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The NotreDame Scholastic 427 |i]iaiiiiiijaifiii(iiiiii(fii|(||ii||fiii|iii|f|||«f|||||a««((|j|t|i||||||iiiiitfti«f)ifiii<iiiiijiiiiijfiiii«jj|jf|fi«(i||iiiti(]iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii(iiiiif(tfli»fiia COMMENT I The Notre Dame Scholastic I While we are being bothered with i Disce Quasi Semper Victurus Vive Quasi CrasMoriturus | examinations we need not feel that those afflictions are present only at i Founded ISC? i Notre Dame. They are being con sidered elsewhere, and while the sub ject is appropriate, it might be fitting to take up this column by reprinting E.\IIL L. TELFEL—EDITOK-IX-CHIEF an editorial taken from The Sheaf, Assistant Matuiging Editor Managing Editor Assistant Managing Editor NEIL C. HURLEY JOHN E. BERCAX JOHN A. KIENER a publication of the University of Saskatchewan. The article is entitled Associate Editors "Average." EDWARD E. BRENNAN JA3IES J. KEARNEY EDWARD R. BP.ENNAN "It is usually the poor student who AusTiK BOYLE JAMES C.\RMODY PAUL J. HALLINAN finds fault with the examination sys The Week Make-np Editors College Parade tem. Consequently criticism of exam RICHARD J. O'DONNELL ALFRED E. GALL DANIEL C. WILLIAJIS inations, particularly just after the WALTER V. BEESLEY results appear, is discounted as an at Music and Drama Feature Editor'. Campus Clubs tempt to justify personal inadequacy FRANK E. SEWARD jAJtEs K. COLLINS W. LESUE RADDATZ . the rumor, which is familiar to Neivs Staff everyone, is that some- professors— LLOYD TESKE, Nezvs Editor generally the newer members of the WiLLiAXt C. KARL, Assistant News Editor staff—^find it convenient to keep in WILLIAM, FITZGERALD ANTHONY R. SCHREINER LAWRENXE DUNDA. mind the law of averages when mark JOHN CONLEY WILLIAM CORK . ' SANGUINET WILLIAMS ing papers. The law of averages MYRON CRAWFORD • F. GRANGER WEIL LAWRENCE PRYBYLSKI which is just a fine term for proba JOHN PICK -' WALTER JOHNSON bility, as applied to examination, Sports Staff means that so many members of the HENRY B. ASMAX, Spoi'ts Editor class will likely fail. A staunch be CLEVE CAREY GEORGE BELTING T. EDWARD CAREY liever in the law will be able to tell JAMES E. MCFEELY, JR. JAMES KEARNS IRVING HALPER pretty closely how many students will Business Staff fail on any examination provided he JAMES H. RORKE, Local Advertising Mgr. JOHN R. BLANDA, Local Circulation Mgr. is given the number in the class. JAMES L. RIZER. Foreign Advertising Mgr. ANDREW MCGUAN, Foreign. Circulation Mgr. There would be no objection to this FREDERICK BAUER RAYMOND J. NABEK JOHN P. HESS statistical feat were it not for the JOHN F. STOECKLEY—GRADUATE MANAGER OF PUBLICATIONS fact; that the rule is often considered MERLE BALDWIN, Publications Oficc Manager quite reliable. "That a rule, necessarily formu Vol. LXIV JANUARY 23, 1931 No. 14 lated only after study of the work of many students, should be considered quite reliable when applied to a few TABLE OF CONTENTS of them is farcical. The human being is not yet blithely trotting along The Week—Richard J. O'Donnell 429 Italian Club Meeting—Fran Oelerich — 430 paths which can be accurately pre K. of C. Foi-mal—F. Granger Weil and Martin Downey 431 dicted. It is quite conceivable that a Glances at the Magazines—Edward R. Brennan 436 class might not have a single A or B Music and Drama—Frank E. Seward 437 student or a single failure, but the A Man You Know—Edivard E. Brennan 438 A Man About the Campus—William Knox 439 "law" of averages takes no account Book Ee\news—John Pick 441 of this, and our rumor says that oc Campus Clubs—W. Leslie Raddatz 442 casionally the rule is preferred to Editor's Page .- 443 common sense. The Wink 444 College Parade—Daniel C. Williams 445 "Wliether or not the suspicions of Cagers Win Thriller From Penn—James Kearns . 446 the student body have much basis in Tommy Yarr Achieves Goal—T. Edward Carey — 449 actual fact will probably not become Splinters From the Press Box—fl". B. A 452 known. The divinity of the examina At the South Bend Theatres—John Francis 454 On Down the Line—Clevc Carey 456 tion system will continue to be pro tected by strict secrecy. In any case, it is a misfortune • that what little THE SCHOLASTIC is published weekly at the University of Notre Dame, Manu confidence the students have in exam scripts may be addressed to THE SCHOLASTIC, Publications Office, Main Buildinff. inations as a reliable means of test ing knowledge and industry should Entered as second-class matter at Notre Dame, Indiana. Acceptance for mailinsr at be destroyed by the widespread sug special rate of postase. Section 1103, October 3, 