Canisius College - Azuwur Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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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

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QV- - I 1 1 I I I I I '-x.. 1 lC'klllf' of brains in the f'I2lSS'l'O0lll, to the culinary daintics hroupglit from ho1ne a-nd harbored there, is 4 I1 ample proof at once of a good teacher and a better mother. The eftect a thoughtful lunch-box, flavoied hr tl1e lusc1ous college mocha, produces on hands of lll6l'1'1Iy-Cililftlllg' youths, 1S phenomeiial, and would furnish ideal scenes 'for an arlistfs brush. h , t t , t . Lunch over, the hall IS promptly 1netzxniorpliosed by the tactful young coips ot ZLSSISTUI s 1n 0 typical club-rooms for the various parlor games of the Junior Day SCIIOIQITS. Again a rollicking bustle around chess and carroin-boards, and I know not what other amusing games. HoWeV61', desplte the dln of teasing and laugliter, all is politeness and gentleinanly llll1'fi'.. A feature in the club-rooms was the great carroin f0l.l1'll2l1ll9Ilt last winter. About 28 teams had entered the lists, and the distribution ,of prizes to the successful combatants was made the occasion of a special cefehration, the Reverend 'Prefect presiding Fr I Rudolph S J the ingenious 1na11aeger of the place, in 11. happy address, complimented the bovs on then- laudable mterest- i11 sane 1'GC'1'P2lfl0ll and on the mutual, amicablg spirit fosterediby. them. L Ilhe popular brotliers, Joseph and Michael IitlSAllIJOXVbkl, Lil11'16CI. off the ist puze 111 a ne Archavena game-hoard. X ef AQXQXX Beasley, Walsli and Ronan three, Crack-a-jack lawyers will surely be, Their legal talent shown thus far Should make them shine before the bar. They 're well prepared to fight their way, Look over their records, it's what you will say. Tl1ey've mastered nrst principles from A to Z During two hard years of philosophy. As silver orators they oft were crowned Despite all objections, the truth here is sound. In the laws of physics ti18fY7V6 reached perfection, In chemistry and astronomy you never could ketch 'em. Paradoxical as it may seem, For them biology is like a Latin theme, In German, in logic, in ethics and Greek, They resemble the renowned educational freaksg They 're prime exponents of the scholastic system Wfhich all should pursue in seeking for wisdom, SO fellows, you see, when they enter the race The wise H1011 of Gotham w0uldn't hold their pace. . 3 - I I I I I I I I I I I I I I4 I If I I IIIII I I . I I I I I , 4 y I I I E . I I II I I I I I I I I I 1 .I.'3 s il E If I I E 1 I I I I