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              VOL. VI.
Vergil
Hero-worship is one of the (ore_
most characte ristics of people and
of nations. Each country has itll
hall of fame, its list of honored
men; our own America reveres its
Washington, its Lincoln, its Lind­bergh.
In many cases, however, the
y~ars may dim the glory, or the
reality may become II legend, but
in one elise especially, a name has
stood against the storm of cen­turies
and there is no cloud to dim
its lustre.
Publius Vergilius Maro is today
liS real, 1'1$ great, a$ when he
roamed the countryside of Mantua.
or charmed Augustus and his court
with his inimitahle verse. This
ytar, on the Ide$ of Octooor, the
whole world, th(> New and the Old,
celebrates the two thousandth an_
niversary of the birth of this
mighty Roman bard.
For one man to hold sway over
the minds of men for centuries as
does Vergil, t here must be about
him, about his work, II. universal,
irre$istible appeal, a peculiar
charm. The secret of this appeal
may find explanation in several
ways. He was a national poet ,
the mouth_piece of a great age, of
a great literature.
Just as today the poet-laureatE
who sings his country's glory com­pels
our admiring r~v ere n ce, so
he, who by his immortal verse,
raised the name of Rome to a
pinnacle of honor, is enshrined in
the memory of man. His inftuenec
has come down through the cen·
turies in the pages of the world's
literature. His own day pro­claimed
him poet-laureate j the
early Christians revered him as a
prophet. Dante of later yean.
called him "the sea of all knowl_
edge," "the $age who knew all
things." So in the English tongue,
great men have recognized the
geniu~ and the artistic ability of
him who was the " wielder of the
stllteliest measure ever molded by
the lips of msn." All those who
have sung the nation's grestness,
its life and its deeds _ Chaucer.
Spenser, Milton, Dryden, Addison,
Gray, Tennywn, have gathered in­spiration
from him , have treasured
his sayings, have pondered over hi~
humanness and his broodiug sense
of pi ty.
Men ot the world who admire
and recognize patriotism wi!! tor_
NAZARETH COlliG£
LIBRARY
Pllblished (II No::orclh College, Rochcster, New Vork
OCTOBER, 1930
"Genio natali P. Vergili Maronis ad
Bimilennium eius celebrandum."
To Vergil
Vergililts, we bid thee show ItS how
We may iu SQllg award Iwstinted praise
To t/rce, for R'hCl~ Calliope scuds rays
Of uoblr il/spiratiou, skyward thO!,
Dost SOllr to glorious heighls; aud rver /lOW
Dost give liS joy Ihrough IIIIISic, whell ollr days
Arc weary, and when life's deep 1uoe dismays;
Wilh Ihee we learll ill hopefliiness to bow.
Bul 011, Ver{li/ius, if Iholl '!(Idst know,,! ). ~
If Ih)' while so1l1 had seell Ihe l.iglit,-oh, /lwu
To lo/Iier, gold .tipped pco~'s 'wolildst tholl hove !fOWl!.
~Vith Christ lind Mary's deeds for thee to PCII,
And lIot Ih), gods, Ihy SOllY would greater be-tV/
til tltee 'twollld {a.51 Ihrough all cternity.
ANNA FISCIH:Tn:, '32.
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ever apprc<:iate the fervent loyalty
of Vergil for his country in his
life and in his work. In Aeneas
who. as the founder of race, sacri­ficed
all to duty, Vergil exhibits
to the people the ideal patriot and
citizen, true to his God, his coun­try
and himself.
Certllin conditions today may
w"ll be compared to those which
characterized the ooginning of the
Augustan Age. The World War is
not so far behind us that all its
wounds are healed, The minds of
leaders and statesmen are bent
lIpon a plan for world peace and
for conti nued international har_
1T'0ny. Similarily, Vergil had lived
through and experi enced the hor_
rors of war whith marked the end
of the republic and he too sighed
for the "Pax Augusta."
As Mackail says: "We stand
now as Vergil stood, among the
wrC('kage of a world ; he can giv(>
light and guidance to us in the
foundation of a new world upon
its ruins. Mankind is, above all,
human; what it above all need!;,
not in education only, but in the
whole conduct of life is humanism;
consciousness of its own part, faith
in its own future, the sense of
truth, beauty, joy."
This brings us the understand­ing
of that otber quality in VCl"gil
which wins men's hearts. Being in­tensely
tender and human, he
could understand with ready sym­pathy,
men. He had a deep un­derstanding
of the real values of
things, and his heart was ev"r
presSP.d close to t he breast of a
throbbing, suffering humanity. The
Gospel of his li te was love, the deep
love of men that recognizes the
passions of life, tbe sorrows, the
joys of his fellow creatures; baa
pity for the erring, sympathy for
the hungering, and help for the
faltering.
"Sunt lacrimae rerum" will toll the
centuries through. The world may
IIppear to change, but those innate
fe-('lings, those invariable yearnings
of human nature always remain
whethet· they find expre$$ion in the
music of Vergil or in that of a
modern poet. Whoever interprets
these for liS will be immortal. Thus
it is with Vergil:
"He saw afar the immemorable
throng,
And bound the scattered ages
with a song."
Mary Leary, '32.
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Creative Literature
New and interesting worlds to
conquer lie before those who wi\1
try thcir wings in that most de­lightful
of Bdventurca, the field of
creative literature. Surely no
morc intrigueing pu"uit lies with­in
one'l reach and the variety is
endless. Through modeaty or in­diffcrence,
most of UII are indined
to adopt ;J. ao,·t of Omllr Khayyam
philo!!Ophy, content to rest beneath
the proverbial shady bough, and to
enjoy $(Imcone else'. book of verse,
or ahort stori~s, or ell!llyll, or plaYIl.
Remember thlt any attempt. no
matter how small, il an achieve­ment,
and if it were not for !!Omc
"l'Itkmpta" we would hl'lve no
Shakeapeare, no Dante, no Homer,
none of tho!le fiery, magnific~nt
words thl'lt have echoed for cen­turies
as the greatcst triumphs of
mankind.
Francois Villon, the poet vaga­bond
of France, when asked who
he was, once replied:
"I am only a singer of songs,
with stara for my candlcs lind roses
for my playthings,"
Stars for my candlel! How
beautifully significant thia is of thc
mighty power of pOetry a nd pr oae.
It makes ua, too, want to live in
that land of bel'luty and imager~'
whieh is the pen world of our own
c",ation.
The Gl~"'tff eagerly awaita the
publication in outalde periodicals
of the individual effort of a Naza­reth
College student.
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Indian Summer
Nazareth Bids
You Welcome
ClaM or ]934~NaZflreth College
welcomes you! Our Dean, the
Faculty, the Sen:ou, Juniora, I'Ind
Sophomo"" aMure you that you
:I", more than welcome a! Itudenu
of N!lza"'th Colll'ge. It gives us
the greateat pleasure to have you
with UI and to have you ahare in
lhl' unlimited joys and happineu
which college life offen.
Dear Little Sisters! You haye
everything to look forward to. We
nave :llready IlX'nt two ot the hap­pit'$
t yeau of our livel here (It
NaZll"'th and the next two yeau
will be even happier, one reason
being that we have you to ahare
our joy with us. But two more
yellf'll remain for ua to revel in the
joys of college life nnd then only
memoriu will li nger on-beautiful,
tender nll'mories of our days at
Nazareth.
But you have four yea" ahead
of you in whieh to enjoy all that
college otfel"$. You will learn 1<>
love NU~Il-eth as we have. Her
ideal6 will become your ideals and
we know you will alwaYI hold her
alandal'ds high.
We wiah you the best of luck and
the greatest succen in the years to
come. In all your endeavou we
want you to know we are alway~
ready to support you, and we are
confident the future will mean the
realiution of your hopes and am­bitionl.
Agnin, may we say-"WEL­COME
TO NAZARE'l'H COL­LEGE!"
Mllry Eva Henner, '32.
wild astrr and crim$(ln vines
which bravely nings itllelf over
rock. and briars. Flying $(Iuth, II
crow stop, for one last defiant caw
at the lICIlrE'Crow in the cornfield.
A whir of jet wings, and he il goue
until spring.
Like ghoata of departed chief.
tans, the white bi rches gleam
I'Imong thl' IIOmber fir treu. Her..,
and there, a .scarlet maple toases
iu war bonnet of flaming leave..
Along the mal"$hes the reeds
have turned to a mellow gold. The
wind plays eerie mUllie on them
and the lapping waler Boftly echou
it. Suddenly a canvu-bllck whirl.
and dnrt. . His leathers shhnmer
in the Bun. He sinks to rcst on 1\
wavelet .... eddying circle! reHeet
hiB brilliant colors. With n !la~h
he disappears among the rushe..
