Canisius College - Azuwur Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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Ilmpurtant Qlinmmunicatinn .i Cleveland, O., May 18, 1907. President C. -C. L. Sa D. S., Canisius College, BuEalo, N. Y. Dear Sir:-iWe have been informed by our advance agent that the society of which you have the honor tp be President is to give a public debate on the evening of May 20, 1907. This is rather a bitter pill for us to swallow, as you are no doubt aware that our circus is to show in Buifalo on that night. Now, we have made all the necessary arrangements for our show. We have taken out our license. we have at great expense distributed advertising all over your city, making it absolutely unpossible for us to postpone our circus from May 20th, and I humbly beg of you, if you see fit, to postpone your entertainment. And in acknowledgement of your generous and magnanimous spirit, I enclose reserve seats for the debaters and the oiiicers of your society. I-Iopingyou will honor ushby your presence on that evening, I am, CHESTER N. NORWOOD, . Mgr. Ringling Br-os.' Circus.. - CThe greatest on earth.J . l Oh. our Selly was a rogue. , I-Ie erat, was, you bettum! He rode his buffalensis And smoked his cigarettum. He wore a diamond studibus, An elegant cravatum, A maxima cum laude shirt. Andisuch a stylish hattum. CContinued in our nextus.J Friends of the graduates will be pleased to learn that they have one and all been awarded Carnegie medals for bravery. The following claims of honor were submitted and won the approbation of the judges. To prevent anything like a show of partiality we print them in alphabetical order: - A Beasley .......... - ........... , ........... . ........ . .Fresh Air Advocate Buschelman ...................... U. .Early Rising Costello .... . . .For Spending a Lifetime 1n l-loneoye Ronan ,,,, ............ S eizing of Opportunities Walsh... ..... ............ U mpiring Baseball Gaines There was a young man from Logansport, -. , my be ,yvy , p . N yp... A happy-go-lucky, auburn-haired sport 5 , Q I L 'elf 'Vj Cupid or Guppy was his middle name- Now it 's Delmas of legal famep jp Q- 1 S, ttb p 'y .A.! , Aqpr 'Zi ' W . . e - n ... ,1. 1 7 f Violets, Sweet Violets, five cents a bunch! . h, K wrul 1, So heard Davy, finished with lunch. c ' I. A bunch for me, said Dave, by gum! . For me? Not yet-my deed 's undone. ' - - , y ay! .A if 415 Q' he And straightway went thru the lunch room door A tl . y ' To the table that graces the middle iioor, , SQ QL . gk From him then did the violets pass MT? .1 To Andy R. and then alas! ,,,. if 1..,?. . , 5 .. '.,,t ,I p, O Temporal O Mores!. . the ancient duffer saidg 4 ,' 'fWe used to earn our l1v1ng, ' ' Q -Q I H l - 5 f '. ' But now we urn our dead. A ' 27

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Earp Scholars' library The College pre-eminently ought to be the home of the ideal library. In placing habitu- ally the great masters of human1ty's most cultured thought and solid virtue before the plastic soul of youth, the library will needs become a nursery of the great and good in man. V Canisius College, it would appear, has grasped this exalted mission of the library. The Day Scholars, in. particular, have been very fortunate the ,past scholastic year to see their library I greatly improved every way. In the following we shall briefly scan the results accomplished. Exterior elegance, and comfort appeals strongly to the taste of youth. Accordingly the Day Scholars' library has .donned new trappings, new furniture, dainty carpeting, drapery, and ornamentation have rendered its four rooms cozy haunts, where lingering is pleasant. An appropriate new discipline of hallowed quietude pervades all and assures undisturbed reading or study. Practical arrangement has eliminated disorder and all noisy table games have been snugly housed in the Day Scholars' lunch narlors. The magazines, protected by neatholders, have their special stands, the papers are suspended on elegant files and rest on graceful easels. The new library office is typical, business is the motto there and service is prompt. ' Anent the literary treasures, the best has been procured. About 800 new volumes, cov- ering well the various branches of booklore, were added to the shelves this year. The new Catholic Encyclopedia, Harper 's Book Facts, Encyclopedia of Social Reform, with an array of works on general information and various lexicons much enriched the reference department. . Philosophy and Ethics received valuable reinforcements in every branch. Oratory can boast la wealth of new acquisitions bearing on rhetoric and the literature of all times and landsg whilst poetry was scarcely less favored with the bards and their commentators from old' I-Iomer down to Horace, Shakespeare, and our own day. The many juveniles are simply in literary clover. The very names of Fathers Finn and Spalding, of R. Barbour, K. Monroe, E. Tomlinson, etc., set young blood a-tinkling. The periodicals to the number of thirty include The Month, 'Harper 's, St. Nicholas, Messenger, Review of Reviews, Century, Donahue 's, Popular Mechanics, 'Scribner's,, etc. Among the twenty papers are the Examiner CP-ombayj, Union and Times, American Boy, S. Heart Review, Freeman 's Journal, Scientific American, Youth 's Companion, Rome, etc., and a paper respectively in Latin, German, French, Polish, Italian and Spanish for our young philologians. Some of the complete sets of works purchased deserve mention, as Lingard's lzlistory of England C10 vols.j 5 Nature Study C20 vols.j, World's Famous Orators CIO vols.j3 Family Edition of Poetry Q32 volsj, Shakespeare C44 vols.j, Irish Literature C30 vols.j, World's Greatest Literature Q60 vols.j. I The greatest credit for all these achievements is due to the able prefect of the Day Scholars, Rev. Father Sommerhauser, S. J., but also to Rev. Father D. Hammer, S. J., in the able management as librarian. His staff of assisting students likewise deserve their meed of praise here. They are Messrs. J. E. Bickel, A. S. Schweizer, V. P. McDonnell, A. S. Winter, J. F. X. Knaggs, EK. M. Sieffert and C. K. O'Brien. D The furnishing of the library involved an expense of Sl,200. Thanks are due and hereby again extended to the Day Scholars and their many patrons for the valuable assistance offered in raising these funds, as also to several friends, who made handsome donations of good books, which are ever gratefully received. EBay Qnbulars' lunch Beams Among the improvements at Canisius the past year the Day Scholars' lunch rooms, if last, are certainly not least. Where. apparently, not an inch of space was believed available to relieve the congestion of the narrow and gloomy place of bygone days, the kindness of Rev. Fr. Rector conjured up a serviceable adjacent locality, which connectcdtwith the former room by open folding doors, constitute the present bright and spacious hall. This was subsequently furnished into tidy dining rooms: the tables received covers, doors and windows were curtained. and the walls suitably decorated. The new quarters serve the twofold purpose of lunch and club-rooms. As the former, they daily extend cheery hospitality to a hundred or more appetitive customers. The rush after a 1norning's 29