New-York tribune., 1907-06-19
CATHOLIC GRADUATES.
MGahattan College Commencement
in Carnegie Hall.

The ffty-fourth annual commencement exer-
sS3es of Manhattan College. held last night in
Csrnesie Hs!!, brcug't out a host of friends Of
the .s4t.A'@:on. Archbishop Farley presided.
and ssS6fce V:ctor !. Bowling. of the Supreme
Court. delivered the address To the graduating
class.
Addresses were also made by three of the can
didates tor degrees. Timothy ]. Dugan winner
Of the Keie. Mete: for Philosophy, the DoveIin
Medal for french aEd the Laveuo Medal for
Pedagogy. spoke on ''F,Cucction as a Develop
ment"; William J. Deevy spoke on Arbitration
and Vincent H. Auleta, who won the Grady Me-
mortal Medal for oratory, delivered an address
on the Responsibility oE Wealth." In his ad-
oress. Justice nowling sG.d in part
II IS your good fortune To have received a
f@tt"iie edGcStion. What that you will
ut It's present. Each year that passes will i'm
press won you fresh sense OF gratitude for the
wisdom q tie parents who have selected the scene
or your training and for the watchful care OF
Mother Church which has urged them the i'm
peratire ueeG Of religious tuition.
Al th:s late Gay argument is required TO
prove he TuGEtJ of any attempt impart TO a
youth an education which shall furnish him with
the Intellectual equipment To achieve success
without the moral training TO him to gain
y by moral means and conserve II by decent
methods. While irrelgious pedagogues quarrel
over fine distinctions ana invent new phrases for
old methods 10 disguise their paucity of ideas.
generation after generation comes under their d-
rection deficient and intellectually overtrained.
c5-nics and oppoT1unists. ignorant Of divine and
defat Of human authority.
II IS TO meet the rising tide Of indiferentsm and
inHGeltty by opposing 70 II dixie built upon the
sure foundation Of we'll grounded belief. that the
Church. deprived of government assistance. never
theless is doing the only work that insure the
stability Of any government This she does by
providing Christian education for the young of
the poverty Of her devoted followers What this
means best be appreciated when consider
that n this state alone there four hundred
Catholic free day schools. with total of 172.oo1
pupils. annual expenditure Of 81 go and in
vested capital of 81, 600.
Archbishop Farley followed Justice Dowling.
He repeated his denurciatiO1 of the night before
In the same hall OF negligent wealthy Catholics
who fail 20 contribute according TO their means
toward the support Of Catholic education. lie
said:
Our Catholic wealthy 90 retain the love they
ought 10 Z ~ their Almc Mater. They do not send
Kherewithai DO battle with the problem of life.
But I have hopes that will day rise 10
that plane where our Catholic wealthy will real
;ze that they can best ennobIe themselves by aid
fng the cause OF Catholic education.
4 grave mistake has been made by leaving
= the councils Of the world The Hague the all
important head Of the Christian Church. the head
and director Of three hundred millions. This will
b. realized later
on the platform besides the archbishop and
Justice DowIing We're over two score of priests
and Christian Brothers. including Monsignors
Mooney, Lavelle and Edwardes, the Rev. Drs.
Hayes, McMahon and Penny: Father Quinn.
president OF Fordham College: Brother Edward.
president Of Manhattan College: Brother Joseph,
provincial: Brother Iruier, assistant for the
Province Of England and ireland; Brother
Eliphus and Father Chidwick