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Think  What  It  Would 
Mean  To  You 

A    Perpetual    Scholarship    is    the    Most    Magnificent 

Monument  —  The  Greatest  Memorial  a  Man  or 

Woman  Can  Leave  for  Future  Generations. 


F  you  were  a  boy  ambitious  for  a  college  edu- 
cation (but  lacking  the  means  to  pay  for  it)  — 
how  happy  you  would  be  were  some  generous- 
hearted  man  or  woman  to  come  to  you  and 
say,  "Son,  I  know  what  an  education  means 
to  you.    I  want  you  to  have  all  of  its  advan- 
tages and  I  am  willing  to  pay  the  expenses  of  giving  it  to 
you,  so  that  you  may  be  prepared  for  opportunity  and  realize 
the  greatest  success  in  life." 


Your  delight  at  such  an  unexpected  gift  could  only  be 
exceeded  by  the  supreme  satisfaction  and  happiness  afforded 
the  donor.  For  a  greater  reward  can  come  to  no  man  than 
the  knowledge  that  his  generosity  has  given  a  worthy  boy 
the  means  of  gaining  an  education  and  all  of  the  blessings 
that  it  affords. 

There  are  hundreds  of  fine  boys — without  means — who 
would  eagerly  welcome  the  chance  to  fit  themselves  for  places 
of  eminence  in  the  world  by  a  course  of  study  at  Loyola  Uni- 
versity. Unless  someone  takes  a  personal  interest  in  them, 
they  will  not  have  the  opportunity. 

By  endowing  a  perpetual  scholarship  you  can  give  a  great 
number  of  boys  a  valuable   Christian   education,  which   will 


make  them  successful  men  of  high  character  and  ideals  and 
enable  them  to  help  other  boys  in  a  similar  manner. 

$2500  will  endow  one  scholarship  in  perpetuity;  $5000  will 
endow  two  scholarships.  This  would  mean  that  through  your 
generosity  at  least  one  student  could  enter  Loyola  University 
every  four  years  (tuition  free)  for  all  time.  He  would  be 
your  boy.  He  would  recognize  you  as  his  sponsor,  for  the 
scholarship  would  bear  your  name.  You  would  take  a  great 
personal  interest  in  his  scholastic  success  and  his  achieve- 
ments. Everlasting  gratitude  to  you  would  be  an  ample  re- 
ward. 

A  man  can  pay  no  greater  tribute  to  anyone  than  to  say, 
"What  success  I  have  won  I  owe  to  the  generous  benefactor, 
who  helped  me  to  get  an  education." 

Why  not  be  such  a  benefactor?  For  generations  to  come 
your  name  will  be  remembered  by  countless  boys  to  whom 
your  generosity  will  bring  education  and  success. 

Full  details  regarding  the  Loyola  perpetual  scholarship 
plan  furnished  on  request. 


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Vol.  XVIII 


NOVEMBER,  1920 


Xumber  1 


The  Catholic  Spirit  of 
Joyce  Kilmer 

HE  present  age  is  one  of  critical  rather  than 
creative  literature,  yet  there  are  some  master 
minds  in  the  realms  of  fiction  and  poetry. 
Of  the  poetry  it  has  been  asked  why  some  of 
the  best  religious  poems  have  come  from  the 
pens  of  Catholics.  Such  questioning  has  led 
me  to  examine  the  poetry  of  Joyce  Kilmer,  the  "first  man  of 
letters  killed  under  the  American  flag"  in  the  Great  War.  To 
him  in  early  manhood  came  the  creative  joy  of  an  incom- 
parable spiritual  experience— the  birth  into  the  Body  of  the 
Church.  Joyce  Kilmer  was  an  enthusiastic  convert  and  his 
best  poems — written  after  his  conversion — are  enriched  with 
deep  religious  feeling,  for  it  always  must  be  that  the  vitality 
of  Catholic  faith  will  inspire  the  highest  and  best  of  religious 
poetry.     In  a  letter  to  H.  W.  Cook  he  wrote,  "If  what  I  now- 

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adays  write  is  considered  poetry,  then  I  became  a  poet  in 
November,  1913.  (The  day  he  became  a  Catholic.)  Again, 
to  Father  Daly,  S.  J.,  he  declares:  "I  don't  want  in  any  way 
to  make  money  out  of  my  religion,  to  seem  to  be  a  'profes- 
sional Catholic'  I  have  no  real  message  to  Catholics,  I  have 
Catholicism's  message  to  modern  pagans." 

But  though  he  believed  his  message  was  for  the  modern 
pagan,  he  appeals  with  greater  intensity  to  Catholic  hearts, 
who  better  understand  the  spirit  of  Christian  joy  and  hope 
that  dominates  even  the  saddest  of  his  songs. 

There  are  no  emotions  so  noble,  as  those  to  which  devout 
souls  are  admitted  in  communion  with  their  Maker.  When  to 
those  moods  the  true  poetic  gift  is  added  the  best  that  poetry 
can  do  reveals  itself  in  words.  To  Joyce  Kilmer  was  given 
the  great  gift  and  daily  communion  with  His  Maker  and  from 
them  resulted  his  songs  breathing  hope  and  love. 

Human  life  in  its  varied  phases  was  the  theme  of  most  of 
his  poems ;  yet  he  viewed  life  as  on  the  threshold  of  an  invis- 
ible world  which  threw  a  divine  glow  on  incidents  the  most 
commonplace  and  gave  them  a  divine  quality. 

The  rapturous  worship  of  the  "grandeur  of  God"  which 
Kilmer  praised  in  Father  Gerard  Hopkins  may  be  found  in 
certain  of  his  own  poems — eloquently  in  "Memorial  Day"  in 
the  lines : 

"May  we,  their  grateful  children  learn 
Their  strength,  who  lie  beneath  this  sod, 
Who  went  through  fire  and  death  to  earn 
At  last  the  accolade  of  God." 

And  in  the  "Rosary"  in  the  lines 

"When  on  their  beads  our  Mother's  children  pray, 
Immortal  music  charms  the  grateful  sky." 

he  pictures  the  effect  of  the  sweetest  of  Catholic  prayers. 


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Only  a  poet  who  kept  the  vision  of  faith  before  his  eyes 
and  love  in  his  breast  could  sing  the  pathetic  psalm  of  praise, 
so  self  prophetic,  "In  Memory  of  Rupert  Brooke," 

"In  alien  earth  across  a  troubled  sea, 

His  body  lies  that  was  so  fair  and  young. 

His  mouth  is  stopped  with  half  his  songs  unsung; 

His  arm  is  still,  that  struck  to  make  men  free, 

But  let  no  cloud  of  lamentations  be 

Where,  on  a  warrior's  grave  a  lyre  is  hung. 
We  keep  the  echoes  of  his  golden  tongue, 

We  keep  the  vision  of  his  chivalry. 

So  Israel's  joy,  the  loveliest  of  kings, 

Smote  now  his  harp,  and  now  the  hostile  horde. 

Today  the  starry  roof  of  Heaven  rings 

With  psalms  a  soldier  made  to  praise  his  Lord ; 

And  David  rests  beneath  Eternal  wings, 

Song  on  his  lips,  and  in  his  hand  a  sword." 

Here  is  a  poem  holy  enough  to  be  read  on  one's  knees 
before  the  star-like  light  which  points  the  tabernacle  door: 

"O  blinding  Light,  O  blinding  Light ! 
Burn  through  my  heart  with  sweetest  pain. 
O  flaming  Song,  most  loudly  bright, 
Consume  away  my  deadlv  stain ! 

O  Whiteness,  whiter  than  the  fleece 
Of  new-washed  sheep  on  April  sod! 
O  Breath  of  Life,  O  Prince  of  Peace, 
O  Lamb  of  God,  O  Lamb  of  God." 

None  but  a  Catholic  heart  can  feel  the  awful  sweetness  of 
these  lines. 

The  Catholic  truth  that  out  of  death  must  come  life,  out 
of  sorrow,  joy,  he  invests  with  a  poetic  dignity  in  "Poets." 


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"They  shall  not  live  who  have  not  tasted  death. 
They  only  sing  who  are  struck  dumb  by  God." 

In  one  of  his  recent  poems,  "Prayer  of  a  Soldier  in  France," 
he  walks  step  by  step  with  His  Lord,  the  weary  way  of  the 
cross  and  finds  comfort  in  his  suffering.  This  poem  is  alive 
with  the  spirit  with  which  the  Church  would  have  her  chil- 
dren bear  their  sufferings. 

"My  shoulders  ache  beneath  my  pack 
(Lie  easier,  Cross,  upon  His  back.) 

I  march  with  feet  that  burn  and  smart 
(Tread,  Holy  feet,  upon  my  heart.) 

Men  shout  at  me  who  may  not  speak 

(They  scourged  Thy  back  and  smote  Thy  cheek). 

I  may  not  lift  a  hand  to  clear 
My  eyes  of  salty  drops  that  sear. 

(Then  shall  my  fickle  soul  forget 
Thy  Agony  of  Bloody  Sweat?) 

My  rifle  hand  is  stiff  and  numb 

(From  Thy  pierced  palm  red  rivers  come) 

Lord,  Thou  didst  suffer  more  for  me 
Than  all  the  hosts  of  land  and  sea. 

So  let  me  render  back  again 

This  millionth  of  Thy  gift.    Amen. 

The  last  four  lines  tell  us  how  the  war  affected  Kilmer  and 
contain  the  key  to  his  warrior's  heart. 

Some  think  "Poets"  may  indeed  be  Kilmer's  finest  utter- 
ance, others  select  "Trees,"  and  still  others  the  "Rosary." 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  7 

To  Katherine  Bregy  Kilmer  wrote  "I  am  greatly  pleased 
when  people  like  "Trees,"  "Stars,"  and  "Pennies,"  when  they 
see  that  "Folly"  is  a  religious  poem,  when  they  praise  the 
stanza  fourth  from  the  end  of  "Delicatessen." 

"Trees"  is  exquisite  in  its  simplicity  and  was  at  once  re- 
printed in  newspapers  throughout  the  United  States  and  trans- 
lated into  other  languages.  What  philosophy  we  find  in  the 
lines : 

"Poems  are  made  by  fools  like  me 
But  only  God  can  make  a  tree." 

Bui  it  is  the  philosophy  of  a  humble  Catholic  heart. 

How  true  are  these  lines  from  "Pennies,"  in  which  the  poet 
portrays  the  Fathership  of  our  loving  God. 

"So  unto  men 
Doth  God,  depriving  that  He  may  bestow. 
Fame,  health,  and  money  go, 
But  that  they  may,  new  found  be  newly  sweet." 

Kilmer  had  learned  to  walk  familiarly  with  the  saints  of 
God  when  he  wrote  "Folly."  In  it  he  sang  a  song  that  needed 
courage  to  be  flaunted  to  an  "efficient"  and  sophisticated  gen- 
eration. In  it  he  repeats  the  truth  that  from  the  viewpoint  of 
the  world  our  Catholic  saints  are  fools. 

"What  distant  mountains  thrill  and  glow 
Beneath  our  Lady  Folly's  tread? 
Why  has  she  left  us,  wise  in  woe 
Shrewd,  practical,  uncomforted? 

Many  a  knight  and  gentle  maid, 
Whose  glory  shines  from  years  gone  by, 
Through  ignorance  was  unafraid 
And  as  a  fool  knew  how  to  die. 


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Saint  Folly  rode  beside  Jehanne 
And  broke  the  ranks  of  Hell  with  her, 
And  Folly's  smile  shone  brightly  on 
Christ's  plaything,  Brother  Juniper. 

Our  minds  are  troubled  and  defiled 

By  study  in  a  weary  school, 
O  for  the  folly  of  the  child! 

The  ready  courage  of  the  fool ! 
Lord,  crush  our  knowledge  utterly 

And  make  us  humble,  simple  men; 
And  cleansed  of  wisdom,  let  us  see 

Our  Lady  Folly's  face  again." 

But  it  was  not  with  the  saints  alone  that  he  walked  famil- 
iarly, he  was  the  loving  son  of  our  Blessed  Lady  and  to  her 
he  offered  his  work  to  be  given  to  her  Divine  Son. 

In  a  letter  to  his  wife  Kilmer  says,  "I  can  honestly  offer 
"Trees"  and  "Main  Street"  to  our  Lady  and  ask  her  to  pre- 
sent them  to  her  Son." 

How  beautifully  he  had  made  the  commonplace  street  a  fit 
offering  to  the  Divine,  may  be  judged  from  the  following 
stanza : 

"God  be  thanked  for  the  Milky  Way  that  runs  across  the  sky, 
That's  the  path  that  my  feet  would  tread  whenever  I  have  to 

die. 
Some  folks  call  it  a  Silver  Sword,  and  some  a  Pearly  Crown, 
But  the  only  thing  I  think  it  is,  is  Main  Street,  Heaventown." 

What  love  and  mutual  understanding  existed  between  hus- 
band and  wife.  Referring  to  some  of  her  poems  which  she 
seni  to  him  he  said,  "No  they  didn't  bring  you  before  me — 
yon  are  always  before  me  in  heart  and  brain — but  it's  danger- 
ous to  write  this — it  draws  so  tight  the  cords  that  bind  me  to 
you  that  they  cut  painfully  into  my  flesh.     Well,  we  are  to  be 


LOYOLA   UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  9 

together  sometime,  inevitably  and  soon  in  terms  of  eternity. 
How  unhappy  must  lovers  be  who  have  not  the  gracious  gift 
of  faith." 

I  quote  at  length  a  beautiful  letter  in  which  Kilmer  gives 
expression  to  his  requirements  of  a  Catholic  writer.  His  writ- 
ings answer  the  test. 

"Speaking  of  publishers  please  be  very  careful  that  there 
is  nothing  in  the  book  you  and  Margaret  wrote  to  offend,  in 
the  slightest  degree.  I  would  go  so  far  as  to  say  that  if  the 
spirit  of  the  book  is  not  obviously  and  definitely  Catholic — 
readily  so  recognized  by  Catholic  readers — it  would  grieve  me 
to  see  it  published  with  your  name  attached — grieve  me  deeply. 
I  don't  want  anyone  to  say  of  you,  'There  is  nothing  about  that 
novel  to  show  she  is  a  Catholic'  I  don't  think  Catholic  writers 
should  spend  their  time  writing  tracts  and  Sunday-school 
books,  but  I  think  that  the  Faith  should  illuminate  everything 
they  write,  grave  or  gay.  The  Faith  is  radiantly  apparent  in 
your  last  poems.  It  is  in  Tom  Daly's  clowning  as  it  is  in  his 
lofrier  moods.  Of  course  anyone  would  rather  write  like 
Francis  Thompson  than  like  Swinburne.  But  I  can  honestly 
say  that  I'd  rather  write  like  John  Ayscough  than  William 
Makepiece  Thackeray — infinitely  greater  artist  though  Thack- 
eray be.  You  see,  the  Catholic  Faith  is  such  a  thing  that  I'd 
rather  write  moderately  well  about  it  than  magnificently  well 
about  anything  else.  It  is  more  important,  more  beautiful, 
more  necessarv  than  anything  else  in  life.  You  and  I  have 
seen  miracles — let  us  never  cease  to  celebrate  them.  You 
know  that  this  is  not  the  first  fever  of  a  convert's  enthusiasm 
— it  is  the  permanent  conviction  of  a  man  who  prayed  daily 
for  months  for  the  Faith  that  grace  was  given  him.  The 
Faith  has  done  wonderful  things  for  you,  but  I  think  since  I 
ha^e  been  in  France  it  has  done  more  for  me.  It  has  carried 
me  through  experiences  that  I  could  not  otherwise  have  en- 
dured. Therefore — let  me  put  my  most  earnest  request — be 
zealous  in  using  your  exquisite  talent  in  His  service  of  whom, 
I  am  glad  to  have  said,  Apollo  was  a  shadow." 


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"Please  see  that  Kenton  learns  to  serve  Mass,  won't  you?" 
is  an  appeal  which  recurs  in  his  letters.  "Sorry  to  keep  teas- 
ing you  about  this,  but  you  never  write  anything  about  it." 
And  again  in  one  of  his  very  last  letters  "is  Kenton  serving 
Mass  yet?  Please  have  him  do  so."  Kilmer  was  daily  draw- 
ing nearer  and  nearer  to  God.  He  ended  a  letter  to  Father 
F.  Garesche,  S.  ].,  with  the  words  "pray  for  me,  my  dear 
Father,  that  I  may  love  God  more  and  that  I  may  be  unceas- 
ingly conscious  of  Him — that  is  the  greatest  desire  I  have." 

These  lines  are  a  prelude  to  "The  Peacemaker"  written  on 
June  14,  "We  are  peacemakers,  we  soldiers  of  the  169th,  we 
are  risking  our  lives  to  bring  back  peace  to  the  simple,  gener- 
ous, gay,  pious  people  of  France,  whom  anyone — knowing  them 
as  I  have  come  to  know  them  in  the  last  six  months — must 
pity  and  love." 

"Upon  his  will  he  binds  a  radiant  chain, 

For  Freedom's  sake  he  is  no  longer  free 
It  is  his  task,  the  slave  of  Liberty, 

With  his  own  blood  to  wipe  away  a  stain. 

That  pain  may  cease,  he  yields  his  flesh  to  pain. 
To  banish  war,  he  must  a  warrior  be. 

He  dwells  in  Night,  eternal  Dawn  to  see, 

And  gladly  dies,  abundant  life  to  gain. 

What  matters  Death,  if  Freedom  be  not  dead? 

No  flags  are  fair,  if  Freedom's  flag  be  furled. 

Who  fights  for  Freedom,  goes  with  joyful  tread 
To  meet  the  fires  of  Hell  against  him  hurled, 

And  has  for  captain  Him  whose  thorn-wreathed  head 

Smiles  from  the  Cross  upon  a  conquered  world." 

"The  Thorn"  is  a  tribute  to  the  warrior  St.  Michael  who 
has  nobly  answered  his  devotee's  prayer. 

"St.  Michael  is  the  thorn  on  the  rosebush  of  God. 
The  Ivory  Tower  is  fair  to  see 
And  may  her  walls  encompass  me ! 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  11 

But  when  the  Devil  comes  with  the  thunder  of  his  might 
St.  Michael,  show  me  how  to  fight." 

The  battle  cry  that  rang  in  Kilmer's  ears  is  found  in  the 
last  stanza  of  his  poem  "Stars,"  written  in  the  white  heat  of 
poetic  thought  and  afire  with  love  of  the  God  of  battle. 

"Christ's  Troop,  Mary's  Guard,  God's  own  men, 
Draw  your  swords  and  strike  at  Hell  and  strike  again. 
Every  steel-born  spark  that  flies  where  God's  battle  are 
Flashes  past  the  face  of  God,  and  is  a  star." 

Death  in  battle  is  for  a  poet  an  accolade — it  enobles  him, 
gives  him  a  high  significance.  At  once  his  songs  assume  a 
richer  color  from  the  beauty  of  his  devotion  and  the  people 
in  whose  service  he  died  cherish  them  dearly.  Thus  Kilmer 
dying  gallantly  in  the  Great  War  achieved  undying  fame.  The 
following  sonnet  appeared  after  his  death  in  the  New  York 
Times: 

"He  loved  the  songs  of  nature  and  art ; 
He  heard  enchanting  voices  everywhere, 
The  sight  of  trees  against  the  sunlit  air, 
And  fields  of  flowers  filled  with  joy  his  heart. 
He  knew  the  romance  of  the  busy  mart, 
The  Magic  of  Manhattan's  throbbing  life, 
And  sensed  the  glory  of  the  poor  man's  strife, 
And  humbly  walked  with  Jesus  Christ  apart. 

All  kindly  things  were  brother  to  his  soul ; 
Evil  he  scorned  and  hated  every  wrong ; 
Gentle — another's  wounds  oft  wounded  him. 
But  when  his  country  called  the  freedmen's  roll 
Forwith  he  laid  aside  some  wondrous  song, 
And  joined  in  Flanders  God's  own  Cherubim." 

Kilmer's  poem,  "Rouge  Bouquet,"  which  was  first  recited 
at  his  own  funeral  is  remarkably  characteristic.    The  tragedy 


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which  inspired  it  was  the  explosion  of  a  German  shell,  just 
outside  the  entrance  to  the  dugout  belonging  to  his  own 
regiment,  which  killed  the  occupants  and  sealed  them  in  their 
graves.  The  last  stanza  admirably  portrays  the  stanch  Cath- 
olic soul  of  this  brave  soldier.  When  the  refrain  which  calls 
for  the  sounding  of  taps  on  a  bugle  was  read  everyone  present 
burst  into  tears. 

"There  is  on  earth  no  worthier  grave 
To  hold  the  bodies  of  the  brave 
Than  this  place  of  pain  and  pride 
Where  they  nobly  fought  and  died. 
Never  fear  but  in  the  skies 
Saints  and  angels  stand 
Smiling  with  their  holy  eyes 
On  this  new-come  band. 
St.  Michael's  sword  darts  through  the  air 
And  touches  the  aureole  on  his  hair 

As  he  sees  them  standing  here, 

His  stalwart  sons ; 
And  Patrick,  Brigid,  Columkill 
Rejoice  that  in  veins  of  warriors  still 

The  Gael's  blood  runs. 
And  up  to  Heaven's  doorway  floats, 

From  the  wood  called  Rouge  Bouquet, 
A  delicate  cloud  of  buglenotes 
That  softly  say: 
"Farewell ! 
"Farewell ! 
Comrades  true,  born  anew,  peace  to  you ! 
Your  souls  shall  be  where  the  heroes  are 
And  your  memory  shine  like  the  morning-star. 
Brave  and  dear, 
Shield  us  here, 
Farewell !" 
Farewell !" 

S.  M.  C. 


Octave 

"WJfTHERE  winds  the  river  through  the 
ff  smiling  vale 

The  elm's  tall  grace  is  etched  in  somber 

hue, 
The  water  flags  repose,   their  radiant 
blue 
Fades  when   it  meets   the  sky  serene  and 
pale. 


No  cloud  with  billowy  whiteness  hides  the 
sun, 
The   soft   winds   set    the   lush,   young 

grass  asway, 
The  robin's  voice  is  heard  and  fades 
away. 
A   lark   is  singing   where   the  zuaters  run. 


J.  M.  Cullen. 


13 


Compensation 


lAMUEL  TUCKER  sat  before  the  oriel  over- 
looking the  busy  street,  as  lorn  as  the  way- 
side pool  that  watches,  with  wistful  longing, 
t,he  river's  everlasting  rush  to  the  sea. 

Some  months  before,  during  the  harsh 
symphony  at  the  Argonne,  he  had,  in  a 
reckless  mood  of  opportunism,  prayed  for  deafness ;  and, 
explain  it  as  you  may,  his  ears  were  verily  sealed  up. 

To  Samuel,  deafness  was  oblivion.  Life  was  a  good 
enough  thing,  when  your  Youth  could  swagger  with  mag- 
nificent conceit,  and  boast  that  It  and  Love  and  Romance 
and  Spring  were  fresher  than  divine  dreams;  but  Youth,' 
without  its  grace  and  its  light,  was  as  dull  as  death. 

A  friend  of  his — Howard  Yane,  a  pale,  nervous  young 
man  who  wrote  pale,  incomprehensible  poetrv  for  several 
cull-magazines  —  was  a  hot  disputant.  He  made  long  visits, 
attempting  to  persuade  Samuel  to  practise  the  science  of 
Optimism,  one  of  the  themes  on  which  his  abominable  muse, 
with  a  shrill  treble  incoherence,  was  always  piping.  Samuel's 
rooms  were  littered  with  his  cryptic  verse :  odes,  that  even 
vioiated  the  spacious  canons  of  vers  libre ;  and  sonnets,  with- 
out enough  sense  to  make  nonsense.  They  were  mostly  lines 
like: 

Give  me  ears  of  stone, 

That  I  may  hear 

Conscience 

Say  to  my  Soul : 

"Wherefore,  mate, 

Heedst  thou  me  not  ?" 

And  Soul : 

"Thou   shrew  ! 
I  cannot  bide  Thee." 
Give  me  ears  of  stone ! 
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I  care  not  for  the  birds — 

For  in  my  Soul 

There  is a  song. 

Though  Samuel  would  read  them  with  a  desperate  effort  to 
appear  charmed,  they  bored  him  terribly. 

"What  a  mean  thing  Life  is!"  he  would  ponder  grimly. 
"What  a  poor,  ironical,  disappointing  thing !" 

Certainly,  he  thought,  no  intelligent  man  could  be  optimistic 
under  misfortune.  Optimism  was  an  inane  consent  to  the 
pitiless  gods  that  had  chastised  you.  What  ridiculous  fools 
mtii  were !  Howard  Vane,  with  his  passionate  preachments 
of  hope  and  long-suffering,  was  only  a  poor,  deluded  apologist 
for  the  caprices  of  man's  misrulers.  Sorrow,  if  you  will 
allow  it,  teaches  the  only  truth:  that  behind  the  plot  of  Life 
there  is  no  pity;  and  man,  of  all  Nature,  has  been  cursed 
with  an  intellect  to  interpret  his  feeling,  and  understand  the 
tragedy  of  his  existence. 


His  worst  moods  of  despondency  came  upon  him,  when 
he  sat  before  the  window,  looking  out  upon  the  passing  folk. 
Ac  first,  it  used  to  irk  him  considerably,  the  matter-of-fact 
carelessness  with  which  people  bore  their  health ;  but  later 
on,  after  he  had  made  a  thorough  study  of  the  queer  animal 
called  man,  and  developed  a  sufficiently  sound  psychology  to 
attempt  an  interpretation  of  it,  he  felt  differently;  this,  he 
thought,  was  a  mere  phase  of  the  strategy  Nature  used  in 
her  pitiless  policy  of  discrimination.  Poor  man  was  irre- 
sponsible, except  him  to  whom  the  great  spiritual  vision  was 
given,  in  a  moment  when  Jupiter  was  getting  facetious  in 
his  cups,  that  sees  the  stark  soul  of  Tragedy  —  men,  in 
blind  earnest  with  their  destinies,  playing  an  unwitting  farce 
for  the  amusement  of  the  gods. 

These  thoughts  depressed  Samuel ;  he  wondered,  since  they 
made  him  so  uneasy  after  they  left  him,  if  they  were  sins. 
Undoubtedly  they  were,  a  Christian  casuist  would  sav ;  but, 


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thought  Samuel  a  bit  humorously,  Christian  casuists  are  not 
called  upon  to  solve  moral  dilemmas  anymore.  He  recognized, 
with  a  bit  of  pride,  that  his  progressive  thinking  would  entitle 
him  to  a  sort  of  esoteric  distinction.  What  if  conscience  re- 
buked him?  he  could  say  that  there  was  truth  in  his  judgments. 

"I  learned  the  folly  of  it  all  in  the  War,"  he  said  within 
himself,  "when  hidden  kings  sent  me,  and  most  of  the  world 
besides,  to  destroy  one  Imperialism  that  their  own  might  be 
strengthened.  Just  a  few  rule  the  world;  the  rest  of  us  are 
all  slaves.  We  pity  the  old  tyrannies  and  despotisms,  while 
an  absolutism  of  terrific  effectiveness  gripes  ourselves.  The 
only  difference  is  that  where  there  was  once  the  splendour 
of  royal  ermine,  there  is  now  the  modest  Prince  Albert  coat 
and  spats." 

He  was  in  the  same  state  of  mind  as  Sophocles  was 
when  he  wrote  Antigone,  and  as  Shakespeare  was  when  he 
wrote  Hamlet.  "Dreadful  is  the  mysterious  power  of  fate" — 
how  consummately  the  master-genius  of  these  great  dramatists 
represented  the  wilful  cruelty  of  the  gods. 


One  morning  in  the  glad  Spring,  Samuel  sat  watching  the 
people  pass  beneath  his  window,  with  a  fresh  heart.  The 
faint  odour  of  budding  lilacs  was  in  his  nostrils,  and  the 
flavour  of  young,  green  trees. 

Suddenly  he  sat  up  in  his  chair,  wonder-stricken.  Below 
he  saw  what  seemed  to  him  a  vision,  a  girl  of  fairy  beauty, 
like  some  fair  Enid  of  Old  Romance ;  and  his  youth,  vivid 
again,  daring  as  of  old,  was  glorious  in  his  eyes. 

She  looked  up  at  him  startled,  flushed  delicately,  and 
srmled. 

When  she  had  gone,  he  let  himself  weakly  down  into  his 
chair  and  took  a  great,  deep  breath.  His  nerves  were  tingling 
painfully  and  his  mind  was  chaotic.  But  it  was  delicious ; 
"the  goddess  Aphrodite  was  working  her  unconquerable  will"  ; 
Love  had  come  to  make  him  mad. 

He  waited  davs  for  her  to  come  again,  and  when,  after 


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a  week's  anxious  vigil,  she  made  no  fresh  appearance,  the 
fearful  apprehension  seized  him  that  he  would  see  her  no 
more.  As  though  he  had  been  assured  this  was  to  be  so,  he 
began  to  reconcile  himself  to  his  loss. 

It  was  another  bitter  trick  of  the  gods :  not  content  with 
having  made  him  deaf,  they  must  make  him  bear  more  woes. 
Bul,  deuce  take  it !  —  he  was  deaf ;  he  had  not  thought  of 
that  before ;  how  foolish  it  is  for  a  deaf  man  to  love !  Beauty 
such  as  hers  would  shrink  from  his  stricken  youth  as  from 
a  foul  thing. 

But  pride  flouted  this  thought  with  a  snarl.  Pride  is  the 
most  puissant  prince  in  all  Egodom. 

"What  difference  does  it  make,  after  all,"  he  reasoned 
with  admirable  unreasonableness.  "If  she  has  a  noble  heart, 
as  I  am  sure  she  has,  my  deafness  will  not  matter."* 

A  burning  indignation  got  hold  of  him  towards  the  hard- 
hearted portion  of  mankind  that  deprecated  a  man  with  an 
infirmity.  In  the  natural  order  of  things,  his  next  mood 
vvould  have  been  a  sentimental  burst  of  self-sympathy. 

But  she  was  passing  again.  He  got  to  his  feet  and  stood 
cloce  to  the  window,  looking  out  at  her  with  adoration.  Again, 
she  looked  up  and  smiled,  and  passed  on. 

A  sudden  daring  resolution  arose  in  him.  He  got  his  hat 
and  cane,  and  left  the  house,  taking  the  direction  in  which 
she  had  gone.  She  was  just  a  short  distance  ahead  of  him, 
and  if  he  had  taken  a  few  rapid  strides,  might  have  caught 
up  with  her  at  once.  But  he  lagged ;  some  cowardly  voice 
inside  of  him  was  urging  him  to  turn  about  and  flee.  He 
had  a  dreadful  fear  that  he  was  going  to  humiliate  himself  — 
the  most  demoralizing  spectre  in  human  nature. 

But  after  he  had  followed  her  several  blocks,  Samuel 
overcame  all  resistance  to  his  original  resolution,  and  with 
a  sudden  burst  of  courage,  he  fell  into  a  brisk  stride,  and 
soon  overtook  her. 


*I   am   indebted  to   Robert   Chambers    for  this   bit   of   lover's   psy- 
chology. 


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"I  beg  your  pardon,"  he  began,  tremulously,  raising  his 
hat.  She  spun  around,  frightened  at  first,  and  faced  him. 
Recognition  came  immediately ;  her  face  was  lovely  with  a 
flush  of  rose. 

"I  feel  that  I  know  you,"  Samuel  went  on,  not  so  un- 
steadily. "I  hope  that  you  will  not  think  me  rude  for  address- 
ing you  like  this." 

He  could  see  her  lips  parting ;  he  wanted  to  know  what 
it  was  she  was  saying.  He  took  from  his  pocket  a  pad  of 
paper  which  he  carried  about  for  such  emergencies,  and  a 
pencil,  and  extended  them  to  her. 

"My  hearing  was  affected  in  the  war,"  he  explained,  as 
though  he  were  confessing  to  some  shameful  misdemeanour. 

Her  eyes  grew  big  with  an  expression  he  could  not  inter- 
pret ;  and  raising  a  little  hand,  she  moved  the  fingers  upon  it 
vvilh  bewildering  rapidity,  evidently  intending  to  convey  some 
message  by  their  movements.  Samuel  blushed  to  the  roots  of 
his  hair ;  could  she  be  ridiculing  him,  he  thought.  She  saw 
that  he  was  mystified,  and  took  the  pencil  and  pad  from  him. 
He  watched  her  write  with  whole-souled  suspense,  and  at  last, 
when  she  had  finished  scribbling,  almost  feared  to  take  the 
paper  from  her.  But,  as  the  sententious  Horgil  hath  it  in 
his  Maxims,  things  that  must  be  must  move  on  to  their 
fulfillment ;  and  Samuel  bent  his  eyes  down  and  scanned  the 
note: 

"God  bless  you,  brave  soldier-boy,  for  your  noble  heart. 
Don't  be  dejected  over  your  deafness,  for  every  misfortune 
has  some  good  at  bottom.  I  was  very  happy,  and  yet  I  am 
dumb." 

Dumb !  He  raised  his  eyes  quickly  and  looked  at  her. 
How  was  it  that  he  had  ever  seen  beauty  in  "her". 

"Good-day !"  he  said  briefly,  raising  his  hat ;  and  swinging 
about,  he  hurried  home. 

What  greater  fool  is  there  than  he  who  says  in  his  heart : 
"There  is  no  wise  God." 

W.  D.  Powers. 


Autumn 


QHADOWS  and  light— 
k*y   A  sandy  path  to  climb  and  trees 
around, 
An  age-old  basswood,  dead, 
Supports   a   creeping   ivy,   green   with 
life. 
The  acorns  drop  among  the  rustling 
leaves, 
And  chipmunks  scamper  through  the 

oaks. 
A  squirrel  is  hurrying  to  fill  the 
winter's  hoard; 
And  all  things  reach  toward  heaven 
And  the  light. 


J.  M.  CULLEN. 


19 


A  Review  of  Two  Lincolns 


HERE  have  recently  been  presented  to  the 
American  public,  two  dramas :  both  en- 
deavoring to  portray  a  great  man — Abraham 
Lincoln.  The  author  of  one,  strange  to  say, 
is  an  Englishman,  John  Drinkwater,  whose 
presentation  of  Lincoln  has  attained  the 
height  of  popularity  in  London,  Washington  and  New  York. 
We  regret  that  the  other  drama  by  Thomas  Dixon  is  accepted 
with  less  enthusiasm,  and  that  an  American  audience  is  so 
susceptible  to  the  charms  of  an  English  playright. 

It  was  in  Washington  that  Mr.  Drinkwater's  play  made 
its  first  appearance  in  America.  There  in  the  nation's  capital, 
in  a  period  of  tense  political  situations,  and  before  the  ex- 
pectant gaze  of  senators  and  congressmen,  the  curtain  rose 
upon  the  life  of  Lincoln. 

The  darkened  theatre  is  hushed,  as  Lincoln  personified  by 
Frank  McGlynn,  walks  into  the  old  fashioned  sitting  room 
of  his  home  at  Springfield,  and  somewhat  too  graciously  meets 
the  Republican  committee  from  Chicago.  They  formally  state 
their  mission,  and  Lincoln,  after  mature  deliberation,  accepts 
the  nomination  for  President.  The  conference  closed,  and 
the  master  statesman  stands  before  the  map  of  his  country  in 
solemn  reflection.  Their,  correspondent  with  the  tradition  of 
his  trust  in  Divine  intervention,  the  curtain  descends,  leaving 
him  in  an  attitude  of  supplication. 

Scene  two  of  the  play  is  laid  in  Seward's  apartment.  A 
lapse  of  twelve  months  has  not  dealt  any  too  gently  with  the 
President ;  he  has  aged  from  care  and  solicitude  for  his 
countrymen.  Jennings  and  White  have  come  to  Seward  from 
the  South  in  the  hope  that  he  might  persuade  the  President 
to  evacuate  Fort  Sumter.  The  vacillating  Seward  is  influ- 
enced, and  is  on  the  brink  of  resigning,  when  Lincoln's  kindly 
manner  and  flawless  logic  smote  him.    The  President  refuses 

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LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  21 

to  abandon  the  Fort,  and,  in  opposition  to  his  cabinet  orders 
that  supplies  be  sent  at  once  to  the  starving  stronghold. 

Somehow,  as  the  curtain  falls  upon  this  second  episode, 
we  Americans  instinctively  realize  that  there  is  no  actor  or 
playright  who  can  portray  the  characteristics  of  the  Lincoln 
that  we  have  learned  to  know  from  tradition,  from  our 
histories,  from  the  researches  of  Ida  M.  Tarbell,  from  Irving 
Bacheller  and  various  others. 

In  the  third  act,  the  scene  is  laid  in  the  President's  home. 
Mrs.  Lincoln  proves  to  be  a  genial  hostess  to  two  strongly 
contrasted  guests.  Mrs.  Goliath  Blow,  the  wife  of  a  profiteer- 
ing army  contractor  is  insistent  in  her  antagonism  to  the 
South.  The  President  evinces  deep  emotion  and  dismisses 
her  with  the  following  words :  "You,  who  have  sacrificed 
nothing,  babble  about  destroying  the  South  while  other  people 
conquer  it.  I  accepted  this  war  with  a  sick  heart,  and  I've 
a  neart  that  is  near  to  breaking  every  day.  I  accepted  it  in 
the  name  of  humanity,  and  just  and  merciful  dealing  and 
the  hope  of  love  and  charity  on  earth.  And  you  come  to 
me  talking  of  revenge,  and  destruction,  and  malice,  and  en- 
during hate.  These  gentle  people  are  mistaken,  but  they  are 
mistaken  cleanly  and  in  a  great  name.  It  is  you  who  dishonor 
the  cause  for  which  we  stand ;  it  is  you  who  would  make 
it  a  mean  and  little  thing.  Good-afternoon."  Mrs.  Lincoln's 
other  guest,  Mrs.  Otherly,  begs  the  President  to  discontinue 
the  war,  and  informs  him  of  her  son's  death  in  battle.  The 
great  man  takes  her  hands  in  his  and  mutely  sorrows  with 
the  bereaved  mother.  After  some  moments  had  passed,  he 
said:  "Madam,  there  are  times  when  no  man  can  speak. 
I  —  I  grieve  with  you." 

The  incident  in  the  cabinet  room  is  the  scene  of  the  fourth 
act.  The  news  of  McClellan's  victory  at  Antietam  has  just 
arnved  and  Lincoln,  contrary  to  the  wishes  of  the  majority 
of  the  cabinet  signs  his  emancipation  proclamation :    "that  all 

persons  held  as  slaves shall  be  then,   thenceforward 

and  forever  free." 


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Act  five,  undoubtedly  the  most  dramatic  incident  of  the 
play  is  Grant's  headquarters  near  Appomattox.  There  is  no 
sense  of  the  melodrama.  It  is  night  as  the  President  comes 
to  await  the  news  from  Meade  who  has  surrounded  Lee's 
force.  And  there  in  the  flickering  shadows  of  a  single  candle 
the  great  man  pardons  the  boy  who  was  waiting  to  be  shot 
for  sleeping  while  on  duty.  Then  he  stretches  his  wrearied 
form  against  two  camp  chairs  and  Grant,  with  rough  reverence 
throws  over  him  his  own  army  cape.  The  dawn  trickles 
through  the  window  panes,  and  Meade  arrives  with  the  sur- 
render of  Lee.  Later,  the  heroic  figure  of  Lee  enters,  and 
gratefully  accepts  the  simple  terms  of  Grant.  "You  are  most 
magnanimous !"  The  climax  of  the  drama  occurs  when  Grant 
graciously  refuses  the  sword  of  Lee :  "It  has  but  one  rightful 
place." 

The  final  act  which  might  have  been  profitably  omitted, 
is  laid  outside  the  President's  box  at  Ford's  Opera  House. 
We  hear  the  lines  of  the  players,  also  the  enthusiastic  applause 
of  the  audience  after  the  President's  speech.  Edwin  Booth 
stealthily  strides  towards  the  box  where  Lincoln  and  his 
guests  are  seated.  There  is  a  shot — a  scream — then  silence. 
Then  Secretary  Stanton  emerged  from  the  presence  of  his  dead 
chief  and  exclaims :    "Now  he  belongs  to  the  ages." 

Oh  for  another  Lincoln !  Oh  for  a  contemperary  master — 
man  such  as  the  great  political  leader  of  the  Civil  War,  the 
hero  of  1861  !  It  was  evident  even  in  his  early  years,  that 
the  crude  pioneer  of  Illinois  was  skilled  in  the  science  of 
government.  In  the  old  days  when  he  courted  the  fair  Ann 
Rutledge  in  primitive  New  Salem,  he  read,  and  re-read  and 
pondered  on  the  "Life  of  Washington,"  the  "History  of  the 
United  States,"  and  the  "Statues  of  Indiana." 

Ralph  Adams  Cram  writes :  "The  soul  of  sane  man  de- 
mands leadership,  and  in  spite  of  academic  aphorisms  on 
Equality,  a  dim  consciousness  survives  of  the  fundamental 
truth  that  without  strong  leadership  democracy  is  a  menace; 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  23 

without  strong  leadership   culture   and  even   civilization   will 
pass  away." 

Mr.  Dixon,  it  seems  to  me  has  drawn  a  living  Lincoln : 
one  that  is  by  no  means  perfect,  but  it  is  not  remote  nor 
unlraditional. 

The  author's  triumph  is  mutually  shared  by  Mr.  Howard 
Hall  whose  role  of  Lincoln  is  more  than  satisfying.  His 
natural  bluntness  and  uncouth  manners ;  his  tall  noble  stature, 
his  general  unkempt  appearance  combine  with  his  accom- 
plished acting  to  make  "A  Man  of  the  People,"  a  classic.  Mr. 
Dixon  unlike  the  English  playright  has  added  graphic  touches 
of  humor,  pathos  and  climax  to  truth  and  has  evolved  a  drama 
that  is  far  superior  to  that  of  his  rival. 

The  play  abounds  in  stirring  scenes.  There  is  an  incident 
of  1864  when  the  Republican  committee  demands  Lincoln  to 
withdraw  his  name  from  the  presidential  contest.  There  are 
glimpses  of  the  President's  stormy  interviews  with  McClellan 
and  Stanton  The  interest  of  the  audience  is  especially  aroused 
when  a  young  officer  attempts  to  shoot  the  President.  The 
climax  of  the  drama  is  the  critical  hour  when  the  President 
listens  anxiously  over  a  telegraphic  instrument  until  Sherman 
wires  that  he  has  taken  Atlanta.  There  is  a  pathetic  situation 
when  the  little  Quaker  maiden  effectually  pleads  the  pardon 
of  her  brother,  and  Lincoln's  happineess  is  evident  on  the 
careworn  face  as  he  signs  the  paper  that  means  a  life. 
And  then  there  is  a  southern  girl  who  begs  the  President  to 
allow  her  to  pass  through  the  lines  to  visit  her  wounded 
father  in  Richmond. 

There  are  numberless  such  incidents  which  depict  the  lov- 
able character  of  a  man  whose  name  is  sacred  to  the  Union 
which  he  preserved.  His  gentleness,  his  boundless  mercy  and 
faith  in  men,  his  subtle  humor,  his  stringent  firmness  to  those 
sapient  ideals  which  he  believed  right;  these  are  some  of  his 
qualities,  which  Mr.  Dixon  has  presented  to  us  on  the  stage. 
And  the  author  of  "The  Birth  of  a  Nation"  has  not  written 
a  series   of  trite  incidents.    Unlike   Mr.   Drinkwater,   he  has 


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not  attempted  to  draw  Lincoln  with  scrupulous  exactness,  but 
has  reproduced  the  President  with  artistic  embellishments  of 
romance  and  a  practical  omission  of  superfluous  politics. 

Who  is  there  that  can  gratify  our  mental  portraits  of  him 
who  "will  live  in  a  nation's  heart,  and  the  world's  esteem  from 
age  to  age?"  What  Englishman  can  realize  that  Lincoln  was 
more  to  America  than  Cromwell  was  to  Britain?  "Let  us  be 
thankful  if  we  can  make  a  niche  big  enough  for  him  among 
the  world's  heroes  without  worrying  ourselves  about  the  pro- 
portion it  may  bear  to  other  niches;  and  there  let  him  remain 
forever,  lonely,  as  in  his  strong  lifetime,  impressive,  myste- 
rious, unmeasured  and  unsolved.' : 

George  Ragor  Pigott. 


Indian  Summer 


rHE  gentle  breeze  caresses  me,  as  I 
Through  naked  woods,  in  autumn's  pensive  mood, 
Soft  tread 

On  Summer's  children,  fallen  dead: 
Gay  raiment  faded  now,  some  dripping  blood, 
They  lie 

So  still,  a  stricken  multitude. 
The  stark  trees  stare,  unseeing,  at  the  sky : 
Heedless  of  the  wind's  caress, 

Unmoved  by  the  sun's  zvarmth  and  light. 
They  welcome  night 
That  hides  their  desolatencss. 
Ah,  rather  had  they  died 
Than  droop  so  bare,  stripped  nozv  of  all  their  pride. 


The  stealing  shadows  creep  from   the  red  West, 
The  breeze  lulls  to  a  whispering  breath, 
Then  lifts  a  moment,  and  the  leaves 
Swirl  in  a  little  dance  of  death. 

Lawrence  J.  Brady. 


How  to  Save  Seventy-five  Cents 

lOMEONE  has  said  that  we  can  not  fully 
understand  and  appreciate  youth  until  we 
ourselves  have  passed  through  that  trying 
delicious  period,  and  experienced  the  joys 
and  sorrows  that  attend  it.  Having  just  slid 
safely  into  my  twenties,  I  feel  fairly  com- 
petent to  look  back  and  depict  youth  at  sixteen. 


Claude  Samuels  was  quite  honorable ;  not  that  he  gave 
this  attribute  much  consideration ;  no  boy  of  sixteen  does. 
He  just  acted  honorably  and  never  thought  one  way  or  the 
other  about  it.  Notice,  I  modify  the  word  "honorable"  by 
'quite, — this  being  all-important;  for  there  was  little  honor 
connected  with  what  is  immediately  to  follow. 

There  sat  Claude,  hunched  up  at  a  telephone  table,  re- 
ceiver to  ear,  smiling  complacently,  intent  on  every  word 
transmitted.  He  was  "listening  in"  on  the  party  line  for  ten 
minutes ;  listening  to  two  girls  hold  a  confab  on  fall  hats  and 
kindred  feminine  subjects.  Did  Dot  like  that  new  shade,  half 
scarlet,  half  orange,  on  Mae's  hat?  Wasn't  it  cute,  etc.,  etc. 
One  of  the  girls  had  a  pleasing  lisp  and  intensified  it  by  play- 
ing with  her  words  like  a  Booth  Tarkington  heroine.  Claude 
enjoyed  her,  wondering  who  she  might  be. 

Claude's  half-opened  mouth  closed  with  a  jolt  that  shook 
his  head,  and  Dot  and  Louise  must  have  been  equally  startled 
as  '.he  receiver  was  replaced  loudly  on  the  hook.  He  had  sud- 
denly turned  to  find  his  mother  standing  beside  the  table,  peer- 
ing menacingly  down  at  him,  stern,  surprised.  She  was  a 
prude,  Mrs.  Samuels ;  a  woman  who  preferred  to  s^ay  "limb" 
instead  of  "leg." 

"Can't  get  my  number,"  mumbled  Claude  in  explanation, 
trying  to  regain  equanimity  and  to  dispel  a  warm,  uncom- 
fortable blush.     "Poor  service  we  are" 

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LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  27 

"Poor  service !"  interrupted  Mrs.  Samuels,  "not  at  all. 
Yon  were  listening  to  our  new  neighbor's  daughter,  I  sup- 
pose. She  has  been  using  the  'phone  all  morning.  I  was  in- 
troduced to  her  last  week,  and  ever  since  she  addressed  me 
as  'Mrs.  Thamuels.'  Such  a  pronounced  lisp,"  she  concluded 
disdainfully. 

A  slight  reprimand  followed,  easily  endured  because  he 
did  not  heed  it.  He  had  gained  the  desired  information  with- 
oul  inquiry.  So  she  was  the  next  door  neighbor,  was  she? 
Did  that  fact  make  matters  more  complicated  or  less?  More, 
he  thought.  Too  close  to  avoid  parental  observation.  He  re- 
called that  he  had  seen  her  descend  her  porch  stairs  the  pre- 
vious morning,  ostensibly  on  her  way  to  school,  clothed  in  a 
lavender  dress  of  voile  (but  Claude  did  not  know  it  was  voile, 
of  course).  She  must  be  a  school  maid,  because  she  carried 
no  books  under  her  arm.  And  as  she  slowly  made  her  way 
down,  she  tipped  each  step  languidly  with  the  top  of  her  cor- 
dovan oxford,  and  gazed  to  either  side  of  the  banister,  sway- 
ing ever  so  slightly. 

To  Claude,  she  was  like  one  of  our  high-grade  perfumes, 
— '"IRRESISTIBLE  !"  He  tried  to  devise  some  means  to 
meet  her.  She  must  be  nineteen  though,  rather  old.  Stupid 
fellow !  he  did  not  yet  know  that  in  these  days  of  the  puffed 
coiffure  and  the  Phoenix  hose  one  can  not  differentiate  be- 
tween a  girl  of  fifteen  and  a  girl  of  twenty.  The  one  fifteen 
looks  so  much  like  twenty,  and  the  one  twenty  resembles  a 
lass  of  fifteen.  So  compromisingly,  we  will  estimate  her  age 
as  seventeen — right  in  the  midst  of  the  "caramel  and  novel" 
period. 

The  unpleasantries  attaching  to  a  newly-born  acquaintance- 
ship were  passed.  Claude  and  Dot  had  met  at  school,  and  a 
mutual  interest  commenced.  Scarcely  a  week  had  elapsed 
when  a  little  pale  lavender  letter  appeared  among  the  bills  and 
advertisements  in  the  Samuels  mail  box  addressed  to  Claude, 
Jr.  It  announced  in  stiff,  formal  English  a  party  to  be  given 
by  Dot.    Would  Claude  attend  ?    At  the  bottom  were  appended 


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the  baffling  initials  R.  S.  V.  P.,  which  Mrs.  Samuels  readily 
deciphered. 

The  awakening  realization  that  he  was  entering  upon  Life 
caused  a  thrill  in  Claude.  The  joy  of  living  possessed  him. 
New,  queer  sensations  permeated  and  exhilarated  his  being. 
He  was  a  nervous  youth,  accustomed  to  strange  emotions,  but 
never  before  had  his  boyhood  experienced  feelings  of  this 
kind.  How  novel !  How  delicious  !  Like  one's  first  taste  of — 
sugar ! 

The  night  before  the  party,  as  he  prepared  to  retire,  he  fur- 
tively borrowed  his  father's  narrow  brown  tie,  evidently  be- 
lieving in  preparedness.  Yes,  after  class  tomorrow  he  would 
get  a  haircut. 

Slumber  did  not  come  till  he  had  tossed  restively  for  over 
an  hour.  His  brain  whirled ;  and  the  one  thought  that  whirled 
with  it  was,  would  he  make  a  good  impression  in  his  first 
appearance  ? 

It  was  four  A.  M.  Night  had  not  yet  abdicated  in  favor 
of  dawn ;  all  was  dark  and  still.  Suddenly  the  covers  on 
Claude's  bed  sprang  back,  emitting  Claude,  who  leaped  up 
wild-eyed,  covered  with  perspiration.  From  all  the  articles 
on  his  dresser  he  chose  one — a  long,  sharp  scissors,  and  pro- 
ceeded to  recklessly  clip  off  long  strands  of  his  dark  wavy 
hair.  One — two — three — four —  five  times  !  The  sixth  time 
he  nipped  his  finger  and  this  caused  him  to  awaken  with  a 
start.  He  looked  at  himself  in  the  mirror  directly  before  him. 
He  understood — a  nightmare !  He  saw  the  locks  of  hair  hang- 
ing on  his  shoulder,  spreading  on  the  floor.     He  understood ! 

"Damn,"  he  repeated.     "Damn." 

That  morning,  without  further  lamentation,  he  replaced  the 
brown  tie  on  his  father's  rack. 

Phillip  H.  Kemper. 


Do  You  Remember 


QWEETHEART,  those  eyes  that  smile  at  me, 
kD       That  hair  of  nut-brown  hue, 
Recall  to  me  our  childhood  days. 
Do  you  remember,  too? 

Glossy  brown  hair  whose  silken  coils, 

Hide  each  dainty  ear, 
Glossy  brown  hair  I  used  to  pull, 

Do  you  remember,  dear? 

Into  my  heart  those  long-lashed  eyes, 

Their  age-old  message  hurl, 
Eyes  that  cried  'cause  I  teased  so  much, 

Do  you  remember,  girl? 

Do  you  remember,  when  you  zvere  eight, 

And  I  was  nearly  ten, 
That  you  promised  you'd  marry  no  one  but  me? 

Will  you  promise,  love,  again? 


James  J.  Taylor. 


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Martin   T.  McXally 


Ireland  A  Nation 

WE  are  all  Americans,  or  at  least  we  claim  to  be,  and 
deeply  rooted  in  all  our  hearts  should  be  a  love  and 
respect  for  the  freedom  and  liberty  of  all  subject  people. 
Perhaps  many  have  forgotten  this  love  or  respect  which  be- 
longs to  all  their  fellow  men,  for  on  many  sides  we  hear 
Americans  say  that  only  certain  subject  peoples  should  be 
given  freedom  while  others  should  be  held  in  subjection.  In 
this  respect  many  are  especially  bitter  to  that  little  nation 
across  the  sea,  Ireland. 

Some  even  attempt  to  deny  that  she  is  a  nation  but  they 
are  mistaken  in  every  respect,  for  she  is  as  truly  a  nation  as 
vve  are.    She  has  all  the  God  given  rights  to  be  a  nation  and 

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LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  31 

the  fact  that  she  is  held  in  suppression  by  a  military  force 
cannot  deprive  her  of  this  inborn  individuality. 

Many  say  that  Americans  have  no  right  to  even  voice  their 
opinions  on  this  question  for  it  is  purely  an  issue  in  the 
domestic  affairs  for  England.  What  a  misshapen  conception 
must  such  have  of  the  aims  for  which  we  entered  the  World 
War !  Was  the  aim  of  our  war  for  the  liberation  of  one 
small  nation  from  the  cruel  clutches  of  a  militaristic  empire 
or  for  the  freedom  and  self-determining  rights  of  all  small 
nations  We  confined  our  aims  to  no  one  nation  in  particular, 
but  applied  them  to  all  subject  peoples  under  the  sun,  and  in 
this  we  must  include  Ireland. 

If  we  say  that  Ireland  has  no  right  to  the  self-determina- 
tion for  which  we  fought,  then  we  fought  in  vain  and  the 
boys  who  struggled  and  died  did  so  for  an  hallucination  and 
not  a  reality.  If  Ireland  has  no  place  in  our  considerations 
for  freedom;  then  we  gained  nothing  in  the  struggle  for 
civilization.  We  merit  nothing  but  condemnation  for  aiding 
monarchies  to  hold  small  nations  in  subjection.  We  fought 
with  England  as  an  ally  and  she  professed  to  have  the  same 
aims  in  the  war  that  we  had,  but  what  was  her  true  stand? 
On  the  continent  of  Europe  she  professed  to  be  an  honorable 
member  of  civilization  helping  to  free  small  nations.  At  home 
she  maintained  an  army  of  over  two  hundred  and  fifty  thou- 
sand men  to  hold  the  Irish  nation  in  subjection.  Well  could 
these  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  men  have  been  used  on 
the  battlefields  of  France  and  Belgium  in  the  interests  of 
civilization  instead  of  being  used  to  defeat  the  aims  of  hu- 
manity. 

Can  we  justly  call  a  nation  which  holds  another  under 
military  oppression  a  leader  of  civilization  or  freedom?  Well 
is  ihe  stand  of  England  set  forth  in  the  following  brief  sum- 
mary of  one  phase  of  the  foreign  situation. 

England  is  posing  before  civilization  as  a  leader  of  free- 
dom. Lloyd  George  unafraid  of  Bolshevism,  takes  kindly  to  a 
flirtation  with  the  Soviets,  and  seems  indifferent  to  revealed 


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aspirations  of  Red  leaders  of  Russia  to  initiate  a  campaign 
of  blood  and  fire  all  over  Europe  for  the  destruction  of 
society  as  it  now  exists. 

While  England's  policy  treats  the  would-be  destroyers  on 
terms  of  equality,  it  fails  to  listen  to  the  laments  of  Ireland, 
and  pretends  not  to  know  there  is  such  a  thing  as  Irish 
nationality. 

This  has  always  been  the  stand  of  England  in  all  her 
dealings  with  the  Irish  people.  She  refuses  to  give  to  Ireland, 
who  even  now  possesses  a  thoroughly  organized  and  efficient 
government,  the  right  to  work  out  her  own  political  salvation. 

There  are  those  who  claim  Ireland  is  in  a  better  condition 
now  than  she  would  be  if  free.  How  ill  informed  they  really 
must  be  of  the  true  conditions  as  they  prevail  on  that  little 
island.  There  was  no  more  cruel  work  done  in  Belgium  and 
France  than  is  perpetrated  on  the  Irish  people.  All  over  the 
island  terror  reigns  as  a  result  of  the  murder,  robbery  and 
t-rime  committed  by  the  bands  of  Black  and  Tans,  under  the 
sanction  of  our  leader  of  freedom — England.  Throughout  the 
island  throng  these  bands  of  slayers  armed  to  the  teeth  and 
controlled  only  in  a  farcical  manner.  Tanks  and  armed  lorries 
patrol  the  streets  and  country  highways,  so  that  no  place  is 
free  from  the  militaristic  power  of  oppression.  Even  hotels 
are  converted  by  these  Black  and  Tans  into  veritable  forts. 
The  windows  being  blocked  with  sandbags  and  the  entrances 
barred  with  barbed  wire  entanglements.  Could  any  people 
be  in  a  worse  condition  than  being  forced  to  live  under  con- 
ditions such  as  these? 

Again  there  are  others  who  claim  the  Irish  struggle  to 
be  nothing  more  than  rebellion.  What  is  rebellion  ?  It  is  the 
uprising  of  a  people  against  lawful  authority.  Can  those  who 
claim  these  struggles  rebellion  prove  in  any  manner  that  the 
aurhortiy  of  England  in  Ireland  is  Lawful?  These  struggles 
are  not  rebellion,  but  true  and  just  revolution.  The  case  is 
analogous  to  our  own  American  Revolution  when  we  threw 
off  the  same  tyrannical  oppression. 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  33 

Today  Ireland  presents  a  united  front  in  her  demand  for 
freedom.  There  is  no  division  of  creed,  politics  or  class.  Her 
people  are  patiently  suffering  the  cruel  indignities  and  crimes 
of  their  military  oppressors.  May  God  grant  that  the  de- 
liverance is  not  far  off,  for  no  nation  on  the  face  of  the 
earth  has  suffered  so  much  to  attain  it's  just  rights. 

James  H.  Mahoney. 


The  College  Club 

IN  a  short  time  the  new  college  club  room  will  open.  The 
faculty  have  gone  to  a  great  deal  of  trouble  and  expense 
in  fitting  up  a  place  where  the  students  can  congregate  in 
then"  spare  time,  but  if  every  one  does  his  share  in  carrying 
out  the  purpose  of  the  club,  their  effort  will  have  been 
regarded. 

More  than  anything  else,  it  is  essential  that  we  form  what 
might  be  called  an  "atmosphere"  of  friendliness  from  the  very 
first  day.  Everyone  ought  to  be  everyone  else's  friend,  and 
ac'  the  part.  If  each  one  forms  a  resolution  to  make  every- 
one else  feel  at  ease,  those  exclusive  groups  will  not  be  formed 
that  make  for  bad  feeling  in  any  social  body.  We  are  all 
brothers,  sons  of  the  same  Alma  Mater,  and  we  ought  to  act 
in  a  spirit  of  fraternity. 

It  is  possible  to  make  this  club  the  greatest  thing  that  was 
ever  launched  at  Loyola.  In  such  a  social  environment,  each 
of  the  students  will  learn  to  know  all  the  others  better  than 
ever  before.  Friendships  should  be  formed  that  in  after  life 
will  continue  and  grow  strong  enough  to  withstand  any  buffet 
of  adversity. 

T.et's  go  into  the  dark  corners  where  the  bashful  brother* 
hide,  and  coax  them  into  the  light.  Many  a  fellow  longs  to 
make  friends,  but  is  afraid  of  being  rebuffed.  We  don't  want 
anybody  to  be  lonely ;  we're  not  going  to  let  anyone  be  lonely. 
We'll   show   the   retreating  student  that   we   want   to   be   his 


34  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

friend  as  much  as  he  wants  to  be  ours,  and  we'll  prove  to  him 
that  he  "belongs."     He's  worth  the  effort. 

With  such  a  feeling  of  amity,  a  club  will  be  formed  that 
can  DO  things.  Each  one,  in  contributing  his  efforts  toward 
the  good  of  all,  will  find  that  he  has  become  part  of  a  com- 
munity whose  activities  will  be  cherished  memories  in  after 
years. 

Again,  the  success  of  the  club  rests  on  the  conduct  of  each 
one  of  us.  We  don't  want  a  combination  of  cliques,  each 
looking  toward  its  own  special  interests,  nor  a  group  of  fel- 
loe's, some  enjoying  the  benefits  of  the  club  to  the  fullest 
exient,  and  the  others  disgruntled  and  dissatisfied  because 
everyone  seems  to  snub  them.  We  want  a  big,  friendly, 
brotherlv  organization — "One  for  all,  and  all  for  one !"  Are 
we  going  to  have  it  ?    We'll  say  we  ARE  ! ! !  J.  J.  T. 


School  Spirit  vs.  Class  Spirit 

IT  is  only  natural  that  a  strong  bond  should  develop  between 
the  members  of  a  class,  but  it  must  be  remembered  that 
there  is  also  need  of  union  with  the  other  classes.  There 
should  be  no  conflict,  no  condition  of  one  class  arrayed 
against  another.  Each  class  should  unite  with  every  other 
one  and  work  with  them  toward  the  best  interests  of  the 
college.  We  should  forget  that  we  are  Seniors  or  Freshman, 
Pi  e--Medics  or  Engineers ;  we  should  consider  ourselves  only 
as  members  of  the  student  body,  all  bound  by  the  same  duty 
to  promote  the  interests  of  that  body  in  every  way  possible, 
to  aid  one  another  as  much  as  we  can,  and  to  foster  that  en- 
thusiasm fur  every  activity,  that  interest  in  everything  that 
concerns  our  fellows,  that  "pep"  in  supporting  our  college — 
that  is  known  as  "school-spirit."  J.  J.  T. 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  35 

"He  Flunked  Me" 

TWICE  each  year,  after  the  semester  exams,  the  favorite 
question,  "How  d'ja  come  out?",  is  answered  by  a  few 
weaker  brothers  with,  "He  flunked  me." 

"He"  probably  coaxed  this  student  along,  overlooking  his 
various  defections  and  trying  to  apply  a  plaster  of  knowledge 
to  his  unwilling  head.  The  unlucky  youth's  evenings  were 
probably  spent  among  the  bright  lights  in  the  pursuit  of  pleas- 
ure, and  it  is  problematical  if  he  ever  opened  his  book  except 
to  find  out  the  answer  to  a  question  when  he  thought  he  was 
next  to  be  called  on. 

But  with  a  sublime  disregard  for  facts,  he  classes  the 
"prof"  as  a  personal  enemy, — as  one  whose  sole  desire  is  to 
keep  him  from  getting  credit  in  the  subject.  He  flatters  him- 
self that  he  did  as  well  as  So-and-So,  and  he  "got  by,"  but 
he's  "got  a  drag."  He  believes,  to  hear  him  talk,  that  merit 
doesn't  count,  and  that  the  only  way  to  pass  in  any  subject 
is  to  get  on  the  "soft  side"  of  the  "prof."  He  overlooks  the 
fact  that  he  doesn't  know  anything  about  the  subject,  and  that 
in  five  months  he  probably  didn't  spend  an  hour  in  studying 
it,  and  that  everyone  knows  this  to  be  true. 

Some  day  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  a  hero  will  arise  after 
falling  beneath  the  fatal  "70,"  and  to  the  question  "How  d'ja 
come  out?"  will  answer,  "I  flunked." 

T.  T-  T. 


Alumni  Notes 


FRANCIS  IGNATZ,  '18,  formerly  of  North  Chicago,  has 
been  ordained  to  the  Priesthood  and  appointed  assistant 
rector  of   St.   Peter's   Cathedral,   Marquette,   Michigan. 


Despite  the  high  cost  of  building  material  a  new  dentist's 
shingle  belonging  to  Mr.  Dempski,  we  should  say  Dr. 
Dempski,  Arts  and  Sciences,  '18,  has  been  hung  out  at  the 
intersection  of  West  Chicago  Avenue  and  Wood  Street. 


Lambert  K.  Hayes,  '16,  sometime  editor  of  the  L.  U. 
Magazine,  is  among  those  who  have  been  recently  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  the  State  of  Illinois.  "Lamb"  expects  very 
shortly  to  begin  practice  "on  his  own." 


John  Schultz,  '18,  is  the  proprietor  of  a  drug  store  in  the 
same  building  in  which  Dr.  Dempski  has  his  dental  offices. 


Announcement  is  made  of  the  marriage  of  Raymond 
Fl.win,  '18,  to  Miss  Florence  Marie  Hahn  which  took  place 
at  St.  Ignatius  Church,  Rogers  Park,  September  18th. 


Among  the  graduates  of  the  Loyola  Medical  School  in 
June  was  Stanley  Plucinski  who  is  now  serving  his  internship 
at  St.  Elizabeth's  Hospital. 


The  Alumni  Association  is  alive.    It  proves  that  it  is  alive 
by  growing.    The  attendance  at  last  year's  functions  increased 

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LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  37 

with  a  persistent  steadiness  that  almost  brought  teears  to  the 
eyes  of  the  Old  Guard,  the  little  Remnant  of  the  Tribes  who 
were  always  faithful.  There  was  not  time  before  the  last 
issue  of  the  Magazine  to  tell  about  the  final  dinner  of  the 
year.  It  was  given  at  the  City  Club,  a  new  place  for  us.  It 
fell  upon  a  demm'd  moist,  miserable  night,  a  night  of  malevo- 
lent rain  and  gusty  winds  that  ruffled  a  man's  disposition  all 
up.  Yet  the  largest  attendance  of  the  year,  some  hundred  and 
thirty  stalwarts,  wrapped  their  mufflers  around  their  necks, 
and  came  anyhow !  And  they  all  seemed  to  be  glad  they  had 
come. 

We  had  an  election  that  night,  a  gentle,  peaceful  election. 
No  violent  campaigning,  no  rough  stuff,  or  climbing  of  family 
trees,  or  crude  inquiries  about  the  funds.  Some  one  got  up 
and  read  the  Regular  Ticket.  Some  more  got  up  and  Moved 
and  Seconded.  And  it  was  all  over — just  like  that !  The  great 
political  parties  might  each  learn  a  nice  little  lesson  from  the 
Alumni  Association :  if  we  do  say  it  ourselves.  The  new 
officers  are : 

President — Augustine  J.  Bowe. 

Vice-President — Malachy  Foley. 

Recording  Secretary — J.  Sherwin  Murphy. 

Corresponding  Secretary — John  Sackley. 

Treasurer — William  J.  Bowe. 

Historian — Louis  Sayre. 
Honorary  Vice-Presidents — Anthony  Schager,   70's;  Joseph 
Connell,  80's ;  Joseph   H.   Finn,  90' s ;  John   K.   Moore,  00' s ; 
L.  Fred  Happel,  10's. 

Executive  Committee — Payton  J.  Tuohy,  John  W.  Davis, 
Joseph  F.  Elward,  Charles  E.  Byrne,  Lambert  K.  Hayes,  Leo 
J.  McGivena.,  Edward  J.  Duffy. 

There  will  be  a  dinner  in  the  near  future,  before  Thanks- 
giving Day.  Information  will  be  sent  out  duly  regarding  time 
and  place,  as  soon  as  some  of  the  officers  recover  sufficiently 
from  the  mad  whirl  of  election-time  {not  Alumni  election)  to 
get  their  minds  down  to  these  details.    At  this  dinner  it  is 


38  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

hoped  to  make  announcement  concerning  a  very  interesting 
and  progressive  change  in  our  organization.  Keep  your  ear 
to  the  ground,  Alumni ! 


E.  M.  Keeley 

Since  our  last  issue  another  of  the  Alumni  has  been  called 
to  his  reward. 

Eugene  M.  Keeley,  4954  Ellis  avenue,  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Keeley  Brewing  Company,  died  after  an  illness 
of  several  months. 

Mr.  Keeley  was  well  known  in  financial  circles  and  among 
brewing  interests.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Athletic 
Association,  South  Shore  Country  Club,  Beverly  Country  Club, 
Edgewater  Beach  Yacht  Club,  Chicago  Sharpshooters'  Asso- 
ciation, and  of  De  La  Salle  Council,  Knights  of  Columbus. 
He  is  survived  by  his  widow,  Ann  Hudson  Keeley ;  his  brother, 
Thomas  F.  Keeley,  president  of  the  Keeley  Brewing  Com- 
pany Mrs.  W.  A.  Lydon,  and  Mrs.  P.  J.  Lawler,  sisters. 


THIS  nonsense  is  written  for  the  wise  and  the  foolish,  for 
the  wise  to  read  and  the  foolish  to  write.  Nevertheless 
we  will  gladly  print  any  foolish  sayings  of  the  wise  or  in 
fact  anything  that  savors  of  the  humorous.  Class  pictures, 
however,  will  not  be  accepted.  If  you  don't  like  this  column 
you  can  get  a  nickel  back  on  your  subscription.  You  may 
have  to  scratch  your  head  to  see  these  jokes,  but  remember 
we  had  to  scrape  our  skull  to  get  'em. 

An  interesting  feature  of  the  column  is  that  we  conduct  an 
exchange  department  with  all  the  "snappy"  magazines. 

Passing  from  the  sublime  to  the  ridiculous  we  offer  for 
yojr  approval  the  following  super-poem  by  Edward  P.  King, 
Poet  Laureate,  of  the  incongruous  in  life: 

DlABLE   N'EST   CE   PAS? 

Did  you  ever  stop  to  think,  how  fast  your  roll  will  shrink 
As  you  try  to  make  it  last  from  day  to  day? 

How  it  flitters  here  and  there,  and  still  you  don't  know  where, 
And  you  nearly  starve,  while  waiting  your  next  pay. 

Why  the  town's  in  such  a  state  that  if  you  stay  out  late 

You  will  likely  get  a  tap  across  the  dome 
With  a  gun  under  your  nose,  they  will  take  away  your  clothes 

And  you  have  to  don  a  barrel  to  get  home. 


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40  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

If  you  go  to  buy  some  coal,  they  again  will  nick  your  roll. 

You  carry  home  the  whole  load  in  your  blouse. 
If  you  say  this  load  won't  do,  they'll  say,  "Well,  who  are  you?" 

So  to  keep  warm  you  will  have  to  burn  your  house. 

Go  into  the  butcher  shops,  say,  "One  dollar's  worth  of  chops," 
And  the  butcher  nearly  faints  upon  the  floor. 

With  a  quite  offended  look,  he'll  say,  "Go  smell  the  hook; 
If  you  take  two  smells,  I'll  have  to  charge  you  more." 

If  you  bet  upon  a  game,  the  events  are  just  the  same, 

For  the  players  will  be  framed  against  you  too. 
And  vou'll  sit  and  watch  and  sigh,  when  some  plaver  muffs  a 

%; 

1  hey  will  get  your  "yen"  no  matter  what  you  do. 

When  you're  feeling  kind  of  dry  and  you  slyly  wink  your  eye, 
And  the  barkeep  sets  you  up  a  merry  gulp, 

And  though  it  hits  the  "spot,"  when  he  says  six  bits  a  shot, 
You  would  like  to  beat  his  head  into  a  pulp. 

So  if  these  events  keep  up,  I  will  buy  a  little  cup, 

And  a  little  piece  of  board  of  any  kind, 
And  I'll  make  a  little  sign  and  inscribe  this  little  line, 

"Have  pity  on  me,  stranger,  I  am  blind." 

No  doubt  all  the  college  men  were  agreeably  surprised 
when  it  was  announced  that  only  four  hours  of  night  study 
were  required  of  the  college  students. 

Things  You  Ought  to  Know  About  the  College 

Loyola  University  is  situated  at  Roosevelt  Road  and  Blue 
Island  Avenue.  The  former  used  to  be  Twelfth  Street,  but 
when  Roosevelt  died  they  named  it  after  him.  They  didn't 
dare  do  it  while  he  was  alive.  Blue  Island  Avenue  was  named 
after  that  famous  town  because  so  many  of  the  college  stu- 


LOYOLA   UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  41 

dents  were  born  there.  We  might  also  mention  that  the  For- 
eign Legion  of  S.  A.  T.  C.  fame  originated  in  Blue  Island. 

The  students  have  often  wondered  why  this  beautiful  situ- 
ation was  chosen  by  the  College  Faculty  for  the  University 

grounds.     Mr.  H ,  the  handsome  photographer,  says  it 

is  in  order  that  the  students  may  get  the  classical  atmosphere 
from  the  Romans  and  Greeks  in  the  neighborhood  of  the 
coiiege. 

The  Handsome  Photographer  was  the  great  philosopher  of 
Twelfth  Street  before  the  college  was  built.  He  tells  us  that 
he  used  to  take  pictures  of  all  the  beautiful  ladies  of  Chicago, 
but  Mrs.  Photographer  made  him  give  up  the  job  because  it 
was  hard  on  his  eyes.  Then  he  started  to  take  the  class  pic- 
tures of  the  college  students,  but  he  says  it's  just  as  hard  on 
his  eyes,  only  in  a  different  way.  "Pain  mitout  pleasure,"  to 
use  his  own  words. 

Our  Photographer  is  very  proud  of  his  studio  ;  the  artistic 
effect  having  been  worked  out  by  a  salesman  for  Vane  and 
Calvert's  paints.  But  be  that  as  it  may,  all  we  can  say  is  that 
he  has  ruined  many  a  good  class  picture. 

Big  Bill's  Fruit  Sale 

The  Mayor  stood  on  the  upper  deck, 
Offering  peaches  by  the  peck  ; 
The  people  shouted  they  would  not  buy 
Because  the  price  was  far  too  high. 

Heard  On  the  Appian  Way 

He — "Let's  hug  and  kiss  and  tell  jokes." 
She — "O,  let's  not  jest  now." 

A  recent  resolution  passed  by  a  New  Jersey  medical  fra- 
ternity, which  asked  for  a  modification  of  the  Volstead  act, 
saying  that  the  home  brew,  made  from  manufactured  prepara- 
tions, is  far  more  injurious  than  "hooch,"  leads  one  to  sus- 


42  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

pect  whether  or  not  the  "docs"  are  a  little  peeved  at  the  cut 
into  the  prescription  business. 

It  was  suggested  we  head  the  following  "With  Apologies 
to  Walt  Mason,"  but  after  giving  it  the  once  over  we  feel  the 
apologies  are  due  to  the  reader: 

My  Halsted  Eihgt 

Some  people  come  to  school  in  state,  riding  up  in  cars 
sedate,  in  Franklins,  Paiges,  Fords  and  Packards ;  while  others 
come  in  Cole  sedans,  blowing  horns  and  waving  hands  at  all 
the  ladies  passing. 

But  I  for  one  have  no  such  means  and  every  morn  into  my 
jeans  I  must  dig  for  carfare.  But  in  my  mind  I  have  no 
guile,  no  thought  to  make  the  fair  ones  smile  upon  my  school- 
bound  carcass. 

But  still  I  come  to  school  in  state,  riding  in  my  Halsted 
Eight.  A  well-known  car,  this  Busby  'lectric.  And  though 
some  love  the  smell  of  gas  I  know  of  one  that  does  surpass,  I 
sing  the  far-famed  stockyards. 

1  never  have  a  punctured  tire,  no  motor  cops  to  rouse  my 
ire,  I'm  never  pinched  for  speeding.  So  often  when  I  'rive 
here  late  I  blame  it  on  the  Halsted  Eight.  A  good  excuse, 
though  sometimes  failing;  and  thus  you  see  I  do  not  curse, 
for  fate  for  me  is  not  so  worse 

That  is  when  you  compare  it  with  those  who  have  to  walk 
or  those  who  must  park  their  bicycles  in  the  bicycle  room. 

Ye  McNallys. 


Le  Maitre  Sans  Merci 

O  what  can  ail  thee,  solem'n  youth, 
Alone  and  palely  loitering? 
The  boys  have  slunk  into  their  rooms, 
And  no  bells  ring. 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  43 

I  saw  a  gathering  in  the  park, 
While  on  my  noon  hour  ramble. 
The  day  was  warm,  my  wallet  full : 
I  stopped  to  gamble. 

(Next  morn  I   faced  my  teacher  dear, 
And  say,  he  was  no  faery  child; 
His  hair  was  long,  his  step  was  light, 
And  his  eyes  were  wild. 

Alas !    I  had  no  alibi, 
To  offer  to  his  stern  demand. 
And  sure  in  accents  strange  he  said, 
"Beat  it !    You're  canned !" 

So  this  is  why  I  sojourn  here, 
Alone  and  palely  loitering, 

Though  the  youths  have  slunk  into  their  rooms, 
And  no  bells  ring. 

B.  F.  Dee. 


How  Large  is  an  Atom? 


ATOMS  are  so  infinitesimal  that  to  be  seen  under  the  most 
.  powerful  microscope  one  hundred  million  must  be  grouped. 
The  atom  used  to  be  the  smallest  indivisible  unit  of  matter. 
When  the  X-Rays  and  radium  were  discovered  physicists  found 
that  they  were  dealing  with  smaller  things  than  atoms — with 
particles  they  call  "electrons." 

Atoms  are  built  up  of  electrons,  just  as  the  solar  system  is  built 
up  of  sun  and  planets.  Magnify  the  hydrogen  atom,  says  Sir 
Oliver  Lodge,  to  the  size  of  a  cathedral,  and  an  electron,  in  com- 
parison, will  be  no  bigger  than  a  bird-shot. 

Not  much  substantial  progress  can  be  made  in  chemical  and 
electrical  industries  unless  the  action  of  electrons  is  studied.  For 
that  reason  the  chemists  and  physicists  in  the  Research  Labora- 
tories of  the  General  Electric  Company  are  as  much  concerned 
with  the  very  constitution  of  matter  as  they  are  with  the  develop- 
ment of  new  inventions.  They  use  the  X-Ray  tube  as  if  it  were 
a  machine-gun;  for  by  its  means  electrons  are  shot  at  targets  in 
new  ways  so  as  to  reveal  more  about  the  structure  of  matter. 

As  the  result  of  such  experiments,  the  X-Ray  tube  has  been 
greatly  improved  and  the  vacuum  tube,  now  so  indispensable  in 
radio  communication,  has  been  developed  into  a  kind  of  trigger 
device  for  guiding  electrons  by  radio  waves. 

Years  may  thus  be  spent  in  what  seems  to  be  merely  a  purely 
"theoretical "  investigation.  Yet  nothing  is  so  practical  as  a  good 
theory.  The  whole  structure  of  modern  mechanical  engineering 
is  reared  on  Newton's  laws  of  gravitation  and  motion — theories 
stated  in  the  form  of  immutable  propositions. 

In  the  past  the  theories  that  resulted  from  purely  scientific  re- 
search usually  came  from  the  university  laboratories,  whereupon 
the  industries  applied  them.  The  Research  Laboratories  of  the 
General  Electric  Company  conceive  it  as  part  of  their  task  to  ex- 
plore the  unknown  in  the  same  spirit,  even  though  there  may  be 
no  immediate  commercial  goal  in  view.  Sooner  or  later  the  world 
profits  by  such  research  in  pure  science.  Wireless  communica- 
tion, for  example,  was  accomplished  largely  as  the  result  of  Herz's 
brilliant  series  of  purely  scientific  experiments  demonstrating  the 
existence  of  wireless  waves. 


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SOPHOMORE  LAW 

WHEREAS — God  in  His  infinite  wisdom  and  mercy  to  with- 
draw from  this  earthly  sphere,  Mr.  John  Horan,  an 
upright  Catholic  gentleman  and  father,  and 

WHEREAS — Our  comrade  and  classmate  Charles  D.  Horan 
had  been  sorely  bereft  in  the  loss  of  an  admirable  ana 
estimable  father,  therefore  be  it 

RESOLVED — That  we  his  associates  and  friends  express  our 
sympathy   and   regret   in  this  his  grief,   and  be  it 

RESOLVED — That  we  have  a  solemn  Requiem  High  Mass 
sung  for  the  repose  of  the  soul  of  the  deceased,  and 
be  it  further 

RESOLVED — That  this  expression  of  our  sympathy  be  pre- 
sented to  Mr.  Charles  D.  Horan  and  that  a  copy  of  the 
same  be  inserted  in  the  Loyola  Uiversity  Magazine. 

S.  J.  Walsh, 
Sophomore  Lazv. 

\  FTER  a  rather  slow  start  the  liveliest  class  of  aspiring 
^"*-  young  lawyers  in  dear  old  "Lieola"  are  finally  assembled. 
With  Omar  in  hand  Jim  O'Toole,  our  energetic  president  of 
last  year,  called  the  first  meeting  to  order.  Everything  was 
discussed  from  debates  to  the  color  of  Crunden's  tie,  and 
when  the  meeting  was  adjourned  the  following  were  our 
officers : 

President — Frank  Brodnicki. 
Vice-President — Robert  Donovan. 
Treasurer — Clarence  Snyder. 
Secretary — Sinon  Walsh. 

Committees  were  also  appointed  for  various  purposes,  but 
the  writer  has  long  ago  forgotten  the  aim  and  personnel  of 
the  august  bodies,  so  he  can  say  nothing  more  about  them. 

Before  using  any  more  space  it  is  imperative  that  mention 
be  made  in  the  "world's  greatest,"  L.  U.  M.  of  Dinty  O'Hare's 

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withdrawal  from  law  school.  We  miss  his  genial  smile,  his 
sprouting  mustache  and  his  touching  ways.  He  is  engaged  in 
the  very  lucrative  pastime  of  selling  bonds  and  school  should 
not  be  allowed  to  interfere  with  pleasure. 

To  digress,  a  favorite  expression  of  one  of  our  alumni, 
as  the  evenings  roll  by  Hanzlik  is  becoming  more  and  more 
entangled  in  the  intricacies  of  Common  Law  Pleading.  To 
use  his  own  words — "I  am  knocking  about  too  much." 

The  advantage  to  the  class  of  this  branch  is  that  you 
speak  on  your  feet.  Oh !  Yes  indeed — you  speak  all  right ; 
but,  in  the  words  of  the  immortal  Goldberg — "It  don't  mean 
anything." 


FRESHMAN    LAW 

Warning!  These  are  class  notes!  Pass  on  to  the  "Skull 
Scrapes"  or  else  close  the  Mag. 

This  last  admonition  is,  of  course,  unnecessary  for  as 
soon  as  you  saw  the  second  notice  you  automatically  did  as 
directed  by  the  last.  Therefore  you  are  not  reading  this 
chatter.  Therefore  it  is  wasted.  All  of  which  shows  the 
workings  of  a  logical  and  trained  mind. 

But  for  the  benefit  of  those  who  are  still  with  us  we  pur- 
pose the  riddle:  Why  is  a  class  note,  or  Why  are  the  class 
notes?  Those  who  are  not  members  of  the  class  which  is 
noted — not  famous  or  notorious  but  the  one  the  notes  are 
about — are  ipso  facto  (by  that  very  fact, — for  the  benefit  of 
the  seniors)  disinterested.  They  abhor  class  notes  worse  than 
they  do  the  advertisements  or  philosophy.  The  alleged  humor 
contained  in  class  notes  is  of  such  a  personal  nature  that 
one  must  know  the  maligned  individual  in  order  to  appreciate 
it.  To  those  who  do  not  it  appears  puerile  and,  as  Father 
Pernin  would  chirp,  bromidic. 

However,  the  members  of  the  class  are  supposed  to  be 
interested  in  their  own  class  notes.  In  fact  members  have 
been  known  to  read  them.  They  do  so  for  the  purpose  of 
criticising  and  sneering  at  the  author,  who  invariably  calls 
himself  "ye  scribe."  They  guffaw  at  the  quips  about  the  other 
fellow  and  feel  peeved  that  they  themselves  were  not  given 
some  sort  of  notice. 


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Four  Years'  High  School  Course, 
Two  Years'  Commercial  Course, 
Shorter  Commercial  Course, 
Domestic  Science  Course, 
Private  Lessons  in  Vocal  and  Instru- 
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In  order  to  do  the  thing  properly  we  should  print  the 
roster  of  the  class  so  as  to  include  everybody.  Furthermore, 
to  be  strictly  conventional,  we  should  mention  the  professor 
two  or  three  times  by  name,  in  a  manner  calculated  to  please 
him.  Moreover  we  should  have  begun  this  misuse  of  print 
paper  with  considerable  blatant  boasting  about  what  a  big 
class  we  comprise  and  how  we  are  going  to  set  the  world 
afire. 

But— 

We  long  to  be  unique,  we  yearn  to  be  different,  we  disdain 
precedent.  So  we  shall  not  mention  anybody's  name,  thus 
antagonizing  everybody  right  at  the  beginning  instead  of  grad- 
ually. In  fact  we  shall  not  even  sign  our  own  name  because 
we  really  do  not  crave  the  title  "ye  scribe"  nor  do  we  feel 
proud  of  this,  our  maiden  effort  at  class  notes. 


SOPHOMORE  PRE-MEDICS 


g  OPHOMORE  PREMEDIC  boasts  of  all  last  year's  mem- 
bers and  of  a  few  welcome  additions.    Again  the  class  was 
the   first   to   organize,   holding   its   first   meeting   and   electing 
officers  the  first  week  of  school.     The  officers  elected  were: 

President — Edward  P.  King. 
Vice-President — Dan  J.  Duggan. 
Secretary — Leo  J.  Niccola. 
Treasurer — H.  E.  Quinn. 

The  social  activities  of  the  year  began  with  a  banquet  held 
on  the  23rd  of  October.  All  entered  into  these  plans  and  ar- 
rangements with  hearty  co-operation  because  the  affairs  of 
Freshman  year  were  so  successful. 

The  class  has  an  interesting  program  of  work  and  recrea- 
tion ahead  for  the  year. 

Leo  J.  Niccola. 


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Longwood,  Chicago,  111. 

Boarding   and   Day   School    for 

Girls,  conducted  by  School 
Sisters  of  Notre  Dame 
Academic   Course   prepares    for   Col- 
lege or   Normal   entrance.    Grammar 
and  Primary  Dept.  for  little  Girls. 
Commercial    Course    of     two    years 
after  the  eighth  grade. 
Domestic  Science. 

Music  —  Conservatory  methods  in 
piano,  violin  and  vocal. 
Art  —  Special  advantages.  Four 
studios  open  to  visitors  at  all  times. 
Physical  Culture  and  Athletics  under 
competent  teachers. 
Campus — 15  acres. 

Extension  Course  Conducted  by 
Loyola   University 

Catalogue  Sent  Upon  Application 
Telephone  Beverly  315 


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51 


THE  COLLEGE  SMOKER 

How  K.  C.  B.  Will  Suffer 


When  the 

College  smoker 

Was  over 

Every  one  would  have 

Said 

"Hot  dog"  ! 

If 

It  hadn't  been 

Friday  night. 

But   more  appropriate 

Expressions 

Of  glee 

Were  frequent, 

Because 

It  was  certainly 

A  humdinger. 

Ask  any  one 

Who  was  there. 

The  stunts, 

Bouts,   and   music, 

Drew   applause   that 

Made   the   roof 

"Shimmy". 

Whitelow 

Threw   Tirol 

After   some   wrestling 

That  made  a  bum 

Out   of   Earl    Caddock 

And 

Perry's  bout  with  Bloedman 

Was  nearly  as  peaceful 

As 

Two  strange  bulldogs 

Gnawing  the  same 

Bone. 

LaFebre  stepped 

Three    fast    rounds   with 

Petrone 

And, 

O'Mallcy 


Mixed   the   profane 

With    the   classical 

By    refereeing   all    the    bouts 

And   then   giving 

A   vocal    solo. 

The  high  school  orchestra  proved 

A   pleasant   surprise 

Who  said 

Cope    Harvey   was   good? 

Rummy 

And  Joliet 

Were  applauded  so  much 

That  Joliet 

Nearly  fell 

From  the  balcony 

(A   stepladder). 

Listen,    Arts, 

The  Medics  showed 

SOME  pep, 

Didn't  they? 

They 

Certainly   have 

The   right   idea. 

We'll   have   to 

Get   better  acquainted 

With 

That    lively   bunch 

Of 

Real  boosters 

We're  as   sorry 

As  you 

That  you  weren't  there 

But 

We'll  take  a  bet 

Of 

A  barbed  wire  tooth-brush 

Against   a   seat 

In   Cox's   cabinet, 

That  you'll   be 

At   the  next  one. 