Night falla, and above, in all
their brilliance, twinkle the au­tumn
.tus- A round hunter'.
moon shine. in the east. Ita ra_
diance, like the council flru of old,
glows ateadily through the forest,
as if lighting the way for the
spirits of the Indians, as one by
one thoy silently steal aWlly among
the shadows.
A haze of blue, the smoke of I ;;;':'':;;;;;''::::'-:-:-:-:-:-:~~~ ___ ;
a hundl'ed peace pipes, lies over IN MEMORIAM
hllli and valleys, wreathing the We wish to extend our
topmost summits with diaphanous sincere sympathy to Jose-mist.
Near the roadside, the gold- phine Fameo and her family
en rod, in yellow profusion, add 1'1 on her father's death.
lacl'like beauty to the tapest ry of IL_'-_'-____ -'--'-____ J
The Students
Spiritqal Council
The Studl'nh Spiritual Counell,
centcred about the Sodality of our
Ble!lSlld Mother, has secured a IIrm
footing in the activiti~lI of college
life at Naureth College, running
parallel with the Undergraduate
Association, The Sodality, orgs n­ized
to stimulate devotion to our
Blessed Mother throu:;h penone.l
hoJinellll and active Catholicity, reg­ulatu
the spiritual side of colley.t'
life,
At the Internalionnl Conventic"l
of the S. S. C.ln Chicago last June,
we were impreued with the gen­eral
~nthusiaam of d~legates from
thirty.five atatell and Canada, with
repr(,lICntatives from California to
New York, and from Montreal to
Texas. For three days we gath­ered
together to devise ways ui
stro:ngthening the previously 01"
gani~ed Sodalitiea and to make
plans for carrying out an extensivc
program of active Catholicity. The
youth of America demonstrated
their fenrlessneu by standing on
their two feet and dillCu.ssing their
religion, and upholding the ideal,
and objoctives of their Sodality.
They emphasized the fact that the
Sodality ill no longer a society for
merely the IClected fl'w. but ralher
ineludes in its rank ~ a majority of
the "all-round type."
That thcre may be $Omething of
special interest for every Sodalist
in the coilege, the central commit­tee
is broadening its program or
former y~an to include an apO$­tolie
committee. This group will
take definite cha rge of the work aL
the Charles House find Merrimac
House, the teaching of Christian
dKtrine to public school children,
Brnille work lind Girl Scout work.
The work of the Eucharistic,
our L:uly'~, the Mission, the Cath­olic
literature and publicity, com­mittees
is well under way and from
the initial Inte",st shown by these
The Miuion Unit i,l entering
upon ita fnurth yenr in Na>.:areth
College, Mary O'Brien is in
chnr~ of all thl' miuion .ctivities.
lInder her able leadership, together
with a committee consisting of
Gertrude Waiters, Louiae Brown.
Mary Neary, Mary Eva Henne",
Margaret Enright and Philomena
Petross;, a splendid yePI' should be
nhead. But the SUCCtl~ will de·
pt'nd very greatly on the co-oper­ation
of all the girls,
Of course, as .formerly, ail old
clothing, ma g 1\ ~ i n f! I, papel"$,
stamps, al'.d tinloil will be more
than welcome. A 8pecial pica is
Utlted for medicines. Everyone
"lease visit your doctor or dentiM.
Someone is waiting ff>!" every bit
you collect.
Rl'lifles : numbe ... on all sorta !If
inte re~ti ng things will be out
~hortly.
This year the candy haa been
lransfure(\ from the cafeteria 00
n special counter near the office. A
corps of student~ have volunteered
their services as clerks. All profita
go to the missions,
Remember yOUI' ]>rayeu and of­lerinp
al!!O!
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A CLOUDY MOONLIGHT
Shrouded in miat. dotll .hine to­Hight
lIfy L(Jdy lifoON-;
While here and IlIer6, with 010,,, so
slight
Ii 810r (It/empts to ,IIoUl it. light,
Bul d~aws "(lck ,oon.
Tltil shll, _ut Moon, diffu.tled (lill!
I(lir,
A Il veiled ill mist,
Sldllei dimlll 011. 'lltll loved 0".,
there-
Sed yon l(Jint gl'Jw on ,ilv'.'/I Iwi.·
By flloon!team. ki8fed!
ANNA FISCII~:rTr., '32.
groups, we shat! look fo r great re- Presitlenl-Helen Guntert, '31.
sulb from their undertakings. Chairman of Euchari~tic Com.-
During the course or thi~ school Alice Gru$!l£'nmeyer.
year, in our program for active Chairman of Mission Com,-
Catholicity, we . hall make a ~pe- Mary O'Brien.
cil'll cndeavo,· to encourage ar:d Chairman of Our Lady's Com.-
stimulate the writing of play~, Mary Leary.
short stories, euays, and IlOetry, Chairman of Publicity Com.-
~h a t we may contribute our share Catherine Williamson.
to the movement fot· creative Cath- Chnirman of Cl'ltholic Lit._ Mary
olic work. Our plana fll!IO includ.., Morfin.
1\ campaign for Catholic higher ed- 1, ______________ -,
ucation :II the only ideal kind of •.
training tor our Catholic yout!'!.
The Rosary drive, which hIS bef.n
hitherto conducted during the
month of May, will mark the be­ginning
of our activities, this
week.
The officers for the year are COIl_
fident that with the same splendid
enthusiaam shown by the Sodalists
last year, and with like cooperll­til'ln
from them, we may be able to
carryon thill sll-important work
most Buccelllfully. Those serving
in the capacity of S. S. C, leaders
fO!' the coming year are :
Support
THE GLEANER
By
Getting Ad.
Di rectre.'!3-Sider Teresa Mlirie. 1' ... __________________ ._.0
THE GLEANER
INITIATION
Thursday, October 2
"Silly II 80ny of So phOmOre8. "
pocket lull of fun,
SBVIrII (lnd thirty F're~llie, ' ,>! ilb­tion."
Juniors a nd F resh­me
n Hold Party
The second ~Junior-Frcsh .
man hou$(' party proved a "gran ~l
and glorious" succel<!!. The ,.-eath­Ilr
mlln did not dllre disappoint us;
and ae n result the two days at
MOlher Goose spread her wantl Stella Maris were ideal.
aver the college campus and gro- Swimming in the middle of Sep·
tesque ligures skipped around Ill! in tember sounds rash, but many of
a weird dream of the fll nciful im- us can testi fy thaI it was not. The
ngination. However, it was a real- house party opened up another
it", for soon a group IIppeared to field of endeavor to the Junior
direct t he actions of the!IC st range Class. We will not worry now if
creatuTCII Imd surely, who wer~ there i. an over-supply of teachers,
they but Sophomores! It wu init_ for since we found out that we
iation! can cook, we are considering the
Mary was there with her lamb, restaurant bU$ineu.
followed by Humpty Dumpty, who Blue.' ~kies, bright staM!, a moon,
found it rather difficult to walk, throbbing music, in $hort, a pel'­enveloped
as she was in two huge feet night. What more could one
pillows. Litt!il Boy Blue was rather ask of any dance? "BYil, Bye
a bar! litt1il boy, for . he had four Hlu~~ " was very appropriate, 01"
safilty pins decorati ng her blo.u~il. !O the orchestra sccmed to think.
Safety pina wer e a penally for mis- Reall y, I think I enjoyed going to
bfhavior and required the perform- Church m03t. I had a feeli ng of
ant'l of special act!! in the ASlICm- enjoying the utmost in luxury. It
bly. Then came little Bo-Peep who was one of those times when you
was asking all and sundry if they feel satisfied all the way through.
had seen hilr sheep. In fact, they That boat was better thnn Nep­ali
wllre thilre; Old Mother Hub_ tune's chariot.
bard, Tommy Tucker, and eViln A $pecial word of praise i. due
Simple Simon. Everyone sccmed to :Mary Eva Henner, and in fact
to find it difficult to wulk, and on hilr entire family, for making the
looking, we discovered that each hOUSe party a vilry pleasant suc­one
wore a high_heeled shoe and a C<lSS. It takea a great deal of plan­bedroom
slipper. The lowly onion ning a nd good hard work to carry
and a gre<ln ribbon enci reled the through such an undertaking.
neck of every newcomer and the We feel tha t a hou$C party dOt's
face of ilvery F reBhie shone in its more than any thing else could, to
natural lustre devoid of beautify- promote a feeling of sisterhood be·
ing cosmetic$. twccn dllucs. It surely is a splen-
Slowly did the new students did introduclion to the social side
answer the gong for clau, for mar_ of col\l'gi' life.
kilt basket!! full of book. burdened Margaret Gardner, '32.
their arme. The lloou of our au- ,, _ '1< _ of<
gust college were swept all never The Junior Cla Sll of Naxaretit
btofore. Whenever one of the fac. Collcge wishes to take this oppor.
ul ty chanced by, a nearby Fresh_ tunity of thanking Fathilr Lnmbert
man made use of the little broom for hi. whole-hearted coopel'ation
she carried and 6wept the path in making thil Junior-Freshman
ciilan. We Sophomoril8 weril in our house pa!·ty a complilte 8 uc("e~ •. W("
glory when we beheld the lowly thllnk you, Father, for the UijC of
Freshmen bow deeply before us Cllmp Stella Maris alld we want
while thilY softly murmured, "Long to a l!.Sure you of our apprecia.tion
live the Sophomores!" for e~'ery kindneS$ you have shown
We closed tht' day with a liUle us.
pa rty for the Freshmen who proved We wish abo to expreBl our ap­themSillves
to be real college stu- preciation to Mr. and MrB. Michael
dolnta by IM'rforming th('lr ludic rouF Shied who supervised our party.
and humble tasks with a smile. We We certainly enjoyed having t hem
alneerely hope t hat they wi!! enjoy with us.
thel!' days hilre and contin ue to I C-"''--= ___________ _
show the good-will that we wit­nessed
at their initiation.
