Fordham University - Maroon Yearbook (New York, NY)

Text from Pages 1 - 164 of the 1919 volume:

h iiHiiiiiiiiiiiiBiiiiiHiiiiiniiiiiBiiiiiniiiiiiifliiiiiiiiiiriiiiiuii:iiHiii!iimiiaii'iii:iiiNiiaiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiHiiiiiiRiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiHiiiiiiiiaiiMiiiMiiiiii imiiiiiiii iibjiiiii The Maroon: 1919 Being a History of the Class and of the Year di St. John’s College Fordham University Published at St. John’s College Fordham I niversity 1919 • iiiiii.in jii hi ill iiiiinmiimiii mi iiiiuiiJiniiiiiii mini mini ■iiiiiimHiiii hiii� :Iiiiii mm iihiii ieihiiiiiimiiii 'Iiiiihii iii.iiiiiicii-aiiHiiiiiminirin: inarTf. Printed by THE HARVEY PRESS Nevr York City jforeworfc IS the custom to have a foreword, and so. of course, we must ave one. It seems superfluous, adding nothing to the honor f anyone, and only unprofitably detaining those who are anxious 3 get on to more important things; but it is the custom. Vet it is good for more than that. Though indeed, it does not increase their honor, it enables us to express our gratitude and appreciation to many for a great number of things. The class has given us that very difficult task of telling their sentiment to the Faculty. It is more than we can put in a mere “Thank you, or in many pages of them; it is the affection that we must have for those who took us. a pretty raw set of youths, and made us as much of men as we are. In the knowledge that we realize, somewhat, the things they have done for us. they will read our gratitude. We must express our appreciation of the work of the Business Manager, who had the more onerous and less credited half of the work necessary to the production of The Maroon. And on behalf of the Business Manager, we express his thanks to the class for their hearty co-operation in his work. We must express our gratitude, too, to all but for whose aid our unprofessional hand would have made a botch of this book: to Mr. Daly and Mr. lorio of The Harvey Press, to Mr. Mackey of the Gill Engraving Company, to Mr. Brassil of the Brassil Bindery, to Mr. Herrold of Brcn-tano’s and to the unnamed army of linotypers, compositors, engravers, pressmen and binders who worked on this volume. All of these treated the book not as a mere job. but almost as if they were ourselves. Finally, we must give our thanks to the advertisers, without whom it would have been impossible for us to produce this book; we earnestly exhort our readers in the words of that old adage, to “ Patronize Our Advertisers.” That is all. Pass on. If the book gives you as much pleasure to read as it gave us to write (an amazing amount) we will be repaid; and if in the far future it helps keep alive the love and memory of Fordham. its mission will have been accomplished. THF FDITORS MIIIMtlliMIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIM (Mill II •••••••• Ml I •••••• •••••••Ml ••••••••• Ml !•••••••••••••••••••••• •••• i j! j • V z : ■i !: i. SI : : :: i! it i! !=:• : I r : i : . : RECTORI NEC ol'IA MAXIMA EEC 1ST I COI.LEGIO AMATO, PrAECIPIF, NEC I'T HOC, NOMINE MIRIFICO, Sl’LENDI Dll'S NITEAT, CONSECRAMUS TIBI, RECTOR, ExiGlTM gUIDEM OPUS, SED PIETATF. MERA. • : HI III • = :: I • :. w .1! !| =� • MMIMIIIIMMMMIIM IMIllMlllllllMMlnnMlMlimMnHIIMMIIHIMMniniHIIIMMt : • : .................................................................................... REV. EDWARD P. TIVNAN, S. J. President of Fordham University RevC 0. FJohns on,S. J. Re E.J.BurkeSJ. Mnb.M.SulU ant$3 WMmmsmm. arorroi—i — D vofc86ors Senior The Rev. Owen A. Hill, S. J. The Rev. Edmund J. Burke, S. J. Psychology, Natural Theology, Ethics and Economics. Evidences of Religion. The Rev. G. A. Caballero, S. J. Mr. Daniel J. Sullivan, S. J. Biology. Geology and Astronomy. Junior The Rev. Michael J. Mahony, S. J. The Rev. Francis D. O’Laughlin, S. J. General Metaphysics, Cosmology, I-ogic and laboratory Physics. Evidences of Religion. The Rev John F. X. Murphy, S. J. History. The Rev. Paul V. Roukc, S. J. Chemistry. Mr. Daniel J. Quigley, S. J. Journalism. Mr. Daniel J. Sullivan, S. J. Didactic Physics. Sophomore The Rev. George F. Johnson, S. J. The Rev. John H. Farley, S. J. Latin, Greek and English Literature. Latin, Greek and English Literature. The Rev. John F. X. Murphy, S. J. Mr. Daniel J. Sullivan, S. J. History and Evidences of Religion. Mechanics. Mr. George F. Strohaver, S. J. Chemistry. jfreebman Mr. Louis J. Gallagher, S. J. Latin, Greek, English and French Literature Mr. Daniel F. Ryan, S. J. Latin, Greek and English Literature. Mr. David A. Jordan, S. J. Latin, English and German Literature. The Rev. John F. X. Murphy, S. J. History and Evidences of Religion Mr. Louis J. Rcpctti, S. J. Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Mr. George F. Strohaver, S. J. Chemistry. The Rev. Owen A. Hill, S. J. PtolcMor of Evidences of Religion Natural Theology Psychology Ethics rempna Ube Staff of ftbc flfoaroon Editor John C. MacCarthy Associate Matthew A. Taylor Edward J. Eustace John W. Martin Edward J. O'Mara Editors Denis Q. BlaVe James F. Hart Arthur C. Donohue Raphael A. Manganaro PAUL T. O’KEEFE Business Manager ot The Maroon imoa« Class Officers President Vice-President Secretary James J. (ileason William J. O’Shea Francis V. Mylod Julian J. Reiss treasurer Wije (gift The stone that once the fallen gods held high Against their fall, that let the laughter clang On their lips, when men leaped for it and failed. Truth thy gift is to us, rigid truth. This holding, we can smiling, sec the learned Wander in the snarled streets of old towns; Be not confounded by the gabble at New prophets, for we know that let there be New metaphors hung on a string, a tale With twisted end or moral written, and The world is sounding with an equal buzz, As once was Uz, from flies that nozed round Job. Gilding goes like ice under the salt. The rich with bellies full of fat, who made Men into wheels and cogs, they gathered cockle Into their barns, and bound the wheat to burn. Kings who cast down kings, and scared the face Of nations, hurled from the pinnacle at last. The fort of people wore away the words Upon their grave-slabs, robbers stole their robes, They are a sudden blast which whirled the leaves. Purple and ermine, towers, ivory thrones. Great cities, argosies and conquered fields, The years of countless men, only a page. As, when a gust tumbles a smoky spire. The lover secs a maiden’s raven hair, The old, the dark gray cowl of coming death, The thief, non-shackles, the merchant, money lost. But few the fire round which that darkness flies, So each counts the image of his thought the truth. Or as, when rode the tetrarch to the inn, The nobles bowed obsequious to their lord, Their servants in the courtyard to his train, And put a childing woman from the door, Pools make their gods. You taught us that the Wise Followed a star, found in a stable, light. I I Claes Ibtetor LEO JOSEPH O BRIEN B. S. Fordism Prep. Debating Society (I. 2, 3); Crew (I, 4): Track (I. 2); Class Football (3). Oh. ffodt. Ilfndf «■ � ©� lx • of thin nobtr n-if'e. Shaktsptorr . uliuit Ctusat. HAVE you ever, being on Canal or Orchard or Baxter Street, and looking in the window of a clothing store had a big red-headed Jew seize you by the collar and try to drag you into his store, that having hypnotized you by his talk, he might induct you into one of his nobby suits? You haven't? Or nothing like it? Then you never passed Times Square in civilian clothes during the late war. For if you had. you would have suffered this same fate at the hands of our Mr. O'Brien, former sergeant of the Marines. It shows the quality of him that in that band of fighters where many college men were proud to rank as corporals, he was advanced to the grade of sergeant in three months. It was as a gyrene, we imagine, that his abilities showed their first real blooming. He went away genial, but not an over-poweringly dominant force: he came back bronzed and straight as a sapling. and with a convincing, rapid-fire line of talk that astounds one. to take a leading place in the activities of the class. They say that the trim figure and the gray Irish eye of him set one little heart a-fluttering, and the affair is quite serious. We speak only from hearsay, but it is a report that might naturally start about him and might, quite as naturally be true. For this we know: that as he leaves Fordham. there is no one who is not his dear friend. I 2: HI FRANCIS HOWARD BARRETT Special Xavier Hitch School Basketball (I); Tennis (4); University Orchestra (2, 3, 4); Class Football (3): Class Baseball (3. 4); Class Hockey (3, 4): I. C. Sodality. .I ipjueakinp engine he applied Unto his neck, on northeast tide. —Butler- Unit Unas. THERE is a prejudice against musicians. But if Chuck Barrett chooses to draw out of so much wood and catgut and horsehair, harmonies that send upon the soul the winds of Olympus, or if it pleases him to follow the fashion of the day. and dispense jazz—if he wishes to do all these things, as he most excellently can. who is to say him nay Not we who listen to him, most certainly. For here’s no Bohemian in dirty linen and a Windsor tie. Here’s no absinthe-bibbing Greenwich Villager. Here’s no lank, long-haired, sallow, saturnine, intense virtuoso for you. Out upon all such dull dogs who must prop up their art with eccentricity! Give us a jolly fellow, full of the joy of life, a man of the kidney of Barrett, whose exuberant temperament has made him the most accomplished practical joker in all Fordham. has put into his eye that twinkle that not all the skill of an expert retoucher could blot out of his photograph. We have some dim memories that in Freshman he made quite a promising showing on the baseball and basketball squads. But he never followed up this success, preferring to engage himself in running dances, jazz bands and other ventures, in all of which he showed a fine managerial hand that augurs well for his success as a business man. We hear, however, that he intends to study law. Cut it out. Chuck! Cut it out! vi ’A A 1 x I A JOHN JAMES BASSO Special Pliilips-Andovcr Academy Gymnasium Director (3. 4). “Ht'� tough, ma’am: tough is J. H.‘ IHckt ns—Dotnbey and Son. am Ihi tiachtr of at hit Its.” Whitman—Leaves of Grass. IN a hot gymnasium on the lower East side crowded galleries have been watching lithe youths go through such swift, precise, and bewildering feats of agility and strength that they could now look unastonished upon a man walking upon the ceiling. There is a sudden voice commanding silence, then launching upon an unexpected eulogy of the man who had taken untrained boys and in a year transformed them into finished athletes. And a mighty volume of cheers. That is an attempt to summarize the achievements of John Basso, but it is hopelessly inadequate. For his work in the settlements is more than mere physical training. It is the work of an ardent and fearless missionary, who pounds ethics, and a respect for the Church into many a hard thug and many a harder bigot, a natural leader who holds his position by a fiery enthusiasm and a ready sympathy for the affairs of others. He is interested in men, not to get something out of them, but to give them something. His work outside has given him little opportunity to do things at Fordham. But this, strangely, is not a loss. We have no wrestling team on which the former lightweight champion of New England could compete, no boxing, fencing, basketball or gym teams upon which he could represent the college. And outside he does such remarkable work spreading good Christian ethics that we can hardly regret his absence. 7 DENIS QUINN BI.AKE A. B. I'oidli.im Prep. Class Medal (2b); Essay. Meda (2. 3) : I he Kam. Correspondence Editor (3); I he Monthly. Asso ciate Editor (3. 4); Debating So r.iety (I. 2. 3, 4); Treasurer (3) President (4); Team (4); Prize De bate (2. 3. 4) ‘Varsity Play (3) I. C. Sodality. ' «- u'its hi Logic great critic I’rofoiiNill7 skilled in aiialutic. But hr—Huilitimx. LIKE his illustrious namesake. St. Dionysius of Athens (or as the French called him. Denis), who disputed on philosophy before the F.mperor Augustus, our Denis is a philosopher with few equals. 1 o hear him in circle hacking the argument of the objector into little bits, is an intellectual treat. This logical power stands him in good stead in debating, where he has achieved remarkable success, winning a place in the prize debate for three successive years, and a position on the team. His work as a writer has also been notable. I lis essays have won prizes. His critical judgments have been listened to with respect. His opposition to sentimentality has made him a dreaded Exchange Editor. With just wrath he tears into the slushy stories and maudlin love poems of his contemporaries, transfixing the quivering authors with his facile pen. It is a strange quality in one who has such a devotion to Terpsichore. But if you don’t offend this aversion of his. or comment unfavorably upon the Irish question (if you do you will have an opponent who is terrible in his knowledge of the facts of that question) and if you have a liking for puns (in the making of which he is so nearly a rival of Thomas Hood that among his intimates they have become known as Blakeisms)—or even if you differ with him on these matters—you will find in him a friend who is to be cherished. ROCCO MICHAEL CHIASCONE Special Yonkers I ligh School Class football (3): Class Baseball (3, 4). am not Inin rnough to hr thought n good tftudrnt. Shakespeare- Ticeljth Night. HOW he retains the curves of his swelling figure is something of a mystery. To see him reciting in class with the sweat coursing down his brow like a miniature waterfall, you would imagine that a series of examinations would leave him only the limp ghost of himself. Rut each time he comes up the path smiling, ready to tackle the psychology with the persistence if not the zest of an Aquinas. Not even an enlistment in the Navy could make him anything but himself. And of this we are glad. We like him as he is. And a lean, gaunt Rocco would be almost as inconceivable as a nasty, sour, crabbed Rocco. Me is not built for a vast amount of speed. It is. however, his mania. We have it on reliable authority that he has designs on the laurels of his illustrious fellow countrymen. Ralph De Palma and Dario Resta. He will have much use for all this accumulated knowledge a few years from now. We can picture the frantic voice of a woman in the night, the hurried dressing, the mad ride through the sleet and the arrival to find it was only wind colic the baby had. For he is one of the many in the class who intend to make medicine their profession. This great profusion of doctors among our friends will be an embarrassment in the future; we will hardly know which to call upon when the need arises. But (we put it this way so that no one will be offended) Rocco will not be the last. RAYMOND ASHLEY COLEMAN A. B. St. Peter’s Prep. ST. PETERS COLLEGE (I. 2. 3): Class Treasurer (2): Debating Society (I, 2, 3): College PUy (I. 2. 3); Elocution Contest (3). .Vof t tl mature but matchl .in.” Shakespeare Troilua and Crcssida. WE SAW the delegation from St. Peter's come with misgivings. We saw them go with regret. This youngster was the cause of much of the change of heart. He alone would have more than recon-onciled us to the invasion. Entering the door, he cracked a joke, he took his scat amid a burst of mirth and left the same way. His progress through the year could be marked by the wake of laughter he left behind. For he is a true wit, whose genius did much to lighten the sometimes heavy burden of classroom monotony. His genius for being always correct in matters of dress leads to the suspicion that the writer of What Men will Wear has at least his moral support. It would be a natural and correct inference from all this that he is a social luminary, not only because he is of a gregarious turn, but because society in Greenville, l ordham and way points just can’t get along without him. It is unfortunate that there was no Varsity play this year. If there had been we could speak through knowledge of his acting. Now we have only hearsay to guide us. but even allowing for the exaggeration of rumor, it seems he would have backed all his rivals off the boards. Elocution also was his meat, in fact, there are few things that were not, except possibly football. So it is difficult to prophesy his future. The most probable forecast we have heard gives him his own little Sun Dial or Conning Tower. JOHN JOSEPH CROSBY A. B. St. Peter’: High School ST. PETERS COLLEGE (I, 2. 3) College Play (3): Debating Society (I, 2, 3); Secretary (2); Elocution Contest. Medal (3): ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE (4); Banquet Committee. To thi dauntlfft tempi r of hi mind H hath a wisdom that doth f uidf hi with To art in nafitxi —Shakmpcait—Marbrth. JACK is another member of the Jersey delegation. He was one of the last to take his place in the class. Uncle Sam thinking so much of his services that it was only after considerable deliberation that he consented to let him join us. An entire stranger. Jack soon endeared himself to us all by his sterling character, open mind and zealous work for the welfare of the class. There is one dominating impression which forces itself upon all who come into contact with him—he has the courage of his convictions. We hear that while at St. Peter’s Hank, as they sometimes call him. starred in all branches of collegiate life—in athletics, oratory, dramatics, society and whatever else goes to the making of a regular college. 1 le was the mainstay of the football team in his Sophomore and Junior years, a regular on the baseball and basketball teams, winner of the elocution medal, star actor, with his name in large caps on the program, equally a leader in other things that it would be tedious to mention. It is easy to see how he got the reputation of being lucky, for the event of each of his undertakings was success. Rut to call his success mere luck is detraction. Everything he won was won by work. They will probably call it luck, too, when he successfully transplants arms and legs and docs more than the wonders of Doctor Moreau, but we will know better. LAWRENCE RAYMOND DALY A. B. St. Peter s High School ST. PETERS COLLEGE (I. 2. 3): Journal. Contributor (3): Debating Society (I. 2. 3): Elocution Contest (I, 2): College Play (I, 2. 3); College Football (2); Class Baseball (I, 2, 3): Class Basket-ball (I. 2. 3). Du( such if site nee is mi on wise (ha� TVmiyxon- Meriin ami Vivien. TRAVEL broadens the mind. is an old saw. and we can certainly believe it. if one classmate is representative of the traveler. For genial Larry Daly hails from the flourishing city of Elizabeth, and every day for the last eight years has hied his way cityward in pursuit of his Bachelor degree. Rather reticent in his demeanor, he has ever been a first-class student. and he has, by his cheerfulness, won the respect of his schoolmates until now he stands one of the most popular members of the class. That Larry is an orator of no mean ability may be seen from the fact that in his Freshman and Junior years at St. Peter's he received honorable mention for his work in the Declamation contests and on several occasions at old St. Peter's he trod the boards as an exponent of the classic buskin, to the keen delight of our college audiences. His natural aptitude for Chemistry and Physics and all things mathematical has been evident on many occasions. His success in Astronomy and Geology has been due to this same interest which he showed on former occasions, which interest, incidentally, would have won him an Ensign's commission if the desire to complete his course had not lured him away. The world will soon make the acquaintance of Lawrence Raymond Daly to its advantage. ARTHUR CHRISTOPHF.R JOSEPH DONOHUE A. B. Fordham Prep. Th« Ram. Reportorial Staff (3); Debating Society (I, 2, 3. 4), Vice-President (3). Prize Debate (2. 3). Medal (3), Team (4); Varsity Play (3); Athletic Association. I reas-urer (4); Parthenian Sodality; The Maroon. Editorial Staff. Fie. fob. and fit in I k nell the blood of a Hrilinh ’nan. Shaltet more Fin a Lear. WHEN we are dramatic critic on The Folderol, or court reporter on The Barristers’ Wheeze, we expect to use up several very long and very sharp lead pencils writing about this young man. How shall the account go—“The brilliant acting of Mr. Donohue transformed a rather dull play into a smashing success”? Or shall it be—but why waste our good things now. especially when his acting and oratory are so well known? Let us get down to that ghoulish, but delightful business of stripping the living flesh from his character. What are the qualities that go to the making of a beadle—a most super-excellent beadle? We ask the question because, having held his position secure through the stress of eight years of refractory professors, there must be something pre-eminently beadlish about his nature. Primo—he must be conscientious, a man who never cuts a class. Secundo—he must be of a jolly nature. Bumble the beadle was sour and ill-tempered, but this was unnatural, as is proved by his fate. And here wc have the checrfulcst man in the class: he giggles like a Swedish schoolgirl. Though no one objects to that, it merely proves that he has a sense of humor. Suffice to say that to his kindly nature there is only one antipathy, one insult: England and the English. Steer clear of Anglomania when with him or you must fight. PATRICK ALOYSIUS DWYER A. B. St. Peter's High School ST. PETER’S COLLEGE (I. 2. 3): The Journal, Associate Editor (2); Editor-In-Chief (3): College Baseball (I, 2); College Basket-ball (I. 2). HV carry not a heart with us from hence That grows not in a fair consent with ours Xor leave not one behind that doth not wish Success and conquest to attend on ut.” —Shakespeare—■ Henry V. PAT is the kind of a man who simply cannot fail. He came to us from Jersey at the beginning of the present year with a splendid reputation for his previous years and fresh from a brilliant career in the U. S. Arrny. Starting at the beginning of the war as a private. Pat soon won the confidence of his superiors and after a stiff course of training was commissioned a lieutenant of machine gunners and ordered south to Camp Hancock. It is his one regret that he did not have the opportunity to go across, but so thoroughly had he mastered his subject that he was detailed as a machine gun instructor for the duration of the war. Pat’s chief activities in college were scholarship and baseball. In the former he made a wonderful name for himself, a name which will not soon be forgotten by those with whom he was associated. In the latter his reputation has spread far and wide. In the old days when he swore allegiance to St. Peter’s we more than once marvelled at the way he played the hot corner against his present Alma Mater. Of a rather quiet disposition, the keynote of Pat's character is sincerity. He leaves us as one of the most liked men of the class. A thoroughly capable fellow, a successful legal career is a certainty. EDWARD JOSEPH EUSTACE Special Fordhttm Prep. The Ram. I he Ram’s Horn (3) ; The Monthly. Associate Editor (I. 2. 3. 4); Baseball (I. 2. 4). “I.it not the lone trail lend me iloii'n ichert the eitir lie Kiftina thru e ramte � if erg again ! the nun and the iJiit. lint let nn ufand r lira Jit. O Lord, teheri Nature’s Chancels are. Trail of the Nomad King. ON A certain day in August some twenty-two years ago the gods were in a pleasant frame of mind. For in their distribution of general all-around mental and physical aptitude, they doled out no half portions and on one red-headed, bow-legged mite they bestowed gifts enough for a dozen. Eddie is Fordham’s literary jack-of-all-trades. His essays and humorous verse have frequently appeared in The Monthly (sufficient testimony to their artistic merit), and his poetry shows a metrical smoothness, a depth of thought and a beauty of expression that is rarely, if ever, found in a college publication. He has roamed all over the diamond on the Prep and Varsity nines, from left field to first base. Each position he has filled like the polished ball player he is. Eddie also paints, draws and now and then a grotesque piece of the sculptor’s art has been rounded off by his supple hands. Every drive or campaign at Fordham has been liberally advertised by his cartoons. Where will his talents lead him? Surely no son of ’ I 9 has so many paths from which to choose. Mayhap in that dim and distant period wherein we all hope to achieve a moderate degree of fame we shall read of Eustace, the Kipling, or Eustace, the McCutcheon. Whatever be his field we shall know in what rank to look for his name. PATRICK FRANCIS FLOOD Special St. Mary's School. Longford National University of Ireland (I. 2); Mt. Mellary Seminary. Waterford (3): St. John’s College (4). Rnt thou brinp'sl valor too and irit. Tiro tkinff.i that seldom fail to hit.” Cutler Httdibrav. PAT is a native of the Emerald Isle, hailing from the town of Longford. His presence in this country and at Fordham is merely another aspect of the differences, ever momentous, between Ireland and England. Pat is a sturdy Sinn Fcincr. Flc took part in the rising of Easter Week, 1916, where he showed conspicuous bravery in the fighting in Dublin. About three weeks later he had the distinction of having one hundred and twenty-five cavalry and a mounted machine gun call at his house to arrest him. Life after that was anything but tame for him. His residence varied between English jails and internment camps. Sinn Fein headquarters in Dublin, hiding places in the hills and the home of any loyal supporter of Irish independence. 