"At the end of each year comes the tender heart-warming message of Christmas."

"By now, the last whistle has sounded. The cleats are cleaned and stored away."

"Today is a happy and blessed day for St. Francis Parish."

"Our subject this evening is very broad. Perhaps its breadth is more understandable if we consider the position of this lecture as introductory to those which are to follow."

"For better or for worse, I have elected to speak to you this evening on The True Meaning of Peace."

Sermon delivered at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, on Sunday, November 18, 1951.

3 copies: 1st an annotated draft, 2nd a ribbon copy, 3rd a carbon copy.

With the sermon a printed program: "The University Sermon under the sponsorship of the young women's Christian association." 3 pages

"I would like to say from the outset, at the risk of shocking you, that I am not particularly in favor of Religious Emphasis Week."

Address delivered at Tulane University for Religious Emphasis Week.

"The Catholic law school, like other Catholic professional schools, faces a double danger."

"To arrive at the Catholic spirit of Christmas, one must first move patiently and prayerfully through Advent, meditating on the great wonder that will come to pass."

"The University of Notre Dame strenously objects to the paid political advertisements which have been placed by the Volunteers for Stevenson Organization in several metropolitan newspapers in an attempt to identify the University of Notre Dame with one side of the presidential political campaign."

"The Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh ... reiterated this morning the fact that the University is non-partisan in this and other campaigns."

"The Spirit of Notre Dame is legend. Strange to say, it was born before the first game of football was played."

"All over the U.S. today, Notre Dame men are gathering in the Notre Dame way - at the Communion Rail."

1 handwritten copy

"The University of Notre Dame Television Service Presents the Notre Dame Glee Club."

"This problem of what is the mission of a layman in the Church will certainly have to depend on a layman's status in the Church."

4th and concluding speech given by Father Hesburgh in the series titled "The Mission of the Laity in the Church". The series consists of 3 earlier speeches. The 1st "Lay Apostle is the Church's Answer to Secularism" given by Thomas McDonough on March 16, 1951; the 2nd "The Promotion of the Lay Apostle" given by Michael Putman on April 6, 1951; and the 3rd "The Mission of the Laity in the Church" given by Thomas Wainwright on April 20, 1951.

"I was very happy to learn that the local 364 of the Transfers Union is sponsoring this new + significant program ... I was a communist for the FBI."

1 handwritten copy

"The best advice I could offer to the Sister Superiors and Novice Mistresses at this Institute of Spirituality is to ponder the lessons we have, by the Grace of God and the abiding providence of Our Lady, been incarnated in the life of Notre Dame."

This speech, which actually dates from 1954, has moved to CPHS 141/05.06.

"Hail holy Queen, our life, our sweetness, and our hope: On this feast of your Immaculate Conception, which brings to a close this year dedicated to you, we kneel about the altar of your Son, to dedicate anew in all solemnity this University to your patronage."

2 copies: 1st a ribbon copy, 2nd a carbon copy.

Same as in (CPHS 143/01.01)

"How many times in life do you feel the problems piling up, solutions hard to find, and you wonder: now where am I going to get help?"

2 copies

"One of the greatest thrills that comes to a new president of Notre Dame is the opportunity to present the story of the University to many people across the length and breadth of America."

"My intention this morning is to develop one aspect of the Catholic university process, the formative, as distinguished from the purely educative."

Father Hesburgh examines three main qualities of formative education at Notre Dame: 1st professional competence, 2nd personal excellence, 3rd social resposibility.

"After what happened at Notre Dame last Saturday, it has been suggested that I would be more welcome at the Methodist Congress presently being held in Chicago."

Address given at the Third National Catholic Youth Conference on Tuesday, October 16, 1952.

With the speech a program of the session.

"What concerns us most is that this fanatical philosophy daily becomes more and more threatening as the huge rearmament program of the Soviet orbit continues to grow."