Catherine Hock, '33.
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Undergraduate
Association
The Undilrgraduat{' Allsociation
held its opening meeting of the
yCllr on Thursday, Seplember 19th.
The meeting was given over
chie fty to the discuSllion of the
new secret ballot lIyste n'! of elec­tions
which was put Into use for
the first time at Clan Elections,
Selltember 2f>th. A rnolution
wal proposed and adopted that
a five dollar general i ee be
levied on the student!! which will
cover the dues of the S. S. C.,
the Athlelic and Undergraduate
ASl!OCiations Rnd the Gleaner Sub­scr
iption. The work of the
Association this year will be de­voted
pl"inci llllly to the reorganiz­ation
and strengthening of the
school clubs, especially the Dra_
matic and Athletic CJub~ . P!an ~
are being made for the organi z.a_
tion of a Debating T.;!am, Riding
Club /lnd V/luity Basketbnlll'eam.
The fonowing- officers will serve
for the year: Anne Egan, Pre!i.
dent, Hoelen Howland, Vice-Presi·
dent, Mary Neary, Secretary, and
Mary Cannan, Treasurer.
Anne Egan, '3 1.
Sis ter T ereaa Ma rie'a
Feaat Day
On t he occnion of the
feast day of Sister Teresa
Marie, our Dean, the stu­dent!!
of Na:r;areth College
offer their sincere congratu­lations
and good wishcs.
These have been expressed
in the Man and Holy Com­munion
with which t he day
begins, and wafted heaven­ward
on the perfume of our
spiritual bouquet. May St.
Teresa'. Day continue for
many a year to be • red-let­ter
date in the College cal­endar.
Welcome to Faculty
With many a gny greeti ng, a
friend ly wave of t he hand, a wel_
coming word, a bustle and stir of
adjustmiln t, Khool life begins
anew.
With that &ame feeling of com­radeship
and chee r, we extend a.
hearty welcome 10 the FaCUlty. We
aril glad to have them back with
U8 again, to I<hare In every activity,
in work or pleaSUre. Students
alone do not make t he Khool, nor
the tenchers, but it is the partner.
ship of the two that attains the
end.
Therefore, in welcoming the
Faculty, we wish them to feel that
no great pleasure or success or ac·
tivity of oUn! i. complete, unleu
they share it too; that we appre·
ciate the effortl! which they expend
for our ben('fit; that their aims
lind interesUi are our interests, and
that under their tutelage. and with
our willing- cOoperatilln, the year
may be a productive and a plilas­:
lIlt one.
We are most happy to have with
us again our friend and professor,
Fathilr Edillman, and rejoice that
his health ha ~ improved so much
thnt he may resume his work
alllong us.
We welcome to our school and
Faculty, our librarian, Miss Ray­son,
And Mr. Zcit!!mann, ProfCll­sor
of l'>tathematic. and German.
We hopE' thnt they will enjoy their
year with us.
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Freshman-Senior Tea
The social activities of the Col­lege
yeRr began on Wednesday
afternoon, September 23, with the
"get acquainted" tea given for the
Freshmen by the SeniOr!!.
After a few minuu>s spent in in­formally
"getting acquainted" a
formal welcome was given by Miu
Helen Howland, former president
of the class of '31. Then the party
was entertained by a dance given
by thl' ~liuel Glady. Englert, '31 ,
Mildred Walsh, '3t, Marjorie Boa­chert,
'3t. Min Martha Clark, '3 1,
3llve her famoua impersonation of
Al Jolson's Sonny Boy.
Festivitiu were concluded with
the serving of refrilshments by t he
'uoluas Gertrude Walte rs, '31.
Page Three
Class Elections
On Thursday, September the
2f>th, clasa elilctions weril held in
the college. The new system of
voting was inaugurated and found
most I!ati sfactory. Th(' resulta are
a. follows :
Senior Clan:
President .......... Eleanor Craig
Vice-Pre$ident ....... Irene Carron
Secriltary . ......... . Lucille Brady
Treasurer .......... Martha Clark
J unior Class :
President ...... Mary Eva Henner
Vi ce- Pre~ident .. . Gel-trude Connor
Secr etary ........... . . . Rita Ki ~r
T rea~urer . .. .... . Helen l't(orri~scy
Sophomore ClaSll:
P~ide nt . . ..... Margaret Enrigbl
Vice-President .... . Eleanor Heick
Secretary ........ Betty Donnegan
Treasurer ... . Katherine McCarthy
We wish to take thi$ opportun­ity
to extend our since re congrat­ulation.
to the above claSll officers,
and express our entire confidence
in their capability and success.
The Freshman Clan eleetiot\$
are scheduled to take place in No­vember.
'1' - >1< - >1<
Alumnae Admitted to
Kappa Gamma Pi
Four membeM! of Nuareth Col­l
e~ Alumnae have been admitted
to membership in t he national
Catholie honorary lIOCiety, Ka ppa
Gnmma Pi: Monica Toole, '29;
Adelaidil Biesenbach, Alice Foley,
and Dorothy McKay, all of '30.
Kappa Gamma Pi, from the !lig­nification
of its name, seeks to de­velop
Catholic women leaders. Its
ain} Is to unite honor !tudents from
colleges throughout t he country,
atudenta dis tingui$hed for charac­ter,
scholarship, loyalty, and lead·
erllhip, and from this union to give
rise to Catholic activity in every
community.
The orgnnization II! 6uch doos
not devote itse lf to one or sevilral
fields of action. Rather, it encour­ages
each individual member to be
a lilader in her own spher(', whcth_
er it be her achool alumnae al!l!OCia_
lion, her parish sodality, hilr mis­sion
club. Her inftuence ahould be
felt in whatever circle she may
work.
01'. J ohn M. Cooper of the Cath­olic
Univ{,I'sity addressed the east­ern
regional meeting of Kappa
Gamma P i at T rinity Colle~,
Wal!.hington, August 30 and 3t. He
! uggetited re.'S<larch in the fields of
science and literature" an im­portant
present-day achievement.
The world listens to one who h:r..s
som ~ thing to offer it. " P roductive
Scholnrship" i$ the keynote of to­day's
$tudy.
Membership in Kappn Gamma Pi
cal'Tiu with it the duty of accom­plillhing
what is worthy of a Cath·
olic leader. It is a noble ta!lk t hat
will refteet honor on one's Catholic
education and one's Church. May
all milmber$ appreciat& their great
opportUnity.
Adelaide Biescnbach, '80.
Puge Four THE GLEANER
Tlhl~::i~~n:ns::de~~::~PilY I ~> ___: ._: __M _·_·Y·__;_~··D_·_~_·~c-~_h_I_:_·r_·'_~·_S_·~ _·n_ ___:._ :_ _. ..J
add six new members to their -
number. Anne Egan chooses to
Sp(!nd her last collegiate year in
their halls. Margaret Blumerlck,
Josephine Boycr, Mary Louise Ben_
nett, Dorothy Abraham, Virginia
Nugent have come as Freshmen.
These latter entertained upper_
classmen informally at a fashion
show in the social room during
!.heir first week here.
It is rumored about that a show
entitled "The Fishel'mun's La­ment"
was conducted under Sopho­more
auspices. Mary Louise Br n­nett
was a big success in her role
of actor-director.
Sunday night, September 28th,
saw .'IOme "dire deeds" committed
in Freshman rooms. See Sopho­mores
for membership in the Rapid
Desb'uction Company.
We were all delightfully sur_
prised by the recent visits of Kate
Walsh and Bee Welsh. The girls
have promised not to forsake their
old haunts too soon.
Mary O'Bri.m has found the
secret of success in a diet that
eclipses the famous 18·day method.
