S5 The Adelphian ~=====~--DC1:======~ Volume 5. Christmas_, 1908. Numher 3. Publisherl three times a year by the sturlents of St. Bonaventure's College. Subscription : .:;o cents per annum; Foreign, 6o cen~s. Single copies, 20 cents. Andress all communications to THE ADELPHIAN, St. Bonaventure's College. St. John's. N.F.
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BY REV. DR. KITCHIN.
IELDING at last to the repe::ttetl Mariano, Savonarola's conten1porary ancl requests of his hearers~ Savo!l rival, was lavish of his quotations of arola consented to quit the Plato and Aristotle. Nor \vas the desit·e convent garden and perfmned shade of to n1ake of the sern1on a brilliant essay the rose tree and preach in the CIHt,·ch rather than an edifying- discourse, alone of San l\1 arco, vvhere a larger audience confined to Savonarola ·s da:v. ..About might hear and profit by his discour~es. one hunc.lred years later St. Francis cl~ The pron1ise vvas not given ". ithout Sales' father was not at all plea~e(l "tt considerable hesitation, nor "·ithont his illustrious son·s apostolic st~·lc of seeking for light in prayer, ancl he fore preaching, and con1plain~cl Francis \Yas told fro111 the start he should preach in too easily understood! Later still, cltlr San Marco or else\vhere in Florence, for ing the Grand Sicclc~ J,f assillon could eight years. He n1adc his first appear note as his unalterable
out its ludicrous side-to see that throng and their splendid loyalty towards hiln. of children, some intensely serious, son~e l t happened in the dark days of the pro with n1.erry n1ischief sparkling in their phet ''hen the shadows of death were eyes, filing into the big Piazza and closing around hi1n. Forced against his thro'v\ ing on to the burning pyre sotne will into that unfortunate speriJnento or .. .,. anity" wrested frotn un-willing hands. ordeal, \vhen he, either through hi1nself Readers of "Rotnola" will recall the de or his representatives, was to prove his lightfully humorous description-which divine tnission by walking unhurt it would be presun~ption to atternpt to through the fire, he had promised to retouch--given of this scene by George produce as rr1any charnpions on his side Eliot. ..:-\nd while Savonarola vvatched a~ his challengers would wish. Walk ~1is ··angels" sweeping by in holy pro ing one evening in the convent garden cession, their white faces glean~ing vvith Fra Placido, seeking no doubt a ruddy in the glow of the fire, I wonder little recreation fro1n his cares, a little did any revelation flash across his in boy of noble farnily came up to hitn and spired tnind? Did he see an~idst the o ffered hi1n the paper on vvhich he had caverns of the flatnes any vision of a '' ritten his childish protnise to enter the n1ore terrible tragic Burning yet to fire for the Frate. But fearing the con~e? Who knows? l\tiore than once \Y riting was not enough, the child knelt he had yearned and prayed for 1nartyr do\\ n before Fra Girolarno and pleaded don1, it is possible he no-vy saw how his passionately to be allowed to redeern his desire was to be fulfilled. But he had pledge. ''Rise, my son," said the Frate, vvork still to do, and he 1nanaged to as ·'thy good will is pleasing to God"; and sociate his dear children with hin~self. tL1rning to his cotnpanions, he added: A. t last he had succeeded in establishing .. :;\I any such papers have been brought the ).lonti della Pieta to lend 1noney to ''to n~e, but by none have I had such the needy at a non1.inal rate of interest, "consolation as by this child, for whom and his children lent beauty and in1.pres "God be praised." The little hero's siveness to the ceremony of inaugura nan1e has not gone do\\rn to posterity, tion. though surely it deserved to go. And It '''as on Paln1. Sunday, 1496, an i1n doubtless too Savonarola's heart beat n1ense procession of these children in high \vith pride and gratitude when he w bite robes and with garlands on their sa\•v his children at least vYere true to heads went forth from San l\1arco to hitn, and his "resplendent" eyes n1ust open fonnally these ).1onti. l\Iany have shone softly through a n~ist of tears aclnlts, ·1nen and wo1nen, marched behind as he disn~i sed the dear little would-be thetn, carrying the pahns the Prior had n1artyr. blessed and the little red cross \vhich But Savonarola's reign -vvas now coin \\as his token. As they passed along the ing to a close. That heavenly despotistn bv. tanders thre-vv ahns to then1. for the beg(Jn by hitn where peace and purity n~\v charity. "And so n1uch joy," says and justice ''-'ere triun~phant, could not B ·.1rlatnacchi, "was there in all hearts last. The n~ass of 1nankind cannot be ''that the glory of Paradise secn1ed to pennanently uplifted to the pursuit of a "have descended on earth and many tears high ideal. After a short interval of .. of tenderness and devotion were shed. enthusiastn, the world, the flesh and the ·'They went to all the four quarticri~ devil began to reassert their influences "establishing a Monte in each, and secnr over n~en and they revert to "ing for them a little enclow1neut to be their old habits. Around the Frate "gin with, frotn the ahns collected." \Vas grouped a stnall circle The sa1ne artless biographer tells a de of elite-n1.en like hilnself in soul lightful little story showing the love and ai1n, n1en full of the 1nost fervid Savonarola inspired in these children loyalty to their Lord, of whorn Christ ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. 81 was really I<" ing. Then there \vas a 'vas quite another n1atter. And so rn larger circle of the faithful, the good this large fluctuating body of fo11owers, tne cliocrities, who welcornecl Savonarola svvayed entirely by tnotives of policy and as a teacher sent by God, and followed self interest, a continual ebb and flow! hi111 as far as their lirnited pow·ers -.voul 1! now to the Frate now fron1 hitn, \vas a llo w. And beyond that again was a going on. And by degrees he lost his still larger circle of men who \vi shed to hold on the city, and fron1 absolute Dic p rofit by Savonarola's political inA uence tatol· becan1e n1erely the head of a a nd ascendency, but who \vere entirely shrunken religious party, the Piagnoni opposed or absolutely indifferent t( re ( \veepers), as their opponents con lig ion. They were very \vi1ling to free ternptuously called thetn. Unfortunate Flo rence frotn the l\fedici and to use Fra ly, circun1stances toQ threw chances into Girolan1o for that purpose; so far they his enen1ies' hands of which they were h eld with hitn, but when it can1e to free n ot slo'v to avail thetnselves, ancl the pro ing Florence fron1 the yoke of Satan and phet passed after rnuch hun1iliation and 1n aking -yirtue rergn triun1phant there, it suffering to the martyr's crovv-n.
(To be continued.)
HE footba11 season is now over. ball tnatches took place on JVIonclay, Oct. and St. Bonaventure's has again sth, before a fairly large gathering of T been victorious for the fourth spectators, between St. Bonaventure~s successrve year. In the early part of and Feildian tean-:1s. The latter having the season our prospects did not ¥/on the toss decided to defend the \Vest look very bright as vve had lost several ern goal, having a strong sun in their of our best players, but by uerseverance, favour. The S.B.C. forward-line, vvhich hard practice, and a certarn an1onnt of was ahnost cotnpletely new showed to determination our teatn succeeded in se advantage, and the ball had scarcely been curing the Trophy. There IS no centred when Lan1b, with a splendid doubt but that the tean1 vvas \Nork pass frorn Grant, succeeded in dra\ving ed vvell by Rev. Bro. Strapp, the coach, first blood. Fro1n centre the Feildians and by the Captain, J. 1-Iiggins, and to brought the leather down field but ·were these rather than to the tean1 are the repulsed by the backs who vvere putting thanks of the whole College due. 1~he in good work. For son1e n1inutes play play ers who wore the "Gold and Blue" vvas confined to tnid-field when Power during the season are as follo·ws :-J. with a '"dandy" drop-kick placed the ball safely in the twines. Soon after the Higgins (Capt.), T. Latnb, M. Po,ver. \vhistle sounded for half time. Ends ]. Ra,vlins, T. Nangle, H. 1\feehan, vV. being changed the B. F. C. put on Grant, S. Kearney, J. Ryan, J. Carter, a ~purt and Welhnan and liunt had a E . Rawlins, J. Coughlan. shot but Nangle cleared easily; and the ball being sent out by the backs Lan1b The first of the inter-Collegiate foot- sec'..tred it and notched up No. 3· This ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. was follo-wed by a fourth fron1 E. Ra\v n1ore, leaving the score 5 to 2 when the lins. Tait, who was -vvorking hard. final \Yhistle sounded. For the victors, tnade a splendid run up the field but in Tait. Brown and Collier played splen vain, the backs were ready , an<.l drove cliclly, v, hile Fenwick, Stick ancl llerder the leather to the forwards when :rv:Ieehan put up a fine gatne for the l\1ethocli s ~s. captured it and passed to Lan1b who The first n1atch of the second rout-.-.: scored again. Five n1inutes later he was played on Wednesday, Oct. 14, and managed to elude all his opponents ancl "had the n1ost exciting finish tln.t has the sixth and last goal was recorded for been witnessed since the con1tnence1nent S.B.C. The Feildians gallantly kept up of the inter-Colleg-iate series." St. Bon the struggle but without avail, and the aventure's and Bishop Feild Colleges gan1.e ended with the score six to nil in were the contestants. St. Don 's cho~e favour of St. Bonaventure's. the Eastern goal against a strong ·wind. When play started the Feilclians rushed On Wednesday, October 7th, the to the St. Bon's goal but \vere repulsed. second gatne of the inter-Col!egiate St. Bon's then atten1pted to rush b :1t the series took place, the contestants being ~trong wind itnpeded and a bonlbarc.l St. Bonaventure's and l\1ethodist Col tnent of the St. Bon's goal ensued, in leg-e. The match began at 4 o'clock \vith the midst of which a corner was granted. M.C. defending the Western goal aided It vvas neatly kicked and Tait banged in by a strong wind. Our boys, ho\vever, No. r for the Feilclians. St. Dan's as played well and no scoring was done on suming the defensive ·worked hard and eithet· side. On positions being rever~ed saved ·well so that at half tin1e the score S.B.C. opened ·with a dash but shooting stood: Feilclians, I ; St. Dan's. o. Play was wild and inaccurate, and as our op recommencing- St. Bon ·s keot the ball in ponents' defence was tnagnificent, it was Feildian territory but failed to score. fully twenty n1inutes before Meehan The Feilclians n1ade two or tht·ee at succeeded in scoring our first ancl only tetnpts to rush bt1t without effect ancl goal. For the retnainder of the gatne 5 1ninutes before f111l tin1e the score stood play was very poor, neither side seen1- as at half-titne. Enthnsiasn1 \vas no\v at ing to tnake anv great effort to gain its height, our supporters ho\vever sa\v more than it had. St. Bonaventure's g-ood reason to fear. At this point our ,,.·ere thus victors by a score of one to Cantain. Hie-g-in<:;. chan~ecl his position as nil. full-back rushed into the n1idst of the fray and saved us fron1 defeat. The ball '\vas On October 12th, the last n1atch of driven into our ground, he captured it the first round \Vas played, the Feil<.lians and dodg-ing his opponents one by one and 1\fethodists being- the contestant~ . ·n1idst the wildest and n1ost ttoroariotts The gatne opened briskly and the b~ll enthusiastn evened the score. The· effect was now sent to one end now to the was nla!Tical; the Feildians -vvent to other. Fron1 centre the Feiltlian frr~ nieces \vhilst our n1en rushed everything. wards by good con1bination broug-ht Two minutes after Hig.;:ins scored our the ball up to the 1\fethoclists g-oal bu ~ 'vinning- goal and before the final \vhistle onlv secured a corner. On this being ble·w Lan1b scored another-all in the kicked the Feildians scored. Fenwick space of five n1in11tes an1idst th'lnclerous soon after scored the equalizer for his applause; thus the gan1e ended: St. tean1, and half-tin1e sounded, the score Bon's, 3; Feildians, r. being I to I. Just as soon as the second half bee-an the Methodists scoretl, but On Octoher T 7th the fifth of the series the Feildians about a n1inute afterwards was played bet-vveen the St. Bonaven scored again. The Methodists now fell ture's and the lVIethodists. Play began to pieces and the F eildians scored three at 3 p.1n. St. Bon's defended the \Vest- .Back Kvw: S. Kearney. W. Grant. T. Carter . H. Meehan. J. Ryan. ·
INTER-COLLEGIATE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS, 1908. ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. · ern goal with a slight wind in their lively, the Feildianc making a determin favour and tnade a good run to their op ed rush on our goal, but they were ponents· goal but were checked by the driven back, and for twenty-five minutes . .\1ethodist lads. Both teatns tried hard <:he ball was kept in constant 1noticn. to score during the half, but without Roth teams secured several corner kicks. effect. Fifteen minutes after play had but failed to find the net. The S.B.C. been resumed St. Bon's secured a pen spurted and Meehan with a well aimed alty frotn which Higgins scored. Then shot sent the ball between the posts, add ~I eehan made a rush and succeeded in ing for S.B.C. No. 4 goal. The ball securing a econd goal for his team. wa carcely centred, when Lamb get There was no further scoring and we ting control of it passed the back division won by t·wo goals to nil. and notched up No. 5· This was h:trd ly accomplished. when the final 'vhistle On October 2 r st the second contest between the Feildians and Methodists sounded, leaving S.B.C. victorious by 5 took place resulting in a victory for the goals to nil. latter by three goals to nil. This match On Thursday, October 30th, our boys which was the last of the second round played their last match. Though the was not as enjoyable as might have been fate of the cup did not depend on this expected, owing to the unfavourable con n1atch it was important in that if we won ~iition of the weather. In the first half this vve would come through the football Fenwick and Churchill scored two goals season ·with a clean record and one never for the Methodists and in the second half beaten-winning every match. Our op Hayward added one more to their credit. ponents, the Methodists, in the first h:tlf .-\.lthough the Feildians played briskly rlefended the Western goal with a strcng throughout, they failed to .score and the wind in their favour, but failed to score match finished in favo.ur of the l\tletho owing to the very strong defence of our rl.ists. backs. Our forwards, however, by grand combination brought the ball up On Saturday, Oct. 25th, the first match the field and, through the instru1nentality of the third round was played between of Kearney, scored. In the secnnd half R.F.C. and S.B.C. The weather was we had things all our own way and were fine, in fact all that could be desired. .:onstantly bombarding the l\1ethodist The game openect briskly and the Feild goal. J'J evertheless we scored only one ians' defence line was called upon sev goal more, which vvas placed in fine style eral titnes to defend their territory. At by Power. Thus the game enued in cur last Lamb found an opening, and rush favour 2 to o. In this match we had to ing down the wing passed the ball to dispense with the services of one of our the centre to Rawlins, who lanrled it be best players, T. Lan1b, who was unable tween the posts, scoring the first ["Oal to play, having hurt his arm in our previ for the gold and blue. fhis was quickly ous match. By v.rinning every match followed by another to Rawlins's credit. and by having but one goal scored 3.nd a third was landed by Higgins fr0m against it, this year's team has made a rt free kick. No more goals were got in record never equalled in the inter-Col the first half. The second half opened legiate contest. ST. BON A VENTURE'S ADELPHIAN,
The last football gatne of the series The following is a table showing the was played in St. George's Fielrl, Oct. standing of the three tearns at the close 3 I st, the contesting teams being 1\Iethod of the season :- ists and Feildianc::. In the first half ~le tl1.odi ,ts defended the Western goal, and L t \D , \ Goals. Pt after some hard play on both siCLes ~f~~~ ~ Won. os r n For A 't s. ------Churchill succeeded in scoring first goal S.BC_6_ 6 0 0 19 I I2 B.FC 6 . I 4 I 7 20 3 for the M.C. No further scoring vvas I M.C.. 6 4 I \ 6 II 3 done until ends were changed when Tait l· with a fine rush landed No. I for B.F.C. 0., behalf of the team vve beg to offer • T either ~earn played vvell after and al our sincere thank~ to J\1essrs. \\linter, though several chances were given there ·vinnicombe, Hunt, and Pippy ·who re was no sconng. Thus when the final fereed the various gatnes throughout the whistle sounded the gatne was a dra \v season.
