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,,,, EXTRA 1831 1956 ALUMNI ISSUE XAVIER UNIVERSITY NEWS Special Alumni Edition Di1tributed By The 125th Anniver1ary Committee

AUGUST, 1956 CINCINNATI, OHIO Xavier Marks First 125 Years Of Community Service Bishop Fenwick's Little College Philopedians Hold NIT Overcomes Setbacks, Expands Educational Opportunities XAVIER UNIVERSITY WAS FOUNDED 125 years ago by a man of courage and broad vision. This article summarizes the material contained In Anniversary Year That man was the first Bishop of the Diocese of elsewhere in The News. Other articles are reprinted Cincinnati, Right Rev. Edward Fenwick, 0.P. When from the May 25 edition of The News. -Ed. Every Xavier man is familiar with the Poland Philopedian the school opened on Oct. 17, 1831, it was called the Debating Society which bas been a center of activity since it Athenaeum. The Rev. James L. Mullan was its first sions. On May 7, 1869 a perpetual charter was was founded in 1841. During the spring to this 125th anniver­ director. It was the first Catholic College in Ohio, granted to St. Xavier College by the General As­ sary year, the Philopedians served as host for the first Robert the second in the West, and the fourth in the United sembly of Ohio. States. The buildings were situated on Sycamore In 1882 St. Xavier College was faced with the S. Marx National Invitational Debate Tournament. The tour­ street in downtown Cincinnati where St. Xavier nament, under the sponsorship of great calamity of the burning of the Church. Alum­ Church and St. Xavier High School now stand. ni, parishioners, and friends came to the rescue and Judge Robert S. Marx, made The Athenaeum never had large numbers of Xavier and the City of Cincin­ raised a sum of $60,000. students. Rev. John B. Purcell, the second bishop of Although the college offered both a classical nati the debate center of the Cincinnati, became president in 1834. He took a and a commerdal course, the emphasis was on the nation. real interest in the project, but he was forced to classical program. The College of Liberal Arts is Debaters and coaches from 24 close the college temporarily due to lack of funds the heart of the Jesuit system of education. The colleges and universities were and students. students in the commercial course received no de­ guests of Judge Marx at the Bishop Purcell appealed to Rome for the Jesuits gree, but were given a "certificate of proficiency , Sheraton Gibson Hotel last April of St. Louis University to take over the,administra­ or scholarship." tion of the school. The Jesuits arrived on Oct. 1, It was in 1885 that the Moeller Building was See tournament pictures and 1840 and began first classes shortly thereafter. Rev. erected to provide additional classrooms, a study stories about Philopedian history John A. Elet, S.J. was the first Jesuit rector, and hall, and an auditorium. In the Golden Anniversary 011 page 2. the name of the institution was changed to St. year of the coming of the Jesuits to the school, Xavier College. there were 419 students enrolled. In 1891 the orig­ The delb!ates were THE SCHOOL ADVANCED RAPIDLY. In 1842 inal Athenaeum Building was replaced by the pres­ in the parlors and small a 30-year charter was granted by the General As­ ent High School building at a cost of $100,000. In 'nin rooms of the hotel as sembly of Ohio. The Sodality was established, and 1901 the enrollment rose to 458 and the nineteenth -~..._, __-~ w-, ell as the Board .Room aud from 1841 dates the Poland Philopedian Society Jesuit President, Rev. Albert Dierckes, S.J., was with its polemic activities. Boarders were received executive offices of the Fifth installed. as well as day students, some even coming from Third Union Trust Co. · THE EVENING COLLEGE was esta1blished on Mexico and Cuba. The attendance grew from 173 Two small Illinois colleges Oct. 9, 1911 as the School of Commerce, Accounting, in 1841 to 330 in 1847. outscored 22 competitors to earn and Finance of St. Xavier College. The Class of Hon. Robert S. Marx After 1848 the enrollment declined. This did 1 the right to compete as finalists 1914 was the first to graduate. The twelve mem­ Sponsors Philopedian Tournament not deter Rev. George Carrell, S.J. from beginning at the concluding banquet on bers of the class received a degree of Bachelor of the work of expanding the college, however. The April 14. Little Augustana Col­ sity, Notre Dame University, Commercial Science. By 1918, Departments of Jour­ new building contained two dormitories, a museum, lege of Rock Island, Ill. won this , Ohio Wes­ nalism, Advertising, Sociology, and the Liberal Arts and a chemistry laboratory. ;final debate a~ainst its cross­ leyan University, Oklahoma Uni- , had been added. In that year the Evening Division state rival Greenville College. versity, University of Pittsburgh, THE FINANCIAL SITUATION gradually grew was made co-educational. For the past 20 years an Induded among the schools Princeton University, San Fran­ worse under Fr. Carrell's successor, Rev. Isidore average of 45 per cent of the enrollment has· been that participated in this tourna­ cisco University, Southern Meth­ Boudreaux, S.J. When the problem became so great women. ment were: Augustana College, odist University, Tulane Univer­ that the only solution seemed to abandon the col­ When the College moved to a new campus site B r a d 1 e y University, Brandeis sity, Vande:ribilt University, Wit­ lege, Rev. Peter Desmet, S.J., saved the situation. in Avondale in 1919, the Evening College remained He suggested that the boarding department be at Seventh and Sycamore streets. In August of 1935 University, University of Cin­ tenberg Colle~e, ~nd ·Xavier cinnati, Fordham University, University. closed. Xavier was thus aible to continue but not the Evening Division moved to its present location, Greenville College, Harvard Uni- This tournament :focused na­ without great hardship. 520 Sycamore street. The number of students con­ , versity, College of the Holy tional attention on Xavier's Phil­ The College had to fight for its life with many tinues to increase constantly. Cross, Indiana University, Uni­ opedians. This has been an im­ foes, among them the great cholera epidemic in Xavier still marches on. There are more new versity of Kentucky, Miami Uni­ portant year in Philopedian his­ 1849 and the intolerance of the Know-Nothing buildings, the Thomas J. Logan Chemistry Building versity, ·Northwestern Univer- tory. movement. Perhaps the severest trial of all was the in 1952, and the Brockman Residence Hall in 1953. Civil War. The Graduate Division opened ten years ago. The In the complicated time after the Civil War, first television course for college credit in the Cin­ the first period of prosperity came. In '1865 the cinnati area was begun in 1954. Like a sturdy, student body numbered 263. It was in the commer­ young tree Xavier University has grown steadily cial department that the greatest growth was shown. through the years from the seed planted by Fen­ OFFICIAL BULLETIN President Walter Hill, S.J. made further expan- wick and Elet.

GrHtill&"S to Xavier friends everywhere in thi1 year of eur Uni­ ver!'tity'~1%5th Anniversary. It is with pleasure that we send you this special souvenir issue of the Xavier University News, compiled and edited by the students with materials gathered from many sources. Only a thick volume could do full justice to the long and rich history of Xavier. Nevertheless, we believe the students have shown fine judgment in the selection of these stories and articles. They have tried to give some idea of the character of Xavier, of its origins, its historical development, its set-backs and its triumphs over the years. I know you will find it interesting readinK. I am confident, too, that you will gain a deeper understanding of Xavier. Many times during this anniversary year I will have occasion to refer to Xavier's 125 years of UNCHANGING VISION. I believe thi~ issue of The News substantiates this point of view. Our University, through its century and a quarter of growth from a small school to a complex institqtion, through the vast changes and advances 'of the nineteenth and twen­ tieth centuries, through many generations of teachers and pupils. remains ti'ue to the educational and religious ideals of its founders. Over the door of the Athenaeum in 1831 was carved the motto: Religioni et artibus sacrum. That sacred trust is intact .today. God has blessed this University abundantly in resources, in friends, and in opportunity. We look forward to the tasks ahead. With God's r~ace we will continue unehanred in Xavier's tradition. Pictured above are the present buildings which house St. Xavier High School at 7th and Sycamore Very Rev. Paul L. O'Connor, S.J., president streets as seen at the turn of the century. Then housing St. Xavier College, the buildings depicted are St. Xavier Church, the High School Buildinr, and the Bill Building. PAGE TWO XAVIER UNIVERSITY NEWS, AUGUST, 1'56 Philopedians Commence Polemic Activities In 1841

Debate Society Retain& batini society." And thu1 it. wa1 ten 8tudents: Edward Conway, the theatrical 1taie and upheld ioua topics had been purchased 115 Year Old Tradition that the Philopedian Debatin{l Thomas Burts, William Hart, Tim­ the negative side of the question: by 1853. Fines for misconduct and Society became a reality, inscrib­ othy O'Connor, John Goodin, An­ "Should the theater be tolerated." di1re!lpect to the society were On Feb. 19, 1841, a handful ing its name on the title page of drew Francisco, Samuel Black, ROTC Debated not uncommon, and at one meet­ of students anxiously met in the extra-curricular annals at George Guiford, Robert Arm­ Especially interesting in the ing in 1842 !our members dug the halls of old St. Xavier Xavier. Today the organization strong, and William Guilmartin. light o:f educational exparu;ion deep into their jeans for the ben­ still retains its prestige and efit of the Society's treasury. The College in downtown Cincin­ In the first yeario of the Society, within recent years is a question prominence on the campus. debate topics were seldom chosen debated as far back as 1842 and treasury, was usually preoccupied nati. Their eager actions indi­ First Meeting :for their current interest and again in 1854: "Should military with expenses; one bill for ciiars cated that a new thoughtful At the initial meeting of the timeliness. Up-to-dateness, speed, training be introduced into our alone totaled more than four scheme was brewing. Sometimes Philopedians on Thursday, Feb. and efficiency were no.t yet the colleges." dollars. they spoke in whispers; now they 24, 1841, William Guilmartin was vogue~ and campus discussion Side-glancing momentarily we Civil War Debate argued audibly. Impatience, wrin­ elected president of the Society. might easily center about the note that the Society's constitu­ kled brows; satisfied smiles. At With the advent of the Civil Formation of a constitution was o 1 d es t subjects. Psychological tion of 1854 reads in part: "Every War days, the Society turned its last reaching a decision, the group planned and • the topic for the questions such as "Which is the member shall in his turn read dispersed. Several of the stu­ attention to more pertinent mat­ following week's debate an­ more pleasant sensation, that of original essays or literary selec­ ters. "Which has the greater ad­ dents, however, had been named nounced. The subject named was, anticipation or realization of tions upon some useful subject, as a special committee; and these vantage in war, the invading "Resolved: That the discovery of things,'' and "Which is more de­ in an11 language whatsoever." army or the army invaded" and appro.ached the president of the the New World by Columbus was sirable, the fame of the warrior This may interest linguistic Phi­ college, the Rev. John A. Elet, "Is slavery beneficial to society" a ireater achievement than the or that of the statesman" were lops today. were but two of the topics that S.J. establishment Of American inde­ also matters of heated contro­ The debaters began very early forecast the fearful days to come. "A splendid idea!" answered pendence by Washington." The versy to the youthful Philops. to collect a library :for their own After the war, the student inter­ Fr. Elet, "Just the thing-a de- Society's roster then numbered Several debaters even denounced private use; 289 volumes on var- est focused on new problem11, national and moral. "Is our gov­ ernment justified in abolishin~ slavery" was a pet topic; another current favorite was, "Is the doc­ 19th Century Washington Celebrations trine of state's rights as upheld by the Democrats, or that of cen­ tralization, as upheld by the Re­ publicans, the proper interpreta­ tion of the Federal constitution." Show Philopedian Intellectual Attainment Found at this time on the Soci­ ety's list of active members are Catholic Telegraph such familiar names as Gray, Jesuits took over the operation it a very jubilee for the audience. College on the 22nd b11 the McDermott, Murphy, O'Shaug­ Records XU Tradition of the old Athenaeum and re­ A beautiful original ode on the various Societies connected with nessy, Ratterman, Ryan, Zimmer, By Wayne Fehr named it St. Xavier College, · Birth-day of Wasb,ington was the institution. Cloud, and Poland. the :first Washington Day celebra­ spiritedly delivered by· Master Exercises to commence pre­ The celebration of Washing­ Variety ton's Birthday by speech tion · was held. The account is Robert Armstrong of Cincinnati; cisely at 7 o'clock p.m. The fol­ a given by The Telegraph o:f Feb­ a well-written French composi­ lowing pieces wm be spoken. An Either due to a lack of debate program is an old tradition at ruary 27, 1841: tion, Prose, by Master Henry English poem on the character­ topics or a demand for variety, Xavier, dating back to the The students of St. Xavier Barrett, of N. Orleans; and a istic virtues of Washington b31 the fallowing was once proposed: earliest days, when St. Xavier College celebrated the birthday most eloquent discourse, abound­ Andrew Francisco, member of the "Two men possess contiguouio College was located downtown of Washington with appropiate ing in bright thoughts, profound Philopedian Society. A French lots. One of these men plants a at 7th and Sycamore. honors. Several of the most di~­ reflections, apt and beauteous discourse on the gratitude which pumpkin seed in his own yard, and this springing up, the vine Old Tradition tinguished of the Alumni for illustrations and admirable moral Americans owe to the Father of Zesson:r derived from the example their Country, by Timothy O'­ creeps up and produces a pump­ Ever since 1893, Washington's religious and moral worth, and of Washingaon, by Mr. Guilmar­ Connor, member of the Philo­ kin in his neighbor's. Now o Birthday has been the date for literary attainments were invited tin, one of the Professors, closed pedian Society, lately established whom does the pumpkin belon~, the Alumni Oratorical Contest. by the patriotic President, to a the first part of the exercises. ambng the students and number­ to the man who planted it, or to The student delivering the best u ti l e dulce dinner, between Next in order came the distribu­ ing alread11 14 efficient mem­ the man on whose lot i,t is?" oration at this annual contest is wh'ich, and the dessert, Mr. tion of Medals which must have bera. In 1891 the Philopedian Soci­ awarded the Washington gold Gilmartin delivered an eloquent stirred the heart of many a fond ety celebrated its Golden Jubilee. medal. The list of winners of eulogy on the "Father of his Big Event Country." The Birth-da11 flowers parent with the purest rapture on In addition to an elaiborate ban­ this contest includes such dis­ seeing the rewards publicly con­ By 1847, the Washington Birth­ quet and public debate, a com­ tinguished people as Rev. T. Lin­ were arranged· with a Master­ day program was definitely the ferred on the talents, good con­ plete roster o:f the Society's preio­ coln Bouscaren, S.J., procurator hand. big event of the year. The Feb­ duct, and diligence of their sons. ent and former members WH general of the , ruary 25, 1847 Telegraph gives "Jubilee" The Colleige contains, at this compiled. The list numbered and Dr. Vincent Edward Smith, a glowing account o:f the great The Telegraph for February time, one hundred and fifty more than 530 names and in­ professor of philosophy at Notre day: 26, 1842 describes the following pupils, fifty of whom are in the cluded prominent men of civic Dame. year's celebration, more elaborate Classical department. It has been The Societies and students of and national influence. ·But long before the establish­ than the first: chartered at the present session St. Xavier College celebrated the The Golden Jubilee confirmed ment of the Alumni contest, stu­ There was a perfect ;am in of Our Legislature. evening of this glorious day in the educational value and si~nif­ dents and faculty of St. Xavier a glorious manner, at Washing­ the College Hall on Tuesda11 Growing Tradition icance of the Philopedian; their College were celebrating Wash­ Evening, 22nd February. Man11 ton Hall. A spirited ode by Mas­ Centennial in 1941 doubly con­ ington's Birthday with orations were unable to find places, but By 1843, the Washington Day ter T. Lonergar;-the first dis­ firmed that value. Considering th• and poems. Some interesting those who did, must have been celebration was already a tra­ course was in French, on Patrio­ evidence of 115 years, the Philo­ accounts of these celebrations of exceedingly gratified .if we ma11 dition of the growing St. Xavier tism, by Jerome Hackett-a youth pedian Society is a vital proof a century ago are given in the judge from the plaudit• with College. The February 18, 1843 of fine talents and good hope that the handful of eager studen~ yellowed pages of The Telegraph, which the 11oung speaker$ were issue o:f The Telegraph gives the for the future. Washington's who conceived it and met in the the old diocesan newspaper of cordially greeted. The members of account of that year's program: Valedfotory-the application of halls of Xavier over a century - Cincinnati. the Philo-Peckan Society did The Birthday of the immortal its principles-by E. F. Di.ckin­ ago "fo.r the purpose of establish­ First Celebration the chief honors of the Literary George Washington will be soon son-was imbued with the right ing a polemic society" really had ln 1841, the year after the and patriotic festival and made commemorated at the St. Xavier (Please turn to Page 11) a great idea.

