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...will not be cozened out of our birthright by the prophets of doom," orated 20-year-old Charles E. Hodges, valedictorian for 120 graduating seniors at Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Md. The coal miner's son spoke for "thousands of graduates throughout the nation" in asking their elders "to place confidence in us." The response came minutes later on the same platform, when U.S. Citizen No. 1 praised the valedictory as the best he had ever heard, went on to match its spirit with an account of "more crusades that need to be waged...
...after the Japs roared down on Pearl Harbor, the War Department informed Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Baker of Emmitsburg, Md. that their boy was dead. Then the Bakers got a letter from George, written after the attack saying in effect that the report of his death was grossly exaggerated. Next the Veterans' Administration wrote to Mrs. Baker, enclosing a form to be signed so that she could collect George's insurance...
...next room hard-bitten sailors cursed and killed themselves. When they were released her husband died. Widowed Elizabeth Seton became a convert to Catholicism. Eventually, as the result of persecutions by her onetime friends, she fled Manhattan, went to Baltimore to open the first Catholic parochial school, then to Emmitsburg, Md. to conduct the first American convent for the Sisters of Charity. Throughout her short life Mother Seton kept up a journal and a voluminous correspondence, with a remarkable literary quality which Author Feeney likens to Elizabeth Browning's. To her son William, who went...
...William's frigate arrived in Boston Harbor from a two-year cruise. Frantically impatient to see his mother, William jumped into a small boat, pulled furiously for the land, leaped ashore, rode day and night, by carriage, coach and wagon, to Emmitsburg. He ran the last two miles, up & down hill, only to find, when he arrived at the convent, that his tuberculous mother had been six months dead...
Humble, increasingly ascetic, Mother Seton found a religious community spontaneously growing up about her. Soon a community house was built for her near Emmitsburg, Md. Impatient to enter it, she walked there from Baltimore with her Sisters: 50 miles in two days. Her group followed the rule of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul-poverty, chastity, obedience, service of the poor-but they were not incorporated with the parent order until 29 years after her death...