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LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  53 

JUNIOR  MEDICS 

TEN-SHUN ! 

Pep !     Pep  !     Pep,  pep,  pep  ! 


They  tell  us  this  is  the  Fall  Quarter.  We  can  tell  better 
three  months  hence. 

O'Malley  &  Mullen  say,  "We'll  have  a  Glee  Club  or  bust." 
O'-Brien  adds,  "Probably  both." 

Louie  Gikoffski  states  that  an  infant  shows  proper  mus- 
cular development  when  it  can  "hold  its  spine  so  its  head 
won't  wobble."  Wonder  if  he  was  thinking  of  the  last  half 
minute  of  the  second  round  with  Whitlow. 

In  addition  to  the  regular  Junior  Course,  Whitlow,  Huf- 
ford  and  Meyens  are  taking  special  courses  in  Research  in  the 
Physiology  Department.  This  is  not  so  much  a  news  article 
as  it  is  a  warning  to  Stewart,  Hamell,  Carlson  and  the  rest  of 
the  boys. 

Wanted :     To  Know — 

Where  is  the  Junior  of  yester  year 
Who  hung  his  cap  on  the  crown  of  his  ear  ; 
Wore  long  trousers  up  to  his  knees, 
And  rattled  a  dime  and  a  bunch  of  keys? 

Not  that  we  care,  we  merely  wish  to  continue  dodging  him. 

A  fewT  weeks  ago,  we  met  a  prospective  Medic  who  was 
stunned  by  the  requirements  to  "get  in."  Now  that  he's  in  he 
is  half  paralyzed  by  the  list  of  requirements  to  "get  out." 


SOPHOMORE  MEDICS 

'HE  last   regular   class  meeting  was  held  June   5th.     The 
class  officers  for  the  ensuing  year  were  elected. 

Class  .  Officers 
President— P.  H.  McNulty. 


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medical  Course. 

ADS 

Academy — High  School  and  Elective 
Courses.    Commercial   Department. 
Grammar     and     Primary     Depart- 
ments. 

Departments    of    Music,    Art,    Ex- 
pression   and    Household   Econom- 
ics. 

Winter  Quarter  opens  Tuesday 
January  4th,  1921 

LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  55 


Vice-President — L.  L.  Vitovec. 

Secretary — J.  V.  Russell. 

Treasurer — J.  Grundy. 

Class  Representative — R.  E.  Cummings. 

Editor — W.  A.  Malone. 

There  has  been  a  very  promising  quartet  organized,  led  by 
Mr.  Ingrau,  and  including  Cummings,  Warren  and  Russel. 

The  Sophomore  Class  this  year  is  represented  by  the  same 
boys  who  last  year  so  intelligently  and  honorably  upheld  the 
scholarship  necessary  for  a  "Class  A  School."  They  represent 
the  first  of  the  "New  Loyola." 

Heard  ix  the  Classroom 

Five  minutes  after  one  and  no  professor : 
Malone — Aw  !     Let's  go  home,  fellows. 

Bob  Cummings  claims  that  Dr.  Ivy  gives  the  boys  plenty 
of  food  for  thought  in  his  lectures. 

P.  S. — I  know  a  lot  more  that  agree  with  Bob.  How  about 
it,  J.  Russel? 

Last  year  we  were  entertained  by  cadavers.  This  year  we 
have  dogs,  cats,  frogs,  etc.  Oh,  yes,  we  have  a  very  pleasant 
life  of  it. 

We  are  very  proud  to  state  that  a  Michael  John  Warren, 
a  member  of  our  class,  represents  the  Medical  Department  of 
Loyola  University  on  the  magazine  staff.  Michael  John  is  an 
A.  B.  and  A.  M. 

Two  members  of  the  class  are  getting  very  independent. 
Grundy  with  his  blue  pencil  and  Vitovec  with  his  knife.  To 
see  the  way  Vite  pets  up  that  knife  you  would  think  he  didn't 
steal  it  from  McNulty. 

There  is  a  report  out  that  Russel  is  going  to  be  a  veterinary. 
I  guess  it  is  because  he  has  had  such  success  with  his  deceri- 
brated  pigeon. 


School  of  Sociology 

LOYOLA    UNIVERSITY         CHICAGO,    ILL. 

lyjODERN  CHARITY  WORKERS  must  have 
special  training.  Poverty  today  is  not  individ- 
ual but  social;  most  of  the  relief  must  be  social. 
There  is  a  demand  for  social  workers  in  the  public 
and  private  relief  work.  1  Owing  to  its  location  in 
the  heart  of  a  great  city  the  School  of  Sociology  is 
able  to  give  a  course  which  combines  theory  and 
practice.  Courses  in  Sociology,  History  of  Social 
Reform,  Civics,  Charity  Methods,  Ethics,  etc.,  are 
offered,  ten  hours  per  week  being  devoted  to  class 
work    and    fifteen    hours   to    field   work.  :    : 

EXTENSION  COURSES  in  English,  Mathematics, 
Modern  Languages,  History,  Philosophy,  Public 
Speaking,  afford  social  workers  an  opportunity  for 
cultural  advancement,  and  teachers  an  opportunity 
for  making  credits  toward  promotion  and  degrees. 

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SCHOOL   OF  SOCIOLOGY 

The  School  of  Sociology  opened  full  swing  on  October 
4th.  Nearly  all  of  the  courses  have  increased  registrations 
and  nearly  1,100  students  are  enrolled  which  does  not  include 
the  762  students  in  the  summer  school.  Eliminating  dupli- 
cations the  total  registration  for  1920-1921  will  run  close  to 
1,700  students.  The  faculty  is  much  the  same  with  the  excep- 
tion of  two  new  faces,  Dr.  Davis  and  Professor  Nelson,  the 
former  giving  Social  Psychiatry  and  the  latter  Public  Speak- 
ing. 

The  School  was  well  advertised  in  Boston  during  the  latter 
part  of  August,  when  our  Dean  gave  a  Teachers'  Institute  to 
all  the  teachers  of  the  parochial  schools  of  that  archdiocese. 
Father  Siedenburg's  topic  was  "Modern  Social  Problems," 
and  towards  the  end  of  his  course,  the  sisters  of  thirty  various 
orders  numbered  more  than  one  thousand.  Cardinal  O'Con- 
nell,  who  was  present  at  one  of  the  lectures,  said  that  never 
before  were  there  so  many  sisters  representing  so  many  orders 
present  on  one  occasion.  Father  Siedenburg  on  the  same  trip 
lectured  in  Toronto  and  Montreal. 

Father  Pernin  is  giving  a  course  in  Shakespeare  to  club 
women  at  the  School  each  Monday  from  10:00  to  11:30. 
They  are  now  reading  "Romeo  and  Juliet"  and  the  increasing 
number  at  each  class  shows  that  those  that  hear  him  are  not 
onh  pleased  but  anxious  to  share  their  pleasure  with  their 
friends.  Father  Pernin  is  also  giving  his  favorite  "Short 
Story"  course  on  Friday  evening  from  6:30  to  8:30.  This 
course  was  offered  in  response  to  many  requests  from  people 
engaged  in  the  daytime.  Another  night  class  that  is  popular 
is  the  course  in  Community  Social  Service  offered  at  the 
same  hour  on  Friday  evening.  Father  Siedenburg  is  giving 
the  lectures,  and  needless  to  say  many  new  registrants  are 
seeking  admission.  Father  Kane,  we  are  glad  to  say,  is  again 
with  us  giving  Social  Ethics  and  Social  Psychology.  He  just 
returned  from  Kansas  City  where  he  gave  a  lecture. 

At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  National  Catholic  Welfare 
Council,  in  Washington,  Father  Siedenburg  was  re-elected 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Social  Action  Department. 

Reports  from  the  students  are  again  very  favorable.  Miss 
De  La  Frances  Connolly,  who  took  charge  of  the  opening  of 


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the  Knights  of  Columbus  Settlement  in  Grand  Rapids,  Mich- 
igan, visited  the  school  and  reports  that  the  work  there  now 
in  full  progress  and  doing  most  effective  work.  Miss  Lily  A. 
Caverly  is  now  on  the  staff  of  the  Children's  Home  and  Aid 
Societv  and  is  much  pleased  with  her  work.  Mr.  William 
J.  Deenev,  one  of  our  former  students,  is  now  the  Field 
Director  of  the  Northern  District  of  Wisconsin  for  the  Amer- 
ican Red  Cross. 

October  14th,  Father  Siedenburg  read  a  paper  before  the 
general  meeting  of  the  Wisconsin  State  Conference  of  Chari- 
ties.    The  subject  was  "Training  for  Social  Work." 

Three  of  our  students  have  entered  the  religious  life  since 
the  last  writing.  Miss  Frances  O'Brien  and  Miss  Clara  Cun- 
ningham have  entered  the  B.  V.  M's  at  Mt.  Carmel  and  Miss 
Loretto  Ogden  has  entered  the  Poor  Clares  at  Rockford. 

Berxadixe  Murray. 


SENIOR  MEDICS 

The  "Loyola"  Comes  to  Port 

^HE  epochal  event  of  the  "Class  A"  rating,  recently  be- 
stowed  on  Loyola  Lniversity  School  of  Medicine,  was  fit- 
tingly celebrated  at  the  City  Club  of  Chicago.  No  stone  was 
left  unturned  by  the  committees  on  arrangements  to  make  this 
affair  a  success,  and  their  efforts  were  amply  rewarded  by 
the  generous  response  in  attendance  by  faculty  and  student 
body. 

An  inviting  menu  greeted  the  guests  upon  their  arrival  in 
the  beautifully  decorated  banquet  hall.  Further,  a  talented 
orchestra,  rendering  numbers  from  Beethoven  to  Berlin,  made 
the  ordinarily  welcome  task  of  mastication  a  celestial  activity- 
Subsequent  to  the  banquet  was  a  novelly  arranged  pro- 
gram. In  an  allegorical  manner,  the  Medical  School  was  rep- 
resented as  a  ship,  the  faculty  as  the  crew,  and  the  student 


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body  as  the  fuel.  The  officials  of  the  school  were  designated 
as  captain,  mates,  mechanics,  etc.,  in  true  nautical  manner. 
in  the  course  of  the  evening,  the  speakers  displayed  such 
facility  in  the  vocabulary  of  the  sea,  that  some  of  the  less 
sophisticated  under-classmen  were  rendered  seasick  by  the 
atmosphere  created. 

Dr.  T.  T.  Walsh,  as  an  "old  tar,"  graphically  described  the 
history  of  the  good  ship  "Loyola"  from  the  date  of  its  launch- 
ing in  1879,  to  its  arrival  in  port  in  the  Fall  of  1917. 

The  "second  mate,"  Dr.  L.  D.  Moorhead,  reviewed  the 
"log"  of  the  ship  from  the  year  1917  to  the  present  date.  He 
dwelt  particularly  on  the  perilous  and  almost  impossible  jour- 
ney from  the  "Port  of  Class  B"  to  the  long  sought  and  serene 
shelter  of  the  "Harbor  of  Class  A."  This  period,  as  you  will 
recall,  embraced  the  Great  War,  and  hence  the  troubles  and 
vicissitudes  encountered  were  manifold.  In  the  first  place  the 
ship  was  not  seaworthy  and  hence  a  thorough  renovation  was 
necessary.  In  addition,  the  crew,  as  a  whole,  was  not  of  the 
proper  caliber.  As  the  date  of  sailing,  Oct.  1,  1917,  was  only 
a  few  weeks  distant,  it  was  only  by  the  superhuman  efforts  of 
the  captain  and  the  first  and  second  mates  that  an  efficient 
personnel  was  secured  before  that  date.  Chief  Mechanic  R. 
M.  Strong  was  obtained  for  the  Department  of  Anatomy ;  Dr. 
Wilson  for  Pathology;  Drs.  Matthews  and  Ivy  for  the  De- 
partment of  Physiology,  and  so  on,  until  practically  a  new 
crew  manned  the  "Loyola"  when  she  began  her  journey  to  the 
"Harbor  of  Class  A."  During  the  memorable  voyage,  Drs. 
Mix  and  Moorhead  were  eventually  given  full  command  of 
the  Departments  of  Medicine  and  Surgery.  Under  the  guid- 
ance of  this  competent  crew  the  reconstructed  Loyola  reached 
her  long  sought  destination  in  April,  1920. 

Mr.  Veseen,  a  "bos  n,"  gave  his  impressions  of  the  old  ship. 

The  crew  was  humorously  described  by  R.  K.  O'Brien. 
His  quips  on  Chief  Chemist  Calhoun  and  Surgeons  Ivy  and 
Matthews  were  particularly  appreciated  by  the  ordinary  sea- 
man. Also  his  reference  to  the  pretty  nurses  in  the  ship's 
infirmary  met  with  approval.  However,  this  young  gentleman 
failed  to  mention  the  beautiful  "yeomanettes,"  whose  weapons 
are  pen,  pencil  and  typewriter,  and  whose  duties  in  the  ship's 
office  play  no  small  part  in  the  lives  of  the  ordinary  seaman. 
Melhinks,  O'Brien,  thereby,  passed  up  a  golden  opportunity. 


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dolph Streets. 


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doph  Streets. 


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penses of  board  and  lodging. 

There  is  a  call  for  Catholic 
lawyers,  doctors,  and  social 
workers  throughout  the  country. 
Women  are  admitted  to  the 
medical  and  sociological  schools. 
Graduates  of  the  Department 
of  Sociology  heve  been  able  to 
obtain  positions  at  once. 


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The  oratorical  treat  of  the  evening  was  Seaman  P.  K. 
McNulty's  discourse  on  "Fuel."  In  a  very  interesting  man- 
ner he  told  of  the  exacting  composition  required  of  the  fuel, 
its  careful  analysis  before  acceptance;  and  finally  the  mag- 
nificent results  obtained  therefrom.  Seaman  McNulty  claimed 
that  the  amount  of  the  fire  of  loyalty  and  enthusiasm  pos- 
sessed by  the  fuel  of  the  good  ship  "Loyola"  approached  100 
per  cent,  and  that  it  contained  no  cinders  of  discord  or  ill- 
feeling. 

Rev.  P.  J.  Marian,  first  mate,  reiterated  Seaman  McNulty's 
statement  on  the  quality  of  the  ship's  fuel,  and  stated  further 
that  with  her  magnificent  crew  and  with  such  fuel,  the  "Loy- 
ola" would  weather  the  most  storm-tossed  and  exacting  sea 
of  the  Medical  World. 

The  "New  Ship"  was  elaborately  portrayed  bv  Chief  Me- 
chanic R.  M.  Strong  a  "four-decker,"  possessing  the  equip- 
ment necessary  not  only  for  ordinary  voyages,  but  also  to 
enable  it  to  invade  the  "mystic  waters  of  Research." 

Fr.  J.  B.  Furav,  S.  J.,  captain,  outlined  the  future  course 
of  the  "Loyola."  Regarding  the  "four-decker"  described  by 
Mechanic  Strong,  he  stated  that  the  project  would  not  ma- 
terialize until  the  present  ship  had  encompassed  the  Shoals  of 
"Impecunia." 

Before  closing,  just  a  few  words  of  appreciation  for  the 
inmates  of  the  "brig"  who  entertained  with  several  vocal  num- 
bers. These  versatile  exponents  of  harmony  displayed  great 
talent  and  it  is  to  be  regreted  that  the  evening  was  too  short  to 
allow  them  to  fully  demonstrate  their  ability.  Still  when  the 
"Loyola"  puts  in  for  another  night  of  frolic,  it  is  hoped  that 
the  officer  in  charge  will  give  the  "brigadiers"  ample  time  and 
space.  J.  M.  Warren. 


FRESHMAN   MEDICS 

A  T  a  meeting  held  October  18,  1920,  in  the  upper  amphi- 
^*-  theatre,  the  Freshman  Class  of  '20  elected  their  officers 
under  the  supervision  of  Dr.  Job.  The  following  officers  were 
elected. 


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President — A.  H.  Jacoby. 
Vice-President — M.  W.  Hedgecock. 
Secretary — Miss  A.  Pohl. 
Treasurer — Jean  McCormick. 
Class  Representative — M.  O.  Wilkins. 
Editor — P.  Deutsch. 
Sergeant-at-Arms — -Ansel  Tulupan. 

Spirited  contests  involving  the  casting  of  several  ballots 
took  place  in  the  election  of  President,  Secretary  and  Class 
Representative,  as  much  spirit  was  shown  in  the  class  pro- 
ceedings in  the  future  as  at  the  aforesaid  meeting.  The 
Freshman  Class  of  this  year  can  look  forward  to  the  achieving 
of  great  things. 


Personals 

Don't  read  the  Mag  over  the  other  fellow's  shoulder. 

Our  worthy  sergeant-at-arms,  Ansel  Tulupan,  the  only 
officer  who  stood  alone  in  the  regard  of  the  class  for  any 
office,  certainly  will  make  as  imposing  spectacle  with  his  great 
size  and  formidable  appearance.  Go  to  it,  Ansel,  we  stand 
solidly  behind  you. 

A  very  peculiar  contest  took  place  for  the  office  of  Class 
Editor.  Ability  on  the  side  of  one  was  arrayed  against  the 
shorter  name  of  the  present  editor.    The  name  won  out. 

Just  a  tip  to  Joe  Boland — In  the  future  please  don't  hand 
any  jobs  connected  with  hard  work  to  a  certain  obliging  young 
fellow. 

Certain  members  of  this  Class  advise  Poborsky  to  stud}' 
his  lessons  and  get  his  dope  down  right  before  he  goes  into 
any  class — Get  the  right  function — Poborsky. 

At  the  last  minute  before  going  to  press  we  bumped  into 
Partipilo  telling  the  world  Loyola  Medic  is  the  best  little 
school  in  the  universe.  We're  all  right  behind  you,  Party,  old 
boy- 

Send  in  your  contributions  to  the  personal  section — Every- 
body welcome. 

P.  Deutch. 


Think  What  It  Would 
Mean  To  You 

A    Perpetual    Scholarship    is    the    Most    Magnificent 

Monument  —  The  Greatest  Memorial  a   Man  or 

Woman  Can  Leave  for  Future  Generations. 


F  you  were  a  boy  ambitious  for  a  college  edu- 
cation (but  lacking  the  means  to  pay  for  it)  — 
how  happy  you  would  be  were  some  generous- 
hearted  man  or  woman  to  come  to  you  and 
say,  "Son,  I  know  what  an  education  means 
to  you.    I  want  you  to  have  all  of  its  advan- 
tages and  I  am  willing  to  pay  the  expenses  of  giving  it  to 
you,  so  that  you  may  be  prepared  for  opportunity  and  realize 
the  greatest  success  in  life." 

Your  delight  at  such  an  unexpected  gift  could  only  be 
exceeded  by  the  supreme  satisfaction  and  happiness  afforded 
the  donor.  For  a  greater  reward  can  come  to  no  man  than 
the  knowledge  that  his  generosity  has  given  a  worthy  boy 
the  means  of  gaining  an  education  and  all  of  the  blessings 
that  it  affords. 

There  are  hundreds  of  fine  boys — without  means — who 
would  eagerly  welcome  the  chance  to  fit  themselves  for  places 
of  eminence  in  the  world  by  a  course  of  study  at  Loyola 
University.  Unless  someone  takes  a  personal  interest  in  them, 
they  will  not  have  the  opportunity. 

By  endowing  a  perpetual  scholarship  you  can  give  a  great 
number  of  boys  a  valuable  Christian  education,  which  will 


make  them  successful  men  of  high  character  and  ideals  and 
enable  them  to  help  other  boys  in  a  similar  manner. 

$2500  will  endow  one  scholarship  in  perpetuity ;  $500  will 
endow  two  scholarships.  This  would  mean  that  through  your 
generosity  at  least  one  student  could  enter  Loyola  University 
every  four  years  (tuition  free)  for  all  time.  He  would  be 
your  boy.  He  would  recognize  you  as  his  sponsor,  for  the 
scholarship  would  bear  your  name.  You  would  take  a  great 
personal  interest  in  his  scholastic  success  and  his  achieve- 
ments. Everlasting  gratitude  to  you  would  be  an  ample  re- 
ward. 

A  man  can  pay  no  greater  tribute  to  anyone  than  to  say, 
"What  success  I  have  won  I  owe  to  the  generous  benefactor, 
who  helped  me  to  get  an  education." 

Why  not  be  such  a  benefactor?  For  generations  to  come 
your  name  will  be  remembered  by  countless  boys  to  whom 
your  generosity  will  bring  education  and  success. 

Full  details  regarding  the  Loyola  perpetual  scholarship 
plan  furnished  on  request. 


Loyola  University 

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How  is  a  Wireless 
saae  Received? 


EVERY  incandescent  lamp  has  a  filament.  Mount  a  metal  plate 
on  a  wire  in  the  lamp  near  the  filament.  A  current  leaps  the 
'  space  between  the  filament  and  the  plate  when  the  filament  glows. 

Edison  first  observed  this  phenomenon  in  1883.  Hence  it  was 
called  the  "Edison  effect." 

Scientists  long  studied  the  "effect"  but  they  could  not  explain  it 
satisfactorily.  Now,  after  years  of  experimenting  with  Crookes  tubes, 
X-ray  tubes  and  radium,  it  is  known  that  the  current  that  leaps  across 
is  a  stream  of  "electrons" — exceedingly  minute  particles  negatively 
charged  with  electricity. 

These  electrons  play  an  important  part  in  wireless  communication. 
When  a  wire  grid  is  interposed  between  the  filament  and  the  plate  and 
charged  positively,  the  plate  is  aided  in  drawing  electrons  across;  but 
when  the  grid  is  charged  negatively  it  drives  back  the  electrons.  A 
very  small  charge  applied  to  the  grid,  as  small  as  that  received  from  a 
feeble  wireless  wave,  is  enough  to  vary  the  electron  stream. 

So  the  grid  in  the  tube  enables  a  faint  wireless  impulse  to  control 
the  very  much  greater  amount  of  energy  in  the  flow  of  electrons,  and 
so  radio  signals  too  weak  to  be  perceived  by  other  means  become  per- 
ceptible by  the  effects  that  they  produce.  Just  as  the  movement  of 
a  throttle  controls  a  great  locomotive  in  motion,  so  a  wireless  wave,  by 
means  of  the  grid,  affects  the  powerful  electron  stream. 

All  this  followed  from  studying  the  mysterious  "Edison  effect" — 
a  purely  scientific  discovery. 

No  one  can  foresee  what  results  will  follow  from  research  in  pure 
science.  Sooner  or  later  the  world  must  benefit  practically  from  the 
discovery  of  new  facts. 

For  this  reason  the  Research  Laboratories  of  the  General  Electric 
Company  are  concerned  as  much  with  investigations  in  pure  science  as 
they  are  with  the  improvement  of  industrial  processes  and  products. 
They,  too,  have  studied  the  "Edison  effect"  scientifically.  The  result 
has  been  a  new  form  of  electron  tube,  known  as  the  "  pliotron",  a  type 
of  X-ray  tube  free  from  the  vagaries  of  the  old  tube;  and  the  "kene- 
tron",  which  is  called  by  electrical  engineers  a  "rectifier"  because  it 
has  the  property  of  changing  an  alternating  into  a  direct  current. 

All  these  improvements  followed  because  the  Research  Laboratories 
try  to  discover  the  "how"  of  things.  Pure  science  always  justifies  itself. 


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Vol.  XYIII  JANUARY,  1921  Number  2 


Geoffrey  Chaucer 

From   A   Catholic  Viewpoint 

ERY  meagre  was  the  native  literary  in- 
heritance of  Chaucer,  compared  with  whose 
productions  all  that  precedes  is  barbarism, 
as  Craik  tells  us  in  his  "Literature  and 
Learning  in  England,"  (Vol.  2,  p.  10).  Our 
Teutonic  ancestors  living  on  the  borders  of 
the  North  Sea  began  our  literature  with  songs  and  stories 
of  their  times.  The  English  nation  was  founded  in  the  latter 
part  of  the  fifth  century,  when  Britain  was  conquered  by 
three  Teutonic  tribes,  Jutes,  Angles,  and  Saxons,  the  first 
bemg  led  probably  in  449  by  Hengist  and  Horsa.  Their 
earnest,  somber,  somewhat  religious  poetry  is  character- 
istically that  of  sea-rovers  and  hardy  warriors,  capable  of 
profound  and  noble  emotions.  Their  poetry  had  a  kind  of 
martial  rythm  produced  by  an  abrupt  break  in  the  middle  of 
each  line  and  having  accent  and  alliteration.    The  five  striking 

69 


70  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

characteristics  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  themes  are:  love  of  free- 
dom, responsivseness  to  nature  especially  in  her  sterner  moods, 
strong  religious  convictions  and  a  belief  in  Wyrd  (Fate), 
reverence  for  women,  and  devotion  to  glory  as  the  ruling 
motive  in  every  warrior's  life.  The  Teutons  at  first  used 
poetry  as  the  most  suitable  vehicle  for  expressing  their  feel- 
ings, as  the  Greeks  and  Romans  had  previously  done,  this 
poetry  being  kept  fresh  in  the  minds  of  the  people  by  the 
singers.  The  kings  and  nobles  when  feasting  after  some 
victorious  battle  were  entertained  by  the  songs  of  the  "scop" 
and  "gleemen"  accompanied  with  the  harp.  War,  the  sea  and 
death  were  the  ordinary  themes  of  these  "scops"  and  "glee- 
men." 

Of  a  thoroughly  Catholic  tone,  the  first  true  English  poem 
native  to  our  soil  is  the  work  of  Caedman,  a  monk  of  North- 
umbria,  written  about  670.  Jutting  out  into  the  sea  in  the 
small,  land-locked  harbor  of  Whitby  rose  the  wild,  dark, 
wind-swept  cliff"  on  which  stood  the  monastery  of  St.  Hilda, 
looking  out  over  the  German  Ocean  beating  furiously  be- 
neath a  suitable  birthplace  for  the  poetry  of  a  powerful 
maritime  nation,  that  notwithstanding  its  apostacy  from  the 
Church,  yet  is  Catholic  at  heart  and  is  veering  daily  more 
and  more  back  to  the  harbor  of  truth.  Although  Caedman's 
is  a  religious  poem  it  retains  the  fierce  warlike  element  in 
the  struggle  of  the  rebel  angels.  What  Caedman  did  for 
eariy  Anglo-Saxon  poetry,  Layaman,  a  priest  of  Worcester- 
shire did  for  it  after  the  Norman  conquest.  It  is  pleasant  to 
think  that  the  beginning  of  English  prose  was  with  St.  Bede, 
born  about  673  in  Northumbria,  the  home  of  English  litera- 
ture. All  his  extant  writings  are  in  Latin,  many  monasteries 
and  libraries  containing  our  earliest  literature  being  destroyed 
in  867  when  Northumbria  was  conquered  by  the  Danes. 
Alfred  the  Great,  since  he  translated  into  English  St.  Bede's 
works,  is  really  the  true  father  of  English  prose  and  Win- 
chester its  birthplace.  The  oldest  historical  record  known  to 
any  European  nation  in  its  own  tongue  is  the  Anglo-Saxon 
Chronicle  in  prose  revised  and  enlarged  by  Alfred  the  Great 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  71 

(848-901)  covering  a  period  of  more  than  two  centuries 
beginning  with  the  story  of  Ceasar's  conquest.  Caedman, 
Aldhelm,  Cynewulf,  Bede,  Alcuin,  and  nearly  all  the  other 
Anglo-Saxon  writers  were  either  monks  by  profession  or 
taught  in  the  monasteries,  so  that  the  most  powerful  stimulus 
upon  literature  supplying  both  the  writers  and  the  themes 
were  the  monasteries,  Saxon  literature  being  the  offspring 
of  monastic  scholarship.  Although  an  insular  race  and  situated 
in  a  peculiar  site,  the  English-speaking  world  has  brought 
forth  the  most  masterly  productions  in  every  branch  of  learn- 
ing and  province  of  genius  despite  the  fact  that  five  centuries 
ago  she  was  destitute  of  a  national  literature.  A  traditional 
store  of  fables,  heroic  panegyrics,  satirical  songs,  legendary 
ballads,  inherited  by  Chaucer  from  his  predecessors  formed 
the  material  for  the  loom  of  this  mighty  weaver  of  rhyme, 
which  produced  a  marvelous  fabric  bewitching  the  world 
since  his  time.  To  the  student  of  English  literature  Chaucer's 
writings  are  the  earliest  of  any  literary  interest,  the  works  of 
previous  authors  being  of  interest  chiefly  to  the  philologist. 
Chaucer  by  the  vigor  of  his  genius  handled  the  crude  material 
of  the  Anglo-Saxon  language,  refashioned  and  refined  it  and 
breathed  the  breath  of  life  into  it. 

The  history  of  the  childhood  and  youth  of  our  mother 
tongue  has  proved  a  fascinating  study  for  scholars  of  all 
times.  The  primitive  inhabitants  of  England  were  the  Britons, 
of  Celtic  origin,  whose  language  resembled  modern  Welsh. 
Although  the  Romans  conquered  England  about  the  beginning 
of  the  Christian  era  and  held  portions  of  the  island  for  four 
hundred  years,  the  vast  majority  of  the  Celtic  population  were 
uninfluenced  by  Roman  civilization.  The  piratical  Saxons, 
Jutes  and  Angles  from  the  banks  of  the  Elbe,  Weser  and 
Rhine,  by  swarming  into  Briton  in  the  fifth  century,  drove 
the  natives  into  the  west  and  north.  Subsequently  they  called 
themselves  Anglo-Saxons  and  their  speech  came  to  be  known 
as  Old  English,  its  use  extending  from  about  450  to  1200. 

In  1066  the  Saxon  king  Harold  was  overthrown  in  the 
battle  of  Hastings  by  William  of  Normandy,  whose  ancestors, 


72  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

originally  Scandinavians,  had  about  one  hundred  and  fifty 
years  previous  settled  in  Normandy  and  there  acquired  the 
French  language.  Both  the  conquering  Normas  and  the  con- 
quered Anglo-Saxons  continued  to  use  their  own  distinct 
language  for  more  than  one  hundred  years  until  finally  the 
French  was  absorbed  into  the  Anglo-Saxon  forming  the 
Middle  English  used  from  about  1200  to  1500.  This  Middle 
English  was  the  Anglo-Saxon  modified  by  the  addition  of 
many  Latin  and  French  words  and  by  the  loss  of  many 
inflections.  All  things  without  life  were  put  in  the  neuter 
gender  and  some  Teutonic  practices,  such  as  the  termination 
of  the  infinitive  in  "en"  was  dropped.  This  was  the  form 
and  character  of  English  in  Chaucer's  time. 

Modern  English  (1500 — )  begins  about  Shakespeare's 
time  when  it  assumed  a  form  which  we  of  to-day  can  under- 
stand without  any  special  study.  Three-eighths  of  it  is  taken 
from  Celtic,  Latin,  French,  Danish,  Greek  with  even  a  few 
elements  of  Arabic  and  Persian,  but  five-eighths  and  the 
most  important  part,  the  grammar,  its  scientific  basis,  are 
Saxon,  consequently  its  framework,  bone  and  sinew  is  the 
Anglo-Saxon  tongue.  Possessing  Teutonic  strength  and 
Roman  suppleness  and  freedom  of  expression,  none  of  the 
living  languages  can  vie  with  it. 

Although  Chaucer  lived  at  a  time  when  chivalry  still  had 
power  over  the  minds  of  the  people,  yet  besides  delighting  in 
flowery  meeds,  grassy  hillsides  and  Canterbury  pilgriming,  the 
vast  majority  of  the  people  had  to  contend  with  wars,  plagues, 
insurrections,  much  misery  and  discontent.  There  was  a 
deeply  felt  protest  against  the  oppression  of  the  people  by 
the  class  of  nobles.  Owing  to  the  French  wars  the  people  were 
fn  misery,  heavy  taxation  fell  on  them  and  severe  laws  pre- 
vented them  from  bettering  themselves.  The  Black  Death 
plague  ravaged  England  in  1349,  '64,  '69.  Great  social,  polit- 
ical and  religious  agitation  developed  great  literary  work.  To 
the  author  of  "Piers  the  Plowman"  we  must  go  for  the 
disagreeable  side  of  life  in  the  fourteenth  century.  This  work 
commonly  supposed  to  be  that  of  William  Langland,  a  theo- 


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logical  student  but  never  a  fully  ordained  priest,  is  written 
in  rude  English  dialect  in  alliterative  English  verse  in  the  old 
English  manner  so  that  even  a  plow-boy  could  understand  it. 
On  a  pleasant  May  morning  amid  rural  scenery  beside  a  brook 
the  poet  dreams  he  sees  a  vision  of  the  world,  like  a  drama 
passing  before  him.  The  actors  are  mostly  personified  abstrac- 
tions, such  as  Conscience,  Lady  Meed  or  Bribery,  Reason, 
Truth,  Gluttony,  Hunger,  the  Seven  Deadly  Sins.  The  poem 
is  full  of  humor,  satire  and  descriptions  of  common  life.  Piers 
at  first  is  a  simple  plow-man,  who  offers  to  lead  men  to  truth, 
but  is  finally  identified  with  the  Savior.  Typical  Anglo-Saxon 
earnestness  characterizes  the  poem,  hatred  is  manifested 
towards  hypocrisy  in  the  clergy  and  sadness  is  displayed  for 
the  contradiction  between  the  real  and  ideal,  thus  helping  to 
lay  the  foundation  for  the  so-called  reformation.  Langland's 
verse  giving  valuable  pictures  of  the  life  of  the  common 
people  was  read  chiefly  by  those  among  the  lower  classes 
desiring  social  and  church  reform. 

The  social  unrest  of  the  times  is  reflected  in  the  writings 
of  Wycliffe,  the  pioneer  of  English  rebellion  against  the 
authority  of  the  Church,  who  by  numerous  addresses  and 
tracts  aimed  first  at  the  reformation  of  morals  but  finally 
tried  to  reform  the  doctrines  of  the  Church,  causing  him  to 
be  branded  as  the  "morning  star  of  the  reformation  in  Eng- 
land." The  monasteries  originally  poor,  had  become  rich  and 
zeal  for  their  maintainance  had  somewhat  subsided.  The 
wealth  and  luxury  of  the  country  increasing,  trade,  conquest 
and  colonization  had  an  irresistible  attraction  for  the  English 
people,  which  gave  to  those  inclined  towards  literature  wider 
interests  and  a  broader  horizon  and  caused  the  appearance 
of  a  national  literature. 

Very  different  from  the  "Vision  of  Piers  the  Plowman" 
and  the  theological  disputes  of  anarchistic  Wycliffe,  portray- 
ing the  life  of  the  down-trodden,  hard-working,  oppressed 
peasants,  were  the  writings  of  Chaucer  and  Gower,  displaying 
the  cheerful,  festive  life  of  the  wealthy  and  courtly  classes, 


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furnishing  recreation  and  amusement  for  the  refined  and 
cultivated. 

While  Chaucer  wrote  in  England,  Froissart,  whom  Hallam 
calls  the  "Livy  of  France"  wrote  his  "Chronicles"  containing 
a  brilliant  historical  picture  of  wars,  military  achievements, 
social  customs,  tournaments  and  everything  forming  a  part 
of  the  life  of  the  nobility  in  the  fourteenth  century  and 
is  one  of  the  most  reliable  accounts  extant  of  the  political 
events  of  the  Middle  Ages.  Froissart  met  Chaucer  and  Boc- 
caccio at  Milan  and  visited  England. 

In  Germany  the  national  poetry  was  to  be  found  in  the 
homes  of  the  working  people  rather  than  at  court.  The  gay 
and  chivalrous  lyrics  of  the  Minnesanger  were  superseded  by 
the  homely  didactic  strains  of  the  Meistersanger  with  whom 
poetry  was  a  regular  profession  and  trade  guilds,  societies  and 
schools  were  formed  with  laws  and  charters.  The  wandering 
minstrel  mingling  with  all  classes  of  society  reflected  all  their 
sympathies. 

Classical  Italian  was  created  by  Dante,  but  stability,  purity 
and  elegance  were  given  to  it  by  Petrarch,  who,  although  he 
did  not  invent  the  sonnet,  yet  polished  it  and  made  it  fashion- 
able all  over  Europe  in  his  own  and  two  succeeding  ages. 
Boccaccio,  a  friend  of  Petrarch,  had,  with  him  much  influ- 
ence in  reviving  the  classics.  The  Decameron,  the  model  of 
Italian  prose,  has  never  been  surpassed  in  Italian  literature 
for  spirited  narrative,  skillful  expression  and  eloquence  of 
style. 

In  Spain  the  ballad  narrative  and  spontaneous  lyric  allured 
the  attention  of  the  people.  Don  Juan  Manuel  has  left  us 
a  Spanish  ballad  written  before  1364  and  Sanchez  referred 
several  fragments  to  the  fourteenth  century. 

Born  of  the  tradesman  class  about  1340,  and  unlike  most 
of  his  predecessors  in  poetry  in  being  a  layman,  but  remark- 
ably educated,  Chaucer  is  one  of  our  finest  gentlemen.  The 
chief  events  of  his  life  are  tinged  with  uncertainty.  Both 
his  father  and  grandfather  were  London  vintners.    Earlv  in 


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life  having  won  the  friendship  of  distinguished  persons,  he 
was  a  page  of  Edward  III,  who  in  1367  rewarded  him  with 
an  annuity  equivalent  at  the  present  time  to  about  £200. 
Later,  being  sent  abroad  as  envoy,  his  great  success  won  him 
many  proofs  of  royal  favor.  Regal  patronage  was  continued 
under  Richard  II,  who  sent  him  to  various  parts  of  the  king- 
dom on  important  commissions.  After  the  deposition  of 
Richard  II  in  1399,  Henry  IV  confirmed  all  his  predecessor's 
donations  to  Chaucer,  this  king  being  a  nephew  of  the  wife 
of  Chaucer.  More  actively  engaged  in  public  affairs  than  any 
celebrated  poet  since  his  time,  merry  of  eye,  satirical  without 
unkindness,  and  of  a  sunny  disposition  Chaucer  remained  for 
a  long  time  a  favorite  in  polite  circles.  In  1374  he  was  comp- 
troller of  the  Wool  Customs,  in  1382  of  the  Petty  Customs 
and  in  1386  member  of  Parliament  for  Kent.  Owing  to  polit- 
ical difficulties  arising  from  giving  support  to  a  certain  can- 
didate for  the  London  mayorality  who  was  afterwards  im- 
prisoned, Chaucer  spent  some  years  in  France  and  Denmark 
where  many  of  his  works  were  written.  Untrustworthy  agents 
having  appropriated  his  income,  he  was  obliged  to  return  to 
London  where,  in  order  to  obtain  pardon  and  freedom  from 
imprisonment,  he  disclosed  the  plans  of  his  former  associates. 
Although  this  drew  on  him  obloquy,  yet  he  was  again  received 
into  royal  favor.  In  literary  retirement  at  Woodstock  and 
finally  at  Doimington,  he  sought  repose  from  the  turmoil  and 
intrigue  of  public  life.  Here  were  written  the  Canterbury 
Tales,  his  latest  and  most  remarkable  work,  thus  showing  that 
his  imagination  did  not  decline  with  the  vigor  of  his  human 
frame.  For  many  men  of  genius  there  has  been  really  no 
old  age. 

His  son  Lewis  died  young  and  Thomas  was  speaker  in 
the  House  of  Commons  in  the  time  of  Henry  IV  and  ambas- 
sador to  France  and  Burgundy.  *  Thomas'  only  child,  Alice, 
married  the  Duke  of  Suffolk.  Her  grandson,  i.  e.  the  great- 
great-grandson  of  Chaucer,  the  Earl  of  Lincoln  had  he  not 
died  in  1847.  probably  would  have  been  the  king  because 
Richard  III  declared  him  to  be  the  rightful  heir  to  the  throne 


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if  the  Prince  of  Wales  died  without  issue.  The  "Father  of 
English  Poetry"  died  in  1400.  He  was  the  first  poet  interred 
in  Westminster  Abbey,  where  a  monument  to  his  memory 
was  erected  a  century  and  a  half  later  by  Brigham. 

That  Chaucer  did  not  sympathize  with  Wycliffe  is  evi- 
denced by  his  intimate  friendship  with  the  prince  who  with- 
drew from  Wycliffe  his  patronage,  and  by  his  close  friendship 
with  Strode,  an  Oxford  Dominican  and  a  strong  Anti- 
Lollard.  In  Chaucer's  "Poor  Parson  of  the  Town"  we 
realize  that  he  had  a  high  idea  of  the  priestly  character,  but 
he  represents  characters  such  as  they  were  on  account  of  his 
love  of  justice,  for  certainly  there  were  abuses  in  the  Catholic 
Church  in  England  in  Chaucer's  time.  Luxury  and  riches 
had  charmed  the  hearts  of  many  of  the  laity  and  religious 
more  than  zeal  for  the  crucified  Savior,  causing  some  to 
allow  levity,  simony  and  hypocrisy  to  creep  into  holy  actions. 
Keen  and  bitter  satire  is  directed  against  the  Summoner,  who 
sold  pigs'  bones  as  relics  of  the  saints  and  a  Friar  who  knew 
the  taverns  better  than  the  poor.  Great  rivalry  existed  at 
that  time  between  the  military  and  religious  orders.  Chaucer, 
belonging  to  the  military  order,  may  have  been  unduly  severe 
and  critical  of  the  religious  orders.  Like  all  novelists,  he 
tended  to  exaggerate  his  characters  in  order  to  make  them 
more  vivid  and  interesting.  Then  it  was  fashionable  for 
worldly  wits  to  indulge  in  dry  humor  and  sneer  at  the  human 
weaknesses  of  the  monks,  yet  he  does  not  seem  to  be  critical 
or  find  fault  with  the  faith  or  morality  as  taught  by  the  clergy. 

That  Chaucer  was  a  sincerely  devout  Catholic  without 
the  pride  or  bitterness  of  Wycliffe  and  a  loyal  son  of  Holy 
Church  is  very  evident.  Although  he  freely  criticized  the 
human  side  of  the  religious,  which  at  that  time  merited  much 
criticism  yet  he  always  upheld  the  Catholic  ideal  which  made 
possible  the  glory  of  the  Middle  Ages ;  a  tender  devotion  to 
the  Blessed  Virgin  shines  out  in  many  places  in  his  works 
showing  him  to  have  been  a  deeply  religious  man,  and  when 
dying,  he  regretted  the  writing  of  certain  lines  his  contrite 
tears  could  not  efface.    "Woe  is  me !"  he  exclaimed  in  that 


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solemn  hour,  "woe  is  me !  that  I  cannot  recall  those  things 
which  I  have  written ;  but,  alas !  they  are  now  continued 
from  man  to  man  and  I  cannot  do  what  I  desire." 

Having  gone  on  several  diplomatic  missions  for  the  king 
he  was  brought  into  contact  with  the  great  minds  of  his  day 
and  with  men  and  women  of  every  rank  in  life,  and,  being 
naturally  gifted  with  a  practical,  keen  and  logical  intellect,  he 
was  enabled  to  do  what  had  never  been  done  before  his  time — 
delineate  living  persons.  From  the  Divina  Commedia  of  Dante 
he  learned  the  power  and  range  of  poetry;  from  Petrarch's 
sonnets  he  learned  what  is  meant  by  "form"  in  poetry;  from 
Boccaccio,  the  maker  of  Italian  prose,  he  learned  how  to  tell 
a  story  exquisitely.  Yet,  although  Chaucer  owes  something 
to  foreign  teachers,  no  one  who  has  ever  read  his  "Canter- 
bury Tales"  will  doubt  his  right  to  be  considered  a  great 
original  poet  and  that  he  became  to  others  what  no  one  had 
been  to  him — a  standard.  Undoubtedly  his  name  is  the  greatest 
in  our  literature  until  Shakespeare's  time,  since  he  performed 
die  herculean  task  of  placing  his  nation's  literature  in  the 
foremost  rank  after  having  lifted  it  out  of  its  barbarous 
isolation  and  subserviency.  From  the  many  English  dialects 
that  existed  before  his  time,  he  succeeded  in  elevating  into 
preeminence  the  Midland  dialect  of  great  flexibility  and  power 
and  making  it  the  language  of  England.  Setting  aside  all 
philological  considerations,  if  Chaucer  were  a  prose  writer, 
he  would  be  intelligible  to  all  by  simply  using  a  glossary  of 
such  words  as  have  gone  out  of  use  and  modernizing  the 
spelling  and  inflections  of  those  which  are  common,  for  the 
language  of  Chaucer  is  essentially  the  same  as  our  own  except 
in  the  use  of  obsolete  words  and  in  the  retention  or  the  partial 
retention  of  certain  inflections.  But  since  he  was  a  poet  using 
rhythm,  metre  and  rime,  modernizing  his  quaint  archaic  diction 
would  destroy  all  that  constitutes  the  outward  form  of  poetry. 
Being  a  man  of  general  culture  and  familiar  with  the  poetry  of 
Italy  and  France,  naturally  he  chose  the  metrical  riming  style 
of  verse,  using  iambic  pentameter  with  rhyming  couplets, 
which  was  imitated  by  Dryden  and  Pope.    The  Chaucerian 


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stanza,  a  modification  of  the  Italian  eight  line  stanza,  consists 
of  seven  iambic  pentameter  lines,  having  three  rhymes  as 
follows :  First  and  third  lines ;  second,  fourth  and  fifth  lines ; 
sixth  and  seventh  lines.  The  Chaucerian  stanza  was  used  by 
Shakespeare  in  "Rape  of  Lucrece"  and  by  Milton  in  "Ode  on 
the  Morning  of  Christ's  Nativity." 

Chivalrous  love,  expounded  either  directly  or  indirectly  is 
the  inspiring  element  in  all  his  works  from  the  "Court  of 
Love"  down  to  the  "Canterbury  Tales,"  combined  with 
vivacity  of  movement,  honor,  delight  in  nature,  green  leaves, 
sunshine,  sweet  air  and  bird-singing  by  the  murmuring  brook 
or  breezy  hillside.  So  well  does  he  portray  men  and  women 
of  the  fourteenth  century  that  they  seem  to  live  and  move 
before  us  and  tell  stories  nicely  adapted  to  the  character 
of  their  narratives.  Unusually  clear-cut  and  vivid  are  his 
descriptions,  as : 

"I  saw  her  daunce  so  comely, 
Carol  and  sing  so  swetely 
Laugh  and  play  so  womanly 
And  look  so  debonairly 
So  goodly  speke  and  so  freendly 
That  certes  I  trowe  that  evermore 
Was  sene  so  blisful  a  tresore." 

The  Boke  of  the  Duchesse. 

Especiall  characteristic  is  his  kindly  sympathetic  humor 
mingled  with  Saxon  seriousness. 

"Infinite  has  been  the  sorwes  and  the  teres 
Of  olde  folk  and  folk  of  tendre  years." 

He  had  breath  and  kindliness  in  his  view  of  human  life  and 
accurately  portrayed  each  type  of  character  without  distor- 
tion, his  unsparing  satire  being  more  of  a  kindly  ridicule  than 
of  a  nature  to  excite  hatred,  indignation  or  disgust.  Under 
the  cloak  of  humor  he  teaches  many  serious  philosophical 
truths  and  is  earnest  in  the  denunciation  of  oppression. 
Eagerly  interested  in  the  natural  phenomena  around  him, 
having  great  sensibility  to  the  beauties  of  nature,  the  May- 
time,   the   daisy,   green   leaves   and  bird-singing,   making  his 


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poetry  have  the  freshness  and  joyousness  of  spring,  he  was 
the  first  to  make  the  love  of  nature  a  distinct  element  in 
poetry.  In  a  graceful,  polished,  and  terse  style,  full  of  light 
banter  usually  found  in  genial  natures,  he  pictures  to  us  life 
in  "Merrie  England  in  the  olden  days." 

Among  the  literary  men  who  influenced  Chaucer  were 
Ralph  Strode  of  Merton  College,  an  illustrious  poet,  theolo- 
gram  and  philosopher  and  John  Gower,  whose  close  friendship 
and  mutual  admiration  must  have  greatly  encouraged  Chaucer. 
To  these  two  friends  he  dedicated  "Troilus  and  Cresseide." 
Lydgate  and  Occleve  were  his  disciples  and  admirers.  Occleve 
gives  us  the  best  authentic  portrait  of  the  great  poet  and 
pathetically  bewails  his  master's  death  in  the  oft  quoted  lines : 

"O  mayster  dere  and  fadir  reverent 
My  mayster  Chaucer,  floure  of  eloquence." 

Dr.  Johnson  calls  him  "the  first  of  our  versifiers  who  wrote 
poetically." 

Mrs.  Hawee's  says :  "He  is  simply  our  great  story-teller 
in  verse."  William  Caxton  says :  "In  all  his  works  he  ex- 
celleth  in  mine  opinion,  all  other  writers  in  our  English,  for 
he  writeth  not  in  void  words,  but  all  his  matter  is  full  of 
high  and  quick  sentence,  to  whom  ought  to  be  given  laud  and 
praise  for  his  nable  making  and  writing."  Sir  Philip  Sydney 
says:  "I  know  not  whether  to  marvel  more,  either  that  he 
in  that  misty  time  could  see  so  clearly  or  that  we,  in  this 
clear  age  walk  so  stumblingly  after  him." 

Edmund  Spencer  in  his  "Faery  Queen"  says : 

"Dan  Chaucer,  well  of  English  undefiled, 
On  Fame's  eternal  beadroll  worthy  to  be  filed." 

Tyrwhit,  says:  "Chaucer  in  his  serious  pieces  often  follows 
his  author  with  the  servility  of  a  mere  translator;  whereas  in 
the  comic  he  is  generally  satisfied  with  borrowing  a  slight 
hint  of  his  subject  which  he  varies,  enlarges  and  embellishes 
at  pleasure  and  gives  the  whole  the  air  and  color  of  an  orig- 
inal." 


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R.  H.  Home  calls  Chaucer  "the  Homer  of  English 
poetry." 

An  exact  chronology  of  Chaucer's  works  is  impossible. 
His  major  poems  are: 

The  Canterbury  Tales   (incomplete). 

The  Romaunt  of  the  Rose  (of  doubtful  authenticity  and 
incomplete) . 

Troilus  and  Cresseide. 

The  Court  of  Love  (of  doubtful  authenticity). 

The  Compleynte  to  Pitie. 

Annelyda  and  Arcyte   (incomplete). 

The  Parliament  of  Foules. 

The  Compleynte  of  the  Black  Knight  (of  doubtful  authen- 
ticity). 

Chaucer's  A.  B.C. 

The  Boke  of  the  Duchesse. 

The  House  of  Fame. 

Chaucer's  Dreme   (of  doubtful  authenticity). 

The  Flower  and  Leaf  (of  doubtful  authenticity). 

The  Legend  of  Good  Women  (incomplete). 

The  Compleynte  of  Mars  and  Venus. 

The  Cuckow  and  the  Nightingale  (of  doubtful  authenti- 
city). 

His  minor  poems  are : 

L'Envoy  de  Chaucer  a'  Buckton. 

Balade  sent  to  King  Richard. 

Good  Counseil  of  Chaucer. 

Balade  of  the  Village. 

L'Envoy  de  Chaucer  a'  Scogan. 

Chaucer  to  His  Emptie  Purse. 

A  Ballade. 

Teaching  What  is  Gentilness. 

Chaucer's  Words  Unto  His  Own  Scrivener. 

Proverbes  by  Chaucer. 

Virelai. 

His  prose  works  are: 

The  Testament  of  Love  (of  doubtful  authenticity). 

A  Treatise  on  the  Astrolabe. 

A  Translation  of  "Boethius  de  Consolatione  Philosophiae." 


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Of  these  Chaucer  tells  us  the  story  of  "Queen  Annelida 
and  False  Arcite,"  is  drawn  from  Stace  and  Corinne; 
"Romaunt  of  the  Rose"  is  a  translation  of  the  French  "Roman 
de  la  Rose" ;  Troilus  and  Cresseide,  "a  poetical  essay,"  is 
drawn  chiefly  from  Boccaccio,  and  contains  passages  of  much 
pathos  and  beauty;  "The  Assembly  of  Foules"  is  founded  on 
the  Somnium  Scipionis  of  Cicero ;  "House  of  Fame"  is  sup- 
posed to  be  a  Provencal  lay;  "Boke  of  the  Duchess,"  the 
"A,  B,  C,"  and  the  "Compleynte  to  Pitie"  are  direct  imitations 
of  French  models. 

The  most  durable  monument  to  Chaucer's  genius  on  which 
his  fame  chiefly  rests  is  "The  Canterbury  Tales,"  composed 
when  advanced  in  age.  The  tales  reflect  the  minds  of  the 
characters  ?nd  describe  the  whole  of  English  society  in  the 
fourteenth  century  more  vividly  than  a  laborious  history. 
The  Prologue  is  the  most  valuable  and  original  portion  of 
the  Tales  which  however  Chaucer  did  not  live  to  complete. 
The  Tales  (except  those  of  Melibeus  and  the  Persone  which 
are  in  prose)  are  written  in  iambic  pentameter.  The  general 
plan  of  the  Canterbury  Tales  is  of  a  company  of  twenty-nine 
pilgrims  from  various  departments  of  middle  life,  mostly 
strangers  to  each  other,  who  in  April  went  their  way  to  the 
shrine  of  St.  Thomas  a'  Becket  , assembling  at  Tabard  Inn  in 
Southwark.  Each  agrees  to  tell  one  tale  in  going  and  one  in 
returning  and  he  who  should  tell  the  best  tale  was  to  be 
treated  by  the  others  with  a  supper  at  the  inn.  This  entirely 
national  work  is  the  best  example  of  English  story-telling  we 
possess.  In  variety  of  characters,  delicacy  of  discrimination 
and  dramatic  conception,  Chaucer  is  considered  to  have  im- 
proved upon  his  model,  the  "Decameron"  of  Boccaccio,  who 
pictures  five  elegant  nobles  and  ladies  who  retired  to  a 
beautiful  villa  on  the  banks  of  the  Arno  to  escape  infection 
of  a  terrible  plague  then  devastating  Florence  in  1348. 
They  spent  their  time  in  feasting  and  revelry  regardless  of 
the  sufferings  of  their  poorer  fellow-citizens.  In  dramatic 
conception  Chaucer's  plan  is  superior.  There  is  no  organic 
connection  between  the  narrative  of  the  plague  and  the  stories 


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chiefly  of  love  and  adventure  in  the  "Decameron,"  while  in 
the  "Canterbury  Tales"  the  "framework  forms  one  of  the 
most  valuable  organic  elements  in  the  whole  work.  Chaucer's 
"Tales"  owe  their  richness  and  enduring  character  to  the 
fact  that  the  chief  idea  therein  expounded  is  chivalrous  love, 
which  as  the  presiding  genius  and  inspiring  spirit  had  been 
flowering  and  bearing  fruit  n  the  minds  of  the  people  for  two 
centuries  originating  the  songs  and  perfecting  them  with 
native  ingenuity.  Chaucer  had  the  truly  Catholic  spirit  of 
disregarding  distinctions  of  caste.  His  pilgrims  associate  on 
equal  terms  yet  by  the  spirit  of  their  behavior  he  draws  a 
very  clear  line  of  separation  between  them  and  makes  elaborate 
apologies  for  introducing  into  his  verse  anything  inconsistent 
with  the  sentiments  of  chivalry.  Not  wishing  to  be  responsible 
for  the  churlish  tale  of  the  miller,  the  poet,  with  apologetic 
skill  says : 

"Every  gentle  wight  I  pray, 
For  Goddes  loves  deemeth  not  that  I  say 
Of  evil  intent;  but  for  I  must  rehearse 
Their  tales  all,  be  they  better  or  worse, 
Or  elles  falsen  some  of  my  matter." 

Studiously  guarding  against  offending  the  chivalrous  mind, 
Chaucer  always  remembered  that  he  wrote  for  a  courtly 
audience,  contriving  that  the  "gentles"  associated  with  the 
"churls"  without  loss  of  dignity.  No  disrespect  is  shown  the 
"gentles,"  i.  e.  the  Knight,  Squire,  ,<Monk,  Prioress  and  second 
Nun ;  there  is  no  vulgarity  in  the  tales  of  the  men,  the  Lawyer, 
Doctor,  Clerk  and  no  disparaging  remarks  are  made  of  them. 
The  Reeve,  Miller,  Friar,  Summoner,  Wife  of  Bath,  are  from 
tlie  lower  class  of  society  and  tell  vulgar  tales. 

First  of  all  we  have  the  ideal  knight  without  "feear  and 
without  reproach,"  the  only  faultless  character  in  the  Tales. 

"And  though  that  he  was  worthy,  he  was  wise, 
And  of  his  porte  as  meke  as  is  a  mayde," 

Chivalrous,  honorable,  brave,  noble,  modest  as  most  accom- 
plished character  having  bought  experience  with  hard  blows 


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in  his  travels  all  over  the  world.  His  son,  a  young  "squyer" 
courteous,  accomplished,  gay,  romantic,  was  followed  by  a 
single  attendant,  an  honest  and  trusty  "yeoman"  from  among 
the  tenantry  of  his  father. 

"Embrouded  was  he,  as  it  were  made 
Alle  ful  of  freshe  floures,  white  and  rede, 
Singing  he  was,  or  floyting  alle  the  day." 

We  are  told  of  the  manly,  sturdy  yeoman: 

"Wei  coulde  he  dresse  his  takel  yemanly 
A  not-hed  hadde  he,  with  a  brown  visage." 

In  proportion  to  the  whole  number  of  pilgrims  the  number 
of  clerical  persons  is  naturally  large  comprising  both  secular 
clergy  and  the  members  of  religious  orders  against  whom 
he  uses  sharp  sarcasm.  In  Chaucer's  day  the  members  of 
the  religious  communities  were  drawn  mostly  from  the  higher 
classes  of  society  and  many  seem  to  have  been  quite  lax  in 
religious  discipline  while  the  secular  clergy  remarkable  for 
deep,  earnest  piety  and  great  learning  were  mostly  from  the 
humbler  classes.  Dainty  Prioress,  Madame  Eglantine,  with 
her  delicate  table  manners,  nice  and  pretty  ways  is  ceremonious 
and  vain. 

"But  for  to  speken  of  hire  conscience, 
She  was  so  charitable  and  so  pitous, 
She  wolde  wepe  if  that  she  saw  a  mouse 
Caughte  in  a  trappe,  if  it  were  ded  or  bledde." 

The  monk,  proud  of  his  horsemanship  and  his  hounds, 
fond  of  good  living  and  rich  attire,  is  brawny  and  self  in- 
dulgent. 

"He  was  not  pale  as  forpined  gost: 
A  fat  swan  loved  he  best  of  any  rest." 

The  corrupt  and  hypocritical  friar  combines  the  trade  of 
peddling  with  that  of  begging. 

"A  PVere  there  was,  a  wanton  and  a  merry." 
"He  was  the  best  beggar  in  all  his  house." 


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The  "Clerk  of  Oxenford,"  an  abstemeous,  poverty-stricken 
but  earnest,  high-principled  scholar,  living  apart  from  the 
world,  spending  his  little  money  on  books,  grave  and  thoughful 
in  speech  is  the  most  learned  character  in  the  group. 

"As  lene  was  his  hors  as  is  a  rake, 
Souning  in  moral  vertue  was  his  speche 
And  gladly  woulde  he  lerne  and  gladly  teche." 

The  clerk  is  said  to  be  Chaucer  himself. 
The  "Sergeant  of  Lowe,"  wise,  dignified  and  cunning,  is  a 
favorable  picture  of  the  shrewd  and  successful  pleader. 

"Nowhere  so  besy  a  man  as  he  ther  n'-as, 
And  yet  he  seemed  besier  than  he  was." 

With  him  was  a  wealthy,  hospitable  "Frankleyn"  or  coun- 
try gentleman,  who  had  sat  in  Parliament  as  knight  of  his 
shire. 

"It  snewed  in  his  house  of  mete  and  drinke 
Of  alle  deintees  that  men  could  of  thinke." 

The  temperate  cynical  "Doctor  of  Phisik,"  gorgeously 
attired  to  win  respect  and  not  wanting  in  worldly  wisdom, 
was  deeply  versed  in  astrology,  magic  and  all  useless  lore 
although, 

"His  studie  was  but  litel  on  the  Bible." 

Among  the  travellers  of  the  middle  class  we  find  a  shrewd 
businesslike  "Merchant"  who  can  talk  scarcely  of  anything 
else  but  his  business,  yet  is  cautious  not  to  say  too  much. 
The  thrifty,  well-to-do  Burgesses,  the  Habedasher,  Carpenter, 
Webbe,  Dyer,  Tapister,  whose  dress  bespeak  their  wealth  are 
fond  of  good  living  and  bring  with  them  a  professional  cook 
who 

"Coulde  roste  and  sethe  and  broile  and  frie." 

Ever  mindful  for  his  employer's  interests  was  the  gentle 
upright  "Manciple."    The  calculating,  prudent,  unscrupulous 


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"Reeve"  or  Baliff  served  his  master  well  but  was  overbearing 
towards  his  inferiors. 

"Well  coulde  he  kepe  a  garner  and  a  binne 
Ther  was  no  auditour  coulde  on  him  winne 
Wei  wiste  he  by  the  draught  and  by  the  rain 
The  yielding  of  his  seed  and  of  his  grain." 

The  brave  hardy  "Shipman"  certainly  was  a  good  fellow. 

"  'Of  nice  conscience  toke  he  no  kepe,'  for  with  adversaries 
If  that  he  fought  and  had  the  upper  hand, 
By  water  he  sent  them  home  to  every  land." 

A  well-to-do  cloth  worker  from  the  west  of  England 
trading  on  her  own  account,  the  "wif  of  Bathe,"  a  low,  course, 
loquacious  character  is  the  only  secular  woman  among  the 
pilgrims  and  presents  a  dark  picture  of  the  morality  of  the 
woman  of  her  class. 

"Bold  was  hire  face  and  fayre  and  rede  of  hew." 
"In  felawship  wel  coulde  she  laughe  and  carpe." 

Of  the  vulgar,  brutal  "Millere"  we  learn  that: 

"Wel  coulde  he  stelen  corne  and  tollen  thries." 

Harry  Bailey,  proprietor  of  the  Tabard,  who  shrewdly 
proposed  that  the  travellers  return  to  the  inn  after  the 
pilgrimage,  is  frank  and  honest. 

"Bold  of  his  speche  and  wise  and  wel  ytaught, 
And  of  manhood  him  lacked  righte  naught." 

The  most  hypocritcal  "Pardonere" : 

"Saide,  he  hadde  a  gobbet  of  the  seyl 
Thatte  seint  Petre  had  when  that  he  went 
Upon  the  sea,  till  Jesus  Crist  him  hent." 

The  finest  character  in  the  entire  company  is  the  good- 


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Samaritan  like  parish  priest  who   carefully  looked  after  his 
flock. 

"Cristes  lore  and  his  apostles  twelve, 
He  taughte,  but  first  he  followed  it  him-selve." 

His  humble,  upright  brother  the  "Plowman", 

"Lived  in  pees  and  partite  charitee." 

"Though  poor  in  this  worlds  goods,  he  was  liberal  to  the 
needy  and  'Rich  of  holy  thought  and  wek.'  " 

The  chief  tales  related  are :  the  Knight's  chivalrous  story 
of  Palamon  and  Arcite  and  their  love  for  the  fair  Emelye, 
the  pathetic  story  of  the  faithful  wife  Griselda,  which  the 
gentle  clerk  of  Oxford  told;  the  Nun's  priests'  tale  of  Chan- 
ticleer; a  wild,  half-oriental  tale  of  love,  chivalry  and  en- 
chantment by  the  Squire;  the  beautiful  and  pathetic  story  of 
Constance  by  the  "Man  of  Lowe" ;  the  charming  legend  of 
"litel  Hew  of  Lincoln,"  martyred  by  a  Jew  for  singing,  "Alma 
Redemptoris  Mater,"  told  by  Madame  Eglantine. 

There  are  some  contradictions  in  the  "Tales" :  Line 
twenty- four  says  the  number  of  pilgrims  was  twenty-nine  but 
actual  count  gives  thirty-two  and  the  introduction  of  the 
Canon's  Yeoman  on  the  journey  makes  thirty-three.  Lines 
792  and  794  say  that  two  tales  shall  be  told  while  going  to 
Canterbury  and  two  when  returning.  Later,  in  the  Prologue 
to  the  Parson's  Tale  (line  17,  327)  we  read: 

"Now  lacketh  us  no  tales  more  than  one,  the  Parson's 
Tale  being  that  one."  This  is  a  contradiction  since  the  Haber- 
dasher, Carpenter,  Weaver,  Dyer,  Tapestry  Worker,  Plow- 
man, Host  tell  no  tales.  Probably  Chaucer  changed  his  mind 
and  considered  one  tale  told  when  going  and  one  returning 
sufficient.  Only  twenty-four  were  told,  hence  the  plan  was 
never  completed. 

The  tales  of  the  "Friar,"  "Sompnour,"  "Sire  Thopas"  and 
the  Canon's  Yeoman  are  probably  Chaucer's.  The  tales  of  the 
"Man  of  Lowe,"  "Wife  of  Bathe,"  "Doctor,"  "Manciple,"  are 
probably  taken  from  Gower.    The  tales  of  the  "Reeve,"  Clerk, 


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Merchant,  Franklin,  Shipman  are  found  in  the  "Decameron." 
The  tale  of  the  "Knight"  is  an  abridgment  of  Boccaccio's 
"Teseide."    Most  of  the  remaining  tales  are  from  the  French. 

Throughout  the  fifteenth  century  and  the  early  part  of 
the  Sixteenth  century  the  influence  of  Chaucer  was  felt  in 
the  works  of  the  English  and  Scotch  poets.  Among  his  pro- 
fessed followers  were  Occleve,  Lydgate  and  James  I  of  Scot- 
land who  used  the  Chaucerian  stanza  in  their  poetry.  John 
Lydgate,  a  good  versifier  and  humorist,  wrote  masquerades 
and  May  entertainments  for  the  London  sheriffs,  miracle 
plays  for  Corpus  Christi  and  amusing  ballads.  Occleve's 
poetry  is  worthless,  except  his  famous  lament  for  his  teacher, 
Chaucer,  which  secured  for  him  a  place  in  literature. 

The  best  among  Chaucer's  followers  is  James  I  of  Scot- 
land, on  account  of  whose  frequent  use  of  the  Chaucerian 
stanza,  it  became  known  as  the  "Rime  Royal."  "The  King's 
Quhair,"  containing  fourteen  hundred  lines,  distinguished  for 
beauty  of  expression,  vivid  imagery  and  poetic  sentiment  is 
the  best  poem,  written  between  the  time  of  Chaucer  and 
Spencer.  "The  Testament  of  Cresseide,"  a  sort  of  sequel  to 
Chaucer's  "Troilus"  is  a  beautiful  work  of  Robert  Henryson 
(d.  1508).  The  poem,  "The  Palace  of  Honor,"  is  imitation 
of  Chaucer  and  prologues  to  a  translation  of  Vergil  exhibiting 
a  few  Chaucerisms  were  the  work  of  Gavin  Douglas.  "The 
Daunce  of  the  Seven  Deadly  Sins,"  by  William  Dunbar  (died 
about  1520),  whom  Craik  calls  the  "Chaucer  of  Scotland," 
is  remarkable  for  power  of  imagination,  humor  and  passion. 
Dunbar  is  considered  the  greatest  of  the  early  Scottish  school 
of  Chaucer.  Nearly  all  the  great  poets  who  have  written  in 
English  have  paid  the  tribute  of  imitation  to  Chaucer,  among 
them  being  Spencer,  Milton,  Dryden,  Pope,  Wordsworth, 
and  Tennyson.  Some  of  the  modern  slang-loving  young  people 
are  pleased  to  know  they  can  attribute  some  of  their  favorite 
expressions  to  the  "Morning  Star  of  song  without  making 
any  bones  about  it." 

Nowadays,  since  the  non-Catholic  professors  of  secular 
universities  freely  confess  that  to  appreciate  thoroughly  the 


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great  classic  masterpieces  of  art  or  literature  one  must  be  a 
Catholic,  let  us  hope  that  by  the  revival  of  the  study  of  our 
"first  great  English  classic,"  although  human  weakness  led 
him  to  write  some  unworthy  lines  for  which  he  had  death- 
bed remorse,  that  many  sincere  and  intelligent  searchers  after 
truth  may  be  led  to  investigate  more  thoroughly  into  the 
real  practices  of  our  glorious  Mother  Church  by  the  genu- 
inely Catholic  setting  of  his  story  of  the  pilgrimage  to  Eng- 
land's national  shrine  and  by  his  tender  and  loyal  devotion 
to  our  Blessed  Lady  of  whom  he  says 

"Glorious  mayde  and  moder !  whiche  that  never 
Were  better  nor  in  erthe  nor  in  see, 
But  ful  of  sweetnesse  and  of  mersye  ever 
Help,  that  my  fader  be  not  wroth  with  me ! 
Spake  then,  for  I  ne  dar  nat  him  yse ; 
So  have  I  doon  in  erthe  alias  the  while ! 
That  certes,  but  that  thow  my  socour  be, 
To  synke  eterne  he  wol  my  goost  exile." 

S.  M.  T. 


Chicago 

Y  SEE  the  lights  of  the  city 

Brighten  the  sky  from  afar, 
And  I  hear  its  sullen  rumble, 
Like  surf  on  a  sounding  bar. 
I  glimpse  its  river  afloiving 
Away  from  the  smoke-girt  lake, 
And  I  feel  the  keen  wind  blowing 
With  frost  and  snow  in  its  wake. 


Edmond  Fortman. 


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The  Debt 


Characters — 

Myles  MacDara. 

Nora  MacDara,  his  mother. 

Sergeant  Bacon  and  Soldiers. 

The  kitchen  of  an  Irish  cottage.  At  the  back-center  is  a 
door,  and  at  the  right  a  fireplace,  before  which  is  an  old- 
fashioned  spinning-wheel.  There  is  a  small  table  in  the  center- 
front,  with  a  few  chairs  about  it.  A  woman  of  about  sixty, 
Nora  M,acDara,  sits  beside  the  fire,  spinning  wool.  The  door 
opens  suddenly  and  Myles,  her  son,  a  young  man,  who  gives 
the  impression  of  great  physical  strength,  enters  out  of  breath, 
as  if  he  had  been  running. 


ORA — Myles,  what  is  it !    You've  been  run- 
ning ? 

Myles — I  must  hide  now,  Mother,  from 
the   soldiers.     It   is   little   Michael   has   seen 
them,  with  their  long  guns,  walking  quickly 
this  way  from  the  hills. 
Nora  (rising  with  great  fear  on  her  face) — You  must  go, 
Myles ! 

Myles — Then  there  will  be  others,  maybe,  in  the  hills  to 

take  me.    No,   Mother,  I  must  bide  here Often  and 

often  here  by  the  fireplace,  I  would  say :  "The  soldiers  will 
come  for  me  some  day"  and  I  said  in  my  thoughts  "I  must 
find  me  a  place  to  hide  from  them" ;  and  I  did.  I  climbed  to 
the  rafters,  and  saw  'twas  there  a  man  could  hide,  and  laugh 
in  the  heart  of  him,  being  glad  he  could  not  be  found. 

Nora — O,  my  boy !  It  is  sick  I  am  for  you.  'Tis  you,  with 
the  heart  in  you  all  fire  and  the  great  strength  in  the  body 
I  gave  you,  must  be  wounding  the  policeman  at  Boherclough. 
Myles — Aye,  'twas  only  because  he  was  laying  the  stick 
on  little  lame  Barry,  'Mother.  Sure,  'twas  not  I  could  see  the 
beast  like  to  kill  a  mere  lad.  The  anger  came  on  me  like 
thunder  on  the  sea.    It  was  not  hurt  him  much  I  meant,  only 

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the  blows  of  my  fists  broke  the  skull  itself,   God  pity  me! 
But  sure,  'tis  the  soldiers  will  be  coming,  and  me  not  hid. 

(He  kisses  his  mother  and  climbs  out  of  sight  amidst  the 
rafters.  Nora  takes  her  place  at  the  spinning-wheel,  using  her 
apron  to  zvipe  azvay  the  tears  from  her  eyes.  There  is  the 
noise  of  heavy  footsteps  outside,  and  in  a  moment  the  door 
breaks  open  and  Sergeant  Bacon,  a  smart,  cynical-seeming 
man  of  about  thirty  enters,  followed  by  Soldier  A  and  Soldier 
B.  Through  the  open  door  you  can  catch  sight  of  several  other 
soldiers.) 

Sergeant  Bacon  —  (Peering  quickly  about  the  room)  — 
This  is  the  place  all  right,  but  the  man  seems  to  be  missing. 
(Looks  hard  at  Nora  a  moment  and  then  steps  over  to  where 
she  sits).  Look  up  here,  you!  Where  is  he?  (Nora  sits 
stolidly  looking  into  the  fire,  swaying  a  bit  back  and  forth). 
Come  now,  gammer,  you're  not  as  stupid  as  you  look.  Tell 
us  where  he  is.  (Nora  does  not  speak).  You're  dumb,  eh? 
Surprising  thing,  you  Irish  cattle  are  always  dumb  except 
when  you're  saying  your  filthy  prayers,  or  calling  your  pigs. 
(He  picks  up  a  piece  of  bogzuood  that  is  lying  in  the  ingle- 
nook).  I'll  make  you  talk!  Listen  here,  old  hag,  if  you  don't 
tell  me  where  to  find  the  man  we're  after,  I'm  going  to  kill 
you  with  this.  (He  raises  his  arm,  when  there  is  a  sudden 
noise  overhead,  and  in  a  moment  Myles  drops  dozen  from  the 
rafters.  Nora  cries  out.  Sergeant  Bacon  draws  his  revolver 
from  its  holster).  Well,  I'm  demmed!  This  is  quite  an  un- 
expected pleasure. 

Myles  (Stands  betzveen  his  mother  and  the  Sergeant, 
facing  the  latter) — Sure,  it  isn't  kill  her  you  mean,  is  it?  My 
little  mother ! 

Nora  (She  falls  to  keening) — O,  my  boy,  my  boy! 

Sergeant  Bacon  (He  is  looking  intently  at  Myles,  with 
an  expression  of  surprise  in  his  face) — Come  here,  you! 

Myles  (Takes  a  step  tozvard  the  Sergeant,  but  stops  in 
amazement) — 'Tis  you,  Bacon !  (Steps  quickly  forward  with 
hand  outstretched  towards  the  Sergeant).    Mother,  'tis  the  man 


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I  was  with  in  the  wood  of  France  when  I  got  my  wound. 
(Nora  does  not  heed,  in  the  terrible  agony  of  her  sorrow). 

Sergeant  (With  little  warmth;  he  is  embarrassed) — Well, 
well,  MacDara,  what  a  mess  this  is !  (Takes  Myles'  hand 
slowly).    So  you're  the  man  that  beat  the  policeman. 

Myles  (Is  thinking  of  other  matters:  he  is  so  full  of 
things  he  wants  to  say,  that  he  doesn't  grasp  what  the  other 
says).  Sure,  'tis  dead  I  thought  you'd  be,  when  I  got  you 
from  the  wood,  with  the  breast  of  you  torn  with  wounds. 
'This  a  good  language  you  must  speak  to  God  for  that  you're 
here  now. 

Sergeant  Bacon  (Plainly  embarrassed) — Yes,  yes,  I  was 
fortunate,  very  fortunate.  It  was  jolly  good  of  you.  (He 
says  this  last  with  an  effort). 

Myles  (Turning  around  to  his  mother) — Mother!  (He 
notices  for  the  first  time  she  has  not  become  aware  of  what 
he  thinks  his  good  fortune.  He  steps  over  to  her.  Bacon 
beckons  to  Soldier  A). 

Soldier  A  (Advancing) — Yes,  sir. 

Sergeant  Bacon — Dammit,  I'm  in  a  pickle.  This  fellow 
followed  the  devil  when  he  came  along  to  take  my  soul  a 
couple  of  years  ago :  I  was  almost  dead  from  a  shrapnel 
wound,  and  he  pulled  me  out  of  hell.  (Tugs  his  mustache 
savagely).  This  particular  Irishman:  by  gad,  it's  rotten! 
Demme  if  I  don't  wish  I  didn't  belong  to  a  race  that's  so 
demn  ticklish  about  honour.  (Turns  around  and  looks  at 
mother  and  son.  Nora  is  keening  still:  the  shock  has  made 
her  hysterical  and  she  cannot  comprehend  zvhat  Myles  is 
saying  to  her.  The  Sergeant's  face  suddenly  lights  up.  He 
goes  over  to  Soldier  A  and  whispers  to  him). 

Myles — Mother,  I  tell  you  he's  a  sort  of  friend  of  mine. 
I  did  him  a  good  turn  once. 

Nora — Oh,  but  'tis  the  hard  hearts  they  have,   Myles. 

Myles — But  may  be  he'd  say  the  good  word  for  me  to 
the  judge.    He  knows  I'm  not  a  troublesome  man. 

Bacon  (To  Soldier  A) — Threaten  the  old  hag.  Do  you 
understand  ? 


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Soldier  A — But  I'm  a  bit  afeard  of  him.   He's  that  quick! 

Bacon — Leave  to  me.  I'll  take  care  of  him.  Do  as  I  bid 
you. 

Nora — Sure,  God's  will  be  done  anyhow,  Myles. 

Sergeant  Bacon  (To  Myles) — Well,  'MacDara,  I  must  be 
on  my  way.  I  am  looking  for  the  man  that  attacked  Con- 
stable O'Flaherty — demn  near  killed  him  with  his  fists. 

Myles  (Starting  up) — Why,  — 

Sergeant  Bacon  (Hastily) — I've  just  about  reached  the 
conclusion  the  fellow's  hiding  in  the  hills.  (To  Soldiers  A 
and  B).    Let's  begone,  men. 

Myles  (Understanding ) — Sure,  'tis  a  real  man  you  are, 
Bacon. 

Sergeant  (Nervously) — O,  not  at  all,  MacDara.  Shake 
hands.  (Myles  walks  over  to  him,  while  Soldier  B  leaves  the 
cottage.  Soldier  A  glides  around  to  where  Nora  sits,  keening). 

Soldier  A — Shut  up,  you  croon !  (Bacon  acts  as  if  he 
did  not  hear.  He  has  his  back  to  the  fireplace.  MacDara 
swings  suddenly  around.  Soldier  A  picks  up  the  stick  of  wood 
that  Bacon  had  dropped) — If  you  don't  shut  up,  I'll  brain 
you.  (He  raises  the  stick.  Myles  rushes  over  and  catches  his 
arm.  They  tussle  awhile  and  then  Myles  throws  the  soldier 
to  the  ground  and  bends  over  him.  Sergeant  Bacon  draws 
his  pistol  and  shoots  Myles.  Myles  drops  dead.  Soldier  A 
sloivly  gets  up.    Nora  rises,  stiff  with  horror). 

Sergeant  Bacon — Well  done,  man !    Did  he  hurt  you  ? 

Soldier  A( doubtfully) — N-no,  sir, 

Sergeant  Bacon — That  was  a  clever  way  out.  Now  my 
conscience  won't  bother  me.  (Bacon  and  Soldier  go  out.  Nora 
falls  on  her  knees  beside  the  dead  body,  and  lifts  her  clasped 
hands  to  heaven). 

Nora — O,  God! 

Curtain 

W.  Douglas  Powers. 


After  A  Dream 


JT  AST  night,  ah  love,  I  dreamed  of  thee 

That  thou  wert  mine  again. 
Thy  fair  young  face  I  seemed  to  see, 

Pressed  close  to  mine  as  when 
We  stood  dear  one,  beside  the  shore. 

The  same  pale  mystic  moon  hung  low; 

Oh  heart  of  mine  I  love  you  so! 
Why  are  you  gone  when  I  must  stay 

And  live  my  life  from  day  to  day, 
After  my  dream? 


J.  M.  Cullen. 


Books 


S  I  was  rambling  through  some  tattered  vol- 
umes of  Shakespeare  in  an  antique  Book 
Mart,  an  elderly,  Ciceronic  appearing  gentle- 
man, interrupted  my  dramatic  reverie  with 
a  verbal  outbreak  in  his  soliloquizing,  di- 
rectly expressive  of  his  opprobrium  of 
current  fiction.  He  was  gingerly  holding  a  copy  of  "The 
Restless  Sex,"  while  he  contemptuously  gazed  at  a  nearby 
placard:  "Popular  Fiction."  Passing  him  on  my  way  out, 
I  observed  he  was  vigorously  denouncing  a  book  which  over 
seven  millions  had  read,  and  seemingly  enjoyed.  Then  it 
occurred  to  me  that  this  singular  character  had  expressed  a 
sentiment  which  re-echoes  in  every  corner  of  the  reading 
world. 

Books  are  the  sweethearts  of  man.  They  are  loved  with 
a  reverence  that  is  sacred.  Their  influence  rivals  that  of 
monarchs.  They  give  happiness  to  a  sorrowing  world,  peace 
to  one  in  conflict,  consolation  to  one  in  grief,  rescue  to  one 
in  distress,  life  to  a  fluttering  heart.  Their  messages  sway 
nations  and  mould  the  minds  of  men.  Yet  oftentimes  the 
great  vessel  of  the  world's  literature  is  rocked  in  a  sea  of 
books  whose  pages  are  shredded  by  sordid  pens. 

But  is  the  world  void  of  genius  today?  Is  there  no 
shadow  of  Shakespeare,  nor  a  reflection  of  Stevenson,  nor 
a  trace  of  Dickens  in  contemporary  composition?  Will 
Thackery,  Scott,  and  Macaulay  not  live  again?  Was  poetic 
creative  ability  given  only  to  Dante,  Milton,  Tennyson  and 
Goethe  ?  i 

Surely  one  can  imbibe  intellectual  benefits  from  the  critical 
treasures  of  Brander  Mathews  and  Cardinal  Newman.  Who 
cannot  find  pleasure  and  instruction  in  the  essays  of  Walter 
Pater,  Agnes  Repplier,  and  George  Saintsbury?  Is  there  not 
a  suggestion  of  Macaulay  in  the  abundant  wit  and  genius  of 
Hellaire  Belloc  and  G.  K.  Chesterton?    In  fiction,  we  must 

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concede  the  honor  to  times  gone  by.  O.  Henry  has  im- 
mortalized the  short  story;  Marion  Crawford  has  gilded  the 
novel  with  his  versatile  pen,  and  Tarkington  has  studded  the 
fictitious  element  in  literature  with  the  pearl  of  talent  and 
ingenuity,  but  Dickens,  Thackeray  and  Scott  have  enriched 
the  world  with  works  that  are  imperishable.  They  have  made 
books  lovable  things,  and  given  to  the  pages  of  old  literature 
a  certain  attraction  that  is  universal. 

In  a  "Bookman"  of  1919,  Richard  La  Gallienne  tells  of 
a  disguised  fairy,  who  accompanied  him  of  an  evening,  just 
before  twilight  to  the  unfrequented  attic  of  an  old  English 
Manor.  Forgetful  of  cobwebly  hangings,  latticed  by  the  lapse 
of  years,  and  undisturbed  by  rude  intrusion  they  wended  their 
vvay  to  where  rested  unmolested  —  two  antiquated,  rusty 
trunks.  With  the  aid  of  a  single  candle  and  a  tiny  gold  ray 
stealing  through  the  battered  dusty  pane  of  a  latticed  west 
window,  the}^  saw  books, — books  of  various  sizes,  irreverently 
scattered  in  wild  confusion.  Treasured  volumes  whose  pages 
contained  lore  from  the  pen  of  sage  and  satirist,  reposed  in 
musty  solitude — unread.  Most  unflattering  to  authors  is  this 
doleful  misuse  of  their  literary  productions,  especially  when 
the  world  is  so  in  need  of  education  and  research.  But  verily 
to  the  unintelligent  reader,  whom  Pope  calls,  "the  bookful 
blockhead,  ignorantly  read,"  it  were  better  the  dear  old  books 
remain  concealed  forever  in  their  rusted  encasements.  Among 
the  collections  of  Homer,  Dante,  Shakespeare,  Milton,  New- 
man, and  various  others,  there  was  a  rare  volume  of  Chaucer, 
"the  morning  star  of  song."  It  contained  his  "La  Priere  de 
Notre  Dame,"  in  Old  English.  Historians  assert  that  "during 
the  reign  of  Henry  VIII  and  his  successor,  when  the  old 
religion  of  England  wras  persecuted,  when  monasteries  were 
suppressed,  entire  libraries,  procured  by  the  incessant  toil  of 
the  monks  for  many  centuries,  were  utterly  destroyed,  because 
they  were  standing  witnesses  of  the  Catholic  faith  in  England; 
not  even  the  libraries  of  the  two  great  universities  were 
spared." 

Down  through  the  centuries,  books  have  been  a  "sort  of 


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dumb  teachers."  It  was  Homer  and  Cicero  who  taught  the 
ancients;  Venerable  Bede,  Geoffrey  of  Monmouth  and  Roger 
Bacon  were  mute  tutors  in  the  early  ages  in  our  own  tongue. 
Chaucer  who  enlightened  the  gloom  of  the  fifteenth  century. 
Spencer,  Shakespeare  and  Macaulay  were  the  unseen  builders 
of  education  —  men  who  realized  the  truth  of  Milton's  state- 
ment :  "A  good  book  is  the  precious  life-blood  of  a  master- 
spirit, embalmed  and  treasured  upon  purpose  to  a  life  beyond 
life."  And  now,  in  the  twentieth  century  is  this  chain  of 
golden  influence  broken?  Surely  we  can  entrust  the  lore  of 
the  world  to  Francis  Thompson,  Chesterton,  Belloc,  Newman, 
Conrad,  Benson  and  Maurice  Francis  Egan. 

The  exigency  of  to-day  is  stainless  literature  —  books  that 
will  mould  righteous  nations,  form  virtuous  characters, 
fashion  noble  ideals,  and  draw  the  outline  of  justice  and 
charity  on  the  canvas  of  the  universe.  And  this  pressing 
need  shall  find  response  in  those  whose  pens  are  inked  with 
something  greater  than  genius.  Let  us  hope  that  "the  un- 
bought  grace  of  life,  the  cheap  defense  of  nations,  the  nurse 
of  manly  sentiment  and  heroic  enterprize  is  not  gone  but  at 
least  vaguely  dominant  in  this  most  turbulent  of  centuries. 

George  R.  Pigott. 


Auburn 


rWlHE  ardent  sun 

Has  bent  its  gleaming  rays 
From  ingot  gold  — 

Bright  burnished  gold 

That  'ticed  the  vanished  Inca's  cunning  skill 
And  sped  them  through  your  hair, 
Proud  Titian! 


J.  M.  Cullen. 


98 


Why  Syllogize  ? 


jOODS  are  as  many  and  as  various  as  the 
leaves  on  the  trees.  There  are  verbal  moods, 
syllogistic  moods,  happy  and  grumpy  moods 
and  countless  others  comprising  for  their 
foreword  every  adjective  in  Webster.  Just 
which  mood  I  am  in  I  could  not  tell  without 
a  thorough  investigation.  And  being  in  any  thing  but  an 
active  mood  I  suppose  I  am,  passively  speaking,  in  a  mood 
which  transcends  all  genera  and  species.  At  least  a  certain 
professor  calls  it  transcendental  when  it  falls  into  such  a 
class. 

Transcendental  means,  according  to  the  etymological 
definition,  climbing  over.  At  that  rate  I  could  not  be  in  a 
transcendental  mood  for  I  haven't  even  energy  enough  to 
crawl  under. 

But  I  have  never  looked  upon  the  advice  of  a  loving 
father  or  industrious  teacher  in  quite  the  same  light  as  I  do 
at  present  and  the  only  reason  ascribable  is  my  mood.  I  must 
preface  my  remarks  on  loving  fathers  and  industrious  teachers 
by  saying  that  I  can  neither  account  for  my  present  mood  nor 
am  I  responsible  for  it.  It  is  necessary  to  say  these  things. 
Though  I  am  a  voter,  I  still  must  look  to  loving  father  for 
sustenance.  It  would  be  rash  therefore  to  step  on  his  toes, 
(metaphorically  speaking).  I  am  sure  the  aforementioned  has 
corns.  This  last  is  not  in  reference  to  stepping  on  his  toes 
but  for  the  benefit  of  such  corn-salve  salesmen  as  may  read 
these  lines.    Someone  at  least  shall  benefit  by  them. 

I  repeat  it  is  necessary  for  me  to  say  that  I  am  not  re- 
sponsible for  my  mood.  Industious  teachers  have  ever  been 
my  affliction  and  will  be  for  some  time.  Living  in  a  glass 
house,  I  mustn't  peg  bricks. 

But  I  have  told  of  my  irresponsibility.  So  now  I  can 
proceed  with  an  unshackled  mind.  Particulars  will  best  illus- 
trate my  deductions.    And  such  conclusions  as  I  may  draw 

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I  hope  (if  hoping  does  any  good)  are  in  conformity  with  the 
ethics  of  the  institution. 

