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a Dante, or a genius like Shakspere; but in Self-Praise. number and excellence the United States is richer in poets, novelists and essayists than any of our foreign cousins. Longfellowi Bryant M. A. and Whittier represent the best of our poets; Hawthorne, Howells and Crawford are a few of tiO crowns himself balks blindly his own fame; our novelists; Emerson, as an essayist, may be I'fB He grasps before his time the diadem compared with Montaigne in France and Bacon Kind hands have fashioned for his brow; each in England; while Poe, and among our later gem, Of lambent lustre feeds the fever-flame men, Davis and Stockton, stand at the head of Thatburns his yearning soul; with loud acclaim the short story writers. As yet we have no Ambition's rage he gluts; nor can he stem dramatist so polished or so brilliant as the His passion flood till they that praised contemn, French; but, judging from our past successes, And leave the boaster laurelled for his shame. it will not be long until the clever and elegant Not jewelled head-piece shaped with rarest art, Frenchman must yield the palm to his Ameri­ Nor self-voiced triumphings can win renown can rival. Or flash an honored name on glittering scroll;" A mocking effigy, devoid of heart This is not all rant and boast; it is a truth Or life or noble meaning,is that crown that must be acknowledged by all. One hun­ Which thrills with rapid joy no donor's soul. dred years ago George Washington was our representative writer, and to compare him with our modern men would be simply ridiculous. "Wliat 'We Owe to Irving-. We have but to refer to any of the old English magazines to understand how we were regarded JOSEPH M. KEARNEY. during the early part of this century. England scoffed at the barbarians, as we were charit­ ably called; but in the end she was forced to T seems almost impossible to believe that American literature admit that America had a literature destined is but a century old. Yet such is to surpass her own. We naturally feel proud the case; and, strange as it may of the men who accomplished this fact, and appear, we have in that short especially are we proud of the pioneers in the period advanced with such rapid movement. Among the foremost, in fact, I V strides that to-day we possess as might say the first, was Washington Irving. /y^ strong, as good and as varied a Irvinsr was a child of the Revolution, and was ^ literature as any nation, ancient born and reared during that turbulent period. or modern, can boast of. In those few years Young America was in the throes of rebellion, we-have passed England, a country that traces and it took years to settle the complicated its literature from "Beowulf" to "The Idyls of questions that arose from the war's issue. the King." Literature, for the time, was forgotten, or rather-; It is true that we have not produced aHomer, the confusion of this period offered obstacles 57^ NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC sufficiently great to retard the progress of environs of New York with a legendary, roman­ letters. But notwithstanding these circum­ tic and poetic interest. He has done for that stances we may date the birth of American majestic river what it took centuries to do for literature from the year of independence. the Rhine; and.the service is greater when we New York, the city of Irving's birth and remember that the ruins and palaces on the boyhood, was just beginning its commercial Rhine lend it much of the" romantic air for activit}'^; of literature it had little,- and of art which it is famous. Irving had no such mate­ less. As yet it had not recovered from the rial to work with; he had nothing but the hills effects of the Revolution, and the energies of and his own. creative imagination to assist him the people were directed toward commercial in inventing his legends. enterprises. Life was a most practical problem His youth was spent among the Dutch to them, and, as in all new countries, literature settlers, and, of course, he became intimately was kept in the background. It was under acquainted with their habits and the stories these disadvantages that young Irving was they delighted in telling. It was thus, most brought up; and, to a certain degree, we may ' probably, that he heard of Rip van Winkle, be thankful for it. The best part of Irving's one of the mysteries of the Catskill Highlands; education was obtained out of doors, while he but it was his genius that gave such folk lore was exploring the noble Hudson or taking long form, and added new ones to the romances of rambles in the Catskill Mountains. He loved the world. These stories surround New York • to wander by the sparkling brook, or in the with an air of mystery; and although the solitude of the forest where nature taught him Dutch are often inisrepresented by them, we to admire her charms. He was one of the first would rather believe them true. "The Legend to see that America rivalled both Switzerland of Sleepy Hollow" is as inseparably connected and Italy in natural scenery, and that we need with the Hudson as are German stories with not leave our own shores to see nature in all the Rhine. It describes the old Dutch settlers, her glory. their homely and simple life, their humor and Irving's works are so well known that it is their individuality, their marvellous beliefs and unnecessary to name them. It will be sufficient the strange spirits that haunted them. The to speak of one—one which, had he written neighborhood of Sleepy Hollow was rich in no other, would have made him one of the local stories, haunted spots and superstitions immortals. Irving's popularity dates from the innumerable. A headless horseman was their publication of the "Sketch Book." It was the chief source of anxiety, and, at the same time, first American work that deserved European of pleasure; for the mysterious appears to recognition, which, we are glad to say, the have a strange fascination, not oply for the English were sensible and appreciative enough Dutch, but also for all peoples and all nations to bestow. Who among us has not laughed over Ichabod American literature has been done two great Crane, when we thought of his midnight ride services through the "Sketch Book": the beauty on old Gunpowder, and his encounter with the of nature was revealed to us in a manner that no headless horseman? We can imagine the terror other American had thought of or attempted. and consternation that seized him when he was Up to that time America had no legends, and struck by the pumpkin; but it gives us a feeling it remained to Irving to give us the first of our of relief to know that Brom Bones had rid folk stories. It is strange that such should himself of his rival. Poor Ichabod! we have have been the case, as the inhabitants had not often felt sorry for him when he was made the yet entirely separated themselves from the victim of one of Brom Bones' jokes,, and the influences of their mother countries. The agonies he suffered when obliged to travel colonists were made up of all nations—English, through the lonely woods, momentarily expect­ Germans, Dutch, and even a few from the ing some goblin or sprite to carry him off, southern part of Italy. Each of these countries were fearful. "Rip van Winkle," while not so * have innumerable legends dating from time interesting as the "Legend of Sleepy, Hollow," immemorial. The Dutch, in particular, are is, nevertheless, very popular. It gives us a renowned for their folk-lore, and it is owing to more faithful description of the times and the the fact of Irving's boyish association with the habits of the people. Irving displays his settlers from Holland that he was able to invent sarcasm upon every occasion and makes poor his amusing tales. - Rip a hen-pecked husband. Irving has invested the Hudson and the Americans should be thankful to Irving for NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. sn

the romantic legends he bequeathed them. around them; their imaginations picture lovely No one could go up the Hudson without think­ pastoral scenes, grand tragedies, sublime deaths. ing of Irving, or, on a still evening, without We arc taken into the awful circles of hell; we s •- listening for the sound of rattling nine-pins. are refreshed by the song of the skylark, the The Catskills are made dear to us as being trilling of the nightingale and the murmur of the home of American romance, the scene running brooks. We are lifted up above our of our first folk-lore. As the Germans delight lowly life to the contemplation of God and in tales of the Rhine, so do we feel proud of His Son, the World-Saver, by that great genius our majestic Hudson and the stories associated who dared to put the words of common mortals with it. in the mouth of God. Again, they call us to Irving was an imitator of Addison, but he admire the strength and beauty of Lancelot improved so much upon him that he is ranked and Elaine. Our hearts beat faster as we read as one of the greatest of English stylists. He of the knightly contests—those contests in which. never became as perfect as Hawthorne, but love and the desire of fame ruled the lists. Ah, there is that about Irving which Hawthorne these are grand poems, these of the masters! lacks. Hawthorne was filled with the old What diction! What sublime, soul-thrilling puritanical spirit, and his stories are always intensity! At the magic words of these geniuses connected with crime. Irving, on the contrary, we are Greeks or Romans, knights of the was broad and sunny-minded, and selected as tournament or troubadours with songs on our his subjects either the virtuous or the humorous. lips of our heartsand souls. His style is clear, refined, subtle and exquisite; These days of poetry are fast passing away; it is almost as pure as De Quincey's. Many "the age of chivalry is gone"; and we look accuse Irving of being too technical; that is, into the future vainly asking ourselves whether of giving polished sentences, but sacrificing we shall ever again have such ages of literature. thought to elegance. But we can hardly agree If we look about us we see easily, too easily, with such severe criticism; we take the "Sketch what a fall there has been from the grand lines I^ook" as it is, the relating of a tale or a of Virgil, from the. soulful language of Shak- description of an incident seen and known by spere, to the technique, the polish and the the writer. For further proof we need but look delicacy of the rhymers of to-day. It is as if a around us and see that he is read by young vase of Sevres were to take the place of a and old, the educated and the uneducated. Corinthian column. "'Tis pretty"; and the eye This is the test of an author's excellence— of the connoisseur is pleased; but he who loves that he be appreciated by,the public and at the strength will look away and stand silent, same time by the critics. Andlrving's popular­ wondering at and admiring the majestic firm­ ity is ever increasing and he will always remain ness of the marble pillar. And so it is; who a favorite with Americans. can deny it? It seems that all the grandeur of the old times is gone. We speak of the old masters of painting, of the old masters of sculpture, of the The Decay of Poetry. old masters of poetry—do we speak of the living masters of poetry? Who are they?: Search as FROST THORN. we may, we can find none to compare with Homer, or with Dante; none who can take their places. Fiery Byron, half-sad Schiller, ^ ITTQ 0 ''/7 ET us first cast a rapid gh lance gentle Keats, and passionate Shelley have no ^pj ,Jg.-^^>^ over the poetry of past a ages. equals. Of our own American poets, whom can ( Three thousand years ago the we compare with Longfellow, with Whittier? blind Homergaveusanepic; The answer is the same for all- The "grand old later, Virgil gave us another, masters" are gone, leaving us examples to imi­ only a little less great; Pindar, tate; but who'can equal them? his odes; Horace, Petrarch, J\_JS_ No one can deny that we miss the old poets; ^ Dante,Chaucer,Milton,Shak- spere, Gcethe, Schiller, Byron, and yet there are some to-day whom we like. Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, and many others— Swinburne, Morris and De Vere are poets, and { these gave us-poems of heroism, of joy and the greatest that we have. They do not equal: sadness, of loveliness and grandeur. Their souls their predecessors; but the music of Swinburne's;; soar on high; their intellects study the life verses is absolutely unsurpassed; no one has"; 578 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

