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VOL. XVIL NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, JANUARY 5, 1SS4, No. 17.
Salutatio AD R. T. E. WALSH, C. S. C. NOSTRA DOMIXJE UXIVERSITATIS PR^BSIDEM IN DIE FESTO PATRONI ILLIUS S. THOM^ APOSTOLI AB ALUMNIS ANNO MDCCCXXXIV GRADCJS ACCEPTURIS OBLATA.
NOS LiCEAT THOMA DIGNUM CONSCRIBERE CARMEN. • O prjEclara dies, hyranO sacrata canor o, Semper adauscebis noStr^e sraudia mentis. Lingua tacere potest, bLanda jam luce micat s'oL In CCEIO atque homini vltam dat Christus et orbj. Oum fidei constant miraOula tauta, Deo nunO Est standum, Thoma, nEque fas incredulus essE. Aeterno Verbo cAi'nem internerata MariA Tempore donavit cerTo: perfectus homo fiT. T e r r i f i c a T mundum, aTque InfanDum numen adoranT HoiTescendo Homines Homo, nam luvat esse JehovaH- Omnipotens Oi'itur, mOrbos Dominatur, et unO Mors verbo Moritur: Lazarus Mox corpore vita M Accipit:ex ipsA radiAt vis Morte supei'nA. Discipulis reSonat Domini vox desIJbito; seD Interea Didimus tetlgit Sacra vulnera "VidI! Gratia me domuit!" Qaudens, " Deus " I exclamat et nunG; Nos LiCEAT THOMA DtGNUM CONSCRIBERE CARMEN. Usus inest animum gratUm depromere versIJ: M'ljorem juvenes Malunt persolvei'e laudeM- Orescit amor. Humerus Crescit: Senioribus anno hoO Officium majus, festO redeunte patemO- Num quid enim melius Nobis quam pectora sint? AN. Sexcentos PatriS mereamur amore favoreS? Oonstantes Thomce Ouras mirantur alumni, aO Ridentem faciem et fRontem placidam, ut maris sBquoR. Ingenio eximius, vigil ans, . ac mente sagacj, Blanditias horrens, duBitas, Cunctator, asrendo: aB Extremis iTa te rEmoves, sapiens .que v5 viderE- Regulce Honos, fidus sacRata^ cRucis amatoR Et . Nostra! DOminae, Explanas sacrA dogmata, nevE Obristiadas unquaM praiOludat mEns mala nos neC Allici - Ant honor, ebrietAs, laScivia, gazA. Rector virtutiS, pRjeses, exEmplar et ultoR, Multiplicem ad rectum M e r i t u S form are juventaM Et donum, O Reverende ! valBbis habere perennE- Nos LiCEAT THOMA DIGNUM CONSCRIBERE CARMEN. 2^8 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.
cation has reached us containing three hymns in The Holy Father as a Poet. honor of SS. Herculanus and Constantius, both martyrs and bishops of Perugia, a See of which, as is well known, Pope Leo himself was the Or [Through the kindness of the Rev. editor of lite " Ave dinary in former days. The hj-mns are in Latin, Mai-ia" we are permitted to reprint from advanced sheets accompanied by an Italian translation by Prof. Fran the following article, from the pen of PUOF. A. J. STAGE, on some recent poems of His Holiness, Pope Leo XIII. cesco Manini. The dedication is to" the Cardinal The learned Professor gives an original metrical translation Bishop of Verona, and secondarily to the Italian of one poem b_v the Holy Father, while extracts from the pilgrims who visited Rome in the months of Sep remaining are presented, which serve to show the charac tember and October of last 3-ear. A distich ad teristic features of the distinguished poet's style. We have no doubt that our readers will appreciate the literary treat dressed: Leo/ii XIII., Poniifici Maximo^ Sa-pi- afforded them.—ED. SCHOL.] entissimo. Poetcc Hyvinografho Prccsfantissi7no. does not appear worthj- of the place it occupies The cares of the ruler of a great people—of one after the dictation. The versifier, whoever he was, to whom the welfare and happiness of multitudes might have managed the hexameter without eliding of his fellow-hein Thou cheeresc hearts thougii sore afraid, Late per umbram cerneres And dread dost banish from the land. Ardere colles ignibus. V. Urbisque ferri ad mcenia " Fight, sons, for your ancestral faith, Incessu et ore supplici And God's high altars! He will lead! Senes, \'iros cum matribus No hostile force our home shall scathe!" Longo puellas agmine. Thus spakest thou in direst need. VI. Ut ventum ubi ara Martyris Corusca lycnis emicat, Thej rally at thine ardent speech; Festiva turba civium Courage renewed pervades the town; Irrumpit ardens, clamjtat. " For God and country fight!" cries each, " Or, dying, earn a martyr's crown!" The third hj'^mn, written for the festival itself VII. of the same Saint, begins by giving a history of For seven years, at least, 'tis said. the various torments to which the martyr was The barbai'ous horde were kept at bay; subjected, and of the miracles which embarrassed Thy children nobly fought and bled the infernal malice of the torturers, at the same Like heroes of an earlier day. time that they attested the sanctity of the victim. It is written in a well-known Horatian metre, in VIII. troduced into hymnography in the Isie Confessor^ For thou wast leader. Thou didst fall so often sung at Vespers. The final v^erses will With faith no guile could undermine; give an idea of the style of the composition, at the On God with thy last breath didst call: same time that they reveal the exalted sentiments .A. truly glorious death was thine. of the author: IX. Dive, Pastorem tua in urbe quondam For when the city fell, by fraud. Infula cinctum, socium et laborum Not force;—her sacred walls betrayed;— Quern pius tutum per iter supema Thou wast, with courage all must laud, Luce regebas, For thy dear flock a victim made. X. Nunc Petri cymbam tumidum per cequor Ducere, et pugna; per acuta cernis By raging Totila's command Spe bona certaque levare in altos Thou, innocent, art stricken down, Lumina montes. And from the cruel headman's hand Thou dost receive the martyr's crown. Possit, o tandem, domitis procellls, XI. Visere optatas Leo victor oras: Now reigning in the heavenly hall. Occupet tandem vaga cymba portum Sospite cursu. Where joys and gloiy never fail, Still listen to thy children's call: We conclude with the hope that what we- have Our Pastor, Pation, Parent, hail! said may contribute to stimulate our i-eadei*s to XII. make themselves acquainted more thoroughly with Etruscan city fair, rejoice! our Holy Father in his poetic character. The glorj"- of this land of flowers; In exultation lift thy voice; Lift up on high thy hundred towers! Titree "WMte Boses. XIII. New hostile forces still beset; DEDICATED TO ?.IY FRIEXD, MADAME I. DE Against thy faith thej' still combine: Repel them manfully, and let Thv roses, love, the three pure, creamy flowers, The faith of Herculanus shine! That, (in thy tender thought), thou broughtest me,— Are symbols to my soul, these wintry hours. In the same metre is the first of the hymns to Of thy three precious sons. St. Constantius, Bishop of Perugia and martyr, designed for the visfil of his festival. The Roman The first shall be Martyrolog-y tells us that this Saint, " together with Full-blown, thy CHARLES, thy first-bom and thy pride; his companions, under the Emperor Marcus Aure-. Then, dewy-lipp'd and fraught Avith gentle joys, lius, received the crown of martyrdom for the de Dear LEONARDO, wearing at his side, fence of the faith," on Januaiy the' 29th. The The rose-bud, BERNARD, sweetest of thy boys. hymn represents him as the object of a popular devotion, which finds expression in general dem Blest mother-heart! accept the prayer of love,— onstrations. We quote the 6th, 7th and 8th From Life's fresh morn until its evening closes. verses: Oh! may thy sons in youth and manhood prove As pure, as sweet, as fragrant as thy roses E Nox en propinquat: cerneres Fervere turbis compita, ELEANOR C; DONNELLY. 26o THE NOTRE DAME"SCHOLASTIC. The Spirituality of the Soul.* stance, when he says: "I remember." Ask him with what part of his body he remembers. He will In treating the present question it is not our in certainly smile at the question. But this irresisti tention to consider the nature and essence of spirit; ble voice of nature that speaks by the mouth of for if no scientist can tell what matter is, still less the little child speaks more eloquently through the is a philosopher able to determine in what a spir lips of all mankind. . All men, indeed, even the itual substance consists. We start from the fact most savage and uncivilized, have, at all times and that man is composed of soul and bod\', and we in all places, admitted a distinction between the shall endeavor to show, brieflj- and clearl_y, first, soul and body. We all know well that, no mat that there is an essential difference between these ter how the body be mutilated, there remains in two constituent parts of human nature; second, us something: which cannot be reached, still less that there exists in man a principle which is not wounded, by anj^ material instrument; so that the material or composed of elements, but one, simple, greatest violence offered to our members proves and spiritual, endowed with intellect and freedom quite powerless over the soul. Another fact is that of will, and therefore a responsible agent. among all peoples, at all times and in all places, we find the substantial distinction between body Before entering upon our thesis, we must bear and soul generallv admitted in the words and ex- in mind that our proposition has been contradicted prcssions of their language. In short, our first ar hy a bold and so-called scientific school known by gument mav be thus summed up: The common the name of Materialists. Materialism, in general, consent of mankind is a motive of certaintv; but is a S3'stem which denies an\' essential distinction this consent exists in regard to the essential dis between soul and bodj', whether the soul be identi tinction bet%veen soul and bodj^; therefore the soul fied with the whole bodj'^ or one of its principal is not material. parts, or something resulting from a corporal or ganization. The partizans of this system may II, The testimonv of consciousness. * We know be classed either as positivists or evolutionists, \)y experience that there exists within us one and Phrenologjf, too, as taught and explained, is pure the same principle to which must