As  the  saying  goes,  "Ask  dad,  he  knows."    And  I  did. 

He  was  sitting  in  the  parlor  in  his  smoking  jacket,  slippers, 
spectacles,  with  his  newspaper  and  that  impossible  but  in- 
dispensible  rope  between  his  teeth  blowing  out  smoke  which 
compares  in  sweetness  with  limburger  (I  can  recall  nothing 
worse — H2S  excepted).  The  room  was  otherwise  devoid  of 
occupants  so  I  thought  everything  opportune  for  the  attack. 
This  conclusion  I  had  arrived  at  as  a  result  of  years  of  study 
under  the  guidance  of  industrious  professors. 

The  purpose  of  the  attack  was  to  separate  loving  father 
from  a  few  green  backs  the  expending  which  is  a  necessary 
evil  attached  to  every  good  time.  The  dollar  is  indeed  a 
mighty  habiliment  but  a  stranger  to  one  in  my  occupation. 
As  a  result  I  am  inclined  to  be  socialistic — at  least  in  the 
family  circle.  My  method  would  be  to  pool  the  family  in- 
come and  have  the  individuals  of  the  said  family  draw  upon 
the  pool,  or  fish  in  the  pool  whenever  he  is  in  need  of  funds. 
Strange  and  very  sad  to  say  loving  father  is  not  of  the  same 
mind. 

I  digress.  But  I  did  not  on  the  evening  of  the  attack.  On 
the  contrary  I  stuck  very  much  to  the  point  at  issue.  I  put 
the  question.  T  disagreed  with  his  answer.  I  argued.  I  had 
been  taught  the  rules  of  argument,  the  best  forms  of  argument 
and  their  application  by  industrious  professors.  I  drove  home 
syllogisms,  paralogisms,  epichirimes,  sorites  and  every  con- 
founded form  and  shape  of  argument  without  avail. 

I  would  not  be  so  bold  as  to  lay  the  fault  upon  the  in- 
dustrious professor.  I  leave  that  to  your  judgment.  Possibly 
loving  pater  not  having  delved  so  deeply  into  the  philosophical 
as  the  industrious  professor  and  he  who  was  putting  his  in- 
tellectual acquirements  to  the  practical  test,  possibly,  I  say, 
pater  did  not  appreciate  the  value  of  the  force  of  the  argu- 
ments. 

But  stop — I  feel  my  foot  on  pater's  toes.  There  is  disaster 
in  such  clumsiness.    Pater  has  ever  shown  wisdom  and  judg- 


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ment  in  the  business  world.  He  has  acquired  money,  the  Lord 
knows  where,  but  the  fact  remains  he  has  it.  So  doubtless 
there  is  something  intrinsically  wrong-  with  the  rules  of 
argument. 

I  have  studied  the  case  as  a  practical  matter,  the  dilemma 
is  unavoidable.  Either  the  rules  of  argument  above  are 
wrong,  and  loving  father  is  an  unjust  judge,  unversed  in  the 
various  forceful  forms  of  argument ;  or  our  industrious  pro- 
fessors have  been  misinformed  and  have  misinformed  us  as 
to  the  strength  of  the  different  kinds  of  pleading. 

The  case,  I  said,  I  have  studied  cooly  and  the  following 
conclusions  have  been  reached.  The  various  forms  of  argu- 
ment—  listed  according  to  their  cogency,  force  and  persuad- 
ing power  are  given  below : 

The  lead  pipe  or  blackjack. 
Sawed-off  shot  guns  and  the  like. 
Pen  knives   (3-inch  blade  and  up). 
Hard  knuckles  and  rolling  pins. 
Bad  looks  and  ill  kept  clothes. 
Feather  dusters  and  debates. 
Enthymemes,  syllogisms,  etc. 

Students  who  have  undergone  the  same  ordeals  as  the 
writer  will  agree  on  cool  consideration  of  the  facts  and  sur- 
rounding circumstances  that  these  are  listed  properly.  They, 
too,  will  agree  that  the  saying,  "the  pen  is  mightier  than  the 
sword"  is  a  prevarication  unfounded,  impracticable,  at  vari- 
ance with  fact,  deceitful  and  offensive  to  all  good  men. 

V.  J.  Sheridan. 


Getting  the  First  Contract 

AVE  you  ever  attempted  to  get  a  contract? 
If  you  have  not,  your  life  has  been  tame 
and  empty.  Approaching  a  prospective  cus- 
tomer induces  a  feeling  that  is  not  just  like 
mal  de  mer,  neither  is  it  exactly  the  same 
as  dropping  from  the  18th  floor  in  an  ex- 
press elevator  yet  each  of  these  is  akin  to  it.  Entering  a 
gleaming  glass-and-nickel  hospital  room  to  be  operated  on  is 
as  close  to  it  as  anything  else,  but  in  this  case  the  process  is 
reversed :  the  prospect  is  the  patient  and  you  are  the  one  to 
do  the  operating. 

As  much  depends  on  your  approach  to  the  quarry  as 
does  on  an  anti-prohibitionist's  approach  to  a  head  waiter. 
You  must  not  proceed  to  quickly ;  neither  should  you  act  in 
an  over-friendly  manner,  and  thus  startle  the  game.  But 
advance  as  if  you  were  certain  of  success.  Do  not  attempt  to 
disguise  your  mission  by  telling  a  joke  you  heard  at  the  club 
last  night;  come  immediately  to  the  point.  The  "lead"  is 
not  interested  in  humor  until  after  5  p.m.  He  wants  to  know 
your  business. 

As  you  step  into  his  office  the  prospect  looks  very  for- 
bidding. His  brow  is  furrowed  and  his  lips  pursed  into  an 
expression  of  disapproval.  The  thought  comes  to  you  that 
perhaps  this  man  is  an  avowed  enemy  of  salesmen;  that  this 
is  no  place  to  sell  your  goods ;  that  you  will  most  likely  meet 
a  curt  refusal ;  and  that  you  were  never  intended  to  be  a 
salesman,  anyhow.  These  reflections  pop  into  your  mind,  not 
one  by  one,  but  as  thick  and  fast  as  the  I.  O.  U's.  come  after 
an  hour  of  poker  with  the  roof  the  limit.  It  is  fortunate  that 
your  customer  (as  you  hope  you  may  soon  call  him)  does 
not  notice  your  perturbation,  for  he  would  assuredly  imagine 
that  you  had  been  stricken  with  a  severe  attack  of  cramps. 
Swinging  around  in  his  swivel-chair,  he  says : 
"Well,  sir?" 

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These  simple  words  are  fraught  with  menace.  They  seem 
to  convey  the  idea  that  your  visit  is  in  vain,  that  you  are 
an  intruder  and  are  wasting  valuable  time.  Y  ou  are  amazed 
at  your  own  effrontery. 

You  realize  that  now  is  the  moment  you  have  planned 
and  waited  for.  You  curse  your  cowardice  and  command 
your  throbbing  heart  to  be  still.  You  manage  to  stutter  a 
few  words.  They  are  not  the  words  that  you  have  carefully 
prepared  while  twiddling  your  thumbs  in  the  anteroom.  They 
are  scarcely  comprehensible  as  they  bubble  from  your 
trembling  lips.  As  you  pause,  a  burden  seems  to  fall  from 
your  shoulders  and  you  sit  back  in  your  chair  with  a  relieved 
sigh. 

The  prospect  raises  his  head  and  glances  at  you  sharply, 
as  though  he  suspected  you  of  some  deep  design  against  his 
bank-account.  Your  appearance  probably  reassures  him,  for 
he  assumes  a  thoughtful  expression.    Finally  he  speaks. 

"Well,  you  know,  business  isn't  very  brisk  just  now,  and 
we're  retrenching  wherever  we  can.  Let's  see,  what  is  the 
best  price  you  can  make  us?" 

You  tell  him,  and  he  tilts  back  his  chair,  and  gazes  long 
and  thoughtfully  at  the  beautiful  calender-girl  on  the  wall. 
You  believed  that  an  order  such  as  you  desire  would  be  a 
mere  bagatelle  to  him,  but  apparently  it  is  a  matter  requiring 
serious  deliberation.  You  notice  that  your  hand  is  not  quite 
steady.  Probably  you  are  not  getting  enough  sleep.  You 
wonder  why  the  calender-girl  is  so  interesting.  Finally  he 
speaks. 

"Well,  fill  out  a  contract.  Tell  your  manager  to  start 
deliveries  as  soon  as  possible." 

The  world  suddenly  assumes  a  rosy  hue.  Stammering  you 
promise  him  that  you  will  do  as  he  wishes,  and  thank  him 
for  the  order. 

He  waves  away  your  thanks  with  a  gracious  hand.  "That's 
all  right,  that's  all  right,"  he  assures  you.  Then  he  returns 
to  his  contemplation  of  the  calender-girl.  You  steal  safely 
out,  leaving  him  thus  engrossed.    You  fling  yourself  aboard 


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a  passing  street-car  with  the  abandon  of  an  acrobat.  When 
you  reach  the  office  and  hand  the  manager  the  signed  contract 
you  try  hard  to  prevent  your  voice  from  trembling.  The 
manager  smiles.    He  started  as  a  salesman  also. 

That  evening  as  you  sit  on  Her  veranda,  you  tell  of  your 
success.  You  mention  the  subject  casually,  as  though  landing 
a  contract  were  an  every-day  affair.  As  you  gently  swing  the 
hammock  back  and  forth,  she  says :  "Oh,  isn't  that  wonder- 
ful !"   And  you — continue  to  swing  the  hammock. 

J-  J-  T. 


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Help  Wanted — Experienced 

NEARLY  every  college  man  who  is  studying  or  intends 
to  study  for  a  profession  has  rather  hazy  ideas  as  to  why 
that  profession  is  the  one  he  is  best  fitted  for.  In  fact  one 
might  almost  say  that  the  real  reason  nine  out  of  ten  prefer 
medicine  to  law,  or  dentistry,  or  engineering  is  the  belief  that 
great  financial  success  awaits  them  in  that  favored  profession. 
Ask  one  what  determined  his  choice  and  he'll  probably  cite 
eNamples  of  the  wonderful  rewards  that  await  the  profes- 
sional man,  such  as  "I  know  a  lawyer  who  cleaned  up  ten 
thousand  dollars  last  year  on  a  personal  injury  case"  or  "Civil 
engineers  on  the  Pacific  Coast  demand  a  minimum  fee  of 
fifty  dollars  a  day  and  expenses,"  or  maybe  he'll  only  say, 
"Oh,  there's  lots  of  jack  in  it." 

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To  us  it  would  seem  that  just  here  arises  a  golden  oppor- 
tunity for  professional  men  to  raise  the  standards  of  their 
various  professions,  and  at  the  same  time  to  help  aspirants 
to  determine  whether  or  not  they  are  fitted  for  the  vocation 
they  wish  to  follow  and  to  guide  their  efforts  to  the  best 
advantage.  Many  prospective  professional  men  know  little 
of  the  practical  side  of  law,  medicine,  or  engineering,  and 
perhaps  just  a  talk  about  the  duties  and  requirements  of  a 
profession,  given  before  a  group  of  students  who  had  the 
desire  to  follow  that  calling  would  serve  to  show  some  how 
they  might  prepare  themselves  for  successful  careers,  and  to 
awaken  others  to  the  realization  that  they  would  do  better 
elsewhere. 

And  what  is  to  prevent  a  doctor  from  acting  as  adviser 
to  a  couple  of  medical  students  or  a  lawyer  to  one  or  two 
young  men  who  are  studying  law?  One  could  easily  find  a 
few  in  any  town  that  boasts  a  university.  As  to  the  practicality 
of  this  plan,  we  cite  its  success  under  harder  conditions  in 
"big  brother"  organizations,  in  which  prosperous  bankers  suc- 
cessfully advise  West  Side  ragamuffins.  A  doctor  and  a 
medical  student  certainly  would  have  more  in  common. 

In  particular,  since  charity  isn't  the  only  thing  that  begins 
at  home,  we  wish  to  call  the  attention  of  our  alumni  to  the 
fact  that  there  are  many  of  the  younger  generation  at  Loyola 
wrho  would  welcome  a  little  advice  from  one  "who  has  been 
there  and  who  knows."  Often  a  guiding  hand  at  the  right 
moment  will  convert  mediocrity  into  brilliant  success. 

J.  J.  T. 


The  Movies 

Producers  and  scenario  writers  tell  us  very  confidentially 
that  the  photoplay  is  not  looked  upon  with  doubt  and  suspicion 
as  a  breeder  of  auto  bandits  and  immorality,  but  that  it  is 
coming  more  and  more  into  its  own  every  vear ;  in  fact  that 


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it  will  eventually  be  as  distinct  an  art  as  painting  or  sculpture 
or  music.  By  way  of  comment  not  criticism  we  would  say 
that  some  of  the  many  studios  would  do  well  to  accept  two 
or  three  scripts  rather  than  one  a  year  out  of  the  many 
thousands  submitted  and  not  spoil  the  plots  of  perfectly  good 
novels  by  adapting  them  to  the  movies.  So  far  we  have  seen 
one  photoplay,  adapted  from  a  novel,  which  was  worthy  of 
its  genesis  and  not  only  equalled  it  but  even  surpassed  it,  and 
is  to  our  mind  the  finest  of  all  produced  photoplays,  "The 
Birth  of  a  Nation,"  adapted  from  Thomas  Dixon's  "The 
Clansman."    But   then  every   producer   hasn't   the  genius   of 

Griffith Another    of    Dixon's    novels,     "Comrades," 

which  has  a  very  gripping  plot  and  a  beautiful  love  theme, 
when  adapted  by  a  producer  resulted  in  "Bolshevism  on  Trial," 
a  very  mediocre  photoplay.  The  plot  was  slightly  changed 
and  several  dramatic  incidents  which  would  have  made  ex- 
cellent   material     for    the    photoplay    were    very    skillfully 

avoided "The   Little   Shepherd   of   Kingdom   Come," 

featuring  Jack  Pickford,  spoiled  a  great  many  people's  ideas 
of  a  wonderfully  romantic  novel.  The  story  of  Chadwick 
Buford's  life  is  by  far  the  best  work  Fox  did,   though  his 

"Erskine  Dale"  is  having  a  big  run  at  present Another 

photoplay  which  would  disgust  anyone  who  was  familiar  with 
the  original  story  was  the  "Last  of  the  Mohicans,"  produced 
by  Maurice  Tourner,  whose  productions  as  a  rule  are  by  no 
means  mediocre.  Most  moderns  are  inclined  to  look  upon 
Cooper  and  his  Indians  as  excellent  reading  for  the  younger 
generation  but  not  for  them.  Yet  it  is  our  belief  that  the 
"Last  of  the  Mohicans"  is  as  wonderful  a  piece  of  art  in  its 
own  way  as  the  much-admired  "Hamlet."  As  a  tragedy  it 
will  take  its  stand  with  the  best.  Unreal  as  are  Cooper's 
Indians  they  are  surpassed  in  unreality  by  those  of  the 
Tourner  production. 

However  this  criticism  of  the  movies  is  not  all  adverse. 
Justin  Huntley  McCarthy's  novel,  "If  I  Were  King,"  made 
an  excellent  play  and  a  no  less  excellent  photoplay.    However 


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the  fact  that  William  Farnum  had  everything  to  do  with  this 
production  explains  its  merit.  He  was  ably  assisted  by  Fritz 
Leiber  who  played  the  part  of  the  cringing  Louis  XL  "If  I 
Were  King"  contains  an  abundance  of  thrilling  dramatic 
material  which  will  explain  it's  popularity. 

Walter  C.  West. 


Alumni 


Informal  Alumni  Dinner 

DESPITE  a  rather  limited  attendance  due  to  the  delay  in 
getting  notices  to  the  members,  the  informal  Alumni 
dinner  at  the  City  Club  Thursday  evening,  December  2nd, 
was  a  notable  success.  The  general  enthusiasm  and  loyalty 
displayed  by  the  "old  boys"  marked  a  new  high  tide  in 
Alumni  affairs.  The  usual  apathy  and  let-George-do-it  atti- 
tude was  conspicuously  absent. 

Instead  there  seemed  to  be  a  real  enthusiasm,  a  whole- 
hearted interest  in  establishing  the  Alumni  as  an  active  organ- 
ization which  should  take  its  proper  place  as  a  leader  in 
University  affairs.  The  lack  of  willing  co-operation  which 
has  seriously  handicapped  the  officers  and  boosters  of  the 
Alumni  Association  from  time  immemorial  was  replaced  by 
an  apparent  desire  to  get  behind  the  various  activites  planned 
and  do  some  honest-to-goodness  boosting. 

The  many  practical  ideas  and  suggestions  which  were 
voiced  during  the  evening  received  warm  and  unanimous  ap- 
proval. Graduates  who  had  not  attended  an  Alumni  meeting 
in  years  expressed  sincere  approbation  of  the  new  enthusiasm 
and  promised  loyal  support  to  the  Association's  future  activ- 
ities. 

At  the  conclusion  of  a  very  enjoyable  supper,  Mr. 
Augustine  J.  Bo  we,  President  of  the  Association,  who  pre- 
sided as  the  dispenser  of  "we  have  with  us  tonight,"  intro- 
duced as  first  speaker  of  the  evening  Reverend  William 
Murphy,  founder  of  the  widely-known  and  flourishing  Stayms 
Club,  who  delivered  an  unusually  interesting  talk  on  the 
process  of  Americanization. 

Father  Murphy's  discussion  was  followed  by  a  short  talk 

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110  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

given  by  Reverend  Father  John  B.  Furay,  S.  J.,  President  of 
Loyola  University,  who  dealt  with  the  present  and  future 
work  of  the  college.  Father  Furay  told  of  the  many  changes 
which  have  been  made  in  the  curriculum  of  the  college  within 
the  past  few  years  and  announced  that  Loyola  was  now  one 
of  five  Illinois  colleges  which  are  rated  "Class  A"  institutions 
by  the  University  of  Illinois. 

Father  William  Kane,  S.  J.,  Alumni  Moderator,  was  then 
called  on  to  speak  of  the  future  plans  of  the  Association.  He 
expressed  the  belief  that  the  best  way  to  keep  the  Alumni 
on  an  active  basis  was  to  encourage  individual  class  spirit. 
To  bring  the  various  classes  together  and  maintain  a  closer 
fellowship.  Father  Kane  suggested  that  a  committee  be  ap- 
pointed from  the  different  generations  of  members  to  select 
class  secretaries  whose  duties  it  would  be  to  compile  lists  of 
class  members  and  to  notify  the  various  individuals  through 
letters  or  phone  calls  when  dinners,  business  meetings  and 
assemblies  were  to  be  held. 

At  the  request  of  Mr.  Bo  we,  Father  Kane  appointed 
Messrs.  Joseph  Finn,  Charles  E.  Byrne,  Thomas  Walsh,  Leo 
McGivena  and  John  Sackley  as  a  committee  to  meet  and 
select  class  secretaries. 

Variety  was  added  to  the  program  of  the  evening  by  two 
impromptu  musical  numbers.  "Joe"  Bigane  and  "Phil"  Choui- 
nard  favored  the  assemblage  with  two  or  three  songs  apiece. 
Mr.  Charles  E.  Byrne  accompanied  them  at  the  piano. 

Business  matters  were  resumed  with  a  suggestion  from 
the  chairman,  Mr.  Bowe,  that  a  banquet  or  dinner  on  a  more 
elaborate  scale  be  held  during  January.  Mr.  Malachy  Foley 
was  asked  to  give  his  opinion  on  the  possibility  and  advis- 
ably of  holding  such  an  affair  at  that  time.  Mr.  Foley  sug- 
gested as  the  date,  January  27th,  after  which  the  Chairman 
named  Messrs.  Foley,  Beam  and  Hayes  as  members  of  the 
committee  to  make  general  arrangements. 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  111 

Father  Kane  was  requested  to  confer  with  the  regent  of 
the  Medical  school  to  arrange  for  participation  on  the  part 
of  the  Medical  alumni. 

The  personnel  named  for  the  five  committees  was  the  fol- 
lowing : 

Committee  on  Speakers — Payton  J.  Tuohy,  Chairman,  John 
Pierre  Roche,  Clarence  Cavenaugh. 

Committee  on  Music — Dr.  J.  Killeen,  Chairman,  Edward 
Walsh,  Elmer  Dunne. 

Committee  for  Law  School — Raymond  Cavenaugh,  Chair- 
man, J.  Trainor,  L.  Flaherty,  Larry  Walsh. 

Committee  on  Reception  —  Stephen  Miniter,  Chairman. 
(Aids  to  be  selected  later). 

Committee  on  Publicity — John  Pierre  Roche,  W.  Davis. 

Additional  committees  were  selected  to  arrange  for  speak- 
ers, publicity,  music,  reception  and  law  school  representation. 


Among  the  members  of  the  Alumni  Association  present  at 
the  dinner  were : 

HARRY  P.  BEAM,  3347  S.  Western  Blvd.,  Phone  McKinley  3072. 
JOSEPH  F.  BIGANE,  3529  S.  Hoyne  Ave.,  Phone  Lafayette  69. 
WILLIAM  J.  BOWE,  127  N.  Dearborn  St.,  Phone  Central  1588. 
JAMES  R.  BREMNER,  551  Stratford  PL,  Phone  Graceland  1968. 
WM.  H.  BROWN,  2134  W.  Ohio  St.,  Phone  Seeley  3020. 
J.  FRANCIS  BULGER,  1830  W.  22nd  St.,  Phone  Canal  3020. 
CHARLES  E.  BYRNE,  3264  Washington  Blvd.,  Phone  Kedzie  5201. 
J.  E.  CAGNEY,  6975  Ridge  Ave.,  Phone  Rogers  Park  2881. 
HARRY  L.  CAVANAUGH,  JR.,  1326  Arthur  Ave.,  Phone  R.  P.  359. 
R  A.  CAVANAGH,  7249  Coles  Ave.,  Phone  South  Shore  4054. 
FELIX  G.  CHOUINARD,  3256  Jackson  Blvd.,  Phone  Kedzie  7853. 
THOMAS  P.  COLLINS,  3934  N.  Paulina  St.,  Phone  Graceland  10419. 
EDWARD  B.  COUGHLIN,  2958  Walnut  St,  Phone  Garfield  4846. 
MARK  CRIBBEN,  2720  W.  16th  St.,  Phone  Rockwell  1985. 
F.  R.  CURDA,  5929  Augusta  St,  Phone  Austin  5954. 


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J.  W.  DAVIS,  1209  Astor  St.,  Phone  Superior  3149. 
JOHN  B.  DEVINE,  6812  S.  Racine  Ave.,  Phone  Englewood  1127. 
T.  E.  DUNN,  2133  Clifton  Park  Ave.,  Phone  Rockwell  5982. 
JOSEPH  F.  EL  WARD,  5642  Michigan  Phone  Normal  3639. 
LAWRENCE  J.  FENLON,  832  N.  St.  Louis  Ave,  Phone  Bel.  4819. 
JOSEPH  H.  FINN,  5214  Lakewood  Ave,  Phone  Edgewater  467. 
WM.  J.  FLAHERTY,  1309-69  Washington  St,  Phone  Boulevard  1836. 
JOHN  J.  FOLEY,  2044  W.  Roosevelt  Rd,  Phone  West  1845. 
M.  MALACHY  FOLEY,  2044  Roosevelt  Rd,  Phone  West  1845. 
LAMBERT  K.  HAYES,  3226  Jackson  Blvd.,  Phone  Garfield  2114. 
CHAS.  D.  HORAN,  3333  Washington  Blvd. 

WALTER  F.  KECKEISEN,  4255  Colorado  Ave,  Phone  Kedzie  5444. 
J.  E.  KEHOE,  743  Oakwood  Blvd.,  Phone  Oak.  4955. 
JOHN  J.  KILLEEN,  104  S.  Michigan  Ave,  Phone  Central  2415. 
D.  A.  LAUGHLIN,  624  Independence  Blvd.,  Phone  Garfield  7004. 
STEPHEN  MINITER,  1151  North  Shore,  Phone  Rogers  Park  4211. 
J.   K.   MOORE,  6731   Indiana  Ave,   Phone   Englewood   1173. 
SHERWIN  MURPHY,  4821  Dorchester  Ave,  Phone  Drexel  7093. 
BENJAMIN  T.  McCANNA,  105  S.  Mayfield  Ave,  Phone  Col.  1926. 
JAS.  V.  McCONNELL,  5834  Washington  Blvd.,  Phone  Columbus  789. 
BERNARD  McDEVITT,  29  S.  Parkside  Ave,  Phone  Austin  8353. 
J.  D.  McDEVITT,  29  S.  Parkside  Ave,  Austin  S3S3. 
LEO  E.  McGIVENA,  6136  Eberhart  Ave,  Bus.  Phone  Central  100. 
ALOYSIUS  J.  McLAUGHLIN,  2545  Seminary  Ave,  Phone  Rav.  156. 
WALTER  T.  QUIGLEY,  1247  Arthur  Ave,  Phone  Rogers  Park  4020. 
JOHN   P.   ROCHE,  556  Arlington  PI,   Phone  Diversey  2740. 
JAS.  E.  RODDY,  4119  Arthington  St,  Phone  Garfield  8072. 
JOHN  B.  SACKLEY,  5415  Wayne  Ave,  Phone  Sunnyside  5703. 
ERNEST  W.  THIELE,  512  W.  60th  PI,  Phone  7535. 
EMMET  TRAINOR,   1011   Railway  Exchange,  Phone  Harrison  4900. 
EDWARD  WALSH,  3032  N.  Halsted  St,  Phone  W;ellington  3613. 
LAWRENCE  J.  WALSH,  901  Monadnock  Block,  Phone  Austin  7963. 
THOS.  WALSH,  3412  Monroe  St,  Phone  Kedzie  2915. 


Notes 

Class  of  '18  Meets  in  Reunion 
For  the  second  time  within  twelve  months  the  Loyola 
Arts  and  Science  Class  of  1918  staged  a  class  reunion.  The 
scene  of  action  was  "Toots"  Weisenburger's  home  at  7138 
Bennett  Avenue  and  the  date,  Saturday,  November  20th.  Out 
of  a  possible  attendance  of  twenty,   fifteen  members  of  the 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  113 

class  were  on  hand.  This  was  in  spite  of  the  heavy  matri- 
monial casualty  list  recently  incurred  by  '18. 

Ray  Lundy  of  Englewood  and  Gene  Zahringer  of  Ken- 
wood were  among  the  many  others  who  came  early  and  stayed 
late.  Joe  Heinzen,  from  far-away  Wilmette  shared  the  honors 
at  the  piano  with  the  versatile  Albert  Widemann  while  the 
musical  "Toots"  contributed  the  assistance  of  his  drums  and 
traps. 

After  thoroughly  fighting  the  war  over  and  reviewing  the 
directory  of  "Way-Back-Whens"  to  the  days  of  Mr.  Tall- 
mage's  and  Father  Dineen's  classes,  the  Eighteeners  adjourned 
to  the  dining  room  for  a  "hot-dog"  supper. 

The  roll  of  those  present  included:  Cyril  Corbett,  Si 
Walsh,  Vincent  Cunningham,  Tom  Walsh,  Murray  Sims, 
Jerome  Byrnes,  "Max"  Cribben,  Mark  Ryan,  John  Reis  and 
Sherwin  Murphy. 

A  telegram,  addressed  to  the  assembled  class,  was  re- 
ceived from  Walter  Harks,  who  is  covering  Southern  Wis- 
consin for  the  Wayne  Oil  Tank  &  Pump  Co.,  expressing  his 
regret  at  missing  the  big  doings. 

*  *         * 

At  last  we  have  the  dope !  We  have  tracked  the  much- 
inquired- for  Stanley  Probst,  '18,  to  Albany,  N.  Y.,  where  we 
find  he  is  manager  of  the  local  office  of  the  Baron  G.  Collier 
Advertising  Co.,  a  New  York  City  agency. 

*  *         * 

The  latest  celebrity  on  "Piano  Row"  is  Eugene  Harks,  '20, 
who  has  joined  the  sales  force  of  Steger  &  Sons  Piano  Mfg. 

Co. 

*  *         * 

Cyril  Corbett,  '18,  former  editor  of  the  Loyola  University 
Magazine  recently  began  his  work  as  a  member  of  the 
editorial  staff  of  the  new  Chicago  daily,  the  Journal  of  Com- 
merce. 

*  *         * 

Raymond   Lundy,    since   completing  his   A.  B.    Course   at 


114  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

De  Paul  University,  has  been  employed  in  the  retail  division 
of  Marshall  Field  &  Co. 

Article  X  of  the  League  of  Nations  Covenant  is  A,  B,  C 
alongside  of  a  railroad  tariff.  We  have  this  on  the  authority 
of  John  Reis,  '18,  who  is  a  member  of  the  Rate  Department 

of  the  Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois  R.  R. 

*  *         * 

A  few  days  after  the  November  issue  of  the  Magazine 
went  to  press  we  received  an  announcement  card  from  Lam- 
bert K.  Hayes.  Lambert  has  gone  into  partnership  with 
Joseph  Geary  under  the  firm  name  of  Geary  &  Hayes  with 

offices  at  1105  Advertising  Building. 

#  *         * 

The  old  boys  of  the  Class  of  1901  will  be  glad  to  hear 
of  Otto  J.  Sehrt,  who  was  discovered  the  other  day  rushing 
to  catch  a  train  for  the  sunny  south,  where  he  is  introducing 
modern  pneumatic  machinery.  At  school  Otto  was  known  by 
his  happy  smile  and  for  excellence  in  English  and  Latin  com- 
position as  well  as  for  the  pugnacious  attitude  he  assumed 
when  Tom  Mercer  addressed  him  as  "Our  little  Dutchman." 

>K  >JC  5jC 

The  following  from  the  Journal  of  January  5th  will  be 
read  with  interest  and  pleasure  by  all  our  Alumni : 

Charles  E.  Byrne,  who  has  been  elected  a  member  of  the 
board  of  directors  and  also  to  the  position  of  secretary- 
treasurer  of  Steger  &  Sons  Piano  Manufacturing  company, 
has  been  connected  with  the  Steger  company  for  twelve  years. 

He  was  formerly  a  newspaperman,  and  his  first  position 
with  the  company  was  as  advertising  manager. 

He  is  widely  known  among  newspaper  and  magazine  men. 

While  handling  his  work  in  the  advertising  department, 
Mr.  Byrne  studied  law,  and  after  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  his  duties  were  gradually  broadened  in  an  executive  way. 

Mr.  Byrne  is  in  his  early  30's  and  is  a  member  of  various 
clubs  an  social  organizations. 

Congratulations,  Charley ! 


A  Freshman's  New  Year's  Resolutions 

1.  Never  to  be  absent  except  to  attend  a  matinee. 

2.  Never  to   do  my  homework  except  when  absolutely 
necessary. 

3.  Never  to   go   to   chemistry   laboratory  without   a  gas 
mask. 

4.  Never  to  ask  for  an  excuse  if  it  is  possible  to  get  by 
without  one. 

5.  Never  to  take  more  mathematics  than  required,  espe- 
cially Trig. 

6.  Never  to  attempt  writing  poetry  for  a  livelihood. 

7.  Never  to  ask  for  an  extra  exam- 

8.  Never  to  be  caught  with  a  "Pony".    (With  due  respect 
to  Jesse  James). 

9.  Never  to  copy  in  an  exam  unless  in  dire  need. 

10.     Never  to  take  my  Freshman  work  over  while  in  my 
sane  mind. 


J.  H.  M. 


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116  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

Torn  !   Torn  !  Torn  ! 
{Do  you  hear  Tennyson  turning  over) 

Torn,  torn,  torn, 

In  a  place  where  they  should  not  be. 
The  clutching  strands  of  that  barbed-wire  fence 

Still  grasp  a  part  of  me. 

My  serge  suit  is  at  the  cleaner's, 

And  others  I  have  none. 
I  should  have  bought  a  coat  with  two, 

Instead  of  only  one. 

The  beautiful  maids  pass  on 

To  the  cool  and  restful  park, 
But  O,  I  cannot  meet  them  now, 

At  least  till  after  dark. 

Torn,  torn,  torn, 

In  a  place  where  they  should  not  be ! 
And  here  I'm  doomed  to  sit  and  keep 

Misfortune  under  me. 


Answer  to  Correspondents 

C.  P.  B. — I  really  do  not  know  just  where  you  should 
send  your  interesting  suggestion  that  to  put  an  end  to  crime 
in  Chicago  we  should  put  many  of  its  policemen  in  jail. 

F.  X.  G. — Why  do  musicians  wear  their  hair  so  long? 

We  have  been  waiting  for  years  to  have  some  one  ask 
this  question.  Years  ago,  an  eminent  German  musician,  poising 
his  eighteenth  successive  stein  in  his  hand,  explained  the 
custom  to  us.  He  said  that  musicians  wore  long  hair  because 
they  found  that  even  in  a  moderate  breeze  it  performed  like 
an  Aeolian  harp.    The  music  of   the  wind   in   their   hair  is 


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soothing  to   their   artistic  temperament.     Incidentally  it    fur- 
nishes the  motif  for  most  of  the  best  jazz  music. 

John  K. — Will  you  kindly  indicate  in  your  column  some 
of  the  uses  of  spiritus  frumenti. 

As  a  matter  of  fact  it  is  scarcely  used  at  all  any  more. 
Formerly  it  was  employed  for  cleaning  fire-grates,  removing 
varnish  from  furniture,  and  for  the  cure  of  stubborn  cases 
of  bunion. 

Miss  B.  L.  E. — Why  do  street  car  conductors  punch  holes 
in  transfers  ? 

Holes  are  made  in  transfers  for  the  convenience  of  those 
people  who  make  up  collections  of  them — a  delightful  pastime. 
One  can  run  a  string  through  the  holes  in  the  transfers  and 
hang  them  up  as  the  Chinese  do  their  coins. 

W.  J.  B. — Why  do  some  women  wear  high  heels? 

After  many  hours  of  research  work  and  deliberation  the 
only  reason  we  could  find  was  that  walking  on  stilts  would 
not  display  their  acrobatic  skill  as  well. 

Mrs.  A.  K. — Don't  you  think  that  gambling  on  the  Board 
of  Trade  ought  to  be  prohibited? 

Why  of  course  not.  It  serves  as  a  pastime  for  our  mil- 
lionaires. Besides  everybody  knows  that  it  is  not  half  so 
bad  as  the  smoking  of  cigarettes,  shooting  craps,  riding  down 
Michigan  Boulevard  in  a  Ford,  etc.,  etc. 

Mr.  R.  M. — /  am  appealing  to  you  to  solve  a  mystery 
that  has  puzzled  me  greatly.  Why  don't  professors  assign 
home-work  any  more?  my  son  tells  me  that  all  his  teacher 
does  is  ask  questions. 

Professors  don't  assign  home-work  because  they  realize 
that  the  students  work  very  hard  during  the  lectures  and 
are  so  exhausted  after  them  that  any  additional  work  would 


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be  cruelty.    They  ask  questions  because  they  want  to  learn 
something  without  having  to  pay  for  it. 

How  are  bachelor-buttons  used? 

Buttons  are  not  used  by  bachelors ;  they  use  safety  pins. 

Do  fishes  have  scales? 

Fishes  do  not  get  scales  until  they  are  full-grown,  but  all 
the  little  fishes  learn  the  tables  of  weights  and  measures  in 
their  schools. 

Does  alcohol  make  a  pig  blind? 

We're  not  sure  about  pigs,  but  we  know  of  the  case  of  a 
tiger  in  which  total  loss  of  sight  followed  as  a  result  of  the 
Eighteenth  Amendment. 

What  is  the  distinguishing  characteristic  of  tulips? 
We'll  never  tell — but  with  the  aid  of  a  moonlight  night, 
a  bench  just  big  enough  for  two,  etc.,  it  isn't  hard  to  find  out. 

Why  does  a  chicken  cross  the  road? 

She  doesn't — you're  supposed  to  come  over  to  the  side  that 
she's  on. 

Are  clinging  vines  useful  to  mankind? 

No — but  when  they  are  properly  manicured,  marcelled  and 
calcimined,  they  are  darned  ornamental,  if  you  prefer  that 
type. 

Do  chickens  come  home  to  roost? 

Sometimes — but  if  the  dance  is  over  too  late  they  stay 
with  a  girl  friend,  especially  if  Dad's  a  light  sleeper  and 
wields  a  heavy  slipper. 


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Our  Own  Rube  Hyatt 

Ah,  my  Beloved,  fill  the  Cup  that  clears 
Today  of  past  regrets  and  future  Fears : 
To-morrow?— If  this  still  is  found  we'll  hear 
"Nine  hundred  bucks  and  twenty-seven  years." 

Let's  make  the  most  of  what  we  yet  may  spend 
Before  we  too  into  the  Dust  descend. 
John  Barleycorn  is  dead,  and  now  we  must 
Rally  our  strength,  and  Nick  O'Time  defend. 

Why  all  the  Stews  and  Barflys  who  discussed 
The  "people's  will"  so  wisely — they  are  thrust 
Upon  a  land  of  water;  the  Volstead  Act 
Is  legal,  and  their  mouths  are  dry  as  Dust. 

A  moment's  Halt — a  hesitating  drink 
Of  near-beer — all  the  clouds  seem  turned  to  pink. 
And  Lo — green  elephants  and  snakes  of  blue ! 
The  raisin  worked! — I'll  take  another  drink. 

And  lately  through  the  Tavern  Door  ajar 
We've  slipped — and  found  again  upon  the  Bar 
Those  brown-glass  joy-dispensers  which  contain 
What's  as  near  to  beer  as  the  nearest-beer  is  far. 


Patience  Rewarded,  or,  How  Feazle  Myopus  Triumphed. 

Feazle  Myopus  was  counting  his  hoarded  wealth.  "Seven 
hundred  thousand  one  hundred  four,  seven  hundred  thousand 
one  hundred  five,"  and  so  on.  For  many  years  he  had  been 
saving,  and  as  the  passion  of  the  miser  gripped  him,  he  had 
resorted  to  any  means,  fair  or  foul,  to  add  to  his  store. 
The  count  reached  a  million.     In  a  silence  broken  only  by 


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the  tempestuous  beating  of  hist  heart,  Feazle  seized  his 
premium  catalogue.  "At  last,"  he  murmured,  "at  last."  He 
ran  his  finger  down  the  page — "For  one  million  coupons — one 
package  of  pipe  cleaners."  All  his  years  of  striving  were 
rewarded — he  had  reached  the  goal  at  last ! 

We  leave  him  to  his  ecstacy. 


The  Maiden's   Prayer. 

Oh  mother  dear,  I'm  so  ashamed 

When  I  go  out  to  walk 
The  way  the  girls  all  stare  at  me. 

You  ought  to  hear  them  talk. 

"Why,  dear,  you  are  a  perfect  fright; 

Your  dress  is  out  of  date. 
Twelve  inches  from  the  ground's  the  thing, 

And  your's  is  only  eight." 

So  mother,  dear,  please  hear  my  prayer, 

And  make  mine  shorter  yet, 
So  I  can  be  what  I  try  to  be, 

Your  modest  Violet. 

J.  J.  T. 


1890  Model,  But  as  Good  as  New. 

Oh,  goodness  me,  how  things  have  changed 
Since  mother  was  a  girl ! 

Now  daughter  Minnie, 
Shakes  the  shimmy. 
She  haunts  the  cabarets 


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She  likes  the  night  time 
The  brightest  light  time 
And  jazz  is  all  she  plays. 

Mother  scolds  like  mad, 
But  finds  that  she's  in  bad 
For  Daddy  shimmies  too. 
And  he's  some  stepper, 
He's  got  the  pepper, 
So  Ma  is  feeling  blue. 

Still  we  won't  show  surprise 
If  Ma  opens  all  our  eyes, 
By  learning  to  shimmy, 
And  outshimmying  Minnie. 

Here's  why. 

Though  things  have  changed  since  mother  was 

A  timid  shrinking  girl, 
We've  heard  no  less  than  Dad  confess 

She  shook  a  wicked  curl. 


Evolution. 

From  the  Pliocene  to  the  Eocene,  from  the  Carboniferous 
to  the  Oleomargarine,  and  from  the  Oolite  to  the  Trinitro- 
toluene, the  chain  of  evidence  for  phylogenetic  evolution  is 
patently  manifest.  It  is  matter  of  the  commonest  school-boy 
information  that  the  older  Miocene  form,  Mesohippus,  has 
three  toes  in  front,  with  a  large  splinter-like  rudiment  repre- 
senting the  little  finger  (or,  as  Sniggelfritz  thinks,  a  degenerate 
vermiform  appendix),  and  three  toes  behind,  and  that  he 
wiggled  his  ears  very  much  like  a  jackdaw.  The  radius  and 
ulna,    tibia    and    fibula,    are    distinct.      Following    then    the 


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cardinal  law  that  ontogeny  and  phylogeny  must  exactly  corre- 
spond (so  clearly  demonstrated  by  the  eminent  British  ornith- 
ologist, Sir  Oleander  Spoof -Guffins,  in  his  study  of  the  habits 
of  snails),  the  descent  of  man  from  the  pithecanthoid  ape  no 
longer  admits  of  even  the  slightest  doubt.  In  addition,  I  have 
the  solemn  word  of  Mrs.  G.  Sturtevant  Pish,  whose  thes 
dansantes  made  such  a  hit  in  Evanston  last  season,  and  who 
once  took  a  correspondence  course  with  the  C.  U.,  that 
Evolution  is   simply  a   fact,   and  so   intellectually   satisfying. 

C.  P.  Burke. 


Music. 

I  don't  know  much  about  music,  but  I  know  what  I  like. 
And  good  music  gets  me  any  time.  I  remember,  when  I  was 
a  kid,  following  a  hurdy-gurdy  man  for  blocks,  even  if  he 
didn't  have  a  monkey  with  him.  And  once  I  fought  a  dear 
little  playmate  of  mine  for  half  an  hour,  to  decide  which  of 
us  owned  a  harmonica  that  he  had.  I  could  not  play  the 
thing,  but  I  believe  the  incident  shows  that  I  have  a  musical 
soul,  all  right. 

For  years  I  have  pulled  out  from  the  hay  every  morning 
to  the  sweet  strains  of  an  alarm  clock  humming  melodiously 
in  my  ears.  Music  accompanies  me  all  through  the  day. 
Every  time  the  boss  leaves  the  office,  I  sing  a  little  song.  I 
like  to  eat  where  there  is  music.  It  goes  so  well  with  the 
soup.  And  even  when  the  day  is  done,  and  I  creep  into  the 
downy,  I  do  not  leave  music  behind  me.  The  fellow  that  lives 
next  door  says  that  I  sleep  like  a  saxaphone. 

But  there  is  a  limit  to  everything,  even  to  music,  and  I 
think  the  limit  was  kind  of  passed  the  other  night.  It  was 
about  2  a.  m.,  and  I  was  saying  good-night  to  a  lady  friend 
of   mine,   out   on   the   front  porch,   when  her    father   quietly 


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opened    the    door,    and    started    the    phonograph    on    Tosti's 
"Good-bye  Forever."  T. 


Where  are  the  stars  of  yesteryear, 
Who  used  to  play  with  the  Sox  ? 

They  threw  the  games,  my  little  dear, 
And  are  as  dead  as  Mr.  Cox. 

John  Molloy. 


H.   C.   L. 

A  lot  of  people  seem  to  be  skeptical  about  prices  coming 
down.  But  they  are  coming  down,  most  certainly.  Take 
murder,  for  instance.  Once  upon  a  time,  a  murderer  used  to 
be  hanged.  Then  the  juries  began  cutting  the  price  to  twenty- 
five  years,  fifteen  years,  ten  years.  Only  lately,  for  a  job  lot 
of  three  murders  the  sentence  was  fifteen  years,  or  five  years 
a  murder. 

But  hold  on !  Maybe  I'm  wrong,  after  all.  Come  to  think 
it  over,  it  isn't  the  High  Cost  of  Living  that's  coming  down, 
but  the  High  Cost  of  Killing.  Oh,  well !  some  poor  fellows 
are  getting  the  benefit  of  the  changing  times. 

The  gentleman  who  expressed  a  desire  to  die  poor,  evi- 
dently never  took  a  young  lady  home  from  a  dance  on  a  rainy 
night. 

Since  the  wholesaler  has  reduced  his  prices,  we  eagerly 
wait  for  the  retailer  to  increase  his,  so  that  he  can  pay  the 
wholesaler  to  raise  his  again. 

There  is  a  movement  afoot,  we  are  told,  to  organize  a  union 
for  our  hard-working  bandits  and  second-story  men,  to  be 
affiliated  with  the  A.  F.  L.  Under  present  conditions,  many 
of  these  deserving  young  men  are  forced  to  work  overtime  to 


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an  extent  which  exposes  them  to  severe  colds  in  the  head. 
The  movement  has,  of  course,  the  approval  of  all  the  kind- 
hearted  men  at  the  City  Hall.  The  Mayor,  however,  has 
denied  that  he  intends  to  set  up  rest-stations  along  the  more 
popular  bandit  highways,  where  these  gentlemen  can  keep 
warm  between  tricks.  He  says  the  Union  should  look  after 
that  itself. 

And  another  man  says  (but  we  don't  believe  him)  that 
there  is  soon  to  be  organized  a  Female  Decorators'  Union. 

The  windows  are  filled  with  signs,  "High  Quality,  Low 
Price".  And  purchasers  are  puzzled.  Isn't  it  possible  that 
the  retailers  have  just  misplaced  the  adjectives? 


Hearken ! 

Lives  of  every  one  remind  us 

Anyone  can  fall  in  love. 
But  the  question  is  the  woman 

Suffragette  or  turtle  dove  ? 

When  you  think  of  getting  married, 
Mind  that  looks  are  deep  as  skin. 

But  man's  proper  vegetation 
Governed  is  by  what  goes  in. 

Cakes  as  hard  as  Gibaraltar 

Doughnuts  soggy  round  the  core, 

Pies  whose  only  good  is  apple, 
Make  a  leather  tummy  sore. 

So  her  beauty  will  diminish 

As  your  gastric  juice  gives  out. 

This  advice  I  give  to  men  folks : 
Take  it,  use  it,  do  not  doubt. 


University  Chronicle 


LOYOLA     ORATORICAL  ASSOCIATION 

A  LTHOUGH  the  oratorical  association  did  not  begin  its 
"^  scholastic  year  as  early  as  usual,  neverthless,  the  first 
meeting-  was  marked  by  the  presence  of  forty-four  members. 
The  delay  did  not  seem  to  affect  the  students'  enthusiasm, 
because  all  are  taking  a  whole-hearted  interest  in  the  work  of 
the  organization,  in  order  to  derive  the  advantages  it  offers. 

Owing  to  other  duties,  Mr.  Keeler  was  relieved  of  the 
office  of  moderator.  He  is  succeeded  by  Father  Wilson,  who, 
from  appearances  so  far,  will  make  the  coming  year  a  banner 
one  in  the  history  of  the  society. 

All  the  college  classes  are  represented  by  good  material, 
and  it  is  expected  that  this  material  will  be  used  in  the  course 
of  the  year  to  defend  our  Alma  Mater  in  bouts  with  other 
schools.  This  has  been  manifested  by  the  popular  questions 
discussed  so  far:  The  Irish  question,  the  California  bill  in 
regard  to  the  Japanese,  the  smoke  ordinance  in  Chicago,  and 
the  Haiti  question. 

Keen  rivalry  was  especially  noteworthy  in  the  debate  on 
the  Irish  question,  which  read :  Resolved,  That  the  present 
political  attitude  of  the  Irish  is  justifiable.  Practical  phil- 
osophy on  the  part  of  Messrs.  Sheridan  and  Cawley,  Seniors, 
who  upheld  the  affirmative,  overpowered  Messrs.  Cramer, 
Junior,  and  Sullivan,  Sophomore.  They  specifically  declared 
that  we  should  keep  philosophy  out  of  the  debate.  The  house, 
however,  congratulated  the  negative  on  their  defense,  because 
in  all  sincerity  they  are  heart  and  soul  with  Ireland  in  her 
present  difficulties. 

The  officers  chosen  for  the  first  semester  are :  Vice- 
President,  John  Zvetina,  A.  B.  '21 ;  Recording  Secretary, 
Edmond  Sullivan,  A.  B.  '23 ;  Corresponding  Secretary,  Phillip 
Kemper,   A.  B.   '23 ;   Treasurer,    William   Powers,    A.  B.    '23. 

There  will  be  about  five  public  debates  during  the  year, 
the  first  of  which,  called  the  Naghten  debate,  will  be  held 
sometime  in  January. — G   B.   A. 

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THE  SODALITY  OF  THE  BLESSED  VIRGIN 

With  the  return  to  school  in  September  came  the  news  that 
our  former  director,  Father  Lomasney,  had  been  transferred 
to  Detroit.  Everyone  misses  his  presence,  not  only  as  director 
of  the  sodality,  but  also  in  the  classroom.  Our  prayers  and 
good  wishes  follow  him  and  he  may  rest  assured  that  the  good 
work  accomplished  by  him  last  year  as  director  is  being 
fittingly  continued  by  his  successor,  Father  Wilson. 

Our  present  Moderator  is  neither  a  stranger  in  Chicago 
nor  at  St.  Ignatius  College.  We  had  the  pleasure  of  having 
him  as  a  teacher  two  years  ago,  and  we  feel  confident  that 
he  will  well  perform  the  duty  of  spiritual  guide  and  friend 
during  the  coming  year.  Under  his  directorship  both  the 
Sodality  and  the  Oratorical  Association  are  fast  becoming 
societies  managed  by  the  student  body  alone. 

Although  we  cannot  boast  of  quantity  in  membership  thus 
far,  we  feel  that  quality  is  paramount  in  spiritual  affairs.  The 
sodalistis'  deep-rooted  love  for  the  Blessed  Mother  is  shown 
by  the  sacrifices  made  in  order  to  attend  the  weekly  meeting. 
It  is  the  wish  of  the  director  and  the  officers  that  each  member 
make  a  New  Year's  resolution  to  bring  one  new  member  into 
the  sodality  at  the  first  meeting  in  January.  The  reception  of 
new  members  will  be  held  on  the  Feast  of  the  Purification  of 
the  Blessed  Virgin,  February  2. 

It  is  further  hoped  that  a  Mission  section  will  be  formed 
among  the  sodalists.  By  means  of  this  bands  of  sodalists  can 
perform  a  very  charitable  and  noble  work,  that  is,  teach 
Catechism  on  Sunday  mornings  at  the  Guardian  Angel  Center, 
under  the  supervision  of  Father  Breen. 

The  officers  of  the  year  1920-1921  are:  Prefect,  Cornelius 
Burke,  A.  B.  '21 ;  First  Assistant,  Maurice  Walsh,  A.  B.  '21 ; 
Second  Assistant,  John  Zvetina,  A.  B.  '21 ;  Secretary,  Joseph 
Gauer,  A.  B.  '22;  Treasurer,  Edmond  Sullivan,  A.  B.  '23; 
Sacristans,  Aloysius  Cawley,  A.  B.  '21,  James  Tyrrell,  B.  S. 
'22 ;  Consultors,  Vincent  Sheridan,  James  Taylor,  Raymond 
Kelly,  Richard  Shea,  Walter  West,  Edward  Miller,  Thomas 
McNally,  Martin  McNally,  Russell  Erickson,  Edward  King. 


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ATHLETIC  ASSOCIATION 

A  GREAT  increase  of  interest  in  athletics  has  taken  place 
"^  as  a  result  of  the  decision  of  the  faculty  to  give  the 
student  body  complete  charge  of  this  branch  of  college  activity. 

An  athletic  association  has  been  formed  whose  organiza- 
tion is  such  as  to  give  every  student  a  voice  in  the  manage- 
ment of  athletic  affairs.  Every  class  in  every  department  has 
a  representative  whose  duty  it  is  to  care  for  the  interests  of 
that  class  in  the  governing  council,  which  is  composed  of 
the  officers  of  the  association  and  these  representatives. 
Through  this  representation  all  decisions  are  made  in  accord- 
ance with  the  wishes  of  the  student  body. 

At  the  mass  meeting  held  to  organize  the  association  the 
following  officers  were  elected : 
President — James  J.  Taylor. 
Vice  President — Russell  J.  Erickson. 
Treasurer — Cornelius  P.  Burke. 
Secretary — Joseph  F.  Gauer. 

Maurice  Walsh  was  chosen  Manager  of  the  Basketball 
Team. 

From  the  results  attained  so  far  it  would  seem  that  student 
control  of  athletics  at  Loyola  is  a  complete  success. 

Sports 

Coach  Feeney,  former  I.  A.  C.  star,  has  developed  the 
basketball  team  to  a  point  where  it  ranks  among  the  first 
in  the  city.  After  the  final  selection  had  been  made,  the 
successful  candidates  for  the  squad  were:  Simunich,  Burke, 
Flanagan,  Erickson,  Lauerman,  Dee,  R.  Kelly,  Gauer,  Tirol, 
Kowarskas,  Zelezinski,  and  Cramer.  Berny  Simunich,  star 
forward,  was  elected  captain. 

The  schedule  includes  games  with  St.  Louis  and  Detroit 
Universities,  Augustana  College,  and  many  of  the  strongest 
teams  in  Indiana,  Wisconsin,  and  Illinois. 

The  team  defeated  the  Campion  Club  6f  Chicago  on  Mon- 
day, December  20.  The  Campionites  have  one  of  the  best 
teams  in  the  city,  and  have  been  playing  together  for  several 
years.    As  a  high  school  team,  they  were  perhaps  the  most 


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feared  quintet  among  the  prep  schools  of  the  Middle  West. 
The  team  reorganized  as  a  free-lance  aggregation  after  leav- 
ing school,  and  continued  their  success  by  toppling  some  of 
the  best  amateur  organizations  in  the  Central  States.  No 
harder  opponents  could  have  been  picked  to  test  our  strength, 
but  our  team  showed  their  worth  by  piling  up  32  points 
against  Campion's  15.  The  game  was  played  in  the  new 
college  gym,  where  a  return  game  will  be  played  January  6th. 


Loyola  University 


B    F   P  T 


Simunich,  r.  f 6  4  2 

Burke,  1.  f 2  0  0 

Flanagan,    c 1  0  0 

Lauerman,    r.  g 4  0  0 

Erickson,   1.  g 0  0  0 

Markv,   c 1  0  1 

Dee,  r.  g 0  0  0 

Cramer,  1.  f 0  0 


Campion  Club 

B  F  P  T 

Butler    2  0  0  0 

Florence    4  0  2  0 

Carmodv    1  1  0  0 


Reis,   r.  g 

McCahe,  1.  g. 
Orourke,  1.  g. 
McLoughlin,  r.  g. 


.0000 
.0000 
.0000 
.0000 


0    0 

Total    7     1     2    0 

Total    14    4    3     3 

Referee  —  Nelson  Norgren,  Chicago. 

Loyola  was  again  victorious  in  the  next  game  after  the 
Campion  victory,  that  with  Cathedral  College.  After  the  first 
five  minutes  of  play,  Loyola's  superiority  was  easily  evident, 
so  Coach  Feeney  took  the  opportunity  to  give  nearly  every 
man  on  the  squad  a  workout.  In  spite  of  the  fact  that  the 
players  were  under  instructions  to  perfect  their  passing  game 
rather  than  try  to  roll  up  a  large  count  the  final  score  was : 
Loyola,  29 ;  Cathedral,  8. 

The  wonderful  guarding  of  Lauerman,  Erickson,  and 
Dee,  and  Simunich's  floor  work  featured.  Rezek  was  the  star 
for  Cathdral. 


Loyola  University 


Cathedral  College 


Simunich,   r.  t. 
Burke,   1.  f .    ... 
Erickson,   c.    .  . 
Flanegan,  c.    .  . 

Dee,    r.  g 

Lauerman,  1.  g. 
Gauer,    r.  £.     .  . 


B  F  P  T 
.7720 
.0000 
.0000 
.0000 
.10  0  0 
.3000 
.0000 


Buckley,   r.  £.    . 

Ryan,  1.  f 

Rezek,  c 

Precz,   r.  g. 
Wisienski,   1.  g. 


B  F 

...0  0 

...1  0 

.  .2  2 

...0  0 

...0  0 


P  T 

2  1 

1  0 

1  1 
0  0 

2  1 


Total     3     2    6    3 


Total     11     7     2    0 

Referee  —  Carmody. 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  129 


SENIOR  MEDICS 

Ruminations  of  A  Rummy 

By  a  Senior  Medical  Student 

ALL  life  is  preparation  for  a  greater  tomorrow.  All  edu- 
cation is  a  series  of  commencements — not  end-ments. 
Moses  was  eighty  years  getting  ready  to  do  forty  years' 
work.  The  work  was  ready  all  this  time,  but  Moses 
wasn't  ready  for  it.  It  took  'Moses  eighty  years  to  get  up 
steam,  to  get  great  enough  to  handle  the  work.  Jesus  was 
thirty  years  getting  ready  to  do  three  years  work.  So  m,any 
of  us  expect  to  get  ready  and  know  it  all  by  a  few  years  in 
school.  We  can  be  a  pumpkin  in  one  summer ;  with  the 
accent  on  the  "punk."  We  can  be  a  mushroom  in  a  day; 
with  the  accent  on  the  "mush."  But  it  takes  years  to  become 
an  oak.  Keep  on  growing!  Our  funeral  is  held  right  after 
we  "finish."    Keep  on  growing  up !    And  stay  alive ! 

*         *         * 
I  have  to  live  with  myself,  and  so 
I  want  to  be  fit  for  myself  to  know; 
I  want  to  be  able,  as  days  go  by, 
Always  to  look  myself  straight  in  the  eye ; 
I  don't  want  to  stand,  with  the  setting  sun ; 
And  hate  myself  for  the  things  I've  done. 
I  don't  want  to  keep  on  a  closet  shelf 
A  lot  of  secrets  about  myself. 
And  fool  myself,  as  I  come  and  go, 
Into  thinking  that  nobody  else  will  know 
The  kind  of  a  man  I  really  am ; 
I  don't  want  to  dress  myself  in  a  sham. 
I  want  to  go  out  with  my  head  erect, 
I  want  to  deserve  all  men's  respect, 
But  here  in  the  struggle  for  fame  and  pelf 
I  want  to  be  able  to  like  myself. 
I  don't  want  to  look  at  myself  and  know, 
That  I'm  bluster  and  bluff  and  empty  show. 


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I  can  never  hide  myself  from  me; 
I  see  what  others  may  never  see, 
I  know  what  others  may  never  know ; 
I  never  can  fool  myself,  and  so 
Whatever  happens  I  want  to  be 
Self  respecting  and  conscience  free. 


When  you  hand  a  student  a  lemon,  be  a  Samaritan  instead 

of  a  knocker  by  handing  him  sugar  and  water  with  it. 

*  *         * 

One  thing  we  like  about  the  student  who  stutters  is  that 

he  never  speaks  unless  he  has  something  to  say. 

*  *         * 

Some  fellows  are  born  great,  some  achieve  greatness,  and 
others  have  their  photo  taken  with  their  chins  resting  on 
their  hands. 

A  brief  experience  in  medical  school  convinces  the  student 

that  the  Ten  Commandments  are  only  a  few. 

*  *         * 

If  every  student  was  compelled  to  act  as  his  own  fool- 
killer,  there  would  be  an  epidemic  of  suicides. 

O'Brien  discovered  the  other  day  that  the  fellows  who 
don't  appreciate  liquor  have  their  cellars  full  of  it. 

*  *         * 

Miss  Kobele  mixes  study  with  pleasure  by  powdering  her 
nose  at  frequent  intervals  between  classes. 

*  *         * 

You  can't  conquer  fortune,  you  can't  conquer  fame, — you 
can't  lay  up  much  worldly  pelf; — you  can't  conquer  others, 
you  can't  make  a  name, — until  you  have  conquered  yourself. 

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There  is  nothing  like  keeping  up  with  the  procession,  unless 
you  are  big  enough  to  be  your  own  parade. 


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This  much  used  term  could  not  be  applied  more  aptly  anywhere  than  to 

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Courses  of  Study 
Four  Years'  High  School  Course, 
Two  Years'  Commercial  Course, 
Shorter  Commercial  Course, 
Domestic  Science  Course, 
Private  Lessons  in  Vocal  and  Instru- 
mental  Music  and  Art. 

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I  cannot  sing  the  old  songs 

Our  fathers  always  knew ; 
It's  tough  to  sing  most  any  song 

Inspired  by  home-made  brew. 

*  *         * 

The  only  trouble  Weissl  has  with  the  white  collar  is  in 
keeping  his  collar  white. 

Ingratitude  is  the  highest  crime  listed  in  Humanity's  Cal- 
endar. 

*  *         * 

A  student  should  look  himself  over  occasionally,  probably 
the  inventory  wouldn't  take  a  great  while. 

sfc  :j<  sjs 

Any  professor  can  tell  you  that  the  most  common  disease 
among  medical   students   is  enlargement   of  the  imagination. 

3{C  %  3{C 

My  lips  are  parched, 
My  throat  is  dry, 
My  stomach  burns, 
Gee  whiz,  I'm  dry. 

>K  >fc  H8 

With  suitable  special  scenery  a  woman  invalid  may  show 
to  advantage,  but  a  sick  man  always  looks  like  the  "Old 
Harry." 

*  *         * 

We  remember  the  old  time  holidays  when  we'd  dress  up 
and  spend  the  whole  forenoon  hunting  the  side  door. 

What  gets  us  is  why  somebody  don't  put  a  fully  equipped 
auto  on  the  market. 

>K  jJj  ^ 

Everybody  has  trouble  of  some  kind.  What  is  the  nature 
of  yours? 

*  *         * 

We  often  wonder  why  Freshmen  acquired  such  a  reputa- 


Academy  of  Our  Lady 

Ninety-Fifth  and  Throop  Streets, 

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Boarding   and   Day   School    for 

Girls,  conducted  by  School 
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Academic   Course  prepares   for   Col- 
lege or  Normal  entrance.    Grammar 
and  Primary  Dept.  for  little  Girls. 
Commercial    Course    of    two    years 
after  the  eighth  grade. 
Domestic  Science. 

Music  ■ —  Conservatory  methods  in 
piano,  violin  and  vocal. 
Art  —  Special  advantages.  Four 
studios  open  to  visitors  at  all  times. 
Physical  Culture  and  Athletics  under 
competent  teachers. 
Campus — 15  acres. 

Extension  Course  Conducted  by 
Loyola  University 

Catalogue  Sent  Upon  Application 
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wafer  layers ;  a 
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LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  135 

tion  for  being  wall-eyed  liars.    We  have  met  a  lot  of  doctors 

in  our  time. 

*  *         * 

Many  a  student  who  has  "risen  to  the  occasion"  doesn't 

know  when  to  sit  down. 

*  *         * 

The  freshmen  are  just  beginning  to  realize  that  the  older 
they  get  the  more  hills  they  have  to  climb. 

It  is  all  right  for  students  to  have  individuality,  but  they 

ought  to  have  something  else  to  go  with  it. 

*  *         * 

There  is  such  a  thing  as  being  too  original :  people  might 

call  you  crazy. 

*  *         * 

There's  room  at  the  top  for  more  doctors  than  can  stick 

there. 

*  *         * 

We  sigh  for  rest  at  the  end  of  the  way,  and  yet  many 
fear  to  tackle  it. 

There's  joy  enough  in  the  school  to  keep  all  the  students 
dancing  day  and  night. 

*  *         * 

Whisky  is  getting  so  scarce  that  a  fellow  would  be  glad 
to  be  fixed  up  like  the  moon.    The  moon  gets   full   once  a 

month. 

*  *         * 

It  costs  no  more  to  be  a  gentleman  than  a  snob. 

*  *         * 

Don't  undervalue  the  advantages  of  education.  Many  a 
student  is  doing  the  best  he  knows  how,  who  doesn't  know 
how. 

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If  you  haven't  learned  the  meaning  of  strategy  by  this 
time  you  probably  never  will  be  much  of  a  scholar. 


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LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  137 

Rosen  says  it  is  easier  to  look  wise  than  it  is  to  deliver 

the  goods. 

*  *         * 

One  doctor  says  tobacco  hurts  you ;  another  says  it  doesn't. 
Got  a  match? 

About  the  only  speed  some  students  show  is  to  exhibit 
a  quick  temper. 

Since   Grimes   has   had   a   hair   cut   he   looks   almost   like 

anybody  else. 

*  *         * 

The  slang  expression,  "Cut  it  out,"  originated  with  the 
doctors. 

5fc  SfS  5fc 

We  all  take  an  interest  in  Crispin.  He  is  a  man  of  prin- 
ciple. 

Keep  your  nose  clean  and  don't  let  the  knocker  worry 
you.  Remember  that  no  matter  how  respectable  you  ma}'  be, 
they  are  going  to  lie  about  you,  anyway. 


It  is  too  bad  that  a  student  can't  make  a  success  of  other 
things  the  way  he  can  of  making  a  fool  of  himself. 

H5  H5  ♦ 

Our  idea  of  a  good  Christian  is  Father  Calhoun.  He  is 
so  busy  practicing  it  that  he  hasn't  any  time  to  preach  it, 
and  still  he  is  preaching  it  all  the  time. 

*         *          * 

We  remember  the  time  when  a  feller  wouldn't  think  of 
practicing  medicine  without  a  full  set  of  glossy  whiskers. 


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SUPERINTENDENTS 

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Suite  1603  Ashland  Block 
Phone  Randolph  4849    :    CHICAGO 

Architects  for 
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A    Catholic   Institution   for   the 

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College — Courses  leading  to  the  De- 
grees A.  B.,  Ph.  B.,  B.  Mus.,  Pre- 
medical  Course. 

Academy — 'High  School  and  Elective 
Courses.  Commercial  Department. 
Grammar  and  Primary  Depart- 
ments. 

Departments  of  Music,  Art,  Ex- 
pression and  Household  Econom- 
ics. 

Winter  Quarter  opens  Tuesday 
January  4th,  1921 


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LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  139 

Medical  School  Takes  Part  in  the  Public  Health 
Exposition 

A  MONG  the  many  exhibits  at  the  Public  Health  Exposition, 
"^  held  from  November  23-29,  there  was  one  exhibit  that 
attracted  the  interest  and  attention  of  the  people  more  than 
any  other  single  exhibit.  The  visiting  public  actually  thronged 
about  the  enclosure  of  the  exhibit  and  listened  intently  to  the 
lectures  on  and  explanations  of  the  demonstrations.  This 
exhibit  was  the  one  on  Physiology  which  was  conducted  by 
the  Departments  of  Physiology  of  the  four  great  medical 
schools  of  our  city — Loyola,  Rush,  Illinois  and  Northwestern. 
Our  Department  of  Physiology  demonstrated  the  gastro- 
intestinal tract.  The  demonstration  consisted  in  the  exhibi- 
tion of  a  dried  human  gastro-intestinal  tract,  the  action  of 
digestive  juices  on  food  substances,  the  movements  of  the 
stomach  and  intestines  and  the  cause  of  hunger.  Short 
lectures  were  given  on  the  cause  of  indigestion,  stomach 
trouble,  constipation  and  other  conditions  that  are  of  such 
vital  importance  from  the  standpoint  of  public  health,  to  which 
the  public  in  general  pays  too  little  attention. 


Drs.  Matthews  and  Ivy  of  the  Department  of  Physiology 
were  on  the  program  of  the  American  Association  for  the 
Advancement  of  Science,  December  27,  28,  29,  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago.  Dr.  Matthews  before  the  section  on 
Pharmacology,  subject,  "Action  of  Magnesium  Sulphate  on 
the  Heart."  Dr.  Ivy  before  the  section  on  Physiology,  sub- 
ject, "Gastrine  Theory  with  Physiological  Test." 

Papers  were  presented  by  members  of  the  Department  of 
Anatomy  as  follows:  Professor  R.  M.  Strong,  "The  Order, 
Time  and  Rate  of  Ossification  of  the  Vertebrate  Skeleton;" 
Professor  T.  T.  Job,  "Studies  on  Lymph  Nodes:  I.  Structure, 
as  Shown  by  Deposited  Ink  Granules;"  Professor  A.  B. 
Dawson,  "The  Topography  of  the  Cloaca  of  the  Male 
Necturus  in  Relation  to  the  Cloacal  Glands."  Dr.  Strong  is 
president  of  one  of  the  societies  which  met. 

We  will  now  let  the  Frosh  say  a  few  words  for  them- 
selves. 

John  V.  Lambert. 


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FRESHMAN  MEDICS 

CINCE  our  last  issue  the  Frosh  have  been  kept  on  the  up 
and  up,  as  Joe  Blow  would  say,  and  have  had  little  oppor- 
tunity to  devote  time  to  literature  and  the  finer  arts.  However, 
in  spite  of  all  the  aforesaid  obstacles  the  spirit  of  the  class 
has  not  waved  in  the  least.  This  is  merely  a  justification  and 
not  an  apology  for  the  seeming  lack  of  effort  on  their  part 
in  not  writing  the  customary  masterpieces.  However,  we  think 
our  personal  column  more  than  makes  up  for  the  foregoing 
blank  spaces. 

Scriblets 
We  claim  we  have  some  of  the  most  gentlemanly  person- 
ages in  the  school,  as  witness  Plant  in  Histology  giving  his 
coat  to  Miss  Pohl. 

Heard  on  the  Way  to  Dinner 
First  Frosh:   "I  want  to  tell  you  a  medical  joke." 
Second  Frosh:    "What  kind  of  joke  is  that?" 
First  Frosh:    "That's  one  with  a  doctor  in  it." 

H5  H5  H1 

After  dissecting  and  cutting  apart  a  cadaver,  most  of  us 
are  beginning  to  realize  that  beauty  is  only  skin  deep. 

H5  ^  ^ 

Dr.  Dyer :    "Tell  me  all  about  the  brachial  artery." 
Freshie:    "Well,  it  starts  in  the  axilla,  runs  to  the  elbow, 

bifurcates   and   forms   the   ulnar   and    radial    arteries,   which 

anastomose  with  the  nerves  in  the  hand." 

Heard  Every  Night  in  the  Dissecting  Room 
Kolter :    "Hurry    down    and    get    my    soap    and    towel, 
Deutsch." 


Ginsburg  (to  belated  student)  :  "Why  don't  you  use 
chloroform  as  a  catalytic  agent  in  making  chloroform?" 

*         #         * 

One  of  the  many  features  in  anatomy  is  the  regular  daily 
politic  argument  between  Welsh  and  Javois.  Both  are  batting 
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Student  making  an  organic  compound  has  his  flask  blow 
up.     Prof,  looks  over  excited. 

Excited  Student :  "Call  the  roll !" 

Familiar  Sayings 

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"There  will  be  the  usual  exam,  in  Histology  Saturday." 
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the  knowledge  that  his  generosity  has  given  a  worthy  boy 
the  means  of  gaining  an  education  and  all  of  the  blessings 
that  it  affords. 


There  are  hundreds  of  fine  boys — without  means — who 
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of  eminence  in  the  world  by  a  course  of  study  at  Loyola 
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every  four  years  (tuition  free)  for  all  time.  He  would  be 
your  boy.  He  would  recognize  you  as  his  sponsor,  for  the 
scholarship  would  bear  your  name.  You  would  take  a  great 
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"What  success  I  have  won  I  owe  to  the  generous  benefactor, 
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What  Is  Air  Pressure? 


THE  air  is  composed  of  molecules.  They  constantly 
bombard  you  from  all  sides.  A  thousand  taps  by  a 
thousand  knuckles  will  close  a  barn  door.  The  taps 
as  a  whole  constitute  a  push.  So  the  constant  bombardment 
of  the  air  molecules  constitutes  a  push.  At  sea-level  the  air 
molecules  push  against  every  square  inch  of  you  with  a 
total  pressure  of  nearly  fifteen  pounds. 

Pressure,  then,  is  merely  a  matter  of  bombarding  mole- 
cules. 

When  you  boil  water  you  make  its  molecules  fly  off.  The 
water  molecules  collide  with  the  air  molecules.  It  takes  a 
higher  temperature  to  boil  water  at  sea-level  than  on  Pike's 
Peak.  Why?  Because  there  are  more  bombarding  mole- 
cules at  sea-level — more  pressure. 

Take  away  all  the  air  pressure  and  you  have  a  perfect 
vacuum.  A  perfect  vacuum  has  never  been  created.  In  the 
best  vacuum  obtainable  there  are  still  over  two  billion  mole- 
cules of  air  per  cubic  centimeter,  or  about  as  many  as  there 
are  people  on  the  whole  earth. 

Heat  a  substance  in  a  vacuum  and  you  may  discover 
properties  not  revealed  under  ordinary  pressure.  A  new 
field  for  scientific  exploration  is  opened. 

Into  this  field  the  Research  Laboratories  of  the  General 
Electric  Company  have  penetrated.  Thus  one  of  the  chem- 
ists in  the  Research  Laboratories  studied  the  disintegration 
of  heated  metals  in  highly  exhausted  bulbs.  What  happened 
to  the  glowing  filament  of  a  lamp,  for  example?  The  glass 
blackened.  But  why?  He  discovered  that  the  metal  dis- 
tilled in  the  vacuum  depositing  on  the  glass. 

This  was  research  in  pure  science — research  in  what  may  be  called 
the  chemistry  and  physics  of  high  vacua.  It  was  undertaken  to  answer 
a  question.  It  ended  in  the  discovery  of  a  method  of  filling  lamp  bulbs 
with  an  inert  gas  under  pressure  so  that  the  filament  would  not  evapor- 
ate so  readily.  Thus  the  efficient  gas-filled  lamp  of  today  grew  out  of 
a  purely  scientific  inquiry. 

So,  unforeseen,  practical  benefits  often  result  when  research  is  broadly 
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Vol.  XVIII  MARCH,  1921  Number  3 


\  Address 

Delivered  by  Michael  V.   Kannalley,  '94,  A.B., 

LD>IX,   at  the  Golden  Jubilee   Banquet, 

Sherman  Hotel,  January  26,  1921 


1 

m 

■Sal  JEZ 

N  an  occasion  so  unique,  when  we  are  cele- 
brating the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  estab- 
lishment of  St.  Ignatius  College,  when  we 
are  gathered — gay  roisterers  that  we  are — to 
do  honor  to  the  old  Alma  Mater  in  that 
condition  of  gelid  complacency  which  is  in 
strict  conformity  with  the  18th  Amendment  and  the  Act  of 
Congress  declaratory  thereof  and  enforcing  the  same,  it  is 
not  inapposite  for  a  speaker  to  select  as  his  subject  a  topic 
which  tends  to  establish  him  in  the  minds  of  his  audience 
as  a  man  of  erudition  and  scholarly  attainments.  Accordingly, 
I  have  selected — in  order  to  do  justice  to  the  occasion  and 
in   order   deftly   to    insinuate   that    I,    in    company   with   the 

149 


150  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

other  gentlemen  on  this  program,  have  at  least  moistened  my 
lips  at  the  Pierian  spring — I  have  selected, — after  hastily 
running  over  the  literature  of  the  human  race  from  the 
Decalogue  by  Moses  to  the  Outline  of  History  by  'Mr.  Wells, — 
I  have  selected  for  your  edification  and  electrification  the 
piquant  and  perplexing  topic  of  the  Ablative  Absolute. 

I  give  you  my  word  that  at  this  moment  I  do  not  recall  its 
real  meaning.  It  came  upon  me  in  a  burst  of  inspiration  from 
nubibus  —  that's  Latin  for  clouds.  I  like  the  melody  of 
the  word  "ablative."  I  am  captivated  with  the  idea  of 
immensity  involved  in  the  word  "absolute."  And  strung 
together  and  uttered  solemnly  and  sonorously,  a-b-1-a-t-i-v-e 
a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e,  they  have  a  haunting  lilt  which  carries  back 
to  the  old  days  when  so  far  as  an  education  in  the  classics  is 
concerned,  "you  were  a  tadpole  and  I  was  a  fish." 

It  is  not  children  alone  who  use  words  without  knowledge 
of  their  meaning.  Grown-ups  and  gray-beards  do  the  same 
thing.  I  am  sure  that  even  you  let  Einstein's  theory  slip  into 
your  conversation  at  some  time  or  other ;  and  I  am  also  sure 
that  you  will  agree  with  me  when  I  say  that  I  know  not 
whether  it  be  a  parallax  or  a  pigment.  But  that  does  not 
prevent  us  from  using  the  term  or  from  discussing  with  our 
neighbor  the  doctrine  of  relativity.  So  it  is  with  the  Ablative 
Absolute.  But  while  I  am  willing  to  admit  that  I  do  not 
know  the  nature  of  the  entity,  objectively  considered,  as  we 
philosophers  used  to  say,  still,  subjectively,  I  insist  that  I 
know  what  I  am  talking  about,  because  I  have  given  it  a 
meaning  all  my  own.  The  Ablative  Absolute,  in  the  lexicon 
of  my  creation,  is  a  certain  something  which  makes  it  appear 
that  you  have  attended  college.  It  is  a  sort  of  Indian  sign 
which  is  hung  on  you  to  show  that  you  have  some  familiarity 
with  the  classics.  It  is  a  kind  of  swastika  which  assures  you, 
when  you  look  at  yourself,  that  you  are  in  communion  with 
the  spirit  of  the  age  of  Pericles. 

Now,  the  time  when  this  sign  was  hung  on  us  was  the 
last  decade  of  the  last  century.  And  by  "us"  I  mean  that 
group   of    scholars   which   broke   out,    with   the   rashness    of 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  151 

measles,  during  the  ten  years  from  1890  to  1900.  And  let  me 
throw  in  here  by  way  of  parenthesis  that  taken  individually 
and  collectively  they  were  and  still  remain  as  notable  and 
brilliant  a  crowd  as  was  ever  produced  by  any  decade  in  any 
century  in  any  cycle  the  record  of  which  has  been  preserved 
in  written  history. 

Let  us  make  a  composite  photograph  of  all  of  them  and 
use  the  result  as  a  type.  Let  us  follow  some  of  the  events  of 
his  interesting  career. 

In  1890  he  was  pondering  over  the  problems  of  Euclid. 
Ten  years  later,  in  1900,  he  was  back  again  in  arithmetic 
adding  his  salary  and  subtracting  his  board.  In  1890  he  was 
laborously  committing  to  memory,  "I  love,  you  love,  she 
loves"  in  the  Greek  and  Latin  languages.  Ten  years  later,  in 
1900,  he  was  plucking  petals  from  the  daisy  and,  blushing 
the  while,  was  muttering  in  good,  plain  English,  "She  loves 
me,  she  loves  me  not."  In  1893  there  was  a  World's  Fair 
in  Chicago,  when  the  nations  got  together  in  peace  to  figure 
out  what  they  could  do  to  each  other  in  war,  and  he  prepared 
and  delivered  in  public  an  oration  on  the  tremendous  subject, 
"The  World's  Columbian  Exposition  and  Its  Message."  In 
1894  there  was  Grand  Opera  at  the  Auditorium  and  he  ap- 
peared on  the  stage  as  a  superman  carrying  a  pike  in  Lohen- 
grin. In  1895  there  was  a  celebration  of  the  twenty-fifth 
anniversary  of  the  foundation  of  this  college,  and  he  prepared 
for  the  expectant  press  an  essay  on  "Literature,  the  Index 
of  a  Nation's  Character."  In  1896  there  was  a  battle  royal 
between  the  precious  metals,  gold  and  silver,  and  he  broke 
into  politics ;  and  momentarily  he  held  a  political  office  being 
appointed  by  the  special  favor  of  the  powers  that  then  were, 
an  usher  in  the  Democratic  convention.  In  1898  there  was 
a  war  between  the  United  States  and  Spain  and,  under 
the  sweetly  indefinite  impression  that  he  had  a  girl  and  that 
he  could  hear  her  calling: 

"Go  where  Glory  waits  thee, 
But   when   Fame   elates  thee — 
Oh,  then  remember  me !"  y  W& 


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[e  enlisted  in  the  cavalry,  was  kicked  in  the  ribs  by  his 
mount;  and  his  discharge  from  the  hospital  was  contempora- 
neous with  the  establishment  of  peace. 

You  will  observe  that  his_jefforts  were  ambitious.  He 
looked  in  on  Science.  He  /flirted  with  Art.  He  poked  his 
finger  into  Literature.  He  dabbled  in  Politics.  And  he  took 
a  flyer  in  the  game  of  War.  And  all  the  while  the  Ablative 
Absolute  was  still  there !  The  sign  was  still  on  him,  but  it 
was  noticeably  fainter.  The  process  of  taking  things  away 
from  him,  the  idea  of  which  might  be  included  in  the  word 
"ablative"  was  going  merrily  on ;  while  his  own  notion  of  the 
relative  importance  of  his  little  self  to  the  great  cosmos  was 
lagging  dismally  in  the  lengthening  perspective.  About  that 
time  the  old  man  with  the  scythe  and  the  hour  glass  slipped  a 
couple  of  ciphers  in  the  formula  of  annual  reckoning. 

Those  two  ciphers  in  the  year  1900  loom  large.  Through 
them  classicism  vanished  without  so  much  as  even  a  swish 
of  her  skirt.  Gone  were  Cornelius  Nepos,  and  Caesar  and 
Cicero  and  Ovid  and  Tacitus  and  Virgil  and  Horace.  Gone 
were  Xenophon  and  Anacreon  and  Homer  and  Demosthenes 
and  Chrysostom.  Gone  were  the  memories  of  groves  and 
academies  and  forums  and  temples.  And  for  the  following 
decade  our  friend  is  submerged  in  the  dark  ages  of  his 
career.  He  is  no  longtr  ablative ;  he  is  acquisitive.  He  is  no 
longer  absolute;  he  is  tentative.  He  knows  the  meaning  of 
rent.  He  keeps  a  suspicious  eye  on  taxes.  He  growls  occa- 
sionally at  interest.  And  as  for  Accounts  Payable — that  huge 
stone  which  is  forever  and  ever  being  rolled  up  hill  only  to 
fall  back  again — as  for  Accounts  Payable,  why,  the  ever- 
lasting monotony  of  the  thing  convinced  him  of  the  expediency 
of  joining  with  the  rest  of  humanity  in  that  simple  but  im- 
mensely significant  and  universal  prayer,  "Give  us,  Oh  Lord! 
Give  us  this  day  our  daily  bread." 

You  see  that  our  friend  in  1900  and  the  years  following 
found  himself  in  the  stream  of  life  without  anv  water  wing's 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  153 

to  support  him.  He  was  compelled  to  swim.  It  was  for  him 
no  recreation,  no  summer's  holiday.  It  was  the  stark  necessity 
of  keeping'  plenty  of  air  in  his  two  good  lungs.  And  in  his 
swimming  he  encountered  mud  and  scum  and  driftwood;  he 
bumped  against  the  rocks ;  he  passed  through  the  rapids ;  he 
tumbled  over  falls ;  until  there  came  a  time,  let  us  say  about 
1910,  when  he  found  himself  in  calmer  waters.  His  feet  were 
on  solid  ground.  He  had  some  leisure  to  observe.  The  land 
and  sky,  the  beasts  and  birds,  the  woods  and  plains  assume 
a  wider  significance  and  are  referred  back  to  an  ultimate 
cause  and  forward  perhaps  to  an  ultimate  purpose.  And, 
lo !  as  if  by  magic,  he  notices  that  the  old  Indian  sign  is  on 
him  again.  He  looks  up  and  something  reminds  him  of 
Tityrus  leading  his  flocks.  The  sheep  recall  the  shepherd  and 
with  the  shepherd  come  recollections  of  Ovid.  The  vineyard 
conjures  up  the  Falernian  wine  which  Horace  wrote  about. 
The  old  man  on  the  porch  brings  back  the  thought  that 
Ulysses  did  get  back  home  and  that  old  Pater  Aeneas  finally 
did  get  his  household  gods  over  the  stile. 

I  ask  you  men  of  the  World's  Fair  decade,  isn't  it  so? 
Doesn't  the  educational  impulse  and  ambition  of  youth  grip 
you  again  as  you  drift  into  age?  Doesn't  the  swastika  come 
back  again?  I  venture  to  say  that  every  now  and  then,  when 
the  mood  is  on  you,  after  the  day's  work  is  done  and  the 
evening  meal  is  over,  and  mother — not  the  mother  of  1890, 
God  rest  her,  but  the  mother  of  1920,  the  mother  of  your 
own  children, — is  reading  her  favorite  page,  and  your  first- 
born is  in  the  adjoining  room  laborously  committing  to 
memory  "I  love,  you  love,  she  loves"  in  the  Greek  or  Latin 
language,  I  venture  to  say  that  you  take  down  the  old  volume, 
the  relic  of  the  days  of  First  and  Second  Academic,  and  you 
spell  out  a  paragraph  or  two  just  to  show  yourself  that  you 
still  retain  the  trick.  Well,  just  there  do  you  recognize  that 
the  old  Indian  sign  of  the  Ablative  Absolute  is  on  you.  And 
the  comforting  conviction  abides  that  while  the  value  of  an 
education  in  the  liberal  arts  may  possibly  not  be  appreciated 


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while  food  and  raiment  are  being  provided,  still  there  comes 
the  time  when  it  will  be  appreciated  and  when  a  clearer 
preception  will  be  had  of  its  intimate  relation  to  that  intel- 
lectual activity  which  is  an  essential  of  the  happiness  we  are 
all  seeking  to  attain. 

M.  V.  Kannally,  ^94,  A.  B.,  LL.  B. 


Ireland  Weeps 


TRELAND  weeps! 

Though  all  her  vales  be  green  as  Spring 
And   all   her   lakes   are   smiling, 
The  heart  beneath  her  hills  is  sore 
And  o'er  her  fields  grim  grief  is  striding. 

In  all  her  towns  the  death  bells  toll, 
And  all  her  streams  are  running  red 
As  from    her   breast   her   life   blood   flows, 
Blood  of  her  hero  sons. 

Ireland  weeps! 
And  life   ebbs  with  her  sobs. 

J.  M.  Cullen. 


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It  Happens  on  Sunday  Mornings 


The  Characters 

Percy  and  Harold Young  America 

Mrs.  Jenkins Bullied  but  Defiant 

Mr.  Jenkins Henpecked  but  Independent 

His  Mother-in-Law Meek  but  Belligerent 

His  Father-in-Law Sticks  with  Son-in-Law 

The  Scene  ■ —  The  parlor,  drawing-living-bed-room  of  a 
modern  or  almost  modern  one  hundred  and  twenty- five  dollar 
a  month  flat.  (Of  course  it  is  not  worth  it  but  one  has  to  live 
somewhere.)  The  gas-log  is  purring  merrily  to  itself  and  the 
davenport  has  just  been  put  into  its  best  living  room  trim  by 
"Ma."  The  Sunday  morning  paper,  somewhat  late,  has  just 
been  brought  in  and  Percy  and  Harold  are  ready  with  the 
following  as  the  curtain  rises. 

Harold — Gimme  that  paper,  I  say.    Give  it  to  me. 

Percy — I  won't.  Take  your  hands  off  it.  Oh,  Ma!  Ma! 
Let  go  or  I'll  make  you. 

Harold — I  had  it  first.  Think  ma  will  stick  with  you? 
Well,  I'll  get  pa.    Oh,  pa.    Pa,  come  here  quick. 

Percy  (com promisingly) — Come  on,  Harold,  I'll  give  it 
to  you  after  I  read  it.  I  just  want  to  read  about  Jiggs.  It 
won't  take  me  long. 

Harold — G'wan.  No  you  don't.  As  soon  as  I  read  the 
Katzen jammer  Kids  I'll  give  it  to  you.  What  d'ye  say?  I  can 
read  quicker  than  you. 

Percy — You're  a  liar.  You  can't.  Didn't  I  get  a  prize  for 
reading  in  class?  I  beat  Lindy  Smith  'cause  everybody  could 
hear  me.  Give  me  that  paper.  [They  fight  again,  pulling  each 
other's  hair  with  their  free  hands  and  making  use  of  their 
feet  viciously.    Enter  Ma.] 

Ma — Boys,  what's  all  this  about.  Percy!  Harold!  Stop! 
[They  refrain  from  their  exertions  but  each  Jiolds  to  the  torn 
newspaper.  ] 

Percy — He  won't  give  — 

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LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  157 

Harold — G'wan  you.  Ma,  he  won't  let  me  have  the  "fun- 
nies." 

Percy — I  had  them  first. 

Ma — I'll  settle  this.  Harold,  hand  over  that  paper  to 
Percy  right  away.  Do  you  hear?  [Harold  reluctantly  does 
so.] 

Percy  [to  Harold] — Bah!  I  knew  I'd  get  it.  See!  [They 
glower  at  each  like  wild  cats.    Enter  Father.] 

Father  [looking  about] — Ha-h-m-m,  this  place  looks  like 
the  wreck  of  the  Hesperus.  Ellen  [turning  to  Ma],  what  has 
happened?  [No  answer  from.  Ma]  Harold  did  the  cat  catch 
a  mouse? 

Harold  [beginning  to  cry] — No,  but  ma  gave  the  funny 
sheet  to  Percy,  and  I  had  it  first.  I  wanted  to  read  the 
Katzenjammer  Kids. 