attained his excellence. But it seems that now the naturalism of Zola is giving way to the the poets do not strive to be grand, to produce purer realism of Howells and James. It may poems like the "Inferno" and "Paradise Lost" ; be asked what is the difference between these they try rather to be polished, to have perfect two? The answer is easy. If a writer describe technique, to please the "delicate artistic" sense, a tramp in all the glory of his. tattered gar­ like the jingle of sleigh-bells on a moon-]it ments, that is a piece of realism. If, again, night, like music from across the water. Ever}-- the tramp is described as having no clothes at Ihing in our century of rapid progress, and all, that is naturalism. Realism shows us a more especially of late years, is tending to door with the paint on; naturalism shows the more refinement and delicacy of expression. same door before paint has touched it. Realism Ever3^thing is "artistic," and everything is is truth lightly clothed; naturalism is the naked viewed from an "artistic" standpoint. Public, truth. taste is becoming more and more critical, No one has succeeded Tennyson; what is the and perhaps that is the reason why we have inference? Simply this: that there is no poet such polished technicians in our literature. worthy of the laureateship, or that it is deemed Realism, too, is obtaining a hold upon the advisable not to have any more poet-laureates. public; nothing delights us so much as a touch Perhaps her Royal Highness needs the "tierce of nature, a bit from real life. Not the brutal of malvoisie." When Ruskin was the contem­ realism of Zola, but that of Howells, or of Davis, plated celebrant of Queen Victoria's charms which is pure and does not bring out into bold and virtues, the world sniffed disdainfully, and relief.the startling, revolting side of life pictured the world may have thought that ex-Premier by the French novelist. Gladstone had dropped Homer and taken Don Perhaps it cannot be said ex cathedra, as it Quixote as his hero. However, the calamity were, that poetry is becoming less and less was averted; at any rate, no one was hurt by true poetry; but, however it may be, now is it; and the earth still revolves once in twenty- Ihe time when the "mute, inglorious Miltons" four hours. should show themselves, for our poetry needs Swinburne, or Morris, or Aubrey de Vere, is almost a new birth. Why, indeed, is it that we eligible to the laureateship; and certainly the have no more outbursts like those of Milton, most musical of poets is Swinburne; but, then, who was a grand poet; or poetry like that of no one may have the position. What will the the impetuous Byron? The only answer I can Queen do when there is no one to celebrate give is tbat our age is more artistic than former the royal weddings and births; when there is no centuries. Some of our poems are like little one to mourn the sad events? She will have to jewels, brightly polished, beautifully cut, but rely on the press: "Born, Marie Augusta, etc., they do not appeal to us so much, nor echo seventh daughter of Her—," etc. Again, Her our thoughts as do those poems of the older Majesty will read something like this: "Died, men. A true poet must be one from his heart; Frederick Charles Joseph, etc., ninth son of he must put his soul and all his feelings into Her—, etc. Funeral will take place Thursday lo his lines. Let not the reader imagine that I a. m., from—," etc. When Her Royal Highness mean to say we have no poets; for I speak finds these things noted only in plain prose in broadly, and intend to say that the poetry of the obitiiary column she will immediately look to-daydoes not equal that of past years; and I around her and snatch soine hidden poet from think many will agree with me; one need only his obscurity and bestow upon him the dignity take a look at the poets to be assured of the truth of poet-laureate. Why is it ^oet-lanreaie? Per­ of this. Our poets certainly are not excelled haps because he is supposed to be crowned for perfection of technique and delicacy of \v\\.h. laurels! .^ovi, what would he be called in expression; but we do not find enough soul in Italy, where the immortals are decorated with their verses, and soul is the essence of poetry, bay-leaves? —otherwise we have only rhyme. "All poetry is alike in one way," said a friend We are in the twilight of poetry; and if the to me. "That's queer," I replied. "Yes,'.' he poetical is the same as the terrestrial twilight, went on, "all poetry is alike in the fact that it we shall soon have another burst of sunlight, is"-^ "Written," I suggested. preceded by a short period of comparative Then I asked him if he thought poetry was darkness. dying out. He said: "Yes, poetry is decaying; The next great era of literature will be one that is, in a certain sense some poetry is; for of realism; idealism is fast losing ground^ and example, make a comparison with nature— NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 579

