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THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Vvv

Vol. VI. CONTENTS FOE SEPTE]VIBEE, 1927 No. 1

The Notre Dame of 1927-8 Frontispiece The Soul of the Church—By Rev. John Cavanaugh, C.S.C. 3 Deep Plowing—By Prof. Charles Phillips, M.A. 11 Et. Eev. George J. Finnigan—By Mark Nevils, '27 15 E ditorial ^ 17 President's Page 19 N. D. Women Grads Organize 21 Employment Service 22 Athletics . 26 The Alumni 28

The magazine is published monthly during the scholastic year by the Alunmi Association of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. The subscription price is ?2.00 a year: the price of single copies is 25 cents. The annual alumni dues of S5.00 include a year's subscription to THE ALUMNUS. Entered as second-class matter January 1, 1923, at the post office at Notre Dame, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1897, All corres­ pondence should be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus, Box 81, Notre Dame, Indiana.

JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25, Editor

The Alumni Association

of the University of Notre Dame Alumni Headquarters: 329 Administralion Building, Notre Dame James E. Armstrong, '25, General Secretary

ALUMNI BOARD EDWARD L. MAURUS, '93 - - - - Honorary President JOHN P. MURPHY, '12 ------President JAMES F. O'BRIEN, '13 ------Vice-President JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25 ------Secretary WALTER DUNCAN, '12------Treasurer EDAVIN C. MCHUGH, '13 ------Director JOSEPH M. HALEY, '99------Director ALFRED C. EYAN, '20------Director GEORGE M. JVIAYPOLE, '03 , - u- . >-. -<., - ••- jDirecior DANIEL J. O'CONNOR, '05 \- i \)'iy:*idor!X'eoi''offlko) J ) i ) 1 J -J 3 J > » NOTRE DAME OF 1927-8—SHOWING COMPLETED DORMITORY GROUP IN FOREGROUND- NEW DINING HALL ON RIGHT.

^^pHi*?:t^ipCw;*?fJS^(?f^^Srg^^?^5^^^f^ THE K'OTfeC DAAAC ALUMNUS A magazine which seeks to unify Notre Dame spirit amons Notre Dame alumni; to keep alive the friendliness and democracy of the campus when campus days are sone; to acquaint ^Notre Dame alumni with the development of the University, and the broader devel­ opment oi the principles of Catholic education; to organize alumni activity so that it may better and in a greater measure attain its ends; to live in print as Notre Dame men live always, "For God, for Country, and for Notra Dame."

The Soul of the Church Sermon preached by the Rei: Dr. John Caranauah, C.S.C., of Notre Dame Universitu, at the Enthronement of the Rt. Rev. George Joseph Finniaan, C.S.C., .D.D., in the Cathedral of Helena, Aiiiimt IS, 1027

