothing of myself in me. entered the Church as one who, having lived in Let me so read thy life that I a half-forgotten place in dreams, enters it with­ Unto all life of mine may die." out surprise. Crashaw went to court, but gained no preferment. The " not impossible she " whose The mystical fire which lights this poem is a courtly opposites suggested the portrait never characteristic of all Crashaw's religious verses. "materialized" herself. He became a priest, "Intellectual day" is a favorite expression of and died in 1650, canon of Loretto—an office his; "the brim-fiU'd bowls of fierce desire" is which he obtained, it is said, through the influ­ one of those lowering conceits that occur so ence of the exiled Queen Henrietta Maria. jarringly iri Habington's- poetr}-, and that are Crashaw's poems are better known than Hab­ intolerably frequent • in Crashaw. Born about ington's, though, with the exception of "Wishes," 1615, he began to write at a time when a poem, which, like Herrick's "To Daffodils," is quoted lacking in quaint conceits was scarcely a poem in almost every reader, and the lovely poem and his verse, delicate, tender, original, and sin­ beginning, gularly fluent in diction, lost much strength from this circumstance and from his habit of " Lo! here a little volume biK large book, (Fear it not, sweet. diluting a thought or a line until all its force It is no hypocrite.) was lost. No poet since his time has been given Much larger in itself than in its look," so greatly to dilution and repetition, except they are read only in odd lines or striking coup­ Swinburne. In the famous "Wishes," written lets. Crashaw had the softened fire of South­ to a mythical mistress, well with the placid sweetness of Habington. " Whoe'er she be. He possessed a wider range than either of them; That not impossible she the fact that he was at his best in paraphrases That shall command my heart and me," shows that he did not own the force and power he plays with one idea, fantastically twisting it which Habington had in less degree than South­ and repeating it until the reader grows weary. well, or that his fluency of diction and copious­ In 1646, four years before his death, Richard ness of imagery easily led him to ornament the Crashaw published " Steps to the Temple." work of others rather than to carve out his own. As he stands, any countr}^—even that which Reading it, one may well exclaim, with Cowley: boasts of a Shakspeare—may be proud to claim The English Poets. him. For the fame of our three Catholic poet^ 260 THE NOTRE DAME SCHGLASTIC, it is unfortunate that they wrote in the great bearing nuts of Texas And O the fruits and shade of Shakspeare; but in the presence of glory of vineyards and of many gardens; the great intellectual giants they are b}^ no means purple plums from Oregon and rosy apples dwarfs. Flawless as men, unique and genuine peepingoutfrom Californianclusters; thegolden as poets, they cannot die as long as the world oranges and pears and luscious bananas; the honors goodness and that divine spark which blushing, irresistible, downy peaches, half em­ men call poetrx'. The}'- were Catholic; true braced by the wealth of Concord; and over there, alike to their faith and their inspiration; faith­ behold him, the big beaming watermelon of ful, and, being faithful, pure as poets or men are Georgia! Ah! it is good for us to be here! Come seldom- pure. now, kind minister from Warsaw, and thou father < • * of thy daughter of Louisville, father well skilled in superior old rye, and thou, property-boomer The Upper G-eyser Basin. and stern old man from Seattle, here's to the next President. Yea, health and benediction BY A. F. Z. to him and to us. And thou, too, thrive, dude of the silver tongue from Omaha! Garden of the Geysers! It is good for us to x\s we were slowly rising from this princely be here! It is delightful to thus meet, in our banquet, slowh* retiring with a last parting glance common pleasure ground, citizens of this vast at the bounty and grace of nature and of them Republic drawn from all quarters by a common that served, attired in flowing white and charms sympathy; it is a royal thing thus to repose on celestial, a shout of " Old Faithful!" rang through this broad veranda open and free as the South, the house. Everyone rushed with the rush of in this ancient home of the divinities, this stu­ students to the veranda—ladies and men of all pendous laboratory where nature adds her final ages, the geyser expert from Australia, young touches to a maturing world; this blue crest of school-girls, preachers, whiske}-men, and a limp­ the continent above the clouds of the common ing epicure of two hundred weight. There stood earth fanned by the health-bearing gales of Old Faithful in a shining, verticle column one mid-heaven, and entertained by this mighty un­ hundred and fifty feet high, its waters rising, rivalled tournament. How proudly leap forth steaming and waving like some gigantic Lom­ those buoyant fountains like liberty from the bard}'" poplar of crystal silver foliage from which deep dark prison of the earth exulting in their the south wind blew clouds and sparkling show­ strength and beauty and magnificence sending ers. How proud and free the jets leap up to­ up for a salutation to the sky their white soar­ gether side b};- side in a mass, hissing and steam­ ing clouds; how joyfully rush their sparkling ing, and again return in a mighty torrent to the waters with the glee of infancy awa}* to embrace mound and running a hot seething flood down the bright laughins: streams fresh from the snow to the river! What vast white clouds burst banks and flowery groves of the mountains and from -its sides and whirl away dissolving in the tripping with the dance and song of a mighty absorbent air! With what majestic ease it stands river in its vouth! waving its lofty top and glorying in a strength And the kindh* spirit of all who meet here, that outmeasures the power of ten thousand how grateful it is!. Behold the hospitality and horses! Long live Old Faithful, the venerable good cheer freely extended within, the cordial chief of geysers! smile of those who serve attired in flowing white, The central bod}^ of uprising water seems to blushes, and rich native-blossoms; the gorgeous be more than six feet across. If the wind be feast thus daintily set by fairy fingers to charm not too strong, the water returns in showers on away desire! Of meats and fruits and all works every side, streaming down like the branches of the confectioner's elaborate art what an ar­ of a tall weeping-willow, thus making the column ray! Venison, unspeakable venison of fauns twenty feet in diameter. It requires-something mountain-bred and nurtured by the cataract under five minutes to attain its highest altitude, until yesterday, nipping buds and flowers inno­ the water rising by leaps higher and higher as cently; turtledoves on toast, trout and brown if turned on gradually, and again an equal time savory duck gravy-clad, smoking heavenward to subside, the whole performance lasting fif­ as an incense offering, and ever}'-vegetable; Phil­ teen minutes, after which the column sinks adelphia creams dissolving sweetly that die down into the tube out of sight, while the steam away love-sick with the palate, and they, the continues to well forth from the orifice. This unblamable, the scarlet strawberries of Mon- fountain, therefore, stands at its highest little taW, and candied cake almonds and the oil- more than ijve minutes, but they are moments THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 261 of supreme rapture that would repay a journey a white mound eight or ten feet high, somewhat from the end of the world. The beauty, the steep near the top, but very broad at the base, splendor, and the power captivate and hold spell­ and upon closer examination proves to be a bound every witness, young or old. Some cheer, silicious deposit made by the water at an ex­ some leap up and shout, some are hushed and ceedingly slow rate averaging, it is estimated, overpowered by the scene. And this eruption a few inches per year. The mouth which emits occurs twenty-four times a day throughout the • steamcontinuallyisof an irregular, oblong form, year. measuring two and a half feet, by four and a half. No other fountain in the world is more worthy j Standing over and looking down the tube, it ap- of the name than this, as no other plays with ! pears very even and perfectly verticle as far as half the regularity. Once every hour from the j visible through the rising vapors, and the sides beginning of history it has acted its part punc- i sparkle as if coated with a plaster of fine brown­ ish sand. If you stand to the windward side to avoid the hot steam, the monster seems very gen­ tle but restless, frequent­ ly grumbling in a voice of thunder. These dull detonations seem to ap­ proach the surface of the earth toward the time of eruption, and resemble, though of deeper note, the racket made by steam advancing through cold pipes; due, no doubt, to sudden condensation. From the mouth down the embankment a long way to the river flows a hidden channel which would escape notice but for a slight crevice run- ning along its top. This ditch has bridged