Leaves of Grass will not live always but must MODERN WARFARE. perish and be forgotten." By the glitter of steel and the spilling of blood But.poetry will never die; and I think it is He had numbered the days of his life.- He.a warrior? No: the blood came from a ranch- just about as low now as it ever will be. There , And the steel was a butcher's knife. have been before periods when literature was at a stand-still; but it has always regained what He had fought a thousand battles, he the hero of the age; All his enemies he vanquished^-vanquished on the it had lost. And so we can hope now for a modem stage. succeeding age of great poetry, when the dim MACK, twilight will become bright and glorious with TO BE SURE. the rays of a new and resplendent sun. That must be a bearded lady. With the youngster 'cross her lap. For, though I don't see her razor, ^ • » I can see her raise 'er strap. Trifles Light as Air. Du B. SUSPENDED PAYMENT. " Say, Tom, have you with you a dollar or more? " Said the man who had bprrowed some money before. THE RIVER OF LIFE. "Not just now," was the answer. "Well, Tom, never Our lives should be like a river mind," That breasts the changing winds; • Said the fellow, a-seeming considerate and kind; Let each turbulent wave be some" tempter we brave; " I owed you some greenbacks and thought I would pay. Call the ripples the cares of our minds. But for want of the change I can't do it to-day." But the river flows ever by meadow and bower: C. A. C. A stagnant pool is the idle hour. A FAVORITE VOLUME. Q. John keeps a scrap-book; yes, indeed, MOTHER'S GOOD-BYE. And well the fact is known Once 'twas said, " Thou'lt go to-morrow; No volume is rnore dear to him; Other friendships thou wilt borrow." For the scraps are all his own. Silent was I then for sorrow,— OUAHM. My answer was a sigh. Full of sadness was the leaving, Heart to heart a moment cleaving; A StroU Under the Sea.* Spellbound love made deep the grieving When mother said " Good-bye." BY ELMER J. MURPHY. There are times when words unspoken Speak of bonds that must be broken, When the warm heart's only token a beautiful May morning Low sparkles in the eye. Thus it was, and I went weeping; a neat and graceful little She, I loved, dumb-silence keeping; schooner with sails unfurled For her sudden tears came leaping moved slowly out of the small When she had said " Good-bye." harbor of La Seca in southern M. Florida. It was a picturesque IN THE BLUES. little place; but we three boys " Red-letter days no more for me," I heard a Sorin sigh; were so busily engaged on " She uses stationery now board the vessel, that we paid but slight The color of the sky." attention to the beauties around us. Harry D.V.C. Menwall had obtained three complete diver's A SOLILOQUY. outfits and had hired the divers themselves to From the canvas how her eyes accompany us to work the air pumps, etc., and. Seem to gaze in mild surprise As the staring looker nears. we were now going to' descend into the sea. Pretty miss of bygone years! When the place we had selected was reached, But you never would surmise we brought the yacht to anchor and donned That she was my grand aunt wise, our queer-looking armor. Spectacled and stern of guise: Faith, I'm gladder she appears Harry descended first, followed by Fred From the canvas. Hallet, who had hardly reached the bottom when he gave the signal to be hauled up. This How she drew the frightened tears, How-she filled my soul with fears, did not deter me from entering the mystic deep, When she'd tell ho\y. wicked lies and I was soon under the surface. A strange Fix the sinner when he dies — sensation came over me as I sank beneath (How she's raging, if she hears From the canvas.) E.G. * Read before the St. Cecilia Association. 5So NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. the waves. There was a drumming in my ears to our disappointment they contained nothing. that was broken only by the click of the air- An old rusty dagger, which Harry captured at pump above. It left me, however, before I once, and an empty tomato can, which I did not reached the bottom and found Harry, who was care for, were the only portable things we found. waiting for me. We had explored nearly all of the ship and It was a sudden change from sunlight to were just ready to leave when a monstrous something very like twilight on earth; and for devil-fish glided out of the hold and passed a some time, I must confess, I felt very gloomy. foot from my head. I was almost frightened We graduall}'^ became accustomed to the soft­ to death and was ready to leap off the boat, ened light, so that we could distinguish every­ but I suppose the fish was more scared than I, thing around us. On all sides, clinging to the for when I looked about me he was gone. rocks were many-colored submarine plants of This ended our stay at the wreck, and we a thousand sorts. Some were beautiful and started for a bed of coral which was near by. others were ugly; but all were arranged in such On the way, Harry stepped an a poor, sense­ a fantastic way that we could not fail to less jelly-fish, but it did not seem to mind the notice them. Large, greyisli-colored ferns grew accident in the least, so we shed no tears, and from the sides of the ledges and formed a went on. Harry signalled again to move a support for other smaller vines which had inter­ hundred yards to the southeast and a moment twined themselves among their branches. When later we were at the coral reef. This was the touched they swayed to and fro so silently most beautiful place that we saw during our that a queer feeling came over us. OJdiy- whole walk. Almost all of the ground ahead shaped shrubs without leaves or branches were of us was covered so that it was with difficulty in our path. We stood in a veritable garden. we made our way over it. Millions of snow- There were cucumbers, beautiful blossoms like white coral branches, crooked but elegant, half-pumpkins, and many other plants to which extended into the clear green water. Delicate I have never seen any resemblance on land. fans, large plump cushions, round mushrooms, As we moved along, many hideous fishe?, all in coral, were scattered around us. Clinging disturbed by our walking, darted across our to these were myriads of coral polyps beautiful path. Some of them had their large, unsightly with a hundred brilliant hues. The clear colors mouths open wide enough to swallow an presented a magnificent contrast to the white animal twice their own size. Other shapeless coral, and the strange forms only served to beings floated around in the water, seemingly make the scene more interesting. without perceiving our approach. Never before As we moved onward the shapes grew larger had I seen such a wonderful place. and denser until we approached what seemed Yet the marvellous sights we saw were not all to be a coral palisade. But when we came to of them nature's own. After crossing a small it we found it to be nothing more than a thick bar of sand, we saw at some distance the hull network of branches. I stooped to look through of an old wreck partially covered by the sand of a little hole and had no more than caught a the ocean-bed. But our air-tubes were not long glimpse ^f the space beyond, when I uttered enough to reach the old hulk, and Harry gave an exclamation of surprise under my helmet. the signal agreed upon to the men in our little In the little circular enclosure was a miniature schooner to hoist anchor and pull the boat castle with glistening turrets and steeples, while (there were two long sweeps to use when there walls and carved gates that seemed to swing Was no wind) two hundred yards to the east. on golden hinges. Around it were small coral We had brought along a crew of three darkies trees that were scattered about like shade trees to manage the boat, and the slackening of the . on a grassy lawn. air-hose and the approaching of a huge shadow Under one of the trees was a merman watch­ told us our signal was understood, and in a few ing four little merchildren, dodging and darting minutes we were on the deck of the wreck. It about in a game very like our terrestrial tag. had been a schooner of about three hundred Near by, sitting on a large rock, was a mer­ tons' burden, and had evidently been a smuggler, maid with her long dark hair falling over her for there were two great holes near the bow, shoulders, laughing atthe boys as they played made, evidently, by a solid shot from a revenue- in the water. We had watched them for a long cutter. We climbed down the companion way time before they caught sight of us. When and went into the cabin. Here we found they did, we expected to see them retreat into several old chests standing along the wall, but the house at once; but instead they swam NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 581

directly towards us. They began making signs cows, I was more than glad that our helmets with their fingers, but it was all Greek to me gave us an excuse for refusing. The merman for a few minutes until Harry turned to me seemed offended. So we said good-day to him and began talking on his fingers like a deaf- on our fingers and "an fevoir" to his better half, mute. That was an old trick we had learned and bowed ourselves out of fairy land. at school, and we found that it came in very But our long stay under the water was be­ handy on this occasion also. ginning to give me a headache, and I told Harry "Say, Will," he spelled out in the one-hand so and said that I wanted to go up to the alphabet, " I believe these people are trying surface. Harry shook his head and said that the dummy racket on us." I watched the swift he would as soon as we had explored the; motions of the merman's hands for a moment; bottom about us. I consented to this, and we and I saw that Harry was right, though he began our stroll again, at every step discover­ talked faster than I could follow him. So I ing some new shrub or animal. We were walk­ tried my hand, and asked the merman to go a ing along quietly when Harry suddenly clutched little slower. He did so, and we "managed to my arm and pointed to a white object lying on understand each other very well. the rocks at some distance. At first I thought "Won't you come in and sit down for a while?" it was only a bed of shells; but when we went he asked; "we can have a nice little chat, if up to it we found that it was a human skeleton. you've got the time. My wife here is French, It was a disagreeable sight and jarred upon and can't speak English very well yet; but she our nerves; but we soon gained courage enough will make you welcome and I'll do the talking." to touch it. The bones were bleached as vvhite I looked at Harry and asked him what we as snow and were only slightly moved from should do. "Here'sia chance for a lark, Will," their original places. Around the wrists were he said, "let's go in and see what kind of heavy iron shackles fastened together by a rocking-chairs the old duffer uses." 1 was strong chain. It may seem strange, but at the willing enough, and the merman showed us a head we found an empty tomato can with an gap in the coral hedge and we went in. assortment of fish-hooks in it. We were "What do you think of my front yard? " our inclined to laugh at this, but the figure in front talkative little host asked almost before we of us would have turned any one's, mirth to were inside the fence. "There was a fellow awe. down here from Chicago last summer and he I picked up the can, and began examining the gave me lots of tips on landscape gardening.. I fish-hooks, when I felt Harry fall against me, think myself that I'm beginning to get it into and looking up I saw a huge shark, the motion pretty good shape." We told him that it was of whose tail had nearly knocked Harry off quite the prettiest front yard we had ever seen; his feet. This accident left us with barely and he was so tickled that he sent his wife out enough courage to hold on to the can and the to milk one of his sea-cows for our especial dagger and to make our way to the yacht. benefit. "Do you have cows down here?"" I Wc lost no time in giving the signal tb.be asked him. "Oh! yes," he said, "I've got drawn up, and in a few.minutes we were on about twenty of the prettiest short-horns you deck in the warm sunlight—Harry with a rusty ever laid eyes on. But come out to the pasture dagger, I with a tomato can; and both of us, and I'll show them tp you, and my sea-horses with lasting remembrances of our interesting too." We followed him and he led us to a stroll under the sea. herd of animals that had the general shape of sea-lions and were about, as handsome as so many hippopotomi. "Aren't they beauties?" the merman asked. "Perfectly lovely!" I tele­ THERE is no more absurd cant than that the graphed back, "they are what we landsmen call culture of the mind favors the culture of the manatees, and some say they are the original heart. Indeed it is aquestion whether many mermaids." " Nonsense!" he said, and then he minds were not better left to their native sim­ took us over to see his horses. They had heads plicity and comparative ignorance, than to something like horses and the rest was princi­ besmear them with that surface polish so pally back-bone. They looked like animated widely known as culture. Does a sentimental interrogation points on a day off. novel prompt to duty? Education seldom Wlfen we returned to the house the mermaid keeps people from folly or crime when the will, offered us some milk, and, after seeing the is not influenced by virtue. 582 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