These shots were made at the final debate dur­ debate coach of Soufilern Methodist University. ings. FOURTH PHOTO: Mr. W. Brock Qrentlinger, ing the Robert S. Marx National Invitational Debate SECOND PHOTO: Greenville debaters Ronald Greenville coach, Honorable Charles Sawyer, for­ Tournament held under the auspices of Xavier's Werner and Gary Cronkhite, together with vic­ mer Ambassador to Belgium and Secretary of Com­ Philopedian Society durini the Sprine". FIRST torious Augustana debaters Donald Flemin~ and merce under President Truman, Very Rev. Paul L. PHOTO: Rev. Vincent C. Horri1an, S.J., moderator Philip Hubbart, admire the championship trophy. O'Connor, S.J., president, and Mr. Martin J. Hol­ of the 115 year old Philopedian Society, pre~ents THIRD PHOTO: Honorable Robert S. Marx, tour­ comb, Augustana Coach are shown as they glance consolation trophy t• Mi1a Norma Jean Stanton, nament sponsor, smiles durin~ the closing proceed- over the tournament program. XAVIER UNIVERSITY NEWS, AUGUST, 1956 PAGE THREE Catalogues Reveal Early TraditiQns Of Xavier Campus Life Backward Glance Indicates dents of Old Xavier led unusual triangle! Written exams are Xavier Life Of Yesterday and rather strenuous lives. From trying, but not so trying as that. Night Classes Attract Many; The First Annual Commence­ 5 o'clock in the morning until "Every Thursday in the year," ment of St. Xavier College was 7: 30 at night they prayed, says the Catalogue, "is a day of held on Thursday, June 20, 1841. studied, recited, and listened to recreation." This day is spent by EC Opens Door To Knowledge The exercise began at 8 o'clock Moral Lectures. There was a the boarders at the Purcell man­ By Dick Weik, N eU(S Associate Editor in the morning and continued study at 5:30 a.m. and another sion, a country seat about two The Xavier University Evening Division was opened on presumably until just before at 6: 30 p.m., that even the day miles distant from the city, and Oct. 9, 1911, as the School of ·Commerce, Accounting, and (or just after) bed time. The pro­ scholars were required to attend, commanding an extensive view gram mentions no less than 18 so it was not the boarders alone of the and surround­ Finance of St. Xavier College. Classes were conducted in the numbers, the briefest of which that suffered from this rather ing country." So it seems that college lecture rooms at Seventh and Sycamore streets. must have occupied at l~t ten too ambitious schedule. . . .But the students of Old Xavier spent The new department was opened because there was a minutes. the day scholars did not have their holidays sitting on the It was customary in those days to wear frock coats and white front porch of the Plircell man­ for college students to make a trousers, and could spend more sion, looking at the river. This display at Oommencement of all than twelve and a half cents per betokens either a passionate love the knowledge they hed acquired week. of scenery or a lack of imagina­ during the preceding school Rules For All tion. term. Now, the students of Old It is all in the First Catalogue Tuiti-On St. Xavier learned a very great (1841-42): "The general age for "The terms for boarders are deal between Sept. 1, of one year admission is from 10 to 16. On $155 per session," says the Cata­ and July 1, of the next, and as entering each boarder must be logue. "Music, Drawing and a consequence the program of provided with a uniform to be Dancing form extra charges." that First Commencement liter­ worn upon public occasions: it Dancing! 0 tempora, 0 Moses! ally dribbles culture and erudi­ consists of a blue or black frock Although there is hardly a tion. For example, the exercises coat and white pantaloons. The phase of student life that this were held in five different lan­ English is the ordinary language First Catalogue does not touch guages and unless one were a of communication in all the upon, no reference is made in it skilled linguist he was bound to classes, but French and English to smoking, skipping classes, or be completely at sea at least are spoken indiscriminately dur­ African golf. We must conclude, three-fourths of the time. ing the hours of recreation. With therefore, that these pastimes Big Program regard to pocket money, it is were unkown at Old St. Xavier. But as to the 18 numbers: the wish of the President that As we have already remarked, There was m u s i c to begin no more ithan twelve and one.,. it was a curious and wonderful with. Then followed, as was to half cents a week be allowed to institution. be expected, "An Eulogy on the boarders." The St. Xavier College Library Washington, by Andrew Fran­ A "public · occasion" at Old is first mentioned in the Cata­ cisco.'' Next came a French reci­ Xavier must have been a grand logue of 1849-50, where the faot tation by Louis Ch. Smith, "Les and impressive spectacle. We can is recorded that it numbered Embarras de Paris" (we do not imagine the young gentlemen of 6000 volumes. These figures are attempt to translate); and then 10 to 16 strutting about in their italicized in order to bring homli? an original Latin Ode by Francis blue or black frock coats, each to the reader the true stupen­ Eckstein. Verily, "learned and of them jingling twelve and a dousness of such a bibliotheca. laborious" men were these col­ half cents in the pockets of his Through the Catalogue, the lege students of days gone by! white pantaloons, while he de­ Library's slow but steady growth After some more music Joseph can be traced from year to year. liveTed original Greek discourses For years, Cineinnatians have availed themselves of the oppor­ Darr delivered an extract from or spoke French and English in­ In 1858 it contained 7000 volumes, tunities offered by the Evening College. Many such groups have Childe Harold (about the deep in 1864 10,000; and thus decade discriminately. Really, the splen­ passed through the historic gates that open to Xavier education. and dark blue Ocean, we sus­ dor and erudition of these pre­ by decade, it grew until the present total of 110,000 volumes pect.) And then, in swift suc­ decessors must make us present­ demand for a higher and a more was reached. cession, came an original Ger­ day students of Xavier seem dull adequate sy.stem of education sented an average of 45 per cent In 1854, owing to the College's man oration, "Der Geist deutscher adapted to the requirements of of the students attending the very limited campus space in Freiheit," by Philip Rickert, and modQrn commercial life. It aimed evening college. the heart of a growing city, the an original French debate, the toward education of men in the When the day college was dormitories were abolished. St. chairman of which was John methods of modern-day business moved to Evanston in 1919 the Xavier became a day school and Goodin, P. S. ("P. S." a footnote and thereby to add to their effi­ evening college remained at Sev­ remained such till the construc­ explains, "stands for member of ciency, keeping in mind, how­ enth and Sycamore streets. In tion of Elet Hall in 1924. the Philopedian Society.") ever, the eternal principles of Aug., 1935, the E.vening Division Next some more music and a Dorm Days truth and honesty as laid down moved to its present location. recitation of Campbell's "Battle To judge by the Catalogue it in sound ethics and general doc­ There are various student ac­ of Warsaw," by Robert Arm­ would seem that with the pass­ trines of political economy which tivities and student organizations strong. ing of the dormitories there dis­ are based on correct ethics. in the Xavier University Evening Greek Discourse appeared also most of those During the 1911-12 academic Division for the purpose of And now there came the quaint and curious customs that year 100 students, both regular prompting religion, social, aca­ crowning wonder, "An Original make .the Old St. Xavier such a and special, enrolled at the new demic, and cultural relations Greek Discourse, "Hyper tes fascinating study. No more is School of Commerce, Accounting, among the student body: the Glosses hellenikes," by Timothy heard for example, of frock and Finance, and all of these Social Club, the Economics Club, O'Conner, P. S. ". . . .We can coats or dancing or public exam­ men maintained their interest the Family Relations Club, Kappa imagine a presen1:-day college inations, but there are occasional throughout . the session. In the Sigma Mu, the Xavier Account­ student memorizing eight or ten reminders of the former state of following years the number of ing Society, the Xavier Univer­ lines 'Of Homer under stress of affairs, as when the Catalogue students increased considerably. sity Alumnae Association, and dire necessity; but-an original of 1858-59 informs us with fine The first class to graduate the Xavier television program. · Greek discourse! . As Gladstone humor that "The College opens from the new department was All of these organizations and quaintly remarked, it takes the every morning at 6: 30 a.m. Stu­ the class of 1914. The members of activities are under the super­ chromo. dents who choose to come before that class-12 in number-re­ vision of the Dean. But the end of this was not yet. this time 'must begin to study ceived a degree of Bachelor of The Evening Division also has After the "Glosses Hellenikes" as soon as they arrive." Commercial Science. Several of a system of awards for deserving came an Original Ode on Erin­ Day-Hop Sins them later took the examinations students: the Kappa Sigma Mu direct forerunner, we suppose, of In the Catalogue of the board­ of the Board of Accountancy. Scholarship Award; the J. D. the contemporary MacSweeney­ ing school days there was no A Department of Journalism Cloud Accounting Award; the De Valera-Irish Republic Com­ mention of the sin of skipping was added to the Evening Divi­ John T. Nolan Jr. Catholic Liter­ mencement Orations; and next classes. It is significant that in sion in 1913, a Department of ature Award; the Xavier Univer­ an original Latin discourse, "Vis This is really a college boy a year or two ·after the abolish­ Advertising in 1914, and a De­ sity Alumnae Association Schol­ Eloquenciae," which must have ing of the dormitories there partment of Sociology in 1918. arship Award; the Accounting entranced that part of the aud­ in the year 1850. appeared a lengthy paragraph, These new departments were Award of the Cincinnati Chapter, ience that knew its Latin. By and colorless. How many of us threatening habitual offenders eventually incorporated into the American Society of Women Ac­ this time, no doubt, the sun was in this respect with "effective Dep<':lrtment of Commerce and countants; the Cincinnati Indus­ beginning to set. own a frock coat? How many of us could quote Homer and Racine, correction, and even dismissal, Finance, and the Department of trial Advertisers Award; the Cin­ cinnati Chapter, National Associ­ Candles Burn or get along on twelve and a half if deemed necessary." In fine, it Liberal Arts. ation of Cost Accountants Manu­ Some more music was followed cents a week? may readily be seen that with The Depar,tment of Liberal' by a formal debate on the Influ­ every passing year since 1854 Arts of the Evening Division script Writing Award. ence of the Theatre, and a few Finals the Old Xavier underwent many grew steadily until now it is The Xavier Evening Division is other features rthat aren't im­ Most ·prominent among the changes. equal in size to the Department an integral part of Xavier. The portant. Then finally after more "public -0ccasions" referred to in The years that followed were of Commerce and Finance. standards of academic achieve­ music, came the Distribution of the Catalogue was the Final filled with toil and hardship. The In 1918 the Evening Division ment are equivalent in method, Premiums (by candle light) and Examination, which was con­ College had to fight for its very was made co-educational. This character, and credit value to that was all. To the sound of ducted orally in the school audi­ life with many foes, among them action was prompted by an in­ those of the day school. The lib­ yet more music the audience filed torium before a large and dis­ the deadly cholera epidemic and creasing demand from the com­ eral arts courses and instructors from the hall and went home in tinguished audience. Imagine, if the savage intolerance of Know­ mercial world for trained women are, with few exceptions, the the dark to its supper. you can, the sensation of a stu­ N othing movement. Then came to fill the places of experienced same as those for the day school. Quite crowded and eventful, dent compelled to struid upon the perhaps the severest trial of all, business men who had gone into Business, professional, technical, all in all, was that First Com­ stage before a sea of upturned the Civil War; but at its close the armed forces during World literary, and cultural training are mencement day, delightful too, faces and recite the principal in 1865 we find St. Xavier War I. During the following integrated in a well-balanced and instructive, but just a trifle parts of "treko" or quote the flourishing with an enrollment years the enrollment of women program of general education in ·wearing. theorem about the square of the now of 220 pupils and a faculty increased in number, and for the harmony with the Catholic phi­ It would appear that the stu- hypoteneuse of a right-angled of 17 members. past 20 years they have repre- losophy of life. PAGE FOUR XAVIER UNIVERSITY NEWS, AUGUST, 1956 XAVIER UNIVERSITY Pablfshed weekly durin~ the school year except during vacation periods by Xavier University, Hamilton County, Evanston, Cincinnati 7, Ohio, $1.50 per year. Jtegular issues entered as second class matter Oct. 4, 1946 at the Post Office at Cincinnati Ohio under the Act of March 3, 1879. This is an Early Athenaeum Surroundings Recalled extra edition dist~ibute'd to the Alumni via. _fourth class mall by the !25th Anniversary Committee. By Rev. Thomas P. Conry, S.J., Associate Professor of History I Member When Bishop Fenwick inaugurated the Athenaeum, and this too must have entered Jesuit College Newspaper Ass'n. October 17, 1831, he was pioneering in the field of Catholic the lives of early Xavier stu­ Associated Collegiate Press higher education. The Athenaeum was the first Catholic dents. In 1832 a flood of the Ohio River caused the water to rise The Catholic School Press Ass'n. college in Ohio, the second in the West, and the fourth in the to a level of sixty-four feet, Intercollegiate College Press . Cincinnati has had a