The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus 'JT ,v •^\ ... Your Pleasure— Our Privilege T HAS been the privilege of the Hotel McAlpin to serve as Notre Dame Team Headquarters in the past .... and we an­ ticipate hopefully another opportunity to entertain Notre Dame cohorts. The McAlpin spares neither effort nor expense to make the annual visit a pleasurable event. We do more than promise the best of eveiything New York affords — we guarantee it! Every room at the McAlpin is large and luxuriously furnished. McAlpin serxnce is thorough, efficient, courteous and helpful. The ultra convenient location of the McAlpin saves time, effort and carfare in getting quickly to eveiy center of activity. • •' l'' •'• :"' i'\ ' As foK^'ecinxonij^r.':.;..,-McAlpin rates are at the lowest scale in the history of. tjiis; toe hotel .... yet there has been NO IM- PAIRMEN'l'''o"f silj)el-ior service, fine food and luxurious accommo- datififn'ViSihgte rooms*with.bp^ start at S2.50 — double rooms with'brath'*from"$4:eO-'aiid WiO-bedded rooms at $4.50. Write or wire for }-eservatio7is .. .to me personally if you prefer JOHN J. WOELFLE, Mgr. Hotel McAlpin Broadvj'ay at 34th St. New York City 104252 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS )5io3/34- football team. What seems at the out­ cations. The "no-pass" edict was ef­ set like shutting the door on a friend fected to eliminate worse embarrass­ has, in justice to those responsible for ments. Provision has been made for CCMMENT the ordex-, a background that justi­ practices during the Fall that will be fies it. open to students and friends of the During the last two years, evidence team. Right at the start, such is the stir­ has come to the attention of the ring of the American pulse in our coaching staff that the passes issued The Questionnaires are back in alumni, the ALUMNUS has to co-op­ and the rather free access to visitors gratifying numbers—^but not nearly erate with the NRA by adding eight provided were apparently being complete. This is more than the or­ pages to our intended 32. In spite of abused. Reports of plays seemed to dinary request for information. It the economic stress that will follow precede the plays to opposing camps, reflects more than an editorial cur­ at some later date, unless dues keep and considerable criticism of the iosity as to the birthdays of your pace with activity and interest, the coaching staff had what looked to be children. It is primarily for your pages have been added because the an origin on the sidelines of secret benefit. If you still have your unre- men who wrote them are so willing practice. tumed Questionnaire, fill it out and to inconvenience themselves and to These things are mentioned here send it in. If you have lost or mis­ co-operate with the Editor—for your rather frankly, because the returning placed or never received it, advise the benefit—that for them, as well as for alumnus may feel that a most inter­ Alumni Office and a duplicate vnll be you, omission or condensation would esting part of his school is being sent to you. have been unfair. closed to him with unpleasant impli­ The beautiful photograph which forms the cover of this issue was tak­ en by Mrs. Frank E. Hering, and is reproduced here through the courtesy THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS of Very Rev. James A. Bums, C.S.C., whose copy of the picture was bor­ JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25, Editor rowed for the purpose. Mrs. Hering is a keen student of photography, and The magazine is published monthly during; the scholastic year by the Alumni the manner in which the picture on Association of the University of Notre Dame, • Notre Dame. Indiana. The the cover catches the beautj' and the subscription price is S2.00 a year: the price of single copies is 25 cents. The symbolism that reside in the lake, the annual alumni dues of S5.00 include a year's subscription to THE ALUSINUS. trees and the dome and spire is but Entered as second-class matter January 1. 