Washington, as the one deserving of honor, their wisdom was apparent." If the "New Woman" of Madame Grand and the rest would study the life of Mary Washington, we would Ifotre Dauie, May 19, 1894. hear less of her rights and liberties and know

^ubltBJjtU tfatni 45«turT>ED ^lurins Etnn JEimt at If. B. SntOftsitj. more about her duties. •*••• Sntered as second-class matter at the Post Office, Notre Dame, Ind —^Just at present, when the A. P. A. and its Terms, Si.^o per Aiinmn. Postpaid. aiders and abettors are redoubling their efforts, Address EDITOR NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC, to poison the minds of American Protestants Nc^ Dame, Ind. against their Catholic fellow-citizens, the ora­ tions of Archbishop Ireland and Bourke - Staff. Cockran are of peculiar value. The audiences in both cases were largely non-Catholic; but neither of the speakers attempted to minimize ERNEST F. DU BRUL, '92; THOMAS D. JIOTT, '95; Catholic truths or doctrines; and that both J.\JIKS J- FITZGERALD, "gs; HUGH A. 0"DONNELL. '94; FROST THORNE. '94; were enthusiastically received speaks well for JAIMES A. McKEE, '93; the fair-mindedness of true Americans. Bourke FRANK A. BOLTON, '94; JOHN M. FL-4.NNIGAN, '94; Cockran and the prelate, of St. Paul are the DANIEL V CASEY, -95; sort of soldiers the Church needs now, and all FRANCIS L. CARNEY, '94: JOSEPH :M. KEARNEY, "94; J. JOSEPH COOKE, "94; Catholics ought to feel grateful to them for the FRANK arcKEE, '94; SI. J. McGARRY, '94; good they have done. . ' ' M. P. McFADDEN, '93..

—There is a species of vandalism being —The editorial staff of the SCHOLASTIC is perpetrated here, highly gratifying to the now being organized for the coming year. offenders but ver}'' annoying to everybody else. Those who.are desirous of becoming members This is the plucking of flowers from the beds of the editorial board and who have not con­ on the lawn. Hardly has a plant bloomed when tributed to our columns must present evidence its flower is used to add to the attractiveness of their ability. Drop an essay of not more of some individual to whom Nature has been than two thousand nor less than twelve hun­ unkind. During the week a rare shrub (the dred words into the SCHOLASTIC box in the Students' OfiEice. only one of its species in the flower beds) showed a tiny flower which was promptly seized by a man with immense private interest. There —Field-day is fast approaching. Training is much care and time being expended in beau­ for the various events has been well and faith­ tifying the approach to the buildings, and fully done. The prizes this year are better than those who are guilty of pilfering from the any ever before offered. Gold medals for firsts, flower beds should be made to realize that they silver for seconds and bronze for thirds are to are destroyers of public pleasure. be given in each event. The rules of competition require two contestants for a first medal, three ^ • »• for a second, and five for a third. The prizes .—It is surprising what alarm cigarette are now on exhibition. Entries must be made smokers.will feel at an attack of any slight on or before May 23, and not an entry will be indisposition, when they are. continually un­ accepted after that date. The entry book is dermining their constitutions by the use of a in the hands of Mr. E. M. Roby. poison whose effect is certain destruction to health of mind and body. The following picture drawn by Dr. Jordan of the Stanford —^There can be no doubt that American University is by no means overdrawn: women are wonderfully active in erecting "As a college teacher my experience with boys who statues and monuments arid memorial tablets have formed the cigarette habit is somewhat h'mited. It, to the distinguished of their sex. Sometimes ho%vever, confirins me in the opinion' that such boys aie like wormy apples: they drop long before harvest time. their zeal is greater than their judgment; but Very few of-.them ever advance far enough to* enter when they hit upon Mary, the mother of college. Very few of those who enter-last beyond the NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 583 first year. They rarely make failures in after life, because they do not have any after life. The boy who begins cigarette smoking before he is fifteen never Notre Dame's Go', den Jubilee. enters the life of the world. When other boys are tak­ ing hold of the world's work he is concerned with the sexton and the undertaker." ITHIN the past few weeks it has been W widely published that the Golden Jubilee «» • » of Notre Dame University is to be celebrated —To-morrow evening the University Band with solemnity during the coming Commence­ begins a series of concerts which will continue ment, The announcement, so far as can until Commencement. Professor Preston has be learned, was wholly unauthorized. It is brought the Band to a high standard, and the true that the year 1894 marks the fiftieth coming concerts will give evidence of the per­ anniversary of the chartering of the University. fection and skill of the members individually It is true, also, that the celebration of the and collectively. We suggest to the students Golden Jubilee during the present year was that they dispense with their "rec" night walks originally intended. But the recent bereave­ and show their appreciation of the Band's ment of the University, by which within a few endeavors by attending the concerts. The short months it lost at once its Founder and Band has sacrificed much of their time for the its beloved President, have made it as impose pleasure of their fellow-students, and in turn the sible as it would be inappropriate to attempt students should manifest their appreciation, not an adequate solemnization of the anniversary.. only of the efforts of the Band but also of the -The deaths of Fathers Sorin, Granger and arduous labors of Prof. Preston who has always Walsh have cast a gloom over the students proven himself ready to add to our enjoyment. and alumni as well as the Faculty; and the It is to be hoped that this year will not witness officers of the University, no doubt, felt that a repetition of the absurd tricks by auditors they were giving expression to the sentiment which were practised during last year's concerts. of the friends of Notre Dame throughout the United States, when they determined that the Golden Jubilee should not be celebrated until. Commencement 1895. Preparations for the —The one thing remarkable about the new event, however, have already been begun.r scheme of study proposed for the High Schools Many notable improvements are now in prog­ by the Chicago Board of Education is the ress and others, equally important, are pro­ prominence given to English. This is a new jected. Washington Hall, one of the largest feature in public-school education, and one that and best equipped college theatres in the cannot be too highly commended. It is not United States, is being frescoed by competent many years since even our universities began artists; noteworthy modifications are being to put the tongue of Milton and Shakspere on made in the college church; other buildings a.level with those of Homer and Plautus. But are being similarly renovated, and considerable to-day the study of Greek and Latin has come industry, as well as good taste, is being exercised to be only a means to an end, and that end a in beautifying' the parks and grounds. more thorough knowledge of the English lan­ guage. It is folly to try to teach literature by One of the notable features of the celebration text-books or volumes of extracts from the will be the reunion of "old boys." AH the works of our immortals. Personal contact i-s alumni of Notre Dame are expeqted to be pres­ after all, the only way by which we'can know ent to renew "auld acquaintance" and to make; a man, and the same is true of a book. Ready- new friends. Many eminent prelates from the" made opinions committed to memory will never United States, Canada and Mexico have already •give a student a real grasp on the work in hand, signified their intention of taking part in the an interest in it that will outlive his schooldays. exercises and of rendering the occasion worthy, But if he knows Shakspere and Milton, Thack­ of the event which it commemorates. eray and Tennyson inpropriis personis he will The foundation and development of Notre love them for the beauties he has discovered Dame are closely intertwined with the begin­ for himself, and their influence will be with nings and the marvellous'growth of the Church him until death. And the place for this per­ in the Western States. Our. Uniyersity. may,, sonal acquaintance is the High School; and the without presumption, claim a modest share in} Board 'of Education deserves all honor for that development; for a large proportion.off making it possible to young Chicago. ' the clergy and many earnest workers.among the sH NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