"Now. therefore. O my sons, be ye zealous for the that will long be tenderly cherished, that law. and give your lives for the covenant of your must silence many a harsh word on our fathere. lips and on theirs in the years to come. "And call bo remembrance the works of the fathers, which they have done in their generations: It is such hours of human sympathy, hours and you shall receive great joy and an everlasting not alone of grief but of grace, hours of name." —I JIachabees 2. 50-51. light and love, that nourish union and con­ fidence among neighbors. Peacemaker, peace-lover, peace-giver that he was, I be­ ESS than two years have passed since lieve Bishop Carroll would willingly have a devoted people were bowed beneath flung himself into the arms of death, would L the news that the chief pastor of the gladly have closed to with his own hand diocese was taken away by death. North the door of his own tomb, to enlarge the and South and East and West the message spirit of peace and harmony among the flashed, and everywhere it brought dismay American people whom he loved. and grief, for every­ Therefore today, when the widowed dio­ where there were cese of Helena lays aside the weeds of those who loved mourning at the coming of another Carroll, Bishop Carroll and we glance backward for a moment with sorrowed bitterly for misty and reverend eyes. Youth that his loss. His own dreams, youth that loves chivalry and feeds flock and his non- and thrives on ideals,—^youth lifts its radi­ Catholic friends in ant face once more to the skies and renews Montana naturally its vows of consecration. Friendship, re­ felt the more poig­ membering his loyalty to those who labored nant pain, but far with him early and late in life, lays a beyond the limits of wreath of remembrance on the tomb of that this diocese and this great example of the sturdy virtues and state in the large gentle graces of friendship. Humanity, cities and in towns searching the face of God for hope and REV. CAVANAUGH, c.S.C. and V i 11 a g e s, on prophesy, rejoices that Christian chai-ity fai-ms and in mines and brotherhood found in him such an il­ and factories multitudes of people who had lustrious exponent. Patriotism from behind never looked upon his face in life, never the veils of grief lifts tearful but.happy known the witchery of his smile, nor seen eyes to Heaven for the full-hearted devo­ the lighting in his eyes, nor heard the tion of this great son of America to the music of his voice, nor felt the warmth of ideals and institutions that have made our his cordial handclasp, were the poorer and country great. Religion sings pei-petual sadder for his passing. Our public men requiems round- the grave of the beloved paid noble tribute; the press and the pul­ high priest whose life reflected the sweet­ pit uttered golden words of brotherhood ness and fragrance of piety, of him who THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS amid the rankness of the woi'ld still wore or whimsical formulae agreed upon by ec­ "the white flower of a blameless life amid a clesiastics, or crude dreams derived from thousand peering littlenesses in the fierce the infancy of Christianity, or images de­ light that beats upon a throne." veloped like photographic plates in the dark Scientists assure that so remote are cer­ room of the illiterate past. They are the tain stars that millions of years are re­ remembered messages entrusted to her quired for their light to reach us; that if through the ancient revelation of God to such a star were extinguished today its the Chosen People in the Old Testament light would still continue to pour down on and through the more perfect revelation our earth for years to come. So the poet: made by the words and works of her divine Founder. This, too, is why there are mys­ Were a star quenched on. hiffh teries of religion, for mysteries are those For ages would its Hgrht, Still streaming downward from the sky. religious truths which are unquestionably Fall on our mortal sisrht revealed but which the human mind cannot grasp. The Church herself does not know So when a sreat man dies, for years beyond our ken the ultimate meaning of these mysteries; For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies if she did she would explain them. In this Upon the paths of men. respect she is like a little child sent by her mother on a difficult errand to a grocery Bishop Carroll is not dead. No man dies store. The child may not fully understand who by lesson and example still influences the terms of the message but she keeps re­ the lives of men. Peace to his sacred peating it to herself as she hurries along dust! Rest to the noble brow and the brave the way. So the Church sacredly preserves heart and the tireless hand! Honor to his a correct form of words when speaking of stainless, holy memory! Thanksgiving and religious truths, but these words cannot ex­ remembrance from a grateful, loving peo­ plain, for example the Mystery of the Holy ple! And above all eternal ecstacy be his Trinity, the Mystery of the Incarnation, in the bosom of the God from whom he the Mystery of the Holy Eucharist. The came and to whom he has returned! May correct form of words only conveys the his soul and the souls of all the faithful spiritual fact behind them, only defines the departed—prelates, priests and people of terms of the mystery. And besides the dog­ Montana—rest in peace! mas and mysteries of religion, and the teachings of theologians, and the sayings II. of the great saints, there is the rich store of Catholic views, feeling, instincts, opin­ Men die but the Church of God lives on ions and practices, the ideal of consecrated forever. She herself may be thought of as virginity, the insistence on zeal and loyalty, a person with a visible body and an invisi­ and reasonable obedience and meekness— ble soul. Her body is the multitude of all the whole constituting what may be called the faithful, believing the same spiritual the mind of the Church. truths, recei%ang the same divine sacra­ ments, living the same religious lives. The Likewise the will of the Church is the head of that body is the Bishop of Rome, will of God—^the sanctification of souls. its members are the three hundred and That and that alone is ultimately her aim. thirty million Catholic people of the