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Colorado. It is not necessary to say that the question does not concern all ideas. Since the activity of our The dazzled morning strikes thy crown, intelligence was first awakened, we can, without O, Lady, clothed in living flame; difficulty, account for the ideas which we may And gold and crimson ripples down have of persons, places and things. Experience To light the land where Cortez came. is fundamentally their source and origin. But there are ideas whose existence cannot be thus The virgin glories of the snow easily explained—ideas which are absolutely nec- Lie silver-white across thy breast, essaiy to the full exercise and development of the And in thine eyes the world belo%v rational faculty in man. They form the basis of Sees shining stars of faith and rest. those primary truths, those first principles of reason, upon which every judgment and act of the intellect A vibrant harp of changing tone. depend. These principles are thus enunciated in We hear thy voice in wind and wave, the schools: ist, the principle of identity: What, Through all its wondrous music blown isi is; 2d, the principle of contradiction: T^/ie A warning, solemn as the gi-avc. sa7Jic thing' cannot be and^ atthesameti7ne^ not be; 3d, the principle of causality: Every effect must " The splendors of the skies are mine," have a cattse. And the ideas which lie at the She proudly sings, above the storm, basis of these principles are the universal and inde­ " And mine the mountain ores, and kine terminate ideas of beings unity^ tncth^ goodness^ That crop the green in valleys Avarm. cause, ^possibility,, etc. These are ideas possessed in common by ail men in whom the use of reason " But let him fight who seeks for me, resides. However much the ideas and thoughts of With dread and pain, as heroes dare. men may and do differ—however great may be the For pure and strong the soul need be inequality existing between minds in regard to the That hopes a reign like mine to share." powers and perfections of the various faculties, yet, MARION MUIR. as regax"ds the possession of these first ideas, these -Denver Transcripi. primary principles, all—except those deprived of reason—are on the same footing. These ideas ac- compan}'- eveiy act of the intelligence, and are A Question in Philosophy. known to exist at the very first dawn of reason. They are the proper objects*of the intellect, inas­ " Nihil est in intcllectu quod prius non fiierit in scjisu." much as they represent the very essences of things. The human soul, with its wonderful, divinelj"^ When the intelligence of the child is first awak­ bestowed power of intelligence, is ever pi^esenting ened to activity and directed to the object which a "rich and varied field for investigation and re­ it pei'ceives through the senses—for example, the search. Manifold and various, indeed, are the work­ flower, or the toy with which it plays—it has ings of this sublime faculty, as manifested in the within its little mind a conception of the object diversity of its creations corresponding to the mul­ ?&being ox thi^ig; in other words, it has theimiver- tiplicity of its objects. The mind of man is ever sal idea of being. In a short time, other imiversal a mystery to itself, and questions without number ideas are seen to exist: the object is recognized as spring up about the answers to which it can con­ something real, and therefore trzce; something one stantly busy itself. But there is one question which in itself, disti?ictirom others and good. In a word, lies at the foundation of all philosophical study, experience teaches that the child, long before it can and which, either directly or indirectly, has been be said to have arrived at what is called the age of the source of the divergencies found to exist reason, has already formed these ideas of being, among the various schools of philosophy. " What unity, truth, etc., and has fully grasped all the first is the oi'igin of ideas ?" is a question that has at principles of reason. all times agitated the philosophic mind, and widel}'-- Evidently, experience has not been the source of difFering theories have been put forward in the at­ these ideas. All that the' mind can know from tempts towards its solution. experience is but singular, contingent and mutable; 82 THE -N^TRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. whereaSj these ideas Represent the eternal, neces­ living being, and consequently those powers b}-^ sary aWd immutable reasons of things. Whence which the operations both of vegetative and senti­ tonie they? ent life are exercised. The soul is the.form of the tn answering this question, we propose to fol­ body—possessing it in unity of substance by the- low, as best we can, ,a system which, of all. others, closest phj'sical union, and consequent!3' commu­ presents a solution most in accordance with expe­ nicating and receiving influences. • The body is- rience and common sense, viz.: made for the soul, to serve and minister to the ex-- THE SCHOLASTIC SYSTEAI. ercise of its powers; the soul is created to animate- It seems to us that to understand and properly an­ and perfect the body and emploj'^ it as an instru­ swer the great question of the origin of ideas, a cor­ ment in its operations. The union between both is; rect view^ must be taken of the natui'e of the iniion a most natui-al one—not violent or unnatural— subsisting between the body and the soul in man. a union b}'- which both substances are jjerfectedi As a fact, all the various theories that have been ad­ and completed in their existence and operations.. vanced in the consideration of this question, may be This is the view dictated by experience and com­ seen to spring from different views as to the mode mon sense, and it leads to the most natural explana­ of union between the human soul and bod}\ tion of the oi'igin of these primitive ideas now in: Plato, for example,—who has been followed in a question. measure, \)y modern ontologists—considered the This most intimate imion between the body and soul as a kind of angel or pure spirit, imprisoned soul reveals their mutual dependence, as we have- within the body, clogged and confined in its-oper­ just said. The intelligence is first awakened tO' ations, by its material prison, and always longing activity through the action of the external world for its release, that it might soar aloft into the upon the senses. Our knowledge begins with ob­ realms of infinity, there to rejoice in the full and per­ jects that jDroduce an impression upon the senses- fect exercise of its powers. The greater libert}'- This does not mean, as sensism does, that the first enjoj'ed by the soul, or the further removed it is intellectual cognition or idea, possessed by the soul, from the influence of sense, the more perfect is its is of sensible thingfs. The intelligence in man is a action. Evidentl}'^ in such a theory no real union faculty superior to sense, and has its own projoer can be said to exist between the body and soul. object, which is the essence of things. Hence the However, it is precisely this theory that has given meaning of the word intelligence, as dei-ived from birth to modern systems adapted so as to be in intus legere. It reads, as it were, -ivhat is internal" greater accord with Christian philosophy. The in the being; it perceives in what its essence con­ theories of "Intuition," and "Innate ideas" are sists. In perceiving being, it perceives the ratio both modifications of the Platonic doctrine; the of being, or what being is; in perceiving substance, former teaching that soul has an intuition or vision it perceives the ratio of substance, or what sub­ of the Supreme Being, in whom it perceives all stance is, etc. the most general or universal ideas, while the latter Now, in. all sensible objects, essences exist, cor­ holds that these ideas are implanted in the soul by responding to the intellectual pei-ception, and ma}'- its Maker at the verj' first moment of its existence. be pei"ceived when removed from their concrete Locke, the great modern leader of the Sensist existence. " Thus the flower \vhich the eye be­ School, though admitting the spirituality of the holds has the essence of being, of substance, of soul, yet maintained, as he was logically bound to life, of unity, quantity, and other ratios or essences do, that it was possible for matter to be made in­ that may be predicated of it; and although these telligent. In his system, the soul, in all its opera­ are not discovered b)y the senses—for they cannot tions, is tied down to the organs of the body; all go beyond the qualities—yet they can be perceived knowledge is derived from the senses; the soul by the mind when they are freed from their con­ can perceive nothing more than the elements crete, physical existence. In other words, in every­ which it discovers in the act of sensation. This is thing that, exists, the ideas of being, substance, the opposite extreme, in which the powers of intel­ unity, etc., have an objective existence. Everything ligence are weakened and even destroyed. It is that is, is a being, is one^ true^ etc. , the system followed by all materialists or those Briefly, the Scholastic doctrine is this: When an who deny the spirituality of the soul. object is for the first time brought before the mind Now, what does scholastic philosophy teach con­ through the senses, the intelligence, by that power cerning the nature of the union between the body of abstraction which it possesses, divests the object and soul in man? It teaches that man is a rational of its sensible qualities, and considers its essences. amtnal, and therefore in his nature is not wholly It then perceives the ra^zo^'of-being, substance, etc., spiritual, nor wholly material. Man is a com­ and forms conceptions of them. The object is pound of body and soul—^two elements distinct, conceived as being or things and thus the first and but united by a real, physical union, so as to form most universal idea is formed, to be followed in one complete substance. From this union, it fol­ "quick succession by the others. Of course, these lows that in the human compound there is one per­ ideas are hot reflexly universal or recognized as son and one complete principle, to which all the ac­ universal by the mind. Before this stage of knowl­ tions of either substance are to be attributed. This edge can be reached, reflection and comparison can be explained only by conceiving the soul with individual objects must be made.- But these united to the body as the principle of life,—the prin­ ideas are really and objectively universal, for they ciple communicating to the body the nature of represent what is common to many. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 83

