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am HE Aluiiini who return from their several walUh to spend a few clays at Xotre Danic will find many changes. They will see new faces, hear new voices, and make new friends. For some of the cherished associations have llnwn with the ])ass- ing years, and many friends of the olden days have .gone to return no nicirc In the land thai is dark and covered wilh the mist of death. Perhaps some of the . lnmni will tind Iheir way to the comnnmity cemetery, and walking along the ever (|uiet paths, will find there many a father and friend of their college days ; they will read the names engraved on a simple cross, their standard even in death, now standing over them in silent testimony of the lives well lived. . s I stood there one day last fall my mind went hack to those days now .gone, days full of memor - S sweet that they seemed a fore-taste of heaven. . s I looked upon the grave of my frieml and teacher it seemed to me that 1 could look past the boundaries of our little day o er into llic ast eternity of coming time and I gathered Ihen ihe full meaning of that saying, It matters not how long we li e, hut how. Many of the old graduates, as they pass on. reading the names dear to e er - frieml and student of Notre Dame, the names of Walsh, of Corby, and of Sorin. will realize that the memories of their school days are now memories indeed. The silent organ loudest chants llie Master ' s Ret|uiem , and llie sad, lonesome feeling that thrills the heart ,-nid throws a sombre gloom over the suidit memories of our student life, but s|)eaks the affec- tion for those now at rest, whose master minds once inspired and befriended ns. E erv student wdio has been at Xotre Dame during the last twentv years, and especially the graduates of ini14 will, I know, experience this feeling of sorrow when they read on a cross which has yet to bear a summer ' s heat, the name of .Stanislaus Fitte, C S. C. Last autumn Father Fitte ' s life came to a close after two years of intense pain and sufl ' ering. The e ents of his life may be chronicled briefly, for Father Fitte typified the old tireek maxim thai man should do not many things, but iiinch. Me was born at I ' .ienze, .Msace — Lorraine, in 18-1?. .After completing his seminarv course at . lanc . his ordination to tlu ' secular priesthood took place in lSfi. i. Later the coveted degree of Doctor of Philosophy was accorded him bv the Sorbonne. In the year ISSU Uic congregation of the Holy Cross welcomed him within its fold and ihe I ' nivcrsity of .Xotre Dame profited by his presence and labors until inii. i. when sickness forced him lo lea e bis work, llie I ' lst iwo years of his life were spent in enforced quiet at the Community House, and the passer-by could sec in the window his kindly face wearing the same genial smile that marked his better days and which then seemed to cloak the torments of his slow and painful malady, ' i ' hosc long, lonesome days which he spent sitting by that window looking out on the field of his life ' s labors to another might have been days of melancholy, of anguish, of des|)air : lo liim they were days of joy and spiritual conlcnInRiU, of saint-like happiness that increased with the growing pain. Truly, when we consider whal a priesl should be, measured b llu Dixiiie .Model if all priests. ST.VNISr.ACS FITTK,
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vc may say of r ' allicr I ' ittc. in jiite of tlic great -.vork of his long and useful career, thai Xothiiig in his life bceanie him like the leaving it. ' ' For those who carry in their memory the many instances of those ever-welcome classes in Philosophy and Latin, who can recall the old doctor as he sat at his desk, who remembers the humor and fun that permeated those short hr)urs. the joys and student pranks which he enjoyed so much and which made him f.o loved by all his students. — those who are so fortunate know that the most wily ]ien could not hope to do justice to the cherished memories of Father Fitte ' s class room. To recall the incidents of thiPT days is tlie most pleasant occupation fi.ir bis old students. P.ut mention his name to a gathering of classical graduates and no otlicr topic is needed throughout the longest evening. (Juote some of those familiar Latin phrases, In angulo sordis , Modus in rebus , and the rest, mention that dowers which l)loom beyond the grave on the shores of eternity . — quotations meaningless to others — and you strike the key-note which wakes the fullest chord of pleasure in the memory of Xotrc Dame ' s classical alumni. He lies now with his comrades who have .gone to join the great majority, but his influence still lives on just as the under-ground s|)ring. though hidclen. sends its rippling waves to the distant, mist-covered shore. His for us the n;irrow and ]ileasnre-darkened pathway of right conduct; our minds, shap ed by his hand tlinnigli life and in ileath leave it — a legacy to others, as he left down thruugh the never-ending flight of future days. teachings have lighted up will fiiUow his c.Nample it to us — . to be carried on KKV. .AMIRKW J. SA.M.MllN, (. S. C. K tragic death of bather .Sammon. wdiich occurred im .Monday evening. I ' eb. 1 ; . cast a gloom n (.r tlie entire University. Without a moment ' s warning, and in the full igi)r of his 3 ' oung manhood he was ushered into the presence of the L ' niver.sal While bathers .Sanimon and Mu-rphy were returning from . ' outh Bend the sleigh in which they were riding was struck by a Xotre Dame Avenue car. and in the passing of a ninment the chain wdiicli bound a noble soul to earth bad been broken. (hi ' riuirsday. Feb. ' iO, Solemn High Mass was celebrated by the Rev. President of the I ' nixersity, assisted by Fathers .Scheier and Heiser. I ' ather Hudson delivered a very touch- ing sermon and most effectively brought Imnie to the l.irge congregation assembled to do honor to the dead ])riest the lessons of the sad occasion. . nd then escorted l)v many friends and the entire South ( ' .end Council of Knights of Columbus, who had come to pay their last res])ects In a beloved memlier. all that was mortal of Father Sammon was borne to the little cniiiiinmil cemetery ami laid ti ' rest beside friends and companions of other days. I ' nr ilie past Iwn e:irs l- ' allier Sanunon had been teaching at .Sacred Heart (. ' olle.ge. W alertuwn. Wiscnnsin. .ind at St. I ' dward ' s t ' cillege. . ustin, Te.xas. and it was but a few slinri nionllis before his death that he returned to resume work at Xotre l ' )anie. He will. liiiwe er. 1)c remembered by the graduates of a few yea rs back as llie genial and kind- hearted rector of Sorin Hall, and his kindness, his courage, his ho])efidness, his lovable dispo- sition, and the absolute devotion of his short career as a priest and instructor, which won for him the resjiect and love of the students, will ever be gratefully remembered, and will live on as an uplifting inlluence in the lives of those who knew him.
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