The Arrow, Vol. I, Issue 4

              ose ARROW
V ol. L A lb a n y , | \ | e w Yor^j^^EGE of Sm n t rose, A lbany, N. Y., March 25, 1936 No. 4
INTERCOLLEGIATE BALL
The Intercollegiate Ball Committee of
the College of St. Rose Alumnae would
like to take this opporunity of thanking
the student body for its splendid coop­eration
last year. We know that, with­out
your presence in such large numbers,
the Ball could not have been the great
success it was, financially and socially.
Did you enjoy being there as much as
we enjoyed having you attend? The
answer to that question lies in the an­swer
to this one. Will you come again
this year?
To those of you who are somewhat
baffled by the term Intercollegiate Ball—
and consequently, by the entire para­graph
above—let me explain :
Last year, Mrs. Ruth Marshall Smith,
then president of the Albany Graduate
Club of the College of Saint Rose, con­ceived
the idea of forming an intercolle­giate
organization made up of Capital
District Alumni of Catholic Colleges. A
committee of St. Rose Alumnae, under
the chairmanship of Miss Helen C.
Welsh, endeavored to contact as many
colleges as possible. Eight colleges re­sponded,
and the result was an Inter­collegiate
Ball held at the Ten Eyck
Hotel, on Easter Monday night.
The financial profits realized by the
College of St. Rose Alumnae were pre­sented
by Mrs. Smith to Mother Ros-ina.
Large social dividends were paid
to those who attended—with a promise
of future dividends payable in another
year. That promise is to be kept at the
social event of the 1936 Easter season,
which is to be held at the Ten Eyck Ho­tel,
on Monday evening, April 13th. The
participating collegeSj to date, are as fol­lows:
Georgetown University, Trinity
College, Niagara University, College of
New Rochelle, Holy Cross College, Col­lege
of Mount Saint Vincent, and the
College of St. Rose.
Because of the small capacity of the
Ten Eyck Ballroom, it is necessary to
limit the number of bids sold. The St.
Rose allotment, owing to the location of
the college on the scene of activity, is
larger than that given to other colleges,
but it is still not large enough. In order
to apportion the bids between the alum­nae
and the student body, it is necessary
that wc have an estimate of the numl)cr
who wish to attend. To do this we ask
VACATION PETITION GRANTED
The petition, presented by Miss Dorothy
Taaffe, President of the Senior Class and
signed by two hundred of the students,
requesting an extension of the Easter vaca­tion,
is granted. Classes will, therefore,
be resumed on Monday morning, April the
twentieth at eight fifteen.
The academic year of 1935-36 is rapidly
nearing its close. Upon the use that is
made of the remaining weeks will depend
the success or failure of the year’s work.
Yjours is the opportunity to choose between
success and failure. No teacher can supply
for lack of application or interest on the
part of a student nor can any college faculty
confer degrees upon students who have not
measured at least up to the minimum re­quirements.
The catalogue is su ciently ex­plicit
in the matter of requirements and the
members of the faculty are ever ready to
give any aid or explanation that is desired
or needed. There is no excuse for ignor­ance.
The penitential season of Lent is now
more than half over. Is it not wise to
check up on our Lenten practices and, if we
have failed to keep them generously, to re­new
them whole-heartedly so that we may
not lose the benefit that may be gained by
the sacrifice of small conveniences?
The last few days of this week will give
you a splendid opportunity of checking up
on Lenten resolutions as well as of taking
an inventory of your spiritual condition.
An annual Retreat, furnishing as it does
leisure for silent and serious reflection on
the truths of our holy faith, is an occasion
when the light of God’s grace dispels the
darkness born of distractions and worldly
pursuits, and floods the soul with light to
see what is right and the will with strength
to accomplish that right.
All students, but especially the Seniors,
should endeavor to enter seriously into the
exercises of the Retreat, for much of your
future success will depend upon the choice
of your life-work which you will probably
make during this Retreat and a very power­ful
influence for making a good Retreat is
to realize that upon the use or abuse of the
graces received during these days of silence
and recollection may depend your eternal
salvation. Do not be a slacker in matters
spiritual—there is too much at stake.
S. R. L.
you to sign the notice on the Student
Bulletin Board as soon as possible.
When the bids are placed on sale (in
about a week), they will be held on re­serve
for a day or two for those who
have signed for them—after which they
will be sold to any student who desires
one, whether signed for or not.
By making a success of this affair, on
the basis of cooperation with other Cath­olic
collegiate representatives in this dis­trict,
we hope to encourage interest in the
establishment of a permanent intercolle­giate
organization under whose auspices
much may be accomplished in the field
of Catholic action.
THE GREEKS HAD A
WORD FOR IT.
I think that I shall never see,
A course quite like Greek History.
The Greeks who start in ’steen B. C.
And end their lives about A.D.
Poems are made by fools like me.
But who invented history?
ST. ROSE RIDING MEET
To those of you who signed up for
riding in September and who have been
faithful members of the St. Rose Riding
Club ever since, this article is not intended.
But to those riders who have, for various
reasons, many of them legitimate, got out
of the habit of coming to Troop B. Armory
on Thursday evenings, we offer this word
to the wise.
The Annual Spring Meet is not far in
the offing. Mounts have already been as­signed,
and work in drilling and in jumping
has been begun. Old members of the club
appreciate the amount of practice which
necessarily precedes a meet such as the St.
Rose Riding Club annually presents.
New members can readily understand that
here is an appropriate application of the old
maxim that “practice makes perfect.” Prizes
will be awarded, remember, for excellence
in fonn-riding, jumping, etc. on the night
of the meet.
If you’ve had an attack of spring fever,
now is your chance to snap out of it. Let’s
see you at the Troop B. Armory every
Thursday night from now on!