University of Santa Clara - Redwood Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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TA T5e tfOo £, Entered Dec. 18, 1902, at Santa Clara, Cal., as second-class matter, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 VO. XII SANTA CLARA, CAL., OCTOBER, 1912 No. 1 Kq JOTys io I HEARD Him in the dropping of tlie rain, I felt Him in tiie swelling of the sea, I knew His lips when harshness gave me pain, His love in all love, for love He was to me. And when the dawn rose ruddy or was gray, And when the sun set idly in the sea, I felt upon my weary cheek the spray; ' Twas all the freshness of His love for me. A hand in mine ? His hand in mine, no more ; A cheek ' gainst mine His cheek I said must be. And thus we wandered by the sounding shore, I listening while His wavelets spoke to me, Spoke of His wrath, spoke of His love. His fears, That though I kissed I still might Judas be, And if I kissed once more, while fell my tears. My tears were love and He my love to me. Down through the streets where hums the busy town We passed, I loving. He loved with me. A poor man begged, I answered with a frown; He left me there with my iniquity. — Courtenay Price.

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CONTENTS THE MYSTIC (Poem) IRISH HOME RULE NOCTURNE (Poem) RETRIBUTION GREATER LOVE THAN THIS JAMIE (Poem) WHEN THE TRAIN FAILED EDITORIAL COMMENT EXCHANGES UNIVERSITY NOTES ALUMNI NOTES - ATHLETICS - Courtenay ' Price ' 14 Victor Chargin ' 14 - Thomas E. Percy ' 15 H«roId R. McKinnon ' 14 - Rodney A. Yoell ' 14 Paul Perkins ' 16 F. Buckley McGurrin, 1st High 1 2 8 9 15 21 23 27 31 35 40 47

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THE REDWOOD. THE IRISH HOME RULE MOVEMENT VICTOR A. CHARGIN From the first day of the 19th Cen- tury to the last, the statesmen of England have had one standing prob- lem to face. It might come up under various forms and disguises, and it might seem to demand various reme- dies, but in some shape or other the wroes of Ireland have alv ays furnished the test of practical statesmanship, and have often been the rock on which proud administrations have met with dire disaster. By nature Ireland would seem to be formed for peace and plenty. Happily located with the protecting bulwark of Great Britain between their emer- ald isle and foreign foes, blest with a mild and equable climate, and inhab- iting an island of marked fertility, the Irish race would seem to have been signaled out for fortune ' s favors. Yet such has been the misgovern- ment of the English that the Irish have seen their paternal acre turned into the hands of aliens, their religion made a brand of shame and outlawry, their parliament corrupted and finally done away with, their industries crip- pled and bound down, and they them- selves reduced to wretched poverty. At the outset of the century, Janu- ary 1st, 1801, to be exact, the legislative union went into effect, un- der the title of the United Kingdom, as it was a consolidation of the Eng- lish and Irish Parliaments. Ireland ' s Parliament, which had met in Dublin since 1782, went out of existence, and in the place of Home Rule, Ireland was represented in both houses of the Imperial Parliament at Westminster. But it is here that the first bone of contention was found. Irish Catho- lics according to the Act of Union, were unable to represent their native land. This indeed was a very serious mistake on England ' s side, and Pitt, seeing the discord it created in Ire- land, had promised the Irish Catholics that he would have the laws that made them ineligible to represent their country repealed. His plans, how- ever, were thwarted by the stubborn King George III, who believed that such a concession would do violence to the Protestantism of his coronation oath, and accordingly refused to sanc- tion Pitt ' s idea of Catholic emancipa- tion. This aroused the premier ' s dis- gust thoroughly and he resigned, thus leaving the movement without any in- fluential head. For some time it was dropped, as England had to give most of her time to Napoleon ' s European business. It was at this juncture that Ireland ' s greatest orator and probably the world ' s greatest agitator stepped to the front, and finally, by his elo- quence, wit and talent for agitation, combined with the efiforts of Welling-