Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-21
VII.
These. o. Alma Mater. are thy bays,

These, o. Alma Mater. are thy bays
Thy Thy coronal Of praise
To M with golden light the skies
That circle thy first cycle round;
these n s. the IMMORTAL fires that know
And kindle with an ever brighter glow,
As the streaming years in crystal floods advance.
And watch the impetuous flow
OF times river onward pour
Into h@ the gr intur , f t,n1 rs, sea
As in the sateways of the morn,
When the waning stars shorn
or their soft splendors day is born,
A MIA ta the fS sS white
Against the westward flying night
By fbe bea ahe 9 hsfy r sse eS5cealed
Glowing with perennial truth,
Sit like the first flush of youth:
Nor enyious time may wreak
His wrinkled vengeance on thy brow
And his harsh burrows plough
IF IF his msr rsl ths rgss wraI path
To the last limit Of the thread. Out 'neir span
And we Join deaths dark caravan
To the shoreless regions of the dead
His dread shade shall have no power
But as the generations pass
Like phantoIns in times darkened pIass
And ages In the ever widening past 20 down.
FROM ,neir dust snail spring fresh bays to thy
The reading was frequently interrupted by
applause. and at its conclusion Mr.. Fallen was
compelled to again and again bow his ac-
acknowledgements before the applause subsidized.
After the performance of Zikoffs Hunting
Fantasle by the orchestra, Father Murphy pre-
sented MIR. Martin F. Morris, of this city, who
had been selected to deliver the centennial
Grafton.
MIR. Morris Grafton.
Mr. Morris commenced by recalling the story
OF Hercules and Antaeus, as told by Homer.
and applied it to the present occasion, when
the sons OF Georgetown came to their alma
mater, not only to seek new inspiration. but
to rejoice.in the consummation of the ages that
crown her yet youthful brow with the laureIs
of a hundred years. He then said:
One hundred years ago the foundations nj
her greatness were laid. One hundred wears
ago, when the recollections of Valley Forge had
already become memory of sweet sadness
when the morning star of the nations was as
cending brightly triumphant over the faintinp
echoesof the cannon of Yorktown-when Wash,
ington, Franklin, Adams Hamilton. Jefferson
Madison and Robert Morris our seven Wise
men-if, indeed, any can be called supremeIy
wise where all were pre-eminently so-were
laying deep and strong the foundations of our
Federal Unlon-ln that very same year the
foundations also were laid Of this republic of
the intellect by one who had participated with
the trainers of the Federal Constitution in that
heroic struggle for human independence-not
merely for American independence, but for the
u.
Concord and Lexington have at length reyer-
berated round the world, and their echoes have
awakened all the nations from their centuries
of slavery.
John Carroll, of Maryland, was the Romulus
of our university. He was cousin of the
scarcely more famous Charles Carroll, of Car
rollton, the man whose signature to the Declar-
alton of Independence John Hancock declared
to be worth q million in money to the patriot
cause. He was member Of that resoiute and
heroic band OF men, Of whom. now that the
passions of the eighteenth century are dead
we may speak with something of the calm i'm
Partially of histery-that band which has
probably left deeper traces on the history of
the world than any other one organization ex-
cept the Christian church--the devoted brother
hood which owes its origin to the the chival-
rous soldier-priest of Navarro, Ienatius of
Loyola, and bears the name of the Society of
Jesus-the most bepraised and the most abused
organization which
THE woLRD HAS EVER KNOWN,
After paying high tribute to the work of
Loyola and showing the extent and zeal of his
followers, he referred to the landing of the
Catholic colony at St. Mary's, and of the signal
service which John Carroll performed In con-
nection with the mission to Canada, He then
said:
WITH THE END OF THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE,
the work Of political organization began, and
John Carroll and his associates began stimuli
taneously the work of ecclesiastical and edu-
cational organization. The, first fruits of his
labors were the foundation of the Episcopal
see Of Baltimore, of which he became the first
bishop, and the establishment of Georgetown
college. How the tree then planted has grown,
you need no words from me to tell The re-
suit il before you. The modest structure
erected here by John Carroll has long since
given way 70 the magnificent building that
|.now crowps this hill, and the Intellectual de-