St Michaels College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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Tbistorical Sketch HE sixty-three years which have passed since the early Basilian Fathers crossed from France to America to begin their noble work on this continent, have witnessed the return of all those early pioneers after lives of strenuous labour, but to a Land far brighter than sunny France. They laid the foundations for their successors broad and deep, and to-day we ind as a result, four flourishing colleges, two in the United States, two in Canada, all taking their vigour and strength for the result of the work of these earlier labour- ers at St. Michaels, which has itself undergone great changes and development. Tn the consideration to-day of St. Michaels proud position as a fully developed College of the University of Toronto, with an enrollment which is increasing so rapidly that it has, within the recollection of the present graduating year, grown to three times its earlier numbers, we are apt to be more or less neg- lectful of the struggle which has made this condition possible, a condition which is an invaluable asset to higher Catholic education. The memory of those men who sacrificed brilliant careers in other fields and gave their best in an obscure and humble fashion, in order that, not only their generation, but the generations of all time to come in this country, might be so endowed. must not only be honoured but kept fresh, as the highest ideal which can be placed before the Catholic student of to-r ay. The success of their work bears no more conclusive proof than that they were able to establish these other seats of learn- lIOl ing and their own Scholasticate. without loss of energy or vigour, or without interfering with the general advancement of what may be regarded as the Mother House of the American branch of the order. In addition, many parishes throughout the country have much to thank these pious priests for, because their work went beyond the walls of the school, to numerous churches and to institutions like the Central Prison, the Asylums, the Mercer Reformatory, and these have witnessed the untiring zeal of these holy men, endeavouring to call souls to God, even from among the number of those whom the world has deserted. There is no better proof to be found for the unlimited de- velopment of St. Michaels as a part of the University, than a consideration of the years which have passed since the humble beginnings in 1852, and a short study of the lives of those who laboured so fervently for her advancement. This year her largest graduating class goes forth, more courses have members on her registration list, a more active interest in University affairs has been shown than ever before. her faculty, composed as it is of men capable of sustaining the best of traditions, is larger than ever before, and future mem- bers of the faculty are studying in other universities. All these augur well for her future in the remarkable position of a Catholic College conferring a State University degree, but there can be no greater proof of the necessity of her wonderful future as a Catholic educational institute than the successful issue of the life work of those who are no more. T. S. O'C.