itself over throughout its en­ tire length by gradual deposition. Allaboutthe mound, descending in successive terraces, are small, irregular cavities like little marble basins, fringed with silver, and filled with water whose temperature depends on the length of time since" the last eruption. By "OLD FAITHFUL" GEYSER IN ACTION feeling these, an expert tually, and promises so to continue for ages. may know how soon to Everyone has a kind of affection for Old Faith­ expect the next display. The water is tasteless, ful, because he never makes false pretenses, exceedingly clear and odorless. It holds in solu­ never deceives, always keeps his promises; be­ tion a great quantity of silica, carbonate of lime and other mineral substances which are deposited cause he is grand, exquisitely handsome, and in the most exquisite manner, thus buildingup the has ever)'- grace and perfection of an ideal mound, embellishing it with gorgeous colors, and geyser. turning to stone whatever vegetable matter may While awaiting a second performance, we chance to fall into it. We saw and collected in the devoted the time to an examination of this channels of this geyser, as also in those of many wonderful curiosity. From the hotel, a distance others, pieces of wood petrified to the centre, of one furlong, the embankment appears to be and saw branches of cedar in all stages of tran^ '.62 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC,

substantiation. All the upper part of the mound hand in boundless quantities, and always ready resembles a lobed mass of brain or sjDongiform for use. Moreover, the atmosphere is at all times coral of a dull white color, and of a crumbling dry and cloudless with a "drying"' sun above friable nature. All the channels which convey No Chinaman on either side the globe was ever the water away to the river are exceedingly i half so well equipped. But, alas! he knew not smooth, enamelled, and highh- colored like rich ! that soap is a violent explosive. In the ten thou- porcelain, but of such brilliancy as Persian or sand years of Chinese history no such thing had jMoslem potter never dreamed. A richer and ^ ever been intimated. One day, however, while more resplendent pavement was never trodden this happy heathen was busy over his tub with by the foot of man. Ever}* shade of white, pink, a pile of clothes steeping in the hot blue waters brown, saffron, cream and scarlet known to art beneath, an ominous sound smote his ear, an aw­ are here found in profusion, and at all times ful rumbling sound rolling up from the bowels of spai-kling and luminous with such freshness as the earth more terrible than the distant thunders adorn the first Ma}- blossoms or the downy of a tornado, and he felt the earth was laboring wings of butterflies. Every channel and branch in some dread paroxysm; but where, he knew is glazed over with the hardest enamel of these • not nor how. Certain he was of some mightv glowing tints which far catastrophe rapidly ap­ outshine the polished proaching, and hisheart agate, or chalcedony, or grew sick with fear and the rich tiger eye of longed for the peaceful -Southern Africa, for it is landofhisbirth. Louder like a floor of alabaster and louder grew the or pearl inlaid with flow­ deep dread rumbling ing amber and rubies. It portentous as the earth­ is as if Apollo himself quake tread and shook had come down with the fairest colors of the upheaving earth till dawn and imbedded at his feet with hot vol­ them here in sunn\', iri­ canic fury the crater descent crystals. broke hurling the foun­ All about the park dations of his little home extinct ge\^sers ajjpear skyv>-ard, and the terri­ more numerous than the fied pagan through the active ones, some slil! air in swift summer­ steaming slight 1\', oth- sets. Next he awoke ers entirely dead and from a long stupor, and, overgrown. Xear Old gazing up, among the Faithful stands one dense rolling clouds be­ whose cone emits fumes held a return shower of mingled with steam, and shingles and pants and occasionally water. It THE "BEEmvE" GEYSER. unpaid shirts and all his is a veiy symmetrical household wreck. Then conoid of white "glossy scurf,'" and recalls the he arose, and, surveying one into which Milton's prospecting devils sunk the ruins with doleful woebegone eye, exclaimed: a shaft for gold. "Ah! De tching me yere! Lo ti yo! Me no " There stood a hill not far whose grisly top washee hee no mo. Too much helle hee fu me." Belched fire and rolling smoke; the rest entire Soap has been used by strikers to cause prim­ Shone with a glossy scurf undoubted sign ing in boilers, but this application of it is novel That in his womb was hid metallic ore and hardly less malicious. If a geyser will not The work of sulphur. Tliither winged with speed operate when you call on it, give it soap; throw A numerous brigade hastened; as when bands Of pioneers with spade and pickaxe armed a cake or two down its throat, and you will ob­ Forerun the royal camp to trench a field tain the most frantic demonstration. The nat­ Or cast a rampart." ural play bears no comparison with it; the eartli fairly groans in agony and wrath: the poor gey­ A hundred yards to the north on' the river ser snorts like a warhorse, and writhes in deadl)- bank is found the "Chinaman's Geyser." Some convulsions; spasm follows spasm in quick suc­ years ago, one of those irrepressible washermen cession, until the land is flooded. It is said the had the rashness to locate here (a celestia] tub Excelsior "played for Sheridan's benefit "though in the infernal regions). And, indeed, the sur­ quiet for years before and after. The drivers roundings seemed most promising. Hot and cold say that it was a "rattling" display, and inti­ water and "bluing" could be foui]^ Qn either mate that it^was not altogether a natural one< THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC, 26s

In other words, the performer seemed to be a We were among the hot springs all that after­ bit affected. noon until the moon arose, and the elk began Everyone who hears of this experiment is to low in the neighboring forest. But no one tempted to repeat it, especially as so many grew weary of the strange sights, though some monsters lie all about inactive. Though holding were excessively fatigued from walking. We the deed morally wrong, I must own we felt traversed many miles and saw thousands of the temptation to it very strongly. As we stood hot springs, yet all differed sufficiently to excite peering down the mighty throats of the Castle, interest. As we had not, however, the fortune the Giantess, the Grand, whose prodigious power to see more than a few of the geysers operate, needs but a touch to set it off like a magazine, the temptation would become almost irresisti­ I will here insert the descriptions of some of ble. Finally it seemed to have seized every the most noted ones written by reliable and man and woman of the party. Whenever in eminent eye-witnesses. The Grand is thus de­ our rambles we came upon a spring or geyser scribed by Lieutenant Doane: with an exceptionall}'- smoofh. qf-rnio-ht- tube, " Opposite camp on the other side of the river is ahigh some one would remark \pr\rrQ of =;talasrmite sloping from tlie base of the moun- what a fine nozzle it had, ^^^^ tain down to the river. Nu- ^^^^g merous small knolls arescat- what a well propor­ .^^a^j tered over its surface; the tioned orifice, what an Safe?ji'aa-ifef=ci----'-esa^^j^^.pvv2!. -^ 4(^^Ki *"'^^S' craters of boiling springs are excellent subject for the from fifteen to twenty-five feet in diameter; some of experiment! But in com­ these throw water to the pany with so many wit­ height of three and four feet. nesses it was plainly On the summit of this bank of rock is the grand geyser impossible to perform of the world, a well in the the experiment without _ strata, twentv by twenty-five beino' discovered. At Ififll^^^^^Wj feet in diametric measure- night, however, when S^^^^ ments (the perceptible ele- ration of the nm bemg but everyone had retired ew inches), and when quiet from the field, the per­ .