Carroll College - Hilltopper Yearbook (Helena, MT)

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The golden West! A promise from the sun Whose evening glory shines across the plains. The low hung band of molten gold afar Is limning serrate crests of Rocky chain. The one-time boundary of what belonged To men of ancient blood, bronze-limbed, and wild, The red. and what to hardy Pioneer. Lawrence K. Devlin, A', ’22. Vnge twenty-four

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righteousness, in the field d’or. Conscious that his are the arms of the great Milanese, he should be spurred to imitation of the magnificent loyalty of his patron. St. Charles’ cross of silver in the chief should animate him with the spirit necessary for the making of a coming Catholic leader, not a leading Catholic. In the green chevron portion of the shield, representing “Montana,” he may see the Northwest, the great pioneer country, comparatively speaking, which his efforts, be they such as his patron and his Alma Mater would have them be, will make a center of Catholicity, and one of the great units of the American commonwealth. The custom of bearing arms is a bit of an idealistic past that reproaches us for our easy abandonment of those chivalric practices which are so often conspicuous by their absence in our day, and which spur us to a fuller realization of our duties in reviving the spirit of Chivalry and of true Christian knighthood, that made the light of learning and moral progress burn so brightly during the Middle Ages. I i Page hcentg-three

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