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Show iiii.AA-j.a.-i.AiAiiiii i i . . ill!,.. (Written for the Intermountain Catholic.) The patronage of St. Joseph, which is at the same time the Annual Feast of the President, was observed at All Hallows College with due solemnity and rejoicing. On Saturday evening an entertainment of superior merit was .uiven by the students, complimentary to Father LarKin. The large college hall beautifully and artistically decorated deco-rated (the work of the Cannng brothers) broth-ers) was taxed to its seating capacity. Refinement, grace, beauty, culture, wore characteristic of the audience. Many of the prima donnas of Salt Lake society were present. The young ladies f Rowland Hall, in vernal bloom and beauty's pride, came in force and lent their share of inspiration to the youthful youth-ful performer?. The musical selections, recitations, thongs, addresses1, gymnastic gymnas-tic feats were received with enthusiastic, enthusias-tic, applause. There was not a weak number on the programor.e. Even Joe Fogarty, a tot of 7, gave hi6 address with an ea?e. grace and finish that would have done honor to a full fledged graduate. The opening number "Aunt Phoebe's Jubilee," a lively cake walk by Stern, wat given with dash and vigor by the orchestra. "Whipporwill Song" by the Glee club was one of the finest choruses ever heard in the college. The several voices harmonized beautifully, the sopranos being especially eweet and clear. "In-llammatus." "In-llammatus." a cornet solo from Ro?-p,ni' Ro?-p,ni' immortal "Stabat Mater" was considered by many as the most im-pro-sive musical selection of the programme. pro-gramme. John A. Gallagher fully interpreted in-terpreted its grandeur and solemnity. His toner were pure, clear and well sustained: his trills distinct and even; his rallentandos smoothly finished off; his climaxes gradually and strongly worked up. The last climax was particularly par-ticularly striking. Here he held i the high C for eight successive beats, supported by the . orchestra orches-tra with the full chord in thirty-seconds. thirty-seconds. The accompaniment of the solo was given principally to the strings, v hose manner in blending the chortls and tempos) showed the thoroughness of Professor Pedersen's teaching. i Little Arthur Pedersen, always bril- liant. was especially so In "his .Violin 1 K'lo "A Fantasie," by De Beriot. Hits i ;hfme was delicately worked out; the difficult staccato work in the variations) ! skillfully executed. The melody called J forth from his favorite instrument in i this selection brought reminiscences of ' a stream that rises far away in the i mountains, flows for a while amid quiet peaceful, flowery meadows, lingers here I and there in shady nooks, murmurs I along between grassy banks babbling I and singing always like the innocent i hearts of children: but coming to the j rapid s. dances and sparkles, leaps and ' foams, strikes the rocks and rebound? ! throwing thousands of gleaming j p-arls into the air then the I rapids passed its accelerated current j 1. ses itself in the great river flowing on j to thr- ocean. Little Arthur showed the real perfection of his music by the in- i vns-? feeling he put in hia encore, "The ; Suwanee River," and the perfect Jn- j tonation of his double stops in both pieces. P-eautiful was the rendition by j the orchestra of "Evening Slumbers, " a J caprice consisting of different move- i ni'T.ts. a modcrato for concert solo; an ' allegro of much vigor for full orchestra; a bright catchy duet in allegretto for I larinet and flute; an andante sos- i tonuto'of power and solemnity for slide j tromb' n; a finale in allegro vivace j that makes a .striking climax to the ' V ho,e ' I Kalliwoda's classical "Nocturne" gave J. P. Fanjaing the opportunity of exhibiting all the splendid qualities of tV viola. Grand, impreasive, soul-subduing was the stream of melody he evoked from this instrument, which is rot generally understood or appreciated s it should. The "All Hallows March," by the 1 brass band, was a prominent feature of the entertainment. Composed for the "casion by Professor Pedersen and i -dir-ated to Father Larkin, it has a h.rger.css of character and power of movement that will insure favor with musicians. The three-part imitation in ; , tr,o second strain catches at once the i rnusKHi fancy, and the full sustained rvK-k.dy in the trio suggests the tread of many feet and gives the desire of j j' ining the procession. The piano duet by Albert Daly and j Walter Oavin was very creditable for j eu'-h tinv potential artists. "Pilgrims Chorus" was given by the br;,.s band in good style. The bass tutti in the beginning, the clarionet and piccolo work at the end were especially espec-ially well done. Reed Lawlor's recitation. "The Old Professor," was received with great favor fa-vor by the audience. He