laity of these States have been educated in her side; track athletics all tend to the abnormal halls. The publication, therefore, of a history development of certain sets of muscles; but of the University will not be the least important fiotball gives work to all of them without or interesting incident in the celebration of cvcrtaxing any particular one. Nor does it the Golden Jubilee. Dr. Maurice Francis Egan promote the physical at the expense of the has undertaken the work; a fact which is of mental. It is the only one of our popular games itself an assurance that the history will be no which is not, in a great measure, mechanical. dreary recital of dates and details, but a nar­ It brings into- play all the powers of the mind rative of living interest, a notable chapter in and fosters self-control and coolness in sudden the history of the Church in America. emergencies. It is as scientific as a game of These are some of the remote preparations chess, with the added advantage of pawns and for the Golden Jubilee. Others, which are still knights quick to see an opportunity, a bi"eak under consideration, will be announced in due in the enemy's line of defense, and as prompt time; but for the present enough has been said to take advantage of it. to assure the friends of Notre Dame that the The American college game is not nearly so celebration of her fiftieth birthday will not be brutal or dangerous to life and limb as some unworthy of her noble record in the past, nor would have us.believe. They quote statistics in of those larger successes which, as we hope, a masterly manner; but the fact of the matter the future holds in store for her. is that there were just two deaths on the "fatal gridiron" last season, and in both cases the « • » victims were not college men or expert players. At Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Pennsylvania, Tiie New Poobtall. there has been, in ten years, not one serious accident. Everyone will admit that the season AST fall there was a prodigious outcry— of '93 saw some of the hardest and roughest largely on the part of editors who really games in the history of football. The momen­ knew very little about the game—against tum mass plays were used exclusively. Yet in the brutality of football. It would be interesting twenty-six of the leading colleges of America now to hear the comments of these same indi­ no player was disabled for more than a week viduals upon the new rules framed by the Uni­ or two. Here at Notre Dame we were very versity Club's committee. The " flying V," the fortunate: "a strained shoulder, a smashed nose mass play, in fact; all off-side interference, is and a couple of sprained ankles is the sum of done away with by the new code; piling up on. the injuries received by our Varsity eleven. Of a man when down and interfering with'a fair, course, there were sundry bruises, blacked eyes catch are things of the past; and the new" and "barked" shins, but they hardly deserve official, the "linesman," makes "slugging" and . notice. And this with all the bloody and brutal all foul play almost impossible. The season Deland rushes and mass plays. , of 1893 saw the turning point in American Our friends, the editors, who love not' foot­ football. The Yale-Harvard game proved con­ ball, showed a decided fondness for English clusively that mass-plays were of no avail statistics, forgetting that the English game is against steady hard playing, and it is our not American football.. They are almost as opinion that even without the new rules tliey different as duel for "points" with six-ounce would have been abandoned. The game of foils and a bout with four pound cudgels, and '94 will be very open, and kicking and running the advantage lies with the American game. with the ball will be very much in evidence. Except at the public schools and the univer­ And now that that objectionable "wedge" is a sities English football is rotten to the core. thing of the past, the sporting editor of the Except for the college teams, all are profes­ New YorkP^5^ and his fellow crusaders against sionals, generally common laborers, with whom football may rest on their laurels, and save brute force is everything and head work noth­ their italics for the next international prize ing. These are the nien who fill the hospitals fight after a game between counties or towns; and Football has come to stay, and a thousand it is of their injuries that the London Lancet editors could not make it unpopular. It is the furnishes statistics for the American press. ideal exercise, the college game of games. A game like football, in which men arc Rowing develops the miiscles of the back and paired off and pitted against each other, hips; base-ball those of the right arm and involves, of course, a certain degree of rough- NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 585

ncss; but the danger to the players is as nothing when compared with the risks that A Reminiscence. athletes and sportsmen generally run. There were over four thousand men and boys drowned Some twenty-five years ago, just after his during the year of 1893, and nearly twenty-five return from a trip in Europe, I met Father Sorin hundred more died from gun-shot wounds. Yet on the walk between the College and Washing­ the editors take no notice of these two sports ton Hall. Rome had been in his itinerary. After with their six thousand victims, and speak greeting him, I inquired about the Eternal City only of the brutality and danger of football. His eyes glowed with the remembrance of the And now a word as to the effects of the game pleasure he had felt in treading her holy soil, and upon the students who play it. Even the his eloquent description of the city of the Popes bitterest enemies of football acknowledge that presented a whole panorama of beauties to their standing in class is better than the my mind. He spoke of her majestic buildings, average of their fellow-students. The men depicting in eloquent language the grandeur who carried our own gold and blue to victory of St. Peter's; he told of the beauties of her last fall are among the cleverest at the Uni­ matchless paintings, the perfect art of her versity. And about their physical condition statuary, her magnificent drives with enchant­ there can be no question. Far from discourag­ ing villas bordering them, her highly cultivated ing football at Notre Dame, the Faculty, from gardens, blooming with great profusion of President to Prefect, have spared no pains to flowers—all creating the idea of a perfect make it t/ie college game. Elysium, which gave me a desire for Aladdin's D. V. C. lamp that I might summon the genii to whisk -^-O-e— me away to that enchanted land. But when, Holidays. just as he closed his most enraptured descrip­ tion, the good Father, in true French manner, shrugged his shoulders and exclaimed, "But, Man}^ have denounced holidays as- being oh! the fleas," the beautifiil vision fled. injiirious to the student. A greater mistake could not be made. Time spent in amusement O. B. M. during vacation is no more wasted than that spent in sleep. Vacation is a necessity in the life of"a student. Study cannot be continued from day to day without cessation. Nor can study be successful unless it become a pleasure and excite our' interest. In order that study may be successful change must be allowed him. There are such things in existence as mechanical stu- • dents, or so-called automatons, to whom every­ thing is habit or necessity, who "go through" class after class without benefit to themselves or to their school. To him alone who finds study a pleasure and thought a recreation is Inthese-days of literary piracy, when it is the real benefit of a college known. ^ no uncommon thing to find your-written word He whose ambitions are in the playground reprinted without quotation marks by a Gapt. will never succeed in the class room, and he Kidd confrere, the boldest bit of burglary in the • whose ambitions are .for premiums will receive realms of literature is committed this month for his year's labor no other benefit than a by a virtuous senior, and; the Lawrence Htg-k premium with its transient honors. But he School Bjilletin is the "fence." Under the whose extended view and aspiration reaches caption "His Fate," and over his initials, he far into life, who strives for his moral improve­ publishes as original some verses that were first ment and intellectual culture, acquires a supe­ printed in Life prior to last Christmas, and the riority of mind and nobleness of soul which author was not this clever senior. The same not only elevate him in this life, but, as "Dante writer has more verse in the same number of tells us, will follow and distinguish him even in the Btilletin which he palms off as first-water * the eternal existence beyond. poetry; but bless his little innocent hearti we M. J. M'G. have known "Hov/ They Love" for some time; 586 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

it is an old friend, and needs no introduction from our little contemporary. The cover of the Bulletin is appropriate; it has reason to blush crimson when plagiarizing with such effrontery.

* * Is it not strange that a non-Catholic lecturer when preparing his arguments for a discourse on any topic which does not involve some reference to the Catholic Church should be so We always supposed that we might still learn careful in collecting information lest he may something about ball-playing, but we didn't flounder helplessly in error, but that as soon as know we were quite so ignorant of the game until he comes to speak of the Church he is disposed the Varsity nine told their friends that we were. to accept all that is said in favor of his position You must know that the members of this team no matter how worthy of credit the authors know all there is to be said about base-ball from whom he draws his knowledge may. be? and a little more besides. Well, the Varsity An exhibition of this utter lack of judgment people invited their friends to see them anni­ and fairness is shown in the last number of the hilate Elkhart on Thursday; and they played Albeti College Times. In his lecture delivered a little game in which Elkhart courteously in a convention held lately in Detroit a certain refused to be made a hecatomb, but consented Mr. Blackstone (the name is worthy of the to act as pall - bearers, and buried Notre man) distorted the history of Catholic doctrine Dame. The Varsity Club know more about to suit his taste and to please his hearers, and base-ball now! the Times publishes his very learned researches. But a truce to nonsense. Really, we think it For instance, he asserts, among other startling a good thing that Notre Dame met defeat; it announcements, that "Confession was intro­ will serve to awaken the boys to realize that duced into the Church in A. D. 1215, and that they need practice of a kind they have not had. Purgatory was made in A. D. 1439." ^^i^ one We advocated at the beginning of the season ever before hear absurdities equal to these? a drill in sliding to base, and there has been Had the gentleman the leisure and the honesty none; and to this lack of practice is attributable, to consult reliable historians he would have in a great measure, the smallness of Notre found that these beliefs obtained in the Catholic Dame's score in Thursday's game. ' We have Church from the days of the Apostles. The insisted so often on this point that our remarks Council of Lateran decreed the obligation of may seem tiresome; but as long as Varsity play annual confession for all Catholics; but the as they do we shall raise our voice in protest. necessity of confession was always recog­ The change of Callahan from the field to nized; and in defining a general time for second was a grave mistake. He is too slovy to all to approach the Sacrament of Penance act as a baseman. Why not try Krembs on the Church by no means added a.doctrine but the bag? He is a good fielder for ground balls, only strengthened her discipline. Now let us played third well in practice, and is"a capital see what truth there is in his assertion that runner. And he is no baby with the stick. It Purgatory was created by an CEcumenicaL Coun­ would have been far better to have left Burns cil in A. D. 1439. In A. D. 1437 ^n attemp,t was in the position. Perhaps he wasn't given made to bring about a union of the Greek with practice enough. It is true, he is unsteady, but the Roman Church, and for this purpose a he is quick. Oh! for a second baseman like general council of all the bishops of Christen­ the one \yho played for Elkhart. dom was called. The prelates of the Eastern The crews have at last been organized ai.d Church attended the deliberations, and the doc7 are now training hard. There is some talk of trines held by both Latins and Greeks were a race on Decoration Day. We hope the cap­ found to be identical in essentials-. All present tains will have some mercy for their men and subscribed to a constant belief in the existence prepare for no early exhibition. There is such of a place of purgation for such souls as have a thing as. overtraining, and a race with th e departed in God's grace without having done little practice we shall have had by the 30th penance enough. All the other statements of inst. must be a fizzle. Better wait until Com­ Mr. Blackstone bearing on Catholic doctrine mencement, and then, put up a race that will are equally false. reflect honor oh the Gold and Blue. NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC, 587