Barnes, Harold ...... Portugal Cove Keneally, Cyril ...... Carbonear Basha, Simon ...... Bay of Islands Leamy, Michael ...... Blacl~hcad Burke, ~.,.illiam ...... St. Jacques Leonard, James ...... St. John's Eidel, Gustave ...... St. Pit:rre Leseman, Roy ...... St. John's Eurke, Reginald ...... St. Jacques Le GentH, Auguste ...... St. Pierre Connors, John ...... St. John's Lemee, Michael ... ·...... Coachman's Cov~ Cashin, Laurence ...... Cape Broyle Maher, Frederick ...... Brigus Junction Cashin, Richard ...... Cape Broyle McCarthy, Thomas ...... St. Jacque~ Conran, Patrick ...... Harbor Main McGrath, Thomas ...... Harbor Grace Carbery, John ...... Sahnoni~r Maufroy, Auguste ...... St. Pierr~ Coady, Patrick ...... Burin McDonnell, John ...... St. Genrge'c:; Cullinen, Hugh ...... Alexander Bay, B. B. Nangle, Thomas ...... St. John'.:: Connors, James ...... Ef'll I~la nd Neary, Edward .•...... Portugal ~oYe Costigan, Richard ...... Bell Island Norris, William ...... SalmoniC'r Devereux, Thomas ...... Ferryland Norris, Stephe·n .. ·.: .. Three Arms, N.D. B . Du Eourd ieu, Thomas ...... St. George's Norris, Ambrose .... Three Ar1ns, N . D . B. Ducey, William ...... Keels, B. B. O'Dea, Leo ...... St. John's Davey, Charles ...... St. John's O'Neill, Thomas ...... Cape Breton Dunn, John ...... Topsail Hoad Oz0n, Louis ...... St. Pierre Dinn. Michael ...... Carbonear O'Erien, Patrick ...... Witless Eay Eagan, James ...... King'!'1 Cove O'Leary, James .. Portugal Cove, Trepas~ey Furneaux, 'rhomas ...... Rose Blanche Pike, Ernest ...... Rt. John's Free bairn, Buchanan ...... Ferr:o.•land Pumphrey, Francis ...... Harbor Grace Free bairn, Charles ...... Ferr:vland Power, Mogue ...... Rt. John's Frecker, John ...... •. St. Pierre Ryan, John .....•.....•... ~ . ~ Miflclle Coye Flynn, James ...... Eurin Seward, Martin ...... North. River Greene, Joseph ...... · ...... St. John's Sutton, Thomas ...... Tr('passey Ora.nt, Edwar<;l ...... Lawn Smith, Samuel ...... Harbor Breton Glavine, Pierce ...... Pilley's I~l~nd Hynes, John ...... ·...... Port-au-Port Sinnott, John ...... · .... ·.Heart's Content Hynes, Stanislaus ...... •... Port-au-Port Stewart, William ...... Harbor Breton Hayes·, Htigh .... : ..... New ·York, U. S. A. Sinnott, E _renda_n .....· ...... ~ ... St. John's Hartery, Joseph;. Portugal Cove, Trepassey Thomey, :Henry ...... Bay-du-Nord H~gen, Edw~rd •..~ ...... _ ...... St. Pierre Turpin, Richard ...... · ... St. Lawrence Keough, James ...... Caplin Bay . . . Traverse, John ...... Coachman's Cove Kelly, Alick ...... St. John's Walsh, Thomas ...... Witless Bay Keating, WilJiam ...... Channel Walsh, James ...... _IIarbor Grace Keats, Thomas ...... Merasheen, P. B. Whelan, Patrick ...... '£or bay ST .. BONA. V.E . NTUR'E ~ 'S .AD.EL.PH-IAN ·. ss
Bv J. G. HIGGINS.
S Virgil sang of ancient Rome And the ball towards the Feildian net And all its old-tin~e glory, Right gallantly they land. As liomer sang of Grecian They score ! they score ! oh no ! oh no ! For chance doth not ordain, deeds- And Collier meets it on the hop That grand and wondrous story, To drive it down again. So I of St. J- onaventure's Shout out a lesser line, Their forwards join in a splendid rush To tell of all her glorious deeds But Ryan is ever there, That'll live till ntan's decline. And once again far fron~ our goal The ball is high in air; Oh 1· football is again my theme, Grant checks it sn1artly on the hop My song is football deeds ; And _upwards wends his course, ' Tis n1ine to sing of her victories A ud through the Feild ian halves and And Bona,·enture's meeds ; fulls Of all the 1nighty doughty things His way doth quickly force. Done if1 that football fight And of that glorious footb:1.ll cup, 1 hen passes straight across to Lamb - Sing, muse, oh sing to-night ! "' ho shoots it for the goal, But once again the ball's secured T·he Gold and klue on many a field 1 n down..,\'ard course to roll. Has proved her victorious sway, But watch how in that sudden rush But never a titne n1ore pregnaut, than Come on the White and Klue, On that eventful day, And from a scrimmage near our goal When the Gold and Blue with Blue Tait lands one strong and true ! and White In football fight did swell, ~.~\gain the ball is centred And the Gold and Blue did float aga1n And our forwards rush again, On victory's citadel. While our backs like old-time heroes Play up with all their n1ain. Each team came out with faces bold, The ball goes up, the ball goes down; As true as steel were all. In dubious course it bounds : To fight for their colleg-e honour Ti:-; thus the battle rages And help it from a fall. Till the half-tin1e whistle sounds. Our boys aopeared, fine stalwart boys, Amidst their college cries, The half-time rest is over now, The \Vind was in their faces Each teatn co1nes out in might ; And the sun was in their eyes. Amid their cries, with flashing eyes, Resolved to win the fight. The whistle's gone, the battle's on, Go out, oh Bonaventureans ! And the players n1adly rush Forn1 up your strong array, \A ith hearts that are beating wild· and Dra\v up your line with all your haste fast And win the fight this day ! Ann faces all afiush. Now here, now there, the ball is kicked, Oh ! how our players played that day, No\v here now there 'tis stopped, Their college deeds to swell; Now St. Bon s have 1 ushed it up the Each tnan displayed his very best, field, Each man played bold and well. Now down again 'tis dropped. N e er went the ball so swift and true As it did go that day. Mark ho\v our forwards madly rush, V/hen Moguey put that trusty foot '1 heir combination grand, ~o pliantly in play! 86 ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN.
Oh there so quick at centre half, (What mean those tnighty cries?} Joe stands without a peer; Oh ! scarce have you titne to watch the No man or ball can e'er pass him ball No man can make him fear! Whe_n into their goal it flies ! Now, mark how surely Carter plays Oh with what strength and might Oh ! once again the ball~s secured Ho\v sure he kicks, how well he blocks, And in goes Numher two He plays the game aright. Amid the loud exultant cheers From the boys of Gold and Blue. And there behind them solid And hearts, that but a minute gone Looms up the full-ha~k line; Were borne down by dejection's tide, Upon the left so brave and true W tre heating now with excitement, Stands out our gallant Ryan. ·Were filled full high ~vith pride. No fear has ever Jack to face And ward off fierce attacks ; Now in one rush invincible, While Higgins as ever on the right Our forwards gather force ; Doth kick the fouls and backs. Fron1 Lamb to Meehan, fron1 Meehan to Gtant Now, watch! the ball is past our backs, The ball speeds on its course ; ·Tis shot, but have no care ; Frotn Grant to Rawlins, then again For though quick it flies straight for the To Kearney inside right, mark Fron1 him to Lamb, thus down the field Our goal-keeper's always there. The ball speeds on in flight. The shot is swift, but return is swift, As Nangle there alone 1 he Feildians play like Trojans, Secures the ball with hands so sure Rut no ! 'tis all in vain ; And out again 'tis thrown. For scarce the ball is in their grasp When back again 'ti:; ta en. The forward line is strong and true, Lamb dodges quick, the backs are The forward line is quick, passed, They keep the ball in Feildian ground He stops before the goal, With strong unfailing kick. And shoots it true, and in the net Lamb on the left's a terror, The ball doth quickly roll. There's none can dodge like him While Ivleehan on the inside left A n1inute to play ! and the Feildians Plays with great force and vim. Another rush they dare, But lo! they're stopped as 'fore a wall : Our centre man is Rawlins, The half-back line is there. Fearless of any foe, And down again the ball is burled Where' er the rush is thickest And the forwards-list, that roar : There Eddie s sure to go. It is, it is the whistle There is with Grant no word as ''can't'' That tells the game is o'er. Hut be shines upon the right, And Kearney's there with solid help, Oh ! this was one of the battles And fights a gallant fight ! We fought for the football cup ; Ob ! this was one of the many we won Oh ! scarce five minutes tnore to play To keep our colours up. There's time to get one yet ! And glorious, victorious, There s time indeed to put that ball Did fight our manly boys ; Within the Ftildian net ! They fought to win and win they did Now watch that rush, that lovely rush, And the foot ball cup was the prize ! ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. Tourists I1n. Veniceo bv F. E. R. D.
" The sea is in t:.:.e broad, the narrow ~treets, ebbing and flowing ; and the salt sea weed cling.> to the marble of her palaces." HEN touring the cities of Of course the first thing, after re- Italy, you arrive with de- freshing ourselves, was to resort to a light at that north, curious, guide book in preparation for our next and decidedly pleasant city which rises few days' sight seeing; and a little con as if by stroke of an enchanter's wand densed review of the history and geo out of the waveless Adriatic. The other graphy of this rernarkable city would Italian cities have more than their share not be out of place, if it will not weary of dust and noise: you awake in the the kind reader. n1orning with your ears full of Roman Venice once the mistress of all the bells or N eapolitain street cries: but commerce and of half the power of here in this magic city, you are lulled to Europe is still one of the grandest fig sleep by the song of a Gondolier, while ures in history and one of the mo3t the faint splash of oars is the only in- singular in geography. In history the ducement vvhich tempts your waking city dates fron1 432, and took shape as senses to activity. When our party ar- an independent ~tate with magistrates rived in Venice from Florence we were of its own about 687, to assmne at after enduring an irnprisonment of length the form of a Republic and be eight hours in a train which seen1ed to con1e "Queen of the i\.driatic," the Doge be eternally going through tunnels. ranking as one of the sovereign powers Needless to say, the prospect of a Just- of the Western World. In the tenth less city appealed to us tnost opportune·- centnry it was the great centre of trade ly. We held ourselves in readiness for with the East, retaining this position surprises and we received them in due until the discovery of the route round time. the Cape. Then it began to decline, The train at last reached the station falling eventually under the yoke of at the close of an ideal Italian day. .-\.ustria, frotn which it was wrested in Getting out our luggage we were whisk- r866. It is now part of the modern ed off by an hotel agent into a typical kingdom of Italy and is literally cram Venetian hotel bus and before we could tned with historical and artistic objects, recover our surprise we were floating which speak eloquently of its former gently down a w1"d e watery street on grandeur. each side of which were houses, seem In geography Venice is, indeed, ingly of marble, rising out of the w:tter unique. Built upon seventy-two islands, .-\.s we progressed down the canal, more which lie in the midst of extensive la and more novel sights appeared, while goons that surround it on all sides, it is the setting sun gilded the prospect, unrivalled in beauty and novelty of situ turning it into one mass of color and ation. The city is divided into two parts dusk slowly approaching made every by the Grand Canal, which winds object fade gently away. Now and then through it for a couple of tniles, inter people passed over our heads on white sected by 146 smaller canals, and ~pan stone bridges and sna:ches o£ a song ned by nearly 400 bridges. All along came. to us from some of the houses ad this wonderful waterway, rise the J otntng. This was our first in1pression noblest palaces of these great old fam: of Venice, and during a stay of four lies whose names were written in the days, we never had to regret our visit. ·'Libro D'Oro"-the Golden Book-of 88 ST. BONAVEN~URE'S -A-DEL.l?HIAN-. the Republic. From one end of it to the to his face such an infinitely sad expres other, palaces, h6uses, public buildings sion. and churches rise up out of the water, every building having a history legend In the Cathedral is the celebrated pic or ron1ance attached to it. No city, per tllre of the Madonna, brou.:;-:1t fr-oi11 Con haps in the world surpasses \1 enice in stantinople by the Doge Enrico Dandolo the nun1.ber of its historical memorials, and stated to have been painted by St. and one of the chief interests of a visit Luke the Evan.gelis~ . . _i-Iere also is ' the to this strange city is to trace its history famouS- .altar piece, the_ Pala ' D'Oro, in tombs, montunents and palaces. v.' rought with_plates of gold_ a,.11d _;;et with pearls and precious stones. . Th~ _ Sac~ The first place we wished to see was, risty of St. Mark's which con_taii1~ a of course, St. Mark's Square and Cathe ceiling frotn designs of Titiap i_s said dral So we started to look for it next to .be the finest exi~ting work in Ven~ti~n n1orning. Going along a kind of em .Yiosaic. l\1.any other objects of unique bankment in front of the houses by the interest gathered or phJn..d.ered by . the side of the Grand Canal (the Italians great Venetians _lie here also. call this promenade the Riva) we faun i the entrance to the sqnare marked by ~--\fter viewing the Cathedra!' we carne two columns surmounted by the fan~ous again on the Sq~are _where hutjdrcds of Lion of St. Mark. The square turned tatne pigeons are being fed. _For one or out to be a large enclosure flagge(l with t\VO cents we got a supply of gt·ain and s-tone around which lay the n~ore stylish it was quite interesting to see then~ shops and cafes. Occupying one side perched on your hand and \vrist all of it, St. Mark's Cathedral stands \vith eager to get at the grain. Every tourist its tnany don~es. The Cathedral as can who visits Venice tnust feed· the pigeons be readily seen is chiefly retnarkable for or his visit is not cotnplete. its glorious lV1osaics, which are peculiar to Venice and different altogether frotn Just outside the Square are the palace the Florentine Mosaic: the latter being and prison made imn1ortal by Byron'':> tnade of stone and the former of glass lines. Connecting thetn over a bye All the ceilings of the Cathedral and street (or canal) lies the Bridge of part of the walls are covered \vith this Sighs. Entering the Doge's Palace we kind of Mosaic. A picture done in this proceed up the Giant's staircase and the n1osaic is, of course, able to stand the Scala D'Oro to the Hall of the Grand wear and tear of centuries much better CounLiL Here we are in the very than the oil painting. 'l'he Cathedral 111idst of the Venetian House of Parlia has a very old look; which greatly adds tnent. Adjoining are the roon1s of the to its chann. We had the pleasure of famous Council of Ten, the l\1.ysterious attending a Mass there celebrated by the Council of Three; all of which in ad present Patriarch of \1en ice, and our dition to their historical interest contain thoughts involuntarily reverted to the pictures of vvorld wide repute. F'rom late Patriarch who now fights the battles these \Ve proceed to the undergrounr1 of the Church from the Chair of St. prisons and the dungeons below vvater Peter. As we had the honour of seeing level where n1any a prisoner, \vho fC'll Pius the Tenth in Ron1e we easily could undE:r the suspicion of the black robed cornpare him with the present Patriarch, Council, pined a way and was lost to the who is undoubtedly a much stronger world. The Bridge of Sighs is a cover looking man. Perhaps it is the troubles ed passage connecting the palace with which beset the Church since the pre the prison and the prisoners were j uclged sent Pope ascended the Chair that n1ake and incarcerated without ever seeing him ·such an old looking man and give the light of day irt ·the interi.J.n. ST. ·· BON AVE NTU RE-' S - ·AD EL p-H IAN.
~--\fter vie,ving and admiring every Venice the whole setting of one of the thing here, our guide b ooks direct u s greatest of Shakespeare's plays* lies. through typical \ 1 enetian streets to the We looked around curiously perchance Church of S.S. Giovanni e Paolo, the for another Shylock: and, though that W estminister Abbey of Venice, in front individual was not apparent, yet we \vere o f which stands the bronze monun1ent contE:nted to see his reputed house. 'rhis o f so1ne noted General of the Republic, we reached through a labyrinth of little which is 111ade fan1ous by Ruskin's nlen streets or rather alleyways. It ·was a very tioning it as the tnost beautiful eques unpretentious structure but still the fact trian statue in the \Vorld. of its being the legendary House of Shy lock raised all sorts of conjectures in our Skimtning along- the Grantl Canal in breasts. I must confess I itnagined our gondola the Church of Santa Maria myself to be a silent spectator back in Della Saluto, one of the chief landn1arks that dark night v.rhen the Jew return eel of the city well repays a visit. It \vas to his empty d ·welling to find his daugh built as a votive offering ·when a plague ter fled and, what was more, his ducats was raging and it contains tnasterpieces gone with her. One who had the plea by Titian and Tintoretto. Farther up sure of seeing a month previously, Mr. the Canal we come to the Rizzonico Beerbohm Tree's magnificent representa Palace, where Browning lived and died. tion of this scene in his revival of the A.. memorial tablet on the side wall bears "Merchant of Venice," must indeed be the inscription: excused if his in1ag-ina~ion ran a\vay with -him somewhat when he found hin1self A Roberto Bro·wning M orto ,:n questa face to face with the actuality. The re pala:;:;o Vene:;ia pose. puted house of Othello can also be seen Open my heart and you will see graved in Venice. inside of it "Italy." This mag-ic city has its Conev There are also t ·wo other Churches which Island, which the inhabitants call the interested us verv 111t1ch. One was call Lido. It is situated fa~ther out to sea ed in Eng-lish· "The Church of the Rare than the city and a ferry boat is the footed Friars." It _was one n1agnificent s\viftest mode of reaching it. 1.~here is a mass of marble, with many colont·ecl al-· n1agnificent beach on it and the Adriatic tars of prec~ous stones and l\tfosa ics. has an ideal temperature and no surf. The other Church was a Tesuit one. ~rhe Hence bathing is · indeed a pleasure. interior is entirely of \vhite marh!e in The water extends sha1lo\v for about a laid with a desig-n very antique, giv quarter of a 111ile and a cafe extends into ing- to the whole the appearance of lace the sea from the balcony of which a work. Near the main entrance is a fine prospect can be enjoyed. grand altarpiece bv Titian. It scarcely could have a - rival in n1agnificence. But the Venice of the day time is Crossing the Grand ·Canal in the mid qnite outdistanced by the Venice of the dle of the citv ·s-tands the .Rialto Bridg-e night time.. Night in Venice reminds It' is a very larg-e structure with shops one of some 1nan1tnoth Carnival. Walk built on each side_ oJ it leaving you to in~ along- . _the R iva, you can see the pass dovvn the n1idd!e. On one side of Grand Canal ablaze with the lights of it are the market places · called by the the Gondolas constantly n1oving =L1p and Italians the 'Rialto. · He-re it was in the do·wn, while the passengers ·vetit ·their davs of the Reoublic, the \ Tenetian tner feeling in songs. There is also a band chants g-athered to buy and sell. Tt was co·ncert vvhich you can thoroughlv en here Shylock was "rated for his n1oneys joy if some quaintly garbed gondolier and his usances" and it was here tn does not prevail on you to go for a "Ser- go ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. enata" on the Grand Canal. What im Between the flickering lights, the cos pressed us rnost about the concerts was tutnecl gondoliers, the music and the -the band always gave selections fron1 singing, you become fairly mesmerize..i the high class operas with which the and when you retire to your hotel you crowd see1ned to be thoroughly conver w onder whether you have not been a sant. ·vVhether \ rerdi or Bellini \vas the participator in that famous "Carnival of corn.poser, it was the same to thern Venice." As you fall asleep, a gondola They seen1ed to understand and appreci passes softly along the Canal under your ate the n1usic-to judge by the applause window and the gondolier's song breaks -and when the bulletin board an gently on your ears and dies a\vay nounced the name of the next selection gradually as the gondola moves swift it was greeted with an intelligent nlur ly up the Canal. rnur which seerned to convey to us the The one saddening in1.pression Venice feeling that they were conversant with leaves on the tourist, is the knovvledge it, though it might be a first class of the fact that he must so soon leave be operatic piece. hind such a delightful spot.
