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News of the Month i A monthly paper published by the Students of Georgetown College in the interests of Alma Mater. SEVENTEENTH YEAR. JUNE, 1889. No. 9. A TABLE OF CONTENTS. ten freundliehen Aufforderung zur Theilnahme an der 100 jiihrigen Jubelfeier der Universitat Georgetown nicht moglick gewesen, der THE NEWS OF THE MONTH 157 Jubilarin reebtzeitig ihren Festgruss zu entbieten. LITERARY WORK. Indem ich nunmekr im Auftrage des Conseiis der Kaiserlicken “ Especially on Mental Pabulum ” 159 Universitat Dorpat mittelst der beifolgeuden Votiftafel dessenberz- Rare Ben Jonson 162 EDITOR’S TABLE 163 lichsten Gluckwunsch der Universitat Georgetown zu ubermitteln FROM THE SANCTUM. mich beekre, erlanbe ich mir gleichzeitig Euer Magnificenz hied- Valedictory 164 urch ganzergebenst zu ersuchen, der Universitat Georgetown spe- “ Tober-Na-Vuolich ” 164 WITH THE OLD BOYS 164 ciell aueli noch meinen Gluckwunsch freundlicht ubermitteln UNIVERSITY NOTES. und der selben vollster Bluken und Gedeihen auch fur die fernere The School of Law. 166 Zukunft wunschen zu wollen. Rector der Kaiserlicken Universitat Dorpat: Special Notice.— The Centennial Supplement of THE COLLEGE PROFESSOR DR. A. SCHMIDT. JOURNAL has been ready for some time. It is a magnificene Secretaire des Conseiis: piece of typographical ivork of forty pages, bound in a memorial G. GREFFNER. cover of blue and gray. The supplement contains a full chron- Accompanying this letter from Dorpat was a congratulatory icle of the. three days’ celebration, the Centennial Sermon, the inscription which we print below: Alumni Poem and Oration, the Addresses by the President of the United States, the Cardinal Archbishop of Baltimore, the Q. B. F. F. F. Q. S. various church dignitaries, and others who took part in the UNIUERSITATI LITTERARUM festivities, together with the letters of congratulation from Pope GEORG-IOPOLITANAE Leo XIII. and the great Universities of the world, from ARTIUM QUAE AD HUMANITATEM PERTINENT Bologna, Salamanca, Cambridge, etc., etc. Single copies SEDI CELEBERRIMAE twenty-five cents. ACADEMIAE IN AMERICAE FOEDERATAE IMMENSIS REGIONIBUS AHTIQUISSIMAE NEWS OF THE MONTH. DE OMNI GENERE DOCTRINAE THE following letters in answer to the University invitation BENE MERITAE of last February have been received within the past few ANTE IIOS CENTUM ANNOS days: FELICISSIMIS AUSPICIIS THE LETTER FROM KINGSTON, CANADA. LIBERALITER CONDITAE (L. S.) Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. SACRA SAECULARIA “ Sapientia, Stabilitas, et Doctrina.” CELEBRANTI KINGSTON, CANADA, June 11, 1889. OMNI QUA PAR EST OBSERUANTIA CONGRATULAMUR MY DEAR SIR: I am instructed by the Senate of Queen’s Univer- sity to acknowledge receipt of your highly esteemed invitation to FAUST A OMNIA PRECAMUR take part in your Centenary Celebration in March last (February). I regret to say that unfortunately the invitation did not reach us UNIUERSITATIS LITTERARUM DORPATENSIS until after the time appointed, and consequently too late to be in RECTOR ET PROFESSORES. our power to appoint a representation. Tour obedient servant, GEORGE BELL, LL. D., DORP ATI LIUONORUM The President University of Georgetown, D. G. Registrar. IDIBUS APRILIBUS A. MDCCCLXXXIX. * -x- -x- * THE LETTER FROM SYDNEY. * * THE LETTER FROM NEUCHATEL, SWITZERLAND. THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, N. S. W., May 7,1889. SIR: I have the honour by direction of the Senate to acknowledge Republique et Canton de Neuchatel, Academie de Neuchatel. the receipt of your invitation for a delegate from this University to NETJCHATEL, le 24 Mai, 1889. be present at the University Festivals at Georgetown on the 20th of Monsieur Joseph Havens Richards, 8. J., Recteur de V Universile de February of this year, and to express the regret of the Senate that Georgetown: the invitation did not arrive in sufficient time to enable it to send any delegate, as well as to transmit its cordial thanks to you for the MONSIEUR LE RECTEUE ET TEES HONOBE COLLEGUE-. Le Conseil invitation. de l’Academie de Neuchatel a pris, avec autant de plaisir que d’in- I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, teret, connaisance de l'invitation que vous avez bien voulu lui ad- H. E. BARFF, dresser de se faire representer au centenaire de la fondation de Registrar. votre University. Malheureusement, cette invitation ne nous etant The President University Georgetown, U. 8. A. parvenue qu’a la veille de la cer&nonie, nous avons ete empfichd d’y * repondre comme nous aurions desire. * X Neanmoins nous ne voulons point manquer de vous exprimer THE LETTER FROM UORPAT, RUSSIA. notre reconnaisance pour la part que vous nous avez offerte a votre Ministerium joie, nos felicitations pour le lustre qu’un siecle revolu apporte a der votre noble institution, et nos voeux pour la gloire et la prosperity. Y olksauf kliirung. Je vous pile, Monsieur le Recteur, de bien vouloir presenter ces sentiments a nos collogues de Georgetown et d’agi-yer vous mfmc Kaiserliche l’expression de ma consideration la plus distinguee. Universitat