Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-07
BRILLIANT RECEPTION AT NOTRE DAME
The Papa Delegate Greeted With Music and Kind Words By Mad
 ams Pupils AIumnae and Clergy.

your heart wthh hope for the future or
 the church in this country, but none or them could be more sincere in their greetings to you than are we, the mem bers of this Alumnae association. We
 are glad of an opportunity to give ex-
 pression to the reverence in which we
 hold the chief representative of the
 church which has done so much to
 make woman honored and which is to- day the only bulwark against that de- gradation of nhood-divorce. Our association was founded because
 of our loyalty to this convent. To an institution which has to depend largely | on its own resources, the interest of it's former pupils is an important factor | in its financial and social success, and | it is the province of the Alumnae as-
 sociation to keep alive, to foster and to | build up this friendly spirit and to be a link between~t1he public and the con- vent. It IS for us to gradually edu- cate public opinion rp to the point of | realizing that an institution of this
 sort is an influence for good; it is for | us to make it publicly understood that
 this good does not stop atethe immedi- 1 ate pupils of the convent, but through
 them exerts an influence on the whole community. Already this is evident
 in Waterbury. In few New England cities will you find so liberal spirit l in few so many public offices filled by
 men of our faith. in few so large pro- 1 portion of Catholic school teachers,
 and if the people would only think
 back far enough, they would find that
 the convent Is largely to be thanked l for this state of affairs
 | This school deserves well of Water l bury. It has already furnished four l of the principals of our public schools.
 as we'll as many departmental instruc- | tors and a large number of teachers
 whose work reflects credit on them
 selves aud honor on their alma mater. l We, however, want our future recruits
 to study for degrees, and for the pro l fesSions in which we now count but l two members.
 l We realize that all cannot aspire to
 wifehood and to motherhood, because l because there are not men enough to l go round-and so we wish to have l graduates of this school equipped to l win positions more lucrative than those I of the grade teachers of to-day. In | this great free land of ours there is no l skilled labor that does not command a
 better wage thanS that received by the I noble hand of women who are really making this countrywide school teach
 CTS.
 And now, your excellency, allow us to welcome you to our city Tn doing so we really take secondary place, for already you have been received
 with a greeting such as only large T minded, whole -souled man like our pastor, Father Slocum, can extend to gentleman who commands his per- sonal as well as his intellectual admir- Il ation. He has already bidden you
 welcome to Waterbury.
 You have been receivedsby the nuns not as one unacQuainted with the no-
 ble Order of Notre Dame. but as an I old and honored friend of the ladies I who founded this convent and their present. pupils.
 T lit remains for. me to present to you the greetings of the graduates of this I school. We wish that it might be said
 of you as 1t was of a certain sultan of
 Morocco They. tell that he sojourned so long in very pleasant valley that
 the pegs of his tent took root and sprouted green leaves. But though
 Waterbury may harbor4you for only a
 short time, may you pitch your tent
 with us often.
 The people of Waterbury have a two fold reason for welcoming you. You T come as the representative of his holi-
 ness. Plus x, sovereign pontiff, the living embodiment of that mighty, ir-
 resistIble, omnipresent force which ,l alone of all things earthly dares place I bar against the passions of men and
 say, 'Thou shalt not;" of that inf1u- \ ence which with a little leaven has leayened the whole lump until from
 shore to shore from the rolling fields of Manitoba to the steppes of Rus sia, from the sapphire seas of the At I lantic to the topaz waters of the Indian ocean, from the land of the Incas to the city of the Mandarins, from the hut of the Katffir to the stately walls of Westminster ds the greatest power I in the world to-day. In matters of T doctrine the same now and forever : changeless in world of change, a rock I in the moving waters of mere human opinion-the Holy Roman Catholic
 church.
 Il You stand for this, as such we bid q you a tl1rice reverend welcome.
 You come as one who has come be
 fore to renew old memories, with the oils of the Holy orders fresh upon you. You ministered to this people. You return invested with the digniy
 and power which the church bestows
 upon eminent merit. With a deep
 personal feeling then. we Did you a
 thrice affectionate welcome. AS the representative of the Vicar tof Christ,
 our father in the faith, as an old and
 honored frfend whom we delight to see crowned with his own good works, we wish you many days among the people
 of the United States.
 And now your excellency 1t remains for me to ask but one favor It was the pride of the early Christians to bend the knee to lower the brow before
 the upraised hand of he disciple of
 Christ as it beckoned down the gifts of heaven upon their heads Our