Connplete College Roll :for 1908o
Allan, Thomas Carter. John Devereaux, Francis Armstrong, Frank Cleary, Alban Donnelly, John, Sr. Adams, George Coughlan, William Donnelly, John, .Tr. Adams, Bertie Channing, Bertie Davey, Charles Adams, Cecil Coughlan, John Druken, Patrick Alian, William Cleary. Wilfred Duchemin, Nicholas Ahier, John Channing, · Max Davey, George Channing, Francis Donnelly, Thomas Barron, John Carter, Leo Devine, John Bates, John Crawford, Robert Poyle, Ed ward Byrne, Gearld, Jr. Cashin, Richard Donnelly, John Brennan, Edwin Cleary, Allan Dunphy, Alexander Buckingham, Thomas Coughlan, William Dunphy, Thomas Buckingham, Edward Coughlan, .Tames Devereaux, Thomas Buckingham, Francis Callahan, William Daly, James Buckingham, Frederick Coughlan, Louis Du Bourdieu, Thomas Byrne, Gerald, Sr. Coughlan, Gerald Ducey, William Byrne, Frederick Canning, John W. Donnelly, Henry Burke, Reginald Connors, John Duffy, Leo Burke, Leonard Coughlan, Edawrd Donnelly, Francis Bearns, Gordon Crawford, Edward Dunn, John Bird, .Tames Curtin, John Dinn, Michael Brown, William Canning, John Butler, OHpha nt ChBnning, Ferdinand Ellis, Arthur Bennett, Reginald Callahan, Walter Edens, Leonard Balfour, Graham Cashin, Lawrence Edens, John Barnes, Harold Conran, Patrick Edens, Francis Burke, William Carbery, John Earle, John Bira ben, Henry Costello, Alexander Ellis, Thomas Berteau, Edwin Coady, Patrick Ellis, Herbert Baxter, Angus Cullinen, Hugh Eagan, Charles Easha, Simon Connors, .Tames Eagan, Gerald Bidel, Gustave Cornick, William Eagan, .Tames Breronan, Hugh Chaplin, John Emerson, George Black, Alick Campbell, W8lter Black, John Coughlan, Wilfred Flynn, John Bailey, Edward Costigan, Richard Fox, John Brien, Patrick Fox, Charles Dee, John Farrell, Roy Canning, John Dee, Adrian Foley, Gerald ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN.
B~itzg e rald, William K ating, William Norris, William F r e ebairn, Buchanan Keats. Thomas Norris, Stephen I •~oley, Jame s K e nt, 'J:homas Fitzpatrick, Thomas Keneally, Cyril Olinhant, John F'urne aux, Thomas Kearney, Stanislaus O'Rielly, Bertie Fortune , Augustine K lly, Robert O'Driscoll, John B ortune , Thomas O'Dri!"COll, Stephen Freebairn, Chari , Lamb, Thomas O'Dri:"'co11, Joseph Frecker, John L e sema n, Roy O'Flaherty, Clune Flynn, James Lash, William O'Dea. Leo Fitzgerald, Arthur L e amy, Michael O'Neill, Thomas Fraser, Even Leonard, James Ozon, Louis Flynn, Thomas Larkin, John O'Brien, Patrick Flynn. Dermot Le Gentil, Augustine O'Leary, James Lemee, Michael Greene, Joseph Lawton, Alphonsus Pe>trie, Charles Greene, Randal LAke, Cecil Pike, Ernest Gibbs, Arthur Linegar, Francis Pumphrey, Francis Gosse, Charles Ledingha1n, Peter Pike, Max Gibbs, Augustine Lamb, Cyril Power, John Gibbs, James Power, Augustine Grant, Edward Meehan, Hubert Parrell, Leo Greene, Cyril Meehan, Charles Parrell, William Glavine, Pierce Morrissey, James Phelan, John Godden, Victor McGrath, John, Sr. Power, Archibald Gibbons, James McGrath, Francis Power, Mogue Gleeson, James McGrath, White Petrie, Walter Grant, William McGrath, Charles Phelan, Edward McGrath, John, Jr. Power, James Houlihan, Francis Morrissey, Peter Harris, Francis Martin, John Quigly, Timothy Hoskins, John Mott, Thomas Halley, Thomas McGrath, Scanlan Ryall, Gordon Halley, Patrick McGra tll, James, Sr. RyaJl, Charles Halley, William Morrissey, Augustine Rawlins, Jo~eph Higgins, John Mulrooney, George Rawlin!'t, Edward Hackett, William l\lforri5;sey, John Rvan, Francis Hynes, John Murohy, Rylvester Ryan, AlE'xancler Hynes, Stanislaus McKay, Charles Rvan, .Tnhn, Sr. Harris, Eric Mc~voy, Francis Rvan, Thomas Hickey, William McEvoy, AlbE'rt Rvan, John, Jr. Hartery, Frederick McEvoy, Patrick Ryan, John J. Hiscock, Richard McEvoy, John Rvall, James Hayes, Hv gh Moore, Francis Ryan, ~~muel Hartery, Joseph Murphy, Joseph Rvan, John Hagen, Edward Murphy, Ronald Rvan, Willf::~m Maher, Fre>derick Ryan, Frank J. Jackman, George Mayer~. Edwin Rv~n. PRtrkl{ Jackman, Leo Mc~amara, Austin RohPrt~on. Eric Jackman, Francis McNRmara, George Reddick, Bernard Jackman, vVilliam Molloy, Patrick Joseph, Dufie McCarthy, Thomas EhnndE'rs, .Tnmes Jackman, Georg Jr. Murnhy, J~me>s Rutherbv, Francis Keating, James Mullings, Gordon Savin, John Keating, Francis Maher, John Rnllivan, John Kent, John McNamara. Francis Snllivan, vVil1fe Knight, Francis Ma:vers, Ad::tm S11llivan, W. R. Knight, Harold McGrath, Thomas Snmmers, Leo Keegan, Kevin McGrath, James, Jr. Rummers, PE'ter Keegan, Dermot Mayers, Bertie Summers, Vfnc-f'nt Keegan, Fa trick Manfroy, Auguste R11mmers, H::~rold Kc1ly, A!ick McDonnell, John St. John, Robert Kelly, Edmund McGrath, William St. John, Ane-nstine O'D. Kelly, Augustine> St. John, Wilfred Kennedy, Patrick Nurse, Percle St. John, Gerald Keough, Leo Nangle, Thomas Sinnott, Brendan Kelly, John NoRh, John ShE'ehan, John Keon gh, James Nicol, Purden Skinner, Willie Kielley, James ~icol, Rex Sta ncom be, R tchard Kelly, Gerard Norris, Ambrose Savage, Michael Kenny, Cyril Neary, Edward Sharpe, Leo 92 ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN.
Stewart, Arthur Tobin, Patrick Walsh, David Shortall, Leo Thistle, Francis Walsh, John, Sr. Shortall, Frederick Thomey, Henry 'Naish, Harold Sutherby, Cuthbert Taaffe, Edward Walsh, John, Jr. Seward, Martin Turpin, Richard \Valsh, Michael Salter, Hubert Traverse, John Walsh, Thomas Salter, Willie Templeman, William Walsh, Stanislaus Smyth, Thomas Tearns, Patrick Walsh, Albert Skinner, Joseph Walsh, James Sullivan, Leonard Wall, Robert Sutton, Thomas Voisey, Herbert Whelan, Patrick Smith, Samuel Vail, Walter Wylie, Walter Sinnott, John Walsh, :H'rancis Stewart, William Wallace, Aldrjge Sullivan, Robert Wheeler, William Wylie, Cecil Wheeler, Joseph Tobin, James Wylie, Robert Wall, James Total No. in attendance, 1908 ...... •...... · · · · 362 '; '' '' '' I 907 • • • • · • • • · · · • · · · · · · · • · · · • · • • · • • · • • • • • • " • 343 Total increase ...... r9
Prize Da.yc.-1908.
HE annual distribution of prizes chorus from the Singing Class and an T to the successful students of "Irish Jig" from the Juniors, each of the College, brGught as usual which items was greeted with prolong a very large audience to St. Patrick's ed applause. Hall on the 30th of last October. The The second part of the programme attendance mainly consisted of the par consisted of a three act drama, entitled ents and friends of the pupils. Among the "Triurnph of Justice" or the "Or those present were His Grace Arch phan Avenged." The acting through bishop Howley, Lady and Miss Mc out was good, the delineation artistic. Gregor, many of the city and outport and the impersonations of the various clergy, the College Board of Directors: characters were well sustained. The and several other prominent citizens. different acts elicited rounds of enthusi The C. C. C. band supplied the tnusic, astic applause and reflected much credit and during the evening delighted the on Professor Hutton, who trained the audience by a ser1es of soul-stirring students. The entire performance did selections. honor to the College, the students and The programme opened with selec tLe teachers. The follo,ving was the tions fron1 the orchestra, followed by a programme for the occasion : ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIA~. 93 PART I.
Se Iecti Ot1S •••• , •••••••••••••••••••••••• ·•• 0 0 •••••••• 0 • 0 ••••••••••• 0 Orchestra
The Soldiers· Chorus, from '· Faust ' ...... o ••••• o ••••• Class Dance, '' Irish Jig ' ...... ·.. • •••••• o••• · o ...... Mitiims
PART II. THE TRIUMPH OF JUSTICE; OR THE ORPHAN AVENGED.
A DRAMA IN THREE ACTS.
DRAMATIS PERSONlE. The Baron...... F. Ryan Claudio. } S ons to t h e Baron an d nephews to Captatn. Zav1er...... } LK Carter. K A gos t tno . eegan CaJ-.t. Za"\.·ier, a kind-hearted Naval Officer ...... •o••• • . •• . ..• ··••o •••• M . Power Colonel Rigolio, a 1\iilitary friend of Zavier...... o...... o...... •...•... T Lamb Este-vau, The falsely accu~ ed ...... o....•.. . . o...... • • ...... • •.. . .•.•.•...•.. P Halley
Paolo, Chief Steward, rather ecc. n tric...... o •••••••••••••••••••• J Carter
Gaspard o, a Goad-herd ...... o • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •••••••••••••• J. Higgins Benedict, 1 f E Crawford Tomaso, l d J. Barron Carlo, r Atten ants ...... - ...... i J Edens Pedro. J / l t> 0' Driscoll Myrtillo, a dumb Orphan...... • ...... H. Barnes Captain of 1\rlilitary ...... •...... ~.r. NcLngle Other Attendants, Goat-her _s, Peasants, and Officers of Justice. CONDUCTOR MR. CHARLES HUTTON. Before the prizes were distributed Exarnination of last June; two of these the President of the College gave a brief 'vere pupils of the College. Of the six report of the year's work frorn which nan~es in the pass list, five are in the \i\Te take the following: Second Division. Alone in the First ''At the Rhodes' Scholarship Examina Division appears that of T. Lamb. He tion held early in the year J. 1\1c0rath is therefore the winner of this year'-; and T. Halley were successful. The Jubilee Scholarship of $6oo. Our former though permitted to take the second n~atriculant is John Carter.
qualifying examination was too young ASSOCIATE GRADE. to con1.pete for this year's scholarship. T. Halley was our representative before In the Associate Grade of the Council the Cornmittee of Selection but he was of Higher Education our boys have for not awarded the scholarship. A student the third successive year secured the of the Methodist College was the fortun first two places-a record quite unique. ate winner. John Penny who has enter To ]. Higgins belongs the distinction of ed on his third years' course at Oxford being first atnong the 62 competitors of ts doing vvell in every respect. this year. He wins the first scholarship and the prizes for English and Latin. LONDON ~IATRICULATION. J. Carter cotnes second in the Grade and Six candidates from the Colony were is the prize-winner in l\1athematics. The successful at the London Matriculation prize for Navigation falls to '.r. 1\1c- 94 S T • B 0 N AVE NT U R E ; S AD E L P HI AN . earthy, one of the pupil teachers. SU.l\f.MARY OF THE CHIEF RESULTS b1g.nt boys passed. On exan1in tng the In the five Public ExaiDinations or 1908, successes ot the boys of the graue \Ve St. Bonaventures:- find that our Assoc1ates have secl1red: (I) 'l'ne 1-lonours l..JlVlSion aH to tht:rn- Has passed t\vo candidates at the selves. Rhodes Trust Exatnination \V hich 1s (2) '1'he two Scholarships awarded. equivalent to Oxford Responsions. ( 3) lv.tore than haLt the prizes. Has for the second successive year (4) About half the chsuucuons and won the Jubilee Scholarship for first l5J '1 he largest nun1oer ot passes. place at the Matriculation exan'lination of the London University. L~TER.1\£EDIATE GRADE. Has taken first and second places in First place an1ong the boys of the ln the Associate Grade for the third year tennealate Grade lS tal UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. WINNER. PRTZE. J. W. McGrath .. Pass in Rhodes' Scholarship Ex-1 Gold VYedal (presented by Dr. L. E. aminatinn. { Keegan) . T. P. Halley . . Pas;; in Rhodes' Scholarship Ex-} Gold Mc:..dal (presented by Mr. C. amination. Fox). UNIVERSITY OF LONDON . T.F.Lamb . . \Vins Jubilee Scholarship, value~ Gold Medal (presented by Rev. Bro. $6oo. Pass London Matricula- J. E. Ryan;. tion (First Divi.:;ion). 1. Gold Medal (presented by Dr. F . J. W. Carter . . Pass London Matriculation. J Gill). C.H.E. EXAMINATIONS. ASSOCIATE GRADE, J. G. Higgins .. First Place in Grade, First Open 1 Scholarship, $25. Pas,; in Hon- ors Divis on. Fir~t Place in ~ Gold Medal (presented by T. J. English, $8. First Place in Lat- I Edens, Esq.) in, $8. Second P .ace in Modern History. ) J. W. Carter .. Second Place in Grade. Second 1 Open Scholarship, $20. Pass in ~ Gold Medal (presented by an old Honors Division. First Place in 1 pupil). Elementary Mathematics. J Thoughts For All Times, (Vaughan) .. Pass in First Division. ) Home Mechanics for Amateurs J. J. Fox }- 1 (Hopkins), Emerson's Complete J Prose Works. T. J. McCarthy .. Pass in First Division. First} The Catechism Explained ( Spirag o Place in Navigation, $4- Clarke), Tennyson's Poems. ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. 97 M.S. Power .. Pass in First Division. Seconrl} Idea of a University (Newman), Place in Elementary Mathema Graph1c English Dictionary (Col tics. lins J. E. L. Carter . . . Pass in First Div"sion. The Iliad of Homer (2 vols.), De } votions of the Sacred Heart. J. L. O'Dea .. Pass in Second Division. Complete Poetical Works of Tenny } son, Moore's Irish Melodies . W. A. Vail . . Pass in Second Division. ..chums. INTERMEDIATE GRADE. Honours Division. Prize in History, $1.. Prize in Free l hand Drawing, $2. Sf'co1d Place L.A. Edens .. First Boy in Grade. Scholarship, ~ in Mensuration. Gold Mecial (pre f,2o. sented bv Rt. Rev. Mgr. Roche). Silver Medal for English Com J position. E. L. Sharpe .. First Place in Arithmetic. The Japan-Russia War, Henry Es } mond (Thackeray) . F. J. Keating . . First place in Freehand Drawing .. -Life of Pope Leo XIII, Waterloo. W. A. Coughlan Englis,.t Dictionary, The Household } of Sir Thomas 1\Ioore. F. J. McGrath Character (Smiles), Life of St. Jar } lath. First Division, H. F. Barnes t A ChHpter of Adventures, Life of St. 5 Charles Borromeo. L. A. Summers The Settler,; in Canada, Longfel } low's Poetical Works. A. T. Lawton .. In Far Bolivia, Life of Joan of Arc. E. Rawlins Nat tbe Naturalist (Fenn), Life of } St. Antony of Paciua. W. J. Keating The Young Nile Voyagers, The } Lamp of the Sanctuary. · J. S. Carbery t Fabiola ( \Viseman ), Catechism of 5 Perseverance. A. M. Cleary Wordsworth's Poems, Life of Car } din.:1l Wiseman. G. J. Byrne The Boy Hunters l Reid), Life of St. · } Cecilia. T . C. Walsh Boys of the Priory School, Sesame } and Lilies. T. Mott Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Essays } of Elia. Second Division. H. H. Meehan t Goldsmith's Poems, Life of St. John { of God. F. J. Pumphrey Sincere Christian (Dr. Hay), Bonnie } Prince Charlie. J. J. Coughlan The Young Colonists, Life of St. Ed } mund . J. J. Ryan . . The Pioueers, Stories of the Saints. F. R. Burke The Last of the Mohicans, With } Clive.in India. PRELIMINARY GRADE. Honours Division. _ 1 Gold 1\Ieda.l : (presented by His J. J. Barron .. First in the Grade. f,2o Scholar-]' Grace t~e Archbishop). First Place ship. in English, J8. Firs ... Place in Geo graphy, $4- ST. BONAVENTURE S ADELPHIAN. l Gold Medal, (p~esente? by_ Lady E. Crawford ··Second Place in Grade, $2o Schol- L 1\Iorris). First Place 1n Lattn, $8. arship. f Silver Medal for English Com- J position. B. W. Freebairn ··Fifth Place in Grade, $2o Scholar-} Gold Medal (presented by V. P. ship. Burke, Rsq.) First P 1 ace in Frtnch, $6. J. B. O'Reilly · -Six_th Place in Grade, '$2o Scholar-} Go' d Medal (presented by Rev. Fr. s 11p. Fleming.) F. H. Knight ··Ninth Place in Grade, $20 Schol-} Golci Medal (pregented by Dr. Free arship. bairn>. A. Cleary ··First Place in liistory, $4. . .Chatterbox, Aboard Atlanta. J. Leonard .. A "\Vriting Pad, With the Sea Kings. First Division. F. R. Su therby .. Photo Album, Warrior King. T. J. Devereux \.Catholic Piety, Mother Carey's l Chickens. E. Ntary Young Nile Voyagers, Aboard At } lanta. M. J. Savage Patience Wins, Stories of Holy } Lives K, Ketgan Frank Fra1eigh, Con1mon Objects of } the Country. L. B. Burke .. Grit Will Tell, Giraffe Hunters. J. L. Dee .. Fountain Pen, Prayer Book. N. Duchemin The Newcon1bs, Aboard Atlanta, Silver ~edal for English Com } position. PRELIMINARY GRADE. First DivisioQ (Continued). J. W. Kent Stories of Saints, Tales of Charlton } School. L. V. Cashin . Writing Pad, Boys of Beechwood. J.J. Tobin •• 1\11 enhardoc, Catholic Publications. R. Leseman .. The Captain . J J. Ryan . . Opalines, Thane of '\Vessex. W. J. Burke t Sturc1y and Strong, Stories of the f Saints. SecoQd Divisiol)• T. M. DuBourdieu . . Hours at the Altar, Knocknagow. P. J. Nurse . -Every Boy's Volume. P. W. Halley How to Live Piously, Lonely Pyra } mid. F. Devereux ~ Giraffe Hunters, Stories of Holy ' Lives E. Grant .. Grit Will '\Vin, Vol. of e. T. S. A. F. Power .. Boy Hunters, Fantous Americans. P.M. Coady .. Vanity Fair, Opalines. L. A. Coughlan .. War with the Axe, Vol. of C. T. S. S. Norris Life of St. John of God, Gallant } Rebels A. M. Dunphy .. Fabiola, Sprays of Shamrock J. J. Ryan .. Reefer and Rifleman. J. Savin .. Golden Magnet. W. Norri3 .. The Boy Crusoe. R. Cashin •• Two Gallanl Rebels. J. C. Channing .. Giraffe Hunters. ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. 99 G. Coughlan . Lonely Pyramid. A. Fortune .. With the Sea Kings. J. Coughlan .. Reefer and Rifleman. PRIZE DEBATE. ] . W. McGrath, l Gold Medal to each (presented by I R. L. Carter, I the foJ1owing Old Pupils- His J. J. Grtene, ~ Grace the Archbish p, Sir E. P. M. S. Powt.r, I lVI orris. Messrs J Cormack, J. J. J Murphy, and j J McGrath, B L. JUNIOR CLASSES. Prizes awarded on the results of Examinations held by the College : Preparatory Preliminary Class . J. Edens . . First in Class. .. Boys of the P1 iory School. H. I Standard V. P. Kennedy . . First in Class. .. Trouting Rod . A. Dee . . Second in Class. . -Stories from Grimm and Views . E. Robertson . . Third in Class. .. The U,..ar of the Axe . T. Fortune .. Fourth in Class. . . The Coral Island. S. O'Ddscoll . . Fifth in Clas3. .. The Boys of Baltimore . E. Coughlan . . Sixth in Class. .. The Coral Island . P. Ryan . . First in Christian Doctrine. . -Opaline . Standard IV . C. Freebairn . . First in Class. . -Trouting Roci. M. Leamy . . s_ct nd in Class. .. Lion of St. Mark, a_nd Irish Views . R. Crawford .. Third in Class. .. Two Year;; Before the Mast. C. Wiley . . Fourth in Class. . .The Prize . A. Kelly .. Fifth in Class. . . Mathematical Set. L. Shortall . . Sixth in Cla!'S. .. Math' matical Set . ,V. Jackman .. First in Christian Doctrine. . .opaline. PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. At the Midsummer Examinations the fJllowing w..:>n Priz~s in thdr re3pective classes: Standard Ill. Standard II. F Edens. FIRST DIVISION. SECOND DIVISION. C. McGrath. R. Murphy. J Phelan. S. McGrath. R. Wiley. G. Mullings. "\\" Lash. G. Bearn~. H . \\"alsh. J Murphy. J. Donnelly. W. Salter. J. Foley. W. St. John. F. Channing. D. Keegan. B. Sutherby. Christian Doctrine : G. Balfour. Christian Doctrine, S Murphy. Standard I. FIRST DIVISION. SEC"ND DIVISION. P. Keegan. W. Wiley. J. Fttzpatrick. F. Jackman. H. Ellis. F. Buckingham. F. Buckingham. L. Duffy. G. Kelly. E. Taaffe. T. Berteau. J. McEvoy. 100 ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. 0 limrrqp>lr' Bv ONE oF OuR ~' RoMANS.'' TJ R reigning- sovereign Pontiff n~tive place ·whose people wore blue the glorious Pius X. fifty ribbons \vith the name stan"lpecl on it. years ago as a sin1p1e priest and seemed above all to have a special celebrated his first holy Mass in the par- rig-ht in the celebrations. and exult in ish Church of his native village, Riese, their Father's and countryman's glory. \vhich is situated in the Venetian prov- Altho11gh the Pooe is. as it were. a pris ince. After having- g-one throngh every oner in the \latican, he has on this oc sphere of clerical duty and after having casion received cong-ratnlations from seen service tn everv rank of the rnost of the ruling sovereigns. Austria ecclesiastical order, from Curate to and Spain sent special extraordin~ry Priest, from Chancellor to Bishop, Arch- envovs for the occasion. Gennanv has bishop and Cardinal, he now, after done likewise; Portug-al. I-Iollan(l. Ha five vears reign as Pope has celebrated varia have sent special mi~~ions: Saxony the Golden Jubilee of his Priesthood. Russia. Mon~co, the repnhlics of Colum The whole Catholic world has joined in bia, Chili. Perii, Argentina, Brazil and rendering- hotnag-e and felicitations to Costarica have done the same. the holv Father in this anspicious event. The Panal 1\tfass took place on 1\fon- Dnring- the past year thonsands and dav, the 16th 11lt.-the t\ventv-fo11rth an thousands of pilgrims and visitors frotn niversary of the Pope"s epi~copal conse all parts of the world have flocked to cration. so that a double celebration \vas the Eternal Citv to do honour to the held in one. The ceretnony was an Father of · Christendom. Various nounced to begin at o. ~o A.M. but short f11nctions have also been celebrated in ly after da'~'n the \vhole citv was astir, the different basilicas and ch11rches, at and crowds beg-an to arrive in the g-r;1nd different times during- the whole year. piazza or square in front of St. Peter's. It has been a year of solenclicl exceotion- where they patiently a\vaited the ope'!· at r·eligious manifestations in Rome. ing- of the doors. Shortly after, can1e The meek, the an1iable. the hun1ble and the processions of tratns, carria~es ancl saintlv Pius is ardently beloved by all, vehicles of all kind~ converg-ing- to and all have endeavoured to render wor- \varcls the basilica. To see the stn·ets thv tributes of loyalty and devotion to all lined 110 with carri~g-es an.'l the him. cro,vds walking-, the whole formin~ an But of all these f11nctions. the n10st endless train moving- in the direction of gorg-eous and most solemn.-the clitna·-<: St. Peter's, this is one of the character _of all-was the Pontifical Hig-h Mafs istic sig-hts of Rome on such occasion3. celebrated bv the Pooe hitnself in th~ Join1ng- the crowd, in dne tin1e, "\Ve Vatican Basilica, St. Peter's-the great- find o11rselves s11rging- along- in the san-..c est and most fan"lous Cathedral in the direction. Arrived at the piazza. "\Ve \vhnle vvorld. have no time to adtnire the wonderful Fot" davs preceding- this event, thous- group of buitdine-s in front of us, b11t. and~ of pilg-ritns had been iourneying advancing- through "oh such a noble to Rome for the occasion. Thev came Court! with fountains fla~hing no to from Spain. Belg-i1tm, F'rance, Irelanrl, meet the sunbeams; and rig-ht and left Germany and other countries. The of yon two half-crescents of g-reat col Italian province~ ~rere partic11larly no- umns," we hasten over the long- flig-ht ticeable, especially that of the Pope's of steps, enter the tnain door and pass ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. 101 through the vestibule which is as large as glowing mosaics, bas-reliefs and paint an . ordinary chu.rch. Having passed ings cllsplay themselves on every side. this we find ourselves inside the 1nost Crowning all, lVlichael-Angelo 's n1ighty glorious and largest church in the world. don1.e to\\lers to a height of 448 teet J. he Italian solaiers keep order outside. above the pavetnent. lt is 139 feet in T.he Papal Swiss Guards keep order in diatneier, and forn1s the centre uf the side. And truly perfect order prevails. Latin Cross-for the basilica is con The long nave of the b3.silica is parted structed in that fonn. Under this glorious off in the centre leaving a wide space canopy stands the baldacchino 93 feet for the procession to pass, the rest is di high, supported by two twisted colutnns, vided up in lots for th~ various groups -all of peerless bronze work, whtch in of pilg.cims and attendants. We have turn serves as a canopy to the high altar no dttnculty in finding our places, and -under \\ hich is the tomb of St. Peter. wait patiently till the function begins, The altar is so constructed that the cele there is plenty of matter for retiection, brant faces the people, the Pope alone there are -numerous objects to observe. tnay say J\1ass on this altar. Cardinal Here in this magnificent basilica of t~e Wise1nan says: "St. Peter's is only it Prince . of the ...L\postles over 70,000 self when the Pope is at the high altar, (seventy thousand) are gathered to par on the very spot which becomes hi1n, the ticipate in one of these solernn functions one living link in a chain, the tirst ring which are never seen vutdde of Ron1e, of which is rive• ed to the shrine of the and seldon1. enough even there, and Apostle below." In front is the confes \\lhich must be seen to be properly un sional surrounded by a circular tnarble derstood. balustrade frotn which are suspende<..l 93 And verily the spot is worthy of the latnps in triple clusters, which are con occasion-St. Peter's! What a noble stantly burning night and day in· honor pile is it! . Who has not heard of its ex of the Saint whose ton1.b is underneath. cellence? vVho has not read of its The apse or space behind the high grandeur? When young we oft adn1.ired altar serves as the Sanctuary or rather pictures of it, and later en we have read as the Papal Chapel-Capella-papale, · with amazen1.ent its descriptions. But where the functions of the <.lay are to no representations of it, no reading take place. Here is arranged the grand whatever, could adequately convey a Papal throne of state at the upper end true idea of its grandeur. Standing in it1.1.mediately facing the altar, rising on side the n1.ain door and l::>oking towards several steps it is gorgeously decorated the high altar one feels astounded. Its vYith silk hangings fringed in gold and vast dimensions and colossal proportions, rich stuffs with two Papal Coats of Arms the gorgeousness of its n1.ural decora prominent on the top. To the right and tions, and the wealth of its statuary n1ag left extend richly decorated benches for nificent in every respect, could never be the Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops and imagined without seeing the reality it Patriarchs. Further down in the Epistle self. A modern critic says of it: side stands the second Papal throne, or "Everything is rich~ colossal, impressive, as it is called the throne of Tierce. overpowering; the eye is bewildered at Within this space also are erected tri this vision of splendour seen through bunes and special seat;:; for royal per the sunlit atmosphere, and gazes in sonages, foreign ambassadors, the diplo wonder at the glorious lines of arch and matic corps, the Roman patriciate, and roof that follow on and on to the dis relatives of the Pope. I tant choir." It is truly a temple of art. The whole basilica wore a festive air. Beautiful embellished works of marble, In addition to its natural beauty, im stuccos, vari-colored stones, precious mense hangings of red damask were dis statues of Saints, · papal-monutnents, played all around. St. Peter's is indeed l 102 ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. a fitting tetnple, well worthy to sustain of Clerks of the Apostolic Chan1ber, t!1e pageant, pon1p, and display of the Consistorial judges and advocates and n1ost solen1n ancl ·itnpressivc rite of the ecc~esiastical dignitaries of eve1·y de beautiful Catholic ritual.-" It is Chris scription. The thurifer next appears tendonl·s Cathedral, Queen of Churches, folloVv ed by the papal Cross bearer ac the tnost stupendous edifice ever raised companied by seven acolytes-all the by hands of n1an to the ·worship of his servers are protonotaries .l\.postolic and Creator.'' But ]-£owever grand and \vor Canons of ~t. Peter's-no sn1all altar t:ty in its tnaterial aspect,-it is \vorthier boys serve the Pope. Thence can1e the still in its sacred traditons and holy as Latin Subdeacon of the l\1ass having on sociations: I-fere is the spot \vhere either side the deacon and subdeacon of thousands of holy n1artyrs have spilled the Greek H.ite. The Bishops, Arch their blood for the Faith, here on this bishops, _t>atriarchs and Abbots, to the very ground 2000 years ago St. Peter nu1nber of over 270 next appear \valk- "'·as crucified, ancl here \vas he bttrie(l ing two by t\vo. They are vested in at the dead of night by a few f3.ith ful copes and 1nitres and forn1 an itnposing Christians. How wonderful are the spectacle-the Oriental Bishops being ways of Providence! to-day his successor strikingly conspicLtous in their brilliant in the person of Pius X., con1es openly, vestlnents and rnitres in the fonn of and honou reel by the v. hole Christian crowns. After these con1e the Sacred \vorld, to celebrate the san1e di.vine nlys College-about 35 Cardinals are pre teries, on this very spot. sent,-first the Cardinal-deacons veste 1 Shortly after the tin1e appointed for in daltnatics and mitres, then the Car the ceren1ony to begin, a n1otion at the dinal-priests in chasubles and n1itres, and lo\\·er end of the basilica announces that then the Cardi~~al-bishops in copes and the procession has started. It enters by m~tres, each of these i.:; surrounded bv the Chapel of the Pietc:'t, so called frotn his attendants and fonns the centn.~ of ~ 1\1 ichael-Angelo ·s fan1ous n1asterpiece of separate group. Their etninences Car Our Lady at the foot of the Cross. dinals Rampolla, l\1erry del Val, and This Chapel as well as that of the Dless Vannutelli are pron1inent by thetr tal! ed Sacran1ent has been sep~u·atcd frotn stature and imposing appearance. It is the rest of the basilica on this occasion. indeed a touching scene, a magnificent The Holy Father before the procession display, add to all these ecclesiastics. started, having prayed before the Bless the Swiss and Noble Guards in their ed Sacran1ent exposed in the 1-...anline state uniforn1s, the Knights of ~1alta) Chapel of the \ 1 atican palace passed the prince assistant to the throne clo\vn the Scala regia and entered the and the Palantine Guards lining up the basilica by a private door leading into vv hole route, and you have a procession the Blessed Sacratnent Chapel. 'rhere not to be surpassed tn splendour and he \tvas forn1ally received by Cardinal solen1nity. Ran1polla-the Archpriest of St. Pcter·s, But the crowning of all-the centre and having assun1ecl the papal robes towards which all this was directed is passed to the Chapel of the Pieta ·whence the Pope himself. As soon as he appears was the public entrance to the basilica. -all strain themselves on tip-toe to see The procession files along slovvly, ma hitn-it is the utter tension of exciten1ent jestically: first cotne l\I asters of Cere -even those who have seen such a scene nlonies.Secret Chatnberlains of the Pope, before with a11 its attendant c~rcun~ ?rocurators generals of the religious or stance of sight and sound, await silent, ders, followed by the custodians of the nervous, expectant,-the holy Father is papal treasures bearing a triple cro\vn con1ing-a thrill passes f ron1 heart to ::tnd precious n1itre; papal guards flank heart,-the choir sings its traclitional on either side. Then follo\vs a long line anthem "Tu es Petrus"-the silver ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. 103 trumpets fron1 on high sound out thei~· kiss of peace. After incensing the glonous notes of tnLl111ph-those tr ...un altar, and being incensed hin1self uy the pets only heard when the _i-lope cornes Cardinal Deaccn of the 1\tla!::s, he gucs to to St. reter s. The effect is 1nagical. It the g1·and central throne and there says see1ns a drea1n-a beaLttiful pnctntoln the .lntrott, .1 yne and Intones the l;lona. The Pope vested in his .Pont1fical 'rhere are now two principal groups in robes and tiara is carried on high in his the Papal Chapel-one at the throne, Chair of State under a rich Canopy sup where the holy J:i'ather is assisted by two ported by eight n1onsignors, \vith t\VO Cardinal Deacons of hono ...tr s1tting great fans oi ostrich ieathers beating on either side, and the Cardinal Bishop softly on either side. He passes along assistant sitting a little in front on a £aid slo\i\ ly above our heads blessing the nutl stool. 'I'he other at the high altar, con titude to right and left. sists of the Cardinal Deacon of the 1\llass., To witness such a profoundly itnpres on a seat at the Epistle corner \Vith a sive scene is considered the privilege of ]\laster of Cere1nonies near hin1, while a life tirne. The vicar of Christ h.:ts deign on another step, sits the Apostolic Sub ed to come in state a1nong his children, deacon between the Greek Deacon and and bestow the apostolic blessing. All S ._tb-deacon. During this ti111e, the .Pope fain would cheer an acclan1ation loud as \\ell as all the Carclnal Deacons as· and long, but Pius X. strictly prohibits sistants and all the other CarJinals, it. Fonnerly it was the custo1n and Leo _A._rchbishops and Bishops wear their XIII. took great delight in such nlani mitres. 