^ GNATIAN CONSIDER THE EARNING POWER OF YOUR TRAINING who are graduating or leaving school to enter the Qll business world would do well to earnestly consider the Y•"" I big advantage of a Heald training. Consider what it means to you now—what it will mean to you ten years from now to stand where former Heald graduates now stand—Bank Presidents, Heads of large Corporations, Con­ fidential Accountants, Secretaries, Business Executives in every line of Commercial enterprise. Heald's Courses cover every essential and modern study that make for the best business minds in the country. You need not hesitate if you are behind in some study—you can make it up and receive every help at Heald's. Tour progress is sure and certain—you are not held back by the slower student—no waiting for the other fellow at Heald's. Enroll now. Call or phone Prospect 1540. Heald's Business College VAN NESS AVENUE AND POST ST. San Francisco, Cal. TELEPHONE PROSPECT 1540 But Chips of Glass WO chips of glass. T Jt,'fOle I never saw tlic stars, Nor butterflies with oainted hars, Nor blades of ptsft. The yellow btM 1 never saw. nor lillle birds. But only heard their friendly words From blurred, green trees. The world did seem Vi'.gue. dull—I knew not whv; 1 only knew all earth and sky Dim as a dream. And then these hits of glass! Oh. myriad life! Oh, wonder sight | Oh, jeweled world! Oh, star- hung night! My soul go,*s dancing with de­ light! THANK GOD for chips of glass! Compliments of Dr. Charles B. Hobrecht Optometrist and Optician EIGHTH FLOOR 209 POST STREET HEAD BUILDING Cor. Grant Ave. Hours (> to 5 and by appointment Phone Garfield 964 BETTER OPTICAL SERVICE ST. IGNATIUS UNIVERSITY SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA The University embraces the following Departments: A—The College of Letters, Science and Philosophy. A four years' college course, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. B—The College of Law. A four years' course, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and beginning in Junior Year. C—The College of Engineering. A four years' course, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, and beginning in Freshman year. D—The Pre-Medical Course. A two years' course in Chemistry, Bacteriology, Biol­ ogy and Anatomy for prospective students of Medicine. This course begins in Junior year. St. Ignatius High School An efficient course covering four years from the com­ pletion of standard grammar schools, and preparatory to the University. REV. PATRICK J. FOOTE, S. J., PRESIDENT (Hantttits Page Dedication - 5 Spring ----------- 5 The Conflict of Law and Liberty ----- 7 First Communion --------- 12 Captain Joseph P. Sullivan, U.S.A. - - - - -13 Double Crossed --------- 18 The Pirate ----- ------ 28 Richard C. Queen, Signal Corps, U. S. A. - - - - 33 The Dawn of Hope --------- 37 In Memoriam ----------39 Sub Vespere ---------- 40 That College Education of Mine ------ 41 An Island Romance ---------45 Editorial ---------- 53 Pro Patria ----------- 57 Alumni -----------67 Law Notes ----------- 77 University Notes - -------- 84 University Athletics ---------93 High School Athletics -------- 99 (tu tlir S>t ifgnatms Qhmamiatintt foagu? uip uruiratr until the frntrut prayer that Sltr Jrsitit iFathrrsi thnutith the nntmisitn. of ftitnta niaij uqntrr mays anil mratts of (ftlrartng thrtr Srbt lutlottto, a (Uollrgr ano Stroiorttrr (Etntttmttng thrtr work tit this (Eitrj 3For tlip (Slory of OSnti atiii lltr Valuation of S>onls spring Ho! Spring is on the meadow lanes, With all her flowers adorning: The garland of her glory reigns O'er every hill and vale; The lavelock's cadence greets the glow Of blossom-scented morning, And nodding beds of daisy heads Are trooping down the dale. And, ort beyond the poppy gold. The gypsy roads are calling, The purple spell the mountains bold. The woodlands and the streams, And all the fragrant breeze ablow. Through orchard blossoms falling.-— The winds of May that call away To Spring and Youth and dreams! Vincent W. Hallinan. (ftmtflirt of Saw ano HJtbertij AWARDED THE GOLD MEDAL IN THE UNIVERSITY ORATORICAL CONTEST. lO-DAY while the powers of the world turn with grateful hearts to the sons of America, the defenders of democracy, "the champions of the rights of all mankind," to-day with the joyful blessings of rescued civilization still sounding in their ears— those very sons returning to this, their home—the land of the free, are confronted by a situation which threatens to destroy their own sacred personal liberty and crush them 'neath the heel of a tyranny more dangerous and despicable than that for whose defeat they have labored and bled in France. And what is this tyranny? It is the natural offspring of narrow-minded reform—it is the tyranny of prohibitive legislation. Its seed has been scattered broadcast and its pernicious growth is to be recognized in nearly every social reform with which the American public is now being harassed. Think for a moment—the anti-liquor league, the anti- smoking league, the health insurance faction—together mayhap with the anti-tea and coffee association and the anti-pastry party. What, ladies and