•ing a visible depth of one formance seemed feas­ S hundred feet. The edsre of the basin is bounded by a ible, and the two minis­ heavy fringe of rock, and ters made strong efforts stalagmite in solid layers is to secure the necessary deposited by the overflow­ ing waters. When an erup­ soap, but in vain. The tion is about to occur the soap about all the hotels basin gradually fills with is carefullvlooked after, boilin"- water to within a few and if taken from one's feet oFthe surface, then sud­ denly, with heavy concus- own room would lead immense clouds of to detection. They ac­ to the height of cordingly ransacked the hundred feet, and the laundry. They peeped *r.3^^k^g^^^^^^g^^ great body of water, twenty by twenty-five feet, into all the drawers, ascends in one gigantic col­ turned over all the ta­ umn to the height of ninety bles, opened the stove feet; from the ape.x of this and searched it internal­ column, five great jets shoot up, radiating slightly from ly and externally, scru­ each other, to the unparal­ tinized all the buckets and lye cans, but without leled altitude of two hundred and fifty feet from the success. They were fortunate in finding none, ground. The earth trembles under the descending del­ for a heavy penalty attaches to the experiment. uge from this vast fountain; a thousand hissing sounds are heard in the air; rainbows encircle the summits of The drugging of a geyser is frequently its death- the jets with a halo of celestial glorj-. The falling water stroke. It also breaks up and deforms the in­ ploughs up and bears away the shelly strata, and a seeth­ crustation. Fortunately, a detachment of U. S. ing flood pours down the slope and into the river. It is troops are always on guard to prevent any tam­ the grandest, most majestic, most terrible fountain in the world. After playing thus for twenty minutes, it gradually pering with the park. They forbid the gathering subsides, the water lowers into the crater out of sight, of specimens, shooting game wantonly, and the steam ceases to escape, and all is quiet. This grand building fires too near the timber. The Govern­ geyser played three times in the afternoon, but appears ment is still engaged in building roads and to be irregular in its periods, as we did not see it in erup­ tion again Avhile in the valley. Its waters are of a deep, paths, placing sign-boards and names about the ultramarine color, clear and beautiful. The waving to and places of interest, surveying, making observa­ fro of the gigantic fountain, in a bright sunlight, when tions in meteorology, geology and the allied its jets are at their highest, affords a spectacle of wonder sciences, pf which any description can give but a feeble idea. Our 264 TME NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

\yhole party were wild with enthusiasm; many declared at which time the University will be declared, it was 300 feet in height; but I have kept in the figures with appropriate ceremonies, to be veritably in as set down above within the limits of absolute certainty." existence. Actual work will begin at once. The Beehive is thus briefly described by Mr. Fortunately for the future of the University, Langford; the local reasons which prevented the Most Rev. Archbishop Corrigan from hitherto taking an "Just across the river stands a silicious cone, veiy active part in matters concerning it have been symmetrical, slightly corrugated on its exterior surface, removed. The spires of his magnificent Ca­ three feet in height and five in diameter at its base. Its thedral are finished, and the plans for his new surface is oval, with scalloped edges, and two feet by seminary arranged. His first care is naturally three in diameter. Not one of our company supposed for the great diocese immediatelv under his that it was a geyser; and among so many wonders it had almost escaped notice. While we wei'e at breakfast on charge. Having neglected nothing in New York, the morning of our departure, a column of water, entirely he is now free to turn his attention to this mon­ filling the crater, shot from it, which by accurate trian­ ument of vast national importance. He has gular measurement we found to be 219 feet high. The accepted the chairmanship of the committee stream did not deflect more than four or five degrees from on the divinity library.—Ave Mana. a vertical line, and the eruption lasted eighteen minutes. —The Thanksgiving da}'- game of football at We named it the Beehive." Chicago between the University of Michigan The Beehive was soaped some months ago, and the Chicago University Club elevens resulted in a victory for the latter by a score of 26 to 4. and since then neither it, nor the Giantess ad­ The Chicago team represented the best players joining, has been known to play. ' So goes the that could be collected from university men report, and I give it for what it is worth. It is residing west of the AUeghanies and numbered possible that the violence of the eruption may among, others Peters, Lamb and Crawford who have deranged their internal structure but this were the best in their day at Yale. The Ann cannot be positively ascertained. Arbor boys were strong, but they could not stand up before such men, and with a Chicago umpire against them the)'^ were badly worsted. They * • •> were greatly weakened in the first inning when College Gossip. Prettyman, their centre rusher and the mainstay of the rush line, was disqualified for slugging. Had it not been for adverse rulings the.Michi- —^The Harvard freshmen defeated the Yale ganders would have done better, but they did not freshmen at Cambridge last Saturday. There hope to succeed against the team they played. was no game Thanksgiving day between the Duffy distinguished himself by fine work. Over Yale and Harvard college teams. The latter four thousand people saw the game. Graduates backed out. of every college that boasts of a football course —They have a ver}- handy school house in were present, and the rest of the audience was Barton district of Blaine County, Michigan. The composed of the leading society people in Chi­ roof is wrought in willow andsod, and whenever cago. College colors were plentiful, and college an urchin meanders from the broad path of vir­ yells of every description greeted the players' tue the teacher has only to reach up, extract a work. The proceeds of the game will be devoted portion of the ceiling, and proceed to apply it to charity. to the person of the youth so meandering. —When the abbey, seminary and college ' HAV£ YOU READ ROBERT buildings of St. Meinrad's, Ind., were so com­ " Have you read Robert Stop! pletely ransacked b}'- the flames a little more In mercy spare me, just this time. Ask if I've committed any crime than a year ago, there was not, indeed, a great Since last we met—if all are well future befoi-e that institution. It was then thought At home—speak of the rainy spell. the entire structure must be rebuilt from the Election frauds. Lord Sackville's woe— very foundation. Several architects confirmed "Progressive schemes," perhaps, but, 01 this opinion. Necessity, however, proved again Pray hesitate ere you begin The same old quer^ that my kith and kin to be the mother of invention. Work was soon Have uttered fifty times this year, begun to repair the old walls. Under the able "Have you read Robert Elsmere?" management of the Rev. Beno Gerber, O. S. B., " Have I read Robert ? "' Yes, this work has been carried on so fast and suc­ Thank Heaven! the deed is done! cessfully that the college department was ready At last I've read it, though it weighed a ton. for occupation at the beginning of the school Now when a friend I chance to meet, year, and the seminary department will be ready In church, theatre or upon the street, I shall not. rush.into a store, . probably, before next February.—Catholic News. Or turn aside as oft before —^The Catholic University has already as- Lest I should hear that everlasting saine— "Have you read Robert—^what's his name?" surtied such a concrete shape that it is confi­ But bow and say with eager zest, dently announced that some colleges of the '' I've read your Robert, and he needs a rest." institution will be opened in Noyember, 1889, . : _ . r '-^Boston Transcript, THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 265

Twenty miles above the head of the Colorado rises the Sierra La Sal, running north and south for twenty-five miles, a line of nine peaks, the highest of which is Mount Peel, 13,200 feet above liubltsfjcli t&tTB cSaturljaa Ijuring Jtcrm ffiimr at K". ID. Snificrsitji. sea level, while they average about 12,000 feet. Kntered as second-class matter at the Post Office, Notre Dame, Ind. On the east, the range is drained by the Dolores, on the west by. the Grand River, Notre Dame. December 8, 1888. Paradox Valley, on the east of the mountain belongs to Colorado, the western valleys are all The attention of the Alumni of the University of Notre in Utah. There are four of these: Little Grand, Dame, and others, is called to the fact that the NOTRE Little Castle, Fisher and the Bijou or Richard­ DAiVlE SCHOLASTIC has entered upon the TWENTY- son, as it has come to be called lately. The SECOND year of its existence, and presents itself anew farthest south is the Little Grand. Little Castle as a candidate for the favor and support of the many old friends who have heretofore lent it a helping hand. has perhaps the finest scenery. Fisher is per­ Students should take it; parents should take it; and haps the best for general farming and the last above all, named can, when put under ditch, show the best OLD STUDENTS SHOULD T.A.KE IT. qualities for fruit culture, its soil and climate Terms, $1^0 per Annum. Postpaid. being much like those of Little Grand, while it Address EDITOR NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC, is less exposed to cold winds from the mountain. Notre Dame, Indiana. The first record of settlement was made by Brigham Young in 1849. ^^ ^^^^ ^"^ ^ colony [Communicated.] to Little Grand Valley to raise cotton for his community. They built a fort, which still stands Life on the Frontier. below Moab on the Gibson ranch, but some of the colonists were killed by Indians, and two RICHARDSON, UTAH, OCT. 20. survivors were furnished with food by the sav­ It is doubtful if the world contains a stream ages and sent to Salt Lake to warn the prophet more remarkable than the Colorado