St Patricks Academy - Patrician Yearbook (Binghamton, NY)

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fllllarglanh rr Evrrentennarq Three hundreds years ago the lrttle town of Cowes found an eager group of Ca holrcs and other persecuted Chrrstrans They were embarkrng for Maryland the future cradle of relrgrous lrberty rn Amerrca The vorce of Cecrl Calvert rang out rn commandrng tone that they be very careful to preserve unity and peace amongst all the passengers on slrrpboard and that they suffer no scandal rn offense to be grven to any of the Pro estants whereby any Just complarnt may hereafter be made by them rn Vrrgrnra or rn England and that for that end they cause all acts of the Roman Catho lrc relrgron to be done as prrva ely as may be and that they rnstr uct all the Roman Catholrcs to be srlent upon all occasrons of drscourses concern rng matters of relrgron and that the sard Governor and Commrssroners treat the Protestants vsrth as much mrldness and favor as Justrce wrll per mr Wrth Cecrl s rdea fixed deeply rn therr mrnds the colonrsts put therr sarls to the gentle northern wrnd Four months on a cold dreary and stormy sea drd not seem to drscourage these enthusrastrc settlers for the of the country They then made a cross from two mne trees and carrred two shrps bearrng the noble founders appeared upon the shores of St Clement s Island In Massachusetts lax Colony and Plymouth Colony Purrtan Narrovx mrndedness marrrfested rtself John Cotton a Purrtan drvrne declared Democracy I do not concerve tha God drd ever ordarn as a fit government for erther Church or commonwealth Quakers were banrshed from the colony because they drd not conform to the Purrtan belref In the colony of Vrrgrnra relrgrous lrberty was found wantrng for rn to leave the proyrnce We must therefore turn elsewhere for he begrnnrng of relrgrous freedom rn Amerrca And so let us look rnto Maryland as the colonrsts drsembark upon Qt Clement s Island he rsland over whrch hrstorv passes so lrghtly Here the Catholics erected an altar upon vshrch Father Whrte a Jesurt offered the Holy Sacrrfice the first to be sard rn that part of the country They then made a cross from tvso prne trees and carrred rt rn processron whrle they recrted he Lrtany of the Holy Cross Bancroft a Neva England Purrtan clergy man wrrtes The Catholrcs took quret possessron of the lrttle place and relrgrous lrberty obtarned a home rts only home rn the wrde world at the humble vrllage whrch bore the name of S Marv s It rs eternally true that Maryland rs the home of relr rous freedom The Calvert founders brought rt here and establr hed rt here and here rt lrved unchallenged as long as therr power remarned Po er Wrllrams can not recerve the credrt because Rhode Island albert vsrth a charter lrberal rn rts terms drd not welcome or harbor as crtrzens erther Catholrcs or Jews The Calverts vselcomed and har bored all both rn relrgrous and rn poll trcal rrghts They gave to the world the vrsron and the exampl whrch once rmplanted rn the human heart wrll quench the dangerous consequences of relrgrous anta onrsm and pregudrce whose embers and smoulderrnfr fires lllllrapplly Stlll abOLlI1d Lucy Krrvrny N L -ir I 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- M 9 - ' I , 1 U . ' ' . . ' ' H 3 . , , , H . v . L , 1, , ' r - , ' , - u 1 L , Y . - D , U . . . . 't 77 I - Y ' - ,' . - ' i Y 7 Y I ' l I . 3 lv , . ,Y ' .. ,- ' r ' 9 I 1 ,, . L . ' I . ' , yr 1643, its Assembly passed a law against non-conformists and directed them . I 1 1 L 1 1 ' . I 1 9 y L U a I ' , . , t . i . . . be . TL V . Y I . Q V . . . , . 7 3 I ! n . . I V . ' A AL n L. .V . . . , ' , v .' . H ' 7 ! ' l , . 3 Y ' L 7 !7 L. y . ' 1 - , ' . 1 Ig' w I . 1 4 D .S . Q y - . . D . . t g - ! 7 3 , , . ,. . 'L 7 A . ' . . . .- Y a . , ' '8 , 7 . Q 2 - ' e ' . . ,, . . Q2 'S' 'I' 'G' Q- 'G' QQ Page 30