Percy  [vigorously] — I  had  it  first,  and  I'm  going  to 
read  Jigg-5  and  no  one  is  going  to  take  it  off  me,  neither. 
Ma  give  it  to  me. 

Father — What's  that,  young  man?  AV'hat's  that?  Percy, 
give  that  paper  to  Harold  immediately.  Do  you  —  hear  ■ — 
what  —  I  say?  [Percy  looks  at  Ma  and  is  encouraged.  He 
clinches  the  paper.  Father  thereupon  advances  threateningly. 
Percy  hurriedly  hands  over  the  paper  to  Harold  zvho  grins 
triumphantly  and  makes  faces  at  Percy  zvho  begins  to  cry 
and  yell.] 

Ma  [above  the  roar  and  din] — John  Jenkins,  I  like  your 
nerve!  [With  vehemence.]  How  dare  you  give  that  paper  to 
Harold?  I  gave  it  to  Percy  and  I  want  to  tell  you  that  I 
know  how  to  take  care  of  my  children.  You  tend  to  your 
own  business.  Plarold,  give  that  paper  back  to  Percy.  [Harold 
is  too  occupied  to  pay  attention.  Furthermore  he  relies  on 
the  mighty  power  of  father.] 

Father — Ellen,  go  to  the  kitchen  immediately.  I'll  tend 
to  this.  I'm  the  head  of  my  house.  I  won't  have  anybody 
interfere.    If  you  don't  like  it  I'll  —  I'll  — 

Ma — What  ?  You'll  what ?  Is  this  the  way  you  treat 

me,  your  wife,  your  partner  for  these  last  ten  years?    Didn't 


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I  nurse  you  when  you  were  laid  up  with  the  gout?  {Hys- 
terically.] No!  No!  No!  [In  a  rage.]  No  man  will  talk  that 
way  to  me.  Oh !  Oh !  [  With  clinched  hands  and  determined 
look  she  makes  for  the  victorious  Harold  who  is  still  un- 
concerned.] 

Father — Stop !  My  will  shall  prevail.  [Enter  mother-in- 
law  (a  tall  lady  with  a  little  voice).] 

Mother-in-Law  [in  consternation] — Oh!  [She  walks  a 
few  feet.]  Oh\[She  walks  another  short  distance.]  My  chil- 
dren! [in  a  hoarse  zvhisper.]  What  does  this  mean?  [Father 
and  Ma  say  nothing  but  eye  each  other  proudly  and  defiantly. 
Harold  backs  away  at  the  approach,  as  it  seemed,  of  a  new 
foe.    Percy  comes  forward.] 

Percy — I'll  tell  you,  grandma.  I  had  the  jokes  first.  Ma 
gave  'em  to  me.  Pa  came  and  took  'em  off  me  and  gave 
'em  to  Harold. 

Mother-in-Law    [in    a    refined,    gentle   whisper] — Why, 

John  is  this  the  result  of  the  gentle  counsels  I  gave  you  when 
you  were  courting  Ellen.  Have  I  not  always  told  you 
to  love  your  wife  and  treat  her  as  you  would  your- 
self? [Throiving  her  hands  up  in  despair.]  Oh,  that  this 
should  happen !  See  how  you  have  tortured  poor  Ellen's  heart. 
Love  is  something  that  is  not  to  be  tampered  with,  John.  It 
is  like  sweet  music,  always  enchanting,  never  descending  to 
the  clash  of  discord.  And  now,  always  let  Ellen  have  the 
care  of  her  children.  [She  goes  to  Harold  who  hypnotically 
hands  over  the  paper  to  her.  She  gives  it  to  Percy  who  readily 
takes  it.  Continuing  in  that  reverent  tone.]  John,  remember 
that  there  is  an  Eternal  Watcher  Who  has  placed  upon  the 
mother  the  supreme  care  of  her  children.  [Enter  Father- 
in-Law  (a  little  man  with  a  squeaky  voice).] 

Father-in-Law  —  The  supreme  care  of  her  children, 
is  it?  [With  hands  on  hips.]  Is  that  so?  Madeline,  have  you 
presumed  to  be  the  boss  of  my  home?  Wasn't  it  through  me 
that  Jerry  was  sent  to  the  divinity  school  and  Ellen  to  the 
Academy  of  Domestic  Science,  and  didn't  I  teach  Harry  how 
to  dance?    And  you  say  such  things!    Ha!  Ha!    [During  this 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  159 

Mother-in- Law  and  Ala  are  consoling  each  other.  Pa  struts 
about,  then,  seeing  Percy  with  the  paper,  he  takes  it  from 
him  and  gives  it  to  Harold.  Mother-in-Law  zvalks  over  to 
Harold,  slaps  his  face  and  gives  the  paper  to  Percy.  Father- 
in-Law  sizes  up  the  situation  with  a  knowing  look  and  a  shake 
of  the  head.  He  walks  over  to  Percy,  slaps  him  on  the  face 
and  gives  the  paper  to  Harold.    Both  boys  are  crying.] 

Father-in-Law — There  now.  I'll  let  you  know  you  are 
not  boss,  Madeline. 

Father — And  Ellen,  hereafter  remember  I  am  the  lord 
of  my  home. 

Ma  [in  a  rage] — Get  out  of  my  sight,  you  bully.  I'll  never 
speak  to  you  again.  [/;/  the  meanwhile  Percy  and  Harold  are 
showing  a  lot  of  sympathy  for  each  other.  They  have  com- 
promised and  are  reading  the  jokes  together  on  the  big  daven- 
port. Father  sees  them  and  smiles.  So  does  Ma  see  them  and 
her  motherly  heart  softens.  She  walks  to  them  and  sits  near 
Harold  while  Father  sits  on  the  other  side  with  Percy.  They 
put  their  arms  on  the  back  of  the  davenport  and  their  hands 
meet  and  clasp.  The  four  read  and  laugh  together.  Father- 
in-lazv  and  Mother-in-Lazv  yield  to  no  such  zveakness. 
Thirty-five  years  in  the  "state  of  argument"  have  taken 
all  the  thrill  and  glamor,  not  to  say  adventure,  out  of  married 
quarrels  and  reconciliations.  Such  things  are  a  matter  of 
course  and  are  to  be  taken  as  such  and  not  to  be  made  im- 
portant by  too  much  attention.  Mother-in-Lazv,  after  a  com- 
miserating glance  at  the  group  on  the  davenport,  buries  her- 
self, with  a  sniff  of  something  approaching  contempt,  in  the 
fashion  page.  Father-in-Law  fumes  up  and  dozvn  the  room 
a  time  or  tzvo  but  finding  that  he  and  his  recent  victory  arc 
alike  forgotten  or  ignored,  hunts  up  the  sport  page  and  settles 
down  to  enjoy  the  latest  scandals  of  the  sporting  world. 

The  four  on  the  davenport  burst  into  a  simultaneous  cackle 
over  the  misfortunes  of  Jiggs. 

Cornelius  P.  Burke. 


Questing 

"WJtTHICH  is  the  road  to  happiness? 

Where  does  its  pathway  run? 
In  what  far  land  shall  I  seek  for  it 
Under  what  sun? 

Where  is  the  vale  of  for  get  fulness 
On  what  fair  isle  afar? 
By  zvhat  grim  toil  shall  I  find  it? 
Under  zvhat  star? 

J.   M.   CULLEN. 


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Francis  Thompson  and  Joyce 
Kilmer 


N  the  musical  world  Bethoven  and  Brahms 
are  frequently  compared.  Beethoven,  whose 
language  speaks  to  souls  and  transports  them 
by  its  magic  charm,  was  himself  denied  the 
joys  of  social  intercourse  and  the  ecstacy  of 
his  own  compositions  because  of  an  ever 
increasing  deafness.  Sensitive  to  the  highest  degree  and 
realizing  his  loss  he  separated  himself  from  the  world  of  men 
and  became  almost  a  solitary,  bewailing  his  unhappy  lot. 
Music,  that  golden  bond  of  social  union,  was  snapped  asunder. 
Physicians'  skill  availed  not,  and  the  day  came  when  the 
great  master  never  more  heard  the  siren  voices  of  his  own 
polyphonic  symphonies.  Delicious  melodies  rang  in  his  mind 
while  his  ear  perceived  no  sound.  He  saw  the  lark  in  the 
air,  but  his  joyous  thrill  he  did  not  hear.  His  eyes  beheld 
the  merry  leaping  of  the  waves,  the  swinging  and  tossing  of 
the  trees  as  they  were  stirred  by  the  wind,  but  no  rustle,  not 
a  murmur  reached  him.  As  evening  came  on  and  he  watched 
the  swinging  of  the  vesper  bell  in  the  belfry  tower  he  heard 
it  not.    The  kingdom  of  tones  remained  locked  forever. 

Brahms,  one  of  the  commanding  figures  in  musical  spheres 
during  the  last  century  and  famous  for  consummate  mastery 
of  detail,  excelled  in  powers  of  magnificent  tone  creation. 
Like  Beethoven,  Brahms  claimed  that  harmony  is  the  most 
effective  element  in  music,  when  it  is  represented  in  counter- 
point. Had  he  lived  so  long  or  suffered  so  keenly  as 
Beethoven,  he  without  doubt  would  have  equalled  and  perhaps 
surpassed  him. 

Beethoven  and  Brahms  studied  the  same  themes  and  based 
many  of  their  compositions  on  the  science  of  Folklore.  Al- 
though it  was  not  until  1846  that  it  became  classified  as  a 
science    yet    they    knew    its    resourceful    value.     Beethoven 

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162  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

traveled  extensively.  He  went  as  far  as  England  and  Scotland 
in  order  to  get  in  touch  with  the  legends,  myths  and  tales  of 
the  people  and  Brahms  went  to  Russia  for  the  same  purpose. 
Francis  Thompson,  a  poetic  genius,  possessed  like 
Beethoven  inventive  power.  He  handled  words  as  Beethoven 
handled  notes.    His  days  were  spent  with 

"The  traffic  of  Jacob's  ladder 
Pitched  betwixt  Heaven  and  Charing  Cross." 

He  found  in  the  phenomena  of  Nature  the  spirit  and  voice 
of  God.  The  crystaline  purity  of  the  snowflakes,  as  well  as 
the  benediction  of  sunset  were  to  Francis  Thompson  symbols 
of  created  power.  With  subtle  eloquence  he  points  out  the 
way  to  discover  that  "the  invisible  things  of  Him  from  the 
creation  of  the  world  are  clearly  seen  being  understood  by  the 
things  that  are  made."  Yet  so  eccentric  was  Francis  Thomp- 
son that  he  voluntarily  became  an  outcast  on  London's  by- 
ways. When  weariness  overtook  him  the  park  bench  was  his 
only  couch.  In  his  own  words  he  "suffered  the  abashless 
inquisition  of  each  star"  and  again  how  fitly  his  own  lines 
apply  to  himself. 

"I  stood  alone  and  helplessly 
For  time  to  shoot  its  barbed  minutes  at  me." 

Truly  Francis  Thompson  could  say  in  Father  Ryan's  words: 

"I  walked  down  the  valley  of  silence 
Down  the  dim  voiceless  valley  alone 
And  I  heard  not  the  fall  of  a  footstep  around  me 
Save  God's  and  my  own." 

Tovce  Kilmer,  America's  greatest  literary  loss  during  the 
war,  was  an  able  poet,  prose  writer,  critic  and  lecturer.  Like 
Brahms  he  was  potentially  a  genius  equal  to  Francis  Thomp- 
son and  was  well  on  the  road  to  fame  when  on  the  battlefield 
in  France  death  claimed  him  for  a  suitable  citizen  of  life 
eternal.    While   Thompson   was   the   actual   king   of   spiritual 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  163 

poetry  Kilmer  was  the  potential  prince.  Both  men  embraced 
their  art  with  a  childlike,  devoted  zeal  and  entwined  about 
their  brows  without  courting  it,  the  garlands  of  eternal  fame. 
Musicians  and  poets  alike  are  as  comets  which  take  their 
own  course  and  ask  naught  of  the  rules  to  which  other  stars 
must  submit. 

Of  both  poets  much  is  yet  unwritten.  Francis  Thompson 
has  left  a  wealth  of  material  for  future  generations  to  de- 
velop. He  displays  a  pageantry  which  is  glorious  in  its  delinea- 
tion of  the  splendors  of  liturgical  symbolism.  He  stands  on 
the  love-lit  mountain  heights  of  spiritual  fervor,  ecstatic  love 
and  holy  reverence.  Joyce  Kilmer  breathes  the  same  spirit 
of  familiarity  with  the  mysteries  of  Faith,  the  same  sweet- 
ness and  sanity.  To  such  men  "outward  ruin  could  never 
be  pitiable  or  ridiculous."  Of  Kilmer  we  may  say  as  is  said 
of  Thompson,  "The  secret  of  his  strength  is  this :  that  he 
cast  up  his  accounts  with  God  and  man  and  thereafter  stood 
in  the  mud  of  earth  with  a  heart  wrapped  in  such  fire  as 
touched  Isaiah's  lips." 

Francis  Thompson  at  an  early  age  was  sent  to  St.  Cuth- 
bert's  College,  Ushaw.  It  is  known  for  its  associations  with 
the  historian  Lingard  and  Cardinal  Wiseman.  He  took  the 
Theological  course  but  on  account  of  his  dreamy  tendencies 
was  advised  by  the  authorities  of  the  college  to  abandon  his 
hopes  of  becoming  an  ecclesiastic.  At  his  father's  suggestion 
he  entered  Owen's  College  with  the  view  of  studying  medi- 
cine. Just  how  much  time  he  spent  in  the  college  walls  is 
not  recorded.  The  museums,  art  galleries  and  especially  the 
libraries  lured  Francis  Thompson  away  from  his  medical 
studies.  The  consequence  was  that  he  left  college  without  a 
diploma.  His  father,  a  physician,  decided  that  a  third  attempt 
be  made  at  Glasgow,  where  degrees  were  not  so  difficult  to 
obtain.  The  effort  was  made  but  the  desired  end  not 
achieved.  The  hours  were  passed  at  the  home  of  a  musician 
while  his  father  thought  he  was  at  college. 

Dr.  Thompson  intent  upon  giving  his  son  the  advantage 
of  a  professional  career  made  arrangements  for  him  as  Pur- 


164  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

veyor  of  an  encyclopedia.  Two  weeks  was  as  long  as  Francis 
Thompson  could  remain  at  this  kind  of  work.  He  left  the 
office  with  the  intention  of  entering  the  army.  For  some 
weeks  he  drilled  and  marched,  but  it  was  heartless  work, 
so  on  November  9,  1885,  the  poet  left  a  note  on  his  sister's 
table  saying  that  he  had  left  for  London.  To  England's 
metropolis  he  went  and  began  his  solitary  life  by  establishing 
a  bookseller's  stand  which  he  was  obliged  to  abandon 
because  the  police  found  it  a  public  nuisance.  Hopeless  and 
almost  penniless  he  turned  to  selling  matches  and  calling 
cabs.  In  such  distress  it  does  not  surprise  us  to  hear  that 
he  became  as  one  insensible.  He  seemed  as  he  went  his 
weary  way  like  a  falling  leaf  spun  and  tossed  by  unseen 
winds.  Out  of  the  confusion  came  the  voice  of  Mr.  McMaster, 
a  shoemaker  and  enthusiastic  church  warden,  asking  him  if 
his  soul  was  saved.  Francis  Thompson  resented  this  with  the 
retort,  "What  right  have  you  to  ask?"  In  reply  the  shoe- 
maker said,  "If  you  will  not  let  me  save  your  soul,  let  me 
save  your  body."  The  lonely  man  consented  to  go  home  with 
the  stranger.  Mr.  McMaster's  hospitality  kept  Francis  Thomp- 
son off  the  street,  and  gave  him  some  little  employment,  until 
one  day  a  shutter  which  was  Francis'  task  to  close,  fell  on  the 
foot  of  a  customer.  Whether  it  was  the  poet's  fault  or  not, 
we  do  not  know,  but  he  left  the  shoe  shop  in  mid-winter 
1887. 

On  February  23,  1887,  Francis  Thompson  sent  to  Merrie 
England,  a  popular  magazine,  his  "Paganism  New  and  Old" 
and  a  few  poems.  Mr.  Meynell,  the  editor,  being  busy,  pigeon- 
holed the  envelope.  On  April  24,  Thompson  wrote  again, 
having  seen  one  of  his  poems,  "The  Passion  of  Mary"  in 
the  magazine.  Meanwhile  Mr.  Meynell  had  discovered  the 
papers,  sounded  their  depths,  appreciated  their  worth  and 
made  unsuccessful  attempts  to  locate  the  author.  Upon  re- 
ceipt of  the  second  letter,  Mr.  Meynell  sent  a  messenger  at 
once  to  the  address  given  which  was  that  of  a  chemist.  The 
only  information  he  received  was  that  Francis  Thompson 
sometimes  came  there  and  inquired   for  mail.    Mr.   Meynell 


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himself  called  soon  after  and  showed  so  much  interest  that 
the  druggist  asked  if  he  were  a  relative  and  presented  him 
with  a  bill  which  the  poet  owed  for  opium.  Mr.  Meynell 
paid  the  bill  and  continued  to  search  for  his  new-found  genius. 
At  length  the  poet  appeared  at  the  editor's  office  and  dis- 
covered in  Mr.  Meynell  a  true  friend.  Conquered  by  the 
sympathv  of  both  JVIr.  and  Mrs.  Meynell,  Thompson  was 
received  into  their  home. 

Everard  Meynell,  the  poet's  biographer  tells  us  that  the 
idea  of  rescue  came  slowly  and  doubtfully  to  Francis  Thomp- 
son. He  was  far  more  certain  than  the  poet  that  success  was 
on  the  way.  Thompson  was  willing  enough  that  his  works 
should  be  published  and  bring  monetary  relief  to  his  pitiable 
condition,  but  he  was  reluctant  to  give  up  his  wanderer's  life 
which  somehow  formed  the  setting  for  his  immortal  gems  of 
poetic  beauty. 

Through  the  influence  of  Canon  Carroll  who  had  many 
times  endeavored  to  locate  Francis  Thompson,  a  successful 
reconcilliation  was  made  between  Dr.  Thompson  and  his  son. 
After  proper  medical  treatment  the  poet  lived  in  the  Pre- 
monstratensian  Monastery  at  Storrington,  in  Sussex.  It  was 
there  that  he  became  aware  of  his  poetic  possibilities.  He 
soared  into  loftier  and  loftier  realms  of  symbolic  beauties, 
the  perfume  of  which  is,  more  often  than  any  other  poet's 
dreams,  "vestment  clad  and  odorous  with  the  incense  of  the 
sanctuary." 

Joyce  Kilmer  likewise  leaped  from  one  position  to  another. 
On  leaving  Columbia  University  he  married  and  became  a 
teacher  of  Latin  in  the  Morristown  High  School.  This  pro- 
fession with  its  disciplinary  responsibilities,  was  out  of 
harmony  with  the  slight  boyish  professor's  ideals.  At  the 
close  of  one  year  he  and  his  beloved  family  went  to  New  York. 
Kilmer's  introductory  occupation  in  the  great  metropolis  was 
as  editor  of  the  Horseman's  Journal.  Here  his  literary  skill 
was  undervalued  and  his  veterinary  knowledge  limited.  In 
consequence  this  editorship  came  quickly  to  a  close.  Joyce 
Kilmer's  next  step  was  to  accept  a  position  as  salesman  in 


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Charles  Scribner's  Sons  book  store.  Like  Francis  Thomp- 
son he  kept  close  to  books,  his  literary  companions.  But 
volumes  more  than  price  lists  interested  him  and  he  quickly 
decided  to  try  another  field  of  activity. 

We  next  meet  Joyce  Kilmer  as  a  lexicographer.  He  as- 
sisted in  the  labors  of  preparing  a  new  edition  of  the  Standard 
Dictionary.  The  recompense  was  five  cents  for  each  word 
defined.  Soon  it  became  evident  that  the  able  assistant  was 
worthy  of  advancement.  His  salary  was  increased  four-fold 
and  here  he  was  called  upon  to  do  much  research  work — 
looking  up  dates  of  births  and  corresponding  with  noteworthy 
characters  such  as  the  Wright  Brothers.  At  the  close  of 
two  years  of  lexicographer  labors,  the  dictionary  was  com- 
pleted and  Kilmer  turned  with  marked  enthusiasm  to  re- 
ligious journalism.  He  became  literary  editor  of  The  Church- 
man, an  Anglican  periodical.  Before  long  he  was  on  the  staff 
of  the  New  York  Times  Magazines,  the  New  York  Review  of 
Books  and  the  Literary  Digest.  His  success  was  firmly  estab- 
lished but  he  heard  the  call  to  arms  and  responded  with 
alacrity.  Kilmer  knew  no  alternative.  On  the  altar  of  free- 
dom, he  sacrificed  his  young  life  for  the  Stars  and  Stripes. 
He  died  as  he  had  lived,  faithful  to  every  spiritual,  poetic 
and  patriotic  inspiration. 

While  in  France,  Kilmer's  pen  was  not  idle.  He  realized 
fully  that  "It  is  stern  work,  it  is  perilous  work,  to  thrust  your 
hand  in  the  sun.  And  pull  out  a  spart  of  immortal  flame  to 
warm  the  hearts  of  men."  Yet  he  knew  his  power.  Experi- 
ence taught  that  like  the  meteors  the  poets'  inspirations  leap 
from  the  depths  of  their  inmost  soul.  In  order  that  these 
gems  may  not  be  lost  Catholic  authors  are  wont  to  repeat  in 
substance  at  least  the  words  of  Francis  Thompson's  invoca- 
tion of  his  Muse  of  Poetry: 

"What  I  write  thy  wings  incline 
Ah,  my  angel  o'er  the  line 
Last  and  first,  Oh,  Queen  Mary 
Of  thy  white  immaculacv. 


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If  my  work  may  profit  ought 
Fill  with  lilies  every  thought 
I  surmise 
What  is  white  will  then  be  wise." 

This  is  the  spirit  in  which  the  members  of  the  School  of 
Catholic  Literature  enter  into  their  work,  continue  it  and 
bring  it  to  a  close. 

That  there  is  a  school  of  Catholic  writers  is  undeniable. 
The  major  group  of  the  faculty  are  Newman,  De  Vere, 
Patmore,  Johnson,  Belloc,  Benson,  Thompson,  and  Kilmer. 
These  authors  carried  the  banner  emblazoned  with  that 
motto  so  dear  to  the  heart  of  Newman,  "Securus  Judicat 
orbis  terrarum."  Men  of  strong  conviction  and  possessing 
the  courage  of  their  convictions,  overcharged  with  the  realiza- 
tion of  eternal  truths  were  well  equipped  heaven  sent  mes- 
sengers. The  reading  public  today  is  athirst  for  Truth.  Too 
long  has  the  blight  of  the  so-called  Reformation  rested  on 
the  world.  Too  long  have  the  darkened  spirits  of  evolution, 
materialism  and  Kantianisml  insinuated  themselves  into  the 
class  rooms  of  our  schools  and  colleges. 

The  masters  of  this  school  tread  on  terra  firma,  solid, 
immovable  dogma.  In  this  field  of  inquiry  one  finds  a  char- 
acteristic mark  —  "the  spirit  of  hardy  masculinity  and  rugged 
chivalry  that  springs  from  faith  aided  and  supplemented  by 
tradition."  The  greatest  boon  to  any  man  is  faith  —  change- 
less, undying  faith  whose  dogmas  are  more  static  than  the 
fixed  stars  of  the  heavens.  Today  Catholic  writers  challenge 
the  world.  They  speak  not  from  a  new  rostrum  but  from  the 
seat  of  St.  Peter.  In  an  age  when  the  influence  of  Malthusian- 
ism  inserts  its  poisonous  fangs  into  society,  great  souls  like 
Francis  Thompson  and  Joyce  Kilmer,  champion  the  cause  of 
the  little  child  of  whom  the  Master  said  "Of  such  is  the  King- 
dom of  Heaven." 

Ability  to  reach  into  the  child's  world  is  one  of  the  touch- 
stones of  poetic  art.  One  author  compares  the  child  to  the 
rosebud,  another  sees  a  simile  in  the  moss  rose  but  Francis 


168  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

Thompson  brings  the  child  face  to  face  with  its  Divine  Com- 
panion.   Listen  to  his  address  to  the  Infant  King  in 

Little  Jesus 

"Little  Jesus,  was't  Thou  shy 
Once,  and  just  so  small  as  I 
And  what  did  it  feel  like  to  be 
Out  of  Heaven  and  just  like  me?" 

Who  has  contributed  a  sweeter  bouquet  to  the  Child's  Garden 
of  Verse?  Almost  every  couplet  is  an  exquisite  spiritual 
blossom : 

"I  should  think  that  I  should  cry 
For  my  house  all  made  of  sky." 

"I  would  look  about  the  air 
And  wonder  where  my  angels  were." 

"And  at  waking  'twould  distress  me 
Not  an  angel  there  to  dress  me." 

"Had'st  Thou  ever  any  toys 
Like  us  little  girls  and  boys?" 

"And  did  thy  Mother  at  the  night 
Kiss  Thee  and  fold  the  clothes  in  right?" 

"Take  me  by  the  hand  and  walk 
And  listen  to  my  baby  talk." 

What  terms  of  intimacy  Thompson  teaches  the  child  to  address 
its  Infant  Savior  !  First  impressions  are  lasting,  and  the  child 
who  learns  to  relish  this  poem  "Ex  Ore  Infantium"  possesses 
the  seeds  of  future  sanctity. 

Again  and  again  the  child  appealed  to  Francis  Thompson's 
poetic  mind.  In  his  "Essay  on  Shelley"  he  simply  bursts  into 
prose  poetry.  He  claimed  that  "Shelley  was  always  a  child — 
a  child  still  at  play  though  his  playthings  were  larger.  The 
universe  is  his  box  of  toys.    He  dabbles  his  fingers  in  the  day 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  169 

star.  He  is  gold-dusty  with  tumbling  amid  the  stars.  He 
makes  bright  mischief  with  the  moon.  He  teases  into  growling 
the  kennelled  thunder  and  laughs  at  the  shaking  of  its  fiery 
chain.  He  dances  in  and  out  of  the  gates  of  heaven.  He 
runs  wild  over  fields  of  ether.  He  chases  the  rolling  world. 
He  gets  between  the  feet  of  the  horses  of  the  sun.  He  stands 
in  the  lap  of  patient  Nature  and  twines  her  loosened  tresses 
after  a  hundred  wilful  fashions  to  see  how  she  will  look 
nicest  in  his  poetry." 

Joyce  Kilmer,  the  father  of  six  children  not  only  stooped 
down  to  the  child,  but  allowed  it  to  put  its  tiny  hand  in  his 
and  sweetly  lead  the  way.  When  infantile  paralysis  took  little 
Rose  from  earth  to  heaven,  her  father  saw  the  truth  of  the 
words — "A  little  child  shall  lead  them."  Within  three  months 
time  the  Church  numbered  Joyce  Kilmer,  his  wife  and  chil- 
dren, among  its  chosen  members.  Although  he  felt  he  was 
always  a  Catholic  in  spirit,  vet  it  was  Rose's  entrance  into 
heaven  that  led  him  to  hasten  his  footsteps  toward  the  portals 
of  the  Church  militant.  He  was  convinced  that  in  the  economy 
of  Divine  Justice  there  are  always  "compensations,  spiritual 
and  mental  for  loss  of  physical  power." 

Oh  you  lovers  of  Childhood,  read  Joyce  Kilmer's  letters 
from  France.  Notice  how  often  he  asks  if  his  little  son  Kenton 
has  learned  to  serve  Mass.  Listen  to  his  daily  prayer  that 
Kenton  shall  be  a  priest — a  Jesuit.  What  thinking  mind  can 
read  his  life  and  not  catch  the  contagion  of  his  practical 
idealism?  He  lifts  the  toddling  atoms  of  humanity  up  to  the 
benign  countenance  of  the  Master  and  by  his  power  of 
example  helps  to  scatter  into  oblivion  the  influence  of  the  un- 
wholesome teachings  of  Anne  Besant,  a  Warren  S.  Thomp- 
son, or  an  Arsene  Dumont.  Joyce  Kilmer  also  took  poetic 
flights  into  the  realms  of  childhood.  Artist  that  he  was  he 
could  stand  in  the  little  place  of  a  child  and  see  that — 

"His  mind  has  neither  need  nor  power  to  know 

The  foolish  things  that  men  call  right  and  wrong, 
For  him  the  streams  of  pleasant  love-wind  flow, 
For  him  the  mystic,  sleep-compelling  song. 


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Through  love  he  rules  his  love  made  universe, 

And  see  with  eyes  by  ignorance  made  keen 

The  fauns  and  elves  which  older  eves  disperse. 

Both  Francis  Thompson  and  Joyce  Kilmer  admired  Pat- 
more.  They  were  charmed  with  his  poem,  "The  Toys."  Yet 
when  they  wrote  of  the  child  did  they  not  surpass  Patmore? 
In  "Little  Jesus"  Thompson  confines  himself  to  the  child's 
own  atmosphere  from  the  first  to  the  last  word.  In  "To  a 
Child,"  Kilmer  never  steps  out  of  the  child's  fairyland.  Of 
course  if  Patmore's  aim  was  to  illustrate  God's  forgiving 
attitude  towards  our  childishness,  there  is  no  literary  or  moral 
impropriety  in  drawing  his  parallel  in  the  poem  of  "The 
Toys."  Yet  psychologists  ask — Would  not  the  story  possess 
overwhelming  influence  within  its  own  content?  Is  it  not 
the  use  of  the  child  as  a  symbol  to  the  adult  rather  than  the 
fact  in  itself  ?  Are  we  always  thoroughly  in  sympathy  with 
the  child  ?  Is  not  "the  undue  interposition  by  the  adult  —  of 
his  viewpoint  —  between  himself  and  the  child  in  the  main 
hindrance  to  its  proper  development  ?"  Until  one  sees  his 
adultism  objectively  as  the  rock  of  offense,  very  often,  the 
obstacle  to  the  child's  advancement  remains.  When  child 
study  leads  one  in  this  direction  he  need  never  question  its 
practicality.  "The  symbol  of  the  child"  says  Dr.  Dewey, 
"must  be  taken  as  genuine,  as  intrinsic,  as  having  meaning  for 
the  child  himself."  Let  us  ask :  Did  the  child  disobey  in 
the  moral  sense?  Was  the  command  justified  in  reason?  How 
far  did  the  little  one  reflect  his  own  father's  spirit?  How 
ought  the  father  to  amend  for  the  child's  sake?  Alas!  holding 
to  one's  mature  viewpoint  may  force  this  greater  consideration 
aside. 

In  the  works  of  Francis  Thompson  and  Joyce  Kilmer  we 
find  a  clear  demarcation  between  the  child  and  the  man.  But 
the  question  at  once  arises :  Did  not  Kilmer  use  little  Rose 
as  a  symbol  of  his  own  upward  striving?  Yes,  but  not  until 
Rose  was  with  the  angels  and  beyond  the  need  of  human 
development.  Let  us  quote  "The  Toys,"  and  see  for  ourselves 
that  the  last  twelve  lines  are  a  diverging  message  in  touch 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  171 

with  the  modern  tendency  to  exploit  the  child  by  using  him 
symbolically  rather  than  employing  every  means  offered  to 
serve  him  in  the  struggle  to  gain  possession  of  his  growing 
powers. 

The  Toys 

"My  little  son,  who  looked  from  thoughtful  eyes, 
And  moved  and  spoke  in  quite  grown-up  wise, 
Having  my  law  the  seventh  time  disobeyed, 
I  struck  him,  and  dismissed 
With  hard  words,  and  unkissed — 
His  mother,  who  was  patient,  being  dead. 

"Then,  fearing  lest  his  grief  should  hinder  sleep 
I  visited  his  bed, 
But  found  him  slumbering  deep, 
With  darkened  eyelids,  and  their  lashes  yet 
From  his  late  sobbing  wet. 
And  I,  with  moan, 

Kissing  away  his  tears,  left  others  of  my  own : 
For,  on  a  table  drawn  beside  his  head, 
He  had  put,  with  his  reach, 
A  box  of  counters  and  a  red-veined  stone 
A  piece  of  glass  abraded  by  the  beach, 
And  six  or  seven  shells, 
A  bottle  with  bluebells, 
And  two  French  copper  coins,  ranged  there  with 

careful  art, 
To  comfort  his  sad  heart. 

"So,  when  that  night  I  prayed 
To  God,  I  wept  and  said : 
Ah !  when  at  last  we  lie  with  tranced  breath, 
Not  vexing  Thee  in  death, 
And  Thou  rememberest  of  what  toys, 
We  made  our  joys, 
How  weakly  understood 
Thy  great  commended  good — 
Then,  fatherly,  not  less 

Than  I  whom  Thou  hast  moulded  from  the  clay 
Thou'll  leave  Thy  wrath  and  say, 
T  will  be  sorry  for  their  childishness.'  " 


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"The  child  is  father  to  the  man"  and  our  respect  for  his 
latent  powers  forbids  us  to  make  use  of  his  tiny  form  in  the 
domain  of  symbolism. 

In  respect  to  symbols  may  they  not  rightly  be  called  the 
warp  and  woof  of  the  poet's  production?  "The  physicist 
is  concerned  with  the  general  phenomena,  actions  and  pro- 
prieties of  bodies  which  do  not  involve  any  substantial  change. 
The  chemist  investigates  the  difference  between  simple  and 
compound  bodies  and  the  laws  according  to  which  these  bodies 
combine  and  dissolve.  The  mechanic  deals  with  the  general 
laws  of  motion  and  equilibrium.  The  astronomer  studies  the 
motions,  magnitudes,  distances  and  physical  constitution  of 
the  heavenly  bodies  and  determines  the  laws  which  govern 
their  motions  and  revolutions.  Zoology  and  Botany  treat  of 
animals  and  plants,  with  reference  to  their  structure,  func- 
tions, development,  analysis,  nomenclature  and  classification. 
The  geologist,  mineralogist,  and  paleontologist  are  concerned 
with  the  structure  of  the  earth,  with  the  description  and  classi- 
fication of  minerals,  with  fossil  organisms."  The  poet,  like  the 
cosmologist,  may  summon  to  his  call  any  or  all  of  these 
phenomena  of  the  material  universe  and  go  beyond  their  scope 
in  his  symbolic  treatment  of  inquiry  into  the  inner  nature  of 
materiality. 

Now  where  shall  the  poet  find  the  most  luxuriant  and 
suggestive  symbols,  the  most  potent  symbols  of  means  of  which 
souls  may  mount  heavenward?  Where  shall  he  find  the  most 
simple  and  exalted  ideas  save  in  the  mysteries  of  the  Catholic 
religion.  The  symbolism  of  that  Church  is  the  repository  of 
the  simple  ideas  of  God's  revelation  to  men.  The  tree  is 
symbolic  of  Christ  who  is  called  the  "Tree  of  Life."  As  far 
back  as  the  second  century  writers  referred  to  Christ  as 
"Piscis  noster."  Tertullian  writes:  "The  smaller  fishes  after 
the  example  of  our  Fish  are  born  in  the  waters  and  it  is 
only  by  continuing  in  the  waters  that  we  are  safe."  The  fact 
is  that  "the  twentieth  century  is  too  materialistic  to  appre- 
ciate at  its  full  value  the  symbolism  of  the  ages  of  faith. 
Durandus  wrote  his  austere  complaints  on  the  inaccessability 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  173 

of  man  to  the  sublime  symbolism  of  the  Catholic  Church  in 
the  thirteenth  century  when  an  enthusiastic  and  spiritualized 
society  pushed  forward  toward  a  marvelous  ideal  and  sought 
to  escape  the  realities  of  terror  by  symbolizing  life.  If  he 
lived  today  he  would  weep  on  beholding  this  age  of  prosaic 
dullness  and  avaricious  industry,  of  jealousy  and  hatred 
avenged  by  bloody  wars  when  men  have  lost  the  sense  and 
have  grown  to  regard  the  temples  of  their  fathers  and  the 
ceremonies  of  their  faith  as  hieroglyphic  traces  of  a  former 
world."  The  poet's  mission  therefore  is  heaven  sent.  He 
must  handle  symbols  deftly  and  like  a  juggler  hurl  them  at 
will  until  his  feats  attract  the  attention  of  thinking  minds. 

Since  symbols  are  the  gold  mines  of  poetry,  it  is  evidence 
that  the  best  poems  are  those  which  reveal  the  skill  of  the 
author  who  takes  a  simple  idea  and  enlarges,  embellishes, 
diversifies  and  exalts  it  to  its  meeting  place  with  uncreated 
beauty.  Nowhere  can  be  found  a  more  beautiful  passage  of 
symbolism  than  in  the  opening  lines  of  Thompson's 

Orient  Ode 

"Lo,  in  the  sanctuaried  East, 
Day,  a  dedicated  priest 
In  all  his  robes  pontifical  exprest, 
Lifteth  slowly,  lifted  sweetly, 
From  out  its  Orient  tabernacle  drawn, 
Yon  orbed  sacrament  con f est 
Which  sprinkles  benediction  through  the  dawn ; 
And  when  the  grave  procession  ceased, 
The  earth  with  due  illustrious  rite 
Blessed  —  ere  the  frail  fingers  f eatly 
Of  twilight,  violet-cassocked  acolyte, 
His  sacredotal  stoles  unvest — 
Sets,  for  high  close  of  the  mysterious  feast 
The  sun  in  August,  exposition  meetly 
Within  the  flaming  monstrance  of  the  West." 

The  Orient  Ode  is  not  Francis  Thompson's  masterpiece,  yet 
had  he  written  none  other  he  would  have  won  fame  among 
the  bards  of  England.    His  poem  is  doubly  thrilling  and  stirs 


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the  emotions  to  their  deepest  recesses  when  we  recall  the 
disappointment  of  this  great  soul  when  he  faced  the  decision 
of  the  Ushaw  faculty  informing  him  that  he  was  unqualified 
to  become  "a  dedicated  priest.  In  all  his  robes  pontifical 
exprest."  Of  the  pain  of  that  moment  the  world  may  never 
know,  but  its  reflex  comes  to  us  from  the  incensed  odor  of 
his  verse. 

One  of  Joyce  Kilmer's  exquisite  symbolic  poems  is 
"Roses,"  told  in  the  language  of  a  child  saint.  The  sentiment 
is  worthy  of  a  St.  Agnes  or  of  "The  Little  Flower  of  Jesus." 
With  such  grace  and  ease  are  these  verses  set  forth  that  one 
sees  the  child  roaming  at  will  in  the  June  woods  gathering 
flowers.  Into  the  village  church  the  little  one  runs,  lays  down 
the  love  token  looks  up  and  sees  the  mystic  roses,  reflects, 
comes  home  and  give  us  his — 

Roses 

"I  went  to  gather  roses  and  twine  them  in  a  ring, 
For  I  would  make  a  posy,  a  posy  for  the  King. 
I  got  an  hundred  roses,  the  loveliest  there  be, 
From  the  white  rose  vine  and  the  pink  rose  bush 
And  from  the  red  rose  tree. 

"But  when  I  took  my  posy  and  laid  it  at  His  feet, 
I  found  He  had  His  roses  a  million  times  more  sweet. 
There  was  a  scarlet  blossom  upon  each  foot  and  hand, 
And  a  great  pink  rose  bloomed  from 
His  side  for  the  healing  of  the  land. 

"Now  of  this  fair  and  awful  King  there  is  this  marvel  told, 
That  He  wears  a  crown  of  linked  thorns  instead  of  one  of 

gold. 
Where  there  are  thorns  are  roses,  and  I  saw  a  line  of  red, 
A  little  wreath  of  roses  around  His  radiant  head. 

"A  red  rose  is  His  Sacred  Heart,  a  white  rose  is  His  face, 
And  His  breath  has  turned  the  barren  world  to  a  rich  and 

flowery  place. 
He  is  the  Rose  of  Sharon,  His  gardener  am  I, 
And  I  shall  drink  His  fragrance  in  heaven  when  I  die." 


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In  "Roses"  the  youthful  poet  has  completely  revealed  his 
inner  self.  A  soft  lament  of  the  heart  in  sympathy  for  His 
thorn-crowned  King  penetrates  his  tender  soul.  Then  out  of 
the  sanctuary  of  his  courageous  heart  he  sings  in  a  clear  F 
major  triad  and  heaves  a  joyful  sigh  as  he  draws  the  blessed 
breath  of  love  Divine.  In  unborn  ages  lovers  of  the  true 
and  beautiful  will  catch  a  spark  of  this  celestial  fire.  \V!ho 
can  escape  its  force?  Irresistibly  one  is  drawn  into  a  sea  of 
rapture  until  the  waves  of  self-forgetfulness  dash  around  him 
and  all  selfish  gain  gives  place  to  the  reign  of  Christ  in  the 
soul. 

Though  the  fame  of  Francis  Thompson  and  Joyce  Kilmer 
rests  on  poetry,  yet  each  has  bequeathed  a  precious  legacy  of 
prose  works.  Francis  Thompson's  "Health  and  Holiness," 
alas,  too  little  read,  is  scarcely  inferior  to  his  "Essay  on 
Shelley,"  which  has  brought  bursts  of  applause  from  all  the 
bounds  of  earth  where  the  English  language  is  known.  A 
striking  passage  is  found  in  this  essay — "Holiness  is  an  oil 
which  increases  a  hundredfold  the  energies  of  the  body,  which 
is  as  the  wick.  Important  that  this  wick  shall  not  needlessly 
be  marred  during  preparation  through  some  toughening 
ascetic  process  which  must  inflict  certain  injury.  The  flame 
is  dependent  after  all  on  the  corporeal  wick."  The  argument 
set  forth  is  substantiated  by  two  illustrations  —  "Cardinal 
Manning's  longevity  and  energy  was  due  to  the  copiousness 
and  purity  of  the  oil."  Then  he  claims  that  the  energizing 
potentialities  of  sanctity  displayed  themselves  in  the  activity 
of  St.  Francis  of  Assisium,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  he  suffered 
constantly  from  the  hemorrhage  of  the  stigmata." 

Another  essay,  "Nature's  Immortality"  is  a  deep  study  of 
"the  heart  of  Nature."  It  is  devoid  of  the  conventional  sub- 
jectivism of  the  pantheist.  He  says,  "Absolute  nature  lives  not 
in  our  life,  nor  yet  is  lifeless  but  lives  in  the  life  of  God; 
and  is  so  far,  and  so  far  merely  as  man  himself  lives  in  that 
life  does  he  come  into  sympathy  with  Nature  and  Nature  with 
him.  She  is  God's  daughter  who  stretches  her  hands  only  to 
her  Father's   friends."    There  is  no  attempt  at  metaphysical 


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exactness.  He  aims  only  to  suggest  ideas  analogically.  In 
his  own  words :  "to  put  forth  indeed  a  fantasy,  that  may 
perhaps  be  a  dim  shadowing  of  truth." 

Thompson's  "Life  of  St.  Ignatius"  is  a  lengthy  biography 
of  the  illustrious  founder  of  the  Jesuit  order.  He  was  re- 
quested to  write  it  by  admirers  of  the  great  saint.  The  work 
has  been  revised  by  Father  J.  H.  Pollen,  S.  J.,  and  is  complete. 
It  shows  the  result  of  much  research  on  the  part  of  its  author 
and  an  enthusiasm  which  he  did  not  always  bring  to  the  works 
which  were  not  of  his  own  choice.  Other  prose  works  of 
Francis  Thompson  are  essays  on  "Crashaw,"  "Aubrey  de 
Vere,"  "Pope,"  "Sir  Philip  Sidney,"  "Ben  Jonson"  and 
"Shakespeare." 

That  Joyce  Kilmer  was  an  essayist  and  poet  at  the  same 
time  is  evidenced  by  the  fact  that  his  first  book  "Summer  of 
Love"  was  a  little  volume  of  poetry  and  his  second  book  was 
"The  Circus  and  Other  Essays,"  an  account  of  which  appeared 
in  America  for  December,  1916.  The  "Art  of  Christmas  Giv- 
ing" is  an  object  lesson  in  unselfishness.  Kilmer  skillfully 
shows  how  the  giver  should  consider  that  what  every  child 
and  grown  person  wants  to  receive  is  a  gift  suited  to  his 
tastes  and  habits.  He  continues :  "We  may  like  books  but 
let  us  not  therefore  feel  obliged  to  sustain  our  literary  repu- 
tation by  giving  them  to  our  neighbor  who  wTants  a  box  of 
cigars  or  a  jumping- jack."  In  his  essay  on  "The  Catholic 
Poets  of  Belgium"  Kilmer  pays  a  high  tribute  to  the  Church. 
He  says:  "It  is  not  the  disciples  of  Baudelaire  and  Mellarme 
who  have  planted  the  seeds  of  poetry  that  shall  soon  burst 
into  splendid  bloom,  but  men  like  Thomas  Baum  and  George 
Raemaekers,  men  who  faithfully  serving  their  Muse  have 
never  wavered  in  their  allegiance  to  the  Mistress  of  all  the 
Arts,  the  Catholic  Church.  Belgium's  poetry  must  become  more 
and  more  spiritual ;  the  poets  have  seen  and  felt  things  mighty 
and  terrible  and  they  can  no  longer  concern  themselves  with 
erotic  fancies  and  the  nuances  of  their  own  emotions.  In  the 
days  to  come,  historians  of  literature  will  perhaps  see  that 
on  the  thought  of  Belgium,  as  on  the  thought  of  all  Europe, 


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this  war  has  had  a  clarifying  and  strengthing  effect.  Good 
will  come  out  of  evil,  sweetness  from  force  and  honey-comb 
out  of  the  lion's  carcass."  Other  works  of  Kilmer  are  "The 
Inefficient  Library,"  "The  Poetry  of  Helaire  Belloc,"  "A 
Bouquet  for  Jenny,"  "Literature  in  the  Making,"  "Suppose 
Dickens  had  Returned,"  and  "The  Education  of  Boys,"  in 
which  he  makes  a  strong  appeal  to  parents  and  guardians  to 
foster  the  Catholic  education  of  youth.  In  reading  his  letters 
especially  those  written  in  France,  one  is  impressed  by  the 
singular  charm  of  their  simplicity.  The  human  element  is 
uppermost  in  his  messages  from  the  scenes  of  battle. 

In  the  field  of  literary  criticism  Francis  Thompson  and 
Joyce  Kilmer  take  prominent  places.  Thompson  was  his  own 
great  critic.  He  knew  that  his  "Hound  of  Heaven"  was  the 
most  marvelous  compendium  of  Christian  mysticism.  He  was 
conscious  that  he  could  do  as  he  said  of  Shelley — "stand  at 
the  very  juncture  line  of  the  visible  and  invisible  and  could 
shift  the  points  as  he  willed."  He  was  keenly  alive  to  the 
fact  that  his  "Essay  on  Shelley"  was  a  rare  production.  When 
the  Dublin  Review  failed  to  publish  it  he  said  it  was  "a  quite 
irreparable  loss."  He  saw  the  fault  lay  not  in  the  work,  but 
in  the  fact  that  the  editor  "could  not  make  up  his  mind 
whether  it  was  heavenly  rhetoric  or  infernal  nonsense."  He 
continued  mildly  "The  editor  is  probablv  a  person  of  only 
average  literary  taste."  On  another  occasion  when  speaking 
of  his  "Essay  on  Shelley"  he  said  that  of  its  style  he  could 
recollect  nothing  like  it  in  the  English  language.  Yet,  not 
until  after  his  death  did  the  Dublin  Review  publish  the 
exquisite  production.  Another  evidence  that  Francis  Thomp- 
son was  quite  confident  of  his  true  worth  in  the  field  of 
literature  is  the  testimony  of  Mr.  Wilfred  Whitten's  obituary 
notice.    He  quotes : 

"The  sleep-flower  sways  in  the  wheat  its  head, 
Heavy  with  dreams,  as  that  with  bread; 
The  goodly  grain  and  the  sun  flushed  sleeper 
The  reaper  reaps,  and  Time  the  reaper 
I  hang  mid  men  my  needless  head, 


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And  my  fruit  is  dreams,  as  theirs  is  bread. 
The  goodly  men  and  the  sun  hazed  sleeper 
Time  shall  reap,  but  after  the  reaper 
The  world  shall  gleam  of  me,  me  the  sleeper." 

How  prophetic  this  rings !  Thompson  knew  his  poet's  fire  was 
unquenchable.  Mr.  Whitten  adds,  "When  Francis  Thompson 
wrote  these  verses,  he  did  not  indulge  in  a  fitful  or  exalted 
hope ;  he  expressed  the  quiet  faith  of  his  post-poetic  years. 
Thompson  knew  that  above  the  grey  London  tumult,  in  which 
he  fared  so  ill,  he  had  hung  a  golden  bell  whose  tones  would 
one  day  possess  men  ears.  He  believed  that  his  name  would 
be  symphonised  on  their  lips  with  Milton,  Dryden  and  Keats. 
This  he  told  me  himself  in  words  too  obscure  and  too  long 
ago  for  record.  But  he  knew  that  Time  would  reap  first." 
Thompson  could  see  beyond  the  mere  phenomena  of  external 
appearances.    He  says : 

"From  stones  and  poets  you  may  know 
Nothing  so  active  is,  as  that  which  least  seems  so." 

Mr.  Meynell  says  that  "Qne  goes  to  Thompson's  criticisms 
not  for  his  consistent  good  faith  and  sound  sense,  but  for 
the  few  dominant  vital  enthusiasms  that  hold  him."  He  claims 
that  Thompson's  "Crashaw"  is  penned  in  a  critical  tone.  It 
contradicts  in  substance  the  manifest  admiration  which 
Thompson  so  often  displayed  of  Crashaw's  works.  On  one 
occasion  he  said,  "My  editors  complain  that  I  do  not  go  for 
people — that  I  am  too  lenient."  Yet  we  note  the  critical  rhyme 
of 

"Little  poets,  neither  fool  nor  seer, 
Aping  the  larger  song,  let  all  men  hear 
How  weary  is  our  heart  these  many  days 
Peace  but  a  passion. 

Who  yet  can  only  bring 

With  all  their  toil 

Their  kettle  of  verse  to  sing 


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Of  bards  who,  feeling  half  the  thing  they  say 
Say  twice  the  thing  they  feel  and  in  such  way 
But  never  boil  — 
How  weary  is  our  heart  these  many  days." 

Kilmer's  biographer,  Mr.  Holliday,  says:  "As  a  brilliant  in- 
terpretative critic  of  Catholic  writers  such  as  Crashaw,  Pat- 
more,  Francis  Thompson,  Lionel  Johnson  and  Belloc,  he 
brought,  I  think  I  may  venture  to  say,  an  altogether  new 
touch  into  Catholic  journalism  in  America,  a  striking  and 
distinguished  blend  of  'piety  and  mirth,'  "  Kilmer  was  the 
kindest  of  critics.  His  desk  was  always  heaped  with  letters 
asking  his  opinion  and  advice.  He  was  ever  ready  to  help 
those  in  whom  he  saw  promise  of  success.  Kilmer's  sympathies 
were  with  honest  effort.  When  the  inferior  writers  of  New 
York  complained  that  their  poems  were  undervalued  he 
scathed  them.  Kilmer  knew  from  his  own  experience  that 
recognition  among  literary  men  is  the  fruit  of  merit  just  as 
denunciation  is  the  result  of  inefficiency.  In  his  poem  "To  a 
Young  Poet  who  Killed  Himself"  he  depicts  most  skillfully 
the  weakness  of  the  inferior  poet. 

"You  could  not  vex  the  merry  stars 
Nor  make  them  heed  you  dead  or  living 
Not  all  your  puny  anger  mars 
God's  irresistible  forgiving." 

How  charitable  after  all  was  Kilmer's  criticism.  He  threw 
the  cloak  of  merciful  forgiveness  over  frail  humanity,  for 
Kilmer  was  a  Catholic  in  word  and  in  deed.  Religion  became 
the  touchstone  of  his  poetical  power. 

"As  star  differeth  from  star  in  glory"  so  shall  we  expect 
to  find  contrasts  in  our  literary  lights.  We  find  Thompson 
standing  under  a  London  street  lamp  writing  verses  on  the 
backs  of  envelopes.  We  see  Joyce  Kilmer  in  the  family  circle 
under  the  roof  of 

"A  house  that  has  sheltered  life, 
That  has  put  its  loving  wooden  arms 


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Around  a  man  and  wife, 

A  house  that  echoed  a  baby's  laugh 

And  help  up  its  stumbling  feet." 

Francis  Thompson's  life  was  a  social  failure.  Joyce  Kilmer's 
was  a  social  success.  Francis  Thompson's  Catholicity  was  in- 
herent. Joyce  Kilmer's  was  a  gift  from  heaven  in  answer  to 
his  prayer.  Francis  Thompson's  religious  ideas  were  per- 
manently fixed  in  infancy.  Joyce  Kilmer  traveled  along  the 
paths  of  an  episcoplian,  and  of  a  "wild-eyed,  radical  socialist" 
until  finally  "the  light  which  enlighteneth  every  man  that 
cometh  into  the  world"  flooded  his  receptive  soul.  Francis 
Thompson's  poetry  is  sung  in  Minor  key  indicative  of  great 
loss.  The  dominant  tone  is  pain.  Joyce  Kilmer's  song  is  writ- 
ten in  a  Major  key.  The  dominant  tone  is  human  and  spiritual 
joy.  Thompson's  powers  were  practically  unknown  during  his 
life.  Not  until  he  came  in  touch  with  Mr.  Meynell  did  he  know 
that  he  ranked  to  Shakespeare  and  no  one  was  third.  Joyce 
Kilmer  was  sought  by  young  and  old  who  valued  his  genius 
as  a  writer.  Francis  Thompson  had  been  criticized  severely. 
"His  Mystery  of  Vision"  has  been  called  the  "Oracular 
utterances  of  a  mystic,  an  abominable  paean."  Why?  Because 
few  understand  that  the  Mystery  of  Vision'  is  pain."  Let 
the  reader  comprehend  this  and  Francis  Thompson  no  longer 
mystifies  him.  It  is  the  key  that  unlocks  the  door  of  his 
philosophy.  Critics  bring  forth  objections  against  his  phrase- 
ology. "Some  claim  his  absolute  and  coined  words  are  simply 
'linguistic  monstrosities'  yet  they  permit  Shakespeare  this  same 
privilege  without  a  murmur."  A  close  study  of  Thompson's 
unusual  words  reveal  the  fact  that  the  reader's  vocabulary  is 
in  need  of  expansion.  Joyce  Kilmer's  works  were  never 
harshly  attacked.  This  is  a  proof  that  the  Church  has  now 
the  prestige  which  Protestantism  attempted  to  dethrone.  In 
June  1898  Canon  Sheehan  wrote  in  the  American  Ecclesiastical 
Reviezv,  "If  Francis  Thompson  had  been  an  Anglican  or 
Unitarian  his  praises  would  have  been  sung  unto  the  end  of 
the  earth,  disciples  would  have  knelt  at  his  feet.  But,  being 
a  Catholic,  he  is  allowed  to  retire  and  burv  in  silence  one  of 


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the  nobles:  imaginations  that  has  ever  been  given  to  Nature's 
select  ones  —  her  poets."  America  on  the  contrary,  was  alert 
in  the  recognition  of  her  literary  genius  —  Joyce  Kilmer. 

Thompson's  masterpiece  "The  Hound  of  Heaven"  is  the 
most  wonderful  mystic  lyric  ever  penned  in  English  verse. 
One  almost  feels  the  intimate  loving  Presence  of  the  Divine 
Lover  of  men.  As  to  the  original  conception  of  the  title, 
critics  differ.  Some  claim  that  the  idea  took  root  in  "the 
thought  of  the  pursuing  love  in  Silvio  Pellico's  'Dio  Amore,' ': 
or  it  may  have  been  suggested  by  one  of  the  poems  of  the 
Spanish  mystic  St.  John  of  the  Cross.  Others  surmise  that 
it  may  have  been  borrowed  from  Celtic  mythology  in  which 
the  Hound  of  Ulster  is  the  great  hero.  Another  conjecture  is 
that  the  term  "Heaven's  Winged  Hound"  in  the  opening  act 
of  Shelley's  "Prometheus  Unbound"  may  have  given  rise  to 
the  term.  Not  improbable  is  the  conclusion  that  the  idea  arose 
out  of  the  singular  circumstances  of  Thompson's  pathetic  life 
and  that  filled  with  remorse  as  if  every  honest  soul  when  re- 
flecting on  its  own  failings  he  tearfully  and  regretfully  says: 

"T  fled  Him,  down  the  nights  and  down  the  days ; 
I  fled  Him,  down  the  arches  of  the  years." 

The  expression  "the  arches  of  the  years"  was  very  likely  sug- 
gested to  Thompson  by  Addison's  "Vision  of  Mirzah."  This 
bridge  is  seen  by  Mirzah  after  death,  as  he  listens  to  the 
heavenly  airs  played  by  shepherd  clad  geniuses  for  the  purpose 
of  wearing  away  the  impressions  of  the  last  agony.  The  arches 
numbered  three  score  and  ten,  symbolizing  man's  brief  span 
of  life.  Such  a  theme  could  not  fail  to  deeply  impress  Francis 
Thompson.  The  poem  is  laden  with  elaborate  mental  pictures 
portrayed  in  a  single  line : 

"Adown  Titantic  glooms  of  chasmed  fears." 

Again, 

"I  swung  the  earth  a  trinket  at  my  wrist." 


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Then   he   sighs    forth   that   unsurpassed  passage   of   spiritual 
philosophy : 

"My  mangled  youth  lies  dead  beneath  the  heap. 
My  days  have  crackled  and  gone  up  in  smoke, 
Have  puffed  and  burst  as  sun-starts  on  a  stream." 

"Ah !  must  — 
Designer  Infinite ! 
Ah !  must  Thou  char  the  wood  ere  Thou  canst  limn  with  it  ?" 

John  Thomson,  an  able  writer  and  fair  critic,  says  "Great 
alike  in  theme,  execution  and  in  the  completeness  of  its  mes- 
sage, it  is  safe  to  say  that  as  a  religious  poem  "The  Hound 
of  Heaven"  has  no  superior.  It  stands  unique,  for  all  the 
world,  and  for  all  time  —  Strange  and  startling  fancies  in 
words;  adjectives  that  illumine  like  furnaces  in  the  night; 
deep  sounds  and  echoes  —  the  sounds  of  restless  humanity  in 
search  of  the  world's  witchery,  the  echoes  of  the  message  of 
the  Psalmist  of  old  —  and  underlying  all,  the  pleading  of  the 
Father  for  His  prodigal  son ;  such,  in  short  is  'The  Hound 
of  Heaven/  a  poem  which  forever  will  be  cherished  by  many, 
although  appreciated  and  grasped  in  full  only  by  the  deeper 
souled  few  who  can  comprehend  the  wonderful  lyric  of 
"Crashaw  cast  in  a  diviner  mould.'  "  The  "Hound  of  Heaven" 
reflects  the  spirit  of  a  man  devoid  of  ambition  for  worldly 
gain.  Thompson  lived  in  the  sphere  of  his  own  poetic  crea- 
tions; reduced  the  necessities  of  life  to  a  minimum;  bade  de- 
fiance to  the  blows  of  fate  and  assumed  a  grandeur  uplifted 
above  the  storms  of  life  like  a  rock  which  towers  to  the  sky 
from  out  the  foaming  sea.  He  looked  the  inevitable  in  the 
face  and  schooled  himself  to  regard  his  existence  not  as  an 
end,  but  as  the  means  of  reaching  life  eternal.  He  learned  the 
art  of  finding  his  way  out  of  the  labyrinths  of  sorrow  and 
yet  retained  a  wonderful  repose  of  soul.  Physical  privations 
were  nothing  if  only  the  ideas  for  which  he  lived  remained 
untouched.  To  Francis  Thompson  anguish  of  soul  was  but 
the  "Shake  of  His  Hand,  outstretched  caressingly?"    His  ear 


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was  attuned  to  the  music  of  the  chastening  voice  of  the  Divine 
Pursuer. 

"Ah  fondest,  blindest,  weakest 
I  am  He  whom  thou  seekest ! 
Thou  dravest  love  from  three  who  dravest  Me." 

Glowing  flashes  dart  through  the  night  of  Thompson's  dere- 
liction and  by  their  glow  heaven's  pathways  are  unveiled. 
Little  souls,  it  is  true,  still  start  at  the  omnipotent  fearful 
spirit  which  in  Thompson's  great  work  appears  as  from  out  a 
thunder  cloud,  transfixing  all  by  its  force.  Thinking  minds 
are  held  captive  by  the  gentle  voice  as  it  speaks  from  the  world 
of  his  rich  imagination.  They  learn  to  understand  all  the 
divine  forebodings,  thoughts  and  feelings  which  unite  to 
rise  above  the  childish  nonsense  of  earth.  Thompson  invites 
the  literary  world  to  attend  his  poetic  rhapsody  and  permits 
to  those  who  respond  to  his  call,  the  ravishing  delights  of 
looking  into  the  depths  of  the  spiritual  life  of  a  minor  St. 
Francis  Assisium.  To  Francis  Thompson  the  spirit  of  God 
was  not  only  in  the  reflex  of  His  image  in  man  .  It  was  "Lo 
here !  lo  there !  —  ah  me,  lo  everywhere."  No  wonder  "his 
poetry  is  vestment-clad  and  odorous  of  incense  of  the  sanctu- 
ary." 

While  Francis  Thompson  has  given  us  one  great  "chef 
d'oeuvre"  Joyce  Kilmer  gives  us  two  short  poems,  one  in  each 
hand.  We  may  choose  one  or  take  both.  One  is  "Trees," 
which  shall  keep  his  memory  forever  green.  It  has  the  singular 
reputation  of  having  been  voluntarily  memorized  by  legions 
of  persons  old  and  young.  Who  can  look  at  a  graceful  tree 
and  not  recall  the  beauty  of  those  lines? 

"I  think  that  I  shall  never  see 
A  poem  lovely  as  a  tree. 

A  tree  whose  hungry  mouth  is  prest 
Against  the  earth's  sweet  flowing  breast; 


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A  tree  that  looks  at  God  all  day 
And  lifts  her  leafy  arms  to  pray: 

A  tree  that  may  in  summer  wear 
A  nest  of  robins  in  her  hair: 

Upon  whose  bosom  snow  has  lain 
Who  intimately  lives  with  rain. 

Poems  are  made  by  fools  like  me 
But  only  God  can  make  a  tree." 

The  other  poem  "Main  Street"  is  equally  rich  in  poetic  senti- 
ment and  beauty.  After  describing  the  village  business  street 
in  terms  as  only  a  poet  can,  he  concludes  with : 

"God  be  thanked  for  the  Milky  Way  that  runs  across  the  sky, 
That's  the  path  that  my  feet  would  tread  whenever  I  have  to 

die. 
Some  folks  call  it  a  Silver  Sword  and  some  a  Pearly  Crown 
But  the  only  thing  I  think  it  is,  is  Main  Street,  Heaventown." 

Such  are  some  of  the  gems  dropped  to  us  from  the  great 
soul  of  Joyce  Kilmer  on  his  flight  heavenward.  Like  a  far 
off  chorus  of  retreating  angels  his  music  lingers  in  the  human 
heart  with  ever  recurring  refrains  because  his  song  has  its 
root  in  truth — undying,  eternal  Truth.  Thompson  sounds  the 
abyssmal  depths  of  the  philosophy  of  sorrow.  Kilmer  touches 
the  same  note  with  his  "Crown  of  Linked  Thorns."  In  Thomp- 
son's last  poem  "The  Kingdom  of  God,"  he  gives  us  a  glimpse 
of  this  nearness  to  uncreated  beauty. 

"Oh  world  invisible,  we  view  thee 
Oh  world  intangible,  we  touch  thee 
Inapprehensible  we  clutch  thee ! 

Not  where  the  wheeling  systems  darken 
And  our  benumbed  conceiving  soars ! 
The  drift  of  pinions  would  we  harken, 
Beats  at  our  own  clav-shuttered  doors." 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  185 

Let  us  go  to  the  battlefield  in  spirit  with  Joyce  Kilmer  and 
listen  to  his  "Prayer  to  a  Soldier" — a  prayer  one  would  expect 
from  the  lips  of  Crashaw.  But  the  twentieth  century  is  not 
wanting  in  exponents  of  manliness  combined  with  holiness. 

"My  shoulder  aches  beneath  the  heavy  pack 
(Lie  easier  cross  upon  His  Back) 
I  march  with  feet  that  burn  and  smart 
(Tread  Holy  Feet,  upon  my  heart). 
Men  shout  at  me  who  may  not  speak 
(Then  scourged  Thy  back  and  smote  Thy  cheek). 

Lord  Thou  didst  suffer  more  for  me 
Than  all  the  hosts  of  land  and  sea. 
So  let  me  render  back  again 
This  millionth  of  Thy  gift,  Amen." 

Francis  Thompson  breathes  pathetic  strains  of  poetic  rhapso- 
dies. Joyce  Kilmer  sounds  a  silvery  tone  of  purest  happiness. 
Thompson  throws  a  desolate  moonlight  on  the  crags  which 
are  strewn  along  life's  path.  His  mystic  veil  is  woven  with 
tears  and  sighs.  How  applicable  to  himself  are  his  own  words 
which  tell  of  the  soul  that : 

"Suffered  the  trampling  hoof  of  every  hour 
In  night's  slow-wheeled  car; 
Until  the  tardy  dawn  dragged  me  at  length 
I  waited  the  inevitable  last." 

Joyce  Kilmer  looks  out  on  the  same  world  as  did  Francis 
Thompson.  He  saw  its  bustle,  he  hears  its  tumult  and  his 
noble  sentiments  are  voiced  in  the  lines  of 

Thanksgiving 

"The  roar  of  the  world  is  in  my  ears 
Thank  God  for  the  roar  of  the  world ! 
Thank  God  for  the  mighty  tide  of  fears 
Against  me,  always  hurled ! 

Thank  God  for  the  better  and  ceaseless  strife 
Thank  God  for  the  chastening  rod ! 
Thank  God  for  the  stress  and  the  pain  of  life 
And  Oh !  thank  God  for  God ! 


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In  regard  to  style  both  men  reflect  themselves  absolutely.  In 
"Any  Saint"  one  can  almost  trace  the  autobiographical  train 
of  thought  that  makes  it  a  human  poem,  yet  it  sounds  the 
note  of  highest  spirituality  in  the  humility  of  the  first  stanza, 

"His  shoulder  did  I  hold 
Too  high  that  I  o'erbold 

Weak  one, 
Should  lean  upon." 

Joyce  Kilmer  sounds  the  same  chord  of  personal  revelation  in 

The  Rosary 

"There  is  one  harp  that  any  hand  can  play 
And  from  its  strings  what  harmonies  arise ! 
There  is  one  song  that  any  mouth  can  say 
A  song  that  lingers  when  all  singing  dies. 
When  on  their  beads  our  Mother's  children  pray 
Immortal  music  charms  the  grateful  skies." 

The  deep  religious  sentiment  of  Francis  Thompson  and  Joyce 
Kilmer  may  be  epitomized  in  these  lines : 

"And  past  those  noised  Feet 
A  voice  comes  yet  more  fleet 
Lo !  naught  contents  thee  who  content'st  not  Me." 

In  fine  Francis  Thompson  and  Joyce  Kilmer  saw  in  nature 
and  life  two  great  mirrors  of  eternal  wisdom  and  beauty. 
They  penetrated  into  the  depths  of  Truth  and  reflected  with 
marvelous  skill  the  strife  for  mastery  over  the  spirit  of  the 
world  and  the  rising  of  the  soul  to  blessed  harmony  with 
humanity  and  with  God.  To  both  Thompson  and  Kilmer  we 
address  the  lines  stated  by  Thompson  in 

Garden  Genesis 

"Poet !  still  thou  dost  rehearse 
In  the  great  fiat  of  thy  Verse,  Creations  primal  plot; 
And  what  thy  Maker  in  the  whole 
Worked,  little  maker,  in  thy  soul 
Thou  work'st  and  men  know  not." 


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Of  both  great  poets  we  can  say  as  Patmore  said  of  Thomp- 
son that  their  poetry  is  "spiritual,  almost  to  a  fault.  This 
spirituality  is  a  real  ardour  of  life  and  not  the  mere  negation 
of  life  which  passes  with  most  people  for  spirituality."  Poetry 
has  clearly  defined  functions  in  the  life  of  man.  One  of  its 
highest  purports  is  to  reveal  an  intense  consciousness  of  the 
all-enveloping  Divine  Presence.  In  this  realization  the  words 
of  "The  Hound  of  Heaven"  ring  softly,  ring  reassuringly  in 
the  mist  that  arises  from  fears  which  flourish  in  the  "Valley 
of  Tears." 

"All  which  I  took  from  three,  I  did  but  take 
Not  for  thy  harms, 

But  just  that  thou  might'st  seek  it  in  My  arms 
All  which  thy  child's  mistake 
Fancies  as  lost,  I  have  stored  for  thee  at  home 
Rise,  clasp  my  hand,  and  come." 

S.  M.  G.  R. 


"The  Ignorance  of  the  Educated" 


jOLITICIANS  are  safe,"  smiled  Mr.  Chester- 
ton, "therefore  nobody  else  is  safe."  And  we 
Chicagoans  instinctively  felt  that  this  was 
not  a  paradox.  When  he  spoke  of  duels  he 
grimly  added,  "politicians  are  sometimes 
killed  in  them,"  and  we  were  convinced  that 
this  speaker  was  no  mere  essayist — he  was  one  journalist 
who  found  happiness  in  truth.  We  waited  eagerly  for  more 
and  were  rewarded  with  the  words  of  a  man  who  thinks, 
speaks  and  writes  with  the  gift  of  genius. 

Mr.  Chesterton  is  tall  and  portly  and  his  photographs 
are  unjust  to  his  gentlemanly  appearance.  When  he  walked 
out  upon  the  stage  at  Orchestra  Hall  he  seemed  indeed  to  be 
a  man  worthy  of  the  great  honors  which  nations  have  con- 
ferred on  him.  To  say  that  he  has  a  magnetic  personality 
would  be  inadequate.  Before  he  spoke  a  single  word  we  knew 
that  his  greatness  had  not  been  exaggerated.  Henry  Kitchell 
Webster,  a  native  novelist  introduced  to  us  Gilbert  K.  Ches- 
terton. And  then  we  learned  something  of  the  "ignorance  of 
the  educated." 

"A  subject  has  been  chosen  for  me  on  which  it  is  per- 
fectly plain  no  one  could  lecture."  Here  he  apologized  to  those 
who  would  be  unable  to  hear  him.  "An  apology,"  he  ex- 
plained, "which  it  is  perfectly  obvious  will  not  reach  their 
ears,  so  they  cannot  receive  my  assurance  that  their  suffer- 
ings will  by  no  means  compare  with  those  who  can  hear  me." 
Mr.  Chesterton  wove  his  lecture  around  a  remark  of 
Artemus  Ward ;  "it  isn't  so  much  people's  ignorance  that 
does  the  harm,  as  it  is  their  knowing  so  many  things  that 
ain't  so."  With  calm  assurance  he  outlined  the  fallacy  in 
the  theory  of  evolution  and  denied  that  the  pre-historic  man 
struck  the  struggling  woman  with  a  club,  and  then  dragged 
her  away  to  marry  him.    What  do  we  know  of  pre-historic 

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times?  "The  substitution  of  a  theory  for  a  thing  is  what  I 
object  to,"'  said  Mr.  Chesterton.  How  can  Mr.  Wells  in  his 
so-called  "Outline  of  History"  fall  into  so  deep  a  chasm  of 
improbability?  In  his  chapter  on  pre-historic  times  he,  like 
everyone  else,  has  no  evidence  to  substantiate  his  statements. 
The  despotism  of  the  Chieftain,  the  Teutonic  Theory  and  the 
Missing  Link  were  all  ridiculed  by  Mr.  Chesterton  and  the 
audience  found  intense  pleasure  in  his  striking  examples. 

Labor  has  a  champion  in  this  fair-minded  Englishman. 
He  spoke  bitterly  against  class  distinction  but  said,  "I  can 
endure  better  the  predominating  system  of  capitalism  rather 
than  the  Utopia  of  the  Bolshevists."  Prohibition  was  attacked 
because  it  is  enforced  only  upon  the  poor  and  because  "the 
most  important  fact  of  prohibition  is  that  it  is  not  established." 
In  concluding,  Mr.  Chesterton  extolled  the  heroes  of  Gettys- 
burg because  they  died  in  the  belief  that  the  common  people 
could  govern  themselves. 

And  when  this  prince  of  paradoxes  had  answered  every 
question  that  a  large  audience  could  conceive ;  when  he  had 
left  the  stage  and  the  last  faint  applause  had  drifted  away, 
we  wondered  "did  he  mean  it?"  We  have  been  intermittently 
hypnotized  by  ingenious  Englishmen  who  have  graciously 
condescended  to  enlighten  us.  Mr.  Galsworthy,  Mr.  Drink- 
water,  John  Ayscough,  and  Forbes  Robertson  have  graced 
our  American  stages  with  their  gifted  personalities,  and  yet 
we  felt  that  the  Great  Englishman  had  not  yet  crossed  the 
Atlantic.  Surely  he  has  come  now  in  the  person  of  Gilbert 
K.  Chesterton.  His  criticism  of  the  "Works  of  Charles 
Dickens,"  his  amusing  novel,  "The  Man  who  was  Thursday," 
his  inimitable  essays,  "Tremendous  Trifles"  and  "The  Uses 
of  Diversity,"  his  sparkling  comedy  "Magic,"  contain  the 
discerning  talent  of  Walter  Pater,  the  satirical  humor  of 
Thackeray,  the  heavenly  gift  of  Newman,  the  creative  power 
of  Shakespeare.  His  works  reflect  the  man  and  magnify  his 
sincerity. 

Mr.  Chesterton's  logic  is  simple  and  straightforward. 
Subtle,  wily  maneuvers  are  literary  excursions.    Without  pre- 


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tense  or  deceit  he  unravels  his  skein  of  thought  and  weaves 
his  work  with  the  thread  of  truthfulness.  It  is  difficult  to 
imagine  a  more  candid,  equitable  and  honorable  character 
than  he  who  says  a  paradox  is  "a  truth  expressed  in  terms 
of  a  logical  contradiction."  We  naturally  associate  him  with 
Bernard  Shaw  and  H.  G.  Wells,  but  he  has  neither  the  vague 
faculty  of  the  former  nor  the  atheistic  spirit  of  the  latter. 

To-day,  when  the  philosophy  of  the  world  is  a  matter  of 
individual  convenience  it  is  a  stimulant  to  find  a  man  whose 
reason  is  guided  by  principle.  Mr.  Chesterton  is  not  a  Cath- 
olic, but  his  beliefs  are  Catholic  and  consequently  he  is  not 
revered  by  the  bulk  of  Great  Britain.  It  is  a  happy  thought 
to  consider  that  sometime  before  this  crest  of  life  is  passed 
the  Catholic  Church  may  augment  its  long  list  of  logicians 
with  the  name  of  Gilbert  K.  Chesterton. 

George  R.  Pigott. 


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What  Are  You   Here  For? 

THE  conventional  answer  to  the  question  above  would  be 
"to  learn."  But.  is  that  the  real  answer?  It  shouldn't  be. 
Of  course  it  used  to  serve  mighty  well  in  grammar  school  as 
a  reply  to  maiden  aunts  or  others  of  age  and  wisdom  who 
merited  a  discreet  reply,  but  any  undergraduate  who  would 
answer  thus,  and  really  believe  that  he  had  given  a  complete 
reply,  would  show  that  he  had  a  misconception  of  the  function 
of  a  college. 

The  proper  and  complete  answer  is : 

"I  am  here  to  serve  an  apprenticeship  in  the  trade  of  life ; 
to  develop  those  qualities  which  I  must  have  to  insure  my 
future  well-being.  I  am  here  primarily  to  develop  my  in- 
tellect,  but   I   must   also   cultivate   those   powers   which   will 

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enable  me  to  carry  out  the  judgments  of  that  intellect  and 
to  be  a  success.  I  must  develop  initiative,  resourcefulness, 
loyalty  and  ability  to  take  my  place  in  society." 

College  faculties  have  perceived  that  class-room  instruction 
alone  can  never  develop  these  qualities.  Accordingly  they  have 
encouraged  extra-class  activities  such  as  athletics,  debating 
societies,  publications,  fraternities  and  social  events,  which 
simulate  conditions  prevailing  in  the  world  outside  and  give 
one  who  participates  in  them  training  which  afterwards  will 
prove  useful  to  him. 

The  student  who  thus  develops  or  who  even  tries  to  de- 
velop his  powers  in  his  college  days,  will  find  that  he  is  better 
fitted  to  solve  the  problems  of  life,  and  to  battle  with  the 
unfriendly  world,  than  he  would  be  if  he  were  to  suddenly 
emerge  from  a  world  of  "semester  hours"  and  "English  10's" 
to  a  world  where  the  slogan  is :  "It  isn't  what  you  know  that 
counts ;  it's  what  you  do." 

J.  J.  T. 

Books 

TO  define  "book"  is  a  complex  problem.  Commercially 
speaking  it  is  a  pile  of  printed  pages  bound  between  two 
covers  and  netting  anywhere  from  a  quarter  up  on  the  market. 
Yet,  it  is  even  more  than  that.  Milton  says,  "A  good  book 
is  the  precious  life-blood  of  a  master  spirit,  embalmed  and 
treasured  upon  on  purpose  to  a  life  beyond  life."  Its  scope 
is  universal.  Sometimes,  it  is  a  man's  innermost  thoughts 
revealed,  sometimes,  his  discoveries,  sometimes,  his  philos- 
ophy of  life;  and  sometimes,  it  is  your  or  his  or  my  soul, 
stripped  of  its  shams  and  held  up  as  it  were  in  a  mirror 
to  the  eyes  of  the  world. 

Books  come  into  being  under  conditions  as  varied  and 
contrary  as  are  the  moods  of  the  men  that  produce  them. 
From  out  of  an  Italian  prison  ages  ago  came  "The  Con- 
solation cf  Philosophy."  The  little  rat-infested  garrets  of 
the   cities  have   seen   written  books  that   are   a  marvel   even 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  193 

to  you  and  me.  The  sweetest  stories  have  often  come  from 
minds  racked  with  torture ;  and  the  gruesome  tales  upon  our 
bookshelves  may  have  had  their  origin  in  the  most  contented 
brain. 

Books  are  for  man.  They  purpose  to  teach  him  his  true 
place  in  the  mechanism  of  life.  Within  this  book  is  a  warning 
against  the  vanity  of  pride  and  within  that  is  the  spur  to 
deeds  of  might  and  worth.  These  pages  disclose  the  wonders 
of  the  earth,  the  sea  and  the  sky ;  and  those,  the  beauty  of  the 
bird,  the  tree  and  the  flower.  This  is  a  volume  of  Stagyrian 
wisdom  and  that  the  learning  of  a  modern  sage.  These  lines 
trace  the  downward  path  of  your  fellow  man  in  all  its  morbid 
and  depressing  aspects,  and  those  the  uphill  climb  of  a  mortal 
who  dared  to  look  with  wonder  and  longing  upon  the  stars. 

The  might  of  the  pen  is  an  axiom.  For  good  or  for  evil, 
the  book  is  an  influence,  unsurpassed  by  the  pulpits,  the 
school,  the  devil  or  the  flesh.  There  is  a  subtle  means  of 
infusing  error  or  truth  into  the  intellect  which  the  printed 
page  can  best  supply.  A  little  volume,  fresh  from  the  press, 
can  spread  more  vices  than  a  saint  can  reform  in  an  age. 
I  know  a  book,  whose  contents  millions  of  Christians  hold 
sacred.  It  is  the  infallible  righter  of  the  wronged,  and  un- 
erring guide  of  the  righteous.  Its  truths  have  permeated  the 
civilization  of  the  world  and  found  seeds  which  grew  into 
doubts  and  revolts  and  miseries.  The  monk  of  Wurtenburg 
wrote  his  book  of  treatises  and  the  Pope  lost  half  his  subjects. 
A  lady  of  the  North  dreamed  and  wrote  of  the  negro  slave 
and  many  a  Northern  reader  clasped  his  Southern  brother  in 
the  cold  arms  of  steel.  A  French  wretch  in  a  Terror  prison 
picked  up  a  copy  of  the  New  Testament,  read  and  was 
transformed.  When  a  few  weeks  later,  the  prison  gates  were 
thrown  open,  there  came  forth  De  Harpe,  the  man.  And  so, 
books  are  born  and  live  to  do  their  work  of  good  or  evil 
as  the  writers  intend.  But  sometimes,  books  that  were  meant 
for  one  purpose  result  in  another,  for  a  good  book  is  like 
a  good  pill,  concocted  and  prescribed  by  the  best  wits.  You 
find  it  ever  coated  with  a  sweetness  that  renders  it  palatable, 


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whilst  underneath  this  subterfuge  is  a  mixture,  bitter  to  our 
conceit,  our  vanity  and  foolish  ambition.  If  taken  wisely,  it 
cannot  but  prove  profitable.  But  too  often,  we  defeat  its 
original  purpose  by  looking  off  the  sugar-coating  and  dis- 
carding the  rest ;  that  is,  we  rush  through  the  pages  and  absorb 
what  is  of  interest,  but  never  take  home  one  thought  to  our- 
selves. 

V.  J.  Sheridan. 


Alumni 


The  Golden  Jubilee  Banquet 

ANEW  era  in  the  history  of  Loyola  University  dawned 
with  the  Golden  Jubilee  Banquet  held  at  the  Hotel  Sher- 
man on  Wednesday,  January  twenty-sixth.  It  was  not  only  the 
numbers  that  attended  that  presaged  bigger  and  better  things 
for  the  University,  but  also  their  spirit  of  fellowship  and 
unanimity,  and  their  evident  determination  to  make  the 
Alumni  Association  a  live  organization  which  will  lend  whole- 
hearted support  to  every  University  activity,  and  will  help  to 
make  the  next  fifty  years  of  Loyola's  life  even  more  successful 
than  the  preceding  half-century  has  been. 

The  banquet  opened  with  the  formal  election  of 

The  Class  of  1921 
to  the  Alumni  Association,  upon  a  motion  made  by  Mr. 
Bremner,  secretary  of  the  Silver  Jubilee  Class  of  1896.  Toast- 
master  Augustine  J.  Bowe,  President  of  the  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation, welcomed  the  new  members,  and  informed  all  those 
who  had  matriculated  with  the  Class  of  '21  but  who  had 
since  left  college,  that  this  election  made  them  also  eligible 
to  membership. 

Mr.  Bowe  then  thanked  Mr.  John  Moore  and  Rev. 
George  P.  Shanley,  S.  J.,  in  the  name  of  the  Association  for 
the  part  they  had  had  in  making  the  banquet  a  success,  by 
their  deligent  and  untiring  work  in  locating  "lost  Alumni." 
(Mr.  Moore  gave  over  seven  weeks  of  his  time  to  this  work 
alone. 

The  toastmaster  also  complimented 

The  Committee  on  Arrangements 
Mal.  Foley  Lambert  K.  Hayes  Harry  Beam 

for   their   work   in   the   planning   of   the   banquet,   and   their 

valiant  efforts  in  handling  the  difficult  situation  created  by  the 

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unusually  large  attendance.  Nearly  twice  more  than  were  ex- 
pected came,  but  this  could  not  be  guessed  from  the  manner 
in  which  they  were  accommodated. 

Lest  we  forget  in  our  enthusiasm,  it  is  well  here,  as  a 
companion  piece  to  the  "Those  Who  Got  In"  of  the  Loyola 
University  Nezvs   (our  esteemed  contemporary)   we  present, 

Those  Who  Missed  Their  Train 
Honorable  Herbert  Hoover,  Honorable  Joseph  Tumulty,  Ad- 
miral   Benson,    Judge  Martin    J.    Wade,    Senator    David    I. 
Walsh,  Rt.  Rev.  John  Cavanaugh. 

Immediately  after  the  noise  of  clashing  cutlery  had  sub- 
sided, 

George  Hrusa,  Violinist 

played  several  pieces  which  were  very  well  received.  He 
was  accompanied  by  James  Murphy,  '01. 

The  first  speaker  was  our  "fellow  student," 

Mr.  Anton  Schager 
of  Joliet,  dubbed  "Nestor"  by  our  aforementioned  esteemed 
contemporary,  the  Loyola  University  News.  In  spite  of  the 
fact  that  the  gentleman  was  a  member  of  the  first  class,  that 
of  1870,  the  cognomen  is,  to  say  the  least,  inappropriate,  as 
may  be  judged  from  the  incident  related  by  Mr.  Schager 
concerning  President  Bowe's  mistake  in  taking  him  for  his 
son.  We  presume  that  at  the  end  of  the  next  quarter- century, 
when  whoever  then  happens  to  be  president  of  the  Alumni 
Association,  approaches  Mr.  Schager  with  the  request  that 
he  ask  his  father  to  speak  at  the  Diamond  Jubilee  Banquet, 
he  will  respond  as  he  did  to  Mr.  Bowe  in  similar  circum- 
stances, with  "You're  talking  to  the  father  now." 

Mr.  Schager  spoke  of  the  early  days  of  the  College, 
stoutly  maintaining  that  the  students  of  his  day  raised  as 
much  —  cain  (you  know  what  we  mean)  as  those  of  any 
subsequent  period. 

In  conclusion  he  gave  all  credit  to  his  college  training 
for  the  success  he  had  attained,  and  said  that  whoever  re- 


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ceived  the  benefit  of  the  same  training  was  on  the  road  to 
success.    Following  a  piano  selection  by 
Mr.  A.  Huguelet 
organist  at  the  Cathedral,  came  the  golden-tongued  orator,- — 

Mr.  Michael  V.  Kannally 
Comment  on  his  speech  would  be  superfluous  as  it  appears 
elsewhere  in  the  Magazine,  but  we  cannot  refrain  from 
saying  to  the  newly  elected  Alumni  that  the  decade  since  they 
were  reciting  "I  love— you  love — she  loves,"  is  nearly  over, 
and  that  the  time  is  near  at  hand  when  "plucking  the  petals 
from  a  daisy,"  each  will  mutter  to  himself,  "She  loves  me — 
she  loves  me  not."  (All  announcements  should  be  addressed 
to  the  Alumni  Editor  of  the  Mag.) 

After  Mr.  Kannally  came,  not  a  "super-man,"  but  a  tenor 
of  the  Chicago  Grand  Opera  Association, 

Mr.  William  Rogerson 

a  former  student,  whose  rendition  of  several  selected  songs 
was  of  as  high  quality  as  the  applause  he  received  was  whole- 
hearted and  prolonged. 

In  the  name  of  the  five  hundred  and  forty-three  successful 
men  present  at  the  banquet,  we  wish  to  denounce  the  libelous 
assertion  of  the  Loyola  University  News  that  they  "looked 
relieved"  when 

Father  John  A.  McCarthy 
said  that  money,  social  position  and  commercial  advancement 
were  not  true  success,  but  that  the  loyalty  of  one's  friends 
often  was  (possibly  our  contemporary  —  not  esteemed  this 
time,  as  you  may  notice — may  endeavor  to  crawl  out  of  the 
difficulty  by  claiming  the  freedom  of  the  dramatic  form,  but 
all  fair-minded  men  will  agree  with  us  that  the  statement 
in  question  was  so  great  a  stretching  of  the  truth  as  to  harrow 
one's  aesthetic  soul.) 

Father  McCarthy's  wish,  on  behalf  of  the  priests  among 
the  Alumni,  was  that  the  University  should  continue  its  suc- 
cess in  the  future  as  in  the  past,  and  that  the  time  would  soon 


198  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

come  when  it  will  be  recognized  as  one  of  the  largest  and 
best  schools  in  the  country. 

Dr.  L.  D.  Moorhead 
Dean  of  Loyola  Medical  College,  the  next  speaker,  might  be 
considered   as   a   connecting   link   between   the  Arts   Alumni 
and   the   Medical  Alumni,   as   he   received  his   A.   B.   at  the 
College  in  1912. 

This  was  the  first  reunion  that  the  Medical  Alumni  took 
part  in,  and  it  was  peculiarly  appropriate  that  Dr.  Moorhead 
should  have  a  hand  both  in  the  giving  and  the  receiving  of 
the  toast :  "To  the  Medical  Alumni,  we  give  'the  hand  of 
friendship  and  a  hearty  welcome' ;  to  the  Medical  Faculty, 
'co-operation' ;  and  to  the  Administration,  'the  hand  of  help, 
a  desire  for  success,  and  God-speed.'  " 

Dr.  Moorhead  told  of  the  struggles  of  the  Medical  School 
from  an  inauspicious  beginning,  to  its  present  position,  where, 
enriched  with  its  numerous  hospital  affiliations,  and  having 
among  its  professors  former  members  of  the  faculties,  as  well 
as  graduates,  of  Harvard,  Columbia,  the  University  of  Chi- 
cago and  the  University  of  Padua,  it  ranks  with  the  best 
schools  of  the  country. 