1 le made speeches, eluded pursuits, supervised elections, organized militia and became in time a captain in the Irish Republican Army. With all his experiences he seems like a hero out of Stevenson. The British finally became so anxious to sec him that they placed him under a few indictments. Pat. deciding that Dublin’s climate was getting unhealthy, sought security for a while in England and thence came to America. In his short period with us Pat has been universally liked. He is spirited. cheerful and has a ready wit that has served him well. The consensus of opinion is that Dublin Castle must have its hands full in dealing with the Irish if there are many more like Pat. 1 1 EDWARD JOSEPH GLEASON Special Fordham Prep Baseball 3. 4); F . .I eoinbination and a form indeed IVlierc mu tod did .mm to ret hi teal To give th' world anttiranci of a man.’’ Shakcnpeare. AJ THIS is one of these here war waifs. Originally of the class of 1918, he enlisted in the navy early in the war. was unable to graduate with his own class and was left a precious legacy to us. And a very audible cheer went all through Fordham on that historic day in March when the news went about that Ed Gleason had returned. To the college at large it meant that a brilliant player had been added to the ball team. To his friends, or rather we should say to his intimates, it meant that one of the finest fellows in the world would be with us for at least a few more months. There is no pretense about Ed. not even a justifiable boastfulness. He lets his deeds talk for him. No one knew that he was one of the best players that ever wore the colors of Fordham—no one knew that he was an athlete at all until his Junior year, when he went out and burnt up the diamond with his fast playing. If there is anything that speaks for him even louder than his deeds, it is his friends, for he has a capacity for making loyal friends. Much of it is due no doubt to his unaffectedness, and much to his appealingly direct and natural way of doing things, and much to—but we will leave the determination of what qualities, in what proportion go to the making of this faculty in a man, to the psychology sharks. We know that they must all be good and that Ed has them. Class President (4): The Ram, Circulation Manager (3): Varsity Play (3): Class Football (3): Class Baseball (3). “Altogether directed by an Irwhniun; .1 very valiant gentleman C faith. —Shukesjieare—llenrg V. JAMES JOSEPH GLEASON Special Fordham Prep. 8$ LADIES and GENILEMEN: 1 now take great pleasure in presenting to you Mr. James Gleason (tumultuous applause), one known throughout the length and breadth of this fair university both as an orator and as a man. He is a speaker whose talents have burst forth rather late in his career, if we except the modest part he had in the play, but so remarkable has been his rise that a short sketch of it is needed, both for the instruction and edification of future generations. At the end of Junior Year, after a campaign of unprecedented bitterness, but which was remarkably free from bribery, Mr. Gleason was elected President of his class. Immediately upon his inauguration he gave himself to that end which has ever been before his mind: the nurture of the Ford-ham spirit. Knowing that oratory most arouses the soul of man, he set forth upon a course from which he never wavered despite the ridicule that was at first heaped upon him, that ridicule which has changed to respect and admiration for his steadiness of purpose, his readiness to step in wherever a man was needed, his enthusiastic support of any good cause. Returning to college after serving as a lieutenant in the Army, Jim announced that he had decided to study medicine, and that he hoped that the class would look him up in emergencies. It will be far oftener than that that we will seek Jim out. A ■A 1 k WILLIAM BENEDICT GALVIN Special Dickinson High School Track Team (2, 3. 4): Manager (4). Thr blut •black 11 isl hair and Irish Cj dt. ——Thr Iai.iI Tournament. THEY speak of the tragedy of being a man without a country, but far more tragic is this manager without a team. After having arranged all preliminaries to a most successful season, he looked around for his team and found it a wholly negligible quantity. Then with the vast ambition of being both manager and team he donned the scant attire of an athlete and took his solitary way over hill and dale, and his lone plodding figure became familiar to the fauna who haunt the thickets of Bronx Park. In class, when not bombarded with foolish questions by some professor, he usually held his peace. Which was more than he did elsewhere. For he has a free independent Irish nature that balks at any restrictions, a mind that has little respect for the opinions of any man until he himself has worked them out. He is a born revolutionist, whose rising to speak in class meeting was always the prelude to a storm. Not that he ever took any stand merely for the sake of opposition. His bitterest enemy could not say that. And in the after-time, when college is only a memory, we will often return to this page sure that the breath of those happy days will come back powerfully in the memory of that association. And in those days we see him as a successful salesman. He has the equipment for that profession— an ability to talk long and convincingly and an inexhaustible stock of most amusing stories. H 2 CORNELIUS PHILIP CODLEV B. S. Newtown High School Class Entertainment Committee (4); Varsity Play (3); Tennis. Manager (4); Class Baseball (4); Class Hockey (3. 4). Hit heart teas rich of such fim mold Hint if you sowed therein The seed of hate, it blossomed charity.” —Tennyson—Queen Mary. NEIL GODLEY was born—but why must we enter into the particulars of where he was born; why tear away the obscurity that shrouds the little town from which he goes forth each day? Neil lives, breathes and moves among us; his birthplace, as long as we have him with us. does not particularly matter. What does matter is his excellent work at Fordham. Being discharged from the artillery in which he had enlisted he came back to manage the tennis team, having on his capable shoulders the whole weight of a non-self-supporting sport. He studied well but not so much as to arouse any unfavorable comment. He took a part in all class athletics, playing baseball and hockey and being kept from football only by his weight. As a member of the Entertainment Committee he worked prodigiously in a self-sacrificing way. making himself heartily well liked thereby. For those who have seen only what a swaggering ruffian he is when drunk, or apparently so—we mean those who saw him only on the boards as an actor—can hardly conceive what a true and noble gentleman he is. We have no idea of what he will do in life, but basing our conclusion on the advertisements in the Sunday papers that the secret of success is in making people want to please you. we have no difficulty at all in forecasting a distinguished future for him. AIBF.RT JOSEPH GU1DANO A. B. Fordham Prep. I. C. Sodality. “Men of few words arc the best iwtM.” —Shakespeare Henry V. | HJ A PERSON who is not a Keen Observer of Life. Joe’s career would } appear one little suited to biography. Indeed, he would be the first to disclaim any epic incidents in his life. He is enough to irritate a man. Interview him—your result is nothing. The Editor of I he Monthly almost broke into profane and abusive language when he heard from another that Joe wrote very excellent little essays, none of which he had ever offered for publication. I lis note-books are models of excellence in this degenerate age. I he professor of physics informed the writer that Joe was as efficient a man as he had ever had in his laboratory. And do you ever hear of these things? You do not. any more than you hear of his feat of reading the complete works of Shakespeare in one week. Though he is galling to the heart of a reporter, to a man his quiet and unassuming nature is endearing. He will listen to your dullest stories with apparent interest; he will not even groan at the reverend professorial wheezes. He can even get much quiet amusement out of the absurdities of Utilitarianism and Pragmatism. For his quietness is not that of the opinionless. His stand in class is high; before most of the class had thought of their life-work, he had decided to follow in the footsteps of Esculapius. And in the days of his practising, whoever calls in Joe will have a man with a thorough knowledge of his profession. GILBERT SMITH HAGGERTY A. B. DeWilt Clinton High School IIOLY CROSS COLLEGE ( I ): Varsity Ploy (3); Class Baseball (2, 3, 4); Reception Committee (4). Of a cheerful Iwk, a pleating rye and a most notable carriage. Shakespeare Henry IV. GIL HAGGERTY playing in Beau Brummel did not have the title role. Which is surprising to those who have seen him as he is among us—his tall, powerful figure in a delicately pale gray suit, his strong, classic features surmounted by a broad Panama, his whole air that of the immaculate man of the world. But if there was too little of the finicking and too much that was virile about him to make it possible for him to be cast as the dandyish Beau, then he might better have had the part of The Prince, or one among Soldiers, Knights, Messengers. Gentlemen of the Court, etc., or anything rather than that of a lodging house keeper—anything. For he has a really distinguished appearance. He has the poise and assurance of a man who has already made a place in the world. Yet he will at a moment’s notice strip off his coat. and. with no regard for the polish of his shoes, or the creases, or even the wholeness, of his delicately pale gray trousers, or the ultimate arrangement of his strong, classic features (or anybody else's), will hurl himself into a ball game or a football scrimmage, hit the dirt or the line with a fury and abandon that arc terrifying. And. marshaling our impressions with more care, we find that this aspect of him persists, especially since we saw him in the uniform of a sailor. For he is another of the class of 1918 that the war— and it is one of the few things we like about the war—bequeathed to us. JAMES FRANCIS HART A. B. Xavier High School Class Treasurer (2); Entertainment Committee, Chairman (4): The Ram, Dramatic Editor (3): The Monthly. Contributor (4); Debating Society (I, 2, 3): Secretary (2); Team (2); Oratorical Contest (I); Varsity Play (2); Athletic Association. General Manager (4); Class Baseball (3, 4): Class Hockey (3, 4); The Maroon, Editorial Staff. Then he will talk—good god'� how he ’rill talk. —Nathaniel Let. WE ARE to make no quips here about Yonkers. 1'hose who like that sort of thing must go elsewhere for it. We have something far too important to write about to waste our time on it. The place that Jim Hart made for himself at Fordham needs no such adventitious aids to arouse interest in it. Both in the class and in the college he has done fine work. He was always the first man thought of when any committee was to be formed, for he was a willing and indefatigable worker. He did so much in connection with the athletics that there was created for him a position new in the annals of the Association—that of General Manager. He contributed only one essay to The Monthly, but that one was pronounced by the critics of other college periodicals to be ”a masterpiece of sarcasm and irony’ that “ought to be read in Congress.’’ His genius expresses itself most perfectly in oratory; he won a place in the oratorical contest in his Freshman year, and one on the debating team in Sophomore. It was probably this known ability of his that gave such currency to the report that he had been asked to run for Alderman in his city. The rumor was logical but false, for he has accepted an appointment to West Point. He will make a gallant officer; he would make an excellent lawyer. And yet we feel him wasted in either of these fields; a man with his talents should go into advertising. CYRIL ALOYSIUS HICCINS A. B. Fordham Prep. I he Ram, Reporlorial Staff (3): Varaity Play. Property Man (I, 2, 3); Football, Assistant Manager (3); Manager (4); Track (2); Class Football (3): Class Baseball (3. 4). “Courage, my boy, blushing’ the complexion of virtue —Diogenes. IT IS an axiom of the phrenologists that a lofty and domc-likc forehead denotes profound intellectuality. Since our association with Cy we have subscribed unreservedly to the view. But otherwise, from his very name, Cy,” so redolent of the barnyard, to his blooming countenance which, by its gaudy blushes proclaims him open and unsophisticated, he is the young pride of the prahayorics, who has come forth to conquer the world. And believe us or not, as you will (but if you don't, you will be wrong), Cy is destined to make a big success in the world, whether in Law, which it is his intention to study, or in one of the public offices which fall before the successful lawyer. His guileless appearance is deceiving. Cy proved an adept politician in that historic campaign when he got himself elected football manager, and an astute manager as long as he was in office. l or the war early sundered him and his team by the distance between Fordham and the naval station at Puget Sound. His love for Fordham drew him back speedily to his welcoming friends, and here he passed an uneventful life until commencement. For whether it was that managership that turned his head, or merely the absence of a track team, after Junior year he never again appeared in the undignified costume of a track man. or displayed those short, but beauteous and amazingly fleet legs to an admiring world. BENJAMIN JOSEPH KELLY A. B. Fordham Prep. Dance Committee. Chairman (4); Basket-ball (I); Baseball (3): Class Football. Captain (3): Class Baseball (3. 4). Hr is a very watt per sc, and stand alont.” Shakcstxarc Troliui« and Crussida. IF BF.N is not famous in the college it is because work not done in the limelight is not greatly appreciated. The only time that the substitute is even mentioned, is when he is put up in the pinch with three aboard and four runs needed to win and he drives one over the centerfield trees. The long afternoons spent in throwing them up in practice and in knocking out fungocs go unrewarded. And yet such a man shows the most admirable qualities of grit, of devotion and of sacrifice for the college. It is an index of the kind of a man Ben is that he spent such a season with the team, going out for practice every day, sitting on the bench during most of the games, but never thinking of quitting before the end. In the class he showed the same spirit. He undertook the worry, toil and responsibility that go with the direction of any undergraduate activity, but especially with the last one before the class breaks up forever, that the class might have a last enjoyable function. 1 here may be some to whom giving up the delights of the polished floor for the sordid business of keeper of the portals is not a sacrifice, but for Ben it is the full measure of devotion. Ben intends to be a captain of finance. It is an excellent choice. We can't see him in any of the professions. Medicine is too gloomy for him. teaching too tame, engineering too dry and law too slow. JOHN COLUMBA MCCARTHY A. B., Summa cum laudc Xavier High School Class. Medal (lb. 2a. 3. 4). Vice-President (3); The Ram. News Edi tor (3); The Monthly, Associate Editor (3): Editor-in-Chief (4); Essay Prize (4); Debating Society (I, 2. 3. 4): Team (3); Prize Debate (3): Banquet Speaker (4); I. C. Sodality, President (4). Of iuani good, think hint beet. Shakeepeare Tiro Gentlemen of Vcotta. HAVE you seen him? Have you seen that bushy, black hair exposed to the wintry winds? Have you heard him? His resonant voice uttering death-dealing arguments to his opponents in debate? And above all. have you heard him laugh—that unholy, demoniacal roar of glee, as he perceives the little comedies of life? If you haven’t, you can never really know Jack as we know him. Jack came from Xavier High School, having been so inconsiderate as to lead his class all through his Prep School days, a pernicious habit which he continued throughout college. In Sophomore he gave a specimen in the Antigone of Sophocles, a play outside the curriculum, a self-imposed task which somehow placed him on a pedestal of awe and respect among his class-mates. In Junior he worked on The Ram. he wrote for The Monthly, he debated. He became a top-sergeant in Fordham’s S. A. T. C. and then settled down to edit I he Monthly during his Senior year. We cannot prophesy for Jack. We can’t see why he could not succeed in any field except as an actor of tragedy. For Jack has Heaven’s finest gift—an irresistible, unconquerable, contagious, cvcr-activc sense of humor. So all we can say is that Jack may be editor of one of our great newspapers, or Curator of the Metropolitan, but whatever it is, we will always know his address. Aj SSj) FRANCIS MICHAEL McKEOWN Special Springfield High School The Ram, Medical Note (3): Track (3). “Swift the arrow from the Tartar's bow. —Midsummer Night’s Dream. V aJ TO BEGIN at the beginning, we say that on the whole, it was a very fortunate thing that that dog was run over. For if he hadn't been. Frank might never have decided to study medicine. And if he hadn't decided to study medicine, he would never have come to Fordham. And if he hadn’t come to Fordham—why—we would never have known him. him. And so (now with more assurance) we repeat our original statement. That he has decided to study Law is a minor issue; it doesn't much matter what he does. In his character there are certain traits that make him as sure of success as others are of failure. He has the quality of efficiency, of thoroughness, of doing a thing through to the perfect end. The results may not always be immediately apparent, but they will come with cumulative force. Our judgment (and Father Mahony s) is borne out by his short career in the Army. Being commissioned in September last, and sent to Camp Grant, he was so perfectly the officer, that when the time came for demobilization, they wished to keep him in the service with the '‘cullud” company that adored him. But it is through the speed of his legs that most know him. On the cinder path (or at least, at Fordham. on the path if not on the cinders) he has broken at least one record to our knowledge, and in many a hard fought race has carried the colors of Fordham to the front. Norwalk High School Class I rcasurcr ( I ) ; The Ram. Re-portorial Staff (3); Banquet Speaker (4); University Orchestra (2. 3. 4); Basket-ball (I); Baseball, Assistant Manager (3); Manager (4): Class Football (3); Class Baseball (3): Class Hockey (3). However God or fortune Cantu mu lot There lives or dies .4 foyrt . jus! and upright gentleman.” —Shakespeare—Richard II. THIS is the manager of that magnificent aggregation of athletes that represents Fordham on the diamond. That it made the greatest record of any Fordham team in a decade is due in no small degree to his unceasing work. When he is on a job he is dynamite incarnate. There are no subtle complications to his nature. He is entirely open and direct and forceful. A barrier would hold him not by virtue of its labarynthine windings but only by its stark strength. He is no man to seek to pick apart a Gordian knot with his fingers. Like all open natures he is easy to know and to like and staunch in holding to what has won him. I le was an athlete himself once. He was a member of the all-star Freshman basketball quintette, and on the famous Junior football team he was the man who carried the ball across for the touchdown that won for the class the championship of the college. But now grown old and fat and lazy, he only lolls on the bench except when one of the players lobs a foul over the grandstand. After the last bag is put away he takes the road home to South Norwalk. There far from the worries of his team he solaces his soul with the melodious plunk of the banjo, sometimes tinkling out light tunes for the dancers as they whirl about the polished floor and sometimes thinking of the happy days when he was a corporal in the Marines. WE FOOLISHLY hired several learned archaeologists to unearth the history of his youth. Foolishly, for he is a mere nineteen-ycar-oldcr —think of that! We found that in spite of his youth, he is the Ulysses of the class, having attended both Holy Cross and St. I homas Colleges before his quest of the best was satisfied. And not only in virtue of his wanderings, but he is also very nearly, if not quite the Ulysses of the class of virtue of those higher qualities, excluding, of course, always the trickiness. We speak from experience. We have had him objecting to us in circle, that sternest of tests of a man’s mind. We have had the best possible opportunity of judging his quality. We know just how implacable an opponent he can be in an argument, how firmly he can hold a logical position and how skilfully he can subsume his minor. By nature he is something of a recluse, but this, we are persuaded, is rather from choice, for we know what an agreeable companion he can be. He prefers to take a speculative and contemplative view of life, coloring his mind, like a good pipe, according to his choice and sharpening and broadening his wit (we mix the metaphors, but it can't be helped) with much reading. Yet when there is anything he wants, he goes after it with dogged persistency. And this, when coupled with his other good qualities, most often spells success. In what? Why—we re leaving that much to him. RAPHAEL A. MANGANARO A. B. High School of Commerce BROOKLYN COLLECE (I. 2. 3); English Medal ( I ) : Mechanic Medal (2); Philosophy Prize (3); Physic Medal (3). ST. JOHN S COLLEGE (4); I he Maroon. Editorial Staff. ' l rnathrwatiex hr wax prratrr Than Tiirnu lirahi nr Hrra Taler; Bvsidex In rnn a nhreirrf philosopher Anil had read rrmj lert and plojx over. —Haller- Undihran. WI ILN school took up again this year, disquieting rumors went about among the sharks of a new rival from Brooklyn and immediately all who had an eye to a high stand began to bohn up even more than was their custom. They had a rival to test ail their powers. If he chose to display them, he could dazzle the eye with his trophies for general excellence in class. It has been said in explanation that he has the happy faculty of always knowing his matter. But it is not something to be dismissed as casually as all that. Success in that line, as in any other, is only the result of perfect concentration, of studying consistently throughout the year. Then if a man has an intellect above the ordinary he amasses a collection of medals like this. His talents were devoted chiefly to scholastic attainments. He was neither a tea-hound nor a jazz-fiend, but was liked none the less for his lack of these weaknesses. He did not make the debating room roar with unbalanced periods, and was liked all the better for it. He was usually as silent as a deaf and dumb paralytic with the lock-jaw. And. therefore, as he kept that subject dark, we cannot say what he intends to do. But to judge from his qualifications, it should be something of a constructive nature, some work that demands patient, precise and painstaking effort along intellectual lines —like the work of Herschel or Pasteur. 1 ' -------------------------------------- —----------------------------------------------------------------------- — JOHN WILLIAM MARTIN B. S. Rochester Catholic High School Banquet Committee (4); The Ram, Law Correspondent (3): Athletic Association, Vice-President (4); Tennis Team (2, 3, 4). tFt ; Class Baseball (3, 4); The Maroon, Editorial Staff. «• iia a scholar and a ripe flood one, Exvctdinsi « 1ST. fail spoken and persnad-inu . . . And to those mm mho Kouuhl him. mere! as sum liter.