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MATTHEW FRANCIS McDONAI-D
“Mad!
“Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look
The Fields his study, Nature was his book.”
lt().tl)W.tY has seen man)’ go, hut things took a sorry slump the mien-
ing “Mae” smiled adieu. The Milk)‘ tVay was seen to dim. Sadtler
than that was his determination that pretty dannes should have no role in
his new Iifes’a determination that puzzled no one exeept the dailies themselves,
for none. old or young, had eanse other than to admire him. “Mae” often
quotes from his eopy hook, “tle travels t'a.ste.st and tartherest who travels
alone.“ so whenever white hands heekon and pretty eyes invite. he does not
look. Not that he has an aversion for them. he‘s only traveling alone. For
a young lad. he has always taken life almost too seriously, and when he
eleeted to delve into hooks under the shadow of our hlue and white llag. the
seriousness that eharaeterized attaek surprised no one. Villanova knows as
well as his elassmates. hoth through Prep. and College, he hnrned the mid-
night-oil to indulge in hard study rather than hard riding, delighting mostly
in (ireek topies and other sneh dead stuff‘. He would have rivaled hoth
Aesehines and Aeseliylns had he spanned his life in the II. ('. Memory will
ever reeall the (‘ommeneement of "20, when he marehed up for the (‘lassie
Medal. a trophy well earned, shy and hlnshing to the ears, yet athletieally,
he earried his hroad shoulders and high ehest, the prominent features of his
strong and symmetrieal physique as it" it were an everyday happening.
Yes. Matthew is one of the big men of the elass. lle helieved in a strong
hody and a sound mind. His great attaehment for all sports proves this about
him. ltain or shine. “Blue” was always ready for some strenuous exereise.
There is still one thing that puts "Nine" in a mystie elass. That thing
is his aneestry. Time and time again, we have tried to make him think that -1
he was a Seotehman; and as man)’ times “Mae” has defemled himself and his .‘
progenitors in a real Irish fashion. ‘
At last we have arrived at the eml of a ('ollege eonrse. Out of the full-
ness ot' our hearts, we wish Matthew many sneeessfnl and happy ye.'u'.s. “'e 7
will not forget old friends, and "Mae" indeed has heen a stanneh and true
friend to all.
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