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THE GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY.
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pendence, John Carroll took such active part
in the great struggle as his calling and his
priestly character made fitting; and when the
issue, under Heaven, gave independence
to the colonies and the incompatible mission
of proving to the world the possibility of self
governed and self-governing nation no one of
the men of the Revolution was more deeply
impressed with the gravity and grandeur of the
work assigned the nation to achieve; not one
whose hopes were brighter, whose expectations
more far-reaching than the priest and patriot,
John Carroll.
With such hopes thrilling through his bosom
and such expectations enkindllng anew, the
fires of his energies may be regarded the foun-
der of Georgetown college, as a century agone
he stood on yon hight overlooking the
river OF endless song
and saw before him in prophetic vision--as did
his prototype on Nebo-the future of nation
whose people were his people, whose God was
his god. With the eye OF the priest he saw a
land, under whose impartial tolerant govern
ment the church of his faith. that faith which
the apostle of Christ had taught and in whose
confession martyrs of Christ had died, would
flourish as a goodly tree planted by the waters
edge. With the patriots forecast, broadened
by the lessons which philosophic study of
human nature and the story of mans efforts to
solve the problem of government had taught
him,
JOHN CARROLL RECOGNIZED.
as the right-minded political economist can
never fail to do, that all just government is the
application of law and the enforcement of au-
thority; that law is OF divine origin, as author
ity, in its source, is from God; and, conse-
quently, that stable government, sufficient gov
ernment effective government, can prevail
only in nation that holds belief in God and
recognizes an overruling Providence.
Furthermore, profound thinker that he was
the founder of Georgetown understood that
human society, an aggregate of individuals
could reach no higher moral and intellectual
development than would find warrant in the
moral character of an intellectual condition of
the individual units themselves.
In republic like ours, wherein each and
every citizen must bear not only his share of
the nations burdens but finds himself charged
with an equal share in the responsibility of the
nations government it becomes of first i'm
portance that by the development of his intelli-
gence he be qualified to deliberate with wis
dom, and in strengthening his moral character
guarantee be given that he will ordain in
justice and honesty. 1t has been an axiom
that the king should be wise and good; in a
government then, where, within his own sphere
OF active citizenship every man is king, does it
become necessity that he should be intelli-
gent and upright. wise and good?
To make him such was the purpose of Car
roll when he founded for the education of the
youth of America an institution whose CEN
ment due regard was given to the cardinal prin-
ciple Of true education, that man has moral
faculties to be nodded as well as intellectual
powers to be developed and perfected. With
the zeal, therefore, of an apostle in his desire
for the spread of Christianity and with the en-
thusiasm of patriot stalking his last hope for
the cause OF free government upon the des-
TIMES OF the young nation whose cradle he had
helped to rock, the future archbishop of Balti-
more, and the founder of the Catholic church
In the United States,
LAID THE CORNERSTONE OF THE UNIVERSITY
whose towers to-day catch the sunlight of its
century year. He gave to it spirit as broad
as is the catholicity of the faith in whose name
he established it; spirit as patriotic and dis
tinctively American as that which filled his own
great soul, grown weary of the tyranny narrow
mindedness and contempt for human right
under whose ban his own youth had been spent
He means that while her children should never
lose sight of the higher destinies of their being
Georgetown's sons should be taught to
esteem. az the price of patriot blood. the
liberty under whose protection the great aims
OF life on earth would be reached, mans rights
secured, a nations material resources de-
veloped, and himself fitted for better heri-
tage to come. CAROLS master hand laid
down the lines of her educational work, within
which we venture to claim the university has
since judiciously held her way Not in mar
row-minded adherence to old forms and
methods did he set the limits which conserva-
tsm called for. His was a conservatism that
goes hand in hand with intelligent liberality.
a conservatism that holds inviolate the border
line which separates positive truth from specu-
lative inquiry, asserts its phiosophic thought to
lie outside the realm of experimental inquiry,
which permits no blind prejudice to close the
door upon sound theories that made good their
claim to be regarded as the servitors of
knowledge, but refuses to enthrone the slave,
where sits In inaccessible majesty the monarch.
GoD-LIKE TRUTH.
His was the spirit which accepts with CRATE
full recognition of their worth the learning and
the acquired wisdom of the past, regards with
reverence traditions and schools whose refin-
ing influence has quickened the civilization
and culture of succeeding ages, and whose
claim to lay tho foundation of all liberal edu-
cation the triumphs of advocates, not more
than the failures of those who have attempted
other methods. amply enforce. Broad-minded.
far-reaching liberal in its generous expectancy
of what new generations would admire, while
reverential in its appreciation of all that
glorious past had accomplished, John Carroll
left the impress OF this spirit upon Georgetown
college when he entrusted to it the grand mis-
sion whose development we commemorate.
WHAT DOES HER CENTURY YEAR SHOW
in realization of the hopes builded upon that
faith that Carroll held? The country to be
blessed in the fruition of his desires, grown
from the sparsely inhabited states that skirted
the Atlantic coast to O mighty nation, whose
stretch of domain is commensurate with the
sweep of a continent; the see of Baltimore,
in the very year of Georgetown's foundation
made the center and sole depository of Episco-
pal authority in the United States, become the
primatial see of honor, where the successor of
Carroll, cardinal prince of the holy Roman
church. receives the homage of united brethren
in number surprising that of the priests who
paid the homage OF obedience to the first
archbishop of Baltimore. Under the fostering
care and encouragement of a free government
strengthened in its earlier struggles by the
blessings of Gods vicar on earth,
GEORGETOWN COLLEGE ITSELF HAS GROWN
from the modest academy that Carroll placed
upon the banks of the Potomac into university
whose schools of arts, science, literature, medi-
cine and law, give it place among the foremost
institutions OF the land.
And what has been her fidelity to the high
mission entrusted to her by the founder, the
mission that the legend on her escutcheon
bodily proclaims-religion and learning
utraque unum? Attest it, We men of SANITY
name, whose memory touches with a holy light
the record of a century's work in the college
of our love. The venerable Neale, the Francis
de, Sales of America, the ceurtly Dubourg.
Georgetown's third president, who passed
from its halls to wear the inter
ton at Lyons of the Society for the Propaga-
ton of the Faith. shall carry his name in bene-
diction to the furthermost parts of the earth
Here the humble Floget and the jealous Brute
taught. Around the venerated spot cluster
memories of the Fenwicks, McElroy McSherry,
Mullroy, Knackstedt and Early whose remains
commingle with the dust, whose souls are with
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