St Louis University - Archive Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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ST. LGUIS UNIVERSITY Copyright 1905 by J. C. Strauss MOST REV. JNO. I. GLENNON ARCHBISHOP OF ST. LOUIS

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8 THE ARCHIVE From the very beginning the new institution flourished. St. Louis grew and the University kept pace. ,Before many years its accommoda- tions were taxed to the utmost. New buildings were needed.. The pro- gressive citizens of St. Louis were not slow with donations and larger buildings were quickly provided. These in turn were outgrown and aban- doned for others still larger, and so the evolution of a school went on, until now We have the great University, justly acclaimed the greatest of the Middle Vlfest, with its magnificent edifices, its unexcelled curriculum, its scores of efficient teachers, hundreds of eager students, and thousands of illustrious graduates. ' But the path of the University to its present pinnacle was not bestrewn with primroses. There was many a boulder to be pushed aside, many a tangle to be torn through. In 1832 and 1833 the Asiatic cholera raged in St. Louis and threatened, by nearly depopulating the city, to put an end to the University in its very inception. During this dangerous time the students were removed to the old Indian Seminary at Florissant and there kept in quarantine until the fierce disease had raged itself into oblivion. In 1854 the Know-nothing movement caused the University the loss of her medical department, a serious matter, and one not remedied until recent years. And 'during the Civil VVar period, sessions were cut short and the numbers of the students sadly diminished. The University, however, emerged triumphant from these difficulties Cmere tests of true greatnessj made through them but the more enduring. And now we see her an unfailing fount of true wisdom, a spiritual mother to hundreds of ambitious, whole-souled boys, whom she is urging to attainment, and to thousands of illustrious men, artists, poets, soldiers, scientists, statesmen, and priests, in whose careers she has had a hand as inspirer, instructor, and helper. And we, the students Whom she, our loving mother, urges to do, now present, as one of our first achievements, this volume, The Archive. We do not fear that it will be lost in the world's wilderness of books. No! We send it boldly forth, reflecting our Alma Mater's spirit, proclaiming our Alma Mater's greatness, tenderness, and maternal love. And we know that it, too, will achieve. I. W. MEYER.

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10 THE ARCHIVE Board of Trustees REV. BERNARD J. OTTING, S. J., President. REV. THOMAS F. WALLACE, S. J., Chancellor. REV. TYIATTHEW MCMENAMY, S. J., Secretary. REV. HERBIAN TYIEINERS, S. J., Treasurer. REV. HENRX' BRONSGEEST, S. J. REV. JOHN C. BURKE, S. J. REV, FRANCIS J. O'BoYLE, S. J. Advisory Board REV. BERNARD J. OTTING, S. J., President of the University. PAUL BAKEWVELL, Attorney at Law. HONXVARD BENoIs'r, Capitalist. XIVILLIAM FRANK CARTER, Attorney at Law. ALoNzo C. CHURCH, Attorney at Law. Mosr REVEREND JOHN J. GLENNON, Archbishop of St. Louis. JOSEPH GUMMERSBACH, Manager B. Herder Company. CHARLES H. HUTTIG, President Third National Bank. BRECKINRIDGE JoNEs, President Mississippi Valley Trust Co. RICHARD C. KERENS, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of Vienna, Austria. WILLIAM J. IQINSELLA, President Hanley K Kinsella Coffee and Spice Company. CHARLES W. KNAPP, President of George Knapp 81 Co., Publishers. ANDREW' J. LINDSAY, President Lindsay Motor Car Co. JESSE A. NICDONALD, Attorney at Law. DANIEL C. NUGENT, President Nugent Q Bro. Dry Goods Co. THEOPHILE PAPIN, Jr., Real Estate. AMEDEE V. REYBURN, Manager Safe Deposit Department, Mercantile Trust Co AUGUST SCHLAFLY, President Union Trust and Savings Banks, East St. Louis. JOHN SCULLIN, President Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad. FESTUS J. WADE, President Mercantile Trust Co. DAVID D. VVALKER, Capitalist. EDXVARD J. VVALSH, Secretary Mississippi Glass Co. JULIUS S. WVALSH, Chairman of the Board Mississippi Valley Trust Co. GEORGE W. WILSON, Vice President Mercantile Trust Co.