Glum faces were caused by the
neW$ that Pat Liberatore had
trnnsferr'ed to anot.her College. But
the tie to Nazareth pro"cd too
strong and Pat is back to stay. No
more glum faces 1 Experiencc
proves there is no place like--.
NaZllreth!
We ex«nd congrat.ulations to the
Sophomore boarder$ who hold the
four executive class offices of that
year.
A motion has been made, but not
acted upon, that we have pocket
maps of Rochester and vicinity
printed. It has been suggested
that no girl leave the building
without this little guide. They are
espedaliy valuable during storms.
Resident members of the class of
'30 are genuinely missed by the old­er
students.
The announcement that Gactana
F edenda had t ransferred to Al_
bany State Normal was received
with much regret.
The head of the table is now
graced by the presence of our resi­dent
librarian Miss Hilda Rayson,
It£. A.
A recent "fudge party" in the
Kitchenette has been raled one of
the season's most successful in­formal
socia! events.
N. B. The "0"
pronounced long.
in our title is
.-. M. N. , '32. An indoor garden party under
the chairmanship of Marion Popp
'28, WllS held at the College on Sa::
urday, September 27. The Alumn a ~
present spent an enjoyable after­noon,
spiced with news and fiav.
ored with games and lunch. All
the chan~s in Alma Mater's cor­ridor~
were noted, with a feeling
of homesickness by the girls of '::10.
Myra Deuchler waited. Carl
had something that he wanted to
say to her. That nervous clutch­ing
of the newsp&p(!l' in hi!!. hands,
the queer little tilt of his head told
her that he had something on his
mind. Minutes passed. At last the
silence was brok'.'n.
"Mother!" Carl cleared his
throat.
"Yes, my son. What is it?"
"Mother," the voice faltered for
just a moment and went hurriedly
on, "I'm going away-East---New
York, Boston, anywhere. Whst is
there here, Nothing! A truck
farm ! I hate it. All my life I
have looked forward to gettin~
away." He stopped, hesitat.!'d,
and then continued, " I have only
one regl'et and you know what that
is, mother. It's leaving you. I
wish you were going with me. But
you have old Albert to work the
place for YOll. I guess I would
never have been much of a succe~~
raising vegetables." He smiled a
little apologetically.
The boy's \'oice had risen slight·
Iy, his fingers toyed nervously
with the paper. The silence he­camo
oppre!5Sivc. He looked anx·
iously at his mother-half fright.­ened
and yet with a certain look
of detcJ'mination in his eyes.
" I have the money Aunt Del left
me, It isn't mueh but there's
enough to take me to New York,
I guess."
Again there was silence. The
clock ticked out the minutes. An
owl hooted somewhere.
"You are going-away, my son7"
Myra DeueMer asked slowly. She
was ga1.ing intently at the hole in
the sock she was darning-Carl's
sock. What huge fetlt her boy had,
she thought proudly.
"Away?" she repeated with u
catch in her voice. "When?" The
hand holding the sock trcmbled
slightly.
"Why-right away-tomorrow,"
Carl cried eagerly.
He wailed for her to speak. No
!<Qund bl'oke the silence except the
regular tick-tack of the clock on
the kitehen mantle. Then, the whir
of a motor, at first faint and then
growing more distinct; the sound
of wheels on the graveled drive­way
ann a hOrn tooted.
"0, it'$ Fred Smelzer. I to!d
him I'd go down to ~ee his new
truck before I went . Be back in
half an hour, mother." He leam,d
over, ki!5Sed her cheek, grabbed his
cap from the nail and rushed out
to the cal'. A door slammed-the
motor purred-.then all was silencc.
Myra Deuchler dropped the sock
she had been darning into her lap.
Carl was going away. It just
coulrln't be true. Why, it was only
yesterday that she bad waled three
miles with him to the school at
Wher's Corners so that he wouldn't
be frightened his first day. She
I had cried when she had come home.
Johann had caHed her a fool but
she couldn 't help it. And then th~
dllY when she had looked out and
seen them carrying him in a heap
from the barn with a broken I: g.
She could never forget that lo~!<
on his facc--white, drawn, and
pinched. She felt a lump rising
in her throat as she thought of it
Carl was going tomorrow. Tho~
words were iterating and reiterat­ing
themselves in her brain. What
wa$ it he had said about hating it
here? Oh, he was so young­barely
twenty. How could he
know that she, too, had hated it
for years? Her head swam even
now when she thought of that day
twenty-six years before when
Johann Deuchler han driven her
here &$ his bride. It seemed aeollS
ago since that fa !] when she had
conle out to visit Del, her meeting
with Johann and their marriage
the following spring. How well
she remembered that ride out from
town. Proudly Johann had pointed
out all the land marks S$ they
jogged along in the brand new
"democrat." Wh~ n they had turned
into the driveway of the old Deucl:­ler
homestead Johann had fairly
beamed.
"See those carrots, Myra? }o'ive
acres of 'em. Planted and eulti·
vated 'em all myself. Not another
piece like that in the county."
Ugh! She shuddered even now
as she thought of it. Acres of car­rou,
rows of beeu, miles of cab
bage, however fine, were a cool re­ception
for a homesick girl of nine_
teen who~e mind traveled longingh­back
to a hustling little Pennsyl­vania
village. For years the very
odor of cabhage nauseated her.
Those first weekks had been a
nightmare but she had stuck it out
for Johann's sake. Then, when Carl
had come, the sun had seemed to
p!'ep through the gl'ay but not for
long. After Johann had died th..,
old desire to get away, to go back
to her own people grew stronger.
1£ it had not been for little Carl
she could never have gone on. She
had often thought. of selling the
farm but it had been in the Deuch­In
family for almost a century.
She would keep it for little CarL
She and Carl had stayed on w:th
only old Albert to help them. It
had not been casy-cultivating and
trenching celery - packing and
crating it for market, pulling car­rots
and beets, but worst of al!.
wceding onions. There were nights
when her head had throbbed, her
back had ached until she felt as if
she couldn't stand it a minute
longer. But she had stuck it out
and hoped against hope that Car!
would settle down here. The worst
years were over- it would be easier
sailing now. Of late he had been
paying some attention to th~
J ohjohahn girl who lived on th~
road back of them. Fine girl_
(Continued on page 8)
Passion Play at
Oberammergau
This year t here has taken place
in a little village of the Bavarian
Tyrol, an event whose significancc
is inestimable, an event that has
drawn from the four corners of the
earth people of every race, creed
and position, an event that has ap_
pealed to the world and gripped
the hearts of m ... n as no other ever
has. It is the ageless dramll of
Cavalry, the Pas~io n PIlIY of Ober­ammergau.
We can scarcely over­look
its importance, nor can W!!
fail to recognize the prestige which
every l)ublication the world over
has given to it.
In thi~ tiny village, inhabited by
simple German peasant folk, ar­tisans
and craftsmen, the greatest
event of al! history is re--enacted
cvery ten years, in fulfillment of
II religious vow made in the six_
teenth century. Every ten years,
from the tourist speeding OVer the
ocean in a transatlantic liner, to
the BtlVarian peasant trudging
over the hills of his homeland,
come throngs of revel'ent specta_
tors, thousands upon thousands, to
pay tribute to the mightiest spec_
tacle which human hands have
achieved.
For months and years, the vil_
lagers have planned and worke,]
and dreamed, and finally all is in
readiness. The stage is set; th('
actors are reverently preplll-ed to
perform their great roles. Above
the village, on the Kofel crag
stands a huge cross. The SUn
shines on the Bavarian mountains,
and clouds shadow the outstretched
beams as long ago on a hill in
Jerusalem. The great scene is en­acted
once morc .. . . and in th,-,
hearts of men continues the dram"
of the Cross.
Florcnce Vetter, '32.
>Il - >Io-lI<
Rosary Campaign
When we !!(le pictures of the
missions or hear lectures about
them, we all wish we could do our
bit. Well, here's our chance. Let's
do missionary work at home. Get
people to say the Rosary. How?
That's easy. The S. S. C. has
pledge cards, and all we have to
do is to get our friends, relatives,
ete., to sign on the dotted line. So
let's get busy. Let's sell our
friends the perfectly priceless idea
of saying the Rosary every day.
Besides the great good we al'e
doing, in spreading the custom of
daily !<!lying our Blessed Mother's
l{csary, there i$ a minor incentive
to spur us on. The S. S. C. is
giving prizes, one to the women's
college and one to the men's col­lege
that secures the most pledges.
Let's show the other colleges our
pep, and for the thirty-one days
of October, the Rosary Month, let's
get pledges for saying the rosary.
The pledges may be (or any lengtb
of time and may begin at any
time.
