Fordham University - Maroon Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Columbia 495 Columbia AIL, goddess fair, O'er freedom's land presiding. Midst happy folk abiding, Hail! Beneath thy rule, no curse Of war can hurrid trumpet blare, Nor wrinkled care Oppress us. Oh, guide our destiny aright; Bless us With all prosperity; Nor with temerity Let any foe assail our might! E. R. M., 15.

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494 The Fordham Monthly during the action of the play, an extraordinary feat, now that the days of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” are past. .However, extraordinary feats are nothing to the class of T5. Were it not that the chronicler of these deeds is cramped for time and writing this article under pressure, he would fill reams upon reams of paper in the recountance of the glories of ’15, he would write till his fingers became numb with exhaustion and his eyelids wagged with tiredness. But it is not given him thus to fatigue himself, and the eager public must rest content with this meagre retailing of '15's accomplishments. To some this article may seem a manifestation of pavonian conceit and blatant braggadocio. If by conceit is meant a correct estimation of self, if by braggadocio is meant the showing forth of shining deeds that have too long been hidden from the public view by the bushels of an ill-advised modesty and a blush fully reticent nature,—we plead guilty. “Let your light shine before man,” saieth the Scriptures. We always obey the Scripture. Behold then the class that broke two legs in the cause of Varsity baseball; that spilt much life-gore, shattered many molars, and sustained a multiplicity of contusions and abrasions in order that Alma Mater might be triumphant on the gridiron! Behold the class that knew no Vanquisher! Behold the class that was the backbone of the Monthly, the class that ever took the lead in Dramatics! First in Debate! First in Oratory! First in---------- We were going to perorate, but we just recalled an incident which involves a compliment of which we are most justly proud. On a certain day in spring a year or so ago, the boys of a co-edu-cational high school came up to play the Prep; the girls came up to lend their moral support. At that time we happened to be busy in our scientific researches in the laboratory, and thus lost the opportunity to see the game. It was all over just when we finished, and as we streamed out of the Science Building, little cries of admiration and amazement issued from the fair co-eds. And at the very moment when we the class of 1915 were passing into the Gym, I heard her who was evidently the leader of this vast bevy of females cry out in awe-struck tones: “Ah, so bright,—so good,— so bkautifui, !” Cyrii, B. Egan, ’15.

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Demammonizing the Country Commencement Speech ACH century has had its special aims and individual aspirations and one might say its providential work. In ours, attention has been directed to imminent social problems and its mission seems to be to seek a permanent peace in the formidable struggle existent today between the world of capital and the world of labor. The great working class of the country has finally grown impatient at the conflict and has demanded that it cease. And so to-day we are face to face with one of the most important questions of the time, a question which has divided nations, whose answer has been vainly sought in bloodshed and revolution, bringing in their wake a series of consequences that threatened the stability of law and order. Philosophers, philanthropists and economists ascribe the social unrest of the times to the accumulation of great wealth on the part of a few and a consequent depreciation of the necessities and comforts of life to the millions of the workers of the country. We do not decry the possession of wealth in itself. We recognize in every man, be he pauper or millionaire, the right to private property, a right that is come to him not through legislation, not through the common consent of the people, but a right that is born in him and is as firmly and as deeply rooted in his soul as is his natural right to life. Wealth in itself is not intrinsically wrong. The evil lies in the methods of accumulation and the means of disposal, for the same natural law that justifies the possession of a single dollar justifies the possession of a million. It is the mammoth fortunes, accumulated by wrongful means, by fraud, trickery and chicanery, by the underpayment of employee, by an unnecessary increase in the prices of the necessities and comforts of life; fortunes that are used to defeat the ends of justice and secure special privileges to the few, that to-day stand forth as the peril of the classes. W'hen such wealth, accumulated by a few, becomes so great that it is detrimental to the common good and defeats the end of society, then that wealth is excessive and should be circulated. On all sides we see the evils of excessive wealth. It has cleft the country in twain. The facts are patent to all. Year after year the rich have become richer, and the poor poorer, until to-day the