“ Shakcttpearr—Henry VIII. IF IN the course of a long and virtuous career we have any wives to murder. or any banks to rob, we will keep away from Rochester. We have an eminent respect for the ability of the man who will be district attorney there, and after that a judge. Not because he is one of the stern, cold disagreeable kind, for Jack is one of the most obliging fellows imaginable. We hesitate to call him good-natured; that is the last refuge of the despairing eulogist. It is so often a euphemism, connoting irresolution and weak will. You can never say any of these things of Jack Martin. And if you have any such temptation, cast one glance upon that strong jaw. There is about him an impression of steadiness and dependability that is borne out by his college career. While maintaining a position very near the top of the class in Junior year, he took a year of Law also; every week he would bring in a complete set of law notes to The Ram; on the tennis team he played a steady game, one with no great flashes of brilliancy, but one which won him the greater part of his matches. He devoted much of his time to working with the boys in John Basso's Settlement House. He directed clubs, passing on his knowledge, and giving disinterested service to those young men who had had little education, or instruction in morals. And he was the most popular director there. FRANK VINCENT MVLOD B. S. Poughkeepsie High School Class Secretary (4); The Ram. Local Editor (3): Varsity Play. Electrician (I. 2, 3. 4) ; Corridor Sketch (I. 3); Class Baseball (3. 4). “Full of wise him. —ShakrxiMare—.4s You Like It. 2 CM3 ARISTOTLE was a great philosopher, but on one occasion Aristotle was wrong. He said that of all others, melancholy men are most witty, making gaiety and wit contraries. Now here we stand with Frank at our side to confound him. Frank who is blithe and cheery, but who is also waggish and droll. We could do nothing better than fill this page with his witticisms. We would, save that we fear that by their side our own would appear dull and sluggish. Besides, those who wish to read them need only consult their files of The Ram. and read the column called The Ram’s Horn, in the writing of which he collaborated with Eustace so ably, that the readers never knew which had written it on any particular occasion. It is a quality that has made him liked by all from Fordham to Poughkeepsie, between which Jesuit villages he divides his time. What his talents are to be devoted to. we are at a loss even to imagine. He has a profound knowledge of electricity, which won him a wireless operator's warrant in the Navy, and the position of light man behind the scenes at Fordham; he proved a most efficient secretary for the class, his minute book always being the court of last resort in disputes; he once expressed a desire to be a roving vagabond. But whatever he does, of this we are sure, that it will be something contributing to the gaiety of the nation. A i A' PALL THOMAS O'KFF.FF A. B. For lh;im Prep. Class Medal (la): Treasurer (3): The Rnm. Edilor-in-Chicf (3. 4): The Monthly. (3. 4): Debating Society. Team (3. 4); Prize Debate (4); 'Varsity Play (3); Banquet Speaker (4); I. C. Sodality; The Maroon. Business Manager. 'lie doth bestride our narrow world Like o Colossus. and tee pettg mm Walk under hiu hiif e lcf � . Shakcnpcmri Julius Caesar. IT IS a common thing in reviews ol this sort to say of a man that his name will go thundering down the dim vista of the years and that the elms which border the winding path will ever whisper his glory. But it is not in the ordinary way that wc say it of O’Keefe. Speaking soberly and without exaggeration, he has this sure title to fame: that he was the first Editor of I he Ram. That is only the most notable of his achievements; as student, orator, actor, author and business man he is eminent in the college (for his genius is many-faceted like a diamond). But it is for this that he will be remembered chiefly by those not of the class. We will remember him principally for his abounding good humor and good companionship, then for his universal excellence. He has left a record of himself in all fields of collegiate activity. 1 Iis really literary work was contributed to The Monthly. It has been criticised extensively elsewhere and lack of space precludes our quoting from it; but when wc mention that he is the author of that delightful ode. O Pons Asinorum, and of that passionate lyric, To a Janitress, we think we have settled his position in literature forever. He was one of the main reliances of the Debating Society; for two years he has been a member of the team. As an actor, he gave that startlingly life-like portrayal of the drunken inn-keeper in If I Were King. ST. PETERS COLLEGE (I. 2. 3): The journal. Associate Editor (I, 2. 3): Class Secretary (I), President (3); Prize Debate, Medal (I, 3); College Play (I, 2. 3); Football. Manager (3); ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE: Debating Team: Prize Debate, Medal; Banquet Speaker; The Maroon, Editorial Staff. '.-In orator who weld The living mase a if hr irrre it sow .” William Cullen liri ant. ED CAME to us with a golden reputation earned by three years of fruitful labor at St. Peter’s. His short but brilliant career at Fordham has been but another bright page in the book of his college life. As a writer Ed has a forceful, convincing style all his own, and his clever pen has done much to elevate Catholic college journalism to the lofty plane on which it rests today. Throughout his entire course he has been a brilliant student and commencement day has always found him among the honor men. But there is one thing in which he is supreme, and that is as a debater. Already three medals have fallen before his facile tongue, the third this year at Fordham. when his fiery eloquence returned him victor in the Annual Prize Debate. These are but the harbingers of future forensic triumphs. However. Ed does not give all his time to the serious things of life. He takes a keen interest in all athletics and seldom misses a chance to cheer his Alma Mater to victory, if said chance be within a hundred miles of the metropolis. Rumor has it also that he is not unknown in the Jersey ball rooms, and we ourselves have never seen him at a ball game alone. The bench is the goal of his ambitions, and we are confident that before long the world will know him as Mr. Justice O’Mara. And that will be enough of this, though never of him. WILLIAM JOSEPH OSHEA. Jr. A. B. Fordham Prep. Class Vice-President ( 4) ; Banquet Committee (4): The Ram, Assistant Manager (3): Debating Society ( 1. 2. 3. 4) : Varsity Ploy ( 1. 2. 3) ; Banquet Speaker (4); Tennis. Assistant Manager (2). Manager (3): F”: Class Football (3): Class Baseball (3. 4); I. C. Sodality. Wjr work shall be my monument eternal. —FieM l!vok o) Western Verst. WHEN the present standard work on etiquette becomes outworn and the people clamor for another, we know the man who will write the one to replace it. His name is O’Shea. He is of all men in the class most notable for the bel air. savoir fairc and what not that distin guish the social lion. So remarkable is he for these qualities that when the class had to choose a man to take charge of its only formal function, it selected him. confident that the affair would be conducted with eclat. Even in the turmoil of a military life, when he was up at Plattsburg, he used to move among majors and colonels, when not on duty, while the rest of us sat around on the grass and played mumblety-peg. Rut the social did not entirely overcome the military in him. Top sergeants there are, have been, will ever be. but it is doubtful if any more successful than Bill in winning the admiration of those under him; an accomplishment. He presides as admirably at a business meeting as at a banquet: those of the class he conducted with thoroughness and despatch while the president was off cutting up frogs. Is it a foreshadowing of the time, we wonder, when he will preside over a court, for this he set as his goal when he decided to study law? I hose who have heard him arguing learnedly in the debating society, giving his opinions with all the weight and logic of a man many years on the bench, say it is. for r - up jutil Junior f the class g:ed into unless ho is i liitrclly ard en t WE WERE just beginning: to like him when the class hrok That isn’t the damning of faint praise, either. It is not u year that all constraint wears ofT between the members o and the groups that were formed in prep school days become mor one another. And if a man comes into the class after that, a glinting luminary, he does not easily break into a perfect friendship, especially when the term is only five months. hi that time we have had an opportunity to test a man's mettle. But he has shown a class spirit as any who have been with the class all four years. rom t ie time when we held our first get together smoker till we had our farewel 1 dance he has always been with ns---at the first he helped contribute to the entertainment, at the rest he was always on hand. And that counts more than all the fine speeches about being “there with the Boys in spirit that were ever uttered in the most melodious bass voice. We must go back of his short life at Ford ham to plishments. At N. V. U. he was a member of t he rifl orchestra figure out the connection for yourself. He t el 1 of h is team and was in the T. C. at C. C. N. Y., whence he went to the Officer School at Camp Whence he came to Fordham. Whence He goes to Medical School. Wrh we believe, to a smashing big success. accom -of th S. A. or. nee. JULIAN JACOB REISS Special Loyola School GEORGETOWN COLLEGE ( 1. 2 ) ; ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE ( 3. 4) : Class Treasurer (4); Dance Committee (3): Outing Committee (3): I he Ram, Assistant Manager (3); Debating Team (3): Class Hockey, Captain (3, 4). ■ 4 merchant of ( real traffic through the I ror'.d. Skakeeprarc- Two Gentle men of Verona. THAT picture in the corner of the page is not a photograph of the surface of the moon. No, my dears, it represents a human countenance. Is it not an inspiring visage? Is it not provocative of palpitation of the heart? Ask the young ladies if it is not. As a sign of the honor and affection in which we held him. we elected him treasurer of the class, but merely as a figurehead; we found to our dismay that his experience chasing dollars for I he Ram (and for ol’ clo ) had transformed him into a Nemesis for temporarily embarrassed Seniors. But through it all his heart was of the same quality as the ducats he hoarded. And his masterly handling of the finances of the class that at times aggregated as much as fifteen dollars, enabled us to hold many enjoyable functions. And his was the fertile brain in which most of them had their inception. The outings, dances, smokers, banquets and all the class teams that helped so much to lighten the tedium of study most often owed their existence to his motion in class meeting. His spare moments he devoted to study and debating. He finished Junior among the first five; at one bound he attained the supreme heights of the Debating Society, making the team. Then he looked about for larger fields to conquer. 3 1 FRANCIS XAVIER SHARP A. B. Manual Training High School BROOKLYN COLLEGE (I. 2. 3): Class Vice-Pre ident (2): Dance Committee. Chairman (2); Track (2, 3); Class Baseball (I, 2. 3); Class Basketball (I. 2. 3). ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE (4). “Hi worth in warrant for hi uwleotne hither. —Shakespeare--Two Gentlemen of Verona. BROOKLYN, which has been represented as the ultimate in drab monotony. has given us the most varied types. A man more nearly the antithesis of Ralph Manganaro than Nick Sharp it would be hard to find. The distinction is not drawn between their intellectual ability, for this man lost the philosophy prize in their school to the other, only by a scant margin, but between their outlook on life. Not even ten thousand feet above the earth, with his motor functioning spasmodically, did he consider his position with anything but the hugest amusement. He came to Fordham directly from the School of Naval Aviation at Pensacola. When he heard that college was to resume he was rarin' to go and he tossed aside the commission to come to Fordham. The year would have been decidedly less enjoyable if he had decided otherwise. We would never have heard him sing or seen him dance. We would not have had the conventional measures of the chorus or the ball room. 1 he night before graduation to learn all his amazing proficiency in these arts. Never before that memorable evening did Senior corridor witness an interpretive dance of such consummate grace, or hear such a startling voice. It is not probable, however, that he would succeed on the stage. But put him in some business that requires an agile mind, and quick and correct decision— such as stock broking—and you could not want a better man. RICHARD JOSEPH TARRANT A. B. St. Peter's High School ST. PETER'S COLLEGE (I. 2. 3): Class Treasurer (3); Baseball (2, 3): Class Football (I, 2, 3); Class Basket-ball (I. 2. 3); ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE (4). Brnidrs 'tin known hr coutil nprak Grtfk natunillu an I'iun xi mak. That l.atin rns no ruorr ilnjirih Than to a htarkhird 'tin to trUistle. Ilntlrr II .atHi rat. DICK is the last of the men from Jersey. So quietly and unostentatiously did he arrive that it was not until the first weekly paper had come and gone that we were vividly aware of his presence. After that he was always a factor to be reckoned on. and always a mighty constant one. His notes were a haven of refuge, and himself the least concerned before exams. His attitude towards his books was a strictly business one; and they were put aside, as they should be. outside business hours. His showing in scrub games bore out the tales of his prowess on the St. Peter’s Club, of his lusty blows and speedy work on the paths. He was not so speedy in the social whirl. I le would tighten his tie and shoot his cuffs when being introduced, but the cosmopolitan atmosphere of Fordham and its precincts seemed to be curing him of that by the time the last book closed. For. as he did not come in like a lion, he did not go out like a lamb. They shook his hand twice at the end, not to make sure they had not missed him. but from intention. From affection won by his warm smile, respect and from confidence in the big things he is going to do. 3? MATTHEW AMBROSE TAYLOR A. B. Fordha m Prep. Class President (3); The Ram, Re portonal Staff (3): I he Monthly, Associate Editor (2, 3, 4); Short-Story Prize (4); Debating Society (3) : Varsity Play (3); Dramatic Association, Treasurer (3): Tennis (I, 2, 3. 4), Manager (3), Captain (4) , tFt : 1. C. Sodality. Bribe, murder, inarm, but steer clear of ink. —Kipling—Departmental Ditties. IF I WERE writing an obituary of Matt. 1 could do justice to his character without fear of appearing to slop over; 1 could speak of his kindliness, his generous appreciation of everything that is good, the universal affection in which he is held, in the terms they merit. But 1 am not (as. pray God. I shall not for many, many years), so I cannot be effusive. But his accomplishments—they arc another matter. He is beyond doubt the best writer of short stories within memory at Fordham. He has had his works published and paid for by some of our best magazines. He is that rare man among college authors—one who consistently sells his stories. His acting is only less notable than his writings. We would say of it that it is beyond the usual run of amateur work—except that they say that of every amateur who is not absolutely rank. Wc will, therefore, say only that he played the part of Louis XI. in If I Were King. To round out his college life, he played on the 'Varsity Tennis Team for four years, managing it one year and captaining it another. Whatever he does in the future will be something fine and admirable. Whether it will bring in bales of money, we don’t know. The career of a writer, and that seems to be indicated by his successes, is a rocky one. But money or fame, or neither, it will be something to be proud of, and he will be a man whose classmate it will be an honor to have been. JOSEPH FRANCIS TEDESCO B S. School of Lackawanna ••The first barbers . . . came out oj Sicily. —Fling. SOME Hay we are going to write a thrilling narrative in the best dime novel style entitled, “Up from the Coal Mine or from Breaker Boy to Supreme Court Justice.” It is to be the story of an infant who cut his teeth on Coke and learned his A B C's from Blackstone; of a boy who worked in the coal mines studying the while; of a youth with ambition and vision who worked his way through school and college, a student by day, a barber by night; of a man who forged ahead through Law School, into practice and finally to the bench. And the best of it is, it will be true: the life story of Joe Iedesco. And in that tale will be a chapter entitled, “His Life at Fordham. What shall we put there? His scholastic success? That, of course—his high stand in Political Economy, his fine showing, especially in Senior year. Shall we grow facetious and tell of those occasional astounding translations of his or of how he broke out into tumultuous applause at the mention of any great Italian, or into grumblings of disbelief at the mention of an ignoble compatriot? All that assuredly and much more. We can have little to say of other things—he engaged in few activities outside of class, chiefly because he was too much engaged in the study of Law. And so we will have to elaborate, though it would be hard to exaggerate the liking of his fellows, his loyalty and his eminent common sense. EDWARD FRANCIS WARD Special Fordham Prep. Athletic Association, President (4): Tennis (4); Class Baseball (3. 4); Class Hockey (3, 4). “Describe him who can .4 i abridi mrnt of all that was pleasant in man. —(loitlxrnith—Retaliation. THF.RR have been times when we wished greatly for a brilliant style. Whenever there was a literary contest with a fat prize, or when our poor contributions were returned with rejection slips that longing has surged up in us. But there was never a time when it was so strong in us as it is now, when there is danger that because his position is alphabetically last, the casual reader, wearied by our verbosity, will not even come to this page, and that for him this record will be buried in oblivion (as it should not be). But who cares for the casual reader? Those who know Ed and those who know the class will not pass this page by because it is the last, as he never was either at reading of marks or in the regard of his fellows, or in any field in which he competed. The subject will rise from the cerements in which we have wrapped it. And that is only natural. A man who has played on the tennis team, played such a sterling game of ball for the class team, is such a luminary in the social world; above all, a man who had such a hold on the liking and confidence of his fellows that they elected him to the highest office in their gift—the Presidency of the Athletic Association -cannot remain in oblivion. And in the days to come, when he goes forth with an M.D. attached to his name, he will not remain in obscurity either, but will revive the fame of the Wards, which lapsed on the death of Artemus. JAMES PATRICK PRYOR, Ek-19 3tt fflmuriiuit: Uamrs Jlatrirk JJryor J October I, at Great Lakes Naval Station. James Patrick Pryor. 19, died of influenza. He had enlisted in June, at the close of the scholastic year, and was called to active duty on September 19. just as the epidemic was beginning to spread its heavy wings of terror and death over the land. Jim. or Pat. as he was known here at Fordham, was born in New York City and received his grammar-school education under the tutelage of the Christian Brothers at St. Mary’s School. Yonkers. At the age of fourteen he entered Fordham Prep., and. after completing his course, entered the College as a member of the Class of 1919. in which he remained until his enlistment in the Navy last June. Such is the simple history of Jim Pryor. To the casual reader there is apparently nothing to differentiate him from a hundred other Catholic college men. past or present; nothing to suggest that his character was of a stufl that made him stand out with cameolike clearness against a background of mediocrity; nothing to distinguish him from the 'average man.” But we. his friends, can look back upon him and as the thousand and one little incidents of school days and college comradeship drift back into our memory, somehow these little, almost trivial, recollections form themselves into a strong, forceful and noble portrait and unwittingly the words are forced from us, There will never be another Pat.” In his Junior year he was chosen editor of The Fordham Monthly, the second editor of the magazine who was not a Senior. Towards its fame and success he bent all his energies, imbuing also his associates with the same idea. Besides editing The Monthly, he acted in the capacity of Managing Editor of The Ram. and almost every issue of Ford-ham’s weekly contained one or more editorials from his pen. I le interested himself in debating. and his keen arguments, with their forceful presentation, won him a place on the Varsity debating team which met Holy Cross last year. We have said that he was different from most of his classmates. He was. above all. reticent and unassuming and far from talkative. He would stand, listening in silence to a discussion, until some remark contrary to his well-informed ideas was made. I hen. with a quick flash in his eye. he gave his answer—sharp and to the point; expressed not in poetic generalities, but cleverly and forcefully in a manner pertinent to the question. For. as he grew older, he thought more deeply. It was difficult to mention any subject with which his intellect had not wrestled and upon which it had not formed clear-cut ideas. And to these he held firmly, yet not with the belief that infallibility was vested in him. He stood ready to be convinced, and. on matters of religion, to be corrected by his superiors. But it was not often that he was found in error. He was surrounded at home and at college by Catholic influences, and he surrounded himself, in his reading and in his free time, by all that was pure and true, so that behind all his thoughts—and it is but necessary to read his editorials to prove this—there shone forth sound Catholicity and unswerving devotion to truth and honor and purity. In these few, simple words, then, let the class pay tribute to Jim Pryor. Had he lived, his essays would once more have appeared in The Monthly, and he would have been with the class, its real, if unofficial leader; unless, indeed, he was studying in the Seminary, for the priesthood was his ambition and hope. We cannot eulogize at length one who so hated a pathetic display of sentiment while he lived. We can only repeat— There will never be another Pat,' even though we know that he would, as he once did. quote against us the words of Chesterton. If we must say. No more his peer Cometh, the flag is furled,' Stand not too near him, lest he hear That slander on the world. HF. Class of 1919 at the first meeting of 1919 unanimously adopted the following resolutions: WHEREAS. God. in His infinite wisdom and goodness, has seen fit to call back to Himself our beloved classmate. James Patrick Pryor; and WHEREAS. He has always been a notable factor in the college for good—as a student, setting a mark beyond most others; as an orator, bringing new laurels to the name of Fordham; as a writer, aiming always at the ideal and noble; as a patriot, evidencing his love of country by the supreme fact that he died in its service, and, as a man, giving witness in his every act of a militant Christianity and a practical devotion to God, with whom we firmly believe he now rests; and WHEREAS. We are conscious from our own sorrow of how great must be the grief of those whose son and brother he was; be it therefore RESOLVED, 1 hat the Class of 1919 of St. John’s College. Fordham University, offer to his bereaved family their most sincere and heartfelt sympathy in their loss, and that a spiritual bouquet of Masses be offered for the soul of their beloved classmate, James Patrick Pryor; and be it further RESOLVED. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his bereaved family, and that an additional copy be inserted in the Maroon. (Signed) JAMES GLEASON. President. WILLIAM J. O'SHEA. JULIAN J. REISS. Class ‘Directory FRANCIS H. BARRETT..... JOHN J. BASSO.......... DENIS Q. BLAKE......... ROCCO M. CHIASCONE..... RAYMOND A. COLEMAN..... JOHN J. CROSBY.......... LAWRENCE R. DALY....... ARTHUR C J. DONOHUE..... PATRICK A. DWYER....... EDWARD J. EUSTACE....... PATRICK F. FLOOD....... WILLIAM B. CALVIN...... EDWARD J. GLEASON...... JAMES J. GLEASON....... CORNELIUS P. GODLEY.... 