THE GLEANER
! October , Month
Campus Closeups Of the Rosary
fo'iorence Vetler and Elnor Zwei.
gle visited Ro~emary Schifferli nt
her home on Fourth Lake during
the vaclltion. Rosemary was re­cupcrnting
there from her seriou~
iIIne" of last year.
> - >
Mildred Burke spent a month
of the vaClltion in New York City
visiting Ma ry Neary.
. - >
Madeline McGuire spent last
w~kend in Buffalo.
Grace MUI'ray vacationed lit
Bear Lake. Detroit anri Cleveland. >- .
Mary
pleasant
cently.
FI'aher enjoyed aVe>"),
weekend in Buffalo rc·
. - >
Gladys Englert, Mal'jerie Boseh·
nft, Mary Fraher, Mildred Burkc.
Madeline McGuire, Gertrude CO".
nor, and otherll spent a weekend
at Conesus. .-. Marjorie Boschert visited in
Saranac Lake. a-nd. A tlantic City. Marlon. O'Nei l, Betty Griffin and
Mary Lyneh are among thol\C who
have wended their way to Wll te~·
town to visit ".o-ur .Ro sie." Mary EVil Ht'nnm' enjoyed a
vrry pleaSllnt trip traveling
through the State of Ohio, stop.
ping at Cincinnati, Springfield, and
Cleveland and returning by boat
from Cleveland. t-o .Bu ffalo. Elennor Craig s»e'nt three weeks
nt Mount Poca.n-o. . Helen Guntert attended the Chi­cago
Convention of the S. S. C. . - >
Mildl'cd PiSllnchin, Mildred
Burke, >lnd Mary O'Brien visited
relatives in Buffalo.
> - >
Ann(' Egan apent all gum mer in
New York City. >- .
Martha Clark vacationed all
Bummer in the Adirondack Mts. >- .
Among those who visited lit
Conellus Lake this summer wer .. :
Alma Louise Ginnity, Marjorie
Bosc::hcrt, Eleanor Goers, Dorothy
Sullivan, Helen Welch, Evelyn
Moore. Mildred Walsh, Irene Car.
ron, Lucille Brady, Helen How­land,
lind Adelaide Weingartner.
+ - + - of'
MillS
of the
bland.
Annn Furari pa!l!i('d most
summer vllcation in Long
Mi$!!
summer
Ontar io.
.-. Esther Gargano spent the
at Crescent Beach, Lake
The sun amiln upon the world:
it<; rays ])l:iy smong the bedewed
and mi~t-eovered blades of gran,
wt'aving an exquisite pattern in
mosuic design. The air is crisp
and cool: invigorating and refresh­ing.
The woods are riots of 00101',
combining gaiety with sobricty.
Dark gr«ns, browns, and reds
fOI'm the stalwart background for
the harmonizing golden·browns, the
p.le yellows, the vivid reds, ant!
the Il.ming oranges. The wind
takes an impish delight in Katter·
ing these delicately blended leave!'
and Jcaving them at the mercy or
the wide, wide world.
At dusk the wind grows calm;
the Bun fades from view; and night
welcomcs the harvest moo". A
round man of dark yellow, which
deepens into an orangish tint,
~('nd8 its sort light earthward. In
the fields it lingers near the bun­dled
oonstalks, and frisks about
the lI(attcred p-.lmpkins. GhoslS
and goblins creep from their hid·
ing places to promenade along the
si lvery beams.
That is October, resplendent in
.!III ill autumnal beauties, - Octo­ber,
tht' Month of the Rosary.
"October wean a golden haze
Thl'ough al1 the I'ich autumnal
daysj"
,; For God is the Master
And Nature hath wove."
May and October, two very beau·
tiful months, are the months of
Mllry. In one we honor Her in a
genei'al way: whilc in the other
we show devotion to Her in a spe­cial
manner. The sw~t incense
from the forests wafts toward
hu\,,,n, and it would gladly become
an .iry messenger to carry fervent
Hail Marys straight to the throne
of OUI' Queen. "A little bit of
heaven" radiates an October dny;
we feel ita inspiration. We will
not fail Our dearest Mother. Let
us lltorm the courts above with
Rosaries! To us October me!ans
Tnt Rosary. Mary Moran, '33.
in her tour was an audience
the Pore.
oIi - of' - 1l<
with
Miaa Katherine McCarthy spent
the summer at Can:1;ndaigua Lake.
+-+
Misl Mary Geherin spent the
summer at Owalloo Lake. >- .
Miss Eleanor Heick visited I'ela­tives
in Boston. . - +
Mi~s Margaret Enright ~pent
the ~ummer with relatives in New
York. .-. Miu Betty Griffin took 3. trip to
the Adirondacks this summer.
+ _ 011 of' _ +
Min JAne Naylon has returned Miss Annt' Larkin and Min
nfter a very eventful lIumml'r J osephine Koch have returned from
abroad. While in Euro»e' she at- a trip to Washington, D. C., where
u-nded the Pauion Play, visit:d I they accompanied Miss Clementine
Switzerland, Gt'rmany, Holland. Koch, '28, who is taking a grad­Scotland,
EnglAnd, France an.1 uate couTle in the School of Social
Italy. Perhaps the biggest event Sel'vice in the Catholic Univcnity.
HALLOWE'EN
AI)ple-ducking time is upon us
again. Nuts aro;> ripe, oornstalks
are gathered, and the pumpkins al'll
ready for the slaughter. Tho;> gob­lins
lire not loose yet, but t he Wind
hns begun to playa few pranks on
us. It delights in teasing girls
who nre alone in the house at
night. It will roar around the
house, whistle at the windows,
moan down the chimney, rustle the
leaves, and shake the house to its
very foundations. The Wind
wastn no pity upon the maiden
cowering under the sheets. At Il1.11t,
IIlmolt suffocated and worn out
from trembling. the maiden in dis­trus
fal1s asleep. Bogey men peer
in the windows, giants stride by,
shaking the earth, witches fiy
about on broomsticks. The moon
is buried under dark, threat('ning
clouds. Queer creatures creep
stealthily about. What is that?
Something has just come down the
ehimney? It's a horrible thing.
It sees her. It cha.!lC!! her--e:'ltches
,ht'r! She triea to !!Cream, but call_
not. She sqUeezel! her eyes. It
ShAkes her, and shakeR her! She
opens her eyes. The room iR ftood­I'd
in light. She blinks.
"Say, Sis, oome to, will you!
I've just brought home fIOme of thr
dandiest cider for your Hallowe'en
party."
She:
Elnor Zweigle, '32.
+ - +- oI!
Caprice
And di'be thou f~1 so lure (If me?
What idiots these men can be!
Such boldneu could more useful bto
For lists.--.Thee and thy ehivalry!
He:
MiladY- 'twas but oourtesy.
Thou dost not wear well- jealousy.
1 but returned a glove th3.t she
Had lost while riding, ye6terday.
She:
I'll hear no more--needst not ex-plsin!
I like thO(' not! Thy suit il vain.
He:
Ah, Lady, how unjust tiwu art
To one who loves with all hill
heartl
She:
Beg<lne, Milord ! Thou doat deface
My garden with thy brazen grace!
'Tis not thy place to soold me here;
I'll brook no more.-Please leave
me, Bil'!
He:
Such cruel wordl! are quite unmelo
To /ling to me here at thy feet­I
go!
She:
(He d~1 provoke me flO! I ween
A sadder man was never seen.)
Wait!_
Milord-dost almost make me smile!
Thou art !IO droll, !IO without guile.
Parh!!.ps I shall not make thee go.
Thou art a dolt.-I like thee
'though.
Oh, I have 103t my 'kerchief-llee?
Wilt thou not pick it up for me?
Cathel'ine Williamson, '32.
Page Five
PlIge Six
N. B.
Reception Committee!
ShllkE'spellre has arrived!
(with the relit of the books)
' - 0
Arrival! Chaucer i. here.
0 - 0
Student-rushing into c1a!l&-"b
this Cieu o?"
Pro(.- "No. This is Mr. Zeiu-mann."
0 - 0
Our llltest-Tiptoe Through The
Booklets. <-. Lecturer _ "Sedentary war k
tenda to lessen the endurance."
Smart Student-" In olher words,
the more one sits, the leu one CI\Il
~t.and."
Lecturel'-'"Exactly. Ami if
one lie~ a great deal, one's stand­ing
is complctc.ly l o.t." - " Boarder'. ~ thought (or the
day: All that I wear Ilnd a ll that
J hope to wear, lowe to my room
mat<!. . - " All Quiet On The Library
,"' ront!
+- +
Mr. Harney_ "1 cannot SII >'
whether this hour is to be count<!d
for your defr!'i'e. That is none of
my busineu ."
Needy Senior- " It is not!"
. +- +
Sign on theat<!r: "Bride Of The
Regimcnt" Refrigerated.
