McDonogh School - Dragon Yearbook (Owings Mills, MD)

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C L A S S E S The McDonogh Uniform A McDonogh suit for your son to wear? Ah! Madam, they're not for sale. And he who dons must never doff- As a nun who takes the veil. 'Tis a matter of years to make the fit, And the cloth is rich and rare, With Lyle-thread running through warp and woof, And woven with scrupulous care. With labor and patience, with wisdom and love, Every thread is drawn to its place. 'Tis dyed in the colors of honor and truth, With industry's infinite grace. The dirt and the grime of strife and of toil Only brighten its marvelous hueg But the shiftless shame of an idle life Will rot it through and through. Measures we take, but not with a tape- For we tailor to fit a man's soul With a garment to wear, thro' life's arduous race And bring him in safe at the goal. Our trade-mark is woven into every suit, 'Tis a vow that each wearer must make. How low or how high in the world he may be: We Give Something More Than We Take. Yet we have no weaver of magical skill, Our tai1or's no Fairyland elf. We've merely discovered that to wear such a suit The wearer must make it himself. EUs'rAcE S. Gnnscocx, '79. iliifiiiilbwiwiwiiliiwWiwlfwwiwwilwi

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FAMILY DEVOTION HOUGH so far from home, the young McDonagh looked to his father for counsel. Of course he was compelled to rely on himself for the most part, and the good counsel given in a father's letter is not always solicited by the son away from homeg but when letters containing advice are found among the son's papers, carq'ully preserved, it may be taken as evidence Qt the strong ajection and con- fdence that bound this famibf together. An indication that this confidence was mutual, that reliance was placed on the son, came, when in 1801 the second son, jfoseph, then almost nineteen years old, was sent to New Orleans to be under the care and guidance J his elder brother-or at least to be in a place where opportunities were more than good and where an elder brother had already put himseh' well ahead in business. In 1804 ffohn writes his father a letter in which he gives some very apposite advice: let William, the youngest brother, be sent to New Orleans to be educated and set in the path Q' fortune. Now as William was onbv eight years old when Yohn fa- vored his father with this encouraging advice, the elder McDonagh felt that he could not give up all his childreng but in September Q' that same year he allowed fumes, then about jifteen years old, to go to New Orleans instead qf William. Letters from relatives widely separated by space are almost invariably full of expressions Q' mutual regard and family ajection. The fact that they cor- respond at all is evidence cy' their afection. It is also evidence of their good sense, for brothers and fathers are business assets. ffohn McDonogh's correspondence with his father shows him a dutyful and ajectionate son, sensibbf consulted on questions that arose in regard to the interests q' his family, particularbf the training of his younger brothers and their placement in lQ'e.