In this theory, the intelligence is both an active and a passive power; its activity is aroused through NostrsB Dominse TJniversitas- the action of the senses. This view best accords with man's nature, as a compound of matter and Nostra quidem regio silvis ingentibus olim spirit. In the present life, it is but natural that Horrebat: lieti nunc viridantur agri. the senses should have their pai^t in intellectual ' Quacumque immanes errabant more ferarum cognition. The senses, however, are not, as the Silvicolse, decorat florida messis humum. sensists erroneously maintain, the efficient cause of Indica gens abiit, mores mutantur et usus, the intellectual act. They simply furnish the ma­ Atque novum tellus Indica nomen habet. terial upon which the intelligence, aided by the Quis Nostne Dominze fuerit fundator et heros imagination, acts. Dicere nil opus est: gloria vera latet. The expression quoted above—"iW^z7 est in Teque tuamque fidem muti, venerande SACERDOS, ifitellectu qiiod prizes non fuerit in sensu''''—may Conclamant lapides: vult domus ipsa loqui. be rightly understood in the sense that all the ideas Salve, Magna Parens, totum celebrata per orbem, of the human intellect derive their origin, either Quam Nostrie Dominae nomen habere decet! remotely or proximately, from the senses. It is Horrendas frustra flammje fecere ruinas: an expression of frequent occurrence among the Majorem reficit Virgo Maria domum. sensists, who mean by it that in the intellectual Nee jam sufficiunt redes, noctemque diemque cos^nition nausfht can be found but what it receives Ad portas juvenum fervida turba ruit. from the senses, thus making the intellect a mere Dilata pectus. Mater generosa, benignum passive power. It has been erroneously attributed Ut lac doctrinre multa juventa bibat. to Aristotle, the father of the Scholastic theory, Ah! turri statuam properes imponere, ut alma but was never employed by him. It is, however, Septem stellarum luce Maria tegat. as we have said, susceptible of an explanation in accordance with his theory. It may be, and is, Quis digno Nostram Dominam depingere possit true in this sense: "The material objects pre­ Carmine? Quisve domiis aurea dona canat? sented to the intellect were first perceived by the Arboribus late radians nemorumque corona senses; but in the same objects different things are Ut regina sedet floribus in mediis. . apprehended by the senses and the intelligence. Hie blando resonant undarum murmure lacus; By sensible things the mind is led to the under­ Hie dulci cantu musica corda movet. standing of many other things .which are wholly Hortulus hie ridet Minimorum: campus et illic immaterial; which, however, it does not under­ Quem sonitu Senior turba fremente quatit. stand except when aided by the imagination." Hos rapidis manibus fragilem perducere cymbam, We may here conclude with a quotation from Illos saltando membra movere juvat. the Angelic Doctor: Seria succedunt, quum tintinnabula, signum " Inferiores substantiie intellectivje, scilicet aninue hu- Ordinis, ad classes vel sacra templa vocant. manse, habent potentiam intellectivam non completam na- Qute teneras valeant mentes formare docentur: turaliter; sed completur in eis successive per hoc quod Scire homini prodest, vir bonus esse, magis. accipiunt species intelligibiles a rebus. Potentia vero in- tellectiva in substantiis spiritualibus superioribus, id rst in America Leges, Medicina, Historia, Lingua: angelis, naturaliter completa est per species intelligibiles Panduntur coeli, terra, profunda maris. connaturales ad omnia intelligenda quje naturaliter cog- Multa agitur viva Shaksperi fabula voce: noscere possunt. Ex hoc etiam ex ipso modo ess'endi hu- Quin etiam Antigones carmina pura sonant. jusmodi substantiarum apparet. Substantiie enim spiritu- ales inferiores, scilicet animie, habent esse affine corpori, Hi logicis pugnant rationibus: illos in quantum sunt corporum formse; et ideo ex ipso modo Vilrendi normam lingua Latina docet. essendi corfipetit eis ut a corporibus, et per corpora suam per- Omnia nunc paucis liceat concludere verbis: fectionem intelligibilem consequantur; alioquin, frustra " Mens hominis sano in corpore sana viget. corporibus unirentur." {Suinma, p. i, q. 55, art. 2.) Quamvis esse Deum monstret sapientia, vera " The lower intelligent substances, namely, the Relligio pax est unica, sola salus. human souls, have an intellectual power, naturally Nos sal vat Christus, Christumque Ecclesia tradit: incomplete. It becomes gradually completed in Per Christi Matrem gratia tota venit." proportion as they receive the intelligible species from things. But in the superior intelligent sub­ Hjec Nostra Dominse pueri prscepta docemur: stances, i. e., the angels, the intellectual power is Doctrinam firmet gratia, vita fidem I naturally complete, inasmuch as the intelligible Nos sacram officii volumus defendere causam: species by which they understand everything Victorera in ccelo splendida palma manet. which they can know according to their nature, ALUMNUS, '83. are connatural to them. This is seen also by the being respectively belonging to these substances; for human souls have a being akin to the body, CONSULT your friend on all things, especially inasmuch as they are the forms of their respective on those which respect yourself. His co«nsels bodies. Accordingly, in order to attain to their may then be useful, where your own self-love intellectual perfection they require the instrumen­ might impair your judgment.—Seneca. tality of their bodies. Were it not so, their union with the body would be purposeless." HABIT, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. S. C. —St. Augustine. H THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

The Vatican Library. of 1815, the late King of Prussia, at the sugges­ tion of W. Humboldt, applied to Pius VII for the The following brief account, obtained from a restoration of some of the manuscripts which had reliable source, of the principal treasures in the been plundered from the Heidelberg Library by Vatican Library, will, I think, be most interesting De Tilley. A more favorable moment for this reading at the present time, when Pope Leo's re­ request could not have been chosen. The service cent letter agfain calls attention to the treasures of rendered to the Church by the restoration of the that great storehouse of learning: Pope to his throne was acknowledged by-that en­ The Vatican Library may be considered to have lightened and virtuous Pontifl^on all occasions, and been founded by Nicholas V (1447), who trans­ in this instance the request of the King of Prussia ferred to his new palace the manuscripts which was immediately answered by the restoration of so had been collected in the Lateran. The Library, many manuscripts of great importance to the Ger­ at the death of Nicholas V, is said to have con­ man historian. At the j^resent time—for we do tained 9,000 manuscripts, but many of them were not know of any additions certainly since twenty- dispersed by his successor, Calixtus III. These five years—the Vatican Library contains in the losses were not repaired until the time of Sixtus Oriental collection 590 Hebrew, 7S7 Arabic, So IV, whose zeal in restoring and augmenting the Coptic, 71 -^thiopic, 459 Syriac, 64 Turkish, 65 Library is celebrated by Ariosto and by Pladeletina, Persian, i Samaritan, 13 Armenian, 2 Iberian, 22 \vho was appointed its librarian, about 1480. The Indian, 10 Chinese, and 18 Sclavonic manuscripts. present building was erected by Sixtus V, in 15S8, The amount of the whole collection of Greek, from the designs of Fontana, a new apartment Latin and Oriental manuscripts is 23,580, the having become necessaiy to receive the collection finest collection in the world. The number of made by his immediate predecessors, and particu­ printed books is estimated at .30,000, and includes larly b}'^ Leo X, who, like his father, Lorenzo the the collection of Cardinal'Mai, a munificent dona­ Magnificent, had sent agents into distant countries tion of Pius IX to the Library of the Vatican. to collect manuscripts. The principal manuscript treasures of the Li­ The celebrity of the Library dates properly from brary are the following: the close of "the sixteenth centurj'^, when the munif­ The celebrated " Codex Vaticanus," or, " Bible icence of the Popes was aided by the acquisition of the end of the Fourth or beginning of the Fifth of other important collections. The first was that Century," in Greek, containing the oldest version of Fulvius Ursinus, in 1600, followed by the valu­ of the Septuagint, and the first Greek one of the able collections of the Benedictine monastery of New Testament. This most important document Bobbio, composed chiefly of Palimpsests, that is, in Biblical literature was published.by the late manuscripts which have been written upon twice, Cardinal Mai, in 1857. The "Virgil" of the the first writing having been erased to make place fourth or fifth centur}'^, with fifty miniatures, in­ for the second. The Library then contained-10,660 cluding a portrait of Virgil, well known by the manuscripts, of which 8,500 were Latin and 2,160 engravings of Santo Bartoli. The " Terence" of Greek. The Palatine Library, belonging to the the ninth century, with miniatures; "A Terence" Elector Palatine, captured at Heidelberg by De of the fourth or fifth century; the oldest known. Tilley, and presented to Gregory XV in 1621 by " Fi'agments of a Virgil" of the twelfth century; Duke Maximillian of Bavaria, was the next acces­ The " Cicero de Republica," the celebrated Pal­ sion; it contained 2,388 MSS., 1,956 of which impsest discovered by Cardinal Mai, under a ver­ were Latin and 432 Greek. In 1658, the Vatican sion of St. Augustine's Commentarjr on the Psalms. received the Library of Urbino, founded by Duke This is considered the oldest Latin manuscript ex­ Frederigo, whose passion for books was so