'l'he Epistle is chanted by the festations of loyalty, now, ho\vever in A .. postolic or Latin S..1bdeacon in Latin, stead all wave their handkerchiefs, so and then by the Greek Subdeacon in that to one, looking down on the scene Greek, the Gospel likt:wi~e Ly the fron1 an elevated position, the eiiect is L an.li ual deacon and the Greek dea such, that the h:.1ge 1na...:s of people seen1 cou. 'l'he Pope then into11es the Credo, v. hich is sung by two choirs al to be lost in a V\ hite sea of handker chiefs, and the Pope seen1s to be carried ternatively, one verse in the Gregorian along on the wings of cloves. The iin the other in figured n1usic; the Gre posing cortege is closed by several pre gorian choir is co1nposed of seminarists lates and a squad of Papal Guan.ls in of the various Colleges in Ro1ne-the coats of mail-the uncon1n1on n1eclieval other consists of the 1netnbers of the helmets, cuirasses and halberds being Sistine Chapel choir unuer the direction very attractive. It winds along slowly of lVIonsignor Lorenzo Perosi, l\1aster of the interminable nave--3. long line of critn the Papal choir, and one of the n1ost son,purple and ermine, and enters to the famous 1nustc co1nposers of tnodern Papal Chapel. 1-Iere the Pope descends, tin"Jes. Each choir consist~ o £ a hun goes to the throne of Tierce, ren1oyes the dred voices, and the rendering 1s very triple-crown and assun1es the n1itre. effective and touching. 'rhere is nothing The obedience then begins :-Each Car co1nmon or vulgar in the true music of dinal in turn goes and kisses the Pope's the ch:..trch, a music different fron1 all hand, next the Archbishops, Patriarchs other in its solemnity and n1oclest beauty. and Bishops go, and each genuflects and In it art is subjected to prayer. kisses his knee, and then other 1111nor The full tneaning of prayerful expres dignitaries, after genuflecting, kiss sions is brought out, and the beauty his foot. Then 'rierce is recited. _A.fter of the words intensified ; now it is slow which the Pope assun1es the vesttnents and cahn rising and falling in stately for l\!Iass and proceeding on his \vay to cadences, now it is plaintive. the high altar IS n1et by the subdued, or triumphant and jubilant, three last created Cardin:tl-priests, according to the sense of the words. The whom he embraces with the Introit and parts proper of the mas& ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. are sung in the Gregorian. This is the of this world. The Supreme Pontiff is old traaitional tnusic of the ChLtrch, and ce~ebrating the Divine mysteries. He in its plaintiveness ancl soletnnity is un bears the Lord Incarnate in his hands. earthly. lts effect is such, that you never lt is a sublirne n1o1nent. Its overpovver tire of it. The Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus ing effect cannot be described. A .. fter and AgnLlS D ·ei are sung a la J?alestrina the ''Agnus Dei" the _Holy Father returns -and that too fron1 the "Missa Papae· to the throne and there con1municates, l\1arcelli''-the most perfect con1position . -the S~cred Species being brought to of the fatnous n1aster. It is the san1e hi1n fron1 the altar by the Cardinal Dea l\1ass V\ hich when sung over three cen con aad Srtb~deacon, he then gives Holy turies ago, before Pope Pius IV., caused Cornn1union to both of these, after again hitn to exclaitn, '''I hese surely are the return:ng to the altar he gives the Bless "harrnonies of the New Canticle which ings without turning around as he is al "St. John heard in the heavenly J erusa ready facing the people. After the l\iass ''lem, and of V\'hich another John (Pales the Cardinal Archpriest of the Basilica ··trina) gives us an idea in this earthly presents the Pope with a purse a~ .. hon ·• J erusalen1 !'' Every bar of it has been orari urn pro miss a bene cantata" ac described as concealing a n1iracle of cording to the custom. After ascending art. Its style is solernn and devotional the Sedia Gestitoria and assuming the throughout; but by no n1eans deficient tiara the Pope is now carried around to in fire vv hen the sense of the words de the front of the Confessional, where a tnands it." The K.yrie is described as p~enary indulgence is published, and the devout, the Gloria as ani1natecl, the Sole1nn Benediction irnparted to all pre Sanctus as angelic, the Agn..1s l)ei as sent. The procession then rett, rns in prayerful. To-day in St. Peter's it is in the satne manner as at the beginning. deed rendered in a n1anner worthy of its His Holiness seerns very pleasant and grandeur, and of the occasion. s1niles on both sides as he is carried along Before the Pope cotnes to the altar at blessing the people from right to left. the Offertory, sotne special rites arc ob i\nd thus finished the grand Papal Mass. served with regard to the testing of the On such an occasion as this one is species, a portion of the wine and one of strikingly itnpressed at the glory of the hosts are consumed by one of the Catholic Rotne and at the unity of the Sacristans. This is done to make cer Holy Church. Rome the centre of tain that all is secure. The Holy Fathe::.· Christendotn, the seat of Governrnent of then co1nes to the altar and continues the Church, the City of the Popes, can the l\1ass, His Holiness has a very clear only offer such n1anifestations of the and distinct voice and his singing of the Catholic Ritual. Although in modern Preface could be heard avvay dov.;n the tin1es she has been abused and as it nave. I-Ie celebrates facing the people were desecrated, by the presence of sacri and can be seen by all-and no';v we legious, profane, and faith-destroying co1ne to the 1nost soletnn part of the sects of all kinds, yet behind it all the Holy Sacrifice-the Consecration. The solid Faith re1nains and atnong .~.t the choir and tnultitude are hushed Roman people there are still that strong in silence-all drop on their knees Faith and religious fervour and tnany a The Papal troops present arms. living saint, as was ever the way \vith The silver trumpets frotn the Rome. It is on such occasions as that of dorne sound out their sweet tnystic the past celebration, that Rome is her hannonies-the notes "'reave a spell true self. Leo XIII. said "Christi"an about the heart, there is something re Rome is never so sin1ilar to herself as in miniscent, sotnething prophetic in their those precious and sacred solen1nities of cadences-a presentiment of unseen pre the Faith, these are her true sences, of mingling spirit.:>, _of beings not feasts, her real glories, because they ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIA~. IOS ftow spont~neonslv fron1 the very nature In and her clothing IS of ·wrought of her being." "Sacrilegious scene~." gold." he contint1es. "n1ay take place on her All hail then to ot11· g-lorious Pope soil ; b ·1t such are not Rornan." The Pius X., and tnav he 1iv~ n1any, tnanv Ch1 1rch has been set before the wodd years, to g-overn Holy Church. and let on th~s occ~-sicm. in the holiness of her 11~ pray in the words of the Church that S·1preme Pontiff Pins X ., an\1 in the "God mav nre~erve hin1 and g-ive hin1 g-org-Pousne~s and snlenrlour of her Rit1l life and n1ake him h1.nnv on earth and al "the Bride ts all-glorious with n ot pennit hitn to fall into the hands of his enemies&'' ~ ~ OBITUAR.Yo A Tribute to the Memory of the Late L. O'B. Furlong, from K., an Old Bonaventure boy of the Seventies. \. Y HE REST IN PEACE. It is and men's '\vorlitlv a ff~irs. con lei 'vrite left for us thus to pray It is -and write of him-with brilliant mien our little duty-and when all -they n.ight tell of hi~ creative powers else has failed, and the great or of commerce they might speak of th a.t humble life i~ alike ; done . fnre-..yer percep1ion, which has won. and still and forever-We say again-'• MAY wins sncce~~. thev coulrl truly pen the HE REST IN PEACE." thonsand deeits of the tnan, '\vhich * * * * * * can sed him to he so loyen. so rt>specteci, To write of the dead. 1s a sari anrl ~o admirerl-these things men can and sacred work, to truly tell '"'rite of him. these things shall form of those who are amidst us no the later g-lnry anrl fulfilment of a good long-er-to chroni~1e their deerls- to tell life-and hetter death-but to n1e is left of their merits- to give exnrf>~sion to to tell sntnething-, that shall perh1.ps their Ji-..·es, tnnst be sacred inrleed endear his n1emon· a thon~and fold hecause it must be true: it is religious and create him again in the reminis~ cences of the long ag(,-a bov at ]~? trne. because no simple anah·sis of the departed suffices. no n1ere descrip school. Tho~e who kne'v him then, (and I pntertain that ple~snre· -perhaos tion. no tnere ~tatement of doing~ is suf that selfish pleasnre.--of h~ving- kno,....-n ficient we mu~t look iteeper into char arter-into mind. and. into the heart. him, hetter, and to a fuller measure than we haYe ever looked hefore - and than the rest,'l r::1n understanrl 1h~t h;s were it possible solve even those etno later life was. in its career, its actions, tions of the soul. which alone create. and its hetter. and s~cred end- but a the true. and real man. lt l"'as been true dev·elopment of those earlier and ·written no small thing to understand h1ppier hours. Those who stoorl '\vith n1an- not the mere material person, him in the class-that is so accurately but those intellectual a nrl nonrecocr tern1erl-'' the first platforn1 of life's do niz"='d char·acteristics. which. after all. ings ''-know.- that hetter than suc proclaim the only worth. ces~- better than the world'~ smiles. better than the beliefs, and the rreeds Of hint who forms the subject of this and the plaudits of a latf>r existPnce poor obituary. there are those who. hav "·as the simple good-will-the hearty ing known hin1 in circle of business support, and the honest adtniration of ro6 ST. BON A VENTURE . S ADELPHIAN. those who stood by him in the old Aln1a ideas founrl place with his. and those, Mater days. To me, is left to tell of who knew hl.n in the class-roo:11, are this. and, in. tny own hnmhle way I the ones vvho admired him best, and shall seek to do it. (')ld St. Bonaven V\'ished him still greater success. when ture has sent out fron1 "''ithin her walls, in later life be fu I :filled the pron1 ises of many a nohie n1ind. and soul, stamped the Co1lege days. As then nothing with the efficacy of learning, honor, and aroused his impatience, and censure so truth. Wherever temptaiion has been, much as stnall, tnean and empty -the early acts of life, the virtues. the boastful displav, so did he always cling sentiments, and the teachings of holy faithfu1ly and fearlessly to those prin tnen have never been forgotten- and ciples. and condetnned that, which nlan '' Ri~ht '' triumphed. Wherever suc ly hearts never can tolerate. cess has been, _the strength of. ex atnple, and the winning- encourag-ement Frotn the time he left College. 'till his of the College cla~s. have taught to suc Ja1nented death. no man hac:! ever found ceed-anrl ''success'' has won-wher him" an idler by the wayside,'' his aim ever honor has existed. the first injunc in life was the nohlest that life possesses, tions of t~at holy tin1e of boyhood (those and that was honorable success. As he Christian lessons and all that they had been a student of unceasing, anrl pro1nised 1 have been remembered, and untiring industry. he was a tnan of ener ''Honor ' shone. At an early age real getic pursuit, and this was strengthened individuality is tnore apparent. and cali by the insistant anrl thoughtful ends to bre. more marked, than at a later period, wards ·which his efforts a 1wa~·s pointed ; "'hen the 1vorlcl has too \:vell succeeded this industry added to great personal in ntoulding minds and characters, to progress, gave him busine~s po\Yers her own sordid views. and aims. At which few others ~cquire. and a judici school, he. of whom I V\rrite, impres ous control of each and all, bespoke hitn sed himself npon others, not, merelv in a tnan to succeed. In private life he the ordinary channels of instructions. was a most delightful companion. a but by a stin1ulating, and awakening ready and helpful talker, and without personality. pretence, or assntnption, he loved to bring out those treasures for n1ntual As I look hack on those days no'v T enjoyment with his friends. Richness think of how happy, has he and his like of illustration, deep earnestness, and a made the old school hours; the secret of native hnn1or. marked his conversation ; _ their happiness is the secret of that ! the man's love of companionship was Their escapades, their stnall troubles, alone sn fficient to clain1 the great circle and happy. happy men1ories are with of friends who loved him, and who mourn me again, and with then1 his best loved him no'\V. There vvas ahont hin1 a presence. L. O'B. Furlong V\?as not heartine~s sintply expressed in the cor one to boast of his attainrnents, the dial greetings and the warm hand clasp, knowledge \Yhich he bad, and ·which he and the n1anifest s:vmpathy in the in derived fron1 a clear understanding, terests of others. But best of all, he and fruitful education, he shared. and was a man of religious habits . not in a ''wished to share again· -with narro"r or worldly sense, but in the clear others, hence was he alwavs ready to recognitions of personal relations with in1part. without display, and with a his Church. His was not a nature to heartiness, that ever then, and ever detnonstrate, nor seek to express in later, endeared him to all: his \vavs of words, that, which to so rnany, is but thinking, vvere rather of the old. school, power of word only. Religion and the than the new millennium. Church appealed to him in their prac tical sense, and their beliefs, and their Those ideas which won him success in strictest rules he lived up to during his life were founded on that sensible basis, whole life. V\'hich S;:) surely achieves, yet no n1an. could write hitn '• egotist.' Others' But the spirit is passed avvay~ life's ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. short day is done, the ''fiat'' proclaim Who gave it. Premature death is ed against existence from all time and ·always sad to witness, but it becomes to the end went forth, and at a com doubly so when the victim is one of those paratively early age L. O'B. Furlong whom to know is to love. The writer passed to God s Great Beyond solving of this imperfect obituary was intin1ately the mystery of life, and to know forever acquainted with the deceased during the reward of heaven to the well-doer. his Collegiate days, and truly can it be The Insignificant "All' is ended and said that he was a model student-pos nothing remains now but men1ory. sessing many virtues and but few faults. And so he grew to manhood, retaining " Memory, which is the only friend the simplicity and innocence of child " That grief can call it's own." hood and advancing in the paths that In ITS index each of us shall carefully lead to a virtuous life. During youth and sadly place a way those little mo a taste for drawing and painting was mentoes of all that passed, in ITS sad developed, which he carefully culti and cheerless reflections, we shall, in vated as he advanced in years in the the only possible way, live the old life picturesque locality of ·' Long Pond,' again, know the old days once more, where his youthful imagination found and defy, even remorseless and inspiring food. "TIME'' his final victory of the grave. '' He loved the beautiful, his artist's soul It is all that is left for us to do, and Responded to the changeful tints that (God help us) we shall do it. But even paint that little is pleasant to us now, for Blossom and landscape as tbe seasons roll." forming as it does the secret of remin iscences, it permits