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lIHAPlAIN'S MESS June, 1954 Dear Graduates, It is possible to look back over four years of college, to think dimly of stacks of books and piles of notes, to recall vaguely assignments by the score and examinations by the dozen, and then to realize with a sense of dismay that much of all that knowledge, steadily absorbed and periodi- cally disgorged, seems to have GE vanished. Little remains save bits and scraps of information, a word here, an idea there. The courses of your senior year may still be fresh in your mem- ories but already they are on their way to join the ghosts of the past. The dying echoes of nsubstancen and naccidentsn mingle with a distant rumble of sines and cosines, and through a faint murmur of Dante and Shakespeare comes arthropods. Was it a dream? it all? Of what use will it If this is your thought and the weak protest of the bryozoa and the Where has time flown? What did I get out of be to me? these your questions on the eve of grad- uation, then pause awhile. It is too soon yet to be arriving at conclu- sions and passing judgment. can make a fair estimate of You have to wait and look back before you the education you have received. What now seems to have been speculative, dull, unreal, impracticalg what now appears to have been you never learned or light of experience, life, will fall into place. confusing, disordered, haphazardg what you think have forgotten-under the impact of life and in the will gain meaning and significance, will come to Then you will look back with quiet thankful- ness to God for the grace of these years. For you have received, be it ever so imperfectly, the treasures of Christian humanism. The thought of ancient Greece, the institutions of old Rome, the discoveries of modern science, the gems of literature and the treasures of art have been caught up in the net of Christian Faith and delivered into your keeping. So live that you may be less unworthy of this trust. May always. the Son of Mary find His delight in you Devotedly yours in Christ, Father 0'Reilly. REVERENU JAMES O'RE1L1,Y Page Elezwz
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