great tant. - The " Palimpsest of Livy, lib. 91," from the that at the taking of Vol terra, in 1742, he reserved library of Christina, Queen of Sweden. The nothing but a Hebrew Bible-for his own share of " Plutarch" from the same collection, with notes the spoil. This collection enriched the Vatican by Grotius; The "Seneca" of the fouiteenth cen- vvith 1,711 Greek and Latin manuscripts. In 1690, turjr, with Commentaries by. the English Domini­ the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the collection of can monk, Triveth; A "Pliny," with interesting Christina, Queen of Sweden, was added to the figures of animals; A " Menologia Graaca; or Greek Library;- it comprehended all the literary treasures Calendar of the Tenth Centui-y," oi'dered by the taken by her father, Gustavus Adolphus, at Prague, Emperor Basil; A fine example of B^^zantine art, Wurtzburg and Bremen, and amounted to 2,291 brilliantly illuminated with representations of ba­ manuscripts, of which 2,101 were Latin and 190 silicas, monasteries, and martyrdoms of various Greek. Clement XI, in the beginning of the last saints of the Greek Chui-ch. The " Homilies of century, presented 56 Greek manuscripts to the col­ St. Gregory Nazianzeri" of the year 1063, and lection; and in.1746 it received the splendid Library Four Gospels of the j'^ear 1128, both Bj'^zantine of the Ottobuoni family, containing 3,862 manu­ manuscripts of great interest. A Greek version scripts, of which 3,391 were Latin and 474 were of the "Acts of the'Apostles,'' written in gold, Greek; about the same time it was augmented by presented to Innocent VIII by Charlotte, Queen of 266 manuscripts from the library of the Marquis Cyprus. The large "Hebrew Bible," in folio, Capponi. The last addition of importance was from the library of the Duke of Urbino, for which that of 162 Greek manuscripts from the Convent the Jews of Venice offered its weight in gold. of San Bassillio, at Grqtta Ferrata. At the peace The " Commentaries on the New Testament," THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. -85

with miniatures of the fourteenth century, by Ni­ dinals, I think he refers more especially to the doc­ cola da Bologna. The "Breviaiy of Matthias uments contained in the Archivio Secreto^ because , Corvinus" of the year 1493, beautifully-written admission to the Library to consult and study manr and illuminated by Atlavanti. The Parchment uscripts on certain days, during stated hours and Scroll of a Greek manuscript of the seventh cen­ under proper restrictions, has been enjoyed by tury, thirty-two feet long, with miniatures of the scholai's and literary men for as long back as we history of Joshua. The " OfRcium Mortis," with kno\v of. A room called the Chaynher of the beautiful miniatures. The " Codex Mexicanus," Scribes^ which adjoins the beautiful ante-room, is a calendar of immense length; The dedication fitted up with stalls and tables for the use pf per­ copy of the " Assertio Septem Sacramentorum ad- sons so admitted, and I recollect when I passed- versus Martinum Lutherum," by Heniy VIII, through that room to have seen a number of men printed on vellum, at London in 1531, with the apparently engaged in literary work.—B.^ in Cath­ King's signature and the autograph inscription on olic Review. the last jDage but one, " Finis^ Uetiry^ i?CA-." Anglorum rex Henricus, Leo Decime, mittit, Hoc opus et fidei teste et amicitiie," Art, Music, and Literature. Letters from Henry VIII to Anne Bolejm, sev­ enteen in number; nine are in French and eight in English. - The " Dante " of the fifteenth century, —A. Rubinstein's latest song is entitled " Yearn- with miniatures, by Guilio Clovio. The " Dante in srs." The words are from the Russian of Ler-.. del Boccacio," in the very beautiful writing of the montoflf. author of the Decameron, to which his signature —Mr. Gladstone received his first critical con­ as Johannes de Certaldo is affixed, and with notes gratulation on his recent translation of Cowper's said to be by Petrarch. Tasso's autographs, Pe­ " Hark, my Soul, it is the Lord!" into the language trarch's autographs. Several manuscripts of Lu­ of Dante, from Cardinal Manning. ther, and the jDrincij^al part of the '.' Christian Cate­ chism," translated into German by Melancthon, —The Magliabechiana Library, at Florence, 1566. The Latin poem of " Donizo, in Honor of the has bought of Count Luigi Capponi the important Countess Matilda," with her full-length portrait, collection of writings regarding Fra Gerolama and several historical miniatures of gi'eat interest, Savonarola, which had been collected by Count iimong which are the repentance of the Emperor Carlo Capponi. Henr}^ IV, his absolution by Gregory VII^%tc. —Victor Nesler, the composer of the "Rat­ The great hall, which is 320 feet long, is divided catcher of Hamlen" and the "Wild Huntsman," b}"- pilasters into two portions, is beautifully deco­ has finished his latest opera, « The Trumpeter of rated with frescos, and is one of the most magnif­ Sjickingen," which is to be brought out in Novem­ icent halls of the kind. Attached to the pilasters ber at Leipsic and Strasburg. ivnd the wall are the painted cabinets or presses, - —Dr. Heinrich Schliemann has nearly com­ which contain the manuscripts; these are shut pleted a new illustrated work, which will embody with closed doors, so that a stranger might walk the results of his latest excavations on the site of through the entii^e suite of apartments and have no Troy. Simultaneously with the original, English suspicion that he was siu^rounded by the first liter- and French translations will be published. tiry treasures of the world. Between the pilas­ —^A national exhibition of architecture was re-, ters are placed several valuable modern works of cently opened at Brussels in the Palais des Beaux art. (Jut of the great hall a door leads into the Arts. The section which contains drawings dat­ •archhio secreto, where are preserved the most in­ ing back more than three centuries is especially- teresting manuscript histoi'ical documents connected. remarkable. Some of the exhibits, as, for instance, with the government of the Popes, diplomatic the drawings by Rubens, are almost priceless. correspondencej etc. —^Ivan' Turgeneff, the Russian novelist, who The galleries, which open fi'om the extremity of died in France, on the 3d of Sept., is described as a the gi'eat hall and which occupy a length of 1,360 ft., singularly lovable, fascinating, and courtly person. contain also presses with the manuscripts; they He was remarkably handsome, of imposing stat­ are divided into several halls, three of which form ure and commanding presence. He was the most the M?iseo-Cristiano^ or. Museum of Christian modest of writers, rarely speaking of his own Antiquities. In the first of these, enclosed in cabi­ works, but always generous in his appreciation of nets, is a most intei-esting collection of lamps, glass vessels, gems, personal ornaments, insti"uments for others. domestic use of the early Christians, chiefly from —A Gcethe exhibition has been opened at the Catacombs; there are also various instruments. Frankfurt-am-Main, in'the house where the poet of torture employed against the early sufferers for was born (Grosser Hirschgraben 33). In one our faith; such as hooks for teai'ing flesh, scourges' room are two large cartoons by Hermann Junker, made of iron chains, and particularly deserving of, representing incidents in the life of Gcethe; in an-r notice, a ^lumbahim.or copper ball, filled with lead other, objects belonging to his parents, and a MS, and attached to a chain, found alongside the body in his handwriting, with many corrections upon of a Christian ^nartyr in his tomb, ancient art. Froni tl?e tenor of the Pope's letter to the Car­ —The November number of th^ North American 86 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

Review will contain a contribution fi-om Dr. Noi"- Scientific Notes. viu Green, president of the Western Union com­ pany, in opposition to the proposed government —The total outflow of all the mineral waters of management of the telegraph; also, an article on France is estimated at 10,334 g^Ho^^s per minute. John Brown, by the Rev. David N. Utter, which —M. G. Foussereau has proved by some recent is calculated to seriously affect the popular estimate experiments that the electric resistance of glass of the hero of Osawatomie. diminishes on its being tempered. On the other —A new instrument, invented hj the talented hand, annealing tempered glass restores its higher musician, Cai'l Hahn, and by him christened " Can- resistance. tus Transcendentalis," has, at the request of King —The difficult task of inducing the Victoria Albert of Saxony, been played before him and the Regia, the giant water lily of South Amei"ica, to Court at Pillnitz. The effect of the cantus, the grow to perfection in the open air in_this country tone of which greatly resembles that of the human has been successfully accomplished by E. D. Sturte- voice, is said to entitle the instrument to universal vant, a florist of Bordentown, N. J. attention from the musical world. —M. Victor St. Paul has placed $5,000 at the —^Among the recent interesting acquisitions disposal of the Paris Academy of Medicine, as- a made by the Bei'lin Museum of Art Industry is prize to any person—^whatever may be his voca­ the spinet once belonging to Duke Alfonso II of tion or nationality—^who shall succeed in discover­ Ferrara, the identical insti-ument upon which ing an infallible means of curing diphtheiia. Eleonora of Este played to Torquato Tasso. The -^M. Marcel Desprez's invention for transport­ front of the key-board bears the name of the princelj'^ ing electrical force to great distances has been ap­ ovsrner and the inscription: Dum vlxi tacui, moi-- plied to a waterfall near Grenoble, which is" en­ iua dulce cano—"When alive (the wood) I was abled to work, to the extent of seven-horse power, silent, now that I am dead, I emit sweet strains." a sand-mill, a printing press, and other machinery The wood-work is richly lackered in red and gold, at Grenoble. . the cover is painted, the sounding-board inlaid —In Breslau, a chimney shaft, fifty feet high, is with ivory and ebon3^ composed entirely of paper pulp, which has been —During the excavations candied on by the chemically impregnated