PREFACE



even to the borders distant by time and space, where
the energy, begotten, born and nourished in Seminary
days expended itself in magnificent work that must
ever remain as a monument to the fruitful Mother
Seminary of the West.
   I send forth this book with no misgiving, for I
know the spirit in which it will be received by the old
students of St. Thomas', and for them I write. Others,
from their own experience, may judge it differently,
but we must remember that no other seminary has
ever worked under similar conditions, or stood in the
same relations towards its students and their definite
work, as Old St. Thomas' with its students and the
particular work for which it must, and did, give them
a special training. To feel this fully one must have
been at St. Thomas'.
   The reader will understand this better after reading
the book,-the story is not without interest; until then
I ask a suspension of judgment.
                         WM. J. HOWLETT.
PUEBLO, CoLo., June 1, 1906.