for only inundating thirty-five blocks Ohio College Newspaper Ass'n. twelve years, a bishop and dio­ along the waterfront up to Pearl cese since 1821. Robert E. Manley, Editor street. There was no telegraph (The views and opinions expressed by various feature writers, columnists, and The Athenaeu , which became or railroad to bring advance editorial writers do not necessarily express the official ~pini«;>n of the Xavier St. Xavier College in 1840, would warning of the river's rise; suf­ University administration. Matters of official nature appearing m The News will be so designated.) probably have been impossible fering and loss were aggravated with the meager resources of the by the lack of preparation. EXECUTIVE COMMI'ITEE relatively few Catholks in Cin­ Intellectually and culturally, 125th Anniversary Year Celebration cinnati at that time. Actually it the 1830's were a restless decade was made possible by funds col­ rocked by radical new ideas and Mr. George Selzer, Chairman lected in Europe. In 1824, Bishop Mr. Edward P. V onderHaar dynamic issues which early Xav­ Fenwick crossed the Atlantic in ier men must have pondered Dr. Raymond F. McCoy quest of priests and money fOr Dr. Charles F. Wheeler thoughtfully. We may picture his new diocese. On this trip he them arguing the merits of the Rev. Patrick H. Ratterman, S.J. obtained the services of Fr. Fred­ Dr.. Joseph Link, Jr., Executive Secretary Bank of the United States as erick Rese in Rome and also re­ they read the speeches of An­ ceived some help from the re­ drew Jackson and the editorials What Hasn't Changed cently established Society for the of Moses Dawson in the Cincin­ Propagation of the Faith in ur University has witnessed many changes through tJ:e nati Advertiser denouning this France. From the effective plan institution which had a branch O years. Xavier, itself has undergon~. severa~ c~anges m on which this Society was or­ size and facilities, as have the commumties which it serves. here until 1836. In 1833 Lane ganized-members each contrib­ Seminairy opened its doors in Xavier has witnessed the growth of skyscrape~s, the ter:ror uting a penny a week and con­ of the atom bomb, the wonder of modern economic product10n, Ohio Historian nearby Walnut Hills and was veniently grouped into decades soon making is memorable con­ and the horrors of several wars. and hundreds-Bishop Fenwick Change seems to be one of the most important character-. con;trol. At Miami, when Ben­ triibution to the cause of anti­ and Fr. Rese derived the idea of jamin Harrison was a student slavery. Did Xavier students istics of our unstable world. But, the heritage of ~hristian another similar association in civilization as it is found in the classrooms and ll:brary of there in the 1850's, students were have any counterpart of the Austria whkh would be primar­ required to be in their rooms eighteen-night debate over slav­ Xavier, off~rs to young men an~ women a stabilizing influence ily for aiding German Catholics every evening from 7 :00 p.m., which permits optimism in a time of trouble. . ery that aroused the Lane Sem­ in the United States. Dynastic until the chapel exercises which inarians during the winter of In spite of all the changes ~hat hav~ ta~e~ place. i~ and rivalries and loyalties, such as around Xavier our University still holds its origmal prmciples. began the following morning at 1833-4? Did they follow the mob the Habsburgs versus the Bour­ 7 :30. When McGuffey was pres­ in 1'836 that destroyed the aboli­ Xavier has not changed its dedicatioi:i to the dev~lopment of bons, dictated the channelling of the souls, the intellects, and the bodies of .American youths. ident of Ohio University he met tionist press of James G. Birney contributions along national lines. his faculty every morning at a few blocks from their school? Xavier still regards truth as the proper obJect o~ the human Thus, at the instigation of Fr. five o'clock, read them selections Did they accompany their head, intellect. These things have not changed, nor w1~l they ever change as long as our University continues to exist. Rese, the Leopoldine Foundation from the Bible in Hebrew, and Bishop Purcell, as he entered the was established in Vienna in proceeded to meet his first class Baptist church a few doors down 1828. In 1830 this organization at six. Sycamore street, January 13, Philopedian Tradition . contributed twenty thousand dol­ The city of Cincinnati in the 1837, to do forensic battle for lars to the Diocese of Cincinnati, eight days with Rev. Alexander "Qn January 19, 1841, several"' students of the XB;vier 1830's was itself no frontier s:. and it was this money which town but a metropolitan center Camppell? These and many other College, appreciating the advantages of a pole~ic soci~ty, enabled Bishop Fenwick to estab­ of industry, .commerce, and cul­ questions arise as we study the held a consultation in which they resolved that immediate lish the Athenaeum in 1831. As early environment of Xavier. - measures should be taken for the establishment of such an ture. City directories of 1830 and Xavier students of succeeding 1836 list three banks, of which Generally, the Athenaeum and institution," reports an early record. They delegated John generations contribute to their Goodin and Timothy O'Connor, both of the class of. 1842, to one was a branch of the Second St. Xavier College were favor­ weekly mission collections, there­ Bank of the United States; five approach President John A. Elet, S.J., ~ho authorize~ the ably received outside as well as fore, they may well regard their breweries; eight foundries; nine formation of the Philopedian Society which, through ~nter­ within Catholic circles in Cin­ contributions as a manner of re­ other factories and mills; nine cinnati. The large number of collegiate debate competition, currently represents the mtel­ paying a debt incurred a century lectual life of Xavier on college campuses across the country. hotels; two public high schools­ non-Catholic enrolled as students and a quarter ago when similar Woodward and Hughes; nine This organization was intended to ~oster the speech art.s, gives evidence of this favorable weekly offerings of generous public elementary schools; eleven literary composition, and a sound. analyt~cal approach to public reception. Yet this was an age of Austrians made possible the private schools; and many problems. The Society has remamed alive throug? the .Y~ars. high religious tension, and it was Athenaeum. learned and benevolent societies. Its members are still characterized by th~ c~eative s~irit of inevitable th a t this tension What were the dominant fea­ The concentration of meat­ productivity which brought abou~ the Society s ~ormation. should occasionally involve the tures of the Cincinnati and Ohio packing here which merited the · Recently, in this 125th anmver~ary yea~, i.ts members first Catholic college to appear scene on which the college ap­ nickname of "Porkopolis" began administered the Robert S. Marx Nat10nal Invitational Deba~e in the area. Thus, when James Tournament which placed. Xavier oi: an unex.celled lev.el i;i peared in 1831? The period of about 1833 and reached its height G. Birney ran for the presidency debate circles. This was a history makmg event m the Society s Ohio history from 1825 to 185.0 in the 1840's. During the latter in 1844 on the Liberty Party has best been described as "The decade there were sixty-two ticket, the older parties thought Passing of the Frontier." It was life. The Philopedian. Society has an old and i·ive 1 y t ra d't'i ion slaughterhouses employing about to injure his candidacy by ac­ an era of very rapid growth in fourteen hundred men w h o which gives its members a solid foundation on which to enlar~e cusing him of having two sons population, pervaded, ex c e p t butchered and packed approxi­ the field of opportunities for Xavier men to. develop tl:~eir at Xavier. Archbishop Bedini"s during the depression of 1837, mately 200,000 hogs per year. talents. This Anniversary Issue of The News gives the Phi~o­ visit to the Queen City near the pedian Society special recognition, not solely because. of. its by high optimism. :Flrom 1830 By 1848 the number of hogs end of 1853 was met by a riotous to 1850 the State of Ohio in­ processed annually in the "Pork­ position as the .oldest s~udent .association, ~~t because it .hves demonstrations against the papal up to its tradition and is makmg new trad1t10ns to set higher creased from 937,000 to nearly opolis" had increased to nearly representative in the course of goals for Philopedians a hundred years hence. two million in population. Dur­ a half million, and Cincinnati which one of the rioters hurled ing the same years the city of was probaibly the packing cen­ a rock through the window of Cincinati grew from tewnty-six ter of the world. It was almost the rector's room. Cincinnatians thousand to one hundred and fif­ equally prominent in distilling had been warned when the Jes. teen thousand people. and brewing; it ranked high also uits assumed direction of the 8't. ·Xuutrr fnr .Ayr! There were already seven in the construction of river college in 1840 that a brood of Let's sing a song of joy and praise in accents strong and clear, colleges under State or denomi­ boats, cotton gins, carriages, and vipers was nestling in their :midst. A song of old St. Xavier, our· Alma Mater dear. national aupkes in Ohio by 1831. in the manufac.ture of furniture. As we look back one hundred The school that Bishop Fenwick built shall to the world proclaim All of these schools, even State Athenaem students, therefore, and twenty-five years to survey The glory of his work and bless the mem'ry of his name. institutions, were strongly re­ must have found themselves in the milieu in which our fellow­ Chorus: ligious in administration and a boom.town eviromnent, brist­ students then lived, we find a Sing the song and sing it loud and long, curriculum. William Holmes Mc­ ling with activity and offering rapidly growing city and state, Let it be our pledge today, Guffey had arrived at Oxford, a variety of economic opportu­ teeming with activity, enjoying Our Alma Mater proud and strong, Ohio, in 1856, to teach the clas­ nity. The canal from Middletown economic prosperity, possessed St. Xavier for aye! sics and moral philosophy at had been built to the city by of bbundless optimism that was Sing the song and sing it loud and long, Miami until 1836 when he came 1827, and in 1834 the locks were undismayed by passing failure Let it be our pledge today, to Cincinnati to become presi­ completed permitting boats to go and tragedy. We discover a com­ Our Alma Mater proud and strong, dent of Cincinnati College and directly from the canal into the munity with many cultural at­ St. Xavier for aye! publish his famous readers, the Ohio River. Turnpikes led in tainments and a people striving first of which appeared here in The Athenaeum was the name in days of long ago, many directi~ns, the Little Miami determinedly, sometimes boister­ 1836. Nearly all of the early pres­ Railroad was completed to The light of classic culture shed thereon its warmest glow, ously, to solve its social prO!blems. idents of State as well as priv­ The love of beauty and .of art, the pride in home and state, Springfield in 1848, steamboats There is much that we know ately administered colleges were continually thronged the river They made our Alma Mater so incomparably great. about this early nineteenth cen­ clergymen. Thus McGuffey, or­ Chorus. front for more than a mile load­ tury scene; there are other ques­ dained a Presbyterian minister ing and unloading passenger and And as it was in days gone by, so it shall ever be, tions we would like to ask our in 1830, was president of Cincin­ freight. When Harriet Martineau Oh think what old St. Xavier has been to you and me. · fellow students of a century and nati Colege from 1836 until it visited the Queen City in 1835 Th~ugh years may come and years may go, St. Xavier will stand a quarter ago. Their answers failed in 1839 and then headed she expressed the opinion that Aloft in all her state and strengih, the pride of all the la~. could give us valuable historical Ohio University. Cincinnati, rather than Washing­ Chorus. information. Doubtless, too, they Compulsory chapel exercises ton, should be the capital. would speak to us in more famil­ Lyric sung in Xavier halls before first World War echoes Xavier were a standard feature of the Like other cities, Cincinnati iar terms of the experience and spirit through the decades. daily curriculum of these early had her growing pains-'her heritage we share with them at colleges, even those under State tragedy as well as her glamor- Xavier. -PAGE FIVE XAVIElt UNIVERSITY NEWS1 AUGUST, 1'56 .Graduate · Division Completes Decade of Progress

Xavier Division Serves Community Needs; g u ages, chemistry, education, the division. However, it has the largest Mu­ Trains Scholars, Teachers, Business Executives English, and mathematics. Two Dr. Thomas J. Hailstones, di­ ter of Business Administration courses were then offered to the rector of business programs, feeli degree program among the Je11- Early in its history St. Xavier College began to offer pro­ 69 students in the department of that the MBA program accommo­ uit schools. grams leading to master's degrees. The formal establishment education. In 1956 the 300 stu­ dates those who desire an ad­ Commenting on the possibili­ ties of granting doctorates, Dr. of a Graduate Division did not take place until 1946, in spite dents in the educational depart­ vanced degree, but do not haye ment have a choice amonll! 21 dif­ the time to attend the school full McCoy stated that there will be of the previous existence of graduate programs. ferent courses. time. no thouiht of it for at least fiye The summer session this year will mark the tenth anni­ Graduate departments in hia­ Xavier's Graduate School ranks years. At present, Xavier Uni­ versary of Xavier's Graduate Division. Dr. Raymop.d F. McCoy tory, philosophy, and business ad­ seventh in size among the 28 Jes­ versity is i.atisfying the needs of has been Dean of the Graduate School since its foundation ministration have been added to uit colleies emd univenities. the community it serves. in1946. ------~------..------~------• Dr. McCoy has been active in national and international edu­ cational circles. He served as Ad- THE XAVIERIAN NEWS CINCINNATI, OHIO A paper published and devoted to the interesta of· St. Xavier College of Commerce, Finance and Journalism.

