Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-20

than they loved their God. The judicial
ermine, too, have the sons of alma mater now
without reproach and laid aside without stain;
and, proud mother must she be, who, reading
the honor-roll of the children she has nur
tured, sees Gastons name lead all the rest,
while the name Of Gaston's peer In worth and
fame, the profound priest, the courteous and
dignifed judge, the humble and devout Cath
ole, William Matthews Merrick, upon whose
pulseless heart the newly-mounded earth
rests tenderly, closes her century's record.
True to the lofty purpose whose reach lies be-
yond the horizon Of the world Of sense and the
things OF time; liberal in spirit while conser-
vative in principle; intolerant only Of error
and vice; with high hopes and far-reaching as
pirations for future development and broaden
ing of her sphere of activity, while tenacious
of the results and well-tried methods of the
past Such does her century's close find the
college Of our love contemplating, with pride,
the growth this festal time is meant to COM
memorate. and recalling the little favoring cir
cumstances that attended the formation and
early years of her career, which of US brothers
has prophetic ken to picture.
WHAT MATURITY OF GROWTH
and splendor of achievement they will look
upon, who come to place upon alma matters
brow her second century crown? Proud as
they shall Justly be, yet can they not love her
more tenderly. more reverentially than we who
gather around her to give to honored mother
the greeting of loyrl sons. Back rom the lives
to which she committed us, when with her
parting blessing, she placed a mothers
fame and mothers hope in our keeping;
back, in word, from the busy masts of trade and
commerce, whence we bring hands free from
touch of dishonest gain; from the mental con-
tict, and sharp issues of forensic strife, with
honor unimpeached; from the bed of pain and
the fever-laden wards of hospitals, where
skillful thought guiding hand grown soft under
sweet charity's touch we have won the bene-
diction accorded
THE PHYSICIAN IN HOLY WRIT
for the healing, that comes ultimately from
God from land and sea; where we carry upon
stainless swords our country's honor and alma
matters patriotic trust, from other ways of life,
in which, with love, source, divine and power
of the right hand of the Most High. Samaritan
like we have poured into wounded souls the
trusts for whose administration the untiring
solicitude and devoted labor of her
bestowal fitted Us; we are met to give her
reckoning OF what success or failure the years
now gone brought to our lives. We are here
to give her assurance that in success or in
failure we still cling to the principles she i'm
planted in our souls, as we still cherish the
lessons with which she sought to give direction
to our efforts lives. We especially, brothers,
upon whose lives the shadows are SO
rapidly lengthening that we must
atune with the minor chord of ''monturi te
salutanus" have come to renew to renew to
her our pledge, that to the end we shall heed
the grand lessons of Christian morality, patri-
otto devotedness and personal integrity which,
falling like heaven-sent dew upon our minds
and heorts in early years, have given fertile
growth to the little good that happily adorned
and enabled our later life. In parting we leave
this promise, that in spirit akin to that of Him,
OF whom first she taught u.s. who dying-dulcis
reminisatur argus, we, too. when the dark
of ia in at xrar RI mr. vic
sweet memories of our college shall shall have
place in our hearts, and with grateful realiza-
ton of the blessing to our life her solicitude
has been, we shall in turn bless the day that
first made US her sons. With loyal devotion
and exultant pride,
FAIR MOTHER OF OUR LOVE,
do we thy sons salute thee and joyfully place
upon thy brow the century-crown SO nobly
won! In the esteemed presence of his direct
bears the title of cardinalitial dignity, amid
this splendid assemblage Of invited guests
who hold spiritual sway in sees that
once formed portions of the charge the
noble patriarch carried as his trust from
God, cheered by the presence of friends,
clerical and lay, who from distant homes have
sought in pilgrim spirit this first home of
Catholic education in our fair land. gladdened
in spirit by the happy results Of the years that
have passed. we speak in deepest reverence
anu grateful TememDerance the INDUSTRIOUS
name of John Carroll, Georgetown's founder.
May his spirit dwell ever in the work which
his noble mind conceived and his abiding
faith in an over-ruling Providence made pos
sible; may We, brothers, remembering that
the glory of children are their fathers" strive
that no act of ours bedim this inherited glory
With renewal of youth and early love for
alma mater by this return to the home whose
roof-tree gave us shelter in the DAYS now gone,
we bear back to the scenes of life we have for
the moment quilted the great lesson that first
we learned beneath the shades of our Khan
academe.
There is a wisdom more precious than
riches, and all the things that are desired are
not to be compared with her. Length of DAYS
is in her right hand and in her left hand riches
and glory. Her ways are beautiful ways and
all her paths are peaceable. She is a tree of
life to them that lay hold on her, and he that
shall retain her is blessed"
Brothers, God grant to ell the sons of
Georgetown that life; God give to all her chill
dren thus to be blessed eternally.
After the Sermon
the procession dispersed, though it was some
time before the vast congregation finally got
out of the church. The clergy and alumni
mostly returned to the college, as did. of
course, the students and the cadets. Visitors
from abroad who had not seen the
college for years, some of them not
having entered the gates since their
graduation were loud in their praises of the
handsome new building and its perfect appoint
ments. The old halls, however, which they re-
membered in their youth attracted them most
and many of the faculty who have grown gray
in the service of the institution were sur
rounded by bearded men whom they had
taught when boys. The venerable Father Cur
ley was an object of special attention. and all
paid homage to his high intellectual attain
ments and his pure personal character. The
grounds were thrOnged with visitors, and
everything indicated the joyous character of
of the occasion.
A clergy dinner was given at 2 o'clock in the
great refectory of the college, at which the
archblshops, bishops visiting clergy and the
faculties, lay and clerical, of the other schools
of the university were present. With this ex-
ception the afternoon will be devoted to the
renewals of former friendships by the visitors
both clerical and lay, and by the alumni, until
the evening exercises.
NOTES. -
The Georgetown cadets were under
the command of Capt. Rogers and Lieuts.
Denvers and Condor. The corps made an ex-
cellent appearance and marshaled with the
precision of veterans
As the procession entered the church, Prof
Bernays orchestra rendered Krieg's march der
Pruster aus Alfalfa, by Mendelsshon, most
effectively.
A room on the second floor of the new build
ing has been assigned for the use of the press,
and Father Clifford is on hand to furnish ali
the information required. Mr.. Healy, the
editor OF the College Journal, ably assists
Father Clifford.
DR.. John Lee Carroll, the representative in
hIa nfru Of fba far~