St Ignatius College - Ignatian Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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ALMA MATER AND THE BOYS Z5 The Fitzpatricks and the Donnellys? And the Riley baptized Stanislaus for his sins? There's a Fogarty who presides above us all, There are Bannings and O'Neills and McElroys, There's a brace of black-haired Ryans, A fair sprinkling of O'Briens And a Cullinan who'll send more, for he has boys. Then there's Leonards, Griflins, Gleasons quite a few There are Crowleys, Mangans, Flannigans and Shays, There are Drums and some Maguires, And McKinstrys, also Dwyers, And I'm proud to say we're not without O'Days. I-Ie ceased, and Alma Mater said: You're right! The justice of your stand I must acknowledge. And so she ordered that an Irish Hag Be hoisted over St. Ignatius college. Edward F. O'Day, '00.

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IGNATIAN And if the truth were only brought to light, The truth which they would very gladly smother, I bet you'd find that many a man they named Was great because he had an Irish mother. These French, these Germans and the rest, I grant, Are not without an elementary guile, They know enough to marry Irish girls Who in the course of time bear sons worth while. And yet I waive this point-it matters not- I still can show by names of Irish birth That for the catalogue you've just been scanning Qld Ireland supplies most men of Worth. There are Sullivans by the dozen, There are Tobins, Dunnes and Meaghers by the score There's a Doolan christened Dickey And an orator named Hickey And some Coffeys who are learned in the law. There are I-Iennesseys and Fentons, There are Flahertys and Conlons, Murphys, Queens There are Moynihans and Lenahans, And quite a bunch of Callahans, ' With Dillons and some Donohues and Breens. All the Kellys who could number Or remember all the mighty tribe of Lennon? There are Riordans, Hicks, and Phelans, There are Buckleys, Clearys, Whelans, There's a Luby and by Iove, there's Jack Mulreninl Need I mention all the Whittles and the Burkes? Need I count up all the Egans, Brooks and Flynns? Should I overlook the Connollys?

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611112 iihgaira nf Aquin ' CARCELY a week passes, nowadays, that 2 cm JM the world is not startled, and agreeably so, sly by the announcement of some new, or mod- ern, scientific theory. In fact, the more startling the principles and the bolder the seized upon by the public and many pseudo-scientists. The seizure, however, is short-lived, because the sensation- craving are Hckle and are always ready to transfer their whimsical interest. The fireside philosophers and self- seeking men have their double in the scientists UD who color the Sunday Supplements with their over-night theories. This is not intended as an indictment against the earnest and able scientists of to-day, but it is to decry the populariz- ing of science by the press and the lucre-loving college professors, who, posing as scientists, deluge a susceptive public with their weird conglomeration of distorted and unscientiiic phantasms. This is the class of men who be- little and degrade the noble principles of true science. The over-night theorists have two pronounced tenden- cies, one of attempting to argue away from a Supreme Cause, chiefly by their espousal of the oft-exploded doctrine of Evolution, and the other, of ridiculing the scientists of the Middle Ages. The latter tendency they have trans- mitted to their followers, so that time and again, in maga- zine, newspaper, and lecture, they make the most of every opportunity to have their Hing at the Middle Age scientist. Chief among the learned men of the period in question is Thomas of Aquin, theologian, philosopher, and scientist. Born about 1226 in the castle of Rocca Secca, near Aquino, he became a Dominican at the age of seventeen, and at presumptions, the quicker is the theory