1923, at the post office at Notre Dame. Indiana, under the .Act of March 3, 1879. All correspondence should one of many tributes to her art. be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus. Box 81, Notre Dame. Indiana. JVlE-MBER OP THE AMERICAN ALUMM COUNCIL President Harry Miller has ob­ served the courtesies of summer and MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC ALUMNI FEDERATION its individual distractions and its heat. But he writes that, summer past, the Big Drive is about to be launched. The Alumni Board will meet during October to consider plans THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION already well advanced. These consist primarily of establishing the Associa­ of the tion on a basis where we can act \vithout the problem of a subsidy UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME from the University or the embar­ Alumni Headquarters, Main Floor Administration Bldg., rassment of our own credit elsewhere, if, as the current saying has it, any. Notre Dame, Indiana The setting and the personnel for a big year, which will be just the first JAJIES E. ARMSTRONG, Secretary-Treasurer of a long line of big years, is ours this year. Harry Miller can paste ALUMNI BOARD Blue Eagles all'over the Alumni Of­ fice windows, if you who individually BYRON V. KANALBY, '04 - - - - - Honorary President are assessed a very small part of the M. HARRY MILLER, 'lO -------- President burden will carry it and come along FRANK C. WALKER, '09 - - - - - First Vice-President with him. Harry knows, from a fam­ ous experience that has brought the ARTHUR R. CARJIODY, '15 -' - - - - Second Vice-President same knowledge to you, that a back- JOHN F. O'CONNELL, 13 '-- Director field or a line, separately, don't make ROBERT E. LYNCH, '03 ------- - Director a team, but together — goalposts tougher than Michigan's will crack HUGH A. O'DONNELL, '94-------- Director before them. Harry will carry the FRED L. STEERS, 'il --------- Director ball, if you'll sign on the line. FRANCIS A. WERNER, '33 - - - - - (one year) Director CLARENCE MANION, '22 - - - - - (ex officio) Director Alumni coming back to the campus may be surprised to find difficulty in attending the practice sessions of the ^;lyyg^iyai;rS>^l?^g^^^•»jV;i^i;:ga iS-i^ r-'^^^yj^^^tfi'^x: ;;>;»; THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Vol. XII October, 1933. No. 1 N. D. Stands For New Deal, Too, As Year Opens Body of Blue Eagle Does Not Belong to Academic America, Says N.R.A., But Its Spirit Flaps Noisily Over A Campus Whose N. D. Has Always Meant No Depression. ample to presei-ve the nature and the John A. Staunton, assistant professor The Reverend Charles L. O'Donnell, policies of Notre Dame as recent of philosophy, will sail this month for C.S.C, Ph.D., president of the Uni­ years have evolved them. Rome to study for the priesthood. He No decrease in the faculty or in is a former Anglican minister, now in versity, is now conducting the busi­ his 70th year and is a recent convert. ness of the University from his bed­ the faculty salaries marks the new- side in the University Infirmary, year. Changes occurred, but "in Six graduate assistants will not re­ stride." Five laymen have not re­ turn this year, but six have been Notre Dame. He is doing this with turned, for reasons which occur in a added to the teaching staff. the consent of his physicians who find faculty at all times. New men have Appointments of hall rectors at that the mental exertion involved in been added to take their places. The the University for 1933-34 are an­ this brings no deteriorating effect in facultj- of the University has in­ nounced by the Rev. John F. O'Hara, the physical processes involved in his creased during the depression. C.S.C, acting president and prefect recovery. -A.lso worthy of note is the building of religion. Father O'Donnell had been at St. program which the University has The Rev. John F. Farley, C.S.C. Joseph's since the middle of August. carried out during the years of de­ •\vill continue as rector of Sorin hall After commencement last June, he pression just past. Law, Engineering at which the Rev. Charles Doremus, went to a lake in northern Michigan and Commerce students occupy new C.S.C. and the Rev. Thomas Brennan, buildings. Alumni and Dillon resi­ C.S.C, will be prefects. as the guest of Mr. Fred J. Fisher, dence halls have risen. A new power a trustee of the University. There The Rev. James Stack, C.S.C. will plant of ultra-modern design and size again serve as rector of Corby hall, his general condition improved until has replaced the old. A new road the early part of July when new also for seniors and -ivill be assisted is open East of the Stadium. The by the Rev. John Reynolds, C.S.C symptoms indicated further activity Stadium construction itself followed and Prof. Edward A. Coomes. of his streptococcus infection. the crash of the 1929 market. The Rev. Leo Heiser, C.S.C, rector He entered the Medical Center in Five million dollars has been spent of Morrissey hall last year, will be New York for a thorough examina­ in the depression years by the Univer­ rector of Walsh hall for the seniors. tion. The doctors there diagnosed sity for expansion pui-poses.