River. against sending any more settlers. These two Nine hundred miles of mountain waters surging men ascribed their own deliverance to a miracle, southward through lofty walls of living rock, and told a strange story which effectually its secrets are still its own. Many are the ex­ stopped any further emigration to Little Grand peditions which have been organized among for years. The next Mormon colony formed frontiersmen for its exploration, only to be given the settlement of Moab about eight years ago, up upon more mature consideration. There are and proved the value of the countrj'- for fruit rumors of huge fish in its pools, of hidden gold raising. Their orchards and vineyards are im­ in the cliffs that close it in, of sublime scenery proving ever}' year, and show a growth and and strange horrors to be found along its course. productiveness that excite the horticulturist's But the men who care to trust its dangerous enthusiasm. The place contains about 500 in­ current are few indeed. In i860 or 1861 a sur­ habitants, but does not show the enterprise vivor of the ill-fated Baker party from Colo­ which would be found in a much smaller Colo­ rado was, with others, prospecting near the rado village. Some of the better class are now- junction of the Grand and the Green. Suddenly endeavoring to bring about a change, with fair attacked by the Indians, he alone escaped into prospects of success. the canon of the Colorado. There was no out­ Two or three years lateV a Gunnison county let except the river, and he made a raft which man named Fisher took up a ranch in Fisher, took him through to Calville, Arizona. His name then called Onion Valley. He brought in a was White, and he now lives at Las Animas, wagon, built a house and made a beginning at Bent County, Colo. farming. That same season, the Southern Utes, The broken and desolate country around the returning from their fight with the cowboys in head of the Colorado formed a congenial haunt Castle Valley, passed his ranch in his absence for refugees from justice. , For many years and burned his cabin. The agent of the Man­ renegade Indians and horse and cattle thieves hattan cattle company jumped his land as a found a region that was specially fitted for them. desert claim and told him to leave the country, There was the mountain, rich in game, valleys so he retired discouraged. The Indians on that in which stock could fatten the year round, and day killed either eight or twelve men—accounts trails over which no sheriff's posse cared to varying as to the number. The Eskridge boys follow them. At the time of Hayden's survey suspected them of stealing horses, and followed it was the home of Ute marauders. But its full them up from near Durango with a force of cow­ history will never be known. boys. After a running fight-the Indians turned There are traces showing that the Aztecs once on them in a deep defile at the head of Little occupied the country; ruins; vessels and frag­ Castle, where they could pick off the whites be­ ments of pottery belonging to this ancient race low them at their leisure. Mr. Bartlett, a resi­ are found occasionally. . An old Spanish trail dent of Moab, was in the fight and two of the exists, and Spain has left her language in a few Wilson boys, also Moabites, lie buried where- names, such as the San Rafael, in Emerj' County. they fell, hear Lone Mountain. 266 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

Mr. John Tusher, a native of. the famous old In a few minutes he had a temporary home city of Liege, in Belgium, and a gentleman who constructed by digging in the bank under a speaks several EuroiDean languages, soon after cottonwood tree, setting the wagon box on its commenced farming in Little Castle Valley. side and drawing the wagon-cover over it, tent While the Denver and Rio Grande Western was fashion. Meantime McDonald had been drowned being built he loaded animals with barley and in Grand River, a Grand Junction company had packed it out to the railroad, swimming the river laid out a town, and Colonel Jacobs, Frank on his wa}^ but the solitude proved too tiresome Young and C. C. Aldrich had staked off claims for him. He afterwards washed gold with Mr. at the lower end of Little Castle Valley, and Mr. Aldrich, on the place at the mouth of Little Adams, of the Dolores Cattle company, was Castle Creek, and finally sold out and returned planning the erection of a home. The same win­ to Moab to live. ter Mr. Stall arrived from Telluride, and be­ "Doby" Brown next arrived, and located at came one of the settlers. The town company the head of Castle Vallev. His outfit consisted broke up, its agent going off with what funds of a bujTo and two ponies. One of the ponies died were available, and the first winter was not a and the other was no good to work, and he had lively one. Next year Mr. Richardson raised to rely chiefly on his burro. He made a sort of a fair crop and made some improvements. plow, and scratched the ground in Mexican In the fall he brought in his wife who was fashion. His crop turned out well, and his cabin the first white woman to enter the valJey. Mr. became the headquarters for all strangers and Matt Martin brought his family down from the cattle men throughout the country. mountain, and one after another, settlers gath­ In 1884 S3dvester Richardson of Gunnison ered, until a post office was a necessity. It was began to look around for a new location. He not until early in 1887 that it was established. was one of Colorado's pioneers, having been a In the spring of 18S7, ^'I^'S- C. J. Elliott came commissioner of Douglas County during the with her husband to take charge at Mr. Adams' early days, when he kept cattle on the divide. camp. She was an English lady, familiar with At a later date he took up a claim where Gun­ Jiterar}^ and artistic London, and her society, nison now stands, and was identified with the proved a pleasant acquisition. growth of Western Colorado, so much so, in­ On the last day of December, 1886, F. A. deed, that from being saluted as "the father of Manville and Frank Stall brought down the the town," etc., in its palmy days, in its collapse first raft from Cisco for Mr. Adams. Later in he was pleasingly referred to as a " crank " and the year a Mr. .Osborne tried to bring his wife a " crazy old fool." His judgment on Gunnison's and goods down the river, intending to settle, resources, however, has been fully confirmed by but the boat capsized and the poor woman was that of such experts as Professor Chauvenet of drowned. October 25, 1887, ^^'•- ^^- ^- Beach the school of mines. Mr. Richardson's partner, and wife, Mr. C. C. Aldrich and their two boj'S, Mr. Kezar, came to Cisco with his team, intend­ and the brothers, Frank and Will Shafer, came ing to wait there for Mr. Richardson to join him, from Cisco with a raft"" heavily loaded. The when they would work their way down the river. ladies came inia small boat, and were the first Thei'e he died at Camp's place. His remains women to venture. by that route. They went were taken by the Odd Fellows and interred at into camp for the winter, and in February Mr. Grand Junction. The station of Kezar was Aldrich moved down the Grand six miles to his named after him. Next spring, Mr. Richardson own claim, where he was joined by his brother- alone came in by Moab to look up a site for a in-law, Mr. Royal A.Jacobs, of Grand Junction. Gunnison colony, and hired a guide, Robert Shortly after Mrs. Jacobs arrived with her McDonald, to help him explore the countr3^ daughter Miss Mabel and son Guy. Colonel He found Messrs. Manville, Maloney and Martin Jacobs remained at Cisco. Colonel Jacobs was working a mine on the La Sal, above Little one of Colorado old-timers, having come to Cen­ Castle Valley, found "Doby's" cabin, and that tral in i860 with the Russell outfit, having once was all. No roads, no houses, no settlers. After owned Estes Park and the larger part of Capitol running a level for a ditch in this valley he re­ Hill, Denver. Mr. Cole Aldrich belonged to one turned to Gunnison. He found his business of the Colorado regiments which did such good affairs had gone to ruin in his absence, and, for service against the Texans during the war. His various reasons, the idea of a colony starting conversation when in the vein, is well worth from Gunnison was given up. He took his team, recording, being full of anecdote and reminis­ secured the services of an old trapper, Mr. Har- cence in the style of the immortal Mark Twain. pole, and started out alone. In twelve days He has a fine rajich on which he can take out they reached Paradox Valley, but it took the from 32 to 25 a day in gold^when farming gets two men and horses twenty-eight daj'^s more to too slow for his taste. ^ reach the place where now stands the post office. The wealthiest class are the cattlemen. There Mr. Richardson left Gunnison on the loth of are probably 8000 to 10,000 head on the range. October, 1885, and arrived at. this place on the The Taylors, a Utah family, and Mr. Allan's 20th of November, making a road as he: came, New York company own the larger part of these. and having to build a sled for his wagori at gne The Blue Mountains, further south, may be point on the mountain