Spring Hill College - Torch Yearbook (Mobile, AL)

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SPRING HILL REMEMBERS WELL ANDREW JACKSON SMOKING IN HIS TENT BEFORE MOVING ON TO NEW ORLEANS, AND CHAL- METTE-AND THE PRESIDENCYg SHE WELCOMED THE EXILED COURT OF NAPOLEON WHEN THE LITTLE CORPORAL WROTE THEIR DOOM AT WATERLOO. SHE EVEN LET THEM CALL HER FONTAINEBLEAU, AND SHE WATCHED AT THEIR BALLS AS THEY DANCED IN THE UNIFORMS OF NAPOLEON'S OWN REGIMENT. SHE HAD LIVED BENEATH THE FLAGS OF FRANCE, ENGLAND, AND SPAIN BEFORE THE AMERICANS ARRIVED, AND SHE HAD MUCH TO REMEMBER. BUT THE ONE THING SHE WILL NEVER FORGET IS THE SIGHT OF THE RIGHT REVEREND MICHAEL PORTIER, FIRST BISHOP OF MOBILE, RED-FACED AND PERSPIRING, SWINGING AN AX IN THE PINE FOREST TO BUILD A COLLEGE. THAT WAS A HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS AGO. TODAY, BECAUSE A BISHOP WHO WAS THE SCION OF A NOBLE FRENCH FAMILY AND THE FRIEND OF LAFAYETTE WAS NOT AFRAID TO WIELD AN AX, SPRING HILL COLLEGE STANDS AS THE FIRST SCHOOL OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF ALABAMA AND THE OLDEST CATH- OLIC BOARDING SCHOOL IN THE UNITED STATES WITH THE EX- CEPTION OF GEORGETOWN AND EMMITSBURG. THIS WAS PART OF HER PAST. TODAY, SPRING HILL COLLEGE STANDS A FULLY ACCREDITED LIBERAL ARTS INSTITUTION CONDUCTED BY THE SOCIETY OF JESUS, WITH A REPRESENTATIVE STUDENT BODY FROM EIGHTEEN STATES. HERE IS THE PRESENT. YOU MAY WRITE THE FUTURE. PURE ORD

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DIC TID WE SEE NOW AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF A GOTHIC CHAPEL, A WHIMSICAL LITTLE FIGURE, WITH ITS ATTRACTIVE, SMILING FACE, SOFT EYES, AND KINDLY MOUTH. WE, HIS BOYS, SURROUND HIM, AWAITING HIS FAMILIAR HI YA, BOY, WHICH HAS SO ENDEARED HIM TO US ALL. WE BRING HIM ALL OUR TROUBLES, SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL, AND HE BEARS THEM ALL WITH SIMPLE UNDERSTANDING AND A KINDLY WORD OF ADVICE: FOR HE IS OUR SPIRITUAL LEADER AND NOT HAS AND HILL HIM. CONFIDANT. THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF HIS BOYS ARE NEW TO FATHER A. B. FOX, S. J., SINCE FOR FIFTY YEARS HIS BEEN THE TASK OF BEARING THE BURDENS OF PEOPLE YOUNG OLD-SEAMEN AND LABORERS, AND NOW HIS BOYS AT THE WHO KNOW HIM, LOVE HIM, AND NEVER FAIL TO RETURN TO WE WHO HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO FEEL HIS GUIDING INFLUENCE WILL FOREVER RETAIN IN OUR HEARTS AND MINDS A PICTURE OF HIS FLOWING BLACK ROBE AND SILVERY HAIR. TO HIM, THEN, TO THE DEAREST FRIEND OF OUR COLLEGE CAREER, FOR HIS GREAT SERVICE TO MANKIND, AND IN HONOR OF HIS FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY AS A JESUIT, WE DEDICATE THIS I940 VOLUME OF THE I ARX. S