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J. •RESHMAN A Class Officers President...........................JOSEPH FITZPATRICK Vice-President.............................LEO A. LARKIN Treasurer...........................FRANK V. McMAHON £E you weary. Mr. Nineteen-nineteen ? Has the world upon which you entered that June day in 1919, been using you a trifle too harshly? Is it that Law is not of the roseate hue that the wonder-brush of your dreams had painted? Or perhaps the world does not appreciate your knowledge or medicine, or the routine of business has dulled the keenness of living. If such you are. here lies your refreshment—a sweet narcotic, with the blessed power of obliviating the wearisome reality that .has tired your mind and set your head a-thumping with its thousand-odd worries and cares. For here is the story of the deeds you dared, the thoughts you pondered, and the dreams you dreamed, when All the world was young, lad. And all the trees were green. Or perhaps you are just in a mellow mood. You are a settled, contented alumnus, but for the moment the world of the alumnus does not find you with interest. It is Fall, and your mind slips back to the field at Fordham. fenced off with its white canvas, the well-packed cheering section, the side-lines gay with feminine smiles and styles, and the roar that greeted the team. It is Christmas time, and you are shaking hands all around with other Mr. Nineteen-nineteens, as they bustle off down the path for home. I he touch of spring creeps over you and again you are nervously putting on the paint for the college show, you arc drilling on the field, you are playing in the Inter-Class league once more. Then, Mr. Nineteen, read of the years that were, from the time you gazed strangely into each other’s faces, until the final handclasp in June. In September. 1915. we made our bow to Fordham. We were polite, of course, but we gazed at her critically for a while and decided to reserve judgment. Some of us had come from Xavier High School, and others from Fordham Prep, and to these the surroundings and the atmosphere were not unfamiliar. We found that our Freshman class was of the prodigious size of sixty-seven. So large were we that we needs must be split into three sections. In hreshman A. Mr. Louis Gallagher. S.J., beamed down upon us. Mr. Daniel Ryan. S.J.. guided Freshman B through the labyrinth of classical knowledge, while Mr. David Jordan. S.J.. took the B.S. men. who comprised the third section, in hand. Under Mr. William Rcpetti. S.J., we wrestled— aye. battled and dueled to the death—with I rig. T-rrc. FRESHMAN B MAROON We armed ourselves with books, we began to get acquainted with ourselves, we passed judgment on the practising varsity, and settled back quite comfortably, with a sigh of satisfaction. Fordham had been introduced. inspected, and passed the test. It takes some time for a body of men in such conditions to get acquainted. 1 hose who had known one another in Prep, schools were wont to close their little circles. But this did not last. Our common meeting ground was Father Murphy s history class. Not that we endeavored to get on speaking terms during the class hour, for we were having our first taste of Fr. Murphy’s Golden Chain of Interesting Facts. We never knew how the commonplace affairs of ages past could be so entrancingly interesting. Later we understood. It was because Fr. Murphy was telling them. During the football season we lived up to the custom inaugurated several years before and acted as special police. With a cordon of Freshmen spread about the field, how could even the boldest youngster dare to thrust his head beneath the canvas! Came the winter and the snow and excuses for being late. The Ford-ham orchestra was organized and Frank McMahon became the first of the first violins and Joe Mooney arrived on the scene with a young van load of drums. Nearly a score of Freshmen leaped to the ranks of the Debating Society, until the learned Seniors became worried at our strength. Even then Herbert Ryan rose to a place of prominence by enunciating his views as to the method of conducting a debating society. The entire class was startled one morning at discovering that F.ddie Eustace was a poet. 1 lis first poem appeared in the Fordham Monthly in November. Moreover. Jack McGeary was guilty of being an actor. He appeared in “Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde,” produced under Mr. Strohaver, S. J. During the fall and winter the Freshman Basketball Team was organized. Tom Barry, who deserted us for dentistry later, was manager, and Frank McMahon, who had starred on the South Norwalk High School team was captain. Then we had Leo Larkin, who won fame at Xavier and Joe Fitzpatrick, who had captained Fordham Prep's team. At the end of the first term. Fr. Mullaly. S. J., who had been Prefect of Discipline, was forced by illness to depart. In February. Fr. O Connor. S. J., became the avenger of late comers. With the spring came baseball and ambitious Freshmen trying out in the Varsity squad. McGinn. Eustace. Fitzpatrick and Hall winning regular berths. In April F.d Eustace won a place on the Editorial Board of the FRESHMAN C £31 MAROON ; Monthly. Jim Hart represented the class in the Oratorical Contest. With the warmer days, the new tennis courts were completed and two Freshmen, Matt Taylor and Paul Keresey, played with the 'Varsity team. Again, in the production of a one-act play on Rectors’ Day. Jack McCeary was a German spy and Matt Taylor hid behind the whiskers of a French soldier. And last of all came June. Weary days in the classroom, with the rumble of the trains in the distance, the sharp crack of bat on ball and the somnolent, rolling lines of Horace. We gazed out at the class of 1916, now alumni, cavorting about on the Quadrangle and we envied, admired and yet. withal, pitied them. For there stretched before us a summer of laughter and then a merry reunion as Sophomores. We worried through the exams., closed our books with a snap of contentment, shook hands with most of Fordham and waved an au revoir through the window of the elevated train. A few came back to see the commencement exercises and the awarding of prizes. In Section A, O’Keefe won the medal for General Excellence and the prize for Mathematics; in Section B. MacCarthy took the twofold honor, and in Section C. Desnoes was first and Martin won the prize for Mathematics. The prize for German was gained by Baxter, for Spanish by Anderson and for French by MacCarthy. EE 1919 AS SOPHOMORFS Sophomore President..... Vice-President Treasurer .... Class Officers .............RICHARD J. McGINN .................PAUL CONKLIN ................JAMES F. HART THF. lingering heat of summer we returned to begin our second lap. As is so often the case, we found that many of our classmates of Freshman had left us to return no more. The Sophomore class was divided into two sections. Father J. Howlin Farley. S. J.. presided over one and Father George Johnson, to unfold the secrets of rhetoric and the art of Demosthenes to Sophomore B. In history and evidences of religion classes, we welcomed back our old friend. Father Murphy. The A. B. men were introduced to chemistry and Mr. George Strohaver, S. J., while the B. S. scientists labored in the laboratory under Fr. Paul Rouke. S. J.. and the entire class began their studies in mechanics under Mr. Daniel H. Sullivan, S. J. With the brisk days of autumn we turned out in full force to watch the Varsity football team, under Coach Frank Gargan, 10. defeat Susquehanna. Villanova and Holy Cross and lose in a memorable game to our rivals. Georgetown. Happy days those, for 1919, for in this year Fordharn was coining into her own in football. Mr. Louis Gallagher. S. J., director of athletics, made each game a gala occasion and the holiday games brought forth crowds that filled the grandstand and the new bleachers to overflowing. And each Sophomore showed his college loyalty and his chivalry on those historic afternoons. On the pages of the Monthly. Paul O'Keefe, Pat Pryor. Jack MacCarthy and Matt Taylor were breaking into print for the first time. On the business end of the magazine Dick McGinn toiled as assistant business manager. I he Debating Society numbered among its ranks over a dozen Sophomores, with Jim Hart serving faithfully as secretary. In December came the Varsity show. Beau Brummel. and Gil Haggerty represented Nineteen behind the footlights. Again in December, the class staged its first smoker. Under our energetic president. Dick McGinn, who acted as chairman of the committee, we had one of the jolliest evenings of our career. Io show our appreciation of our Greek, we presented a burlesque of Oedipus Rex, entitled, Edipus Wrecks, the joint work of Ed Eustace and Paul O'Keefe. It will be long before the memory of the play will fade. For there was little Bob Eustace as the infant king exposed on the mountain top, and there was Jack MacCarthy as the jocose king, answering all riddles and murdering Matt Taylor, as Creon. in the last act. And there was Jim Hart as the delightfully feminine queen. Jocasta. and above all there was the Greek chorus, venerable no longer, but hiding behind Thanksgiving Day masks and voluminous sheets, singing and dancing in the approved musical-comedy fashion. And between the scenes that soon-to-be-famous o chestra, McMahon. Bairctt and Mooney, delighted the audience with their music. SKe MARGDN It was then that the illness of Fr. Farley brought us all under the hand of Fr. Johnson, who proved that it was possible to make Sophomores study as they had never studied before and love the man who made them do it. At the beginning of the second term, Fr. barley's health permitted him to return and we were again divided into two sections. Thus passed the winter of our Sophomore year. In the cold afternoons there were sharp sounds of contesting voices issuing from the Debating Society's room, while a variety of unearthly odors issued from the Chemistry Lab. For there, aided and abetted by Mr. Strohaver and Doc Hynes, the A. B. men labored until the gathering winter darkness brought forth lights in the windows of the other buildings that blinked merrily at the struggling scientists. With the snap of frost appeared shining skates and there were trips to Blue Ridge on the free afternoons, or hours of good fellowship spent in the restful darkness of a nearby movie. But, to the Sophomore, autumn and winter may come and go, but the Greek goes on forever. De Corona was upon us, with all its syntax-ical horrors, and, if spirits do return to earth, let Demosthenes flee from the Fordham Sophomore. And then, lo and behold! came the indomitable Jack MacCarthy giving a specimen in Antigone that made the class gasp and sputter in surprise and admiration. Along the quiet walks of Fordham or in its ever noisy corridors there arose strange and new words. Arguments on subjects usually foreign to college life began lo be baited back and forth. Preparedness—War— It was all we heard. One day there appeared a little notice on the bulletin board. Fordham had been asked to organize an Ambulance Corps under the auspices of the Red Cross. Volunteers arc needed— and the buzz of conversation increased. With the declaration of war an appeal was made by the students to Fr. Mulry for an opportunity for military drill. I hen came the fresh afternoons, the measured tread of feet upon the soggy turf, and the echos of the orders, as they arose from a dozen places of the huge football field. It was our initiation into things military. Captain Daly, who had drilled on that same field in his college days, when Fordham cadets were second only to West Point, was in charge. Light companies were formed, with upper class men as officers, and we tramped the ground with our squads right, squads left, right front into line, while the Ambulance Corps, more advanced than the others, were going through their calisthenics in the background. I he baseball schedule was practically abandoned, and the tennis team played but two matches. The nation had settled down to serious business and the colleges were doing likewise. 1 □ a i £31r e MAROON In June, on graduation day. the Ambulance Corps was in possession of orders. They had been sworn into Federal service. On the day following graduation they moved to Allentown. Penn., six Nineteen-nineteen men among them—Mark Kearns, Joe Baxter, Rutledge Howard. Bill Wilson. Ray Duerney, Welton Percy. And the rest of Nineteen shook hands all around again and with a Ram” for Fr. Johnson and Fr. Farley, went their respective ways. This year the honors for Excellence, Mechanics and Chemistry in Section A all went to MacCarthy; in Section B. after a bitter struggle, the class medal went to Blake, who had beaten O’Keefe by a fraction of a point; the honors for Mechanics to O'Keefe and for Chemistry to Baxter. Blake won the gold medal for the best essay on Pope Pius X.. the competition being open to the entire college. CLASS OFFICFRS IN JUNIOR Standing: John C. MaiCarthy and Paul T O K r-fc. Stated: Matthew A. T.iyloi 3-untov Class Officers President.....................................MATTHEW A. TAYLOR Vice-President........................JOHN C. MacCARTHY Treasurer................................. PAUL T. O'KEEFE fAT, asked Father Mahony suddenly, do you think philosophy is about) It was our first day as Juniors. Rocco Chiascone began to mop a newly-moistened brow. Barrett hid behind McMahon. It s—it s the study of cr—er—things. answered Jack Martin weakly. It s all that stuff about cause and effect, put in Jim Gleason. Skinny Ryan sprang to his feet. I would like to take exception, he began, to Mr. Martin’s remark. Philosophy is not--------- Philosophia est scientia---- interrupted Bobby Eustace, waving his chubby fist. But a roar of protest drowned his voice. If we must have philosophy, let us have it in English. Thereupon Father Mahony told us briefly, and as kindly as possible, the exact state of our mentality. And when he had finished, we smiled sickly at one another. We had a lingering hope that we knew something. Thus we entered upon our Junior year and our Philosophy. All had not returned. Besides the six who were already in France with the Ambulant; Corps, three had entered St. Joseph's Seminary to study for the priesthood. They were Eddie Dargin, John Verdon and Jack Murray, who had been elected assistant baseball manager at the end of Sophomore. These three, with John Krohe, Will O’Brien and Jim O’Reilly, who left after Freshman, made six Nineteen-nineteen men studying at Dunwoodie. In History class we still had Father Murphy with us. Mr. Sullivan taught us Physics. In Physics Lab. we were under Fr. Francis O’Laughlin, S. J., and Professor ” de Pas-qualc. For the first time in the history of Fordham, a course of Journalism was instituted. and we immediately became interested in the new subject taught by Mr. Daniel Quigley. S. J. Later in the year Mr. Quigley obtained some of the most successful newspaper men in New York, both business managers and editors, to give the class lectures on Journalism. Thus we enjoyed more talks by men high up in the newspaper business than any school of journalism in the East. Football was resumed at Fordham, although most of the football men were in Government service. Cy Higgins was assistant manager. After several years, inter-class football was resumed. How describe those games better than the notice of our deadly-combat with the Sophomores, as it appeared in the Monthly; SKe MAROON The second game of the wild and wooly series was played between the Juniors and the Sophs. Luckily the police assumed a neutral attitude. Bert Ryan, star of the Chess 1 earn, played with the raging fury of a motion-picture lion: time and again he broke the bones of his adversaries. Barrett. Junior back, entertained the crowd by walking on his face— which stunt inscribed a crimson trade mark on his profile. McMahon frazzled the Soph line, which had as much chance of stopping him as an egg has in a stone-crusher. O’Keefe’s 1 lenry-of-Navarre shirt was the chef d’oeuvre of the Junior line. Jim Gleason was so full of pepper that he literally sneezed his opponent out of business. . . . Fortune was at her ficklesl in this game, and it was not till the final shrill of the referee s whistle that she finally perched on the shoulders of the Juniors.’ One morning in December Dick McGinn, for two years catcher on the Varsity ball team, came in to tell the class good-bye. He had enlisted in the Navy and was bound for Boston. Others kept leaving all during the year. In the Winter I.eo O'Brien departed to join the Marines, and Dutch’’ Lasher followed him a little later, while Bert Ryan left in the Spring for Fort Slocum. In February. Nineteen-nineteen inaugurated what has universally been approved of as the greatest bond of unity to all Fordham men. On February seventh The Ram was born—a Fordham newspaper, written, edited and sold by Fordham men. For months it had been planned, and Mr. Quigley showed how. by allowing the men to put their newspaper theories to a practical test, it would be of great benefit to them. So on February seventh it was born and lived a successful life until the close of the academic year, its circulation often reaching a thousand. Thus, all during the year, one might see the bulky form of Paul O'Keefe, its hard-working editor, roaming over the quadrangle, scowling severely and roaring for missing '’copy '; or Jim Gleason, arms filled with papers, and pockets bulging with nickels, rushing about seeking to increase the circulation. And there was Joe Mooney, efficiency itself, bringing in advertisement after advertisement to swell the profits. Practically the entile class worked on The Ram. Probably every man wrote something for its columns during the year. There was “Pat” Pryor, the managing editor; Jack McCarthy, news editor; Mylod and Blake, the correspondence editor; Jim Hart, with his dramatic reviews; Bill O’Shea and “Dooly Reiss, assisting on the business end; Jack Martin, gatherer of Law School news, and Frank McKeown. the hustling Medical School representative. Then there were a host of reporters, including Artie Donohue. Frank McMahon. Eddie Ward. Matt Taylor. Joe Guidano, Dick Rogers and Benny Kelly, and also Eddie Eustace, rivaling “F. P. A. and the rest of them with his colyum. The Monthly claimed “Pat Pryor for its editor. This was the second time in the history of the magazine that a Junior was made editor-in-chief. Six out of the ten associate editors were members of Nineteen. They were Edward Eustace. John Mac-Carthy. Paul O'Keefe. Matthew Taylor, Joseph Mooney and Denis Blake. During this year the Debating Society was unusually active. In February a team consisting of O'Keefe 19. MacCarthy 19. and Murphy '20. encountered the Cathedral debaters on the question of Prohibition. In the Fordham-Holy Cross debate, the big event of the year. Nineteen occupied all three positions. In the well-filled Auditorium on April 26th the debaters battled on the Monroe Doctrine and although the victory went SOME OF THE CLASS AT THE PUMP AT TRAVERS ISLAND ON THE SANDY HOOK 0 I o' to I Ioly Cross, the contest was keen. Fordhams team consisted of James Pryor. Julian Reiss and Paul O'Keefe. In the Prize Debate, held at the close of the year. Nineteen was represented by Denis Blake. John Mac-Carthy and Arthur Donohue, who won the individual prize for the best speaker. And to top its activities the Society banqueted in May in the college refectory, ending with a Ram for Mgr. Joseph Mulry. S. J.. the Moderator. Denis Blake was elected president for the following year. In Dramatics. Mr. Sullivan had aroused such interest that the whole university was play-mad. No Christmas play was presented, but in April If 1 Were King was given at the auditorium. The play was staged four times, twice in the afternoon and twice in the evening, setting a new record for Fordham dramatics. Of the Nineteen men in the play, the biggest part was played by Matt Taylor. He played the crafty, cruel, double-dealing Louis XI. an unusual character part. Artie Donohue had a difficult part as Henri Villon, dying in the third act most beautifully. Then came Paul O’Keefe, fatter than ever, as the landlord of the wine tavern. Jim Gleason proved a most excellent cut-throat, and Neil Godly was gloriously drunk in the first act. and a noble soldier in the last. Blake and O Shea were faithful soldiers of a wicked king, while Cy Higgens. Elmer Lyons and Frank Mylod worked behind with lire scenes and tried to make the actors lorgel their lines. Clarence Burke 18 was president of the Dramatic Society. Charles Robinson 20 was treasurer, and Matthew Taylor 19 was secretary, during the year. The annual banquet of the Society was held at the college at the end of the year. Ke MAROON In athletics. Frisch, then of Nineteen, and Corseilo. played football. Frank McKcown, a new-comer, grabbed off several medals as a middle distance runner. John Basso taught the youngsters in Prep, a few tricks in calisthenics. Matt Taylor and John Martin again played on the tennis team, of which William O'Shea was manager. It was war times and no class banquet was held. I he Prom., usually held under the auspices of the Alumni, was also foregone. I owards the end of the year, around exam time, a great part of Nineteen enlisted. Prospects were that the Senior class of Fordham for 1919 would number about ten men. This was. of course, when the commandeering of the whole university by the Government was not foreseen. Class officers were elected, and Jim Gleason succeeded Matt Taylor as president. Jack MacCarthy was chosen editor in-chief of the Maroon, and Paul O'Keefe its business manager. At commencement, the excellence medal for the class was awarded to MacCarthy. with Martin second. MacCarthy won also the prize for Physics, and Blake again proved his worth by winning, in open competition, a $50 purse for the best essay on 'Our Lady of Lourdes. Then for the third time we shook hands and said good-bye, only this time it was a little more seriously performed than usual. For it was June, 1918—a critical period, and only a few. the ninctccn-ycar-olders. ever expected to sit again in Fordham class-rooms as dignified Seniors. t Officers President...................................JAMES J. GLEASON' Vice-President.......................... WILLIAM J. O'SHEA Secretary................................FRANCIS V. MYLOD Treasurer.............-....................JULIAN J. REISS what shall we set down as the opening date of Senior) In the later part of September, when we should have been making our initial bow to Ethics and Father Hill, they were turning the Alumni Hall into a barracks and the gymnasium into a mess hall. In October, when we should have been shouting our cheers to the football team, there were raucous shouts from weary sergeants re-echoing between the buildings, and the thud of moving feet that marched the campus. It was not until mid-December that the Student Army Training Corps was demobilized at Ford-ham, and not until January 6 that erstwhile sergeants and corporals and privates returned to Fordham as everyday college men. and regular classes were resumed. And despite the fact that there was a sprinkling of army overcoats and uniforms still to be seen, it was much the same as in other years. One by one, as they were discharged from the army, navy and marines, the 1919 men came back to complete their final year. The first day of February was the end of the period of grace for re-entering the class. Leo O'Brien made it on January 31, wearing the multi-colored dress uniform of a sergeant of marines. Joe Mooney returned from Great Lakes Naval Station a few days too late, as did Dutch Lasher, who had been at Paris Island with the Marines. Bert Ryan was still in France when we resumed studies. One other also did not return. He was James Pryor—or Pat,'' as we always called him—who had died of influenza on October I, at Great Lakes Naval Station. He had enlisted in June, 1918, but was not called to active duty until the middle of September. After being in camp only a few days he caught a cold while on guard that de- veloped into the disease, which was then beginning to lay its grip upon the country. He was buried from his home in Yonkers, but, Owing to the fact that the S. A. T. C. at Fordham was under strict quarantine at the time, only a few of his classmates were able to attend. But at the Mass which was held for the repose of his soul on March I. 1919, six months from the day of his death, at the Students’ Chapel at Fordham, the class took the opportunity to show their appreciation of the character of good old Pat. The war, having sent so many students into the ranks of the army, had forced the Jesuit colleges of St. Peter’s in Jersey City, and Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, to close temporarily, and so their sons came to Fordham for their final year. There was Nick Sharp, the sentimental Brooklynite, with his pal, “Rafe' Manganaro; and Eddie O MaTa, the Jersey senator; and Paddy Dwyer, who used to be a 'Looie,' and Lawrence Daly, 1919 AS SENIORS Ke MAROON with a service stripe—a salty ol‘ bo’sun he was. Other St. Peterites were jack Crosby, who wants to be a doctor; Dick I arrant and Ray Coleman. So they came and we welcomed them. And now that it’s all over, we who spent four years at Fordham feel like saying to those who spent only one. Why didn't you come sooner? The Class undertook an outrageous system of paying dues. Once a week we would have a class meeting and Dooley Reiss would extract as much as possible from each member for the class treasury, while Jim Gleason, our efficient class president and delegate from Astoria, would expound upon our duties towards God. our college and the Senior class of the College of IVlt. St. Vincent—which latter we agreed to with wildest roars of approval. Father Edward P. 1 ivnan, S. J.. had succeded Father Mulry as president of the University. And let us digress here a moment to add a few' words of appreciation of Father Mulry and the work he accomplished during the three years that we were under his charge. Most of us knew him personally, and he was one of us to such a degree that we felt privileged to call him Big Joe among ourselves. 