0 - 0
Frosh- "We didn't have c1a.u to­day.
Teacher is sick."
Sympathetic Mother - "That's
too blld. What'. the Complalnt1"
F'rosh-"No complaint. Every­body's
satisfied," "- 0 The rcal purpose hidden behind
exam. papeu is to teach the teach.
cr. lI er(> is one lesson a teacher
learncd:
"The fifth commandment of th \'.
Church is to contribute to th ..
aport of our pastorll." "- 0 NewlI Item : Two Hundred
Street Sweepers Put Out of Work
Since the Advent of Long Drel!8Cs."
"- " Mary-"~cie nti.ts have dillCOv-ered
that insects ts lk."
b-"Ridiculous!"
ltIary- "Fact. A IId l:' ntist camr
upon two moth chewing thl:' rag. ~
0 - <
Motonnan (slightly in reveT'lM! )
"Step all your watch!"
0 - +
ThHe is :I s tory ooing circulated
that Johnny wall going on a trans­Atlantic
flight. At the takl:'-ofl'.
whl:'n the plane refused to rise,
Evelyn was heard to murmur,
"Maybe I ~houldn't have baked
that cake for him to take along."
~ - Ifo - If<
Marthn says she gainw five
pounds this summer and lost thr(;e.
Nicl:' going, Martha, that lea\"e~
you two pound$ to the good.
TH E GL EANER
THE BREAK
"Come en, Sis, you look good
enough for me. Vour hat is on
jUllt right :lnd yeu look like Greta
Garbo hersel f. Excuse me; it'.
Norma you like now, isn't it? Wl:'ll
you could pasa fer her twin sister
any day. But incidentally, it',
~tting late and thl:'re's no te11ing
how many flat ti\'('l\ .... e'll have on
the way. The game starl$ in twen­ty
minutes and--
"VelI, yea. I hear you, Billy, and
I'll bE' with you in a minute. You
go out and get the car atarted and
I'll be there in just a jiffy. I can't
find my compact and I certainly
can't go without one. Now I 1181.:
you- There goes t hat phone again .
Vou answer it this time, Bill. It's
prohably for you anyway."
Bill mild .. a dash (or the phone
hut was back in a minute. " It' ~
that Bozo next door calling again.
If he wanls to take you to thl'
game tonight. tell him your
"steady" is doing the honora. He
givn me a pain, anyway, always
culling you up. Why doesn't h('
giVI:' himself up and-
But Betty couldn't wait for he.
brother to finish his complai nt. He
:'Llways acted that way when SalT
was around. Ever since they weT'
children. thl'Y had played togl!ther
without the cU$tomary children's
" lICrapll" and quarrel_that is, un·
til Sam joinw them. Then every­thing
went wrong. It didn't tak.
thl:'m long to di!!CQvl:'r that three is
a crowd. There was that day­it
seemed like only yeslerdllY­that
Bill and "Dubs," a8 he hllrl
nicknamed h('\', were busily I:'n­gaged
in the back yard makinv
mud pies. Bill did the mixing
(just like thl:' man who made the
new sidewalk) and Dubs put t he
filling in the pie tins (just like
Mother, of course). Everything
would have ended there had not
Sam climbed ovn the back fenc~
at t hat moment.
"Don't you knew them are good
to eat 1" he asked.
"Why, they are not, Sam Gor­don,
they'l'l:' mud," retorted Bm.
"YIIII, a nd you can't ellt mud,"
chiml:'d in Betty.
"Well, they're pies and you can
eat pin, can't you! r know a girl
who ate $Orne on(:('."
That was enough for Betty.
Sam's logic !lel:'med to 1M! pretty
good and if hI:' knew a girl who
did it once, then why couldn't sh.?
Bill protested but to no avail. Bet
ty cut a nice piece of "pie" and
prOC<'eded to sample it. Ugh! Shl'
could remem1M!r the sen!Ul.tion yet
u she bit into the gritty stuff. And
she had lin equally vivid memory
of thl:' mouth-wll$hing that fol­lowed,
of her mother's ~1ding
and, moat of all, of the I- told-you.
so expression that ahe fancied on
B il1'~ fa ce.
But all that was yl:'ars ago. Now
they were grown up--Bill was
twenty and Betty was eightel:'n_
lind things were pretty much thr
same. Bill's opinion of Sam had
110t changed with the YUTII a nd he
still thought the world would br
II much betterplaee without him­hill
world, at least.
"Well, I hope you told him to go'
chase himself" said Bm all Betty
returned from the phone.
"Oh, I nlmO!'t did. Bill. Some­timn
I think hl:" s a peat myself.
Coml:' on, we only have ten minutes
now. Herl" s hoping the 0"
Chevy holdll out until we gl:'t thuc.
Have you g<at thl:' tlckrts!"
" Iep, everything's O. K. and
we're off.
It was intermission. Bill had
left Betty to get lOme Eskimo Pin
at the relrl:'shment atand. Shr
could Bee him in a crowd of boyt,
a mong whom she noticl:'d Sam.
Sam noticed her at the aame tim!"
and, seeing that she was alone, he
madti his way through the crowd
:!.IId headed atraight for the empty
seat bebide hl:'r .
"How are you. Belty! Great
game, isn't it!"
" Not half bad, Sam. How's
eVl:'rything with you!"
"WI:'l!, everything was goin!:"
great until you turned me down to­night.
Sill', Betly, why don't you
ewr give Bill a break?"
"Give Bill a bl'1!ak?" l18id Betty
wondl:'ringly, a little frown coming
to hl:'r forehl:'ad. Then remember­ing
th. pholl(' call of that evening
and hl:'r rdusal to go to the game
with Sam, Ihe sllid good_humored_
ly; "00 you ml:'sn by that, why
don't I ever give you a break!"
"Well-ah- " l18id Sam 8C('ming­ly
I:'mbarraBlled, "it's not that but
- wl:'l1, maybe you don't know th>lt
the boys asked Bill to join t hem
a rtl:'r the game tonight.
"Why, of course I do but­"
He waa j ust allying that he had
brought his .isWr to the game and
,h-
"Yes?"
"Well, if a fellow bring!! his 8is­l.
er to a baskl:'tball game. he has
to compll:'te th .. role o( escort and
take her home, doesn't he!"
" I don't suppose there is any
moral obligation connected with it,"
wid Bctty, 1M!ginning to catch the
mesninlt" of Sam'. wordll. "but Bil"
would take his lIiater home. I
know that."
"Of cour!le he would. Bill's a
gentleman through and through.
Here he coml:" now. GUelill I"d bet­ter
be moving. It', time for th('
second half. How about nl:'xl
wtt'k'. game, Betty! WI the big
gam~ of the Yl:'ar, you kno ..... "
"Yea, I know. Bill and I hav"
been lookinJl" forward to it for
months," said Betty rather curtly.
Sam could take it all a refusal or
any wily he pleased. She didn't
care how he look it. Why did h'
31waYII havl:' to come around and
get her all worked up anyway?
Couldn't he flnd plcasanter things
to do! Not t hat she believl:'d what
Sam had just sllid. Of course she
didn't. Why, hadn't they always
gone everywhere tOl'!!ther? And
Careers for Women
Most of us today ask ourselvet
again and again. "What am I 110'
lng to do, what vocation shall I fel­low!"
Today we faCI:' t he probll:'m of
choosing a profession with litt\1:' or
no knowledgl:' of what field of work
we prefer or in what field our
capabililillll and talents IiI:'. Yel ­terday,
our sistl:'rs had no such
problems to face. The world hlld
IK't been uvolutieniud by the
great inventions of steam and
electricity. Thl:' woman's spherl:'
was the home. The young gi rl,
while waiting for the proverbial
Prince Charming, learned from her
mother how 1.0 run tha household
successfully. If no prince came,
well, she was to bl:' pitied.
Later, another eollrse w a ll
<>pcnpd to women. that of teaching.
But tOOny in the twentieth centul'y
the re are !<Orne three thousand pro­fessions
open to women. Out of
these three thousand vocations, you
and I must choose one. We have
no practical I:'xper ience to guidl:' us.
We ean only judI'!! from what wt'
read, or what we learn from those
who have had eXpI!rience.
We shall try in the following
months to present to yo'u articl ...
conCl:'rning the professions thllt
will interest the colll:'ge graduate.
As far liS poIIIIibll:' we shall I:'ndl:'av.
or to describl! the trllining nl!Ce ..
!5ar y, the !Ul.lary, and the future
outlook.
Ro~emllry Sehifferli, '32.
didn't they always havl:' fun to.­gether!
But then, maybe hI:' would
like 1\ change now a nd then. Per­haps,
after Ill!, he did want to come
to the game with t hl:' boYII tonight.
