Encloses 3 annotated pages drawing from Bishop Pursley's Baccalaureate Sermon.
"For many of you, the past few days at Notre Dame have been like a retreat."
Sermon given at the Alumni Reunion Mass
"As well count the sand, as try to fathom them; and, were that skill mine, thy own being still confronts me."
"Introduction: The Drama of Mankind - Theologically."
Handwritten and annotated lecture outline including five headlines: Introduction, Original State of Man, Fall of Man (and Woman), the Theological Nature of Original Sin, Modern Reaction to Doctrine of Original Sin.
"It is more than somewhat presumptuous to attempt to cover the Theology of Catholic Action in a few moments."
Manuscript written by Father Hesburgh; not clear if it was delivered as a speech.
"Several weeks ago, when mentioning to a fellow priest that I was having trouble with this paper, he said: "Well, it shouldn't be too difficult. You know what theology is, and what a layman is.""
Paper written by Father Hesburgh; not clear if he delivered a speech based on this text.
Also encloses "Observations on Religion and Religious Training received from Notre Dame Alumni and Undergraduate GIs" 2 pages.
"If we were to cast about this morning for one word that could adequately describe this occasion, I would chose the word happy."
Saint Mary's Academy Commencement
"As a member of a religious community and a University already abundantly blessed, we consider it a singular blessing to be able to welcome here this evening the first National Congress for Religious in the United States."
Parallel drawn between devotion to Mary at Notre Dame and in the United States at large
"Bless us, O Almighty God, Creator of heaven and earth, whose physics is the rainbow by day and the flash of lightning etched against the blackness of the night, whose mathematics are the stars, whose canvas is the bended heavens upon which Thou dost paint the glory of the morning and of the evening sun."
"... it is a particular pleasure to welcome you for the Institute of Spirituality, since in God's Providence this is the best that we have to offer you."
Father Hesburgh notes that Notre Dame has always been a blessed spot in America.
"I am happy this evening, Ladies and Gentlemen, to bring to the members of the Irish Fellowship Club hearty festal greetings from the home of the 'Fighting Irish'".
3 copies: 1 ribbon copy, 2 annotated carbon copies with Father Hesburgh's handwritten annotations.
Similar to the 1981 "Fighting Irish" speech in (CPHS 142/18.02): although they have the same title, the two addresses are different.
"It has been a distinct pleasure to have the annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association at the University of Notre Dame this year."
Philosophy: Mediator between Science and Theology
Same as (UDIS H1/35.06)
2 copies
"An ever-increasing number of educators in America are becoming more concerned with the place and adequacy of religious education of our times."
"These brief words of Saint Paul are the key to sanctity."
"I live, now not I, but Christ liveth in me." - Gal.2:20
Father Hesburgh describes in detail the life of St. Thomas More. Included with the sermon a poem written by Phyllis McGinley, "Pater Familias", on More's family life, 1 page.
Same as (UDIS H1/35.09). Ribbon filed in UDIS.
2 copies: 1st copy with Father Hesburgh handwritten annotations, 2nd carbon copy
"What does one say to young lawyers, just graduated, that they might remember the next day, maybe even the next year? I give you only three words to remember: compassion, competence, and integrity."
This is an early draft of the speech with handwritten annotations and several missing pages in the middle. It is filed together with the 1 November 1953 speech regarding the life of St. Thomas More in (CPHS 141/04.05). Father Hesburgh combined these two speeches when delivering his Georgetown Law Center Graduation address, dated 29 May 1977, which is filed in (CPHS 142/11.04).
"During the first four years of its existence, the Natural Law Institute concerned itself with various aspects and applications of the natural law as understood by eminent jurists of the Western World, particularly America."
Manuscript. Conclusion written for the Natural Law Institute Proceedings, Volume 5, published in 1953. Not a speech.
"Everyone recognizes and appreciates brotherhood in action."
cc in (CPHS 141/06)
DuMont Television Network, Chicago, Man of the Future, a tribute to the Class of '54, Father Hesburgh presenting Leadership Message, Butler Story, with ROTC Award winners presented at close of message.
Total time 6 minutes
"Anyone speaking today to the fiftieth graduating class of Trinity College would be remiss if he did not mention the significance of this present anniversary."
"I would like to speak to you today about Christian womanhood."
The place of Woman in the Modern World Today
Same as "The Place of Catholic Alumnae in the World Today" in (CPHS 141/10.02). Also same as "The Divine Idea of Womanhood in (CPHS 141/15.04)."
2 copies: 1st ribbon copy, 2nd mimeograph
"Twenty years ago this month, I wrote a graduation talk to be delivered to another graduating class in this fair city of Syracuse, it happened to be my own graduating class, the class of 1934 from Most Holy Rosary High School."
On the Occasion of The Fourth Annual Commencement Exercises of Le Moyne College held in the Onondaga War Memorial Building at 3 P.M.
cc in (CPHS 141/06)
2 copies: 1st ribbon copy, 2nd mimeograph
"We begin the schoolyear today, as a faculty and student body, in prayer."
With the sermon a printed copy of a prayer invoking two graces: wisdom and courage.
cc in (CPHS 141/06)
2 copies: 1st ribbon copy, 2nd mimeograph
"... I would like to speak for all those who, while not being members of the Pangborn family or of the Pangborn Corporation, have felt the blessings of the advice, and the counsel, and the material assistance that has flowed from your hands and hearts."
Closing speech given at the Golden Anniversary Ceremony of the Pangborn Corporation, Hagerstown, Maryland. Company was founded in 1904.
"When Pius XII proclaimed 1954 as a Marian Year, all Catholic institutions dreamed of making some special contribution to the honor of Mary."
Father Hesburgh details the three key Catholic beliefs about the Blessed Virgin Mary.
cc in (CPHS 141/08)
2 copies: 1st handwritten original copy, 2nd carbon copy
"An educator may take several lines of approach to the subject of liberal education in the world today."
Liberal Education In The World Today
Same as (UDIS H1/36.02).
cc in (CPHS 141/08)
"I would like to speak to you this morning about two Notre Dame men: the one, a graduate of more than twenty-five years; and the other, his son who was this past year a junior in the College of Liberal Arts at the University. Neither of them is living today."
Notre Dame Men - Father and Son
Both Fred Miller, Sr., all-American tackle, and his son, Fred Miller, Jr. were killed on 17 December 1955 in an airplane crash in Milwaukee.
Same as (UDIS H1/36.03).
"... If I might particularize the specific blessings that we young presidents seek, I would ask that we be granted an abundance of those special virtues that characterize good administrators - that by God's grace and the consecrated use of our talents, we may be equal to the opportunity that is ours in these times."
A standing ovation by 250 industrial young presidents followed this invocation.
cc in (CPHS 141/08)