Evening star., 1939-06-04
Georgetown
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Georgetown University recall with
profound sentiments of gratitude
to Almighty God $50 years of
honorable service to God and
country. Through the sacrifices
and unstinting labors of these
who have gone before you-
and to whom we and you pay the
homage of grateful memory-a
single unit with a small group of
students has grown steadily and
strongly into the attractive uni
versity city with its six faculties
and more than three thousand
students. During a century and a
half members of the Society of
Jesus uninterruptedly have devoted
their learning and their lives to
the enlightenment and character
formation of the young men en-
trusted to their care.
During a century and a half
these students, leaving the walls of
their alma mater, have added Chris
tian dignity and honor and right
thinking to the family life, to the
business and highest professional
circles of their country. We rejoice
with you in the consoling memories
of these $50 years, and we offer our
prayer of thanksgiving to God, the
giver of every good gift. The desti-
nies of Georgetown University under
God are now in your hands. May He
guide you and strengthen you, SO
that the cherished hopes of the
great Archbishop Carroll may each
year be realized with ever increasing
fulness to the glory Of God and to
the spiritual grandeur of your coun-
try. AS token of our paternal in
terest and of our desire to encour-
age the all-important work Of Cath
ollc education that you are so ably
carrying on, to you, beloved son, to
the directors of Georgetown Col
lege, to the professors and students,
and to all those present and united
with you in your sesquicentennial
celebrations we import the apostolic
blessing.
Given at Rome from st. Peters,
on the XXI day of May, in the year
of Our Lord MDCCCCXXXIX, the
first of our pontificate.
"(Signed) Plus PIP. XII"
University Charter Read.
The convocation opened with the
reading of the congressional charter
of the university, dated 1915, by the
Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j., vice
president and chairman of the Ses-
quicentennial Committee. Then fol-
lowed a brief address of welcome by
DR.. OLeary, who alluded to "a
century and half of struggle" in
the progress and development of
the university.
"Georgetown has been builded
step by step with the self-sacrificing
hands and devoted hearts of long
line of men who have given their
time and their talehts and their
very lives to the training of the
hearts and minds and bodies of
youth" he said. I'VE take pride in
our past, and we feel that the rich
tradition of practical service to our
Nation during all these years gives
us every reason for great courage
and high hope that the future may
continue and even expand our
sphere of usefulness. The past Is
glowing lamp that will guide us
upwards and onwards toward the
goal of perfect service.
Mr. Scott, in the sesquicentennial
grafton stressed that "faith-just
plain fashioned faith in God,
and faith in ourselves" is the great
and immediate need of the world
today"
He declared the Constitution of
the United States, ratified the year
Georgetown College was founded, is
built around such principles of faith
as the college has inculcated in its