VOL. I. NO. I. DECEMBER l915 19RICE TEN CENTS FEATURE WRITING MEDAL TO CLASS Second Lecture by Mr. Koch IN JOURNALISM The second lecture on "Feature Writing," by Mr. Felix Koch, was de· Mr. Joseph Berning bas donated a livered before the student body, Wed­ Grad School Chief gold medal that will be awarded to the nesday evening, November 17th. Mr. student securing the highest per cent ministrative Assistant of the Cin­ Koch's lectures contain a world of in­ in the final examination. Prizes, do­ cinnati Public Schools for two formation to those who follow his nated by friends of the College in the years. He is a member of the words. past, have always created great compe­ Plans and Problems Committee of the Catholic Educational Asso­ The ends of the earth limit the fteld tition among the students, and no doubt ciation and of the Catholic Asso­ of the feature writer. In the language the young journalists will put up a good ciation for International Peace. of the day, he is at home wherever he .fight among themselves to win th~ At both Paris, France and at hangs up his hat. A co!mopolite he ia, trophy. The young man that wm Lake Success, New York, Dr. Mc­ or, better still, ·a univerealite; a tru• carry it away on commencement ni1ht Coy represented the United citizen of the world. THE RHYME OF THE CHRISTMAS will have a token of recognition to ie States at international UNESCO A real "nose for news" can be de· TREE. proud of, and one to be looked upea parleys. veloped at home. Thi! fact Mr. Koch Flossy curls in the trundle bed, in future years with appreciation. Early Enrollment clearly illustrated by numerous little Kissed good-ni&ht and little prayers The Graduate Division for the incidents occurring many times durin1 !aid. summer session of 1946 had an the day which only the genuine feature enrollment ot 135 itudents. Of Christmas Eve and the wind was cold, FRIDAY NIGHT theH student• 122 were religious man appears to grasp. The "stories" And the sky was covered with blue and :iiiJlter1, four were priests and in the Gwynne Building or the Swiss · gold. LAW CLASS }trothers, Qnd nine were lay Drugstore, are interesting to the citi· The children, as cood a1 cood ca• be, people. In contrast there are 401 zens and people who pass it daily, to Had hung up their stockings in ••rry students registered in all the say nothing of those throughout the glee. Professor Fitzpatrick8ecome1 eraduate departments for the country. How many people having And they nid: "In the winter of long :summer of 1956. Of these stu­ ofilces or employed in the Gwynne ago, Reminiscent dents there are 1~5 religious sis­ Building know there is more glass to ten, 30 priests and brothers, 76 When the fields were covered with ice seminarians, and 150 lay students. the square foot in that building than and snow, "~peaking of tricks in all trades," In 1946 the religious sisters any other similar building in the The Christ Child came in the stable said Mr. Fit1patrick, last Friday eve4 made up 90 per cent of the sum­ world? The secret ot success in this cold,'' ning, to his class, reminds me of Ute mer session enrollment as com­ field is to remember that what is in­ And then, with their joyous lips they, time that another lawyer and myself pared to 36 per cent of the sum­ ~eresting to us is surely interestine to told endeavored to get a confession from a mer term enrollment in 1956. Al­ many others. How Angels sang in the blue-gold ·sky, colored lad, accused of holding up a though the percentage enrollment Mr. Koch's lectures are so animated of the religious sisters decreased "Glory to God, forever on high;,, white boy, taking fifteen cents and va­ over the ten year period, the with thought and experience! that it .is How the shepherds heard, as in the rious little trinkets which a small boy percentage enrollment of the lay with regret we learn that there i1 to field is apt to have in his pockets. people increased from 7 per cent be but one more lecture to hi1 1erie1. They watched their nocks and the oxen Despite all evidence of guilt, the col­ to 37 per cent in 1956. kneeled, ored lad maintained his plea of inno· From Many Landa When the Christ Child came in the cence and not guilty, so strongly that THIRD LECTURE ON FEATUPlE Over 700 graduates were en­ winter's cold, it was necessary to resort to some sub­ WRITING. rolled in the sprin1: semester of And the sky was covered with blue and terfuge. My partner in the case walks 1955-56.. Of those enrolled, ap­ The third and last lecture o! a series gold. up to me and in a voice loud enou.ch proximately ~O per cent were by Mr. Felix J. Koch on Feature Writ­ Bye and bye, as the hours passed for the accused to hear, says, "They non-Oatholics. ing was given Wednesday evening, No· And the moon on the snow strance Enrollment in the graduate took fifteen cents away from him, but division, while largely drawn vember 24th. Mr. Koch told the shadows cast, the robber overlooked fifteen dollars from the Cincinnati area, has students of many subjects they might The bright eyes closed and the heads in another pocket." "Wat's dat!" come from all parts of the United write upon, also how to gather data to of fioss broke in the colored fellow. "Did dat States and from Germany, India, put it in readable form. The l!ltudentl!I Were dreaminc of dear old Santa boy have fifteen dollahs in bis pocket!" Japan, Canada, and South Amer­ asked many questions, which the Claus. ica. speaker answered without hesitati9n. Ble!sings this night on each curly QUITE CLEAR, COUSIN BULL! ,/ In 1946 the Graduate School had departments in classical Ian- A number of questions asked indi· head, cated that possibly St. Xavier will Tucked away in the trundle bed! "The Leyland liner Armenian was "Madonna In Art" turn out writers who will soon be trav­ Happy the dreams their fancies weave torpedoed and sunk on June 28 by a. eling the road that leads to fame. The When the Christ Child comes on German submarine. The vessel waa Dante Club Topic three lectures dealt with feature writ­ Christmas Eve! carrying 1,414 mules, which were con· THE NEWS-Mar. 1, 1940- ing in' all its phasel!I, taking in the prob­ And this be the rhyme ot the Christ· signed for the port of A vonmouth. A Presenting their second lecture lems and difficulties the young writer mas Tree: large number of the missing are Amer­ of the year, the Dante Club will is sure to meet. They were instructive "The Christ Child's love from Galilee." ican citizens."-London Shipbuilding offer "The Madonna in Art" to from be·gtnning to end. L. J.B. and Shipping Record. the student body of St. Joseph Academy, in Mount Washington, The News celebrated its 40th anniversary of publication News has its editorial offices in the Union Building where its I Tuesday. Members who will give during the last academic year. Above is an enlarged reprint 45 staff members produce a weekly report of events in all the lecture are Robert G. Kissel, of the first page of the initial issue of The News. Thii paper divisions of the Univenity. The Athenaeum is now exclusively arts junior, and Jamei L. Cent­ was founded as an organ of the Col1e1e of Commerce, Finance, a literary magazine. The News is an "All American Paper," ner and James W. Hengelbrok, and Journalism in 1915. Two years earlier, The Athenaeum that i1, it :neceived rt.Re hi1he1tt postaible rating from the AslO· arts sophomores. ••:an to reflect life in tk• Celle1e of Likral Arts. Toiay, Tile ciatei Cellefiate ftrNI at t1te la1t juclci•f· PAGE SIX XAVIER UNIVERSITY NEWS, AUGUST, 1956 Baseball Ranks As X's Football Marked With Stunning Upsets One Of Xavier's Oldest Endeavors Ge'orgetown, Arizona State, Cincinnati, down by as many as three touch­ Bowl bid. Since baseball began here at Boston College All Fall Before Mighty Muskies downs. This past season saw the Mus­ Xavier, there have been many By Mel Brennan, News Sports Editor Only Undefeated Season kies win seven of nine games. thrilling games both at home and Xavier's football progress has been that of an uneven line, The year 1951 saw the Mus­ Only the Miami Redskins and the away. It is true that there have first reaching that of an undefeated season, or second, drop­ kies ring up their only unde­ Quantico Marines were able to been times when Xavier did not !eated season, with only a 7-7 post wins over X. This year also have a baseball team, but when ping into the ranks of the much-trampled on. Although Xavier tie with the Camp Lejeune Mar­ the Catholic Coach-of-the-Year there were teams, tliey were good started football before 1918, a full-sized schedule wasn't begun ines marring an otherwise perfect Award was bestowed upon Xav­ teams; iOmetimes very good until that year. A four won, one lost, and one tie was compiled record. This was the last year ier's first-year coach, Harry teams. for the '18 record, one of the best until the past season that saw "Mick" Connolly. One such · very good team was records percentage-wise in the worthy win prestige-wise." the Musketeers posting a win­ Next year will be another year. the unbeaten team of '25. The school's history. Xavier fell into the ranks of ning season. Although the '54 What the Muskies will do, no one coach of this team was Larry The year 1919 saw Xavier run the also-ran until 1949, when the team was no exception, they did knows. But, one thing is evident: Kopf, former shortstop on the up the biggest score any team Muskies compiled a record of make the headlines all over the the team will have to produce 1919 Redleg team which, inci­ has ever run up on an opponent. nine wins against one loss. This country, when they tripped the some great wins fo estaiblish dentally, was a series team. Playing Fort Thomas, the Mus­ team was the only Xavier squad Boston College Eagles 19-14 in themselves over teams in the Catcher for this team was Jimmy kies scored 121 points while to ever represent the school in a one of the major upsets of that past, teams that have endeared Boyle who went right from col­ holding the Fort scoreless. Also bowl game. They whipped Ari­ campaign. The loss eliminated themselves in the hearts o:f Mus­ lege to the New York Giants. in that year, the Musketeers zona ·State 33-21 after being the Eagles from a possible Sugar keteer fans elsewhere. George "yhts" Reynolds was at were handed one of their worst first .base; Harry Albers was at defeats, 57-0 by little Centre. second; Tom Musio was the short stop; and Dick Bray held down Continue Winning the "hot corner." Mark Schmidt Xavier continued to have good played left field; Hub Rapp, cen­ teams, never losing more than ter, and Johnny Phelan, riiht. two games, until the '23 season. Pitcher on this squad was Joe That year, the Muskies split Kelly. even in eight games. The next Baseball became fairly prom­ year was a sad one for the Mus­ inent at Xavier when Ned Wulk keteers. They were forced to became head coach in 1948. Some post o:q.e of their worst records, of the players who went to the 2-5-1, against such great Mid­ majors from this era were Leo western teams as Wittenberg, Groeschen, Bob Schneider, Don Haskell, and Maryville. Since Ruberg, and Tom St. John. When then, these teams have fallen St. John returns from the army, back into the realms of the un­ he may play with the Redlegs. known, but during the '20's, they Some prominent players who were powerhouses. played under Coach Wulk were The year 1925 saw the Muske­ Dick Berning, Jackie Hahn, Ber­ ,teer fortune again rise. From that nie Roeckers, Bill Donovan, Ed year until 1932, the Muskies Bolger, Bob George, Dan Way­ never had a losing season, win­ man, Bob Morris, Don Ruberg, ning 45 while losing only 17. The Ron Brickner, Tom Coyne, and '26, '27, and '28 squads posted Hank Schmidt. One of Coach three of the best won-loss records Wulk's best games was the 5-2 in the schopl's history. beating of Sandy Koufax, of Upset Georgetown Dodger fame, when he played for U.C. It was the only loss of San­ Xavier had so-so teams until dy's college career. The winnin~ 19~1, sometimes having a win­ pitcher was a lanky Kentuckian nini season, and other times named Hank Schmidt. This year having a losing one. The '41 squad marks the end of Ned Wulk'i lost only one game, their biggest reign as head baseball coach 8.t eame being a 14-6 upset win Xavier. He will be followed by over a highly-confident George­ one of his former charges, Don town, D.C. team, 14-6. "This vic­ Ruberg, the 1951 captain. Don Pictured above are members, coaches, and scenes from the 1949-50-51 football era, one of Xavier's tory," says Al Stephans, X's Ath­ will inherit a team with pretty letic Director, "is our most note- greatest. It was thG '49 team that brought Xavier its only Bowl championship. good possibilities. JOE MEYER TELLS OF FOOTBALL'S PROGRESS Bowlers In Third First Coach Tells How Xavier Football Has Year Of Existence. sport he is watching. Weathered Storms Of TV, Big Money, Few Fans Concerning the question of Fieldhouse Donor The third time was the charm, By Bob Queenan subsidizing athletes, he expressed as the Bowling Club concluded Prominent Figure a banner third year of existence. Has any change, good or bad, come over football, particu­ the opinion that the players are certainly entitled to room, board, Mr. Walter S. Schmidt, class of There were many hi~hpoints, larly football here at Xavier? To obtain the answer to this and tuition and that scholarships 1905, was one of the school's many accomplishments and such and many other questions, The News questioned Mr. Joe are good. He said that athletes outstanding football players. "I firsts as the excursion to Detroit Meyer, Xavier's first football coach. Mr. Meyer proved quite bring money into a school and was a quarterback, but I played !or the Intercollegiate, the addi­ capable and willing to supply us with the necessary infor­ should receive at least this much every position except center," he tion of a moderator, and the :for­ for the work they put forth. said. "We didn't have too many mation of a treasury. And three mation. From this interview we short years ago, organized bowl­ it had definitely helped the players in those days; if a player learned that the football, espe­ He felt that the spirit, desire, ing was only a dream in the game. He pointed out that it got hurt we were in troUJble," cially here at Xavier, has changed and will to win hasn't· changed minds of a few. has made :football less expensive he continued. "I sometimes in some ways :for the better, at Xavier as far as the players In that inaugural season, the :for private schools which do not played fullback because I was a in other ways for the worse, while are conc"erned. He said that the embryonic stage of its life, at­ receive state aid, that it cuts pretty good punter," he related. in many ways it hasn't changed majority of a team's spirit tendance was imperfect and c<>m­ down on scholarship expenses Captain of the team in his sen­ at all. depends on the coach and that peti ti on was only a word infre­ and equipment costs, and that ior year, he also starred as a 1 Mr. Meyer pointed out that it spirit alone can still account for quently used with its mention. the time it takes to play the game pitcher on the baseball team. is safer as well as easier for a hand. Mr. Meyer had this ques­ That primal year a pair of teams, has been shortened considerably. A Legion of Honor winner in boy to play the game of football tion to ask of Xavier and its the Stalag 17 senior foursome As far as its adding to injuries, 1903, he cited his first college today. He said that one of the alumni. He said, ''With such a and the Windy City Four-a he maintains that i:f a player is game against Earlham as hii main reasons for the increase in large student body at Xavier freshmen crew, battled !or tirst in good condition, he will not be biggest thrill in sports as a safety is the improvement in the University, I