the alumni as to such an organization. Then active steps must be taken toward the formation of an association. The proper time for the organizing of the alumni would be in June, and, as the commencement exercises at St. Ambrose are confined to one…
Laymen and St. Ambrose.
That a representative of the Laity or the of Diocese of Davenport, in the person of the undei signed, constituted one-half of the first
corps of professors of St. Ambrose College, is a rather unusual thing to record in…
Here in Davenport we have scores of them, prominent in banking, commercial and professional life, in offices of public and private trust, citizens of upright life, a credit to their church and their state. Of alumni from outside the city, I have…
Athletics in Early Days.
THE athletic history of St. Ambrose College began, when, on a crisp November morning in 1883, Tim Mullen, then a lay professor, now pastor of Adair, kicked a football over the belfry of the Old Hose House on Iowa…
time on the diamond. By dint of diligent study and constant practice, we were able to
put up a pretty fair article of scientific baseball as early as the summer of 1892. During this and the following two years, we amply wiped out the disgrace of many…