world. As a Church she has no politics, no states­ The soul of the Church (as I here use the manship, no economics, no culture. As a expression) is the spiritual deathless prin­ Church she makes no choice between mon­ ciple animating the body, and like the hu­ archies and republics, between poverty and man soul we may think of it as having a riches, between simplicity and genius, but mind, a will and a memory. The mind of only between truth and error, between the Church is the infinite mind of God, so piety and brutishness, bet\veen virtue and far as it has been made known to us by vice. We hear much these days about can­ revelation, the mind of Christ as made didates for the presidency. The Church known by His divine teaching. That is cares nothing for political or social eco­ why the Church has dogmas, which are not, nomic prestige except insofar as these may as critics sometimes fancy, mere arbitrary be useful in teaching and sanctifying the THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS masses of mankind. Her business is solely the experience of nineteen centuries she has with the sins and sorrows of men. If she stored up and recorded, so that all that men had to choose she would prefer the baptism have ever known is known to those who of one Indian child to the building of an guide and perpetuate that mighty Church." empire or the culturing of a civilization. And he adds: "In these days when doctors Hence there are many things that our of divinity devote their energies to nibbling kindly neighbors who have not the Cath­ away the foundations of historic faith, and olic point of view cannot understand about when the sharpest weapons of agnosticism us. They cannot ujiderstand why, though are forged on theological anvils, there is we do not build Catholic hotels or theatres, something inspiring even for us outside her for example, we do whenever possible build fold in the spectacle of the grand old Catholic schools because schools form and Church that does not change from age to color and determine the very fibre of the age, that stands unshaken on the rock of child's mind and soul. her convictions and that speaks to the per­ The memory of the Church is the kalei­ plexed and wandering soul in the serene doscopic experience of the Christian ages. and lofty accents of divine authority." The world-wide cathedral of the Catholic "Call to remembrance the works of the Church is tapestried with heroic traditions, f athei's, which they have done in their gen­ inspiring episodes to thrill and hearten her erations," said Mathathias. My friends, amid the problems, the labors and trials look at the long panorama of history and she must constantly face. She does not deny tell me, is there any pageantry of heroism she has no wish to conceal, that here and or of victory to compare with the splendors there in history her children—even her con­ that have gathered round her ancient head? secrated sons—have dragged her beautiful Like her divine Founder the Church has banners in the dust, have been unworthy of often been mocked and scourged and cruci­ their dignity and unfaithful to their duty, fied, but gifted -with His immortality and but these moments of history she knows are His unfailing power, like Him she has al­ but the unnecessary proofs that as St. Paul ways risen again glorious and eternal. says we carry our heavenly treasures in When the infant Church first knocked for earthen vessels, and that though divine in entrance at the gates of the Boman Em­ her doctrine and her sacraments she has pire, persecution with its thousand hands been at times very human in her member­ sought to throttle her at the threshold, and ship. Yet when all is said in fairness she for three hundred years paganism was has been the one sun in the finnament of drunk with Christian blood. When her history, while the planets about her have apostles were commanded to deny their shone only with a fragmentary and reflect­ master they answered, "It is better to obey ed light. This is why Macaulay, the great­ God rather than men" just as the bishops, est of modern English essayists, says that the successors of the apostles have said in there is not and never has been on earth every period of Christian history, "It is an institution so well worthy of study as better to obey God rather than men." And the Eoman Catholic Church. This is why when the thirst for blood was sated, when Gladstone, the greatest of modern English the uplifted smoking sword fell to the statesmen, has said: "Since the first three earth for very weariness, when the camelo- hundred years of Christianity the Eoman pard bounded no more in the arena and the Catholic Church has marched at the head smoke of pagan incense ascended no more of civilization, and has driven to her char­ on the altars of Jupiter and Venus, the iot, like the horses of a triumphal car, the Church found in her own children enemies chief intellectual and moral resources of the more terrible than the Roman rulers. When world. Her learning has been the learning in the fourth centuiy the great emperor of the world, her greatness, her glory, her Theodosius in a fit of insane passion or­ grandeur, has been almost though not dered the massacre of thirty thousand in­ quite, all that the world has had to boast nocent Thessalonians, the Catholic bishop of." This is why a great American editor St. Ambose met him at the door of his and author has written: "For every spir­ cathedral in Milan and reproached him for itual question she has supplied the answer; his brutal crime. "On your knees, O mighty THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Emperor! Lay aside your royal purple." represented the power of God in the world, And for thirty days he made Theodosius the only power that could teach an emperor kneel in sackcloth and ashes at the cathe­ that lesson. Is it any wonder that tyrants dral door begging the prayers of the poor have always hated the old Catholic Church, people going to Mass. "Slaves and beggars which while adjuring political power and may freely enter the church to join in while faithfully rendering to Caesar the prayer," said the weeping emperor, "but things that are Caesar's, has always loy­ against me the gates of Heaven are shut." ally demanded for God the things that are Yes, 0 gi-eat Theodosius, shut