Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1909 — Interesting News Items From Collegeville. [ARTICLE]

Interesting News Items From Collegeville.

On Saturday the ball team will | journey to Brook to play a game with the local team there. The Varsity will go after the titles of the Mt. Ayr ball team on Monday in the enemy’s territory. The commencement invitations are out, The first exercises will be held on Wednesday morning, June 16th, at 8 o’clock. The Very Reverend Francis C. Kelly, D. D., LL. D., of Chicago, 111., will deliver the baccalaureate address. The literary work of the sixth Enlish class has been brought to a very successful close. It has been for them, indeed, a most strenuous year, as the tasks demanded of them are neither little in quantity nor mean in quality. Their work began with a careful study of Tennyson’s “Idylls of the King,” that great and wonderful poetic allegory of man—the soul and the heart. Next they delved deeply into Brother Azarias’ “Philosophy of Literature” which follows strictly the current o* men’s thought from the very beginning to the present time. The dark, obtuse and mysterous Browning was their next exacting task master. Many hours of careful study and consideration were required to find all the pleasant rays that glimmer in his labyrinthian thoughts and phrases in his finding and perfecting of the “new Their attention was then claimed by Cardinal Newman and DeQuincy the two master stylists of the English language. The grand climax was reached in the soul-stirring journey with Dante through the “Inferno”. The students voted it a task, indeed, but one that bears with it its own recompence. Frequent excursions were also made into contemporary literature, and particular attention was bestowed upon periodical writings, that great force in modern civilization and endeavors for righteousness.