Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-08
W.B. Moses & Sons, IF St., Cor. 18th.


clean heart that the prevailing and accept
ed maxims are Get rich honestly, but get
rich'-'The most useful political factor is
the man who is shrewd enough not to get
caught with the goods on him.. The prac-
teal recognition of a God who does shape
our ends and who does enter into the daily
affairs of our lives, who is not merely
memory even moving presence. but is
MORGAN everything and ever-operative
force in our lives-giyes a reality to the
other side of the tapestry that Is hidden
from our earthly eyes, and what though
the seamy side is turned toward US at
times and we do see what we consider
evidences of unskilled handiwork, still we
know that the artist of supreme WISDOM,
who has at his command infinite power
will bring all things out right In the END.
The whole system of education from the
kindergarten up through the common
school into the college and the university,
the system that has the appreciation ana
commentator of many of the people OF
this land has no God in It's knowledge,
and herein lies the appalling danger ana
catastrophe that we are facing as people
Our great national peril Is not divorce,
though blghtng as 1t is. l. Is h9s iii II Is
not the dissertation of the Sunday. though
corrupting as it is. 1t is not olshonesty IN
high places though damaging as II IS II
is not the prostitution of high Ideals OF
hastily. though whitening as it Is. But IT
Is because they would have no Coo In their
knowledge, and therefore, as the aposlIe Va
the Gentiles prophesies, they are gwen ;, up
to a renrobate sense. All the brood or CIVIC
and national evils hoWS IroH inns o 80
from a fountain head.
Necessary as Protest.
"a great institution, then, that Will De
placed on high in the capital or the naloi'
as a city set on the mountain side In the
full glare of the MONDAY sun, whose pres
ence will fill every eye. and which the ma
tton cannot ignore and whose existence IT
cannot erase, is necessary as national
protest against the Punishment OF Ioo IIoiii
the nations life. In spirit 1t must not oe
lust one more university. IT must s.ahu
with an individuality all its own for reng-
ion. Let the scientific method be used TO
the very utmost in its training. as an Illus
trious predecessor In the Cathonc UnVer-
sity of the middle age used .he ATistoteiia.
ynethod with such marvellous skill against
the fnfidels of his day, and with such COM
pleteness too that it has ever since re-
formed both the terms and IDEAS OF not
only philosophy. but OF scientihc tneoIoey;
but into 1t must be injected the truths oi
1.-The Catholic University must continue
to give religion it's honored place In Its
curriculum of studies It must be the most
our lives 1t must be written all over with
the cross Of the crucified One. 1t must be
the defender of the hidden verfties and the
unseen influences in our lives, that do SO
vidually, but AS nation
The Degrees Conferred.
Degrees were then conferred as follows:
In law, by Prof w. C. Robinson. LII. D.,
dean of the faculty of law-Frederick Dem
nett doctor Of law; Kiyomi Chi Seshimo of
Tokyo Japan, D. c. L.: William P. Burns
LII. B. In philosophy, by Rev. Prof. ]. j.
Griffin. Ph.D., dean of the faculty Of
Romanus Butin, s. M;
Rev. Leo L. Dubois, s. M; Rev. Julius A.
Nieuwland C. s. c.; Rev. Michael F. Os-
valid, C. s. c.; Rev. James J. Trahey, c.
8. c.
In theology, by the Very Rev. Prof. c. p.
Grammar, dean of the faculty of theology.
baccalaureate-Rev. Frederick VIM Burget
of indianapolis, Rev. Matthew ]. Duggan
of New York Rev. John B. Geisel, Rev.
Eugene Antony Heffernan of Los Angeles
Rev Peter v. jung Rev. Bernard A. Nc
Kenna of Philadelphia, Rev. James Patrick
McPeak of Syracuse, Rev. Dennis J. Ryan
of Alton, Rev. Henry c. Schuyler OF Phil
adelphia, Rev. Francis Xavier Unterreir-
meir of Indianapolis, Rev. Aloysius Zis-
kowsky Of st. Paul.
Licentiate-Rev. Robert J. Achstetter of
Baltimore, Rev. John w. III. COrbett of
Boston, Rev. Matthias C. Cuivas, ct Luz
guerra of Santander, Spain: Rev. Joseph S.
A. Dupont of Dubuque, Iowa. Rev. John
Martin Cannon of Erie. Pa; Rev. John ].
Greaney of Pittsburg, Rev. Ralph Hunt of
San Francisco, Rev. John g. Schmidt of
St. Louis, Rev. Nicholas A. Weber of
Washington.