The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-03-14

and Thomas E. McGuigan of Balti-
more, masters of ceremonies. AT the
close of the mass the TIE Deum was
sung as an act of thanksgiving to
God for the many blessings that have
come to the Church during the pontf-
cate of Leo XIII.
At II o'clock the professors and stu
I dents of the university and the super
ions and students of the affiliated col
Ieg6 assembled in the Aula Maxima,
MG1Rafon hall. for the academic ex-
pT@s&ion of the university. Bishop
Conaty made the opening address, in
which he spoke of the relation of Leo
XIII to the university, in its estab-
lishment and development, and said it
was fitting the university as an aca-
/ demic body should hold a public meet
ing in which different phases of the
! pontificate of Leo XIII might be dis
1 cussed in addresses by professors of
| the UNIVERSITY.
! Addresses were made as follows:
1.-THE Relation of Leo XII to Oriental
! Studies,'' Rev. Henry Hyvarnat, Ph.D.,
] professor of Oriental languages; Leo
XIII and the Biblical Commission"
Rev. Charles P. Grammar, DID,, pro-
fessor of Sacred Scripture and MEM
Der of the Biblical commission; Leo
XIII and Ecclesiastical History" Rev.
| Thomas J. Shahan, DID, professor of
Church history; Leo XIII and PhiSe
osophy," Rev. Edward A. Pace, pro-
fessor of psychology; Leo XIII and
the Science of Law" Hon. William G.
Robinson, LID. dean of the faculty
of law; LEO XIII and Social Sci
ences," Rev. William ]. Kerby, Ph.D.,
associate professor of sociology; Leo
XIII and Poetry DR.. Maurice Fran
els Egan, dean of the faculty of phil
osophy. The last address was made
by Very Rev. Edmund T. Shanahan,
DID,, dean of the faculty of theology,
who also presented the following reso-
lutions:
Leo XIII, student, litterateu-, soci-
ologist, philosopher civil governor, dip
lomat, statesman, priest bishop, car
dinal, pope, who shed the lustre of his
many-sided personality on these sew
eral careers; restorer of the philosophy
and theology of st. Thomas to the
place of honor in all Catholic schools:
advocate of the synthetic spirit and
sweeping world-view of the great Do
minican as an offset to the extremes
of present day specialization and as an
incentive to larger outlook upon the
field of human knowledge; advocate, no
less, of science and research, whereby
the. revelation of God in nature is daily
increased, the hardshipS and discom-
forts of life are more and more dimin-
ished and the truths from above are
ever more surely seen to be in con-
cert with the discoveries from below; |
exhorter of the clergy and the Iaity to |
a spirit of study in which investiga- |
ton and reconstruction should go to- |
gether; patron of the science of his |
tory, who encouraged the work of a |
number of independent investigators !
in history and liturgy by appointing
them to membership on the Historico-
commission, who opened the
doors of the Vatical archives to the
scholars of the world and wrote the
three supreme canons by which all his
torical research should be forever gov
erned patron. no less, of the Biblical
sciences in the interests of which he
has shown a scholars zeal, for the
direction of which he has latterly ap-
pointed permanent commission; fore
seeing friend of the poor and needy
N a world whose fat and lean kline
10 not exhibit the proportions revealed
n the dream of Joseph his ancient
lomonym; spokesman of the rights of
abor, the worth and dignity of the
human individual, the ethical as
against the purely economic appreci-
ltion of man; adversary of socialism
Ind all movements threatening the So
'ial order; exponent of the Christian
of civil governments. the
mutual rights, duties and preroga-
ives of Church and State in promot-
ng respectively the spiritual and tenn
'oral good of their subjects; support
r of The Hague conference, and free
Y chosen arbiter of international dis
'utes in the interest of universal
eace; interchangeable promoter of har- ,
nony between the Churches of the !
Vest and East, within and without ! !
he spiritual commonwealth of Christ.
etWeen embittered political and re-
gious parties in his own and other {
inds; guardian of the Christian fam :
y and opponent of divorce; champion 1
t Catholic piety, practice and ira l
itional throughout the Church Uni 1
ersaI; establisher of larger and more I
olidified hierarchy for the purposes of
more generous spiritual life; founder
the Catholic University of America 2
Or the inheritance of his spirit and S
he propagation of his ideas in the a
ears that are to be; friend of this a
'uly great Republic of the West in i;
hlch his watchful eyes have ever dis a
erned a fair field for the beloved e
hurch Catholic whose interests have v
cen peculiarly his in the century of t.
ears with which we hope the Lords p
ounty will crown him ere he takes Il
s place among the peers of the Church il
Wherefore, In honor of this great O.
atholic leader, whose sword is of the d
brit; in honor of this encyclopaedia 81
ontiff whose hospitable soul admitted N
l ailing and troubled world into the h
and council of his sym 81
athy; in honor of this Pope of Soli- A
lrity who strove to restore harmony
tween the natural and supernatural
fence and religion, faith and reason. ly
ETY. and learning, and exemplified in b
S own matchless career as the en- il
of the ideals which he n,
ught; in honor of this advocate of ii
ace who sought the peace of the If
rmily, the woI kingman, the Church, III
e State, and the reunion of all Chris III
ndom by his firmly gentle and gently of
m method of Cancellation, by his lof- w
less of purpose and nobility of aim: in
10 ever rendered to Caesar the things n
at are Caesars and to G. d the things 70
at are Gods, protesting only with ri
e righteousness OF holy cause 19
a1nst the despoilment of the patri- he
ony or Peters successors and his own ia
forced captivity; in honor of Leo Pr
II, IN hne, our common spiritual =
Lher, founder and friend, be it and
is hereby resolved that we. the rec
:. professors and students of the %,
tnoI1c University of America in NJ
mt meeting assembled, after hearing cT
euioglstlc discourses on our holy wi
do mark this day as sa ~,
"a In our annals and do herebey give ~ -,
Die act of expression to our sense ~
loyalty, love, devotion and graft -
lie TO this noble successor of the W,
sherman, to whom it has been CIV ~.
10 see the years of Peter to WHOM, e. g..
i, 's sfiiI De gwen, God grant, to en- FRI