But of course not. Didn't he near­ly
have convulsiona when Sam
called!
Such was the jumble of thoughts
that ran through Betty's mind duro
ing the second half of the gam~ .
She couldn't keep her mind on it,
and once she e,·en caught heTB~tr
chee ring for the opposing team.
"What's the scorl:' now, Bill?"
8h~ askt'd a little later, all th~ir
team mude another ballket.
"Huh!" returned Bill, with II
~tart. "The score? Ah- ll:'t me
se~. That makes it 9 and-
"7 and 10" remarked a man In
front of them, liS he wrote t he
score dcwn Oil a piece of paper.
"That's right, 7 and 10" repeat­ed
Bill, s ilently thanking the man
for the needed informatien.
But Betty was too absorbl!d in
her own thoughl$ to notice aill',
apparent inattention to thl:' gaml:'.
Had he told hu the IICQrl:' WIIS 0·0
Ihe might even have remarked that
it was rather close.
She was glad when the fin~1
whistle blew telling them that the
game was over. Shl:' wanted to
KCt out into the cool, brisk lIir and
get rid of this foolish feeling with_
in her. What would she e\'er do
if it were t rue? An the SamB in
(Continued on page 7)
Medite r ranean
P icture Lands
Emelell~ Abb~ DUlin
In Emelene Abbey Dunn's "Med­iterranean
Pictur(' Lands" we
founri the unusual in trRvel book~.
In dear, sharl)ly-ekhed colorful
sketche$, it gives the author's im­p~
ions of scenes snd conditions
in th(! Mediterranean lands. Mi",
Dnnn has left out her itinerary
:md the obvious things usually t.old.
I"stead, she hal giwn delightfully
satidying picturl'l of lands r ich in
legends, rich in coloring, snd rich
in hospitality. It II euily read
and shows the artistic ability, the
candoI', and the limplicity of the
author.
The hook is iIlu stl'ated with deli­cate,
picturesquo water - coloI'll
paintcd by Miss Dunn. We closed
the book with OUI' ideal of MalhI,
famed land of the HOli llitalen; of
Greece, glorious Greeee, the cradle
of civilization; of the Holy Land,
birthplace of Christianity ; of time_
worn Egypt, [and of pyramids nnd
sphinx, changed from shadowy
dreams to realities.
Rosemary Schil'ferli, '82
• • •
T he Break
(Continued from page 6)
the world wuldn't make up for
good times she had with Bill. }
brother wa. much ellsier to get
slung with than a boy friend any_
way.
The ride home that night wa"
unusually l ilent. Somehow, Betty
couldn't think of a thing to lay.
Bill wall ullually talkative and jolly
him~elf, but tonight he was differ.
ent. Pel'haps he did regret hav_
ing to take hel' homll, flltcr fill.
But no, it WIlS jUlit that she wall
acting Btrangely. She tried to"
think of IIOmething to say llbout
the gllme, but found that IIhe didn't
even know the finnl scol·e. She
finally gave up the attEmpt at con­versation
and settled down to her
own disturbing thoughts.
Several minute. later Bill broke
the Bih.mce. "Going to the gam~
next week, Betty?"
It was ~everal sc<:ondl before
B(.tty could IIIll1wer. Ibd Bill
r~ally allked her that queation or
did ahe just imagine it! The best
game of the year and the one they
had been planning on ever .inee
the ~ea$(ln opened. She had juat
taken it for granted that th .. y
would go together, and now he was
calrr.ly asking her if ahe were go_
ing. Surely something was wrong.
Bill never acted thi. way before.
Now he W8ll acting more like a boy
Criend than a brother and shc
didn't like it. Why couldn't he be
straightforward and natura!! Well,
there acemed to be only one ex_
planation. Sam Will right. Bill
didn't want to go with her to the
gam~ next f'dday but didn't know
ju~t how to $11.1' 110. Well, .he
would give him a break. But IIhe
wouldn't let him kllOw how much
THE GLEANER Page Seven
it hurl. That would only make
muttEra wor~e.
"Yea," ~ he al1llwered .imply,
"Sam asked me tonight."
Bill made no reply, but continued
to drive on in silence. The di~
t.enee had never seemed $(I gnat
and Betty wall thankful when they
finally arrived home.
The next few days were millCr.
able ones for Betty. She hardlr
lIRW Bill at all. He seemed to
avoi!\ her as much as \>Olisible, and
when they were together, they
were like IItrangen. She longed
I() talk to him and straighten
ever)tl:hing out, but she decided
that it would only embarra!8 him.
On ThuT!lday night she was
alone in the house when the tele­phone
rang. On anllwcring it, she
recognized the familiar voice of
Sam.
"Tomorr~w night? Why, that'~
the game, isn·t itt-Yes, I remem-
001' what I said. What did I mean?
No, you are wrong this time-­That's
it. You see, I'm giving Bill
a break.-What? All right, you,
too, then.-7:4.5! All right, Sam.
Goodby.
Bdty W81 startled to hear a step
behind her, as she hung up the re­ceiver.
" Why, hello Bill. When did you
come in!"
"Just in time, I think," said Bill.
in a manner somewhat like his old
lrelf. "What was that you were
lIaying about giving me a break!
I think I lIee lighl."
"What do you mean, light!"
"Well, it look!! to me as it Sam
hall becn giving us both the same
advice. Break, did you say! Yes,
that'll the word. Break."
"Bill, if you don't hurry and ex­pl
.. in yourself, 1'11--
"All right, I'll speed up as much
II! I clln. Lllst week at the gamp.
Sam asked me why I didn't give
you II hreak; why , did,,'t give
you a chsnce to g'() out with other
people, 1'1<:., etc. He capped it all
b:,: !ay.in~ that you wanted to gc
With him thllt night, but that you
had promised me when he called
""d--
"That'll enough, Bill. I see it all
now. Oh, I'm 110 glad you came in
when you did."
"Boy, that's one time I'm glad
Sam called up."
Irene Carron, '31.
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TO.4 CHOCOLATE CAKE
l'i~ "fld, 1<11 mountain t~mptitlg
,wat,
Delioou, fOJlhiO'/lfld of daitlti1lfl88,
You paa. oil wiOtlll-fa'M'/l'a treat
Fnlfill all deair/! of low/inen.
Fragrance pnnll;"ing all delight,
I
Sight that would drat<l e'en a king'.
detp .igk,
How I await tkut first dtcp 1>llc_
SUPlJOfl6 in tkc '"eantim/! I 3hould
I die!
The 1. F. C. A. The Art of
Holds Convention G. K. Chesterton
The International Federation of Once, in every literary age,
Catholic Alumnae held its ninth there oceurs a figure whose arti""
biennial convention at the cradle try distinguishell him pre-emin­of
the organization, St. JOlIeph's ently among hill eontemporaries,
College, Emmitllburg, Maryland, whose geniull, in the consensUli of
Augullt 23 to 28. Its founde", critics and public alike, ill unquCII­Sillter
Mary De Paul Cogan, O. P., tioned, whose work pOllSClIIIea an
and M". James J. Sheeran, both abounding vigor and freshnellll of
alumnae of St. Joseph'. College, thought. Such a man is Gilbert
attended the convention. More Keith Chesterton.
than eight hundred alumnae, rep- In a volume entitled "The
resenting Catholic high ~ hool and Catholic Spirit in Modern English
college alumnae aS$ociations 01 Literature," George N. Shuster
the United States, Canadll, and saYIl that "Gilbert Keith Chester­Australia,
lind 1I0me two hundred ton ill too very much alive for any­nuns
of various teaching silter- thing like an estimate of hi.
hoods were present at the meet- geniull; a coherent impression of
ings. hill utteranees would in fact have
A formal reception on Saturday the same simplicity as a panorama
evening, August 23, began con- of the birds of the air." Yet we
vention activities. Right Rever- can measure that genil1ll in II
end John M. McNamarll, Auxiliary degree by considering hill pOPU­Bishol)
of Baltimore; Honorable larity and universal appeal.
Albert C. Ritchie, Governor of M.f. Chesterton ill primarily a
Maryland; Right Reverend Mon- journalist. His is the adventure
signor Edward A. Pace, Director of journalism. Like Defoe, Dick.
of 1. F. G. A.; and Mra. Ma ry B. ens, Goldsmith, Johnllon, Thack_
Finan, President of I. F. C. A., eray, and Kipling, he has been
addreS$ed the delegate. lind viai- closely associated with the news­to".
paper and with the idealll of
Pontificial Mau was celebrated journalillm. It has been lIRid t hat
by Bishop McNamara at Mount "he has changed the romance into
St. Mary', College, Emmitsburg, an editorial and the leading a rticle
on Sunday. In the evening a into a fairy tale." There is a
candle-light procellion of religi- genuine fascination in thill ver·
ous and alumnae pa'd tribute to lIRtility of Chesterton's, in this
Mother Seton, foundrellll of the ability to sway readers all over the
Sillte" of Charity of Saint Vin- world with his many-faceted "Pel'­vent
de Paul in America, at her sonality and his magnetic pen.
tomb on the ground. of St. Perhapa we can better under.