so as to resist combustion. French school at Athens, in the Island of Delos, a Paper has been put to some extraordinary uses, very interesting discovery has been made. Near but this is perhaps the most astonishing violation the theatre of Apollo a private house has been dis­ of jn-econceived ideas yet attem^Dted. The next covered, probably of the Alexandrine period. A thing in order now will be gun-cotton crucibles. court, surrounded by pillars and twelve rooms, has —Prof. Cohn, of Breslau, believes that slates thus far been revealed. The floor of the court is lead to short-sightedness, and would substitute pen of beautiful mosaic, containing flowers, fishes and and ink, or an artifical white slate with black pen­ other ornaments, and in the middle of the court cil, manufactured in Pilsen. Black or white is there is a cistern full of water. The gate of the proved by experiment to stand out most clearl}'- house and the street-leading to it have also been to the eye. The Zurich School Board forbids dug out. As the excavations continue, an entire slates. They are noisy, and invite dirty habits in quarter of the ancient city may possiblj'' be discov­ erasure. ered. —The Moniteur Industriel gives an account of —The colossal monument raised at Niederwald, the trial of an electric boat, at Geneva, on July 33d. on the banks of the Rhiiie, to commemorate the It was 30 feet long by 14 feet wide. The boat German victory in '7o-'7i, is thg work of the cele­ was driven for several hours, at a speed of i^rom brated sculptor, Prof. Schilling, of Dresden. The 5J^ to 65^ miles per hour, by three bichromatic rocky base of the monument rises from the waves batteries of six cells each. The motor—which was of the Rhine, and is a part of the'mountains of the on the Thury system—acted directly on a small, "Niederwald," opposite the ancient city of Bin- two-bladed screw, there being no intermediate gear­ gen. The pedestal is built on artificial rocks, and ing. ' has been finished some few years, and on it the gi­ —The pagan custom of cremation is threatened gantic figure of Germania, holding in. her hand by a formidable rival, quite as pagan, and pos­ the imperial ci-own, overlooks the forest. The sibly quite as ancient: this is no other than the height of the figure, from the foot to the tip of the old Egyptian system of mummification. A cer­ upraised hand, is 41 feet, or 13 feet less than the tain number of advocates of this system in Binis- great "Bavaria Monument" in Munich. The sels are about to address a petition to the Cham­ thumb measures 5J^ inches in diameter, and the ber, begging permission to mummify the bodies small finger 4 inches. The crown upon the head of their friends, which, they observe, would per­ of the figure measures 31^ inches in diameter; mit-the families of the deceased to contemplate the length of the nose from bridge to point is 12 from time to time the carefully-preserved remains inches, and the width at the nostrils 11 inches. It of their ancestors, and thus perpetuate filial piety takes both hands of a grown person to span the and the family spirit for generations. They fur­ little finger of the 'figure. The weight of the ther allege that cremation does-not at all destroy " Germania" is 350 tons. the body, but only reduces it to ashes, producing THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 87 rfleadly miasmas, which, being suspended in the air, —The original endowment of Harvard College, rare often breathed by men, or else mingle with the made by John Harvard, after whom the College \vvater that is drunk~by man and beast. Thus, was named, amounted to only eight hundred pounds ^wherever cremation is practised on a large scale, as sterling. iin India, it is a constant cause of fatal epidemics, —The new Catholic college at Columbus, Ohio, •such as the cholera, which, it is well known, has; under the directorship of Rev. H. L. Magevney, "its home in Hindostan, where that terrible disease was dedicated recently by Rt. Rev. Bishop Watter- ."is endemic. It will probably be thought that the son. The house has 28 rooms, and begins with "indictment of cremation is much more convincing about 60 students. • than the. defence of mummification.—London Tablet. —The Harvard Daily Herald and the WeeMy Crivison have discontinued. A new daily paper, —In a paper recently communicated to the Med-, to be known as the Herald- Crimson, will be pub­ ical Hospital Association of Paris by Dr. Debore, lished by a consolidated board composed of nine he describes a form of alimentation which has at­ editors from each of the former papers. tracted much attention. His S3'^stem is to apply nourishment in form of powder instead of in bulk. —The Harvard students, tired of being cheated Uncooked meat, from which the fat has been re­ by local dealers^ have formed a co-operative society moved, is minced finely and allowed to dry in an or club, by means of which they' are able to save a oven at about 90° centigrade until it becomes per­ good deal of money. The terms ^of membership fectly hard, without being burnt; it is then re­ are easy, and cash payments are insisted on in duced to impalpable powder by pounding in a every case. It is estimated that over $3,000 have mortar and passing through a fine sieve. The been saved already. powder so obtained represents about four times its, —A moveiin'ent is on foot to form a Temper­ ^vveight in flesh. The fibre and the large peixentage ance League in the University of Toronto. The •of water contained in flesh are thus removed, and success of such an organization at Harvard is tthe essential properties of the meat retained and pointed out as a favorable argument. Here at ipresented in a form the least difiicult to digest. Notre Dame, a Temperance Union was formed (Other alimentary substances can be prepared in the last year, numbering over one hundred members, •same way. In cases of consumption, the treatment and was very successful :n the attainment of its ob­ "is said to have proved mai-\'ellously successful; and ject. The same exists at present, with a very large in general debilit}'^ and nervous disorders, restora­ membership. tion is rapid and permanent. ,A few spoonfuls of —The eminent German Protestant historian, the powder is equal to the meal of a person with a Johann Frederich'Bohmer, wrote in 1850: " Would health}^ appetite. The powder, when boiled, will^ to God that the next Pope, who has been pre­ keep an indefinite time, arid may be taken with a dicted as a himen de ccelo, would look upon the little milk, gravy, wine, water, or other liquid.-^ truth-loving, serious science of history, as a * light Scientiiic Jhnerican. from heaven' in the darkness and errors of the want of principle of the present day." The next Pope has come in the person of Leo XIII, College Gossip. and his letter to the three Cardinals directs their attention to just the science of history. —A shorthand class has been organized at Yale. —We are in receipt of a copy of the « Antigone," —^Positions on the board of editors of the Daj-t- as prepared and represented by the Class of '83, at ynoiith are obtained b}'- competition. the University of Notre Dame, Ind. The Class of — Old St. Xavier's Church in New York is now '83 of that Institution claims the distinction of hav­ used as an exhibition hall for the college. ing brought out the first Greek play ever repre­ —At Niagara University the}-- are inaking stren- sented in the West; and now the "Hellenists" of •.uous efforts to get a new Exhibition Hall. '83 come forward with the first libretto. Assuredly this speaks very highly for the literary taste and —A large number of pupils study; Lustra paint­ classical culture of our Western friends; and their ing at St. Mary's Academy, Notre Dame, Ind. labors are to be so.much the more appreciated, as —Three mummies, said' to be 300 years old, the type-setting and translation have been entirely liave been brought from Alaska, and have been done by the members of the Class. The copy is •duly entered at "Yale College. .done up in neat pamphlet form, with the original —Cornell claims that she employs the only pro­ text and English version on opposite pages. . ... fessor in the United States who'-devotes his time Notwithstanding slight imperfections, which are exclusively to American history. but the tiniest specks when we consider the great­ —Amherst and Dartmouth are to have daily ness of the undertaking, the Class of '83 is to be papers. Harvard, Yale and Cornell are the only congratulated on the success of their eflPorts in institutions where dailies have succeeded so far.- producing this drama. They have erected for —President Porter, of Yale, testifies emphati­ themselves a monument, the grace and beauty and cally in favor of college athletics, stating that they strength of which will be fit subjects for the eulo- not only benefit the student physicallyj but even giums of future generations of "Hellenists" at Notre Dame.—Fordham College Monthly. morally. 88- THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

