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Show DENOUNCES ROWDYISM IN COLLEGE. President Cavanaugh of Notre Dame Points to a Serious Evil. "Notre D;une, Inl., J)v.c. T. At the general assembly as-sembly of the faculty n;l students of the University Uni-versity of Xotre Dame on President's day the Frv-erend Frv-erend Dr. Cavmiaueli. i:i his address, deprec:irpd th growing levity toward iiuthoiity manifesting itself it-self iii Ameiican ecllr-ge Ih'n. He declared trat obedience to the law of the nation must find its ' best expression in the cbscrinice of rules and laws among college men. if the increasing - restlessness among the people at large is to bt controlled. He said: "From time to time we hear of rowdyism in the colleges, of wanton destruction of property and ! of defiance of officers of the law. The honest toiler toil-er and the business man who love public order are riot toe blamed if at times they lose faith in edu- cation; if at times they ask themselves what may ) be expected of the ignorant and untrained since such lawlessness is found in the colleges which are preparing professional men and the leaders of tomorrow. to-morrow. "True education involves the illumination of , the mind by knowledge, the training of the will by daily discipline and the purification and 6trcuglh- ming of ihe heart by religion. To this ideal your i alma mater stands dedicated. Upon her success in j realizing this great result she rests her claim to the gratitude of men. Achieving this ideal, she achieves the end of her being; failing init, she would go down to disaster and ruin. j "You therefore are her crown and her glory. )Hor domes and her spires might leap higher into the heavens; the erudition of her professors might j be the marvel and admiration of the world, her artistic and historic treasures might be rich and beautiful beyond the dreams of fancy; her halls might, be crowded with thousands of students from the four winds of heaven, but in the end it is upon her sons she must depend for favorable judgment from God and humanity. "If they are religious men, if they reverence authority and obey the law, they are her vindication vindica-tion before the world, even before that world which looks coldly upon her faith and traditions, but which is constrained to confess that the noblest product of civilization is the educated Christian gentleman." |