Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-06
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
GRADUATES OF CATHOLIC UNI
vERSITY AT BANQUET.
Addresses by Vice President Fair
banks and others-In Celebration
Of Thirteenth Anniversary.

Senator Thomas H. Carter Of Montana and
Hannis Taylor, formerly minister to Spain,
were the principal speakers at a banquet
given at Rauscher's last evening by the
Alumni Association of the Catholic Univer-
sity Of America in celebration of its thir-
teenth anniversary. Cardinal Gibbons and
Mgr. Dennis O'Connell, rector of the uni
versity, were unable to be present on ac-
count Of illness. At the annual meeting of
the association. which preceded the BAN
quet, an election of officers for the en-
suing year was held with the following re-
suit: Rev. Joseph v. Tracy Of Boston,
president; DR.. Donohue, first vice presi-
dent; Father William T. Russell, second
vice president. Executive committee: Will
lam eastman. Rev. George v. Leahy, Rev.
Maurice O'Connor, Rev. Peter Mclean and
Rev. Charles T. Aiken. Boston, Mass, was
chosen as the city in which the next an
nual meeting will be held.
The POSTMASTER, DIR. John Mcguire,
called upon Vice President Fairbanks for
was compelled to leave early. The Vice
President said, in part:
although / belong to a different church,
I. with most of my countrymen, have come
to realize that the Catholic Church is one
VI the potent and enduring agencies for
righteousness and good.
Differences Fade Away.
antagonism to the Catholic Church. Every
man in those days thought his own sect
was the only proper church, and he dis
trusted the others. Years have led me to
see those differences fade away and to see
all the churches rejoice in each others
progress.
ri can only add my prediction to that Of
thousands of others, that your university
has a great future. And the future Of our
great country depends on such as you.
Congress is the greatest body of law
makers in the world, our government is
the greatest mechanism, as great as the
greatest ideals that have been built for 1t,
but all this government and all these laws
are as nothing compared to the power and
influence of the Christian church
Severe arraignment of France for its at
titude toward the church characterized the
speech of Hannis Taylor.
Every denomination stands shoulder to
shoulder in America he said, and all are
for the republic.
The Catholic Church has been a pa
triotic church since the days of Carroll,
down to the observation-disclosures, who has
SO lately expressed his sympathy for
France. Has it ever occurred to you as
you review the French situation that 1t is
strange thing that the right of confiscation
has not been tested in a court? Have you
not thought how quickly that man would
be drgged into an American court who
dared to touch even the travelling bag of
such thing is possible. The minister of in
terror issues orders to confiscate the dwell
ings of the archbishop of Paris and they
must be obeyed. There is no law, no court,
no tribunal to which he can appeal. He
must submit to the traditional decree, and
there is no redress.
Property Of Subjects.
Here in America there is the law Of
the land, founded on the ancient British
institution that DEGREES that not even
king can touch the property of a subject
without being taken before a court Here
in our own country we have the example
of Arlington before us. A son of that
matchless leader, Robert E. Lee, regained
that homestead from the federal govern
ment, after a hard-fought trial"
Commissioner Henry l.. West congratulate
ed the association upon the institution 1t
represents.
Eulogizing the results being accomplished
by the institution, Senator Carter declared:
'rhe Catholic University must and does fur
nish the country with well-equipped, we'll
educated men to teach its doctrine and to
uplift humanity. The oldest university in
the world has ceased to exist. and the sec
ond oldest is the University of Paris. These
were rocked in the cradle of Catholicity and
nurtured by the same faith that lives in the
Catholic Sniversty of today. 1t stands as
the vanguard of that great army which
started at the Euphrates MANY centuries
institutions faced when they started their
westward march. The university is a mile
stone in the march from the Euphrates back
again to the Euphrates. May the march not
perish on the shores of China and Japan"
Others Who Spoke.
Other addresses We're made by DIR. Ed
ward Pace of the faculty. Dr. Maurice
O'Connor of Boston and Judge William H.
DeLacy.
The walls of the banquet hall, the menu
cards and the tables were decorated with
the gold and white of the papacy fanked
by the stars and stripes A section of the
Marine Band furnished music.
Among those present were Vice President
Fairbanks Hannis Taylor, Willis Moore,
Thomas Carter, Henry Litchfield West,
Drs. Healy, Boels, Lucas, Creagh. Duffy,
Fox, Hayes, Kerby, Tracy, Walsh, Mcguire,
O'Ccnnor. Shehan, Boiling, Turner, Pace,
Egan. Purtell Early. Driscoll, McQuade.
Quincy, Britt Jackson and Aiken; Rev.
Fathers ODonoghue, Gallagher, Flood,
Russell, OConnor, Fitzgerald, Daugherty,
Leaghy, Dolan, Mclean. Ryan. O'Brien,
Engell, Martin, Mark and McGuiggan; Mr..
Martin, Mr.. Loeff1er and Mr.. Kennedy