has evidently the essentials which make it possible for him to become a first-class elocutionist. elocu-tionist. The gymnasium work, under the direction di-rection of Mr. J. A. Augustus, showed careful and efficient trainfng. A marked improvement over last year's work was much in evidence. The bar-Jsell drill was an object lesson to the audience. It showed how apparently simple movements move-ments bring into play nearly every ; muscle of the body. The work on the 3 horizontal and parallel bars was grace fully done, despite the fact that most Of it called forth considerable muscular power and ability. The mat work, which introduced both senior and junior jun-ior divisions of the gymnasium class, excited rounds of applause. Rossi Flynn and Willy Moran were here at their best. The club swinging of Mr. Augustus drew sighs of admiration ' from a bevy of fair ones, who felt that such proficiency would give a grace and ease of movement, whose addition to eye power would ensure the eoncuer- i ,ing of hearts innumerable. Tom Powers, happy in his song, "I ! "Wonder if the Old Folks Think of Me?" ! was still more happy in his address. In A voice distinct, full and resonant, with doep poul and feeling, with resturos i strong and appropriate, he interpreted the greeting of the AH fallows studergs to their beloved presTuent. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing Joe Fogarty's tiny voice every word carried to the end of the hall, and during his short address all seemed to hold their breath, lest they might lose a syllable of what came from the baby boy eloquent in his endeavor to tell how much the very little boys loved Father Larkin. The reply of Father Larkin to the addresses (given in part below) speaks for itself. .. Ke spoke right from the heart, and as a consequence reached the heart of everyone in the large and aDDreciative . audience. His pleasing and impressive ; eloquence was received with marked j enthusiasm, and long should the impression im-pression of his remarks remain with j the many who had come to join with i the faculty and students in wishing I him a very happy feast. Toward the close of the entertain-jment entertain-jment Secretary Thomas Wolohan of ; the Founders' society read the annual : report, which showed a membership of ! sixty-five, with $6,500 pledged to the founding of the new All Hallows. JOE FOGARTY'S ADDRESS. Mr. Dear Father Larkin On behalf of the very little boys of All Hallows I wish you a very happy feast. We are j sure you love us more than you do the i bigger boys, and we are sure we love j you more than they do. Although away j from our dear papas and mammas we I are not homesick, because you are a very good papa and mamma to each j one of us. We thank you for all vour j kindness, for the many prizes you have j given to those first in class and first in j the college games which we do love so much. We pray for you very often and I we hope you will be here as our dear papa and mamma until we grow up into great big boys like Earnest Smith, ! John Nevin and Tommy Powers. As I j cannot say much more, I will end by i saying that a - very happy feast and many happy returns is the loving wish of your own grateful little boys. During Dur-ing the little orator's address Harry Ivers, the son of Hon. James Ivers, ' stood by him with a bouquet nearly as large as himself. After the address he succeeded, by a mighty effort, in carrying carry-ing the bouquet to Father Larkin. THOMAS POWERS' ADDRESS. Dear Father Larkin: I feel highly honored in being chosen on this happy I occasion, to offer the affectionate I greeting.5 of the All Hallows students to their beloved president. The beautiful beauti-ful custom throughout the society of Mary, of honoring in? a more special manner the heads of the iespeetive houses on the." patrotial feast of St. Joseph could be 'nowhere more appropriate appro-priate than here. You dear Father, are of this institution, the good St. Joseph, whose paternal care and gentle sway unite all in the clcsest bonds of affection and love. Lest I might wound your well known modesty, I will pase i over the many and great personal qual- j ities, which endear you to us, and will simply offer with affectionate greetings i the overflowing gratitude of our hearts j for all you have done for us since the beginning of the year. Our welfare has i been your chief care and concern. You ; have been a father and mother to us, J and made our Alma Mater a second and beloved home. You have left nothing 1 undone which might ba conducive tr our j spiritual, intellec tual and physical de- i velopment. Daily we have been ground in these religious and moral principles j which are the true secret in the for- I matron of manhood, the true and only I secret of human happiness. We have j been taught the sacredness of work and J duty, how to master our passions, and thust