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Munn rllvahrng We can all I dare say revert to he days when we sat at our mother s knee lrstenrng wrth rapture to the farry tales w hr h have been handed down from parent to chrld through countless generatrons Tell me another story has been rs and always wrll be a plea of clrrldhood fhere rs how ever no lrmrt to the story age The desrre to read contrnues on throufrh adoloscence rnto maturrty the Mother Goo e fables of our efr lx years yreld rn the lapse of trme to Alrce rn Wonderland and Ar rbr rn Nrghts and then to Tom brown s School Daxs Though xxe have outfwrown the folklore storres they are nevertheless the nredrunr between the age of chrldhood and that of xouth A stepprnff stone so to spe rl betxx een our farry daxs and those of realrtx Durrng our first year rn school we master ed th rsolrttd sentence type of readrng It opened a new xx orld From then on our fund of knowledge rncreased untrl books became almos rnsepfrrable comp rnrons Po us a book became A magrc sort of thrnfr that makes you sarlor chref or krng I our readrng xxe assumed the role of sarlors travelers on the w aterx paths adventure and Jewels of knowledge lurked rn e ery corner But the questron arrses What really constrtutes mol rc rdrn 7 There rs at the present trme much drscussron on thrs all rmpr rtrn toprc We find rnnumerable lrsts of recommended books comprled by self stxled lrter ateurs and crrtrcs Upon close observatron how ex er we rre confronted by a drversrtx of oprnron and we find ourselves drvrded rn chorce strrxrnfr to reason what course rs best to pursue The oft quoted lrnes of Frftncrs Bacon Some books are to be tasted others sw rllowcd urd some few chewed and drgested brd us use cautron rn our chorce of refrdrng On a xvrntry evenrng 01 on a summer afternoon rt rs conducrve to peace to open upon Rolvaag s Grants rn the Earth The charm of Pol vaags storv lres rn the authors power to make one feel the somberness of the lrmrtless prarrre at twrlrght the solemn hush of a world wrapped rn snow the sweep of a wrnd as rt rushes across xast fields of wavrng ffrarn It rs srmple vrvrd movrng Rolvaag hrmself rs a xery rnterestrng char acter At one trme rrr hrs boyhood he walked fourteen mrles to obtarn a copy of Ivanhoe Because we read wrth delrght the modern authors let us not rmagrne that they surpass or even equal the old masters If we enrox such bro graphres as Maurors Strachey and Morley we nrax xxrth equal delrght or even greater delrght turn to Dr Johnson and Edmund Burke Rostand Barrre and other excellent playwrrghts need not drm our rnterest rn Shakespeare who rs greater than all others combrned The modern poe ry of Edwrn Arlrngton Robrnson should not detract from the beautres of the poetry of Mrlton and wrth all therr charm and rnsrght the modern novels of the brrllrant Galsw orthy are not rndrspensablx necessary to the rntellec tual and sprrrtual readers who have access to Melxrlle s Nlobx Drck And to lose one s self occasronallx rn the works of the old mrsters frees one from the tyrannx of tryrng to keep up The rnsprratron whrch we recerve from the pen of famous men and women whose wrrtrrrgs lrft us rnto the land of mx strcs en rble us to burld up for ourselves rdeals wrthout whrch we mrffht be worthless or even dangerous to socrety these wrll be our Uurdes Marron Cullen A Iage 29 55 -5- 4- -5- 'I' 'G' M 1 . u 4- 1 v 1 17 9 y V ' . v. 1 I v f, v 'fa g r s, ' 1 1 ' 1 U e . e 1 77 ' 1 1' ' V 1 ' 9 v a - a ' 0 . . u I 1 u . 1 r - O 1 1: - ,S 1 I. . ci I1 , . I ' ' . ' ac ' ' , rv 41 ,I -6 Y- rs , 1 1 L' H 1 . , r , 77 . , ,, . , . ' rs 1 1-1 1 ' . I , 7 ! Z5 v I , v v u U . C, , .V r c x, u ' , , , u I - v . 1 1 . 9 I1 2 , I. ' ' -L ' . ' 1 ' 1 lf C C ns L.. H . . . I . . I . ,, III b 7 ' 1 ' 1 - . I .. I . v . v - . 1 V , . ' 'V 1 1 1 O x . . ' if 1 . 1 v 1 . 5 ', l ' , . ga 1 as g. . I . I . . . I . III I I . r - 1 c L . Y I, -I. I, .II ' ' 1 1 1 1 , . , 1 u y y I . I . I . . . . . . I I. I. . r L Cs 1 - . 1 I ' a ' 5 C st 1 I1 v1 v 1 '-' , - c J , 2 r . ,, . - . I . . I . c . 1 as ', ' , H r I ' D I L - , I . , v u Y 1 1 n t . I . . I . I. . . I I I I . Q v D . u u v w , Y . i . , 9 4: ' 1 ' ' ' - 1 1 - I . cc rx I I. . I . . ! ' ' Y . 7 . - . . L I I I I. I . 1 1 . ' 1 ' 9 I . I I I I. . . I . 9 . 1 ' . ' L , . 1, I. . . I I . f 1 . o y. ' u U . l 1 x a I. . I I . . I I I . I .1 ' ' ' ' 7 Cl ' Y! . 1 1 1 1 . I . r I . 7 ' r ' 1 f 14- 1 1 1 s. II C n L , , cc ' H . 1 v v n 1 1 I1 5 v r- v o Q' ' l D ' - 1 I 1 - 9 . ' ' v r o I . I. . I - O . Ar' J 7 r

