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Page 20 text:
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First Friend whom he so loved ; but he carried to the wide plains of Heaven the heart of youth still, — for of such is the Kingdom.” He c arried his years light-heartedly and steadily; it is for little graces that he is best remembered: — his old-fashioned courtliness of manner; the sweetness of his grave, slow smile; his gentle- ness as he bent over a very small “Sem” child who had come on a childish grief; his sly twinkle as he told his unfailing stories in Apologetics class. We all loved, I think, to be called child” in his low deep voice, to serve him in little ways and to find our reward in his wonderful smile. When weakness forced him to leave his class-work and even forsake the Campus ways that he loved so well, still we knew we could not lose him. His personality still was felt, and little glimpses of his long sweeping cape on the castle verandah, of his old sweet smile when he saw his girls, told us that the old, indomitable spirit still dominated the campus. And when he went away at last and we lost forever the stately, white-headed presence we had loved, still we knew we could never lose him. Father Halpin s spirit is with us as surely as the sun warms the campus in Spring; for the place in College that he filled is his and his alone, and he shall never cease to hold it, living and triumphant, even in death.
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Jfatfjer Halpin O N DECEMBER 9, 1920, the College of New Rochelle suffered an irreparable loss. Father Halpin — our Father Halpin, gentle and wise and good — after a life of usefulness and inspiration, closed his tired eyes for the last time in this world. His was a beautiful death. Surrounded by the girls and the Sisters he loved, on the Campus that was so peculiarly and inevitably his, he grew old in peace and, at last, turned away from the homely, quiet routine of the ordered Campus to the greater peace of the life beyond. Father Halpin is our deepest and dearest Campus tradition. His quiet, wise, slow-dropping words are burned deep in the hearts of his old girls. His wise, thoughtful piety, his burning hate of smallness and meanness, his sim - plicity and childlike faith, have builded his greatest monument — the unswerving faith in the hearts of those many girls in whose lives he was a steady and an inspiring influence. They are carrying on the standard of which he spoke so often and so beautifully, those First Friday noontimes, when the dim chapel was filled with incense and per- vaded with the dominating per- sonality of the whiteheaded priest before the altar — the stan- dard of the steadfast heart, bear- ing the words of his motto: “No sin today!” Father Halpin never grew old — only when his task was done he slipped away to that 13
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