completed. As announced in the SCHOLASTIC, a short time ago, the exterior work of the Dome was finished, and everything was ready for the statue. On last Monday afternoon, the statue was lowered from the front porch and brought to the rear of Notre Dame, Ootolior 13, 1883. the College. There it was allowed to remain un­ til all the apparatus necessary for raising it to the The attention of the Alumni of the University of Notre Dame and others, is called to the fact that the NOTRE summit of the Dome could be prepared. Every­ DAME SCHOLASTIC has now entered upon the SEVEN- thing was ready by Wednesday noon and that TEEKTH 3-ear of its existence, and presents itself anew as a afternoon, slowly but surely, the grand figure as­ candidate lor the favor and support of the many old friends cended to the roof of the College. On Thursday that have heretofore lent it a helping hand. work was resumed, and at length, at five o'clock THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC Contains: p. m., amid the ringing of bells, the statue was choice Poetry, Essays, and the current Art, Musical, Lit­ seen to rest firmly and securely on its grand ped­ erary and Scientific Gossip of the day. estal. Editorials on questions of the day, as well as on subjects The statue is the work of the late Mr. Giovanni connected with the University of Notre Dame. Meli, of Chicago, and is the largest of its kind in Personal gossip concerning the whereabouts and the suc­ cess of former students. the United States. It stands sixteen feet in height, All the weekly local news of the University, including and weighs over 4,400 lbs. The work of raising the names of those who have distinguished themselves it to its present position was skilfully accomplished during the week by tlieir excellence in class, and by their under the direction of Mi\ Alexander Staples, of general good conduct. ;|2^ Students should take it; parents should take it; and, South Bend. above all, ^^ OLD STUDENTS SHOULD TAKE IT. Terms, Si.jo fer Aimum. Postpaid. —" The Statue is on the Dome!" was the general exclamation, last Thursday night. Few Address EDITOR NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC, and simple were the words, yet they contained a Notre Dame, Indiana. w^ealth of meaning. The}'^ announced the accom­ plishment of long-cherished desires of the heart, the —-We acknowledge the receijDt of a pamphlet, filling up of a void long too open at Notre Dame, the issued by the Tribune of South Bend, entitled— crowning act in the public expression of honor to " South Bend: Its Industries, Enterprises," etc. her under whose patronage this Home of Religion The Tribune Company have shown commendable and Science is placed. enterprise in the publication of this finely-gotten Notre Dame—" Our Lady." These two short up folio of 24 pages, giving a history of the vari­ words speak volumes in explanation and praise ous private and public enterprises in and around of the motive which has led to the erection the city, some of which have made the homely of this glorious monument to the Mother of God, name of " South Bend" familiar throughout the On the very first day—almost a half century ago— civilized world. Go where 3'^ou will, you will that Father Sorin with his little band took posses­ find a Studebaker or Coquillard wagon or carriage, sion of this spot of eaith, it was called by her name, an Oliver chilled plow, a Birdsell huller, or a Singer consecrated to her honor, and placed imder her sewing-machine. Like Swiss watches and English protection. Through the long years that have cutlery, these aiticles of South-Bend manufacture followed, this confidence in her watchful care has are found almost everywhere. Besides these, the been signally rewarded, and most fittingly to find young city contains within its limits more than suitable manifestation of gratitude has ever been sixty other manufacturing enterprises of greater or the great desire of the venerable Founder and his less magnitude. For its population. South Bend spiritual children. displaj's wonderful activity. Nearl)"^ $4,000,000 Amid all the changes wrought during the thirtj'- are invested in grounds, buildings and machinery, seven years that preceded the great fire of 1S79— and the product of the manufactories aggregate in while old buildings were torn down and new ones value nearly $11,000,000 a year. About one-third ei-ected—while additions and enlargements were of the entire population of South Bend are employed made, the statue of Our Lady has ever stood sur­ in the factories, the annual paj'^-roll amounting to mounting the main structure, and typifying the about $3,500,000. But all this, and much more, maternal care exercised over its inmates. More will be found fully described in the Tribune pam­ than three years have glided by since Notre Dame phlet, which should be widely circulated. passed through its fiery ordeal, and the time was well employed in preparing for the erection of a monument which would be, as far as loving hearts —The great event of the past week was the and willing hands could make it, a fitting expres­ placing of the colossal statue of the Blessed Virgin sion of gratitude, and the most glorious of its kind on the Dome" of the University. As is well in the country. known, since it was first brought to Notre Dame in And now these desires are realized. To-day the summer of 1S80, the statue has been adorning this grand statue, so familiar to the visitor and stu­ the front porch of the main building, and awaiting dent at Notre Dame, stands upon her magnificent the time when its pedestal-^the Dome—would be throne, and, with extended arms, gives the assur- THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 89

ance of the continued jDrotection of her whom it wrong. But a far more serious evil is, that, to a represents. great extent, the same impression exists as to moral training. It is a sad but undeniable fact that, out­ —For the fortieth time in its histoiy, Notre Dame side of our Catholic schools and colleges, particu­ is celebrating to-day the Festival of St. Edward— larly throughout our enlightened land of liberty, the name-day of its venerable Founder, Very Rev. the moral education of youth is wofully neglected Edward Sorin, Superior-General of the Congrega­ at the present day. And the consequences are felt tion of the Holy Cross. This day is ever one of in the evils which afflict society and government, great rejoicing, inasmuch as it presents an occasion and threaten their subversion. But of this again. for giving fitting expression to the feelings of ad­ We wish to speak now of physical training. miration and respect which all here must entertain The great maxim among the ancients was," Mens towards one who, under Heaven, has been the guid­ sana in corpora sano^^ and they showed their prac­ ing spirit of a great undertaking in the cause of tical appreciation of the truth in all their schools Religion and Education. of culture. They and our fathers of a century ago More than forty years ago. Father Sorin inau­ entertained the idea that without proper physical gurated the gi-eat work which to-da}'^ we see the training it would be impossible to find in a nation wonder and admiration of all. With a few, de­ either warriors or statesmen. It was this same idea voted Religious, he planted the little grain of seed, which drew from the Duke of Wellington, when and under his directive mind it took root, and grew looking on at the boys engaged in their sports in and developed into the grand and noble tree, whose the playground of a renowned school, the remark: fruitful branches extend far and wide. During " It was there the battle of Waterloo was won." the long years that have passed since first this great Practical success in life depends much more upon work was begun, Notre Dame has had, indeed, its physical health than is generally imagined. Take trials and reverses, the last and greatest of which any profession, and it will be seen that success is well known to all; but it has ever gone on, do­ in its pursuit, in no slight degree, depends upon ing its noble work, fulfiling its glorious mission; physical strength and activity. Thus, a well-trained, and, as year after year rolled by, receiving, in re­ strong and manly voice is considered almost indis­ turn for the trials and visitations from Heaven, the pensable to the successful lawyer or politician. blessing of increased prosperity, both temporal and They are called upon to display powers of physical spiritual. Our Alma Mater, now in the forty-first endurance and energy even more extraordinary year of its existence, occupies a leading place among than those of intellect, and so with many another the great educational institutions of the land. Its pursuit. The observation of an eminent writer is fame extends far and wide, and its students are doubtless in a great measure true, that the great­ gathered together from all parts of the countiy, ness" of our great men is quite as much a bodily af­ and fill its extensive halls. fair as a mental one. It is in the physical man that All this is, indeed, a magnificent tribute to the the moral as well as the intellectual man lies hid, faith, devotion and learning of the venerable Foun­ and it is through the bodily organs that the soul der, and the gi'eat wish that springs up in the hearts itself works. of all to-day, and seeks to find expression in voice Therefore, healthful bodily exercises are deserv­ and action, is, that Heaven ma}- grant Very Rev. ing of every attention whilst pursuing our studies Father General many more years of health and in college. We are glad to see the interest main­ strength to watch over the destinies of Notre Dame, tained in our athletic sports at Notre Dame, and and be witness to the grand results yet to be ob­ we have no doubt that one of the many advan­ tained ! tages that result from our Field Day meeting on the 13th is the awakening of an interest in this branch —It has been often said, a perfect education is of of education to endure throughout the year. a thi-eefold nature: it must be moral, intellectual and physical; for it supjjoses the perfect develop­ ment of a man as he is—a compound of body and 'Exchanges. soul. His education, therefore, which has for its object to develop him, as near as may be, into a per­ —Most of our exchanges start out quietly. fect human being, must seek the perfection of the The bluster with which new editors usually begin two substances w'hich enter into the composition work is conspicuously absent in the publications of his being. The powers of the body as well as before us. Wordy resolutions are not piled up on the soul must be trained and perfected in order one another, and the customary advice given to other to the completeness and perfection of an education. college papers, which they must follow, or—die. It has been well said: " If we were to cultivate As a matter of fact, it used to be the strong point the physical powers only, we would be lower than of editors in former years to be able to manage man—brutes; if we cultivate the moi-al only, we be­ every other paper except their own; and being so come higher than man—angels; if we cultivate the laudably devoted to the welfare of others, they for­ intellectual faculties only, we" become worse than got their own. We don't deprecate the absence men—devils." of such philanthropy. The quiet start made by Practically, the general impression that seems to college papers so far seems to mean business—a prevail is, that physical training is of little or no quiet but firm determination to help themselves consideration in a scheme of education. This is first,—and their neighbors afterward, perhaps. 90 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