called p. great range, feeding about 100,000'head THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC, 267 of cattle. The leading cattlemen here have dog trudging homeward just as the sun has shown a very kindly spirit toward settlers and set, and " Hearts are Trumps," a dainty young the usual troubles between them have so far been woman in an evening dress of blue tulle, play­ avoided. ing cards. The black-and-white designs include The mail last year increased so fast as to a beautiful female head for plaque decoration, overcrowd the carrying facilities of a special a large and striking composition of "Shrikes office, and in July the government opened a new and Blackberries," an admirable thistle design route in via Cisco. Mr. Frank Stall is the con­ for a cai-ved panel, an orchid decoration for a tractor. He will shortl}'- put on a regular pack plate, a Royal Worcester vase decoration, a train, going up on Fridays and returning on Sat­ charming figure design—"The Music Lesson"— urdays to accommodate the increasing business. after Watteau, for tapestry painting, and fine em­ In this short time a portion of Utah has been broidery designs for a cushion and a piano stool. revolutionized by the work of a few brave men, Articles of especial interest are those on "A who did not attempt any quarrel with the Mor­ Model New York Home" (finely illustrated). mons. Six new post offices have been established Louis Quinze decoration, art work in jade, gifts in the county; the elections are now controlled in painted china and photographic Christmas by Gentiles; the schools placed under Gen­ cards. Flower painting, tapestry painting, Royal tile supervision, and the place made accessible Worcester decoration and wood carving, are by travellers willing to face ordinary difficulties, among the practical topics particularly dis­ while before this was practically a wilderness. cussed. Amateur photography receives much Mormons have not in any way interfered with attention, and the various editorial departments us. We have the Denver papers two days after are vigorously maintained, they are mailed, and literature of the very best —The Catholic Family Annual for 1889 has quality finds its way in every week. To make come to hand. This publication is now in the a catalogue of all the improvements would be twenty-first year of its existence, and the number to lengthen this letter unduly. The climate has before us .sustains the reputation so well merited restored many to health and others have much by its numerous predecessors. It contains a improved their circumstances. The general fund of valuable and interesting information. feeling is one of good-will and satisfaction, and Besides the astronomical calculations and other what we have done is but little compared with information peculiar to yearly publications, what we can do now, with the first grave difficul­ there is also a useful little list of the Hierarchy ties behind us. This is one man's contribution of the United States. The literary part of the towards the solution of the "Utah problem," and work is of a high order of merit. Mr. L. W. there is room for plenty more to act on it. But Reilly contributes an excellent sketch of the one word as to settlers, and 1 shall close. The "Pope's Jubilee," this is followed by a beautiful postmaster's list of letters of inquiry is a large poem entitled "The Bard's Stor}'" from the pen one, and they come from all the states, people of Maurice F. Egan. Other sketches and artic­ who wish to change their homes and who expect les are; "John Rose Greene Hassard"; "Mad­ to find government land, schools, roads and ame de la Rochefoucauld"; "Archbishop Ale- churches all ready, waiting for their advent. many "; " General Sheridan"; "Scenes in the life There is no way to avoid hardships for a poor of Thomas a Kempis"; "Archbishop Lamy, of man, in any country, much less in a new one, Santa Fe"; "Archbishop Lynch"; "The Grande but there is a way to turn those privations to Chartreuse"; "The Omni Die of St. i\.nselm"; account. There are no claims available adjoin­ "Most Rev. Oliver Plunkett," etc., etc. The ing the post office, but the right people can find illustrations are numerous and excellent. The a few locations in the county, and capital in­ biographical sketches are all accompanied.with vested in ditches, can make gardens possible good engravings of the subjects, while many where sage-brush and grease-wood now struggle beautiful scenes are well depicted in other cuts. hard to live. Much I could write of the chances The Annual is published by the Catholic Publi­ and adventures, the friendships and the pleas­ cation Society Co., of New York, and its many ures, that accompany the trials of frontier life, excellencies—not to speak of its low price (25 but I must wait for that till another day. cents) bespeak for it a wide circulation through­ A Colorado firm having a cash contract for a out the countr\^ million and a half feet of lumber will put in a saw-mill this winter. This means work and sale -—The Ave Maria monthly part has a number for farm produce for the settlers. And it is only of notable articles, among which are: "The New- Office of the Rosar>^"; "Arnold of Brescia," by the beginning. M. M. R. the Rev. Dr. Parsons; "St. Jude (Thaddeus)"; known as the apostle and patron of hopeless Books and Periodicals. cases, and "Precious-Relics preserved at Tou­ louse." Miss Sadlier's sketch of "The Dollards" —The AH Amateur for December is the finest is a thrilling episode of Canadian history, which number ever published of this excellent art mag­ is being much talked about; "Notre Dame dps azine. Two charming colored plates are given Anges," by George Prospero, recounts the his­ —a woodland winter landscape with a man and tory of one of the most famous of Our Lady'§ 268 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

Shrines in France; ".A Soldier-Prelate," by L. many admirers in this country, and a painful shock to • W. Reilly, is a brief biography of the celebrated numerous friends, to learn that her death is reported from Paris. She was a woman of rare amiability, great talent, war minister, Mgr. de Merode, so greatly beloved and exemplary Christian life. She was widely known, and by Pius IX, and so "terribly missed" by Leo among her friends were some of the most distinguished XIII; "Cecil's Fortune," by Christian Reid, is men and women of our time. Her salon in Paris was a continued, and grows more and more entertain­ centre of talent and refinement one of the most noted in the city. Miss O'Meara was of Irish birth and parent­ ing as the plot unfolds. With these is included age. Ur. O'Meara, who was with Napoleon I at Helena, an excellent selection of short articles—essaj^^s, and wrote a celebrated volume of " Memoirs," was her sketches, the usual "Notes and Remarks," book great-uncle. Her mother, early left a widow, m'ade her home in Paris, where Kathleen and a younger sister were notices, etc. The poetry of the number is by educated, and have since resided. Miss O'Meara passed Attie O'Brien, the Rev. Matthew Russell, S. J., the summer of 1886 in this country, making friends wher­ Charles Warren Stoddard, William D. Kelly, ever she went. Her venerable mother died only a few and other well known writers. In "Readings months ago, sincerely regretted by all who knew her, and from Remembered Books" we have the beauti­ deeply mourned by her beloved children. " Miss O'Meara's first writings, as our readers will re­ ful "Story of Assunta," from Ruskin's "Road­ member, were published under the pseudonym of " Grace side Songs of Tuscany"; a forcible passage Ramsay." Among her many books perhaps the best from the works of Dr. Brownson on "The De­ known arc "The Battle of Connemara" and "Queen by votion of Catholics to Mary," and an extract Right Divine" (first published in The Ave Maria), the " Life of Frederic Ozanam," " Narka," " Bells of the from that quaint old volume " Purgator}'Sur­ Sanctuary," "Life of Bishop Grant," "Iza's Storj'," "Mabel veyed." Nor has the editor failed to provide for Stanhope," and-"Madame Mohl and her Salon." The his younger readers. This department of the pure, high tone of her writings will always preserve her magazine has the concluding chapters of a bright, memory from oblivion. Never was a life more constantly devoted to the interest of the Faith. "Her last literary stimulating story from the pen of Maurice F. work was a sketch of the Cure d'Ars, which will form Egan, and two other completed stories entitled one of the features of our next volume. It is only one of •"Whiter than Snow" and "Pollie's Five Dol­ many beautiful lives which Miss O'Meara's gifted pen lars," both of which can be cordially recom­ has made known to English i-eaders through these pages. Her works of fiction as well as her religious writings all mended for plan and attractiveness of treatment. tended to the same end—the good of others and the win­ The shorter articles, of which there is a number, ning for herself of an immortal crown, which those left are equall}- well suited to youthful readers. This to deplore her loss will pray she may speedily possess." monthly part of The Ave Maria is of special in­ terest, eminently readable throughout.