be referred all materialism, inasmuch as it maintains that the hu the operations of our different faculties. In re man soul is onl}- a higher function of the brain. gard to sensibility, suppose I put one hand into Thev are all akin to another more general system, hot water and the other into cold, I shall experi-- namely, Sensism, which admits in man mereh^ ence two distinct sensations, but, at the same time, sensible facts, and infers therefrom that all mental I am conscious that the subject of this is not any- operations are but transformed sensations. It is other person distinct from myself. Such being the evident that the practical consequence of material case, it is impossible to account for this simultane- ism in all its phases must be the destruction of all neous perception of two distinct sensations, with morality, the negation of a future state of exist out admitting the real existence of one only prin-- ence, and hence the degradation of man to the ciple, which must of necessity be simple. This* condition of the lower animals. conclusion becomes still more evident if appliedto. several ideas, judgments or reasonings, which any Having thus briefly premised, we shall proceed one may form at the same moment. For, in order to our question, which we shall consider from two to distinguish these ideas, to make such judgments, points of view. First, we shall show that the hu and to connect different propositions, we must com man soul is simple, that is to sa}-, inextensive and pare them, and a comparison cannot be accurately indivisible, and therefore immaterial. Secondly, made unless we suppose an intelligence capable of this same human soul reallj- subsists in itself, and, controlling all these phenomena, appreciating their to some extent, independently of all material or characters, and pronouncing sentence, all of which ganization. involves unit}', and consequently simplicity. In re We ma}'- remark that the method to follow in gard to the human will, we know with certainty demonstrating the immateriality and spiritualit}- of that we are free to choose between the different the soul ought to be twofold. In the first place, it motives which present themselves to our mind. must be experimental, inasmuch as it involves the On the other hand, we invincibly feel that we have consideration of some facts either external or in self-dominion, thatis to say, a moral power indivis ternal. Secondly, through reasoninsr we are en- ible and inviolable, however contrary to it our res abled to rise from real facts to their law, and from olutions may be. Now, this moral power of purs their law itself to conclude an actual existence of cannot be the result of several collective forces, a living pinnciple, that is, the substantial form of but must be one only force, as conscience testifies, the human bod}'. We^have, therefore, a right to conclude that if there THE HUMAX SOUI. IS SIMPLE. is an incontestable unity in all the opei'ations peii-- formed by the three great faculties of the soul, the Among a great many proofs that might be given soul itself, being one, cannot be material, on this point we select four of the most prominent. The first is that taken from common sense. It is a III. Argument taken from a comparison between' fact that the child when saying, "/" clearly means bodily pi'operties and mental qualities. Accord-- thereby something else than his body, as, for in- ing to the testimony of the senses, what are the es--. sential properties of bodies? It is certain from' * Thesis defended before the Academy, Dec. the 13th, natural and physical sciences.that material beings by WILLIAM H. BAILEY, '84. are: ist, compound and divisible; 2d, changeable THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC, 261 and continuallj- renewed; 3d, deprived of activity. According to the Angel of the Schools, a spirit Now the qualities which constitute human personal is defined to be "A simple subs.tance, both intel ity are unit}', liberty, and identity. There is cer lectual and rational, which is independent of any tainly a formal contradiction between the former material subject as regards its being and essential and the latter; we see no means by which we can operations—that is to say, intelligence and will." As reconcile unity with composition, liberty with inert most modern philosophers, following in the foot ness, and identity with changeableness. We have, steps of Descartes, have either denied or obscured therefore, to conclude one of two thinsfs: First, if this definition by pretending that the human soul the soul is corporeal, it can be neither simple, free, is spiritual because simple, we ought to vindicate nor identical; which statement is opposed to both this prominent dogma of philosophy by rriaintain- experience and reason. Second, if the soul, being ing that the human soul is a spirit, or that it exists corporeal, is, at the same time, identical, free, and by itself apart from all material conditions to •simple, it would follow therefrom that a material which it is at present subject. We might here repro- • body can be endowed with activity, immutability, duce the most forcible reasoning made by Sansever- free will, and responsibility; and this statement ino, which runs as follows: "All operations proper seems to be absurd. Bayle himself, though a to the human soul—viz., those which are charac notorious infidel, made this remarkable avowal: teristic of intelligence and will—are performed • " This is a demonstration," he says, " as forcibfe without any corporeal organ. Now, operations are and evident as any proposition in Geometry, and if necessarily of the same nature as the being itself—'- some men do not feel its invincible evidence, it is operafio scquitu/- esse; therefore the human soul, because they cannot or will not rise above the no being in itself independent of matter or corporal tions of a gross imagination." organs, must of necessity be spiritual." But to IV. Pi'oof based on the control exercised by the bring into clearer light this paramount question it human will over the body. That I do possess a would be well to dwell at greater length upon it, real power of moving my own body is as plain as in presenting our hearers v/ith a strict demonstra the light of the sun. Every-day experience shows tion that cannot be objected to without objecting us that, while all other material beings often escape to sound reason itself, because the whole of our the direct action of our will, our own body is sub argumentation is based upon the most evident ject to it. Thus, for instance, we can either walk facts of consciousness. In the first place, the hu or stand still, move our limbs in one direction or man soul performs operations which absolutely another. And while all other bodies, if left to surpass all the strength and energy of matter. It themselves, continue in motion when once obtained, indeed understands, reasons, and resolves, and evid we feel within ourselves the power to stop. See ently these .reflective phenomena cannot be re ing, then, such a wonderful contrast, who could be ferred by any means to a corporeal subject. "Be daring enough to pretend that it is the same body sides it is able to go beyond the limits of time and that commands itself? Is it possible that this mo space, which capability is quite irreconcilable with tion can be Droduced by material organs? That matter, because the action of the latter is contained some nerves and muscles, and, above all, the centre wn'thin the boundaries of a determined part of ex of the whole nervous system, the brain, are nec tension and duration, as experience testifies. essary conditions for moving, as well as feeling, Secondly, we know that every power or faculty thinking, and resolving, we grant. But still, as all of the soul, since it is adapted to its own object, these movements depend on the brain, inasmuch must be in proportion to it. • Now, it is well known as they are physical and external, they depend from experience that man understands, or at least much more on our will which commands the brain has an idea of, objects that are essentially immate itself, by holding, as it were, the reins Avhich guide rial, since he speaks of them as being different all the" movements of the human body. It is no from material bodies, and calls them spirits. For ' wonder then that Bossuet should say that the soul we cannot realize that we could be able to speak rules the body which it animates; or that Plato of anythinsr that does not exist, as if it were really should exclaim that in man there is an immortal existing. It follows, therefore, that there must be soul that makes use of the body as the workman a real substance which, being the cause of immate his tools. rial effects, is necessarily of the same nature, and II. consequently a spirit. Thirdly, experience tells us that that which is cor THE HU:MAX SOUI^ IS A SPIRIT. poreal is of itself particular, multiple, and change Starting from the principles laid down by St. able. Still, there is another undeniable fact that Thomas, we think that vve have, clearly shown such objects cannot be the cause of our under against Materialists that the human soul, not being standing their essences in an universal and immut- composed of parts, must necessarily be simple, and able manner by means of abstract and general consequently forms an indivisible reality. But ideas. It is plain, then, that if we do possess uni apai-t from the fact that it is the actual form which versal ideas—as indeed we do—this can be but the constitutes the vital unity of the human body, is it result of the intellectual power of our mind. Con true that it possesses some nobler attribute? In sequently our soul must naturally be superior to all other words, is the human sonl not only inorganic, the conditions of material substance; and since it immaterial, and simple, but also spiritual? This is can conceive what is n.ot material, it is really a the question vrhich now remains to be answered, spiritual substfince, - 262 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. Now, there is a fourth and last argument, which, though it ma}- not perhaps be so forcible in itself, Books and Periodicals. seems to be more convincino\ We have in our hearts and minds a dceplj^-'rooted desire—a longing JOSEPH HAYDN.