us to go back to our In his profession as painter and decor own early manhood, but better, and ator he possessed a r~re gift in the tech purer, and dearer even than that-back nique of these arts, some works of which to the little world of the Alma Mater can be seen in many homes in town and days. What I have written here, I have are so beautiful in design and finish as written in a spirit, that connects me to stamp him as a genius and win closer than many may guess with the the admiration of many critics. He departed friend, I wish it were worthier. resided for a time in the States, I wish it were even adequate to express but finding the climate there uncon all that I have known in the dead past, genial to his health, he decided to re with his figure ever in the foreground turn to his native town, where he car but now that it is written, with its faults ried on a successful business. About a and its failings, with nothing to recom year ago his health began to decline, mef\d it, but that which has been told of and soon the sympton1s of consumption belief in him, and sympathy in his appeared. He, however, gave himself demise, I lay it as a last, last tribute every chance and sought ~ the best medical on his grave. Give him rest 0 Lord, skill, but the dread dise-ase could not be may he find peace where are all the checked. He bore his sufferings with a faithful dead, in the plenitude of Thy patience and resignation truly admir Mercy, and Thy Love. able, charming all by his unfailing cheer fulness and serenity. He was a genial companion, a bright and clever young .J. W. McGRATH. man and will be he1d in kindly retnem That '' death loves a shining mark '' brances by many warm personal friends was sadly verified on the 29th October who will sigh '' for the touch of a van last, when the spirit of another ex ished hand, for a sound of a voice that pupil of St. Bonaventutre's - Mr. J. is still.'' Fortified by the rites of Holy W. McGrath, with the b 1oom of Church and surrounded by all who were youth on his brow -- left its tenement nearest and dearest, he passed peace of clay and winged its flight to God fully away at the early age of 36 years, ro8 ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. leaving to his family and friends the ex pert[ telegra pllers in the country, died ample of a good Christian life. By this afternoon at his late residence, No. his death his young wife (nee Miss 542 Forty-fifth street, South Brooklyn. Scanlan) and two children suffer an after a three weeks' illness from Bright'::; irreparable loss. To these and to his disease. He leaves a widow, one son aged mother, his sister, Mrs. M. Vl. and three daughters. John Mitchell Furlong, and to his brothers, ~ Mr. was for nearly sixteen years night Thon1as McGrath and Mr. J. J. Mc manager of the New York Her Grath, the energetic Secretary of '' St. ald's telegraphic service and was one Bonaventure's Association,'' the ADEL of the most expert operators who ever PHIAN extends sincerest sy1npathy. handled a key. By reason of the impor Many an old pupil who will read this tant part he played in transmitting to will join in a fervent prayer for the this country the news of the two greatest repose of the soul of their good friend. events of the Spanish-American war and his services in connection with the recep W. J. LYNCH. tion and transmission to this city of the first wireless messages flashed from in Mr. W. J. Lynch, clerk of the Har coming Atlantic steamships while still bor Grace District Court, died at his far out at sea, he will always hold a dis home on July 24th, rgo8. He had been tinctive place in the history of tele sick for about four months, with pneu graphic achievements of the world. monia, from the effects of which he Born in Newfoundland on September died. He received his early education 21, r853; Mr. Mitchell was educated at at the Academy, under Mr. J. J. the St. Bonaventure School, St. John's, Wickham. He enteted St. Bonaven and began his active career while still a ture's College in r887, and while there very young man as an operator for the was noted as a clever and industrious Anglo- American Cable Company in pupil. He taught school at Harbor Heart's Content, in the country of his Grace for some time after leaving Col birth. In the course of time he came to lege, and afterwards took a position as New York and soon after his arrival in book-keeper with McCormack and this city joined the telegraph force of the Walsh at Catalina. In r8gr he was . Herald, where his ability and industry anpointed clerk of the Harbor Grace soon caused him to be promoted to the C... ourt, a position which he held till his position of night manager, which he held death.Mr. Lynch took a prominent part in to his death. When the Spanish-Am amateur theatricals and concerts, and no erican war broke out, he was one of the local programme was considered com first men to be sent by his newspaper to plete till his name was on it. He was a the zone of hostilities, and in the earlier very capable official and possessed days of the conflict in the West Indies considerable legal knowledge. He was he rendered important services to the for many years a member of the School Herald in promptly getting through to Board and Vice-President of the Chris this city the news of the. various happen tian Doctrine and Literary Association. ings of world interest in that disturbed The respect in which he was held was part of the globe. It was immediately shown by widespread expressions of re after the battle of Santiago and again gret at his death. after the historic and dramatic des --- truction of Cervera· s fleet by Sampson JOHN MITCHELL. and Schley, however, that he perform Old Boys of the sixties will hear with ed his greatest achievements. Dur regret of the death of a classmate. the ing t h o s e stormy and momentous success of whose career may be judged days Mr. 1\Iitchell was stationed at from the following sketch which ap Kingston, Jamaica, between which port peared in the New York Evening- Tele and the actual scene of conflict at San gram, Nov. 3rd, rgg8. tiago the Herald's tugboats carried fre quent dispatches, as events at the front "John Mitchell, one of the most ex- warranted. On the night after the land ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. 109 battle before Santiago and again on the wireless station established on the Nan night following the wiping out of the tucket Shoals Lightship, Mr. Mitchell Spanish fleet as it sought to escape from was sent with a force of telegraphic Santiago harbor, Mr. Mitchell obtain operators to the scene and but for his in ed absolute possession of the two cables valuable efforts at that time, particular out of Kingston, one by way of Panama, ly in sending and receiving messages Colon, and Galveston, and the other via from the Siasconset station, the great Bermuda and Halifax, and sent thou success of the epoch making undertak sands of words descriptive of the day's ing would have been impossible. One historic events over them. Scarcely of the things he did in order to get his less notable ·was the part taken messages forward from Siasconset to this by Mr. Mitchell in making a suc city was to convert a telephone wire in cess of the first transmission of wireless tnessages fro n1. Atlantic steamships. to a telegraph line by equipping it with miles out at sea, to the United States. Morse instruments.'' When the Herald in the sumn1er of 1901 undertook to give the world the first To his relatives in New York and St. practical demonstration of wireless ser John's, the editors offer sincere sym vice to and from steamships by way of a pathy. Requiescant £n Paee. E have chronicled the pass the ADELPHIAN and all students whe ing a way of the late Dean ther past or actual, of St. Bonaven Ryan, over whose ton1b we ture's. have deposited a wreath of The Verv Revd. Dean Born, was not sacred n1emory-R. I. P. only a forni.er student of Old St. Bon's, but he belonged to the pioneer band of It now becomes our duty to announce the a n1.ore joyful event, namely the fill '' FIRST DECADE." ing of the place left vacant by the death of the departed one, by the appointment He entered the College on its first n1ade by His Grace the Archbishop of opening in 1856, and was a classmate of the His Grace the Archbishop. His Grace V. REVD. WILLIAM BORN, and Dean Born are now the only two sur viving ecclesiastics out of the five or six P. P., of Trepassey. of that first class who were advanced to the Priesthood. The New Dean has The announcement of this appoint the almost unique honor of being an ment V\~as hailed with universal satis faction by the whole Catholic people, on ''out and out'' Bonaventure boy, as he account of the great respect and affec completed his studies of philosophy and tion which '' Father Born had earned theology within its walls. As a young among all classes, by his stirling char priest he served in the arduous Missions acter, his unostentatious energy and of St. Kyran's and Burin. In the truly priestly life. former he was curate to the late Ven. But in an especial manner has this Archdeacon Walsh, and in the latter to promotion been pleasing to the staff of the late Very Rev. Richard O'Donnell, IIO ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. whon'l he succeeded in that Parish. He was ordained by Bishop M ullock. Though always of a quiet and undemon on August r8th, r867. Father Nicholas strative disposition, he was yet a zeal Roche was ordained the same year but ous and untiring worker, both in the a few months later (Dec. g.) These more tnateria.l and the spiritual spheres were the last two ordained by Bishop of religious enterprise. He b u i 1 t. Mullock. churches, presbyteries, schools, halls and convents and at the same time The Arch bishop comes next in order established among his people religious of '' decananza · or seniority, having and temperance organizations. been ordained in Ron1e in r868. On the death of the late Father Hen His Grace has appointed the New nebery, he was appointed by Bishop Dean to the charge of the Parish of St. Power to the important Parish of Tre Patrick's, River Head. He will, how passey. Here too his untiring activity ever, reside in the New Presbytery of has been at work and he has erected a Kilbride, Waterford Bridge. We wish magnificent Presbytery and one of the the New Dean every success and happi most beautiful Churches in the country. ness in his responsible charge and augur him many years of peaceful and useful Father Rorn, became as it were, auto life. Not the least element of which matically Dean upon the death of Dean will no doubt arise from the mutual in Ryan, being now the oldest ordained tercourse with His Grace and the priest in the island. He also succeeds strengthening of the bonds of a life-long the Dean as a member of the College friendship and sympathy in ecclesiastical Board. work, in the ''Vineyard of the Lord.'' SANTA CLAUS. BY B. CHANNING. WAS the night before Christ- His long furry coat was all covered with mas and all through the soot, house, He was blackened all o'er, from his head to his foot. Every soul was in bed, and as mute as And all sorts of toys he had stuffed in a mouse; his sack, Those stockings, entrusted to old Santa's Which he hardly had time to throw over care, his back. Were awaiting the toys, and the eat ables there. His eyes, how they twinkled ! Old Santa looked merry, The darlings had duly been placed in His cheeks looked like port, and his their beds, breath smelt of sherry. With all sorts of fancies, and dreams, in He hadn't been shaved for a fortnight their heads ; or so, When out of the nursery, rose such a And the beard on his chin was not clatter, white as the snow. I sprang out of bed, saying '' what is the matter ?'' He went to the stockings of girls' I flew to each bed side, still half in a and of boys,' doze, He filled up each one, with fruit, can Tore open the curtains, and pulled back dies and toys ; the clothes ; Then back up the chimney be went in When, all of a sudden, I heard a great rumbling, a twinkling, .-\.nd down through the chimney old And next moment the bells on his rein Santa came tumbling. deer were tinkling. S~. BONAVEN~URE;S ADELPHIAN. Itt HE annual meeting of the Ladies' Individual members conducted several Association was held in the entertainments during the year, and Episcopal Library on W ednes assisted materially in swelling the funds. day, N ovetn ber 25th, and was n1ost Those wh~ contributed largely to this successful. gratifying result were :-The Misses Connolly, Miss Agnes Summers, Mrs. After Lady Morris had addressed the Charles Cox (then Miss Lucille Warren), large gathering the Secretary, Mrs. Car Miss May Coady, Miss Maud Ryan, Miss roll, gave a report of the year's work Carbery, Miss Alice Byrne, Miss Mary ·which showed how enthusiastically the Edens, Miss Mary Keegan, Miss Dora members had worked during the year. Keating, Miss May Cook, Miss Lillie The financial statement of the Treasurer, Kennedy, Miss Florrie Channing, Misses Mrs. Byrne, showed that the net receipts Patricia 0 Donnell and M. Murphy. for the first year amounted to over two Bell Island; Mrs. John Dawe, Shanghai, thousand dollars. China, The Association was founded in No Various means were adopted by differ vember, rgo7, by a few well-wishers of ent members to raise n:1oney, and in the College ; since then we have added variably with marked success. over seven hundred members to the roll. Your committee would recommend The chief object of the Association that even greater efforts be 1nade during namely the raising of sufficient funds the coming season so that next year's to aid in paying the annual interest on contribution to the College Fund may the money, necessary to build the College. has been successfully achieved at least double the result of our first this year, as will be seen by a refer year's work. We would further strong ence to the Treasurer's report. ly urge that every member should strive 1I2 St. BONAVEN'TDRE;S AbE.LPHiAN. to increase the membership of the As Proceeds of a Children's Tea Party sociation. It should not be a difficult given by Miss May Cook and task to raise the number on the roll from other young ladies ...... $ 58.00 seven hundred to seventeen hundred. Proceeds of Children's Tea Party given by Misses Lily Kennedy The thanks of the Association are due to His Grace the Archbishop for the and F. Channing...... 5.4 0 use of his library; to Capt. John Fox Proceeds of Children's Tea Party and the members of the C.C.C. Band given by Misses P. O'Donnell for generous donations; to Mr. John Burke who volunteered a week s profit and M. Murphy, Bell Island, per of his theatre, and to the daily papers Mrs. P. J. Burke...... 6.15 for many courtesies. Receipts from Dance organized by In conclusion we beg to tender our Misses Mary Fox, Lucy Hanna sincere thanks to all our fellow mem ford, Mary Shea, Lucy Warren, bers for the unfailing courtesy and as May Coady and Maud Ryan.... 276.28 sistance so freely given during our year of office. Proceeds of "Irish Night" or ganized by Mrs. Keegan and IsABEL L. MORRIS, President. Mrs. Edens ...... 352.00 MAY CARROLL, Hon. Secretary. The ladies of Ferryland and Caplin Bay, per Mrs. Free bairn ...... 110.00 The fqllowing is the financial state ment submitted at the annual meeting Proceeds of Dance and Tea Party by Mrs. G. Byrne, Treasurer of the managed by Mesdames Kennedy, Association : Channing, McKay, Duchemin, Proceeds of a dramatic perform W. J. Ryan, C. Eagan, Walter ance organized by Miss Nan Kelly and Misses Dunphy and Connolly and Miss Agnes Sum- Hart 281.81 Mers ...... $ 142.54 Receipts from Nickel entertertain- Mrs. Geo. Penny, Ramea ...... 1.00 ments in Star Hall under the Mr. Pierre Burke, -per Mrs. Burke 1.00 management of Mr. John Burke 92.72 A Friend ...... 5.00 Proceeds from a dance organized A Friend, per Mrs. Balfour ...... 10.00 by Misses May Coady, Maud Mrs. Druken ...... •...... 5.00 Ryan and Lucy Warren ...... 