Assumption Announces Sesquicentennial Year

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Window, "The Assumption", North Wall, University Chapel

…The skies speed up to meet you, and the seas
Swim you the silver of their crests.
If you delay to come, we'll see the meteors by night,
Skimming before your way,--
Lighting the time of death's dismay
In light as lithe as animals.
And God will blaze your pathway with the
incandescent stars.

But oh! Queen of all grace and counsel,
Cause of our joy, Oh Clement Virgin, come:
Show us those eyes as chaste as lightning.
Kinder than June and true as Scripture.
Heal with your looks the poisons of the universe,
And claim your Son's regenerate world!...

Thomas Merton

ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY JOYFULLY ANNOUNCES ITS SESQUICENTENNIAL YEAR.

ON FEBRUARY 10, 1857,
THE COLLEGE OPENED ITS DOORS
TO 26 BOARDERS AND 60 DAY STUDENTS.

MAY GOD, WHO FIRST BEGAN THIS GOOD WORK IN US,
BRING IT TO FULFILLMENT.