Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

 - Class of 1930

Page 17 of 68

 

Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH) online collection, 1930 Edition, Page 17 of 68
Page 17 of 68



Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH) online collection, 1930 Edition, Page 16
Previous Page

Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH) online collection, 1930 Edition, Page 18
Next Page

Search for Classmates, Friends, and Family in one
of the Largest Collections of Online Yearbooks!



Your membership with e-Yearbook.com provides these benefits:
  • Instant access to millions of yearbook pictures
  • High-resolution, full color images available online
  • Search, browse, read, and print yearbook pages
  • View college, high school, and military yearbooks
  • Browse our digital annual library spanning centuries
  • Support the schools in our program by subscribing
  • Privacy, as we do not track users or sell information

Page 17 text:

from his retirement a new poet with a new diction, a new form, and a new in- spiration. He then wrote The Wreck of lhe Deulxrhland, and although it was his first poem in several years, critics have called it the apex of his work. Its theme is the realization that Christianity is in- tegral and absolute. Ipse, the only one, Christ, King, Head g this line contains the meaning of the entire poem, which is Christ. lt is the story of the Passion and the Redemption reflected in the lives of men, it explains how Christ draws souls to Him through suffering and sacri- fice, heedless of all else but their salva- tion. It portrays the infinite love of the Crucified, yearning for the return of His love by those beneath the Cross, and if reminds us that submission to Christ is our only true deliverance. The poem closes in a storm of invocations mount- ing in his majesty of music to the very end. In the llVrech of the Delltfchland the poet proclaims the beauty of his vision of the world, seen through a drop of Christ's blood by which everything whatever was turned to scarlet, keeping nevertheless mounted in the scarlet its own color too. New Horizons Indirectly the poem refers to Hopkins himself. The Wreck of the Deulrrhland divided definitely the two periods of Hop- kins' work: between his early verse and his great poetry, between Oxford and the Society of jesus. This new and greater poetry differs from his earlier verse in far more than form and meter. In The Wreck of the Dezztrrhland Father Hop- kins proved that he had advanced to a new vision of the world and of man in which he saw God in all things and all things in God. In Godlr Grandeur Hopkins proclaims the world of natural beauty as news of God. In its opening lines he represents nature as the reflection of the Creator. This poem shows too the enthusiasm of the lover of nature for the constant re- newal of natural beauty - daybreak Charged with the grandeur of God. The poet deplores man's use of nature- his failure to employ created things. Truly God'I Grandem' is representative of Hopkins' great lyric poetry. Masterpiece Perhaps the best evaluation of a man's work comes from himself. Hopkins con- sidered The Windhozfer his masterpiece. He reverently dedicated it to Christ Our Lord. The deep source of his genius is shown in this work coming from the happiness of a soul in sanctifying grace. In the flight of the windhover, the bird doomed to crash in gold vermillion , Hopkins shows the deep spirituality in which his life was climaxed by his last words, I am so happy, I am so happy! Father Hopkins' devotion was an an- swer to the atheism and the skeptical spirit of an age wavering between a dis- carded religion and a science it feared to accept. To him religion was not a de- partment of lifeg it was its essence. It is not unusual that his genius was not recognized during his lifetime. That his place among our foremost Catholic poets is established is shown by the excellent eulogies written on the occasion of his centenary. Our Lady of Peace Her rape if Hue, Her gown if white, Her eyes are true, Her lips are light. Her hair ii brown, Her cheek! are fair, She wear-I a frown In her lzulrouy hair. She hears om' prayerf, And dfrbl the Lord, To keep our heart! In one accord. VIRGINIA SARNO '45 THE SCROLL 15

Page 16 text:

i J, JL! IQ, g . ,WW ,W High Priest o Poetry f ECAUSE his Jesuit superior en- couraged Gerard Manley Hopkins to renew his interest in writing, the world was given a great Catholic poet. Asked to write a poem commemor- ating the death of five Franciscan nuns who perished in the Deutschland disaster, Gerard Manley Hopkins 0844-18891 wrote his first great work, The W1'erk of fhe Denirrlalazzd. While a period of poetic silence lay behind this poem, so also did seven years of study and re- ligious meditation. Hopkins had not neglected his study of poetry. He had taught rhetoric, and devoted considerable time to the prob- lems of prosody. In the poetry he now began to write he created a rhythm which had been haunting him, and which re- sulted in poetry different from any he had ever written. In this new experience he brought an aspect of reality to his work. Hopkins viewed the universe as filled with meaning and significance which gave him an opportunity for ex- pression in an entirely new manner. In his new way of life he found fulfillment in the praise, reverence, and service of God. Father of Modern Verse Accredited with being the father of modern verse, Hopkins has an original- ity and a freshness superior to many of his contemporaries. He cleverly avoided the cliches of Romanticism, he seems by this invention in verse to have over- powered the poetic language of his time. Father Hopkins' poems were not pub- lished during his life, but remained in obscurity until Robert Bridges, sensing their worth, collected and published a first edition of them in 1918, and a sec- ond in 1931. Hopkins was not immedi- ately comprehensible to the reading pub- lic. Often he verged on the mystical. There was an acute feeling of restraint in his approach. Yet the frankness, vigor, and enthusiasm of his writings have ex- erted definite influence on modern poetry. JANET SHEPIQRD '45 The reader is conscious always of the fact that Hopkins was a priestg thus the encomium, The Priest of Poetry and the Poet of the Priesthood is most fitting. Conversion In the quarter of a century since the first appearance of his works, critics have alternately attacked him as an eccentric and hailed him as a genius. He began his writing before entering Oxford, but while there his works show definitely the influence of the Oxford Movement, as well as the teachings of his professors, Walter Pater and Benjamin Jowett. About a year after he received his degree from Oxford, Hopkins was converted to Catholicism, and shortly thereafter ap- plied for admission in the Society of Jesus. Filled with gratitude for the gift of faith, he resolved to devote all his time to the exercise of his religious duties. He spent his energy in teaching, preaching, and meditation in scrupulous compliance with the Jesuit rule. He burned all his old manuscripts and re- solved to relinquish his writing. He de- voted his life to the love of God, the love of art, and of scholarship. He studied deeply and read assiduously. He could not acquiesce in the pagan phil- osophy of the nineteenth century. It had been secularized beyond redemption, ex- cept that redemption which could come only from the principle from which Euro- pean art and scholarship had originally sprung-the sanctity of the founders of Christian culture. In Hopkins' deep love of God, he dedicated himself solely to the truths scorned by a pagan world. Hopkins had a passionate love of Christ, and during his early religious life the Exerciser of SL Igrmliznr gave great strength and purpose to his love. The exhortation, Man was created to praise , contained in these same exer- cises, gave him deep inspiration and en- during impetus in the devotion of his religious life. After seven years Hopkins emerged 14 THE SCROLL