Dulutb, Minn. In a recent letter he says that his short stay at Notre Dame is one of the brightest spots in his life. Mr. Lahey is remem­ bered as a vocalist of rare ability. He is continuing his successes in the land of song, and is highly praised by the press of Duluth as an amateur actor. We wish him all pro.sperily.

C<.rQmu! ication.

EDITOR SCHOLASTIC: There is a great deal of dissatisfaction occa­ —Juhn Weak land (•student),'90, is a postal sioned b'y the reports of the Varsity games. clerk ill VV.uiiiutilun, D. C. If the reporter cannot do justice to all the —J. Sylvester Hummer (B.-L.), '91, paid a players he should not criticise one particular flying visit to A/ma Mater on Sunday last. player. He is evidently afraid to sayalnything —J. E. Cusack (B. S.), '89, is 2d Lieut., 5th about the captain. Let us have a fair and Cavalry, U. S. A., stationed at Fort Mcintosh, square account of the games, and no particular Tex. criticism unless the whole team is concerned. —John F. Nester (student), '87, of Detroit, Mich., was a very welcome visitor on Wednes­ FAIR PLAY. day last. —^Joseph K. Combe (B. S. B.), '93, is pursu­ ing the medical course at the University of Virginia. —Charles Martin (Com'l), '86. occupies the position of cashier in the People's Saving Bank, at Des Moines, Iowa. —Father McLaughlin, of Nile?, Mich., came to see the boys play the Elkharls. He has great hopes for the Varsity nine. —Good swimming nowadays. —James Ryan (student), '93, is an accountant —Band concert to-morrow evening. in the office of the Chicago and Eastern Illi­ —The walls of the new sacristy are rising nois Railroad at Danville, Illinois. rapidly. —George and John Cooke (students), '90, —The Field-day prizes are beauties. Take a hold responsible positions in their father's look at them. extensive establishment in Chicago. —The Surveying class are surveying the —Crayke S. Priestly (student), '91, of Des neighboring fields. Moines, Iowa, is a senior in the department of — Carroll Field-day next Thursday. Many medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. entries are reported. —John B. Sullivan (B. L.), '91, of Afton, —The abundant rains this month have made Iowa, passed a ,very creditable examination the lakes unusually high. for admission to the bar before the Supreme Court of Iowa. —The last essays of the year in the Litear- ture class were due this week. —Messrs. Sam Lederer of the Chicago Her­ ald, Joseph A. Altshiler of the New York — Why are the chimes silent? Let us hear World, and Edwin R. Kimball of the Chicago once more the voices in the tower. Times, visited the University last week. —The new song by Prof. Preston has been? warmly welcomed by the musicians. —Thomas J. McGonlogue (LL. B.),'91, is coming to the front as a rising practitioner in —The frog chorus these nights is somethings Chicago, Tom was always a hard and serious great; it begins early and lasts long. worker, and as a result he has a large clientele. — LOST—A University lock from Carroll gym. Finder, please leave with Jos. Lantry. —Fred E. Neef (B. L.), '93, is still studying —The feast of Corpus Christi will be cele­ with the assiduity for which he was always brated with the.usual solem.nities on Thursday. noted. He intends to take a special course at Harvard next term. Fred has our warmest —The membership of the boat club has been wishes for a bright future. increased by two or three during the past week. —A. W. Lahey (student), '90, is among the —The St. Cecilians have a pi-etty design for •prominent employees in the Security Bank of a society pin. All the members will get them. sss NOTRH DAME SCHOLASTIC.

—Bro. Albius has a sample design for an work done by the boys since his examination archconfraternity pin. It is done in enamel, in March. The Minims return the Rev. Presi­ and is greatly admired. dent thanks for his gift and still more for his —Next Tuesday the Varsity team will cross kind words of encouragement. bats with the Purdue University team. An —Monday evening a viusicale was given in excellent game is expected. the Brownson Hall reading-room by the Cres­ —LOST—A neck-tie pin—a gold crescent cent Club Orchestra. Mrs. Corby, who was the with star—set with pearls. Finder, please re­ guest of''the evening, sang "The Holy City,"- turn to J. Kelly, Brownson Hall. and was twice encored. Professor Preston gave —It is to be hoped that the bees will not his new song, "Remember Mother," and Mr. e.Ktend their flight to the boat house. Boys Bates sang "The King and Me." There were bees bare when they go swimming. a number of visitors and members of the Faculty present, and the occasion was a delight­ —Private Shillington won the drill for the ful one for all concerned. Co. "B" medal held on the 13th. He and Private Lansdowne are now credited with two —One who has long been in search of a- drills each. good carriage horse has finally made a selec­ tion of the steed formeily employed for light —LOST—A valuable silk umbrella with an work at the Seminary. We can vouch for this elegantly carved handle and a tendency to animal being gentle and perfectl))- safe. The conceal itself in Room 41, Sorin Hall. Finder, recent showers have improved his appearance please return to the owner. somewhat. Mazeppa is not what would be called —It has been observed that we have a greater a fiery and untamed steed, but he still has the variety of song birds this spring than usual. use of his legs, and all he needs is a patient The number of orioles ("a flaming heart with master and a little encouragement. sable wings") is surprisingly large. —The National Music Co., of Chicago, has pub­ —^While discussing the wonderful strength lished an excellent vocal selection composed of insects, an irritated wasp settled under the and written by^ Prof. Preston, .and entitled coat tails of a two hundred pound scientist the "Remember Mother." The work has been other day practically demonstrating the power accorded high praise by the musical critics. of that insect in lifting. The sentiment expressed by the words and the —The following will be the Field-day event.s: high character of the music should make it 100 yard dash, 100 yard dash (Novice), 220 yard dash, popular. It is just the sort of song that should 440 yard run, i mile run, 120 yard Hurdle, 5 mile Bicycle, - find favor everywhere, but chiefly in the home- Putting Shot, Throwing Hammer, Running High Jump, Running Broad Jump, Running Hop-Step-and-Jump, circle. The Professor has our congratulations Throwing Baseball. . and thanks for having produced such an admi­ —On Pentecost eve a delegation from St. rable song. Edward's Hall presented Rev. President Mor- —The South Bend Tribime, in publishing an rissey with two large century plants to be account of a game of ball in which the Elkharts placed at the foot of the statue of the Sacred, defeated a picked nine from the Bend, states Heart on the lawn as an ex-voto from St. that the latter were assisted by several players Edward's Hall. froin Notre Dame. Be it known that none of —We hear praise on all sides for the singing our ball tossers have played this year on any during the May devotion. Our choir is in good other field than the home diamond. Much as trim. The Mass on Pentecost was worthy of we should like to aid our friends of the stand the great feast. 'It is a beautiful production. pipe city in gaining victories over neighboring However, the credit of its rendition is due to opponents we respectfully decline to become Prof. Preston's skilful arrangement. party in defeats, especially when the Waterloo is on paper. —The day selected for the First Communion is the Sunday within the Octave of Corpus — At the Band Concert, to be given to­ Christi. A more appropriate day could not morrow evening, the following programme will have been chosen. The Rev. Prefect of Religion be presented: . is taking special care to have the candidates Overture—"The Champion," - - - Hartmajm well prepared. There is a large class this year. March—"Manhattan Beach," - - Soiisa Ga:votte—"The Queen's Favorite," - - - Waliei- —Entries for Field-Day events will close on Waltz—"The Knight," . - - - . Knight Wednesday the 23d. All athletes not hav­ Schottische—" Jubilee Singers," - - Cai'ncs Polka—" Thro' the Air "—(Piccolo solo), - - Dam ing their names registered on that day will be Mr. Oscar Schmidt. barred from entering. A great many that are March—" Hoynes Light IniTrntry," Hc7i7iessy, training and intend to enter are holding back Cullen, Chassaing their names. This is. nonsense; if you intend —The new pews andstalls are highly praised to'take part onField-Da}'^ enter at once. for their artistic design, comfort and general —Ver}'- Rev. President Morrissey gave a very arrangement. There.is now more room in the rligpctible cake to the first Arithmetic class in sanctuary, and it has a look of order sadly St.Edward's Hall as a reward for the excellent lacking, heretofore. The Rev. pastor of the NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 5S9

