Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-21
ALUMNI DAY.
(Continaed from Second Paqe.)
INTO great and prosperous university, fully
competent to hold her place

competent to hold her place
AMONG THE UNIVERSITIES OF THE WORLD
But all is not yet done. There is much vet
10 be done, and you and she must do it. II is
for you, my friends, to hold up her hands, as
those Of Moses were upheld on the mountains
Of Amolek, while the contest ragged on the
plains below. The war of good and evil, of
truth and error. Of light and darkness is always
raging, and from the university must 90 forth
the soldiers that are to reinforce the armies of
Ormuzd against the overwhelming hosts of
Ahriman.
In the training of the university there is that
which develops enlightened patriotism. It's
philosophy can temper the aspsrities Of polit-
ical strife, wherein to-day lies the greatest
danger to civil liberty; and its doctrines can
deal successfully with all social problems, be-
cause they are the principles Of philosophic
truth that is eternal In the system Of intel
lectual and moral philosophy, with which our
ure. and for which she claims just pre-emi-
nence, there is to be found the saving grace
that is yet to redeem US from the selfishness Of
political dishonesty, as well as the ravlngs OF
an insane fanaticism. Even IL it be only the
chosen few that can drink at its Castilian
fountains, those chosen few must be the poet
priests whose anthems are to stir the world
and lead it into
THE NEWER AND BETTER DAY.
The hundred years have come-and gone.
The completion of the first century Of the uni
versitys existence marks merely the planting
of the first milestone on her broad highway Of
usefulness. We, who are here to witness the
ceremony will pass away. Our time is marked
by years, hers by centuries. We Will pass
away, but let us fondly hope, not to be FOR
gotten, if, as men who deserved well OF her
link our names to her immortality as particle
pators in the celebration of her first centennial
The hundred years have come-and gone.
May she survive in all her vigor unlmpalred,
when the second, and the fifth. and the tenth
century shall have rolled away-when all the
problems Of our day shall have been solved,
only to give place perhaps to others Of deeper
and graver import-when from Panama to the
paleocrystic sea the starry flag OF freedom shall
float in peace over hundred indestructible SOW
ereign states, component parts OF one great IN
dissoluble Union-when our now antagonistlc
races shall have been gathered together, each
in its own local sovereignty, yet bound in the
bands of one fraternal confederacy, into which
even the Monaghan may find admlssion-when,
perchance, from yonder observatory hill your
astronomers shall fash electric recognition
to the denizens of 1.-THE star of love and
Dreams" and convey to the celebrants of fu-
ture centennials the congratulations OF those
who watch by the canals of the red planet
Mars. May a thousand, and ten thousand gen.
erations rise to bless her name.
After the Grafton.
Mr.. Morris was listened to with marked at
tention and his grafton was frequently punctu-
ated by applause.
There are no exercises this afternoon, but
the alumni banquet tonight at WIZARDS Is ex-
pected to be the GROWING glory of alumni
day. The committee in charge of the banquet
consists of DIR. +. o. st. Clair, chairman; MIR.
F. J. Kieckhoefer. DIR. G. Lloyd Magruder, MIR.
Samuel M. Yeatman, Mr.. Thos j. Sulli-
van, and Mr.. Daniel orc. Callaghan. The
set toasts will be as follows: welcome OF the
the Society of Alumni;" University of George
town." Academic department." Medical de-
partment;" Law department." THE Foun-
DER" "Our country" "Our sister universities"
"Invited guests" and 1.-THE press" Several
distinguished guests have been invited and are
expected to be present.
Among the alumni of note who are in attend
ance at the centennial celebration are Judge
Robt. Ray, Of Louisiana; H. c. Walsh. Phila-
delphia, editor of "Notes and Queries;" Thos.
A. Flatley, deputy collector of customs, Boston,
Mass; DR.. J. F. McNulty, president of the In
sane Retreat at Dorchester, Mass. Condo b.
Pallen, st. Louis; Rev. c. F. Kelly, Pennsylva-
mia; Harry Walters, president of the Atlantic
Coast Line R. R. Co.; Hon. John Lee Carroll, JOS
R. Randall. Baltimore; Lieut.-Col. Jas. Mac
Shane, Halifax, n. s.; c. OBJ. Cowardin, Of
the Richmond. Va, Dispatch; Col. ]. Brisbin
Walker, editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine;
Hon. R. H. Edelin,. Maryland; Judge ]. c. Nor
mile, st. Louis; Rev. Ulrich Heingle, Buffalo,
N. Y; Archbishop Corrigan, New York, and
Bishop Conroy, Of st. Johns, N. B.
To-morrow's Program.
Tomorrow morning will be devoted to the
reunion Of college classes and societies, the
"Philademic," "Philonomosian," and Ora
matte" and in the afternoon at $50 a solemn
academic session will be held in CASTOR hall, at
which the honorary degrees will be conferred