that some wonderful half-backs and line-men

are coming from the hardy and healthy western sections of the state. They will have an opportunity to display their abilities on the new field.

We have made an unsuccessful attempt to get authentic news in regard to the future of 1900. Many things are said and many rumors are being circulated. The list published some time ago in a Worcester paper seems to have contained many inaccuracies. Fifteen out of the 46 will go to the various theological seminaries. Two Scranton men and one North Adams man will join the Holy Cross delegation at the Rochester seminary. Another North Adams man will take a post-graduate year in philosophy at H. C. These items are authentic. For full and complete reports our readers will have to await the appearance of our October number,-provided in the meantime they bethink themselves of arrears in subscription.

The members of the foot-ball and base-ball teams who were graduated this year will be long remembered in athletic circles. Fifty years hence, when present victories will have gained a halo, seen through the mist of time, the names of Fox, McTigue, Kenney, Linnehan, Connor, will raise a thrill of pride, and many an old fellow will say to another old fellow, "We were there during those years." So here's to the above mentioned! May they continue to do things which will make us proud of them!

The friends of Rev. Charles E. Burke, '69, pastor

of North Adams, have formed a scholarship in honor of their pastor. Holy Cross is sadly deficient in scholarships. Neighboring colleges can offer to needy and deserving students scholarships of from forty to two hundred dollars. One college has two hundred and fifty of such scholarships. If Holy Cross were endowed with a number of scholarships she could receive many a deserving student whom she is now obliged to refuse. She could also offer these scholarships as prizes for high standing in class. A scholarship of six thousand dollars would pay nearly all the necessary expenses of a student for his whole course.

49.

ALUMNI.

On Wednesday, June 6th, Rt. Rev. James Augustine Healy, '49, celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his consecration as Bishop in his Cathedral church at Portland, Maine. A great and notable gathering assembled to honor the occasion. An archbishop, six bishops, two hundred priests and three thousand of the laity attended the grand pontifical mass. A letter, imparting the Apostolic Blessing, came from Cardinal Rampolla; another, conveying personal congratulations, was received from Cardinal Ledochowski, Prefect of the Congregation of the Propaganda. The following beautiful Latin inscription was engrossed on the card containing the order of exercises:

JACOPO. AUGUSTINO. HEALY
EPISCOPO. PORTLANDENSIUM

QUOD. PER. VIGINTI. QUINQUE. INTEGROS. ANNOS

A. PONTIFICATU. SUSCEPTO

PRO. RE. CATHOLICA. AMPLIFICANDA

NOVIS. IN. DIES. SINGULOS. VIRIBUS.

ALLABORAVIT

ANTISTITUM. PROVINCIAE. ECCLESIASTICAE.

BOSTONIENSIS

UNIVERSAEQUE. DIOECESIS

OMNIUM. AD. UNUM. CUJUSQUE. ORDINIS.

CATHOLICORUM

BENE. MERENTISSIMO

PLAUSUS. GRATULATIONES. ET. VOTA

NONIS. JUNIIS. MCM

After the Jubilee Mass in the Cathedral the visiting bishops and priests repaired to Kavanagh Hall, where a banquet was in waiting. Towards the end of the banquet Rev. I. M. Wallace, of Lewiston, the toastmaster, arose and with inimitable wit and tact proposed the toasts and introduced the speakers. Very Rev. C. M. O'Brien, V. G., of Bangor, was the first speaker. In a graceful and affectionate address he tendered the congratulations of the clergy to their Bishop, presenting, at the conclusion, a purse of $5000. Other gifts were, a magnificent chalice, valued at $1500, presented by Archbishop Williams and the Bishops of New England; a beautiful loving cup, the gift of five pastors of Boston, former associates of Bishop Healy in the old days when he was rector of St. James' Church. Archbishop Williams, Bishops Harkins and Bradley also spoke at the banquet, During the ceremonies in the Cathedral Bishop Healy seemed to all to be in perfect health. In the sermon his voice took on the old, familiar ring, filling every part of the church:

Bishop Healy's Address.

"Others have labored, and you have entered into

their labors." St. John, 4-38.

"On this commemoration day," he said, "it is not my purpose to give a eulogy, or even a sermon, but to give thanks to God, and to invite you, Most Rev. and Rt. Rev. Prelates, and Rev. Fathers' and Christian Brethren, to give thanks to God with me for all His mercies, present, past, and to come. In speaking of the Diocese of Portland, for the last 25 years, it is necessary to show what it was in times past.

"The venerable Bishops of Boston, Cheverus, Fenwick and Fitzpatrick, had all visited Maine as a part of their vast jurisdiction, at such times as their multiplied duties permitted. Bishop Fenwick indeed had established a Catholic colony at Benedicta, and cherished the hope that it was to be, not only a numerous Catholic colony, but a centre of education. It is still known in the State as a thriving Catholic settlement. But when the first Bishop, Rt. Rev. David W. Bacon, came, in the spring of 1855, to take possession of his see and diocese, then embracing Maine and New Hampshire, he found in the State of Maine churches with resident pastors at Portland, at Bangor, at Eastport and at Houlton. All that part of Maine between the Kennebec and the St. Croix was under the charge of a few Jesuit fathers, resident at Bangor and at Eastport. There was not a church in all Maine that deserved to be called more than a chapel when this prelate of devotion, energy and self-sacrifice entered upon his duties as the first Bishop.