Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
BIG NIGHT FOR c. U.
Founders Day Great Occa-
sion for Alumni.
ENTHUSIASM AT BANQUET
Tremendous Sound of Song and
Cheering.
OLD ALMA MATER IS LAUDED
Graduates and Faculty Vie in Ex-
pressing Love for Georgetown
and Bishop Carroll
)LD ALMA MATER IS LAUDED

New Willard last night.
The flooding tide of enthusiasm of new
" made grads WED in righteousness
with stirring speeches of old grads and
several of the faculty.
One alumnus, a rising young lawyer
as the phrase has listing by the news
paper men. urged that the newspaper ac-
count of the dinner should embody some
spirit of the college song. Sons of
Georgetown" Stirring as the song is.
it ran only second place to 1T Looks To
Me Like a Big Night Tonight" An i'm
partial opinion would hold that the title
of that song should be the headline in
the Georgetown college newspaper in
which the event is recorded.
Popular Song in Latin.
When one reads the list of those present
he will see the Importance of the affair,
judged by standard of success after
graduation But one should have been
there to hear those grave and reverend
facultati sing Everybody Works But
Fatier"-in Latin
"Omnes agunt sed pater.'' the first line
goes. AS Georgetown's cheer is mostly
Greek, and as Is per cent of the walters
We're French. it may be conceded that
the curriculum of the classical course
was truly represented.
Moreover, the lawyers who have gradu-
ated from the old school were there In
great numbers. mixed in with the bust
ness men and professional men in lines
other than laval to do honor to their
alma mater on the day which Georgetown
men the country over choose to cele-
brate the memory of the founder of their
school. who was Bishop Carroll of Car
rollton.
Lively Time at Dinner.
1t was lively dinner. The orchestra
was burdened with demands for favorite
songs of college days, mingled with few
excerpts from experiences in front of the
burlesque stage. There were two songs
to every course, and many and many a
cheer.
All the faculty members present seemed
to elicit cheers from their old pupils.
When a man made a speech-whew!
The president of the university, Rev.
Joseph A. Himmell, S. j., made speech
to the old boys which was applauded to
the echo. His speech was chiefly on the
business matters OF the institution, but
was couched in so confidential and charm
ing way that one forgot the dry figures
in the manner of their presentation
He made a great big hit when he item
lied the universitys investments by re-
ferring to the presidents of some Of the
corporations in which the college held
stock or bonds. AS each president hap
pened to be Georgetown aiumnuS the
roof had to raise itself little to lee the
nonse out.
Rev. Mark McNeil's Speech.
And the speech Of Rev. Mark Mcneil,
a member of the faculty, scored a hit in
the center of the buIl's-eye. 1t was full
of college spirit The latter end of 1t
brought applause with every period.
1t was something like this:
rs it not equal loyalty to the daughter
to honor the sire, the founder and father
of our alma mater 1t is in his honor
that this meeting was called. To his
honor have been devoted of late some of
the best energies and efforts of those
among US who can do most to promote SO
worthy cause.
1.-The project of erecting at the entrance
of the college a suitable monument to
commemorate the educational work of
the first bishop of Baltimore in founding
Georgetown College is one that we feel
to he particularly appealing to us. We
cannot but congratulate ourselves on the
progress already made toward the neces-
sary fund. while we realize that what has
been done is only an added motive to
make "a final effort and achieve what lies
so near our grasp.
This visible image of our honored
founder is only the outward expression
of the inward work which every true son
of Georgetown sets before himself as the
result of his college training. For we
are continually building up in ourselves
the image of that sterling character
which he has in some mysterious way
handed down to a most priceless
heritage, the calm faith, the modesty
Of mind, the fixity Of purpose and prin-
ciple. through various applications to
circumstance. which guided him safely
through the times that tried mans souls
into the dawn of that prosperity in
church and state which we enjoy.
They speak to us from that serene
brow, from those deep eyes, from those
lips, fatherly In their tenderness. kingly
in their dignity. No wonder that we
long to impressed on almost death
less bronze that image which has been
imprinting itself on our deathleSs souls
from the day when first we entered
yonder gate till now. when the oldest of
best know and feel how far the ideal
Is from perfect realiZation.
May il ever grow within us: deeper
fuller, fairer: till the bright day that
finds us knocking at that gate within
whose portal the old boys keep unending
holiday
Tales of Georgetown's Lawyers.
J. S. Flannery, an alumnus, talked
about the lawyers who have passed
through Georgetown University. He told
many a good yarn about lawyers, and
his stories reflected credit on Georgetown
men
He ended his speech in this way, speak
ing of the law school Of his university:
Prom a class of twenty-five students
in 1870, it has developed until there are
almost so enrolled in 1910. Her gradu
ates occupy positions of honor and trust,
not only in this community, but through
out the country and in all parts of the
world, utilizing in every field of human
endeavor the legal training received from
their alma mater.
In concluding I vii not say of our
alma mater what was said by the Presby-
terrain divine who called upon on
short notice to officiate before the late
Queen Victoria. and transported by his
enthusiasm and nervousness concluded
with the duplication. i pray that as she
grows TO be an old woman she may be
made new man, and that in all right
eous causes she may go forth before her
people like a he-goat in the mountains. T"
DIR. George Tully Vaughan spoke for
the doctors, and took up cudgels in be-
half of vivisection He claimed that
man had ever had dominion over the
beasts of the field, and that much of the
objection 10 vivlsection came from the
mere fear of the inconvenience of the