—But few, comparatively, of the college papers buque, Iowa. John is pleased to meet old college on last year's exchange list have yet put in an ap­ friends, which he demonstrated in a most cordial pearance. It takes them some time to get started, manner the past vacation. but they will probably be all the better for the de­ —Rev. A. B. Oechtering, of Mishawaka, ac­ lay. The first that came were TJie Unlveisity companied by his organist, Mr. H. Hoei'stmann, Quarterly^ New \'"ork Universit}', The Badgei- paid us one of his genial visits this week. Mr. and the Ufdversity Press, followed shortlj'^ after Hoerstmann, his companion, has been for thirty- by the Harvard Daily Herald, the Miagara In­ six years a parochial school teacher. dex, the Coj-nell Dally S?ifz, the Oberlin Reviexv, —Among the visitors during the past week were, The Lariat, and the St. Mar^s Seiitinel. A little Carlisle Mason, Chicago, 111.; Mr. Orlando Kim- later came the University Magazine, ixova. Penn­ mell and wife, Ligonier, Ind.; Mr. Thomas J. Mc- sylvania University, the Columbia Spectator, the Guire, Clinton Co.,Iowa; Mr. Dennis Peters, Troy, St. Viateur'^s College Journal, and the College N. Y.; Mr, Henry McGill, Laporte, Ind.; Mr. Record. We have just been informed by a note David J. Wile, Laporte, Ind.; Mi". A. Fife, Chi­ from the editorial association that the Milton Col­ cago, 111. lege you7-7ial has suspended publication. -David J. Wile, of Laporte (Class of '71)5 was at the College this week. Mr. Wile carries Personal. a very heavy law business, but it doesn't seem to bother him much, for he is getting fleshy under -:-David J. Brown, of 71, is in the insurance the burden. Mr. Wile was, in days of yore, a business in Chicago. leading member of various societies, among others Joseph Winterbotham, of '68, is a prominent the St. Cecilians and Thespians. contractor in Chicago. —Rt. Rev. Mgr. J. Benoit, Vicar-General of ^Henry W. Cassidy, of '75, is a leading lawyer Fort Wayne, arrived at Notre Dame on Wednes- in Youngstown, Ohio. dajr evening, and remained until Friday, the guest T, Knight is a partner in his father's law of­ of Veiy Rev. Father Sorin. Mgr. Benoit, desjjite his many years, looks hale and l;.*.arty, and, we are fice, in Dubuque, Iowa. glad to say, bids fair for many another year of use­ —John S. McNally, of '73, is with the E. & N. S. fulness. His visits are always welcome. Dispatch Co., Detroit, Mich. —W. S. Bolton, of 'S3, has passed a very suc­ W. P. Fletcher, of '70, is prospering in the cessful examination at West Point, and is now a commission business at St. Louis. cadet at the Militaiy Academy. He attributes his —Henry W. AckhofF (Com'l), of '70, holds a success, of course, to the training he received here. position in the Custom House, Chicago. He likes his new life; he finds it harder than at —^Mrs. Hopkins, of Pueblo, Colorado, is at Notre Dame, but expects to get used to it. He Notre Dame, visiting her son. Lisle Hopkins, of has the best wishes of his old friends for his con­ the Senior department. tinued success. —W. Ryan (Com'l), '83, is Assistant Book­ keeper in his fathei-'s large Pork-packing Estab­ Local Items. lishment, in Dubuque, Iowa. —Founder's Day. Geo. P. McNall}^ of ''(^6, is a member of the firm of Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago, whose —Waddie wants " rec." colossal printing and pulDlishing house is one of the —He has adopted the calla lily. largest in the world. —"Really, that is very elevating!" Mr. Herbert Fassett, of the South-Bend Reg­ —Be sure you write and go ahead.' ister, accompanied \)j Mr. Martin. H. Price, edi­ —The Bulletins were sent oft' last Thursday. tor of one of Indianapolis's leading papers, visited —The Juniors have a new "Rugby" football. the College this week. —Crehore still holds to the Republican party. F. Kinsella (Com'l), of '82, is in business in Dubuque, Iowa. Frank has many happy recol­ —The Euglossians appeared in full force last lections of his college days, and promises "an early night. visit to his Ahna Mater. —Competitions, next' week, in the Collegiate Course. —^M.,Kinsella (Com'l), of '74,'js a.partner in a —-Full reports of all the proceedings will be large hardware. store, in Dubuque, Iowa. Mike given in our next. :, . is a tliorough-going business, man, a genial gentle­ man, and one that reflects honor on his Alma Mater. —The devotions of the month of October are well attended every evening. —Rev. P. W. Condon, C. S. C, of Watertown, Wis., accompanied by Mr. E. A. Bray^ of the Cath­ —The entertainment last evening- was short and olic Citizen, Milwaukee, arrived at the College yes­ excellent, and largely attended. terday, in time to attend the celebration of the fes­ —How many candidiites for the Mason Medal tival of St. Edward. figure in this week's " List of Excellence " ? —J. Phelan (Com'l), of-'77, is a partner in a —The. students' Retreat will be pi-eached by large .boot and shoe store with his father, in Du­ Revev,. D.J. Spillafd, C. S. C, Class of '64. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 91

—On account of the rain, the field-sports have fought contest, the Reds won the prize—a barrel been postponed to another day. of fine apples. —TJiis afternoon, the regular fall field meeting —The address of the Seniors on last evening of our Athletic Associations Avill take place. was a creditable production, and well read. Mas­ —All are agreed that the shouts of "John May- ter D. Taylor presented a fine address in behalf of nard!" and "Fire!" are somewhat<3?//re' after 9 the Juniors, while the Minims (the young Princes) p. m. were ably represented by Benjamin B. Lindsey, —Prof. Hoyne represented the Faculty on the assisted by J. Wright and R. V. Pap-n. occasion of the reception of Father Sorin, this —Frank Olds, Fred Hunt and James Barger mornmg. went to Notre Dame yesterday on their bicycles, —103 Juniors appear on the "Roll of Honor" where they were entertained. very- pleasantly by this week. This is a very good showing, boys, Brother Paul and Messrs. Bannigan and Saviers. keep it up. They made the trip down in about three hours, and the distance there and back is about 29 miles, —All the Princes figure in the " Roll of Honor" —Elkhart Review. this week because of the festival day of their ven­ erable Patron. —The regular meeting of the Senior Archcon- fraternity was held last Sunday evening. Rev. S. —The vocal room is rapidly approaching com­ Fitte in the chair. T. E. Steele read an interesting pletion. It is to be elegantly fitted up for the use and instructive paper on "Revelation," and was of the Orpheonics. warmly applauded. N. H. Ewing and E. A. Otis —The reason why Waddie did not ride the were appointed to prepare papers for' the next burro was because M — was a stockholder and meeting. After some instruction from Rev. Father would, not send her favorite out. Fitte, the meeting adjourned. —The Minims desire to express their thanks to —When the lecture season begins, our friend the Fathers and members of the Faculty who John will deliver his famous lecture on " Patagonia." kindljr donated prizes for the field sports. His tale of travel and adventures in that country, —On the 7th, the Atlantics and the 3d nine of and description. of the beauties with which it is the Junior Club played a championship game of covered, w^ill cause the greatest interest and wonder baseball. Score, 9 to S in favor of the Atlantics. among his auditors. After the lecture, copies can be procured at the office for the 7iommal price of —No pains are spared to develop and pei"fect fifty cents. Order esu-ly, as only one edition will the Law department. A large and valuable collec­ be printed. tion of law books was added to the Library last week. —The 6th regular meeting of the St. Cecilia —The Senior dining-room has been handsomely Philomathean Association was held Oct. loth. Mas­ and artistically decorated in honor of Very Rev. ters Monschein and Stubbs were elected members. Father Sorin, the distinguished guest of the College A debate on " Classical Education " was held be­ to-day. tween C. Porter and F. Dexter, ably assisted by :—Signor Gregori and his son left for Detroit D. Taylor and W. Mug. Essays were read by G. last Saturday evening. - They have been engaged Schaefer, W. Schott, and W. P. Mahon. Public to do the fresco painting of the Pro-Cathedral in readers for this week are J. Fendrich, W. P. that city. Mahon, Jos. Courtney, D. Taylor, J. McDonald —The fifth and sixth Latin classes, and all the and E. Porter. Grammar and Arithmetic classes in the Prepara­ —We are glad to see Bro. Anselm, the genial tory department were visited by the Director of and energetic Director of the Orpheonics, around Studies during the past week. once moi-e. He is now rapidly recovering from —Owing to the lai-ge attendance, it has been his late severe illness, and will soon be as active necessary to- divide the courses in Book-Keeping. as ever. The Orpheonics were greatly missed on A new commercial room is greatly needed, but it last evening, but, owing to the -illness of their Di­ is a want which, we learn,-will be soon supplied. rector, they were not prepared to make their debzit. —The result of the Ohio election has sadly de­ But they will soon be in active training, and dur­ moralized the stalwart wing of the Republican ing the long winter nights many an occasion will part}^ in this locality. At least he was observed to present itself when they can entertain their friends. be in very bad humor on Wednesday afternoon. —Most Rev. P. W. Riordan, Coadjutor Arch­ —The work of lathing the interior of the Dome bishop of San Francisco, arrived last evening, and is now completed, and the plastering has begun and was heartily welcomed by the Faculty and students. will be finished in a few weeks. The Dome, how­ Archbishop Riordan was an honored guest at the ever, will not be opened to the public before the entertainment iri celebration of St. Edward's Day, Christmas holidays. and made most appropriate closing remarks. He feelingly referred to his own college days at Notre —Last Thursday afternoon, an exciting game of Dame, and the love he always retained for his Al­ football was played on the Senior Campus, be­ ma Mater^ and coiicluded by earnestlj'^ advising the tween the Reds, captained by Charles. Murdock, students to realize their present opportunities and ijnd the Blues, by, E. V. Chelini. After a well- profit by them. 93 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