Never  have  we  seen  the  "psychological  moment"  so 
speedily  recognized  as  it  was  by  the  Class  of  '21  immediately 
before — - 

Rev.  John  B.  Furay,  S.J. 

rose  to  speak.  He  was  gently  reminded  by  these  perspicacious 
gentlemen  that  now  was  an  exceptionally  appropriate  moment 
for  the  granting  of  a  holiday.  (We  are  silent  as  to  the  success 
of  the  plot,  though  perhaps  the  statement  that  fifty  years  is 
a  long  time  in  the  life  of  a  man,  but  a  short  one  in  the  life 
of  an  institution,  aroused  a  deep  foreboding  in  the  breasts 
of  the  conspirators.) 

Father  Furay  related  the  story  of  the  establishment  of 
St.  Ignatius  College.  In  1857  Father  Arnold  Damen  came  to 
Chicago,  then  a  struggling  frontier  town.  Despite  the  seem- 
ing unfitness  of  the  place  for  such  an  undertaking,   Father 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  199 

Damen  began  to  dream  of  founding  a  college,  for  "wherever 
a  Jesuit  places  his  foot  permanently,  whether  in  India,  Japan, 
or  China,  in  South  Africa  or  South  America,  he  is  constantly 
searching  for  a  place  where  he  may  establish  an  institution 
of  higher  learning." 

Father  Damen's  plan  was  discussed  long  and  carefully,  as 
witness  the  following  entry  in  the  house  history  for  1865  : 

"The  consultors  do  not  think  that  it  is  time  as  yet  to 
begin  the  college."  Finally,  in  1869,  the  erection  of  St.  Ignatius 
College  was  begun  on  the  site  of  a  Lutheran  church. 

As  the  foundation  of  the  College  was  due  to  Father  Da- 
men's  unusual  executive  ability,  broad  vision,  and  deep  and 
lasting  faith  in  its  growth;  so,  much  of  the  progress  of  later 
years  is  due  to  Father  John  Virden.  He  it  was  who  began  the 
library,  which,  built  up  through  the  aid  of  Air.  William 
Onahan  and  Mr.  John  Naghten,  now  numbers  over  fifty  thou- 
sand volumes,  among  them  many  of  the  rarest  books. 

Father  Furay  also  praised  the  efforts  of  all  those  others 
who  have  had  a  hand  in  the  growth  of  the  University,  and 
stated  that  this  year  it  has  had  the  largest  enrollment  in  its 
history. 

The  Golden  Jubilee  Banquet  was  but  an  affair  of  the 
moment,  a  pause  to  look  back  at  work  well  done,  and  to  take 
a  breath  before  entering  on  the  path  ahead,  but  there  is  no 
doubt  but  that  each  of  the  five  hundred  and  forty-three  loyal 
Alumni  present  recognized  in  the  spirit  that  prevailed  a  guide- 
post  that  points  to  future  success. 


J-  J-  T. 


Among  those  present  were : 

Ahern,  M.  J.,  1474  Catalpa  Street. 
Alexander,  C.  B.,  M.  D.,  Harvey,  Illinois. 
i\mberg,  E.  J.,  6246  Glenwood  Avenue. 
Ambrose,  Edward,  3931  West  Congress  Street. 
Ambrose,  Ralph,  3931  West  Congress  Street. 
j^nderson,  George  J.,  1112  Taylor  Street. 
Anderson,  J.  E.,  1315  Norwood  Street. 


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Anderson,  T.   M.,  211    North  Laramie  Avenue. 

Anderson,  W.  J.,  2232  East  70th  Street. 

Banks,  Edgar  C,  4408  North  Ashland  Avenue. 

Barrett,  A.  E. 

Barrett,  Eugene  A.,  6520  Minerva  Avenue. 

Barrett,  Lawrence  J.,  6520  Minerva  Avenue. 

Baumer,  H.  W.,   1115  Greenleaf  Avenue,  Wilmette. 
yBeam,  H.  P.,  3347  Western  Avenue. 

Beauvais,  Louis  J.,  3020  Sheridan  Road. 

Beckmann,  W.  E.,  P.  O.,  Box  442,  Park  Ridge. 

Bedessem,  P.,  M.  D.,  1421  Berwyn  Avenue. 

Behan,  Louis  J.,  5640  South  Park  Avenue. 

Behrendt,  George,  4131   West  North  Avenue. 

Belan,  L. 

Bellenbach,  M. 

Bentley,  Walter  J.,  1349  Winnemac  Avenue. 

Benz,  John  T.,  1118  North  Kedvale  Avenue. 

Berghoff,  A.  C,  2714  Pine  Grove  Avenue. 
"'Blanc,  S.  E.,  154  North  Avenue,  Aurora,  Illinois. 
^/Blouin,  Henry  A.,  11757  Lafayette  Avenue. 

Boughan,  Andrew  B.,  659  Wellington  Avenue. 
,/Bowe,  A.  G.,  3240  West  Washington  Blvd. 
WBovve,  William,  3240  West  Washington  Boulevard. 

Bransfield,  M.  J.,  941  Winona  Avenue. 

Breen,  Rev.  F.  X.,  S.  J.,  St.  Ignatius  College. 

Breen,  Rev.  Paul,  S.  J.,  Loyola  Academy. 

Breen,  Joseph  B.,  1221  Millard  Avenue. 
^Bremner,  D.  F.,  Jr.,  417  Barry  Avenue. 
^/Bremner,  James  R.,  551  Stratford  Place. 

Brennan,  John  F.,  923  South  Springfield  Avenue. 

Broderick,  Frank 

Brodsky,  J.,  M.  D.,  954  North  Rockwell  Street. 

Brown,  James  L.,  5517  West  Monroe  Street. 
^/Brundage,  Howard  A.,   1801   Conway  Building. 

Buhman,  Gilbert  G.,  2719  Hampden  Court. 

Bulger,  J.  F.,  1830  West  22nd  Street. 

Bulger,  John  P.,  4504  West  Adams  Street. 

Burke,  Cornelius  P.,  6548  South  Morgan  Street. 

Burke,  Rev.  Patrick  J.,  St.  Agnes  Hospital,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Burke,  W.  D.,  3238  Le  Moyne. 

Burns,  George  H.,  4835  Vincennes  Avenue. 

Burns,  J.  W.  S.,  109  N.  Dearborn  Street. 

Burns,  Robert  P.,  3810  South  Albany  Avenue. 

Butterfield,  Frank  J.,  3804  North  Leavitt  Street. 


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'Byrne,  Charles  E.,  3264  Washington  Boulevard. 

Byrne,  Richard  C,  5112  Washington  Boulevard. 

Byrnes,  Ralph  J.,  4320  Vincennes  Avenue. 

Cagney,  J.  E.,  6975  Ridge  Boulevard. 

Campbell,  D.  D..  M.  D. 

Campbell,  Walter  S.,  136  South  Mayfield  Avenue. 

Carey,  R.  E. 

Carnev,  P.  S.,  653  Brian  Place. 

Carroll,  D.  M. 

Carroll,  W.  A.,  936  West  53rd  Street. 

Cavanagh,  Norbert  J. 

Cavanagh,  R.  A.,  106  North  La  Salle  Street. 

Cavanaugh,  John  A.,  M.  D.,  817  Lafayette  Avenue. 

Cawley,  Aloysius  B.,   1047  East  47th  Street. 

Chambers,  A.  W.,  5919  Drexel  Avenue. 
^-^Chouinard,  Felix  G.,  3256  Jackson  Boulevard. 

Clarke,  Stephen  T.,  Jr.,  5529  Magnolia  Avenue. 

Code,  William  E.,  M.  D.,  65  East  Chicago  Avenue. 
^Coffey,  James  B.,  210  South  Kostner  Avenue. 

Colnon,  Aaron,  72  West  Washington  Street. 

Collins,  Thomas  P.,  3934  North  Paulina  Street. 
^/Conlon,  Bernard  A.,  1253  West  Marquette  Road. 

Condon,  David  F.,  1121  Roosevelt  Road. 

Condon,  Edward  F.,  Jr.,  5305  Quincy  Street. 
__Condon,  Lawrence  J.,  5305  Quincy  Street. 

Conley,  F.  T. 

Connell,  J.  D. 

Connelly,  L.  J.,  1912  Ridgeway  Avenue. 

Conners,  Q.  V. 

Connery,  William  M.    6234  Winthrop  Avenue. 

Connors,  C.  H.,  M.  D.,  818  Hyde  Park  Boulevard. 

Convey,  John  T.,  6800  Justine  Street. 
*^ Cornell,  Theodore  E.    1220  Hood  Avenue. 
•^-Cornell,  Rev.  Walter,  Loyola  Academy. 

Coughlin,  Edward  B.,  2958  Walnut  Street. 

Coughlin,  John  P.,  M.  D.,  4601   North  Western  Avenue. 

Coughlin,  Waller  J.,  2958  Walnut  Street. 

Coyle,  James  F.,  2041  South  Kedzie  Avenue. 

Cremer,  Bernard,  806  Ingleside  Place,  Evanston. 

Cribben,  Mark  T.,  2720  West  61st  Street. 
^/Crowley,  G.  E.,  4730  Drover  Street. 

Crowley,  W.  F.,  2124  Central  Park  Avenue. 

Crowtch,  B.  F.,  M.  D. 

Cruise,  Edward  J.,  1411  Albion  Avenue. 


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Cummings,  B.  F.,  108  LaSalle  Street. 

Curda,  Edmund  F.,  640  North  Central  Avenue. 

Curran,  George  A.,  206  City  Hall. 

Daniels,  Lee  E..  555-175  West  Jackson  Boulevard. 

Dankowski,  Rev.  Edward,  8237  South  Shore  Drive. 

Davis,  J.  W.,  1209  Astor  Street. 

Delany,  William  S.,  6718  Loomis  Street. 

Del  Beccarro,  Edward,  M.  D.,  1651  West  Van  Buren  Street. 

Delihant,  W.  T..  20  West  Jackson  Boulevard. 
-iDever,  Daniel  M.,  502  —  56  West  Randolph  Street. 
TDevine,  John  B.,  6812  South  Racine  Avenue. 

Dillon,  Rev.  Edward,  6045  South  Michigan  Avenue. 

Dillon,  J.  J.,  4324  West  Adams  Street. 

Dillon,  James  B.,  4324  Wrest  Adams  Street. 

Dolan,  M.  D.,  6333  Ingleside  Avenue. 
(Donahue,  Leo  L.,  155  North  Clark  Street. 
^  Donlan,  George  C,  1038  Byron  Street. 
I  Donoghue,  Charles  B.,  4860  Kenmore  Avenue. 

Donoghue,  George  T.,  4517  North  Hermitage  Avenue. 

Dooley,  John  P.,  9846  Vincennes  Avenue. 

Dooley,  William  G.,  3158  Roosevelt  Road. 

Dowdle,  Raymond  R.,  3010  Washington  Boulevard. 

Dowdle,  Thomas  P.,  2613  Hampden  Court. 

Doyle,  Chas.,  Marquette  University,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Doyle,  Ignatius  P.,  4102  West  Monroe  Street. 
Nv^vC^    J~tey4epLeo- J,^13j2X--L^unt  Avenue. 

Doyle,  N.  M.,  M.  D.,  3179  Broadway. 

Doyle,  T.  P. 

Driscoll,  Tohn  C. 

Duffy,  Edward  J.,  6943  Dante  Street. 

Duffy,  John  T./911  West  Garfield  Boulevard. 

Dunlavy,  E.  J. 

Dunn,  Walter  E.,  35  North  Mayfield  Avenue. 
v/Dunne,  Edward  W.,  122  North  Central  Avenue. 

Dunne,  Rt.  Rev.  Edmund  M.,  Bishop  of  Peoria,  Illinois. 

Dunne,  Joseph  P.,  5320  West  Adams  Street. 

Dwyer,  James  L.,  4823  North  Ashland  Avenue. 

Edwards,  Robert  L. 

Egan,  George  D.,  4112  West  Harrison  Street. 

Egan,  John  F.,  4112  West  Harrison  Street. 

Elliott,  Glynn  J.,  746  Junior  Terrace. 

Elward,  Joseph  F.,  5642  South  Michigan  Avenue. 

Ennessy,  Pierce  R.,  5713  Harper  Avenue. 

Enright,  John  J.,  Jr.,  6  North  Clark  Street. 


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'Esmaker,  S.  ].,  Rev.  John  B.,  St.  Ignatius  College. 

■Farrell,  W.  J.,  1426  Hollywood  Avenue. 

Fenelon,  M.  J. 

Fenlon,  L.  J.,  832  North  St.  Louis  Avenue. 

Fenlon,  W.  J.,  3822  Wilcox  Street. 
,  Finn,  John,  6444  Lakewood  Avenue. 
^Finn,  Joseph  H.,  5214  Lakewood  Avenue. 
7  Finn,  N.  R.,  5607  Pine  Grove  Avenue.~/~ 

Finn,  W.  P.,  5214  Lakewood  Avenue. 
r/Finnegan,  J.  J.,  130  North  Wells  Street. 

Fitzgerald,  G.,  4723  W'est  Adams  Street. 

Fitzpatrick,  J.  M.,  204  North  Lamon  Avenue. 

Fitzpatrick,  T.  A. 

Fitzmaurice,  G.  R.,  19  South  La  Salle  Street. 

Flaherty,  W.  J.,  1309,  69  West  Washington. 
.^Flanagan,  J.  J.  (Bincley  &  Co.),  11  South  La  Salle  Street. 

Flanagan,  J.  E.,  3917  Polk  Street. 

Flanagan,  J.  J.,  2726  West  15th  Place. 

Flannery,  D. 
^oley,  J.  L.,  M.  D.,  6219  South  Albany  Avenue. 

Foley,  J.  J.,  2044  Roosevelt  Road. 

Foley,  J.  A.,  228  North  Latrobe  Avenue, 
^oley,  M.  M.,  2044  Roosevelt  Road. 
vFoley,  R.  M. 

Foley,  T.  J.,  2033  W'abansia  Avenue. 

Foley,  F.  P.,  M.  D.,  1505  North 'Menard  Avenue. 

Foley,  Rt.  Rev.  Msgr.  W.,  1012  East  47th  Street. 

Fortier,  A.  P.,  5058  South  Halsted  Street. 

Fox,  Rev.  E.  J.    2060  Roosevelt  Road. 

Franey,  W.  U.,  431  First  National  Bank  Building. 

Frawley,  A.  R.,  3825  Jackson  Boulevard. 

Furlong,  Rev.  P.,  4650  North  Ashland  Avenue. 
^  Featherstone,  G.  F.,  3516  Monroe  Street. 

Garraghan,  Dr.,  911  Airdrie  Place. 
^•Garvy,  A.  C,  6000  Sheridan  Road. 

Gartlan,  B.  J.,  2601  Wabash  Avenue. 

Gates,  Rev.  S.  Highwood,  Illinois,  St.  James  Church, 
w^auer,  J.  A.,  1933  Waveland  Avenue. 

Gearin,  J.  J.,  4502  Washington  Boulevard. 

Gearty,  Rev.  J.,  3040  Walnut  Street. 

Gehant,  J.  C,  2425  North  Rockwell  Street. 

Gibbons,  R.  P.,  6235  Glenwood  Avenue. 

Gibson,  L.  S.,  6614  West  Madison,  Oak  Park. 

Gill,  C.  R.,  7829  Union  Avenue. 


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Glennon,  Rev.  J.  A.,  1650  North  Paulina  Street. 

Gleeson,  J.  P.,  2914  Wilcox  Street. 

Glowczewsky,  G.  J. 

Goodwin,  Rev.  E.,  12  E.  Franklin  Street,  Downer's  Grove,  111. 

Golden,  Dr.  J.,  4758  Grand  Boulevard. 

Goodwillie,  C.  F.,  1208  West  22nd  Street. 

Gorman,  J.  J.,  1801  Conway  Building. 
^Gorman,  Dr.  J.  S.,  3962  Colorado  Avenue. 

Gorman,  M.  J. 

Graber,  J.  A.,  5537  South  Peoria  Street. 

Graham,  R.  E.,  6545  Bosworth  Street. 

Grant,  T.  P.,  56  West  Randolph  Street. 

Graves,  Dr.  J.  P. 

Griffin,  Dr.  D.  J,,  2204  South  Michigan  Avenue. 
J3tiffin,  W.  L. 

Grogan,  J.  J. 
t/Groves,  W.  B.,  2439  West  Harrison  Street. 

Gueroult,  N.  Edward,  6516  Newgoard  Avenue. 

Guinane,  T.  J.,  7755  Rhodes  Avenue. 

Gunlock,  F.  D.,  827  Eastwood  x\venue. 

Haggerty,  R.  E.,  656  Wrightwood  Avenue. 

Haggerty,  W.  D. 

Halpin,  F.,  M.  D.,  4403  Sheridan  Road. 

Hanzlin,  F.  J.,  2500  West  50th  Street. 

Hanrahan,  W.  M.,  4741  Langley  Avenue. 

Harks,  E.  B.,  4238  North  Pauline  Street. 

Harris,  E.  G.,  3510  Reta  Avenue. 

Harvey,  Fred,  710  South  Lincoln  Street. 

Hawley,  James. 

Hayes,'  J.  C,  6800  Sheridan  Road. 
v/Hayes,  Lambert,  3226  Jackson  Boulevard. 

Heeney,  Rev.  M.,  9525  Commercial  Avenue. 

Henricks,  J.  H.,  133  West  Washington  Street. 

Herr,  F.  M.,  1623  Columbia  Avenue. 

Hewson,  H.  S.,  6925  Yale  Avenue. 

Hoban,  Msgr.  E.  F.,  1555  North  State  Street. 

Holden,  S.  E.,  Chicago  Title  &  Trust  Co.,  126  S.  Parkside  Ave. 

Horan,  C.  D.,  3333  Washington  Boulevard. 

Howe,  F.  J.,  1944  West  Adams  Street. 

Howe,  T.  J. 

Howell,  D.  H.,  M.  D.,  1344  Irving  Park  Boulevard. 

Hurley,  F.  A.,  2255  Warren  Avenue. 

Ignowsici,  V.  P.,  8539  Exchange  Avenue. 

Johnston,  L.  J. 


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Jones,  M.  H.,  529  South  Franklin  Street. 

Jordan,  G.  T.,  M.  D.,  30  North  Michigan  Avenue. 

Josler,  E.  B.,  6022  Rhodes  Avenue. 
^Joy,  C.  H.,  4627  Maiden  Street. 

Kantney,  Edgard  J.,  1928  Lincoln  Avenue. 

Kane   James  F.,  2052  Cleveland  Avenue. 
^-Kane,  F.  W.,  2957  Jackson  Boulevard. 

Kane,  Rev.  W.,  St.  Ignatius  College. 
^Cannally,  M.  V.,  5001  Greenwood  Avenue. 

Kavanaugh,  C.  E.,  1234  West  Kinzie  Street. 

Kealy,  J.  A.,  4159  Wilcox  Street. 

Keating,  W.  T.,  848  Lakeside  Place. 

Kech,  A.  L.,  950  Crescent  Place. 

Keefe,  E.  T.,  5002  West  Monroe  Street. 

Keefe,  J.  T. 

Keefe,  W.  S.,  2035  East  73rd  Street. 

Kehoe,  J.  E.,  743  Oakwood  Boulevard. 

Kelly,  J.  E.,  M.  D.,  30  North  Michgan  Avenue. 

Keely,  G.  R.,  2346  Coyne  Street. 

Keelv,  Rev.  J.  L.,  Holv  Name  Cathedral. 

Keelv,  M.  J.,  M.  D.,  31  North  State  Street. 

Kelly,  J.  J. 

Kellv,  J.  V.,  St.  Ignatius  College. 

Kennedy,  Rev.  H.,  2648  West  39th  Street. 

Kenney,  J.  A.,  6543  Woodlawn  Avenue. 
-"Kerwin,  R.  M.,  175  West  Jackson  Street. 

Kettles,  A.  W.,  27  Latrobe  Avenue. 

Kevin,  T.,  5549  South  Union  Avenue. 

Kiley,  T.  J. 

Killeen,  J.,  M.  D.,  2044  West  Roosevelt  Road. 

Killeen,  W.  H. 

Kletsche,  C.  H.,  3408  North  Springfield  Avenue. 

Koenig,  J.  A. 

Koenig,  L.,  6257  Wayne  Avenue. 

Kollar,  J.,  M.  D.,  13614  Indiana  Avenue,  Riverdale,  111. 

Kopf   R.  E.,  920  Buena  Terrace. 

Kowalski,  J.  A.,  1220  Tribune  Building. 

Krebs,  C.  E.,  3901  Flournoy  Street. 

Krebs,  G.  M.,  4547  Dover  Street. 

Kreuscher,  P.  H.,  M.  D.,  30  North  Michigan  Avenue. 
-"-Krupka,  E.  C,  1928  South  Springfield  Avenue. 

Kruse,  T.  J.,  423  Oakwood  Boulevard. 

Kurtz,  E.,  27  North  Lockwood  Avenue. 

Lahey,  William  S.,  2008  Estes  Avenue. 


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Lambeau,  A.  O.,  6219  South  Albany  Avenue. 

Lambert,  M.  A.,  Box  325,  Des  Plaines,  Illinois. 

Lannon,  Rev.  J.  J.,  912  Linden  Avenue,  Wilmette. 

Larkin,  Cyril  J.,  M.  D.,  7136  Crandon. 

Lasecki,  James  A.,  3046  Logan  Boulevard. 
_^Laughlin,  D.  A.,  624  Independence  Boulevard. 

La  Voie,  HenryF.,  3057  Franklin  Boulevard. 

Lawley,  William  F.,  3627  Polk  Street. 

Lawlor,  James  J. 

Lawlor,  James  J.,  5018  Sheridan  Road. 

Lawson,  Lowell  A. 

Leahy,  James  J.,  6320  Lakewood  Avenue. 

Leahv,  Maurice  F.,  159  Lacrosse  Avenue. 

Lee,  T.  J. 

Lemmer,  John  L. 

Leyden,  Chas.  J. 

Lies,  Mark  A.,  Riverside,  111. 

Lockie,  David  F. 
^iZong,  John  M.,  7731  South  Green  Street. 

Looby,  M.  F. 

Luken,  Norbert  H.,  7440  Merrill  Avenue. 

Lundy,  Raymund  E.,  6335  South  Hermitage  Avenue. 

Lusk,  F.  B.,  4700  North  Ashland  Avenue. 

Lynch,  J.  R.,  4551  Sheridan  Road. 

Lynch,  Robert  D. 

Lyons,  Rev.  Luke  H.,  6214  Glenwood  Avenue. 

Lyons,  Rev.  W.  P.,  S.  J.,  St.  Ignatius  College. 

McArdle,  R.  P..  Wilmette,  Illinois. 

McAuley,  J.  Vincent,  3651  Michigan  Avenue. 

McAuliffe,  John  C,  Maywood,  Illinois. 

McCabe,  Arnold  A.,  4525  Dover  Street. 

McCabe,  John  R.,  1617  South  Millard  Avenue. 

McCanna,  B.  F.,  106  South  Mayfield  Avenue. 

McCarthy,  Clement  I.,  5258  Quincy  Street. 

McCarthy,  Rev.  John  A.,  Holy  Name  Cath.,  30  E.  Superior  St. 
^McClellan,  Rev.  Chas.  A.,  908  North  Hamlin  Avenue. 

McClevy,  F.  Marshall,  1131  Loyola  Avenue. 

McConnell,  James  V.,  5834  Washington  Boulevard. 

McDermott,  Frank  T.,  1002  Ashland  Boulevard. 
JVtcDevitt,  Bernard,  Jr.,  29  South  Parkside  Avenue. 

McDevitt,  John  D.,  29  South  Parkside  Avenue. 

McEvoy,  Rev.  M.  J.,  St.  Patrick's  Church,  McHenry,  Illinois. 

McGah,  William  J.,  211  Pleasant  Street,  Oak  Park. 

McGinness,  W.  J.,  R.  722,  111  West  Monroe  Street. 


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^-McGivena,  Leo  E..  6136  Eberhart  Avenue. 

McGorran,  Joseph  A.,  4726  Magnolia  Avenue. 

McGrath,  J.  G. 

McGregor,  John  L. 

McGuire,  M.  F.,  M.  D.,  5138  University  Avenue. 

McGuire,  Walter  G.,  M.  D,  4822  Ellis  Avenue. 

McHugh,  E.  P.,  2951  Washington  Boulevard. 

Mclntyre,  George  V. 

Mclntyre,  Raymond  B.,  4225  West  Jackson  Boulevard. 

McKenna,  Arthur,  7462  Sheridan  Road. 

MlcKenna,  Philip  J. 

McKenty,  Robert  T-,  1120  Lovola  Avenue. 

McKeon,  V.  V. 

McLaughlin,  Aloysius  J. 

McLaughlin,  M. 

McMahon,  A.  D.,  1501  Glendale  Avenue. 

McNally,  John,  7956  South  Peoria  Street. 
_^McNamara,  John  T.,  1846  WTest  13th  Street. 

McNellis,  R."  V.,  Jr.,  5949  Winthrop  Avenue. 
/-McNichols,  Frank  J.,  3523  Tackson  Boulevard. 

McShane,  G.  S.,  M.  D. 
_JVladden,  William,  6600  Newguard  Avenue. 

Magner,  Joseph  F. 

Mahan,  Rev.  P.  J.,  S.  J.,  1076  Roosevelt  Road. 

Maher,  James,  1122  Loyola  Avenue. 
v/  Mangan,  James  T.,  7700  Lowe  Avenue. 

Martin,  J.  E.,  4036  Patterson  Street. 

Meaney,  Daniel  E.,  5514  South  Lincoln  Street. 
JVfehren,  Robert  J.,  3731  North  Crawford  Avenue. 

Melady,  Jerry  L.,  4-49  Belden  Avenue. 

Mercer,  C.  E.,  4810  Calumet  Avenue. 

Miklyn,  A.  J. 

Miniter,  Stephen  J.,  1151   North  Shore  Avenue. 

Mitchell,  Mark  J.,  1528  East  65th  Place. 

Mix,  Charles,  M.  D.,  5321  Greenwood  Avenue. 

Molloy,  John  J.,  4626  Prairie  Avenue. 
^  Moore,  J.  K.,  6731  Indiana  Avenue. 

Moohead,  E.  L.,  M.  D.,  3517  West  Jackson  Boulevard. 
JVToorhead,  L.  D.,  M.  D.,  3517  West  Jackson  Boulevard. 

Moran,  Frank  F.,  3828  West  Adams  Street. 

Moran,  Charles  J.,  1748  Jarvis  Avenue. 

Morrison,  M.  A.,  208  South  La  Salle  Street. 

Morrison,  Rev.  Sidney,  St.  Catherine's  Church,  Oak  Park,  111. 
'Muehlman,  Rev.  P.,  S.  J.,  Marquette  University,  Milwaukee. 


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Mullaney,  Paul  L.,  5440  Winthrop  Avenue. 
Mullaney,  Robert  B. 

Mullen,  Timothy  F.,  3738  Pine  Grove  Avenue. 
Mullens,  Rev.  P.  A.,  S.  J.,  1076  Roosevelt  Road. 
Murphy,  James  S.,  4352  Adams  Street. 
Murphy,  R.  A. 

Murphy,  Richard  J.,  4821  Dorchester  Avenue. 
Murphy,  Sherwin,  4821  Dorchester  Avenue. 
Murphy,  Thomas  A.,  7523  South  Park  Avenue. 
Murray,  Rev.  Ambrose,  612  North  Western  Avenue. 
Naghten,  Frank  A.,  175  West  Jackson  Boulevard. 
Naghten,  Jas.  I.,  175  West  Jackson  Boulevard. 
Nagle,  R.  A. 

Nicely,  George  M.,  6358  Parnell  Avenue. 
Nolan,  Father  Thomas,  7750  Emerald  Avenue. 
Novak,  Anna  F.,  M.  D.,  1412  West  18th  Street. 
O'Brien,  Daniel 

O'Connell,  J.  T.,  M.  D,  1330  Birchwood  Avenue. 
O'Connell,  Robert 
O'Connor,  D.  F.,  M.  D. 
O'Connor,  John  F.,  3437  Calumet  Avenue. 
O'Day,  William  M.,  4940  Van  Buren  Street. 
O'Donoghue,  J.  B.,  M.  D.,   1131   Brvn  Mawr  Avenue. 
O'Hare,  Dennis,  6028  South  May  Street. 
Oink,  William,  716  Clarence  Avenue,  Oak  Park. 
O'Neill,  E.  J.,  M.  D.,  1059  West  Garfield  Boulevard. 
O'Neil,  John  P..  M.  D.,  Moraine  Hotel,  Highland  Park,  111. 
O'Neil,  William  E,,  M.  D.,  800  Davis  Street,  Evanston,  111. 
Orndoff   B.  H.,  M.  D.,  710  South  Lincoln  Street. 
O'Reilly,  C.  H.,  208  South  La  Salle  Street. 
^/O'Reilly,  Joseph,  1525  East  65th  Street. 

O'Shea,  Rev.  Timothy  E.,  6214  South  Sangamon. 

Padden,  M.  E.,  Jr.,  7111  Calumet  Avenue. 

Pakenham,  John  O. 

Parowski,  Stephen   3935  North  Kilbourn  Avenue. 

Pechous,  B.  E.,  M.  D.,  2200  West  23rd  Street. 

Pechous,  Charles  E.,  3100  West  25th  Street. 

Phee,  Clifford  T. 

Phelan,  Thomas  F.  X.,  ML  D.,  3142  North  Cicero  Avenue. 

Picekett,  James  J.,  823  East  90th  Street. 

Pickett,  William  J.,  1546  East  75th  Street. 

Pigott,  Robert  I.,  3034  Jackson  Boulevard. 

Pollard,  John  J.,  2143  S.  Trumbull  Avenue. 

Poynton,  Joseph  P.,  7757  South  Shore  Drive. 


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Quan,  Michael  ].,  1016  Ashland  Block. 

Quigley,  Esther  R,  M.  D.,  1439  East  55th  Street. 
^Ouigley,  Walter  T.,  1247  Arthur  Avenue. 

Quinlan    James  M.,  3019  South  Michigan  Avenue. 

Quinn,  E.  J.,  3811  West  Polk  Street. 
^Ouinn,  Harry  A.,  140  North  Dearborn  Street. 

Quinn,  Rev.  Henry,  10513  Torrence  Avenue. 

Quinn,  James  R.,  3542  5th  Avenue. 

Raab,  M.  J.,  940  North  Austin  Avenue,  Oak  Park,  Illinois. 

Ramsey,  Charles  E.,  Wilmette,  Illinois. 

Ramen,  J.  Alphonse,  1763  Highland  Avenue. 
^-Reedy,  James  W.,  134  South  La  Salle  Street. 

Reilly,  James  J.    149  North  Leamington  Avenue. 

Reis,  John  M.,  632  East  41st  Street. 

Reuland,  Nicholas  J.,  1608  Milwaukee  Avenue. 

Rhode,  Rt.  Rev.  Paul  P.,  Green  Bay,  Wis. 

Richards,  Harlan,  719  North  Laramie  Avenue. 

Roche,  Pierre,  556  Arlington  Place. 

Rodgers,  J.  A.,  521  Linden  Avenue,  Oak  Park. 

Roonev,  George  A.,  2823  East  76th  Street. 

Rose,  J.  C,  M.  D. 

Rosenberg,  William  A.,  M.  D. 

Roubik,  C.  J.,  Jr.,  1857  South  Avers  Avenue. 
_JR.udziewicz,  S.  G.,  R.  202  Federal  Building,  Rockford,  111. 

Rujer,  U.  B.,  M.  D. 

Russell,  lames  V.,  1508  West  20th  Street. 

Ryan   John  H.,  4820  Sheridan  Road. 

Ryan,  John  V.,  6828  Bishop  Street. 

Ryan    loseph  X.,  4331  South  Michigan  Avenue. 

Ryan    Leo  M. 

Ryan    Marcus  C,  4331  South  Michigan  Avenue. 

Ryan    Richard  H. 

Ryan,  W.  E.,  6647  Stewart  Avenue. 
-^Sackley,  John  B.,  5415  Wayne  Avenue. 

Sackley,  Sidney  J.,  2949  Washington  Boulevard. 
^J&ammons,  Francis  E.,   1026  Ashbury  Avenue,  Evanston,  111. 

Sawyer,  C.  F. 
„^Sayre,  Louis  T.    2515  East  74th  Street. 

Schaf,  Augustine  L.,  32  North  Washington  Street. 

Sheehan,  Patrick  J.,  3258  Sunnyside  Avenue. 

Schmidt,  Karl  H.,  M.  D.,  14  East  Washington  Street. 

Schmitz,  Henry,  M.  D.,  25  East  Washington  Street. 

Schnaer,  Carl  H.,  M.  D.,  6101  South  Halsted  Street. 

Schniedurvid,  E.  A.,  5946  Race  Avenue. 


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Scott,  I.  J.,  Eau  Galle,  Wisconsin. 

Seng,  John 

Seng,  Valentine,  Jr.,  6675  Glenwood  Avenue. 

Shanley,  George  P.,  S.  J.,  St.  Ignatius  College. 

Shannon,  John  A.,  1022  Loyola  Avenue. 
^Sheridan,  Rey  E.,  6531  Drexel  Avenue. 
^.Sheridan,  Vincent  J.,  6531  Drexel  Avenue. 

Shortall   James  P.,  235  West  Garfield  Boulevard. 

Sims,  Murray,  929  East  42nd  Street. 

Simunich,  William  A.,  1116  Milwaukee  Avenue. 
^Sinnott,  E.  M.,  5511  Quincy  Street. 

Snyder,  Clarence  A. 

Soboroff,  Simon,  M.  D.,  1101  North  Western  Avenue. 
J^omers,  Walter  E.,  5737  Lowe  Avenue, 
^fubbs,  Edwin  J.,  140  WTest  Van  Buren  Street. 

Sujak,  Frank   3044  South  Kenneth  Avenue. 

Suldane  John  A.,  3945  West  Monroe  Street. 

Sullivan,  C.  E.,  2856  Washington  Boulevard. 

Sullivan,  Elliott  M.,  4711  South  Michigan  Avenue. 

Sullivan,  E.  T. 

Sullivan,  George  D.,  3520  North  Hamlin  Avenue. 

Sullivan,  J.  E. 

Sullivan,  N.  M.,  M.  D.,  4020  W.  Adams  Street. 

Sullivan,  Peter  L.,  663  Wellington  Avenue. 
/Sullivan,  Philip  L.,  1002  Ashland  Block. 

Sullivan,  Philip  M. 

Sullivan,  T.  J.,  M.  D.,  4709  South  Michigan  Avenue. 

Sullivan,  Thomas  J.,  Jr.,  M.  D.,  4417  Drexel  Avenue. 

Sullivan,  W.  J.,  M.  D.,  4720  South  Michigan  Avenue. 

Sweeney,  James  A.,  7730  Emerald  Avenue. 

Taylor,  Tames  J.,  1316  North  Shore  Avenue. 

Taylor,  Arthur  C,  M.  D.,  4403  Sheridan  Road. 

Terleche,  Rev.  Arthur  F.,  2060  Roosevelt  Road. 

Terrell,  William  J. 
_/rhiele,  Ernest  W.,  512  West  60th  Place. 

Thiel,  Michael  M. 
-Tierney,  Cyril  W.,  2921  Congress  Street. 

Tierney,  Rev.  W.  D.,  S.  J.,  Loyola  Academy. 

Trainor,  Rev.  H.  A.,  Randolph  and  Desplaines  Streets. 

Trainor,  Emmet 

Tomberg,  H.,  M.  D.,  4552  South  Ashland  Avenue. 

Troy,  John  E.,  M.  D.,  4403  Sheridan  Road. 
->'Tuohy,  Payton  J.,  431  First  National  Bank  Building. 
„  Turner,  Edward  V.,  4107  Adams  Street. 


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Turner,  Frank  T.,  4257  Wilcox  Street. 

Turner,  Thomas  I. 

Tyrrell,  John  F.,  1408  Dempster  Street,  Evanston. 

Vachout,  M.  H.,  1403  South  Oak  Park  Avenue,  Oak  Park,  111. 

Valerio,  A.,  8  West  Oak  Street. 

Vesely,  Stanley,  2642  South  Hamlin  Avenue. 

Waddell,  George  P.,  1343  West  103rd  Street. 

Waddell,  William  C,  1343  West  103rd  Street. 
>Wade,  Walter  A.,  1400  First  National  Bank  Building. 

Wall,  Edward  J. 

Wallace.  Joseph  M. 

Walsh,  C.  E.    3833  Jackson  Boulevard. 

Walsh,  Edward,  3032  North  Halsted  Street. 
_Walsh,  "John  E.    5479  University  Avenue. 

Walsh,  James  I.,  35  North  Dearborn  Street. 

Walsh,  Maurice  G.,  3412  West  Monroe  Street. 

Walsh,  S.  J.,  6627  Maryland  Avenue. 

Walsh,  Thomas,  3412  Monroe  Street. 

Walsh,  Thomas  F.,  M.  D.,  736  East  63rd  Street. 

Ward,  J.  A. 

Ward,  Martin  M. 

Weisenburger,  Arnold  V.,  7138  Bennett  Avenue. 

Welfare,  Fred  G.,  6708  Evans  Avenue. 

Whitty,  Elmer  J.  W.,  1309,  69  West  Washington. 

Wiehl,  T.  A.,  650  Arlington  Place. 

Willey,  J.  O.  D.,  1218  Ashland  Block. 

Wilson,  Rev.  Samuel  K.,  S.  J.,  St.  Ignatius  College. 

Withers,  G.  H.,  M.  D.,  30  North  Michigan  Avenue. 
^Witmanski,  Rev.  P.  P.,  St.  Joseph's  Church. 

Witmanski,  Stephen  I.,  617  Ashland  Boulevard. 

Zahringer,  George  J.,  5130  Ellis  Avenue. 

Zarek,  John  G.,  5519  South  Lincoln  Street. 

Zvetina,  John  A.,  1726  South  Racine  Avenue. 


■      feg-:       7 .  k      ggg 


AFTER  giving  the  rest  of  the  students  of  the   college  a 
chance  to  conduct  this  column  we  have  by  popular  de- 
mand (ahem)   returned  to  scrape  the  Skull  of  Humor(?) 

H5  H5  ^f 

Scrape  No.  1  follows  (Freshman  not  to  read)  :  This  is 
a  Movie  scenario  of  our  own  composition  and  production. 
Sorry  we  cannot  show  you  the  pictures  but  the  art  department 
of  this  corporation  is  notoriously  slow  in  getting  its  work 
done.  Anyway  you  will  realize  what  the  picture  should  be 
from  the  mere  perusal  of  the  script. 

>jc  jjc  ;jc 

Our  Little  Nell's  Romance 

Nell  was  a  simple  country  girl 

Who  milked  the  cows  each  day; 
Bill  was  a  Big  Town  slicker 

Fresh  from  the  Great  White  Way. 

In  the  town  of  Crooked  Corners 

Was  where  this  twain  did  meet. 
Bill  was  a  gay  deceiver 

Nell  was  a  maiden  sweet. 


You  guess  the  same  old  story 

That  you  read  in  Cosmo's  books 

The  villain  with  the  slushy  line, 
The  country  kid  with  looks. 

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But  this  our  tale's  a  fooler 

It  does  not  end  that  way. 
Bill  opened  all  his  bag  of  tricks 

But  found  they  did  not  pay. 

Now  some  will  wish  to  snicker  when 

I  tell  to  them  the  rest, 
Bill  fell  in  love  with  Nellie  and 

I  think  this  stunt  his  best. 

Bill  was  the  wisest  piker 

Crook'd  Corners  e'er  did  meet 
For  Billies  bank  roll  was  as  flat 

As  Nellie's  father's  feet. 

O  yes !  they're  married  now,  of  course 

Bill  drives  his  Ford  to  town 
And  as  the  fat  years  ramble  by 

Bill's  form  and  purse  grow  round. 

The  moral  of  the  fable  is, 

As  Aesop  used  to  say : 

"They're  not  all  fools  who  beat  it  from 

The  naughty  Great  White  Way. 
*         *         * 

Ignatz  says : 

What'sa  matter  with  this  country  anyhow?  All  the  time 
fightin'.  We  just  got  thru  lickin'  the  Germans  and  now  the 
fellow  that  makes  the  Fords  starts  pickin'  on  the  Jews.  We're 
all  fightin'  that  "unestablished  state"  called  Prohibition;  and 
the  Blue  Laws.  Yes,  everybody's  fightin'  but  the  Irish  are 
doing  more  than  their  share,  as  usual. 

Well,  it  looks  pretty  good  for  the  Irish  right  now,  for 
when  Irish  dinners  are  selling  for  one  hundred  to  a  thousand 
iron  men  a  plate — Irish  liberty  bonds  must  sure  be  way  'bove 
par.  It  looks  mighty  peculiar  to  me  the  way  some  of  these 
here  financiers  are  helping  the  Irish.    They  must  be  figurin' 


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on  selling  shamrocks  to  the  Eskimos  for  the  second  "K"  in 
"K  and  K." 

Well  anyway,  you  got  to  hand  it  to  those  Irishmen.  They 
sure  love  to  fight  if  they're  not  fightin'  they're  not  happy. 
Wasn't  they  fightin'  the  Germans  for  the  English  a  few  years 
back?  And  now  ain't  they  turned  around  and  started  in  on 
the  English? 

Well  I  wish  'em  luck  for  I  don't  like  that  Johnny  Bull 
nohow.  Any  guy  that  can  borrow  five  billions  off  a  country 
that's  run  by  a  bunch  of  grabbing  politicians  must  sure  be  one 
slick  bird.  It's  not  like  our  statesmen  to  let  that  much  get 
away  from  them.  And  that  there  loan  looks  mighty  shady  to 
me.  Anyhow  we  shouldn't  lend  money  to  any  country  that 
let's  her  citizens  wear  monocles. 

Peace  has  its  heros  as  well  as  war — and  patriotism  is  not 
alone  a  matter  of  waving  banners  and  thundering  guns.  Wit- 
ness this  little  parody,  "The  National  Colors." 


The  National  Colors 

A  patriotic  gentleman 

Is  my  first  cousin  Ted 
He  showed  the  colors  of  our  flag 

Beginning  with  the  red. 

In  good  old  days  before  the  war 
When  Volstead  Act  was  not, 

His  nose  a  fiery  crimson  glowed 
And  redder  grew  each  shot. 

But  when  he  found  that  those  who  said 
Prohibition'd  come,  were  right, 

He  winced  as  though  he  were  in  pain 
And  turned  a  chalky  white. 

And  now  since  all  the  puritans 
Have  other  laws  in  view, 


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To  frame  the  Sabbath  to  their  plan 
He's  been  a  constant  blue. 

A  patriotic  gentleman 

Is  my  first  cousin  Ted, 
They'll  wrap  his  body  in  the  flag 

Whenever  he  is  dead. 


Boy  !  Page  B.  L.  T. 
Vergil — Ilia  fert  pharetrum  umeris. 

Cicero — Cui  bono  fuerit? 

*  *         * 

This  is  an  age  of  abbreviations.    Think  of  the  day  when 
"La  Belle  Dame  Sans  Alerci"  meant  "Vamp." 

*  *         * 

Sunday  Service  Announcement 
Christening  will  be  held  this  afternoon  at  three  o'clock. 
Mrs.   Murphy  will  greatly  oblige  us   if   she   comes   on  time 

this  year. 

*  *         * 

This  one   is   awfully   silly  but   perhaps   the   "Frosh"   will 
enjoy  it. 

O'  O'  O'  Hen'ree 

The  boy  stood  on  the  railroad  track, 
The  train  was  coming  fast ; 
The  boy  stepped  off  the  railroad  track, 
To  let  the  train  go  past. 


Here's  somebody  came  to  help  us  out — Welcome,  Eddie : 

Beautiful  Thoughts 

They  took  away  our  whisky,  and  they  took  away  our  beer, 
They  took  away  that  good  old  "bock,"  and  gave  us  stuff  called 
"near." 


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They  want  to  stop  our  smoking,  and  our  chewing  if  we  chew, 
For  they  get  paid  for  stopping  us  from  doing  what  we  do. 

They're  going  to  censor  movies  and  the  drama  so  they  say, 
And  they're  going  to  close  the  poolrooms,  and  they've  stopped 

the  cabaret. 
They're  going  to  close  up  everything  on  Sunday  pretty  soon, 
Then  we  will  have  all  sorts  of  fun,  just  looking  at  the  moon. 

When  we  go  out  on  Sunday  we'll  get  pinched  if  we  should 

smile, 
And  wearing  crepe  and  mourning  then,  will  sure  be  right  in 

style. 
And  when  you  want  to  treat  a  friend,  and  ask  him  what  he'll 

take, 
He'll  say,  "I'll  have  a  stick  of  gum  or  a  piece  of  angel  cake." 

So  when  they  close  up  everything,  and  there's  nothing  else 

to  do. 
And  reformers  who  have  made  their  pile  have  bid  us  fond 

adieu, 
I'll  take  a  pick  and  dig  a  hole  about  three  feet  by  eight, 
And  then  I'll  sit  around  and  smile,  and  wait,  and  wait,  and 
wait. 

E.  King. 
*        *        * 

The  Devil's  Successor 

Satan  sat  in  Hades, 

On  a  pile  of  dynamite ; 
His  head  was  bowed  upon  his  breast, 

His  face  a  woeful  sight. 

As  he  laid  aside  his  pitchfork, 

The  fire  dripped  from  his  eyes ; 

For  his  resignation  had  been  accepted, 
By  the  throne  beyond  his  skies. 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  217 

"I'm  through,"  the  saddened  Devil  said. 

He  said  it  with  a  sob ; 
There's  another  who  outclasses  me, 

Who  well  deserves  my  job. 

Lloyd  George  is  my  successor, 

The  King  of  the  Black  and  Tans; 

Hell  will  run  more  smoothly, 

In  his  competent  murdering  hands. 

It  breaks  my  heart  to  leave  this  home, 

The  place  I  love  so  well ; 
But  I'm  unfit  and  out  of  date, 

When  it  comes  to  running  hell. 

James  M.  Tyrrell. 


University  Chronicle 


Misericordia  Hospital 

THE  dedicatory  ceremonies  for  Misericordia  Maternity 
Hospital  and  Infants'  Home  took  place  on  Wednesday, 
February  2nd,  at  10:30  a.  m.  A  large  and  distinguished  as- 
semblage was  present  to  witness  the  ritual  which  was 
performed  by  His  Grace,  Most  Rev.  George  W.  Mundelein, 
assisted  by  Rev.  John  B.  Furay,  S.  J.,  president  of  the  Uni- 
versity, Rev.  Patrick  J.  Mahan,  S.  J.,  regent  of  the  Medical 
School,  Very  Rev.  Monsignor  E.  F.  Hoban,  Chancellor,  and 
Rev.  E.  F.  Fox,  pastor  of  St.  Charles'  Church.  Following 
the  dedication,  Mass  was  celebrated  in  the  hospital  chapel  by 
Very  Rev.  E.  F.  Hoban.  In  the  sanctuary  were  present 
Monsignori  William  Foley  of  St.  Ambrose ;  Fitzsimmons  of 
Holy  Name  Cathedral,  Riordan  of  St.  Elizabeth,  Rev.  John 
Webster  Melody  of  St.  Jarlath,  Rev.  W.  vMcGuire  of  Corpus 
Christi  and  many  others.  Rev.  John  W.  Melody,  D.  D.  de- 
livered the  sermon  in  which  he  lauded  His  Grace  for  estab- 
lishing such  a  needed  haven  for  the  protection  of  the  poor 
and  unfortunate  women  of  the  Archdiocese. 

Immediately  following  the  Mass  and  during  the  remainder 
of  the  day,  a  reception  was  held  by  the  Sisters  of  Mercy, 
to  whom  His  Grace  has  entrusted  the  care  of  the  hospital. 
Amongst  the  many  visitors  were  prominent  men  and  women 
who  have  always  been  active  in  Catholic  charitable  under- 
takings. Some  of  those  present  were :  Dr.  and  Mrs.  McGuire, 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Philip  Kreuscher,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  E.  L.  Moor- 
head,  Drs.  Michael  McGuire,  Geo.  T.  Jordan,  Robert  A.  Black, 
Henry  L.  Schmitz,  Richard  J.  Tivnen,  Charles  L.  Mix, 
William  A.  Ouinn,  M.  Mandel,  L.  D.  Moorhead,  Charles 
Sawyer,  John  Golden  and  D.  J.  Griffin. 

The  entire  staff  of  the  new  hospital  is  composed  of  mem- 
bers of  the  faculty  of  Loyola  Medical  School,  as   follows : 

218 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  219 

Attending  Staff — Dr.  Walter  G.  McGuire,  chief  obstetri- 
cian ;  Dr.  Michael  Mullen,  associate  obstetrician ;  Dr.  R.  A. 
Black,  pediatrician ;  Dr.  William  A.  Quinn,  dermatologist ; 
Dr.  James  P.  Fitzgerald,  opthalmologist ;  Dr.  Aldo  Massagia, 
pathologist. 

Consulting  Staff — Dr.  Edward  L.  Moorhead,  surgeon;  Dr. 
Charles  L.  Mix,  internist ;  Dr.  Bertha  Van  Hoosen,  obstetri- 
cian ;  Dr.  Henry  Schmitz,  gyncologist ;  Dr.  George  T.  Jordan, 
oto-laryngologist. 

Misericordia  Hospital  is  located  at  2916  West  47th  Street, 
on  the  southwest  side  of  the  city  close  to  the  central  manu- 
facturing district.  The  establishment  in  this  neighborhood 
of  an  obstetrical  hospital,  where  the  patient  can  receive  the 
care  and  treatment  of  expert  medical  men  for  absolutely  no 
fee,  will  be  a  boon  to  the  multitudes  of  poor,  not  only  in  this 
section  of  the  city  but  in  other  sections  as  well. 

The  building  is  150  feet  long  by  40  feet  wide,  in  addition 
to  which  is  a  large  projection  on  the  rear  containing  the 
service  stairs  which  are  thus  practically  cut  off  from  the  main 
building,  reducing  the  confusion  of  traffic  to  a  minimum. 
There  is  a  deep  well-lighted  basement,  above  which  are  four 
full  stories.  On  the  main  floor,  in  the  west  wing  is  the  chapel, 
while  the  east  wing  contains  reception  and  dining  rooms  and 
offices  of  administration.  The  second  story  is  composed  of 
wrards  and  service  rooms,  on  the  east,  while  in  the  west  wing 
is  a  large,  spacious  room,  intended  for  a  children's  play  room. 
The  third  and  fourth  stories,  in  general  plan  consist  of  ward 
rooms  on  the  south  and  service  rooms  on  the  north,  divided 
by  a  wide,  well  lighted  corridor.  The  building  is  so  con- 
structed that  additional  wings  may  be  built  as  needed.  It  is 
built  in  the  New  England  colonial  type  of  architecture.  Its 
capacity  at  the  present  time  is  one  hundred  beds. 

The  hospital,  in  so  far  as  the  teaching  and  clinical  end 
of  it  is  concerned,  becomes  the  obstetrical  department  of 
Loyola  School ;  once  again  Loyola  Medical  shows  her  heels 
to  the  other  medical  schools  in  the  city;  they  do  not  enjoy 
this  distinction  of  having  each  a  maternity  hospital  but  must 


220  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

receive  clinical  instructions  in  a  hospital  jointly  used  by  them 
all.  The  course  will  be,  in  so  far  as  the  clinical  part  of  it  is 
concerned,  of  six  weeks  duration  for  each  Junior  and  Senior 
student  during  which  time  residence  at  the  hospital  will  be 
necessary.  The  didactic  instructions  of  course,  will  extend 
over  the  entire  Junior  and  Senior  years. 

SENIOR  MEDICS 

Ruminations  of  a  Rummy 

By  a  Senior  Medical  Student 

T\7"  E  go  up  by  our  own  growing.  Nobody  can  do  it  for 
us.  Getting  things  is  merely  an  indication  of  our  develop- 
ment as  we  get  them  for  greater  service,  like  a  carpenter  gets 
tools  that  he  can  become  a  greater  carpenter.  Medical  students 
should  never  quit  studying.  "Getting  to  the  top"  is  the  world's 
pet  delusion.  There  is  no  top.  Every  top  we  reach  is  the 
bottom  of  the  next  ascension.  Go  on  growing!  The  sky  is 
the  limit !  The  test  of  our  greatness  is  not  what  we  are  doing, 
but  how  we  are  doing  it.  Not  what  we  are  doing,  but  that  it 
is  the  work  we  are  best  fitted  to  do.  Blessed  is  the  man 
who  hath  found  his  work ! 

The  wisest  man  we  ever  knew  used  to  sit  down  and  worry 
over  what  hopeless  fools  they  were. 

Tolerance  is  not  the  special  privilege  of  innocence — for- 
giveness of  others,  often,  is  only  the  aftermath  of  our  in- 
discretions. 

It  may  seem  paradoxical.  But  the  dumbest  students  are 
those  who  do  the  most  things. 

The  average  student  may  not  do  anything  else  on  time, 
but  he  is  right  there  with  bells  on  when  it  comes  to  quitting 
school  when  the  professor  is  a  few  minutes  late. 

The  only  way  to  get  along  with  some  students  is  to  pound 
he —  out  of  'em.    Don't  be  fair  with  'em;  that's  fatal. 

Do  a  student  more  than  one  favor  and  he  will  expect  it 
as  a  regular  thing. 

The  student  who  insists  on  going  to  hell  should  hurry  so 
as  not  to  prolong  the  distress  of  his  friends. 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  221 


Maybe  it  is  a  good  thing  the  average  medical  student 
does  not  profit  by  his  mistakes.  If  he  did  he  would  probably 
go  ahead  and  make  more. 

If  justice  leaves  the  wheel-house  to  mercy  alone  the  ship 
will  soon  run  aground,  for  mercy  without  some  justice  is  in- 
justice. 

Say  to  any  patient,  "How  you  have  suffered !"  and  he 
will  have  trouble  trying  not  to  look  pleasant  at  the  recognition 
of  what  he  has  undergone. 

Some  students  are  born  great,  others  have  greatness  thrust 
upon  them,  and  a  few  others  just  shave  their  way  to  the 
front  on  their  nerve. 

The  only  thing  we  know  about  Crispin  that  isn't  right  is 
his  left  side. 

He  who  swells  up  under  human  commendation  will  equally 
shrink  up  under  human  condemnation.  Happy  is  the  student 
that  is  indifferent  to  both. 

Every  man   who   goes   to   hell,   carries   with   him  his   own 
brimstone. 

I've  never  known  a  dog  to  wag 

His  tail  in  glee  he  didn't   feel, 
Nor  quit  his  old-time  friend  to  tag 

At  some  more  influential  heel. 
The  yellowest  cur  we  ever  knew 

Was  to  the  boy  who  loved  him,   true, — 
But  man  is  different. 

Running  into  debt  is  too  slow  a  process  for  some  doctors, 
fhey  motor  into  debt. 

You  may  have  observed  that  a  little  chap  like  Bucklin 
=mokes  the  larges  pipe  he  could  buy  in  the  store. 

When  a  student  loses  all  his  money,  the  loss  makes  such 
a  change  in  him  that  a  lot  of  his  former  friends  fail  to 
recognize  him  when  they  see  him. 

Some  doctors  follow  the  profession  all  their  lives  without 
catching  up  with  it. 

And  you  are  not  very  likely  to  strike  a  man  favorably 
when  you  hit  him  for  a  loan. 

Bucklin  fell  all  over  himself  the  other  day  trying  to  keep 
in  step  with  Daly,  but  otherwise  was  uninjured. 


222  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 


When  a  watch  gets  run  down,  it  will  stop  working.  But 
some  doctors  haven't  that  much  sense. 

Judging  from  the  conduct  of  some  of  the  Seniors,  the 
course  in  Ethics  should  have  been  given  in  the  Freshman 
year. 

It  always  takes  a  little  of  the  worst  to  teach  a  student  to 
hope  for  the  best. 

He  who  can  sacrifice  most  cheerfully,  and  suffer  most 
patiently,  approaches  most  rapidly  to  the  sublime  and  the 
heroic. 

Knocks  always  come  home  to  roost. 

Folly's  pleasure  is  the  froth  on  the  flowing  bowl  of  remorse 
and  woe. 

A  cheap  and  superficial  doctor  is  like  a  life  preserver  full 
of  lead. 

Some  brilliant  doctors  learn  to  write  so  well  that  their 
signatures  are  often  confused  with  that  of  the  helpful  Hen. 

A  real  friend  is  the  fellow  who  knows  all  about  you  and 
likes  you  just  the  same.  In  fact,  the  first  person  who  comes 
in  when  the  world  goes  out. 

Always  one  more  hill  to  climb  for  the  poor  student,  but 
it  is  great  exercise  and  then,  too,  you  have  the  prospect  of 
halleluia  times  when  you  reach  the  summit. 

The  reason  why  our  professors  are  all  "M.  D.'s"  is  because 
they  are  "Mule  Drivers."    We  are  the  mules. 

Mind  your  own  business  and  keep  your  nose  clean  and 
you'll  be  surpised  how  popular  you  are. 

O'Brien  has  adopted  the  Cimex  Lectularius  to  his  own 
particular  care.  He  usually  carries  a  specimen  in  his  note 
book. 

"The  luck  of  fools"  is  merely  envy's  explanation  of  the 
achievement  of  success. 

Not  a  word  of  worry 

That  time  is  getting  gray ; 
We  have  seen  the  sights, 

Had  merry  nights, 
And  many  a  dancing  day. 

Grimes  is  such  familiar  cuss  he  will  probably  be  calling 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  223 

St.  Peter  "Pete"  within  thirty  minutes  after  he  edges  through 
the  shining  portals. 

The  student  who  used  to  believe  that  a  five  cent  cigar 
was  made  out  of  cabbage  is  now  paying  eight  cents  for  the 
same  cigar  and  enjoying  it. 

We  often  wonder  if  the  Lord  doesn't  hate  the  straight 
laced,  long  faced  Saint  who  knows  you  are  going  to  hell 
and  keeps  on  reminding  you  of  the  fact. 

He  who  fails  to  hesitate  is  lost. 

The  louder  some  students  talk,  the  less  they  have  to  say. 
The  bass  drum  makes  a  mighty  noise  but  it  is  as  empty  as 
a  hollow  leg. 

Greerlings,  the  Senior  interne  over  at  the  Golden  Pheasant, 
has  bought  a  pocketbook  to  keep  his  money  in,  but  now  finds 
himself  in  as  bad  a  fix  as  he  was  before,  having  spent  all 
his  money  for  his  pocketbook. 

A  sure  way  to  become  unpopular  is  to  be  so  well  pleased 
with  yourself  that  you  are  displeased  with  everybody  else. 

Another  fat-headed  fool  is  the  student  who  lets  a  ten 
cent  argument  lead  him  into  making  a  $10  bet.  And  there 
are  plenty  of  them. 

A  doctor  who  wears  side-whiskers  thinks  he  is  just  as 
handsome  as  any  other  man,  and  it  is  noticed  that  many 
students  with  downy  top  lips  stop  to  examine  themselves 
very  closely  as  they  pass  plate-glass  windows. 

Some  folks'  only  defense  of  virtue  is  their  frigidity.  They 
are  white  as  snow  because  just  as  cold;  chaste  as  ice,  but 
just  as  stiff  and  frigid.  Once  warmed,  they  are  weak  as 
water  and  often  wicked  as  weak. 

Trouble  with  some  students  is  that  they  all  want  to  be 
drivers  of  the  Prosperity  wagon  and  mighty  few  the  laborers 
to  load  it. 

A  sure  way  to  get  yourself  laughed  at  is  to  go  around 
handing  out  free  advice. 

Don't  be  too  cock  sure.  Once  in  a  while  you  will  run 
into  a  man  who  can  beat  you  at  your  own  game. 

Some  students  find  it  hard  to  talk  when  they  have  some- 
thing to  say,  and  others  find  it  hard  to  keep  silent  when 
they  have  nothing  to  say. 


224  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

The  world  is  always  looking  for  the  men  to  do  things  that 
can't  be  done. 

You  never  can  tell.  Many  a  student  who  complains  that 
he  doesn't  get  all  that  is  coming  to  him  is  really  in  luck. 

Cultivate  praise.  Talk  less  and  listen  more.  Reserve  your 
thoughts  for  the  Elect  Few.  Be  gentle  and  keep  your  nose 
low. 

Some  students  seem  to  get  a  lot  of  pleasure  out  of  trying 
to  keep  other  people  from  having  any. 

There  is  not  much  difference  between  the  student  who 
hasn't  any  brains  and  the  student  who  doesn't  know  how 
to  use  what  little  he  has. 

This  is  a  free  country.  But  the  student  who  goes  around 
with  a  lot  of  down  on  his  upper  lip  has  no  business  laughing 
at  a  Chinaman  because  the  Chink  wears  a  pig-tail. 

John  V.  Lambert. 


JUNIOR  MEDICS 

THIRST  JUNIOR— Hoo-ray !  Oh  Boy!  Hip  Hip  Hoo- 
x       R-A-A-W ! ! ! 

Second  Junior — Grr-r  Woof-Wow !  Whacha  hollerin 
about  ? 

First  Junior — I  got  95  in  Medicine — Hooray  !  Whachoo 
hollerin'  about? 

Second  Junior — I  got  45  —  Bow  -  Wow  -  Wow  ! 

*  *         * 

After  one  solid  hour  of  strenuous  demonstration  and  "in- 
tensive" lecturing  on  "Operations  on  the  Eye,"  and  "Instru- 
ments and  How  to  Use  Them,"  Dr.  Fitzgerald  is  cheered 
with  the  following  results,  "What  they  soak  ya  for  a  box  a 

tools  like  that,  Doc?"— from  Gikoffsky. 

*  *         * 

Dr.  Mueller — How  would  you  make  a  plaster  cast? 

O'Connor — Outa  Glucose. 

*  *         * 

Griswald   says,   "To-morrow   is   my  birthday,   give   till  it 

hurts. 

*  *         * 

Non  Essential  Juniors 
The  one,  of  a  section  of  three,  who  refers  to  a  Dispensary 
patient  as  "My  case." 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  225 


The  one  who  draws  a  95  in  an  exam  and  then  chirps, 
"I  never  cracked  a  book." 

The  "ex"  who  tries  to  compare  Class  A  Loyola  with  "the 
way  they  do  in  the  army." 

The  alibi  baby  who  wonders  how  everybody  else  gets  a 
drag. 

The    bird    who    opens    up    the    morning    exercises    with 

"What's  the  assignment  for  today?" 

*  *         * 

Whitlow — DaCosta  and  Osier  may  be  good  but  I  don't 

agree  with  'em. 

*  *         * 

Griswald — Aw  thoat  I  lotht  a  tooth.    Gee-e  whith. 

Patient  to  O'Malley — Are  you  Jewish? 

O'Malley — Lady,  if  you  ain't  sick  you're  going  to  be. 

*  *         * 

Coyne — Gimme  a  chew. 

*  *         * 

Wanted  to  Know — The  ten  best  cellars. 

Signs  of  the  Times 
Will  call  at  office. 

M.  M. 
Bergstrom  get  key  in  Library. 

Nelson. 
Conditional  Examinations  will  be  held,  etc. 
Wanted — Student   to   work   twelve   hours   per   night    for 
'coffee  and." 

Quizz  Course 

1.  Locate  the  Anteriorpoliomyelitis. 

2.  Give  symptoms  and  diagnosis  of  cribbing.  Treatment? 
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3.  Young  lady  complains  of  loneliness,  lack  of  amusement, 
cold  hands  and  shortness  of  matinees.  Outline  course  of  treat- 
ment. 

4.  Patient  submits  to  several  operations  and  recovers  in 
spite  of  continued  surgical  interference.  Is  radical  treatment 
indicated  ?    Give  technique. 

5.  Should  earthquakes  be  labled  "Shake?"  //  so  why  not? 
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Roll  your  own — Craps. 
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Eventually  why  not  now — M.  D. 

The  machine  you  will  eventually  buy — Perambulator. 
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SOPHOMORE  MEDICS 


"Much  Ado   About  Nothing" 

[N  a  recent  issue  of  a  Chicago  paper  appeared  an  article 

which  was  a  source  of  much  discussion  among  the 
"Medics."  This  was  a  resume  of  a  lecture  delivered  by  a 
local  university  professor  before  the  sophomore  class,  wherein 
he  declared  that  examinations  were  barbarous,  and  urged  the 
students  to  organize  with  the  view  to  abolishing  all  examina- 
tions. As  this  very  sagacious  and  concededly  heroic  teacher 
had  addressed  his  remarks  to  a  class  of  second-year  men, 
the  writer  deemed  it  very  prudent  to  interview  some  of  the 
Sophomore  "'Medics"  on  the  subject. 

"Blood"  Rochelle,  the  saline  wonder,  readily  accepted  the 
opportunity  to  be  quoted.  "I  agree  heartily  with  Prof.  Blank's 
view  on  the  matter,"  said  the  future  great  surgeon.  "There 
was  a  time  when  examinations  were  held  at  the  end  of  each 
quarter.  Now  they  have  become  so  frequent  that  the  adage 
of  the  old  Greek  philosopher  that  a  medical  student's  life 
is  one  d exam  after  another,  is  becoming  woefully  true." 

Another  member  of  the  class,  whose  name  is  witheld, 
arose  to  remark  that  "he  was  in  favor  of  any  move,  murder 
excepted,  to  abolish  the  exams."  "However,"  he  added,  "my 
opinion  may  be  somewhat  prejudiced,  for  the  only  exam  that 
I  ever  passed  with  great  honors  was  the  physical  test  when 
I  was  inducted  into  the   service." 

"Mike"  Fosen,  while  not  entirely  in  sympathy  with  the 
movement,  was  of  the  opinion  that,  because  of  a  recent  ex- 
perience in  a  practical  examination  in  which  he  was  told  to 
dissect  out  the  chorda  lingual  triangle  and  put  a  cannula  in 


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Whorton's  duet  in  fifteen  minutes,  all  practical  exams,  partic- 
ularly in  mammalian  work  should  be  consigned  to  a  region 
beyond  the  River  Styx. 

"Red"  Mellon,  whose  original  findings  on  onaphylaxis  re- 
cently startled  the  medical  world,  endorsed  the  idea  of  banish- 
ing the  bete  no'ir  of  the  student's  existence.  "However,"  the 
pride  of  Beverly  Hills  continued,  "in  order  to  bring  about 
the  change  we  must  organize.  Why  not  initiate  the  move- 
ment by  establishing  Local  No.  1,  Disgruntled  Medical 
Sophomores.  In  so  doing  we  may  succeed  not  only  in  accom- 
plishing the  object  in  view,  but  also  may  be  in  a  position  to 
bring  about  other  needed  changes.  At  the  present  time  the 
only  additional  reform  that  comes  to  mind  is  the  abolishing 
of  lectures  at  the  unreasonable  hour  of  8  a.  m.  I  know  the 
authorities  would  not  countenance  such  a  change,  but  then 
through  the  union  a  compromise  could  be  obtained.  If  the 
faculty  should  be  unwilling  to  eliminate  the  early  lectures, 
our  representatives  could  suggest  that  the  8  o'clock  teachers 
have  victrola  records  made  of  their  lectures  so  that  each 
student  could  efficiently  listen  to  the  lecture-record  playing 
in  the  parlor  while  he  was  in  his  room  dressing  or  in  the 
dining  room  breakfasting."  [Editor's  Note:  This  is  a  splen- 
did example  of  cerebration  par  excellence]. 

The  sentiments  of  "Bloody"  Boyle  were  not  as  recon- 
structive as  were  those  of  the  sage  of  Beverly  Hills.  He 
claimed:  "The  proposed  abolition  of  examinations  is  the 
direct  outcome  of  the  attitude  certain  professors  assumed  in 
exams.  These  teachers  do  not  realize  the  purpose  of  these 
mental  tests.  My  idea  of  an  examination  (which  has  been 
corroborated  by  the  faculty  of  the  Hoboe's  College),  is  that 
it  is  intended  to  determine  what  a  class  of  students  know 
of  a  particular  subject.  My  experience  with  some  teachers, 
however,  leads  me  to  suspect  that  their  object  is  to  find  out 
what  a  student  does  not  know.  Believe  me  these  profs,  are 
regretably  too   successful  in  this  regard. 

A  sophomore  who  received  two  conditions  in  the  last 
quarter's  work  was  eloquent  in  his  reprobation  of  the  present 
system.  Among  other  things  he  stated  that :  "The  examina- 
tions were  as  regular  and  frequent  as  the  pulse  of  a  rabbit. 
One  would  think  that  we  were  studying  to  be  medical  exam- 
iners instead  of  medical  doctors." 

From  the  above,  it  appears  that  the  sophomores  are  unan- 
imously against  examinations  in  any  shape  or  form.    How- 


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ever,  before  any  conclusion  could  be  reached  on  the  matter, 
it  would  in  justice  be  necessary  to  interview  the  faculty. 
But  then  it  can  be  safely  assumed  that  the  professors  would 
be  equally  united  in  defense  of  the  present  regime.  Such 
being  the  case,  were  we  asked  "cui  bono"  on  our  attempt 
to  solve  the  problem,  we  would  answer  in  true  Irish  fashion 
by  asking  the  question:    "Why  is  the  moon?" 


Recent  Publications 

The  Dog  and  Other  Cold  Blooded  Animals." — L.  Bal&s- 
quide. 

"Proper  Care  of  the  Microscope." — M.  Malone. 

"Special  Technique  on  Administering  Anesthesia,  or  the 
Application  of  My  Principle  ? :  They  Sleep  but  Breathe  Not" 
■ — /.  Russell. 

"Economic  and  Social  Conditions  in  Delavan  and  Other 
Large  Cities." — R.   Cummings. 

"If  'Frat'  Pins  Could  Only  Speak."—  [Fiction]. —P.  H. 
McNulty. 

"Land  Marks  for  the  Trachea. " — /.  Russell. 
"An  Exposition  on  the  Vitovec  Reflex — The  When,  Where 
and  How  of  It." — L.  Vitovec. 

"Why  I  Am  No  Longer  an  A.  U.  H." — G.  Gundry. 

"The  Efficiency  in  Equipping  All  Laboratories  With  Large 
Receptacles." — Doyle  and  Coyne. 

"How   to   Massage  the   Heart." — IV.   Ramsay. 


Sweeney  of  the  Junior  class  recently  received  the  Chi- 
cago Tribune's  politeness  prize  for  being  solicitous  for  the 
well-being  of  an  intoxicated  gentleman  (avis  rara).  It  has 
been  said,  of  course  confidentially,  that  it  was  not  politeness 
that  inspired  this  Hibernian's  action.  Rather  it  was  curiosity 
and  envy — curiosity  as  to  where  and  how  much  a  pint,  and 
envy  because  of  the  quantity  and  quality  the  individual  car- 
ried. 

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Hufford  (on  stairs,  just  before  the  Juniors  and  Seniors 
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County  ticket?" 

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Dishevelled,  panting,  they  reached  Hufford  about  the  same 
time — each  clamoring,  "I  want  one !    I  want  one." 

"Well,  I'm  going  over  to  the  office  to  buy  one,"  explained 
Hufford,  "and  if  you  each  give  me  five  dollars  I  will  buy  you 
a  ticket." 

Exit  ten  disgusted  students  muttering  wotnel,  damit,  etc., 

etc. 

*         *         * 

Father  Calhoun  has  resumed  his  duties  in  the  chemical 
laboratory.  We  heard  him  lecture  in  pharmacology  last  week 
— that  is,  he  was  lecturing  in  chemistry  on  the  second  floor, 
and  we  heard  him  in  pharmacology  class  on  the  fourth  floor. 

J.  M.  Warren. 


FRESHMAN   MEDICS 

ClXCE  our  last  issue  of  snappy  stuff  and  bright  burlesque, 
the  Winter  quarter  with  its  woes  and  worries  has  passed 
and  we  are  now  safe  from  the  above  ministers  of  gloom  until 
the  end  of  the  Spring  quarter. 

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Father  Calhoun  (in  Chemistry) — Anything  that  clings 
to  another  substance,  one  of  the  three  foods,  carbohydrates, 
proteins  or  fats,  has  the  suffix  ose  attached.  Now  Creighton, 
what's  the  name  of  the  enzyme  which  clings  to  fat? 

Creighton — Fatose,  Father. 

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from  a  basketball  conquest  of  the  leading  teams  of  the  middle 
states.  The  old  place  seems  deserted  without  his  six  feet  six 
inches  but  as  long  as  he  is  having  such  good  luck,  we  can 
stand  the  parting  for  a  while  longer,  if  necessary. 

About  the  most  popular  individual  in  Embryology  has  been 
Patten. 

Seems  as  if  some  fellows  are  always  reading  in  anatomy 

dissecting  laboratory  since  the  new  system  went  into  effect. 

*         *         * 

Well,  cheer  up,  better  days  are  coming  when  we  won't 
have  to  do  all  of  the  customary  laboratory  work  but  then, 
I  suppose,  we  will  compensate  for  that  by  taking  on  other 
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SCHOOL   OF  SOCIOLOGY 

The  second  semester  of  the  School  of  Sociology  opened  in 
February  with  an  increased  attendance.  Two  new  courses 
were  offered,  "The  Teaching  of  the  Blind"  by  Miss  Elsie 
Drake,  and  "Intermediate  French"  by  Mile.  Lucie  Desimeur. 

We  are  glad  to  report  that  Father  Downing  of  our  history 
staff  has  left  Mercy  Hospital  and  is  again  in  his  professorial 
chair. 

*         *         * 

Father  Kane,  our  popular  professor  of  Ethics,  achieved  a 
real  triumph  with  the  Alumni  at  its  annual  banquet,  over  five 
hundred  mere  men  assembled.  We  were  pleased  to  note  in 
the  Loyola  University  News  Father  Kane's  appreciation  of 
our  Alumnae  and  his  own  explanation  or  why  we  were  not 
present. 

Father  Siedenburg  although  temporarily  laid  up  with  a 
broken  collar  bone,  is  again  his  old  self  and  is  back  in  the 
lecture  field.  He  recently  gave  three  lectures  in  La  Crosse, 
Wisconsin,  speaking  at  noon  before  the  Rotary  Club  on  the 
"Open  Shop,"  in  the  afternoon  at  the  Normal  School  of 
St.  Rose's  Convent  on  "Science  and  Charity"  and  at  night 
before  the  Catholic  Women's  Club  on  "Social  Service,  the 
Need  of  the  Hour."  He  also  lectured  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
before  the  Catholic  Woman's  Association  on  "The  Home  of 
the  Future"  and  repeated  this  lecture  at  a  Sacred  Concert  at 
St.  Clement's  Church,  March  13th.  Our  Dean  has  also  been 
invited  by  the  National  Catholic  Welfare  Council  to  give 
lectures  on  sociological  subjects  to  the  students  in  the  various 
seminaries  throughout  the  United  States. 


Father  Pernin  has  almost  finished  his  series  of  six  lectures 
on  the  Short  Story  which  he  has  been  giving  so  successfully 
before  the  Edgewater  Woman's  Club  and  the  Catholic  Wom- 
an's League.  He  also  gave  his  popular  Joyce  Kilmer  lecture 
at  LaGrange,  Illinois,  before  the  LaGrange  Woman's  Club. 
He  lectured  at  Mount  Carmel  Church  on  "The  Genius  of 
O.  Henry"  and  also  gave  this  same  lecture  at  Providence 
Academy.  He  is  scheduled  to  speak  before  the  Alumnae  of 
St.  Patrick's  Academy  at  the  Drake  Hotel  on  this  same  sub- 
ject in  the  near  future  and  also  is  to  give  the  Tre  Ore  in  the 


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Immaculate    Conception    Church,    Boston,    Mass.,    on    Good 

Friday. 

*  *         =:< 

Miss  Van  Driel,  A.  B.,  has  just  completed  a  minor  course 

in  Economics  at  St.  Xavier  College  for  Women. 

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Dr.  Edward  T.  Devine,  the  well-known  sociologist  con- 
nected for  many  years  with  the  New  York  School  of  Social 
Work,  and  Editor  of  The  Survey,  was  a  recent  speaker  here 

at  the  school.    His  subject  was  "Standard  of  Living." 

*  *         # 

Miss  Jane  Addams,  Miss  Kate  Meade,  Judge  Victor 
Arnold,  and  Miss  Adelaide  Walsh  were  other  recent  speakers 

of  distinction. 

*  *         * 

Dr.  John  A.  Lapp  of  the  National  Catholic  Welfare  Coun- 
cil has  just  finished  a  series  of  three  lectures  on  "Health  and 
the  Community"  to  the  social  service  group  here  at  the 
school.  Miss  Rose  McHugh,  Assistant  to  Dr.  Lapp,  gave  an 
interesting  account  of  the  work  of  the  Council,  especially  in 
the  Social  Department. 

We  had  a  treat  in  having  Mr.  James  Fitzgerald  as  one 
of  our  special  lecturers.  Mr.  Fitzgerald  was  for  two  years  a 
teacher  in  this  department  of  the  University  but  is  now 
secretary  of  the  St.  Vincent  De  Paul  Society  of  Detroit, 
Michigan.  He  gave  the  class  an  interesting  resume  of  the 
work  of  this  bureau,  in  particular,  the  Americanization  work 
among  the  Mexicans. 

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The  Alumnae  gave  an  informal  afternoon  at  the  City  Club 
a  few  weeks  ago  and  former  and  present  students  were  loud 
in  their  praise  of  this  get-to-gether.  This  was  merely  a  fore- 
runner of  the  annual  lecture  and  musicale  which  was  given 
at  Powers'  Theatre,  Sunday,  March  6th.  Frederick  Paulding 
of  New  York  City  was  the  lecturer  and  his  subject  was 
"O.  Henry  and  Bret  Harte,  a  Contrast."  The  music  was 
furnished  by  Mr.  Arthur  Kraft,  tenor,  Miss  Wally  Heymar, 
violinist,  Miss  Veronica  Murphy,  pianist.  The  lecture  was 
both  a  social  and  financial  success  and  the  proceeds  of  these 
annual  lectures  are  devoted  towards  a  scholarship  fund  in  the 
School  of  Sociology.  The  Alumnae  have  already  established 
three  perpetual  scholarships  of  fifteen  hundred  dollars  each, 
for  ambitious   students   training   for   social   service  positions. 


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Funds  towards  the  fourth  scholarship  have  already  been  set 

aside  by  the  Alumnae. 

*  *         * 

Sidelights  from  Former  Students 

Agnes  Clohesy  who  received  her  Bachelor  of  Philosophy 
Degree  in  1916  won  the  scholarship  offered  by  Kent  College 
of  Law  to  the  student  with  the  highest  average  in  the  Fresh- 
man year.  It  is  especially  interesting  since  there  were  ten 
times  as  many  men  competitors  as  women  in  her  group,  the 
number  of  women  being  only  four. 

*  H5  4s 

Miss  Margaret  Madden,  A.  M.,  distinguished  herself  by 
reading  an  excellent  paper  on  "Some  Problems  of  Method  in 
the  Supervision  of  Teaching,"  before  the  National  Educational 
Association  at  Atlantic  City  on  March  2,  1921. 

Mr.  Maurice  Reddy  is  now  in  charge  of  the  government 
medical   social  work  in   Drexel   Hospital   No.   30,   under  the 

auspices  of  the  American  Red  Cross. 

*  *         * 

Miss  Anna  Dalton  has  given  up  her  position  as  director  of 
the  Charities  of  Joliet,  Illinois,  and  is  now  a  case  investigator 
in  the  social  service  department  of  Drexel  Hospital. 

Miss  Frances  Welsh,  Ph.  B.,  is  now  doing  settlement  work 
at  Goodrich  House,  Cleveland,  Ohio  and  is  enthusiastic  con- 
cerning the  possibilities  of   doing  work  among  the  Catholic 

poor  of  that  city. 

*  *         * 

Miss  Kathleen  Redmond  is  back  again  at  Central  Bureau, 

American  Red  Cross  and  Miss  Harriet  Przybyski  has  again 

returned  to  the  Associated  Catholic  Charities  as  a  social  service 

worker. 

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Two  of  our  present  students  were  also  snatched  from 
their  studies  and  placed  in  positions  recently ;  Miss  Bess 
Pruzinski  went  to  work  for  the  United  Charities  and  Miss 
Bernadine  Murray  for  the  Central  Charity  Bureau.  Both  are 
doing  case  work. 

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Vol.  XVIII 


MAY,  1921 


Number  4 


Some  Aspects  of  Modern  Irish 
Poetry  and  Drama 

ITH  the  fall  of  Parnell  and  the  decline  of  the 
political  agitation  succeeding  it,  came  an  im- 
petus to  the  Irish  people  to  give  voice  to  the 
thoughts  and  yearnings  for  intellectual  free- 
dom so  long  held  in  restraint.  The  quicken- 
ing of  the  literary  pulse  and  the  rise  in  the 
hearts  and  souls  of  Ireland's  sons  and  daughters  of  the  desire 
for  expansion  into  fields  of  thought  so  long  denied  them 
hastened  the  birth  of  a  new  school,  a  school  not  new  in  power, 
but  new  in  the  daring  and  liberty  of  expression  of  the  ideals, 
spiritual  and  intellectual,  until  then  dormant  under  the  ener- 
vating influence  of  English  oppression.  Today  England  is 
glad  to  boast  of  her  Irish  writers.  Let  her  not  forget  that  a 
Swift — a  Burke — a  Moore,  and  more  than  a  score  of  those 
whom  she  claims  as  her  best  were  born  and  bred  on  the  "Auld 

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sod"  and  drank  in  with  their  childish  imagination  the  old  folk 
lore  so  rich  in  Irish  wit  and  pathos — drank  so  deeply  that  all 
the  world  wondered  when  their  surcharged  souls  burst  forth 
into  splendid  life. 

The  period  under  discussion  may  well  be  called  the  Irish 
Renaissance,  for  Irish  hearts  and  minds  gave  to  it  its  impetus 
and  its  definite  purpose — the  revealing  to  the  world  of  the 
moods  of  the  Irish  people  today  as  of  yore,  in  their  struggle 
with  temptation  and  loss,  in  their  undying  faith  and  love,  and 
in  the  permanence  of  their  determination  to  bring  before  the 
world  the  glories  of  Ireland  as  told  in  her  folk  lore  and  as  por- 
trayed through  all  the  years  by  the  splendid  courage  and  over- 
mastering zeal  of  her  children. 

By  1895  the  effect  of  the  Celtic  Renaissance  was  felt 
throughout  the  literary  world,  and  the  short  story  writer,  the 
poet  and  the  dramatist  developed  amazing  power  and  versa- 
tility. This  new  dawn  of  literary  genius  followed  the  lines  of 
two  great  movements  —  the  revival  of  the  Gaelic  language 
as  the  vehicle  of  expression,  and  the  rise  of  poetry  and  the 
drama  as  the  means  of  spreading  the  economic,  poltical,  social 
and  aesthetic  aspirations  of  the  nation. 

With  politics  or  social  reform,  except  as  they  find  voice  in 
the  drama  or  in  poetry,  we  have  in  this  treatise  no  special  con- 
cern ;  nor  shall  we  do  more  with  the  novel  than  merely  men- 
tion it  in  passing.  Rather  shall  it  be  our  pleasure  to  glance 
at  a  few  of  the  leading  lights  of  song  and  of  the  drama  during 
the  past  four  decades — and  while  we  desire  to  confine  our- 
selves as  closely  as  possible  to  those  who  best  show  this  Renais- 
sance movement,  we  may  not  neglect  some  of  their  contempo- 
raries, for  they  too  prove  the  sterling  worth  and  magnificent 
enterprise  of  the  people  than  whom  no  nobler  lives.  It  is 
impossible  to  read  the  literature  of  this  period  without  desiring 
to  love  better,  trust  better,  believe  better,  live  better,  in  a  word 
to  serve  better  both  God  and  self. 

A  century  of  political  and  social  reform  is  not  likely  to  be 
marked  by  great  literary  productions  of  a  highlv  aesthetic 
nature.     Great  national  movements  do  not  run  parallel  with 


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strong  literary  or  dramatic  instinct;  but  in  the  Irish  heart  the 
power  which  had  lain  trammeled  under  iron  bands,  burst  forth 
at  the  earliest  opportunity,  and  a  Russell,  a  Yeats,  a  Lady 
Gregory,  a  Hyde  and  a  host  of  compeers  brought  forth  pro- 
ductions, not  the  impulses  of  the  moment,  but  the  upwelling 
of  eager  activities  hitherto  held  in  check. 

With  William  Butler  Yeats's  "Wanderings  of  Oisin"  and 
Douglas  Hyde's  "Book  of  Gaelic  Stories,"  both  of  which 
appeared  in  1889 — Ireland's  intellect  broke  the  bonds  laid  on 
it  by  England  and  revived  her  national  language  as  the  proper 
habiliment  of  her  national  thought.  She  spoke  in  the  words 
of  the  splendid  Thomas  MacDonagh  and  flung  forth  the  chal- 
lenge, "My  race  has  refused  to  yield  to  defeat,  and  emerges 
strong  today,  full  of  hope  and  of  love  with  new  strength  in 
its  arms  to  work  out  its  new  destiny — with  a  new  song  on  its 
lips  and  the  words  of  the  new  language  which  is  the  ancient 
language  still  calling  from  age  to  age." 

Ireland's  themes,  now  as  ever,  are  the  themes  of  the  truly 
poetic  heart,  the  all  enduring  themes  of  nature  and  humanity; 
and  the  nation  so  tenderly  dear  as  the  "Cathleen  ni  Hoolihan" 
of  the  Irish  heart,  furnishes  the  heroic  setting  for  many  a 
splendid  work. 

Plato  held  poetry  to  be  the  expression  of  a  soul  inspired 
by  the  breath  of  the  gods,  and  George  Russell  (A.  E.)  believes 
in  the  influence  of  the  eternal  the  "breath  of  divinity  which 
makes  plain  facts  dwindle  into  insignificance  beside  the  splen- 
did dignity  of  a  spiritual  order."  This  mystic,  whom  Dr.  Hyde 
calls  'a  mystic  always  with  the  thought  that  men  are  the 
strayed  heaven  dwellers,  the  angels  who  willed  in  silence  their 
own  doom'  was  essentially  an  artist,  splendidly  eloquent  in 
prose  and  poetry,  with  the  delicate  touch  which  breathes 
through  his  lines  as  it  does  in  the  figures  on  his  canvas.  He 
was  well  versed  in  the  mythology  of  Egypt,  Greece  and  India. 
He  believed  that  inspiration  was  a  divine  madness  achieved  by 
those  who  kept  the  soul  sensitive  to  beauty,  and  he  proves  in 
his  writings  that  the  spiritual  memories  of  the  eternal  must 
be  the  vivifying  influence  of  any  effort,  mental  or  physical, 


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which  is  to  produce  a  worth  while  fructification.  Of  this 
"Divine  Flame"  he  says : 

"When  twilight  over  the  mountains  fluttered 
And  night  with  its  starry  millions  came 
I  too  had  dreams,  the  songs  I  have  uttered 
Came  from  this  heart  that  was  touched  by  the  flame." 

Russell's  artistic  nature  revealed  itself  in  his  "still,  blue-black 
heavens  thrilling  with  far  stars,"  his  clouds  in  "sweeping  lights 
of  diamond,  sapphire  and  amethyst" — and  his  river  winding 
"through  a  loneliness  so  deep 

Scarce  a  wild  flower  shakes  the  quiet 
That  the  purple  boglands  keep." 

Emersonian,  unpractical,  idealist  if  you  will,  was  this  great 
man,  but  he  was,  too,  always  a  lover  of  the  spiritual,  of  the 
all  pervading  and  all  enveloping  suggestiveness  which  arises 
from  close  contact  with  the  things  above  mortal  ken — "Never 
poet,"  he  says,  "has  lain  on  our  hillside  but  gentle  stately  fig- 
ures with  hearts  shining  like  the  sun  move  through  his  dreams 
over  radiant  grasses  in  an  enchanted  world  of  their  own." 
He  had  the  true  poet's  soul,  the  soul  that  is  drawn  nearer  to 
God  by  the  simple  things  of  earth,  by  the  simplicity  of  child- 
hood. 

"By  the  hand  of  a  child  I  am  led  to  the  throne  of  a  king," 

He  had  too,  the  poet's  appreciation  of  the  significance  of  sym- 
bolism— 

"Nearer  to  Thee,  not  by  delusion  led 
We  rise  but  by  the  symbol  charioted 
Through  loved  things  rising  up  in  love's  own  ways 
By  these  the  soul  unto  the  vast  has  wings 
And  sets  the  seal  celestial  on  eternal  things." 

