Fordham University - Maroon Yearbook (New York, NY)

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 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.

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 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.

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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.