The Rattler (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1936 Page: 2 of 4
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THE RATTLER
March 5, 1936
Basketball Tourney,
Religious Celebration
Topics at Assembly
That Lady You Saw Me With
University President Invites
Student Body to Take
Part in Services
The State Catholic high school
basketball tournament sponsored
by St. Mary’s university for the
second consecutive year, and the
celebration of a high mass March
6 at the shrine of the Alamo were
the two main topics discussed in
the St. Mary’s assembly of Febru-
ary 2 8.
The Very Rev. Alfred H. Rabe,
president of St. Mary’s, opened the
assembly with a special invitation
to the student body of St. Mary’s
to participate in this first Centen-
nial religious celebration. Gover-
nor James V. Allred of Texas,
Mayor C. K. Quin of San Antonio,
and the city commissioners, to-
gether with a number of county
officials, will be present for the
20,000 Take Part
At least 15,000 or 20,000 people
are expected from various sections
of the state to take part in the
services commemorating the fall
of the Alamo, the cradle of Texas
Liberty.
Dr. Leo Banck, chairman of the
St. Mary’s athletic board, briefly
discussed the State Catholic basket-
ball tournament held at Central
Catholic high school on February
28 and 29. Fie announced among
other things that Father Rabe
would start the tournament by
tossing the ball into the air from
the center position in the initial
game.
Sodality Union Forms
Writer’s Organization
Texas Clergy Offers
Pontifical High Mass
At A lamoCelebration
Cadet Lt. Col. Barney McGary was evidently explaining some
very important matter to Miss Jerry Estes when snapped at a recent
St. Mary’s athletic function. (Rattler Camera club photo.)
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. M. S. Gar-
riga, pastor of St. Cecelia’s church
of San Antonio announced recently
that a pontifical high mass will
be held in front of the Alamo on
March 6, one-hundredth annivers-
ary of the fall of the Alamo, to
memorialize the heroism and sacri-
fice of the Alamo defenders.
The sermon will be preached by
the Rt. Rev. Joseph P. Lynch,
bishop of Dallas.
Plans for the celebration are as
yet in the formative stage, Msgr.
Garriga stated, but assurances of
co-operation of civic and military
officials have been given.
The
SOCIETY OF MART
in
TEXAS
Bro. Andrew Ed el
Military Co-operation
The Most Rev. Arthur J. Dros-
saerts, archbishop of San Antonio,
County Judge Frost Woodhull, and
Msgr. Garriga called upon Maj.Gen.
Johnson Hagood, commander of
the Eighth Corps area and the
Third army, and Brig. Gen. Alex-
ander T. Ovenshine, commander of
the Second division and Fort Sam
Houston, and were assured of mil-
itary co-operation. A Fort Sam
Houston band and guard of honor
will participate.
The mass and attendant cere-
monies is a gesture on the part of
the archbishop, who will celebrate
the mass, to enable the public to
offer thanks for the example of
heroism set by the Alamo defenders
and for the liberties now enjoyed
as a result of the Alamo heroes’
sacrifice.
LJnder the direction of the Rev.
Herbert G. Kramer, professor of
art appreciation at the University,
a writer’s club, a project approved
by the College council of the San
Antonio Youths’ Spiritual Leader-
ship union at their February meet
ing, was launched February 19 at
the St. Mary’s University Down-
town college.
Miss Mary Frances Walker was
chosen secretary-treasurer, the on-
ly office. Other charter members
are Claude Stanush and Misses Ro-
salie Morris, Antoinette Morris, and
Mildred Vorpahl, with four new
members invited.
A personal record of the pub-
lished writings and literary posi-
tions of each member will be kept.
Discussions for the coming year
will center about a series of art-
icles written for young writers by
Father Talbot in America from
1933 to 1935.
Junior Class Presents
Annual Entertainment
('Continued from page 1)
Steubing, and Misses Aletta Hanna,
Elaine Schulze, and Margaret
Stewart.
Maurice Rex, student manager
of the production, was in charge
of all arrangements for the pre-
sentation. Hyman Marcus direct-
ed the raffle held in conjunction
with the frolics.
Bro. Anthony Frederick, profes-
sor of English at St. Mary’s, di-
rected the dramatic program. The
sketches on college sports and ed-
ucation were written by Bro.
Frederick.
Musical selections were spaced
between the playlets. Misses Han-
na, Schulze, and Stewart were fea-
tured in vocal numbers. They
were accompanied by Robert Mar-
vel.
