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

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THE REDWOOD 23 your publication. Our first query is, are you a subscriber, If you are, we thank you ; if you have still to hand in your name to the Circulation Manager for a year ' s subscription, we advise your doing so immediately. Now then, after you have digested its contents, send a copy home to the folks and ac- quaint them of the inner life pulsating within these hallowed walls of Santa Clara. It is no presumption to say that they will be pleased with it. So fellow students, we of the Redwood ex- tend to you our hearty welcome ; we ask your co-operation in the work of bet- tering your magazine. Lastly we in- vite your constructive criticism. Cen- sure when occasion calls for it, but let that censure be sincere and of truth, so that we may make stepping stones of our dead selves to rise to higher things.

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22 THE REDWOOD himself with every requirement he will be expected to meet and thus move rap- idly on to the goal ahead of him. Opportunity is a twin sister to time. Both are fleet of foot and once past can never be recalled. Run abreast of the two and half of the battle is over. We are reminded of the story of the adolescent who was ambitious only in terms of tomorrow. He was going to be all that mortal should be — tomorrow. Well this youth would have been the greatest of workers, but the truth is he died and all that he left when living was done was a mountain of things he intended to do tomorrow. As a very apt answer to this we need merely quote the old adage which goes on to say: Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. The advantages of an early start, par- ticularly along educational endeavor need not here detain us. It is sufficient perhaps, to exhort you to two things, work and sincerity therein. Given these two, naught else than success, prosperity and happiness can ensue. Let ' s all put shoulder to shoulder and make this year a clarion to resound adown the annals of Santa Clara as be- ing the most successful year on record. Our Organ It is not a musical in- strument we are here referring to; it is the official publication of the Student Body, the Redwood, your book, to be made and supported accordingly as the spirit of your Alma Mater permeates you and incites you in its behalf. We are not going to preamble you to death by telling you what a really nice book it is, or the prominence it claims in the realm of Collegiate literary or- gans. But what we do want to acquaint you with is the duty it will ask you to fulfill. The older fellows have oft heard this repeated; the newcomers in- to our big family will find it new. To remind the one and inform the other, that is our present aim. On the opposite page you will ob- serve the object of the Redwood. It is to gather together what is best in the literary work of the students, to record University doings and to knit closely the hearts of the boys of the present and the past. Though many of you might say off-hand, I cannot write, that should deter no one. How fre- quently are we possessed of latent tal- ents wjiich we never dreamed was part of our make-up. It is only a trial and that oft repeated that should be convincing of whether or not one can write. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain in the mere trying, ■ ith this in mind we might suggest that you attempt, in your spare mo- ments, a bit of verse or a short story, or even a short essay on any of the current topics of the day. Who can tell but there may be in our midst another Shakespeare, or an 0. Henry or an An- drew Lang ! Permit us one more word in passing, and that in regard to the support of

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Mntoi rsitg Nnti s Faculty Changes The joy of returning to College after the rest- less days of vacation was considerably lessened this year by the loss — I might say of a corps of Jes- uit Fathers who were most successful in guiding our yet unsteady footsteps and who have left memories ever to be cherished by all of us. Father Eline, the real friend of the fellows, has been succeeded by Father Sullivan as Vice- President of the University. Father Hayes from St. Ignatius relieves Fath- er O ' Keefe as Dean of the Law School. The members of the House of Philhis- torians will miss their zealous Speaker, Father Flynn, who has been sent to Los Angeles. After six years of teaching at Santa Clara, Father E. J. Whelan has left for Spain where he will study The- ology. Every minute of his time was spent amongst us doing good for some one, a virtue cold words cannot ade- quately begin to praise. Fathers Dunne and McGarrigle have also journeyed to Europe to complete their studies. The Preps will long remember their Ath- letic Moderator, Father McElmeel, who is now stationed in St. Louis. Coming to us as new Professors are Fathers Donovan, Meagher, Kennedy, O ' Con- nell, Egan and Mullen. oi. J . The first meeting of the Student . . -, o -, T3 A M M. ' Associated Students was Body Meeting „ , . . , ° called on August 2oth, by President Henry Veit. The pur- pose of the meeting was to acquaint the new students with their duties as mem- bers of the Student Body, and to arouse pep for the coming football season. President Veit, in his opening re- marks dwelt upon the necessity of co- operation along the various lines of student activities. He was followed in his remarks by Student Manager James ' Connor, who pointed out the difficul- ties which would necessarily arise this year, due to the change from Rugby to American football, and exhorted the students to a whole-hearted support of the team, the coach, and their Alma Mater. Father J. ' Connell, our new Moder- ator of Athletics, was then introduced, and in a few words outlined the foot- ball situation, assuring the student body that all efforts would be made to secure the best that could be had in the 24