Lincoln (Neb.) -- Guidebooks; Lincoln (Neb.) -- History
A cathedral is a bishop’s church and in it the first bishop’s
successors, Bishops Tihen, O’Reilly, Beckman and Kucera have presided.
Since Msgr. C. J. Riordan has become pastor the entire basement has been
finished, so that it contains two large halls. In one of them each
Sunday a second mass is celebrated at 11 o’clock, while the solemn mass
is celebrated upstairs. From the kitchen each school day noon are served
hot meals to the entire student body of the Cathedral school.
University art classes each year visit the church to sketch its
architectural beauty.
No. 58—Northeast High, Sixty-third and Baldwin
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Those three sister territories, University Place, Havelock and Bethany,
spread out side by side in northeast Lincoln and once quite separate
divisions of the city, were tied together as neatly by the new Northeast
high school as three handkerchiefs are secured by one knot in the
corners. Thus caught up, they are a flag of friendly challenge, not to
say defiance, to wave across to Lincoln high at 21st and J. Overnight a
feeling of solidarity sprang up at the new high school.
There had been murmurs when the school neared completion over a year ago
that the name Northeast was undesirable—that it had a cold, damp sound
and that no one could love an institution with such an appellation, and
so why not name it for some Nebraska or national notable. Others
contended that the name was not the thing—that dear old Northeast could
entwine itself as firmly around the heart as dear old VanWyck or
Montmorency.
The latter seem to have been right. The three lines of youngsters we see
converging on Northeast these mornings approach their new institution
smiling. Probably one could learn to love Hogwallow school if
associations and surroundings were pleasant. Speaking of appearances and
surroundings, the picture above is a very inadequate representation of
the building itself. The surroundings, naturally still a little barren,
have been improved by a cement walk, and with gravel on 63rd.
Lincoln’s third high school is in College View.
No. 59—State Historical Society
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Conquerors sweep thru a nation or state bent only on conquest; traders
camp on its borders intent only on immediate gains; missionaries kneel
on its soil with the welfare of souls in mind; pioneers break the sod
for the purpose of putting four walls around their families, bread in
their mouths. It falls to the historian to follow after these men of one
purpose, to gather up the fragments; to keep alive, in words at least,
the spark struck off by fleeing hoof or flintlock or ringing ax.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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