DePaul University - Depaulian Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Father Iames M. Murray, C.M., member of the first faculty ot De Paul, with Mark I. Sheridan, President of De Paul Alumni Association, Edward I. Kelly, and Ioseph L. McCarthy, members of the first student body.

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,,...1 Y r.he story of DePaul's first fifty years in Chicago-an incredible story of hard work and heartaches, of successes won over desperate odds-is a story thoroughly consistent with the life of its great patron, St. Vincent de Paul. l-lad it once lost the zealous spirit of St. Vincent, DePaul University must long since have given up its fight to survive and make its special contribu- tion to the Chicago community. lf today, with its six colleges, DePaul vi if Wi ,M , y .,5,, 1 121 K 1 1 .IRQ ' sy '31 I 'ML Jliyjxkmtbf .lv ltv-Hail x - ft 'W Q , 1- . Tir' N- . T -1 ' f 1 . 1' '- T- '- - g -5 s...,f---,N ,K gm' r M , ' :It ii V sg, QVXQ.. .-'s ' , 4 ,' ' , e g , S 1 'r -- N - Urjmiv V y C- 16 is an impor- tant educa- tional and cultural farce in Chicago- land, it is largely be- cause it has breathed deeply of the French saint who said: Let us love God, but let it be at the expense of our arms and in the sweat of our brows. ln the first half of the seventeenth century St. Vincent, who is celebrated in Church history for his development of formal educational requirements for aspiring priests, founded in turbulent Paris a religious community of men under the title of Congregation of the Mission for the purpose of serving the spiritual needs of the poor French peas- ants. ln the United States the followers of St. Vincent are referred to as the Vincentian Fathers. lt is the priests of this religious community who have es- tablished and still conduct DePaul Uni- versity. First of the Vincentians to settle in Chicago was the Rev. Edward M. Smith, C.M. He came in August, l875. What Father Smith saw in that summer of '75, four years after the Chicago fire, was a growing, brawling, dynamic