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^-4\i> rj^ H :e QTHElAME^HQlASTIC ^DlSCE'OMSI.SEHPER.YiCTimilS Ym- QUflSI • CBflS -HORITURUs VOL. XXII. - NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, JUNE 29, 1889. No. 43- By summer's sun revealed, O dreams sublime! Notre Dame and its Pounder.* No hillside, vale, or woodland can compare To thine; no fertile soil of foreign clime BY HAROLD V. HAYES, '74. Chicago, 111. Raise fairer blossoms into perfumed air. Intent upon a noble course of life, Here curving paths through fragrant gardens bend, Which strong ambition urged him to pursue, ^Where gentle zephyrs fan each blooming flower; A youth, intrepid, armed for manly strife And shady lanes o'er hill and forest tend Appears, like fabled knight, to view. Past sheltered spring and tempting vine-clad bower. Dreamlike, a vision of success he sees, Here spreading trees abound and earth's green fields. Through many hard fought battles to attain; Where floral verdure drops the glistening dew; Nor shirks the contest though the pathway leads Here waving grain abundant harvest yields. Through hardship, self-denial, pain. And sparkling waters gleam in distant view. Out from the depths fierce fiends swiftly rise, Lo! stately buildings from this landscape rise; Rally and charge with deadly zeal and aim; Turret and spire add beauty to the scene. While ebon darkness clouds the azure skies, And gilded dome majestic to the skies And giant forces shock the quiet plain. Uplifts the Royal Image of our Queen. As Satan's minions to the conflict swarm. Hail, College HallsF by Virtue's Model crowned; And sable Night her frowning vigil keeps. Both Truth and Wisdom here hold genial sway. Behold, a voice ascending through the storm. Within their realm thrives knowledge most profound. In fervent supplication sweeps! And rapid ignorance falls in quick decay. ' 0 Father, shed- Thy heavenly rays around. Hail, Sacred Shrines! in church and chapel built: Dispel these evil phantoms from my sight! Before thy altars consolation dwells. O Virgin kind, uphold thy servant's arm. And silent comfort reigns, and fevered Guilt With strength and power to defend the right!" From sinful souls withdraws his fatal spells. Thus flaming shield and gleaming lance he wields. Our Nation's Pride! world-wide thy renown; Undaunted 'midst the strife of raging war; Home of our youth, where joys perpetual reign; When-joint or plate of steel-ribbed armor yields. How grand thy work through ages rolling down The Heavenly Hosts protect him from afar. The course of time, how limitless thy fame! Lo! Satan's yeomen tremble with afright. * Their poisoned shafts dart harmless through the air. Alma Mater, fount of truth unending. Their eyes are blinded by celestial light. Countless blessings from thy temples flow- They fall, like fading spectres, in despair! See, thy precepts o'er our lives extending How they guard and shield us from the foe! A golden halo lights the bloodless fields. And startled Nature sinks into repose; A child's delight transports the thoughtful mind While onward march in regal triumph leads Witli rapture, at the sound of thy fair name; O'er luckless fortune and designing foes. Possessed of magic power to aid mankind. Thy title's wisely given—" Notre Dame." From youth to manhood, manhood to old age, A life-long struggle waged our hero bold; Hail, Notre Dame! where humble labor thrives. Until at last to patriarchal gaze, Content to reap rich harvests from the soil; His youthful visions wondrously unfold. Glad, without gain which slaves" of Mammon prize. To teach our youth by unremitting toil. * Alumni Poem, Read at the Forty-Fifth Annual Commencement. 698 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. Ah, some may wonder whence thy source of power! he distinguishes thought-lined faces, mirroring But plain to me this secret stands confessed, the intellectual strength, the admirable fitness WTiere Work contributes free her friendly dower There institutions prosper and are blest. and genuine affection which were wont to man tle him when, as student, he moved under the Though wayward skeptics firm convictions feign, shadows of this famed shrine of energized mind Though worthless critics falsify the trutli, Though dark Rebellion with insidious train and unalloyed religion; here, where the veiy at Shocks the Republic, decimates her youth. mosphere exhilarates remembrance, and the breezes metrically stirring the trees are vocal Though wild dissensions storm the Ship of State, with the recollections of a delicious,-but never- Yet, 'midst these ills such institutions stand; Proud battlements! Avhere storms and strife abate; to-be-forgotten past—the past of youth, of col Blest in themselves, they bless our native land! lege life and college pleasure—a retrospect See! bravely forth well trained recruits they send, rises painted upon the eye of memory sweet Whence