Calvert Hall College High School - Cardinal and Gold Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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4 The Bfazltfimovre Cathedral The memory of the old stately Cathezfral Within whose sheltering and comforting walls we have so often worshipped, and under whose . protecting shadows we have spent many happy school days, will , remain in our hearts long after we have left Calvert Hall. qt A at

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Prologue A lx HE theme of our Year Book lifts it from the ordinary and prosaic into something vivid, interesting and romantic. It recalls the pleasant and sacred memories of the Revolutionary War and the assistance we received from France, at first secretly in money and supplies, and after Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga, openly, in sending to our aid a large army and a powerful Heet. Every schoolboy knows the result. The combined forces of Washingtoii, Lafayette and Rochambeau brought to a close at Yorktown, Virginia, our heroic struggle for independence. As you stroll past the magnificent stone structure that bears the honored name of Calvert Hall College, did you ever realize that on the site on which it stands Count Rochambeau and his army of seven thousand troops pitched their tents on that pleasant hill whose sides were then studded with lofty shade trees? Then and there the soldiers might view the horizon from the four points of the compass. Baltimore Town in the dis' tance numbered less than fifteen thousand inhabitants. Today, the City of Baltimore with a population of eight hundred thousand, extends for miles on all sides of that his' toric hill. The primeval' forest and the tents of our faithful allies have long since given way to the grand old Cathedral within whose hallowed walls repose the venerable ref mains of Archbishop Carroll and Cardinal Gibbons, to our beloved school, to the big hotels and apartment houses, to the homes, more or less elegant, of the people, and to the hum of business. The clang of the school bell and the voices of learned professors and attentive students replace the rolling sound of the drum and the tramp, tramp of the soldiers. The motif of this book and the bronze tablet on the northeast corner of the College may serve to recall the glorious memories of the past and enkindle in the present and future students of Calvert Hall the noblest sentiments of patriotism and of gratitude to God for the liberty and prosperity of our great country. Cn this hill the troops of GENERAL COMTE. DE. ROCI-IAMBEAU encarnped July Z9 to August 22, l782 on returning victorious from Yorktown, Virginia Erected by the faculty and students of CALVERT HALL CGLLEGE in the year of the national Star-Spangled Banner Centennial I9l4

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X C Calvert Hall College o The school was opened, September 8, IS45, in the hisforicg build- ing, Calvert Hall. ln l890, the school was transferfedefo its new home opposite. the Cathedral with which it has been identified since itis foundation, ltsrpresent enrollment of nearly five hundred, and the large numberof ,boys who are seeking admission necessitated the purchase during fhefpast year of the old K. of C. homer adjoining the College on lVl'uil,berry Street. q .i - C 4 I eg C C'