84.59 Receipts from sale of teas, ice Donations to Miss E. Carberry cream, candies,etc, on Sports Day 305.45- from friends in England ...... 34.55 Mrs.. W. J. Carroll, dance at Receipts of Candy Sale by Miss Smithville ...... 48.00 Alice Byrne ...... 10.00 Lady Morris ...... 2.50 Interest on DeP,osit ...... 0.83 Mrs. S. L. Sullivan, Presque ...... 5.00 Miss Mary Edens donates part of Mrs. P. Cleary~ ...... 2.10 her C. H. E. Scholarship ...... 5.00 Miss M. Howley ...... 4.10 Mrs. C. Meehan, personal effort .. 6.00 Fees of 716 Members ...... 358.00 Miss Mary Keegan, personal effort. 2.25 Mrs. D. J. Greene, personal effort .. 6.50 Total Receipts ...... $2,355.77 Mrs. J. M. Kent, personal effort .. 13.00 Expenses ...... 25.80 Mrs. T. J. Edens, personal effort .. 9.00 Very Rev. J. J. McGrath. Bell $2,32 9. 97 Island, per Mrs. Kennedy ...... 2.00 Audited and found correct: Proceeds of a dance organized by JOI--IN BARRON. Miss Keating and other young P. C. O'DRISCOLL. ladies 110.00 St. John's, Nov. 25, '08. ST. BON A VENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. 113 The following is a list of the mem hers already enrolled for I gog. Alexander, Mrs. New York. Callahan, Mrs. R. Duder, Mrs. Will Ashley, Mrs. Cain, Miss Doody, Miss M., Bonavista Ashley, Mrs. D. Costigan, Miss May Devereux, Mrs. R. T. Armstrong, Mrs. Carbage, Mrs. M. Duchemin, Mrs. Jas. Aylward, Miss K. Costello, Miss Gertie Allen, Mrs. Pat. Carroll, Mrs. M. F. English, Mrs. E. Allen Mrs. Carew, Miss Engl"ish, Mrs. F. Aylward, Miss A. Chafe, Mrs. Luke English, Miss Annie Antle, Miss Chafe, l\1:rs. Jacob Evans, Mrs. J. J. Cragg, Mrs. T. W., (Concord, Edens, Mrs. T. Burke, Miss S. N.H.) Edens, Miss Mary Bradshaw, Mrs. H. F. Cragg, Miss Mary L., (Con- Edens, Miss Gertrude Byrne, Mrs. R. cord, N.H.) Edens, Miss Margaret Benning, Mrs. Jos., Lawn Comerford, Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. C. Brownrigg, Mrs. H. Channing, Mrs. J. Ellis, Miss Broderick, Miss Channing, Miss Floren< e Emerson, Mrs. Otto Buckley, Mrs. Canning, Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. Burke, Mrs. Chidley, Mrs. Barron, Mrs. John Couillard, Mrs. Fitzpatrick, Miss Burnham, Mrs. Fred. Culleton, Miss M. A. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Thos. Byrne, Mrs. G. Cashin, Mrs. M. P. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Burke, Mrs. V. P. Cooper, Miss l\1ary Feehan, Mrs. J. Byrne, Miss E. Co·wan, Mrs. Robert Fitzhenry, Mrs. J. Brownrigg, Miss May Cunningham, Miss Fitzgerald, Mrs. Byrne, Miss A. Connolly, Miss Fortune, Mrs. P. Buckley, l\1rs. Connolly, Miss Nan. Fortune. Mrs. E. Barry, Miss B. Cox, Mrs. J. Flynn, Miss S. Byrne, Miss M. C. Cullen, Mrs. G. Flynn, Mrs. J. Burke, Mrs. Den., St. Jacques Cooper, Mrs. J. Flynn, Mrs. T. Brien, Mrs. Pierce Carroll, Miss L. Foran, Mrs. Burke, Mrs. Th., St. Jacques Cooper, Miss Farrell, Mrs. J. M. Brennan, Mrs. James Cowan, Miss A. Fitzpatrick, Miss Burke, Mrs. P. J. Corish, Miss Flynn, Mrs. D. A. Barron, Mrs. T. J. Callahan, Mrs. John Flynn, Miss Kitty Bates, Mrs. Coffee, Miss Kate Furlong, Mrs. Byrne, Miss Culleton, Miss Fitzpatrick, Miss Breen, Miss Maggie Coonan, Miss Farrell, Miss Bride Boggan, Mrs. J. Crn k e, Mrs. Flynn, Mrs. Bolger, Mrs. Cox, Mrs. Farrell, Miss Bearns, Mrs. W. E. Costigan, Mrs. R. J. Furlong, Mrs. Thomas Brazil, Mrs. F. Costigan, Miss Nellie Fitzgerald, Mrs. William Berrigan, Mrs. Cummins, Mrs. Fitzgerald, Miss Hettie Bowen, Mrs. G. A. Cosgrove, Miss Fitzgerald, Miss Bride Berrigan, Miss B. Foran, Mrs. Bates, Miss Dawe, Mrs., Shanghai, China Foran, Miss Balfour, Mrs. Dunphy. Mrs. W. S. Feehan, Mrs. Pat. Burke, Mrs. Th., St. Jacques Delaney, Miss Fitzgerald, Mrs. noutney, Miss Furlong, Mrs. M. W. Carter, Mrs. E. F. nooley, Mrs. Furlong, Miss Caroline Clancy, Mrs. R. (Deceased) Dooley, Miss Bride Furlong, Miss Marion Conroy, Mrs. C. O'N. Dempsey, Mrs. Fenelon, Mrs. Conroy, Miss S. Delgado, Miss Alice Fitzgibbon, Mrs. T. Coady, Miss May Druken, Mrs. R. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. J. Cox, Mrs. C. J. noylP, Miss Mary Farrell, Miss Gertie Cook, Miss May Doyle, Mrs. J. J. Farrell, Mrs. J. Carroll, Mrs. W. J. Doyle, Miss M. Friend, A. Camp bell, Mrs. Duffy, Miss M. Collins, Mrs. P. F. Duffy, Mrs. M. Greene, Mrs. D. J. Crowdy, Mrs. W. H. Duffit, Miss F. Greene, Mrs. Randal ·crowdy, Miss Dunn, Miss Greene, Mrs. M. K. Coughlan, Mrs. John Dee, Mrs. J. H. Gearin, Mrs. Coughlan, Miss Alice Devereux, Mrs. E. Galway, Miss Coughlan, Miss Lillian Dooley, Mrs. John Greene, Mrs. T. Comerford, Mrs. W. Davis, Miss Kate Goss, Miss Annie Callahan, Mrs. J. P. Dawley, Miss L. Galli.-an, Mrs. Cantwell, Mrs. T. Delgado, Miss Rose Gla.-ine, Mrs. D. J. Casey, Mrs. J. Delaney, Mrs. Gosney, Miss Sadie Cleary, Mrs. Philip Dunphy, Miss L. Graham, Mrs. T. Cahill, Miss Davis, Mrs. Jas. Gallishaw, Miss 114 ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. Gallishaw, Miss Kent, Mrs. Matthew McKay, Mrs. W. Gill, Mrs. Kelly, Miss M. McCarthy, Mrs. L. Grace, Mrs. Keating, Mrs. John McKay, Miss Jean Greene, Miss Lizzie Kelly, Miss Mary Mcisaac, Mrs. D. Kent, Mrs. D. Halley, Mrs. W. Norris, Mrs., (Three Arms Hawe, Mrs. T. Leo, Miss N.D. B.) Hayes, Mrs. J. W. Liddy, Miss May Nolan, Mrs. M. Hallern, Miss Lunergan, Miss Neville, Mrs. Emily Hannaford, Miss Lunergan, Miss Josie Nugent, Miss Cecilia Higgins, Mrs. H. Lamb, Mrs. Nickerson, Mrs. Higgins, Miss May Lawlor, Mrs. M. Higgins, Miss L. Leitch, Mrs. M. T. O'Flaherty, Mrs. John Hughes, Miss J. Leitch, Miss J. Hagen, Mrs. W. O'Brien, Miss May O'Dris.ccoll, Mrs. M. Harris, Miss Alice Morris, Lady Harris, Miss May O'Neill, Mrs. P. Manning, Mrs. M. (Deceased) O'Rielly, Mrs. George Hickey, Mrs. P. Meehan, Mrs. C. E. Racket, Miss O'Neill, Mrs. M. Meehan, Miss Nellie O'Neill, Mrs. James Howlett, Miss Meehan, Mrs. W. J. Harte, Miss E. O'Neill, Miss C. Mitchell, Mrs. T. O'Neill, Miss L. Hynes, Miss M. Mitchell, Miss Carrie Holland, Miss Clara C. O'Driscoll, Miss E. Mitchell, Miss T. O'Regan, Mrs. Hynes, Miss A. Maher, Mrs. R. Healey, Miss Annie, Fox Hr. 0' Regan, Miss Mulcahy, Mrs. J. O'Rielly, Miss Mary Howlett, Mrs. (Dr.) C. J. Morris, Miss A. Howley, Mrs. O'Leary, Mrs. R. Maher, Mrs. O'Driscoll, Margaret Howley, Miss Murphy, Mrs. J. Hannaford, Mrs. Samuel O'Rielly, Miss Rose Mahon, Mrs. A. O'Deady, Miss Hynes, Miss Rose Mahon, Mrs. Hynes, Mrs. P. O'Mara, Miss May Maher, Miss O'Mara, Mrs. J. T. Hynes, Mrs. W. Malone, Mrs. E. D. Higgins, Mrs. O'Rieny; Mrs. Joseph Martin, Mrs. J. T. Owens, Mrs. F. (Dorchester, Jackman, Mrs. E. M. Malone, Mrs. Mass.) Jackman, Miss Mary Malone, Miss T. Masking, Miss Jackman, Mrs. w. H. Power, Miss Mary Mitchell, M~rs. A. Jackman, Mrs. Pippy, Mrs. T. Jackman, Mrs. George Murphy, Mrs. Mike l\furphy, Miss Kitty Power, Mrs. Mogue Johnston, Mrs. T. Perlin, Mrs. T. Joy, Miss Agnes M. Malone, Mrs. J. Mullowney, Miss, New York Perlin, Mrs. Power, Miss Katie Knight, Mrs. Herbert Murphy, Mrs. John Phelan, Miss Kelly, Mrs. John Morris, Miss Ella Power, Miss Kavanagh, Mrs. T. Mullins, ~!(iss Mary Mansfield, Miss Monuie Phelan, Mrs. Keegan, Mrs. Penny, Mrs. Geo., (Ramea) Keegan, Miss Marshall, Mrs. J. Keegan, Miss K. Morrissey, Mrs. H. A. Kennedy, Mrs. Meehan, Miss Kate Quinn, Miss Kennedy, Mrs. W. Moulton, Mrs. R., Burgeo Quirk, Miss F. Kelly, Mrs. "Wialter McGrath, Mrs. J. Kennedy, Miss May McCarthy, Miss Ryan, Miss Kelly, Mrs. M. McCarthy, Miss Ros~ Ryan, Mrs. C. Kelly, Miss May McGrath, Mrs. J. F. Roche, Miss Kelly, Miss Mabel McGrath, Mrs. T. J. Roche, Miss E. I<:elly, Mrs. l\fat. Morris, Mrs. Frank Rigoreau, Madame Kelly, Mrs. Will. Morris, Miss Mary Rigorea u, Marie Therese Kent, Mrs. McGrath, Miss Mary Rigoreau, Marguerite Kelly, Miss A. McGuire, Mrs. J. B. Rodger, Miss M. Kennedy, Miss Lillie McQuire, Mrs. N. B. Rousch, Mrs. Kennedy, Mrs. P. McGuire, Miss B. Ro Us, Mrs. M. J<:enna, Mrs. James McCaffray, Miss Ryan, Mrs. J. Kennedy, Mrs. M. J. McEvoy, Miss Amy Ryan, Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. McCrae, Mrs. Ryan, Miss Tess. Kennedy, Mrs. E. J. McCaffray, Mrs. P. Ryan, Miss Maud Kielly, Mrs. Sarah McCarthy, Mrs. C. Ryan, Miss Bride Kennedy, Mis~ Frances McDermot, Mrs. Ryan, Mrs. Jas., (Bonavista) Kielly, Mrs. James McLaughlen, Miss M. Rawlins, Mrs. E. Kielly, Miss McCoubrey, Mrs. H. T. Renouf, Mrs. C. H. Kielly, Miss Hettie McCourt, Mrs. P. Rooney, Miss L. Kelly, Mrs. Ed. McGrath, Mrs. T. Ryan, Miss Minnie Kelly, Mrs. John McCarthy, Mrs. J. Ryan, Mrs. James ST. B 0 N AVE NT U R E' S ADELPHI AN . IIS Ryall, Mrs. Slaney, Miss R. Weathers, Mrs. Rowe, Mrs. A. Saunders, Miss Marian Walsh, Mrs. Nicholas Sheehan, Mrs. John Walsh, Mrs. J. T. St. John, Mrs. J. J. Slattery, Miss Walsh, Miss, (Renews) St. John, Miss Mary Slaney, Mrs. Wall, Miss Summers, Mrs. P. J. Saunders, Miss Mary Williams, Mrs. A. Sawyer, Miss Shortall, Mrs. T. Wallace, Mrs. Sinnott, Mrs. E. Shea, Mrs. P. J. Warren, Mrs. J. Sinnott, Mrs. J. J., (Heart's Shea, Miss Mollie Wadden, Miss M. Content) Shea, Miss Estelle Wheeler, Miss B. Sinnott, Miss Rose Shortall, Mrs. William Walsh, Miss Salter, Mrs. Albert Sullivan, Mrs. John Wall, Miss Maggie Shortall, Mrs. T. Sullivan, Miss Lizzie Warren, Miss Rose Sinnott, Mrs. Sharpe, Miss Mary Walsh, Mrs. Christopher, Sullivan, Mrs. S. L. (Presque) Sum1ners, Mrs. D. (Witless Bay) Sullivan, Miss Annie Sullivan, Miss Bessie Walsh, Miss, (Witless Bay) Sullivan, Miss Mary Walsh, Miss Mamie Shea, Miss Mary Snow, Mrs. Walsh, Mrs. Thomas Smyth, Miss Agnes Walsh, Mrs. P. Smyth, Mrs. Trelligan, Mrs. Frank Walsh, Miss Margaret Somerville, Mrs. Trelligp.n, Miss Walsh, Mrs. James St. John, Mrs. Frank Trelligan, Mrs. James Walsh, Miss Snow, Mrs. J. Tobin, Mrs. W. H. White, Miss Summers, Mrs. M. J. Wall, Mrs. T. Tobin, Mrs. J. J. Summers, Miss A. Walsh, Mrs. J., (Maddox Summers, Miss Lizzie Tobin, Miss Cove) Shortall, Miss Viguers, Mrs. Whelan, Miss M. B. We very gratefully acknowledge the A Friend ...... 100.00 receipt of the following donations to- A Friend ...... 20.00 wards the Building Fun·d. This list Receipts of Entertainment shows all the contributions up to date. to their fellow Students, by the College Glee Club 12.00 The late Sir R. G. Reid .. $2,500.00 Master P. To bin ...... 5.00 His Excellency the Gov- Mr. M. Grant, Lawn ... . 5.00 ernor, per Hon. Sir E. The Parish of Mobile, per P. Morris ...... 25.00 Very Rev. P. J. O'Brien, Rev. C. McCarthy, Witless P. P ...... 70.00 Bay ...... 20.00 Very Rev. J. Lynch, P.P., From the Sisters of a dear Northern Bay, per Mrs. departed old Student, W. Jackman ...... 5.00 per Mr. W. P. Walsh .. 20.00 A Friend ...... 10.00 Receipts of Children's Tea Mr. Joseph Benning, Lawn 5.00 Party, per Misses Kath The Parish of Trepassey, leen Keegan and Mar- per Very Rev. W. Born, garet Edens ...... 10.00 P. P ...... 140.00 A Friend ...... 10.00 Very Rev. N. Roche and Mr. F. B. Wood, per Mr. the people of Witless W. H. Tobin ...... 10.00 Bay Parish ...... 120.00 Mr. M. T. Flynn, Burin, Hon. J. D. Ryan ...... 100.00 per Mr. F. J. Doyle .... 5.00 The people of the Parish The Diocese of St. of Torbay, per Very George's (including a Rev. M. J. Clarke, P.P. 110.00 personal gift of forty l-Ion. Judge Conroy ...... 100.00 dollars from the Vicar II6 ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. General Rt. Rev. Mon The Parish of Carbonear, signor Browne of Grand per His Lordship Bishop River) per His Lord- March ...... 40.00 ship Bishop McNeil ... $ 350.00 Mr. T. Sutton ...... 1.00 From a poor woman, The Parishes of St. George's Diocese that per Mgr. Roche ...... 50 have contributed upward~ of fifty dollars Miss Eagan ...... 50 are: Mr. J. Mackey, Carbonear 5.00 Port au Port. .... $100.00 A Friend ...... 2.00 Grand River... . . 65.47 Mr. M. E. Mullowney, Bay of Islands ... . 60.00 Placentia 5.00 Harbor Breton .. . 52.50 Mr. Herbert Knight, B.L. 50.00 An old student from Mo A Friend ...... 5.00 bile, per Mr. P. Mr. C. Walsh, Witless Bay 1.00 C. O'Driscoll ...... 2.00 A Friend ...... 20.00 Mr. Edward Cummins, per Mr. Richard MacDonnell Mr. J. J. McGrath, B.L., 10.00 J. P., St. George's ... . 10.00 1\Tr. James J. Tobin ... . 100.00 A Friend ...... 5.00 Mr. Thomas Wall ...... 10.00 A Rev. Friend (second Mr. Samuel Ryall ...... 2.00 donation) ...... 25.00 Mr. P. Broderick ...... 2.00 Mr. V. Turpin, St. Law- Mr. P. Buckley ...... 2.00 renee 4.00 A Rev. Friend ...... 25.00 The following donations will be Mr. JamesJ. Thome~ Bay given annually for ten years: du Nord ...... 5.00 A Friend ...... 10.00 His Grace Archbishop Very Rev. J. Walsh, P.P., Howley ...... $ 50.00 and the people of the Messrs. Parish of Renews ... . 120.00 Thomas J. Allen ...... 2.00 A Friend ...... 20.00 James Aylward ...... 2.00 Very Rev. R. Tierney, E. J. Berrigan ...... 5.00 P.P., and the people of W. E. Bearns ...... 5.00 Petty Harbor Parish .. 85.00 Thomas Baker ...... 5.00 Mr. Walter Strapp, Benton 10.00 Nicholas Bulger ...... 5.00 Mr. T. J. Edens ...... 200.00 H. J. Brophy ...... ·.. 2.00 Mr. L. Ducey, Keels, B.B. 1.00 James Brennan ...... 2.00 Mr. Mogue Power ...... 20.00 John Beer ...... 2.00 Master Thomas O'Neil .. . 5.00 Garrett Brownrigg ...... 10.00 Accumulation of cent do- Richard J. Byrne ...... 10.00 nations from the boys William Brodrick ...... 2.00 of the Preparatory De- Garret Byrne ...... 10.00 partment 22.00 R. J. Burnham ...... 5.00 Receipts of second enter Fred L. Bradshaw ...... 10.00 tainment to their fellow P. J. Bulger ...... 2.00 students by the College Joseph Bulger ...... 5.00 Glee Club ...... 11.00 Charles Byrne ...... 2.00 Very Rev. S. O'Driscoll, Thomas J. Barron ...... 2.00 P.P., and the people of Jonas C. Barter ...... 5.00 St. Mary's Parish ..... 54.00 Timothy Broderick ...... 5.00 The Parish of Hr. Grace, C. Buckley ...... 2.00 per His Lordship Bishop Michael Bram brick ...... 2.00 March ...... 50.00 Vincent P. Burke ...... 10.00 ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. 117 L. J. Benning ...... 5.00 Peter Dillon ...... 2.00 G. Brownrigg, Jr ...... 5.00 Arthur Donnelly ...... 10.00 H. J. Brownrigg ...... 10.00 Capt. Edward English .. . 10.00 W. E. Brophy ...... 2.00 H. Prescott Emerson ... . 5.00 P. Christopher ...... 2.00 George Earles ...... 2.00 P. F. Collins ...... 10.00 John J. Evans ...... 2.00 James Cormack ...... 10.00 C. P. Eagan ...... 5.00 John Cormack ...... 20.00 \Villiam Firth, Jr ...... 5.00 James P. Cash ...... [ •JO James Fox ...... 5.00 John Callahan ...... ::..oo John Fenelon, B.L ...... 5.00 Michael Connolly ...... lv.vO Thomas Fitzpatrick ...... 2.00 James J. Coady ...... 2.0,) Thomas Fitzgibbon ...... 10.00 Richard Clancy ...... 5. ·JO Martin W. Furlong, K.C . GO.OO James J. Channing ...... n.OO Michael Fitzpatrick .... . 5.00 James Cowper ...... 4.00 E. T. Furlong ...... 2.50 E. F. Carter ...... 2.00 F. Fitzpatrick ...... 2.00 John J. Callahan ...... 5.00 J. J. Flannery ...... 20.00 George T. Carty ...... 5.00 Cyril J. Fox ...... 5.00 James J. Clancy ...... 4.00 Thomas J. Freeman .... . 2.00 James Cooney ...... 5.00 Lawrence Furlong, Smith- E. J. Cofield ...... 5.00 ville 5.00 James J. Crowdell ...... 2.00 P. J. Fortune ...... 10.00 Daniel J. Clatney ...... 2.00 M. J. Fitzhenry ...... 2.00 T. Coady, Sr ...... 5.00 John P. Grace ...... 2.00 J. Coady ...... 5.00 James Galway ...... 2.00 \Villiam Cox ...... 2.00 M. K. Greene ...... 10.00 John Clarke ...... 2.00 W. H. Gallivan ...... 2.00 D. J. Conway ...... 2.00 Hon. D. J. Greene ...... 15.00 W. J. Carroll ...... 10.00 Mortimer Greene ...... 5.00 John Cahill ...... 5.00 Hon. John Harris ...... 50.00 Thomas P. Connors ...... 10.00 James Haw ...... 10.00 vV. Carroll ...... 2.00 Thomas Harris ...... 5.00 M. P. Cashin, M.H.A ... . 10.00 James Harris ...... 5.00 Dan Carroll...... 2.00 Michael J. Hartery ...... 2.00 C. J. Cahill, B.L ...... 5.00 William J. Halley ...... 5.00 John Carew ...... 5.00 Philip Hanley ...... 5.00 \V. S. Dunphy ...... 5.00 C. Howlett, D.D.S ...... 5.00 Jas. J. Donnelly ...... 5.00 F. Hiscock ...... 10.00 John J. Doyle ...... 5.00 \V. H. Harris ...... 2.00 John Dwyer, M.H.A .... . 10.00 W. J. Higgins ...... 5.00 Alan Doyle ...... 3.00 Patrick F. James ...... 4.00 Patrick Dalton ...... 