Everett Risz was presented in a
trombone solo, and Edgar Rogers
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Sodality Announces
Play Contest Results
(Continued from page 1)
Rev. Lawrence Jordan of Central
Catholic high school, director of
the High School council.
First honorable mention went to
Marie Shelley and Dorothy Ann
Pape of Incarnate Word high
school for their offering, Soviet
Justice. Victory, by Florence
Wenzel of St. Joseph’s academy,
won second honorable mention, and
Guilty or Not Guilty by Lucia
Fella of St. Teresa’s academy won
third honorable mention.
All the plays deal with the theme
of the struggle that is continually
going on between the principles of
Catholicism and the tenets of com-
munism. At a recent meeting of
the High School council it was
determined to produce all of them
at periodic intervals.
Other plays submitted were:
On Parade by Alma Espey, It Had
to Happen by Caroline Sueltenfuss,
and False Alarm by William Dodds,
all of St. Joseph’s academy.
The prize money will be used
by the winning school—Ursuline
academy—to send a delegate to the
national sodality convention to be
held this summer under the spon-
sorship of The Queen’s 'Work, na-
tional sodality organ, in St. Louis.
Seniors Plan Social
After Examinations
Members of the St. Mary’s sen-
ior class met last Monday, March
2, to discuss plans for rings, invi-
tations, and pictures.
It was decided to hold a social
during the latter part of April,
sometime after the comprehensive
examinations.
J. D. Matthews was appointed
class reporter.
offered a trumpet solo. Johnny
Fielder and his orchestra played
for the production.
COLLEGE
'ERVICE
STATION
Relations Club Sends
Group to Conference
(iContinued from page 1)
college will treat The Catholic As-
sociation for International Peace,
and the Rev. John M. Riach, from
the Newman foundation of Texas
university, will discuss The Cath-
olic Church and Peace Efforts.
The address of welcome at the
morning session will be given by
his Excellency, the Most Rev. Ar-
thur J. Drossaerts, archbishop of
San Antonio.
Bro. George B. Kohnen, profes-
sor of economics at St. Mary’s, will
be chairman of the afternoon ses-
sion. Four speakers are on the
program;
Tonight at 8 o’clock, his Excel-
lency, the Most Rev. Robert E.
Lucey, bishop of Amarillo, will
address the convention on America
and Peace.
Dr. John McMahon of Our Lady
of the Lake college is director of
the convention.
"Yes, I believe that cheating is
very prevalent at Miami, but I
think that women do most of it,”
a Miami university (Oxford, O.)
student tells an inquiring reporter.
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Professor Explains
New Theory of Art
('Continued from page 1)
This excludes facsimiles, copies
photographs, wax work, chambers
of horror, cycloramas, etc. And
why? Because art is a conscious
illusion, but not an imposition.”
"Art does not address itself pri-
marily to secondary pleasures . . .
nor to the moral pleasures. . . .
These emotions, moods, or states of
mind are only temporary. . . .
Great art, therefore, is specialized
to no particular mood, but to love
or pleasure of being.
"Art need not be true to ex-
ternal fact,” stated the lecturer.
The elements of beauty—con-
trast, suspense, preparation, sym-
metry, balance, and harmony—
were next shown to be based on
repetition or memory. Then the
special elements of beauty found
in the representative arts were
likewise shown to be based on
memory and reproduction.
Editor’s note: This is the
second in a series of articles
which will be featured regu-
larly in The Rattler through-
out 1936, the Centennial year
in Texas. The articles are de-
voted to the history of St.
Mary’s university and the So-
ciety of Mary in Texas.
In the first article of this ser-
ies we told of the foundation
of St. Mary’s university. Bro.
Andrew Edel, the director of the
small group that laid the ground-
work for the University, may cor-
rectly be called the founder of St.
Mary’s.
Bro. Edel was the oldest of the
four pioneer Brothers of Mary in
the United States. During the
first 13 years of his religious
life, he was employed in the teach-
ing of horticulture in the great
agricultural school conducted by
the Society of Mary at St. Remy,
in the east of France. Here he
developed a great love of nature
that remained with him all his
life.
river-bottom lands, he built a
little cabin and an oratory for
himself, and they were still pointed
out to visitors many years after-
wards.
To the mind of Bro. Edel, it
was nature that came first, the
great outside world, especially
when not of the human kind, the
plants and animals that called for
little or no reciprocation on his
part. To Bro. Edel, men were
what they were to the blind man
of the Gospel, "like trees walk-
ing.”