—THE STORY OF HIS LIFE. for something nobler than matter, such as truth Translated from the German of Franz von Seeburg, by and virtue. Novv, everyone—or at least those who the Rev. J. M. Toohey, C. S. C- From The " Ave Maridy have not corrupted the uignit}'^ of human natr.i^e— J. A. Ljons, Publisher: Notre Dame, Indiana, 1SS4. feels irresistibly attached to something that is far 350 pp. Price, .=pi.5o. above animal appetites and sensual enjoyments. The straggle of genius against poverty and hard Is it possible to suppose that a substance which ship is alwa3'-s interesting. In this case the genius pei"forms actions superior to all the energ\^ of mat is transcendant and the hardships nigh insurmount ter, and understands objects spiritual—such as the able. Amonsj the worst of them was to fi^nd that angels and God—and which is actuatcfl by a more the externally fair maiden to whom he had gener- powerful impulse towards high than low senti ousl}- given his heart and hand Avas one of those ments, can be a pure compound of material, mole selfish, ill-conditioned, foul-mouthed creatures cules? No, indeed! and thai kind of yearning whose sole mission seetns to be to render life un which Father Lacordairest^^les " lemalde PhifinP'' endurable, and inculcate the doctrine of total de- cannot be accounted for without our believing in the pravit\', Fanc)- a musician of high-strung nerves real existence of a spiritual substance called the and over-wrouofht .sensibilities coming home ex- human soul. hausted from his toil to find a domestic harpy of To sum up the whole argumentation, the follow this description by his hearth. And yet to this ing pros^dlogism may be proposed: A substance wretch Joseph was a faithful, kind and afTectionate whose properties are essentialh'^ opposed to matter husband: better far than Socrates ever was to cannot be material; now the pioperties of the hu Xanthippe; for this latter much-abused lad}- had man soul are essentially opposed to matter, there too much reason to complain that Soci-ates was a fore the human soul cannot be material. But an bad provider, while Mrs. Haydn appropriated, immaterial substance that is in itself independent without hindrance, to her own luxurious enjoy of an}- material condition is a spirit. Now, the ments, the hard-earned, though finally munificent human soul is in itself independent of any material emoluments of her husband. We tnust congratu condition; therefore the human soul is a spirit. late our Rev. Vice-President on having exhibited In conclusion, we venture to sav that the thesis in his translation that rat-e tact which conveys the just defended might be compared to a gigantic full force of the original without betra3-ing a for pyramid, the base of which is human nature, or eign idiom. Like the rest of Prof. Lj-ons' publi the substantial union between soul and body. The cations, the pi-esent is in that neat .but not gaudy intellect and the will rise like two beautiful pillars, forrn which commends itself for its utility without made, not of material stone, but formed from truth shocking the requirements of taste. It is ajDpro- and virtue; while the spirit, which, as it were, cir pi-iately dedicated to that generous patron of music, culates through the entire edifice, is, at the same our Very Rev. vSuperioi--General. Our readers time, hovering over the whole monument, as an will find it most eligible as a holiday gift, a valu- immortal bi-eath breathed by Almighty God; and able addition to any public" or private library, and this vary being, viz.. man, aspires to be reunited to an ornatnent to the drawing-room table. his Creator, in order to live together \yith pure in telligences a life of everlasting happiness. —The North American Reviexv for Januar)- presents a table of contents possessing in the high est degree the character of contempot-arj'^ hutnan interest. First, the opposite .sides of the question of " Ecclesiastical Control in Utah " are set forth b}' two representative men. President John Taylor, A Sonnet—1884. the official head of the Mortnon Church, and the Hon. Eli H. Murra}', Governor of the Territory of Break brightly! O thou happy New Year's h'ghL Utah, Senator John I. Mitchell writes of the Enriching all the world with hope renewed! " Tribulations of the American Dollar," recount Ring out glad bells, no longer sad, subdued. ing the st]-enuous efforts of the people of the Thro' all the clear and frostv air of night— United States to extinguish the national debt, and Hope proclaiming, pain relieving and the blight contenditigjhat it is our irnperative dutj' to-day to Arising from the myriad crime and woe settle definitely the question whether we shall have Man", (of all creation, man's most deadlv foe)— dollars of unequal commercial value in circulation. Ever lost in dark Cimmerian night, —VICK'S FLORAI. GUIDE.—Here it is again, Numbed by the memorv of a wasted past. blighter and better than ever; the cover alone, Groping in utter hopelessness—has brought, with its delicate tinted background and its dish of (l/ike one aiflicted with some dread disease, gracefully-arranged flowers, would entitle it to a In every breath has prescience of the last) permanent place iii every home. The book con Sin-born, into life. For music like thine has wrought tains three beautiful coloi-ed plates, is fullof illus- Heart-healing,and given the world's weariness, surcease! tratiotis, pt;inted on the best of pa'pei-, aiul is filled ^ - \ T. E. $.,'84. \yith just such' information as is required by the THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 263 gardener, the farmer, those growing plants, and i "Torn Dutt," calls attention once more to the re every one needing seeds or plants. The price, markable command of English possessed by this QvAy ten cents, can be deducted from the first \ young poet, who died when she was only twenty- order sent for goods. All parties any way inter one. The other articles are: "In Wordsworth's ested in this subject should send at once to James Country"; "Edinboro Old Town"; "Log of an Vick, Rochester, N. Y., for the Floral Guide. Ocean Studio"; "Husbandry in Colony Times"; —St. Nicholas for January makes its New "The Bread Winners"; etc., etc. Year's call with a bright" table of contents and a brilliant list of contributors. Louisa M. Alcott College Gossip begins her promised series of " Spinning-wheel Stories." The frontispiece is by Mary Hallock Foote, and H. H. opens the number with a com —The Jesuit Fathers intend to erect a college plete and timely story of Colorado mming life, en in Denver. titled " Christmas in the Pink Boardinsr-house." —On the 9th ult., seventeen priests left the Julian Hawthorne finishes his fanciful allegory, American College, Louvain, for the United States. "Alraion Auria, and Mona"; and Rose Haw —St. Mary's Institute near Dayton, Ohio, was thorne Lathrop contributes a merry tale of child- partially destroyed by fire, last week, loss about life in holiday times, called " Fun Beams." Mayne $20,000. Reid's serial, " The Land of Fire," continues. H. —Most of the teachers and professors in St. H. Boyesen ends the first of his "Tales of Two Joseph's College, Cincinnati, were educated at Continents"; and W. O. Stoddard entertains his Notre Dame University. readers with the second installment of "Winter Fun." Among the poems are a fable in verse by —St. Louis College, N. Y., holds its Com Joel Benton; some jolly New Year's verses by mencement exercises in December instead of in Helen Gray Cone, with pictures by A. Brennan, June, as at other educational institutions. who also illu5.trates a quaint little verse of his own, —PROFESSOR IX GERMAN—« Mr. W.., how- entitled " Lucv Lee from High Dundee"; and would you decline srnter^ alter, rother Weiiz.^" "The Ballad of Good Sir Urgan," by E. Vinton Mr. \V.—<-<-l shouldn't decline it."—C>/-/e«/. Blake, a medieval poem, with spirited illustrations —A beautiful statue of St. Aloysius has been by Alfred Kappes. An entirel}- new feature, in presented by the students of St. Xavier's College augurated in this number and to continue through to the Church of St. Francis Xavier, N. Y. The out the year, is the St. Nicholas Almanac, which statue stands on the students' altar, and is riehtlv will give to young folk, in simple and popular an object of their pride. form, the more important phenomena of our —The American College at Rome has fcJrtv- earth's relations to the heavenly bodies, and, in ad four pupils sent out from twent}--three different dition, some entertaining bits of fun, fable, and al- dioceses of the U. S. Mgr. Hbstlot is the rector, lesforv relatinijf to the various months and seasons. and his pupils have greatly distinguished themselves of late at the Catholic examinations. Of the thirty- —General Sherman's retirement from the army six theological students who competed for medals lends timely interest to the frontispiece of the Jan this 3'ear, twent3--six were successful. uary Century., and is evidence to the eyes that Gen eral Sherman has been retired by law before his —In the different colleges of Notre Dame Uni- bodily and mental powers have even begun to de versitv there are 47S students. In the Manual La cline. His life, his character, and his services to bor School, there are 66 pupils; in St. Joseph's the country are discussed by E. V. Smalley in a Normal School for the training of teachers, there fresh and authoritative paper, which contains several are 52; at St. Mary's Academy for young