—«-^ o> 'c^••^ Dotre Dame Scholastic Dl5Ce'9VA5l-SemP€l2-VlCTVR\/S- •VIV£-9vyASl-CRAS-IviOieiTVR\/ 5- VOL. XXXIX. NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, MARCH 31, 1906. No. 24. DR. FRANCIS J. QUINLAN, Laetare Medallist^ }906. o^9 4 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASl^lC there four years among the Sioux Indians The Lketare Medallist 1906. and soldiers of the frontier, serving with honor in the positions of trust assigned to him in the government service." In 1891 CHARLES L. O'DONXELL, '06. he received the honorary degree of A. M. from St. Xavier's College, New York, and ' HERE alwaA'^s hangs about the four 3'^ears later the degree of LL. D. from giving of the Laetare Medal a the same institution. mj'Sterj^ similar to that shroud­ All this time Dr. Ouinlan was bus}'- at the ing the election of a pope. Not duties of his state, doing all in his power that the two events are even to cancel the miseries of the w-orld,—^plwsical remoteh'^ alike in nature, dignitj^ suffering b3'- his jDrofessional skill, moral or imiDortance; but thej'- are similar in the evil by the illuminating and strengthening popular conjectures the3^ start and the example of his own clean, self-sacrificing uncertainty thej'- involve as to w^ho is to life. Nature had marked hirn, it seems, for receive them. The spirit always breatheth the perfect ph3'-sician,. while he had made where it listeth. This y^ear the recipient of himself the man God wanted him to be. the Laetare Medal is Dr. Francis J. Quinlan Blessed, first of all, with talents of excejD- of New York Cit^^ The analogy of the papal ' tional power and moved b3^ a true zeal selection might here be applied still further. to help his fellow-man, he applied himself This year's recipient of the Medal is perhaps with earnestness to the particular kind of as little known to the western section of diseases that has become his specialt3'^, our country as the Patriarch of A-^enice was affections of the throat and nose. The result to the Western Hemisphere before his election of Dr. Quinlan's effort is that he stands to the pontificate, but this is entirety due to = to-day at the top of the medical profession the fact that reputation is seldom sjmonj'-- in our country, being President of the mous or coextensive with worth. A few County Medical. Association of New York, an years ago the giving of the mid-Lenten honor organization made up of some of the most to such national and international figures as w^orthy. representatives of medical science Dr. John Gilmarj^ Shea, Augustin Daly and in the world. President of the New York Charles J. Bonaparte drew attention to the Celtic Medical Society, member of the State Medal, while it VCLQ.J now happen that the Medical Association, of the American Medical Medal draws attention to the man. Again Association and of the Academ3'- of Medicine. let us say that the reason for this'^s that Besides holding these positions of honor and all the deserving; Catholic laymen live-: not responsibility, the Doctor is visiting surgeon in the strong light of public notoriety^ ?and to St. Vincent's Hospital, New York City, to if the Medal help bring them forwardjvso \ the New York City Hospital, to the Foundling much the better ^for the public. I Hospital and St. Joseph's Hospital, Yonkers, Dr. Francis J. Ouinlan was bom in New. N. Y. He is professor of Laryngology and York City, Dec. 24; 1853. "His early schoolvv Rhinology in New York Polyclinic and days," we quote firom the Catholic News, \ Laryngologist and Otologist to St. John's "were spent with the Christian.Brothers, • Hospital, Long Island City. Besides, he is first at the parochial school of St. Francis " a valued contributor to the medical journals Xavier's Church, then at the old Manhattan that represent his specialty and a notable Academy in West Thirty-Second St. where ' figure at the medical conventions. All this he remained some years. Finally he entered i is but an index of the man's professional the College of St. Francis Xavier. He spent ability arid a commentary on the value of some years teaching school, and then took personal industry and effort. Yet it is not up the study of medicine in 1874 at the for this alone that Notre Dame would bestow Medical Department of Columbia University, upon him the highest honor within her giving. graduating in 1878. He entered St Vincent's Professional success is all right, but more Hospital, but