enabled to become true and up- j right men, noble and patriotic citizens. We have been made appreciate at its true value the immortal part of our being, and can now fully realize with the poet that, Though the Riant ages heave tha hill And break the shore and evermore Make and break and work their will; Tho' world on world in myriad myriads i roll I Round us, each with different powers, ! And other forms of life than ours, I Yet there is nothing greater nor grander than the humal soul. Hence jt is our constant endeavor not to mar ! the surpassing beauty of our spiritual ; nature and thus render impossible the ! happiness for which we were created, j Our intellectual training has been I commensurate with our spiritual. You are surrounded with a staff of professors, profes-sors, whose ability, culture and de-votedness, de-votedness, have made All Hallows the brightest center of learning and refinement refine-ment in this western country. To those self sacrificing professors who have so generously given the undivided un-divided loyalty of their hearts, the untiring un-tiring energy of their intellects to our education, we are very thankful, and in the boundless gratitude and love which goes cut to you, on this pre-eminently your feast, they have justly a share. In our physical well being you have taken an interest, which clearly shows you believe "That the men of the future fu-ture reign Must have faithful souls and kindly hearts , And bone, and muscle, and brain. The- well equipped gymnasium under the able direction of Prcfessor Augustus, Augus-tus, the splendid new ball court, where large and small enjoy so much genuine pleasure without the slightest danger to life or limb, the new athletic association associa-tion i3 rich in promise, are mainly due to your exertions. Neither is the artistic side of our nature neglected. The musical numbers we have Just heard, are sufficient proof of what Professor Pedersen is doing, in refining our nature, in strengthening the sense of the beautiful within us, and of raising our thoughts to the source of all beauty, and of all har- mi"will not be your' fault, dear Father, if we leave these hallowed walls without with-out an education. "Tota, Teres, Atque, Rotunda." An education which will make us men of duty, true Christians and worthy citizens of this glorious republic. re-public. . . Is it then surprising we love our college col-lege so much, and you who have contributed con-tributed so large a share in making it what it is? May you long reign over its destinies. I do not mean over its destinies in the present building, but in the grander one whose stately towers will soon rise behind those majestic and snow clad mountains, and whose ample halls will assuredly be filled with students stu-dents from every part of this great country Students who may be better, more studious, more intelligent, but who will not, nor cannot love you more than these who now offer their affectionate affec-tionate wishes for a happy, thrice happy hap-py feast. An enlarged, handsomely framed pho- I t X Students of Jill fiallows College Pay tribute to Hev. Tatber X I Larkin as teacher, Guardian, Companion and X Triend"fiis Splendid Work for education. X I in the Intermountain Countrg. X ' x ilmm m : X " : FATHER LARKIN, PRESIDENT OF ALL HALLOWS COLLEGE tograph of Father Larkin was then presented pre-sented to him by tho boys as a token of their esteem and affection. FATHER LARKIN'S ADDRESS. Father Larkin said, in part, as folio fol-io ws ! My dear boys, words fail to return anything like adequate thanks for this honor. Your eloquent words, your beautiful beau-tiful addresses, s'hall be preserved as long Es Wive, for they convey expressions' expres-sions' of aifeolion and gratitude, which I sihall carefully bind up with the meet cheerful feelings of my life. But there its an eloquence of soul which wordts cannot convey nor appropriately express; ex-press; it is the tliervt language glowing-in glowing-in your merry faces, in your sparkling looks, which reveals to my inmost heart the itlr.eerity and intensity of youi feelings feel-ings toward me. Whilst I cannot accept ac-cept all your compliments for myself, I willingly and gratefully accept them for those who are associated with me in the great work of your education. Your professors are the real workers. They are the men who fill your mind from their storehouse of knowledge, and form your hearts after the divine model. They afe the men who 'have left home and country, who have turned their back on wealth and honors and fame, who have severed tiea the dearest on earth that they might come and live with you and teach you, go that you may become ornaments to your parents, to scciety and to your country. It is a beautiful custom in our college that affords af-fords an opportunity for you to come forward and thus publicly express your feeiinge