age more with their good wishes, hearty appreciation and earnest assistance than the Glee Club and Orchestra. That these societies have made considerable advance during the past year is evident; that they may advance as much during the coming year is the sincere wish of all.

Special thanks are due to the Moderator, for his painstaking efforts. To his training is due also the excellent congregational singing which is now such a marked feature of the services in the chapel.

The Retreat.

At the

A most successful retreat was made by all the students during the 25th, 26th and 27th of October, under the direction of Rev. Fr. Halpin. During the retreat all class work was put aside, so that undivided attention might be given to spiritual matters. At the close of the retreat the students one and all received Holy Communion. very outset, Fr. Halpin won the hearts of his hearers by his eloquent earnestness and by the thorough knowledge which he showed of human nature of boy nature in particular-a knowledge born of his many years' experience as prefect and professor in college. Such a pleasure was it to listen to his impressive and vigorous words and to perceive the striking similes with which his discourses abounded, that an involuntary smile of anticipation might have been distinguished on many a countenance whenever the Reverend Father prepared to enter upon the meditation. It was with feelings of regret that we listened to his last words on Sunday morning, and certainly

each one must have then felt that he had come to the conclusion of a memorable and profitable

retreat.

Seniors' Specimen.

The public examination of the Seniors in Dialectics was very creditable both to the professor and the class, and afforded, no doubt, much interest and, in some cases, amusement to Rev. Fr. Rector and the other members of the faculty who were present. The language and reasoning were good despite the fact that one of the rising generation of Aristotles, after a brilliant showing on other questions, essayed to establish the proposition that every whole is greater than its parts:

"Verum ubi plura nitent, non ego paucis offendar maculis."

The examination over, all took advantage of the half-holiday granted by Reverend Father Rector and recuperated their Latin-and-Logicshattered energies by a trip to town. May the Seniors' future "exams" be as successful as the one just passed.

The New Infirmary.

The new infirmary is a real quarantine. It occupies several floors in the East Building, and has its sole entrance from the quadrangle, all other means of ingress or egress being debarred by the chapel and the dormitories. The Brother Infirmarian has given much attention to the details of its erection and equipment, and he has stopped at nothing to make it what every college infirmary should be, the Mecca of the sick, as well as those who think they are sick. One

advantage of its present position is its perfect freedom from the noise and traffic that were the unavoidable adjuncts of the old infirmary, seeing that it was separated from that most used and abused of all departments, the clothes-room, by a single partition. The rooms have been re-painted, re-carpeted and re-curtained, and a tasty little reception room has been fitted out on the same corridor with the doctor's office and pharmacy. It is rumored that a complete system of electric bells will soon be introduced.

Reports of Societies.

In December there will be a reception of new members

into the Senior Sodality. The Rev. Moderator will invite a former sodalist to give the customary address.

The regular meeting of the B. J. F. Debating Society was held Wednesday night, Nov. 14. The question debated was: "Resolved: That for the best interests of the United States a third political party should be established." First affirmative, William Lawler; second affirmative, Charles Farrelly; first negative, Walter Monagan; second negative, Harry Austin.

The regular meeting of the Philomathic Debating Society was held Friday night, Nov. 16. The question debated was: "Resolved: That England is the greatest nation of modern times." First affirmative, Edward Hallowell; second affirmative, Richard McGuire; first negative, James Geary; second negative, Russell Dilkes.

Gift to the

College Library.

Nearly a hundred volumes have recently been added to

the college library, each bearing the following legend:

FOR A KEEPSAKE OF

PATRICK ROBERT GUINEY,

Member of the Suffolk Bar, and Brevet Brigadier
General in the Army of the Potomac, this book is
given by his daughter to the library of his old college
of Holy Cross, at Worcester, Massachusetts.

The daughter whose memory of her father is so gracefully united with that of his old college is the gifted author, Miss Louise Imogen Guiney, beside whose own works in the library are now placed those keepsakes of her father.

The Junior Debate.

Just as we go to press, news reaches us that a debate bas been arranged between the Junior Wranglers of Harvard and the Junior members of the B. J. F. Society. The subject and the judges are to be determined this week. The debate is to take place in Fenwick Hall early in December.

The Rev. Jas. Gray, lately of St. Mary's Church, Boston, has become a member of the Faculty. Fr. Gray is professor of a section of Special Latin.

JOHN F. NELLIGAN, 'OI.

ALUMNI.

'62. Rev. W. H. Fitzpatrick, on Oct. 12, quietly celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his appointment as rector of St. Gregory's Church, at Dorchester Lower Mills. Not only has Father Fitzpatrick entirely renovated St. Gregory's Church, but he has built three chapels in different parts of his parish, each of which is attended by a large congregation. Stoneham, Wakefield and Melrose were the field of his labors for seven or eight years before going to Dorchester. '69. We quote the following passage from the

brilliant address of Monsignor Conaty at the opening of the Catholic University :

"The university ideal differs from the college ideal in that it aims at the individual rather than class building. It gives opportunities for the development of research work, as it also offers an all-round culture which makes the scholar and the gentleman. It fosters selfreliance, and makes a man realize that he must be trusted to develop himself along the lines of his scholarly ambitions. It aims to show him