Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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18 THE PA LEST liA Theodore 1’. Kohls has been at Seattle College for the past two years, having registered in the Junior class in 1914. Previous to his coming to Seattle he was a student at Gon-zaga University, where he completed his high school course and made two years in the college of Arts and Sciences. He was born in Shakopee, Wisconsin. His parents moved to North Yakima and there 'l'ed attended the parochial school in St. Joseph’s parish. In ail his studies, both at Gonzaga and at Seattle College, he satisfied his teachers by his earnest and painstaking devotion. His constant application and earnestness in the class room ranks him as one of our best students. His work on the baseball team will be long remembered. He has figured prominently in all athletic games. •lOSKIMI M.KKNNA TIIKODORK I . KOlll.S « Joseph McKenna was born at Ottawa, Ontario, the capital of the Dominion of Canada, on March 19, 1892. On making his home in Victoria, British Columbia, he came to us with recommendations from St. Francis Xavier’s College, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. There he finished high school and put in three years of the college course. During his attendance there he was a member of the class ice-hockey team and in his Junior year was elected a member of the staff of the “Xaver-ian,” the college monthly. Though with us only this year, he has proved himself a diligent student and a keen supporter of college activities, particularly in the Debating Society. He has shown great interest in the College Annual, of which he is an associate editor. He intends to put in a year’s teaching and to continue his studies in some of the universities.

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SKATTLK COLLKGE A XXV A I 17 Yltll. A. I’KKHKNROOM William Oliver Mayer hails from North Yakima, Washington, where lie was born January 5, 1804. After completing the grammar grades in Sr. Joseph’s parochial school of that city he became a student of Marquette College, recently founded by the Jesuit Fathers in North Yakima. In 1913 be came to Seattle and joined tlu class of sophomores at the college. During his entire course he has been prominent in musical, dramatic and literary circles. The Dramatic Club loses an efficient member in William Mayer, whose acting in the college plays won him great popularity among the students and followers of college activities. He has taken an active part in the Debating Society, in which he has distinguished himself as a public speaker. He is salutatorian on Commencement night. Cyril A. Pcercnboom is a native of Wisconsin. having been born at Appleton in 1895. After his graduation at St. Mary’s parochial school in the summer of 1908 he made a trip to the Queen City and was so favorably impressed that he returned to Seattle the following year. He joined the class of Second Academic in the fall of the same year. Cyril has been an energetic student, evincing special liking for literature and chemistry. His many contributions to the Annual show proof of his literary ability. With thoughts centered on the completion of his classical course and the winning of an A. IF. in spite of occasional interruptions in his studies induced by ill health, Cyril graduates with high honors in languages and the natural sciences. a WII.I.IAM O. MAYKK

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S K A T T L K C () L L K G E A N N U A L 19 fSHtgioua IGttehj O Liberty, thou goddess heavenly bright. Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign. And smiling Plenty leads thy wanton train; Eased of her load. Subjection grows more light. And Poverty looks cheerful in thy sight; Thou mak'st the gloomy face of nature gay, Giv’st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day. IN these beautiful lines the poet places the wand of magic in the hand of his goddess and with its touch transforms the troubled world into a paradise that is indeed a fit abode for the gods. However, 1 shall not enter into a lengthy discussion of what might be the results of the liberty of which the poet fondly sings, but direct your attention to that division of liberty, without which no true freedom can be had ; namely, religious liberty. By this I mean the inherent right of an individual to form his religious opinions according to the dictates of his own conscience ami to give outward expression to them in the form of public worship, independently of all undue restraint or coercion upon the part of the state. This includes more than mere freedom of conscience, which in reality can only be controlled by the person himself and therefore is beyond the control of the state. It also includes more than mere toleration, which leaves each one free to choose his own style of worship and which may be withdrawn at any time by the sovereign granting it. Religious liberty includes freedom of action in religious motives, which are not directed to corrupt the morals of the people or to undermine the power of the state, and freedom of choosing your own form of worshiping the Creator or Supreme Being. But you may say that to allow a man to choose his own religion would be encouraging error because what one religious sect worships the other dis- approves; some adore Christ, while others deny Him. Unfortunately, the fallibility of the human mind and the interference of our bodily desires permit of this divergence in our conclusions concerning the one true manner in which the creature shall acknowledge his dependence upon his Creator; but an unbiased search for the truth will ultimately lead mankind to an acknowledgement of the general attributes of the First Cause and his dependence upon Same; “Seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you.” Let us look into the conditions that prevailed in a few of the countries where religious liberty was withheld, for instance Rome, during the reign of Nero. How many were flung to the savage beasts of the amphitheatre, or suffered some other form of torture and death during those awful days cf religious persecution. Or let us briefly refer to a more recent event, during the time of Henry VIII, when great numbers were cast into prison, others exiled and many, after undergoing the most inhuman and diabolical tortures, were mercilessly slaughtered. These are but two meager examples taken from the pages of intolerance which are written in the blood of nations that were denied the right to follow the dictates of their own consciences and worship God, as the light had been given them to see. The epochs that mark the progress of mankind and his gradual departure from social