Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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Friends of Cardinal Hayes ON Thursday evening, May 20th, the Tenth Annual meeting of the Friends of the Cardinal Hayes Library was held in the Alumni Room. Fo- cusing on the Centenary of the Brothers in the United States, the meeting was in the manner of a reception to Brother An- gelus Gabriel, Professor of Eng- lish at the College and author of the History of the Christian Brothers in the United States. Presided over by Mr. Thomas Reiners, the meeting was addressed by Brother Bonaven- ture Thomas, President and by Brother A. Thomas, Director of the Library. After the enumeration of many gifts to the library, the announcements continued to list the extraor- dinary material received this year in the let- ters of Brother Azarias of the Cross, given by his aged sister. Miss Mary Mullany, through the good offices of Brother Cor- nelius, Director of Christian Brothers Acad- emy in Syracuse, New York. Signalizing the century past as a Century of Faith and Zeal, Brother Gabriel pointed out the responsibility of Brother Jerome for the bulk of factual material in his se en hundred page book, stressing his own part in the assembling and codifying of the material. He continued, stressing significant events in the history, with particular attention to the story of Manhattan College. Largely, through the instrumentality of the Friends, the Cardinal Hayes Library has grown from a collection of thirty-five thou- sand books in 19. 8 to more than ninety thou- sand in 1948. Significant additions are chron- icled regularly in the pages of the Bulletin of the Friends. The Friends of Cardinal Hayes Library remain the pillars of education, a fact that might induce present-day students to think of the library when confronted with the disposal of worth-while books some day in the misty future. In the normal course of afi airs most of us have taken the house of books more or less ■ for granted, forgetting that we are the heirs of a mighty collection which did not come into being overnight, but was built ' olume by volume, page by page. The job is not fin- ished, however; and Christian foresight has provided adequate stack space for years to come. 181

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I ' HI: CnuirJ ot Honor is an extra-curricu- - - lai activity that stands by itself. The membership is composed of students who voluntarily agree to spend one-half hour be- fore the Real Presence of our Eucharistic Lord on the hrst Friday of each month. During the past school year, a number oi Guard of Honor men decided to do just a little more to pay proper homage to the Prisoner in the tabernacle on the altar of De La Salle Chapel. Subsequently a daily adora- tion period was inaugurated and throughout each day, there was always an adequate rep- resentation of devoted students isiting their Divine Saviour. The development of the mind is aimed primarily at an attainment of a greater know ledge of God, and the fallacies of anti- God philosophies. The training of the will is directed toward the practice of humility and obedience, through which irtues we may the better serve God. The training of the heart is concerned with the love of God. Thus, a true Catholic education teaches one to know, love, and serve God. LJpon these three bastions depend the peace of the world and the attaininent of hea en. From earliest youth we have been shown the importance of Faith, Hope, and Charity. Our Faith transcends the relati ' ism of the Liberalists and the falsehood of the Marx- ists. Our Hope holds greater promise and entails more truth than the skepticism of the Liberalists, and the perversion of the Marx- ists. Our Chanty is more real than the senti- mentalism of the Liberalists, and the harsh equalitarianism of the Marxists. We have been born into the ery atmosphere of truth. 18j