and show ypur gratitude. In the name of the professors I thank you, dear boys. To me you are the dearest things in life. During my ten yeans in Salt Lake I have never met with anything any-thing but gratitude and deep-eeated affection. af-fection. Your genuine kindness, your frank and manly disposition, have endeared en-deared you to me. I have never met any of those hard cases that we read of. I have found an amount of good in every boy, and since I came to Salt Lake there has never been a boy to stand up and say: "Father Larkin, I won't do that." Beneath an often rugged exterior, beneath a sometimes forbidding look, there is a mine of goodness which makes all our bonanzas pale into insignificance. In discovering and developing this mine lies the success of every teacher. And now, dear boys, you must show that your congratulations are sincere, that your gratitude is genuine, by being be-ing more studious, more obedient, more attentive to all your duties. College life is not an easy life for any one. It is no eay matter to get up at 6 and settle down to work for an hour before breakfast, break-fast, to attend class, with few interruptions, interrup-tions, till 3:30, and afterwards to take up books and study for three houTS in the evening. It is no easy matter to keep silent during the hours of class, to abstain from an occasional pillow fight when you think the prefect is not looking. look-ing. All those are sacrifices but sacrifices sacri-fices make men. All these are duties, but duty ia a sacrifice,, and only he who does his duty can ever claim to be a man. Being faithful to duty forms character, and what we want in our age is men of character, men of sterling ster-ling honor. A man's word is his bond it is more it is himself. If it be true, he is true; if it be false, he, too, is false. Keep this lesson in your minds, dear boys, and you will be our pride, our glory, and our crown. You are all we have to work for, all. we 'have to hope for. Your comfort is our comfort; your happiness is our happiness; your success suc-cess is our success Your attachment to us is a source of profound happineiss; your attachment to our college a laudable laud-able pride. My dear little boyss I cannot forget you. Your lovely address touched every fibre of my heirt. You do not love me half as much as ! do every one of you. From this moment 1 shall 'try to be. far kinder to you, and it will, be more, difficult diffi-cult to make me believe' those stories about your not studying hard, of making mak-ing faces in class, etc., etc. Professor Pedersen, for he beautiful musical treat, deservea the thanks, of all present. Everything :he touches bearst the impress of a master's-hand. Tonight his whole t-oud seemed to have poured itself out in harmonious congratulations. con-gratulations. Under his able direction our music has attained a perfection not surpaseed by any college In the land; it is no wonder we are proud of our band and orcheitra. To Professor Augustus and his gymnasium gym-nasium claes our thanks are also due. We believe that physical and intellectual intellect-ual training1 tihould go hand in hand, that "a nation's boast is a nation's bone, as well as iita might of mindj' and we believe in the old saying.. "Mens sana in corpore sano" (a sound mind in a sound body). Friencle of the college greeting. Your presence here torjight is an encouragement en-couragement to our beys on their f.narch onward "From nature up o law, from law to love The ascendant ptth in which wo move, Impelled by God, in ways that lighten still Till all things meet in one eternal thrill." - COLLEGE NOTES. On Sunday morning at 9:30 there was solemn High Maes in the college chapel. Father Rulquin, S. M., was the celebrant; cele-brant; Father Lechner, S. M., deieon, and Father Roeiser, S. M.. sub-deacon. Father Rulquin's rich, flexible, baritone voice conveyed to perfection the deep pathos and solemnity of the Gregorian Chant in the Preface and Pater Noster. Father Lechner, in his no less rich and flexible tenor, sang beautifully the Gospel Gos-pel in the key of G major. Father Roe-ser, Roe-ser, in conformity to Rubrics, chanted, the epistle in a sweet and pleasing monotone. mon-otone. At the sumptuous dinner served in the college refectory, the outside members mem-bers of the faculty, Drs. Hughes, Root, McKcnna and Professor Pedersen, were present. On Monday the boys had a very enjoyable en-joyable outing in City Creek canyon, which brought to an end this year's celebration of the President's Feast. The Hon. Thomas Kearns took occa-yion occa-yion of Father Larkin's feast to present him, for the college library, with an elegantly bound edition in nineteen volumes, of the "Earth and Its Inhabitants," Inhab-itants," by Elisee Reclus. i VeTy Rev. Father Galligan of Park City was the welcome guest of the cul-leg-e in the early part of the week. |