St Thomas Military Academy - Kaydet Yearbook (Mendota Heights, MN)

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. ... on a Saturday afternoon when the air is crisp, and the leaves are turning brown, the cadets march to victory on the gridiron of O'Shaughnessy Field . . . . . . . the Armory honeycombed with blaring bassoons, the rhythmic tramp of feet, the ranting of embryo thespians, the milling of cadets in the book store, the eagle's nest, the chow line, the Dean's well-worn carpet, et cetera, et cetera . . . .

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. . . . leaning into the west wind, the Academy Building . . . . the homely warmth of a big family or a small town where everybody knows everybody else, all pulling together with a common bond of compactness .... Academy Building . . . . rising from a setting of wide carefully barbered lawns, is massive and beautiful Albertus Magnus Hall whose bright buff Mankato stone, complemented by that of the Arts Build- ing, forms a handsome entrance to the campus ....

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 THE MOST REVEREND JOHN GREGORY MURRAY, S.T.D. Archbishop of St. Paul Under the paternal control and direction of His Excellency, Archbishop Murray, St. Thomas Military Academy has made great progress in the fulfillment of Catholic ideals in educa- tion. Barn February 2, 1877, in Waterbury, Connecticut, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1900 at Louvain, Belgium. He was consecrated titular bishop of Flavias and auxiliary bishop of Hartford in 1920. Having been transferred to the see of Portland, Maine, in 1928, he was subsequently raised to the Archbishopric of St. Paul, October 29, 1931, being installed at the Cathedral of St. Paul, January 27, 1932. Since that time his apostolic charity and sympathy have endeared him completely to the people of the North- west, to those both in his fold and out of his fold. For his extraordinarily kind and personal interest in us and our future, we cadets of St. Thomas wish to assure our beloved shepherd. Archbishop Murray, of our sincere and unending loyalty to him as followers of Christ.