zu Dorpat. An Au nom du Conseil de l’Academie, Seine Magnificenz A. U. MENTHA, Recteur. Hector den Herrn Rector der Universitat * Georgetown. x- * Dorpat, His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons paid a visit to the denl9ten April, 1889. College on Ascension Day to administer Confirmation to the No. 445. class of candidates who had been prepared by Fr. Welch, S. Leider ist es der Universitat Dorpat in Folge'des durch Postoerz- J. Early in the day the Rev. Rector of the University, ac- ogerung geursackten verspateten Eintreffens der an die selbe gericli- companied by the Chancellor, went to Tennallytown to meet 158 THE COLLEGE JOURNAL. [June, 1889 his Eminence. After the ceremonies there the Cardinal re- The May devotions closed with a gem of a little sermon by Rev. Fr. Barnum, S. J. turned to the College, where the following class was con- * firmed : * * William Joachim McCarthy, Hobert Edward Berrian, The “ Reading Circle ” of the class of ’91 held its last Alfred William Fergerson, John Aloysius Ryan, Philip Fred- meeting on the night of May 5 th. erick Walsh, James Edgar McShane, Felix Alfred Kelso, * Frederick Henry Lee, William Emmett Gleason, Charles Francis Gleason, Ernest Pendleton Magruder, Francis Aloy- The final oral examinations began June 12th, extending un- sius Welder, George Aloysius Baillio, Julius Thomas Kane, til June 22d. Louis Ignatius Kane, Oscar James Braneff, George Thomas Braneff, James Carter Cook, Alfred Aloysius Hayes, Emilius * * Joseph McKee, George Cuthbert Powell, Frederick Stanislas A gang of men, under the direction of Mr. Harrigan, of the McElhone, Mathias Aloysius Tunis, Francis Stanislas Ryan, Naval Observatory, have been engaged in trimming the trees James Francis Power. around the walks. A short address was delivered by the Cardinal both before * and after Confirmation. He was assisted in the ceremonies by the Right Reverend the Bishop of Idaho, Dr. Marty, Rev. The direful effects of the recent flood are too well known to Fr. Rector, S. J., and Rev. Fr. Prefect. At the close of the receive mention here. But what a reminder of those portentous sacred rite, Benediction was given by the Right Reverend days of Deucalion; so that well we might fear, “ Grave nere- Bishop Marty. diret Saeculum Pyrrho, nova monstra questae." * '-k * * * * On the evening of May 28th the Philonomosian Society The final prize contest in elocution took place on the even- held its annual debate in the dining hall of the College. The ing of June 5th. The skill and talent displayed on that occa- hall was filled to overflowing, and the ring of applause that sion were well worthy the reputation of the College, and it is burst from the audience as the speakers ascended the stage thought that the contest was a close one. The judges were was often renewed throughout the evening, frequently inter- Hon. Felix C. C. Zegarra, Minister of Peru ; Hon. J. Hub- rupting the gentlemen in their discourse. The debaters on ley Ashton ; Alexander Porter Morse. Mr. Morse in a letter the occasion were Messrs. C. Manning Combs, of Maryland, to one of the faculty spoke in very high terms of the “ ad- and Samuel J. Boldrick, of Kentucky, who upheld respectively mirable training ” displayed by the several contestants. •* the affirmative and negative sides of the question. The sub- * -* ject under discussion was the Blair Bill, upon which, during On the afternoon of the 8th the Class of First Grammar the course of the evening, even “Uncle Sam” himself fitly celebrated its annual class reunion. The programme of deigned to express his opinion, a fact that removes all appre- exercises consisted of speeches and poems, in which a goodly hension that any difficulties respecting the same will arise in number of the class took part. The President, M. R. Den- the future. He would have the Blair Bill passed. At the close ver, R. Driscoll, Vice-President, Secretary E. Kernan, and of the exercises Fr. Rector, in a little impromptu speech, W. Robinson, Treasurer, each in turn made appropriate offered his congratulations both to the gentlemen on the de- remarks, all praying a safe and pleasant passage from the bate and the director of the society, Mr. A. J. Elder Mullan, rocks and storms of the ocean of First Grammar into the port S. J. The applause which greeted his remarks made manifest of Poetry. The Treasurer, carried away by his love for the that all present joined fully in his congratulations. entertainment of the class, invaded the territory of our The judges were Re/. Fr. J. F. Lehy, S. J., Mr. William Historian. The manner in which he utilised his trespass J. Ennis, S. J., and Mr. Cornelius Clifford, S. J. The music shields him from our censure, though he was not hidden from was under the direction of Professor Donch. a reminder of the Historian: The Treasurer had scarcely ■* * * finished when the cry went up, Boldrick ! And our grave and dignified Orator arose and gave us a production which will The philosophical specimen, predicted in our last issue, long linger upon our memories.
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