ladies, good anecdotes. General Grant has assisted in there are 190 pupils, and in the St. Mary's School of making the paper exact and valuable with reference Art and Design for the instruction of teachers, there to war history by giving important information are 76, making a grand total of 862 who are receiv- and by reading the proofs. " Garfield in London" ino- an education at Notre Dame. is an account, in the main, of President Garfield's —Evangclimus Apostolides Sophocles, the ven e.xperierices and impressions while in the British erable University Professor of Greek in Harvai'd capital, being extracts from his journal of his trip to College, died Dec. 17th. Prof. Sophocles was Europe, in 1S67, "^ company with his wife. His born in 1S07 in Greece, and for several years re views on English politics and on prominent men like sided in the Convent of Mount Sinai. He emi Bright, Disraeli, Gladstone, and Spurgeon, have grated to the United States and entered Amherst a strong autobiographical interest. The most in College in 1S29, but did not take a degree. After teresting of French institutions, the Academy, with leaving college, he applied himself to teaching, and its "Forty Immortals," is made the subject of a in 1S45 was appointed Greek tutor at Harvard. gossipy paper, by the author of the striking bio- In 1849 he visited Greece, and on his return the gi-aphical sketch of " Gambetta," which was printed next year began his Greek dictionary of the Ro in the Century for last March. Portraits of thir man and Byzantine periods. This great work is a teen of the most widely-known Academicians illus monument to the extraordinary diligence of Prof. trate the writer's crisp characterizations. A poi-- Sophocles, who has also published several minor trait and biographical notice of the Hindoo girl, text-books of ancient and modern Greek. 264 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. The erection of the Dome itself was certainly a' great and important undertaking, but like every thing else that serves as a means to an end, the g-randeur of the end dims all the brilliancv of the Notre Dame, January 5, 18S4. means, however great they may be. In this case it must be remembered, that the Dome, colossal as The attention of the Alumni of the University of Notre it may be and as it really is, was designed only as Dame and others, is called to the fact that the XOTRE a -pedestal^ but made as fittingly as possible, for the DAME SCHOLASTIC has noAv entered upon the SEVEX- TEEXTH year of its existence, and presents itself anew as a 2:rand statue of her to whom all at Notre Dame, candidate lor tiie favor and support of the mam- old friends and the cause for which tliey are here, arc conse that have heretofore lent it a helping hand. crated. It may perhaps seem strange to some that we THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC Contains: should make an}' attempt at enthusiasm about the choice Poetry, Essaj-s, and the current Art, Musical, Lit erection of a simple statue. But let us consider erary and Scientific Gossip of the day. for a moment.' What an enthusiasm is there not Editorials on questions of the day, as well as on suhjects si^reading throughout the United States, or, at connected with the University of Xotre Dame. Personal gossip concerning the whereabouts and the suc least what mighty eflbrts are not being made to cess of former students. create this enthusiasm, in regard to the placing of All the weekly local news of the University-, including the statue of " Liberty enlio-htnino^ the world "— the names of those who have distinguished themselves in New York Harbor. We grant there is a reason during the week hj their excellence in class, and by their general good conduct. for it, and a good one. It is because that, though Students should take it; parents should take it; and, pagan in form, the prevailing idea among the above all, masses of our countrymen is that they realize the OLD STUDENTS SHOULD TAKE IT. benefit of a free government, and are willing to do Terms, Sj.jO fer Avtium. Postpaid. anything that may give fitting expression to their Address EDITOR NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC, sentiments. Should it then seem strange, that we Notre Dame, Indiana. here at Notre Dame, imbued with more Christian sentiments, and recognizing unmistakable evidences of the intervention' and protection of the Mother Our Staff. of the world's Redeemer—should be just as enthu siastic about an}- outward expression of homage T. EwixG STEELE, '84. W. H. BAILEY, '84. and gratitude towards her?" JNO. A. MclNT-i'RE, '84. ELMER A.OTIS,'84.. JAMES A. SOLOX, '84. C. A. TlXLEY, '84. * C. F. PORTER, '85. Among other great events of the past year we must mention the laying of the corner-stone of —We know by experience that at the outset Science Hall. The ceremonies attendant upon of any work we can and do command a spirit this great event were fullv described in the ScHO- and energy \vhich are apt to flag in its progress. LASTic of Commencement Day. We are now The beginning of any undertaking, whilst its nov happy to say that the work upon the building has elty exists, is alwavs a time of vitror. freshness and advanced as rapidly as circumstances of weather activ^t3^ It is for this reason that the thoughtful would permit. AlreAdy, the first story is com student when entering upon a new year of life, pleted, and the existing evidences of the general reflects upon the duties of the time before him and plan show a structure that will be perfectly forms resolutions which, if faithfully kept, will adapted for the pin-pose of its erection. make the 3^ear as happ): and as profitable as mor As regards the rnain building, but little need be tal here upon earth could desire. Experience, the be noted, as a general perfection already existed. great teacher, maj' perhaps prove tliat such resolu However, the Class of '84 are very proud (in a tions made before have been but too remissly ob proper sense) on account of their elevation to the served. Nevertheless, while reasori rises superior third story, not so much because of the heisrht to sense, no such reflection can cause discourage froin a material point of view—they have already ment. The grand faculty of oui rational nature, disclaimed any pride on that account—but because our intelligence—farticijyatio himiiiis divhir\--Qh- with them there has been inaugurated a new move peciall}' when illumined with the light of Faith, on the jDart of the College authorities which can shows our path:—if we have wandered therefrom, not but be productive of good results.. The " gen we have but to follow its o-uidino- rav.s. eral fitness of things "would suggest the propri ety of private rooms for the graduates, so that, * * even if we had the time and space at our disposal ^ At the beginning of a new year, we are irresis —which we have not—we would not need to argue tibly impelled to look back upon the j-car just o-one the question. by and see what has been done therein. A.s re Besides all' this, the Library has been stored gards our Ahna Mater^ the one grand event of with a goodly supply of volumes: and now the '83 that stands pre-eminent and overshadows all grand room—or, rather, floor,—witli its alcoves, others is the placing of the statue of our Lady on and reading-rooms" and other improvements in the Dome, which occurred on the 13th of October. cidental . to a well-fitted library, makes it some- THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 265 thing that can be shown with pride to the visitor, with you, or perhaps even proud of you, through the holi while it retains its usefulness to the student. The days spent with them at home, would increase, if possible, my own esteem and love for you I scarcely need to add study-halls have been rejuvenated, notably the Se here that to prove your real love to your dear father and niors'. Paradoxical as it may seem, the Juniors will mother, you must obey their every wish, in eve.rything, have to Avait until next spring, though they need and try your very best to make them happy and happier an extension verv badlv now: but a short time, day after day. Bear in mind, that in this, as in anything else, your elder companions will use their best efforts to and all will be well. The Gvmnasium has been equal and even outdo the Princes. refitted, the general reading--rooms have been re Were I a poet. I would draw .some inspiration from modelled, and adorned;—and manv other improve- this beautiful snow, just now storming from all sides over ments in minor details which need not here be re the Dome, and playing all sorts of antics around its crown ing monument—Our Blessed Mother's golden statue, counted, have been made during the vear 'S3 I'ust never yet visited but by the rays of light, the dew and the closed. cooling rain from the sky. How delightfully this first snow reminds me of our first departure from France! Itwas *"* on the Feast of Our Lady of the Snows, the 5th of August, It may go without the saying that all these 1841. Had the day been chosen by us, we might have con improvements were presaged bv the course gratulated ourselves upon our wisdom, starting, as we were, of events last year, owing to the wise admin for Northern America. But at that epoch, when almost each diocese followed its own liturgy, the feast of Sanclcc istration to which the College is subject; and in J/er/• fee (id 2\^iz-cs,'was scarcely known in France. It was consequence of which Notre Dame has witnessed only when I opened my new Roman Breviary to say Ves this scholastic year the piesence of a greater num pers in the coach that I found out the Feast the Church ber of students than ever before known in her his ,was celebrating. INIy surprise was soon even surpassed by my admiration. I never believed in chance, but on this tory. Tlie number t)f entries has never been occasion I understood at once and