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ST. EDWARD’S ECHO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1937
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HAL KEMP’S ORCHESTRA
Rev. William H. Molony, C. S. C.
Director of Studies
Leon Trotsky, asked to leave by
Norway, takes up residence in Mex-
ico, where opposition to him by Stal-
inites is expected.
MONDAY, January 25th:
Classes taught at:
7:50 A. M. on Mondays
7:50 A. M. on Tuesdays
8:45 A. M. on Mondays
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The idea that the Loyalists are
fighting for a “democratic Spain” is
an insult to the intelligence. In real-
ity it is Anarchy in its worst form.
Secretary of War Woodering in his
report for the fiscal year recom-
mended a permanent peace time army
of 165,000 men and 14,000 officers.
We agree with Mr. Secretary in his
demands for an increase. But, in view
of present world conditions we take
exception with him on his figures—■
they should be much higher. . .
EXAMINATION SCHEDULE
Will be examined from:
7:50 to 9:50
10:00 to 12:00
2:00 to 4:00
Will be examined from:
7:50 to 9:50
10:00 to 12:00
2:00 to 4:00
Will be examined from:
7:50 to 9:50
10:00 to 12:00
2:00 to 4:00
Will be examined from:
7:50 to 9:50
10:00 to 12:00
2:00 to 4:00
Will be examined from:
7:50 to 9:50
10:00 to 12:00
2:00 to 4:00
Richard E. Manson, former St. Ed-
ward’s University student, was ap-
pointed assistant attorney general of
New Mexico on Jan. 21. Manson will
take office the first of the month.
Manson finished at St. Edward’s
Academy in 1926 and was a fresh-
man in the University in 1926-27.
While at St. Edward’s he took active
part in debating and was the recipi-
ent of a gold medal for representing
the Academy in interscholastic
bating in 1925.
It was held by some in the last
campaign that, if elected, Mr. Roose-
velt would either stuff the Supreme
Court or have legislation passed to
allow Congress by 3/4 majority, to
override the Court’s decisions. There
are no present indications that this
will come about. Very often political
prognosticators are just general store
politicians...
ROMANCE NEVER DIES - AN ESSAY
St. Agnes and the Poets.
By J. H.
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THURSDAY, January 28th:
Classes taught at:
11:30 A. M. on Tuesdays
1:10 P. M. on Mondays
1:10 P. M. on Tuesdays
for during the period of the retreat | State College for Women, Denton:
we withdraw from worldly actions in
order' to better combat the devil.
While commonly termed a three
day retreat, it will actually last only
one full day. All extra curriculum
activities are to be suspended.
All students are requested for the
good of their own souls, to make a
sincere effort for a good retreat.
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author—Senator George Norris,
master of governmental science and
statesmanship...
TUESDAY, January 26th:
Classes taught at:
8:45 A. M. on Tuesdays
9:40 A. M. on Mondays
9:40 A. M. on Tuesdays
WEDNESDAY, January 27th:
Classes taught at:
10:35 A. M. on Mondays
10:35 A. M. on Tuesdays
11:30 A. M. on Mondays
In truly Christian style, St. Ce-
cilia sends forth her heavenly tunes
down the centuries.
“At last divine Cecilia came,
Inventress of the vocal frame;
The sweet enthusiast, from her
sacred store,
Enlarged the former narrow bounds
And added length to solemn
sounds.”
The Cecilia of Chaucer and
Raphael, is still great in the hands
of Dryden, in a last comparison be-
tween the Saint and the pagan, Timo-
theus.
“He raised a mortal to the skies;
She drew an angel down.”
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STUDENT RETREAT
BEGINS THURSDAY
featuring KAY THOMPSON and
THE RHYTHM SINGERS
EVERY FRIDAY /30 P.M.,
ALL COLUMBIA STATIONS
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FRIDAY, January 29th:
Classes taught at:
2:05 P. M. on Mondays
2:05 P. M. on Tuesdays
3:00 P. M. on Mon. & Tues.
Il Saturday, January 30th, is registration day for the second semester.
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St. Cecilia, like the young virgin
martyr, Agnes, and the martyred
Roman soldier, Sebastian, has been
familiar and beloved to the Christian
people throughout the centuries. Her
short and fragrant life was as flow-
ery as the sunny South of Italy where
she was born. She was brought up
in the faith, this young noble woman,
and vowed her virginity to God.
Against her will, she was given in
marriage to the pagan Valerian.
St. Cecilia, herself a martyr of the
third century, was buried in the Cata-
combs of St. Calixtus. In 821 Pope
Pascal I removed her remains to the
church, Santa Cecilia, in Trastevere.
While the church was being repaired,
Cardinal Sfondrati discovered her
coffin there in 1589. Raphael earlier
in the same century, gave us by his
Aj-ush, the St. Cecilia who lives in
Aur memories today, seated at the
organ on her wedding day. The pic-
ture is at Bologna, Italy, today.
St. Cecilia could hardly have es-
caped a pedestal in English Litera-
ture. We remember well the Canter-
bury Tales of Chaucer. About thirty
people representing various walks of
'^life, such as merchant, lawyer, priest,
and sister, told stories on their way
from London to the Shrine of St.
Thomas, martyr under King Henry
II. One of the nuns on pilgrimage,
told the tale of Cecilia, and the Saint
lost none of her loveliness by the
pen of Chaucer.
On the day of Cecilia’s marriage,
still unwilling to wed.
“While the organ made melody,
To God alone in heart thus sang
she,
‘O Lord, my soul and also my body
keep
Unspotted, lest that it confounded
be’.”