1917, authorized June 25, 1918. gestion that the individual receives less consideration than is generally THE ADVERTISERS IN NOTRE DAME PUBLICATIONS DESERVE THE PATRONAGE OF imagined." (We wonder if he's right) ALL NOTRE DAME MEN. —W. V. B. Q., •a 428 The Notre Dame Scholast 1 C THE CAMPUS AT NIGHT The Notre Dame Scholastic 429 T,H E legend persists in these parts that anyone holding ALN. Y Chicago contractor can tell you that Rome could any kind of office in any kind of organization is without not have been built in a day. But some imaginative fresh doubt a "racketeer," or, to change the vernacular, a men and sophomores who have loafed through Latin "grifter." The idea remains and grows more widespread classes during the past five months will be attempting with the passing years so that some honest men with a to master the language of the Romans over the coming mind to their reputations are becoming afraid to accept week end. Lights in residence halls will be burning the offices which are offered to them by their fellow men. brightly till midnight. Dust covered texts will be un That, according to tradition, is what caused the dissolu earthed from the bottoms of trunks and lockers. The tion of the Peoria club and the Oshkosh club several years library (that white stone structure north of Howard hall) ago. None of the members would accept executive offices will suddenly be discovered by undergraduates who had so they all banded together and formed what has become hitherto believed it to be merely a building in the base known in University history as the first quartet that ever ment of which the city clubs held their meetings. Now sang in the Glee club. And, according to Bourke Motsett, is the time when that fast dying out species, known as who is frequently accused of hailing from Peoria, a fine the "grind" comes into his own. He ceases to be a "goof," quartet it was! Now Jack Dempsey is coming forth with and overnight is changed to a good fellow. He's addressed a Juggler issue which will in all probability convince the as "pal" and slapped on the back in a hearty, Rotarian entire world, or at least, that vast majority which has its manner. His room becomes a haven for the gentlemen ear tuned to the saying of the Funny Fellow, that colleges who slept beside him in class since last September, and are nothing more than breeding places for "racketeers." who had resented the disturbing noise that his pen made We're surprised at Jack. He's been around here long- during the process of taking notes. His friendship be enough to know better than that. But then, he never has comes more sought after and more valued than that of been the same since that A. A. book photographer made any of the AU-Americans. In fact, many of the All- a Covarubbias caricature out of the handsomest counte Americans are eager to listen in on his e:c cathedra re- nance in the Dempsey family. Maybe there's a justifica hashings of lectures they had either never heard, or had tion for his satire. long since forgotten. While the "grind" becomes the center of interest, the library is thronged with those in pursuit of knowledge, and text books become suddenly W,HA T this country undoubtedly needs is fewer per interesting reading matter, there is, on the other side a sons who talk about what this country needs. And the noticeable dropping off in the attendance at the local statement might be limited to apply to our University. theatres and the Palais Royale, and a pronounced slump Accordingly, we don't desire to criticise the undergraduate in the town taxicab business. "Study" is our password, mind or scale of values in pointing out a local need, but and cramming is our pastime. What has happened to merely to point out an actual need, and make a sugges all those resolutions made so earnestly last fall concern tion. To be concrete . Monday night in Washington ing "keeping right up with the daily work?" hall there was held an event which is bound up in the traditions of Notre Dame. The Breen Medal contest for oratory is an annual affair on the campus, and for many T,HOS E signs announcing that cap and gown measure years after its establishment it excited a great deal of ments are being taken in Walsh hall sub are slightly student enthusiasm. The interest in it, however, has ironical, are they not? The mention of such scholarly slowly been dying away. This year, Frank McGreal, who apparel usually brings visions of a sunny day in June, a has been winning honors since his freshman days as a green, blossom-covered quadrangle, and a campus bright speaker and debater, was judged the winner.

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