Aquinas Institute - Arete Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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A TThe Tret r tben to ( ob N the annals of Rochesterian Catholicity, September twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred twenty-five will remain an outstanding date. On that day the new housing of Aquinas Institute was consecrated to the divine purpose of its existence. If the resplendency of ceremony is measured by beauty and duration, that employed in its dedication was amply eminent and rich. It marked the death and regeneration of the material Aquinas. The pitiless solemnity of Time’s great clock regards two termini for all temporalities; the one we call birth; the other, death. As one body starts on its irresistible journey from the first, another rounds the final cornice of the latter and vanishes into oblivion. Death is but rebirth. By death we are shorn of all that is unlovely; we are arrayed in pure splendor. Having emerged from her ugliness in Frank Street, Aquinas, to us who knew her of old, was clothed in a boundless excellence. When we perceived the beauty of the present structure, we beheld as it were the spirit of our old red-brick school cleared of all pollution. Aquinas, it seemed, had been subjected to the alternate revolution of rebirth, which was solemnized by the dedicatory service. The day was opened to the ensuing activities by that most august and most lofty of ceremonies, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We had as guest and celebrant, His Eminence Cardinal Hayes, who officiated during the entire day. At Mass, the senior class and the lay faculty received Holy Communion. Later, Cardinal, Bishops, and Priests assembled at the auditorium whence, in a body, they performed the blessing. Again in the auditorium, we listened to the first of three addresses which His Eminence delivered on that day. In the afternoon and evening the Cardinal talked to such laymen as the assembly hall could accommodate. The keynote of these talks was the important place which Catholic education holds in the scholastic field. In each was stressed the need of combining the guidance of the Church with the formation of those impressions that derive character. The notable action of the afternoon was the raising of our nation’s flag. Unfurled from the hands of a Prince of Christ’s Church, it flaunted its brilliant stars and stripes above our heads, and below (the only emblem which may surmount it), the Cross. This scene before our school, Old Glory waving beneath the symbol of our Faith, was indicative of what our Alma Mater represents and inculcates, a sacred learning combined with secular instruction, a spiritual union and a patriotic loyalty. We bear as our standards the mightiest emblems of the universe, the Cross and the Stars and Stripes. Vincent Sullivan. twenty-eight

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boys Catholic High School To Be First Undertaking Of Proposed Aquinas Institute As told in The Times-Union yester-afternoon, a bill was introduced vthe Senate at Albany, yesterday, “ |jator Jams L. Whitley of Roch-Uyidiftg; for the .establishment pration i| 0f X. Kelly, J. Adam Kreagr, James M. Mangan, Michael H. Shea, Peter A. Vay and Francis J. Tawman, all of Rochester, are namerlin the bill as the, incorporators, S he boar trustees.. Tho folio? top Thj hitley Bill Incorporates Catholic College Of Higher nation In Rochester Al TOTH ; ——• LOitt “E” IN BILL CHARTERING CATHOUC COLLEGE IN ROCHESTER SPOILS SURPWSE FOR BISHOP THAT SENATOR HAD IN VIEW lbany. March 2.—r Senator James I was a V ely disappointed

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A TThv fleeter CATHOLIC ROCHESTER GIVES BIG WELCOME TO CARDINAL HAYj o Prelate, Here for Dec Institute, Jtoa s 7 cieWnW Flag Raising D C» Followed B; 'rM BigReeeptij SOLEMN RIT MARK BLES OF NEW SCH Rochester Catholic Interest By JO LEdNARD Cardinal Students Furnish Attractive Picture! Auditorium Decked Out For Impressive Ceremonies; Structure Is Formally Dedicated Earlier in Day Services H Of New S TURN OUT TO SEE