1 le was dignified when the occasion demanded, and kind and democratic and enthusiastic at all times. Nineteen-nineteen missed him when he left. On February 26. at a reception held in the Administration Building. Father Tivnan was formally installed as rector. On this occasion many of us met Father Tivnan for the first time. Nineteen-nineteen served, in cap and gown, as ushers. But. if the truth must be known, that was not the ANY AF-TnRNOON MAROON real reason why we were invited. Why we were truly needed, although it’s not for us to say it. was because—well, we did add tone to the affair as we strolled carelessly about in our flowing academic robes. And then there were the girls, our co-seniors from Mt. St. Vincent, that center of learning that overlooks the 1 Iudson—they must be ushered. And after it was over we showed them the new K. of C. hut and to the accompaniment of a pianola, pouring forth its sweetest strains beneath the musical feet of Paul O'Keefe, some dozen couples of Seniors, with flying black gowns that made it look like a scenic dance at the Hippodrome, indulged in a most scholarly and dignified fox-trot. Shortly after the opening of classes. Senior opened the college social activities by holding a class smoker, at the K. of C. hut. Neil Godley succeeded in capturing several reels of film, which elicited great approval from the gallery. John Basso displayed some clever gymnasts whom he had trained, and then came the great championship bout between Bob Eustace and Frank Galuzzi, the two ultra-lightweights. Father Tivnan addressed the class and complimented the committee for the splendid evening afforded. .Vleanwhile we eagerly devoured our Ethics and Psychology, which Father Hill fed to us in large and wholesome lumps. Again we studied science under Mr. Daniel Sullivan, this time Astronomy, and. later in the year. Geology. Father Burke. S. J., taught us Political Economy. Perhaps it was our advanced years, or perhaps it was the practical value of the subject, but at any rate we were unusually interested in Father Burke’s lectures. We missed—for who would not miss him?—Father Murphy and his entrancing flow of language. But in three years under his tutelage we had learnt all the history that was to be known, and so we were without him. The hours of class were—well, they were just as they should be. from an undergraduate’s point of view. Only one afternoon a week did we journey back under the elm trees for an afternoon class. The other afternoons were spent in bowling in the village or in hot arguments on a multitude of subjects in Senior corridor, or in the Sanctum. And in the Spring there was the ball team—that glorious ball team—to watch, and well hardened tennis courts beckoning us to exercise. There is really no need to tell of that ball team. Every paper in the Fast has sung its praises at various times, and Frank McMahon, the efficient manager, filled in when they were silent. It won from the Baltimore Orioles. Brown. Princeton, Rutgers. Holy Cross, and a host of others. In the columns of a New York paper it was rated second in the college world. Eustace, the poet-ballplayer, played in most of the games, with this 1. MAROON team that at the close of the season sent two of its members to the Big Leagues. Let us arid a word of credit to Frank McMahon, who was as loyal a manager as Fordham’s team ever had. Jim Hart, as Student Athletic Director, also deserves praise for his work. Neil Godley managed the tennis team through a season of success. O’Shea. Barrett and Eddie Ward broke into the ranks of the tennis players this season with the veterans Captain Matt Taylor and Jack Martin. The Dramatic Association did not produce a play because of the short school year, but the Debating Society made up for this by unwonted activity. Dennis Blake was president. John Dillon secretary, and Harold Crawford treasurer. In May a team of four invaded Boston College, to engage the youths of the city of culture in intellectual combat. They were Blake. O'Keefe and Donohue, with O’Mara as alternate. Mr. Connelly, S. J., moderator of the society, journeyed with them and brought back the glorious tale of victory—how Artie Donohue, a blazing torch of oratory, touched the hearts of his opponents themselves: how Dennis Blake, keen, sharp and to the point, made the Bostonites wither before him; how O’Keefe, red-eyed and roaring, brought the fear of God into the hearts of all. This was the first time in fourteen years that Fordham has won from these old debating rivals, and the story of this victory shall stand forth in golden print on the pages of Fordham’s history. The Monthly flourished with Jack MacCarthy as editor. The first issue was put out in February and the last, a splendid special number of a hundred pages in honor of the returning Ambulance Corps, was issued on Commencement Day. It contained a history of Fordham’s part in the war and is a monument to the earnest work of MacCarthy and his staff. Ninctccn-ninctccn literary stars gave their best to the magazine, as they had done in the past. Taylor unloaded more short stories, serious and otherwise, upon a patient public; Blake contributed some interesting essays as well as taking charge of the exchange column, and the journalist O’Keefe contributed the college news in his column. ‘The Ram Jr. MacCarthy himself wrote scholarly essays besides his splendid editorials. In June came the banquet! TO CELEBRATE THE COMPLETION OK THE MONUMENTAL TASK OF PRODUCING VOLUME 3 7 OF THE MONTHLY WE. Tl IE STAFF. TENDER OURSELVES THIS DINNER AT THE INN OF LOUIS MOUQUIN. read the menu. Nineteen's contributors to the Greatest College Monthly took their sad farewell. Three prizes were awarded, one to MacCarthy for GOVERNOR SMITH ADDRESSING THE GRADUATES MAROON the best essay, one to I ay I or for the best short story, and one to Dillon for the best poem. In the prize debate Ed O Mara. giving the most eloquent and convincing extempore rebuttal ever heard at Fordham. won the medal, with Paul O’Keefe following him as a close second. Denis Blake was the other 1919 representative in the contest, and McMahon and Barrett assisted in the musical program. Of course the Debating Society ended the year with its annual banquet at the refectory at Fordham. The year was drawing to a close, and on May 21 the Senior banquet was held at the Hotel Pennsylvania. It was a wonderful night and a happy night and one that will come back to us many a time in the future years. In the enforced absence of Jim Gleason, our vice president. Bill Shea, acted as toastmaster and performed the task with credit. O'Mara spoke on 1919—Her Youngest Sons’; McMahon on 1919—In Athletics”; O’Keefe on 1919—Looking Backwards. and MacCarthy on 1919—Looking Forward. For guests we had I atlieis Johnson. Hill, Mahony, Brock. Roucke and Mr. Quigley, all of whom were called on to speak. A silent toast was proposed to the memory of James P. (Pat) Pryor. Let us pass over the examinations. They came, we plugged and conquered1. Then came the happy day when Father Johnson set our trembling hearts at rest and read the list of successful candidates for degrees. By the end of May we had finished. All that reinianed was the Commencement exercises on June 18. Pleasant days of relaxation they were, after the strain of the exams. On the night of June I 7 came the memorable, glorious Alumni banquet, tendered to us by the older Alumni to welcome us to their midst. It cannot be described—it can only be recalled. I here was glorious food and glorious drink and speeches and music, with MacCarthy. who had been chosen by the class as their representative, impressively ushering 1919 into the Almuni. And afterwards, just before sun-up. when all were asleep on Senior corridor—but it cannot be described, it can only be recalled. On the next day we graduated. It was a clear, peifect day, and a crowd of several thousand packed the lawn as we marched in solemn procession to our places before the platform. Governor Smith made the address to the graduates, and Archbishop Hayes awarded the degrees. At last it was over, and the last graduate had heard the Archbishop s word of congratulation. MacCarthy, graduating summa cum laude,’’ or with an average of over ninety five per cent, for each of the four years, was the only one to receive honors. Then came the good-byes and the congratulations of friends. That evening we met for the final time. It was the Senior dance Mi 'BKe MAROON at the Hotel Majestic, managed with the greatest aplomb by Ben Kelly. But it seemed only a moment before we were waltzing to the strains of “Home, Sweet Home. It was hard to realize that there would be no more dances and no more banquets of thirty-odd good fellows—for it was the end I Such is our history. Need we add an epilogue? You, fellow-classmates, if you read this, will know what the memory of those days mean to you; you will understand the depths of those friendships formed; and you will realize, though you may not shape the thought, that the comrades you have made, the characters you have seen, and the college life—with all its college tragedies and joys—that you love, have given you all the requisites to become a Catholic gentleman. But it is getting late. Time is flying, and we must be up and doing. We are only young graduates, and there arc a hosts of difficulties before us. and a world that it so reluctant to grant success. So it is the end—we must part. But 1919 will not die. You will discover us in future years in our new roles as business men. lawyers, professors, doctors, priests, journalists, musicians and artists. But. above all, we hope that you will discover us to be as fine a crowd of fellows as we were in June. 1919. Ube Class in tbe War ‘ ZS SS T-HIS is not to be a compiling of statistics, nor will it narrate the story of every i Fordham student and alumnus who donned a service uniform to work for his country. We can only outline the work in which hordham men have taken part in great numbers—nearly 800 strong—when the service flag was first raised over the campus in the winter of 1918 and increased by many hundreds thereafter. Army. Navy and Marines show each their quota of Fordham men. serving always devotedly. many wounded, some killed and not a few decorated for conspicuous bravery under trying conditions. A resume of the war to include what all hordham men did would require volumes of print and years of research; we must, therefore, devote ourselves more to speaking of the character of activities they distributed themselves among rather than to listing alphabetically the numbers of men so engaged. Of course, as this is Nineteen’ year, special mention will be given wherever fitting to the work of the men of the Class of 1919. To begin at the beginning individual mention must be given the two men who blazed the way for Fordham, both on this side and overseas, one a Marine and the other a sailor. Fordhams first man actively engaged in the war was Harry Crocker. I 5, who enlisted in the Marines in February. 1917. and went over in April of that year with the first of General Pershing's forces and was among that first small band who brought the New World back to the Old in their march through the villages of France. Second only to him was Harry Fallon, 16. who enlisted in the Naval Reserve immediately after the declaration of war and went overseas in July, acting as radio operator in a converted yacht on the French coast and subsequently seeing service in the port at Brest, where he won steady promotion, being commissioned an F.nsign in September. 1918. Preparatory to taking a three-months course of further training at Annapolis he returned to this country in October and was sent home on leave when the outbreak of influenza prevented his going to the Naval Academy. While at home he contracted pneumonia and died, after having had fifteen months' service overseas. The first bringing home of the war to the College came with the formation of the Ambulance Company, as a result of the visit of Major Patterson from Washington to Fordham. in February. 1917. Diplomatic relations with Germany had just been severed on account of the Imperial Government's refusal to comply with its pledges in regard to the U-Boat warfare; war appeared to be a certainty. It followed two months later, on April 6th, but it is to the credit of Fordham that the work of its ambulance unit was well under way by that time. They were then enlisted, instead of being merely, as a first, enrolled. As so many Fordham men entered this form of service it is appropriate to say a few words in praise of it. Sacrifice was the main thing it entailed: all the danger, all SECTION 551. S. S. U. William Wilson. ex-’l9. Standing Extreme [.eft SECTION 552. S. S. U. Rutledge J. Howard. ex-’19 Seated Second from R.glu MAROON the wearisome toil of the combat troops, with none of the glory or glamor attaching to their closely watched movements and very little of the promotion that so much enlivened interest in the other forms of service, for in the Ambulance the chance to become an officer was limited practically to those who had had medical training. But the chance to work for the interests of Cod. country and humanity was tremendous and it may truly be said of the Ambulance men that they chose the better part, working nearly all as privates with the highest devotion and purest sacrifice. I he Ambulance men were recruited from College. Law and Pre-medical divisions, with a few just out of the ’‘Prep. Nineteen's men. who were thus among the first to serve, were Joseph Baxter and Welton Percy, later with S. S. U. 629 of the French Ambulance Service; William Wilson, later with Section 551. U. S. A. A. S.; Rutledge Howard and Mark Kearns, later with Section 5 52. U. S. A. A. S., and Raymond Durney, later with Section 3 5 3. U. S. A. A. S. These men have all come back again, two years behind their class that has just been graduated. Yes, two years of study lost, but who would dare assert that they were the losers? The commencement exercises of 1917 were cast in cloudy times and the presence of many men in uniform, as well as the ambulances donated to the Corps by the loyal McAleenan brothers, lent an air of foreboding to the occasion. Father Mulry's address in the blessing of the colors was a powerful one. but even more moving were the few words he spoke the fol lowing morning when the Ambulance Unit had assembled at Fordham for its departure for Allentown. Pa. After training in Allentown the men embarked. August 23d. on board the Baltic and sailed, with a stop at Halifax for the formation of a convoy. for England. A short distance off the Welsh coast the ship was struck by a torpedo, but the damage was slight and the Baltic' proceeded to Liverpool, where the men landed September I 5th, going thence by rail and boat to Havre. On reaching the base camp at Sandricourt the three sections into which the unit had been divided were separated and the story of the Fordham Ambulance Corps is thereafter the story of Sections 551, 5 52 35 3. U. S. A. A. S. The sections saw service in various parts of France and their story is well told in the June issue of the Fordham Monthly by one of their own men. H. McDonald Painton. As an allestment of the valor and sacrifice of the Fordham men it need only be mentioned that sixty-seven of them were awarded the Croix dc Guerre for spectacular service. Four of these were won by former members of Nineteen-Ninctecn—Joe Baxter. Ray Durney. Mark Kearns and Rut Howard. April. 1919. saw most of them home again after nineteen months on foreign soil. Ke MAROON At the time the ambulance men left Fordham the first Officers’ Training School was in full swing at Plattsburg and many Fordham men attended it. Of those commissioned from this camp most were subsequently attached to the 77th Division and saw considerable service in France. A few of whom mention might be made arc Edwin S. Murphy. ' I 4. who went over with the Regular Army, rising to a Captain of Artillery: Lieut. Louis Lcdcrlc. 12. who was killed in the Argonne; Lieut. Henry J. Amy. ’ I 6, a staff officer in the 77th; Lieut. William F. Cahill. 13. who was Judge Advocate of his regiment and was killed fighting in Flanders, and Lieut. Arthur F. Mc-Keough, Law 15. who obtained great prominence through his bringing back news of the whereabouts of the famous ‘Lost Battalion.’’ Fordham was represented again in the second camp at Plattsburg. which opened immediately after the close of the first. This camp sent out its quota of officers in November. 1917. Other sons of Fordham were in the New York National Guard, which went to camp at Spartanburg. S. C., in September. 1917. When college opened in the fall there was a noticeable depletion in the number of students. Besides its Ambulance men Nineteen had lost Charles Bickner, who enlisted in the Naval Reserve. May 30, 1917. Gilbert Haggerty, then of 18. went into the Navy at about the same time and saw more than a year's service at a lighthouse near Cohasset. Mass. On his release he became a member of Nineteen. Dick McGinn, our baseball player extraordinary and class president in Rut Howard. Speed Branev and George Pitt Ke MAROON SECTION 553. S. S. U. Raymond J. Durney, rx-'l9. Second Row, Third from Right SECTION 629. S. S. U. Including Joseph Baxter, ex-’19 and Wei ton F. Percy, cx-’19. being decorated by the French maroon: Sophomore year, heard the call of the country in February, 1918, and after duty for a short time in Boston, was sent to the Fnsign School at Pelham Bay. After training there and on a cruise Dick was commissioned and appeared before the class one bright day in May with the distinction of being its first officer. During the summer of 1918 he saw service on board the George Washington' and was subsequently on other vessels, being promoted to Lieutenant, Junior Grade. His activities included duty for a while in San Francisco. Skinny Ryan was the next to follow. Good old Bert! Will anybody ever forget him) Very tall and very slender, he found it difficult to convince military authorities that his tonnage was as great as his elongation demanded. After being turned down no less than fourteen times, Bert was accepted for service in the artillery and left for Fort Slocum. We submit this as an unapproachable record of persevering patriotism and the class cheered heartily when he blew in with the news that the War Department had finally come to its senses and accepted him. Leo O'Brien enlisted in the Marines. Some time later he returned to us a Sergeant, on recruiting duty and wearing the coveted badge of the expert rifleman. Though in the Marines for nearly a year it was not Leo’s good fortune to go overseas and he spent most of his time at Quantico. Va. Dutch Lasher followed him just before Easter, 1918, after having many a time threatened to enlist in the Balloon Corps. It was not long before he received his warrant as Corporal. Our third Marine was Frank McMahon, who entered that service in July. He became a corporal and qualified as a sharpshooter. O'Brien and McMahon returned to Fordham in January, 1919, but Lasher was not discharged in time to take up his studies again with Nineteen. At the close of the school year Pat Pryor. Matty Taylor and Joe Mooney journeyed to Cleveland to enlist in the Naval Reserve, with a view to the Ensign School at Great Lakes Naval Station. Elsewhere more will be said of Pat Pryor, who died at Great Lakes of influenza October 1st, after being in training only two weeks. Men in service do not complain, but from a spectator’s viewpoint it would seem a strange ruling of the Navy which will let men into a camp already quarantined and thus increase the number liable to the epidemic. Taylor was released in January, but Mooney’s release came to late to allow him to row the last nautical mile with the class of Nineteen. The Plattsburg Camp of the summer of 1918 was a big chapter in Fordham’s military doings. As a forerunner of the S. A. T. C. drill had been established in many colleges immediately following the declaration of MAROON war and Fordham was no exception. After the Easter recess in the spring of 1917 regular military drill was instituted throughout the college, with staid Seniors captaining the newly formed companies and Juniors acting as lieutenants and ‘non corns. The drill was under the supervision of Captain Oaly and continued to the close of that school year. In September a new system was begun with military drill, under Captain Woods, for those under nineteen years, and a regular class in Tactics, conducted by Captain Daly, for the more mature collegians. 7 his arrangement lasted throughout the year. I here was some talk of a short period of intensive training at Fordham late in June, but school closed with the matter still hanging in the balance. Word was given that all students would be notified by mail of plans to be acted upon. The notice came soon and on a different and more extensive scale than was expected. Word went forth on July 1 1th announcing the birth of the now justly famous Students' Army Training Corps—the S. A. T. C.” Applications for membership in the quota Fordham should send to Plattsburgh came fast and plentifully and on Monday. July 15th, the men reported at Fordham for physical examination. Successful candidates were notified to report at Grand Central Station to take the 9.30 train Saturday morning. July 20th. They reported there on a clear but hot day and thus formally opened another period in Fordham’s war history. The contingent, along with many fellows from various other colleges, arrived at Plattsburg that evening at 7.45 P. M. Being issued blankets they were assigned to temporary barracks and introduced to the bunks of soft pine boards which were to be their downy berths for the next two months. I wo months of hard work. The life of a soldier in training contains a great variety of exertions and the authorities at Plattsburg overlooked none of them. Infantry drill, bayonet “killing.’' calisthenics, trench digging. hikes and problems —these were the more strenuous occupations. Corpor.il George Clarence I -tslier, ox '19, of the Marinos □ SKe MAROON but there were others, notably kitchen police, that were just as warisoine. The fellows slept with as much vigor as they did anything else, but only between the hours of 10 P. M. and 5.30 A .M. Guard duty came around regularly. Fordham was well represented at this camp, with sixty-one fellows looking after the glory of the Maroon. Nineteen’s quota consisted of Blake. Donohue. Gleason, MacCarthy, .Vlagagna, iVlcKeown, O'Keefe and O’Shea. It seemed odd to find Jack MacCarthy actually wearing a hat and Private O’Keefe of Co E. wasted away to 175 pounds in a manner that was pathetic. Private O’Shea looked taller than ever when mounted on a spirited charger of a Sunday afternoon. Blake lost an O. D. shirt containing ten dollars and—miraculous!