The Irish standard., 1904-06-11

walton of the same ideal. We are the
veterans Of the College Of St. Thomas
Whether our drill-book was Leviticus
or the ledger-and. though we do not
claim the monopoly Of academic atten-
ton, and, though. alas! many of us
may have been wounded and disfgured
in the struggle of life, we still will al
ways have one lesson to teach. the les
son of devotion where other fields are
to be fought and won. Other fields,
say, for though much has been achiev-
ed by our college great deal yet re-
MAINS We ought not, for many rea-
sons. be merely interested spectators
in the future Of st. Thomas. A Cath
Ole college, with the one munificent
exception over the way. has very little
support except that which it receives
from its present and past members.
1t generally lacks that which holsters
up many an institution of our sepa-
rated friends, viz. endowment
OF course the best endowment of any
college is its own brains and the stuff
it is capable of putting upon the pro-
fessional, literary or commercial mar
ket. The best endowment and the best
faculty cannot make silk purse out
of sow's ear: but, though they cannot
create brains, they can foster them.
Now endowment is like taxation, di-
rect and indirect, and every old stu
dent of his alma mater can be it's bene-
factor in at least one way, there is no
better advertising agent. First of all,
lie is scattered and occasionally, if not
IL wandering star, perhaps rowing en-
tity. Wherever he is or goes, he can
spread abroad the good name and fame
of his college. He can drop friendly
word. in season and out of season;
and, if successful in life, he can dis
arm criticism by silently pointing to his
own example. This much he can do in
his individual capacity, whether he re-
wolves in the Caster and Pollux sphere
OF the twin cities or ''chews the cud
of sweet and bitter fancy" among the
bronchOs of Arizona. In his collective
capacity, in his annual reunion, he will
show himself unit in body of men
whose dearest association is not this
club or that, this ticket or that, but
an aggregation bound by ties which
are the twin links of the youth he has
left behind him and the education that
has come to stay.
There is no bond as there is no sea-
son like that of youth: then each one
OF us knew not as yet the worlds guile;
then bold ambition had not vet thrust
her fingers between the thoughts of the
head and the feelings of the heart: then
each one was "Sublimis cupidusuue."
building castles in the air-castles
which the torpedoes of life may have
blown up. often burying the hearts
hope of the man in their ruins.
Days like this, however. bid these
RUNS to rise again and drape them
selves i'll something of boyhood's gor-
geolls fancy: and, though all his own
early structures he fallen. it will be a
consolation to the cOllege-drcamer to
know that one building of his youth
ut all events is neither Il dream nor a
ruin. but solid fact. Il growing fact,
to which his annual gaze will pay in
crensing tribute. Or. should even the
that sheltered his youth turn
into dream. it will be into one of
expansive stateliness towards which it
Will be in his power, directly or indi-
rectly, to do something-a dream of st.
that will materialize into pile
rlvaling Georgetown in the East and
Notre Dame in the middle West;
dream worthy of the sanity soul whose
name was first linked with it; a dream
worthy of the great prelate who has
pushed it along the path of progress;
Il dream worthy of it's Alumni. priests
and laymen, who have helped to bring
it to the present stage of expansion
and efficiency.
The election of officers resulted as
follows:
President, j. T.. C. Robinson, first
vice president, Rev. james G. Hogan:
second vice president. Il. A. Prender-
CAST; secretary, Rev. H. Moynihan;
treasurer. II. II. Fleetham.
Among those present were:
Rev. ]. II. Prendergast, Il. A. Prem
dergast, ID. f. Lyons, Rev. George A.
Arctander, Rev. NJ. O'Brien, James
Casey, Rev. II. G. Schlinkert, ]. ]. Gull
liton, Il. ]. Carr. James II. Griffin, Rev.
"A. j. Carey. z. ]. Lydon, John Hynes,
Rev. John Dunphy, w. II. Grace, H..
II. Fleetham. Tom Dougherty, Rev. J..
G. Byrne, Rev. L. Moore, Nj. ]. Hynes,
Rev. ]. Schneider, Rev. ]. ]. Goergen.
Charles Hoy, Rev. o. Rinke, Rev. P.
Lucey, L. Connolly, Rev. NJ. 1. ]. Grif-
fin. w. j. Ryan. Rev. T. A. Printon, A.
kryjewski, Rev. John Seliskar, ]. II.
Glunt, Rev. J. G. Duffy, Rev. ]. f.
Cleminski, Rev. I. Schumacher. Rev.
j. G. Hogan. B. Il. Andus, Rev. C. Nc
Dewitt. Il. M. Kelly, Rev. John A.
Ryan, J. Roy, ]. A. Hartigan, James
kacher, d. f. Noonan, +. ]. Dollard,
Joseph Tomek, james J. Jimcek, P. J.
Brady, w. j.. Busch, Frank Nohava,