realized that the Blessed equalled, and the actual attendance numbers as Virgin herself, for whom we were actually and iovfullv much as the entries of any preceding year. That sacrificing all—little as it was—had :iccepted the modest Notre Dame is passing through an era of prosper homage of our honest hearts, and had herself chosen this beautiful Feast for the day of our adoption among her own ity, .no one can doubt, and, none more than we missionaries, and wished to assure us from the start that she her chjldren rejoice thereat. In itself, it is an evid \vould be our Star on the sea, our Guide and Protectress ence that the public appreciate the advantages af through the snows ot the NorthAvestof the New World. To forded b}' our Alma Mater and its able direction, me it was a revelation. I accepted it with full confidence, and now, after an experience of 42 years. I confess, with an and seek to profit thereby. unspeakable sense of gratitude, that our fondest hopes The year '84, then, opens for Notre Dame with have been, from day to day. realized be\-ond all expression. bright and flattering prospects, with everv indi When we reached here, towards the end of November, cation of a happ}- and prosperous year. Tliat the snow covered everything: and such a snow as we had. never seen in sunny France. For full five months this these expectations may be fully realized is our rich and spotless mantle of the Virgin ^Mother was lifted fondest wish. And so may it be for all up only two days. Indeed, it was the domain of the A HAPPY NEW YEAR! Queen of Snows. Like the ground, the trees of the forest, the ice on the lakes, all were white with snow: no movement was possible except through deep snow. When at night —The following letter from the venerab'e Su- we retired into our little log cabin, the snow followed us. often even to our quaint, cold sleeping-quarters; but the perioi'-General was received by the Minims shortly invisible. Hand thai givetk the sno-.v like ivool covered our before the holidays began. Though especiaU}' 'Ad trusting hearts, and we never spent a happier season. dressed to these very young people of our college Many times through that memoi able winter, we lost our world, yet the letter contains much that will prove waji in the forest, in daylight and as night, but we ahvavs of interest to many an older student and friend of reappeared, rejoicing and happy. Such a winter has never been seen here since, and yet Notre JDame. We do iiot think, therefore, that we remember none we enjoyed as much, in mind, in soiil, we depart from the province of our little paper in and body. It inured us for future trials—unavoidable laying it before our readers: through life. Reme.mber this, it may serve you. Hence my joy at the first fall of snow, reminding me so forcibly A WORD OF ADVICE TO OUR VOUXG . PRIXCES. of the most pleasant halts in my missionary life. May all praise be given to the glorious Qneen of the Snows, who' MY DEAR YOUXG PRINCES:—On this dav week, one took me. 42 years ago, as it were, by the hand, on her own half of our students will leave for home by a special train, Feast of the Snows, giving me to understand that she and yourselves with them, to spend Christmas vacation would shield me from all storms and dangers! Has she with your beloved parents. We will miss you; but they not fulfilled her promise? Indeed, when I cease to praise will enjoy what we miss, especially when they see with and thank our glorious Mother, the Queen ot Heaven, their own eyes the improvements you have made these who has done so much for me, I consent to be called an four months in your studies and manners. Let me re- idiot or a brute. Were it not for her, I would not have mindyou before you start of one important thing \'ou might to-day a " palace " with 100 " princes " shovdng her respect otherwise forget, viz., the great exDectations of vour dear and love. I give you this little sketch of ITotre Dame— friends at home. So much has been said and written and years before you Avere born—that you may. when you re published through the land concerning our young Princes turn, enjoy the more your surroundings so providentially and their new Palace, that it will require no small attention changed from a wilderness into a charming oasis, in the on your part to meet fully the fond hopes of those who midst of which every one can see, from miles around, on a- love you best. Remember the motto: " Nobility obliges." high throne, the sacred image of our heavenly Queen and Each one of you must appear, everywhere, the growing Mother, telling the sky, not a lie, but the true love of our embodiment of refined and exquisite manners—politeness hearts. What a sweet reminder for a loving child of what itself; a real little Prince in the fnmily; otherwise, they he loves best on earth and in heaven! would all feel sadly disappointed. What would they think of you.'' What would they think of me.' But. I trust, Present to your beloved parents, my most sincere good our common and best anticipations will all be filled and wishes of the season, and believe me, my de;ir •' princes," more than justified. When you return, a few lines from Your devoted finend, your respected parents, showing that they were pleased " E. SoRix, C. S. C. 266 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. Answers to Correspondents. diabolic smile it is greater, the head being some times smiled completeh'^ oft by the corners of the mouth meeting in the occiput. This is seldom at WiGSY WOLLOX: -The lines to which von al- tempted except by machine politicians. lude are as follows;. SOMEBODY ELSE:—You have been married She laid aside each jewel— Each srem so rich and rare: lately, and have a large number, of love-letters, Ah! Fate! couldst thou be cruel from yarious parties, on hand; and now you would To one so young^-so fair? like to know how to utilize them in your house She kissed her little brother. keeping. Have a light frame made of several As she bade farewell to him, Then softly whispered " Mother, panels, hinged together, and cover it with chintz May I go in to swim?" or nun's veiling. Then paste on \'Our love-letters, arranging them, if perfumed, with reference to the As to whether the author is George Washing scents. It will make a neat and attractive screen ton Childs or Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, we for vour dra\vina:-room, and will invariably excite cannot enliofhten v.ou. the attention of vour guests. THUTHANJAXE:—No; "coaxially" has noth VSELDHAM SMART:—Yes; (5/'(?«c/////i-is derived ing vyhatever to do with coaxing, and should not from bronco. ' When a man gets a bronco^ he gets be pronounced with a slight wink of the left eye. a little horse; and when he gets the bronchitis he You cannot ring in that little game on the Pro gets a little hoarse, too. fessor, and it is reprehensible to think of such a thing—^very. PINAFORE:—Yes; the joke is quite classic. Calistorgrius Prjevaricatus has it in the following Exchanges. form: Nunquam. Quid, nunquam.^ Bene, vix aYt utimur un- —The illustrations in The Adelfhian for Sep quam. tember and October are excellent. They are, Most of the opera is plagiarized from the French moi'eover, the work of students in the Art Depart of the Abbe Tirebouchon, with little attempt at ment of the iVcadcmy. The holiday number is concealment, as in gotten up in handsome style. The editors, too, are Je cherche la seclusion que fournit la cabine, to be congratulated on the manifest improvement De mfeme que mes tantes, et mes soiurs et mes cousines. in the paper from a literaiy point of view. GOPHERIM:—Ask him to parse "Off with his - —The Chronicle.^ of the University of Michi head! So much for Buckingham!" gan, showed praiseworthj- enterprise by publish DAMBLE GUMMY:—No; it is not allowed to ing extras containing full accounts of the games drop an h in order to get off a joke about " ice of the University Rugby team during its Eastern cool" and " high school." You ought to he trip. The news was wired to the paper. The ashamed of yourself. present Chro7iicle board have been making stren- WERTHA KUSS:—What your Quaker friend uous efforts to raise the status of their ^^aper, and probably said was " Third-day." He meant to ap they have succeeded in many respects. In matter point Tuesday, not Thursda}-, for the elopement. and in appearance the Chi-onicle will bear a favor able comparison with the best of the Eastern col N- ORMUZ PHEET:—No; it isn't called an "ed lege papers. ition de looks " simply because it looks nice. It's French,—edition de luxe. —The Polytechnic has donned a handsome new cover. The November number shows fnarked YouxG TEACHER:—A good way to exercise improvement over the previous issues. We won vour pupils on the varying soimds of soft and der what the alleged author would have to say hard g in declension is to make them decline such about "A Posthumous Fragment of Lord Bv- .\voj-ds as'^/o^a." ron's" if he were permitted to give his opinion .- ALMA GOOZLEHAM:—A summer shower does We presume the network on PoIVs cover is in not necessarily produce insanity in the hen. Do tended for the unwary exchange chaps of other not be misled by the expression " mad a.s. a wet papers who go prowling around in quest of a free hen." It should be '•'madid as a wet hen," of lunch. The Index man had better be careful: course. that mysterious black speck in the corner of Poly'!s OuiDA WAKE:^-rYes; tnarriages in Italy are cover looks like a masked battery. merelj- hypothetical. A married lad}'^ generally — The Snn, the weekly penny paper recently alludes to her husband as her "s'pose so." started by C. L. Murraj^ & Sons at South Bend, is VON WissELSBLAu:^The eccentricitj- of a the newest and strongest prohibition paper.that smile is found b}^ taking the distance between the we have seen. Mr. Chas. L. Murray, the editor, corners of the rnouth at the moment of greatest is a veteran journalist, an able writer, and evidently expansion as the numerator of a fraction and the a prohibitionist of the deepest color. He gives distance between the ears as the denominator. solid reasons for the opinions that he advances In the ordinary, or elliptical, smile this is an ex and the principles underlying them. He is no tremely proper fraction. In the parabolic smile fanatic, and therefore every conscientious brewer the eccentricity becomes equal to unity, and in the and liquor vender; must agree with his conclusions. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 26: It is not liquor or its legitimate use that he opposes, sober down or get into a lunatic asylum before the but the soul and bodv destroying- abuse of this next election day, he and his shot-gun may be sent dangerous beverage. over the Styx hy some athletic darkey. He'would —The Cohimbia Spectator warmlv advocates • then be thought a " martyr," perhaps. the establishment of a course in Oriental lansjuasres —We regret that our esteemed friend the ex- at Columbia. " Some time ag^o." it says. " it change editress of The Portfolio feels hurt at the seemed as though a fair beginning- had been made stigma cast upon Luther's memory by Miss Don to establish such a department in real earnest; but nelly's poem inthe SCHOLASTIC. She says "the after the appointment of one tutor in Sanskrit and name of Luther is a name dear to every Protes one in Old Bactric (Zend) no other changes have tant, and any slur cast upon it touches a tender spot" taken place up to the present chiv." Johns Hop in every Protestant heart.'' We regret to hurt kins has been the first American University to in any sensitive person's feelings, least of all those of troduce Assyrian, which is taught by a European one from whom we have received nothing but scholar; no American, probably, could be found courtesy, but our fair Canadian friend must bear capable of teaching it. The Spectator instances in mind that we as Catholics have had to bear a the obelisk, the famous Abbott collection of Egyp great deal of obloquy and insult ever since this- tian papyri, and the grand array of Egyptian books Luther celebration was talked of, and on the an in the Astor Library, in New Yoi k, as opportu niversary itself injury was added to insult. Ayery nity and encouragement for Egyptologists, "and large portion of the non-Catholic press has teemed states that the classes in Egyptian in London are with abuse of our Church, of the Pope, of Catholic crowded with clergymen, lavvyci-s, and rich men institutions, and of Catholics generally. If then, we who can devote their time to study. Some time give a glimpse of the skeleton in the closet on the ago, in their appeal to the citizens of New York, other side we can hardly be blamed. Had these the. trustees mentioned the facf that Columbia has over-zealous preachers and writers praised Luther had no Hebrew taught in it for twenty-five 3'ears. and let us and our Church alone, thej- would have The Spectator th'nks that theological students es done better; but their vituperation of us argues a pecially would welcome a course in Hebrew in or weak cause for themselves. Luther was not, per der to aid them in their seminary course. sonally, the hero or the reformer that our fair critic imagines him: he was anvthing but a saint, anv- —Judging from the last number of the JVezos^ thing but fit material for a hero, anything but what people and things at the K. M. T. are in a despe a good, pure-minded person would think a good rately bad fix. At least one of the brave " cap man in a7iv respect^ as we can prove, and as she tains" or* " colonels" there thirsts for blood, and will discover if she reads the history of his life bv thinks he cannot be satisfied without it. The Audin, or even the twenty-five cent pamphlet re United States isn't a bisr enough countrv to hold cently published by Pustet. She may read as " Tennessee Joe" and himself, because the said much as she will from Protestant sources in praise " Tennessee Joe" showed that the " Colonel "didn't of Luther, but after perusing Audin's life she can write grammatical English. That is bad enough, never again think Luther anything but a fanatic but it isn't the worst of it. The jVezus has lost its and a bad man. Thoroughh- understood, there is head, and the editor seems to have parted with his nothing in Luther's whole history to excite sym senses. He is in a terrible agony, and spreads his pathy, nothing to excite even that feeling oi pity^ agonized feelings over his miserable little decapi \vhich even the most hardened criminal can some tated sheet in a way that is pitiable to behold. times evoke. We are prepared to give abundant From his incoherent ravings we learn that the testimon}' in proof of our statement, but the works editor thinks he was kicked by a night-mare or from which we would derive those proofs are something of that sort, ridden by one " Tennessee within everybody's reach, and it is their duty to Joe," and that the doughty horseman yelled in his read up both sides of the question before giving ear <-^ SIIO-LU Me the Man!'''' It may be that the judgment. The books above mentioned, with, if editor had been indulging over-much in Kentucky you will, "Spalding's History of the Reformar mince-pie and a Bourbon wash the evening before, tion," published by Murphy, of Baltimore, conr jind put too much of a strain upon his warlike tain evidence enough of Luther's malevolent char nerves and stomach. Some of the other fellows acter to satisfy anybod\-. True Catholics never are not much better conditioned than the editor, allow themselves to be outdone in toleration or it seems to be jim-jams all round. B. W. A. has courtesy; but when attacked we have-a right to put on his brimstone shirt and dances around like defend ourselves. With Horace we can say: a wild painted -Mohawk warrior of, ye olden time. He yells for somebody to " Turn on the " Sed hie stilus haud petet ultro lifrht''''!—" Turn on the Up^hf''!—the electric Quemquam animantem et me veluti custodiet ensis light—but they havn't got any electric light at Vagina tectus; quera cur destringere coner K. M. I. to turn on, and darkness and dire con Tutus ab irifestis" latronibus." fusion prevail. B. W. A. wants to be a martyr For the present we can only ask what can be very badly. " But for the absence of adequate thought of a man who, notwithstanding the threat in the Holv Book itself that whoever tpok from or power," as he expresses it," or niav be of Personal. mise. The funeral services took place at Notre Dame, the sermon being preached by Rev. Presi dent Walsh. May he rest in peace! —Bro. Benjamin, C. S. C, left on Monday for Alton, TIL. ^vhere he will be cnoaged in teaching. —Among the callers on New Year's Day were Local Items. Rev. D. J. Hagcrty, and Rev. P. Johannes, of South Bciid. A HAPPY NIEW YEAR! —Frank V\'iientlcy was called home shortly —Snow, the— before the holidavs bv the death of his brother, —Solendid sleighincr. Thcmoson ^Vheatlev. He has the heartfelt svm- pathy of his Professor? and fellow-students in his —That turkey-lunch! bereavement. —All the Dudes wear bangs. —Three old students of Notre Dame—of ''^^.^ — Go to Z,. Celania^forfndts. candies^ etc. ^6^ and '69, respectively—were highlv compli- ' —" That fourteen dollar watch " needs no com Toented in the Chicago Inter Ocean of Satur ment. day, Dec. 29th. As Notre Dame is not as yet a . —^\Ye wish our friend John a Plappj^ New- verv larae citv, we forbear mentioninof their Year! names. —Read " Joseph Haydn "—See notice in pres —-Joseph P. O'Neill, of 'S3, has been ordered to ent issue. appear before a board of officers at Leavenworth, —The St. Cecilians are resting on their well- Kansas, to pass an examination for appointment to Avon laurels. a second lieutenanc}' in the regular armj*. He has the best wishes of his many friends at Notre —" Grand Combination E.xhibition," next Wed Dame for his success. nesday night. —Hon. L. G. Tong, ex-Mayor of South Bend, —Our new " Classical Graduate " is gaining a forman}- years Professor of Commercial Law and wide notoriety. the Science of Accounts at the University' of Notre —Deacon cG Son keep a choice assortmetit of ci Dame, is now the Cashier of the St. Joseph County gars^ tobaccos.) etc. Call and see them. Savings bank. Prof. Tong is an acceptable citizen —Self-introduction in the shape of current slang ?ind a gentleman of sterling character and cajjacity. is sometimes dangerous. —Tndia7iapolis Sentinel. —The Christmas Cribs of the Infant Jesus —Prof. T. E. Howard, A. M., who for 20 3-ears were unusually fine this season. has been Professor of the higher Mathematics, —To-morrow is the Feast of the Epiphan}"-— English Literature, and Latin, in the Univer " The Christmas of the Gentiles." sity of Notre Dame, is now engaged in the prac tice of law at South Bend. He has held the office —"Johnny" is expected back soon, enriched of County Clerk, the gift of the Democracy, and it with a lot of experience, and a fresh stock of puns. is not presuming to announce that he will be the —The continuation of " Notes on the Hebrew next Mayor of the city. Prof. How'ard has few Language and Literature" will appear in our equals as a scholarly, Christian gentleman, and as next. one to discharge a trust, there is no manlier or —There is a general impression that the change more reliable man. South Bend will be honored of name in the vear was out of compliment to the in him as its chief officer.