—^At the 40th annual celebration of the Festival ard, Halligan, B. Henry, J. Henry, W. Henrj', Houlihan, of St. Edward—Patronal Festival of Very Rev. Hagen, Hopkins, Houck, J. Hetz, Holman, Johnson, King, Edward Sorin, C. S. C, Superior-General of the J. Kelly, Letcher, G. Lewis, Leonj--, Mulkern, Monschein, Mullane, A. Miller, A. Meyer, Menig, McGee, Mason, Congreg-ation of the Holy Cross, and Founder of Mahon, j. McGordon, C. McGordon, McDonnell,'Marcott, Notre Dame—^by the Euglossian Association, the Metz. Mug, Muhler, O'Brien, J P. O'DonnelL C. Porter, following programme was carried out last evening: E. Porter, Pohl, Rogers, Regan, Rothschilds, Reynolds, E. Ryan, Shea, Scdberry, Schmauss, L. Scheurman, M. Music (Quickstep)—" The Vanguard " N. D. U. C. B. Scheurman, Schott, Schaefer, Stumer, Smith, Stitt, Stubbs, Song—" Then You '11 Remember Me!" T. Cleary Samiders, D. Taylor, -Tarrant, Violette, Wile, Wagoner, Address from the Minims: B. Lindsej', R. Papin, J- Wright Wabrauschek, Wai.xel, Weber, Fehr. Address from the Jvmiors D. Taj'lor Song—" The Bend of the River " H. Foote MINIM I>EPARTMENT. Address from the Seniors C. A. Tinlej Masters Ackerman, Amoretti, Adams, H. Addington, Overture—" Othello " {Rossini^ University Orchestra J. Addington, Bunker, Brown, Boos, Butterfield, Benner, Prologue J. Solon Crawford, Curtis, Crotty, Cole, E. Costigan, Cummings, Music—La Gazza Eadra String Quartette Dirksmej'er, Delaplane, W. Devine, Dungan, Drown, Devereux, Ernest, Fitzgerald,Garrity, Gonzalez, Grunsfeld, CATALINE. Henry, Keefe, J. Kelly, E. Kelly, Krause, LaTourette, {^AJI Historical Drama in Three Acts.') Landenwich, Lowenstein, Lewis, B. Lindsey, C. Lindsey, Loya, J. McGrath, E. McGrath, McNally, F. McGuire, W. CHARACTERS : McGuire, McGill, McPhee, McVeigh, Morrison, Morgan, F Cicero E. A. Otis Mullen, A. Mullen, Moye, Meehan, Nusbaum, Noonan, F. Ca2sar J. Solon Nester, A. Nester, O'Connor, M. O'Kane, B. O'Kane, Otis, Catiline D. Saviers W. Prindiville, D. Prindiville, R. Papin, V. Papin, Quinlin, Cassius J. Conway Quiggle, Rebori, Stange, Studebaker, Schmitz, Schoneman, Cethegus O- Spencer Salman, Sokup, Steele, E. Scherrer, C. Scherrer, L. Schcr- Manlius A. Coll rer, Smith, Stewart, Spencer, Thomas, W. Tomlinson, C. Lentulus. A. Browne Toralinson, Weston, Welch, West, Wright, L. Young, C. Autronius H. Steis Young. Petrius J. E. Rudge Faesulanus F. Callaghan Sextus W. C. Orchard Class Honors. Mettelus J. Kleiber Senators, Lictors, Guards, Soldiers, etc. [In the following list may be found the names of those Epilogue... E. A. Otis •students who have given entire satisfaction in all their' TABLEAU. classes during the month past.] Closing Remarks Very Rev. Edward Sorin, C. S. C. COMMERCIAL COURSE. Music—" Flying Dragoon " N. D. U. C. B. Messrs. Grothaus, Mulkern, Berthelet, Holbrook, S. The programme for to-day (the 13th) is as O'Brien, Reynolds, McDonnell, Wilson, Monschein, Jno. Shea, Pour," G. O'Brien, W. Cartier, Dexter, Ott, O'Dea, follows: J. Burke, J. McNamara, L. Cavanagh. Solemn High Mass S a. m. Reception by the Faculty 10 " " Regatta. 10.30 " " List of Excellence. Minim Field Sports 11 " " Dinner 12 m. [ The students mentioned in this list are those who have Junior Field Sports 2 p. m. been the best in the classes of the courses named—accord­ Senior Field Sports 3.30 " " ing to the competitions, which are held monthly.—DI­ Supper 6" " RECTOR OF STUDIES.] Soiree '. 7.30 " " ^ PREPARATORY AND COMMERCIAL COURSES. Reading and Orthography—Messrs. Hellebush, Deader- ich, Clear^', Rogei-s, Monscheim, Caveroc, Muhler, J. Shea, EoU of Honor. Hagen; Grammar—Messrs. J. McNamara, G. O'Brien, B. C. Ciissan, Warner, T. Taj'lor, Violette, J. McGordon, See- SENIOR DEPARTMENT. gers, Murphv, Terrazas, P. Johnson, T. McGill, F. Waixel, Messi^s. Anchando, Aguilera, Banigan, Bowers, Burns, A. Howard, Clarke, Weber, S. O'Brien, W. Wright, Foote, Brosseau, Barron, Buchanan, Becerra, J. Burke, Browne, Wall, W. O'Connor, Hafner, Cleary, E. Porter, Yrisarri, Combe, J. Carroll, Coll, Cussen, Callan, Cass, Cartier, Jas. McDonnell, Mulkern, Monscheim, Holbrook, Cassily, Ger­ Cusack, Jno. Cusack, Crawford, Creel, Cella, Conway, A. lach, Hagenbarth, W. Henry, S^'kes, Mahon, Ott; Arith­ Coghlin, Callaghan, Chelini, Connell, Delgado, De Groot, metic—Messrs. Leffingwell, Cussen, W. Mahon, C. War­ De Wolf, Donohue, Dolan, A. Dennis, Eisenhauer, Fishel, ner, Weiler, J. Ganity, P. Wagoner, E. Howard, Arnold, Fogerty, Farrell, T. Fenlon, Gonsor, Goulding, Gonzalez, Cleary, E. Ryan, T. Williamson, Holman, Divine, Gimble, Gieser, Gutierrez, Gray, Garret, J. Gallagher, Godfroy, Deaderich; United States. History—Messrs. DeWolf, W. Henderson, Howard, Hopkins, Hellebush, Hausberg, Mahon, P. Warren, W. Cartier, O'Connell; Geography— Handy, Johnston, Jones, Kerndt, Kimmel, Kaufmann, Messrs. W. Cartier, G. O'Brien, O'Connell, Kerndt, O'­ Kolars, Kleiber, Lucas, Larkin, Long, McErlaine, Mahon, Rourke, Gonser, J. Hopkins, Menig, Gimble, Regan, McCabe, McKinherj', Mathers, Marquez, Mittendorf, Mc- Harris, .King, Weber, Caveroc; Algebra—Messrs. Cella, Intyre, T. McNamara, J. McNamara. Neeson, O'Connell, Halligan, J. Smith, Gerlach, W. Cartier, J. Burns, Costi­ G. O'Brien, Eugene O'Brien,- Ott, O'Kane, O'Dea, Orchard, gan, J. Eisenhauer, McDonnell, T. Carroll, Orchard; O'Rourke, Otis, H. Paschel, C. Paschel, Pour, Kavanagh, Latin—Messrs. Reach, J. Smith, Hagenbarth; Greek— Rudge, Rogers, Reach, Shea; Stull, Stover, Steis, Shields, Messrs. Schott, W. Henry; Book-Keeping—Messrs. Wil­ Spencer, Saviers, Solon, G. Smith, Tinley, Teasdale, F. son, Fogart}', Berthelet, Jno. Shea, Monscheim, Hafner, Uranga, J. Uranga, C. Warner, Wilson, Whalen, Jno. Newman, W. Cartier, Holbrook, Ott; Penmanships- Wagoner, Wheatley, Wall. Messrs. Gutierrez, Creel, Fishel, Foster, Gerlach, Stumer. JUNIOR BEPARTMENT. _ Masters. Aiken, Arnold, Anchando, Borgschulze, Berthe- let, Baur, Barclay, E. Chirhart, A. Chirhart, J. Courtney, For the Dome. Curtis, Chaves, Caveroc, Cartiei-, Cleary, Clarke, Costigan, Cassilly, Dwenger, Dorenberg, Dexter, Dennis, Eisen­ Mrs. Cr C. Connellj'.,:. $5-oo hauer, Fendrich, Fierro, H. Foote, Gerlach, E. Gimbel, Miss C. G. Connelly :..... 5.00 Grothaus, Grunsfeld, Hagenbarth;- Hemisbaugh, E. How­ C.C.Connelly ; 5.00 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC, 91

—Sunday, Oct. 7th, was the three hundredth and twelfth anniversary, to a day, of the famous bat­ Saint Jflary's Aca5emy. tle of Lepanto, which was gained by the Christians against an overwhelming Turkish force, and se­ One Mile West of Notre Dame Umversity. cured, as it is piously believed, by the prayers of the faithful who were at the same time reciting —On Sunday the usual monthly Exposition and the Rosary in the churches of Rome for the suc­ Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament took place; cess of the Christians. The Society of the Holy the Catholic pupils all, as usual, approaching the Rosary was i^eorganized, and the following officers Holy Table at the earlj^ Mass. were elected: President, Miss Louise English; Vice-President, Miss Sophia Papin; Secretary, —The list of Competitions show that no time Miss Emma Neu; Treasurer, Miss Louise Black. has been subtracted from class duties to be given to the lighter, but far from unimportant, pastimes —Miss Kate Young, of Class '72, has donated which impart gracefulness and self-possession to an exquisitely painted badge to the French Classes. those who engage in them. On Father General as the head of the French de­ —In the Competition in Geography of the partment devolves the disposition to be made of Second Preparatory Class, Manuelita Chaves and the beautiful gift. As a compliment to the Feast Sadie Campeau deserve special mention for readi- of St. Edward, the young lady who is to read the iness, clearness, and accuracy of recital, and marked French address will wear the badsre. On the superiority over all other competitors. strearners are painted the " Marguerites"—the fa­ vorite flower of France. Very Rev. Father has —On Tuesday, at three o'clock, release from decided that, as an award, an article so unique in class duties was granted to the young ladies, in. its beauty should be reserved until the marked pro­ honor of the feast of their Prefect of Discipline. ficiency of the progress in French shall waiTant A walk and a most palatable collation gave zest the competition. to the occasion and made the day very pleasant to all. —Visitors at the Academy during the past week were: Rev. J. Staufs, Manchester, Mich.; —At the regular Academic reunion. Miss Anna Mr. Blossom, Jamestown, Dakota; Mrs. F. T. Murphy recited, with excellent effect, " Asleep at Jackson, U. S. A., Fort Sully, Dakota; Mrs. P. the Switch," and Miss Mattie Munger rendered Duce}'^, Muskegon, Mich.; Mrs. T. L. Starr, Hud­ "How Rubenstein played," in a very amusing son, Ohio; Mr. Wm. Brown, Louisville, Ky.; manner. Even the grave Chaplain could not con­ Mrs. L. E. Scott, Miss Angela Wells, Mrs. Susan trol his risibility. Kersey, Mr. W. Russell, Chicago; Mr. Trucou, —The Etruscan gold cross for elegant-deport­ New Orleans, La.; Mrs. J. L. Bailey, Denver, ment is worn for the first time this week. On Col.; Mrs. H. C. Platte, Mrs. L. Platte, Niles, Sunday, six young ladies who had distinguished Mich.; A. B. Younkmen, M. D., and Mrs. Younk- themselves among the most courteous and olDlisjinsr men, Bremen, Ind.; Mrs. O'Hara, Mr. Charles were accorded the unusual pleasure of a visit to Quinn, Miss Quinn, Mrs. A. W. Webster, Walker- Notre Dame, where Very Rev. Father General ville, Ind.; Mrs. Gould, Mr. Charles Brown, paid them the honor of superintending the award. Marenetti, Wis.; Miss O. Robbins, Benton Har­ Misses Ashton, Bruhn, Fendrich, Gove, Reilly and bor, Mich. Munger drew for the prize. Miss Bruhn was the ,—The delight of the Minims on Wednesday, successful one. the 3Sth ult., may be better imagined than described —To excite emulation in the First Preparatory when they were summoned hy their Prefect and Grammar Class, a little prize was offered for those their French teacher to take a