Saint Marys College - Blue Mantle Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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REBELLION CLASS POEM JOSEPHINE ROACH ' 35 shall sing my own song, Dream my own dream. Never feariiig Ever nearing One great highroad Oiie great skyroad Until I stumble over stars! If I shoidd waken To he shaken By disaster Coming after My descent to earth again . . . Shoidd the real and the earth-hou7id Keep me chained he7 e on retiuming, Travel on the highroad Journey on the skyroad. From a scarred world To a starred world. Taught me how to Then and now, to Sing my own song. Dream my own dream.

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c H I M E S EDITORIAL STAFF Shirley Sprenger, ' 35 Editor-in-Chief Helen Neumann ' 35. Josephine Roach, ' 35 Literary Editor Exchange Editor Bernice Cannon, ' 35 Margaret Lang, ' 37 Art Editor Business Manager St. Mary ' s College, Notre Dame, Indiana. Vol. XLIV JUNE, 1935 Number 5 Subscription Price $2.00 Per Year. CONTENTS Rebellion — Class Poem - - - - 12 Baccalaureate Address - - - 23 Class of 1935 ------ 125 The Socialistic Ideal and Its Russian Fulfillment — Class Essay - 1 7 Let Peace Be in Thy Strength — Valedictory 150 I Have No Words — Poem - 152 Chimes, published every two months, October, December, February, April, June, by St. Mary ' s College, Notre Dame, Indi- ana. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Notre Dame, Indiana. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1927. authorized on July 5, 1928.

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Baccalaureate Address By the M {Bishop of Modra a It is a platitude, but none the less true, that at few times in the history of our country are the graduates of American colleges and universities being sent out into a world more torn by dissension, with so many unsolved problems to face, with the public mind so divided as at this hour. Instead of meeting an economic system, whose fundamentals are quite generally accepted, you will encounter, in some quarters, near-chaos and, in others, ven- tures approaching the revolutionary. In the political field, large and significant changes impend or are in process of exe- cution. Finance wavers, foreign relations are topsy-turvy. International obligations are i gnored, dictatorships are flour- ishing, wars threaten. Science is being overturned, religion is on the ebb; moral- ity, both public and private, presents an almost hopeless picture, where good is called evil and evil, good. Some extreme thinkers see in this almost universal wav- ering of thought and action a real boon for mankind; they are revolutionists who wish to destroy the past and all it con- notes in order to build upon its ruins what they call a new and more logical civiliza- tion. So convinced are they that the past, and particularly the last quarter of a cen- tury, has been wholly bad that nothing but a complete bouleversement of all its beliefs, principles, and acceptances will suffice to bring peace and salvation. Revolutionists, of course, increase and grow powerful in such times as these. They make a natural appeal to the type of mind which insists upon quick results and is impatient of the slower but surer formulations which follow on a thorough analysis and a correct evaluation of all the sides of a problem. At the other ex- treme are the standpatters, the intransi- )ST Rev. James H. Ryan, S.T.D. d Rector of The Catholic Utiivcrsitij of America) geants who wish no change, who condemn all change, are satisfied with things as they are, and obstruct every move, even though sound, which would make for the betterment of present conditions. No soundly thinking person can be con- tent with either of these extreme posi- tions; particularly no person who has been trained in a Catholic college can see with equanimity, much less follow blindly, either the way worked out by the revolutionist or that of the standpatter. If his education has been of the type it should have been, young though he is, he has had presented to him, and has accept- ed as norms for his living, certain funda- mental principles of whose correctness he can be sure and of whose practical sound- ness century after century of application has proved beyond the peradventure of a doubt. I can well understand that the grad- uate of an American college may not know where to turn, at times, may be in as great an intellectual and moral quan- dary as the mass of the people about him. I understand this because his training has been based on principles which recog- nize no stability. But I cannot under- stand the graduate of a Catholic college going out into the world without firmly established intellectual and moral princi- ples ; I cannot understand his succumbing to the wayward thinking of political, eco- nomic, or social theorists; I cannot imag- ine his living his life as if he were only an animal, as if outside of and above na- ture there exists nothing. Should he do so, it will be because he has failed to learn the lessons of certitude which have been taught him, because he has not made his own the teachings of a Faith which, through nineteen centuries, has withstood both the assaults as well as the idiosyn- June, 1935 123