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illllumr Aa a Qlnmpzmtun MUSIC IS the unlversal langauge of the human soul a means by Whlch the 1nt1mate emotlons of manklnd can be expressed through the natural forces of rhythm and sound When one hears beautlful mus1c he 1S carr1ed out of hlmself 1nto a 1eg1on of beauty The Frenchman Gelman and Spanlald all consldel lt n 1nd1spensable factol ln human l1fe and as much a necess1ty f01 exlstence as food and drmk And vyhy '7 Because slnce helr cradle days th1s language of beautlful sounds has enhanced the lands of the1r blrth From eally ChlldhO0d they wer t1a1ned to appleclate 1tS com pan1onsh1p and to 1ob them of lt would be to snatch away the pleasure of l1fe 1tself Fable legend h1btOlW and experlence combme o lllustlate the extraordmary effect of mus1cal sounds on mln and beast We can of coulse only guess how thousands and thousands of years ago when savage men roamed the stlange and anc1ent yy orld melody made 1 s first appeal to the human hefut SChOl31S belleve that man s very flrst mus1c was hls huntxng call crylng out as he t1acked beasts through the forests Among the trees alone except fO1 the presence of yv1ld an1 mals qulet save fo1 the occaslonal call of a b11d the Indlan became sub' dued and yearned fO1 champ1onsh1p P1obably he llked the sound of hlS oyvn volce So It happened one day as he rested that he repea ed the hunt 1ng call for h1S oyyn pleasule Th1S was hlS fl1st melody When he and h1S tr1be learned to put th1s cry together Wlth othe1 slgnals the sounds grew to take the form of tone comb1nat1ons Thls recreatlon had become necessary o the savage LlkGW1S6 It IS ssentlal to man IH general as necessaly 1n flct as flesh a1r IS to h1S lungs Throughout l1fe from Ch1ldhO0d to old age mus1c IS an lndlspensable ch1ldren of love An anc1ent legend has lt that the Babe of Bethlehem vyhlle ly 1ng IH the manger heald the song of angels The heavenly chorus had come o proclalm Hls K1n shlp and the syyeet cadences of then hymn caused the HoHly Babe to sm1le 1n Hls sleep We all knoyy that an lnfant IS soothed and quleted by hls mother s lullaby IH the rhythmlc rocklng of the cradle The Rock a bye Baby IS 1ts fil st lesson IH mus1c appreclatlon Rhythm IIOVSQVQI goes V21 h us beyond ou1 cladle days 1n the play song of chlldren Who does not lemember ga1ly t11pp1ng to the happy tune of Farmer 1n the Dell and London Brldffe We not only sang but danced as well Thls danclng was the express1on of an lmpulse to move to the lhythm whlch yye felt even 1n our youth The Chu1ch also has played an 1mpo1tant pa1t 1n the development of mus1c Pope Gregory the Great thought It SLlff1C16I1t1y lmpoltant to collect and publlsh those l1Eil'IT10H10l1S melodles named fox h1m Grevorlan Chant the model fo1 all S3C1 ed mus1c Centur1es ago It vyas the Monk P10 D1retzo who fl1St started the scale Through the lnfluence of the Church schools of Counte1po1nt and Polyphony yy 16 establlshed Thlou hout the ages she has fosteled a love for thls subllme study And lastly the song of the psalmlst Vylll chant by the mouth of the Lhurch vo1c1n the note of hope amld ealthly sepalatlons And as that song dles ayy ay yyc shall be ushe1ed to the accompanlment of mus1c 1nto ou1 leal and evellastlng home yye shall halk unto song and o lute borne aloft as yye hea1 the S91 aph1c chons fo1 mus1c and ltS dellghts yy 1ll be part of heaven f01 US Bs '1t11ce Callan Ll L 935 -:- -:- -:- -:- -e- if 7 Q l .. - I . . , A. , . k , al , , ' 1 Y. , , ' ' , . , ' t ' 4 K u 1 1 u 4 I , . S C u . . ' , 6 ' l 1 '1 Q v ' ' L ' Q .I , y . ' D 2 ' . , . .. Y , 'L , , - v U C . , , I 1 . , b ' ' 1 v '-' . . Y . L - n . u l y - 1 X . A' - 1 n n 9 - 9 9 11 ' y 2 a V I h - ' . . , I c compamon. Rightly, did Francis Thompson tell us that songs are the . . . ,I V . 7- 0 . - 4- ' . c ' L an . n . v I 1 7 . , . 1 1 vu ' U - -L - VH . . ' ' . . .l . , L. ,'4 , . . V ' , , L C ' f as - . ar u ' ' yr o - D . . . i . , D . , . . ' . , L . u A , . C ne. t . g ev? . V. .Y T . . 0. . P i H . v , lj . . - 4 . , , ., . . , . , . . . . ' . . v .- . 4 9 L 1 922 'Q' 'D' - 'GL 4' 'D' Q Page 31