—found it again. Curry and Durcan liked to go on canoeing picnics. Galligan became a singer. Agoglia took a leading part in the big entertainment put on by the men of the camp on August I 7th. and many another little incident supplied interest apart from military duties. On the day alter Labor Day there was a meeting ol college presidents at Plattsburg to determine the course of action for the coming year. Working with the War Department they planned the Students’ Army Training Corps as afterwards put into effect at all the colleges, kather Mulry was hailed gladly by all the kordham men of the camp, as was also Father Johnson. who accompanied him. A meeting was held at Cliff I Iaven of the fellows of Fordham, Georgetown, Boston and Holy Cross and the reunion was a pleasant one. Two weeks later came the closing of the camp, on September 16th. Some of the men were commissioned and the rest returned to act as assistant instructors at their several colleges. More than twenty-five Fordham men received the right to sport gold bars. Nineteen was represented by Jim Gleason, our class president, who was sent as Second Lieutenant to the University of Pittsburgh and later to Tufts College, and by Frank McKcown. who went to Camp Grant. Illinois. Previous to this, on August 2 3d. Plattsburg had sent I 70 men to Camp Perry. Ohio, for special training in small arms firing and 60 to Camp 1 lan-cock. Ga.. for machine gun work. Denis Q. Blake and Mario J. Ponig-lione represented Fordham at Camp Perry and Alfred Hofmann, Law, at Hancock. Perry is on the shores of Lake Eric and consists mainly of a rifle range and a village of tents, each supplying its quota of mud. The fatigue of this camp was done by a battalion of drafted aliens, one of whom, it was discovered, had formerly waited on table for the Second Division boarders, but it is not believed that he possesses a place in Fordham’s service flag. On the I 7th the majority of the S. A. T. C. men in camp were commissioned and the rest sent home. I hose commissioned were put □ Li P'J ill: Hill1;. )Jr . '1 FORDHAM MEN AT PLATTSBURGH CAMP. 1918 mmm ■ y 1 Ke MAROON through another course of training, leaving Camp Perry on October th. Blake was the only Fordham student among these and. after qualifying as marksman, was assigned to duty at Boston College. The final chapter of Fordham s war activity is strictly Fordham’s own. the period of the Students’ Army Training Corps. The S. A. T. C. as begun in the colleges after the close of the Plattsburg camp last summer was primarily a matter of supplying officers' material. It was recognized that on the average college men showed greater knowledge, judgment and aptitude for learning than men of lesser education and were consequently more likely to develop into efficient officers. With the IS to 45 draft, which was to have gone through, and which was prevented by the outbreak of “Spanish flue and later rendered unnecessary by the signing of the armistice, it was expected that many thousands of officers would be needed and the colleges were called upon to supply them. For that reason the colleges, as a result of the conference of September 3d. became practically military camps and only such academic studies were retained as contributed to the immediate training of a prospective officer. I hose who showed sufficient promise were to have been sent to Officers’ Training Schools and it is not presumptuous to declare that had not the armistice interfered—Fordham would have produced some very fine officers from among the material gathered there in October. The Students’ Army Training Corps at Fordham was officially opened on October 1st, 1918. with the formation of four infantry companies and a Naval unit. There was an impressive ceremony, with addresses by Father Mulry. Frank Oliver and the Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien, and the induction into service followed. Some days later a fifth company was formed of recruits from the Medical School. The commandant was Captain, subsequently Major. Millburn, with Lieut. Bardsley as adjutant. The company officers were recent graduates from Plattsburg and on October 14th Camp Perry lent an addition in the person of Lieut. John Staub. rifle instructor. The sergeants, with very few exceptions, were the Fordham fellows just returned from the camp at Plattsburg. They displayed zeal and capability and did their work very well; many in fact had not received commissions at Plattsburg merely from a consideration of age and showed themselves in nowise inferior to the young officers whose assistants they became. Other non-commissioned officers were selected from the more experienced of these newly enlisted in the S. A. T. C. The corps numbered about five hundred soldiers and sailors and the men entered eagerly into the spirit of the work; toeing a straight line and putting the best foot forward were deemed advisable by one wishing to gain the coveted recommendation to an Officers’ Training School, toward which MAROON were bent till their energies, until November I I th put any idea of a military future rather in the background. Studies and classes were pursued in an orderly and determined manner that was a revelation to the professors used to the lazy collegians of old and the appetite of the men for drill and physical exercises was positively unquenchable. Clothing and equipment were very slow in arriving, but nobody thought of waiting for them before getting down to the main business. Twenty-four hour tours of guard duty were begun. the men at first being armed only with clubs and wearing a band on the sleeve of their civilian coats to denote their authority as sentinels. The little cottage by the tennis courts was at first the guardhouse, but its lack of heating facilities demanded different quarters when cold weather came and thenceforth the Second Division “gym was requisitioned. It is said that the Corporal of the Guard found it a long run from the tennis house to the Gate, but nevertheless in the beginning, when the responsible position of the sentinel was not appropriately understood, he made the run a great many times. The Prep boys, constituted by nature to defy any sort of authority that was new. soon decided that decorous conduct on all occasions was preferable to spending an afternoon rolling the tennis courts or engaged in some other equally healthful and chastening form of manual labor. Unlike many other colleges Fordham did not have to have any temporary barracks erected to house the men and desecrate the landscape. The men found existing quarters very comfortable: Companies A and B were in St. John's Flail. Companies C and D were in Second Division, the Naval Unit was in the Alumni rooms under the watchful eyes of all of Fordham's former Rectors, the officers made themselves at home in the Pill Box. Ninetecn's men in the S. A. T. C. were Donohue, kustaee, Galvin. Gui-dano. Flart, MacCarlhy, Martin. O'Keefe. O'Shea. Tarrant and Ward. MacCarthy and O'Shea were I irst Sergeants and turned out splendidly drilled companies: Artie ” Donohue was Rattalion Mess Sergeant and saw to it that the men were well fed and that the K. P.'s did their duty. Sergeant O’Keefe deserves especial credit for the way in which he ARCHIBISHOP HAYES PREACHING AT MILITARY MASS. NOVEMBER 2. 191 . ON FORDHAM CAMPUS IN HONOR OF FRENCH AND AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND SAILORS KILLED IN WAR MAROON found time, in addition to His military duties, to attend to the work of publishing The Ram, which was never so flourishing as in the days of the S. A. T. C. From a financial viewpoint it was probably the most successful college weekly in the country at that time, but entirely apart from that it was a newspaper of exceptional merit and its editor deserves great commendation, some of which is shared by his assistants, notably Jim I lari. Jack Martin and Frank Mylod. of the Naval Unit. Of Nineteen’s men in this Unit besides Mylod. who was transferred there from Pelham, were “Cy” Higgins, who had first crossed the country to duty at the Puget Sound Navy Yard. Washington, and was later transferred to Fordham, and F.d O'Mara. late of St. Peter's, who had been at Pelham and was sent to Fordham as one of the Petty Officers in charge of training the unit, in which he became a very popular P. O. After the signing of the armistice much doubt prevailed as to the fate of the men in the colleges, doubts finally cleared away by the announcement of the coming disbandment of the Unit. December I 3th was the day on which most of the men received their discharges, and, while glad, now that the war was over, to return to civilian life, none denied the value of the experiences they had had nor that they had profited by them. The Students Army Training Corps really had no acid test of its worth, as its existence was of too short duration for that, but there is no reason for believing that, had ©Ke MAROON the war continued, it would not have completely fulfilled the purpose for which it was formed. There are other Nineteen men whose activities are still to be mentioned. “Chuck'' Barrett and Rocco Chiascone represented us at Pelham Bay. Ed Gleason and Larry Daly also sought the life on the ocean wave, the former having one year's and the latter six months' overseas service to his credit. Pat Dwyer was in the Army about a year and saw a number of camps. Being drafted he went first to Camp Dix, where, after a few months, he was assigned to an Officers’ Training School. Thence he was sent to Camp Gordon. Ga., for the completion of his course and there commissioned a Second Lieutenant. His next stop was Camp Hancock in the same State, where he took up machine gun training, being finally placed in command of a company. Here he had under his command six lieutenants and about I 50 men and when the armistice was signed had been recommended for a First Lieutenancy. As an example of Pat's efficiency it may be noted that the commander of the company next to his and doing the same work as himself, was a Regular Army Captain of twenty years’ experience. Big Crosby was in the Signal Corps at Franklin Cantonment. Maryland, when the guns ceased firing. Neil Godley was in the Artillery and saw service at Torts Hamilton. Wadsworth and Tilden. Magagna went from Plattsburg to the S. A. T. C. at Lafayette College. Peisachowitz was in the S. A. T. C. at City College and from there went to Camp Zachary Taylor. Kentucky. Nick Sharp, formerly of Brooklyn College, was in the Naval Aviation and within a few weeks of his commission when his desire of completing college led him to seek a discharge. He had been stationed first at Boston Tech and later at Pensacola. Fla. Joe Tedesco rounds out the list, entering the service of Uncle Sam at Camp Lee. Virginia, shortly before the amisticc and being a soldier long enough to endure the joys of a quarantine for influenza. We realize that this summary of Fordham's doings and those of Nineteen is, as of necessity it must be, incomplete and fragmentary. It is understood that the College intends publishing as soon as complete data can be obtained an adequate record of Fordham men in the war. It will probably be some time before this can be obtained, for Fordham men found their way into all branches of the service to the number of about eighteen hundred men. Quoting from the June issue of The Monthly, the number issued primarily in honor of the Ambulance Corps, Fordham counts three Major-Generals among the leaders, two Colonels, one Lieut-Colonel, four Majors, twenty Captains, ten Chaplains, about ninety 1'irst Lieutenants and fifty Second Lieutenants give some idea of Fordham s quota of officers in the u 'SKe 1 MAROON Army, while the Navy and other allied services had their proportional representation. Thus at present we can talk for the most part only in generalities while a record of particulars is being compiled. Another example of Fordham's patriotism is to be remarked and. in climatic order, wc have left it to the last. I hat is the thorough, practical and sincere devotion to country of both Father Joseph A. Mulry, our President in wartime, and Father Edward P. Tivnan, our Rector now. Father Mulry did not confine his patriotism to speaking earnestly in behalf of his country's cause; his was the guiding spirit of Fordham men in all branches of service, and especially during the Plattsburg camp last summer and in the S. A. T. C.; many times he asked the Provincial to allow him to offer his services as a Chaplain, but each time was told that he could not be spared from the work that he then had in hand. Father Tivnan was instrumental in the formation of Fordham’s Ambulance Corps, to which he devoted tireless energy during those first days of its inception when things were not always so rosy in appearance. The record of each is one that all Ford-ham men may look to with pride, just as each may look with pride on the record of the Fordham men they have been called upon to guide. THE COCK OF VERDUN The Insignia of the American Ambulance with tin- French Paul T. O'Keefe Editor - in- ChieF cfoseph W. Mooney ■ : ‘ -f. Vi -i . ? ■ e ames P Pryor Managing Editor cfohn C. Mac Car thy News Editor a ames a. Gleason Circulation Manager Editorial Staff Editor-in-Chief........... Managing Editor............ News Editor................ Local Editor.............. Asst. Local Editor......... Correspondence Editor...... Sporting Editor............ Dramatics ................. Art Editor................. Business Manager........... Asst. Business Managers.... Circulation Manager........ Asst. Circulation Manager. ..........PAUL T. O'KEEFE ...........JAMES P. PRYOR .......JOHN C. MacCARTHY .........FRANK V. MYLOD ...........JAMES F. HART ...........DENIS Q. BLAKE ........JOSEPH E. KINSLEY .....MATTHEW A. TAYLOR CLARENCE DE LA CHAPELLE .......JOSEPH W. MOONEY WILLIAM J. O'SHEA ....... ( JULIAN J. REISS ....-.....JAMES J. GLEASON ............JAMES MULRY TRcportorial Staff Francis McKeown, Frank McMahon, John Martin. Francis M. Field-McNally, Joseph L. Hoey. Arthur Donohue, Cyril A. Higgins. George Mulligan, Prep; Joseph E. Kendrick. Edward Ward. Morgan J. O’Brien 'HURSDAY, February 7th, 19 18, is an important date in hordham’s history, for on that day appeared the first issue of what has since come to be recognized as one of the leading college weeklies of the country—The Ram. Men high in the journalistic world, among them Mr. Don C. Seitz, of the New York World, and Dr. Gunnison, of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, have offered the most complimentary criticisms of this publication, and numberless prominent business and professional men have praised it to the skies. From the time of its inception to May 29th. 1918. fifteen issues in all appeared, after which date it was necessary to discontinue its publication in order that able-bodied college men of mature age might take up arms for Uncle Sam in the great war. Since the □ MAROON college only received back its warrior sons last January, it was not deemed practicable to produce the weekly during the short time remaining before the close of the school year. Accordingly, although a bitter disappointment, it was decided to wait until next year before reviving this great organ of the college. The paper originated with the class of '19. It was a direct outgrowth and a natural product of the Journalism Class which the men of 19 took in their Junior year. However, much of the credit must be attributed to Mr. Quigley. S. J., who urged its inception and who toiled unceasingly in its preparation, advising and aiding the staff in every way possible. Perhaps it is not too much to say that it is an infallible law that where one finds an excellent publication there also he will find an excellent staff whose energy and ability arc responsible for its high quality. So it has been with The Ram. The men who have controlled the destinies of this paper, whether members of the editorial or business staffs, men working on special assignments or mere reporters, all joined their efforts together admirably to produce the desired result. Surely no sane man would demand a more efficient or more capable cditor-in-chicf than our own robust, good natured Paul O'Keefe, a finer managing editor than our greatly lamented Pat’’ Pryor, a more brilliant or better qualified news editor than Jack MacCarthy. or better local or sporting editors than Frank Mylod or Joe Kinsley. These men comprised the editorial staff, and the makeup of the paper, its newsy and attractive style, are testimony to their thoroughness and discernment. The business staff included a man to whom too much credit cannot be given the business manager, Joe Mooney. He it was who was responsible for the large number and assortment of ads which graced the pages of the one and only. and which, after all. are the making or the breaking of a paper. Joe probably spent as much if not more time and effort to make The Ram a success than any man on the staff. Collecting bills, paying debts, securing contracts for ads and always wearing a cheerful smile were only a part of his duties. Bill O'Shea and Dooley Reiss, his assistants, gave him able support in these arduous tasks. The circulation department of the paper was well taken care of by a certain modest, unassuming gentleman, albeit an orator extraordinary and president of the class of 19. by name. Jim Gleason, with Aloysius Arthur as his faithful henchman. Important special assignments demand good men and. in this direction as elsewhere. The Ram was well supported by capable men such as Denny Blake, who had charge of college news; Jim Hart, dramatic critic; Clarence Dc La Chapcllc. staff artist, and Jack Martin and Frank McKcown, who were respectively responsible for law and medical V3i e MAROON news. About ten or more efficient, nervy, speedy reporters complete the list of those who have brought fame and recognition to The Ram. Advantages manifold have accrued from the advent of this weekly. Too much stress cannot be laid on its importance in the co-ordination of the various departments of the University or its part in the development of a unified, practical Fordham spirit. No journalistic effort yet put forth at the Maroon college has served better to spread news of local interest or to arouse more enthusiasm for or more loyalty to the athletic teams representing the place than the paper of papers. A week to the student, eager for accounts of the latest campus events, seemed an eternity. The alumni, too. by their unflagging support, proved that to them The Ram was a thing of more than passing interest. Moreover, the United States being at war, when the copies were appearing, the columns of tire paper were crowded with the latest bits of news about our boys in the service, both “over here and over there,’’ and in this line the weekly rendered invaluable assistance to their relatives and friends in keeping track of the absent ones. The Ram. however, besides being a chronicle of events, sought to establish by its influence innovations which would benefit the college. The men behind the paper early realized the great good which would follow the establishment of an inter-class baseball league. This idea was carried into execution and the paper aroused the necessary interest by donating a cup. to be given to the winning team at the end of the year. Whether this attempt to benefit the general run of men rather than a trained few has been a success or not may be judged from the fact that the league is still a Fordham fixture after its second season. The weekly, moreover, gave to those studying the principles of Journalism a chance to put theory to the test and to get a practical view of newspaper work. But perhaps someone unacquainted with Fhe Ram may inquire as to the features which made the issues such a wonderful success. In the first place, its editorials were of an unsurpassed order, being of so persuasive a nature as to influence even the most obdurate. Anyone who has read any of the issues will attest to the comprehensive store of news they contained and the interesting style in which it was presented. Among the specialties. The Ram’s Horn, consisting of a double column of clever, pointed sayings and mirth-provoking poetry, played a prominent part. This section of the paper would make the most chronic grumbler on earth gleeful. It put one in the best humor to withstand the trials of life and the rigors of examination time. Corridor Gossip was a scries of remarks upon the latest doings of college students and the acts of some Ke MAROON of their most radical members, little personal glimpses of daily happenings in class and out. Being modern in all details and keeping up with the spirit of the times, the paper also chronicled the names of Fordham men in service. their whereabouts, et cetera, under the heading of, From Camp to Campus.’ Then there were Sports in Short. which were brief comments on the maroon athletic teams and their prospects; The Alumni. a few words about the men who once attended Fordham, and the College Calendar. a weekly chronicle of events of interest to h ordhamites. All these came in for their full share of attention. But even with all this abundance of material, the various other departments of the University were not slighted for the College. Law. Medical. Pharmacy and Sociological Schools each received their full quota of news each week. With each succeeding issue The Ram became better, its demands and opportunities were more fully realized and the scope of its news being enlarged. necessitated an increase in the number of pages from eight to ten. In the October of 191ft, when the war gloom still thickly mantled the world, few of the staff members of the preceding year were able to return to the College and those who did. came back not in their usual role of students, but as enlisted men of the Students Army Training Corps. One would expect that under these conditions The Ram. as a publication, would cease to exist. However, it blossomed forth again in all its glory, although now it had a predominately military character where previously it had been of a collegiate type. It assumed relatively the same value to the soldiers and sailors encamped at Fordham as the Stars and Stripes did to the A. E. F. The news columns now contained items about the companies, barracks, news, personal remarks concerning officers and men. army athletics. etc. Since the S. A. T. C. lasted less than three months, but few editions were issued, but these still maintained the old l ordham standard of excellence. This volume of The Ram finally culminated in a great pictorial number. This striking issue contained pictures of all the companies, their officers, the commandant, other well known persons and views of Fordham. The armistice having finally been arranged, the boys came back to their normal life as college students in January, 1919. It was, however, decided that, due to the short time left before June and consequently the augmented work imposed upon the classes, it would not be wise to devote the energy and work necessitated by The Ram. In view of this, all thought of the one and only college weekly has been dropped for this year. But it has not been forgotten and its many old and true friends are waiting until next year, when it has been promised that it will again shine forth with greater brilliancy and more regal splendor than ever before. Staff ..............JOHN C. MacCARTHY Associate Editors Editor._........ DENIS Q. BLAKE EDWARD J. EUSTACE PAUL T. O’KEEFE MATTHEW A. TAYLOR JOI IN J. DILLON JOHN J. MURPHY MORGAN J. O’BRIEN WILL T. O’SULLIVAN JOSEPH L. HOEY HENRY F. LAWRENCE ELATING the history of The Monthly during the last two years devolves itself into recounting the achievements of the writers of the class of 1919. It was upon these men that The Monthly depended chiefly from the time that Pryor, the second Junior in its history to hold the honor, assumed the editorial mantle, to the time that MacCarthy laid it down; it was these men who gave it the renown it won in the two years just ended. Other days have had writers of individual brilliance—their Quinns. Bctowskies, McKees and Hamiltons. but, and we say it with a due realization of the merit of those who have gone before, for uniform excellence and sustained quality, it is doubtful whether that era of The Monthly that began in October of 1917 and ended in June, 1919, has ever been equalled. For a Stanley Quinn we have a Eustace, for a Betowski. a Pryor; for a McKee, a MacCarthy; for a Hamilton, a Taylor. There were, besides. Blake, for whom it would be hard to find an equal essayist in other years. Dillon, a poet of high ability; O’Brien, a romancer who ranks with the best in the college world, and among the less frequent contributors. O’Sullivan, Lennon. Gordon, Hoey and Lawrence. They made a staff of distinction. The inspired Eustace was the first to show his ability. F.arly in Freshman year his poems in The Monthly began to excite comment. They had a profundity of thought to them, a vivid imagery; in the lines were an almost flawless versification and the magical music of a Swinburne. Such poems as ’The Balance. 'Until Reveille” and “Dream Song of Erin were remarkable for power, freshness of conception and an utter lack of the sopho-morish bombast that usually characterizes college verse. 