The Arrow, Vol. III, Issue 8

              ARROW
C ol l ege o f S a in t R o s e , A l b a n y , N. Y., M a r c h 9, 1938 No. 8
Annual Choral Concert Will Be March 22
COLLEGE CHOIR TO BE PRESENTED
IN JOINT CONCERT
The college choir will be presented in a
joint concert with the Albany Concert
Orchestra of the Federal Music Project. The
choir will be under the direction of Mr.
Frank Walsh, and the orchestra will be con­ducted
by Mr. Ole Vindingstad. The concert
which will be held Tuesday evening, March
22 at 8:15 o’clock, will be given in the
college auditorium. All students are expected
to cooperate in disposing of tickets. The
admission is seventy-five cents for reserved
.seats, and fifty cents for all others.
HAMILTON AND HOUGHTON
DEBATES GREAT SUCCESS
Debaters Mix Dates in Latter Contest
The busy season of Rodocrisia continues.
On Friday evening, February 18th, Eliza­beth
Varley and Jane Gabriels met the
Hamilton College debating team and upheld
the negative of the proposition: Resolved
That the United States should join Great
Britain and other interested powers in boy­cotting
Japanese goods. The affair was for­mal.
Miss Varley wore black velvet and
Miss Gabriels blue crepe. Beth Frank, in
black net, was chairman.
The Houghton debate, which took place
Thursday evening, March 3rd, in the Lec­ture
Room of the Science Hall, almost did
not take place. Owing to a mix-up in sche­dule
the Houghton debaters arrived Wednes­day
evening, much to the consternation of
Rodocrisia. With true forensic spirit, how­ever,
the girls from Fillmore journeyed to
Oneonta Thursday morning where they had
another debate arranged and returned here
that evening. From that point on things
went along very smoothly and an interesting
discussion ensued on the much-debated N.
L. R. B. question. Mary Jane GafTney and
Eileen Corrigan represented St. Rose.
Both of these debates were non-decision.
COME TO THE “HI HO FAIR ”
Get out your best green bib and
tucker!—Hurry, hurry—follow the
crowds to the Social Room—Science
Building. See a colossal entertainment
—a stupendous sideshow—world sport
records broken—prizes galore!
Don’t be green about your St. Pat­rick’s
Day celebration—Come to the
“HI HO FAIR”—Thursday, March 17
—given by the Marca Tironae Secre­tarial
Club.
PEACE CLUB HOLDS MEETING
Program for Semester Planned
The Peace Club accomplished several
purposes in one meeting held last Monday
night. Rita Cashman, Chairman of pro­grams,
outlined the plans for the meetings to
be held this semester. Katherine Sawalsky
and Elizabeth Varley reviewed the events of
the conference in New York which they
attended.
Katherine Eutemark conducted a study
club, the topic of which was: Labor Rela­tions.
The meeting closed with a discussion of
the club’s affairs. This is w'hat we consider
killing several birds with one stone.
FORTY-HOURS DEVOTIONS HELD
IN CHAPEL
At 9:15 Wednesday morning the Reverend
Norbert Kelly assisted by the Reverends
Daniel H. Markham and Wilfred R. Cham­berlain
opened the period of Adoration by
celebrating a Solemn High Mass in the
College Chapel. The Senior and Junior
classes participated in the procession during
the services.
On Thursday the Reverend John J. Collins,
Professor of Ethics, gave a talk to the student
body on the Means to personal sanctification
—the Holy Eucharist as a Sacrifice and as a
Sacrament. Connecting his topic with
Catholic Action, Father brought out the idea
that only by personal holiness can we influ­ence
others to holiness.
The Devotions were concluded with a
Solemn High Mass Friday at which the
student body assisted in academic garb. Rev.
Gerald H. Kirwin was celebrant assisted by
the Reverend John Keefe and the Reverend
Thomas H. Kay.
In order to encourage visits to the Blesseed
Sacrament the Eucharistic Committee of the
C. Y. O. posted a bulletin for signatures of
students who made visits of fifteen minutes
in length. The response was slight the first
day but, after some propaganda, signatures
increased in number. The Eucharistic Com­mittee
hope to promulgate similar enthusiasm
for First Fridays.
Brilliant Boners Astound Faculty
With exams tucked into the hazy past, the
only bad taste which remains is a rare col­lection
of brilliant boners, to be bestowed
upon the St. Rose Museum of Academic
Relics.
The following are some of these priceless
gems as hissed out by distraught professors to
the simple inquiring reporter:
Apologetics Department: The prize of this
crop was the identification of Ratti as a Com­munist.
Less startling but equally revealing
are: Machiavelli, an aide to the Pope;
Haegel, a biologist; Spanish rebels, anti-
Catholic; Cicognani, Pius IX; Concordat, a
papal letter; Vicar-general, next to the Pope;
Methodism, the religion of Methodius. The
last question on the Junior paper was “Write
an act of hope.” One young hopeful
answered: “O my God, I hope . . .”
French Department: The crop was not so
plentiful here (apparently it is more difficult
to make a boner in French, although that is
to be doubted), but they were not missing.
For example, one linguist instead of writing
“Le Cure qui mange a les mures’’ (black­berries)
wrote “Le Cure qui mangea les
murs” (walls). And then of course there is
the classic example of the student who stated
that Chretien do Troyes wrote on King
Arthur’s Round Table.
(Ed.: The Arrow will be pleased to receive
reports on boners from, other departments in
the colleae).