gentlemen, is the meaning of all these organizations to free and sov­ ereign Americans? Simply this—that the people of the United States, bewildered by the fanciful representations of an impractical idealism, fascinated by the shimmering veil of tinseled illusion which their laudable hope for human uplift has hung before their eyes, have been ren­ dered insensible to the real—the awful dangers that lurk beyond the curtain of artifice and sham, and are nursing to-day at the very thresholds of liberty and justice, a creature whose very nature makes it the mortal enemy of all personal freedom. This masquerader is prohibi- THE IGNATIAN tive legislation, a creature which, in the character of a multitude of your neighbors, may one day reach into the sacred precincts of your home and dictate your conduct in matters of a purely personal nature. Yet this is America—and the members of that despotic throng will dare to call themselves Americans. What mockery is this? What sacrilegious violation of al! that our forefathers held closest to their hearts? And who are these usurping pillagers who here in the time- hallowed temples of democracy would hurl down from their accustomed niches the statues of equality and free­ dom and set themselves up as the sole arbiters of virtue that their opinions may become the criteria of our morality? Who are they, we cry—and the answer is at once ap­ parent. They are the self-constituted angels of reform, the heckling, probing, narrow-visioned magicians who by waving the wand of prohibitive legislation, are going to transform their less holy, less enlightened brothers into radiant angels of incorruptible virtue. They are rather the helpless mortals who think they have found in prohibitive legislaton, the necessary prop to the weakness of their own wills. And this is the type of men who have so far succeeded in deluding a host of your fellow-citizens that they too now cry that to save you and me from the ravening beasts of appetite which exist within ourselves, the State and not our God-given conscience must regulate, and dictate our most secret, most personal habits and actions. Oh, how degenerate have we become—how far fallen in virtue below the standards of our ancestors—if now with all the material advantages of our superior education and vaunted culture to aid us—we yet must call on govern­ ment legislation to support our weakling wills in the battles of the aspirate souls. But there have arisen those who would help us, they say in our plight. Who are CONFLICT OF LAW AND LIBERTY they—and what method do they use for our redemption? We look, and whom do we see—alas, none more solacing, none more healing than the radicals whose only method for the remedy of an abused right is the abolition of the right itself. We cannot put much trust in them. For even as we look, we see them begin pompously to strut about the national stage, confident of the efficacy and merit of their plans. Their plans, indeed! Yes, the enlightened scheme which their twentieth century wisdom has evolved and by means of which the guardian angel of conscience ruling us with the flaming sceptre of righteousness and truth is to be supplanted by what—a uniformed police­ man, who swings a menacing club. And amid it all, even as we thus hastily examine the poor misdirected efforts which they are pleased to term their plans, we can hear the voice of self-centered egotism, the characteristic of hopeless visionaries chanting up through the darkness of its ignorance—"Our human legislation will succeed where morals, religion, yea God Himself has failed." Surely this is sweet music with which to lull their reason into rosy dreams and pleasant slumberings. Are we the defenders of drunkenness and vicious excess, because we say these things? Reflect, before you reply, upon the issues involved upon the principles im­ periled—upon the insidous dangers that surge in the wake of moral reforms that are bought with the sacrifice of a cherished traditional freedom. If you so reflect, your answer can be easily anticipated. For having revolved all these things in your minds, you must if you are true Americans, stand forth and give answer in some such manner as this: "We, after thoughtful consideration, un­ tainted by any form of prejudice, are firmly convinced that first, the abolition of the rights of all because of the abuses of the few, is an unjust, undemocratic, and wholly un- American principle, and that as such it should never be permitted to disfigure with its presence the glorious Con- 10 THE IGNATIAN stitution of these United States; second, that the possible benefits to be derived from prohibitive legislation are in their insignificance, incomparable with the most precious possession of the American citizen—his sacred personal liberty; and that lastly, we believe that any movement naturally antagonistic to our individual freedom, is fraught with latent dangers to the peace and unity of our re­ public." That, ladies and gentlemen, must be your answer, as American citizens: and now let us together review that last, most vital portion of it, namely, the dangers that threaten our national unity and harmony.