—Indianapolis Sentinel. Class of'84. —It is our painful duty to record the death of —One hundred and sixty-five stuc^ents remained T. A. Coquillard, of '54, which sad event occurred during the holidaj'S, viz., 60 Seniors, 60 Minims, at his residence in South Bend, on the evening of and 45 Juniors. the 27th ult. Mr. Coquillard was one of the first —The Philopatrians say they will eclipse ever}-- white children born in South Bend, which was thing next April. The Thespians, however, are the home of his father when the latter was the 3'et to be heard from. only white man in the then little village. He was —The Junior Gymnasium has-received a coat born Feb. 13th, 1836, and at an early age along of \yhitevi'ash, which gives it a more cheerful and •wnth his cousin, A. Coquillard—the present great lightsome appearance. wagon manufacturer—became a student at Notre —The Princes present their grateful acknowd- Dame. Thev were the first students of the log- edgments to. Very Rev. Father General for his school, in '42, and, after the first college buildings princely Christmas gifts. were erected, Mr. Coquillard continued his studies, until 1854, ^^'hs" he.left and assisted his father in —Owing to several causes (principally holidaj's), his vast business enterprises. Since that time he the article on the French Revolution WMH not be engaged in various undertakings with success and continued till next week. latel}'^ was doing a Iai\ge and lucrative real estate —" Breakfast—the College Fetich "—is the title business and published a paper in that interest, .of an interesting little book bv some anonymous called the Globe. He had man}'^ friends through " Deacon " from the AVestern wilds. out the country who will sincerely regret his de- . —The Junior Prefects are under obligations to THE NOTRE DAME ^SCHOLASTIC ip9 Messrs. J. Hagerty, J. Ittenbach, A. Pliske, F. Thouofh inculcating: sound moralitv, it is not of the Fehr, for favors received during the holidays. usual goody-good}'^ sort, but lively, humorous and —Henry Metz came all the way from Chicago intense, as the various episodes demand.— Catholic to make his New Year calls among his friends at Mirror. Motre Dame. Of course all were delighted with —Very Rev. Father General's many friends his visit. will rejoice to hear that the opening of the new —Deacon G—, at the opening of his box, the year finds him thorouijhly recovered from the ac- other evening (perhaps it was morning), delivered cident which confined him to his room for the last an interesting lecture on the benefits arising from three months. May the year 1SS4 be one of es-' the wearing of " specs." pecial blessings to the venerated Founder, and may — Father L'Etourneau lately received from his wisdom direct Notre Dame for more than Paris, a lot of beautiful, artistic religious objects another score of yeai's. suitable for Christmas gifts. Persons desirino- —One of the music teachers associates the pun anythmg in that line should examine these articles. ishments of purgiitory with mending and keeping —Interesting meetings were held b\' the Thes clarinets in ordei". Strakosch we believe it was' pians and Columbians before the holidays. • Mr. that said hell was to him a place full of pianos, Solon's speech before the Thespians on " Literary grand, square, round, of all shapes and sizes, and, Societies " was an able effort. We hope to see it probably, more or less out of order. We wonder in print. if any brass instruments or violins are to be found —Bro.- Albert has just finished a cra^'on of a thei-e"? What doth Paul say? friend of his which is pronounced good by the best —" Casibus obliquis nix crescit prima." judges of such work. We understand that he is to The line is familiar to all lovers of Latin Pros draw the portrait of the best Junior at the close of ody. How singularly appropriate is its applica the scholastic year. tion now! I-n plain English, it means: "Untow —The students going West had a special train, ard accidents cause an increased fall of snow on the composed of three cai-s, for themselves. That most first day of the year." In some prosodies, vix ap gentlemanly of conductors, Mr. G. Liberty, had pears instead of nix\ but we maintain it to. be an charge of the train. B. Emmanuel and B. Leander interpretation by the scholiast. For, experience, accompanied the students as far as Chicago. Avhich is always the best teacher, confirms our reading. Nnff sed. —The Curator of the Mineraloofical Cabinet re- —A BEAUTIFUL GIFT.—The Great Rock Is turns thanks to Mr. Guillaume Frank, Superin land Route has issued a new and most compre tendent of the mines of Rodange, in the Grand hensive Cook Book, of 128 pages, filled with new Duchy of Luxembourg, for a collection of very and reliable receipts from the best caterers of this precious minerals from Bleiberg and Westphalia. and other countries. No housewife can afford to — Skating was all that could be desired from be without it; and though worth one dollar, it will Christmas until New Years, and the boys were be sent to any address, postpaid, upon receipt of happy. Sleighing was also good, and several ten cents in stamps. As they wnll go like hot sleigh-riding parties were oi-ganized who visited cakes, send at once to E. St. John, G. T. & P. A.,. the surrounding towns. The most enjoj-able, how Chicasfo. Illinois. ever, was the one taken to the vSt. Joe Farm. —-The printers and others connected with the —Bro. Bonaventux'e is raising a large and choice printing-office are indebted to the.kind thought- collection of geraniums and foliage plants for the fulness of Yerv Rev. Father Sorin for a large and coming Spring. He intends to have the large splendid cake at New Year's. The cake was un Heart between the Church and Academy of Music doubtedly good, and enjoyed as cakes generally and the University as beautiful and bloomingf as are by those who have a- good appetite, but the the parterre before the Minims' Hall. thoughtfulness of the donor amid the many cares —New Year's Day passed off very pleasantly. of his exalted position was better still and W£xs The usual greetings of the Faculty were extended fully appreciated. The printers express the hope to Very Rev. Father General and Rev. President that Father Sorin may live mariy yeai'S to bestow Walsh. Pi'of. Unsworth and Signor Gi'egori were similar favors. the representatives on this occasmn, and made ap —The pleasant Christmas address of Father propriate remarks—the former in English and the SORIN, General of the Congregation of the Holy latter in musical Italian. Cross, to the yo.ung "Princes" of the Minim de —We acknowledge the receipt of beautiful partment of Notre Dame, reaches us too late for - New Year's greetings from the Studebaker publication in this number, for which it is partic Manufacturing Co., the Birdsell Manufacturing ularly suitable, as it tells how the " Queen of.' Co., of South Bend, and the J. E. Bonebrake Snow " enabled him to build a palace for Catholic- Hardware Co., of Abilene, Kansas. They have education in the midst of a trackless forest. Fa our thanks for the kind remembrance, and our best ther SORIN disclaims the gift of poetr\-, which wishes for a successful and happy year. those who know him will be disposed to deny, ' —THE MALEDICTION. A Drama. By Joseph after reading this picturesque address. He has, A. Lj'^ons, A. M.—A Spanish drama translated however, made poetry in verse and prose, but, best and adapted from the French. It is an interesting of all, in stone and mortar and Catholic work he - play, and absorbed our attention in the perusal has.been, a true -ucr/rrjc.— CatJiolic Review, 270"^ THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. —The Phonography Ch^sscs now number aboiir 39 members, with new accessions from week to Saint jTlary's Academy. week. According to recent tests the sjDced of the stu dents in phonogi-aj^hy varies from 125 to 30 words a minute. The method of instruction is personal, OHC Mile West of Notre Dame Ujnversity. not according to the general class principle, thus affording ambitious students ample scoj^e for im —The Mass of midnight at St. Mary's was cele provement. Early speed is not insisted upon, but brated by the Rev. Chaplain, and the Catholic rather discouraged; the teachers claim that when the pupils received Holy Communion. The Masses' principles are thoroughh'^ mastered, and correct hab at six o'clock and at half-past six were offered by its formed, speed is onh- question of a little time, Rev. Father Saulnier; the High Mass, at eight and issui-e to come. The advanced students in pho o'clock, bj- Rev. Father Shortis. The Pastorcs^ nography, and former members of the classes, ex the Nolite and the Adesfe Fideles are eminently perience no difficulty whatever in reading one an calculated to arouse the spirit of love and adoration other's notes. which reiofned around the Crib of Bethlehem at —MIDNIGHT MASS.