Church of the Sacred Heart has displayed fine chance of putting Donovan out at third, and taste in the improvements he is making. It threw wild, thus allowing the man to trot home. is to be hoped that the old pulpit will be The next man struck out. This ended the run- exchanged for something more in keeping'wiih making for the visiting team until the fourth the stalls. inning. —The game with Purdue next Tuesday will O'Neill was the first at bat for the home team. be one of the athletic events of the season. From the first he had his eye on the ball and, Purdue has a strong team in the field and her getting one to his liking, drove it out into victories' over other colleges assure a close left field for a two-bagger. Chassaing strength­ game. The clubs will play as follows: ened the hopes of • all by driving the horse NoTKE DAME. PURDUE. hide into left field, bringing in O'Neill. Chas­ Hchmiiii, C. Kintner saing stole second and on a pa.ssed ball came Callahan, 2d B. IVl) 1.1 s home. This ended the run-making for ihe McKee, C. F. Todd Varsity team, and in the remaining eight inn­ Stack P. Olin McCarrick 3dB. Boyles ings they were marked blank. 0"Nviil L. F. Talbot. In the fourth inning, with one out and the Fla..nii^ua (Capi.) 1st 15. Fisher bases occupied, Donovan, of the Truths, sacri­ Chassaing S. S. Kerr (Capt.) ficed, bringing in Silvers. Creger was given a Sweet R. F. Moore C. Clarke and Krembs Substitutes. Bashman base on balls, and here was a chance to win or lose the game. Funkhauser, the sure little NOTRE DAME vs. ELKHART. short stop, hit the ball into right field for a two- We have met the enemy and we are theirs. bagger, and on endeavoring to come home was It was a most crushing defeat, and. wholly thrown out by Sweet. The score now stood unexpected, and our disappointment and cha­ 7 to 2. grin were the greater. Never was the truth of During the remaining two innings the rain fell. ihe aphorism that "Truth, crushed to earth The home team thought it was a shame to be shall rise again" so completely demonstrated thus robbed of victory, but the dark clouds as in the game played last Thursday between soon passed by, and they were given a chance the Varsity Nine and the Elkhart Truths. with a weak pitcher and a wet ball. But the inn­ That in the first game the Truths were ing was only a repetition of the previous one. crushed with an exceedingly big crush there In the remaining two innings-our boys were can be no doubt; but that they have arisen not in the game once. In the eighth inning the again, the tabulated score can well attest. It Truths were credited with four runs, and in the came upon us like the proverbial thunder-clap ninth, two. To say that the game was poor, from a clear sky. How it all happened will be would be stating it too briefly—the game was hard to explain. The honor of_Notre Dame rank. Some of the men have been given ample has been well maintained upon the field, both time to display their,ability, and now that they in baseball and football, and the record of have been "tried and found wanting," give having been undefeated upon the home grounds some one else a chance. Callahan's position is for many years—since the defeat by the Jenny I in the field, and either Burns should be put back & Grahams of Chicago—has been her proud in his position, or Krembs or Flynn be sent to boast. It has remained to the Elkhart men to cover second base. The two latter are good break the long chain of consecutive victories, batters and good base runners—what we need. and that, too, by a score which seems wholly The following is the score: unexplainable in the light of the good game put up by the Varsity men two weeks ago. ELIVHART. A.B. R. I. B. S.H. P.O. A. E. Dodson, 3d b. 5 I I 0 0 0 I The Truths put up a magnificent fielding Funkhauser, c. f.. • 4 4 0 0 I 0 0 game, and they deserved to win. However, Donovan, ist b., 4 2 I I ID 0 I nearly all of their runs were due to the rankest Cres^er, c, - - 4 2 I I 8 3 0 /I 2 I 0 2 * 0 Pindell,2db - -r 8 kind of errors and at a time when an error on 2' Notre Dame's part cost two or three runs. Funkhauser J., s.s., . - 4 0 0 0 4 0 Hains, r. f.. 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 When a slight error is made our men seem to Firestone, l.f.. - 4 0 . I 0 0 0 0 lose their heads and indulge in plays that Silvers, p., 3 2 I 0' 0 7 0 result most disastrously. 2 The game opened with the Truths at bat. TOTALS 36 13 s 27 16 2 Dodson caught one of Stack's curves, and hit NOTRE DAJIE. A.B. R. I.B. S.B. P.O. A. E. so hard that the latter was unable to recover O'Neill, 1. f., - 4 I I 0 I 0 0 0 himself in time to throw him out at first. But Chassaing, s.s., 4 I 2 0 0 I Callahan, 2d b.. 4 0 0 0 2 4 1 not satisfied with one base he tried to take McCarrick, 3 b-. 3 0 0 0 I 0 2 second, but Schmidt was on the alert and threw 0 0 I 12 • 0 0 Flannigan, 1st b., - •4> McKee, c f.. J 0 I 0 0 0 0 him out. Funkhauser was presented with a *> base on balls and had no trouble in going to Sweet, r. f.. - 4 0 I 0 0 0 I Stack, p., - 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 -second. Donovan drove a single into right 2 Schmidt, c, T 0 0 0 .9 4 I field, bringing home Funkhauser. He moved himself to third. Schniidt thought he saw a TOTALS 27 18 10 590 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