1 lis fame spread beyond Ford- THE MONTHLY STAFF Standing: Henry F. Lawrence, Morgan J. O’Brien, John J. Murphy, Will T. O’Sullivan, John J. Dillon Seated: Denis Q Blake, John C. MacC.irihy, FJitar-in-Chief: Paul T. O'Keefe, Matihew A. Taylor MAROON ham. I he critic of The Redwood of Santa Clara University in a review of the college poetry of the year, said: Now when we glance over the college magazines, several there that immediately detach themselves by reason ol their poetical as well as general literary merit. Some of these are Fordham Monthly, Nassau Lit. v In these magazines two names stand out in view of their poetic excellence and constant contributions—Edward Eustace, who writes for Fordham, and Pryor (God rest his soul) was eminently an editor. He had a ripe mind, a clear vision and the ability to express what he thought in lucid language. He possessed a rare power of coming to the point and making it so clear as to render it evidently right, or evidently absurd; of so opening up a subject that from his conclusions there could be no dissent. He had a forceful, epigrammatic style which was at its best in his Random Shots, those terse comments on the follies of the passing day. He said what he thought in no obscure or veiled language; he was courageous and frank. For he had a detestation of shams and fakers. He saw below the surface of the cant sayings of the hour and of the phrases of the publicists. Judging all things by the standard of common sense, it was seldom that his opinion on a subject was wrong. And because of their timeliness and vigor, but chiefly because of this quality of sanity, his editorials received universal praise. The Monthly suffered a great loss when Pryor died, but it found an able successor to him in MacC’arthy. Essays, satirical, controversial and familiar; poems, lyric and satric, flowed from his prolific pen. His thoughtful essays displayed not only logic, but a wealth of varied knowledge in history, literature and criticism. There was. besides, in what he wrote a subtle and peculiar wit. 1 le had a way of stating very gravely something utterly preposterous, of stating it in the plain terms of his knowledge, leaving the reader to catch the allusion. His editorials, and this, wc think, is the highest praise that a college editorial can be given (for the quality is a rarity), always expressed some personal vie%v of the editor. There was little of the horrors of Bolshevism, little about W. S. S., or the Victory Loan, or any subject on which an editorial must usually' be only the parroting of another man’s thoughts. His editorials were expressions of an individual opinion. And they were written in a smooth-flowing style which showed best in the occasional poems that he wrote. By far the best short-story writer on The Monthly was Taylor. There is an assured touch to all he writes. If he ever had that instinct of the □ Ke MAROON young writer of fiction to compose grim tragedies, he early outgrew it. His stories are pleasant, entertaining and readable. The material is always deftly handled. An ingenious plot, with a well chosen succession of incident and fresh, natural dialogue, flows along evenly to an unforeseen conclusion. So well are his stories done that the editor of 1 he Inlander of the University of Michigan wrote to the editor of The Monthly: There is a story in your February issue entitled. The Good that Spirits Do.’ by Matthew A. Taylor. It is considered by all the members of our staff to be a really distinguished piece of work. We wish the readers of our magazine to enjoy it also, and we are therefore writing to ask permission to republish it. This, the sincerest compliment that can be given, is a thing that happens rarely among the college publications. For two years the Exchange Editor of The Monthly was Denis Blake. Calm and discriminating judgment marked his reviews. Impartial in his criticism. he had neither the hypercritical method of some, or the deferential, toad-eating manner that others use towards the writings of their contemporaries, in the hope that their own pure literature may be handled lightly —the tacit I’ve patted your back, now you pat mine. In spite of this, his essays were universally favorably received, being commented on as different from the usual run of cut-and-dricd articles. But his chief merit was his exhaustive treatment of a subject, his wide knowledge of the matter in hand and his sureness in marshalling his material. It was this power in his essays that won his two prizes open to competition by all the college. O'Keefe was the humorist of the staff. Starting as a regular contributor. he had to resign at the half-way mark in 1918 because of the overwhelming duties that fell on him as Editor of The Ram. I le continued, however, to contribute occasional humorous sketches and poems to 'The Antidote, a column which sheltered under its beneficent anonymity the jeux d’esprit of the staff, chiefly of O'Keefe. Eustace. Pryor and MacCarthy. or M. O. P. E., as the first issue was signed. In Senior he took charge of The Ram. Jr., a miniature Ram, the link between the great Ram of the past and the great Ram of the future. With his experience in news-gathering and editing, he conducted the department to perfection. There pervaded all that he wrote a genial, tolerant humor that accomplished its aim of satire without leaving a too great smart behind it. Punch, when it had Thackeray as I he hat Contributor writing humorous sketches for it. was no more fortunate than The Monthly with O’Keefe. .1 ‘SKe MAROON Relying chiefly on these men. The Monthly went through the year of 1917-1918 with remarkable success. The S. A. T. C. and the great confusion that it brought about prevented the beginning of the thirty-seventh volume before February. 1919, and owing to this late start there was a lack of new contributors, but with most of the old staff except Pryor, The Monthly kept up to its high standard. The June issue was a notable number of genuine historic and artistic value. Summarizing the activities of Fordham in the war and presenting a detailed history of the Ambulance Corps, it makes a valuable book of reference, especially as it recorded the deeds of the brave days of 1917-1918 while they were still fresh in the minds of the actors. It is a book that will have an interest as long as there remains a memory of patriotism among the people: it is a work to perpetuate the names of any staff. During the year of 1919 was put into operation as an experiment what should become a custom: the awarding of prizes for the best productions published during the year. Whether it shall ever be a powerful force in stimulating spontaneous writing and contribution, is very much of a question; but it has this quality: that it gives a certain recognition to merit that is gratifying to those whose work does not usually provoke three rousing cheers, but who are nevertheless very jealous of honor. And so in the future the college will know whether Hawkins, Dawkins or Jorkins is its champion poet. This year, the laurels for the best essay were awarded to MacCarthy for “The Superlativeness of the Here and Now , for the best short-story to Taylor for Into the Sunset , and for the best poem to Dillon for Regret . The prizes were awarded at the end of the year after a bacchanalian feast at Mouquin’s, where the staff tendered to one another and to The Monthly, their criticisms. Their final judgment, which said that it is outranked by none, may be thought prejudiced, for such a statement may well seem to arise from the pride of production. But even allowing for the natural exaggeration of authors, their inward opinion, infinitely the best, will, when translated into ordinary language, still remain The best. And there we will leave it. For we do not feel any necessity to bolster up its position by quotations from the Exchange Editors of other college publications as to its quality (vid. Santa Clara Redwood ut supra) or to quote their exaravagant expressions of joy when they found that the war had not disabled it for the entire year. MATTHEW A. TAYLOR AS KING LOUIS XI Dramatics T IS a peculiar fact in Fordham's history that when a man or a class attains to any distinction, pessimistic individuals, while admitting their attainments, mournfully remark that there are no others to take their places, when grad-uation will have elevated their stars to the dignity of Alumni. Yet time has shown the fallacy of this remark—present the occasion and lordham never lacks the talent to equal the past, or as is more frequent, to surpass it. This has been the case notably in dramatics. Recall, if you will. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Beau Rrummel and other remarkable productions, that set a standard few believed could be paralleled. But Mr. Daniel Sullivan, S. J., was determined on making dramatic history and if the presentation of If I Were King” can be accepted as an example of an initial attempt, the University may well expect greater things of him. War deprived Fordham of the annual play this year, but if the plans of next year materialize, New York will be afforded an opportunity of seeing a play which will surpass all amateur and many professional presentations, both in excellence of execution and in magnitude of production. These digressions into the past are permissible and serve as a guide for future productions. But in the land of dreams, where only the blessed and the good are possible, we must ever return to the past and. like many a doer, muse in happy recollections. It is April 17, 1918. The curtain has ascended and the Auditorium is swept in the engaging music of a rollicking song. An amusing company of cut-throats and Middle Age Bolshcviki,” veritable beer guzzlers, may be seen gambling, singing and Swilling the Happy Waters. A rotund creature of physical bulk and mental ineptitude arises from his slumbers and so do wc greet Toison d’Or. In appearance he reminds you of FalstafF. his countenance indicating an intellectual vacuum but it is because the lad is a clever actor. And who could be but Raul Thomas O’Keefe, a clever writer, excellent debater and a man of physical as well as mental bulk. Among the ruffians (and Oh. when they elected to become vulgar and in general nawsty !) Jim Gleason. Neal Godley and Sylvester Fitzpatrick arose to the occasion and. I might whisper, considerably above it at times. The tavern door is opened and two men enter. One as tall as Ichabod Crane, the other of medium height. The gentlemen, who are in disguise, are recognized as I ristan L’Hermite and King Louis XI. The part of Tristan L’Hermite was played by John Murphy, whose finished and elegant performance left nothing to be desired. The part of the King, acted by Matty Taylor, will ever be recalled by Fordamites. Many thought his acting equal to that of the leading man, Herbert Blanchet, the more discerning, considering the difficulty of his role, were so enthusiastic about his cleverness, as to consider him the best of the entire cast. The King and the Prime Minister were addicted to drink and the I avern Keeper was 0� to Ke MAROON nothing loath, in encouraging their liquid proclivities. But alas and alack, just at a critical part of the play. Paul O’Keefe committed an act, which will ever be sorrowfully recalled. He poured the white wine of Beaune into the King's goblet and was immediately astounded to see the waters go through the bottomless glass and trickle towards the audience as if disgusted with the conduct of the stage rabble. The tavern door again opens and a bearded, rollicking roisterer shouts. Well, hearts of gold, how are ye? The ruffians arise and with acclaim embrace the new arrival, shouting. Villon, Villon.” Our hero lias arrived. Francis Villon, a name that recalls memories. Herbert Blanchet, the actor who portrayed with eminent distinction the part of the eminent poet, the passionate lover. He was excellent, with all the natural poise, control of voice and gift of interpretation that any amateur could aspire to. His vocation in life is for the stage, and we know that in that calling success is simply a matter of time for him. If Lady Catherine’s page and Henri Villon were as good actors as they were pretty to look upon, the stage would have two Sotherns (but as a matter of confidence, they were decidedly not). The Make-up Man could not produce good actors.'’’ Artie Donohue, who played Henri Villon, had a distinct aversion to a sudden death. The ten years taken from Mr. Sullivan's life are proof of that. Ed Breslin made a terrific effort to imitate a Royal Page and did himself credit. Ed has a pleasant sympathetic voice and gives evidence of talent in elocution and acting. Joe Kendricks of football fame tackled the villain’s part. Incidentally he tackled Francois Villon, once with a sword and again with a dagger. Francois, of course, as all heroes do. won the duel in the darkened tavern. At the next meeting in the Royal Courtyard. Villon taunted Thibaut—enraged Thibaut made an honest effort to stab Francois, but little brother. Henri Villon sacrificed himself for his older brother, by throwing himself on the body of the innocent Francois. The knife entered, Henri Francois was saved and the villain escaped the mediaeval police. Sylvester Fitzpatrick. the leader of the Cockleshells, was truly the life of the play. The part required a leader, fighter and desperate character. As Fit combines all these qualities, it was no effort for him to act natural and win vociferous applause from an audience. I he second act introduces a gentleman, truly an actor. Morgan J. O’Brien. Given a part his nature rebelled against, a pompous snob, nevertheless Noel 1c Jolys was excellently interpreted by Morgan. Myles -S| cak for your«elf. Arthur. □ □ c lxe MAROON Amend, the King's barber, was so costumed as to recall the Royal Executioner. yet Myles proved himself a perfect barber. The Toison d’Or of Mr. Hanley, the Gerard Marceau of Mr. Del-masses and Pcrc du Lac of Mr. Kingsley were particularly effective. William O’Shea. Denis Blake and Charles Burke were capable militarists. The pages acted very well and the experience they gained by acting and observation will be a substantial foundation for future performances. The qualities of our heroes and villains have been reviewed. If justice has not been done them, the appreciative audiences of the show will ever attest to their qualities. It is still a matter of dispute which of the four acts were the best in point of scenic effect and excellence of acoustic endeavor. The setting of the first act immediately engaged the audience’s intense attention. The scene is a tavern, a rollicking assemblage of drunken cut-throats are protesting their love for the absent ladies. Its conclusion is a terrific duel, held in lantern light. I he clash of swords lend a touch of realistic effect and the audience is left in suspense by a quick curtain, with the hero a captive. The curtain rises and the second act is on the boards. It is not my purpose to narrate the plot of the play but rather to emphasize particularly good parts especially worthy of review. A clever piece of burlesque acting, that caused the house to rock with laughter, was the best feature of the second act. The Cockleshells reigned supreme. The captured tavern rats, uncomfortably endangered by the possibility of the noose, violently protested the innocence of any transgression and turned State's evidence' on the world in general, their comrades in particular. The fact that their captor had such an intimate knowledge of their wrongdoings, was a source of profound consternation to these knights of night work. King Louis, so excellently portrayed by Mat Taylor, will ever be remembered. A cynical, grasping, ambitious king was brought back to us from the other world and the part was so well interpreted by Matty that historians could marvel at the exact counterpart of King Louis on hordham's stage. But do not forget Francois Villon, who was equal to every dilemma proposed by the King and who in the typical hero fashion thwarted the King s designs. Herbert Blanchet. an engaging hero, who by way of parenthesis made violent love to an absent ladyfair and with careful disregard for his environment succeeded so well in his amorous gymnastics that it was with difficulty that the fair ones in the audience restrained themselves from crying out. My hero.’’ The third act was the scene of a court festival. Events progressed favorably until nightfall, when villains hired by the ubiquitous 1 hibaut en- MAROON tcrcd to deposit their cutlery in the anatomy of Francois Villon. Stealing in upon our hero they surrounded Francois. Thibaut. unmasked by Villon, made a desperate lunge with an elongated dagger for somewhere” in Villon’s whereabouts, when Henri Villon threw himself upon Francois and received the dagger. Weeps, a violent death, unusually prolonged and some soft music. The action of the play hurries on and the fourth act sees Villon saying his prayers in a chapel (historians insist that Francois was as innocent of prayer as a baby is of digesting chewing tobacco). This act was an opportunity for the King to further demonstrate his powers and Matty availed himself of the opportunity. The plot of the King is nipped in the bud by Francois Villon’s faithful followers, ably abetted by the rabble of Paris and a final curtain sees Villon triumphant. Criticism, I have none to offer, nor would I had I the chance. My only regret is that most of the cast have left Fordham and the Old Maroon will be hard pressed to equal the memorable performance of If I Were King.” But Fordham will sec another production and the former Cockleshells and Villons, sitting in the audience will conscientiously mutter. Not so good” or What an aggregation of clownish children”—and then, congregating in Stellings after the play, will arise and sing the touching lullaby. Gone, gone, all all are gone, the old familiar faces.” □ OFFICERS OF THE DEBATING SOCIETY Standing: Peter K. McManus, Harold Crawford, Anthony P. Uihleir. John J. Dillon and Arthur C. Donohue. Seated: Denis Q. Plate Officers President...............................DENIS Q. BLAKE Vice-President........................ARTHUR C. DONOHUE Secretary...............................JOHN J. DILLON Treasurer...................................HAROLD CRAWFORD First Censor......................... ANTHONY P. UIHLEIN Second Censor..............................PETER X. McMANUS INETEEN has made very splendid records in a variety of fields, but if there is one activity in which they have excelled, more exclusively than in any other, it is certainly debating. The St. John's Debating Society has had its ups and downs for a good many years since it was founded in 1854. but Nineteen has contributed solely to the ups. In the prize debates for the past three years Nineteen has always been well represented and in the three intercollegiate debates that have been held since Nineteen entered the college, we have boasted of eight places out of nine among the speakers. I hat is surely an unusual record. In Freshman Year of course wc were only just beginning, so only a few of our members represented us as members of the Debating Society. Bert Ryan in particular kept the attention of all focused on at least one scion of our illustrious class; he would argue any point imaginable and was at his most eloquent height when demanding that appointed debaters give their forensic treat regardless of whether or not a quorum happened to be present. Steve O Beirne was President of the Society that year and it was under the moderation of the one and only Father Murphy. Rill Schmitt won the Prize Debate. Nineteen kept rather in the background, thinking that it would hardly be courteous for mere Freshmen to dispute the glory of Seniors. But this feeling of modesty didn’t last long. At the beginning of Sophomore year, with Mr. Joseph Mulry as Moderator and Walter Barry as President. Jim Hart was elected Secretary of the Society, the first of a number of officers held by our class. Our membership that year consisted of Hart. Taylor. Blake. McCarthy, Mooney and Donohue. In February a team was selected by tryouts to debate against Columbia and those chosen were Hart. ’19. Murphy. 20, and McNally. 20. Only one out of three? But wc were just getting started then. About two weeks before this debate was to take place Columbia called it off. actuated it must seem to one who speaks candidly by a desire not to be beaten. Their stated reasons were vague and very unconvincing. Tryouts for the Prize Debate were held, followed by the Semi-Prize Debate. for those not qualifying for the main event. There was. according to the Moderator, the best speaking of the year in this contest, which was won by John Murphy. ‘20. who had just a fraction of an advantage over John MacCarthy. 19. Denis Blake and Arthur Donohue represented Nineteen in r lrve the Prize Debate, the question of which was, Resolved, 1 hat individual and national prosperity is best maintained by the Republican form of government.’’ Walter Barry was adjudged the best individual debater, with Blake a close second, getting one vote of three from the judges. Though rather green as to delivery, his speech was a splendid one and carried the decision for the affirmative side. Nineteen was now well under way. In the elections at the end of May, 1917. Donohue became vice-president and Blake was elected treasurer, the rule still being in force that the president must be a Senior, Kinsley being chosen for the office. The season was rounded out in a very fitting manner by the holding of a banquet in the College Refectory, with dessert and speeches and everything. The following year was one of aroused interest in debating. Though not a member of our class all credit is due to F. M. Field-McNally for his zealous and efficient efforts in behalf of the Society. Practically unassisted he wrote the new constitution, which became quite a bone of contention and incidentally served not only to more correctly govern the Society but also to lend interesting discussion to its meetings. It was tentatively adopted and then many a clause was attacked. The real dispute came in midyear. The new constitution provided for elections twice a year and consequently there ensued much debate as to whether the men elected in May for the following year were not in office for that year regardless of the new constitution. To this it was replied that the old constitution, regarded as more or less legendary, could not be produced to show authority for the men staying in office and that on the adoption of the new constitution the old one had been completely superseded. So elections were held on the first meeting of February. Field-McNally. heading the ’Intcrclass Ticket, was elected president over Kinsley. Donohue was re-elected over Uihlein and Blake was re-elected unopposed. The new president showed himself throughout his term to be as capable a chairman as ever presided at a debating society and his work in swelling the membership of the Society with new recruits was exceptional. New members from Nineteen were O’Keefe. O'Shea. Pryor and Reiss. At about this time arrangements for a debate with Columbia again fell through, but plans were made for an informal debate with Cathedral College. As the time was very short Mr. Mulry selected the team without ryouts. MacCarthy. 19. O'Keefe. 19. and Murphy. '20. being appointed. The question was that of national prohibition. O’Keefe’s speech was convincing and humorous and MacCarthy’s reasoned argument and occasional satire were well received. I he decision of the judges, two to one in favor ke MAROON of Cathedral, was somewhat of a surprise to the assembled audience. The debate took place in Alumni Hall. The debate with Holy Cross on the 26th of April was entirely Nine-teen's affair. The debaters were Reiss. 19. O Keefe, 19, and Pryor, 19, with MaeCarthy, '19, as alternate. The question. Resolved, That the (Vlonroe Doctrine as developed and applied, should be abandoned, seemed to give rise to a good deal of trouble for both teams in determining just what their opponents were trying to prove. At times the issue was not clearly defined. Holy Cross was given the verdict. The best work for Fordham was done by Pryor, whose main speech was coldly logical and whose rebuttal was filled with quick retorts and telling wit. Another debate was to have been held, with Boston College, the team chosen being Donohue. '19, Blake, 19, and Murphy. '20. The negotiations were protracted and finally came to naught. Blake. Donohue and MaeCarthy represented Nineteen in the Prize Debate of 1918, the question of which read: Resolved, That journalism as exemplified in the New York newspapers is beneficial to the moral upkeep of the citizens.” Arthur Donohue considerably excelled the other speakers, his argument being clear, practical and burning with his fiery enthusiasm, while his delivery could not have been improved upon. Victory for the affirmative side in this debate was due not only to his efforts but to the strong argument of MaeCarthy. Prior to the elections at the end of the year an amendment had been put through bringing back the old system of officers holding place for the full year. Election for president was close. Blake being elected over Mac-Carthy and Murphy on the second ballot. Donohue was elected to the office of chairman of the Contest Committee. The Debating Society held no meetings during the course of the S. A. r. C. On the reopening of college in January there was some delay over the matter of the hour of the meetings and the first week of February witnessed the first meeting. In the death of James P. ( Pat”) Pryor at Great Lakes the Society lost its most convincing speaker. Pryor was not at all an elocutionist; there was little of frill or flourish to his delivery; he did not have a smoothness of prescience that to many speakers naturally comes; but people sat up and took notice when he began to talk. In driving home facts, in convincing an audience and in logical and decisive rebuttal he was entirely without an equal in the Society. His loss was a great one. Providence mitigated it to some extent by leading Edward J. O Mara, winner of the Prize Debate at St. Peter’s College in 1918, to our midst. The 1919 debating season was probably the most successful in the his- THE DEBATING TEAM Standing: Edward J. O’Mara. Archur C. Donohue and Denis Q. Blake. Stated: Paul T. O'Keefe S1r e MAROON tory of the Society. The Society numbered about thirty members and these showed themselves to be interested and devoted adherents of their profession. Blake proved an excellent chairman and a splendid president in every way. personally keeping in touch with practically every member of the b -cicty to insure his interest and support. His zeal and particularly his untiring efforts to “put across the Boston College debate fully deserved all the success they received. 