-T-OU Monda}- at midnight the Birth of our Divine Saviour: and in rich, stir it was the privilege, of T'he Ti7nes reporter to wit ring tones of melody thej'^ echoed above the rep ness b}'^ far the grandest religious ceremony it has resentation of the Mysterj', erected at the west side' ever been his lot to behold, and that was the of the main altar in the chajDcl. celebration of solemn High Mass in the superb —Among the numerous graceful and exquisite church edifice at Notre Dame. Hundreds of peo gifts received at St. Mary's, one from CajDt. Lind- ple attended the services from this cit}-, some walk sey, of Denver, Col., deserves sjDCcial notice. It is a ing all the distance, notwithstanding the cold very handsome Christmas card, containing a beauti weather and bad walkinsr, and the jjrandeur of the ful photographic reproduction of the Madonna Di ceremony well repaid any efToil made to be enabled JFoUgiio., or La Vierge All Z)o/iafaire oiHaphael. to attend. The immense edifice was crowded, and A full and excellent description of the picture, also the beautiful interior of the church was even more its history, in Capt. Lindsey's elegant handwriting; beautiful from the innumerable candles placed about accompanied the picture. The original is now in the altar and the many lamps that were suspended the Vatican, and, to quote, " has received the high at various places in the edifice. Solemn High Mass est encomiums for its spirit and execution, in its began, with Rev. Father Walsh as the cele several parts and as a whole. It has been pro brant; Father Spillard, deacon, and Father Camp nounced one of Raphael's most remarkable exani^ bell, subdeacon. The services were most solemn pies for the expression of character, and one of the" and impressive, the music was particularly fine, and most vigorous in coloring and general execution." the ceremonies will be long remembered for their solemnity and grandeur. One voice in the choir, —Among the many beautiful " Bethlehems " at that of Geo. Schaefer, one of the boy students at St. Mail's, the most elaborate and unique is that' the University, was paiticularly fine, and for sweet in the Novitiate. The Nativit}', painted by" Per- ness and power it would be difficult to find an ugino, the first teacher of the great Raphael, is" equal, and impossible to find a superior among those brought out in relief and enlarged so as to occupy of his 3-ears. The'services occupied about one and the - entire end of the assembly-room. The city one-half hour, and the great audience dispersed, of Bethlehem is seen at the right of the picture, with a feeling that they had fittingly celebrated with the mountains, beneath which stand a group the opening hours of the-day of our Saviour's birth. of the Roman soldiery, A little farther on, we Oh' Christmas morning, low Masses were cele see another group of indifferent Hebrews, who are' brated, and at 10 o'clock Rev. Father Walsh de passing by. In the centre, in His cradle of straw, livered a pointed and powerful sermon in the church is the Divine Babe, His Holj"^ Mother kneeling by to a large assemblage of students, people of the par in adoration on the left hand, and St. Joseph is ap ish, and others from South Bend and distant points. proaching from the stable where tlie ox and ass —South-JBettd Tzmes, Dec. 2g. are feeding. On the right of the Holy Child kneel two shejDherds, with rustic offerings; while" over' all, the angels, vieing with the stars in beauty and brightness, sing their glad anthems. The lights are so disposed as to produce an admirable effect; ORTHOGRAPHICAI.. especialW in the evening, A young lady said to her beau: —New Year's is the daj' by excellence, when the ' I'm glad the sneau's coming down seau, Because now, I kneau, accounts of the the past year are balanced, and all We'll a sleigh-riding geau. ; " turn over a new leaf." It is the day of universal So hail to the beautiful sneau!" cordial greeting. Miss Belle Johnson, on the part of the3'^oung ladies, offered the New^ Year congrat The youth shook his head and he sighed, ' I'm sorry," he sadly, replighed; ulations to the Prefect of Studies just after break " I can't hire a sleigh. fast, before leaving the Refectory, - At half-past For I'rn dead bi-oke to-deigh. two, pupils and superiors assembled in the stiidy-' Ahd-"the"pl(eaSiiretd"us is deriighed:" hall with a number of invited giiestsl Miss Rdilly' —SomerinlleJoiirhalT opened * the "progi-amrhe' in a beautifully ei'^cuted •• THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. iff piece of instrumental music on the piano; Miss Shakespeare and Milton—but among them all, ' Johnson read the New Year's greeting from the Not one in inspiration can compare Seniors to Very Rev. Father General, and Miss With the celestial Poet whose glad Feast Bruhn deli^'ered one from all the pupils to Mother We.solemnize to-day. Superior. Miss Holt recited a poem by Mrs. Not one;- in force Pi-eston, and Clara Richmond gave the " Origin Or grandeur of expression, can pretend of the Opal." Miss B. English followed with a The least approach. ^ vocal piece—Millard's Ave Maria. She was suc „ To lofty scope of thought. ceeded by Mar}- Dillon, who recited, in a ver}' ef To purity and strength, he adds a power fective manner, a poetical address from thejunioi's Before which all the artful grace of style to Father General, and Mary Lindsey closed the Pales, like the taper in the noonday sun. entertainment with a well-rendered recitation. The eagle-eye of Saint John, upwafii cast. —The Christmas tree found conofenial soil this Beheld, with steadfast gaze, the Son of Gorf. year in the Minims' room. Santa Claus, as he pre In His unfathomed glory-; saw- the sti-eets sided, with a more than druidical gravity, looking Of the Celestial City paved w-ith gold; down from the topmost bough, seemed to indicate Its gates of pearl, its river crystal clear. his indebtedness to the two guests who honored Flowing in beautj' 'neath the "Tree of Life;" him with their presence. He would open and Nor w-ere these figures, but eternal: truths; close his cj-cs most expressivel}', and as the tree- Not fancies, h\xt realities divine. was all ablaze with wax tapers and marvellous Dear Father, while we gather, as- of old. sparkling pendants, scintillating amid- wonderful To celebi ate your chosen Patron's Feast, toys of every description, Mrs. Papin, of St. Louis, We cannot fail recalling your career and Mrs. I'-nglish, of Columbus, could not deny Of charity to our loved native land. that he was acting- as their agent—or vice versa. The " Saint of Charity," by excellence. Every Minim received a beautiful gift, and when Is great St. John. the tree had shed the last of its fruits, a smile of His legacy divine, . satisfaction completely irradiated every face in the By grace of Heaven and humble heartednessi room, from the disfnified donors down to the di- You have received in most abundant measure. minutive rosy-cheeked recipients of the Christmas You and your ardent confreres in the worlf, favors. In power thereby imparted to your zeal, —On Thursday, the Feast of St. John the Have made " the desert blossom as the rose." Evangelist, a progi-amme was presented in the Where others, in discouragement and fear. study-hall, complimentar}- to Very Rev. Father Would have turned back, you have pressed boldly on. General, who met the young ladies there at 3 p. m. The future—the glad future must reveal The entertainment was honored by the presence The glory of the labor Faith has wrought. of the Very Rev. Fathers Granger and Rezd, Rev. In spreading far and wide the heavenly famer. Fathers L'Etourneau, Spillard, Shortis, Saulnier, Of Her, whom, standing 'neath the-Holy Cross, Frere, Gleason, and Duhald. St. John received as Mother of the race I In the " new birth," the birth of grace divine,". The programme was brief, but very pleasing. Of Her, whose Son—the Son of God as w-ell-^- Miss Gove pUwed a beautiful instrumental piece, Expiring, left to earth this grand bequest; and the Misses Reilly and'Bruhn sang; the former a composition from Rossini, the latter the popular Beneath Her smile meek Science walks the earth air, " Come, Buy my Roses Red!"; Miss Camp With calm, majestic tread. bell presented the greeting of the day, and little She spreads abroad" Mary Lindsey recited Miss Donnelly's exquisite That intellectual vigor Avhich transforms " Minnie's. Christmas Sermon." Afterwards, the= This Vale of Exile to a Land of Hope; company and pupils repaired to the chapel, where No longer grovelling, like barbaric tribes. Ver}' Rev. Father General gave Benediction of Slaves to'their lower being, slaves to sense; the Blessed Sacrament, during which the Adeste The race, ennobled, after heaven aspires; Pidelcs was sung by the Rev. Fathers Duhald and And culture of the God-like in the heart Frere, of Notre Dame, the Convent and Academy Become the pleasure of the Christian soul— choirs, together with the large number of priests Such culture is your life zvork! present, joining in the chorus, with excellent ef What could be fect. More blissful than the'treasure now possessed In the glad consciousness of such a po-wer? Address. Our Father, thanking you, as best we can. For all we owe you—the celestial debt READ BY-MISS CATHARINE CAMPBELL, ON THE FEAST OF Which earth can never pay—witli truthful hearts- ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST. We wish you, o'er and o'er, " A happy Feast And many bright returns! " L.ong desertations, astute criticisms _Each heart shall be* Portraying beauties and sublimities An Isle of Patmos, where our gratitude - Of classic poets, meet us everywhere: Shall live forever, waiting the glad day Homer and Virgil, of the ancient days; When.Heaven shall open on the receding earth Dante, Boccaccio. Petrarch, later still; And faitliful souls behold what Saint John saw. 272 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. O i: > 2 Q D Q Z D O CX) ^m ^ UNTVERSITT OF NOTRE DAME, IND. The UxivERSiTV aftbrds every facility ior acquiring a t'lorough knowledge of CLASSICS, LAW, MATHEMATICS, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, MUSIC. To suc'ii as wish to devote tliemselves to Commercial pursuits, NOTRE DAME gives a m.ore thorough business training than can be obtained in any purely Commercial College. THE COMMERCIAL COURSE has always received the most careful attention on the part of the officers and Commercial Faculty ol the Institution. In all the courses the best s3-stems of teaching are adopted and the best authors for each branch selected. New Students will be received at anj- time, their term beginning with date of entrance. CATALOGUES, giving full particulars, will be sent free on application to the President. For farther particulars, or Catalogue, address Notre Dame P. O., Indiana. 11 Railway. FLORIST. On and after Sunday. Nov. iS, 1SS3, trains will leave South Bend, as follows: GOING EAST: 2.04 a.m., Chicago and St. Louis Express, over Main RARE and BEDDING PLANTS Line, arrives at Toledo, 9.22 a.m.; Cleveland, 1.57 p.m.; BuS'alo, 7.36 p.m. ALWAIS ON HAND. 10.54 ^^'^•1 Mail, over Main Line, arrives at Toledo. 5.07 p.m.; Cleveland, 9.44. p.m.; Buflalo, 3.31 a.m. AI.SO, S.41 p.m., Atlantic Express, over Air Line. 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