Strong  and  eloquent  is  the  appeal  of  William  Allingham's 
"Street  Songs  and  Ballads,"  his  "Day  and  Night  Songs"  and 


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his  "Flower  Pieces."  His  love  for  the  Cathleen  ni  Hoolihan 
of  the  Irish  heart  in  "Longing"  is  the  story  of  the  love  of 
many  a  faithful  heart  for  the  land  of  its  birth — 

"I  stretch  out  my  hands,  who  will  clasp  them  ? 
I  call — thou  repliest  no  word 
O  why  should  heart  longing  be  weaker 
Than  the  wavering  wings  of  a  bird. 
To  thee,  my  love,  to  thee 
So  fain  would  I  come  to  thee 
For  the  tide's  at  rest  from  east  to  west 
And  I  look  across  the  sea — " 

Again  in  his  dainty  little  poem  "The  Fairies"  we  feel  the  thrill 
of  gleeful  terror  of  our  childish  days  as  we  listen  to  the  stories 
of  the 

"Wee  folk,  good  folk 
Trooping  all  together 
Green  jacket,  red  cap 
And  white  owl  feather — " 

or  we  sigh  with  the  mournful  cadence  in  "Abbey  Asaroe" 
where 

"The  carven  stones  lie  scattered  in  briars  and  nettle  bed" 

and 

"The  only  feet  are  those  that  come  at  burial  of  the  dead — " 

In  ringing  contrast  to  the  mysticism  of  Russell  is  the  defiant, 
self-confident  tone  of  Michael  Joseph  Barry's 

"What  rights  the  brave? 

The  sword. 
What  frees  the  slave? 

The  sword. 
What  cleaves  in  twain  the  despot's  chain 
And  makes  his  gyves  and  donjons  vain? 

The  sword." 


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The  same  strong  defiance  of  wrong  is  given  in  his  "Massacre 
at  Drogheda" — 

"But  nations  keep  a  stern  account 
Of  deeds  that  tyrants  do 
And  guiltless  blood  to  Heaven  will  mount 
And  Heaven  avenge  it  too." 

The  sweet  sentiment  of  filial  devotion  breathes  through  the 
dainty  lines  of  Mary  Elizabeth  Drake — 

"All  you  who  love  the  springtime, 
And  who  but  loves  it  well? 
When  the  little  birds  begin  to  sing 
And  the  buds  begin  to  swell? 
Think  not  ye  ken  its  beauty 
Or  know  its  face  so  dear 
Till  ye  look  upon  old  Ireland 
In  the  dawning  of  the  year" — 

and  Dion  Boucicault,  whose  dramas  "The  Colleen  Bawn"  and 
"The  Shaughran,"  have  won  great  fame,  might  well  mean  his 
beloved  nation  when  he  speaks  across  the  sea  to  his  dead  baby : 

"O  little  voice,  ye  call  me  back, 
To  my  far,  far  country, 
And  nobody  can  hear  ye  speak 
O  nobody  but  me — " 

for  it  is  only  those  who  have  witnessed  the  beauties  of  the  far 
away  isle  or  who  have  learned  them  at  the  home  fireside  from 
a  loving  parent's  lips  who  can  appreciate  truly  the  wealth  of 
glorious  riches  which  have  endeared  Ireland's  every  sod  as  a 
source  of  inspiration  to  those  who  love  her.  As  Stopford 
Brooke  well  puts  it  in  "The  Earth  and  Man" : 

"A  little  love,  a  little  trust 
A  soft  impulse,  a  sudden  dream 
And  life  as  dry  as  summer  dust 
Is  fresher  than  the  mountain  stream." 


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More  closely  connected  with  the  real  Renaissance  spirit  is 
Jean  Barlow,  who  has  given  in  her  "Bogland  Studies"  and  in 
her  "Irish  Idylls"  such  admirable  sketches  of  peasant  life 
showing  the  workings  of  the  rural  mind  with  all  its  wealth  of 
pathos  and  humor.  Dainty  and  delicate  is  the  lyric  quality 
of  her  "Flitting  of  the  Fairies"  where  the  airy  creatures  sing 

"Red  rose  mists  o'er  drift 
Moth  moons  glimmering  where 
Lit  by  sheen  silled  west 
Barred  by  fiery  bar 
Flitting  following  swift 
Whither  across  the  night 
Seek  we  bourne  of  rest  afar." 

Lady  Wilde  (Speranza),  besides  her  prose  translations, 
philosophical  novels  and  ancient  legends,  has  given  to  the 
period  strong  soulful  thoughts  replete  with  splendid  imagery. 
Her  "Appeal  for  Ireland"  evokes  many  an  echo  wherever  Ire- 
land's children  listen  to  her  voice — 

"I  can  but  look  in  God's  great  face 
And  pray  Him  for  our  fated  race 
To  come  in  Sinai's  thunder  down, 
And  with  His  mystic  radiance  crown 
Some  prophet  leader  with  command 
To  break  the  strength  of  Egypt's  band 
And  set  thee  free,  loved  Ireland." 

James  (Seumas)  McManus  in  his  "Donegal  Faery,"  his 
"Shuilers  from  Heathy  Hills"  and  "The  Laden  Road  to  Done- 
gal" enters  into  the  innermost  spirit  of  the  Irish  heart.  His 
"Astor  Gra  geal  Machree"  has  the  peculiarly  winning  minor 
cadence  so  faithful  a  picture  of  many  an  Irish  heart. 

1  'Tis  sad  to  think  those  eyes  don't  light 
And  I  your  heart  so  near, 
'Tis  sore  that  I  should  call  and  call 
And  you  refuse  to  hear. 
But  sleep  ariun  for  sure  'tis  night. 
And  soon  glad  dawn  shall  be 
When  lips  will  meet  and  souls  will  greet 
Astor  Gra  geal  Machree." 


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McManus's  wife  shows  the  same  lyric  quality  in  the  "Pass- 
ing of  the  Gael." 

"O  Cathleen  ni  Hoolihan,  your  road's  a  thorny  way, 
And  'tis  a  faithful  soul  would  walk  the  flints  with  you  for  aye 
Would  walk  the  sharp  and  cruel  flints  until  his  locks  grew 
gray." 

Ireland,   like  a  beloved  wife,   draws  out  the  best  of  her 
nation's  sentiment.    In  "Dear  Land"  O'Hagen  cries; 

"If  death  should  come  then  martyrdom 
Were  sweet  endured  for  you." 

And  his  impassioned  "Ourselves  Alone"  flings  defiance  at  the 
power  that  would  crush  the  ideals  of  a  nation — 

"Be  bold,  united,  firmly  set 
Nor  flinch  in  word  or  tone 
We'll  be  a  glorious  nation  yet 
Redeemed,  erect,  alone." 

Quaint  and  alluring  is   Charlotte  Grace   O'Brien's   "Bog 
Corton  on  the  Red  Bog"- — 

"I  have  seen  the  slow  unfolding  of  bird  and  leaf  and  life 
I  have  seen  immortal  good  repining  on  through  mortal  strife 
Oh,  I  have  seen ;  I  have  seen !" 

and  Padraic  Pearse's  own  gentle  life  is  mirrored  in  his  words 

"His  words  were  a  little  phrase 

Of  eternal  song 
Drowned  in  the  harping  of  lays 

More  loud  and  long; 
But  his  songs  new  souls  will  thrill 

The  loud  harps  dumb 
And  His  deeds  the  echoes  fill 

When  the  dawn  is  come." 

Padriac  Colum  too   in  his  own  clear,   strong  way  gives  the 
impression  of  a  picture  dashed  by  a  master's  hand — 


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"Sunset  and  silence — a  man 
Around  him  earth,  savage  earth,  broken," 

One  draws  in  a  deep  respiration  at  Colum's 

"Wet  wind  in  the  morn 
And  the  proud  and  hard  earth 
Never  broken  for  corn." 

Mrs.  Chesson's  contributions  to  English  magazines  of 
"Ballads  in  Prose"  and  of  three  volumes  of  verse  stands  out 
in  high  relief,  and  Lady  Gilbert  (Rosa  Mulholland)  turns 
aside  from  fiction  now  and  then  to  give  us  verse  restful  as  the 
shade  of  a  great  tree  after  a  weary  walk.  Clear,  open  and 
spiritual  is  her  "Shamrocks"  with  its  message  of  the  trinity 
of  virtues : 

"I  wear  a  shamrock  in  my  heart 
Three  in  one,  one  in  three — 
Truth  and  love  and  faith 
Tears  and  pain  and  death 
O  sweet  the  shamrock  is  to  me." 

The  same  sweet  religious  tone  intensified  by  deeper  more  inti- 
mate communication  with  God  is  given  in  Katherine  Tynan 
Hinkson's  verses.  Mrs.  Hinkson  is  a  singer  with  a  true  lyric 
note — a  Rossettian  tinge  caught  from  bird  and  tree, — and  the 
beautiful  Catholicity  of  her  lines  is  prayerful  in  its  earnest 
feeling.  "Sheep  and  Lambs"  well  illustrates  her  strong,  loving 
intimacy  with  God — 

"Up  in  the  blue,  blue  mountains 
Dewey  pastures  sweet 
Rest  for  the  little  bodies, 
Rest  for  the  little  feet, 
But  for  the  Lamb  of  God 
Up  on  the  hill  top  green 
Only  a  cross  of  shame — 
Two  stark  crosses  between." 


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Strong  power  and  deep  religious  feeling  are  given  also  in  "The 
Singing  Stars"- — 

"O  we  know,  we  stars,  the  stable  held  our  King,  His  glory 
shaded 
That  His  baby  hands,  were  poising  all  the  spheres  and  con- 
stellations." 

All  the  sensuousness  of  a  Keats,  of  a  Swinburne,  finds  its 
parallel  in  Dr.  John  Todhunter's  swinging  lines — 

"The  moist  air  swoons  in  a  still  sultriness 
Between  the  gales,  save  when  a  boding  sigh 
Shivers  the  crisp  and  many  hued  tree  tops 
Or  a  low  wind's  caress 

Wakes  the  sere  whispers  of  fallen  winds  that  lie 
Breathing  a  dying  odor  through  the  copse." 

And  all  the  optimism  of  a  Browning  shines  out  in  Mrs.  Ches- 
son's  beautiful  "Niam" — 

"The  wind  is  beginning  anew  each  day ; 
Fire  is  awake  at  each  clod  of  clay — 
The  rag-weeds  know  what  has  never  been  told 
By  the  old  to  the  young,  or  the  young  to  the  old — 
And  I  am  the  secret — the  flower  and  the  tree. 
I  am  Beauty,  O  youth,  I  have  blossomed  for  thee." 

Thomas  MacDonagh,  whose  lines  to  his  little  son  born  on 
St.  Cecilia's  day  seem  replete  with  prophetic  intuition  of  the 
time  when  his  own  beautiful  life  was  to  pay  the  forfeit  for 
loving  loyalty  claims  for  his  nation  an  "adorable  delicacy"  of 
sentiment  and  charity.  His  own  almost  Christ-like  forbear- 
ance and  humility  give  inspiration  to  the  lines  sufficient  in 
themselves  to  mark  him  as  ready,  if  needs  must  be,  to  make 
without  resentment  any  sacrifice  for  right. 

"But  I  found  no  enemy, 
No  man  in  a  world  of  wrong, 
That  Christ's  word  of  charity 
Did  not  render  clear  and  strong; 
Who  was  I  to  judge  my  kind — - 
Blindest  groper  of  the  blind?" 


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Leaving  to  the  drama  the  expression  of  the  Renaissance 
spirit,  of  renewing  the  early  treasury  of  folk  lore  in  Ireland, 
we  must  not  close  this  sketch  of  the  patriotism,  the  lyric  love- 
liness and  the  earnest  spirituality  of  Ireland  as  mirrored  in 
her  poetry  without  calling  attention  to  three  more  poets  of  this 
period — three  who  stand  out  as  men  of  remarkable  versatility, 
as  landmarks  in  the  literary  world,  Aubrey  De  Vere,  Lionel 
Johnson  and  Canon  Sheehan.  Aubrey  De  Vere's  ballads,  epics 
and  lyrics  evince  his  truly  great  ability.  Exquisite  gems  from 
his  works  are  given  in  the  volume  entitled  "The  Infant  Bridal," 
marked,  as  are  all  his  verses,  by  a  Wordsworthian  simplicity 
as  well  as  by  the  cultured  grace,  clear  diction  and  splendid 
spirituality  so  characteristic  of  his  age.  He  pictures  his  Sun- 
God  as 

"An  archer  of  immeasurable  might 
On  his  left  shoulder  hung  his  quivered  load 
Spurned  by  his  steeds  the  eastern  mountain  glowed 
....    and  while  both  hands  that  arch  embowed 
Shaft  after  shaft  pursued  the  flying  night." 

Rich  sensitiveness  of  imagery,  faultless  strength  of  picture  and 
clear  intuition  of  beauty  mark  De  Vere's  poems,  through  all 
of  which  breathes  his  grand  christian  spirit.  Note  the  tender 
submission  in  sorrow 

"Grief  should  be 
Like  joy — majestic,  equable,  sedate, 
Strong  to  consume  small  troubles,  to  command 
Great  thoughts,  grave  thoughts,  thoughts  lasting  to  the  end." 

Note  too  the  noble  sentiment  of  his  "Song" — 

"The  world  is  full  of  noble  tasks 
And  wreathes  hard  won. 
Each  work  demands  strong  hearts,  strong  hands, 
Till  day  is  done." 

Lionel  Johnson,  one  of  the  most  ardent  members  of  the 
Gaelic  League,  was  at  home  in  classic  lore  as  he  was  in  the 


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simple  pathos  and  deep  sentiment  of  the  folk  lore  and  songs  of 
his  country.  Many  of  his  lines  will  go  as  deep  into  the  hearts 
of  his  readers  as  did  the  spirit  which  inspired  them  sink  into 
his  own  great  soul.  Great  purity  and  stately  grace  marked  the 
works  of  his  truly  poetic  mind,  particularly  after  he  had 
become  saturated  with  the  sunny  cheer  and  sweet  melody  of 
Irish  woods  and  song.  Yeats  says  of  Johnson:  "He  has  in 
his  poetry  completed  the  trinity  of  spiritual  virtues  by  adding 
stoicism  to  Ecstasy  and  Asceticism."  His  work  is  always 
high — too  high  perhaps  for  the  ordinary  reader,  but  always 
inspiring  and  replete  with  great  strength  and  power.  In  his 
"Ways  of  War"  he  says  of  the  true  patriotism  of  his  coun- 
trymen : 

"Croagh  Patrick  is  the  plan  of  prayers 
And  Tara  the  assembling  place : 
But  each  wind  of  Ireland  bears 
The  trump  of  battle  on  its  race." 

Picturesqueness  of  detail  marks  "The  Last  Music"  where  the 
dead  queen  is  portrayed  as  "more  beautiful  than  early  morn — ■ 
white."     He  tells  us 

"The  balm  of  gracious  death  now  drapes  her  round 
As  once  life  gave  her  grace  beyond  her  peers." 

And  true  religious  sentiment  inspires  his  "Te  Martyrum 
Candidatus" — 

"Now  whithersoever  He  goeth  with 

Him  they  go 
White  horsemen  who  ride  on  white  horses 

Oh,  fair  to  see — 
They  ride  where  the  rivers  of 

Paradise  flow ; 
White  horsemen  with  Christ  their 

Captain,  forever  He — 

Like  De  Vere  and  Lionel  Johnson,  Canon  Sheehan  does  not 
properly  enter  into  the   real   Renaissance  spirit,  but  his  ex- 


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traordinary  power  of  delineation,  his  splendid  poetic  ability 
and  his  balance  of  judgment  must  needs  have  their  influence 
on  their  time,  making  its  love  stronger,  its  intuition  keener  and 
its  appreciation  more  worthy.  While  Canon  Sheehan  is  best 
known  for  his  novels  and  his  essays,  yet  he  might  well  make 
a  name  by  his  poetic  ability.  Reverence,  love  of  God  and  of 
his  f ellowmen  inspire  him ;  and  for  nature  he  has  the  same 
clear  understanding  vision  that  he  has  for  man.  His  "Emi- 
grant's Return"  portrays  the  wild  longing  of  the  heart  sepa- 
rated from  its  home  and  yearns  to  know — 

"How's  the  old  purple  heather  where  the  hares  lay  in  hiding? 
Do  the  blackbirds  still  sing  in  the  groves  in  the  morning? 
Do  the  thrushes  trill  out  as  they  nest  in  the  wood? 
Do  they  dance  as  of  yore  when  the  twilight  is  falling 
And  the  night  breezes  softly  steal  over  the  lea, 
And  the  red  moon  is  climbing  behind  the  dark  sheeling 
And  the  scent  of  the  seaweed  creeps  up  from  the  sea?" 

These  and  many  other  songsters,  prominent  among  them 
Seumas  O'Sullivan,  George  Roberts  and  Charles  Weeks,  who 
bring  out  in  strong  relief  the  splendor  of  Ireland's  verse — its 
beauty — its  cleanness,  and  above  all  its  marvelous  devotion 
in  joy  and  sorrow,  in  storm  and  calm  to  its  ideals  of  patriotism 
and  spirituality.  But  the  main  object  of  present  day  Celtic 
thought  is  to  create  a  literature  at  once  poetic  and  colloquial 
with  a  background  of  folk  tales  and  clothed  in  the  forceful 
idiomatic  language  of  the  Irish  peasantry.  This  movement  be- 
gan, as  has  been  stated,  in  1894  with  the  production  of 
Yeats's  one-act  play,  "The  Land  of  Heart's  Desire,"  at  the 
Avenue  Theatre  in  London — "Countess  Cathleen"  appeared 
in  1899 — and  in  1900  "Shadowy  Waters"  was  produced.  An 
Irish  Literary  Theatre  founded  by  Yeats,  Lady  Gregory  and 
Martyn  had  for  its  purpose  the  hope  of  building  up  a  literary 
drama.  With  this  end  in  view,  realistic  plays  were  produced 
— plays  which  tended  rather  to  appeal  to  the  intellect  than  to 
the  emotion.  Yeats,  Martyn,  George  Moore,  Synge,  Lady 
Gregory,  Hyde  and  Alice  Milligan  brought  forth  dramas  all 


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founded  on  the  desire  to  give  to  the  world  a  distinctively 
Gaelic  production.  The  newly-formed  dramatic  company 
offered  in  rapid  succession  Russell's  "Deirdre" — Yeats's 
"Cathleen  ni  Hoolihan" — Edward  Martyn's  "Twisting  of  the 
Rope" — Synge's  "Riders  to  the  Sea"  and  "In  the  Shadow  of 
the  Glen" — Yeats's  "Hour  Glass" — Lady  Gregory's  "Twenty- 
Five,"  and  Padriac  Colum's  "Broken  Sail." 

Since  most  of  these  dramatists  might  have  been  placed 
with  the  poets  of  no  mediocre  rank,  the  drama  bears  the  stamp 
of  real  merit,  and  as  the  Irish  instinct  to  express  itself  in 
action  found  opportunity  now,  the  whole  country  fell  to  the 
work  of  acting  and  writing  and  appreciating  the  drama,  and 
theatres  sprang  up  on  all  sides. 

Of  the  major  dramatists,  to  Yeats  must  be  conceded  the 
greatest  poetic  power,  while  Lady  Gregory  wins  renown  for 
the  great  rapidity  with  which  she  fell  to  the  popular  move- 
ment, producing  play  after  play  with  amazing  strength  and 
zeal.  Lady  Gregory  stands  in  broad  relief  as  the  portrayer 
of  distinctly  national  subjects.  Besides  translating  Dr.  Hyde's 
Irish  plays  into  English  she  has  given  us  "Poets  and  Dream- 
ers," a  collection  of  essays  giving  various  aspects  of  the  Irish 
literary  Renaissance  and  a  host  of  plays  of  Folk  History  and 
peasant  life  which  have  made  a  strong  impression  in  the  liter- 
ary world.  She  uses  the  colloquial  speech  of  the  country  peo- 
ple and  has  developed  a  great  proficiency  in  depicting  the 
visions  and  beliefs  which  held  such  sway  in  the  hearts  and 
hopes  and  despairs  of  her  countrymen.  A  great  admirer  of 
Yeats,  to  whom  she  dedicated  many  of  her  works,  she  followed 
along  his  method  of  rendering  the  old  folk  tales  into  idiomatic 
English.  Her  "Visions  and  Beliefs  in  the  West  of  Ireland"  is  a 
splendid  work,  giving  in  many  places  true  indication  of  the 
attributes  of  the  Irish  mind.  Lloyd  Morris  says  of  the  ten- 
dency of  the  Irish  people  to  accept  with  delight  writings  which 
delve  into  the  old  folk  lore:  "We  may  find  the  explanation 
of  this  quality  in  the  harsh  reality  of  their  lives  and  in  the 
consequent  revolt  against  the  despotism  of  fact  which  opposes 


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to  the  world  of  actual  experience  demonstrated  by  physical 
sense  a  world  of  beauty  revealed  by  visions." 

Lady  Gregory  has  been  blamed  for  putting  too  much  of 
her  personality  into  her  tales.  Critics  say  she  has  lessened 
the  dignity  of  the  old  stories  by  too  familiar  language,  by  giv- 
ing them  all,  romance  and  folk  lore,  in  the  same  diction.  It 
would  be  a  difficult  task  to  write  of  one's  own  country,  to 
voice  the  sentiments  of  one's  countrymen  and  to  go  into  detail 
in  description  of  character  and  of  nature  without  putting  into 
the  work  strong  personality,  and  this  intimacy  with  the  hearts 
and  homes  of  the  Irish  people  constitutes  the  real  cause  of  the 
amazing  popularity  of  Lady  Gregory's  works. 

The  Irish  Folk  History  plays  of  Lady  Gregory  are  divided 
into  the  Tragedies  and  the  Tragic  Comedies,  three  of  each. 
"The  Canavans"  is  a  typical  comedy  of  the  true  Lady  Gregory 
type.  The  miller,  Peter  Canavan,  assuming  his  new  dignity 
of  Mayor,  shows  his  sagacity  in  his  statement  to  the  Widows 
Deeny  and  Greely,  who  have  come  with  his  wash:  "Now 
when  there  is  a  course  of  action  put  before  any  man,  there  is 
but  the  one  question  to  put  and  the  one  to  answer ;  and  that 
question  is,  'Is  it  safe?'"  The  return  of  Canavan's  brother 
Antony,  a  deserter  from,  Elizabeth's  army,  carrying  a  pack  in 
which  are  clothes  modeled  after  the  Queen's,  hastens  a  series 
of  ludicrous  events,  the  coming  of  the  officers  in  search  of  the 
deserter,  Canavan's  desire  for  safety  and  his  fear  of  arrest, 
his  hiding  under  the  sacks  of  flour  with  the  agonizing  "Settle 
them  over  me,  let  you  personate  me,  they  will  not  harm  you 
at  all ;"  the  arrest  of  the  brothers,  the  scene  in  the  jail  where 
Antony  impersonates  the  Queen  and  the  brothers'  escape,  the 
return  home,  the  finding  of  Elizabeth's  clothes,  the  joy  on 
thinking  Antony  has  killed  her  and  the  pride  of  the  miller  in 
his  brother's  imaginary  brave  deed,  together  with  the  final 
triumph  of  Canavan  in  scaring  away  Essex  with  an  unloaded 
gun.  Cleverness  is  depicted  in  the  widows'  knowledge  of 
where  the  miller  kept  his  money — "The  board  you  put  your 
foot  upon  and  the  peddler  coming  into  the  house," — "The  time 
you  had  it  in  the  chimney  we  could  know  it  by  the  soot  upon 


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your  cap," — "The  time  it  was  hid  in  the  stable,  the  bees  made 
an  attack  on  you  through  the  smell."  The  Irish  hatred  of  the 
Queen,  who  never  married  and  never  fasted  from  a  lover,  is 
shown  in  the  miller's  generosity  to  Antony  and  in  his  admiring 
words,  "The  candle  of  bravery  and  courage  you  are ;  the  tower 
of  the  western  world.  Ah,  why  shouldn't  I  be  kind  after  the 
kindness  you've  shown  to  the  whole  nation?" 

No  strong  conflict  of  will  nor  strain  of  imagination  is  man- 
ifested in  this  or  in  any  of  Lady  Gregory's  comedies ;  they  are 
marked  instead  by  simple  intense  directness.  Many  of  them 
would  be  improved  by  cutting,  but  since  they  were  written 
during  a  period  of  experiment,  their  author  must  be  excused 
for  this  tendency  to  spread  her  dramas  over  too  large  a  space. 
She  herself  acknowledges  that  her  better  work  was  done  in 
her  one-act  plays.  "The  Rising  of  the  Moon"  is  a  clever  bit 
of  comedy  with  valuable  revelation  as  to  the  moods  of  the 
Irish  heart.  The  sergeant  watching  for  the  reward  which  is 
to  come  with  the  capture  of  the  man  whose  description  is 
placarded  on  the  Quay  is  easy  prey  to  the  cleverness  of  the 
ballad  singer  (the  criminal),  who  plays  upon  his  sympathy  and 
on  his  Irish  sensibility  and  thus  escapes  capture. 

"Ah,  Sergeant,  I  was  only  singing  to  keep  my  heart  up,"  is 
a  typical  picture  of  the  cheerful  nature  of  the  Irish  peasant 
under  oppression  and  misfortune;  and  the  reference  to  the 
heart  of  the  mother,  next  to  God  the  dearest  love  in  the  Celtic 
breast,  is  typical  too  of  Lady  Gregory's  knowledge  of  her  sub- 
ject. "It's  a  queer  world,  Sergeant,"  says  the  man,  "and  it's 
little  any  mother  knows  when  she  sees  her  child  creeping  on 
the  floor  what  might  happen  to  it  before  it  has  gone  through 
its  life,  or  who  will  be  who  in  the  end." 

"Spreading  the  News,"  "Hyacinth  Halvey,"  "The  Work- 
house Ward"  and  "The  Traveling  Man"  all  show  the  same 
general  characteristics,  and  the  reader  grows  a  little  tired  of 
banter  and  clever  speech  before  finishing  a  dozen  of  these  one- 
act  plays.  They  show  a  community  of  material  which  involves 
occasional  weakness  on  the  part  of  the  author  in  her  attempt 
to  diversify  setting-  and  character. 


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"The  Traveling  Man"  (a  miracle  play)  is  a  beautiful  little 
sketch,  the  scene  of  which  is  laid  in  a  cottage  kitchen,  where  a 
mother  tells  her  child  of  a  wonderful  stranger  like  the  king 
of  the  world,  who  came  to  her  in  her  distress,  "bright  and 
shining  that  you  could  see  him  through  the  darkness."  She 
tells  how  he  had  in  his  hand  a  green  bunch  that  never  grew  on 
any  tree  in  this  world,  and  how  he  told  her,  "I  will  come  to 
see  you  some  other  time.  And  do  not  shut  up  your  heart  in 
the  things  I  give  you,  but  have  a  welcome  for  me."  Then 
when  the  mother  goes  out,  a  traveling  man  enters,  and  sitting 
with  the  child  on  the  floor  tells  him  about  the  golden  mountain 
where  "there  are  birds  of  all  colors  that  sing  at  every  hour, 
the  way  the  people  will  come  and  say  their  prayers,  and  there 
are  four  gates  in  the  wall — and  there  are  four  wells  of  water 
in  it  as  clear  as  glass." 

On  the  mother's  return  the  child  asks  her  to  "let  him  stop 
here  till  evening."  But  the  mother  refuses  and  sends  him  out, 
little  understanding  his  affirmation  that  he  will  go  to  .  .  . 
"bodies  that  are  spoiled  with  sores,  bodies  that  are  worn  with 
fasting,  minds  that  are  broken  with  much  sinning."  Then  the 
traveling  man  goes  away.  In  the  child's  words :  "He  was  as 
if  walking  on  the  water.  There  was  a  light  before  his  feet." 
And  the  mother  knows  she  has  driven  away  the  King  of  the 
world. 

"Grania"  is  stronger  than  most  of  Lady  Gregory's  trage- 
dies. Finn  is  an  especially  well  depicted  character  and  his 
wisdom  betrays  itself  in  his  speech :  "The  tearing  and  vexing 
of  love  will  be  known  as  long  as  men  are  hot  blooded  and 
women  have  a  coaxing  way,"  and  again  in  his  declaration  that 
"jealousy  is  a  blast  that  whirls  men  like  feathers  before  it  in 
the  dust."  Finn's  expected  marriage  with  Grania  is  prevented 
by  the  appearance  of  Diarmuid,  with  whom  Grania  had  fallen 
in  love  long  before.  The  escape  of  Diarmuid  and  Grania, 
their  promise  to  return  every  year  an  oaten  cake  to  Finn  in 
token  of  the  fealty  of  Diarmuid  to  protect  Grania  from  all 
injury,  the  coming  of  Finn  to  their  hiding  place,  where  on  the 
seventh  year  the  cake  is  not  sent,  the  death  of  Diarmuid  and 


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the  grief  of  Grania  with  her  bitter  denunciation  of  Finn,  "and 
if  there  is  any  hatred  to  be  found  in  the  world  and  it  to  be 
squeezed  into  one  cup  only,  it  would  not  be  so  black  and  bitter 
as  my  own  hatred  for  you,"  all  these  attuned  to  the  atmosphere 
of  grief  and  of  misfortune  which  envelopes  the  play.  This 
play  as  well  as  the  many  others  of  its  author  will  substantiate 
for  Lady  Gregory  the  title  of  one  of  the  master  minds  of 
present  day  drama.  When  William  Butler  Yeats  deserted  the 
lyric  to  devote  his  time  to  the  drama,  the  art  of  pure  poetry 
lost  a  most  devoted  advocate,  but  the  lyric  quality  of  the 
poet's  earlier  years  found  its  way  into  his  plays  and  there  is 
scarcely  a  doubt  that  the  dramatic  movement  in  England  would 
have  failed  but  for  the  exertions  and  contributions  of  this 
splendid  mind.  His  "Countess  Cathleen,'  with  its  weird  super- 
natural setting,  its  splendid  picture  of  self-sacrifice  and  despite 
its  supernatural  element,  its  strange  realism,  is  strongly  adapt- 
able to  everyone's  life.  It  has  all  the  effect  of  a  morality  play ; 
tenderness  and  kindness  in  opposition  to  greed  and  evil,  pro- 
ducing in  an  eminent  degree  the  sentiments  of  admiration,  of 
faith,  and  of  the  determination  to  live  up  to  the  doctrine  that 
it  profiteth  a  man  nothing  to  gain  the  whole  world  if  in  so 
doing  he  must  lose  his  immortal  treasure. 

The  Celtic  belief  in  symbols  opens  the  play  with  an  Eliza- 
bethan tinge  of  belief  in  portents,  and  young  Teig's 

"They  say  the  land  is  famine  struck 
The  graves  are  walking," 

followed  by  his  "what's  the  use  of  praying?  Father  says  God 
and  the  Mother  of  God  have  dropped  asleep,"  calls  for  the 
answer  characteristic  of  the  Irish  mother — 

"You'll  bring  misfortune  with  your  blasphemies 
Upon  your  father,  or  yourself,  or  me," 

and  places  the  reader  at  once  in  the  desired  atmosphere.  The 
return  of  Shemus,  the  father,  the  coming  of  the  merchants 
with  their  dastardly  proposition  when  told  that  the  people  are 
starving  and  have  nothing  to  barter — 


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"They  have  not  sold  all  yet, 
For  there's  a  vaporous  thing — that  may  be  nothing, 
But  that's  the  buyer's  risk — a  second  self 
They  call  immortal  for  a  story's  sake 
You've  but  to  cry  aloud  at  every  crossroad 
At  every  house  door,  that  we  buy  men's  souls 
And  give  so  good  a  price  that  all  may  live 
In  mirth  and  comfort  till  the  famine's  done." 

Mary's  anguish  and  indignation  at  the  merchants  voices  itself 
in  this  fierce  denunciation : 

"Destroyer  of  souls,  God  will  destroy  you  quickly; 
You  shall  at  last  dry  like  dry  leaves  and  hang 
Nailed  like  dead  vermin  to  the  doors  of  God." 

The  Countess  Cathleen,  robbed  of  all  the  treasure  she  has 
saved  for  the  poor,  is  warned  by  Aliel,  who  has  seen  in  a 
vision  an  angel — 

"And  lady,  he  bids  me  call  you  from  these  woods, 
For  here  some  terrible  death  is  waiting  you ; 
Some  unimagined  evil,  some  great  darkness 
That  fable  has  not  dreamed  of  nor  sun  nor  moon  scattered. 

The  immense  faith  of  the  Irish  people  is  shown  in  Cathleen's 
determination 

"To  pray  before  this  altar  until  my  heart 
Has  grown  to  Heaven  like  a  tree  and  there 
Rustled  its  leaves  till  heaven  has  heard  my  people." 

But  the  tendency  to  despair,  on  finding  her  treasures  gone  and 
herself  unable  to  help  the  people  she  loves,  finds  terrible  voice 
in  her  cry, 

"Mary,  Queen  of  Angels, 
And  all  your  clouds  and  clouds  of  saints,  farewell," 

as  she  delivers  her  soul  to  the  merchants  in  return  for  the 
wealth  which  is  to  allay  the  sufferings  of  her  people.     The 


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sorrow  of  the  friends  of  Cathleen,  and  all  who  are  not  evil 
are  her  friends,  finds  fit  response  in  the  prayer  of  Ona : 

"O  Maker  of  all,  protect  her  from  the  demons 
And  if  a  soul  must  need  be  lost,  take  mine." 

Splendid  imagery  marks  Cathleen's  closing  speech : 

"Do  not  weep  too  great  a  while,  for  there  is  many 
A  candle  on  the  High  Altar  though  one  fall," 

and  the  play  closes  with  the  assurance  of  the  Angels : 

"...    The  gates  of  pearl  are  wide, 
And  she  is  passing  to  the  floor  of  peace 
And  Mary  of  the  seven  times  wounded  heart 
Has  kissed  her  lips,  and  the  long  blessed  hair 
Has  fallen  on  her  face ;  the  Light  of  Lights 
Looks  always  on  the  motives,  not  the  deed ; 
The  Shadow  of  Shadows  on  the  deed  alone." 

Yeats's  "Cathleen  ni  Hoolihan"  expresses  the  love  of  Ire- 
land's sons  for  the  nation.  It  is  a  strong,  vivid  exposition  of 
the  strength  of  soul  which  overcomes  all  obstacles  in  its  search 
for  right.  Peter  and  Bridget  Gillane,  in  their  little  cottage, 
admiring  the  wedding  clothes  and  bright  prospects  of  their 
son  Michael,  are  startled  by  loud  cheering  and  noise  of  the 
French  ships  in  the  bay.  As  they  conjecture  about  the  cause 
of  the  turmoil,  the  door  opens  and  a  tall,  mournful  woman 
enters  to  tell  in  beautiful  allegory  of  the  strangers  in  her 
house ;  of  the  wresting  of  her  four  beautiful  fields  and  of  the 
many  loyal  hearts  which  have  ceased  beating  for  love  of  her. 
In  response  to  their  offer  of  shelter,  of  food  and  even  of  gold, 
she  tells  them  that  her  need  is  of  loyal  hearts  who  will  under- 
take her  cause,  and  in  weird  cadence  she  continues :  "It  is  a 
hard  service  they  take  that  help  me.  Many  that  are  red- 
cheeked  will  be  pale-cheeked.  Many  that  have  walked  the 
hills  will  be  sent  to  walk  hard  streets  in  far  countries.  .  .  . 
Many  that  have  gathered  money  will  not  stay  to  spend  it ; 
many  a  child  will  be  born  and  there  will  be  no  father  at  its 


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christening  to  give  it  a  name ;  .  .  .  and  for  all  that  they  will 
think  they  are  well  paid."  Then  Michael,  strangely  attracted 
by  the  mournful  story  of  his  nation  whose  symbol  is  the  Cath- 
leen  ni  Hoolihan,  despite  the  tears  and  the  entreaties  of  his 
Delia  and  of  his  parents,  follows  the  lonely  visitor  from  the 
door  and  as  she  goes  down  the  path  with  this  new  loyal  heart 
beating  for  her,  she  steps  "like  a  young  girl,  with  the  walk 
of  a  queen." 

Of  this  play  Yeats  himself  says  it  was  his  first  oppor- 
tunity to  interpret  a  play  in  the  folk  manner.  It  was  an  experi- 
ment rewarded  with  success,  for  Cathleen  ni  Hoolihan  has 
never  failed  to  touch  the  heartstrings  of  Ireland's  children. 

In  beautiful  picture  Yeats  presents  George  Russell's  'Deir- 
dre,"  the  story  of  the  beautiful  queen: 

"Who  has  been  wandering  with  her  lover  Naisi, 
And  none  to  friend  but  lovers  and  wild  hearts." 

His  singularly  exquisite  description  of  the  sunset  where 
"stars  lost  each  other  in  the  mists  and  heat  of  the  sun  and 
then  sought  each  other's  faces,"  has  high  lyric  power  and  the 
story  Dierdre,  found  by  Naisi  and  his  brothers  and  taken  to 
the  kingdom  of  Naisi,  who  pines  later  for  his  comrades  of  the 
Red  Branch  Order,  is  pathetically  touching.  Deirdre's  wailing 
entreaty  to  Naisi, 

"Bend  and  kiss  me  now, 
For  it  may  be  the  last  before  our  death." 

Conchubar's  stern  determination  to  claim  his  bride — Naisi's 
plea  to  Deidre — 

"It's  better  to  go  with  him  ; 
Why  should  you  die  when  one  can  bear  it  all?" 

and  his  thrilling  reply  when  Dierdre  offers  herself  to  return 
to  the  King  if  he  will  set  Naisi  free: 


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"And  do  you  think 
That  were  I  given  life  at  such  a  price 
I  would  not  cast  it  from  me?     O  my  eagle, 
Why  do  you  beat  vain  wings  upon  the  rock 
When  hollow  night's  above?" 

The  tragic  death  of  Naisi,  Deirdre's  lament  and  her  death, 
and  Conchubar's  rage, 

"You  are  all  traitors — all  against  me — all ; 
And  she  has  deceived  me  for  a  second  time, 
And  every  common  man  can  keep  his  wife, 
But  not  the  King." 

All  these  keep  up  the  intense  interest  of  the  reader  and  place 
the  tragedy  among  the  best  of  those  written  during  the  new 
period. 

In  the  variety  of  his  verse,  dramas  and  lyrics,  Yeats  has 
shown  a  greater  versatility  in  his  poetic  work  than  have  any 
of  his  contemporaries.  His  "Wanderings  of  Oisin"  during 
three  centuries  in  three  mystic  lands  of  pleasure,  fighting  and 
forget  fulness,  is  marked  by  exuberant  coloring,  as  is  also  his 
"Madness  of  King  Goll."  The  "Wanderings  of  Oisin"  estab- 
lishes him  with  Hyde  and  Russell  as  one  of  the  three  great 
forces  of  the  Celtic  Renaissance.  In  his  splendid  essay  on 
Celtic  literature  he  introduces  us  to  the  people  of  his  heart 
and  nation  as  those  who  delight  in  spiritual  and  unbounded 
things,  in  stories  of  men  who  overcame  all  men,  who  died  in 
the  waves  because  only  the  waves  were  strong  enough  to 
overcome  them,  of  lovers  who  lived  in  the  heart  of  the  wood — 
the  only  place  where  death  could  not  come  to  them,  and  of 
grief  so  strong  that  "all  dreams  withering  in  the  winds  of  time 
lament  in  his  lamentations." 

Yeats's  "Celtic  Twilight"  rings  weird  with  the  Irish  dread 
of  the  evil  spirits  and  with  tender  loving  fear  of  the  "good 
people,"  miraculous  creatures,  who  live  in  enchanted  woods 
and  travel  about  guarding  those  whom  God  has  blessed. 

In  "The  Land  of  Heart's  Desire"  Yeats  gives  a  beautiful 
folk  play  of  the  luring  away  of  the  soul  of  a  newly  wedded 
bride  on  the  eve  of  May  Day  to  the  land 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  265 

"Where  nobody  gets  old  and  crafty  and  wise ; 
Where  nobody  gets  old  and  godly  and  grave ; 
Where  nobody  gets  old  and  bitter  of  tongue. 
And  where  kind  tongues  bring  no  captivity." 

This  has  been  more  frequently  produced  than  any 
other  of  his  plays.  Young  Mary's  heart  is  filled  with  legendary 
fancies  from  the  book  she  reads.  In  her  distress  at  the  chiding 
of  her  mother-in-law  she  appeals  to  the  fairies  to  remove  her. 
This  they  do  in  spite  of  Father  Hart's  attempt  to  save  her  and 
in  spite  of  his  advice  to  her  to  put  down  the  book: 

"Put  it  away,  my  colleen, 
God  spreads  the  heavens  above  us  like  great  wings, 
And  gives  a  little  round  of  deeds  and  days 
And  then  come  the  wicked  angels  and  set  snares, 
And  bait  them  with  light  hopes  and  heavy  dreams, 
Until  the  heart  is  puffed  with  pride  and  goes 
Half  shuddering  and  half  joyous  from  God's  peace." 

She  continues  her  reading  until  a  strange,  sweet  song  lures  her 
to  the  door  where  a  child  enters,  saying, 

"I  am  welcome  here, 
For  when  I  tire  of  this  warm  little  house 
There  is  one  here  who  must  away." 

sjc        i|e        if.        $ 

You  shall  go  with  me,  newly  married  bride 
And  gaze  upon  a  merrier  multitude, 
Where  beauty  has  no  ebb,  decay  no  flood." 

Then  softly,  sweetly,  in  rhythm  with  the  sweet  song  of  the 
child— 

"Come  little  bird  with  crest  of  gold," 

the  soul  of  Mary  leaves  the  body  and  the  good  priest  inter- 
prets the  symbolism — 

"Thus  do  the  spirits  of  evil  snatch  their  prey 
Almost  out  of  the  very  hand  of  God; 
And  day  by  day  their  power  is  more  and  more 
And  men  and  women  leave  old  paths  for  pride 
Comes  knocking  with  its  knuckles  on  the  heart." 


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To  put  a  specific  interpretation  with  a  universal  application  on 
these  little  dramas  is  to  rob  them  of  much  of  their  charm. 
Rather  let  them  speak  to  the  individual  heart  and  let  each 
draw  from  them  his  own  lesson. 

Altogether  Yeats  in  his  splendid  works  has  invoked  this 
spirit  of  middle  Irish  poetry — passionate  delight  in  nature,  in 
strength  and  in  beauty,  as  well  as  vehement  lamentations  for 
the  stern  realities  of  decay  and  death. 

He  takes  for  his  characters  the  homely  people  of  every 
day  life,  fishers,  farmers,  peddlers,  hunters  and  priests,  and 
he  clothes  them  in  the  beautiful  tradition  and  clean-cut  setting 
of  typical  Irish  life.  His  work  is  direct,  attuned  to  the  gen- 
eral ear,  and  must  needs  in  its  aesthetic  influence  have  great 
bearing  upon  the  work  of  his  contemporaries.  "The  King's 
Threshold,"  "On  Bailies  Strand"  and  "The  Green  Helmet," 
give  the  direct  plain  impression,  while  "The  Land  of  Heart's 
Desire,"  "The  Wind  Among  the  Reeds"  and  "Shadowy 
Waters"  gain  for  their  author  the  title  of  mystic.  To  him  the 
great  beyond  was  always  very  near,  not  only  in  his  attachment 
to  the  folk  lore,  legends  and  traditions  of  his  people  as  shown 
in  dainty  exclamations  like  the  following: 

"They  will  not  hush,  the  leaves  a  flutter 
Round  me — the  beech  leaves  old," 

but  in  splendid  tribute  to  the  power  and  majestic  and  over- 
shadowing kindness  of  God. 

Love  of  woman  and  love  of  nature  are  the  dominant  notes 
of  the  poetry  of  this  great  man.  Like  Russell,  he  lives  fre- 
quently in  the  spirit  world  and  expresses  his  lack  of  faith  in 
the  reality  of  earthly  things  as  agents  of  joy  or  sorrow. 

"Come  heart  where  hill  is  heaped  upon  hill, 
For  there  the  mystical  brothers 
Of  sun  and  moon  and  hollow  and  wood 
And  river  and  stream  work  out  their  will 
And  God  stands  winding  His  lonely  horn, 
And  time  and  the  world  are  ever  in  flight 
And  love  is  less  kind  than  the  gray  twilight 
And  hope  is  less  dear  than  the  dew  of  the  morn." 


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But  this  is  not  the  characteristic  expression  of  the  poet's 
mind.  Rather  he  delights  in  the  unsealing  of  the  tradition  and 
of  the  emotional  personality  of  the  Celt.  His  inspirations,  it 
is  said,  come  to  him  from  literature  rather  than  from  life,  and 
the  influence  upon  him  of  the  great  minds  which  have  gone 
before  has  won  for  him  the  title  of  the  poet's  poet. 

A  dip  into  the  "Hour  Glass"  will  round  up  our  estimate 
of  this  great  thinker — this  poet  of  the  spirit,  as  the  weaver  of 
beauty,  and  will  show  his  deep,  philosophical  thoughts  on  the 
eternity  of  good.  "In  "The  Hour  Glass,"  a  morality  play, 
Teague  the  Fool  tells  about  the  angels  whose  feet  have  been 
caught  in  the  snares  laid  by  the  Wise  Man  and  who  are  thus 
prevented  from  rescuing  his  scholars  from  the  toils  of  his 
philosophy.  Into  the  Wise  Man's  satisfaction  at  the  mischief 
he  has  caused  in  the  hearts  of  men  comes  an  Angel  with  an 
Hour  Glass  which  is  to  mark  the  short  time  left  to  the  Wise 
Man.  Confronted  by  the  great  fear  of  Death  the  Wise  Man 
proclaims  his  faith,  but  the  Angel  answers,  'You  must  die 
because  no  souls  have  passed  over  the  threshold  of  Heaven 
since  you  came  to  the  country.  The  threshold  is  grassy  and 
the  gates  are  rusty,  and  the  Angels  who  keep  watch  there  are 
lonely.'  " 

When  the  Wise  Man  learns  that  the  only  place  open  to 
those  who  deny  God  is  Hell,  he  strives  to  undo  his  evil,  but  in 
vain;  his  lessons  have  been  too  well  taught.  Of  all  those  for 
whom  he  gave  his  soul  no  one  will  believe.  At  last,  in  despera- 
tion, he  turns  to  the  Fool,  for 

"Only  the  Fool  believes  in  the  Fire  that  punishes, 
In  the  Fire  that  purifies,  in  the  Fire  wherein 
The  soul  rejoices  forever." 

So  the  Wise  Man  dies,  but  the  sign  he  has  craved  that  others 
may  not  perish  by  his  fault,  comes  from  his  mouth,  in  the 
form  of  a  little  shining  thing — a  bright  little  thing  which  the 
Angel  carries  away  in  her  hands  to  paradise. 

Lord  Dunsany  betrays  a  strong  affinity  to  the  poetic  drama 
as  conceived  by  Yeats.     At  the  time  that  Yeats  and  Martyn 


268  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

inaugurated  the  Irish  Literary  Theatre  in  Dublin,  Dunsany  was 
in  the  Transvaal  with  his  regiment,  and  it  was  not  until  1909 
that  his  first  play,  "The  Glittering  Gate,"  was  produced  at  the 
Abbey  Theatre.  "The  Golden  Doom,"  "The  Gods  of  the 
Mountain"  and  "King  Argentines"  and  "The  Unknown  War- 
riors" followed  in  rapid  succession.  "The  Lost  Silk  Hat"  and 
"A  Night  at  an  Inn"  followed  the  same  literary  styles  as  the 
plays  with  more  pretentious  titles,  all  of  them  clear,  pure, 
melodious  expressions  of  a  clean  soul  which  has  fed  only  on 
the  best  in  the  literary  realm.  He  followed  carefully  the 
lesson  given  him  by  Yeats,  his  master  in  the  art  of  dramatic 
construction,  whose  terse  explanation  of  the  need  of  the  drama 
is,  "Surprise  is  what  is  necessary.  Surprise,  and  then  more 
surprise,  and  that  is  all ;"  and  he  himself  gives  this  conception 
of  poetry,  "Poetry  is  of  two  kinds,  that  which  mirrors  the 
beauty  of  the  world  in  which  our  bodies  are,  and  that  which 
builds  the  more  mysterious  kingdoms  where  geography  ends 
and  fairyland  begins,  with  gods  and  heroes  at  war,  and  the 
sirens  singing  still."  And  this  second  kind  was  his  own — a 
poetry  which  placed  him  with  Synge  and  Yeats  as  the  three 
great  contemporary  dramatic  poets  of  Ireland.  He  has  great 
force  of  imaginative  power  and  in  "The  Glittering  Gate"  the 
grotesque  is  mixed  with  the  symbolic  when  Jim  and  Bill  find 
their  earthly  tools  useful  in  opening  the  gate  which  will  lead 
them  to  where  they  expect  to  find  the  friends  of  their  more 
innocent  days,  but  where  they  find  too,  to  their  dismay,  that 
for  them,  in  the  language  of  Bill,  "There  ain't  no  heaven, 
Jim."  This  play  reveals  a  strong  tendency  to  cynicism  on  the 
part  of  Lord  Dunsany,  also  his  tendency  toward  portraying 
the  fatalism  which  surrounds  man  in  his  contact  with  the 
supernatural  world.  Dunsany  did  not  rely  on  the  legendary 
lore  of  his  country,  but  created  his  own  myths  and  legends 
from  his  original  fancy.  Fate,  and  the  gods  in  charge  of  it, 
assume  many  attitudes,  but  these  attitudes  are  ever  the  pre- 
vailing force  of  the  work  of  this  clever  artist  in  depicting  the 
moods  and  fancies  of  mankind — "The  Gods  of  the  Mountain," 
a  drama  where  the  rocks  walk  in  the  evening:  and  where  the 


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seven  gods  of  the  mountain  (impersonated  by  six  beggars  and 
a  thief)  sit  upon  the  mountain  top  "with  their  right  elbows 
resting  on  their  left  hands,  the  right  forefinger  pointing 
upwards." 

Surely  in  these  as  in  "A  Night  at  the  Inn"  and  in  "The 
Golden  Doom"  and  other  plays,  Dunsany  deserves  the  title  of 
uniqueness.  Triviality,  however,  mars  the  effect  of  much  of 
his  work  and  there  are  few  who  care  for  second  reading. 

In  "The  Heather  Field"  and  in  "Maeve"  Edward  Martyn 
places  himself  almost  in  the  first  rank  of  present  day  dra- 
matists. Tyrell  the  hero  conceives  the  wild  idea  of  redeeming 
from  the  ocean  a  wild  field  of  bog  and  heather.  In  trying  to 
carry  out  his  strange  project,  he  neglects  his  every  day  busi- 
ness and  thus  incurs  the  displeasure  of  his  wife,  who  resents 
his  neglect  of  her  and  of  their  child.  The  same  visionary 
aspect  of  life  is  taken  by  Maeve  in  the  drama  bearing  her 
name.  She  leaves  her  home  on  her  wedding  eve  to  follow  the 
mysterious  figures  of  legend,  and  while  her  body  is  later  found 
lifeless  in  her  chair,  her  soul  goes  forth  to  meet  the  ideal  lover, 
who  is  for  her  the  symbol  of  eternal  beauty.  "A  Tale  of  a 
Town,"  "Grangecolman,"  "Hail  and  Farewell"  show  deep 
study  of  technique  on  the  part  of  the  author.  His  characters 
are  not  essentially  strong,  and  he  lacks  the  almost  universal 
admiration  which  the  Irishman  has  for  woman,  but  he  is 
highly  intellectual  and  symbolic. 

Yeats  has  interpreted  Maeve  as  the  delineation  of  the  true 
hearted  Ireland  who  would  rather  be  depopulated  in  pursuit 
of  national  individuality  and  of  ideal  beauty  than  to  drift  along 
to  complete  Anglicanism,  even  though  that  brings  riches,  peace 
and  content. 

George  Moore,  closely  identified  with  Edward  Martyn  in 
the  intellectual  drama  has  the  splendid  power  of  assuming  and 
entering  into  the  characters  whom  he  depicts,  of  becoming 
absorbed  in  their  interests  and  of  possessing  himself  of  their 
passions.  His  first  dramatic  work  in  Ireland  was  "The  Strike 
at  Arlingford,"  produced  as  the  result  of  a  wager — and  receiv- 
ing applause  which  encouraged  its  author  to  continue.    "The 


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Second  Mrs.  Tanqueray,"  "A  Drama  in  Muslin,"  revealing 
his  deepest  knowledge  of  Irish  life,  and  "Esther  Waters"  are 
plays  whose  characters  are  drawn  from  his  novels  or  from 
characters  used  under  other  names  in  his  novels.  Moore  is 
decidedly  Platonic  in  his  ideas  of  marriage  and  its  most  sacred 
function,  and  this  trait  in  his  character  prevents  his  work  from 
assuming  or  evincing  the  affinity  with  spirituality  which  must 
control  any  work  that  is  to  endure  as  a  universally  great  pro- 
duction. 

Dr.  Douglas  Hyde's  "Casad-an-Sugan"  (The  Twisting  of 
the  Rope),  is  a  one-act  play  in  Gaelic  to  be  produced  upon  the 
stage.  Simple  in  its  denouement,  the  story  depicts  the  getting 
rid  of  an  objectionable  visitor  by  appealing  to  his  pride  as  the 
only  man  present  who  could  twist  a  rope.  As  the  rope 
lengthens  the  unlucky  "twister"  finds  himself  outside  of  the 
door,  to  the  great  relief  of  the  party. 

Dr.  Hyde  stands  in  the  first  rank  as  one  of  the  leading 
workers  in  the  collecting  and  retelling  of  Irish  folk  literature. 
It  is  said  that  without  his  "Love  Songs"  and  "Religious  Songs" 
of  Connaucht,  the  prose  of  his  period  would  never  have  at- 
tained that  distinction  of  rhythm  which  is  its  chief  character- 
istic. Trenchant  at  times  with  satire  and  again  bursting  with 
merriment,  Dr.  Hyde  is  ever  a  keen  observer,  ever  human,  and 
ever  imbued  with  the  deepest  reverence  for  all  that  is  holy. 
These  traits  have  wTon  for  him  the  name  of  the  best  loved 
writer  in  Ireland.  His  "Literary  History  of  Ireland"  is  replete 
with  records  of  strong  men  who  tried  to  promulgate  laws,  to 
test,  purge,  and  sanction  the  annals  and  genealogies  of  Ire- 
land," and  his  "Story  of  Early  Gaelic  Literature,"  as  well  as 
the  tales  from  the  Irish  of  the  "Sgnelnidhe  Gaodhalach,"  give 
good  pictures  of  the  lives  of  his  countrymen  in  different  ages. 
"The  Lost  Saint,"  a  one-act  play,  is  one  of  the  favorite  plays 
among  the  peasantry  and  gentlefolks.  It  represents  an  Irish 
schoolmaster  who  related  to  his  pupils  the  story  of  a  holy, 
saintly  man  of  Ireland  who  went  away  in  his  humility  and 
wandered  through  the  country  in  disguise.  Poor  little  Conall, 
the  "Amadan"  cannot  sav  the  lines  and  is  left  alone  while  the 


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master  and  all  the  other  boys  go  out.  An  old  man  enters  and 
despite  Oman's  tearful  protestation,  "I  have  no  memory  of 
anything,"  declares  he  will  help  him  with  the  hard  task.  Then 
the  old  man  prays  with  the  beautiful,  trusting  Irish  faith  which 
draws  so  close  to  the  Almighty  as  to  pull  at  His  very  heart- 
strings :  "O  Lord,  O  God,  take  pity  on  this  little,  soft  child. 
Put  wisdom  in  his  head,  cleanse  his  heart,  scatter  the  mist 
from  his  mind,  and  let  him  learn  his  lesson  like  the  other  boys. 
.  .  .  O  Lord,  bitter  are  the  tears  of  a  child,  sweeten  them  ; 
deep  are  the  thoughts  of  a  child,  quiet  them;  sharp  is  the  grief 
of  a  child,  take  it  from  him ;  soft  is  the  heart  of  a  child,  do 
not  harden  it."  Then,  to  the  amazement  of  the  master,  Conal 
recites  the  entire  poem  of  the  saints  who  guard  the  days  of  the 
week,  and  the  Old  Man,  the  humble  Aongus  Ceile  Di,  who  has 
disguised  himself  in  his  humanity,  gives  this  beautiful  blessing 
to  the  master  and  the  children,  "The  blessing  of  God  on  you; 
the  blessing  of  Christ  and  His  Holy  Mother  on  you ;  my  own 
blessing  on  you." 

Hyde's  "Little  Child,  I  Call  Thee,"  shows  sensitive  tender- 
ness and  sympathy  with  youth : 

"Little  child,  I  call  thee  fair, 
Clad  in  hair  of  golden  hue, 
Every  lock  in  ringlets  falling 
Down  to  almost  kiss  the  dew," 

and  his  "O  Were  You  On  the  Mountain"  retains  like  the 
former  the  original  sentiment  in  all  its  lyric  clearness — 

"I  was  up  on  the  mountain  and  saw  there  your  Love ; 
I  saw  there  your  own  one,  your  queen  and  your  dove  ; 
I  saw  there  the  maiden  with  the  step  firm  and  free 
And  she  was  not  pining  in  sorrow  like  thee." 

The  mediaeval  flavor  of  "O  Were  You  On  the  Mountain"  car- 
ries through  "I  Shall  Not  Die  for  Thee,"  a  poem  ballad — like 
in  movement,  rich  in  picturesque  description,  and  true  in  its 
human  tone. 


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"Woman  graceful  as  the  swan, 
A  wise  man  did  nurture  me. 
Little  palni,  white  neck,  bright  eye, 
I  shall  not  die  for  thee." 

So  much  has  been  done  by  this  splendid  man  that  a  whole 
paper  might  well  be  devoted  to  his  clever  and  magnificent 
efforts  in  behalf  of  Irish  literature.  But  in  a  cursory  glance 
over  the  entire  period  with  which  he  is  connected,  we  feel  his 
influence  in  the  other  writings  as  well  as  in  his  own,  so  we 
leave  him  for  the  present  and  quote  in  passing,  his  prayer : 

"From  the  foes  of  my  land,  from  the  foes  of  my  faith, 
From  the  foes  who  would  us  dissever, 
O  Lord  preserve  me,  in  life,  in  death, 
With  the  sign  of  the  cross  forever." 

One  more  writer  of  this  period  so  replete  with  men  of 
action  and  ability,  must  claim  our  attention.  Time  and  space 
forbid  at  present  consideration  of  the  splendid  work  of  Paidric 
Colum,  whose  dramas  are  as  full  of  promise  as  are  his  lyrics 
of  real  worth.  We  pass  on  to  John  Millington  Synge,  whose 
"Riders  to  the  Sea,"  "The  Shadow  of  the  Glen"  and  "Deir- 
dre  of  the  Sorrows"  have  placed  him  high  on  the  ladder  of 
contemporary  fame.  "In  the  Shadow  of  the  Glen"  is  not  a 
clean  drama  nor  is  it  a  true  delineation  of  Irish  character,  for 
surely  in  no  place  under  God's  skies  is  purity  of  womanhood 
so  guarded  and  loved  as  in  Ireland,  but  in  his  presentation  of 
this  travesty  on  Irish  womanhood,  Synge  is  peculiarly  clever, 
as  he  is  in  his  description  of  the  lonely  home  where  Nora,  the 
symbol  of  many  an  Irish  maid  mated  without  choice  to  an  old 
man  of  wealth,  goes  about  sad  and  lonely,  "hearing  nothing 
but  the  wind  crying  out  in  the  bits  of  broken  trees  left  from 
the  great  storm  and  the  streams  roaring  with  the  wind." 

In  "Riders  to  the  Sea"  Synge  gives  a  characteristic  folk- 
lore drama — a  picture  of  the  constant  conflict  between  the 
islanders  and  the  harsh,  unrelenting  sea.  Maurya,  hearing 
news  of  the  death  of  her  son  Michael,  refuses  to  be  com- 


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forted,  as  she  begs  her  one  remaining  son,   Bartley,  to  stay 
at  home : 

"If  it  was  a  hundred  horses  or  a  thousand  horses,  you  had 
itself,  what  is  the  price  of  a  thousand  horses  against  a  son 
where  there  is  one  son  only?" 

"He's  gone  now,  God  spare  us,  and  we'll  not  see  him  again. 
He's  gone  now  and  when  the  black  night  is  falling,  I'll  have  no 
son  left  in  this  world." 

Then  when  she  goes  to  give  Bartley  her  last  blessing  and 
tries  to  say  "God  speed  you,"  but  faints  on  seeing  the  wraith 
of  Michael.  Her  .grief  grows  less  loud  and  she  keens  softly 
her  death  song — 

"It  isn't  that  I  haven't  prayed  for  you,  Bartley,  to  the 
Almighty  God.  It  isn't  that  I  haven't  said  prayers  in  the  dark 
night    .    .    . 

"They're  all  together  this  time,  and  the  end  is  come.  May 
the  Almighty  God  have  mercy  on  Bartley's  soul,  and  on 
Michael's  soul  and  on  the  souls  of  Sheamus  and  Patch,  and 
Stephen  and  Shawn,  and  may  he  have  mercy  on  my  soul  and 
on  the  soul  of  every  one  who  is  left  living  in  the  world." 

The  appeal  of  this  splendid  little  tragedy  is  more  becoming 
to  the  power  of  Synge  than  are  the  irreverence  and  frivolity 
and  commonness  of  "The  Tinker's  Wedding."  The  cottage 
scene  is  such  as  one  might  meet  in  any  Irish  parish  and  the 
lyric  beauty  of  the  "cabin"  of  Mauryn  is  thrilling  in  its  appeal. 
Far  removed  from  this  effect  is  that  produced  by  "The  Play- 
boy of  the  Western  World,"  where  a  spirited  young  Irish  lad, 
"Christy,"  wins  the  love  and  admiration  of  the  womenfolk  as 
he  relates  how  in  a  quarrel  he  killed  his  "da."  Here  the  pur- 
pose is  obviously  to  show  the  writer's  contempt  for  certain  of 
the  Irish  people.  It  is  an  unworthy  purpose,  extravagant  and 
untrue  in  its  working  and  unworthy  of  the  splendid  ability  of 
Synge. 

In  "Deirdre  of  the  Sorrows"  Synge  carries  out  the  same 
story  as  Yeats  and  Russell,  but  it  promises  more  power  than 


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either  of  the  other  productions  and  this  "folk  tragedy  is  highly 
convincing  and  human  in  its  delineation  of  the  passion  of 
Dierdre." 

"I  have  put  away  sorrow,"  she  says,  "like  a  shoe  that  is 
worn  out,  for  it  is  I  who  have  had  a  life  that  will  be  envied 
by  great  companies."  Deirdre  is  a  variation  from  the  women 
portrayed  by  Synge  in  his  other  works,  but  it  is  by  such  varia- 
tions that  he  has  made  himself  famous.  His  belief  was  that 
only  in  things  and  places  and  characters  out  of  the  ordinary 
is  material  interesting  to  the  ordinary  man,  and  to  this  belief 
we  must  refer  in  excusing  so  many  transgressions  against 
ethical  treatment  of  his  subjects. 

The  greatest  value  of  the  works  of  the  writers  of  this 
period  has  been  the  awakening  of  the  world  to  the  national 
consciousness  of  Ireland,  to  the  fact  that  she  has  the  material, 
the  possibility  and  the  power  to  produce  a  literature  strong 
and  splendid  and  beautiful,  that  her  national  ideals  and  na- 
tional patriotism  combined  with  her  splendid  trust  in  her  own 
power  guided  by  the  ever  mastering  power  of  the  God  whom 
she  holds  so  dear,  must  needs  find  expression  for  all  time  in 
language,  eloquent,  impassioned,  sublime,  and  in  fine  that 
hearts  so  permeated  with  the  truths  of  humanity  must  rest 
with  nothing  less  than  a  national  expression  of  national  ideals, 
and  with  God's  help,  of  a  national  freedom. 

M.  C.  H. 


The  Clue  That  Led  to  Truth 

FTER  about  half  an  hour's  tinkering  with 
the  internals  of  his  Stutz  sport  model  from  a 
supine  position  of  apparent  ease  on  a  rather 
durable  pavement,  Donald  Clifford  Man- 
chester, one  of  society's  brightest  assets, 
emerged  and  once  again  breathed  air  un- 
tainted by  gasoline.  Now  he  looked  very  much  unlike  his 
usual  self.  Not  one  of  the  young  ladies  of  that  smart  set,  the 
members  of  which  he  was  pleased  to  call  his  friends,  would 
recognize  him  now.  He  was  dressed  in  jumper  and  overalls 
which  very  much  resembled  the  ones  worn  by  the  man  who 
fills  the  grease  cups  at  the  Buick  service  station  after  his 
wash  lady  has  for  the  third  consecutive  time,  refused  to 
renovate  them. 

"Confound  it  all,  where's  that  screw-driver.  If  I'd  be 
less  independent  and  do  as  my  friends  are  always  advising  I 
wouldn't  be  forever  contaminating  myself  by  intimate  contact 
with  these  vile  boulevards.  Busiest  part  of  town,  too.  Oh, 
well,  I  suppose  I'll  have  to  run  over  to  a  garage  with  all  this 
grease  on  my  face  and  get  a  screw-driver." 

With  this  soliloquy  he  crossed  the  street  and  started  for 
a  garage  farther  down.  A  headline  of  the  evening  paper 
caught  his  eye  and  he  stopped  to  read,  "Another  Daring  Day- 
light Robbery;  Ascribed  to  'Denver  Mike."  He  looked  nar- 
rowly at  the  name  and  smiled  a  grim  smile.  "Denver  Mike, 
eh,"  he  said  to  himself. 

As  he  was  going  into  the  garage  he  ran  squarely  into  a 
somewhat  disreputable  individual  who  took  the  collision  with 
bad  grace. 

"Beg  pardon,  stranger,"  apologized  Manchester. 
"Say,   who   do  you   think  you   are   anyway,"   snarled  the 
other. 


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"Denver  Mike,  at  your  service,"  smiled  Beau  Brummell 
incognito. 

The  other  started  slightly  and  looked  a  little  alarmed  and 
then  grinned  evilly  as  much  as  to  say,  "You've  given  me  a 
great  idea.     Thanks." 

He  of  the  greasy  overalls  stood  and  stared  after  the  re- 
treating figure  and  scratched  his  head  as  though  contem- 
plating some  action  and  yet  undecided  whether  to  act  or  not. 
Then  with  a  bound  he  was  across  the  street  and  speaking 
earnestly  with  a  policeman.  He  turned  to  point  out  the 
object  of  his  solicitations  but  he  had  entirely  disappeared. 
Soon  the  officer  disappeared  too  and  Donald  went  into  the 
garage. 

THE    CALIPH    STOOPS 

Feeling  exceptionally  romantic,  so  much  so  that  he  was 
led  to  recite  Waller's  "On  a  Girdle"  for  his  own  benefit, 
Donald  walked  back  up  the  boulevard,  justifying  the  hypo- 
thesis that  the  new  collar  styles  were  introduced  solely  to 
give  the  men's  necks  free  play. 

A  hat  came  sailing  towards  him  leading  in  its  wake  one  of 
the  prettiest  of  the  sex,  so  often  erroneously  referred  to  as 
"weaker,"  that  he  had  ever  seen.  She  was  so  attired  as  to 
give  a  person  the  impression  that  she  was  a  firm  adherent  of 
Gelett  Burgess'  sulphitic*  theory.  Donald  nearly  broke  his 
neck  trying  to  get  his  hands  on  the  hat.  When  he  succeeded 
in  rescuing  it  for  her  there  were  two  big  black  grease  spots  on 
the  brim  where  his  hands  had  clutched  it.  He  turned  to 
present  it  to  her  and  gasped  as  he  gazed  at  her. 

"Lord !  she's  a  beauty,"  he  thought. 

But  she  was  speaking  now.  "Oh,  you've  ruined  it !  Why 
didn't  you  let  it  go?" 

"By    George,    they    always    think    of    themselves    first !" 


''Opposite   of   bromidic. 


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thought  Donald.  Then  aloud  he  said,  "I'm  very  sorry  I  was 
so  careless,  Miss.     You  will  allow  me  to  replace  it  I  hope." 

"There's  isn't  another  one  like  it,"  she  objected. 

"There's  one  over  there."  He  pointed  with  his  finger 
across  the  street. 

He  seemed  determined  to  argue  but  she  went  on  in  a  dif- 
ferent key.  "Why  couldn't  you  have  been  a  handsome,  mil- 
lionaire's son?  Why  do  I  always  have  to  meet  proletarians 
in  my  adventures?" 

He  thought  of  his  condition  and  looked  down  at  his  over- 
alls and  jumper  and  a  light  of  understanding  broke.  He  was 
going  to  say  something  about  snobs  and  class  prejudice 
when  she  turned  away  and  he  saw  a  car  approaching  the 
curbing.  He  saw  that  she  was  going  to  leave  suddenly  and 
called  after  her,  "Good-bye,  Donna  Tullia."  She  turned  a 
puzzled  face  towards  him  and  then  climbed  into  the  car 
which  was  immediately  driven  away  by  the  youthful  chauffeur. 

fancy's  flight 

Young  Manchester,  as  young  men  frequently  do,  spent  the 
following  week  when  he  was  not  engaged  in  looking  up  the 
society  columns  of  the  newspapers  for  a  sight  of  that  pretty 
face,  in  thinking  up  ideas  for  poems,  yes,  and  even  writing 
them.     They  usually  ran  something  like  this : 

You  came  to  me  out  of  the  mist, 
You  came  and  you  looked,  I  wist, 
Like  a  love  lily  beautifully  kissed 
By  the  rays  of  the  setting  sun. 

He  never  stopped  to  worry  whether  every  word  made  sense 
or  not,  but  he  wrote,  as  he  thought,  as  if  he  were  inspired. 
"Henry  Mailers  should  see  some  of  this,"  he  thought  as 
he  put  the  finishing  touches  to  a  thirty-stanza  poem.  Henry 
Mailers  was  his  bosom  friend  and  consequently  privileged  to 
say  things  that  others  wouldn't  have  dared,  and  taking  ad- 
vantage of  the  privilege,  Mailers  told  him  one  day  that  he  was 


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an  erudite  scholar,  a  great  critic,  and  an  excellent  short-story 
writer  but  that  he  couldn't  write  verse  and  to  cut  it  out. 
Frequently,  when  he  thought  of  it,  Donald  was  piqued  by 
this  speech  very  much. 

Rummaging  through  a  pile  of  manuscript,  he  came  across 
an  invitation  to  a  ball  at  the  home  of  Miss  Beula  Louise 
Harrison,  the  multi-millionaire's  daughter.  A  shadow  of  an- 
noyance crossed  his  face  as  he  realized  that  he  had  failed  to 
express  his  regrets.  It  had  never  occurred  to  him  that  he 
might  go.     That  sort  of  thing  didn't  interest  him  now. 

Henry  Mailers  called  after  dinner  to  know  if  he  were 
going.  When  he  saw  the  pile  of  manuscript  he  went  over 
and  picked  up  the  latest  effort. 

"Good  Lord!"  he  ejaculated.     "What's  this?" 

(Reading.) 

"  'Acushla — .'     Where'd  you  get  that  ?" 

"Canon  Sheehan.     Why?"  responded  Donald. 

"Why  don't  you  read  something  good  like  Oscar  Wilde  or 
Flaubert  or  Tolstoy?" 

"What's  the  matter  with  Sheehan?" 

"Not  romantic  enough." 

"He  has  romanticism  down  to  a  fine  point.  Not  realistic 
enough  you  mean.  You've  got  realism  like  Tolstoi's  on  the 
brain.     But  go  on  with  the  crticism." 

(Mailers  continuing.) 

"  'Acushla,  see !  you've  been  the  cause 

Of  my  great  happiness; 
I  could  not  love  you  any  more — 

Could  you  then  love  me  less? 

I  cannot  chant  sweet  songs  of  love 

As  other  youthful  bards ; 
I  cannot  play  or  sing  or  lie, 

Nor  fortunes  tell  with  cards. 

When  you  and  I  go  wandering 
Along  the  moon-kissed  sea, 


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You  know  that  though  my  lips  are  sealed 
You're  everything  to  me. 

Your  gentle  hand  upon  my  arm, 

A  sweet  smile  on  your  lips — 
I  tremble  with  a  daring  thought — 

The  moon  in  a  cloud  bank  dips. 

Ma  chere,  please  love  me,  for  you  are 

The  source  of  happiness ; 
I  could  not  love  you  any  more — 

Could  you  then  love  me  less?" 

"Well,  what  do  you  think  of  it?"  asked  Donald. 

"Say,  son,  who  is  she?"  Mailers  leaned  forward  in  expec- 
tation. 

"Oh,  I  ran  after  some  of  her  wearing  apparel  the  other 
day." 

"What !  already  ?  Aw,  forget  it  and  go  to  the  ball  to- 
night." 

"Oh,  yes.     Of  course." 

"Well,  there  isn't  any  more."  Then  a  bright  idea  struck 
him  and  he  jumped  up  and  exclaimed,  "By  George !  I  will  go 
to  that  ball  to-night." 

THE    BALL 

Amid  that  blaze  of  brilliancy  he  felt  curiously  lonesome 
and  yet  vainly  realized  that  this  was  his  real  sphere — here  he 
was  altogether  at  home.  He  knew  without  allowing  the 
knowledge  to  make  him  a  presumptuous  prig,  that  he  was 
one  of  the  most  popular  beaux  at  the  ball.  And  yet,  with  all 
the  curious  glances  of  the  men,  admiring  in  spite  of  envious- 
ness,  and  the  admiring  gaze  of  the  women,  who  saw  in  him 
only  perfection,  he  realized  that  he  was  a  despicable  hypo- 
crite, a  mere  dillettante,  dipping  in  here,  dabbling  there,  pos- 
sessing a  superficial  knowledge  of  literature  yet  afraid  to  use 
it  because  that  represented  work,  and  he  hated  work  in  any 
form.     According  to  his  view,  if  there  were  another  Eden, 


280  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

« 

Satan  would  assume  the  form  of  a  laborer.  And  yet  he  would 
have  been  unwilling  to  admit  that  he  was  a  misanthrope.  He 
hated  to  think  of  poverty  but  realized  that  it  was  his  duty 
to  feel  sorry  for  it. 

He  stood  in  a  corner  of  the  ballroom  thoughtfully  gazing 
at  the  scintillating  brilliance  of  the  crystal  chandeliers,  re- 
flecting in  variegated  colors  the  most  infinitesimal  gleam  of 
light,  like  illuminated  stalactites.  Before  him  beautiful  girls 
in  vari-colored  plumage  drifted  by  in  the  arms  of  their  part- 
ners to  the  entrancing  music  of  an  inspired  orchestra.  And 
then  he  looked  down  to  see  —  oh,  heavens !  such  an  ethereal 
vision.  Wonder  of  wonders,  it  was  she — his  inspiration !  Miss 
Harrison  was  beckoning  to  him  to  approach.  He  was  affected 
as  Pegasus  must  have  been  when  he  made  his  first  flight  and 
dizzy  with  delight  but  to  all  outward  appearances  the  same 

formal    Mr.    Manchester The    introduction.     Miss 

Tremont,  Mr.  Manchester.  He  couldn't  for  the  life  of  him 
remember  afterwards  whether  he  had  acknowledged  the  intro- 
duction  to    her    escort    or   not Tremont.      A   very 

poetic  name He  wondered  what  her  first  name  was, 

and  hoped  with  all  his  heart  that  it  wasn't  Claibel  or  Cymbe- 
line.  He  thought  she  started  slightly  when  she  first  saw  him 
but  he  couldn't  be  sure.  Miss  Harrison  had  taken  possession 
of  the  escort  and  Donald  turned  to  the  fluffy  vision  at  his 
side. 

"Miss  Tremont,  eh." 

"Yes.  Do  you  like  it,  —  Don  Giovanni  ?"  She  paused 
slightly  before  she  said  the  name  as  though  to  give  her  words 
more  weight. 

"Her,  you  mean.     I  adore  her,  have  for  the  last  week." 

"It's  that — already About  that  day.     I'm  sorry. 

I  didn't  know  that  you  were  a  Prince  Florizel." 

"Well,  it  was  not  exactly  a  disguise,"  he  admitted  laugh- 
ingly. 

"Oh,  I  see.     Involuntary." 

"Yes,  it  was  and  again  it  wasn't." 

"You're  quite  a  paradox." 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  281 

"Well,  you  see  from  infancy  I  was  a  rather  precocious 
child  (I  hope  Dickens  doesn't  bore  you)  and  as  mother  used 
to  say,  inclined  to  act  on  the  spur  of  the  moment,  and  as  I 
was  driving  along  in  the  car  the  other  day  a  wonderful  idea 
struck  me — an  idea  which  I  realized  would  revolutionize  the 
automobile  industry,  and  all  to  be  accomplished  by  merely 
interchanging  several  parts  of  the  engine.  So  I  determined 
to  act  tout  de  suite  with  the  resulting  effect  which  nearly  lost 
for  me  my  life's  happiness." 

The  returning  escort  cut  off  their  conversation  but  not 
before  he  had  received  the  promise  of  a  dance.  The  sixth 
was  to  be  his.     Could  he  wait  that  long. 

MUTUAL    EGOTISM 

She  certainly  danced  divinely.  It  was  no  effort  whatso- 
ever ;  she  was  born  to  it,  he  thought.  He  had  danced  with 
many  girls  but  never  before  had  he  so  acutely  realized  any- 
one's presence.  He  was  thrilled  and  told  her  so  as  they 
walked  among  the  palms  in  the  garden  afterwards. 

"Do  you  think  I  am  beautiful?"  she  asked  coquettishly. 

"Regina  deorum,"  he  returned  with  a  glad  light  in  his  eyes. 

"No.     Je  suis  Titania,"  she  corrected. 

"You  have  lips  like  the  bow  of  Eros,"  he  resumed. 

"You've  been  reading  F.  Scott  Fitzgerald.  Remember  I 
have  not  known  you  before  to-night." 

"But  I  have  known  you  since  before  Solomon  was  born." 

"Why  Solomon?" 

"He  was  the  wisest  of  fools;  the  greatest  of  the  genus 
stulti." 

"Yes.     He  fell  for  a  woman." 

"May  I  plead  guilty I  once  had  an  ideal    .    .    ." 

"Tell  me  about  her." 

"She  was  tall  but  not  too  tall,  fair  and  beautiful,  not  the 
professional  beauty  sought  by  artists,  but  rather  a  coquettish 
beauty,  a  delicate,  really  feminine  beauty  and  lovable.  She 
possessed  an  intrinsic  coquettishness,  not  superlative  enough 


282  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

to  become  flirtatious  and  thus  selfish.  She  was  educated  up 
to  my  standards — " 

"Vanitas  vanitatum,"  she  put  in. 

Ignoring  her  sarcasm  he  went  on,  ".  .  .  .  up  to  my 
standards  so  that  it  was  a  delight  to  talk  to  her  of  literature 
that  I  love  and  the  fine  arts.  I  used  to  dream  of  her  con- 
tinually  Didn't  I  act  as  one  walking  in  a  dream  the 

day  I  tried  to  save  your  hat?" 

"Do  you  make  up  your  stories  as  you  need  them  or  have 
you  a  regular  stock?" 

"That  ideal  is  almost  as  old  as  I  am.  I  had  almost 
despaired  of  ever  realizing  it." 

"It  is  rather  a  perfect  one." 

"Yes,  but  not  impossible  as  I  found  out." 

"When  ?" 

"Last  week By  the  way  I  hereby  make  known 

my  resolution  to  replace  that  hat  I  ruined  last  week." 

"Oh,  here  comes  my  partner  for  the  next  dance,"  she  sud- 
denly exclaimed. 

"I'd  like  to  chloroform  your  partner  for  the  next  dance," 
he  muttered  to  her  under  his  breath. 

As  she  moved  away  with  the  claimant,  smiling  she  turned 
to  Donald  and  said:  "Might  I  be  permitted  to  suggest  that 
there  is  a  drug  store  three  blocks  away." 

A    PROPOSAL   THROWN    AWAY 

A  week  came  and  went  and  found  Dorothy  and  Donald 
better  friends,  so  much  better  in  fact  that  he  had  asked  to 
buy  not  only  that  one  hat  but  all  the  hats  she  would  hence- 
forth need.  She  was  laughing  after  he  asked  her  but  he  could 
see  that  the  laugh  was  a  little  sad. 

"I  can't,"  she  said  simply. 

"Is  there — is  there  someone  else,"  he  asked  somewhat 
brokenly. 

"Yes." 

"May  I  impose  on  your  confidence  enough  to — " 

"It's  Henry  Mailers,"  she  interrupted.    "He  asked  me  too." 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  283 

"And  you— ?" 

"Not  yet,"  she  said.  Then  suddenly  becoming  coquettish 
she  added:  "Why  don't  you  fight  a  duel?  That  would  be 
great  fun." 

"By  George !    I  believe  I  will — at  once." 

She  thought  she  saw  a  determined  look  in  his  eye  but  he 
was  laughing  now  and  so  she  was  relieved. 

THE    CHARITY    BENEFIT 

Dorothy  was  to  go  with  her  Don  but  her  Hen  was  not  to 
be  there.  He  was  called  away  from  the  city  on  business  so 
her  present  courier  told  her  and  he,  the  aspiring  Donald,  was 
cruel  enough  to  say  within  himself  that  he  didn't  care. 

The  day  was  delightful.  They  couldn't  have  prayed  for  a 
better  one  for  their  outdoor  affair.  Donald  drove  her  up  in 
his  Stutz.  He  had  never  seen  her  so  full  of  happiness.  She 
was  overflowing  with  witticisms  and  took  fresh  delight  in 
every  little  touch  of  nature  they  passed.  As  for  him  he  could 
not  have  remembered  any  time  when  he  was  happier  had  he 
tried ;  and  he  didn't  try. 

They  were  out  in  the  country  now  and  leaving  in  their 
wake  orchards  and  wheat  fields  and  little  homey  farmhouses 
nestling  beside  huge  maroon  barns.  They  heard  a  lark  sing- 
ing and  Dorothy  began  to  quote : 

"Hark,  hark !  the  lark  at  heaven's  gate  sings, 
And  Phoebus  gins  arise    .    .    .    ." 

"He's  driving  on  high  now,"  put  in  Donald.  And  then 
changing  to  seriousness  he  exclaimed  brokenly,  "Dorothy — " 
He  couldn't  go  on. 

But  she  apparently  unconscious  of  his  changed  mood 
went  on : 

".    .    .    .    His  steeds  to  water  at  those  springs 
On  chaliced  flowers  that  lies." 


284  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

And  then  thoroughly  recovered  he  finished  it  for  her. 
....    He  had  stopped  the  car  beside  a  tamarack  swamp. 

"There's  beaucoup  de  poetry  in  that  swamp,"  she  said. 

"You  could  see  beauty  in  anything,  you  little  beauty,"  he 
responded  warmly.  "You  are  more  beautiful  than  Pygma- 
lion's statue  come  to  life." 

He  started  to  whistle  the  Polonaise  from  "Mignon"  and 
she  immediately  exclaimed,  "Then  you  admit  that  I  am 
Titania  ?" 

"Say  rather  Venus,"  he  corrected. 

"Or  Daphne." 

"But  I  would  hate  to  think  of  you  as  part  of  the  scenery," 
he  said  unconscious  of  her  thrust.  "And  I  make  no  claims 
to  the  gifts  possessed  by  the  Lord  of  Tenedos." 

"You  don't  have  to  make  any  claims."  She  smiled  up  at 
him  and  started  to  chase  a  blue  butterfly.  "Help  me  catch 
Psyche,"  she  called  over  her  shoulder. 

When  they  returned  to  the  car  he  told  her  how  glad  he 
was  that  Henry  was  out  of  the  way  and  that  now  he  had  her 
all  to  himself.  She  became  alarmed  and  wondered  if  there 
was  any  significance  in  his  words.  He  seemed  to  act  strangely 
every  time  Henry's  name  was  mentioned.  And  then  she  re- 
called how  resolute  he  seemed  the  day  she  suggested  that 
they  fight  a  duel.  She  would  be  to  blame  if  anything  had 
happened.  She  wondered  if —  No  he  couldn't  act  light- 
hearted  and   free  if  he  had  done  anything  to  Henry.     Still 

she  knew  he  would  consider  it  an  affair  of  honor 

The  time  dragged  and  they  didn't  seem  to  have  anything  to 
say  on  the  way  to  the  grounds. 

At  the  bazaar  when  she  got  among  her  own  friends  and 
forgot  the  haunting  phantom  that  had  sprung  up  threatening 
to  spoil  the  day  for  both  of  them,  she  became  cheerful  and 
gay  again.  She  even  went  so  far  as  to  help  some  of  the  girls 
in  the  waffle  booth.  She  knew  most  everyone  there  and  so 
did  Donald  and  soon  they  had  him  inside  too,  helping  to  make 
batter  for  the  waffles. 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  285 

"This  is  something  I  never  did  at  home,"  he  exclaimed. 

And  truly  that  was  a  treat  for  the  proletarian :  to  see 
society's  best  waiting  on  them  and  making  waffles  for  them. 
That  condescension  of  society  at  least  is  charity. 

The  day  went  all  too  fast  for  Donald  and  Dorothy.  In 
the  evening  they  had  dinner  together  in  the  big  pavilion. 
After  dinner  there  was  to  be  dancing. 

ANXIETY,  THE    SPOILER 

Donald  was  talking  to  a  little  group  of  his  friends  in  the 
garden  where  the  refreshment  booths  were  located.  Dorothy 
outside  with  some  of  her  friends,  noticed  several  police  officers 
enter  the  garden.  Anxiety  leaped  to  the  front  and  she  stood 
panic  stricken.  Then  regardless  of  her  friends,  when  she  saw 
the  officers  approach  Donald,  she  ran  at  once  into  the  garden 
and  listening  from  outside  the  circle  of  people,  heard  the 
sergeant  address  him. 

"'We  have  the  evidence,  Sir,  and  a  witness  to  prove  every- 
thing.    You  are  the  man  we  want.     There  is  no  mistake." 

Now  Donald  was  speaking.  "Your  evidence  is  circum- 
stantial." It  was  said  with  the  same  intonation  with  which 
he  would  have  said  "I'll  raise  you,"  holding  a  royal  flush. 
Any  one  of  his  friends  would  have  known  that  he  was  playing 
with  the  officer.  But  with  Dorothy  it  was  no  drama ;  it  was 
real  and  it  threatened  to  become  tragedy.  She  rushed  up  to 
Donald  through  the  crowd  which  surrounded  him  and  halted 
panic  stricken  in  front  of  him.  The  bystanders  expected  her 
to  throw  her  arms  around  his  neck  but  she  didn't. 

"Don,  why  did  you  do  it?  Did  you  really  kill  him?  I 
didn't  mean  what  I  said.  It  was  an  unnecessary  sacrifice.  I 
loved  you  all  the  time. 

Donald  stood  perplexed.  He  was  trying  amid  the  joy  of 
her  confession  and  the  confusion  created  by  the  presence  of 
the  officers  to  make  some  sense  out  of  the  situation  but  it  was 
beyond  him. 

"Do  what  ?  Kill  whom  ?  What  do  you  mean  ?  But  you 
love  me ;  that  is  enough.    I  don't  care  now  if  the  heavens  fall." 


286  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

It  was  now  her  turn  to  be  puzzled.  "These  officers. 
....  They  mean  that  you  have  killed  Henry  ?  Oh,  I  know 
it  is  true.    Why  did  I  ever  say  anything  like  that?" 

Donald  now  began  to  see  light.  "My  dear  girl.  Henry  is 
my  best  friend.  As  far  as  I  know  he  is  just  as  much  alive 
as  he  ever  was.  Certainly  I  would  be  the  last  one  in  the 
world  to  wish  that  he  cease  to  live.  These  officers  accuse 
me  of  being  Denver  Mike.  Certainly  I  do  not  look  like  him. 
Do  you  think  so?" 

The  officers  were  growing  impatient  now  that  the  drama 
was  over.  "Come,  Mr.  Mike,  we'll  have  to  go,"  said  the  ser- 
geant to  Donald. 

Miss  Tremont  now  showed  her  real  character.  Instead  of 
being  overcome  with  chagrin  at  her  mistake,  she  took  in  the 
whole  situation  and  spoke  to  the  officer : 

"Sergeant,  if  you  are  going  to  arrest  this  man  for  the 
crimes  of  Denver  Mike  you  are  making  a  grave  mistake.  He 
is  my  fiancee  and  as  such  is  not  to  be  identified  with  any  such 
notorious  criminal." 

"I'm  sorry,  Miss.  Evidence  is  evidence  and  if  we  don't 
take  him  somebody  else  will  take  our  jobs.  Officer  Ryan,  tell 
Carney  to  bring  the  patrol  around." 

Donald  pricked  up  his  ears  at  this.  "Carney?"  he  said. 
"Sergeant,  let  me  talk  to  this  Carney  before  I  go  to  jail." 

"Ryan,  tell  Carney  to  bring  the  patrol  around  and  to  come 
with  it,"  commanded  the  sergeant. 

Carney  came  and  when  he  saw  Donald  in  the  custody  of 
the  officers  he  exclaimed :  "Mr.  Manchester !  Been  speeding 
again?    Where's  the  culprit,  Sergeant?" 

"Culprit?"  exclaimed  the  sergeant.     "Here,  of  course." 