can't understand place as though it really meant seriously injured. player. "Herb 1Davis was one of design and material of the uni­ why Xavier's football crowds something. the ibest offensive backs I ever forms and the protective equip­ Regarding the effect of tele­ aren't larger." He pointed out In this parent year of existence, saw," he stated. Mr. Davis is ment which the players wear. vision on the football games of that when he first began coach­ the new-found enthusiasm has now Chairman of the Public Another thing which Mr. Meyer today, he feels that like radio, ing here at Xavier there were made itself known in many forms. Recreation Commission of Cin­ couldn't stress too much was the the difficulties which are prom­ seventy-six students in the The race for league leadership cinnati. He also named teammate importance in the improvements inent now will eventually be school. Now there are over fif­ was not merely confined to two "Hub" Rapp as one of the best of the playing fields of today. ironed out. Mr. Meyer reminded teen hundred students at Xavier, teams as in previous years, but, lineman to play !or Xavier. He said that a good, well kept, us that as far as the difficulties, and he can't see why Xavier's at one time or another, five out grass covered field is one of the which arise because of sponsors, football crowds haven't grown In 1928, he donated to Xavier of the six teams have led the most important factors in keep­ go, it might be well to remem­ in relative proportion. He also its present fieldhouse in honor circuit. And even though in the ing injuries down to a minimum. ber that in the early days of said that since there are more of his ;parents. Mr. Schmidt final week the race had found Lastly, in regard to safety, he radio the schools were required alumni, who should be exert­ is Honorary Chairman of the all but two of the five eliminated expressed the opinion that top to pay for the broadcasting of ing their influence in behalf of Board of Advisors and a staunch from top contention, there was physical condition will help to atl?.letic contests. Mr. Meyer the school, there should be a member of the Alumni. He also still evident battles for the "first offset, if not help to avoid com­ favors the televising of the var­ marked increase in game atten­ served as Chairman of the Ath­ division." It is this needed com­ pletely many unnecessary in­ ious Bowl Games, but he pointed dance. letic Council :for 20 years. petition, a necessary motive for juries. out that you don't see every­ He pointed out that Xaiver is all contests-professional or ama­ When e. s k e d whether he thing when you watch. a tele­ receiving more and better play­ ier. He said that with all these teur-, that has sounded a key­ thought the return of "one pla­ viSed game and that personal ers, and better coaches. He also aids to the bettering of the eame, note for success. It.I lack re­ toon football" has helped or hurt attendance is much more to the said that there is a better brand it's a :thame that football atten­ sounded the absence o:f proaperity the game, he said that he thought fans advantaie no matter what of football bein{i! played at Xav- dance iln't whd it should be. in paet 1euons. XAVIElt UNIVERS.ITY NEWS, AUGUST, 1956 PAGE SEVEN Musketeers Have Varied Career Basketballers Post Winning Margin Over of Chicago. Crowe remained at teamed ,up .with Dave Piontek keteers eliminated St. Louis in Wide Variety Of Competition In 29 Years Of Play Xavier until the war years when to form Xavier's "Mr. Inside and startling fashion, but fell to Day­ By Jack Cherry the sport was abandoned and Mr: Outside" combination, the ton for :the tl;lird time of the Xavier University basketball history had its origin in the had an overall record of 97 wins school's greatest one-two scoring season, losing in the final seconds and 69 defeats. duet. after all, but sending the Flyers year 1927 when the Musketeers initiated basketball on the After the war Xavier returned The year 1955-56 can be termed back .~·;!1 'l " ft~;~ during the holdays of that '53-54 Xavier's power finally got roll­ ing 250 pounds. To help him, they The scene has changed a little since those first days when season. , ing, and when the final gun also had a small man by the name we wore beanies to night games in the cool late summer air In 1954-55 Xavier broke even sounded, Xavier had won its first of Sorce, who only weighed 275. when the field was still covered with new green grass. to be with a 12-12 record against one bowl game. What these sportswriters :tailed trampled to mud before the end of the season. of the\ toughest schedules ever The scene shifts to 1954. The to see was the fine running of And now it is nearing the end of the season for many of played by a Musketeer quihtet. Musketeers were in the process Chet Mutryn. One of the smallest us. We were green and new. We have been trampled on a Of the 24 games Xavier played, of suffering one of the worst men on the field, the speedy guy little. Maybe we even learned a little about life and had some 13 were against teams who went seasons. They had journied to ran wild against the big men, mud splashed in our eyes. But the days of playing games and on to post-season tournaments. Boston to face the nation's top who although most ot them were college joys are almost gone. We move now into the profes- The 1954.55 season introduced defensive team. In what he Bos­ a good 25 pounds heavier, could !ional league. Our success will depend very much on how well · to the eyes of basketball world ton sportswriters termed a "Hal­ not match Mutryn's speed and we have l~arned the game when we were playing it in college. Jimmy Boothe, a 5'7" guard who loween Prank," the Muskies deception. PAGE EIGHT XAVIER UNIVERSITY NEWS, AUGUST, 1956 GREAT FIRE DESTROYS ST. XAVIER CHURCH Mysterious Fire Breaks Out; the old pastor, Father Driscoll. Arson Or Accident? Sympathizing neighbors tried to By Robert E. Manning, S.J. console him and one, Patrick EARLY JESUIT SCHOLASTIC Pastor Of Bellarmine Chapel Poland, gave him a check that same night for $2,000 toward a One morning in 1882, during new church. RECORDS LIFE IN JOURNAL Holy Week, a priest of St. Xavier On Good Friday morning, at Creoles from speaking French." College, returning from a con­ the usual hour for services, Lawyer, Father of Family vent where he had just said Mass, "A 1 Spanish boy from Cuba people from the borders of the Becomes Convert to Faith arrived in charge of Mr. Alden, was passing through the vestibule parish, not knowing what had of St. Xavier Church. The new "His name is held in bene­ consul for the King of Wurttem­ occurred, came and found the berg." bells were being raised to the church in ruins. Rain was pour­ diction by those who knew "Boys made some disturbance towers, and he noticed several ing from the skies but many of him best. Many an aged eye in the Refectory in consequence strangers standing around watch­ them knelt in the street to do is dimmed with affectionate of not finding the dinner as good ing the work. He heard one of reverence and to weep before as they expected." them remark, "You can bet those the fallen cross. tears at his memory." With bells will never ring." these words one who was a stu­ "It was announced to the stu­ Contributions On Holy Thursday three men dent at St. Xavier College in Purcell Mansion, dents that the ars gLadia.toria entered the church and asked for It was a gloomy Easter for 1850 attests the esteem in which Early Xavier Villa (fencing) was to be begun." the Brother Sacristan. They priests and people. Dense crowds Mr. Julius Johnston, S.J., a cele­ !> "Remitted to Hon. Elisha Whit­ wished him to show them around, of men, women, and children brated scholastic, was held. So Millan and running east to Moor­ tlesy, General Agent of the Wash­ they said, and explain the sig­ stood all day long in front · of great was his influence, so uni­ man avenue. On the south, the ington National Monument Fund, nificance of the Repository, bril­ the unsightly holocaust-"a sad versally was he beloved, that property extended some distance a draft !or $14.25, the proceeds ., liant with lights, before which spectacle," a contemporary re­ after the cholera carried him off over the brow of the hill. Here of a collection made among the some parishioners were kneeling. lates, "to see ·the faces of the _ untimely in 1851 the attendance in 1848 the St. Xavier Prepara­ boys for the Washington Monu­ At least two of them did. The people as they gazed upon the at the College appreciaibly dimin­ tory School was begun for boys ment." shattered tower, the charred third was seen to slip away and ished. from eight to thirteen years of Meditation portals, and the blackened raf­ age. The school lasted only two mount the stairs above the choir Mr. Johnston, a Virginian, had But, by far, the greater part ters of the building which but years, though for a time the loft to the tower. been reared in the Protestant re­ of the diary contains his pro­ two days before had been a superior in charge was Rev. Fire Breaks Out ligion, but as he grew to man­ found and deeply fervent thoughts beautiful sanctuary, a veritable hood, divine grace touched him George Carrell, S.J., later first That night, shortly before one on matters of the spirit. It will haven of rest to many a weary and he was converted to the true bishop of Covington. Thereafter o'clock, a disastrous fire broke soul." be sufficient to quote his words faith. Though a lawyer and ,bur­ till 1873 the buildings and grounds Soon, however, contributions written on New Year's Day, 1851, out in the church. dened with the care of a family, were used a place of recreation In his room above the sacristy began pouring in, not only from the year in which he was to die. he led such a pious life in the for the students and as a villa the Brother wb41 had care of the "Prepared a good meditation the rest of the city, but from the world that he is believed to have for the Jesuits. church retired about midnight. rest of Ohio and from other for the New Year and rose with been gifted even then with a He awoke to find his room filled states, from Protestants and in- Ineffable Poetry alacrity and joy of heart to make lofty spirit of prayer and love of with smoke and the glare of fire Mr. Johnston was not so lost it. The last year terminated in God. Eventually, after the death coming through a window which in the contemplation of the life leaving a warm desire of heart of his wife, having provided for looked out upon the main altar. to come that he was blind to the to begin the present one with a his two young daughters, he The priests in the Athenaeum beauties of this. In the diary for strong determination to fulfill it entered the Society of Jesus in were hurriedly aroused, and Fath­ Oct. 17, 1850, he writes: "Went better than I did the last. Medi­ August, 1846. ers Baselmans and William Pol­ with boys to the Mansion. Took tation turned on the motive of and rushed into the church and Untimely Death notice of the great beauty of the Jesus in shedding His blood for rescued the Blessed Sacrament. His stay at Xavier was brief­ woods with their various colored us. It would not be anything but The large altar was in flames. but two years. During this time, hues, reminding me of the moun­ Love. He loved us from the be­ From across the street, the fire he kept a personal diary which, tains of Virginia and stirring my ginning because He created us. department, the Fours, as they written in Latin and English, is soul with great recollections. He loved WI to the end because, were called, came dashing over now one of the treasures of the What a subject• for poetry! What though fallen, we were itill in some manner like to the imace at the first alarm. As yet there St. Xavier Church Aflame archives of Xavier. This daily thoughts, what feelings! What a was no sign of fire about the account, begun on October 1, union of the beautiful a!!d, sub­ of God, and that image was exterior of the building, but one fidels. The priests of the diocese, 1850, is continued, in his own lime! Beauty is the gorgeous dies capable iby grace of beini re­ of the men later said, "A strange the religious orders, the children writing, to June 8, 1851, two days that cover the trees. Sublimity stored. Love made Him our medi­ light glowed within the rosette of the parochial schools, all did before he died. Some other hand in the deep suggestions of the ator, our intercessor, and Wisdom window, and it looked like a full what they could, some even beg­ entered the followin~ account of Future and Infinite. Who has made Him adopt that mode of red moon when rising over Mt. ging from door to door. Bishop his death: ever analyzed this effect of the intercession ·which He did ... For the love of God then who Adams." Elder urged the Jesuits to have The writer of this Diary went Autumn scenery? Many breasts have caught the feeling, but first loved us, let us rise and Ceiling Collapses confidence and to rebuild. today to the Villa (i.e. the Pur­ where is the pen that expressed wark. Let us return love for cell Mansion) in fairly ~ood The Fours broke open the front New Church love. What am I to do this year? health but he returned at six it?" door and were dragging the hose Within a year the new church What motive, what purpose and o'clock attacked by the cholera Entrie• toward the altar just as the ceil­ was completed. It was dedicated what means? My end must be the morbus. This excellent religious ing and rafters collapsed, forcing on the feast of the Ascension, Many of the entries have to do same as last year but i·t must be immediately ~ked for the last them to retreat from the falling May 3, 1883. The Daily Times with matters of discipline and far better carried out. That end sacraments, which were admin­ debris. Tongues of fire were now wrote of it: "The interior is other duties connected with his is HUMILITY, the motive must istered by Father Wippern, and, seen darting along the edges of grand. The pillars are graceful, office of prefect of studies.: be LOVE, the means MORTIFI­ with difficulty, due to the con­ the roof, and they grew larger the arches and vaults all inter­ "Today Father Rector directed CATION. With these then I be­ vulsions he was suffering, he till soon the entire building was woven and kept harmonious. something be done to restrain the gin the year." ablaze. There is no heavy or depressing made a public confession and Confined by the stone walls, ·effects as has .been truly said received with the utmost devo­ the flames roared up through the of the old church. St. Xavier's tion the extreme unction and Mad Butcher Scares Boys, tower, which served as a flue, has the proportions and features Holy Viaticum. He prayed almost • and poured forth in volumes which, combined, produce a grand continuously. Father Rector from its windows, lighting the effect and give a very atmos­ (Father De Blieck) was sum­ Slashes Rector With Knife moned and from him he asked whole eastern part of the city. phere of worship. Many greater It happened in 1871, when Syc­ pardon of his faults and com­ up the stairs, seized and pinneti The cupola became red-hot and, churches of this order in Europe amore street was paved with him to the wall. But the maniac the bells and clock melting, the are less impressive on the mind mended to him his two daughters who were living in St. Louis. cobble-stones and its !brick side­ was brawny and very stron1. glare was streaked with colored of the beholder than is St. Xav­ walks were uneven; when droves With wonderful patience he bore Squirmini from the irip of pillars of fire. ier's." Thus the Daily Times com­ of pigs were a daily sight pass­ his suffering.s and gave great Father O'Neil, himself by no mented on St. Xavier Church. ing in fr.ont of the College on Sadness Reigns edification to