University of Santa Clara - Redwood Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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THE REDWOOD. ALMA MATER. Response to the toast Alma Mater at the Alumni banquet May 28, 1903. Reverend Fathers, and Gent icemen: One of the pleasantest duties I have been ever called upon to perform is to express, as I hope to, here and now, my heart ' s love for old Santa Clara College. Santa Clara College! How shall I address her? It were needless here to speak of her founding and her founders, of her growth and progress, or of her proud and glorious name. We might instead, as we sit here to-day amidst the scenes of our boy- hood, with the ' chimes of memory ' s bells pealing through the mist of years, wafting in strains melodious the many sweet and tender recollections of our alma mater — give place to the affection that springs from memory ' s hallowed fount. And yet we might do something better — we might for the few moments dwell upon that which with every justice and propriety can be called the irredeemable debt we owe our alma mater. When we left these old walls and began sailing on the turbulent waters of the world we each took away with us a pilot, and for the fairly successful and happy voyage the most of us have had we must after God thank that pilot — the essential and substantial principles of Santa Clara. She had taken in the great world ahead of us, and she knew, as we know better now than when we were here, the devastating powers of the world ' s allurements. And be it said, whatever suc- cesses we have had against these same allurements we secured by the help of the means which we received from her gracious hands. She reminded us particularly when we were leaving her that in society there was a place assigned to us by the Almighty, and tliat for the filling of it, labor is an indispensible requisite, and that we must labor till we reach the grave. She reminded us that our duties to God exact special attention, inasmuch as we are but creatures, finite and material, consequently subordinate to a Creator infinite and spiritual. This and much more she has taught us, and for all of it we

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Entered Dec. i8, 1902, at Santa Clara, Calif, as second-class mattery under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Vol.. II. SANTA CI.ARA, CAL., SEPT. i, 1903. No. i LUMEN IN COELO. • ark clouds of anarohy had veiled ihe J fesi nd iumuJis of a mi hiij, hidden power ere heard afar and near, in that dread hour hen io ono, kindly (pontiff, pressed is dyin lips upon ihe Jma£e Jblesi f S)esus rucified. he ancieni dower pf Jlome is losiP h no! from eastern hower lih streaming li hi, iernal eaven ' s hequesij, he iar of J eo rose, and der ihe hark S f i 2 , iossed hy winds and iempesis, shed Jis hrilliani rays, and Jo! ihe darkness fled. las for us, ihai souLinspirin£ spark Js quenched in deaih; hui hrisi siill shields his flock, iill hreaks ihe siorms ihai smiie ihe iernal Jiock, Sophomore.

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THE REDWOOD. are deeply and forever grateful. We can never pay to our Alma Mater what we owe her. The very least however, we can do is to love her and to wish her well. But, as she told us when we were leaving these familiar scenes, it is not by elaborate com- pliments, but by our good conduct and steady habits that we can show that we wish success to our college home, and therefore, we should exert every muscle, sinew and nerve in endeavoring to be come good citizens of the world. It is by doing our work sub- stantially, not superficially, that we contribute our share to the at- tainment of progress in our respective communities, as well also our share to the well deserved credit of our Alma Mater. We may express our sense of gratitude in more ways than she asks or expects of us. Would that her children, so bountifully endowed by her, had raised up ere now an enduring temple of brick and stone making her free and above every want to scatter her riches on countless generations! Happiness and prosperity forever reign within thy walls, oh. Alma Mater, peace and contentment to thy loving sons, and may they continue to ascend gloriously and victoriously the paths of truth which herein shine resplendently on every side. And whilst for some, the youngest among us, the brows of the future may be radiant and fair they can never compare, as we shall dis- cover, with the withered leaflets of the past. ' ' For dear is each dead leaf and dearer each thorn in the wreaths which the brows of our past years have worn. Rev. Joskph P. McQuaid«, A. B. ' 88.