College of New Rochelle - Annales Yearbook (New Rochelle, NY)

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familiar phrase might be paraphrased: “Fads may come and Fads may go, but Aristotle goes on forever!” Of course he does, for Truth can never die. And suppose you were studying some Philosophy — whatever happened to be the fashion at the time- — at a secular College. You think your God-given Faith would preserve you from error. It might. If you were the object of the especial protection of Providence, you might be uninfluenced by their representations. But if ) r ou were just an ordinary, human girl, with the receptive mind characteristic of the age at which the ordinary girls enters College, I doubt that the depth of your Faith would remain undisturbed. Your Faith may be sufficient to move mountains, but if a I hi- losophy that is directed against everything that you have been reared to believe and to cherish, is set before you each day, unconsciously, unwillingly, you assimilate these doctrines. You cannot help it. If a pebble is dropped on a soft wax plate, it will leave its impression, whether it be dropped by accident or design. That is what the mind is — a soft wax plate; and the doctrines are the pebbles. What is one to do? Be sure the pebble that is dropped is of the quality to leave a true impr ession. Up to the time you and I leave College, our experience in the actual life of men is largely a matter of theory and dreams. We scarcely realize what we must meet and overcome when we set ourselves against the commercial hunger of our day. But when we do go forth, there is just one thing that will carry us straight ahead, through all kinds of difficulties, onward to ultimate success and honor. And this one thing is an Ideal rightly formed. Where are the Ideals for life formed? At College. Here you and I have another advantage. You cannot make a velvet cloak out of gingham. You cannot make an Ideal that comprises the highest and best, unless the material from which the Ideal is formed is of the highest and best. Secular Colleges furnish gingham by the bolt — doctrines surcharged with fashionable cynicism and an outlook upon Life through the eyes of a disillusioned failure in the Market of Commercialism. But for us — for you and for me — for us there is the velvet cloth. Clothed in our cloak cut from material of Hope and Enthusiasm, we can face the world fully, steadily, hopefully. New Rochelle will not send us out to battle, first with ourselves, until we regain, if need be, our faith in mankind which had been, perhaps, shattered by pernicious doctrines. But rather does she take us to the crest of a high hill, and pointing out the world spread before us, say, “See, my daughter, it is all yours, to conquer; or by it to be conquered. Pitfalls there are ahead, plenty of them. But, see, look at the wide stretches of flower-dotted meadows. Remember the Philosophy of your Church ; keep your heart true; look up into the glorious sunshine above you, and let the sidewalk beneath your feet take care of itself. Hope everlastingly! Be firm in your Faith. Go forth, fight and win ! I have equipped you fully, but the use of your weapons remains to yourself. Vale!” New Rochelle may look back but a decade of years, but she looks ahead a century: working, achieving, travelling onward to the resplendent position that is to be hers. And the world may estimate as it pleases the value of attending a large secular College. But for me, I am glad to be at a College whose Atmosphere is one of moral beauty ; whose Philosophy contains eternal Truth; whose teachings are conducive to the forma- tion of the highest Ideals ; and whose benediction I shall carry with me when I go out to start on the Journey of Life. Gaudete mecum, O sorores! Gertrude M. Doherty, ’16.

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Jf acuity Rev. P. A. Halpin, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy . John A. Ryan, Ph.D., Professor of Physics and Chemistry . John F. Condon, Ph.D., Professor of Education . John J. Schuler, Ph.D., Professor of History. Alexis I. Du Pont Coleman, A.M., Professor of English Literature. James I. Conway, A.B., Professor of Mathematics. Meta J. Schmttt, A.B. Professor of German. Arthur Vogel, Professor of French. Edna Hendriks, A.B., Professor of Spani sh. Sister M. Xavier, A. M., Professor of Sociology and Economics. Mother M. Loyola, A.B., Professor of Latin. Estelle H. Davis, Professor of Oral English. Sister M. Cephas, A.M. Instructor in Latin. Stuart Smith, B.M., Professor of Instrumental Music. SlEGMUND GROSSKOPF, Professor of Violin. A. K. Virgil, Director of Piano Course. Harry Fletcher, Mus.D., Professor of Harmony. Mary F. Meyers, Instructor in Domestic Artv Edith L. Bahn, Director of Gymnasium. Thomas Manning, M.D., College Physician. Mother M. de Sales, Mistress of Discipline. M. A. Ruth Randall-Bent, M.A., Professor of English Rhetoric and Composition.