the doctors and means a weakling, he manaaed their way from the levee to the Meanwhile a great crowd had Accident Or Arson others who assisted him. Finally to draw a knife and slashed the slaughter houses which lined the gathered, and all eyes were fixed The origin of the fire remained after an agony of about five Rector across !both arms, inflict­ on the cross ab.ave the tower. It a mystery. About a week pre­ hours, he pea·cefully passed away, hill, and Cincinnati was com­ ing serious wounds. Close on his monly known as Pockopolis. was hoped the sacred symbol vious a violent anti-Catholic to the profound grief of all the trail however were Father Law­ One afternoon in the spring a would withstand the conflagra­ society had been exposed in the Jesuits to whom he had given an lor, the boys from the jui, and crazy butcher came dashing wild­ two lay-brothers who from the tion. But it, too, was doomed. city, and though it was far from example of a fervent reli~ioll5." After a little, it swayed, quivered the thoughts of the priest to eyed into the Hill Building, the kitchen had heard the 1hout1n:. for an instant, toppled from its accuse the members of this or­ Expansion faculty residence at 7th and Together they overpowered the base, and fell with a loud crash ganization; yet some of the Many references in the diary Sycamore. On the first floor fellow and carried him like a into the fiery abyss, sending up parishioners working with them are to the Purcell Mansion, men­ were some classrooms, in one of corpse to the front porch. But he a shower of sparks that flew to in the factories had heard strange tioned above, the villa to which whiich several students were was still dangerow;. The Fathers the dark heavens like stars. A remarks as "there will be fun in Mr. Johnston enjoyed walking on present at that perennial insti­ hailed the firemen across the cry of pain rose from the spec­ your church tomorrow"-remarks recreation days. This was the tution, the 'jug.' Through the street. who came with a w•ion tators as it fell. But across the which at tM time they did not site of the Jesuits' first attempt glass door they saw him run and hustled him off to jail. street a drunken devil looked out understand but which they later at .expansion in Cincinnati. The down the corridor shouting out All were thankful that the from a saloon and, seeing the reported to the Fathers. Father Mansion, bought from Bishop something about golden chalices affair had not turned out worae. downfall of the symbol of Chris­ James O'Meara, who was on the Purcell in 1844, a spacious ' and . and treasures hidden in the Upstairs lived two very old and tianity, waved his cap in the air faculty of the College in those handsome building on a fine building. feeible priests, Fathers Verreydt and cried out with shouts of de­ days and who has left an account tract of land, was on Walnut The treasurer, Father Lawlor, and De Leeuw, both famous pio­ light. He was seized by the shoul­ of the affair, tells of finding at Hills, overlooking the Ohio and whose offices were nearby, hur­ neer Jesuits who were spending ders and hustled back into the the top of the winding stairs to commanding a panoramic view ried out, grappled with the fel­ their last days at St. Xavier's. den, or the crowd would have the tower a small iron disk which of the river, Fulton, Newport, low, tried to reckon with him. Very likely they would have mobbed him. could have held an explosive. He Covington and other parts of But h2 broke away and made fallen victims to the butcher's The J emit community had as­ believes it was placed there by Ohio and Kentucky. Its; present for the stairs. Father Thomas knives. sembled in the schoolyard and the stranger who ascended to the boundaries would be-on the O'Neil, the rector at the time, The whole story was featured stood gazing in dismay at the t'bwer on Holy Thursday morn­ west, Salutaris avenue; on the happened upon the scene, took by an eastern magazine in a great disaster. Saddest of all was ing. north, a lin~ beginning at Mc- after him, caught him halfway series of cartoons. XAVIER UNIVERSITY NEWS, AUGUST, 1956 PAGE NINE Blessed Virgin Protects Xavier Men During 1849 Plague Dissenter Dies; East. In this vicinity the most to the country and there was that the symptoms of the cholera crowns, one for thee and one for Survivors Took Vow prominent of its victims was the danger of the entire city becom­ had appeared upon himself. Yet, the Divine Infant, and as soon as In 1849 the number of stu­ Right Rev. Edward D. Fenwick, ing depopulated. even this did not prevent him may be, will cause them to be dents attending St. Xavier first bishop of Cincinnati, who Among those who fell victim from scurrying to the bedside of placed, with proper ceremonies, C o 11 e g e considerably de­ died at Wooster, Ohio, full of to the plague were three mem­ one more severely afflicted. Im­ on thy statue and that of thy dear years and merits. bers · of the Society of Jesus. Fr. mediately on his arrival back at Son in this chapel, as a perpetual creased. We can perhaps gath­ the College he was overcome memorial of thY Mercy and our Serious Epidemic Christopher Genelli, author of er the explanation of this the Life of St. Ignatius of Lctyola, with the fatal crai;nps and within Gratitude." from a note which appeared in The attack in 1849 devastated had come to this country with a few hours, after intense but The result of this fervent dis­ the catalogue of that year: "On Cincinnati to a far greater degree the famous missionary, Fr. Wen­ most patient suffering, he ex- play of confidence in the Mother account of the prevalence of the than on the former occasion and, inger. He was returning from St. of God is best told in a letter cholera the greater part of the for a time, 200 or more deaths Louis to Europe in this year of written by Father Frederick P. commencement exercises have occurred every day. While the 1849, but when he reached Cin­ Garesche, who was a member of been postponed." pesitilence was at its height a cinnati he became ill, the sick­ the faculty in 1849, to the Rector This was not the first visitation deep gloom and solemn fear ness developed into the cholera, of the college in 1904 when the of the terdble scourge. The Asi­ shrouded the city and business and within two days he had died. crowns were repaired and beau­ atic cholera, originating in China and social life were paralyzed. Such was the varied nature of tified: The physicians, knowing little of or Tartary, had reached America the disease that at times it struck Witness in 1832. It came from Europe, not the nature of the disease, were directly at the heart and death as was popularly supposed, waft­ at a loss ito cure it and they were almost immediately resulted; but "I remember the meeting of ed hither on the wings of the in the greatest peril since they often the agony persis~d for the boarders of St. Xavier Col­ winds, but transmitted by vessels were the most exposed to it. days, attended with an infinity of lege in that first year of the crowded with emigrants already Though the mortality was at its suffering. cholera in Cincinnati. The whole suffering from the plague. Start­ worst during the hot month of movement was in the hands of Martyr Of Charity ing from the Grosse Isle quaran­ July, huge fires were built in all the students, started by Cheri tine station in the St. Lawrence the streets in an attempt to com­ Fr. Angelo Maesseele, pastor of Pictured above is one of the N ouges and a few others of the River, the infection spread along bat the infection by purifying the St. Xavier Church, died a martyr original crowns purchased by the more advanced in the C{)llege. the Great Lakes to Chicago, and air. But all such endeavors were of charity in the service of the grateful students. There was some opposition by a soon the entire Mississippi VaUey futile and the minds of men were plague-stricken. Scarcely recov­ few of the boys headed by one as far as New Orleans was afflic­ continually oppressed by the ered from serious illness, he per­ pired. In the prime of life, he whose name I do not recall, a ted. The contagion rapidly ad­ dark spectacle of long lines of severed in visiting the sick in was 38 years old. He fell, as a Mexican by birth. He refused to vanced up the Ohio and pene­ funeral processions. As is usual the city hospital and pesthouse soldier of Christ must most de­ the last to contribute to the pur­ trated the populou.; regions o.f the on similar occasions many fled till one morning he awoke to find sire to fall, in the midst of battle. chase of the crowns, saying that The third to succumb, though he was not afraid to chance the two years later, was the cele­ risk. The others were won over brated scholastic, Julius John- _ by the remonstrances of their TAVERN NOTES 25rH YEAR; . ston, who returned from a day of companions. The faculty and pro­ recreation at the Purcell Mansion fessors took no part whatever, to die that same night. save that the movement was 154 PASSED THROUGH RITUAL Student Action sanctioned by them. At this fearful time the stu­ Misfortune bethan manuscripts were pre­ On the evening of Feb. 13, 1 dents of the college assembled, "Owing to the panic in the city, 1931, 12 students and one fac­ sented to the members of the of their own accord, on the 27th it was determined to clos;e the Tavern who have e~celled in . ulty member secretly held the of June, 1849, to take into con­ College earlier than was the cus­ various literary fields in the 25 sideration suitable means of first organizational meeting tom. The majority of the board­ years of the Tavern's organiza­ aver.ting the danger of the pre­ ers, amongst whom was the Mex­ of the Mermaid Tavern. tion. vailing epidemic. Cheri N ouges ican, set out for their homes by These thirteen f ersons were Award Winners was the leader of the movement way of the Ohio and the Missis­ Rev. Paul J. Sweeney, S.J., pro­ The list of the award winners and presided at the meeting dur­ sippi, being accompanied by a fessor of English, who became and the literary field for which ing which the following resolu­ priest, Father Mearns. About Warder Will in the Tavern, the they received the awards are as tions were drawn up: midway between Cincinnati and charter host Ed VonderHaar, follows: Mr. Edward P. Vonder "Whereas it has pleased Divine New Orleans the Mexican was the ch art er drawer John Haar, in tavernacular; Mr. John Providence to visit this city attacked by the cholera and died. Schneider, and charter members I. Kniepfle, lyric poetry; Mr. among others with the dreadful He was buried on the banks of Wilbur Breitfelder, Al Mucker­ Richard D. Kearney, narrative scourge of the cholera which is the Mississippi. He was the only heide, Anton Mayer, Ed Vor­ lyric; Lawrence Splain, short daily hurrying hundreds to the one JVhO had not contributed to waldt, Paul Desmond, Louis story; Mr. Robert Weigand, war grave; therefore in order to ex­ the crowns, invoking the protec­ Feldhaus, Paul Hilbert, Alvin report; and Mr. John A. Brink, press our ·humiliation under tion of the Blessed Virgin and Ostolhoff, Louis Ginocchio, and personal essay. Special awards divine dispensation, and to tes­ trusting in her safety, and who Frank Brearton. were presented to Dr. Vincent E. tify our confidence in the Holy perished from the epidemic. All Elizabethans Smith, chairman of the philoso­ Mother of God whose patronage the rest were immune." phy department at Notre Dame we continually implore. The Mermaid Tavern is under University, South Bend, Ind., for "Resolved-that we offer to the patronage of William Shake­ Warder Will, opera literaria; Mr. Louis A. Exam spear and is named after the the Blessed Virgin a solemn vow Founder Of MMT Feldhaus, opera dramatica; and that if all the students of this in­ Mermaid Tavern of Elizabethan Mr. John I. Knoepfle, opera Schedule England, which was the meeting Tavern activities. stitution be preserved from death poetica. A special issue of the by the cholera during the season place for William Shakespeare Prize Keys Tavernacular, containing most of Announced and his contemporary play­ At the commencement exercises of its ·prevalence in this city, we the award winning literary pieces, will cause to be made two gold The fallowing is an account wrights. The purpose of the in 1943, the first Mermaid Tav­ was published for the meeting Tavern is the reading and criti­ ern Prize Key was presented to crowns, one for the Blessed of early exams at St. Xavier and a contest of limericks about College, published in cism of original manuscripts John Knoepfle. The key, spon­ Virgin and one for the Infant as the Cath­ Tavern lore was held. olic TelegTaph.-Ed. wrtten by the Taverners. sored by Mr. Anthony C. Elsaes­ Jesus, to be placed on their re­ spective images in the chapel of Tavern has graduated 154 ser, class of '12, has since that More Celebrations ST. XAVIER COLLEGE, June time been presented annually to The second part of the anni­ the sodality of the Blessed Vir. 24, (1843)-The third annual members and has enrolled 14 gin." honorary members on its roster. the Tavern member doing the versary ,celebrations was held at examinations of the different Of these 154 graduates, 132 can best literary work for the year. the President's Lounge on Apr. 2. "Resolved-That a subscription classes will commence at the be accounted for by the club. The most recent receiver of the Dr. Vincent E. Smith guested the be immediately opened for the above name d institution on Four of them are editors of small key was John Groning. meeting and read a chapter from purpose of carrying the above Thursday, June 22. magazines, five work for news­ During the course of its his­ "Logic and Literature," his forth­ resolutions into effect." Hours of Examination papers, four in public relations, tory, the Tavern has occupied coming text on logic. A speciai "Resolved-That if said vow From 81h till 111h A.M. two in radio and television, five rooms in Finn Lodge, Marion issue of the Tavernacular con­ be accepted, the result shall be From 21h till 5 P.M. in advertising, four in free lance Hall, and the Union Building. taining selected works by Dr. published in the Catholic papers Order of Examinations wrting, 22 in !business, three in The Tavern moved to its present Smith was issued for the occa­ of the city, and the crowns be Do 23, do Greek; science, five in the medical pro­ meeting room, Friday Room in sion. presented with solemn ceremon­ Do 24, do French; fession, and eight are enrolled the Union Building, during 1951. The third part of the anniver­ ies." Do 26, do English; in graduate studies. Presently Celebration sary celebrations will be held at "Holy Mary, ever Virgin Moth­ Do 27, do Profane His­ there are 17 undergraduates in This year the Mermaid Tavern Dr. Joseph Link's residence on er of God, I, Cheri Nouges, for tory, Mythology, Geog­ the Tavern under the hostship of celebrates its 25th anniversary. Sorel's Highday, June 5. Features myself, and on behalf of my fel­ raphy and use of the John Groning. The first part of the anniversary of the highday will be the pres­ low-students of St. Xavier Col. Globes; entation of replicas of the Green lege, in consideration of the dan­ Records celebrations was held in the Do 28, Rhetoric, Logic President's Lounge on the eve­ Siren to the graduating Tavern­ ger to which we are exposed and Constitutional Law; The Tavern has a complete set ning of Feb. 13. This was the ers, a contest on odes in honor of during the prevalence of the Do 29, Mathematics; of records since its beginning. official birthday .party of the the 400th Ignatian Year, the dreadful sickness with which it Do 30, Chemistry and In 1934, Joseph Link began the Mermaid Tavern, at which awards 125th anniversary of Xavier Uni­ has pleased Almighty God to Natural Philosophy. Mermaid Tavern scrapbook. The