Page 18 text:

This Is Sweet REAMS, they say, usually do come true. Let us hope that if your dreams are any- thing like mine, there are exceptions to this rule. , I must have been exceptionally hungry the other night, for after I fell asleep, I found myself walking down the street and passing a barber shop. The red-and-white striped barber's pole was a big peppermint candy stick and all the customers were tiny, little gingerbread men. Coming to a busy intersection, I saw in the middle of the street a chubby marshmallow traffic cop holding an enormous all-day sucker colored green for go and red for stop. Soon, as I walked along the street, flanked on each side with delicious looking candy houses-exactly like the witch's in Hamel and Gretel--I came to the country where huge cookies in shapes of chickens, horses, cows, and sheep with red candy eyes were grazing in fields of shredded cocoanut. All of a sudden, a tasty angel food cake mountain rose about five hundred feet in front of me. It was built in so many tiers, it seemed to touch the sky. I ran and ran to reach it, but it kept moving away ahead of me. It would move just as I seemed to be close enough to reach out and take a bite, until finally it melted completely into nothingness. With disillusionment I turned into the field and approached a small pond. Its clear waters were so appealing that I decided to cool my tired, aching feet. After I had immersed one foot, I discovered it was a sticky maple syrup lake and the lily pads were round, fat pancakes. I turned back and started for home when a licorice gum drop horse came galloping toward me. He was about to pounce upon and trample me when faithful Big Ben announced in ringing tones the arrival of seven-thirty. SUZANNE HEATLEY '45 The Blind See HE Armistice signed! Peace once more. Peace, peace, these words keep running through his mind, unbelievable words, Unreal! Unreal to Mike lying on a hos- pital bed, his head swathed in bandages. Too good to be true! Now, after all those horrible months of going through hell-it was like walking from a terrifying nightmare into a living room. How he wanted to jump out of bed and yell-yell at the top of his lungs, but Mike couldn't do this, not without breaking open his wounds. That hand grenade had done a good job. The cheering outside was driving him crazy, if only they'd let him see what was going on, if only they'd let him see. Five days of agony, five days of wondering whether you would live or die. Silence, if only they'd talk instead of that constant whispering. The doctors--what do they know! The wounds were healing, yet, they wanted to operate again, all right let them! Maybe then those head-bandages would come off. Once, somewhere in France in the thick of the fighting, he found himself praying to God for help. Now in another crisis, deciding his whole future, he again turned naturally to God for help. The ether had made him groggy. His head felt tight, he touched it. The bandages were gone! He must be dreaming again, but it was true! I-Ie opened his eyes. Thank God he could see once more. His heart was Hlled to over- flowing and the tears found their way to his eyes. He jumped out of bed, threw open the window and yelled, yelled at the top of his lungs. The world was his! f f I BEVERLY HOPPE '45 fs.fif -- V672 - 16 I x , THE SCROLL

Suggestions in the Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH) collection:

Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH) online collection, 1927 Edition, Page 1

1927

Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH) online collection, 1929 Edition, Page 1

1929

Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH) online collection, 1936 Edition, Page 1

1936

Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH) online collection, 1937 Edition, Page 1

1937

Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH) online collection, 1942 Edition, Page 1

1942

Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH) online collection, 1943 Edition, Page 1

1943


Searching for more yearbooks in Ohio?
Try looking in the e-Yearbook.com online Ohio yearbook catalog.



1985 Edition online 1970 Edition online 1972 Edition online 1965 Edition online 1983 Edition online 1983 Edition online
FIND FRIENDS AND CLASMATES GENEALOGY ARCHIVE REUNION PLANNING
Are you trying to find old school friends, old classmates, fellow servicemen or shipmates? Do you want to see past girlfriends or boyfriends? Relive homecoming, prom, graduation, and other moments on campus captured in yearbook pictures. Revisit your fraternity or sorority and see familiar places. See members of old school clubs and relive old times. Start your search today! Looking for old family members and relatives? Do you want to find pictures of parents or grandparents when they were in school? Want to find out what hairstyle was popular in the 1920s? E-Yearbook.com has a wealth of genealogy information spanning over a century for many schools with full text search. Use our online Genealogy Resource to uncover history quickly! Are you planning a reunion and need assistance? E-Yearbook.com can help you with scanning and providing access to yearbook images for promotional materials and activities. We can provide you with an electronic version of your yearbook that can assist you with reunion planning. E-Yearbook.com will also publish the yearbook images online for people to share and enjoy.