5.00 Hon. E. M. Jackman ... . 50.00 P. J. Denief ...... 4.00 Samuel Joy ....•... , .. . 5.00 William Duggan ...... 2.00 "WI. H. Jackman ...... 5.00 Michael P. Duffy ...... 3.00 F. J. Jackman ...... 5.00 Michael Darcy ...... 2.00 P. W. Jordan ...... 5.00 Frank H. Donnelly ...... 10.00 C. E. Jardine ...... 2.00 G. Kavanagh ...... 2.00 J. E. Dea ...... 2.00 George F. Kearney ...... 4.00 Richard Druken ...... 5.00 E. J. Kennedy ...... 5.00 P. K. Devine ...... 5.00 Edward J. Kielley ...... 5.00 M. J. Dooley ...... 10.00 M. J. Kelly ...... 5.00 118 ST. B 0 N AVE N TU R E ' S ADELPHIAN. Patrick Kavanagh ...... 4.00 M. O'Regan ...... 5.00 W. A. O'D. Kelly ...... 10.00 C. O'Keeffe ...... 5.00 John Kielley ...... 2.00 A. H. O'Keeffe ...... 2.00 Thomas Kavanagh ...... 5.00 George O'Reilly ...... 5.00 Peter Kavanagh ...... 5.00 Augustus O'Brien ...... 2.50 Patrick Kennedy ...... 5.00 M. O'Driscoll ...... 5.00 M. A. Keating ...... 5.00 P. F. O'Reilly, Placentia. 5.00 P. J. Kerevan ...... 5.00 Peter O'Mara ...... 5.00 W. Lawlor ...... 3.00 J. O'Flaherty ...... 5.00 George V. Lee ...... 2.00 T. H. O'Neill...... 5.00 J. T. Lawton ...... 2.00 Michael L. Parrell ...... 5.00 James A. Leahey ...... 2.00 Michael Power ...... 10.00 James Lynch ...... 2.00 A. J. Pomeroy ...... 2.00 J. J. l\iurphy ...... 100.00 John T. Power ...... 4.00 W. Meehan ...... 2.00 Robert Power ...... 5.00 John Mullaly ...... 10.00 Edward Power ...... 2.00 Hon. Sir E. P. Morris .. 50.00 Philip Putt...... 2.00 John J. Moore ...... 5.00 l\tfogue Power ...... 5.00 J. F. Murphy ...... 5.00 John Prowse ...... 2.00 John J. Mulcahy ...... 2.50 Thomas J. Power ...... 10.00 Michael Murphy ...... 2.00 Francis Ryan, Baccalieu . 5.00 Patrick Miron ...... 2 .. 00 P. J. Reardon ...... 5.00 Michael Murphy (Cooper) 5.00 C. W. Ryan ...... 5.00 Patrick Murphy ...... 5.00 W. Ryall ...... 2.00 John J. Mahoney ...... 2.00 William Ryan ...... 2.00 John F. Meehan ...... 10.00 James J. Ryan ...... 2.00 C. E. Meehan ...... 10.00 Edward J. Rawlins ...... 5.00 J. J. Maher ...... 5.00 vVilliam Royle ...... 5.00 F. J. Morris, K. C ...... 25.00 G. F. Smyth ...... ·.... . 2.00 Moses Maher ...... 2.00 J. L. Slattery ...... 5.00 J, P. Maher ...... 5.00 P. J. Shea ...... 10.00 M. W. Myrick ...... 5 .. 00 William SuTnmers ...... 3.00 James J. lVIcGrath, B. L .. 10.00 P . .J. Summers, B. L ... . 5.00 Thomas F. McGrath .... . 5.00 M. J. Summers ...... 5.00 Alfred McNamara ...... 5.00 M. Frank Summers ...... 3.00 P. T. McGrath ...... 10.00 Thomas Smyth ...... :-,_1) 0 Francis McNamara ...... 5.00 George Smyth ...... r..uo M. McGettigan ...... 4.00 Willia1n P. 3hortall ...... ;:; Ut} John T. McCarthy, Bona- John M. Apearns ...... ~.00 vista 5.00 E. K. Scanlan ...... ).00 Kalleem Noah ...... 10.00 W. B. Savin ...... 5.00 John J. Neville ...... 1.00 John St. John ...... 5. 00 James Norris, Three Arms, J. J. St. John ...... 20.00 N.D. B ...... 10.00 Thomas J. Thorburn ... . 5.00 Martin 0' Flanagan ...... 5.00 Thomas Trainor ...... 2.00 Andrew O'Connor ...... 10.00 John M. Tobin ...... 5.00 P. J. O'Neill ...... 2.00 Denis Tobin ...... 5.00 -w{illiam O'Brien ...... 2.00 Michael To bin ...... 5.00 R. H. O'Dwyer ...... 5.00 W. H. Tobin ...... 5.00 George Oliphant ...... 5.00 J. Taaffe ...... 2.00 J. O'Flaherty, Junr ...... 5.00 George F. Trainor ...... 2.00 J. V. O'Dea ...... 20.00 Charles Vinnicombe .... . 5.00 ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. t 19 N. J. Vinnicombe ...... 10.00 Robert "Wiiley ...... 2.50 J. J. Vinnicombe ...... 2.00 Nicholas Walsh ...... 20.00 \V. P. Walsh ...... 50.00 John H. Wadden ...... 5.00 FOOTBALL match was played team to represent St. Bonaventure's As at Llewellyn ground on Oct. sociation, said team to be known as the St. Bonaventure's Association Hockey 2 2, between a Junior XI. of Team or the S.B.A. hockey team, or in St. Bonaventure's, and a Junior XI. of common parlance, "the S.B.A.' , as Bishop Feild College. Our lads were distinct from" the S.B.C.", which are enabled to get together a very strong the initials of the present pupils' team. team, mainly owing to their hard and The Rev. Bro. Culhane, President of continuous practice. B. F. C. however the College, was tnoved to the chair, also had a strong combination, and it and then set the business going. After was only after a stubborn fight that our son1e preliminary discussions, officers team succeeded in winning the game by were elected as follows: Captain, M. one goal. Without doubt the players Augustine Keating; Sub-Captain, Fran on both sides gave a good exhibition of cis English ; Hon. Sec. and Treas., Au football, and will in all probability after gustine White ; League Delegate, James two or three years furnish splendid teams Foley. Sorne discussions now followed for their respective colleges. on the matter of managing and selecting the teanL It was finally proposed by Mr. The members of our victorious Foot John F. Meehan, seconded by Mr. Keat ball team were entertained at the Col ing. and carried, '· that, the Captain lege on Monday, Dec. 14th. Speeches and the Sub-Captain and one other to and songs whiled away the time after a be elected by the body should be the splendid repast, and the evening was Managing and Selecting Comn1ittee. ~' thoroughly enjoyed by all present. Rev. Mr. James Foley was then elected as Bro. Culhane in the opening speech the third member of this cotnmittee. highly praised the team and its captain The duties of this committee are to for the fine work done, and after mak notify fourteen men for every practice, ing a fe~' remarks about the holidays to see that all things necessary for the ended by wishing all present a Merry game are at hand, and finally to select Xmas and a bright New "lear. Speeches the seven. After the business was done, were also made by Rev. Fr. Pippy, Rev. the officers each thanked the meeting, Bro. Strapp and by Capt. Higgins. and expressed the earnest hope that Several boarders, and a few men1 bers of they should come up to the expecta the team also helped by songs and reci tions of their electors. It was decided tations to make the time pass pleasantly. that the colours should be the same as those of the present pupils-Gold and HOCKEY.-On December rsth, just Blue. before school broke up for the Xmas holidays, the Seniors assembled for the On behalf of our fellow students we purpose of electing the officers for the offer very sincere thanks to the follow / Hockey season of rgog. The result of ing for giving gold n1edals to encourage the votes was as follows :-T. Lamb, our scholastic work during the coming Captain ; J. Higgins, Sub-Captain ; and year : Lady Morris, Dr. Keegan. and M. Power, Sec.-Treasurer. Mrs. J. Dawe, Shanghai. Ex-PuPILS HocKEY.-On Dec. 20, We acknowledge with thanks the re in the College Library, after Last Mass, ceipt of the following : a number of ex-pupils held a meeting for the purpose of making a hockey Ampleforth Journal, Catholic Insti- 120 ST. BONAVENTURE;S ADELPHIAN. tute Magazine; Collegian, Dial. Feild tisers and subscribers have contributed ian, Manhattan Quarterly, Ottawa Re to the success of the ADELPHIAN dur- view, Santamarian, Scholastic, Xaver ing the year r 908, and feel confident of ian, Xavier. a continuance of such liberal support. The Editors thank very heartily the To all the readers of the magazine the many generous friends who as adver- Editors wish a very happy New Year. AWARD. ONSIEUR RIG 0 REA U, Class I. (order of merit) : Hoffnung; French Consul, again kindly Hyacinthe ; Shan1rock ; Stranger in a consented to act as judge in Strange Land; Miran1ichi; Max 0' Rell; this competition and has given the first Madchen ; 1' Agneau ; Harrigan. place to 'Xaverius,' Master Nelson Rice, University of St. Francis Xavier's Class I r. (alphabetical) : Acadia College, Antigonish, N.S., to whom the Ariadne; Fleur de Lys ; Gilhig ; Hoyes; books offered as a prize will be for warded at once. They will include a Patience ; Quidi Vidi. copy of Rostand's '' Cyrano de Ber gerac.'' Class III. (alphabetical) Achilles ; The other competitors have· been Bonavista ; Canaille ; Cyrano ; Fils d' placed as follows : Abondance ; White Lily ; Yank. J. E. Fox. REC l AN Euclid, thou that Looking for another '' case.'' mad est '· Cuts ' and problems all so Why in all this world of wonders, Do your schemes attract the wise .; hard; Full of different kinds of blunders Who with theorems boys now jadest, That a man would not devise ? Listen to this youthful bard. 0, that you in flesh were livin' We have read and still are reading With your oblongs, arcs, and squares; Of your '' chords '' and angles too ; vVhat a roasting you'd be given That have set our hearts a-bleeding By the '· kid '' who on you swears ! To the cruel joy of you. Come now, Euclid, act the gent I have had some nightmare flashes Send a message from the grave; In which you had '' centre ' place ; We'll give-yes, a monument, Standing on the '' Bridge of Asses '' If from you vve shall be safe. ST. B 0 NAVE NTU R E' S ADELP HIAN. I2I JR@S>ult§ off Te§t E~a'IDThin~tiolnls 1HI~lld Du'!r'ing P~§t ~ ~ Termfi. ~ ~ In each Class the names of all the pupils are given in order merit as deter mined by the aggregate marks. In the subject lists of the higher classes the names of the first five boys are given in Order of Merit. ASSOCIATE CLASS IN ORDER OF MERIT. J. Fox L. Carter M. Power W. Grant W. Tern pleman L. Sharpe J. Eagan F. McGrath J. Greene J. Rawlins T. Walsh S. Kearney MATHEMATICS. LATIN. RELIGION. ENGLISH. L. Carter J. Fox F. McGrath J. Fox M. Power M. Power L. Carter M. Power J. Fox L. Carter J. Fox } L. Carter W. Grant L. Sharpe ]. Rawlins W. Grant J. Eagan F. McG£"ath HTSTORY. FRENCH. NAVIGATION. Sc. MANAGEMENT. M. Power M. Power J. Greene J. Fox J. Eagan J. Eagan W. Templeman L. Carter } T. Walsh T. vValsh L. Sharpe L. Sharp~ L. Carter J. Eagan ENG. LITERATURE. GREEK. J. Greene. W . . Templeman J. Fox J. Rawlins INTER..MEDIATE CLASS IN ORDER OF MERIT. W. Coughlan B. Free bairn M . Dinn F. Keating G Byrne S. Smith J. Barron P. Conran C Keneally E. Crawford R. Burke E. Grant H. Barnes A. Neary P. Ledingham E. Rawlins A. Black P. Halley H. Meehan T. Mott L. Cashin A. Cleary S. Norris K. Keegan J Coughlan T. DuBourdieu P. Coady B. O'Reilly J. Leonard J. Tobin F. Knight W. Burke H. Hayes T. Devereux R . Sullivan L. Coughlan J. Ryan L. Burke W. Norris CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE ARITHEMETIC. ENGLISH. GEOMETRY. J. Barron P. Conran J. Barron W. Coughlan H. Barnes A. Cleary W. Coughlan F Keating F. Keating J. Ryan { F. Keating B. O'Rielly T. Devereux E. Rawlins E. Crawford B. Free bai.rn W. Coughlan L. Cashin H. Barnes E. Neary !22 ST. BONAVENTURE'S ADELPHIAN. INTER M ED I ATE C LAS S-(Conti1Zued) . ALGEBRA. FRENCH. BOOK-KEEPING. LATIN. W. Coughlan W. Coughlan F. Keating W. Coughlan A. Cleary { F. Keating E. Rawlins E. Crawford J. Ryan E. Crawford R. Burke J. Barron J Barron J. Barron J. Coughlan A. Cleary H. Meehan H. Barnes H. Barnes T. Devereux H. Barnes E Rawlins { { T.Mott E. Crawford SHORTHAND. HISTORY. ELEMENT'Y SCIENCE. SCHOOL MANAGEM'T. H. Meehan. F. Keating W. Coughlan T. DuBourdieu E. Crawford T. DuBourdieu R. Sullivan E. Neary F. Keating H. Barnes B. O'Reilly ]. Leonard H. Barnes G. Byrne G. Byrne P. Coady. R. Burke K. Keegan DRAWING. F. Keating S. Norris P. Ledingham A. Black PRELIMINARY CLASS (A.) IN 0RDRR OF MERIT. A. Cleary R. Cashin A. Maufroy F. Sutherby A. Fortune J. Dunne M. Savage G. Emerson J. Donnelly B. Channing J. Keough W. Power N. Duchemin E. Hagen W. Callahan G. Coughlan J . Coughlan J. Walsh J Savin R. St. fohn R. Bennett R. Leseman T. O'Neill J. O'Driscoll F. Devereux P. Whelan J. Morrissey A. Power A. Ellis J. Morrissey ]. ]. Ryan J. Noah T. Keating W. McGrath J. McDonnell A. Gibbs ENGLISH. RELIGION. SHORTHAND. FRENCH. A. Cleary A. Cleary W. McGrath E. Hagen M. Savage B. Channing ]. Keough A. Maufroy F. Sutherby G. Coughlan f A. Cleary N. Duchemin N. Duchemin F. Sutherby R. Leseman M. Savage { M. Savage { A. Power HYGIENE. GEOGRAPHY. L·ATIN. GEOMETRY. A. Cleary J. Keough ]. Savin F. Sutherby M. Savage A. Fortune B. Channing N. Duchemin J J. Ryan G. Coughlan A. Cleary A Cleary B. Channing F. Sutherby { P Whelan F. Sutherby M. Savage M. Savage { G. Coughlan { G. Emerson G. Coughlan ~ R. St. John ST. B 0 NAVE NT U R E' S ADELPHI AN 123 P R E L I M I N A R Y C L ASS (A - ' Cont-inued). ARITHMETIC. DRAWI~G. BOOK-KEEPING. READING. F Sutherby G. Coughlan R. St. Johu A. Power A. Cleary R. Leseman J. J. Ryan G. Emerson .'\. Power W. McGrath A. Fortune B. Channing T. O'Neill N. Duchemin 5 M. Savage A. Fortune I N. Duchemin PR.ELIMINAR Y CLASS r B.) I~ ORDER OF MERIT. J. Edens C. Fox J. McGrath H. Knight J. Black F. Harris P. Kennedy G. Jackman J. Sheehan F. Thistle E. Cough Ian F. Byrne W. Brown E. Ro hertson J. Canning P. Brien J. Hoskins T. Dunphy J. Connors J. \Valsh 0. Butler F. McEvoy T. Kent J. Donnelly J. Hartery W. Cleary W. Costello R. Costigan J. O'Leary T. McGrath J Flynn T. Fortune S. Basha S. O'Driscoll A. Dee G. Bidel M. Channing P. O'Brien J. Travers E. Pike F. Armstrong C. Davey CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE ENGLISH. FRENCH. ARITHMETIC. P. McEvoy P. Kennedy J. Ede-ns W. Brown P. Kennedy J J. Edens P. Kennedy F. Thistle F. Byrne H. Knight H. Knight I J. Edens } J. Connors P. Brien F. McEvoy ( J. Connors J. Canning. W. Brown W. Brown H. Knight ALGEBRA. HISTORY. GEOGRAPHY. BOOK-KEEPING. H. Knight J. Edens F. Thistle } J. Edens } W. Brown H. Knight P. Kennedy P. Brien F. Thistle E. Pike J. Edens H. Knight} J. Connors P. Kenned-v J. Connors J. Connors J. Edens P. Brien - F. McEvoy W. Brown DRAWING. PENMANSHIP. J. Flynn J. Hoskins J. Hartery J. Edens 0. Butler P. Kennedy E. Robertson F. Thistle J. Edens P. Brien STANDARD V. CLASS IN ORDER oF MERIT. Divis-ion I. iYi. Leamy C. Wiley A. McEvoy J. Sinnott T. Flynn J Frecker C. McKay F. Channing P. Ryan J. Devine R. Green J. 1\lartin R. Crawford C Meehan G. Morrissey T. Buckingham -....v Jackman A. Steward C Freebairn A. Ke11y G. Foley F. Houlihan W. McGrath E. Turpin W. Sullivan 124 ST . BONAVEN T URE'S ADELPHIAN STANDARD V . ( Continued Division I I. L. Keough W. Hacke tt E. Mayers ]. Gibbons T. Ryan L . Shortall B. Sinnott W. Petrie L. Ozan J. Sullivan G. B,· rne G. Powe r R. Stanco mbe H. V-oisey G. :Mulroo ney C. O'Flaherty J. Earle STANDARD IV. Cr~ASS IN ORDER oF :\1 ERI'l'. F. Edens J. O'Driscoll T. Ellis W. Lash S McGrath ]. Foley C. McGrath J. Ryall J. Chaplin P. McEvoy C . Goss P. Druken J. Murphy J. Ryan V. Summers W. Skinner J Oliphant S . Ryan J. Curtain H. Summers P. Tl:arns ] . Canning W. Campbell V. Godden (absent) \ . PRE PAR A .T 0 R Y DE PAR TM E NT. Tlzird Standard. CLASS IN ORDER OF MERIT. R Wiley C. Eagan l F. McNamara G. Bearns W. Cornick J J. JYicGrath J. Donnelly D. Keegan R. Farreil R. Murphy } J . Walsh E. Buckingham W. Callahan F. Moore T . Donnelly H. Salter J. Larkin L. Parrelll C. Greene W. St . John G. Kelly I W. Fitzgerald E. Kelly J. Gibbs r absent. ]. Kelly R. \Vall G. Gibbs I J Ki.elley J Second Standard. CLASS IN ORDER OF MERIT. F. Channing J. Power G. Eagan W. Salter t L. Jackman A. Fitzgerald H Walsh~ A. Wallis G. Kelly G. Mullings E. Brennan J. Murphy l B. Sutherby P Keegan J. Maher 1 W. Ryan C. Ryall J. Phelan 1 b G. St John W. Hickey '" . I I alley ( a sc n t F. Shortall G. Power E. Berteau I H. Ellis ]. Fitzpa· rick G. Da-.;-ey j M. Walsh S. Murphy .f!zrst Sta11dard.-Division I. CLASS I~ ORDER OF MERrT F. Buckingham J. Gleeson ]. McGrath l J. Daly J. Skinner H. Brennan I C. Kenny E. Taaffe A. Mayers ~ absent W. Wile)- ] . McEvoy D. Flynn I { Fred Buckingham L. Duffy (absent) ,,•. Parrell j S T . B 0 N A \. E NT U R E ' S A DE L P HI AN . 125 PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT.- Continued). First Standard.--Diz,ision II. R. Kelly l F. Jackman E. Bailey H. Morrissey I J. Power F. Donnellv W. Coughlan I A. \Valsh \ F. Walsh - F. Linegar ~ absent G. Jackman J L. Sullivan E. Phelan I C. Lamb A. Baxter } absent R. Sullivan I J. \Vall H . 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