versity, or the 25th anniversary afflict the earth, having the full­ of merit in the form of Eliza- The Exhibition will take place following year the first issue of of the Mermaid Tavern, and a est confidence in thy power and on the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th of the Tavernacular, the literary contest in the preparation of willingness to protect us, yet sen­ WARDER WILL (Rev. Paul July. Exercises to commence at publication of the Tavern ap­ Elizabethan culinary delicacies. sible of our unworthiness to be J. Sweeney, S.J.) graduated from 71h o'clock P. M. peared. In 1936, Mermaid Tavern William Shakespeare and the regarded by thee, do solemnly Xavier in 1912. He has been a Keys and Pins, designed in 1935, Green Siren have seen 30 hosts vow and promise to Almi'ghty The parents and guardians of Xavier professor .of English since were first made available to the preside over the hugger mugger Goa, and to thee, that if thou the pupils, and the friends of the 192-9. While a student, he was a Taverners. That same year the of the Tavern. Junior Bill Foley shalt so exert thy power in our institution are respectfully invited star baseball player and winner to attend. Tavern inaugurated its initiation will assume the thirty-first host­ behalf that none of us may fall of the Verkamp and Washington ritual and introduced the lingo ship on June 6 when John Gron­ a victim of the Cholera at this In the name of the Faculty, speech contests. which is the vernacular for ing graduated. season, we will procure two gold J. B. Duerinck, Sec'y. PAGE TEN XAVIER UNIVERSITY NEWS, AUGUST, 1?5G President Foresees Rapid ·Growth; Military Dept. Started In '77; ROTC Commenced In '35 Calls More Lay Teachers To Serve by John J'an Flandern a commendation for the work News Campus Editor that they did in rescue and sal· Increasing Number Call' For Additional Although military training as vage operations. The Xavier Facilities; Co-education Not Probable such dates from 1877, the ROTC ROTC Pistol Club, ancestor of first came early in Dec., 1935, the widely known 50 cadet "Studies indicate that Xavier's enrollment will near 6400 Rifle Club of today, was organ­ in the years 1965-1970-twice what it was last year," said Very when the War Department auth­ orized .the unit's formation. Oper­ ized in September of 1937, and Rev. Paul L. O'Connor, S.J., president. With this knowledge ations began on Washington's two years later won the National and since "Jesuits are not multiplying as fast as students," birthday in 1936, when the first ROTC Pistol Match champion­ Xavier's real need is for more capable lay teachers. officer, Capt. George E. Wrock­ ship, sponsored by the Field .Ar­ tillery Association. Father O'Connor said that the loff arrived to begin setting up physical needs of the school, Fr. O'Connor doesn't see co.­ the functioning corps. Shortly During World War II, the though just as real, are secondary education in the near future of after that, the first Professor of ROTC was deadivated, and spe­ to the need for trained teachers. Xavier, because of the high en­ Military Science and Tactics, cial wartime units of the Army Since decent salaries are neces­ rollment of boys and because Maj or Arthur McKinley Harper, and Army Air Corps were in sary to meet this need, the Uni­ Cincinnati has two excellent arrived to organize and head the training here. It was reactivated versity has been trying in the Catholic colleges for girls. He unit. Major Harper went on to again in 1946, and quickly grew last five years to do something also mentioned the advantages in become a Major General in World to a strength of 800 cadets. St. about them. Salaries have risen having some women teachers for War II, and Commanding Gen­ Barbara Hall (the former Mel­ 20 per cent during this period. girls. eral of the Artillery Center at cher residence) was opened as Father smiled again in bis Fort Sill, Oklahoma after the ROTC headquarters in 1947, and The President smiled as he warm, friendly way as he added, war. the Armory, a modern, concrete, stated that he wouldn't turn "There are, however, certain ad­ University Bead Installation fully equipped building, was down a new Union building or vantages to co-education in col­ opened with a nationwide radio The unit was officially installed dormitory, both of which are leges. Boys and girls have con­ seven years as dean of the Col­ broadcast on Lincoln's birthday on Sept. 16, 1936 with ceremonies needed; but a classr<.>om building tact with each other in the nor­ lege of Liberal Arts. Fr. O'Con­ in 1948. It was formally dedi­ in the stadium when the Colors is his first choice, since in a city mal way of life which lessens the nor estimates that no more than cated on June 9, 1948 by the first were presented to the Corps by as large as Cincinnati there are number of mixed marriages. The five students have seen the in­ Secretary of the Army, Kenneth Col. Arthur L. Fuller, officer in so many day students. summer sessions have shown that side o'f his office during his past C. Royall. charge of ROTC in the Fifth even one Sister or girl in the year as president. New classrooms would free Corps Area. Instruction . began Harper To Cissell present ones for much needed classroom brings out the refine­ His work with the public, in­ with 195 students enrolled in the Five, or actually six PMS&Ts office space and would remove ment in the boys." dustry, and the alumni allows basic course. More than $80,000 have followed Major Harper as the necessity of late afternoon His job ~s President of Xavier him little time for meeting the worth of equipment was assigned heads of the Xavier unit. Capt. dasses "which are appreciated by allows this cordial, amicable students on campus. He does en­ here and military science was C. S. Berrien and Lt. Col. Alpha neither teachers nor students." priest little time for either the joy close contact with the fac­ compulsory from the start for all Brummage headed th~ Corps A dormitory will be needed by intima/te spiriitual contact with ulty, but would prefer that his physically fit male freshmen and respectively up to World War II. 1965 when predictions indicate young men which he had as a job involved less signing of let­ sophomores. The first review was Mr. Robert F. Cissell, assistant 1000 boarders instead of last Navy chaplain or the intellectual ters and more contact with the given on Nov. - 14 of that year, professor of mathematics, first year's 500. contact he enjoyed during his students. when the cadets paraded before came to the Xavier faculty as a a Dad's Day crowd of 8,000 at Lieutenant in Field Artillery in Budde Memorial Dedicated To National Hero; the Xavier-Detroit football game. 1941, to serve as assistant PMS& The Fieldhouse served as head­ T. Lt. Cissell served in that capa­ quarters for the ROTC and city until 1944, and during 1944 Xavier Alumnus Last To Die In World War I housed all of its facilities until was the Professor of Military 1948. Sdence and Tactics. Lt. Cissell Devotion To Duty Costs This was common knowledge all was nicknamed "Happy" by his 1937 To 1,948 also served as coach of the Pistol Team while he was stationed Life After Armistice the way down to the troops in fell ow students. During the disastrous 1937 the trenches. Shortly before the here, and is widely known for By Conrad Donakowski The Althenaeum of Jan. 4, 1919 flood, the Xavier Cadets received hour. of truce, he was sent out says: his ability in handling firearms. Though covered earlier this against a German machine gun "One of the most popular and was founded after the First War, Dunn To Brown nest. He was shot through the year by election campaign prominent of St. Xavier's young L~gioneers decided to honor After the war, came Col. Sid­ signs and noticed throughout heart after the war was officially alumni gave his life on the last George Budde for his "profound ney F. Dunn, Col. George L. Hol­ over. George Budde was p05thu­ the year mainly as the Sci­ day of the war. George Budde sense of duty to the service of singer, and the present PMS&T, mously awarded the Silver Star. joined the U.S. Marines in 1917 ence Hall depot for The News his country" and dedicated the Lt. Col. Jesse H. Brown. Col Judging from the remarks of and was assigned to the 17th fountain of Faien~e Rookwood and the Athenaeum, the George Holsinger, under wihom the pres­ men who knew him and from Company, 5th Regiment. In the pottery, erected by the Class of Budde Fountain stands as a ent juniors and seniors studied statements in the Athenaeum­ historic battle of Chateau Thierry, 1917 in Alumni Science Hall. memorial to a Xavier alumnus military science, was in command then the Xavier's newspaper as he was wounded in the right Students may pile their pos­ until August, 1954, when he re­ who once was a national military well as literary journal-George shoulder. Be also fought at Sois­ ters, hats, coats, and publications hero. tired from the Army. He is now Budde was something of a hero sons in the Verdun sector at the on the fountain (whose waters an official of a trucking firm in George Budde, an example of before he left for the war. He battle of the Argonne Forest." were turned off when coolers Panama. Col. Brown, who was complete obedience and disci­ was on many college and inde­ Letters from his commanding were installed), but each year executive officer in 1953-1954, pline, is traditionally regarded pendent athletic teams and was officer and fellow marines tell the American Legion places a took over as acting commander as the last man to die in World a contributor to the Athenaeum. of the pre-armistic campaign and wreath in honor of George Budde when Col. Holsinger retired, and War I. The armistice had been He came to the College from St. his battle heroism. and his comrades at the fountain was appointed PMS&T in early set for 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918. Xavier High School in 1909. He When the American Legion on Memorial Day. Nov., 1954 .. BIG PLANS OF YESTERDAY -- A New St. Xavier

TOP PHOTO shows early plans for construf­ well as offices and a library. On the extreme right Building, then the Avondale Athletic Club, is on tion on the Avondale campus as published in 1915. is the proposed dormitory which was intended to the left. St. Barbara Hall is shown on the right. On the extreme left is the Jesuit residence. In the accommodate students in private rooms. The path running through the center of the pro­ center is the main building which was intended to posed campus was known as Bloody Run. Today, contain classrooms, scientific laboratories, a chapel BOTTOM PHOTO shows the Xavier campus at Victory Parkway replaces it. This is what they had and an auditorium (each seating about 1000), as the time of its acquisition in 1911. The Union to start with in 1911. XAVIElt UNIVERSITY NEWS, AUGUST, 1956 PAGE ELEVEN Social Leaders Used To Meet In Historic Union Hall Old Athletic Club course. During the Academy days, ence Hall, the chapel was re­ the cafeteria and the Blue Room tained on the top floor of the Houses Xavier Groups on the second and first floors Union Building. In these early Today, it houses the cafe­ were divided into class rooms years, when professors were still teria, the President's Lounge, where Rev. Terrance McGovern, hiking back and forth to Seventh S.J., principal, supervised his and Sycamore streets, there was the Mermaid Tavern's Friday staff of two or three Jesuit scho­ a negro cook who was also a Room, and editorial offices of lastics and Mr. William Burns in minister for a small congrega­ The News. Yesterday, it was the instruction of young Cincin­ tion. Each week he used to "bor­ the scene of some of the most natians. row" the college chapel in the celebrated social events. Top Floor Union Building to practice his The Union Building has been sermon. The late Murtha J. Boy­ On the top floor, where the lan, S.J., professor of philosophy, a dominant feature of the cam­ Athletic Club had held many for­ pus i;!rounds since before there often would sit in the t:hapel, at mal banquets and where The the cook-minister's request, in was a campus in Avondale. Orig­ News now is edited, early stu­ inally, as the headquarters for order to criticize his practice ser­ dents at St. Xavier Academy mon. the Avondale Athletic Club, this heard Mass in the Academy chap­ red colonial structure was the el. In one little corner of the third Old Library scene of great banquets and elab­ floor,' Fr. McGovern had his liv­ Prior to the construction of the orate balls which characterized ing quarters. The other instruc­ Library Building, the college Cincinnati society at the turn of tors walked to and from St. Xav­ library was also housed in the the century. ier College at Seventh and Syca­ Union Building. When the Rector of St. Xavier more streets where they lived. Today, the oldest building on College began to search for an UNION BUILDING The old Academy had an en­ campus continues to live up to opportunity to expand the college ... Man11 community and student groups have passed through its doors. thusiastic group of athletes. The early expectations of long years facilities, several sites were con­ locker room and athletic head­ of service. Perhaps someday a sidered. One of these was the Many Facilities located in the center of the pres­ quarters were located where the new union house will be con­ location of Withrow High School, The property, which formerly ent football field. Student Health Center is now. structed. But then, a new func­ another was the property of the belongid to the Bragg estate had After the property was pur­ One year, the Academy football­ tion will certainly be found for Avondale Athletic Club. The lat­ many facilities when Xavier pur­ chased by Xavier, the Union ers even defeated the ·old St. this little red brick building ter location was chosen largely chased it in 1911. In addition to Building was immediately util­ Xavier College team. which has served the cause of because it had a sizable building the Union Building, there were ized as the location for the St. For a time after the college Xavier, silently and faithfully, which promised to be of servi& tennis courts, a golf course, and Xavier Academy which offered a department moved to Avondale as Academy, library, chapel, and for many years in the future. a swimming pool. The pool was four yeqr classical high school into the recently completed Sci- cafeteria. Student Council Founded To Promote Xavier's Welfare News Pushed First of 12 councilmen. Sociology, and Liberal Arts, mental action, and to afford a when it declared that "the Coun­ Council Formation It wasn't easy for that Council which would look after all inter­ common medium to express the cil, however, will have a more By Bill Poole to organize. The News of Nov. 1, departmental affairs. Eidinger, will of the entire student body. direct power in the government 1921, said, editorally: "For a New& Campua Editor Carl D. Wenstrup, and James The Council would foster and of the school and in the direction Greater St. Xavier-Creation of Corbett were appointed to visit encourage all activities of inter­ of various activities than the Thirty-five years ago, in a Publicity Bureau, Organization the other departments and deter­ est to the entire student body or Assembly possessed, and in this the Nov. 1 issue of The News, of Stude:At Council, Erection of mine whether or not such a plan that advertii>e St. Xavier. Among respect it represents a step for­ the first published suggestion Dormitories, Formation of Honor · is advisable and possible." these are The Xavieran New& ward and brings St. Xavier to its ------of a student council was pre­ Society, Organization of Dramatic Goal and the various athletig teams. inevitable position among first sented. This was proposed to and Musical Societies." It was thought that the Stu­ Once the Council wai in opera­ class activities." tion, many opportunities for ser­ replace the !tudcnt assembly be- A few days later "chairman E. dent Council would be miniature vice along this line would arise, cause, as enrollment increased, J. Anthony introduced George House of Representatives, com­ Bidinger to the (Arts Student) as for example, a college annual. Philops Celebrate the assembly type of government posed of delegates from each de­ assembly (on Nov:. 