Joseph', College. A lIennon by stand Chesterton when we con­Reverend
JOl ellh B. Cade and sider his career, which began in
Benediction of the Bl essed Sacra. 1900 with the publication of the
ment concluded t he ceremony. "Wild Knight." In this he demon­The
entire spectacle, Bet in twi- strates the marvelous ability to
light in the midst of neighboring di8Cover beauty in common things,
hills, was one of Buch belluty al and the idealism which character.
few 01 those present had ever be_ i1.e. him. There is a shining chal_
fore witnessed. lenge in the lines--
The following day. were given So with the wan waste grasse~
over to a dillCullSion of Federation on my spear
activities, with appellls and re- I ride for ever, seeking after God
quests and in~ piration for future My hair groWl! whiter than my
work. "Every Catholic Child in thistle plume,
II Catholic School" wall the motto And ~ll my limbs are loose; but
of the Convention. It W8I the In my eye!!
suggestion of Monsignor Pace that The star of an unconquerable
activity for the coming year be praise:
centered on this one phillie of For in my soul one hope for
Catholic education. The I. F. C. ever sings,
A. has already accomplished big That at the next white corner
thinll'll in the field of education. It of a road
has completed a '10,000 lICholar_ My eyes may look on Him ..
ship, the Edward A. Pace lICholar- (Continued on page 8)
ship, In the Silters' College, 1·--------------­Catholic
Univel'$ity. Federation activity reau. With
Child welfare, girl scout, and de her IIUpport it advances Catholic
Paul miuion work are engaged in Action.
by membel'$ of Federation The Convention closed with a
bureau$. Music, art, and book banquet at which M". Philip A.
clubs have been organized and are Brennan of Brooklyn was in­achieving
worth-while results. Italled as future President, to­Some
one thoulland books have gether with the other newly-elect­been
transcribed into Braille for I'd officers.
t he Xavier Free Publication So. There was material enough in
ciety for the Blind. each Convention meeting to in-
I. F. C. A. claims as its patron· spire alumnae with a desire to
ess Mary Immaculate. Honor to work with I. F. C. A. There ill
Mary i. the base upon which much yet to be donel
•
Page Eight
Myra Deuchler'a Son
(Continued from page 4)
Christian, Myra thought she would
have made a capable, thrifty wif"
for Carl. And now he was goin:r
East!
Yet, what could she say? Per­haps
if she had not experIenced
that terrible loathing for the place
in those early years she would not
have understood so well. She knew
how he felt.-he must have his
chance. He was all she had in the
world but she could r.ot allk him
to stay flOW.
Suddenly, she started. The ciock
struck nine. He would soon \}(l
back. She must get to \}(ld. She
could not lace him-not tonight.
She turned down the lamp and
went out to the kitchen. Sh ~
wound the clock on the mantel,
bolted the door, put a chunk on the
stove, lind lamp in ~and, cilmbe<l
the stairs. Going into the attic
she dragged out from under a pile
of ' OOXI.'S thc old leathel' suitcase
she had cRrried into the house with
hcr ycars before. She crossed the
hall to Carl's room and quickly put
his belongings into the bag, stop­ping
now and then to press a t:e
to her lips or to stroke his best
coat lovingly. When she had lin­ishl.'
d her task she rose, turned
down the lamp and wo;nt to her
room, undressed in the dark and
crept into bed.
She did not know how long she
had been lying there when she
heard the hum of a motor, the
lIound of brakes, the slam of a cal'
door and a "S'long, Fred. SC(! you
in the morning - about sevcn­thirty."
So he wall really going in
the mQrning, Fred was driving
him to the station. A step out­side
her door, the floor creaked and
Myra's besrt missed a beat. Carl
was oonding over her. He kissed
hl.'r on the chC(!k, whispering "Good
night, mein mutter." Then he tip­toed
softly out of the room and all
was silence.
There wall an icy hand clutching
at Myra's heart; her head
thrQbbecl. She remembered the old
pain in her head from which she
always suffered after a hot day in
the sun. Gladly would she wee..!
miles of onions, pull tons of beets
if, at the end of the day, she could
look out and see her big, tall !IOn
striding toward the house, whistl­ing
gaily, The house had becom~
deathly quiet. Only the croaking
of s frog down in the old mill pond
broke the awful stillness. Yean
of quiet after tomorrow, Myra
thought. No loud, booming voice
to greet her in the morning, nQ
curly blond head to rest on her
shoulder.
When she awoke the lIun was
slowly elimbing up from behind the
hills. She she lay there, her throat
grew hot.-parched. Carl was go­ing
today. Slowly she drsgged her_
self from the bed. dressed mechan_
ically and went downstail'$. Albert
had II roaring fire in the range.
THE GLEANER
The tea kettle was singing a merry I The Art of G, K. Chesterton
little tune to greet but Myra's (Continued from page 7)
heart was too heavy to care. H ~ " A position on the "Daily News"
<gOOI}j~ (Burnst:Jre$8>
1'rinrors 0 ~~<rj
'19-51 Norl, Wak,S!"'!
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head ached, her eyes swam. If liS an editorial writer followed
only she could get through the next thill publication, and since t hen h:s
couple of hours somehow. After rise in the literary field has been
that it didn't matter-nothing mat steady. He devotes his energies
teredo Carl would be gone. not only to litera ture but to prob-
She took the coffee pot down lems of society in general. He 1----------- ---­from
the shelf, carefully measured looks at the world as a vast pano-three
tablespoonfuls of coffee. To- rama ' but he is not the disinter-morJ'()
W it would be only two, ested ' onlooker. Chesterton is
thought Myra. As she set the tao alive and eager; he participates in
ble one thought was uppermost ill everything with a joyous readi-her
mind: She must get through ness. His democratic spirit per-it
smiling. Carl must not know, vades his writingll with unfailing
"Morning. Mother." Carl lo~ked domination. It is this spirit, this
tired. There were deep, dark rmgs love of the ideals which have been
around his eyes. A little thrill of those of the Church for centuries,
joy shot through Myra. He did which makes Chesterton particu­care--
he hated leaving her. He larly love and admire the Middle
hadn't slept either. Ages. To him, as Shuster says,
" Mediaevalism was not a retro­gression,
but a straightforward
assertion of confidence in human
progress, IC society as it was
"Good morning, son, Breakfast
is almost ready. Hurry up, You
must eat a whole lot, boy. You
have a long tl'ip ahead of you."
At the table Myra chatted gaily
about trains, people, cities-any­thing
to make conversation. Carl
sat quiet, bar ely touching his food.
At the !IOund of a horn in the yar d.
Carl jumped. Myra's face blanched.
They were standing on t he step~.
With his hands on her shoulders
he stood looking into her eyes. No
word was spoken. Then, slowly hr
bent his head, kissed her lips a"d
said !IOfUy, "Good bye, little moth­er"
formed by Greece lind Rome had
any goal, manifestly it was t he
thirteenth century."
The patriotic poems of Chester­ton
are particularly beautif ul.
They combine a zeal and a patriot­ism
characteristically English that
burns like an unwavering flame.
A pa rticularly fine bit from "Eng­lish
Graves" is:
And what is theirs, though ban­ners
blow on Warsaw risen
again
Or ancient laughter walks in
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And Myra with head high smilcd
up at him, "Good bye, my son,
and God keep you!"
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the distance. Then, she half turned
gazing out across a lield of cab­bages
and whispcred, "Good bye
son." Slowly she clim\}(ld the steps,
walked into the house, and closed
the door,
Margaret Burke, '31.
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Vocation
Dear Lord
I saw the ooauty of the earth,
The trees, the flowers,
All; I saw the children's mirth,
I felt the gentle brC(!ze
I heard the bird~' sweet call,
I loved it all:
And yet, I longed for more-­Something
to fill the void
Within my !IOul,
Something whole :
Somcthing- l know not what,
S('mething that contained each joy;
Each, all, and yet
Where'er I turncd I found al loy,
U~til-Ah! sweet and wonderful
I heard Thy voice:
That I must come to Thee,
Must rest at last in T hee.
My Love!
I come, my heart is Thine alone,
Complete Thy Love. and take me
for Thine Own.
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curled:
They died to save t heir country
and they only saved the
world.
Today Chesterton is one of Eng­land's
greatest men. His figure is
known everywhere. His famous
initials need no interpretation.
His is t he doctrine of s implicity,
of human love and hope. Would
that too in our eyes might shine
"the star of an unconquerable
praise."
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