After the wedding ceremony, Co-
ncilia told Valerian of the guardian
angel, visible to her, who stood watch
at her side. He desired to see the
angel, but his young wife said that
he would first have to become a
Christian. She sent him out the Via
Appia to the catacombs where Pope
Urban was in hiding from the per-
secutions. An aged man, dressed ni
white, appeared, and read from a
book before Pope Urban and Valer-
ian.
“ ‘One Lord, one faith, one God, and
no more,
One Christendom, and Father of all
also,
Above all and ovei’ all everywhere.’
These words all in gold were writ-
ten.”
The revered man was St. Paul, of
course, reading from the fourth chap-
ter of his Epistle to the Ephesians.
After his baptism by Pope Urban,
“Valerian goeth home and findeth
Cecile,
Within his chamber with an angel
standing.”
To Cecilia the angel gave a crown
of roses, typifying martyrdom; to
Valerian, a crown of lilies, signify-
ing purity. Tiburce, brother to Val-
erian, came to visit the newly married
couple.
“ ‘I wonder, this time of the year,
Whence that sweet savour cometh
so
Of roses and lilies that I smell
here’.”
Tiburce, too, became a Christian.
Cecilia encouraged the two brothers
during their arrest and martyrdom.
At her own trial, she was thoroughly
masculine in her conquest of fear,
and very thoroughly feminine in her
piercing and merciless answers to the
raving judge. A day and a night she
lived unharmed in the fires of a
Roman bath. Perhaps excited by the
onlookers, and by the young noble-
woman on her knees before him, her
executioner failed to sever the head
from the body by the three legal
strokes of the axe or sword.
“Three days lived she in this tor-
ment,
And, never ceased to teach them
the faith
That she had fostered.”
She asked that her home be made
into a church.
“Her house the church of St. Cecile
is called;
St. Urban hallowed it, as well he
might.”
John Dryden, three centuries after
Chaucer wrote his “Song In Honor
of St. Cecilia’s Day.” Most of the
poem relates Timotheus’ words in
praise of great pagan men, sung to
the accompaniment of his musical in-
struments.
“Timotheus, to his breathing flute
and sounding lyre,
Could swell the soul to rage or
kindle soft desire.”
The annual retreat will be held
January 14, 15, and 16, according to
notifications from Reverend Regis
Riter, C. S. C., prefect of religion.
It was further announced that the
Rev. Father Thomas Kilday O. M.
I. would act as retreat master.
The retreat will begin Thursday
night at 7:30, extend through Friday,
and end with a holy Mass and the
Apostolic Blessing Sunday morning.
Students of St. Edward’s are indeed
fortunate to be able to make a re-
treat with so little inconvience to
themselves. In many places, Catholic
men go to great trouble and expense
in order to get away from the cares
of everyday life, and take an in-
ventory of themselves. Here students
have these same advantages and it
does not cost a cent. The fact that
the retreat falls on a Friday night
will perhaps entail some sacrifice on
the part of the students but there
is no true love without sacrifice, and
love of one’s soul should make an
added incentive to a sincere retreat.
The example is given us of the
merchant who closes his store every
year in order to take an inventory
of his goods. We ought to be at least
as wise as the grocer-man and follow
his example in our spiritual life. To
do this we withdraw from the busi-
ness of everyday life and like the
grocer-man, take an inventory. The
retreat is the time to check up our
spiritual profits and loss, determine
the sins and their causes, and at-
tempt to formulate a plan to lead
a better life.
The need for prayer and the re-
ception of the sacraments cannot be
stressed too strongly as aids in mak-
ing a good retreat. The word “re-
treat” does not mean a cowardly
action, but rather a courageous one,
and Dr. Ralph W. Nelson, former
president of the conference.
Father Riter is a charter member
of the association and was the only
Catholic attending.
After the banquet and the presi-
I dential address Monday evening, the
discussion was largely on Scholastic
philosophy. The discussion was long
and interesting, and the force and
vitality of Scholastic philosophy were
impressed on the members in the
rapid exchange of views in which
Father Riter warmly defended the
Scholastic position. In the Tuesday
morning session, Prof. Lloyd V.
Moore, of the University of Tulsa,
left the field of philosophy proper
to read a paper on “Religious Ex-
perience and Social Progress”, in
which a blasphemous comparison was
made between Buddha and Moses and
Christ. In the discussion that fol-
lowed, Father Riter pointed out that
there is no opposition between Moses
and Christ, but rather that Moses is
a figure and a type of Christ, a part
of the long preparation for the com-
ing of the Savior.
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Views Of The News
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vention Saturday night at the
Charles hotel, New Orleans, the Most
Reverend Christopher E. Byrne Bis-
hop of Galveston, gave an inspiring
address, stressing the point that the
only correction of the social evils in
the world today is a return to Christ-
ian principles, and Christian institu-
tions.
At the Dallas convention Father
Riter was honored also by being
elected to the executive board of the
society. Here Father Riter demon-
strated the force and vitality of the
Neo-Scholastic Movement when he
gave an address on “Scholastic Meta-
physics”. This convention was at-
tended by philosophers from all parts
of the Southwest.
At the business session the name
of the association was changed to
“The Southwestern Philosophical Con-
ference” on the suggestion of Dr.
Mitchell of the University of Texas.
A constitution was drawn up, and
the conference, which had its chartei'
meeting last year, was put on a more
solid footing.
The following officers were elected
for the coming year: Dr. I. K. Steph-
ens of Southern Methodist Univer-
sity, Dallas, was elected president,
succeeding Dr. Ralph Nelson, of Phil-
lips University, Enid, Oklahoma; Dr.
Anna McCracken, of the University
of Kansas, vice-president; Dr. Archie
J. Bahm, Texas Technological Col-
lege, Lubbock, re-elected secretary-
treasurer. Board members include
Father Riter; Dr. Turrentine, Texas
Classes for the second semester will begin Monday morning, February
1st, at 7:50 A. M.
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