Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1909 — COLLEGE NOTES. [ARTICLE]

COLLEGE NOTES.

On Saturday, May Ist, the Freshmen base ball team of Notre Dame University will play the College team on the college diamond. Hasser will be on the slab for the Varsity. Gdme called at 2:30. Admission 25 cents. The College team will play the Rensselaer Wrens on the college grounds, Sunday, May 2d. Game will be called at 3:30 sharp, immediately after the laying of the corner-stone of the new church. McGurren or Faurot will pitch for the Varsity. Admission 15 cents. The College team will give the Wrens a return game on the Rensselaer diamond in the near future. On Wednesday, May sth, the Varsity will meet their old rivals, the strong DePauw University team, of Chicago, at the college ball park. This promises to be one of the best games of the season. Hasser will twirl for the home team. Game will be called at 2:30. Admission 25 cents. The corner-stone of the new college church win be laid Sunday, May 2, at 2:00 p. m. The ceremony will be performed by the Rt. Rev. Mgr. John H. Oechtering, V. G., Rector of St. Mary’s church, Ft. Wayne, ind. He jvill also deliver an address appropriate to the occasion. The blessing and laying of the corner-stone Is the first benediction that the Catholic church gives to an edifice that is erected for the services of God. The corner-stone is blessed by the reciting of appropriate prayers, and the sprinkling of Holy Water, ami it # is then placed into position. Besides this several Psalms and the Litany of All Saints are chanted, and the entire foundation is blessed with Holy Water. It is a beautiful ceremony well worth seeing. Our friends are kindly invited to attend. The stone itself is a beautiful block of Bedford rock, and its neat appearance is, indeed, a credit to the stonecutter’s art and will in keeping with the elaborate architecture of the church.