SCORE BV INNINGS:—i 234567S9 McCarthy, McGushin, Morehouse, Minnigerode, Noonan, ELKHART:—2 0050004 2=13 B. Nye, C. Nye, Otero, O'Neill. Ortez, Perea, W. Pollitz, NOTRE DAME:—2 0000000 0=2 Peck. L. Rasche, Romero, Robb, Ryan, Rohrbach. Roes­ SUM MARY, ing, Shipp. Steele. W. Scherrer, Simm, Schneider. Swan. -Shillington. L. Thompson, U. Thompson, Terhune, Earned rujis: Notre Dame, 2; Elkhart, i. Two base Thomas, Wagner, York. hits: O'Neill, Chassaing-, Funkhauser. Stolen bases: J3onovan, Creg^er. J. Funkhauser, 2; Chassaing^, McCar- rick, McKee, Schmidt. Double play: Chassaing^ to Callahan, to Flannigan. 6"/;7/c>i'<77//.-byStack, 8; Silvers, List of Excellence. 6. Base on balls : Off Stack, 10; SWv&rs, 2,. Hit by piiclier: Donovan, W. Funkhauser. Passed balls: Schmidt. UmpiTcs: Kivlan and Hart. Time, 2 hours. Official COLLEGLATE COURSE. Scorer, P. N. Foley. Chiaxh //is/(?ry— Messrs. Hudson, S. Walker, Casey; Advanced Coiuse of Christian Doctrine—Messrs. Barrett, Roll of Honor. J. Cooke. Gordon, Cullinan, A. Corry, O'Mallev, Lanagan, J. Murphy. Lantry, Miller; Moral Philosophy—Messrs. Kearney, Thome; Lo£^ic—Messrs. Cullinan, Hudson, D. SORIN HALL. Murphy. S. Walker; Z«/z;/—Messrs. Schopp, D. Mur­ Messrs. Alilrichs, Carney, Crawley, Corry, Devanney, phy, Barry, Duffy, Kulamer, Oswald, Schiir, Slevin, Dempsey, Eyanson, Funke, Flanhery, Flannagan, Stace; Greeh—Messrs. Ahlrichs, Schopp. Cullinan, B. Hudson, Keouofh, J. McKee, F- McKee, H. Mitchell, Iwazewski, Sullivan; Astrono7ny — J. Schopp; Civil McCarrick, McFadden, Murphy, McGarry, O'Donnell, Engi7iee7-ino;—^. Correll; A7ialytical Mecha7ncs—VJ. Pritchard, Ouinlan, Ryan, Scherrer, Schopp, Walker. Correll; Pailroad S7C7-veyino-^}^_ Mitchell; Land S7irveyi7ig—J. Murphy; Uri7ialysis—Messrs. E. Scher­ BROWNSON HALL. rer, Powers; Che7nist7y—Messrs. Hudson, Marr, D. Messrs. Arce, Brinker, Barrett, Beyer, W. Bates, Murphy, H. Mitchell; Calculus—Yi. Mitchell; Analy­ Burns, Bennett, Barton, Baldwin, Browne, Culinan, tical Geo7net7y—Messrs. Eyanson, Hervey; Trigo7io77i- Corry, Crane. Cavanagh, Cooke, Cuneo, Corby, F. Dil­ ^/;J—Messrs. Barry, Lantry; Geo7net7y—'Messrs. A. lon, A. Dillon, Duffield, Edwards, Fagan, Falvey, Druecker, Gordon. Bennett, Gallagher; Algeb7-a — Folev, Grady, Gordon, Gilmartin, N. Gibson, L. Gibson, Messrs. Lanagan, Miller, Palmer, Druecker, Herman; Groff, Golden, Halligan, Hinde, Herman, Hennebry, Belles-Lett7'es—Messrs. Casey, O'Donnell, Thorne; Hesse, Kerndt, Kenned\% Karasynski, Kirby, Kelly, Lite7-a7y C7-iticism — Messrs. D. Murphv, Cullinan, Knrtas. Ludwig, Loser, Maynes. Maguire, Moloney, Marmon; Lite7-atiire—Messrs. Barry. L. Gibson, Slevin: Molt, Murray, McHugh, Marmon, Markum, Manchester, Rhet07-ic—Messrs. Golden, Kulamer. Ney; Political Moiuague, McCord, Ney, O'Brien, Oliver, G. Pulskamp, Eco7io77iy—J. Kearney; Histo7y—Messrs. Cullinan, V. Pulskamp, Palmer, Piquette, Roper, Ruppe, Roby, Kennedy, Murray, Bennett, Druecker; Geology—Messrs. J. J. Reilly, Smith, Spalding, Slevin, Stace, Smoger, Schopp, Ahlrichs; Bota7iy—Messrs. Lantrv. Hervey, G. Schultz, Tong, Tinnin, Vignos, Welty, Walker,* Wilkin, Piilskamp; Zo-ology—Messrs. Druecker, F. Sullivan. Weaver, White, Zeitler. COMMERCIAL AND PREPARATORY COURSES. CARROLL HALL. Ch7-istia7i Doct7'i7ie—Messrs. Barton, Feeney, J. j\lc- Messrs. Alber, Austin. Arnold, Bloomfield, Burns, Garry, E. Pulskamp, H. Jones, Kasper, Rockey, A. Bacon, Banholzer. Benz, Clarke, Connor, Cornell, Clen- Yglesia; Book-Keepi7ig—Messrs. Banholzer, A. Clark, denin. Chauvet, C. CuUen, T. Cullen, Chase, Carney,- C. Cullen, A. Carney, Covert, Dixon, Dilger, Farley, J. Corbv. J. Ducey, A. Ducey, Dannemiller, Dalton, Dilger, Goldstein, Lohner, Ludwig, Miers, Monahan, Marl um. Drue'cker, Davezac, Davis. Foley, Fennessy, Farley, J. J. O'Neill, Smoger, Thome. Tempel; Arith77ietic— Fox. Forbing. Fleming, Franke, Falvey, Gonzales, Messrs. B. Vincent, Miers. Lohner. C. Corry. Hart. Gavin, J. Goldstein, T. Goldstein, Gausepohl, Hurley, Hennebry, Mullen, C. Walker, Gilmartin, Dougan, Howell, Hoban, Howard, Harding, H. Jones, Krollman, Oberly, Bacon, Landsdowne, B. Eli, Rockey. Dreyer, Kegler, Kasper, Ludwig, Lantry, LaMoure, Lohner, Cromb, Harris, Canfield. Dwyer; Grai7wiar—Messrs. Lee. Leonard, Lansdowne, Lowrey. Lippman, Maurer, Bacon. A. Cooke. Dalton, Dilger, Masters, Water, W. Munzesheimer, J. Murphy, E. Murphy, Monahan, Miles, Treber, H. Goldstein, Davis. Trahey, Young, Mullen, Miers. F. Morris, W. Morris, Massey. Mills, J. Miller, L. Smoger, S. Corby, Canfield, Harris; Readi7ig—Messrs. Miller. John McPhillips, Joseph McPhillips, McShane, Canfield, Cochrane, A. Dillon, Dalton, Wachtler, T. McDermett, McCarrick, McKenzie, McCord, J. Naugh- Cullen, Davezac, T. Murphy, Dwyer, Spengler; Orthog- ton, D. Naughton. Neilson, O'Mara, Ortiz, Pendleton, 7'aphy—Messrs. Welty, Cochrane, Waters, Wachtler, Patier, Phillips, Romero, Reber, Reinhard, Roesing, Davezac, Morris, T. Murphy. Dwyer. Krueper, Spengler; Shillingion, Swift, Strassheim, Sparks, Strong, Sullivan, Pe7i77ia7iship—Messrs. Byrne, Krembs, Loser, Thome, Swigart, Tinnen, Trankle, Taylor, Teresa, Tempel, C. Walker; U7iited States Histo7y—Messrs. Young, Thonie, Tuohy, J. Treber. W. Treber. Waters, White­ Schmidt, J. Goldstein, Smith, Manchester, Morris, head, H. Wilson, :R. Wilson, O. Wright, D. Wright. Farley; Geography—Messrs. J. J. O'Neill, Amberg, A. Wagner. Weitzel, Ward, A. Yglesia, L. Yglesia, York, Corry, Young, Schmidt, Oberly, Morris, Benz; A7icie7it Zoehrlaut.^ History—Messrs. E. Murphy, Reilly, Wurzer, G- Mc­ ST. EDWARD'S HALL. . . Garry, Gordon, Chauvet;. Co7npositio7i—Messrs. Gordon, Masters G. Abrahams, Allyn, Bump. Brinckerhoff, Wurzer, Nieuland, Miles, OBrieh. Tierney; Lati7i— Burns, Bullene, Breslin, B. Clark, R. Clark, L. Clark, Messrs. Lanagan. Nieuland. E. Murphy. Dwyer, Cornell, Croke, Cross, Christ. Catchpole, Corry, Curry, Cassady, J. Murphy, Gordon, Rheinhard, Wurzer. F. Sullivan; Cressy, F. Canipau, D. Campau, A. Coquillard, J. Coquil- Li7-eek—Messrs. Costello, DufEy, Fagan, Lantry, Nieu­ lard. Corcoran, Crandall. Clune, Coolidge, J. Dawson, land, 'Oswald, ILanagan;" Algeb7'a—Messrs. Reardon, C. Dawson, Davidson. Devine, G. Dugas, Durand. E. Arce. E. Trankle. Gordon, Kegler. E. Pulskamp. Reilly, Dugas, Dalton, Englehardt, Elliott, Egan. Feltenstein, J. Corby, N. Gibson, Lowrey, J. McPhillips, B.Vincent. Flynn, Freeman, Fortune, Finnerty, Girsch. M. Canity, L. Garrity, Green, Ral Higgins, Roy Higgins, J. Higgins, SPECIAL. Hershey, B. Hess, R. Hess, F. Hess, Ives. Jonquet, A. i^?w^f/^—Messrs. Palmer, Thome, Bolton, E. Trankle, King K. King, Kilgalleni Kelly. Langley, Lohner, Law- Barry, Wurzei", Lanagan, LaMoure, Stace; Ge7-7na7i— ton,' McGinley, McPhee, McEIroy, Mclntyfe, E. Mc­ Messrs. Krueper,: Kasper, E. Pulskamp, H. Wilson, Carthy, Eug. McCarthy, G. McCarthy, J. McCarthy, R , Crawley, Druecker, Strassheim, Zeitler. Schumacher. Gavin. Duffy, D. Murphy, Loser, Gradyi Hennebry, * Omitted by mistake the last five weeks. Monahan, Tierney,