Local Items. Personal. —N. D. U. —^James P. Cosgrove (Prep.), '88, is employed —Football! in the extensive Printing House of Allen, Lane —'Rah for our boys! & Scott, Philadelphia. James was one of the —Sorin Hall next week. bright typos of the SCHOLASTIC. —The spirit of singularity is the beginning of -^-Very Rev. Father Provincial Corb)'^ com­ heresy. menced on Monda}'^ last a mission at St. Brid­ —Soiree Saturday evening in the reception get's Church, Indianapolis. He is assisted b}'^ parlor of the main building. Rev. A. Morrissey, Director of Studies in the —^The members of the Glee Club fed upon University. the toothsome turke)'^ Saturday evening. —Rev. J. Duggan, Rector of St. Pius' Church, —The improvements in the Lemonnier Li­ Baltimore, Md., was among the visitors to the brary will give it capacity for about ten thou­ College during the week. The reverend gentle­ sand more volumes. man was returning East after having taken part in the installation of the new Bishop of Detroit, —The Albion football team did not come, as the Rt. Rev. Dr. Foley. was expected. They backed out at the last —Bishop Dwenger, of Fort Wayne, and his moment, alleging that it was "impossible to Secretary, Father John F.Lang, arrived in Rome come." The boys will have to. wait for a chance October 30, and took up their residence at the at them next spring. American College. There also is his Grace, —^The SCHOLASTIC goes to press and is mailed Archbishop Patrick Riordan, of San Francisco. on Friday this week, though dated Saturday the This college is once again filled with students 8th. Saturday is the festival of the Immaculate in the places of those who, after ordination to Conception, the patronal festival of the United the priesthood, returned home. States, and a holiday of obligation. —The report was received last week of the —In the hurry incidental to the preparation death at Paris of Miss Kathleen O'Meara, a shin­ of last week's number, the "Symposium" was ing light in the literaiy world, and a long-time allowed to appear without proper revision of friend of Notre Dame. T^t. Ave Maria, to which the "proofs." A number of errors passed un­ she had long been a favorite contributor, says: noticed, for which we offer oiir apologies to the >' It will be a sincere regret to Miss Kathleen O'Meara's ass, - . - TBE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 269

—The Executive Committee of the Total thanked the boys kindly for their remembrance Separation Society desires us to announce that of him. And when the meeting broke up it was there will be a meeting in the gym. this evening. voted a most happy evening. As this maj'- be the last gathering before the —The Temperance Society held its regular holidays, a full attendance is desired. meeting Sunday, December 2. The president —^What's the matter with this for a college being absent Rev. President Walsh, the Direc­ cheer: tor, presided. The debate, " Resolved, that In­ "'Rah,'Rah,'Rah! temperance is a greater evil to humanity than Hoo 'rah, hoo! war, famine and pestilence," was ably led on •Rah, 'Rah, 'Rah! N. D. U.!" the affirmative side by Mr. J. Burns who made many beautiful illustrations of the drunkard and —^W. W. Harless and G. W. De Haven, for­ his vices. His followers were Messrs. Larkin, merly of Notre Dame, late of Ann Arbor, were Brewer, Gallagher.and Chacon. The negative visitors at the University last Saturday. They side was led by Mr. Morrison who made an ex­ came down from Chicago to see the football cellent argument. He was followed by Larkin, game with Albion, but were disappointed, as W. Toner and others. The debate was decided in Albion failed to put in an appearance. favor of the affirmative. Messrs. Gallagher, —RANDOM RHYMES: Toner and Brewer were appointed to make short " There was an old man in Kamtchatka addresses at the next meeting. Prof. J. G. Ew- Who had a remarkably fat cur ing will address this meeting, and a full attend­ His gate and his waddle ance is expected. Were both quite a model For all the fat dogs in Kamtchatka." —LAW DEPARTMENT:—The case of Brown- —A silken pennant will be given for a com­ field vs. the city of South Bend was tried before petitive drill between Companies "A," "B," and Judge Hoynes in the University Moot-court last "C," Hoynes' Light Guards, next spring. The Saturday evening, and resulted in a verdict for drill of last year, in which Company "B" was the defendant, represented by Messrs. Brewer successful, was one of the most exciting events and Pope. The attorneys for the plaintiff were of the vear, and attracted an immense audience Messrs. Brady and F. Long. This was a case in to the drilling ground. We trust that the mem­ tort.—^The department will occupy their new bers of the organizations will work hard from quarters in Sorin Hall ere long, where lecture now till the time of the contest, for, the com­ rooms can be had free from disturbances by pany that wins the pennant will win it on its outside classes.—At the regular weekly meeting merits. Rev. President Walsh has the thanks of the Law Society last Wednesday evening, of the "Guards" for the kindly interest mani­ the following question was discussed: "Re­ fested in the presentation of the trophy. solved, that the President, Vice-President and Senators of the United States should be elected —FOOTBALL:—The football game between by a direct vote of the people." The debaters the Harvard school eleven of Chicago, cham­ for the affirmative were: Messrs. Hummer, Mc- pions .of Illinois, and the University team was Nally and Hermann; for the negative, Messrs. won by the latter b}' a score of 20 to 0. The Craig, Gallagher and Tiernan. The debate was visitors were active and plaj'^ed well, but could decided in favor of the negative. The question do no effective work on account of the heavy for next Wednesday night is: "Resolved that rush line of our men. Donnelly was the best the policy of annexation as applied to neighbor­ player on the visiting team, while Fehr played a ing states is judicious and productive of the strong game for Notre Dame. The boys scored best interests of the countrj\" The leaders of on three touch-downs, two goal kicks and two the debate are Messrs. Brewer and Pope, the safety touch-downs. A more extended notice other disputants are: Messrs. O'Donnell, Mc- of the game will be given next week. In- the Williams, Cassidy and Tarrant.—^The case on meantime, three cheers for our Rugby team! the docket in the Moot-court this evening is —Thursday being the name day of Rev. N. J. that of Sands vs. the L. S. & M. S". RR. Co., Stoffel, the esteemed Professor of Greek, some which is also a case in tort. Attorneys for the of his old students and members of the Hellen­ plaintiff are: Messrs. O'Donnell and Tiernan; ists' Society surprised him in the evening, and for the defense, Messrs. Smith and Chacon.—^At invited him to a turkey lunch gotten up in honor its last meeting a new constitution and by­ of his feast day. When the inner man had been laws were adopted by the Society. - The com­ refreshed and a befitting sacrifice, in accordance mittee that formulated the document was com­ with the Grecian custom had been made, an posed of Messrs. Brady, Nester and Long.— adjournment was had to Father,Stoffel's apart­ The Law Society has an admirable habit of ments, where the remainder of the evening was discussing live and interesting topics.—Several spent in the discussion of choice cigars and of the debaters appeared for the first time social topics. In the course of the evening, the Wednesday evening and did quite well.—A spe­ boys presented Father Stoffel with a handsome cial apartment in Sorin Hall will be utilized for souvenir as a slight token of their esteem. The the library.—The afternoon class has finished reverend Father was agreeably surprised, and Pleadings and taken up Corporations. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