Appointed Director
At the age of 3 6, Bro. Andrew
arrived in America. He had been
scarcely four months in America
when he had a new occasion to
indulge his favorite taste. He was
placed in charge of the Dewberry
farm on the outskirts of Dayton.
When a school was later construct-
ed on this property, Bro. Edel be-
came professor of "botany, agri-
culture, and horticulture.”
It was two years later that he
was detailed as director of the
colony of brothers intended for
San Antonio. As told previously,
he met his little colony at New
Orleans at the end of May, 18 52,
and conducted them to San An-
tonio.
School and Garden
Language Background
Bro. Schlitt’s background of a
classical education in Paris 40
years ago and of long association
with Greek, Latin, German, French,
and English literature render him
well equipped for authorative ob-
servations on art. His theory rests
greatly on the pronouncements of
men like Virgil, da Vinci, Mozart,
Goethe, Wordsworth, and Schu-
bert.
The lecture was a special one
in a series which was closed re-
cently by the Rev. Herbert G.
Kramer, professor of art apprecia-
tion at St. Mary’s, with a lecture
on Glimpses of Swiss Art. The
group attending the lectures visit-
ed the private colections of Mrs.
H. P. Drought, Mrs. William Cas-
sin, and Dr. Frederick Oppen-
heimer.
Editor’s note: Because of
the widespread interest arous-
ed by this new theory, the en-
tire lecture, as originally pre-
sented by Bro. Schlitt in ex-
planation of his theory, will
be published in regular install-
ments in The Rattler, begin-
ning next issue.
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Four brothers formed the little
community. Bro. Edel built up an
efficient school and gave the en-
terprise his most assiduous care,
but, skilled educator though he
was, his instinctive love of earth
again asserted itself, and he found
time, in the sunny climate and
grateful soil of Texas, to indulge
his tastes.
His "French garden,” as it was
called, became the beauty spot of
San Antonio, and visitors came for
miles to see the collection of rare
plants and beautiful flowers bloom-
ing in studied succession at every
season of the year. The pomegran-
ate hedge, the grotto by the river
bank, the grape arbor, and the
windmill were all rare sights for
the San Antonio of those days.
Back to Nature
In 1866, after 14 years of serv-
ice at the head of St. Mary’s col-
lege, Bro. Edel was relieved at his
own request and transferred to the
old Franciscan mission of the Im-
maculate Conception, which the
bishop of Galveston had given to
the brothers.
Here in this little community,
charged with the cultivation of
the mission lands, Bro. Edel found
himself more than ever in his
native element. He went back to
nature, back to gardening and
farming, and, as much as the rule
of the community would allow it,
back to solitude.
He had always loved solitude,
and in the long rambling halls and
dark recesses of the mission con-
vent, in the shady walks down
by the beautiful San Antonio river
he found his delight. In a grove
of mulberry trees on the edge of
the pecan woods that grew in the
Retirement to Dayton
The life at Mission Concepcion
was not without its responsibilities.
He was director of a small com-
munity of four brothers and was
also expected to take charge of
the boarders from the college who
remained in the school for the
summer vacation.
When at least in 18 69 he was
relieved from directorship, he
sought rest and retirement at the
mother house at Nazareth, near
Dayton, where the superiors chose
again to indulge his horticultural
tastes and allowed him to select a
wild portion of the farm to culti-
vate according to his own methods
and even fancy. Here he built
another "cabin in the woods,”
where he lived in blissful solitude.
Building His Shrine
He set about clearing and level-
ling the land and built a series of
terraces which, for their excellent
drainage and tasteful arrangement,
are still models of their kind. His
favorite devotion had always been
to the Immaculate Conception, and
here again, as in San Antonio, he
built his little shrine in honor of
the Blessed Mother.
He was handy at carpentry and
did all the work himself. For the
decoration, he pressed everything
into service, but when it came to
painting, only two colors were al-
lowed—white and blue, the colors
of the Immaculate Virgin.
Last Years
Even in his little rooms in the
cabin, he was loyal to these colors.
While he was still director in St.
Mary’s, he had taken a life-sub-
scription to the Ave Maria journal
of Notre Dame, Indiana, and while
the book furnished him excellent
reading, the cover, which was al-
ways blue, with a picture of the
Blessed Virgin on the face, fur-
nished him the only wall paper he
would tolerate for his little cabin.
He ate and slept in this hermit-
age for 20 years and left it only
for the community prayers in the
chapel.
He died in Dayton, July 29,
1891, and was the first of the
four pioneer brothers to go to his
reward.
(This story of the early
days of the Society of Mary
in Texas will be continued in
the next issue of The Rattler.)
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