The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-10-19
Sacred Heart Academy.

One entering the refectory at Sacred
Heart academy last Saturday after.
noon about 5 o'clock. might we'll ex-
claim with Duh loved poet, Longfellow
How beautiful is youth. how bright
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With its Illusions, aspirations. dreams
Book of Beginnings, Story without
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Each maid a heroine, and each man a
friendr'
For seated at the graduates table
were the lucky thirteen enjoying a
| delicious luncheon served by the baby
of the class of 'OS, Miss Helen McCar-
thy. in honor of her sixteenth birthday.
Helen believes in celebrating after the
manner of kings, dispensing literally,
instead of receiving. Assisted by Miss
Alice Coftman and Miss Almilda Trapp.
she had decorated the table in red and
white dahlias, while autumn leaves in
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brighten the occasion. Thirteen pretty
girls looked particularly fascinating I'M
der the soft candle rays; they did am
pie Justice to the tempting repast,
which consisted of chicken sandwiches
fruit salad sherbet, coffee. cake and
nuts. Though there might have been
lonely feeling in Helen's heart at be-
ing obliged to spend her first birthday
away from home, the genial spirit and
warm congratulations of all succeeded
in putting to flight the little heartache.
When the awful downpour of Sunday
morning threatened destruction to
beautiful new plumes, Father Ryan's
presence proved to be that of a saving
angel, for instead of being obliged to
weather the storm, the inmates of Sa-
cred Heart academy fulfilled the obi
cation by hearing the mass celebrated
in the convent chapel by our kind chap
lain, Father Ryan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Hogan of Pocatel-
10 spent Sunday afternoon at Sacred
Heart and received a very cordial well
come from old friends among the fac
ulty, as well as from the Misses Kath-
leen and Myra Kane. Mrs. Hogan, nee
Kinney, was devoted pupil of Sacred
Heart and still retains her love of the
old home.
The visitors register for the week
past bears the names of Mr.. and Mrs.
Gunnell. Lovelock, New, who spent
some time with their daughter, Caro-
Ign; Mrs. c.. Hardness, McCammon,
who came to assure herself that little
Katie and Henrietta had become &C
customed to their new surroundings;
Mrs. Oberdorfer, Salt Lake, whose
three daughters, Lucille, Dorothy and
Ruth, are among Sacred Hearts most
interesting pupils; Miss Nellie Creech,
Salt Lake, who formerly attended St
Mary's academy, Austin, Tex, and
spent a few hours in Ogden talking
with old Dixie friends.
Rev. j. Ryan spent Tuesday and
Wednesday in the city, the guest of
Rev. j. Guinan of All Hallows college.
If it is pleasant to be missed, Father
John may indeed be pleased, for he has
become a true friend of all at Sacred
Heart, where his cheerful smile is
greeted alike by minim and graduate.
The third seniors devoted last Thurs
day afternoon exclusively to laboratory
work, and the new apparatus recently |
purchased proved exceedingly interest |
ing. and rendered the prospective work |
in physics most pleasant to anticipate, |
for who does not value experimental |
work in scientific study? The new in
struments pertain to electricity and hy-
1rostatics.
New chemical charts adorp the walls
Of the second senior class sroom, and |
serve to elucidate complicated symbols.
and impress on the mind prominent
points in the study of this ever-chang-
ing science.