The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-09-17
CHEYENNE, wYo.
Marvellous Success of Academy of
Holy Child Jesus.


The attendants at the Holy Child
Jesus academy opened the new scho-
lastic year with high mass and bene-
diction at the cathedral given by
Father Delahunty.
The marvellous success this academy
has achieved as a teaching institution
these late years has vastly increased
the number of pupils and applicants
are being made not only from Wyom-
ing but as well from the surrounding
states
The sisters of the Holy Child Jesus
hold pre-eminence amongst the teach
ing orders of TIE west greatest pre-
caution being used in the acceptance
of applicants to their teaching staff.
They are keenly alive to the fact that
in country such as America. where
the best may be had in education.
where our state governments zealously
and handsomely foster educational in
terest, where teaching bodies abound,
elated with success, they will maintain
pre-eminence only by proficiency in the
teachers and thorough up-to-dateness
of method.
They guard studiously against the
fever of expansion, lest rapid propa-
cation might mar their efficiency. Not
the most but the best sehools-so runs
their motto.
The work of the Cheyenne academy
is now fully recognized The brightest.
perhaps, of our western bishops said
recently that beyond doubt tie Chey-
enne academy is the best in the west
ern country and an eminent ecclesi-
aStic visited it lately, DESTROYS to see
this much-lauded institution.
It's climate, its sunshine, its park, its
lawns, flowers and its lake, all concur
to make Cheyenne the gem of western
cities and the queen of the plains.
The academy is situated close to the
state capitol opposite the park in the
prettiest part of the city. Its location
and the fresh breezes from Lake Min
nehaha render it most healthy for the
boarders.
Their number always increasing, is
this year exceptionally large. The. APP
plicants have already returned except
a few who will come later.
Work commenced with an appropri-
ate address to the young ladies by
Father Charles O'Connor. The elo
quent young priest spoke of aids and
hindrances to fruitful study.
Father O'Connor said:
Dear Young Ladies: It is now well
nigh three months since it devolved
upon me to address you on an occa-
but dissinilar in its influences.
You then inhaled the balmy air, you
bathed in the glorious. smiling sun of
a schoolboy's perfect day:
Your minds that morning thought
only of prizes, ribbons of good con-
duct, medals and crowns, and your
fancy wander to that dear old home,
those flowers and shrubs, and especial
ly to mamma to Bertha and to Mabel.
That morning my graceless speech
or even the music of eloquence would
have failed to concentrate your atten-
ton upon a subject from which the
fascination of that magic art would fail
as completely to divert your present
thoughts and broodings. You then
watched the schoolboy's morn loom up
radiant in the east; now the shades of
the schoolboy's night begin to encircle
you for the schoolboy's day is his holt
day, his night the scholastic year.
CAS- for all, so even for you, happy
youths, life is not meant to be only
roses, sunshine and vacation.
81 expressed the presumption that
morning that at best some of you
might take in the worlds fair. I and
maybe you, too, know a man who
would qualify truths to him unsavory,
as bold statements. I am not, feel, in
hicting a bold statement upon you
when I say that any one present who
went to st. Louis, being now here,
must have come back.
Yes, you are all back again to begin
another scholastic year and I SHALL
offer a few suggestions, which may
aid you reap therefrom those advan-
tages the best disposed amongst you
and the parents of all expect
God gives to each great opportuni-
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have us utilize them to the full. Yet
many accomplish but little. Men
largely do not think, they dream all
the time. They run their course, but
tkeir purpose is defeated. Our best
moral sentiments are simply admirable.
We love instinctively the good the
holy, the pure, the beautiful, the sub
lime. Personal happiness urges us to
meet our fellows in a spirit of kind
ness and I should feel it to the very
hearts core if any heedlessness and
lack of foresight inflicted pain. incon-
any evil small or great, upon
my brother man.
These beautiful sentiments the soul
feeds upon, but infirm flesh wearies
and leaves today's work for the NOR
row. All feel that to be helpful IS
good and desirable. but the selfish many
perhaps, but only too eff
fectively, restrict and minimize their
pretense for good.
The earnestness such people lack l
would recommend to you in your prep
aration for the great mission each one
will be called upon to fulfill some flu
ture day
Every branch of your curriculum you
should enter into with will to succeed.
Persuade yourselves that you need TO
study. to know. The acquisition of
knowledge is slow and painful, for in