Fordham University - Maroon Yearbook (New York, NY)

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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.

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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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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.