by the only God's? power on earth that could stand against Is it necessary to rehearse the familiar the mighty emperor of Rome and teach drama of Henry VIII. and Clement VII., to tyranny the sacredness of human life. Is tell how in the darkest day the Church has it any wonder that the Catholic Church is known, perhaps, since the crucifixion of today, as she has always been, the Church Christ the mightiest emperor of the world of the poor and the lowly? confronted an aged and friendless pope and When in that turbulent period, the elev­ declared that unless he were permitted to enth century, the world ran to war and put away his wife and marry another Eng­ quarrelling, when as Baronius said it land would join in the general apostasy? seemed as If Christ was asleep in the bark Remember that for centuries the Orient had of Peter while the wind and the waves been under the yoke of Mahomet; for cen­ stormed about it, another powerful em­ turies the vast Russian Empire to the peror, the Fourth Henry of Germany, em­ north had been in schism. Now Noi-way ployed every device that the genius of hell and Sweden and Denmark and Switzerland could invent or the malice of men execute had fallen away, and even France and Italy to break down the faith and morals of the seemed honeycombed •with disaffection. At clergy. Gregory VII—^that Hildebrand this tragic moment when there seemed whom the common judgment of historians nothing left to the Church but the promise has canonized as one of the holiest, wisest, that she would not fail forever, when the bravest of mankind—after repeated efforts Holy Catholic Church, once the Lady of to reform the hyi^ocritical emperor, in or­ Kingdoms, sat down in the dust to weep der to save the discipline of the Church at over what seemed her dead greatness, last launched against him the thunders of amid that universal desolation, that frail excommunication. As if by mag^c his par­ old pope was called on to decide whether tisans, his liege lords, his princes and his he should follow the dictates of human wis­ kings, recognizing the justice of the Holy dom or defend the truth of Christ. You Father's sentence, fell away from Henry know at what a teiTible cost he stood and at last he sued for pardon. In the faithful to his trust. The whole English month of January, in one of the severest speaking world is preponderously non- winters of history, the emperor almost Catholic today but the deposit of faith was alone toiled painfully over the Alps picking saved and Christian marriage was vindi­ his way through gorges and cre\ices of ice, cated. Is it any wonder that every man. sometimes creeping on bleeding hands and and woman who loves the sacredness of the knees. Arrived at the Castle of Canossa home and the purity of domestic affection he stood fasting in the chill winter air admires the Catholic Church? three days pleading for pardon before the "But," you say, "these are ancient stories pope admitted him to his presence. Why and the world has changed. The role of did the Vicar of the meek and lowly Sav­ popes and bishops as defenders of truth iour inflict so terrible a chastisement— and innocence and religion, as vindicators Hildebrand the saintly, Hildebrand the wise? of Christianity against the encroachments Why did Christ scorch the Pharisees with of secular government has passed from the words of fire and scourge the money­ stage of human action." Well, it is only a changers out of the temple? It was neces­ century since Napoleon tried to bulldoze sary to teach brutal power a lesson of Pius VII. into making the Church the pup­ justice, and that mortified Christlike pope pet of the imperial power. Insulted, brow- THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS beaten, humiliated, imprisoned, the Holy Need I speak of the situation on our Father still outfaced that unscrupulous and southern border? Is there a fair-minded monstrous despot. When Pius VII. hurled American who does not know that the at him the anathemas of excomunication struggle in Mexico is merely the age-old Napoleon sneered, "Does the old dotard attempt of sacreligious and tyrannical think that the guns will fall from the paganism to imprison and destroy the hands of my soldiers on that account?" But Church? For the man of faith, even for history knows that the guns did literally the man who merely knows history, the ul­ fall from the hands of Napoleon's frozen, timate issue of the conflict has never been starving soldiers on the retreat from Mos­ for a moment in doubt. The faithful suf­ cow that fatal year. Not a trace of his fering people of Mexico will emerge from work survives in the political geography of the trial purified and strengthened; Christ the world; he survives chiefly as a horrible in His own good time will arise in the bark example. Dying a prisoner and an exile of Peter and commanding the wind and the on the barren rock of St. Helena, today in waves, cry "Peace, be still!"; and the loy­ this beautiful cathedral of St. Helena he alty and faith of Catholic bishops will once points an ancient moral. It is only a quar­ more triumph over the storms of the Evil ter of a century since the French Govern­ One. Yea, even as it was in the beginning, ment despoiled the religious houses, drove is now, and ever shall be, the gates of hell the monks and nuns into exile, and prophe­ shall not prevail against the Church of sied the end of the Christian religion within Christ. that French despotism that was masque­ III. rading as a republic. "We have removed the Today, my dear Bishop Finnigan, once Crucifixes," said the statesmen of France, my son and now my Et. Eev. Father in "we have banished the religious, we have God, you have been aggregated to that il­ torn down the altars, we have di-iven Jesus lustrious body of bishops, who, united to Christ out of the hospitals, the schools and the Holy Father, constitute the teaching the courts of Justice and now we must and governing power of the Church. The banish Him from the country altogether!" Universal Father of the Faithful is indeed And the saintly Pius X, meekest and most supreme and independent in the shepherd­ spiritual of men, representative of that un­ ing of the flock, but of you as of him has ending religious dynasty that has seen the been uttered the sublime and inspired pro­ beginning of all existing human institu­ nouncement, "The Holy Ghost has placed tions and is destined to see the end of them you bishops to rule the Church of God." To all, out of the infinite patience of his eter­ you as to him has been given the divine nal faith and confidence knelt for a moment command, "Going, therefore, teach all na­ at the tomb of St. Peter, confronted the tions." It is not likely that Christians will French Premier (whose very name is al­ ever in our time or countiy be bidden by ready forgotten) and said, "Why so hot, tyi-anny to worship idols, or constrained by little man, why so hot? When this blast law to act against conscience, but if that of persecution has spent its force like many evil destiny should ever befall, you are another storm in the past, when for her placed here in this high pulpit among the sins against liberty LaBelle France, once mountains to declare, "It is better to obey the eldest (and loveliest) Daughter of the God rather than man." It is not likely Church, shall be in bondage to Gei-many or that another Theodosius wll ever again perhaps to Japan, the Church of God im­ slaughter women and children, but if so mortal with divine immortality, will be you must like another Ambrose rebuke ini­ chanting perpetual requiems round her quity in high places and demand justice grave." And so it would have been had not and mercy for the lowly and the poor. The the priests and devout Catholic laymen of day when a Henry Fourth of Germany or France, reinforced by the Christian mil­ a Henry Eighth of England or a Napoleon lions, the Catholic and non-Catholic peoples was possible is gone forever, but if the of England and America and Belgium and emergency ever confronts you I doubt not Italy averted the chastisement of God and you will prove a Hildebrand, a Clement or saved France and the world to Civilization. a Pius. Please God, the Church in our THE NOTRE DAME ALUJIXUS liberty-lo\ang and liberty-giving country Ogdensburg, the diocese in which Bishop will never know the experiences of the Finnigan was born. Father De Smet was Church in France or in Mexico, but should a Jesuit and a Belgian and naturally the Di\'ine Providence permit that melancholy first diocesan priest to join him in Mon­ fate the bishops of America, like the bishops tana were missionaries of Belgian blood, the of France and Mexico, like the saintly tj'pe so beloved of St. Francis Xavier. Da Pius X. and the wise and patient Pius XI. mihi Belgas! Next appeared the anointed ^\^ll comfort and strengthen the shepherds sons of Patrick and of Boniface to com­ and the flock, will lift their voices in warn­ plete the apostolic legions of this truly ing and reproof. Catholic ai'my. Et. Eev. and dear Bishop, you have come And not less fei"\'ently in this happy hour into a sublime inheritance, a heroic and let us lift grateful voices for the conse­ holy tradition. You are the successor not crated women who refined as well as sanc­ alone of the beloved Bishop Carroll, and tified what was then the wilderness. Those the gentle Bishop Brondel, but in some incompai-able pioneers, the Sisters of Provi­ measure of the saintly O'Connor and the dence and of Leavenworth, the heroic Ur- niai-tji-ed Seghers. And, 0 priest of the sulines and the other heaven-sent communi­ Holy Cross! forget not the prodigies ties that came later—^forever honored be wrought among these mountains in the past their memory in the religious annals of by the hosts of God, men worthy to have Montana! Their names will never be cast for their bishop the Archangel Michael! on tablets of bronze or carved on the mar­ Especially let us mention with honor today bles of immortality—, but the records of the chivalrous and indomitable Jesuits, an­ their labors and their virtues are painted cient and illustiuous missionaries through­ on the unforgetting intelligences of the An­ out the world when our young Community gels, and the story of them is written in was in swaddling clothes. Let us never the Books of God! forget the distinguished, the noble, the "Call to remembrance the works of the scholarly, the devoted diocesan clergy, fathers, which they have done in their gen­ priests who would do honor to any time erations," said the dying Mathathias to his and country in the history of the Church. sons, the Machabees. 0 high priest of God, When in August 1841 Father Sorin was we who know you longest and love you on the Atlantic making a journey of four best can do for you no better thing than to thousand miles to the Indians of Notre pray that you and the priests, the religious Dame, the immortal Jesuit De Smet was and the people who labor with you may be in that same month, in that same year, filled with the heroic spirit of those who making his journey a thousand miles to have gone before you with the sign of faith become the first missionary to the Indians and sleep the sleep of peace! of Montana. Tlie Jesuits came because a band of Iroquois from the East had during N. D. EDUCATORS HONORED many years persuaded the Flat-Heads to The twenty-fourth convention of the plead persistently for the Blackrobes. "By Catholic Educational Association was held these signs you will know them," said the in Detroit during the summer. Eev. Wil­ Iroquois. "They wear long black robes, liam F. Cunningham, C. S. C, Director of they carry the Crucifix with them, they pray the School of Education at Notre Dame, the gi-eat prayer (The Mass) and they do was appointed representative of the Asso­ not marry." Again and again religious ciation on the Committee on Eeview of the men had offered themselves as spiritual North Central Association of Colleges and guides to the Flat-Heads, but they did not Secondary schools, which is in charge of meet the plans and specifications and they accrediting the secondary schools and col­ were rejected. It is a beautiful and dra­ leges in that body. The N. C. A. had asked matic coincidence that these Iroquois who that such a representative be appointed. brought the first whisper of Christ's name Father Cunningham is in Europe this sum­ to the Flat-Heads were descendants of the mer studying educational methods abroad. Indians converted by Father Jogues cen­ The Very Eev. James A. Burns, C. S. C, turies before in what is now the diocese of was elected a Vice-President General.