1 le was very ably assisted by the chairman of the Contest Committee and also by the treasurer and secretary. Harold Crawford and John Dillon, of 1920. Tryouts for the team to debate Boston College were held at the end of February, those chosen being Blake. Donohue and O’Keefe, with O’Mara as alternate—ail of Nineteen. The date finally determined for the contest was May 14th, at Chestnut Hill. Under the able guidance of Mr. Terence L. Connolly. S. J.. the new Moderator, the debaters went to work with a will and conscientiousness that boded ill for Boston. How often they repaired to the Auditorium of an afternoon and recited their well-rounded periods to a hall full of empty benches! O’Keefe developed a touch of laryngitis and O’Mara had to learn his speech, but Paul came around all right. On the night of the 12th the team was reviewed” by Father Johnson and on Tuesday afternoon, the 13th, departed for Boston and battle on board the Steamer “Northland.” That debate will probably be remembered as Fordham’s greatest intercollegiate debating triumph. Their victory was overwhelmingly decisive, the more so because Boston College had not lost a debate since Georgetown beat them in 1911. But tradition availed Boston naught that evening. The decision of the judges was unanimous, as was that of the audience. The signalncss of Fordham's victory detracts nothing from its credit; the logical and coherent work of the three speakers was unapproachable. The question: Resolved, That Congress should pass legislation prohibiting immigration for a period of four years following the signing of the peace terms, was a good one and an interesting one. Fordham held the negative side. Donohue’s mention of that very crowded boat, the Mayflower.” Blake's joke about the Italian babies and O’Keefe’s remarks on the Dry Law added humor to the occasion. Second only to this debate in importance and satisfaction was the Prize Debate. 1919, held late in May. The question was the same. Donohue elected to stay out, owing to his victory a year before. O’Keefe, Blake and O’Mara represented Nineteen. O’Mara spoke on the affirmative side. Here again one speaker stood out particularly. I hough O Keefe and Blake with their conclusive arguments won the debate for their side, in individual MAROON brilliance Edward J. O’Mara was far superior to the rest. His work was an oratorical treat and the audience literally hung on his words. His was as fine a piece of debating as Fordham had ever witnessed. As appreciation of the Boston victory the crowd here was the largest that ever graced a Fordham debate and it was an enthusiastic gathering. In addition to the debate there was a splendid musical program. The season closed with a banquet that satisfied all. As usual, there were many speeches and the keynote of all was sincerest appreciation of the work of Mr. Connolly. It would be impossible to over estimate the value of Mr. Connolly’s efforts as Moderator of the Society. The interest which he took in the Society and especially its public debaters was surpris- OFFICERS OF TI IE PARTHRNIAN SODALITY Willnm |. O’Connor, Charles P. Robinson, Joseph A. Kelly. Rev. Francis D. O'Loughiin, S. J., Moderator; John J Dillon fl artbcntan Sciuiltt Moderator..............REV. FRANCIS D. OLOUCHLIN. S. J. First Prefect..............................JOHN J. DILLON Second Prefect............................JOSEPH A. KELLY Third Prefect.....................WILLIAM J. O’CONNOR Secretary...-.......................CHARLES P. ROBINSON Immaculate Conception Sobalit? Moderator.....................MR. JAMES F. COLLINS, S. J. First Prefect.......................JOHN C. MacCARTIIV Second Prefect......................DENNIS A. COLEMAN Third Prefect.............................JOHN J. McCUIRE f f HERE js iitt|e to write of the history of a Sodality during a year. Nothing sensational occurs. The meetings are as regular as the weeks. The members gather as they have in preceding years, listen to a short instruction, sing the appointed hymns, say the appointed prayers. Were its importance to be gauged by the notice it receives in the undergraduate publications a Sodality would be of little account. The only things that change from year to year are the names of the Moderators and officers. This year the Parthenian Sodality, under the direction of l ather O'Loughlin. as it has been for several years, started its work with the opening of the year. The officers were all of the Junior class because of the uncertainty when the elections were held, of the return of any of the Seniors as boarders. I he Immaculate Conception Sodality, with Mr. Collins as moderator, held its first meeting late in March with relatively few members. although the number increased a good deal as the year went on. Father Oates had charge of the League of the Sacred Heart, with two members of each class as promoters, the Senior promoters being O'Shea and Donohue. Meetings with Benediction and sermon were held in the Auditorium on the first Friday of every month. The St. Vincent de Paul Society, with Father O’Loughlin. its founder, as director, continued its good work for the poor of the Bronx. The retreat this year showed a change in the custom of having a member of the Jesuit mission band in charge. In our Freshman year it had been Fathers Quinn and Graham who had given it. in Sophomore Father Brown and in Junior Father Delihant. This year, however, the retreat which took place during the first part of Holy Week was conducted by the Rector, Father Tivnan. It was a splendid demonstration, not only on the part of OFFICERS OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SODALITY Dennis A. Coleman, John C. MacCarthy, John J. McGuire Slrve MAROON Father I ivnan. who gave as inspiring a series of exercises as any of the men had ever listened to. but. probably as a result of the instruction, on the part of the students, who showed an unusual seriousness, and went apart with an earnestness that showed that this most important work of the year was an entire success. There was another innovation this year. May is the month of Our Blessed Lady and it has always been the joy of Fordham men to manifest during that month a greater devotion to Mary. In recent years devotions on the campus, at the foot of the statute of the Blessed .Mother, were held at seven o’clock in the evening and consequently were only attended by boarders. This year, however, the Faculty saw fit. and wisely so. to have the devotions at eleven in the morning, in the midst of a gathering of the whole, college and high school. The deep and evident devotion which stood out the more strongly against the background of simplicity made these exercises memorable. One of the most powerful recollections that an alumnus has, is of these daily acts of tribute. It is a picturesque as well as an impressive sight to see the groups of fellows taking their stand around the statue and the little rostrum beneath it and listening with quiet and recollected mien to the words of the 2 lrve MAROON speaker of the day as he sanctifies the surrounding atmosphere with his few words on the virtues of Mary and the value of her assistance to us. Even more effective arc the hymns that swell forth from the throats of the devoted assembly at the beginning and end of the exercises of each day. the same old hymns that have been sung at these occasions for over half a century. Twenty-three representatives of the two sodalities from the Senior and Junior class payed reverent and eloquent tribute to the queen of the month and it was refreshing and edifying to find the speaker assigned each day showed the result of splendid preparation and earnest endeavor. These same qualities the men showed in all their religious activities. When the year was over, they were better men and better Catholics for their devotion. For the development of the moral side of a man is as important. even in a worldly way. and far more important supernaturally than the development of his mind or body. ©fticcrs of the athletic association EDWARD F. WARD President JOHN W. MARTIN Vice-President Secretary ARTHUR C. DONOHUE flUanaflcrs General Manager Football JAMES F. HART CYRIL A. HIGGINS Tennis CORNELIUS P. GODLEY Baseball FRANK V. McMAHON Track WILLIAM B. GALVIN p;SS®JB|§EFORE delving into this review let it be remembered by the reader that if the ’H : personal mention of members of our class who played on the various teams {If? —' be given more consideration than the teams on which they played, it is because ? this book is intended as a memento of what 19 accomplished in collegiate life rather than what the Varsity team of this or that year fulfilled. Although only a part of the men who started with us in Freshman year ever survived the ordeal and reached Senior, still their memory lingers with us and their achievements reflected honor upon us. so it would be unfair to pass them by unnoticed and without a slight tribute. On the football team Benson and Conklin carried the laurels of ’ I 5—' I 6 and accomplished the task admirably. Benson playing at guard and Conklin at tackle performed in great style and did their share to bring glory to the Varsity team of that season to the class. After the close of the football season it was decided, because of the wealth of material, to have a Freshman basketball team. On that team we had such stars as Fitzpatrick and Collins, who made a name for themselves as members of the Fordham Prep basketball team and rated by experts the best scholastic forwards in the city. Larkin, the star center of the famous Xavier High School team of '15, covered the same position for the Freshmen. McMahon, from South Norwalk High School, the best high school guard in Connecticut for that year, covered a guard position for the Freshmen, and Barrett, from Xavier High School, another competent man, held down the other guard position. Billy Lush, who subsequently achieved great fame as a basketball and baseball coach, was the coach of our Freshman team. The schedule was very extensive and contained the names of the best Freshman as well as the leading high school teams in the East. At the end of the year the record showed a result of twelve victories and three defeats. When the baseball season opened we were again prepared to furnish our quota to the team. Kitzpatrick was at hand to play third: Eustace, a man of Fordham Prep fame, covered the keystone position, and Rube” Hall held down first base. Dick McGinn, from Boston, rated one of the cleverest college catchers in the country, was the mainstay behind the bat for the Varsity of that season. He had the greatest whip among the college catchers of the East; in the practice game with the Boston Braves, who were the World’s Champions that year, Dick threw out the only three men who attempted to steal. In tennis we had as our ace Matty I aylor from Mount Vernon, runner up in the College Tournament and who. paired with Binzen. won the Metropolitan Junior Doubles MAROON championship for that season. Keresy and McLaughlin, two stars from Loyola School, contributed much to the fame of Freshman by their brilliant playing in all the Varsity matches. In Sophomore we again had Conklin as our representative. Playing his old position with his accustomed vim and pep and with a year of valuable experience on the griniron behind him. he lived up to our expectations and emblazoned our name on the pages of Fordham's football history for the year. The University did not have the accommodations to practice and so there was no 'Varsity basketball team for this year, but with the promises of a new gymnasium in the near future, it was thought wiser to allow this branch of the sport to slumber peacefully until the erection and completion of new quarters called us back again in the field. On the track team of this year Galvin. Higgins. Pryor and McLaughlin represented us and performed well in all the events in which they were entered. In baseball we had McGinn and Eustace represent us again. The qualities of our catcher we have already enumerated. Eustace played in league style. In tennis Keresy. McLaughlin. O’Shea and Taylor repeated their splendid work of the preceding year and single handed won the greater per cent of the matches for Fordham. All were entered in the Metropolitan Championships. and Taylor went all the way to the semi-final round before being eliminated. TEAM MANAGERS StJtiding: William B. Galvin, Frank V. McMahon, James F. Han Seated: Cornelius P. God ley and Cyril A. I liggins 1 AAAKQON Junior year proved to be our banner year in Football, as far as our representation on the team was concerned. We had the two big stars of the season—Frisch and Erwig. To write at length on the merits of either would be superfluous because their achievements arc known to all lovers of the college game. Frisch was mentioned by several experts as an All-American half back. From our class we also contributed Colletli, Crowly and Corsello. That year we decided to have a hockey team, and although we could not get consent from the athletic council to make it a University team, we played as a class team under the name Fordham 19. We arranged several good matches, winning five and losing three. Our greatest triumph during the Christmas vacation was against the strong 1 arrytown Hockey Club, a team that presented four men playing on the varsity hockey teams of three learge universities. Our team was made up of McMahon. Barrett. Ward. Mylod, Godley. Hart and Captain ' Dooley'' Reiss. Gough. McKeown and Galvin represented us on the track and their running in all the games that year was remarkable. Coached by Bernie Wefers, the famous sprinter, the track team established a fine record, winning the class banner at the Penn games. McKeown broke the quarter-mile record of long standing at Columbia. In baseball we turned our attention to the inter-class 1 eagiff and came in third in the bitter race.- Our team was very THE FIELD REV. EDWARD S. BROCK. S. J. Prefect of Discipline and Director ol Athletics Ke MARODM strong, including Martin. Mylod. Barrett. Ward, Kelly. Jim Gleason. O’Shea, Hart. McMahon and O’Keefe. The games between the various classes proved spirited and interesting and a good deal of talent was discovered for the Varsity. Tennis brought forth I ay lor again and two new men. Martin and Barrett. The former, a left-handed racquet wielder from Rochester, proved a puzzle to his opponents, and the latter displayed fine form throughout the season. All things considered, the year just ended has been the most successful athletic year that the Maroon has had since we came to Fordham. The football team would not have stood ten minutes before the powerful machines of 1916 and 1917. but its winning the championship of the city, and defeating both Boston and Georgetown stamps its record with the seal of success; especially in view of the fact that there had been no preparations made for a team. The second week of October had passed before Coach F.ddie Siskind, the star end on the team of 1908, issued the call for candidates. Frisch and Golden, regulars, and Halligan, Gilmartin and Corsello, substitutes on the preceding year's team, were the only veterans who were on hand to report. There were in addition, however. Garvey and Barnes of the preceding year’s Prep; Mulry and Walters, who had been developed in the class league, and several stars from various other Prep schools. After only a few days' practice the team was sent against the powerful Granite State eleven, which numbered in its line-up several former college stars. Outweighed twenty pounds to the man. the Maroon team put up a plucky battle, holding the sailors to a score of 6 to 0. St. John’s College of Brooklyn was easy for the S. A. T. C. team a week later, falling before the powerful Fordham attack 2 7 to 0. On Ohio Field on November 9 the team won from N. Y. L. in a seesaw battle, which ended 7 to 0. the only score of the game being Frisch's touchdown after a run of thirty-five yards. The defeat of Boston College. 13 to 0. was achieved with amazing case. Fordham went through the Maroon and Gold as evenly and powerfully as a steam roller. Frisch carried the first kick-off back to midfield, skirted the Boston end on the next play for a gain of thirty yards, and after the signals had been run off once again, hurled a forward pass to Garvey, who was standing behind the Boston goal line. In the next quarter Frisch scored the other touchdown by-racing forty yards through a broken field after intercepting a forward pass. 1 MAROON A second siring team lost to Camp Merritt at Hackensack. 2 7 to 0. the regulars resting in preparation for the Georgetown game a few days later. Thr defeat of Georgetown, 14 to 0. at I ordham I-ield on I hanksgiving Day provided a glorious culmination for the season. It was the first time that the Maroon had defeated the Blue and Gray since 1908. The game was played in a drizzle that made the footing treacherous, and the backfield men of both teams were pulled down before they were able to get started. In addition. Frisch was closely watched and could not get away to many of his sensational runs. The teams were evenly matched, 1- ordham s skill in the use of the forward pass winning the day. That sensational pair. Frisch and Garvey, worked wonders with a slippery ball, making many-telling gains by the aerial route, against only one of eight yards by Georgetown. Fordham’s first touchdown was made by a pass from Frisch on his thirty-five yard line to Garvey, who ran forty-five yards to the goal line. The second score came later in thr same period on two more passes. GLEASON the first to Garvey, which brought the ball to the ten yard line, and the second to Corsello, which put it over. A few weeks later Frisch was chosen by Walter Camp for his second all-service team. The baseball season which followed deserves to be called truly' remarkable. Hopes had been sanguine, with a great many veterans back, but in view of the difficult schedule arranged by Manager McMahon, no one had any expectation that the team would attain the ranking of runners-up for the intercollegiate championship that it received in the final authoritative review of the year by The Times. The master stroke seems now to have been the securing of Arthur Devlin, greatest third baseman of his day', as coach. The squad that reported to his first call contained the veterans. Eustace. Frisch. Keough. Lefevre, I-inn. Donovan. Halloran and Martin. In addition, there were 3K MAROON Buckley and McNamara, who had been in the S. A. T. C., and McLaughlin and Schoenberg, newcomers. Practice was scarcely under way before the bright prospects were made brighter by the return to college of Bunny Corcoran, third sacker. and Buck Sweetland, catcher, of the 1917 team. The Maroon lined up for the first game with Cathedral with Lustace. Buckley and Schoenberg in the outer garden. McLaughlin. Corcoran. Frisch and Lefevre in the inner works, and Sweetland behind the bat. Cathedral went down to defeat, 5 to 0. In the next game with Seton Hall, which Fordham won, 5 to I, Schoenberg was moved in to cover first, and Halloran took his place in right held. The first game with Yale, a hard fought battle of eleven innings, was lost 8 to 7. Seton Hall was defeated again, 8 to 2. and then after holding a one run lead for seven innings. Ford ham weakened and lost to Boston College. 4 to I. Lehigh was easy for the Maroon, being defeated 9 to 2. Fordham broke even on its southern ttip. winning from the Baltimore Orioles, 9 to 7, and from Catholic University, 15 to 4, but losing to the Navy, 9 to 6. and to Georgetown. 5 to 2. Fordham stopped long enough at home to defeat Columbia. 7 to I. and to shew McLaughlin back again at first, and Gleason, second baseman in 1917. and just back from overseas, at his old position, then swung up north, losing again to R. C.. 5 to 3. but winning from Holy Cross, 10 to 4. by a glorious tenth inning rally which netted six runs. This was the only defeat of the season for Holy Cross, who were later awarded the intercollegiate championship. The rest of the season proved an unbroken string of victories. Catholic University fell. 8 to 4: Princeton. 7 to I ; Rutgers. 9 to I. and Vale. 4 to 2 in thirteen innings. The Crescent A. C. was defeated. 9 to 3; Syracuse. 7 to 5; Lafayette, I 5 to 14, and the season ended with a victory over our old rival. Villanova, 20 to 3. Frisch, who is now with the Giants, was the star of the team, batting .476 and fielding sensationally. Buckley played a remarkable game in center field, finishing with a perfect average in fielding, and a percentage of .346 in batting. The twirling of McNamara and of Captain Finn and the playing of Gleason. Eustace, Lefevre and Halloran also deserve special mention. In February was begun a drive to get sufficient funds to wipe out a deficit of six thousand dollars in the treasury of the Athletic Association. Both College and Prep entered into the task with enthusiasm. Under the inspiring leadership of Father Brock, the amount asked for was more than doubled, the final accounting showing twelve thousand, one hundred and fifty dollars in subscriptions. The greatest part of the credit for this success goes justly to Father Brock, who worked unceasingly and well, first in pro- BASEBALL TEAM Standing:—Fr. Brock. Halloran, McNamara. Sweetland, Donovan. Bucklcv, Frisch, McLaughlin. Devlin, Coach, McMahon. Mgr. Kneeling left to rigfH:—Lefrvre. Gleason. Eustace, Keough, Finn, Cap BATTERY MEN Halloran, p.; Finn (capt), p.; McNamara, p.: Sweetlar.d. c. Slrve MAROON .e '.Fr . curing the donation of three thousand dollars’ worth of prizes, and after that in directing the sale of the tickets. No record of the year of 1919 would he complete without mention of this lovable, devoted man. Me was. what many gasped in astonishment to find, a kindly, sympathetic Prefect of Discipline, who was always with the boys in their undertakings. Tennis did not flourish as it had for several years preceding. 1 hough Captain Taylor, playing first, proved a capable successor to Binzen. the rest of the material, except Martin and McLoughlin, was not of superfine quality, and the practice of the team was delayed by the slowness with which the courts were put into condition. The season was. however, of fair success, the team gaining a little belter than an even break on the season's play. . . ft i L JWL CAPTAIN TAYLOR of Tennis — r iFr 7 i v w JACK MARTIN to fulfill his duties. Neil ' Godly managed tennis. The class reformed its hockey team on its return to college, and although we played a few matches and practiced indoors. the mildness of the winter rendered outdoor competition impossible. In baseball we had Gleason. McLaughlin and Eustace and they played brilliant ball under the splendid coaching of Arthur Devlin, former Giant third baseman. Taylor. Martin, O'Shea, Barrett and Ward upheld our class traditions and the honors of Fordham on the courts, and their work merited unstinted praise from the student body. Before we close this review it will not be amiss to give a word of praise to the managers. Cy” Higgins was football manager, but his absence in the service of his country rendered it impossible for him A —————— .1-41 THall of jfamc Best All , Round Man......................MacCARTHY Done the ivlost for Fordham ............O’KEEFE Done the Most for the Class........_..J GLEASON Best Student......................... MacCARTHY Best Athlete.............................EUSTACE Best Writer............................MacCARTHY Best Actor................................TAYLOR Best Orator............................. O’MARA Best After Dinner Speaker..........MacCARTI IY Best Dresser..............................O’SHEA Best Musician ...........................BARRETT Best Politician....................J. 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