Catholic University of America - Cardinal Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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The CARDINAL I936 Monastery Mass To awake at half-past five with a none too gentle hand on the bed clothes and 21 none 'too gentle voice in the ear; ueit's latelegirls have just gone bylll To roll out and sit on the edge of the bed with the words jumbled up in your head! To remember your promise! To leap to the center of the room and reach for everything at once! To be dressed and washed and shaved and brushed and on the pike in sixteen minutes! To feel the agonizing ache of straining hips and thighs and calves at the last long pull up Quincy! To catch them at the gate, be dubbed, sleepy- head eaEectionately-and to suddenly know that its Spring and Morning, the sun-the birds -the Howersethe aireyou grin and try to pant quietly. Kyrie EleisoneSanctus, sanctus, sanctus ePater noster-Domine non sum dignus, Deo gratiakit all has a deeper meaning. A whisper- ing monkebowed heads; a single thrush at the Gloriaeand a strange silence at the silver tinkle of the bell. Then suddenly its all over and you start up the path hand-in-hand. Every bird is singing its heart out. Every nook and cranny is brimming with golden sunlight. Every flower is bidding you good morning. The air is perfumed with a garden fragrance. Every heart is brimful with happiness. Every mind is contemplating the unalloyed joy of4ham and egges-at the Rest Haven. Busy Bees Workers of the Campus! Men of dignified labor and toil! Too long and too stupidly have the students of C.U. excoriated the scientific man- ner in which you have chosen to perform your daily tasks. Too long have you been berated for your high-minded interest in the potentialities of labor-saving devices. You have been what is popp- ularly known as put on the spot! The more thoughtful of the students sympa- thize with your dilemma. It seems such a pity that there is not a haven on the campus where the prying eyes of TOWER reporters will be unable to strip you of every privacy you rightly deserve and seek. For you are not merely the Busy Bees. Ah, no! In your humble forms lies the germ of a great movement tor lack of movementy You are men not only of thought, but also of decision. Your decisiveness in furnishing us with an object les- son in how to deal with the unemployment situ- ation stirs our souls. For you know that if you can stand in one spot, leaning on your honest shovels for hours upon hours, someone else will have to be hired to clear away the snow, thus relieving part of the unemployment situation, as well as providing you with time for philosophic meditation which the world cannot go on without. You know that if you lie on the roof of Gibbons Hall for weeks at a time, lllocating a leak, some- one will, at last, have to be drafted from the army of the workless to find and repair the leak, thus partly putting an end to the spectre of lab- orers without hire, as well as providing your own muscular forms with the bronze hue which is regarded as so modish for the manly man. But why multiply examples of the notable work you are performing? Yours is the labor of love, not seeking vain and empty publicity, but preferring to be satisfied with the knowledge of a good job unfinished. Busy BeeseOur hearts are yours. You comprise the last group at CU. of that vanishing group of men Whose watchword is llWe seen our duty and havent done it! Your coarage of convic- tion, your fortitude under fire, your dauntless will-not to-do has every rose on the campus blushing when gazed upon by youenow that the snow has melted!

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