walk to Notre who did not miss during the week, and on Satur- Dame. To them, never was a day more delight­ daj-^ the following young ladies drew for it: the ful, and, we think, few, since that unlucky buggy Misses C. Babcock, B. English, M. Fisk, C. Fehr, capsized, were more pleasant to Very.Rev. Father A. Gavan, Alice and Addie Gordon, L. Heneberry, General, for the enthusiastic little group stormed H. Jackson, C. Lucas, E. Kearns, W. Lintnei", A. his castle and took possession, which act of invasion Mooney, W. Moshier, C. Richmond, G. Regan, broke the monotony of his long imprisonment. A. Rj^an, M. Scully, B. Snowhook and M. Schmidt. Marie Lindsey addi"essed him neatly, and appropri­ The fortunate winner was Miss Babcock. ately in poetry, Lala Chapin and Grace Papin —By mistake, the name of Rachel Metz was spoke to him in his beautiful vernacular, and all omitted from the list of those who drew last week the charming little accomplishments of which the for the badge of politeness in the Junior department. Minims of '83 arc mistresses ^vere brought into The competitors for this week are: Misses Barth, requisition to amuse their venerable and urbane Cummings, Chaves, Campeau, Dillon, Dodge, A. host. Some one had considerately placed a box of English, Fehr, Helen, Ella and Sybil Jackson, confectionaries on the programme, but the young Kej'^es, Lord, McEwen, Malbccuf, Murphy, Metz, people did not let it remain there long. Bon-bons Naylor, M. Papin, Richmond, Regan, Roddin, were distributed broadcast, and rosy lips and Shephard, Sheekey, Schmidt, Stumer, Snowhook, cheeks, bright eyes and smiles, borne homeward Scott, Turpie and Wolvin. The badge fell to on the lightest of light feet, reached St. Mary's in Minnie Schmidt. time for dinner, which, however, they considera-

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telj declined, as a sumptuous repast had been pre­ Gove, Gavan, Gage, Heneberry, Helpling, Heckard, Hunt, pared for them at the Convent. Everybody was Hale, Hack, Horn, Holt, Hart^ Johnson, Keenan, Kearns, Kearney, Kearsey, Keating, King, Legnard, Lintner, Lea- made more cheerful by witnessing the exuberant high, Munger, A. Murphy, M. Murphy, Mohl, McCarthy, happiness of the artless little Minims. Neu, O'Connell, L. Priestman, M. Priestman, Papin, Platte, —The following is the programme of the Annual Quill, Reilly, Rj'an, Russell, Rej-nolds, Ramsey, Rosing, S. St. Clair, L. St. Clair, Sheridan, Sheekey, Schmaltz, Entertainment to be given this (Saturday) after­ Sear, L. Spotwood, Todd, Udall, Vandebogart, Weckler, L. noon at 3 o'clock—Feast of St, Edward, Patronal Williams, Wilson. Festival of Very Rev. Father General, the vener­ JUNIOR DEPARTMENT. able Founder of St. Mar3''s Academy: ist Tablet—Misses I. Allen, M. Allen, Best, Bailey, Entrance Sonata C. M. Von Wcbcr Barth, Cummings, Chaves, Dillon, Dodge, Ducej', Eldred, A. English, Fehr, Halsey, H.Jackson, E. Jackson, S Jack­ Misse.s L. Fendrich and J. Reillj. son, Keyes, Lord, Lucas, McEwen, Murph}', Malboeuf, A Garland of Memorjand Hope Miss C. Campbell Metz, Papin, Richmond, Regan, Roddin, Shephard, M. Festgruss Miss C. Ginz Schmidt, Stumer, Sheekey, Snowhook, Turpie, Van Horn, Chorus Mendelssohn Wolvin. 2d Tablet—Misses Brown, Morrison, Naylor, Vocal Class, Acc'd by Miss M. Cummings. Scott. Souhaits de Bonheur Miss E. Call Welcome from the Junior Department, Miss L. Van Horn MINIM DEPARTMENT. Music—A Scottish Gem Miss M. Hunt ist Tablet—Misses L. Chapin, Ducey, J. English, L. Joyful Voices from Bright Minims. Johns, V. Johns, Lindsej', Murray, G. Papin, Paul, Rey­ By Special Request, Mrs. Nightingale Avill give a nolds, Schmauss, Van Fleet. Rehearsal, bj' her Warbling Class. Mrs. Nightingale, Miss Agnes English; Chorus, Juniors Cascade du Cftandi'on Bendel Miss B. Gove. Class Honors ST. ROSE OF LIMA. (An Original Drama, in Two Acts.) [The following-named young ladies have been best in Dramatis Personce. class—according to competitions held during the month.[ Dona Rose Florez Miss M. Murphy Geolog}'—Misses Fendrich, Johnson, Todd; Logic— " Florez Miss E. Sheekey Misses Ginz, Keenan, Dunn, Call, Papin, Gove, Sheekey, " Herrera Miss M. Hunt Campbell, Ashton; French—Misses Duffield, Gove, Holt, " Venergas Miss C. Campbell Ashton, Lord, Dungan; Literature—Misses Gove, Dunn, " Quignonez Miss E. Todd Keenan, Duffield, Papin, Sheekey, Ginz, Ramsey, Rosing; " Mexia Miss M. Munger Rhetoric—^Misses Danforth, Heckard, L. English, L. Wil­ " Serreno Miss C. Ginz liams, S..,St. Clair, L. St. Clair, Munger, Rosing, Black, " Marianne Miss L. Williams Carney, Bi uhn, Helpling, Dungan, Wilson, B. Kearney, " Michelle Miss C. Babcock Morrison, A. Babcock, M. Dillon; History—Misses Gove, " Petria Miss L. Spotwood Keenan, Call, Dunn, Papin, Sheekey, C. Ginz, Ramsey, St. Catharine of Sienna Miss B. Gove Heckard," Munger, L. English, Danforth, Williams, Ros­ Prologue Miss M. Munger ing, Black, Dungan, Kearney, A. Murphy, E. O'Connell, Vocal Duett from Der FreiscJmtz C. M. Von Weber Kej'cs, Hunt, Wilson, Wolvin, Legnard, E. Sheekey, Van­ Misses Reillj' and Bruhn. debogart, Kearsey, A. Babcock, Horn, Shephard, Lucas; ACT 1ST, SCENES IST, 2D. Chemistry—Misses Danforth, Heckard, L. English, Mohl, Cummings, S. St. Clair, L. St. Clair, Helpling, Carney, L. Liea'a di Lammermoor (Sextnoj- Finale) Wilhners Williams, Munger; Arithmetic—Misses Kearsey, Hale, Miss J. Reilly. Rosing, Hart, Hunt, A. Babcock, Vandebogart, Shephard, SCENES 3D, 4TH. A. Allen, I. Allen, Dillon, Morrison, Wolvin, Legnard, O'­ Vocal Trio Randegger Connell, Lintner, Sear, Reynolds, Keyes, A. Duffield, A. Misses B. English, Hale and Neu. Moonej', Dungan; Grammar—^Misses Kearns, Ryan, C. Babcock, Mooney, Lintner, Gavan, B. English, Heneberry, SCENE 5TH. Fisk, Scully, Alice Gordon, Addie Gordon, Richmond, Song—" Salve Maria " Mercadante Van Horn, Moshier, Regan, Snowhook, Schmidt, Lucas, Miss J. Reilly. Jackson; United States Historj-—^Misses G. Regan, Rich­ ACT 2D, SCENE, IST. mond, Moshier, Spotwood, Schmidt, Lintner, Dodge, Concerto, G Minor MendelssoJni Ryan, Fisk, Kearns, Fehr, Snowhoook, Van Horn, Halsey; Miss L. Fendrich. Geography—Misses Campeau, Chaves, Lord, Best, Cum­ mings, Brown, Otis, Roddin, Turpie, Leahigh. TABLEAU. Music Sclmhert Misses M. Beal and E. Neu. ' Closing Remarks, Retiring March. " You certainly play very well," said the music- teacher, encouragingly; " but you have not had good instruction. If you will promise to practice Boll of Honor. four hours daily, I will make an artist of you in two years, and only chaige you my regular rates.

FOR POLITENESS, NEATNESS, ORDER, AMIABILITY, COR­ By the way, where do you live?" ."Next door; RECT DEPORTMENT, AND OBSERVANCE OF RULES. just got lodgings there."- "Oh! ah! yes—I for­ got to say that your fingering is bad, and it is now too late to correct it. Take my advice, and give SFNIOR DEPARTMENT. up music altogether." Ist Tablet—^Misses Adderly, Allen, Ashton, A. Babcock> C. Babcock, Bruhn, Beal, Black, Billings, Call, Campbell, A contemporary mentions a case beyond the or­ Carney, Cummings, Dunne, Duffield, Danforth, Dowling,. Dungan, L. English, B. English, Evarts, Fendrich, Fitz- dinary oculist: it is that of a young lady who, in­ patrick, Fogerty, Fisk, Alice Gordon, Addie Gordon, Ginz, stead of a pupil, has a professor in her eye. THE NOTRE DAME SCMOLASTIC. 9b

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On and after Sunday, Maj' 27, 18S3, trains will leave South Bend, as follows : GOING EAST: 2.32 a.m., Chicago and St. Louis Express, over Main Line, arrives at Toledo, 9.50 a.m.; Cleveland, 2.25 p.m.; Buffalo, 8.00 p.m. 11.23 a.m. Mail, over Main Line, arrives at Toledo, 5.35 p.Tn.; Cleveland,' 10.10 p.m.; Buffalo, 3.55'ja.m. 9.10 p.m., Atl antic Express, over Air Line. Arrives at GfflCA60,B0[!EISLAllD&PACIFICR'Y Calls the attention of travelers to the central posi­ Toledo, 2.4s a.m.; Cleveland, 7.05 a.m.; Buflalo, i.io p.m tion of its line, connecting the East and the west by the shortest route, and carrs-ing passengers, 12.20 p.m., Special New York Express, over Air Line 'Without change of cars, between Chicago and Kan­ arrives at Toledo, 5.40 p.m. Cleveland, 10.10 p.m.; Buffalo sas City, Council Bluffs, Iicavenworth, Atchison, Minneapolis and St. Paul. It connects in Union 3.55 a.m. Depots with all the principal lines of road between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. Its equip­ 6.21 p.m. Limited Express. Arrives at Toledo, 10.2S ment is unrivaled and magnificent, being composed p.m.; Cleveland, 1.35 a.m.; Buffalo, 7.05 a.m. of Most Comfortable and Beautiful Day Coaches, Uagniflcent Horton Beclining Chair Cars, Pull­ GOING WEST: man's Prettiest Palace Sleeping Cars, and the Best Ziine of Dining Cars in the World. Three Trains 2.32 a.m., Toledo Express. Arrives at Laporte, 3.25 a.m. between Chicago and Missouri Biver Points. Two Trains between Chicago and Minneapolis and St. Chicago, 6.10 a.m. Paul, via the Famous 4.55 a.m. Pacific Express. Arrives at Laporte, 5.50 a.m. "ALBERT LEA ROUTE." Chicago, 8.20 a.m. A Kew and Direct lone, via Seneca and Kanka­ kee, has recently been opened between Richmond, 740 a.m Limited Express. Arrives at Laporte, 8.20 a.m. Korfolk, Newport Kews, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Au­ gusta, Kasbville, Iiouisville. Iiexington, Cincinnati, Chicago, 10.40 a.m. Indianapolis and Iiafayette, and Omaha, Minneap­ 1.30 plm.. Special Michigan Express. Arrives at Laporte, olis and St. Paul and Intermediate points. All Through Passengers Travel on Fast Express 2.30 p.m.; Chesterton, 3.15 p.m.; Chicago, 5.00 p.m. Trains. Tickets for sale at aUprinoipal Ticket OfBcesin 4.35 p.m. Special Chicago Express. Arrives at Laporte, the TTnited States and Canada. 5.22 p.m.; Chicago, 8.00 p.m. Baggage checked through and rates of fare al­ ways as low as competitors that offer less advan­ F. C. RAFF, Ticket Agt., South Bend. tages. For detailed information, get the Maps and Fold­ J. W. CARY, Genl. Ticket Agt, Cleveland. ers of the - A. G. AMSDEN, Sup. W. Div., Chicago. - GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE, ; AV. P JOHNSON, Gen'l Pass. Agent, Chicago. At your nearest Ticket Office, or address P. P. WRIGHT, Gen'l Sup., Cleveland. R. R. CABLE, E. ST. JOHN, ; . JOHN NEWELL. Gen'l M'ger, Cleve'ind. Tice-Fte,. * Oeo'l M'c'r, Oea'l TJct. * Pan. Aft CHICAGO.