4). Bidinger It would also cooperate with the became impractical. partment of the College. Accord­ advanced the plan of a Student ing to The News, "its general aim faculty in every possible way." Washington Day Student Action Council or Union to be composed would be to promote the welfare The News felt that the power of (continued from page 2) In Oct. of 1923, Student Coun­ of delegates from the depart­ of St. Xavier by encouraging har. Student Council would depend feeling and conveyed the sound­ cif was formed with the election ments of Law, Commerce and monlous and combined depart- upon several factors. "In some est lessons of political and moral eases, their power might be exec. conduct-while th e crowni~ utive; in others, merely advisory." effort of the evening-The in­ Orchestra Plays At Xavier Celebration; The News (December 15) re­ fluence of the Church on Soci­ ports, "The college authorities ety-by P. McGroarty, Esq. was have decided to withhold their eminently creditable to the learn­ Committee Directs Anniversary Plans approval of the plan to organize ing, research, good taste, and a Student Council as proposed Catholic Spirit of the interesting Group Produces Symphony Concert Marks and submitted by the Committee speaker. write the HISTORY OF XAVIER representing the college depart­ The Hall was crowded so that History, Papers UNIVERSITY, pulblished th e 125th Birthday of XU ments of St. Xavier. Conditions many were compelled to return Guiding the various cele­ Summer Edition of The N ewi at the present time, it is said, do from the doors, unable to obtain The Cincinnati Symphony admission, and all who were brations commemorating the commemorating the 10th Anni­ not warrant the formation of Orchestra with Dr. Thor John­ fortunate will not soon forget the 125-th Anniversary of Xavier versary of the Graduate Division, such a body. and is distributing the Special son as conductor, will present "The student committee ap­ rich intellectual feast to which University this year has been Alumni Edition of The News. pointed to discuss the question they were helped by the Alumni the Executive Committee ap­ a 125th Anniversary Concert of the College. There is a fresh­ A special Founders' Day cele­ on the Xavier University cam­ held its initial meeting in the pointed by the Very Rev. Paul L. bration will take place at St. High School Library, December ness, a vigour, a whole-sou.led pus in the Fieldhou.se on Tuesday O'Connor, S.J., president. Mr. Xavier Church in downtown Cin­ 6, George Biding er, presiding and enthusiasm, a truthfulness in evening, Nov. 20 at 8:30 p.m. with Georie Selzer, associate profes­ cinnati on Oct. 18 when the staffs, Carl W enstrup acting as secre­ these exhibitions of ou.r institu­ Rev. John H. Reinke, S.J., and sor of accounting, has been ap­ faculties, students and alumni of tary. A Constitution was drawn tions, which, be it prejudice, or Peter Paul Loyanich, graduate pointed Chairman of the Com­ both the St. Xavier High School up to be presented to the College what it may, we do not think any student, as l'ioloists. mittee with the followini mem­ and Xavier University will join authorities." others can come up to. This enthusiasm and pride in bers: Rev. Patrick H. Ratterman, • to celebrate the founding date 125 Rev. Patrick H. Ratterman, For two years the Student the intellectual prowess of the S.J., dean of men; Mr. Enward years ago of the Old Athenaeum, S.J., faculty moderator and mem­ Council proposal was buried. But early students of St. Xavier Col­ P. VonderHaar, director of public later called St. Xavier College ber of the 125th Anniversary The News reports in 1923 that a lege was justified by the con­ relation!! for Xavier University; and then Xavier University. Executive Committee, announced "Council of the Liberal Arts Col. tinued growth of Xavier in size, Dr. Charles F. Wheeler, chairman A Special 125th Anniversary today the following committee lege . . . will come formally into members for the Anniversary in reputation, and in solid of the department of English; Dr. Award Plaque has been author­ existence as the representative Concert: Mrs. George R. Fischer, achievement. Raymond F. McCoy, director of ized by the Committee for this body of the College to promote the Graduate Division, and Dr. year designed by the artist, Rich­ general chairman; Mary C. Leon­ student activities, according to Strong Kinship ard, vice-chairman; Mrs. Carl J. Joseph Link, Jr., associate pro­ ard Miller and is given on spicial Rev. George R. Kister, S.J., Dean Xavier has changed a great fessor of economics and business occasions to outstanding persons Schonhoft, chairman of tickets; of the College. deal since 1841, just as journa­ Mrs. J. Richard Verkamp, chair­ administration as Executive Sec­ who have served Xavier Univer­ "The Council will promote all listic style has changed a great retary. sity in some capacity through the man of patrons; Mrs. John Sheb­ student activities . . . ; maintain deal from the flowery prose of The late Rev. Gilbert F. Stein, years. lessy, promotion chairman; Mrs. a healthy spirit of interest and the old Telegraph. Nevertheless, S.J., dean, was replaced on the Cornelius J. Sullivan, chairman comradeship among the students, we here at Xavier in 1956 have Committee lby the Rev. James V. of programs; Mrs. Clarence Ar­ and will endeavor to instill into a real bond of kinship with the McCummin.sky, S.J., who left this SCHOLARSHIPS nold, chairman of decorations and them the ideals the College stands students of 1841. This 115-year­ month for assignment at John THE NEWS-May 11, 1921- Miss Elizabeth Dolle, publicity for. Student problems will be met old tradition is one of the links Carroll University in Cleveland. The examinations for the K. of chairman. chiefly by the creation of a sane, between the students of today A second Priest committee mem­ C. scholarships in the Catholic Tickets will be $3, $2 and $1 public opinion." and their predecessors of so many ber is soon to be appointed to University will be held at Wash­ for sale by the J. H. Thuman Chairman of the first Xavier years ago. It is one of the things replace Father McCumminsky. ington, D.C., April 16. The final office in downtown Cincinnati Student Council was James G. which make Xavier University a The Committee has designed and day for applications to be filed and on the Xavier campus. A Manley, '23, an attorney. The school proud of its past and con­ published letterheads and pro­ is March 15. Only Seniors and brilliant musical program has first election was held on Oct. 5, fident of its future. motional materials, has commis­ graduates holding bachelor's de­ been arranged commemorating 1923. The contest will go on, as Xav­ sioned Mr. James Powell, gradu­ gree in Arts, Science and Let­ the 125th Birthday of Xavier Apparently The News saw ier will go on, bolstered by i,ts ate History research student, to ters are eligible to enter. University. great things ahead for Xavier traditions. PAGE TWELVE XAVIER UNIVERSITY NEWSI AUGUSTI 1,56 HISTORIAN TRACES EARLY YEARS OF XAVIER

Bishop Fenwick years, its lot was no worse than tion after work. In 1842, the col­ was the securing of a perpetual Athenaeum Building was re- ---'""q;.. others that were forced to sus­ lege received a charter for thirty charter, bearing all he privileges placed \by the rpreselljt High Founded School in 1831 pend operation due to lack of years from the state legislaure. of a university, for the college. School Building at a cost of By James M. Powell funds and students. Early in Elet's administration This was granted by the State $100,000. In 1901, the enrollment Circulation Librarian When John B. Purcell became the Sodality was established and, of Ohio on May 7,1869. rose to 458 and in February of In the early nineteenth cen­ the second Bishop of Cincinnati, from this period, the Poland Prosperity that year Father Albert Dierkes Philopedian Society dates its became President. He was the tury the Ohio Valley passed he made the college one of his During the next ten years, the primary concerns. In 1834, he founding. nineteenth Jesuit President of from a frontier existence into 'college prospered on a small scale. St. Xavier Collel;!e. assumed the office of President. Expansion Begun Faced with the calamity of the an agricultural economy with , com­ Expansion Despite a decline in enroll­ burning of St. Xavier Church, commercial and industrial menting on this, stated that the Gradually, the results of the ment after 1848, Father George alumni, parishioners, and friends overtones. The importance of this Bishop would take an active part changes being wrought in the Carrell began the work of ex­ raised the money to restore it­ change for education is seen in in the life of the college; his college led to the conclusion that panding the college. The new to the amount of $60,000. Dm.oing the rise during this period of a presidency was not to be a sine­ St. X. must leave its cOniested building contained two dormi­ this period, the college could large number of colleges. Miami cure. Purcell found, however, home in he center of the city. tories, a museum and a chemistry boast of a library of 14,000 vol­ University, Ohio University, that the college was almost a The decisive step was taken in laboratory. This expansion came umes, some of which were rare Oberlin College and Western Re­ luxury he could not afford, for 1911, when the present site was at a time when the college was books. The first Catholic Bible serve belong to this period. In he needed his priests in parochial purchased. Then a dream was entering a period of low enroll­ printed in the United Staes, the part, these foundations were the work and could ill-afford to Mexican Antiquities of Kings­ born, of a greater St. Xavier result of the new economic pic­ maintain so expensive an insti­ ment and financial crisis. Thi~ College, a University of many situation gradually grew worse bury and the Universal History ture in the West, but the general tution. He even took the step of colleges. Men worked to bring under Father Carrell's successor, added to the lustre of the carved enthusiasm for education in the closing the college for two years, that dream to reality. Admin­ Father Isidore Boudreaux, , S.J. and panelled library. And even We:;t was also important. For but he was unwilling to close it i~ration, Faculty and a loyal ·This excellent priest was faced in this day, the sciences were the there was a genuine need for permanently. object of a special attention and alumni worked together to build educated men that could be met wih problems that seemed to be Je~uits Arrive solicitude because of the l~rger Xavier University. They built on by the few who attended the without solution. Many favored the foundation laid by Fenwick, These were the difficulties the the abandonment of the college, funds necessary to promote their Eastern colleges. Elet and the men who followed Bishop faced when he asked the but Father Peter DeSmet spoke :study. Austrian Aid them. Jesuits to come to Cincinnati. out against this policy. The great The college offered both a The Right Reverend Edward classical a n d a commercial He offered them the college, missiona~ and peacemaker pro­ Fenwick, O.P. recogniz~d these course. In addition, the Master's seminary and the Cath~dral posed instead that the boarding Please Pronounce circumstances. Moreover, as the Church. He went further and department be closed and the degree was awarded afer two leader o:f the Catholics in the offered alternatives-I and in school maintained solely for day years "creditably spent in some Xavier Correctly huge diocese o:f Cincinnati, he Brown County or a huge tract students. It is to this suggestion literary pursuit, or after one saw in the :foundation of a col­ in Ga'ilia County. The Jesuits that St. Xavier College owed its year dev.oted -to the study of THE NEWS-Nov. 15, 1921- lege a means o:f reaching many were hesitant about coming to continued existence. philosophy." The students in the Several things there are that outside the Faith and drawing commercial course received no Cincinnati because they could The college struggled forward. surpass the comprehension of them closer. Therefore, he raised degree, but were given a "cer­ spare so few men for the task. Though the Civil War brought men-the way of a maid with a money for the task. He and tificate of proficiency or scholar­ The Bishop offered some Bel­ new complications, its aftermath man, the manner of a bird in Father , his Vicar ship" at the conclusion of their gian priests as teachers until promised the first period of gen­ the air, and not the least of these, General, were instrumental in studies. Those who completed they should learn English. Faced uine prosperity in the history of the many and utterly a~tonish­ founding the Leopoldine Society the Classical Course received he with such· generosity and con­ the school. When Father Walter ing pronunciations of the honored of Austria, which gave the Dio­ Bachelor of Arts de~ree. The scious of the potential of the Hill, S.J., became President in name of St. Xavier. cese of Cincinnati more than emphasis on the classical pro­ area, the Jesuits from St. Louis 1865, the student body numbered There is one, and only one $15,000 before 1830, and so made gram was no accident; it was agreed to come. John A. El et, 263; there had been fewer than correct way to pronounce Xav­ the college possible. On October an integral part of Jesuit edu­ S.J., was appointed superior of 60 in the lean years that had just ier. The "x" should be spoken 17, 1831 the Athenaeum was cation and remains so today. the small band of Jesuits that ' passed. This growth was par­ like the letter "z" and not as opened under the patronage of took charge of the Athenaeum ticularily noticeable in the com­ l\fore Classroo:tns i:f the first syllable were "ex." Bishop Fenwick. The Reverend on October 1, 1840. mercial d e :p a rt m e n t, which In 1885, the Moeller Building The "a" has the long sound, and James I. Mullon was first rector. Father Elet found that he must claimed almost half of the total was erected to the rear of the the whole word rhymes with Troubles begin anew to found a college in enrollment. Father Hill' could Hill Building to provide addi­ behavior. Beginnings are usually modest. Cincinnati. He spent his years now think in terms of expansion. tional class-rooms, a study hall This is just a little point that The Athenaeum never had great in office working to lay a solid In 1868, the Carrell Building and an auditorium. In June, 1890, every student should watch in numbers o:f students and there is foundation. The name was was razed and the Hill Build­ as the school prepared to cele­ his private and public speech. some indication that its "spacious changed to St. Xavier College. ing, which now houses the Hi~h brate the Golden Anniversary And not alone in himself, but to and 'beautiful" building sopn fell Evening C'lasses were introduced School Faculty, 'became the fac­ of the coming of the Jesuits to kindly correct those in his pres­ into disrepair. But if the new so that the young men of the ulty residence for the Jesuits at St. X., there were 419 students ence who are not aware of their college suffered in its earlier city might pursue their educa- St. X. Another siin of stability enrolled. In 18!H, the venerable error.