Carney  looked  him  over  and  then  indulged  in  a  fit  of 
laughter.  "Culprit  me  eye.  That's  Mr.  Donald  Clifford  Man- 
chester, son  of  John  Manchester,  the  millionaire  banker! 
Oh,  my!" 

The  sergeant  looked  bewildered  and  then  exclaimed:  "If 
I  had  that  gu> — " 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  287 

"What  guy?"  put  in  Manchester. 

The  fellow  who  put  me  on  your  track." 

"What  was  he  like?"  asked  both  Manchester  and  Carney, 
for  Carney  had  been  acquisitioned  after  they  got  the  "clue." 
The  sergeant  described  him  and  Carney  exclaimed  to  Man- 
chester: "That's  the  guy  you  put  me  onto  the  other  day." 
Then  as  the  truth  struck  him  he  yelled,  "Denver  Mike.  And 
I  know  where  to  find  him,  now.  Come  on,  sergeant."  And 
they  all  went  off  hot  foot,  and  the  crowd  with  them. 

There  was  no  one  in  the  garden  now  but  Dorothy  and  Don. 
He  turned  to  her  and  said :  "Did  you  really  mean  what  you 
said  a  little  while  ago  ?" 

She  looked  up  with  that  same  coquettish  smile  that  he 
knew  so  well  and  said:  "I  once  had  a  school  teacher  who 
held  the  theory  that  when  a  person  is  under  the  influence  of 
great  excitement  he  always  tells  the  truth.  I  have  come  to 
believe  in  that  theory  myself." 

Walter  C.  West,  A.  B.,  '23. 


Naghten  Debate 


On  the  evening  of  March  fifteenth  was  held  the  Naghten  Debate, 
the  subject  for  discussion  being:  "Resolved  that  the  Principle  of  the 
Open  Shop  Should  Receive  the  Support  of  the  American  People." 
The  Debate  was  won  by  the  Negative  side  and  the  Naghten  Medal 
was  won  by  Maurice  G.  Walsh,  whose  speech  follows : 


S  the  third  speaker  of  the  negative  it  is  my 
province  to  analyze  the  three  phases  of  the 
practical  application  of  the  open  shop  prin- 
ciple— that  is,  its  effect  upon,  first,  the  em- 
ployer, second,  the  employed,  and  third,  the 
American  people. 
Paradoxical  as  it  may  seem,  the  open  shop  is  contrary  to 
the  best  interests  of  both  union  and  non-union  workers. 

The  union  employe  objects  to  the  open  shop  movement 
because  he  sees  in  it  a  menace  to  the  organization  which  has 
lifted  him  from  the  depths  of  an  intolerable  slavery.  He 
sees  his  right  to  determine,  at  least  to  some  extent,  the  con- 
ditions under  which  he  shall  labor,  being  taken  from  him.  He 
knows  that  the  open  shop  will  place  him  in  a  position  in 
which  an  employer  will  be  free  to  discriminate  against  him 
in  favor  of  the  non-union  man.  He  fears  what  this  open  shop 
movement  really  stands  for. 

Xo  one  can  say  his  fears  are  unfounded,  no  one  who  has 
read  the  history  of  labor  in  the  red  letters  in  which  it  is  writ- 
ten, or  who  has  heard  the  statements  of  the  leaders  in  the 
open  shop  movement. 

The  Bethlehem  Steel  Corporation,  the  National  Fabrica- 
tors and  Erectors  Association,  the  National  State  Manufac- 
turers and  the  United  States  Steel  Corporation,  all  are  agreed 
that  the  open  shop  is  to  be  a  shop  in  which  there  will  be  no 
dealings  with  the  unions,  even  though  they  embrace  ninety- 
five  per  centum  of  the  employes.  This  is  an  admission  on  the 
part  of  the  leaders  in  this  movement  of  the  real  object  of  the 

288 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  289 

open  shop,  to  render  ineffectual  and  eventually  to  destroy  the 
union.  Well  may  the  union  man  fear  them.  They  force  him 
to  the  realization  of  the  fact  that  the  open  shop  is  not  an 
abstract  principle  applied  by  ideal  men,  but  a  real,  concrete 
weapon  in  the  hands  of  men  who  will  use  it  without  conscience. 
The  union  is  his  one  means  of  self-defense.  It  is  unjust  to 
render  it  ineffectual  by  the  open  shop  and  leave  him  defense- 
less. 

The  benefits  which  the  open  shop  will  confer  on  the  non- 
unionist  are  false  and  elusive  phantoms.  Employers'  associa- 
tions, ever  zealous  for  the  interests  of  the  working  man,  extol 
the  liberty  and  independence  which  the  open  shop  will  give 
the  non-union  man.  He  will  have  the  liberty,  they  tell  him, 
to  work  for  whom  he  pleases,  to  accept  or  reject  a  proffered 
wage.  What  hollow  mockery  of  freedom !  The  freedom  to 
accept  a  high  or  low  wage  when  only  a  low  one  is  offered ! 
Freedom  to  work  for  the  price  offered  or  starve.  The  open 
shop  will  not  give  liberty.  It  will  be  a  return  to  the  old  slavery. 
Hunger  is  a  cruel  master  and,  suffering  from  his  lashes,  the 
non-union  man  has  but  one  course  to  take,  to  submit  to  the 
dictates  of  his  employer  in  the  open  shop.  Do  you  want  to 
give  him  this  kind  of  liberty?  Then  give  him  the  open  shop. 
And  that  boasted  independence  of  the  non-union  man  !  Com- 
pare it  with  the  independence  of  the  unionist.  The  latter  has 
an  effective  voice  in  determining  the  policy  that  shall  govern 
him.  He  can  use  his  judgment  and  reach  a  decision  founded 
on  his  principles  of  right  and  justice,  and  by  the  union  he 
can  enforce  that  decision ;  while  the  non-union  worker  can 
but  follow  in  the  wake  of  the  standards  set  by  the  union,  or 
raise  his  voice  in  ineffectual  protest,  alone  and  unheard,  in 
the  din  of  our  modern  industry. 

Neither  liberty  nor  independence  will  the  open  shop  give 
the  non-unionist.  Therefore,  if,  as  the  employers  claim,  he 
favors  the  open  shop,  it  is  not  because  of  these  principles. 
The  unworthy  motive  of  selfishness  is  the  real  compelling 
force.  In  the  open  shop  he  will  be  permitted  to  work  with  the 
union,  as  long  as  it  survives,  and  derive  the  benefits  which 


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organized  labor  secures  for  him,  and  yet  he  will  not  be  required 
to  support  this  organization  which  makes  his  very  existence 
possible.  Ladies  and  gentlemen,  this  is  not  just;  it  is  selfish 
injustice. 

The  exploitation  of  labor  in  an  open  shop  admittedly  may 
temporarily  benefit  the  employer;  but  his  permanent  interests 
will  not  be  served. 

Without  the  union  wage  contract  the  employer  would  be 
continually  harassed  by  fluctuations  in  the  open  labor  market. 
Wages  form  the  largest  part  of  the  cost  of  production,  and 
without  mutual  agreements  as  to  wages,  the  stability  of  our 
industries  will  be  undermined  by  the  constantly  changing 
prices  This  undermining  is  threatened  from  another  source. 
Against  the  red  specter  that  has  arisen  from  the  heart  of 
Russia  ,and  even  now  can  be  seen  menacing  the  whole  of 
central  Europe,  the  American  Federation  of  Labor  presents 
a  solid  bulwark.  It  will  be  under  a  misguided,  short-sighted 
policy  that  capital  shall  direct  a  deadly  blow  in  the  form  of 
the  open  shop  against  this  Federation  of  American  Unions, 
which  is  now  ready  to  fight  with  it  against  the-  common 
enemy  of  both  —  Radicalism. 

In  the  records  of  the  United  States  Senate  there  is  written 
the  history  of  an  open  shop  policy,  in  one  of  the  largest 
clothing  manufacturers  in  this  country.  It  is  a  story  of  a 
continual  strife  between  employer  and  employe.  Fifteen  years 
ago  this  open  shop  policy  was  abandoned  and  then  by  means 
of  a  so-called  preferential  shop  this  condition  of  strife  was 
converted  into  one  in  which  the  most  harmonious  relations 
have  existed  between  employer  and  employe.  This  is  the 
form  of  the  shop  that  we  of  the  negative  would  advocate, 
if  it  were  required  of  us  to  advocate  any.  It  has  all  the 
advantages  and  none  of  the  disadvantages  of  either  the  open 
or  the  closed  shop,  and  it  is  a  proven  success.  Before  the 
Senate  Committee,  E.  D.  Howard  of  Hart,  Schaffner  &  Marx, 
has  described  it.  In  this  plan  an  employer  is  required,  when 
lie  needs  additional  workers  to  apply  first — to  the  union  for 
them,  and  if  the  union  cannot  furnish  the  required  help  he  is 


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then  at  liberty  to  secure  it  in  the  open  market.  This  secures 
for  the  union,  protection  against  any  damaging  discrimination 
by  the  employer  and  fifteen  years  of  experience  has  shown 
that  it  also  protects  the  employer  against  the  abuses  of  the 
union.  It  has  been  found  to  be  infinitely  better  than  the 
open  shop.  These  facts  are  more  than  sufficient  to  cast  a  rea- 
sonable doubt  upon  the  advisability  of  the  open  shop  policy 
from  the  viewpoint  of  the  average  American  employer. 

More  important  than  the  interests  of  either  employer  or 
employe  and  untinctured  with  the  prejudice  and  apprehensions 
of  either,  is  the  incompatibility  of  the  open  shop  with  the 
ideals  of  the  great  mass  of  the  American  people. 

The  working  man  has  always  been  an  American  ideal. 
We  look  out  not  to  aristocracy,  nor  the  nobility  or  the  military 
for  distinction.  In  the  brain  and  brawn  of  the  working  man 
who  has  tussled  with  nature  and  has  wrested  from  her  depths 
some  of  her  treasures,  there  is  something  that  appeals  to  us 
as  Americans.  Our  courts  were  the  first  to  grant  the  laborer 
the  right  to  organization  and  collective  bargaining.  An  English 
judge  says  that  England  has  learned  much  from  American 
courts  in  regard  to  labor.  The  Civil  War  was  fought  for  the 
workingman,  be  he  black  or  white.  Witness  also  the  Work- 
men's Compensation  Act  of  many  of  the  states.  Do  they  not, 
in  accordance  with  our  traditional  policy,  favor  the  working- 
man  as  much  as  possible?  Why  should  we  now  change  our 
ideals  ? 

All  this  is  not  a  matter  of  mere  sentiment.  It  has  a  solid 
economic  and  social  basis.  The  prosperity  of  a  nation  demands 
the  distribution  of  its  wealth  among  the  greatest  possible 
number  of  its  citizens.  It  has  been  shown  that  the  open  shop 
will  take  from  the  workers  their  only  means  of  preserving 
their  financial  interests,  their  unions.  The  wealth  of  the  nation 
will  gradually  pass  from  the  great  mass  of  the  working  people 
into  the  hands  of  a  few  employers.  Then  will  poverty  with 
all  its  attendant  evils  encompass  America.  It  is  true  that  we 
will  always  have  poverty  with  us,  but  it  is  to  our  interests  to 
keep  it  as  limited  as  possible.    Chicago  and  other  cities  will 


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always  have  their  Maxwell  streets,  streets  trodden  by  a 
people  in  whose  listless,  sunken  eyes  can  be  read  the  despair 
of  dire  poverty.  Do  not,  by  taking  a  stand  against  labor  in 
this  its  crisis,  widen  the  limits  of  .Maxwell  Street  until  they 
include  all  the  parts  of  our  city  where  laborers  dwell. 

Ladies  and  gentlemen,  some  plan  is  necessary  to  improve 
the  relations  betwen  employer  and.  employee,  but  that  plan  is 
not  embodied  in  the  open  shop  movement.  Whatever  possi- 
bilities for  good  may  be  pointed  out  by  the  exponents  of  the 
open  shop,  do  not  forget  its  tremendous  possibilities  for  evil. 
Do  not  encourage  a  movement  dedicated  to  the  destruction 
of  organized  labor :  remember  the  open  shop  of  the  past  which 
drained  the  very  life  blood  of  the  worker  and  made  him  old  in 
his  youth:  support  the  organizations  that  have  changed  that 
condition,  that  have  led  the  way  from  the  open  shop  —  to 
progress. 

Maurice  G.  Walsh. 


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What  Are  YOU  Going  to  Do  This  Summer  ? 

AS  the  school  year  draws  to  a  close,  every  student  is  look- 
ing forward  to  lucrative  employment  during  the  vacation 
— the  more  lucrative  the  better,  but  few  of  them  realize  that 
it  is  possible  to  get  more  than  money  out  of  a  summer  posi- 
tion. The  vacation  could  be  very  profitably  spent  in  a  minor 
capacity  in  whatever  business  or  profession  the  student  intends 
to  make  his  lifework.  Here  he  would  learn  useful  details 
which  would  help  him  afterwards,  and  in  short,  acquire  a 
perspective  of  the  profession  or  business  which  would  be  of 
invaluable  assistance  to  him. 

For  instance  a  young  man  who  is  studying  or  intends  to 
study  law,  would  learn  much  by  working  a  few  months  in  a 
lawyer's  office,  no  matter  how  trifling  his   duties  were.    Of 

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course  the  salary  wouldn't  compare  with  that  which  he'd  get 
as  a  steam-fitter's  assistant,  but  of  two  law  students  of  equal 
ability,  there  is  little  doubt  but  that  the  one  who  passes  his 
summer  in  a  law  office  will  have  a  great  advantage,  when  he 
begins  to  practice,  over  one  whose  only  object  in  seeking  sum- 
mer employment  is  to  pad  his  pocketbook  as  much  as  possible. 

The  issue  lies  between  money  and  experience.     It  is  to  be 
hoped  that  this  summer  a  great  many  will  choose  experience. 

J.   J.   T. 


Alumni 


Loyola  Alumni  Elect  New  Officers 

Loyola  Alumni  held  their  annual  election  of  officers  in 
the  College  Club  rooms  at  1076  W.  Roosevelt  Road,  Thurs- 
day evening,  April  14th.  M.  Malachy  Foley  was  elected 
president  to  succeed  Augustine  J.  Bowe.  The  past  year  has 
been  the  most  successful  in  the  history  of  the  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation. 

The  new  president  is  an  active  member  of  Damen  Council, 
K.  of  C,  Order  of  the  Alhambra,  La  Salle  Assembly  4th 
Degree,  Honorary  member  of  Governing  Board,  Chicago 
Chapter,  Director  Catholic  News  Bureau,  Phi  Alpha  Delta 
Law  Fraternity. 

The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  years  1921-22: 

Moderator — Rev.  William  T.  Kane,  S.  J. 

President — M.  Malachy  Foley. 

Vice-President — J.  W.  Davis. 

Hon.  Vice-Presidents — Law  Dept.,  Emmet  Trainor ;  Med- 
ical Dept.,  Dr.  Thomas  Walsh ;  Art  and  Science,  James  R. 
Bremner. 

Recording  Secretary — John  Murphy. 

Corresponding  Secretary — John  B.  Sackley. 

Treasurer — Joseph  Bigane. 

Historian — Leo  McGivena. 

Executive  Committee — Dr.  Henry  Schmitz,  Dr.  C.  H.  Con- 
nor, Dr.  Wochinski,  Dr.  C.  C.  McLean,  Dr.  L.  D.  Moore- 
head,  R.  A.  Cavanagh,  Daniel  Laughlin,  Payton  Tuohy, 
Wilbur  Crowley,  Sherwin  Murphy,  James  Shortall,  Chas.  E. 
Byrne,  Joseph  H.  Finn,  A.  J.  Bowe,  L.  J.  Walsh,  John  K. 
Moore,  Dr.  John  Killeen,  Frank  E.  Sammons,  Dr.  E. 
Schniedwind,  Wm.  Flaherty. 

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Among  the  topics  discussed  at  the  meeting  was  the  forma- 
tion of  a  Loyola  Alumni  Business  Service  proposed  by  Mr. 
Walter  Quigley,  an  account  of  which  appears  below. 

*         *         * 

The  Loyola  University  Business  Service 

Practically  everyone  realizes  the  value  of  education. 
Gradually  this  realization  has  spread  to  the  business  world. 
Even  yet  it  is  not  universal  but  it  is  extensive.  However, 
this  recognition  of  education  must  be  taken  in  a  qualified 
sense,  in  that  qualified  sense  in  which  it  is  understood  in 
modern  business.  Large  firms  want  educated  men  for  their 
executive  positions,  but  often,  very  often  they  are  unwilling 
to  bear  the  expense  of  training.  Many  of  our  graduates,  after 
they  have  received  their  diploma,  imagine  that  they  have 
a  decided  advantage  over  others  who  were  less  fortunate. 
Yes,  they  have,  but  it  is  an  advantage  that  is  not  immediately 
recognized.  They  are  of  no  practical  value  to  a  firm  until 
they  have  learned  those  things  that  are  needed  for  a  particular 
occupation,  at  which  time  and  not  before,  will  their  education 
be  of  real,  practical  benefit. 

The  chief  value  of  education  lies  in  two  things,  culture 
and  mental  training.  The  two  are  closely  allied,  but  not 
synonymous.  Culture  in  this  context  is  used  in  the  more 
restricted  sense  of  "the  improvement  of  refinement  of  the 
mind,  morals  and  taste  and  the  general  informative  enlighten- 
ment that  an  educated  man  is  said  to  possess."  Mental  train- 
ing refers  to  that  power  which  enables  a  man  to  use  his  mind 
more  advantageously,  which  instills  in  him  the  ability  to  think 
for  himself,  to  sift  out  facts  from  errors  and  to  analyze 
problems  that  confront  him.  Undoubtedly,  and  it  is  manifest 
throughout  life,  the  narrowness  of  individuals  is  traceable  to 
the  circumscribed  environment  in  which  they  were  reared  or 
the  extreme  specialization  that  was  necessary  in  their  occupa- 
tions later  in  life. 

Nothing  is  so  obnoxious  as  a  person  who  knows  nothing 
else  than  his  own  business   and  is   always  talking  about   it. 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  297 

"Talking  shop"  is  a  fault  of  many,  but  in  criticizing  persons 
of  this  type  one  is  often  inclined  to  be  uncharitably  harsh 
and  does  not  take  into  consideration  the  fact  that  this  person 
did  not  have  opportunities  commensurate  with  his  own  and 
deserves  a  great  deal  of  credit  for  what  he  has  actually 
achieved  on  his  limited  development.  That,  however,  is  not 
our  problem.  Our  problem  is  to  devise  a  means  for  bringing 
the  man  who  has  had  the  opportunity  of  education,  even 
though  limited,  in  contact  with  an  opportunity  where  he  can 
exercise  his  talents  and  preferences  to  their  best  ends.  In 
other  words,  our  difficulty,  also,  is  to  prevent  college  students 
from  thinking  that  because  they  have  received  a  degree,  their 
success  in  life  is  assured.  They  have  gone  through  their 
training  period.  The  real  battle  is  ahead,  and  if  they  stop 
fighting  it  will  not  be  a  kind  hand  of  one  of  their  professors 
warning  them,  but  the  merciless  reproof  of  the  world,  which 
knows  no  favorites.  Our  world  is  a  struggle,  and  for  our 
livelihood  it  is  necessary  to  accept  things  as  they  are,  and 
animated  by  ethical  Christian  principles,  to  eke  out  our  mate- 
rial reward. 

Opportunity  is  the  key-stone  of  our  arch,  and  it  is  this 
we  seek  to  provide.  Success  will  depend  on  how  the  individual 
embrace  it,  how  constant  his  devotion  is,  and  how  he  vindi- 
cates the  confidence  reposed  in  him.  A  salesman,  who  ap- 
proaches the  buyer  of  a  large  corporation,  in  the  first  step  of 
his  interview,  presents  his  credentials.  If  the  buyer  has  heard 
of  his  firm,  he  can  at  once  proceed  with  his  solicitation;  if 
he  has  not,  usually  explanation  is  necessary  so  as  to  clarify 
any  skepticism  that  might  exist.  This  service,  it  is  the  opinion 
of  many  who  have  studied  it,  will  secure  for  the  applicant  a 
better  "entree"  than  if  he  attempted  it  alone.  It  is  to  reduce 
the  time  necessary  for  "missionary  work"  in  his  selection  of 
a  position.  It  is  to  bring  the  employer  who  wants  employees 
of  a  certain  type  in  contact  with  them,  thereby  producing  an 
advantage  to  both  classes. 

In  order  to  effect  this  plan  was  this  service  founded.  An 
outline  was  drawn  up,  presented  at  a  regular  meeting  of  the 


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Alumni  and  accepted.  A  committee  was  provided  to  supervise 
this  work,  a  Secretary  and  Faculty  representative  appointed 
to  carry  out  the  practical  details  and  in  order  to  complete 
it  the  co-operation  of  all  who  have  the  welfare  of  the  gradu- 
ates, undergraduates  and  those  who  at  any  time  attended 
Loyola  University  at  heart  is  solicited. 

The  pith  of  this  outline  is  as  follows.  It  will  be  the  duty 
of  the  Secretary  to  collect  a  list  of  Alumni  of  the  city  and 
to  file  them  according  to  occupation,  firm,  and  position.  Mr. 
Moore  in  a  recent  investigation  with  the  aid  of  Father  Shanley 
discovered  that  there  are  approximately  10,000  Alumni  in  the 
city,  basing  his  estimate  only  on  the  number  of  students  at- 
tending the  University  in  the  last  twenty  years.  Many  of 
these  occupy  very  responsible  positions  and,  when  this  plan 
will  be  presented  to  them,  will  aid  in  its  realization.  To  the 
Alumni  there  will  be  sent  a  list  descriptive  of  this  service  and 
its  ends  and  aims.  Then  there  will  be  a  letter  sent  to  all  the 
important  manufacturers  and  business  firms  telling  them  of 
its  inauguration.  They  will  be  told  that  this  service  will  keep 
a  registration  of  applicants  for  any  position  and  will  be  asked 
to  transmit  to  this  service,  when  the  opportunities  arise,  the 
knowledge  of  positions  open.  To  all  these  who  have  ever 
attended  the  University,  this  service  will  be  open.  The  posi- 
tion they  desire  will  be  filed,  and  as  soon  as  the  opening  is 
discovered  they  will  be  put  in  touch  with  it.  There  will  be 
no  charge  for  services  either  to  the  employer  or  to  the 
applicant.  The  style  of  this  system  is  based  on  that  of  firms 
who  operate  for  profit,  and  is  feasible  and  simple. 

The  need  of  this  service  is  apparent.  Particularly  in  these 
unsettled  times  of  readjustment,  many  are  engaged  in  work 
they  do  not  care  for  and  seek  a  change.  Still  others  are  out 
of  work  entirely.  Many  concerns,  unostentatiously  are  using 
this  period  to  build  up  their  forces  with  better  and  higher- 
type  men,  and  in  this  is  the  opportunity.  By  centralizing 
agencies  of  this  kind  opportunities  are  gathered  together,  a 
market  is  found  for  them  and  contact  made  between  the 
"buver  and  the  seller."    If  such  a  service  becomes  well  enough 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  299 

known,  and  it  is  the  aim  of  the  committee  to  make  it  so, 
employers  will  turn  to  it  more  than  to  an  ordinary  service 
because  it  represents  something  definite,  something  which  can 
almost  guarantee  the  character  of  its  applicants.  In  the 
long  run,  applicants  of  this  type,  imbued  with  the  teachings 
of  faithfulness,  obedience,  originality,  honesty  and  industry 
cannot  fail  to  triumph  over  the  ordinary  person  whose  notions 
of  what  is  right  and  what  is  wrong  are  not  often  clearly 
defined. 

In  conclusion  the  writer  wishes  to  impress  one  thing. 
This  service  is  started  and  is  going  ahead  regardless  of  what 
opposition  and  obstacles  it  meets.  However,  every  person 
who  reads  this  can  help.  No  physical  labor,  no  donations,  no 
service  of  any  kind  are  asked,  save  this.  Each  one  can  help 
by  sending  in  his  or  her  name  or  address,  business  address, 
both  phone  numbers,  occupation,  position,  and  other  data 
which  will  help  the  Secretary  complete  his  records.  If  this 
is  done  it  will  expedite  matters  considerably  and  will  enable 
the  service  to  be  under  full  headway  by  June,  when  business 
conditions  ought  to  be  better.  The  service  should  be  function- 
ing by  the  middle  of  the  summer,  and  in  complete  operation 
by  fall.  However,  this  much  may  be  added ;  if  anyone  knows 
of  any  positions  open  please  transmit  this  information  as 
soon  as  acquired,  and  if  anyone  desire  to  use  the  services  of 
this  bureau  he  is  urged  to  do  so  by  communicating  to  the 
following  address.  The  Secretary,  Loyola  University  Business 
Service,  1076  Roosevelt  Road,  Chicago. 

Walter  T.  Ouigley,  A.  B.  '17. 


Former  Loyola  Student  Wins  Foreign   Post 

Donal  M.  Flynn  is  the  first  student  of  the  Georgetown 
University  School  of  Foreign  Service  to  enter  the  diplomatic 
service.  Flynn  has  accepted  an  appointment  as  secretary  of 
the    American    legation    at    Bucharest,    Roumania.     He    is    a 


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graduate  of  Loyola  University,  Chicago,  and  entered  the 
foreign  service  school  here  in  September,  1919.  Prior  to 
coming  to  Washington  he  was  a  newspaper  man  in  Chicago 

and  served  for  two  years  with  the  Red  Cross  in  France. 

*  *         * 

A  few  weeks  ago  a  new  Chicago  bank,  the  Devon  Trust 
and  Savings  Bank,  was  opened  for  business  at  Devon  Avenue 
and  Clark  Street.  Among  the  directors  of  the  new  institution 
is  our  corresponding  secretary,  Mr.  John  B.   Sackley.. 

*  *         * 

The  following  announcement  found  its  way  to  the  sanctum 
during  the  last  month : 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  A.  Wade  announce  the  birth  of 
their  Twin  Daughters,  Marion  Kathryn  and  Charlotte  Chris- 
tine, born  the  fifth  day  of  April,  nineteen  hundred  and  twenty- 
one. 

Congratulations  Walter. 

*  *         * 

The  following  from  the  Gonzaga  Bulletin  of  Spokane, 
Wash.,  will  be  of  interest  to  many  of  the  old  boys,  especially 
those  of  the  class  of  '09 : 

James  Emmett  Royce,  LL.  B.,  '17,  is  leaving  the  prose- 
cuting attorney's  office  to  enter  the  field  of  general  practice. 
During  the  past  two  years  Mr.  Royce  has  been  a  member  of 
Gonzaga's  Law  faculty,  teaching  criminal  law  to  the  first  year 
men.  In  the  future  he  will  be  connected  with  the  offices  of 
Ferris  &  Ferris,  one  of  Spokane's  most  prominent  legal  firms. 

Mr.  Royce  has  made  an  enviable  record  while  connected 
with  the  prosecutor's  office  and  his  departure  from  the  court 
house  will  be  a  distinct  loss  to  the  country  and  state.  His 
resignation  is  generally  attributed  to  the  low  salary  accorded 
by  the  state  to  its  deputy  prosecutors. 

Many  Gonzagans  at  first  feared  that  the  change  would 
mean  the  loss  of  this  popular  teacher  from  our  law  factulty. 
But  Professor  Royce  has  definitely  announced  that  he  does 
not  in  the  least  contemplate  leaving  Gonzaga. 


The  Skulls  are  scraped 
Ye  "Eds"  are  through 
The  jokes  are  rare 

The  laughs  are  few. 

*  *         * 

Some  students  study  subjects — others  study  credits. 

*  *         * 

Now  that  the  M.  D.'s  are  giving  out  schooners,  would  you 

call  them  dry  docks. 

*  *         * 

Maiden  Fancies 

"In  the  spring  a  young  man's  fancy 
Lightly  turns  to  thoughts  of  love." 
Nature's  subtle  necromancy 
Causes  the  effect  above. 

But  I've  often  wondered  sadly 
If  the  object  of  his  love 
Has  the  same  ecstatic  feeling 
While  he  acts  the  turtle  dove. 


Does  she  think  how  much  she  loves  him, 
As  he  strokes  her  marcelled  hair? 
Does  she  wish  (Ah,  melancholy!) 
That  he  soon  will  "take  the  air"  ? 
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302  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

May  no  doubts  of  my  inventing 
Ever  quench  the  Light  that  gleams 
In  his  eyes,  as  he  caresses 
Her,  his  girl  of  golden  dreams ! 

Yet  I  fear  the  minds  of  maidens 
Are  not  quite  like  those  of  men, 
And  their  fancies  of  the  springtime 
Turn  to  something  else  again. 

I'd  revise  the  famous  saying, 
And  apply  it  to  the  girls 
In  this  form,  which  better  pictures 
What's  beneath  their  lovely  curls : 

"In  the  spring  a  maiden's  fancy 
Lightly  turns  to  thoughts  of  clothes, 
And  the  world  is  well  forgotten 
While  she  shops  for  cob-web  hose." 

When  he  says :    "I  love  you,  dearest !" 
Babbles  of  her  eyes  so  blue, 
She  thinks:    "Orange  silk  just  suits  me; 
Nothing  else  at  all  will  do !" 

Youth  in  springtime,  when  your  loved  one 
Heaves  a  sigh  against  your  vest, 
Do  not  sigh:    "How  much  she  loves  me!" 
She's  not  different  from  the  rest. 

And  if  you  should  chance  to  offer: 
"Penny  for  your  thoughts,  my  dear?" 
Ten  to  one  your  dear  would  answer: 
"Pink  is  all  the  rasre  this  year !" 


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"O,  Where,  O  Where  is  My  Little  Glass  Gone?" 

"Where  are  the  boys  this  autumn's  day?"  the  teacher  said  to 

me. 
"There's  only  thirty  in  the  class,  there  should  be  sixty-three." 
"Alas !  Alas !"  I  said  to  him ;  my  eyes  were  filled  with  tears ; 
"They're  out  to  see  a  football  game,  canst  hear  their  merry 

cheers." 
And  teacher   looked  at   me   and   said :    "Gosh   darn   the   silly 

dears." 

"Where  are  they  now,  that  winter's  here?"  the  teacher  said 

to  me. 
"There's  only  fifteen  in  the  class,  there  should  be  sixty-three." 
"Teacher,  Teacher !"  said  I  to  him ;  my  words  came  low  and 

quick ; 
"They're  'cross  the  way  a  playing  pool,  canst  hear  the  pool 

balls  click?" 
"And  teacher  looked  at  me  and  said,  "They  shoot  a  wicked 

stick." 

"Where  are  the  boys  this  warm  spring  day?"  the  teacher  said 

to  me. 
"There's  only  seven  in  the  class,  there  should  be  sixty-three." 
I  looked  at  him  and  whispered  low :  "I  really  hate  to  tell, 
They're  out  to  see  the  White  Sox  play,  canst  hear  the  students 

yell." 
And  teacher  looked  at  me  and  said,  "That  makes  me  sore  as — 

blazes." 

"Where  are  the  boys  this  summer's  day?"  the  teacher  said 

to  me. 
"I  s'pose  they're  out  araising  Cain,  that  class  of  sixty-three." 
"O  no,  O  no!"  I  said  to  him;  my  heart  was  hard  as  stone; 
"They're  all  of  them  at  summer  school,  canst  hear  the  blighters 

groan." 
"A  horse  apiece,"  the  teacher  said  and  munched  his  ice  cream 

cone. 

Edward  P.  King,  Pre-Medic. 


University  Chronicle 

Baseball 

A  large  number  of  candidates  turned  out  for  baseball,  of 
which  the  following  were  chosen  to  compose  the  squad : 
Kempa,  Walsh,  Dee,  M.  McNally,  Simunich,  T.  McNally, 
O'Hern,  Zvetina,  Russell,  Lauerman  and  Burke.  Burke  was 
elected  captain. 

In  the  first  game  of  the  season,  on  May  4th,  Loyola  U. 
defeated  Chicago  Tech  on  the  losers'  grounds  by  a  score  of 
17  to  8.  Only  three  of  the  losers'  runs  were  earned.  Berny 
Dee  pitched  a  brilliant  game,  striking  out  eleven  men.  After 
the  first  four  innings,  during  which  we  were  a  little  unsettled, 
one  star  after  another  shone  out.  Maurice  O'Hern  reached 
first  seven  times  out  of  seven  times  at  bat,  getting  a  triple, 
two  doubles,  a  single,  two  bases  on  balls,  and  once  getting  on 
through  an  error.  Simunich  made  a  wonderful  one-hand 
catch  of  a  smash  which  was  ticketed  for  a  double  at  least. 
In  the  fourth  Lou  Lauerman  tripled  with  the  bases  full,  tieing 
the  score,  and  also  knocked  two  doubles.  Kempa  made  three 
hits,  one  a  double,  and  Tom  McNally  added  a  triple  to  the 
team's  list  of  extra-base  knocks.  Martin  McNally  did  some 
smart  base  running  in  addition  to  getting  two  hits.  Corny 
Burke,  who  was  elected  captain  just  before  the  game,  got  three 
singles,  and  Russell,  and  Zvetina,  who  caught  a  fine  game, 
each  got  one. 

Score  by  innings :  R      H    E 

Loyola  U 1     0     0    4     7     0     0     0     5—17     21     2 

Chicago  Tech 0    22202000—  8     12     3 

Batteries — Loyola  U.,  Dee  and  Zvetina ;  Chicago  Tech, 
Waterman,  Fallon  and  Rogers. 

— o — 

As  we  go  to  press,  we  learn  that  "It  Happens  on  Sunday 
Mornings,"  the  one-act  play  by  Cornelius  P.  Burke,  which 
appeared  in  our  March  issue,  is  to  be  produced  in  June  by 
St.  Mary's  College  of  San  Antonio,  Texas. 

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LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  305 

FRESHMAN   MEDICS 


In   Memoriam 

Jesse  Roe  Bouton  was  only  a  short  time  in  our  midst, 
but  in  that  short  time  he  made  a  friend  of  everyone,  students 
and  faculty  alike.  The  news  of  his  death  was  a  sad  surprise 
to  all. 

Jesse  was  born  at  Sparland,  Illinois,  February  17,  1897, 
graduated  Vermont,  Illinois,  High  School,  and  attended  St. 
Louis  University  Medical  School.  In  April,  1917,  he  enlisted 
in  the  United  States  Navy  and  it  was  while  in  the  service 
of  his  country  that  the  disease  which  caused  his  death,  was 
incurred.  Because  of  his  illness  Jesse  was  discharged  in 
August,  1918.  In  February,  1920,  he  entered  Northwestern 
University,  and  -in  July,  1920,  he  married  Miss  Clementine 
O'Connell.  In  October  Jesse  came  to  Loyola  as  a  Freshman 
medic,  Class  of  '24,  and  we  had  the  privilege  of  counting 
him  one  of  the  best  friends  of  the  Freshman  class. 

To  Mrs.  Clementine  Bouton,  his  widow,  Air.  Jesse  Roe 
Bouton,  Sr.,  and  Airs.  Alarie  Bouton,  parents;  Air.  Hugh  E. 
Bouton  and  Aliss  Aiildred  E.  Bouton,  Loyola  University  ex- 
tends its  deep  sympathy  in  their  hour  of  grief. 


306  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

Read  This  Aloud  with  Resonance,  not  Examining  too 
Closely  the   Meaning 

Sometime  last  month  a  shabbily  dressed  man  wandered 
to  the  second  floor  and  met  a  freshman  clothed  in  a  white 
gown,  and  mistaking  him  for  a  doctor,  he  said  to  the  freshie : 
"You  see,  sir,  I'm  gettin'  to  be  a  purty  old  feller  and  I  has 
much  trouble  o'  nights  to  fall  asleep  because  of  a  terrific 
headache  and  a  sort  o'  emptiness  and  dryness  in  the  pit  of 
my  stomach.    Can  you  tell  me  what'll  help  me?" 

"Well  now,  let  me  see.  A  headache  may  be  caused  by 
an  estranged  condition  of  other  organs  and  for  a  correct 
diagnosis  much  depends  upon  the  loquacity  of  the  pain,  its 
frequency  and  its  acuteness.  Now  your  condition  may  be 
due  to  the  high  frequency  with  which  you  imbibe  the  fluids 
of  Bacchus,  which  interfere  with  the  work  of  Morpheus — by 
the  way,  do  you  speak  Latin?" 

"Nq,  sir,  that  I  doesn't,  'nary  a  bit." 

"No?  You  do  not  understand  Latin?  Now  these  fluids 
which  I  mentioned  are  produced  by  bacteria  which  give  off 
certain  zyniogenotis  euzynus  which  act  on  the  tissues  pro- 
ducing poisons  which  exert  an  exhilaratory  effect  which  causes 
tempus  frigit  et  deus  sanctus ;  the  muse  Bacchus  producing 
a  condition  of  corpora  quadrigemina  et  articulatio  radio- 
carpeae  which  is  closely  associated  with  certain  fluids  which 
pass  from  the  left  side  where  the  liver  is,  to  the  right  side 
where  the  spleen  is,  it  so  happening  that  the  lungs  which 
we  call  ren  in  Latin,  communicate  with  the  brain  by  means 
of  the  venae  cavae  inferioris,  thus  spreading  and  meeting  in 
its  course,  the  said  liquor  ophthalmicus  which  fills  the  ven- 
trides  of  the  fissura  cerebri.  These  poisonous  fluids  are 
gifted  with  a  certain  malignity  which  is  caused  by- the  acridity 
engendered  in  the  congenital  concavity  of  the  diaphragm.  Is 
that  clear,  so  far?" 

"Yes,  yes,  perfectly,"  replied  the  old  man. 

"Now  it  is  a  great  and  moot  question  among  doctors 
whether  this  disease  may  be  cured.    Some  sav    no',  some  say 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  307 

'yes',  but  I  and  other  great  scientists  say  both  'yes'  and  'no', 
finding  that  the  incongruities  of  their  opinions  depends  on 
the  perambulations  of  Sol,  and  also  on  the  genus  homo  found 
in  Luna.  As  I  said  before  these  poisons  may  spread  through 
the  trigonum  humbale  to  the  annulus  inguinalis  cerebri  pro- 
ducing what  is  known  as  hypoacidity  of  the  stomach  which 
is  precisely  the  cause  of  your  headaches.  Now  you  go  to  the 
dispensary  on  the  first  floor  and  they  will  give  you  something 
that  will  relieve  you." 

"My  what  a  clever  un  you  are.  How  well  you  explain  it 
all.   Thankee  kindly,"  exclaimed  the  old  man  as  he  went  down 

the  stairs. 

*         *         * 

Miss  Gregory  wanted  to  use  garden  hose  as  a  stomach 
pump  for  Yloedman,  but  Vloed  said  he  thought  it  wouldn't 
be  long  enough  and  that  he  had  much  difficulty  in  swallowing 
small  things  anyway. 


Berger  has  come  to  the  conclusion  that  "There  is  really 
an  excess  of  everything  in  the  body,  except  brains." 


Our  fair  coeds  have  become  very  skillful  in  making  neat 
insertions  with  their  little  scalpels. 


A   successful  doctor  is  one  who  sticks  to  physic   all  his 
life,  for  right  or  wrong,  he  gets  paid  just  the  same. 


Dead  Men  Tell  no  Tales 

A  corpse  has  never  been  known  to  complain  of  the  doctor 
that  killed  him. 


What  Is  Air  Pressure? 


THE  air  is  composed  of  molecules.  They  constantly 
bombard  you  from  all  sides.  A  thousand  taps  by  a 
thousand  knuckles  will  close  a  barn  door.  The  taps 
as  a  whole  constitute  a  push.  So  the  constant  bombardment 
of  the  air  molecules  constitutes  a  push.  At  sea-level  the  air 
molecules  push  against  every  square  inch  of  you  with  a 
total  pressure  of  nearly  fifteen  pounds. 

Pressure,  then,  is  merely  a  matter  of  bombarding  mole- 
cules. 

When  you  boil  water  you  make  its  molecules  fly  off.  The 
water  molecules  collide  with  the  air  molecules.  It  takes  a 
higher  temperature  to  boil  water  at  sea-level  than  on  Pike's 
Peak.  Why?  Because  there  are  more  bombarding  mole- 
cules at  sea-level — more  pressure. 

Take  away  all  the  air  pressure  and  you  have  a  perfect 
vacuum.  A  perfect  vacuum  has  never  been  created.  In  the 
best  vacuum  obtainable  there  are  still  over  two  billion  mole- 
cules of  air  per  cubic  centimeter,  or  about  as  many  as  there 
are  people  on  the  whole  earth. 

Heat  a  substance  in  a  vacuum  and  you  may  discover 
properties  not  revealed  under  ordinary  pressure.  A  new 
field  for  scientific  exploration  is  opened. 

Into  this  field  the  Research  Laboratories  of  the  General 
Electric  Company  have  penetrated.  Thus  one  of  the  chem- 
ists in  the  Research  Laboratories  studied  the  disintegration 
of  heated  metals  in  highly  exhausted  bulbs.  What  happened 
to  the  glowing  filament  of  a  lamp,  for  example?  The  glass 
blackened.  But  why?  He  discovered  that  the  metal  dis- 
tilled in  the  vacuum  depositing  on  the  glass. 

This  was  research  in  pure  science — research  in  what  may  be  called 
the  chemistry  and  physics  of  high  vacua.  It  was  undertaken  to  answer 
a  question.  It  ended  in  the  discovery  of  a  method  of  filling  lamp  bulbs 
with  an  inert  gas  under  pressure  so  that  the  filament  would  not  evapor- 
ate so  readily.  Thus  the  efficient  gas-filled  lamp  of  today  grew  out  of 
a  purely  scientific  inquiry. 

So,  unforeseen,  practical  benefits  often  result  when  research  is  broadly 
applied. 


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SOPHOMORE  MEDICS 

Dr.  Volini  in  Physical  Diagnosis — "Describe  the  sound  on 
percussing  the  liver." 

Student — "It  is  flat,  of  short  duration  and  wild." 

Dr.   Volini — "What  do  you  mean  by  'wild'?" 

Student — "Why  by  that   I   mean  that  it  is  high-pitched." 

H5  >K  Jfc 

Pat.    McNulty    proved    recently    that    the    inhabitants    of 

South  Chicago  are  not  so  slow.    Believe  me  his  demonstration 

was  surely  a  success  for  everyone  in  the  school  saw  it.    Watch 

your  step.  Pat ! 

*         *         * 

On  the  20th  of  April,  the  Sophomore  Class  elected  officers 
for  the  ensuing  year.  The  following  gentlemen  will  guide 
the  destiny  of  the  Class  of   1923  in  the  Junior  year: 

President — Louis  Vitovec. 

Vice-President — George  Gundry. 

Secretary — Lorenzo  Balasquide. 

Treasurer — Wilfred  Malone. 

Class  Editor— Patrick  McNulty. 

Business  Manager  of  the  Year  Book — John  Warren. 

Class  Representative — James  Russell. 


"By   Their  Words   You  Shall  Know  Them." 

"She's  an  old  peach." — L.  Balasquide. 
"Gimme  a  'cig'  Doyle." — J.  Russell. 
"She's  a  'bar-cat'." — G.  Gundry. 

"I  can  sit  in  more  cars  and  get  less  rides,  etc." — Joe  Ryan. 
"I  will  lecture  on  autopsy." — Cailles. 
"er — er — er  and  so  on." — Guesswho. 

"Come    on    fellows,    it's    3 :00    o'clock,    let's    go."  —  Will 
Malone. 


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Tom  Coyne  rises  to  remark  that  he  was  erroneously  re- 
ported in  the  last  issue  as  being  afflicted  with  "imme- 
etis."  Tom  says  that  he  is  always  on  the  giving  end,  and 
that  Mullens,  the  popular  young  Copenhagen  addict  of  the 
Junior  Class,  is  generally  on  the  other  end. 


Bill  Malone,  the  regular  conductor  of  this  column  is 
suffering  from  lethargic  paralysis  of  the  right  hand.  He  has 
been  so  afflicted  since  the  December  issue,  though  he  will  be 
over  the  ailment  with  the  termination  of  the  school  year. 


Junior  addressing  a  "Soph"  emerging  from  the  dispensary: 
'Are  you  having  dispensary?" 

Sophomore  (chest  inflated) — "Why  of  course?" 

Junior — "In  what  subject." 

Sophomore   (chest  receding) — "Physical  diagnosis." 


"The  Peacock  Strut" 

It  was  inevitable.  Splendid  organization  of  committees 
and  a  superlative  degree  of  assiduity  and  enthusiasm  by  the 
individual  members  of  these  committees  fore-ordained,  as  it 
were,  the  success  of  the  "Peacock  Strut"  held  on  the  evening 
of  April  8th,  at  the  Great  Northern  Hotel. 

This  event  was  heralded  several  weeks  in  advance,  and  the 
unique  methods  employed  by  the  Publicity  Committee  in  so 
doing,  were  such  as  to  make  professional  press  agents  seem 
amateurish.  The  first  inklings  of  the  affair  were  clothed  in 
such  an  air  of  mystery  that  the  writer,  driven  by  a  feminine 
degree  of  curiosity,  had  recourse  to  infallible  "Ouija,"  only 
to  find  that  even  this  medium  was  not  wise.  It  was  only 
when  full  announcement  of  the  annual  "prom"  of  the 
Medical  Department  appeared  in  the  society  notes  of  the 
daily  papers  that  our  curiosity  was  appeased. 


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As  a  result  of  the  splendid  preliminary  preparation,  the 
attendance  at  the  ball  was  practically  one  hundred  per  cent. 
The  hall  was  appropriately  decorated  for  the  occasion ; 
artistic  streamers,  and  knobby  paper  hats,  furnished  by  the 
Committee  on  Arrangements,  further  enhancing  the  beauty  of 
the  setting.  Studded  by  many  specimens  of  Ziegfeldian  pul- 
critude,  a  scene  of  this  sort  made  one  grateful  that  he  was 
not  suffering  from  amblyopia.  Roger's  Orchestra,  those  five 
scintillating  scions  of  syncopation,  furnished  the  music. 
Suffice  it  to  say  (apology  to  Prof.  Strong),  that  these  gentle- 
men played,  raved,  moaned  and  groaned  all  the  music  that 
made  Irving  Berlin  rich  and  Sophie  Tucker  famous.  And 
to  further  insure  the  happiness  of  the  terpsichoreans,  the 
above  mentioned  committee  furnished  delicious  though  kick- 
less  punch,  and  Porto  Rican  Perfectos.  Hence,  wherefore 
and  whvnot  was  this  occasion  a  glorious  success  : 

However,  too  much  praise  cannot  be  given  the  Students" 
Activity  Committee  composed  of  Miller,  Mevers,  Cummings 
and  AVilkins.  It  was  largely  through  their  efforts  that  the 
affair  was  made  possible  and  that  the  outcome  was  so  happy. 
Also  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Thesle  Job,  on  the  Reception  Committee 
are  due  a  vote  of  thanks.  Their  vigilance  in  seeing  that 
everyone  was  acquainted  produced  a  spirit  of  good-fellowship 
which  played  no  small  part  in  making  the  evening  most  en- 
joyable to  all. 


Gleanings  from  the  "Strut" 

Bob  Cummings,  the  social  lion  from  Delavan,  escorted  a 
little  sylph  in  gray.  A  member  of  the  faculty  observed  that, 
"she  was  a  stunner,  but  a  bit  youngish."  However  you  can- 
not condemn  Bob  for  this.  In  fact  we  think  Cumming's  used 
great  discretion  in  his  choice.  But  as  far  as  that  goes,  the 
fellow  admitted  this  himself — at  least  his  actions  indicated 
this  as  he  did  not  allow  the  young  lady  to  divert  her  attention 
from  him  the  entire  evening:. 


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Don  Jose  Cailles  kinda  dazzled  the  boys  when  he  appeared, 
dressed  according  to  Hoyle — regulation  tuxedo,  hard-boiled 
shirt,  etc.,  etc.  Believe  us,  the  pride  of  Luzon  deported  him- 
self a  la  Gold-Coast. 

♦  >k         >£ 

Joe  Ryan  created  quite  a  stir  with  his  dancing.  Very  few 
can  trip  the  light  fantastic  toe  like  our  Joe.  By  the  way, 
we  may  mention  confidentially  that  this  "medico-Frisco"  is 
about  to  offer  to  the  public  a  new  dance  creation  to  be  known 
as  the  Pathologic  Toddle.  It  is  said  to  consist  of  a  sort  of 
epileptiform  seizure  in  the  upper  torso,  the  shoulders  moving 
rvthmically  in  an  antero-posterior  manner,  combined  with  a 
palsy-like  action  of  the  lower  extremeties,  terminating  in  a 
rather  atopic  gait.    Go  to  it  Joe,  we're  with  you  ! 


Pat.  McNulty  was  very  much  in  evidence  with  a  spritely 
little  damsel  from  South  Chicago.  Bob  Cummings  has  volun- 
teered some  information  regarding  said  young  lady.  It  may 
be  a  breach  of  confidence  to  divulge  this,  but  we  may  mention 
in  passing  that  we  have  already  begun  to  lay  in  a  supply  of 
rice  (and  also  old  shoes). 

*  *  * 

The  following  faculty  members  were  present :  Drs. 
Masoglia,  Dawson,  Job,  Matthews,  Bergloff,  O'Connors,  and 

Sutphen. 

*  *  * 

Hitchcock  of  the  Freshman  Class  is  to  be  congratulated. 
We  understand  he  was  successful  against  a  large  field  of 
Sophies.    Nice  going,   "Hitchie."    We  always  thought  that  it 

was  something  besides  books  that  attracted  you  to  the  librarv. 

*  *         * 

George  Gundry  believes  that  imported  goods  are  always 
the  best.  His  young  lady  journeyed  in  from  Valpo  to  attend 
the  "prom." 

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SCHOOL   OF  SOCIOLOGY 

The  second  semester  of  the  School  of  Sociology  closes  the 
earl}"  part  of  June,  and  thus  ends  the  most  successful  year  of 
the  School.  The  registration  increased  substantially  this  year 
but  in  spite  of  the  large  enrollment,  the  "small  town  school 
spirit"  remains  the  same.  Many  requests  have  come  in  already 
for  summer  courses  but  as  yet  the  schedule  is  not  arranged. 

A  bit  of  School  loyalty  was  shown  when  the  estate  of 
Miss  Elizabeth  O'Dea  was  settled  for  she  bequeathed  to 
Father  Siedenburg  the  sum  of  $100.00,  which  he  immediately 
turned  into  the  Scholarship  Fund  of  the  Alumnae.  The  re- 
ceipts from  the  Frederick  Paulding  lecture  amounted  to 
$984.00,  making  a  net  profit  from  the  afternoon's  entertain- 
ment of  over  $700.00  which  also  was  placed  at  the  disposal 
of  the  Scholarship  Fund. 

The  Alumnae  is  also  planning  another  big  time  in  a  big 
way.  The  annual  spring  luncheon  will  be  held  in  the  large 
new  dining  hall  of  the  Hamilton  Club  on  Saturday,  May  28. 
The  Program  Committee  refuses  to  divulge  the  nature  of  the 
entertainment  for  that  day,  but  from  the  whispered  con- 
ferences, one  deduces  that  it  is  to  be  especially  good.  Ar- 
rangements have  already  been  made  for  two  hundred  guests, 
but  more  can  be  accommodated  if  necessarv. 

The  special  speakers  at  the  School  this  past  month  have 
been:  Mr.  Win.  J.  Bogan  of  Lane  Technical  High  School; 
Air.  A.  J.  Todd,  the  Labor  Manager  of  B.  Kuppenheimer  Co., 
formerly  Professor  of  Sociology  at  the  University  of  Minne- 
sota; and  Miss  Valeria  McDermott  of  the  Chicago  League  for 
the  Hard  of  Hearing.  Father  Paul  Blakely,  S.  J.,  will  speak 
in  the  near  future  on  the  "Smith-Towner  Bill." 

Father  Pernin's  reputation  as  a  lecturer  on  O.  Henry  and 
Kilmer  has  spread  to  St.  Louis,  and  during  the  spring  vacation 
week,  he  gave  these  lectures  to  groups  in  that  city. 

April  24th  to  29th  was  vacation  week  at  the  School  and 
no  lectures  were  given.  However,  the  students  taking  the 
social   service   course  utilize  this  vacation   period  by  visiting 


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the  institutions  engaged  in  social  work  in  or  near  Chicago. 
Social  Service  Registration  Bureau,  The  Jewish  Charities, 
Cook  County  Hospital,  Psychopathic  Hospital,  Oak  Forest, 
the  County  Jail,  St.  Mary's  Training  School,  The  House  of 
Correction,  and  Hull  House,  were  the  institutions  visited. 

Sidelights 

The  name  of  Mrs.  Bruno  Mazur  has  been  added  to  the 
Alumnae  list  since  Miss  Harriet  Przybylski  has  forsaken  the 
ranks  of  the  social  workers  and  is  henceforth  known  as  Mrs. 
Mazur. 

Miss  Mary  Killean  has  accepted  a  position  in  Minneapolis, 
Minnesota.  She  will  do  juvenile  work  for  the  Central  Bureau 
of  Catholic  Charities,  of  which  Father  Driscoll  is  the  director. 
Miss  Killean  is  the  second  Loyola  student  who  is  working 
for  Father  Driscoll,  since  Miss  Louise  Schmauss  has  been 
with  him  for  over  a  a  year. 

The  School  was  grieved  to  hear  of  the  death  of  one  of  its 
former  students,  Mrs.  Josephine  G.  Ford,  the  past  month. 
Mrs.  Ford  took  the  social  service  course  for  one  year,  leaving 
to  accept  a  position  with  the  American  Red  Cross.  The 
sympathy  of  the  School  is  extended  to  those  friends  and 
relatives  who  mourn  her  death. 

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Think  What  It  Would 
Mean  To  You 

A    Perpetual    Scholarship    is    the    Most    Magnificent 

Monument  —  The  Greatest  Memorial  a  Man  or 

Woman  Can  Leave  for  Future  Generations. 


F  you  were  a  boy  ambitious  for  a  college  edu- 
cation (but  lacking  the  means  to  pay  for  it)  — 
how  happy  you  would  be  were  some  generous- 
hearted  man  or  woman  to  come  to  you  and 
say,  "Son,  I  know  what  an  education  means 
to  you.    I  want  you  to  have  all  of  its  advan- 
tages and  I  am  willing  to  pay  the  expenses  of  giving  it  to 
you,  so  that  you  may  be  prepared  for  opportunity  and  realize 
the  greatest  success  in  life." 

Your  delight  at  such  an  unexpected  gift  could  only  be 
exceeded  by  the  supreme  satisfaction  and  happiness  afforded 
the  donor.  For  a  greater  reward  can  come  to  no  man  than 
the  knowledge  that  his  generosity  has  given  a  worthy  boy 
the  means  of  gaining  an  education  and  all  of  the  blessings 
that  it  affords. 

There  are  hundreds  of  fine  boys — without  means — who 
would  eagerly  welcome  the  chance  to  fit  themselves  for  places 
of  eminence  in  the  world  by  a  course  of  study  at  Loyola 
University.  Unless  someone  takes  a  personal  interest  in  them, 
they  will  not  have  the  opportunity. 


By  endowing  a  perpetual  scholarship  you  can  give  a  great 
number  of  boys  a  valuable  Christian  education,  which  will 


make  them  successful  men  of  high  character  and  ideals  and 
enable  them  to  help  other  boys  in  a  similar  manner. 

$2500  will  endow  one  scholarship  in  perpetuity;  $5000  will 
endow  two  scholarships.  This  would  mean  that  through  your 
generosity  at  least  one  student  could  enter  Loyola  University 
every  four  years  (tuition  free)  for  all  time.  He  would  be 
your  boy.  He  would  recognize  you  as  his  sponsor,  for  the 
scholarship  would  bear  your  name.  You  would  take  a  great 
personal  interest  in  his  scholastic  success  and  his  achieve- 
ments. Everlasting  gratitude  to  you  would  be  an  ample  re- 
ward. 

A  man  can  pay  no  greater  tribute  to  anyone  than  to  say, 
"What  success  I  have  won  I  owe  to  the  generous  benefactor, 
who  helped  me  to  get  an  education." 

Why  not  be  such  a  benefactor?  For  generations  to  come 
your  name  will  be  remembered  by  countless  boys  to  whom 
your  generosity  will  bring  education  and  success. 

Full  details  regarding  the  Loyola  perpetual  scholarship 
plan  furnished  on  request. 


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Vol.  XVIII  JULY,  1921  Number  5 


The  Americanization  of  the 
Immigrant 

AM  the  immigrant. 
Since  the  dawn  of  creation  my  restless  feet 
have  beaten  new  paths  across  the  earth. 
My  uneasy  bark  has  tossed  on  all  the  seas. 
My  wanderlust  was  born  of  the  craving  for 
more  liberty  and  a  better  wage  for  the 
sweat  of  my  face. 
I  looked  toward  the  United  States  with  eager  eyes  kindled  by 
the  fire  of  ambition  and  heart  quickened  with  new-born 
hope. 
I  approached  the  gates  with  great  expectation. 
I  entered  in  with  fine  hope. 

I  have   shouldered  my  burden  as  the  American  man-of-all 
work. 

325 


326  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

I  contribute    eighty-five    per    cent    of    all    the    labor    in    the 

slaughtering  and  meat  packing  industries. 
I  do  seven-tenths  of  the  bituminous  coal  mining. 
I  do  seven-eighths  of  all  the  work  in  the  woolen  mills. 
I  contribute  nine-tenths  of  all  the  labor  in  the  cotton  mills. 
I  make  nineteen-twentieths  of  all  the  clothing. 
I  manufacture  more  than  half  the  shoes. 
I  build  four-fifths  of  all  the  furniture. 
I  make  half  of  the  collars,  cuffs  and  shirts. 
I  turn  out  four- fifths  of  all  the  leather. 
I  make  half  the  gloves. 

I  refine  nearly  nineteen-twentieths  of  the  sugar. 
I  make  half  of  the  tobacco  and  cigars. 
And  yet  I  am  the  great  American  Problem. 
When  I  pour  out  my  blood  on  your  altar  of  labor,  and  lay 

down  my  life  as  a  sacrifice  to  your  God  of  Toil,  men 

make  no  more  comment  than  at  the  fall  of  a  sparrow. 
My  children  shall  be  your  children,  and  your  land  shall  be  my 

land  because  my   sweat  and  my  blood  will   cement  the 

foundation  of  the  America  of  Tomorrow. 
If  I  can  be  fused  into  the  body  politic,  the  melting  pot  will 

have  stood  the  supreme  test." 

Is  our  melting  pot  standing  the  supreme  test  or  will  we  be 
forced  to  acknowledge  before  the  world  that  we  have  failed 
in  the  most  important  task  given  to  any  people  for  execution? 
That  there  is  a  serious  problem  we  must  admit,  and  we  must 
further  realize  that  the  successful  solution  of  it  depends  upon 
the  courage  and  brotherliness  with  which  we  meet  it.  We  are 
a  nation  of  immigrants.  With  the  exception  of  the  small 
number  of  Indians,  no  one  of  us  in  the  United  States  is  far 
removed  from  the  immigrant  who  braved  the  storms  of  the 
seas  to  cast  in  his  fortunes  with  those  of  this  strange  land.  At 
the  present  time  there  are  in  this  country  13,000,000  foreign 
born  persons  and  35,000,000  persons  whose  parents  were 
foreign  born.  This  means  that  one  out  of  every  seven  people 
we  meet  in  our  daily  work  is  foreign  born,  and  one  out  of 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  327 

every  three  is  but  one  generation  removed.  When  we  realize 
that  this  population  migrated  from  every  corner  of  the  globe 
and  possesses  the  passions,  instincts  and  impulses  common  to 
every  nation,  we  can  eaily  understand  why  our  population  is 
far  from  homogenius. 

The  migratory  instinct  is  not  a  new  one.  Throughout  hun- 
dreds of  generations  humanity  has  been  moving  here  and 
there  in  search  of  the  promised  land  of  better  opportunity, 
nearly  always  migrating  under  necessity  and  hardships,  and 
often  at  the  risk  of  life  itself.  Sometimes  it  was  the  hand 
of  the  oppressor  that  gave  impetus  to  the  tide;  sometimes  it 
was  a  question  of  staying  and  starving  or  going  to  pass 
through  untold  hardships  with  only  the  possibility  of  reaching 
better  conditions.  But  whatever  the  motive,  many  millions  of 
people  have  traveled  over  land  and  sea  in  search  of  happiness 
and  freedom  and  more  livable  conditions.  The  result  has  been 
discovery,  great  productions,  distribution  of  knowledge  and 
progress  of  civilization.  Immigration  has  been  God's  plan  for 
distribution  in  the  past ;  shall  we  Americans  change  the  order 
of  things?  We  suffered  less  than  the  other  allies  to  safeguard 
democracy ;  shall  we  now  become  undemocratic  and  defeat  the 
hope  for  which  they  fought  by  shutting  our  door  against  those 
who  bore  the  brunt  of  the  burden? 

True,  America  must  not  be  the  dumping  spot  for  the  refuse 
of  the  world,  but  in  preventing  this  there  is  the  danger  of  our 
going  to  the  other  extreme  and  depriving  ourselves  of  many 
good,  "America  First"  citizens. 

Who  are  the  undesirable  citizens  ?  The  skilled  laborer  will 
say,  "there  is  plenty  of  work  here  for  the  unskilled,  but  no 
field  for  the  skilled,  keep  him  out."  The  unskilled  laborer  will 
cry,  "keep  out  the  unskilled  laborer,  our  field  is  already 
crowded."  To  this  the  employer  will  answer,  "it  is  imperative 
for  production  that  we  have  more  unskilled  labor."  However, 
the  restriction  of  immigration  for  any  reason  except  physical, 
mental  or  moral  defect,  would  be  contrary  to  our  traditions 
and  would  defeat  our  most  noble  purpose,  that  of  rescuing  the 
oppressed  and  of  giving  new  hope  to  the  defeated.     Every 


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movement  for  restriction  has  been  based  on  prejudice.  In 
1835  the  "Know  Nothings,"  realizing  and  fearing  the  strength 
of  the  Catholic  immigrant  tried  to  legislate  against  his  enter- 
ing the  land.  While  this  new  movement  was  religious,  it  was 
primarily  economic.  It  was  incited  by  the  labor  agitator  who 
wants  no  competition  in  the  labor  market.  We  must  remem- 
ber that  the  immigrant  is  a  consumer  as  well  as  a  producer 
and  as  a  producer  he  is  economically  essential.  The  day  has 
passed  when  the  Irishman  and  the  Swede  of  the  "old  immigra- 
tion" can  be  depended  upon  to  do  our  unskilled  work.  These 
have  advanced  above  that  and  we  are  glad  they  have ;  but  their 
place  must  be  filled  by  the  Italian,  the  Slav  and  the  Pole,  whom 
we  hope  will  follow  the  path  of  progress  of  his  predecessors. 

So  valuable  are  they  to  production  that  if  the  whole  num- 
ber of  Italians  who  built  the  tunnel  under  the  Hudson  should 
return  to  Europe  with  all  their  savings,  we  could  economically 
afford  to  let  them  go,  for  the  benefit  of  their  toil  remains. 
Without  the  unskilled  laborer  the  mighty  productions  of  which 
we  Americans  boast,  could  have  not  been  accomplished. 

While  he  is  essential  to  us,  we  treat  him  as  if  it  were  a 
privilege  for  us  to  allow  him  to  remain.  We  under-pay  him, 
we  shun  him  as  if  he  would  contaminate  us — and  he  suffers  it 
all,  for  it  is  a  means  to  his  end.  It  is  the  terrible  price  he  pays. 
He  pays  it,  for  beyond,  he  sees  a  real  American  home  for  his 
family,  free  education  for  his  children,  and  American  citizen- 
ship for  himself.  Or,  he  may  have  a  vision  of  improved  con- 
ditions in  his  home  land.  While  his  return  to  that  land  is  not 
to  be  encouraged  by  us,  we  have  no  right  to  hold  him  here 
against  his  will.  If  we  do  not  extend  to  him  a  brotherly  hand 
we  cannot  expect  him  to  be  contented  to  remain  with  us.  If 
he  goes,  he  leaves  behind  him,  work  well  done  for  little  com- 
pensation ;  and  he  takes  with  him  the  American  spirit  of  enter- 
prise and  democracy,  and  thus  helps  to  spread  our  spirit  over 
the  world.  We  must  try  to  retain  him ;  we  must  make  him 
want  to  stay ;  he  is  well  worth  it,  for  none  but  the  most  ambi- 
tious come  to  us.  The  man  who  is  willing  to  undergo  the 
hardships  which  we  make  it  necessary  for  him  to  undergo,  the 


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discomforts  of  the  steerage,  the  horrors  of  Ellis  Island,  the 
contempt  with  which  he  is  met  in  his  every-day  life  here — is 
a  man  who  will  be  a  desirable  citizen  of  the  Unted  States  and 
it  is  our  duty  and  privilege  to  assist  him. 

We  are  not  suffering  from  undue  expansion  but  from  a 
refusal  of  Americans  to  face  their  duty. 

Guided  into  proper  channels,  surrounded  by  proper  influ- 
ences, this  alien  horde  may  be  transfused  into  good  American 
citizens  and  be  a  great  economic  and  social  asset  to  the  nation. 
He  may  be  made  a  part  of  our  body  politic,  devoted  to  Amer- 
ican traditions  and  filled  with  our  best  aspirations.  Indeed  he 
may  have  been  American  at  heart  long  before  he  set  sail  from 
European  shores :  the  spirit  of  America  may  have  been  in  his 
heart  long  before  he  knew  what  and  where  America  was. 

On  the  other  hand  if  he  is  left  to  form  himself  into  colonies 
which  are  in-but  not  of  America,— where  he  will  come  in  con- 
tact with  only  the  worst  element  of  our  people,  never  learning 
our  language,  never  adopting  our  customs,  never  feeling  our 
ideals  and  never  catching  our  spirit,  he  may  easily  and  often 
does  become  a  source  of  danger  to  our  political  well-being  and 
a  menace  to  the  life  of  the  nation. 

This  is  the  condition  which  actually  faces  us  and  our  duty 
should  be  clear.  There  is  no  science  for  assimilation,  but  on 
account  of  the  expanse  and  undevelopment  of  her  territory, 
the  elacticity  of  her  institutions  and  the  still  formative  state 
of  national  life,  America  affords  an  excellent  laboratory  for 
the  work  of  Americanization  —and  happy  is  the  historian  who 
may  relate  the  working  out  of  the  process. 

What  is  Americanization?  "It  is  the  bringing  to  bear  in 
the  life  of  every  stranger  who  enters  our  country,  the  sum 
total  of  American  ideals,  in  his  home,  his  shop,  his  neighbor- 
hood, in  our  legislature  and  our  courts.  It  is  taking  the  best 
in  the  stranger  and  transfusing  and  transforming  it  by  our 
best,  and  calling  it  America."  The  American  is  the  keeper  of 
these  ideals  and  he  must  be  the  giver.  His  reception  of  the 
immigrant  and  the  contact  he  makes  with  him,  in  large 
measure  determines  the  immigrant's  understanding  of  America 


330  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

and  his  acceptance  or  refusal  of  its  ideals.  The  question  is 
not  what  can  we  do  for  him  but  what  can  we  help  him  to  do 
for  himself  and  us.  We  must  help  him  to  make  America 
what  he  thought  it  was,  for  the  land  we  all  love  is  the  land 
where  our  dreams  may  come  true  and  our  highest  aspirations 
be  realized. 

But  before  we  begin  to  Americanize  the  alien  we  must 
Americanize  our  own  citizens  who  sit  complacently  by,  enjoy- 
ing the  spoils  of  an  unfair  wage  which  makes  it  necessary  for 
the  employee  and  his  family  to  live  in  an  unsanitary  house, 
eat  unnourishing  food,  seek  recreation  in  cheap  places  and 
on  account  of  their  enforced  condition  assume  a  bitterly  un- 
American  attitude.  The  American  woman  who  takes  into  her 
kitchen,  a  foreign  girl,  imposes  upon  her  ignorance  of  what 
should  be  demanded  of  her,  monopolizes  her  labor  and  her 
strength,  but  contributes  nothing  toward  formulating  in  her 
an  American  ideal  or  preparing  her  to  preside  over  an  Ameri- 
can home,  not  only  does  nothing  towards  the  Americanization 
of  this  particular  immigrant — but  is  herself  lacking  in  the 
true  American  spirit  of  fair  play  and  justice. 

Americanization  should  start  at  Ellis  Island.  We  have 
never  given  adequate  protection  to  our  potential  citizens.  If 
possible,  through  an  international  agreement,  a  stringent  ex- 
amination should  be  made  at  the  port  of  departure,  by  officers 
from  the  country  to  which  the  passenger  is  sailing.  This 
examination  should  not  be  based  upon  the  literacy  or  an  other 
unfair  test ;  but  should  prevent  all  who  would  not  make  desir- 
able citizens,  on  account  of  physical,  moral  or  mental  defect, 
from  starting  or  from  being  sent  back  after  they  had  so  nearly 
reached  the  land  of  their  desires,  at  an  expense  to  themselves 
and  others. 

An  examination  should  be  held  at  Ellis  Island,  after  which 
the  alien,  instead  of  falling  into  the  hands  of  thieves,  crooks 
and  exploiters  should  be  welcomed  by  a  Federal  Committee 
who  would  direct  him  'to  friends  or  a  position ;  it  could  act 
as  a  Federal  Employment  Bureau,  gauging  the  distribution 
of  labor  and  deprive  the  exploiting  agent  of  his  prey.    Perhaps 


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the  time  is  here  when  the  employer  will  aid  Americanization 
by  his  fair  treatment  of  the  alien,  but  if  it  is  not,  he  must  be 
compelled  to  do  so.  Too  often  the  alien  is  exploited  by 
bankers  of  his  own  nationality,  whom  in  his  innocence  he 
trusts.  He  needs  also,  protection  from  the  ward  politician 
who  sees  in  him  an  easy  vote.  Foolish  is  the  immigrant  who 
sells  his  vote — but  detestable  is  the  American  who  buys  it. 
Often  this  first  contact  with  the  un-American  element  of  our 
population  crushes  the  hopes  in  the  heart  of  the  newcomer. 
An  immigrant  lands  in  America  and  takes  whatever  work  he 
can  get  for  the  sake  of  building  an  American  fortune  for  his 
family.  No  one  tells  him  that  he  must  have  a  license  to 
enter  certain  occupations.  He  does  not  know  that  in  Louisiana 
he  cannot  get  a  contract  for  public  printing;  in  Michigan  he 
cannot  get  a  barber's  license ;  in  six  states  he  is  excluded 
from  gaining  a  livelihood  by  hunting  and  fishing ;  in  Tennessee 
he  may  not  be  a  market  hunter  and  in  Wyoming  he  may  not 
be  a  guide.  In  Vinginia  he  may  not  get  a  junk  dealer's  license ; 
in  Georgia  a  peddler's  license ;  in  New  York  he  cannot  ex- 
change his  foreign  money,  and  in  Pennsylvania  he  is  prohib- 
ited from  owning  or  having  in  his  possession  any  kind  of  a 
dog.  In  some  states  the  alien  may  not  hold  land,  in  some  he 
may  acquire  it  only  by  inheritance,  and  in  others  non-resident 
heirs  are  excluded. 

In  the  Working  Man's  Compensation  Act  the  immigrant  is 
discriminated  against.  In  Connecticut  he  receives  only  one- 
half  of  what  a  citizen  would  receive;  Kansas  names  $750.00 
as  his  maximum  while  a  citizen  may  receive  from  $1200  to 
$3600. 

And  when  he  is  brought  into  our  courts  of  justice,  unable 
to  make  himself  understood,  without  honest  assistance  from 
an  interpreter,  ignorant  of  his  right  to  secure  an  attorney,  he 
is  often  tried  and  convicted  and  leaves  the  court  a  condemned 
man — not  knowing  what  law  he  has  broken.  His  respect  for 
our  courts  of  justice  naturally  suffers.  To  prevent  this  ?  We 
must  put  into  the  hands  of  every  man  born  in  this  country  or 
entering  it,  the  tool  by  which  he  may  know  America's  past, 


332  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

the  laws  by  which  Americans  must  pattern  their  actions,  and 
the  present  conditions  which  he  is  forced  to  meet.  We  have 
suddenly  been  made  to  face  the  fact  that  we  have  in  this 
country  five  millions  of  people  who  can  neither  read  nor  write 
English.  A  million  and  a  half  of  this  number  are  native  born. 
This  disaster  was  brought  home  to  us,  when  organizing  our 
army  we  learned  that  out  of  the  first  two  millions  called  to 
colors,  two  hundred  thousand  could  neither  read  nor  write 
the  language  of  the  country  for  which  they  were  willing  to  die 
in  the  name  of  democracy, — the  real  meaning  of  which  they 
had  never  known. 

Were  they  the  less  patriotic?  We  need  only  consult  the 
casualty  lists  to  realize  that  many  were  not  far  removed  from 
the  immigrant  who  came  to  America  to  escape  the  very  con- 
ditions which  they  were  now  going  back  to  defeat.  The  spirit 
of  Kosciusko,  LaFayette  and  DeKalb  still  lives. 

A  soldier  cannot  obey  a  command  he  cannot  understand, 
so  it  was  necessary  to  organize  English  classes  in  the  Camps, 
where  many  a  young  man  who  lived  in  the  United  States  all 
his  life,  for  the  first  time  knew  of  the  necessity  of  knowing 
English  or  had  the  opportunity  to  learn  it.  Such  a  condition 
we  must  never  let  occur  again. 

The  first  essential  to  a  united  nation  is  a  common  language. 
An  innate  desire  for  companionship  has  induced  people  of  a 
common  tongue  to  settle  together  and  as  a  result  we  have  in 
our  big  cities  today,  Little  Italy,  Little  Poland  and  Little 
Bohemia,  which  are  as  foreign  to  America  as  Chicago  is  to 
the  Amana  Colony. 

The  ignorance  of  the  English  language  has  prevented  the 
foreign  working  man  from  opening  the  door  to  American 
progress.  He  is  unable  to  show  this  knowledge  and  must 
remain  a  stationary  cog  in  our  industrial  machine.  He  is 
unable  to  understand  the  danger  of  his  position  in  that  wheel 
and  no  statistics  are  able  to  relate  the  number  of  human  beings 
known  only  by  number  or  nick  name  who  are  "missing  in 
action"  in  our  industrial  world.  He  is  not  only  a  "Hunkey" 
or  a  "Dago" ;  he  is  a  human  being,  mourned  by  his  family  for 


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whom  he  proved  his  great  love,  even  unto  the  supreme  sacri- 
fice. We  need  not  read  the  history  of  a  war  to  find  real 
heroes ;  we  have  them  without  number  in  our  every  walk 
of  life.  They  are  in  the  background  of  our  industrial  and 
economic  world.  We  must  permit  them  to  become  a  part  of 
our  social  and  civic  world,  which  many  of  them  are  well 
equipped  to  do.  They  are  not  ignorant  because  they  do  not 
know  our  language ;  many  of  them  can  speak  four  and  five 
languages.     Let  us  teach  him  one  more. 

The  night  school  was  the  first  solution  but  we  cannot  pride 
ourselves  on  its  success.  The  small  number  of  available 
schools  and  teachers  is  by  no  means  sufficient  for  the  large 
number  of  applicants.  Competent  as  the  teacher  may  be,  it  is 
a  difficult  task  to  teach  this  large  number  when  the  words  she 
uses  are  merely  a  conglomaration  of  sounds.  Deep  as  their 
interest  may  be  it  is  a  discouraging  task.  Most  of  the  pupils 
being  unskilled  laborers  are  physically  exhausted  and  try  as 
they  will  their  minds  will  not  respond.  It  has  been  known 
that  men  ambitious  enough  to  come  out  of  their  homes  which 
invite  rest,  have  fallen  asleep  over  the  work  they  could  not 
master.  If  any  progress  is  to  be  made  thru  the  night  schools 
more  schools  must  be  opened,  more  efficient  teachers  interested 
and  more  individual  work  done.  Chicago  which  leads  the 
country  in  this  work,  admits  that  her  work  is  but  a  drop  in 
the  bucket  and  the  results  not  altogether  satisfactory. 

Henry  Ford,  the  embodiment  of  all  an  American  employer 
should  be,  early  conceived  the  idea  of  teaching  English  in  his 
Plant.  This  "crank  notion"  was  laughed  at  but  not  discour- 
aged. In  May,  1914,  classes  were  organized,  the  first  of  their 
kind  in  the  United  States.  Every  non-English  speaking  em- 
ployee (and  there  are  many)  has,  from  that  time  on,  been 
compelled  to  attend  classes  two  hours  a  day,  twice  a  week,  on 
the  plant's  time.  The  teachers  are  volunteers  from  among  the 
workmen.  The  pupils  are  more  apt  to  feel  free  to  try  and  to 
make  mistakes  before  one  of  their  own  number  than  before  a 
person  of  whom  they  stand  in  awe.  English  is  used  as  much 
as  possible  in  directing  the  work  and  in  conversations  in  the 


334  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

plant  with  the  result  that  many  learn  to  speak  it  in  six  weeks. 
The  cost  of  these  classes  was  more  than  paid  for  by  the  de- 
crease in  the  labor  turn-over.  Through  the  company's  com- 
bined educational  work  and  profit-sharing  plan  Ford  has  a 
model  factory.  The  accidents  of  the  plant  decreased  54  per 
cent  after  the  employees  were  able  to  read  notices  and  under- 
stand instructions.  From  1914  to  1916  the  savings  bank  de- 
posits of  the  employees  increased  over  four  million  of  dollars, 
life  insurance  policies  over  two  million  and  homes  purchased 
on  contract  are  valued  at  $18,000,000.00. 

Among  the  Chicago  companies  to  follow  Ford  in  this  step 
toward  Americanization  are — Wilson  &  Company,  and  Hart, 
Schaffner  &  Marx.  Ford  has  no  trouble  with  unrest  among 
his  men  because  he  has  made  them  contented.  The  non-Eng- 
lish speaking  and  the  discontented  are  an  easy  prey  for  the 
I.  W.  W.  suggestions.  Underpaid,  unjustly  treated,  tired  in 
body  and  mind,  and  disappointed  in  the  social  and  economic 
condition  of  his  family,  the  sympathetic  words  of  the  trouble- 
maker will  ring  true  to  him.  Not  only  must  conditions  in  the 
factory  be  satisfactory,  these  satisfactory  conditions  must  go 
farther.  When  a  man  goes  from  a  well  built,  well  equipped 
factory  to  find  his  loved  ones  in  an  unsanitary  hovel — for 
which  he  is  paying  all  he  can  afford — who  can  blame  him  for 
feeling  that  America  has  not  come  up  to  her  promise  or  to  his 
expectations.  Mr.  Ford  experiencing  the  sorrows,  and  the 
hopes  of  an  immigrant,  knew  how  to  meet  them,  met  them 
boldly  and  wisely  and  has  set  an  example  which  all  American 
employers  might  well  follow. 

With  compulsory  education  and  adequate  schools,  the 
teaching  of  English  to  the  children  is  not  a  problem ;  but 
English  is  not  enough.  The  child  is  filled  with  the  love  of 
liberty  and  justice,  inherited  from  his  parents.  This  may  be 
a  detriment  instead  of  an  asset,  unless  properly  directed.  It 
is  unfortunate  that  the  number  of  Catholic  schools  is  not  suf- 
ficient to  accommodate  the  children  of  the  Catholic  immigrant. 
The  majority  of  our  new  immigration  are  essentially  Catholic, 
and  if  we  Catholics  do  not  help  them  materially  some  one  else 


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will,  and  where  he  secures  material  aid  there  will  he  go  for 
spiritual  aid.  The  Catholics  of  America  must  make  an  heroic 
effort  to  save  this  multitude.  It  will  be  a  mighty  asset  to  the 
Catholic  Church  to  save  this  multitude.  It  will  be  a  mighty 
asset  to  the  Catholic  Church  if  we  wake  up  and  realize  the 
task  that  is  upon  us.  If  we  lose  him  it  is  more  our  fault  than 
his.  We  must  provide  for  these  millions,  not  only  churches 
and  priests  but  we  must  meet  him  socially  and  make  him  feel 
that  God  wants  him  in  America  as  well  as  in  Europe.  A  kind 
word  and  a  brotherly  hand  clasp  may  save  many  a  soul. 

For  the  foreign  speaking  it  is  necessary  to  have  a  foreign 
speaking  priest,  but  much  good  may  be  derived  and  is  derived 
in  our  own  city  by  the  cooperation  of  English  speaking,  pro- 
gressive, unselfish  priests  who  see  in  the  tenement  dweller  a 
brother  and  a  soul  to  save  for  Christ.  The  foreigner  has  much 
reverence  for  the  priesthood  and  in  cases  where  a  priest  has 
made  the  people  know  he  is  with  them  instead  of  a  superior 
person  dictating  to  them,  the  results  have  been  most  encour- 
aging. In  one  Club  in  particular,  which  has  come  to  my 
attention,  are  half  a  hundred  young  men,  as  thoroughly  good 
American  citizens  and  devoted  Catholics  as  can  be  found  any 
place, — because  a  self-denying  Jesuit  priest  proved  his  interest 
in  them  at  the  age  when,  if  he  had  not  stepped  in  and  taken 
them  by  the  hand,  they  would  not  be  the  self-respecting  young 
men  they  are  today. 

The  Church  has  done  much  but  its  work  is  not  finished. 
It  is  the  laity  who  must  be  made  to  feel  their  duty.  Roberts 
in  "The  New  Immigration"says — "Never  in  the  history  of  the 
world  has  a  religious  organization  faced  an  obligation  such  as 
that  confronting  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  of  the  United 
States.  To  shepherd  these  millions  of  souls  speaking  thirty 
different  tongues,  to  secure  an  adequate  number  of  priests, 
these  are  the  problems  that  no  eccleciastical  body  before  in  the 
history  of  the  Christian  Faith  has  been  called  upon  to  solve. 
The  Catholic  Church  has  done  and  is  still  doing  a  great  work 
for  the  foreign  speaking  people  of  America ;  if  its  beneficient 


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influence  were  removed,  the  millions  of  the  new  immigration 
would  be  far  more  lawless." 

The  most  difficult  task  is  to  get  our  people  interested. 
What  better  work  could  be  inaugurated  in  connection  with  our 
young  people's  sodalities  than  teaching  night-classes,  organized 
in  our  Catholic  schools  ?  Yet  it  is  impossible  to  secure  enough 
teachers  to  instruct  our  Catholic  children  who  attend  the 
public  schools,  for  half  an  hour  on  Sunday  morning.  The 
new  immigrant  is  essentially  Catholic,  but  after  two  or  three 
generations  will  not  be,  if  we  do  not  compete  with  the  non- 
Catholic  churches,  who  are  offering  every  inducement  to  the 
children  to  attend  their  churches  and  centers. 

Much  American  propaganda  could  be  spread  through  the 
non-English  press.  Because  he  cannot  read  our  language  he 
will  read  his  own.  Let  him  read  through  it  of  the  American 
constitution,  laws,  opportunities  and  ideals.  Let  him  be  en- 
couraged through  it  to  climb  to  the  heights  to  which  his 
dreams  would  have  him  climb,  make  him  know  America  and 
because  he  knows  her,  love  her.  Because  these  papers  are  a 
tender  tie  to  his  home  land  they  can  impress  him  as  nothing 
else  can.  Of  course  this  implies  the  x\mericanization  of  the 
editor  first.  He  must  catch  the  spirit  before  he  can  impart 
it.  He  need  never  discontinue  editing  the  paper  in  the  foreign 
language,  for  while  we  must  have  one  common  language,  the 
foreign  languages  should  be  retained  for  educational  purposes 
and  a  man  is  no  less  a  faithful  citizen  because  he  has  not 
forgotten  the  language  he  learned  from  his  mother's  lips. 

The  immigrant  coming  from  rural  districts  in  Europe  is 
dumped  out  in  the  big  cities  of  America  where,  owing  to  his 
financial  condition,  he  is  surrounded  by  vice  and  learns  noth- 
ing of  the  better  conditions  which  exist  here.  He  does  not 
know  that  out  in  the  open,  on  the  prairie  there  is  work  for 
which  he  is  fitted.  Before  he  came  to  this  land  of  opportunity 
he  herded  his  sheep  on  the  hill-side  or  toiled  among  the  flowers 
in  the  field.  We  send  him  to  the  mines  and  into  the  factory 
and  by  his  very  nature  he  cannot  become  a  part  of  them.  If 
the  thousands  of  Italians  could  be  induced  to  go  out  and  settle 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  337 

down  on  the  thousands  of  acres  of  our  land  which  are  crying 
out  to  be  settled,  both  they  and  we  would  be  better  off.  But 
they  learn  from  their  American  neighbors  that  no  gentlemen 
would  be  a  farmer ;  they  remain  in  the  city,  and  remain  poor ; 
and  only  too  often  become  vicious. 

In  New  Jersey  settlements  of  Italians  were  planted  and 
truck-gardening  made  most  profitable.  The  second  generation 
is  staying  on  these  little  farms  and  making  money.  Most  of 
the  farm  owners  started  out  with  a  pick  and  shovel  and  their 
children  are  the  proud  heirs  of  the  result.  The  Italian  is  con- 
tented in  a  condition  like  that,  and  he  never  will  be  in  our 
industrial  world. 

Perhaps  the  most  disappointing  and  deplorable  conditions 
under  which  the  alien  is  forced  to  live  in  America  are  in  our 
mining  and  lumbering  camps.  Not  used  to  the  work,  after 
a  long  hard  day  he  drags  himself  to  a  disgraceful  hovel  to 
recuperate  for  another  day.  There  the  daily  existence  is  work, 
eat,  sleep.  The  housing  conditions  in  these  camps  are  beyond 
description.  The  only  diversion  is  gambling  and  drink.  De- 
prived of  the  refining  influence  of  woman  and  the  soothing 
touch  of  a  child,  surrounded  by  the  base,  these  industries  are 
not  the  proper  schools  for  the  new  American  citizen.  Difficult 
as  it  may  be  for  the  man  with  finer  senses  to  endure  this  life 
he  does  it  that  he  may  have  his  family  with  him  later. 

The  establishment  of  company  houses  where  families 
might  settle,  of  reading  rooms  and  moving  picture  shows, 
would  change  this  from  a  place  to  be  shunned  to  a  place  where 
any  man  might  take  his  family  and  earn  for  them  an  honest 
living.  It  is  a  disgrace  to  the  nation  that  such  places  should 
exist,  which  in  "The  Immigrant"  Haskins  describes. 

The  foreign  woman  presents  a  grave  problem.  While  her 
husband  is  learning  in  the  shop  and  her  child  in  the  school, 
true  to  her  European  tradition  she  remains  in  the  home.  They 
become  Americanized,  and  picturesque  as  she  is  and  untiring 
as  she  is  in  her  labor  for  them,  her  hold  upon  them  slackens. 
By  our  half-hearted  methods  we  disrupt  society  by  breaking 
down  the  family,   which  is  nowhere  revered  as   among  our 


338  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

foreign  people.  If  we  would  Americanize  our  foreign  women 
we  must  make  them  feel  that  they  are  a  part  of  our  national 
family.  We  must  go  to  their  firesides — even  tho'  it  be  a  little 
rusty  stove — show  them  how  to  bathe  the  baby,  how  it  is  less 
expensive  to  cook  fifty  cents  worth  of  steak  in  five  minutes 
than  a  ten  cent  stew  in  two  hours ;  and  howT  to  make  an  Ameri- 
can dress  for  Angeline. 

Realizing  that  our  society  is  as  strong  as  its  weakest  family, 
in  1915,  California  passed  the  Home  Act  which  provided  that 
visits  be  made  to  the  homes  of  the  school  children,  illness  re- 
ported, relief  given,  and  women's  clubs  formed.  The  co- 
operation with  which  their  efforts  met  was  most  encouraging. 

At  one  of  the  Catholic  Centers  in  Chicago,  a  club  was 
organized  during  the  war  for  the  Italian  women  of  the  neigh- 
borhood for  the  purpose  of  sewing  for  their  soldier  sons.  At 
first  the  women  were  reluctant  to  come  out  of  their  privacy 
but  the  work  appealed  to  them.  Later,  round-tables  were  held 
and  discussions  taken  up  concerning  Child  Welfare,  cooking 
and  topics  of  the  day.  This  work  must  be  supervised  by 
trained  workers  who  have  a  social  viewpoint,  and  sympathy 
for  those  with  whom  they  are  working.  If  properly  directed 
a  club  of  this  kind  can  be  a  great  factor  in  the  Americaniza- 
tion of  the  foreign  woman. 