—An entertainment by the Euglossians and MINIM DEPARTMENT. Philharmonics will be given in the parlor of the iVlasters Ackerman, Bates, Blake, Barbour, Ball, Bruel, University this (Saturday) evening,December8, T. Burns, J. Burns, E. Bryan, Bearinger, Brown, Connolly, W. Creedon, F. Creedon, W. Crawford, A. Crawford, W. complimentary to the members of the literary Connor, Cohn, C. Connor, Crandall, Crane, Cudahy, L. societies. The following is the Downing, Durand, Duquesne, Dunn, Jas. Dungan, Dor- PROGRAMME. sey, J. Dempsey, F. Dempsey, Dench, E.Elkin, M. Elkin, G. Evcrs, F. Evers, C. Franche, Finnerty, E. Falvey, Piano Soio—"' Polka de la Reiiie " Raff Foster, Fanning, Grant, Greene, Goodwillie, Gregg, Gir- J. Reinhard. ardin, Goodman, Hendry, Hagus, Hamilton, Hinds, Hed- Vocal Quartette—" Dancing o'er the Waves," cnbergh. Heckler, Johns, Jonquet, Kane, C. Kroolman, Messi-i. F. Jeu-ett, W. Roberts, R. Sullivan. W. Labey. Kirk, Kaye, Koester, Kehoe, Lansing, Levi, Londoner, Declamation—'•Curfew Shall not Rinq-To-night," Lonergan, [. Marre, A. Marre, Malernes. jNlarx, Minor, J. ]\Iclntosh. McPhee, Mattas, C. McDonell, F. McDonnell, McDonald, Selection L. Monarch Mooney, Montague, Mayer, i\IcCarthy, Miller, Marre, A'ocal Solo—"The Brokon Pitcher" C. Ramsey McLcod, W. Nicliols. C.Nichols. Neenan, Oppenheimer, Declamation—" The Moor's Revenge " J. Toner Plautz, Parker, Pierce, L. Paul, C. Paul, Rick seeker, Piano Solo—" Valse Brillante " I^ysbu?\g[ Rea, Seerey, Seidensticker, Stone, Stephens, Steineman, J. W. Meagher. Toolen, Trujillo, Thornton, Witkowsky, F. Webb, R. Declamation — "The Parting of JMarmion and Webb, Wever, Washburne, VvMlcox. Douglas " E. Berry Vocal Duet - " Larboard Watch" Messrs. H. * Omitted by mistake for two weeks. » Smith and H. Greeneman. Recitation—"Tell on his Native Heath" J. Sullivan -<-e-»- Piano—" Dauntless Polka de Salon " Kunkel G. McAlister. Olass Honors. Declamation—" The Raven " D. Brewer [In the following: list maybe found the names of those students who have given entire satisfaction in all their classes durmg the month past.] Roll of Honor. COLLEGIATE COURSE. C. Paquette, H. Wise, C. Burger, J. Mackey, IM. Rey­ [The folloTving list includes the names of those students whose conduct dunnij the past -week has given entire satisfaction to the nolds, M. Dore, W. O'Brien, J. Delaney, A. Finckh, J. Facultv.] Nations, W. Roberts, A. Leonard, H. Brelsford, T. Goe- SENIOR DEPARTMENT. bel, C. Cavanagh, H. Jewett, E. Kehoe, M. Howard, E.' Messrs. Akin, Amador, Adams, Alvarez, Ahlrichs, Hoover, Jos. Cusack, R. Newton, ^''.Morrison, W. Larkin, Burns,* Bretz, Burger, Barnes, F. Brown, Brewer, H. E. Larkin, W. Morrison, J. W. Meagher, J. Meagher, H. Brannick, Barrett, Bronson, Beckman, Blackman, Crabb, Brannick, D. Barrett, F.'Carney, P. Burke. B. Hughes, Cassidy, Crooker, Cooney, S. Campbell, Chacon, Jos. F. Jewett, D. Cartie]-, F. Fehr, W. Akin, D. Dwyer, S. Cusack, Cavanagh, Jno. Cusack, T. Coad}', P. Coady, E. Hummer, E. Chacon, D. Brewer, W. Tiernan, H. Smith, Coady, Chute, Darroch, Draper, Dacey, Dore, Delaney, F. Nester, F. Neef, E. Berry, J. Reinhard, J. Brady, E. Eyan'son. J. Fleming, Finckh, Fehr. Franklin, Grange, Adelsperger, H. Pecheux, \V. McPhee, L. Scherrer, H. Goeloel, Jno. Giblin. Gailardo, F. Galen, Garfias, Gal­ Cauthorn, T. Wilbanks. lagher, Hepburn, Healy, Hayes, W. Hacket, Hermann, M. Howard, Hempler, Hoover, Hill, Hummer, E. How­ -* • *• ard, Henderson, Karasynski, Knight, Kenny, Kohlmann, Lane, Lahey, Lesner, Leonard, F. Long, L. Long, E. List of Excellence. Larkin,W. L^arkn, G. Long, Landgraff, McNally, Murphy, H. McAlister, G. McAlister, Morton, McAuliff, J. Mc­ [The students mentioned in this list are those who have been the Carthy,- McGinnity, V. Morrison, J. Meagher, ]McCune, best in the classes of the courses named—according to the compeLi- , W. Meagher, K. Newton, Nations, A. Nicholl, O'Flaherty, tious which are held monthly.] W. O'Brien, O'Shea, Paquette, Prichard, Pollock, Rob­ COLLEGIATE COURSE. inson, Reynolds, Reedy, Richardson, Rothert, Stewart, Moral Philosophy—T. Goebel, J. ]\Ieagher, P. Burke; Schmitz, Stanfield, Springer, J. B. Sullivan, H. Smith, Logic—S. Hummer; Latin—T. Goebel, E. Adelsperger, Toner, Woods, Wade, Wynn, Watson, C. Youngermann, H. Brelsford, J. W. Meagher; Literary Criticism—Yi. F. Youngermann, Zinn, Zeitler, Zeller. Holden, J. B. jNIeagher, E. Adelsperger; Eiiglish Litei-a- JUNIOR DEPARTMENT. iiire—F. Pope, H. Brelsford, C. Cavanagh, D. Tewksbury; jSIasters Adelsperger, W. Allen, Ayer, Aarons, Adams, Rhcto}-ic—Y. Neef, D. Brewer; ConipositioJi—'L. Hackett, Bombeck, Bates, Beaudry, Brady, Blumenthal, Boyd, J. Hermann; Descriptive Geometry—Y. ]\Iorrison; An- Bradley, Bailey, Baltes, Bearinger, Brown, Bryan, S. aly ticei I Mechanics—Y. ^Morrison; General Geometry and Cleary,'Cunningham, Crandall, F- Connors, J. Connors, Calci(l7es—M.'DoTe; Tf-igonomet/y—J.W. Meagher; Ge­ Ciarcoschi, Covert, Case, J. Connolly, G. Connolly, Cha- ometry—K. Pecheux, E. Hoover, J. Flynn, H. Wise, J." 'con, Collins, Cauthorn, Chute, N. Davis, E. Du Brul, Brady; Algebra—'h,l. Dore; Botany—V. Burke, F. Jewett, Dunn, D'Arcy, Dempsey, Daniels, Dinkel, Darroch, J. W. Meagher; Physiology—]. Brady, H. Wise, O. Ibold, Elder, Flannigan, T. Falvey, S. Fleming, P. Fleming, C. C. Cavanagh; Mineralogy—M. Reynolds; Metallutgy— Fleming, Frei, Foley, Greene, Galland, J. Healy, Heller, L. Scherrer; A.ncicnt History—H. Pecheux, P. Houlihan; Hesse, Howard, Hinkley, Hoerr, Halthusen, Hughes, Physics—W. McPhee, W. Morrison, Wi Larkin; Chei7i- Hanrahan, Hague, Houlihan, Heard, Hennessy, Ham­ istr)'—M. Reynolds, W. McPhee, W. Morrison, W. mond, Ibold, Irwin Johnson, Jewett, Krembs, King, A. Larkin. Kutsche, W. Kutsche, Kellner, Keams, Lenhoff, Mon- ^ • » cada, Mahon, Maher, Maurus, Monarch, Malone, Mor­ rison, J. Mooney, C. Mooney, Merz, McCarthy', J. Mcin­ PROFITABLE VACATION WORK. tosh, L. Mcintosh, Mclvers, McMahon, McGrath, Mc- The Statesman Company, Chicago, afforded very prof­ Donough, McCartney, F. Neef, A. Neef, O'Neill, O'Mara, itable work to a number of college students during the. G. O'Brian, O'Donnell, P. O'Brian, Peters, Populorum, past summer, and is prepared to do the same for anyone Pecheux, F. Peck, J. Peck, Palmer, Paquette, Powers, who cares to give part of his Christmas vacations to the Ouinlan, E. Roth, I. Rose, Reinhard, Riedinger, Rowsey, purpose of making an honest dollar. Anyone so minded Ramsey, C. Schillo, F. Schillo, Sheehan, Sutter, Schultze, can learn the full particulars by addressing, with stamp. Sullivan, Spalding, Shear, L. Scherrer, C. Scherrer, Smith, Talbot, Toolen, Tetard, J. Walsh, A. Welch. Weitzel, THE STATESMAN CO., B. Wile, Wood, WilUeh, Wilbanks, Young. i7Q-Washington St., Chicago, THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 271

ful design which will be of such value to com­ merce. We may cross the ocean in thought and listen to the eloquent speeches in parlia­ ment, and be swayed by the contending parties. One Mile West ofA'otre Dame Ufiiversity. We may behold in the mirror of thought the mighty armies surging to and fro in India; watch —Mrs. T. Hutchinson, Mrs. W. P. Rend, and their movements and see them struggling for Miss B. Snowhook, Class '88, of Chicago, spent superiority. We see the flags rise and fall, Thanksgiving Day at St. Mary's. and note the flash of musketr}''; we hear the —^\^ery Rev. Father General was present at shouts of the victorious, and the groans of the the regular Sunday evening meeting. The read­ wounded and dying. All this may be viewed ers for the occasion were Miss N. Linneen and little Stella Scherrer. through the medium of thought, until the pic­ —St. Mary's was honored last week by a visit ture becomes so vivid to our mind's eye that we from Rev. Father Duggan, St. Pius' Church, Bal­ can scarcely believe that the panorama is not timore, Md. Pie was accompanied by Rev. passing before us. In fact, thought is the mon­ Father Walsh of the University. arch of the great world around us. All inven­ —The monthly adoration of the Blessed tions and discoveries have been made through Sacrament was held on the 2d. The altar was this agent. We may, by our mental faculties, beautifully decorated, the gold ornaments being pierce the firmament dotted with its millions of set off by the pure white background. bright stars, learn their composition, motion, —^The visitors during the past week were: and position in space. Mrs.T. Johns, Miss D. Johns,Terre Haute, Ind.; J. Campbell, E. Dreyer, G. Noble, P. Cavanagh, With Geology, our mind may enable us tq M. Cudahy, Mrs. D. McGuire, A. Brooks, Miss delve down into the depths of the earth and M. Gleeson. J. Plammond, Mrs. M. Davis, Chi­ there obtain a knowledge of the progress and cago, 111.; M. Carroll, Crawfordsville. Ind.; T. growth of this wonderful world on which we