patriots, warriors, statesmen true are born. and beautiful. To follow this strain would trench That every woe and every ill may end. upon the conceded territory of others who are And happiness may every hearth adorn. nearer now than I am to this fane of learning. Hail, Notre Dame! by peaceful charms surrounded; "Life is earnest, life is real." Within these No evil thing can flourish near thy walls; confines none of us ever dwelt with bated breath Thy radiant homes Avith zealous care were founded. upon the wealth of significance in those simple For which all praise to Father SORiN falls. but expressive words. But we had scarcely Now in silent eloquence far more real crossed the college threshold when we found Than e'er was voiced by word or glowing pen, them indelibly impressed and inscribed upon The great Example of his life shall kneel ever}'^ avenue and pathway upon which we sought Pleading for right to the hearts of men. to tread. O honored Sage, victor, and hero bold. Theory is measured in the world by the ma Rejoice! thy name both Church and State revere. terial success and the good it yields in practice; O humble Priest, knight of our story told, if it cannot stand this crucial test it is mei^e Rejoice! thy conquests to the world are dear. waste. The airy flights of genius are unrecorded until indissolubly welded and forged to senseful, practical application. The years spent here garner those theories which, if tested properly, The Advantages of Collegiate Training.* carry with them.as inseparable incidents success and senseful application, if the sense, virtue BY WILLIAM P. BREEN, "'JT, Ft. Wayne, Ind. and mental strength here imbibed be put in play. The Alumni Oration is supposed to be a sort The aftermath of collegiate life may be found of ligament which binds those who have passed rich, plenary and satisfactory, or it may be poor, beyond the pale of collegiate life to those who, empty and useless, because great possibilities under the auspices and in the thick of the be in this country are grasped by him who steps nign influences of this University, mould their into the contests of the world with his right present and speculate upon their future. The arm panoplied with the mail of an education. Alumni orator is one of the links in the chain of . Now, the sphere of educational life is broadened public commencement events which, when that and widened; educative facilities are increased chain is unwound, tells to the old students and and elevated; the age, the spirit, the people, the old graduates, sometimes in urbane manner are all prepared for the refinement and atten and in rythmic eloquence—but this year in dant blessings that flow from attachment to the awkward mode and crude phrase—that they genius of education which, strong and stalwart, ' are yet a part of Notre Dame, and that their is abroad in our land. The tint, the color, the memory is here kept fresh by maternal pride. handiwork ofa higher, better and deeper educa To the old graduate who comes back to the tion are observable on all sides. We are march boards of the University stage years after the ing onward and upward under the ^gis—=benef- •bestowal of his degrees/shall I say that the oc icent and glorious—of an educational spirit casion lacks aught of inspiration? Here where that is heightened, tempered and blessed by re he stands before those who yearly grace this ligious influences, not born of narrow, strained hall by their presence and who pay such elegant bigotry, but the offspring of enlightened, intelli homage to educational energy—7 here, where gent, rightly interpreted Christianity. * Alumni Oration Delivered at the Forty-Fifth An Man can lift-himself.. to altitudes practical nual Commencement, Wednesday, June ig. and intellectual; others find him a burden, ser- THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 699 viceless to them and too heavy to carry; they exultation and further promise, can he not descry will not carry him; he must hoist himself or be the fashioning which he got here and to it ascribe, content to grovel below. Every proper move with propriety, some of the credit for the out the outgoing student makes in life may be un come which repletes his soul with gratification? der the effulgence-of this tower of light, around Can the physician, who here initiated an whose base his younger years were passed'and education, although at the time it probably here his foundation for after-life fashioned; but if did not suggest the following.of Hippocrates, the move be tainted, if it lack either the intel after years spent in the pursuit of that ennobling lectual or moral tinge here engrafted, this bea calling, worthy compeer of the ministry, find con is obscured and his pathway is dark—and aught in his retrospect of the training received all light is valuable on a dark pathway.

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