I  believe  that  the  one  greatest  institution  for  the  progress 
of  this  most  essential  work  is  the  Catholic  Social  Center.  A 
Center  is  not  a  building  with  four  walls  and  a  ceiling  and  a 
floor.  It  is  a  meeting  place  for  the  people  of  the  neighbor- 
hood, for  physical,  social  and  intellectual  recreation  under 
proper  supervision.  The  Italian  youngsters  are  the  embodi- 
ment of  enthusiasm.  They  pray  more  reverently,  sing  songs 
more  heartily,  play  cards  more  recklessly,  swear  more  out- 
rageously, appreciate  more  thoroughly,  and  hate  more  fiercely 
than  the  native  children.  They  simply  must  have  an  outlet 
for  their  passions. 

1  f  the  parent  does  not  assimilate  as  readily  as  he,  he  is  apt 
to  look  upon  him  as  old-fashioned  and  his  home  not  capable 
of  affording  him  a  pleasant  evening.    He  wanders  to  the  street, 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  339 

there  joins  his  companions,  one  suggests  an  escapade  which  is 
bound  to  lead  to  excitement  and  they  are  off.  A  policeman 
who  is  suspicious  of  such  a  gang,  watches  them  and  for  the 
slightest  infringement  arrests  them;  they  are  brought  into 
court  and  more  than  one  innocent  boy,  on  a  tour  for  a  good 
time,  finds  himself  in  the  Parental  Home  for  three  months, 
only  to  come  out,  hardened  against  his  little  society  and  hating 
our  laws  and  courts  of  justice. 

The  gang  spirit  is  only  an  expression  of  that  longing  for 
association.  It  can  be  satisfied  by  an  innocent  dance  or  club 
meeting  in  a  Center  as  well  as  a  meeting  in  the  alley  or  pool- 
room. 

To  the  person  who  is  fortunate  enough  to  be  able  to  follow 
the  progress,  step  by  step,  of  the  dirty,  ragged,  rude  little  boy, 
till  the  handsome,  noble,  upright  young  man  takes  his  place  in 
the  pulpit,  in  the  professional  or  business  man's  chair,  or  on 
the  field  of  sacrifice  for  justice,  Settlement  Work  is  inspiring 
indeed.    Such  a  picture  is  not  a  fancy ;  it  is  a  reality. 

When,  as  is  often  the  case,  in  two  small  uninviting  rooms, 
an  average  of  150  people  are  handled  daily,  where  through  the 
experience  of  others,  young  men  realize  that  they  too  should 
go  to  church  and  ask  for  instructions  that  they  may  make 
their  First  Holy  Communion;  where  a  club  of  boys  will  volun- 
tarily organize  themselves  into  a  Sodality;  where  boys  from 
six  to  twenty-six  years  of  age  will  come  everying  evening  to 
sit  and  play  cards  or  visit,  or  to  sing  and  dance,  instead  of 
going  out  to  join  the  gang  on  the  street; — does  that  justify  a 
Center  ? 

Through  its  efforts  the  young  people  within  its  jurisdiction 
have  become  so  Americanized  that  they  are  as  far  removed 
from  Italy  as  any  of  us.  These  young  people  are  now  settling 
down  as  the  potential  foundations  for  real  American  families. 

The  trouble  is — such  Centers  are  too  few,  and  the  realiza- 
tion of  their  need  too  vague.  Then  too,  we  find  the  reluctancy 
of  our  people  to  become  interested  and  co-operate  with  those 
who  are  in  the  work.  Whether  they  fear  becoming  con- 
taminated in  this  close  contact  with  as  noble  and  upright  young 


340  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

folks  as  we  have  in  our  city,  whether  they  are  too  selfish  to 
give  up  a  few  hours  a  week  of  their  time,  which  would  not 
only  be  spent  profitably  but  enjoyably,  or  whether  they  do  not 
know  that  there  is  work  which  they  can  do,  I  do  not  know — 
but  this  last,  I  would  like  to  think  is  the  reason  why  so  few 
Catholic  young  people  enter  Catholic  Settlement  work. 

Well  equipped  Centers  could  be  used  every  hour  of  the 
day,  from  the  coming  of  the  kindergartners  in  the  morning 
till  the  doors  are  closed  after  the  last  adult  class — vocational 
or  classic,  or  the  well  supervised  dance  or  party  of  the  young 
men  and  women. 

If  we  had  at  our  disposal  a  sufficient  number  of  well 
equipped  centers,  and  efficient  leaders,  the  Americanization  of 
our  immigrant  would  not  be  a  problem  but  a  possibility. 

First  of  all  it  is  absolutely  necessary  that  foolish  class  lines 
be  broken  down  if  the  spirit  which  should  be  America's  is  not 
to  suffer.  Never  did  the  West  Side  and  the  Lake  Shore  Drive 
come  so  close  together  as  in  the  camps  and  on  the  battle-field, 
and  never  were  we  so  near  knowing  the  meaning  of  the  word 
"democracy."  Each  saw  for  the  first  time  in  his  life  that  they 
were  as  fundamentally  brothers  in  spirit  as  in  ambition,  and 
the  friendships  which  started  there  have  not  been  broken  down 
since  they  came,  because  one  sits  in  a  President's  chair  and 
the  other  works  in  overalls  in  a  factory.  If  it  is  not  so,  the 
War  will  not  have  been  a  success.  During  times  of  peace 
Military  Training  would  be  an  equalizer. 

The  criterion  of  Democracy  is  the  standard  of  living  of  the 
common  people.  Where  the  standard  of  living  is  high,  de- 
mocracy flourishes.  Where  the  masses  live  on  a  low  plane, 
the  spirit  of  democracy  does  not  exist,  no  matter  how  great 
the  tabular  wealth  of  the  nation.  The  standard  of  living  in 
the  United  States  is  its  great  pride,  and  we  must  not  permit 
it  to  be  lowered,  for  if  once  lost  it  cannot  be  easily  regained. 
It  is  our  duty  to  humanity  to  protect  it,  that  it  may  serve  as 
a  model  and  goal  for  the  striving  democracies  in  other  lands, 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  341 

and  that  we  may  be  in  a  position  to  help  those  democracies  to 
climb  somewhere  near  to  the  plane  of  their  ideals.  We  have 
allowed  our  foreign  population  to  live  at  a  lower  standard  than 
many  of  them  were  used  to  at  home.  We  must  help  them  to 
rise.  This  is  not  so  discouraging  a  task,  for,  conditions  in 
quarters  today  are  no  worse,  or  as  deplorable  as  living  condi- 
tions forced  upon  the  Irish  and  Germans  in  New  York  in  the 
early  Sixties.  The  Italian  does  not  live  in  the  Slums  because 
he  wants  to,  but  because  out  of  sheer  necessity  he  is  forced  to 
be  there.  One  of  the  blackest  spots  on  the  history  of  our  large 
cities  today,  are  the  houses  in  which  we  allow  our  little 
citizens  to  be  born  and  reared.  Being  naturally  social  beings 
and  craving  for  companionship  a  foreign  element  will  settle 
in  groups.  On  account  of  poor  wages  which  the  wage  earners 
of  the  family  are  in  a  position  to  demand,  this  is  bound  to  be 
a  congested  neighborhood  of  unsanitary  houses.  In  a  two  or 
three  unhomely  rooms  there  will  be  a  family  of  perhaps  six 
or  eight.  If  the  rent  is  raised  or  the  bread  earner  is  sick  or  out 
of  work,  a  boarder  or  two  may  be  taken  in.  The  essential 
privacy  of  the  home  is  destroyed  and  much  immorality  can  be 
traced  directly  to  such  conditions.  Perhaps  the  mother  and 
the  older  children  must  work  too,  the  smaller  children  are  left 
to  play  on  the  streets,  for  they  have  no  yards,  associate  with 
undesirable  companions  and — how  many  a  Juvenile  case  can 
be  traced  directly  to  this  sad  state  of  affairs.  The  two  or 
three  roomed  house  may  be  a  sweatshop ;  children  who  should 
have  recreation  or  rest,  spend  their  evenings  sewing  buttons 
on  a  card  or  pulling  bastings.  Disease  is  brought  in  and  out 
of  such  a  home.  The  mother  nervous  and  irritable  after  her 
day's  work  and  looking  forward  to  several  hours  more  before 
retiring — the  father  cross,  because  he  could  not  get  a  raise — 
a  sick  child  crying — a  crowded  room  littered  with  work  to  be 
done  is  not  an  inviting  place  to  spend  an  evening.  So  the 
young  girl  and  boy  go  out  to  spend  it  in  a  cheap  dance  hall  or 
on  the  street,  the  only  place  that  is  open  to  them  for  the  few 
cents  they  possess.  Can't  we  Americans  see  our  duty  ?  Better 
housing,  more  wages,  child-labor  laws  and  Centers. 


342  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

While  we  are  priding  ourselves  upon  our  gifts  to  the  for- 
eigner we  must  not  forget  that  he  too  has  many  gifts  to  bestow 
upon  us.  The  important  place  he  holds  in  our  industrial  life 
we  let  overshadow  his  spiritual  contributions  to  our  nation. 
All  who  understand  him  recognize  his  ideals  for  democracy, 
his  deep  sense  of  justice  and  his  reverence  for  the  names  of 
our  distinguished  statesmen,  past  and  present,  who  embody  to 
him,  ideal  Americanism.  He  brings  with  him  a  yearning  for 
liberty  that  we  in  this  land  of  freedom  are  not  apt  to  appre- 
ciate. He  brings  with  him  a  great  desire  for  learning,  an 
aspiration  for  high  positions,  which  aspiration  is  an  incentive 
to  work. 

Among  our  artists  today,  the  greatest  we  have,  point  to 
the  land  beyond  the  Atlantic  as  their  birth-place.  Livitski, 
Heifetz,  Seidel,  are  products  of  disallusioned  Russia.  They 
are  an  example  of  the  possibilities  of  the  oppressed.  These 
boys,  born  of  the  common  people  of  Russia,  are  not  only  the 
masters  of  their  instrument,  but  each  speaks  seven  languages 
and  possesses  an  extensive  knowledge  of  both  arts  and  science. 
They  were  a  few  out  of  the  millions  whose  potential  art  was 
given  a  chance  to  manifest  itself.  John  McCormack,  the  pride 
of  us  all,  whether  it  is  his  "Mother  o'  Mine"  or  his  Aria  from 
"Handel,"  we  appreciate, — is  included  among  those  whom  it 
was  necessary  to  Americanize. 

The  Italian  is  by  nature  a  lover  of  art.  Before  they  can 
walk,  the  children  lying  upon  the  floors  or  in  the  arms  of 
their  mothers  drink  in  the  beauty  of  the  art  of  Raphael  or 
DeVinci  in  their  Cathedrals  and  Chapels.  It  becomes  a  part 
of  them — to  be  reproduced  or  appreciated.  It  is  not  an  un- 
usual thing  to  see  an  Italian  child  cherishing  a  picture  given 
to  it  in  Sunday  School,  because  of  the  colors  or  the  beautiful 
face  of  Mary,  or  it  maybe  the  lamb  or  the  white  lily  in  the 
background.  It  represents  art  and  he  loves  it  for  its  own 
sake.  One  of  his  greatest  contributions  to  our  state,  is  his 
great  respect  for  family  life  and  the  refusal  to  follow  our 
lax  marriage  laws  and  birth  control  campaigns. 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  343 

The  duty,  however,  is  not  with  the  American  alone.  As 
the  man  who  comes  to  our  shores  has  a  right  to  be  received, 
and  receive  the  benefits  of  our  nation,  he  has  a  corresponding 
duty  to  give  America  the  best  he  has  to  offer.  He  must 
bind  himself  by  our  laws,  take  the  advantages  for  education, 
enter  our  social  and  civic  life  and  not  segregate  himself  into 
colonies.  He  must  pattern  himself  after  the  draft  we  make, 
whether  it  be  for  his  or  our  advantage. 

To  sum  it  all  up,  we  must  teach  the  immigrant  the  language 
of  the  nation  which  will  enable  him  to  protect  himself  from 
exploitation,  segregation  and  a  risk  of  losing  his  inherited 
American  spirit.  The  more  the  new  American  is  treated  with 
humanity  and  equality,  the  more  he  will  love  America  and 
wish  to  become  a  citizen  and  make  a  home  here  for  his 
family.  The  more  we  protect  him  from  social  neglect,  un- 
sanitary houses,  and  poor  wages,  the  less  will  we  have  to  fear 
for  the  destruction  of  our  standard  of  living.  The  more  we 
come  to  know  his  real  worth,  and  co-operate  with  him  in  his 
effort  to  make  good,  the  less  will  we  look  upon  him  as  one 
of  the  great  horde  forcing  themselves  upon  us.  The  more  we 
make  ourselves  real  Americans,  enforcing  good  laws,  provid- 
ing just  labor  conditions,  paying  just  compensation,  pro- 
gressing always  with  tireless  enthusiasm,  being  conscious  of 
building  a  nobler  nation ;  the  more  certainly  will  we  be  a 
nation  founded  and  nourished  on  liberty  and  the  more  surely 
will  we  endure. 

The  hour  has  come  when  America  must  prove  herself 
equal  to  the  gigantic  task  or  acknowledge  before  the  world 
that  she  has  been  a  failure.  Can  she  take  these  millions  of 
people  of  different  races,  creeds,  habits  and  aspirations  and 
merge  them  into  one  mighty  nation?  If  she  can  do  this,  she 
will  have  produced  the  greatest  of  all  nations,  which  shall 
reign  supreme  for  it  possesses  all  the  essentials  of  a  great 
nation. 


344  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

The  result  will  not  be  an  Italian-American  or  an  Irish- 
American  ;  they  will  be  true  Americans,  a  new  people — the 
fusion  of  the  best  of  the  land  of  their  birth  added  to  the 
noblest  we  had  to  give  them.  Their  attitude  will  be  progress 
and  Christian  charity,  their  Country  will  be  America  and  their 
Flag  wil  be  the  Stars  and  Stripes.  The  new  America  will  be 
worthy  of  our  wildest  dreams,  and  it  will  be  of  greater  service 
to  God  and  to  the  World. 

M.  F.  Welsh,  Sociology. 


The  Red  Rose 


IR  JOHN  SUCKLING  stroked  wistfully  the 
petals  of  the  rose  that  was  the  trophy  of  his 
last  amour.  It  was  like  his  own  gorgeous 
youth,  this  flower ;  his  youth,  with  its  scarlet 

passions  and  its  scarlet  dreams And 

like  her  who  had  given  it:    as  beautiful  and 
as  cruel. 

He  had  never  loved  any  other  woman  so  ardently.  She 
had  made  his  exile  sweet :  had  made  his  memory  traitor  to 
fair  Middlesex,  and  to  the  gay  court  of  Charles.  He  loved 
her  helplessly ;  yea,  and  he  knew  now,  hopelessly.  She  had 
broken  his  heart  with  this  red,  red  rose. 

He  got  down  from  his  horse  and  strode  across  the  wet 
court  to  his  quarters.  Never  in  his  life  had  he  known  the 
dry,  intense  pain  that  was  in  his  heart  just  then:  it  twisted 
his  handsome  lips  like  a  frozen  groan.  He  was  afraid.  His 
country  first,  and  then  his  riches,  had  been  lost,  and  he  had 
laughed.  But  a  beautiful  woman  had  sneered  at  him,  and 
thrown  him  a  rose  in  scorn :  and  he  was  crushed. 

He  was  just  turning  into  the  great  carved  doorway  when 
he  heard  his  name  shouted,  and  loud  footsteps  falling  behind 
him  on  the  court.  He  turned  around.  His  attendant,  Richard, 
ran  up,  panting. 

"Betty  has  fallen,  sir.  They  say  her  leg  is  broken." 
Sir  John  ran  across  the  court.  The  groom  that  had 
mounted  the  horse  to  take  her  to  the  stables  was  lying  on 
the  ground,  stunned ;  and  near  him  was  the  crippled  animal. 
"Is  the  leg  broken?"  Sir  John  asked  quietly.  A  man 
standing  over  the  horse  nodded.  Sir  John  drew  his  rapter 
and  plunged  it  into  the  animal's  brain.  There  was  a  tear  in 
his  eye.  He  felt  crushed.  He  threw  the  weapon  away,  and 
turned  back  to  cross  the  court. 

A  woman  was  at  the  gate,  and  as  he  approached  her,  he 
saw  that  her  eyes  were  glistening  with  tears.    He   stopped. 

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She  was  a  young  woman,  and  very  comely.  Sir  John  was 
always  at  the  service  of  a  pretty  woman. 

"You  think  me  cruel,  mistress  ?  I  am  sorry  to  have  caused 
those  precious  tears." 

She  looked  down.    She  was  as  demure  as  a  nun. 

"It  is  a  kind  cruelty,  milord.    I  should  not  show  tears." 

He  liked  her.  She  seemed  a  child.  Why  was  it  that  she 
made  his  pain  sharper?  Not  now,  the  frivolous  intentions 
of  old,  the  light  fancies,  were  stirred.  He  turned  sick  at  the 
memory  of  them.  The  tender  smile  left  his  face;  the  kindness 
in  his  eyes  turned  to  bitterness. 

"A  kind  cruelty !"  he  repeated.  "Yes,  indeed.  We  men 
always  mean  kindness,  in  our  blundering  way.  With  women, 
cruelty  is  a  genius." 

He  took  the  rose  from  his  belt. 

"See,  a  woman  killed  me  with  this  flower.  A  rose !"  he 
laughed  bitterly,  almost  hysterically.  "Why  didn't  she  use 
a  poignard?  Tell  me,  why  didn't  she?  I  used  to  love  the 
rose." 

The  girl  was  startled.  Her  eyes  filled  with  fear,  and  he 
saw  it. 

"Afraid,  my  pretty  mistress  ?  O,  no,  I  am  not  mad.  I  hate 
these  red  roses,  that's  all.  Take  it,  here !  Some  time,  when 
you  have  a  lover,  you  may  need  it." 

He  flung  her  the  flower,  and,  bowing  low,  crossed  the 
court  and  entered  his  chambers.  His  mind,  his  heart,  his 
whole  being  ached  with  a  dull,  heavy  pain.  Throwing  off  his 
rich  riding-cloak,  he  fell  to  pacing  back  and  forth  across  the 
room. 

A  cold  fear  was  beginning  to  creep  clammily  over  him. 
What  would  he  do  ?  Country,  money,  friends,  all  were  gone. 
He  could  not  bear  desolation :  his  nature  required  love,  sym- 
pathy, ardor. 

O,  what  would  he  do?  He  struck  his  temples  with  his 
hot  palms.  He  struck  his  breast.  His  eyes  were  wild  and 
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If  she  had  only  loved  him!  She  could  have  saved  him  by 
the  charity  of  her  sweet  smile,  and  her  tender  eyes.  He  cursed 
her.  England!  old  England!  a  rush  of  tenderness  came  over 
him,  and  then  the  empty  ebb  of  forlornness. 

It  could  not  last.  He  turned  aside  to  a  little  pearl  casket 
and  drew  forth  a  small  phial.  He  was  a  deal  more  composed 
now.    He  thought  of  nothing. 


Richard  knocked  again  at  his  master's  door.  There  was 
no  answer.  He  waited  a  moment  or  so.  He  wasn't  in  haste 
to  wait  upon  Sir  John:  he  was  dreaming  fondly  of  the 
young  damsel  whom  Fate  had  thrown  so  kindly  into  his  arms, 
that  afternoon.  He  stood  there  in  a  trance.  She  was  so  beau- 
tiful !  so  clever! 

Sir  John  must  be  sleeping.  He  opened  the  door  and 
entered.  His  master  was  lying  across  a  satin  couch,  with  one 
hand  holding  his  strong,  white  throat.  He  seemed  to  be 
asleep.  Richard  stepped  across  and  shook  him  lightly.  The 
arm  fell  limply  from  his  breast.  The  young  servant  paled  a 
little  and  shook  Sir  John  again :  this  time  more  insistently. 
There  was  no  movement  on  the  handsome  white  face. 
Frightened,  Richard  leaned  over  and  put  his  ear  to  his  master's 
heart.  When  he  stood  up  his  face  was  as  pale  as  ashes.  And 
a  rose-a  red  rose-that  had  fallen  from  his  cloak  was  lying 
on  the  dead,  still  heart. 

Wm.  Douglas  Powers. 


Edgar  Allen  Poe 


HE  work  often  betrays  the  man.  If  a  man 
be  of  an  adventurous  sort,  his  writings 
advertise  the  fact ;  if  romantic,  his  writings 
are  likewise;  if  humorous  himself,  his  writ- 
ings would  be  humorous.  This  rule,  though 
not  absolute,  seems  to  hold  very  well  in  the 
case  of  Edgar  Allen  Poe. 

The  above  statement  may  be  taken  to  mean  that  the  works 
of  Poe  are  of  a  degenerate  nature,  for  it  is  an  opinion  among 
many  who  have,  at  best,  a  passing  knowledge  of  Poe's  life  and 
a  slight  acquaintance  with  his  works,  that  Poe  was  of  that 
type,  degenerate.  Dissipation  and  immorality  are  annexed  to 
Poe's  name  in  the  mind  of  everyone  who  has  heard  of  this 
great  American  poet  and  short  story  writer.  But  this,  to  a 
great  extent  is  a  false  notion  that  people  have  gathered  from 
the  poverty  of  his  life  and  the  circumstances  surrounding  his 
death.  A  more  intimate  acquaintance  with  the  man  and  his 
work,  however,  prove  the  contrary. 

It  is  true  that  Poe  had  a  desire  for  intoxicants.  But  a 
desire,  alone,  should  not  condemn  a  man.  On  the  contrary, 
the  man,  with  such  a  desire,  when  he  has  fought  against  and 
overcome  such  a  tendency;  when  he  has  mastered  himself, 
deserves  far  more  credit  and  praise  than  the  man  who  never 
had  the  appetite  at  all.  And  this,  too,  is  true  of  Poe.  It  is 
certain  that  Poe  was  not,  as  has  often  been  stated,  an 
abandoned  or  habitual  drunkard.  And  it  is  further  certain 
that,  for  many  years,  Poe  struggled  manfully  against  this 
tendency  and,  on  the  whole,  succeeded  in  spite  of  occasional 
relapses.  In  the  midst  of  all  kinds  of  difficulties,  discourage- 
ments, anxiety,  poverty  and  physical  weakness,  he  succeeded 
in  doing  an  amount  of  work,  and  of  highly  intellectual  work, 
that  would  have  been  impossible  for  a  man  as  weak  as  he  has 
usually  been  represented. 

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LOYOLA   UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  349 

Further,  from  the  outset  of  his  life,  Poe  was  met  with 
adversity  of  every  kind.  His  father  died  when  he  was  but 
two  years  old  and  his  mother  died  the  same  year.  So,  through- 
out his  life,  he  was  without  the  fond  care  of  a  father  and  the 
guidance  of  a  loving  mother.  These  are  almost  insurmount- 
able difficulties  in  the  lives  of  many  men. 

But  it  is  not  the  purpose  of  this  short  paper  to  present  a 
biography  of  Poe,  to  vindicate  his  character  or  correct  the 
false  impression  which  many  have  of  Poe's  moral  code.  His 
application  and  endeavor  prove  the  contrary  conclusively.  It 
is  in  his  works,  the  result  of  that  application  and  endeavor, 
that  we  are  interested. 

But  his  works  do  reflect  himself.  As  he  was  unique  in  life, 
so,  also,  is  he  unique  in  his  writings.  He  is  unique  in  his 
hatred  of  the  commonplace  and  of  convention,  in  his  love  for 
mere  music  in  verse,  in  his  power  to  express  motion  and  his 
inability  to  express  character. 

In  his  poem,  Tamerlane,  we  have  a  style  that  is  singular,  a 
theme,  strangely  elusive  and  an  expression,  smooth  and  sonor- 
ous, pleasing  and  musical  and  often  times  passionate  and 
intense.  The  subject  of  the  poem,  not  very  clear  at  first  read- 
ing, is  the  evil  triumph  of  ambition  over  love,  illustrated  in 
the  career  of  the  Mogul  emperor,  Tamerlane,  who  was  born  a 
shepherd,  left  his  mountain  home,  and  his  early  love,  for  the 
conquest  of  the  eastern  world  and  returned  to  find  his  love  had 
died  of  neglect. 

Yet  more  than  worthy  of  the  love 
My  spirit  struggled  with  and  strove 
When  on  the  mountain  peak  alone 
Ambition  lent  it  a  new  tone 
I  had  no  being — but  in  thee, 
The  world,  and  all  it  did  contain 
In  the  earth — the  air — the  sea. 
Its  joys — its  little  lot  of  pain 
That  was  new  pleasure — the  ideal 
Dim,  vanities  of  dreams  by  night 


350  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

And  dimmer  nothings  which  were  real — 

(Shadows — and  a  more  shadowy  light !) 

Parted  upon  their  misty  wings, 

And,  so,  confusedly,  became 

Thine  image  and — a  name — a  name  ! 

Two  separate  beings — yet  most  intimate  things. 

There  is  a  characteristic  suggestiveness,  beauty  and  per- 
haps vagueness  of  expression  in  this  paragraph  which  is 
predominant  in  all  Poe's  verse.  He  is  endeavoring,  yes,  and 
does  express  the  thoughts  and  emotions  which  continually 
harassed  the  mind  of  Tamerlane  before  he  finally  went  forth 
for  conquest. 

Vagueness  and  evasiveness  in  writings,  as  a  general  rule, 
are  a  sign  of  lack  of  power  to  commit  thoughts  to  words.  But 
not  so  with  Poe.  His  selection  and  allocation  of  words 
chosen  to  surround  the  theme  with  that  mystical  atmosphere, 
not  accidental  to  his  writings,  shows  that  this  vagueness  was 
also  produced  purposely.  It  is  not  that  kind  of  vagueness 
which  antagonizes  and  incenses,  but  a  pleasing  spell  which 
wraps  you  in  its  folds  and  lends  an  inexplicable  atmosphere  to 
his  poems.  It  is  the  style  and  manner  of  presentation 
necessary  for  his  strange  themes. 

His  choice  of  words,  and  his  use  of  alliteration,  assonance 
and  feminine  rhymes  in  his  wierd  tales  in  poetic  form,  serve 
to  add  mystery  and  tragedy  to  them  and  bring  them  into  the 
realms  of  the  metaphysical.  They  can  only  be  appreciated  at 
their  best,  by  reading  half  aloud  and  expressing  his  frequent 
rounded  and  sonorous  vowel  sounds  that  add  so  much  to  the 
gloom  and  sorrow  of  the  poems. 

They  are  indeed  but  a  reproduction  of  the  tragedy  that 
ever  haunted  his  mind  and,  as  it  were,  permeated  his  whole 
oeing.  A  few  lines  of  the  "Raven"  will  bring  out  his  excellent 
choice  of  words. 

And  the  silken,  sad,  uncertain  rustling  of  each  purple  curtain 
Thrilled  me — filled  me  with  fantastic  terrors  never  felt  before. 


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So  that  now  to  still  the  beating  of  my  heart  I  stood  repeating, 
Tis  some  visitor,  entreating  entrance  at  my  chamber  door. 
Some  late  visitor,  entreating  entrance  at  my  chamber  door. 
This  it  is  and  nothing  more. 

The  first  line  gives  that  mystic  air, by  the  repetition  of  the 
"s"  sound.  The  feminine  rhymes  as,  before,  more  and  door, 
have  a  heavy  and  sonorous  sound,  and  the  passion  he  brings 
throughout  the  poem,  by  short  breaks  and  rapid  transitions 
cause  a  chill  that  enthralls  and  intensifies  the  effect. 

The  poem  "Al  Aaraaf "  is  even  more  mystical  and  bewitch- 
ing. It  shows  the  influence  to  a  slight  degree  of  Shelley,  as 
Tamerlane  does,  a  touch  of  Byron. 

In  all,  Poe's  poems  are  more  intensely  poetic,  being  su- 
premely imaginative  and  more  successful  in  producing  their 
desired  effect.  Truly,  indeed,  Lowell  was  justified  in  writing 
Poe:  "Your  early  poems  display  a  maturity  which  astonished 
me  and  I  recollect  no  individual  (and  I  believe  I  have  read  all 
the  poetry  that  ever  was  written)  whose  early  poems  are 
anything  like  as  good." 

Vincent  J.  Sheridan. 


Radio-Activity  and  Radio-Active 
Elements 

HE  discoveries  of  radio-activity  and  radio- 
active elements  opened  a  new  field  in  chem- 
istry, physics  and  medicine  and  started  a 
world-wide  investigation  by  the  world's 
greatest  chemists  and  physicists  which  re- 
sulted in  the  issolation  of  some  thirty  radio- 
active elements. 

In  1879  Sir  W.  Crookes  discovered  the  cathode  rays.  By 
taking  a  glass  tube  and  exhausting  the  air  as  completely  as 
he  could,  he  brought  down  the  pressure  of  the  air  contained 
in  the  tube  to  about  one-millionth  of  an  atmosphere.  In  this 
way  he  procured  practically  a  vacuum.  Then  by  passing  an 
electric  current  through  the  tube  he  discovered  that  the  cur- 
rent passed  from  the  negative  pole  or  cathode  in  a  straight 
line  giving  off  a  shower  of  extremely  minute  particles.  These 
minute  particles  Crookes  called  "the  cathode  stream,"  but 
to-day  they  are  known  as  electrons. 

In  1893  Roentgen  discovered  the  X-rays.  As  the  properties 
of  X-rays  show  evident  connection  with  the  fluoresence  of 
the  glass  of  the  X-ray  tube,  experimenters  began  studying 
other  phosphoresent  bodies  for  the  same  type  of  radiation. 
In  1896  Henri  Becquerel  accidentally  discovered  the  Becquerel 
rays  while  studying  the  fluoresence  of  uranium.  He  assumed 
that  the  fluoresence  of  uranium  was  activated  by  exposing  the 
metal  to  the  rays  of  the  sun.  He  enclosed  photographic  plates 
in  paper  impermeable  to  light  rays  and  placed  on  these  the 
uranium  oxide.  After  exposure  to  direct  sunlight  he  would 
develop  the  plates  and  always  obtained  an  exact  picture  of 
the  size  and  shape  of  the  uranium.  In  other  words  the 
fluoresence  of  the  uranium  had  penetrated  the  protecting 
paper.    One  day  it  began   to   rain  and   Becquerel   could  not 

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LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  353 

repeat  the  experiment.  He  placed  the  photographic  plate, 
enclosed  in  paper  impermeable  to  light,  and  covered  with 
uranium  oxide  in  a  cup-board.  The  next  day  before  carrying 
on  the  experiments,  the  thought  came  to  him  to  develope  the 
plate.  To  his  surprise  he  found  the  same  reaction  on  the 
plate.  He  repeated  the  experiment  and  discovered  that  the 
fluoresence  was  an  inherent  property  of  uranium.  The 
fluoresence  was  considered  to  be  rays ;  and  substances  pos- 
sessing such  properties  were  called  radio-active.  The  dis- 
covery of  these  rays  led  to  numerous  other  developments. 
For  instance  in  1898  Schmidt  found  that  thorium  and  also 
its  compounds  were  radio-active.  In  1900  Debierne  discovered 
the  radio  activity  of  actinium.  Although  these  discoveries 
were  the  foundation  upon  which  this  new  branch  of  chemistry 
was  built,  the  most  important  discovery  of  all  was  that  of 
the  Curies,  who  in  1898  obtained  radium  from  pitch  blende. 
This  newly  isolated  substance  was  found  to  be  two  million 
times  more  active  than  uranium.  In  1907  mesothorium  was 
discovered  by  Hahn. 

Of  the  thirty  radio-active  elements  known  to-day,  three 
are  gaseous ;  namely  radium  emanation,  thorium  emanation 
and  actinium  emanation.  The  others  are  solid  bodies.  From 
a  chemical  viewpoint  the  most  important  are  those  having 
the  greatest  atomic  weight.  These  are:  radium,  226.5; 
thorium,  232 ;  and  uranium,  239. 

Uranium  and  thorium  are  the  names  given  to  the  two 
groups  into  which  these  radio-elements  are  divided.  The 
radio-active  substances  are  found  in  the  free  state  in  small 
quantities  in  the  mineral  deposits  in  which  they  and  uranium 
are  contained.  Pitch  blende  and  carnotite  are  the  mineral  de- 
posits wherein  radium  is  found  and  thorium  is  found  in 
monazite.  Of  these  radium  is  the  only  element  that  has  been 
obtained  in  a  pure  state. 

Radio-active  elements,  in  the  course  of  time,  undergo  a 
change.  The  elements  of  one  group  through  decay  and  dis- 
entegration  give  off  radio-active  energy  and  are  changed  from 
one  into  the  other.    This  eventually  results  in  the  formation 


354  LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE 

of  elements  of  a  lower  and  lower  electropositive  character 
and  a  lower  and  lower  atomic  weight. 

Rutherford  called  these  rays  which  make  up  radio-active 
energy  alpha,  beta  and  gamma  rays.  In  the  course  of  a 
thousand  years  radium  is  formed  from  uranium  because  the 
latter  element  discharges  alpha  rays.  This  continuous  giving 
off  of  alpha  particles  results  in  the  formation  of  radium 
emanation  from  radium  and  as  this  process  continues 
radium — A,  B,  C,  D,  E,  and  F,  are  finally  formed. 

By  figuring  the  amount  of  alpha  particles  given  off  from 
a  piece  of  radium  and  taking  the  atomic  weight  of  these 
particles  and  subtracting  them  from  the  radium  we  find  that 
this  precious  element  radium  finally  turns  to  lead.  Thus  an 
atom  of  radium  of  an  atomic  weight  of  226.5  looses  in  the 
process  of  decay  five  helium  atoms,  each  of  an  atomic  weight. 
Thus  the  remaining  atom  has  an  atomic  weight  of  206.5  which 
is  lead.  By  carrying  out  this  same  experiment  with  thorium 
we  find  that  it  is  finally  converted  into  bismuth. 

Thorium,  the  first  member  of  the  second  group  of  radio- 
active elements,  belongs  to  a  group  of  alkaline  earths  similar 
to  barium.  In  one  thousand  millions  of  years  its  radio- 
activity decreases  one-half  by  the  continuous  giving  off  of 
alpha  rays.  It  is  found  in  Brazil,  in  monazite.  When  thorium 
decays  it  forms  mesothorium.  The  half  value  period  of  meso- 
thorium  I  is  5.5  years  that  of  mesothorium  II  is  6.2  hours. 
By  this  we  see  that  mesothorium  I  will  equal  mesothorium  II 
a  few  days  after  its  production. 

Mesothorium  I  on  account  of  its  chemical  similarity  to 
radium,  is  obtained  by  a  process  of  fractional  distilation. 
From  one  thousand  kilograms  of  monazite  from  2  to  2.5  cente- 
grams  of  mesothorium  are  extracted,  while  from  1,000  kg. 
pitch  blende  about  2  eg.  radium  bromide  are  obtained.  Ra- 
dium is  contained  in  mesothorium  and  cannot  be  separated 
from  it.  The  percentage  of  combined  radium  is  25.  The 
presence  of  this  radium  decreases  the  time  of  decay  of  radio- 
activity so  that  the  value  of  the  radio-activity  does  not  de- 
crease one-half  of  what  it  was  at  the  time  of  production  of 


LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  355 

the  mesothorium  for  about  16-18  years.  If  after  a  long 
enough  time  the  mesothorium  should  decrease  to  a  negligable 
amount  the  25  per  cent  of  radium  would  remain  as  the  half 
value  period  of  decay  of  radium  is  about  1,800  years. 

Radio-activity  is  found  not  only  in  these  elements  which 
have  been  classified  as  radio-active  elements  but  also  every- 
where in  a  certain  minute  degree.  Freshly  fallen  rain  is 
radio-active,  the  air  in  caves,  pure  carbonic  acid  coming  from 
volcanoes,  the  water  from  certain  springs  and  the  mud  from 
certain  mineral  springs  are  all  radio-active  to  a  certain  extent. 
If  one  hangs  a  strongly  electrified  wire  in  the  air  for  a  certain 
length  of  time  it  acquires  a  strong  ray  emitting  power  which 
may  be  rubbed  off  onto  a  piece  of  leather  moistened  with 
ammonia.  The  presence  of  these  seems  to  be  caused  by  small 
particles  of  radium  in  the  earth.  However  as  yet  we  are  not 
sure  whether  or  not  all  substances  are  radio-active.  Tinfoil, 
silver,  lead,  glass,  copper,  platinum  and  aluminum  all  have 
been  proven  to  be  slightly  radio-active  but  this  may  be  due 
to  minute  traces  of  these  strong  radio-active  elements  as  im- 
purities or  the  essential  property  of  all  matter  to  emit  rays. 

This  important  question  must  be  left  for  decision  to  the 
future.  Of  this  one  can  be  sure,  however,  if  all  matter  pos- 
sesses the  piwer  to  emit  rays  it  does  so  in  an  exceedingly 
minute  degree.  Radio-activity  as  we  consider  it  seems  to  be 
the  property  of  the  heavy  atoms  of  matter.  And  if  in  the 
pursuit  of  this  study  new  heavy  atoms  are  discovered,  the 
possession  of  radio-activity,  we  are  sure,  will  be  found  to  be 
one  of  their  essential  properties. 

Herbert  E.  Schmitz, 

Pre-Medic. 


Wanted:  An  Historian 


MERICA  is  not  ashamed  of  its  love  for 
O.  Henry;  it  is  not  reluctant  to  honor  the 
inspired  canvasses  of  John  Sargent ;  it  does 
not  supress  its  worship  of  every  single  note 
that  sings  beneath  the  bow  of  Kreisler.  It  is 
not  a  blot  upon  American  culture  to  admire 
the  wit  and  satire  of  Chesterton  nor  do  we  read  "Vanity 
Fair"  in  secret.  But  it  is  a  sad  exposition  of  American 
scholarship  to  find  long  rows  of  people  eagerly  waiting  to 
purchase  a  book  which  is  advertised  as  an  Outline  of  His- 
tory by  H.  G.  Wells.  And  day  by  day  the  prestige  of  this 
"historian"  grows  and  American  lore  is  at  ebb  tide. 

Mr.  Wells  and  his  book  are  the  burning  subjects  of  the 
world's  gossip.  His  publishers  have  deftly  placed  the  word 
"History"  upon  his  two  volumes  and  librarians  have  listed 
them  as  such  in  their  catalogs :  and  even  the  Literary  Digest, 
not  content  with  the  insignificant  title  of  "history"  adds, 
"Here  is  more  than  history,  here  is  a  philosophy  of  life." 
Now  if  there  is  anything  that  Mr.  Wells  is  not,  it  is  a  philos- 
opher. He  crudely  believes  that  when  his  premises  contain 
"probably,"  "maybe,"  "perhaps"  the  logical,  positive  conclu- 
sion is:  "therefore  this  is."  In  regard  to  history  he  blindly 
intermingles  truth  with  falsehood  and  "probably  the  one  fact 
of  which  he  is  sure  is  that  he  is  nearly  sure  that  truth  cannot 
be  obtained  at  all,  and  he  is  not  altogether  sure  even  of  this 
one  dubious  fact."  Such  are  the  child-like  accomplishments 
of  this  philosopher  —  historian  who,  in  reality  is  less  than  a 
mediocre  novelist. 

"The  Outline  of  History"  is  a  chronicle  of  the  entire 
world,  from  the  time  when  the  earth  was  first  jarred  to- 
gether, down  to  the  World  War,  with  a  peep  at  the  future 
included.  Strange  to  say,  Mr.  Wells  has  left  God  out  of  his 
considerations  and  has  blindly  followed  the  ancient  principles 

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of  Huxley.  He  has  altered  history  to  accommodate  his  un- 
certain creed  and  writes  most  elegantly  and  positively  about 
things  of  which  he  cannot  be  certain.  The  able  critic  of 
"America"  correctly  epitomized  Mr.  Wells  when  he  said :  "As 
an  historian  Mr.  Wells  is  a  wretched  failure." 

Mr.  Wells  begins  by  telling  us  about  the  500,000  years 
"during  which  man  was  evolving  from  the  brute."  About 
40,000  years  ago  the  first  real  man  appeared  in  Europe.  The 
age-old  tale  of  Pithecanthropus  is  cleverly  told  and  proof  is 
carefully  avoided.  Now  this  Pithecanthropus,  with  his  coarse 
hair,  his  apish  teeth  and  mouth,  and  vague  appearance  of  a 
human  being  is  the  founder  of  human  life !  Who  knows  ? 
Maybe  he  was  your  great-great-grandfather.  Following  the 
tread-worn  path  of  many  historians  Mr.  Wells  neglects  to  tell 
us  that  the  only  proof  for  the  tale  of  Pithecanthropus  is  a 
thigh-bone,  two  molar  teeth,  and  a  skull-cap  discovered  in 
different  localities  of  Java.  Up  to  the  present,  scientists  have 
been  unable  to  agree  upon  these  relics  and  no  one  knows  the 
facts  —  except  Mr.  Wells.  Although  noted  scientists  have 
ridiculed  Pithecanthropus  for  many  years  Mr.  Wells  con- 
structs his  philosophy  of  life  upon  these  bones  found  in  Java. 
With  pictures,  diagrams  and  maps  he  visualizes  for  us  the 
"accepted  theories  of  evolution  and  the  origin  of  man."  It  is 
z<  strange  light  upon  English  civilization  to  find  a  man  who 
thinks  it  possible  to  picture  the  beginning  of  the  world  with- 
out mentioning  the  Creator  of  the  world.  Still  more  extra- 
ordinary is  it  to  see  a  man  writing  the  history  of  the  world 
who  does  not  know  the  Christian  creed. 

Not  only  has  this  "historian"  proved  his  ignorance  of 
history,  but  he  has  also  irretrieveably  acknowledged  that  he 
knows  nothing  of  Christianity.  And  yet,  as  though  endowed 
with  the  combined  wisdom  of  Saint  Thomas  Aquinas,  Saint 
Jerome  and  Saint  Augustine  he  inks  his  pages  with  a  phil- 
osophy that  will  engulf  many  people  within  its  streams.  Like 
a  doctor  of  the  Church  he  teaches  The  Great  Lesson,  and 
yet  his  chapter  on  The  Beginnings  of  Christianity  is  a 
mockery  of  the  true  creed.    With  characteristic  suavity  he 


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dodges  direct  statements  and  at  times  accepts  the  Scriptures, 
at  times  rejects  them;  the  exigency  of  his  purpose  is  his  sole 
guide. 

Buddhism  and  its  king  Asoka  are  given  great  prominence 
by  Mr.  Wells.  "Amid  the  tens  of  thousands  of  names  of 
monarchs  that  crowd  the  columns  of  histories,  their  majesties, 
and  graciousnesses,  and  sovereignty  and  royal  highnesses,  and 
the  like,  the  name  of  Asoka  shines,  and  shines  almost  alone, 
a  star."  In  speaking  of  the  Reformation  Mr.  Wells  says  that 
a  determining  factor  in  the  Papacy's  defeat  for  a  united 
Christendom  was  the  system  of  electing  the  Pope,  by  which 
young  and  energetic  men  were  prohibited  from  this  important 
office !  He  believes  that  the  Reformation  was  "a  cleansing  of 
the  teachings  of  Jesus  of  Nazareth  from  theological  and 
ceremonial  accretions." 

The  chapter  on  Napoleon  is,  perhaps  the  most  discussed 
phase  of  this  history.  With  true  English  prejudice  he  writes : 
"If  Napoleon  had  any  profundity  of  vision,  any  power  of 
creative  imagination,  had  he  been  accessible  to  any  disinter- 
ested ambition,  he  might  have  done  work  for  mankind  that 
would  have  made  him  the  very  sun  of  history."  And  later  on 
he  adds :  "There  lacked  nothing  to  this  great  occasion  but  a 
noble  imagination.  And  failing  that,  Napoleon  could  do  no 
more  than  strut  upon  the  crest  of  this  great  mountain  of 
opportunity  like  a  cockerel  on  a  dunghill.  The  figure  he 
makes  in  history  is  one  of  almost  incredible  self-conceit,  of 
vanity,  greed,  and  cunning,  of  callous  contempt  and  disregard 
of  all  who  trusted  him,  and  of  a  grandiose  aping  of  Caesar, 
Alexander,  and  Charlemagne  which  would  be  purely  comic 
if  it  were  not  caked  over  with  human  blood."  Such  is  the 
biased  portrait  of  a  man  whose  genius  a  hundred  years  have 
not  erased. 

Mr.  Wells  also  pays  his  respects  to  President  Wilson  and 
tells  us — and  it  is,  perhaps  the  only  true  and  logical  state- 
ment in  the  book,  that  "'Mr.  Wilson  did  not  draw  fully  upon 
the  moral  and  intellectual  resources  of  the  States;  he  made 
the   whole    issue    too    personal,    and   he    surrounded    himself 


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with  merely  personal  adherents.  And  a  still  graver  error  was 
to  come  to  the  Peace  Conference  himself.  ...  It  is  so  easy 
to  be  wise  after  the  event,  and  to  perceive  that  he  should 
not  have  come  over." 

The  future  is  drawn  as  the  Golden  Age,  and  the  book  ends 
with  this  sentimental,  dreamy  picture:  "Gathered  together  at 
last  under  the  leadership  of  man,  the  student-teacher  of  the 
universe,  unified,  disciplined,  armed  with  the  secret  powers 
of  the  atom  and  with  knowledge  as  yet  beyond  dreaming, 
Life,  forever  dying  to  be  born  afresh,  forever  young  and 
eager,  will  presently  stand  upon  this  earth  as  upon  a  footstool, 
and  stretch  out  its  realm  amid  the  stars." 

And  this  is  Mr.  Wells'  fairy  tale  which  is  guaranteed  to 
please  the  most  childish  fancy.  The  romance  of  Scott,  the 
pathos  of  Dickens,  the  satire  of  Thackeray,  the  versatile  tales 
of  Chambers  are  all  to  be  found  within  these  two  volumes 
for  the  ridiculously  low  sum  of  $10.50.  But  where  is  the 
mastery  of  Lingard,  Hume  and  Gibbon?  In  due  respect  to 
Mr.  Wells  we  must  say  that  as  an  historian  he  is  a  fair 
novelist. 

George  R.  Pigott. 


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Literary    Tastes 

OT  so  long  ago  I  was  dubbed  a  knight  in 
the  fraternity  of  "The  Round  Table."  The 
order,  in  its  early  days  restricted  knighthood 
to  writers  on  "The  Chicago  Tribune"  staff. 
Within  the  last  year,  however,  the  attitude 
of  exclusiveness  was  broken  down  and  now 
writers  on  most  of  the  leading  Chicago  papers,  professional 
men  as  well  as  business  men  and  university  students  enjoy 
the  full  fledged  privileges,  which,  in  the  beginning,  only  the 
chosen  few  of  the  tribe  of  Patterson  and  McCormick  called 
their  own. 

We  have  no  King  Arthur  to  lead  us  nor  have  we  a  com- 
mandery  to  gather  in,  yet  we  are  well  organized  and  we  meet 

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frequently.  A  strong  tie  binds  us  together.  Every  knight  has 
a  twofold  appetite,  one  for  food  and  the  other  for  chatter. 
The  appetite  for  food  is  always  satiated,  but  in  spite  of  the 
abundance  of  chatter  that  every  knight  so  ably  commands,  it 
has  been  the  experience  of  the  lucky  knights  who  have  un- 
limited time  at  their  disposal  to  see  almost  every  one  of  the 
crowd  break  away  unwillingly  and  to  hear  his  talk-blistered 
tongue  express  with  sincere  regret  that  he  "must  get  back 
to  the  job"  or  he  has  "scarcely  time  to  make  the  next  class." 

"Jawing  and  chawing"  is  essential  to  knighthood.  In- 
cidently,  my  reader,  if  you  happen  to  have  an  untiring  jaw 
and  at  least  one  lung  to  'breeze'  a  conversation,  I  would  sug- 
gest that  you  become  a  knight.  All  that  you  have  to  do  is  to 
lunch  at  Mandel's  Grill  or  as  we  call  it,  "The  Sixty-Five 
Cent  Lunch  Club,"  with  one  of  the  knights  that  knows  you, — 
be  introduced  by  him  and  you  will  be  one  of  us. 

We,  sixty-five  centers  think  we  are  a  critical  lot,  especially 
of  things  literary  in  character.  You  would  think  so,  too,  if 
you  heard  us  talk.  As  we  sip  a  cup  of  Webb's  personally 
endorsed,  we  discuss  the  shows  in  town,  the  best  sellers,  the 
articles  which  one  or  the  other  wrote  for  the  morning  paper 
and  what  not.  Often  we  talk  about  nothing.  Our  thoughts 
on  such  occasions,  if  you  choose  to  call  them  thoughts,  un- 
doubtedly are  creatures  of  the  larynx  regions ;  however,  be  it 
ever  so  infrequent,  there  are  times  we  have  something  to  say 
and  we  say  it  and  then  we  invariably  disagree. 

How  many  times  did  it  not  happen  that  some  of  the  elite 
at  the  table  where  the  fair  Ada  serves  as  waitress,  recom- 
mended books  to  us  that  they  had  enjoyed?  Most  assuredly 
we  read  them.  They  who  suggested  them  earn  every  bit  of  a 
hundred  a  month  for  making  such  comments  in  the  literary 
sections  of  our  papers.  We  read  them,  wTe  judge  them,  and 
behold,  our  criticisms  range  from  "perfectly  delightful"  down 
to  "remarkably  dull." 

Are  we  to  conclude  from  this  that  "what  suits  us  suits  us" 
and  that  there  is  no  such  standard  as  one  of  taste?  Hardly. 
The  "Lunch  Club"  holds ;  not  to  mention  the  fact  that  many 


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who  know  something  about  literature  agree  with  them ;  that 
there  is  a  standard  of  taste  in  literature  and  in  all  the  fine 
arts. 

The  line  and  color  depicted  in  the  paintings  and  etchings 
on  exhibition  at  the  Art  Institute  are  many  of  the  knights' 
pleasure  givers  on  a  Saturday  afternoon.  If  the  sounds,  the 
melody,  the  harmony  that  the  musicians  command  do  not 
delight  them,  then  why  is  it  that  there  is  a  perpetual  request 
for  reporters  badges  and  that  they  are  very  much  in  evidence 
at  almost  every  concert,  recital  and  symphony  in  town? 
Every  knight's  admiration  clings  steadfastly  to  truth  of  plot 
and  of  characters  in  fiction,  still  they  find  something  pleasur- 
able in  the  poet's  wild  figment  of  imagination,  even  though  it  is 
incomformable  to  reality.  All  round  tablers  to  the  man  recog- 
nize that  whatever  inspires  lofty  thought  or  rouses  noble 
emotions  is  beautiful.  One  of  them,  on  the  Herald-Examiner, 
discussed  this  subject  of  beauty  very  freely  one  day  and  he 
set  about  at  the  time,  by  way  of  synthesis,  to  enumerate  all 
the  qualities  that  could  come  under  the  classification  of  the 
beautiful  in  art.  To  this  day  he  has  not  arrived  at  anything 
near  a  complete  list.  Profitting  by  his  experience  I  shall  not 
attempt  to  list  beautiful  qualities.  It  is  better  not  to  start  on 
what  will  be  only  half  finished.  If  you  wish  to  find  out  how 
much  you  do  not  know,  my  reader,  take  a  little  hint.  Try  to 
make  such  a  classification  as  our  Herald-Examiner  friend  at- 
tempted. Be  assured  if  you  have  an  ounce  of  false  pride  you 
will  lose  weight. 

If  a  complete  list  of  beautiful  qualities  were  made  out, 
undoubtedly  everybody  would  agree  on  its  correctness.  Yet 
while  agreeing  on  the  qualities  considered  by  themselves 
when  books  are  read  that  contain  them,  tastes — the  intellectual 
faculties  that  appreciate  theni — will  ever  disagree. 

The  fault,  if  fault  it  may  be  called,  that  accounts  for  this 
variation  lies  with  ourselves.  It  is  wiser  it  seems,  to  call  it 
good  fortune  because  the  reason  is,  there  are  no  two  of  us 
alike  in  qualities  of  heart  and  mind  and  soul.  This  is  truly 
great  fortune.   What  a  horribly  uninteresting  world  this  would 


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be  if  all  thoughts  ran  in  the  same  channel  and  emotions  of 
everybody  were  affected  in  an  identical  way.  We  would  be 
just  as  delighted,  then,  as  we  would  be  in  our  fellowmen,  if 
they  had  the  same  height,  build,  features  and  in  fact  all  bodily 
qualities. 

You  are  not  agreeing  with  me  when  you  say  a  beautiful 
horse  is  a  beautiful  horse  and  it  is  only  a  warped  judgment 
that  does  not  appreciate  its  beauty.  Quite  true  but  a  per- 
fectly unbiased  critic  does  not  exist  nor  are  the  professional 
critics  who  belong  to  "The  Knights  of  the  Round  Table"  un- 
biased. Consider  them.  Their  associations  and  environments 
differ.  Their  education  and  theories  of  life  vary  widely. 
Throughout  their  entire  lives  they  have  assimilated  knowledge 
that  has  lead  each  of  them  to  a  point  of  view  that  is  separate 
and  distinct  from  anyone  of  their  fellowmen.  Hence  it  is  that 
the  same  book,  which  many  of  us  may  read,  pleases  one  and 
bores  the  other. 

If  we  were  to  strip  that  which  we  read,  write  or  discuss 
in  literature  from  everything  that  has  flattened  or  sharpened 
our  literary  tastes,  we  would  make  literature  so  hard,  cold  and 
impersonal  that  it  would  be  inhuman.  A  standard  of  taste 
is  ideally  perfect.  Practically  it  can  serve  no  more  than  the 
purpose  of  a  reference.  To  be  guided  by  a  standard  of  taste 
in  literature  is  reasonable.  To  lock  step  with  it  is  as  out- 
landish as  standardizing  the  thoughts  and  emotions  of  the 
human  race. 

Joseph  A.  Gauer,  A.  B.,  22. 


Alumni 


FRANK  W.  HAYES 

On  behalf  of  the  Faculty  and  Students  of  Loyola  Uni- 
versity the  Loyola  University  Magazine  extends  deepest 
sympathy  to  the  bereft  parents  and  family  of  Frank  W.  Hayes 
who  died  suddenly,  May  7th. 

Frank  Hayes  was  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1920  and 
received  his  Bachelor  of  Arts  Degree  only  a  year  ago.  His 
honesty  and  fine  personality  are  still  fresh  memories  among 
those  who  remain  at  his  Alma  Mater.  To  know  him  was  to 
love  him.  His  every  acquaintance  was  his  friend.  Always 
kind  and  generous  he  ever  greeted  one  with  a  smile  and  a 
pleasant  word. 

At  the  call  of  his  country  he  interrupted  his  college  course 
after  his  Sophomore  year  and  received  his  lieutenancy  at  the 
Officers  Training  Camp  at  Fort  Sheridan.  He  was  then  ap- 
pointed military  instructor  in  charge  of  the  Medical  Depart- 
ment of  Ohio  State  University.  A  leader  in  college  activities, 
a  member  of  the  Glee  Club  and  the  Dramatic  Club,  Prefect 
of  the  Sodality  of  the  Blessed  Virgin,  Frank  Hayes  will  al- 
ways be  remembered  as  a  true  Catholic  gentleman. 

M.  G.  W. 

Below  we  give  a  letter  written  by  Captain  Gallery,  which 
appeard  first  in  the  Ravenswood  Citizen  and  later  in  part  in 
the  Herald-Examiner : 

Chicago,  111.,  May  10,  1921. 
To  the  Editor 
The  Ravenswood  Citizen : 

Frank  Hayes  is  dead  and  Ravenswood  is  sad  and  all  who 
knew  him  are  broken  hearted  and  lonely. 

There  was,  and  there  is,  only  one  Frank  Hayes- — and  I 
doubt  if  there  ever  will  be  another  like  Frank. 

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God  took  Frank — though  we  needed  him  here — but  God 
knows  best  and  God's  will  be  done  on  earth  as  it  is  in  Heaven. 

Frank  lost  his  life  through  a  mistake.  The  truth  of  the 
matter  is,  and  Frank's  dying  statement  proves  it :  he  mistook 
an  officer  in  plain  clothes  for  a  holdup  man  and  ran — and 
when  Frank  Hayes  ran — very  few  men  could  catch  him.  The 
officer  seeing  Frank  running  mistook  him  for  a  suspicious 
character  of  some  kind  and  fired  a  shot  to  stop  him.  Unfor- 
tunately, it  hit  poor  Frank  and  the  officer  is  broken  hearted 
over  the  occurrence,  and  the  officer  stated  to  me  that  he  never 
uttered  a  word  against  Frank  Hayes'  character  and  that  lie 
would  give  his  life  to  bring  Frank's  back — and  Frank  Hayes, 
true  to  his  Christian  teaching,  was  the  first  man  to  tell  the 
truth  and  to  forgive  the  policeman  who  fired  the  fatal  shot  that 
ended  the  purest  life  I  have  ever  known. 

What  could  be  more  manly  or  nobler  than  Frank  forgiving 
the  man  who  took  him  for  a  holdup  man,  but  then  that  was 
Frank  Hayes,  pleading  for  others  with  his  dying  breath. 

I  have  lived  a  long  time  in  Ravenswood  and  I  have  seen 
all  boys  of  Frank's  age  grow  from  babyhood  to  manhood — 
and  my  own  boys  grew  up  with  him. 

I  have  seen  them  play  and  pray  together.  I  have  seen  them 
battle  in  streets  and  vacant  lots  in  their  games  of  football, 
basketball  and  tennis,  and  I  have  never  seen,  or  known,  a 
fairer  or  squarer  player  or  fighter  than  Frank  Hayes,  and  I 
have  never  known  a  cleaner  boy. 

A  fine  athlete  and  a  defender  of  the  "kids"  when  attacked 
by  "roughs"  in  the  vacant  lots  around  Ravenswood.  He  was 
a  noble  soul  and  as  the  father  of  one  of  his  oldest  comrades 
and  pal — Tom  Gallery — now  in  California — I  wish  I  could 
say  something  or  do  something  to  mitigate  the  suffering  of  his 
parents,  sisters,  relatives  and  friends  because  never  did  par- 
ents, sisters  and  friends  suffer  a  greater  loss — or  lose  a  cleaner 
or  more  manly  boy  than  Frank  Hayes,  and  that  is  why  there 
is  sorrow  and  sadness  in  Ravenswood. 

M.  J.  Gallery,      Captain  of  Police. 


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Soldier  Who  Died  in  France  Buried  Here 

The  body  of  Fred  A.  Dockendorf,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Matthew  Dockendorf,  8032  South  Sangamon  Street,  has  been 
brought  home  from  France.  He  was  first  sergeant  of  Com- 
pany K,  58th  infantry,  4th  division,  and  was  killed  in  action 
at  the  Vesle  in  August,  1918.  The  funeral  was  from  the  home 
of  his  widow,  658  West  18th  street.  She  was  formerly  Miss 
Irene  Murray.  The  couple  were  married  five  days  before 
Sergt.  Dockendorf  entered  the  army.  There  was  a  requiem 
high  mass  at  the  Sacred  Heart  Church,  19th  and  Peoria 
streets.    Burial  was  at  St.  Boniface  Cemetery. 

Fred  Dockendorf  was  at  St.  Ignatius  in  1908-09  and 
1900-10. 

Rev.  Emmet  Joseph  O'Neill  was  ordained  priest  in  the 
Cathedral  of  St.  Helena  Sunday,  June  5th,  and  said  his  first 
solemn  Mass  in  St.  David's  Church,  Chicago,  June  12  last. 


Rev.  Daniel  Francis  Cunningham  was  ordained  at  Holy 
Name  Cathedral,  Chicago,  May  21st,  and  sang  his  first  solemn 
Mass  at  the  Church  of  the  Nativity,  Chicago,  the  following 
day. 

*         *         * 

Among  the  Jesuit  scholastic  to  be  ordained  in  St.  Louis 
June  27th  are :  William  M.  McGee,  Martin  J.  Phee,  James 
A.  Meskell,  Nicholas  A.  Liston,  James  J.  O'Reagan,  Patrick 
J.  Mulhern.    All  of  St.  Ignatius. 


University  Chronicle 

Commencement  Exercises 

WEDNESDAY  AFTERNOON,  JUNE   15. 
Loyola  Campus 

Selections Band 

Procession March 

COMMENCEMENT  PROCESSION 
Candidates  for  Certificates 

Candidates  for  the  Degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science 
Candidates  for  the  Degree  of  Bachelor  of  Philosophy 
Candidates  for  the  Degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts 
Candidates  for  the  Degree  of  Bachelor  of  Law 
Candidates  for  the  Degree  of  Master  of  Science 
Candidates  for  the  Degree  of  Master  of  Arts 
Candidates  for  the  Degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine 
Candidates  for  the  Degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws 
Faculty  of  Arts,  Science,  Law  and  Medicine 
The    President    of    the    University    and    the    Commencement 
Speaker 

COMMENCEMENT  ADDRESS 

The  Honorable  Francis  G.  Blair,  Springfield,  Illinois 

State    Superintendent    of    Public    Instruction 

Music    Selection 

ANNOUNCEMENTS  OF  PRIZES  AND  HONORS  IN 
THE  COLLEGE  OF  ARTS  AND  SCIENCE 

Senior  Prize  Freshman  Prize 

Aloysius  B.  Cawley  Marsile  Hughes 

.  Naghten  Debate  Prize 

Junior  Prize  ,,       •       ^    ,,7  .  , 

,     .     „  Maurice   G.   Walsh 
Joseph  A.  Gauer 

Inter-Collegiate  Honors 

Sophomore  Prize  Marsile  Hughes 

Edmund  Fortman  Edmund  Fortman 

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AWARD  OF  CERTIFICATES 

Candidates  Presented  by  Dean  Louis  D.  Moorhead, 

A.  M.,  M.  S.,  M.  D. 

Certificate  of  Graduate  Nurse  is  Conferred  on  the  Following 

Oak  Park  Hospital  School  of  Nurses 
Irene  Aurelia  Boucher  Theresa  Bernadette  Ryle 

Josephine   Helen   Garbell  Jeanne  Fafard 

Agnes   Ruth   Hogan  Marie  Leonie  Laplante 

Elizabeth   Marie   Mercier  Grace  Elizabeth  Bolvin 

St.  Anne's  Hospital  School  of  Nurses 

Sister  Mary  Willia  Rose  T.  Rensman 

Sister  Mary  Williamina  Ruth  Nicholson 

Sister   Mary   Emelia  Ann  Schmich 

Mary  C.  Foytek  Beulah  G.   Blonigen 

Katherine   M.   Gallagher  Florence  M.  Padden 

Marie  L.   Lamers  Caroline  Germain 

Madeline  M.   Harkins  Mary  A.  Boyle 

St.  Elizabeth's  Hospital  School  of  Nurses 

Sister  M.   Eulalia  Miss   Julia   Coughlin 

Sister  M.   Cornelia  Miss  Kathryn   Hart 

Sister  M.  Edwardis  Miss  Adella  Lawrence 

Miss  Theresa  Jenniges  Miss  Theresa  Barsch 

Miss  Mary  Manix  Miss  Mathilda  Barker 
Miss  Leona  Krug 

Mercy  Hospital  School  of  Nurses 


Alice   O'Connor 
Elizabeth  J.  Shinners 
Mabel  A.  Madden 
Hilda  L.  Ross 
Lillian  Trost 
Cornelia  Heimburger 
Leola  I.   Chandler 
Mona  A.  Henry 
Martha  Bliss 
Hildegard   E.    Schmidt 
Antoinette   A.   Morrissey 
Christine   Donovan 
Irene  Niland 
Elizabeth  Niland 
Emily  Thimmesch 


Marie   E.   MacPhail 
Catherine   M.   Pritchard 
Esther  K.   Schobinger 
Gracia   Kerrigan 
Valeria  Krysiak 
Nelle  Kimmel 
Marjorie  L.   Quigley 
Margaret   O'Donoghue 
Ruth  C.  McCabe 
Katherine  E.   McNamara 
Irene  C.  McMurrough 
Genevieve  C.  Fleming 
Anna   Nelson 
Mary  E.  Joyce 
Blanche   K.   Oliver 


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Marguerite   S.   Cleary 
Pansy  M.  Richardson 
Elizabeth  M.  Mulcrone 
Nellie   M.  Walsh 

CERTIFICATE 

Candidates  Presented  by 
A.  M.,  M, 
Work  Completed 
H.  F.  Da  Costa 
Arthur  F.   Daly 
John   Walter  Dennis 
Jose  L.   Diaz 
Edward  Michael  Egan 
Louis  Feldman 
Clarence  A.   Fortier 
Theodore  Giese 
William  M.  Hanrahan 
Adelheid  Koebele 
John  Vincent  Lambert 
Ervin  A.  Mader 
Theodore   Harvey   Miller 
Samuel   Sol   Murnick 


Viola  D.  Ward 

Rose   Margaret   Corcoran 

Rose  Monica  Croal 

IN  MEDICINE 
Dean  Louis  D.  Moorhead, 
S.,  M.  D. 
March  26th,  1921 

Richard  Keith  O'Brien 

Lillian   O'Connor 

John  Aloysius   Parker 

Lester  Safford  Reavely 

Reno  Ray  Roberts 

Edward  Albert   Roling 

Jacob  Rosen 

Samuel  Saposnik 

Raymond  Edward  Sheridan 

Michael  Mitchell  Seletto 

Justin   Steurer 

William  Sweeny 

Ralph  N.  Tassie 

John   J.   Tingler 


Work 
Robert  M.  Affhauser 
Loyal  B.  Bagnall 
Lucien  E.  Barryte 
Joseph  P.  Berman 
Leon   Boim 
Sotero  Bustos 
Sadie  Caslow 
Daniel  E.  Clark 
Samuel   C.   Crispin 
Edward   Czainski 
John  J.  Drammis 
Samuel   Dubovy 
Ruth  E.  V.  Edwards 
Bertha  C.   Eide 
Lambert  Geerlings 
Louis  Gries 
Ernest  Hanisch 
Charles  L.  Janda 
Ira   W.  Johnson 


Completed   June   9th,    1921 

John   B.   Karbowski 
Daniel  J.  Kirlin 
Alger  V.  Lindberg 
John  J.  Loomis 
Leo  Markin 
Benjamin  Markowitz 
Rosanna  N.  McKenney 
Arthur  G.   Miller 
Charlotte   H.   Nelsen 
Howard  M.  Pankey 
Jerome  Pawlowski 
Louis  B.   Rodriquez 
Harry   L.   Rubin 
William   A.   Simunich 
Solomon   W'eiss 
Louis  E.  Stern 
Samuel   Weiss 
Samuel  Weissel 


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Certificate  of  Social  Economy 
Anne  J.  Bigus  Bcrnadine   Murray,  A.  B. 

CONFERRING  OF  DEGREES  BY  PRESIDENT 

JOHN  B.  FURAY,  S.  J. 

CANDIDATES  FOR  THE  BACHELOR  OF  SCIENCE, 

PHILOSOPHY  AND  ARTS 

Presented  by  the  Dean  of  the  Arts  and  Science  College, 

George  P.  Shanley,  S.  J. 

Bachelor  of  Science 

Lorenzo  Balasquide  Jerome  Pawlowski 

Robert   Earl   Cummings  Samuel  Watson  Ramsay 

Alvin  Ray  Hufford  James  Vincent  Russell 

Arthur  Leonard  Kelly  Joseph  Xavier   Ryan 

Patrick  Henry  McNulty  Sr.   Berna  Schmidt 

Benjamin   Markowitz  Sr.   M.   Gilberta   Sullivan 

Joseph  Leo  Meyer  Louis  Vitovec 

Francis  Xavier  O'Malley  John  Warren 
Sr.   M.   Berenice  O'Neill 

Bachelor  of  Philosophy 

Cecily  Callaghan,  R.  S.  C.  J.  Rosemarie   Gibney,    R.  S.  C.  J. 

Belle  Loretto  Campbell  Sr.   Hyacinth  Martin 

Sr.   M.   Constance  Carroll  Sr.  M.  St.  A.  Connor,  C.  N.  D. 

Sr.  Kath,  B.  Donnelly.  I.  B.  V.  M.  Sarah  O'Donnell,  R.  S.  C.  J. 

Ella  Mary  Garvey  John  Joseph  Malloy 
Sr.  Xavieria  Koob 

Bachelor  of  Arts 
Cornelius  Patrick  Burke  Vincent  John  Sheridan 

Aloysius  Bartholomew  Cawley  James  Joseph  Taylor 

John   Edmund  Flanagan  Maurice  Gregory  Walsh 

Sr.  Josephis  Lleissel  John  Adam  Zvetina 

Stephen  Anthony  Parowski 

CONFERRING  OF  PROFESSIONAL  DEGREES 

BY  THE  PRESIDENT 

CANDIDATES  FOR  THE  BACHELOR  OF  LAWS 

Presented  by  the  Dean  of  the  Law  School 

Arnold  D.  McMahon,  M.  A.,  LL.  B. 

Jacob  Berger  Cyrus  T.   Campe 

J  ere  me  Byrnes  Emmet   I.   Clean- 


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Thomas  A.  Dillon 
John  B.  English 
Edmund  Fallon 
George  Fitzgerald 
Gibson   E.   Gorman 


G.  Edwin  Mitchell 
Joseph  P.   Savage 
Harold  E.   Sullivan 
William   T-  Terrill 


CANDIDATES  FOR  THE  DOCTOR  OF  MEDICINE 
Presented  by  Dean  of  Medical  School 
Louis  D.  Moorhead,  A.  M.,  M.  S.,  M.  D. 


Sydney  M.  Beam- 
Sidney  Brown 
Francis   John   Burns 
Paul  R.  Clark 
Louis  D.   Cotruro 
George   Alfred   Drolson 
George  E.  Dudenbostal 
Charles  Arthur  Fleischner 
Bernard  F.   Garnitz 
Lorenzo   Lionel   Gaucher 
Francis  J.   Gerty 
Edward  C.  Heifers 
Nicholas  A.   Hermann 
Ernest   Day  Hunsaker 
Lester  Johnson 
John  J.  Kane 
Joshua  Samuel   Kaplan 
Arthur  Leonard  Kelly 
Frank  Edward  Kiesler 
George  Klumpner 
Helen  Marie  Kostka 
Elijah   S.   Lake 
Ernest  Lamarche 
Robert  Rueben  Lande 
David  I.  Lewis 


August  Mason,  Jr. 

Elta  Mason 

Solomon   Mayerson 

James   Gerard   McGrath 

John    Francis    McNamara 

James  Gregory  McNeill 

Ebbo  Henry  Miller 

Grace  Bush  Mitchell 

Sydney  Clayton  Moore 

Stanislaus  Joseph  Plucinski 

Frances   Proterman 

Edwin  Hope  Rayson 

Philip  Romonek 

Edward  Joseph  Rooney 

Jacob  Rubin 

Walter  George   Clarence   Sahr 

Olaf  E.   Salter 

Isay  Singer 

Paul  Bernard   Sogolow 

Edward  Joseph   Stefanic 

Herbert  D.  Ulmer 

Leslie  L.  Veseen 

Gaudencio  Ramos  Villanueva 

Olga  Alcott  Wilhelm 

William    Coswell   Williamson 


Alfredo  Marasigan 

CONFERRING   OF  ADVANCED   DEGREES 

BY  THE  PRESIDENT 

Presented  by  George  P.  Shanley,  S.  J. 

Master  of  Science 

William   Hanrahan,   B.  S.  Joseph  Edwin  Whitlow,  B.  S. 

Master  of  Arts 

William   John  Page  Sr.  M.  St.  Theresa  Vogt,  B.  V.  M. 

Walter   Shea 


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CONFERRING  OF  HONORARY  DEGRESS 
BY  THE  PRESIDENT 

Doctor  of  Laws 

Reverend  Thomas  Vincent  Shannon 
Presented  by  Frederic  Siedenburg,  S.  J. 

Charles  Louis  Mix,  M.  D. 
Presented  by  Dean  Louis  D.  Moorhead,  A.  M.,  M.  S.,  M.  D. 

Henry  Schmitz,  M.  D. 
Presented  by  Regent  Patrick  J.  Mahan,  S.  J. 

William  Edward  Morgan,  M.  D. 
Presented  by  Professor  Edward  L.  Moorhead,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  LL.  D. 


DEGREES  CONFERRED  DURING  THE  YEAR 

The  following  students  completed  four  years  of  medical  studies  at 
the  close  of  the  Winter  Quarter,  and  were  granted  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Medicine,  March  26,  1921,  upon  the  completion  of 
of  the  fifth  or  interne  year : 


Charles  W.   Balcerkiewicz 
Frank  R.   Derengowski 
John   Francis   Dybalski 
John  J.  Dziura 
H.   William   Elghammer 
Joseph  P.  Graves 
Frederick  Michael   Groner 
John  George  Haramaras 
Floyd  Templeton  Hawkins 
Samuel   Kaufman 


Thomas  David  Laney 
Gerald   Stone   McShane 
Tressa  Rose  Moran 
Carmen   Pintozzi 
Murray  Elbert  Rolens 
Nathan  Rosen 
Noble  Russell  Snell 
Rusten  Soroosh 
John   Theodore  Vitkus 
Mildred  Doubeck  Ward 


MASTER  OF  CEREMONIES  —  THESLE  T.  TOB. 


Ellen   Bergstrom 
John  H.   Anderson 
Thomas  A.   Coyne 
James  L.  Boyle 
Lincoln   B.   Griswold 
Waldo  J.   Houghton 
Joseph   L.  Mullens 
Sebastinano  Ingrao 
Yutaka  Ovama 


Aides 

Harold  B.   Sullivan 
Joseph  M.   Crotty 
Joseph   A.   Foley 
Joseph  A.   Gauer 
Raymond  F.   Kelly 
Thomas  J.  McNally 
Edward  A.   Miller 
Richard   F.    Shay 
Alfred  Wolfarth 


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SENIOR  MEDICS 
"Last  Time  We  Toddled;    This  Time  We  Gobbled" 

The  second  annual  banquet  of  the  Loyola  Medical  School, 
which  was  held  en  the  evening  of  May  24th  at  the  City  Club, 
eclipsed  all  previous  affairs  of  the  department.  Considering 
that  the  event  was  only  a  few  weeks  subsequent  to  the  Medics 
successful  "Peacock's  Strut,"  the  outcome  was  really  beyond 
the  greatest  anticipation — although  it  was  just  another  testi- 
mony of  the  pep,  vigor  and  spizzerinktum  of  the  future 
"docs." 

At  the  appointed  hour,  a  procession  to  the  banquet  hall  was 
begun  with  the  "Frosh"  in  the  vanguard,  followed  in  order 
by  the  Sophomore  Junior  and  Senior  Classes,  then  the  interne 
— or  fifth  year  men, — the  faculty  bringing  up  the  rear.  Upon 
arrival  at  the  scene  of  festivity  all  were  agreeably  surprised 
at  the  beautiful  decorations  in  the  LJniversity  colors  as  pre- 
pared by  W.  O.  Wilkins  and  his  corps  of  assistants.  Each 
class  was  seated  at  separate  tables  and  colored  caps  were  sup- 
plied to  insure  their  identity.  When  all  were  seated  the  pretty 
little  waitresses  by  dint  of  much  assiduity  and  conscientious 
devotion  to  duty  set  about  the  almost  hopeless  task  of  satisfy- 
ing the  "cravings  of  the  inner  man."  Interspersed  between 
courses  were  vocal  and  instrumental  numbers  by  "home  tal- 
ent." Messrs.  Philiap  and  Poborsky  entertained  with  violin 
selections,  which  were  received  with  much  acclaim.  For  vocal 
honors,  J.  L.  Mullins  and  J.  V.  Russel  vied.  However,  we 
believe  Jim  Russell  deserves  the  palm,  for  considering  the 
quality,  pitch,  resonance,  and  volume  (see  Slades,  Phy.  Diag. ) 
were  about  equal,  but  Jim  sang  with  gestures,  and  you  know 
that  histrionic  ability  is  an  art.  R.  J.  Welsh's  monologue  on 
the  "pill  peddlers"  and  A.  A.  Plant's  impersonation  of  the 
Xegro  preacher,  were  humorous  and  original. 

Regarding  these  dinner  selections  it  has  been  reported  that 
the  arrangement  was  made  by  Prof.  A.  C.  Ivy,  Chairman  of 
the  Banquet  Committee.  If  this  is  true  we  are  willing  to 
wager  one  million  pesos   (ask  Balasquide;  he  knows)   against 


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last  summer's  straw  hat,  that  the  gentleman  introduced  them 
as  an  experiment  in  the  effect  of  music  on  the  stimulation  of 
the  flow  of  gastric  juices.  Several  eminent  physiologists  in  the 
Sophomore  class  have  been  consulted  on  this  matter  and  have 
advised  that  Dr.  Ivy  be  informed  that  the  experiment  was  a 
success. 

After  all,  who  were  so  inclined,  were  supplied  with  lux- 
urious Delevan  Perfectos  (and  the  ladies  with  bon  bons),  the 
second  part  of  the  program  was  begun.  Dr.  Edw.  L.  Moor- 
head,  as  toastmaster,  introduced  the  speakers  in  a  masterful 
and  at  the  same  time  humorous  manner. 

Relative  to  the  arrangement  of  the  program  it  may  be  said 
that  it  was  both  unique  and  novel,  and  merits  a  reproduction 
herewith : 

"The  Good  Ship  Loyola  Puts  In  For  a  Second  Annual 
Evening  Of  Fun  And  Facts." 

"This  Year  Our  Vision  Is  To  Be  Tested." 

"Suspect" J.  W.  Dennis 

"Expect" Dr.  C.  L.  Mix 

"Respect" A.  G.  Miller 

Just  "Specs" Dr.  G.  D.  J.  Griffin 

"Monospect" R.   E.   Cummings 

"Retrospect" Dean  L.  D.   Moorhead 

"Prospect" Regent  P.  J.  Mahan,  S.  J. 

"Circumspect" President  J.  B.  Furay,  S.  J. 

Dr.  C.  L.  Mix  handled  his  topic  very  commendably.  His 
views  on  what  is  expected  from  the  outgoing  Seniors  were 
clearly  defined,  and  if  the  recommendations  on  fame,  fortune 
and  family  are  followed,  the  success  of  the  graduate  and 
ipso  facto  the  success  of  Loyola  University  will  be  assured. 
The  toast  "Just  Specks,"  as  responded  to  by  Dr.  G.  D.  J. 
Griffin,  concerned  the  position  of  the  woman  in  the  medical 
profession.  With  glowing  terms  he  referred  to  the  wonderful 
record  of  our  own  Dr.  Bertha  Van  Hoosen,  and  the  applause 
which  greeted  this  encomium,  showed  the  esteem  in  which 
faculty  and  students  held  this  genial  professor.     The  remain- 


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ing  speakers  on  the  program  handled  their  subject  matter  ade- 
quately and  interestingly  and  their  efforts  were  well  received. 
To  A.  G.  Miller  go  the  honors  of  the  evening,  as  his  eloquent 
address  was  really  a  masterpiece.  The  flowery  composition 
of  his  speech,  and  the  forceful  manner  in  which  it  was  deliv- 
ered made  a  great  impression  on  his  audience. 

In  conclusion  it  would  be  very  fitting  to  say  a  few  words 
about  Dr.  Thesle  Job.  This  little  human  dynamo  supervised 
all  the  preparations  for  the  banquet  and  his  excellent  judgment 
in  organizing  the  committees  and  systematizing  the  many 
details  of  such  an  affair  accounts  for  the  fact  that  the  entire 
evening's  program  ran  off  as  smoothly  as  a  well-oiled  ma- 
chine. We  are  proud  of  Dr.  Job's  response  in  such  matters. 
Our  only  regret  is  that  his  spirit  is  not  contagious,  for  in  such 
a  case  it  would  then  be  possible  for  at  least  one  faculty  mem- 
ber in  each  department  of  the  University  to  become  infected. 
If  this  were  only  possible,  it  would  then  be  an  easy  matter  to 
arrange  four  or  five  general  university  social  affairs  each  year. 

J.  -M.  Warren. 

SOPHOMORE  MEDICS 

Don  Lorenzo  Balesquide  expects  to  return  to  his  home  in 
Porto  Rico  for  the  summer.  Bally  says  that  there  are  a  lot 
of  dogs  down  there,  and  expects  to  do  some  physiological 
research  on  them.  Thata  boy,  Bally,  we  know  you  are  a 
wonderful  surgeon — on  dogs. 

*  *         * 

Jose  Cailles  recently  brought  a  new  Locomobile.  Joe  is  now 
the  most  popular  member  of  the  Sophomore  class.  Make  some 
of  them  pay  for  your  gas,  Joe,  and  your  car  will  not  be  an 
omnibus. 

*  *         * 

Anthony  Diaz  Calderia  intends  to  matriculate  at  Chicago 
University  for  the  Summer  quarter — again  proving  that  our 
Tony  is  a  glutton  for  work. 


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"Blondy"  Doyle  has  become  addicted  to  golf.  Go  slow, 
Jim,  for  you  know  you  are  going  to  study  nervous  diseases 
next  year.  If  you  become  too  ardent  a  golf  fan,  you  may  not 
only  be  a  student  in  nervous  diseases  but  also  a  patient.  Think 
it  over,  Doyle ! 

Malone  and  Cummings,  the  Gamelli  twins,  intend  to  dem- 
onstrate that  they  are  as  ^inseparable  as  the  Siamese  pair,  by 
entering  the  Willard  Hospital  together  after  the  closing  of  the 
school   year.     Bill   and   Bob   will   undergo   minor   operations. 

Here's  luck  to  the  twins  ! 

*  *         * 

The   Chemistry   Department  has   secured   the   valued  and 

much  sought  for  services  of  J.  V.    (Blood)    Russell,   for  the 

Summer   Quarter.     If   we   do   not   hear   of   at   least   six   new 

discoveries   in    chemistry,   before   the   Fall,   we   will   be   sadly 

disappointed  in  our  Jim. 

■f  *  * 

Louis  Leonard  Vitovec,  the  newly  elected  Junior  president, 
expects  to  summer  in  the  wilds  of  Cicero.     It  is  reported  that 

he  is  quite  a  pal  of  the  American  ambassador  to  Cicero. 

*  *         * 

George  Gundy  will  spend  his  vacation  on  the  farm  near 
Flint,  Michigan.  When  he  returns  we  expect  him  to  be  a 
full-fledged,  sod-busting,  apple-knocking  son  of  the  soil. 

The  inquiring  reporter  has  been  unable  to  ascertain  the 
Summer  whereabouts  of  Joe  Ryan.  However,  it  is  believed 
that  he  will  display  his  Adonis-like  form  as  a  life-guard  at 
one  of  the  South  Side  beaches. 

*  *         * 

Pat  McNulty  will  spend  very  busy  days  (and  also  nights) 

in  the  environs  of  South  Chicago. 

*  *         * 

As  to  the  editor,  he  intends  to  succumb  to  the  golf  habit 
with  Blondy  Doyle. 

J.  M.  Warren. 


Academy  of  Our  Lady 

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Longwood,  Chicago,  111. 
Boarding   and   Day   School    for 
Girls,  conducted  by  School 
Sisters  of  Notre  Dame 
Academic  Course  prepares   for  Col- 
lege or  Normal  entrance.    Grammar 
and  Primary  Dept.  for  little  Girls. 
Commercial    Course    of    two    years 
after  the  eighth  grade. 
Domestic  Science. 

Music  —  Conservatory  methods  in 
piano,  violin  and  vocal. 
Art  —  Special  advantages.  Four 
studios  open  to  visitors  at  all  times. 
Physical  Culture  and  Athletics  under 
competent  teachers. 
Campus — 15  acres. 

Extension  Course  Conducted  by 

Loyola  University 

Catalogue  Sent  Upon  Application 

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LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY  MAGAZINE  379 

JUNIOR  MEDICS 

One  Dozen  Remarkable  Remarks 

Griswold — Knowing  the  gazinkus  the  gazelia  follows  in 
logical  sequence. 

Ramsay — Well — you'll  admit  that  the  most  difficult  cere- 
bration is  that  of  visualization. 

Oyama — It  is  so  distressing.  I  put  in  too  much  time  in 
Physiology. 

Ingrao — Oh,  my  hat !  Yes  indeed  I  reiterate  the  "Jiggins" 
is  a  worthy  subject  for  extensive  dermatological  research. 

Anderson — O.  B.  is  the  most  fascinating  subject,  but  as  I 
said,  when  I  was  in  Michigan 

Meyers — Gentlemen — I  am  for  order  and  decorum,  but 
I'm  hasty  when  I'm  vexed. 

Sullivan — Ah !  where  does  he  get  that  stuff.  I'll  never 
rush  into  any  burning  building  to  save  a  parrot. 

O'Malley — Osier  made  a  grave  error  in  naming  it  "Sol- 
diers' Heart."  It  is  far  more  prevalent  among  students  dur- 
ing "exam"  week. 

Hufford — See  !    I  obtained  the  characteristic  reaction. 

Mullen — I  cannot  see  why  you  give  Dr.  Lilly  the  oppor- 
tunity to  call  "Tempus  Frigit."  As  Dr.  Murphy  has  well  said, 
the  art  of  diagnosis  is  relatively  easy  if  the  history  is  concise 
— and — the  patient  is  a  bed  case  at  the  T.  B.  Hospital. 

Bergstrom — These  gastric  ulcers  are  the  limit !  Raspber- 
ries. 

SCHOOL   OF  SOCIOLOGY 

The  summer  session  of  the  School  of  Sociology  will  open 
June  27th  and  classes  are  to  be  conducted  at  St.  Xavier  Col- 
lege, St.  Mary's  High  School  and  Visitation  High  School. 
In  this  way  many  Sisters  can  take  advantage  of  the  courses 
offered  and  a  large  attendance  at  classes  is  already  assured. 
The   School  considers  itself   fortunate  in  having  Francis  P. 


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Donnelly,  S.  J.,  of  Boston  College,  Boston,  Mass.,  George 
Mahowald,  S.  J.,  Thomas  A.  Egan,  S.  J.,  Thomas  A.  Kelly, 
S.  J.,  and  Urban  Killacky,  S.  J.,  on  its  summer  faculty.  In 
addition  to  the  courses  given  by  the  Jesuits  there  will  be  a 
course  in  practical  social  service  given  by  Miss  Agnes  Van 
Driel,  A.  B. 

The  School  of  Sociology  in  March,  1921,  was  admitted  to 
membership  in  the  Association  of  Training  Schools  for  Pro- 
fessional Social  Work.  This  is  a  national  recognition  of  the 
standard  of  the  social  service  training  course  offered  in  this 
department  of  the  University. 

Certificates  of  Social  Economy  were  conferred  by  this 
department  on  Anne  J.  Bigus  and  Bernadine  E.  Murray,  A.  B., 
for  satisfactorily  completing  the  two  year  social  service  train- 
ing work.  Both  girls  have  been  employed  by  the  Central 
Charity  Bureau  and  will  do  social  work  among  the  Catholic 
poor  of  the  city.  Miss  Mary  C.  Donahue,  one  of  our  first 
year  students  has  taken  a  summer  position  at  Arden  Shore 
which  is  a  summer  camp  conducted  by  the  United  Charities 
of  Chicago. 

*         *  * 

Since  our  last  chronicle  Father  Siedenburg  has  given 
lectures  in  most  of  the  eastern  seminaries.  These  lectures 
were  under  the  direction  of  the  National  Catholic  Welfare 
Council  which  is  making  an  especial  effort  to  inspire  with 
social  ideals  the  clergy  of  the  future  now  studying  in  the 
seminaries.  Dr.  John  A.  Ryan  of  the  Catholic  University 
has  also  given  a  number  of  similar  lectures.  Father  Sieden- 
burg will  spend  the  month  of  July  giving  the  clergy  retreats 
in  San  Francisco. 

>K  H5  >H 

Miss  Lucile  M.  Windette  who  was  a  student  in  the  social 
service  department  four  years  ago  is  now  representative  for 
the  Community  Chautauqua  of  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  and 


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has  been  travelling  from  Florida  to  Quebec  booking  chautau- 
quas.  She  called  upon  us  recently  to  assure  us  that  her  train- 
ing had  been  productive  and  most  advantageous  to  her  work. 

*         *         * 

The  students  of  the  school  took  advantage  of  the  Alumnii- 
Alumnae  get-together  on  Loyola  Campus  and  all  declare  that 
they  had  a  rousing  good  time  and  ask  if  there  are  to  be 
other  such  parties  next  term.  Many  of  the  former  students 
of  the  School  of  Sociology  will  be  re-united  at  the  National 
Conference  of  Social  Work  which  will  be  held  in  Milwaukee 
this  month,  since  letters  have  come  in  from  all  parts  of  the 
country  making  inquiry  concerning  some  of  the  Catholic 
events  which  will  be  held  while  the  Conference  is  in  session. 
Father  Siedenburg  is  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee 
of  the  Conference  but  will  not  be  present  this  year  since  he 
will  be  giving  a  retreat  in  Cincinnati  at  that  time.  Father 
Siedenburg's  article,  "Training  for  Social  Work"  which  he 
read  before  the  Wisconsin  State  Conference  of  Social  Work 
sometime  ago  has  been  reprinted  in  the  June  number  of  the 
Catholic  IVorld  has  attracted  much  attention  and  several  re- 
quests to  have  it  put  pamphlet  form  have  been  received. 

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