Kinney, Springfield, Mo. live. We may follow in thought the different —^The class in Natural Philosophy enjoyed a ages, and see the once molten mass slowly cool­ rare treat last week, namely, a visit to Science ing, the rocks forming on its surface, the sub­ Hall, where Rev. Father Zahm kindly explained terranean forces acting, the rains assisting in the accoustics. illustrating by interesting experi­ ments. The three hours spent there seemed but work of transformation, and all nature combin­ a few moments, and the promise of another visit ing to make this fiery mass a fit dwelling-place soon is an incentive to renewed efforts in the for man. class. .But the power of thought is still greater; it —On the Feast of St.x\ndrew was celebrated does not stop on the threshold of the heavens or the forty-sixth anniversary of Very Rev. Father the earth, but steps boldly for^vard and paints General's first Mass at Notre Dame. In the in glowing colors the radiant, heavenly host name of the pupils, JMiss Angela Donnelly read an address of congratulation, and Miss S. Cam- which is ever singing joyful psalms around the peau presented a porcelain plaque on which throne of the "King of kings and Lord of lords." was painted a scene relative to the event com­ The thoughts that have been wasted on trivial memorated. objects might, if turned in the proper direction, —A society has been organized at the Acad­ have made many happy, and have accomplished emy, the members thereof styling themselves some good; whereas they brought joy to no one, "St. Mary's True Friends." On entering the asso­ and were utterly lost. Although thought has ciation they pledge themselves ever to prove "done so much for us, many an impulse that an honor to their Abna Matet; and to do all in their power to make her known and respected. might have healed a wounded heart, or made a Certificates of .admission were distributed on home happy, has died ere it was spoken. Why St. Andrew's day by Very Rev. Father General. is it when we know "some one is hungry for a kind word that the thoughts which we feel are -*-»-*- not expressed. The Domain of Thought. What love a mother has given us, no one but God will ever know. How do we repay this We often speak of the vast domain of the love? Not one word do we. utter to tell how ancient Roman Empire; but as a mere bubble much we feel; not one thought to cheer her in on a mighty ocean would it appear if compared all her labor of love for us. Perhaps we do not to that of thought. By thought we may be trans­ realize the yearning of her heart for our tribute ported to the Isthmus of Panama, and see Des of affection until it is. too late; then we see with Lesseps planning and executing that wonder­ sorrow what might have been and what was. 372 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

Richard I, who through all his life showed noth­ Coll, Campeau, Cleaveland, Currier, Caren.'Compagne, M. Clifford, M. Coll, Cohn, Connell, Crabbe, Canepa, ing but disrespect toward his father, is an ex­ Donnelly, Ducey, M. Davis, Dority, D. Davis, Dorsey, ample of this. Not until he saw the form of Daube, M. De Montcourt, English, Flannery, Fitzpatricic, Fox, Fursman, Flitner, Gavan, Griffith, Geer, Grace, M. this father laid low by the icy hand of death did Gibson, N. Gibson, Gordon, Harriman, Hertzog, Ham­ he realize what his true sentiments were. Then mond, Harlen, M. Horner, I. Horner, Hurff, Healy, C. such a feeling of remorse took possession of Hurley, K. Hurley, Hamilton, Hagus, Hepburn, Harmes, Hutchinson, Huber, Haight, Haney, Hubbard, Irwin, him, that, mighty man as he was, he would have Johnson, Kingsbury, Koepplinger, A. Keeney, Koopman, humbled himself to the earth could he have but Linneen, Ledwith, Lewis, Median, McNamara, Moran, N. Morse, Moore, Marley, Miner, C. Morse, McCarthy, for one -moment brought back that dear one. Mercer, McCune, H. Nester, Nacy, Norton, Nicholas, The words he uttered then, however, were too O'Brien, Prudhomme, Papin, Piper, Paul, Ouill, Quealey, Reidinger, Regan, Roberts, Rentfrow, Re'nd, Slesinger, late; the ear that would have so gladly drunk Spurgeon, Schrock, Studebaker, Saviers, Schiltz, Taylor, each sound of his voice was now closed forever Van Riper, M. \''oechting, Wagner, Wright, Webb,Wehr, to the sounds of this world; the eye that would Waterbury, Wai.xel, Willcinson. Zahm. have shed tears of jo}' at one look of love from JUNIOR DEPART.MENT. the cherished son were now shut from the view Misses Barry, Bloom, E. Burns, M. Burns, Burdick,. Burchard, M. Campbell, Churchill, A. Cooper, E. Cooper, of earthly objects. All too late he' saw how Cooke, Crane, R. Campbell, M. Davis, Dexter, Daly, E. much his father had been to him. Dempsey, Dolan, Dreyer, Ernest, Farwell, Goke, Griffith, Hansford, Hull, Johns, Kahn, Kaspar, Kloth, Kelso, Thought has also been the greatest benefac­ Lauth, Marks, M. McHugh, Miller, McPhee, McGuire, Northam, O'Mara, Papin, Patrick. Pugsley, M. Patier, tor that religion has ever known, for it is in Quealey, Reeves, Regan, Rose, Rowley, Rinehart, M. thought principally that religious power is felt. Smyth, J. Smyth, Scherrer, Sweeney, M. Schoellkopf, I. As our actions have their source in thought, if Schoellkopf, Stapleton, Thirds, A. Wurzburg, N. Wurz- burg. we keep our minds pure and unstained, our ac­ .MINIM DEPARTMENT. tions will likewise be unsullied. Solitude would Misses Ayer, Burns, Crandall, B. Davis, Griffith, Kelly, be unbearable if it were not for thought; but as L. McHugh, M. McHugh, Moore, Papin, Palmer, S. Smyth. N. Smyth, Scherrer. it is, we may create for ourselves a world into which none need be admitted save those we wish. SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN. The animals inhabiting the Arctic regions HONORABLY MENTIONED. take the hue of the eternal snows, and even GRADUATING CLASS—Miss A. Gordon. ELEMENTARY PERSPECTIVE. farther south vazxvy others resemble the sur­ 2D CLASS—Misses S. Brewer, Stapleton, I. Horner, M. rounding objects; so it is with our thoughts: Piper, E. Nicholas, M. Schiltz, M. Burton, E. Coll. they take the hue of that upon which they are 3D CLASS—Misses K. Hurley,E.Wright, M.Fitzpatrick, H. Lawrence, S. Crane. N. Simpson, M. Campbell, A. allowed to dwell. Hence, if only that which is Hammond, B. Bloom, S. Dempsey, B. Kingsbury, M. beautiful is permitted to occupy our minds, our Miller, N. Davis, H. Pugsley, L. Mercer, L. Ernest, A. Wurzburg, V. Wilkinson, B. Wagner, N. Linneen, M. imagination soon becomes imbued with this Scherrer, M. Voechting. beauty, so that we turn away with disgust from WORKING IN CRAYON. all that does not possess this qualit3^ By the Misses N. Morse, S. Crane, M. Hull. beautiful is meant that which is pure, true and PAINTING ON CHINA. noble; which elevates our thoughts to some­ Misses. C. Miner, B. Hellmann. thing better than mere earthly happiness; which PAINTING IN WATER-COLORS. Misses G. Clarke, M. Andree, M. Hutchinson, J. makes our lives examples of all that is worthy. Cleaveland. As thought has such influence over humanity, OIL PAINTING. Misses J. Robinson, A. Regan, I. Bub, G. Wehi-, L. one should endeavor to keep his mind above all Hillas, A. Grace. • that is of the earth, and listen to the warning GENERAL DRAWING. contained in the words of the poet: SENIOR DEPARTMENT. " Guard well thy thoughts, tor Misses H. Cohn, M. Jungblut, J. Bogner, M. Geer, T. Thoughts are heard in Heaven." Haney, N. Paul, A. Schrock, J. Currier, E. Balch, C. LOUISE MCNAMARA {Class '8g). Dorsey, J. Fox, L. Hagus, D. Davis, M. Clifford,E. Norton, A. Van Riper, D. Spurgeon, A. Ash, B. Crabbe, A. Koop­ man, U. Bush, K. Quealey, M. Clore, K.>IcCarthy, O. Butler, J. Connell, S. Hamilton, H. Nacy, M. De Mont­ Roll of Honor. court. JUNIOR DEPARTMENT. [Fpf politeness, neatness, order, amiability, correct Misses A. Thirds, F. Kahn, G. Papin, R. Campbell, M. deportment, and exact observance of rules.] Kelso, C. Daly, M. McHugh, A. Cooper, E. Cooper, F. Palmer, A. Rowley, M. Dexter, M. Smyth, P. Griffith, L. * SENIOR DEPARTMENT. McHugh, A. Papin, M. Davis, E. Regan, N. Smyth, J. • Misses Arnold, Ansbach, Anson, Ash, Andree, E. Balch, Smyth, K. Smyth, E. Kaspar, M; Scherrer, G. Crandall, Bub; Barry, Bates.T. Balch, Burton, Beschameng, Bogner, S. Scherrer, K. Moore, M. Hansford, V. Kelly, L. Dolan, Butler, Brewer, Barron, Bush, M. Beck, M. B. Cliflford.E. C. Kloth, M. Burns, L. Dreyer.