having been appointed "to a than, this she looks to in the man on whom position in the United States service he took she confers the Laetare Medal. up his residence in Dakota. He remained In the first place, the winner of this honor NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 39$ must be a man of signal personal worth, of unusual force of character, a powerful Varsity Verse. influence for ^ood in the communitv in which he lives. He must be a Catholic who LIMERICKS. knows and loves his religion, carrying it A grocer who lived in Toulouse, with him through the-details of his daily Found it hard to collect all his dues; life to the honor of himself and the Church. Plis profits all went To his landlord in rent. He must be a man whose efforts have bene­ Till he had no more moncA' to lose. fited his fellow-man in some large waA'-, b^^ private work or civic usefulness; in fine, a There was a A-oung man from Marseilles man and a Catholic who needs no such AVho iised to distribute the mails; No\v he's tending a bar honor to keep his memory alive in the hearts For a rich Mr. Marr of his grateful fellows. Such a man Notre And successfiilh- ser\-ing Marr's ales. Dame, and wdth her all New York, feels con­ The bo^-s call him "Buff," for A-OU know. fident she has found in the person of Dr. He comes from the great Buffalo, Francis Quiblan, President of the Catholic When he meets an old friend Club of "New York. His big hand he'll extend. As his comrade savs, "Heigh, Buff, hello." J. P. T- A fellow bA' name Mr. Noof A Modem Tragedy. Spent his daA's and his nights on the roof; When people passed by It had been a terrible daj'-, this last day 'He would mournfully sigh " From niA' neighbors f must keep aloof." of March, and still more terrible was the night. Not even a star appeared in the He clipped his dog's tail and was jailed heavens to force a rav- of light through BA' a judge who at cruelty railed; "When in prison," said he, the thick darkness which hung everywhere. "I'll have scant libert\-," The wind shrieked incessantly among the Quoth the jailer, "You'll have that curtailed." trees that grew so abundantly in the vicinity A quarrelsome youth once was knighted of a certain little cottage. Whose pugnacify soon was requited; Dr. Brown sat in his study, a small room As he fought for a prize at the front of the house. He was some- A knight knocked out his eves w^hat apprehensive lest he should be called And the A-outh cried, "Sir knight, I'm delighted." out into this fierce night. Yes, there it was; • W. J. D. *•» ... ..t he half-cursed himself for having a 'phone in the house. A patient of his who was Junior Epigrams. very sick had suddenly become delirious, and his services were needed immediately. He jumped into his coat, snatched up his A PITCHER in time saves the nine. hat and satchel - and was off, not waiting You can drive a woman to bargains, but to stimmon his carriage. All thoughts of vou can't make her buv. having to face the bitter storm had been NOWADAYS a man is judged by his cents. dispelled \yj this call to dutjr. A DLiMOND ring represents a double He had scarcely passed out of his. own engagement—one with the girl, the other gateway when a masked figure jumped out with the jeweler. from behind a clump of bushes and levelled IT'S a wise client that knows his .lawyer. a revolver at him. "Hold up your hands," THE first degree of fame is to hold oneself deinanded the figure. The doctor was aston­ wise; the second to have some one else ished, to say the least; but he faltered," How profess it. am I to know you are a real burglar ? " The ' ONLY the bald deserve the hair. figure smiled, a safe, sinister smile, in the fitful moonlight and drew from his pocket NOTHING succeeds like gossip. a slip of paper. "The Life Insurance," THE more waist the less chest. !. groaned the doctor; "go ahead, take all ,You may lead-a tramp to water-but you you find." T. A. H. can't make him wash. 39^ NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. picture myself as the bold comrade who A Prayer. captured tobacco for the mess, or the drummer-boy who died -^ath the old flag IX MEMORIAM, FATHER .MIOLLOY. to his lips. Then as the soberness of the picture overcame me, it w^as his inerr3^ A^oice JWIAY angels twine a wreath around thj' brow; that sang me back to my customarA'- cheer­ On heaven's peaceful hills repose be thine; Let those who loved thee and lament thee now fulness.