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Santa Clara University Scholar Commons The Owl SCU Publications 4-1873 The Owl, vol. 7, no. 3 Santa Clara University student body Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.scu.edu/owl Part of the Fiction Commons, Nonfiction Commons, and the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Santa Clara University student body, "The Owl, vol. 7, no. 3" (1873). The Owl. Book 32. http://scholarcommons.scu.edu/owl/32 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the SCU Publications at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Owl by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ~~D,t~ ~IQl~01· ~@~l~l~e SANTA CLARA, CAI/. Under the ,Management of the Society of Jesns, ~arg~ n-: now the st DUmbel' of Professors and Tn tors connected with any educational institution on the Paciflc Coast. It embraces Schools of . THEOLOGY, PHY~ICS, CLASSICS, PIIILOSOPIIY, ~fATIIE~IATICS, ORATORY, CHE~lISTI{Y,' IvfINERALOGY, LITERATUI~E. 'F RENCI-I, GERl\IAN, ITALIAN, SPANISlf (By Teachers na tive to the several languages) ~tcttitcct\tt'nt, ~ittt'h~utit.1tt, ~l\u.(l~tltl)t lttut ~igtu·t ~l'lU\!hltl, MVll[e~ V"AL AN. INSTK,UJlBNTA.L, l)ANOING; DIlA.1fATIO ..ciCTION AND DELlvTEI{Y. ~ILIT.A:R-Y DRILL:7 Practical Schools of Telegraphy, Photography, Surveying and Printing; daily Assays of native ores, in a thoronghly fitted laboratory; one of the most complete cabinets of apparatus in the United States; several Ilbrarice ; a brass band; the fullest 'collection of printed music possessed 'by any American College. ..... eeo .,3:--_---- No compulsory course. Youths of all denominations admitted • . 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Crusader office,Boston, Mass, .rru: OWL. Vol. JIII. APRIL, 1873. No.3. TI-IE IlEvVARD OF I-IEI~OES. [An Oration delivered in the.Exhibition Hall of Santa Clara College, on the 22nd of February, 1873, the anniversary of the birth of George Washington :] (R. F. DEL VALLE, 1\fental ~hilosopby.) Iieo». ]i'Uthers, Ladies and Gentlen~en:- T Las been often: said~and ' I not merely whilst he can wield that I think with some degree of power, but for ,all future genera trnth-that "the world ignores its tions; whilst others, far nobler and greatest men." fill' truer in their heroism, remain, , Long and glorious indeed is the and ever will remain "unhonored catalogue of earth's 'heroes ; but of and unsung." comparatively few can it be said And yet there are exceptions to that their countrymen have duly this sad rule; exceptions too which, recognized their heroism, or duly if not relatively, are at least posi rewarded their self-sacrifice. I~a tively numerous. ther has' self-seeklng than self-sacri I shall not pretend, on a!l occa.. fice won the prizes of the world, siou like this, to go through history Destroyers of men rather than their systematically, in search of heroes benefactors, are the people 'Vh0111 and their varying. rewards, The mankind likes to honor.. task would indeed be endless. But An Alexander or a Napoleon I trust, ladies and gentlemen, that may overrun half the civilized I may not be taxing your kind world with fire and sword, for no attention too heavily if~ .b efore al , conceivable object other than the luding to the great hero ofthis day, gratification of his personal lust for -(the best example at once of true, p~wer; and he will be a "hero,". heroism and of its true re,vard)- 282 [April I recur to a fe\v instances from by the tie of mutual relation; he bygone times of others, more or roes, w hose names are almost Jess like him, "rho have been I!lOre representatioe of Grecian freedom, or less differently rewarded. So and whose actions have beC0111e onl y shall we be able to appreciate familiar, nay, even proverbial to us as we ought both the greatness of all. Yes; if we wish to paint an 'Vashington and the gratitude < of ideal hero, we give hirn the un .. America, fliilChillg courage of Miltiudes, the I have alluded already to mili "exquisite prudence of Themistooles, tary conquerors; and I care not to and the disinterested equity of speak of thern any more. But what Aristides. - Their labors and perils shall I say of the upholders and are still fresh upon the roll of defenders of those sacred )·ights so Fame; and history's undying finger dear to the hearts of free men? still points to the wisdom of the Shnll immortality be their reward ?' hero of Salamis, and the combined Shall ' t heir deeds' be enshrined on "pow er of those two minds, linked the altar of freedom and their both hy friendship and by patriot.. names be surrounded by - the ism, that achieved safety and liber .imperishable halo of a country's ty for their country in the mernor affection? Over their sacred dust able battle of ~farathon. · But 'wave the variegated-glories of the how ungrateful was that country! standards which they so' manfully 'It was thought insufficient to have -g uarded, despite the constant an- despoiled them of the recompense ,t ag oniSl1l ofdespots and oftraitors; they had so justly merited: e'veI~ but shall their graves be moistened the very lright of them was odious by the tears of the peoples for to their fellow-citizens, who regard- whom they have fonght? Shall . oed it perhaps as an obstacle to the they be loved as they have loved accomplishment of their own selfish { their country? "I'oo often, alas, plans; and hence ban islunent was \ " .t hey shall not. Too often nre they the fruit of the heroes' toil, and confronted, even while still living, their reward for the benefits they hy the ingratitude of those w horn had rendered to the State. they have saved. Bat we are called npon to pause, In tho classic days of Grecian arHl read the inscription.c-. ' . freedom, this vice of ingratitude "Stranger, the tidings to the Spartans tell, is eSjJccially noticeable; although That here. obeying their commands we we lnay find, at the same time, fell." . , some noble instances of the con Hero the great though conquered trary virtue. I .. conidus awaits -t he reward that r-r"hree gl'eat names appear sud he has bought by the price of his denly to nlY mind, bound perhaps O\Y11 blood. Yes! Therrnopylae 187'3.] The Rewa?ylof Heroes. 283 has been for. ages the most sublime man who destroyed tyrants, sub example ~f patriotism ; and imrnor d ned barbarians, repeopled great tal g'lory still surrounds it, cities which lay'desolate, and res A marble lion, to mark the rest- tored to the Sicilians their hi'Y~' ,ing place of Leonidas, has been arid privileges." lti8 reward ; signifying that the The latter received in an equal renown of his bravery shall des degree the admiration of his native cend untarnished to posterity. country, and indeed -earned ' for . And.what shnll 'V~ say of Pelo himself the glorious title of' "the pidas and Epaminondas ;-heroes last of the Greeks." These t\V9 t , ~ 'V hose names are bound together last examples are. exceptions tothe 'by the tics of mutual affection and sad""i'uIc ofingratitude which seems '111utual assistance, and w110 with to have generally prevailed in the \1l1itcd ' power sa ved their native ' ,Gre"c ~ an States, -, land. Lenctra, and many other If, however, we turn to the l}o 'hloody ' and victorious fights, won man Republic, we find in the stern for the Theban generals ,the adrni integrit.y and fixedness ofcharacter "ration of the world, Were theRe which marked that great people.