10 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS F. B. PHILLIPS ENDOWS N. D. Frank Phillips was sixty-three years of age and was a life-long resident of Fort Frank B. Phillips, prominent Fort Wajme, being born and having lived his Wayne capitalist and brother of Mrs. Wil­ entire life at the home, 435 West Main liam P. Breen, died in Fort Wayne, Au­ street. He was the son of Bernard Phil­ gust 15. Mr. Phillips' will, probated Au­ lips, a merchant and Caroline W. (Vogel) gust 22, revealed large bequests to Phillips. He attended the Holy Cross Broth­ charitable and educational institutions in­ ers' school for boys in the Cathedral parish cluding an endo%\Tnent to the University of and later entered the University of No­ Notre Dame which wiU. approximate four tre Dame. Two years following his course hundred thousand dollars. The will shows there he became connected with the Bass that Mr. Phillips left real estate valued at Foundry and Machine company and was $500,000 and personal property to the value cashier 25 years. For the past twenty of ?125,000. years he has devoted himself to his busi­ By the terms of the will the proceeds of ness interests. He was the owner of ex­ the sale of real estate shall constitute a tensive real estate properties in the city, trust fund which shall be invested in safe including several buildings on Calhoun and securities and the income paid quarterly Berry streets. He was a director of the to his sister, Mrs. Odelia P. Breen, during Peoples' Trust and Savings company and her life. It provides that a large amount was interested in various corporations. be given for educational and charitable pur­ The deceased was a most exemplary poses after her death. Following a number member of the Cathedral and of the Holy of bequests it is stipulated that one-third Name society. He is survived by his sister, of the residue of the estate be given the Mrs. Odelia P. Br'een, his brother-in-law Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, operating William P. Breen and several cousins. St. Joseph's hospital. Fort Wayne, for the erection of a maternity unit and that two- thirds revert to the University of Notre BUTTERWORTH & McEVOY Dame. The same combination, J. P. McEvoy El. '21, and Charles Butterworth '24, who made The bequest to the University, of which "Americana" such a success in the theatri­ Mr. Phillips was a student, is to be cal world last season, are at it again this placed in the hands of the lay trustees of year in a new revue, "AUez-Oop!" A New the institution and invested as the funds York critic has the following pertinent par­ in their hands are invested, and to be agraphs on the opening: known as "The Thomas E. Walsh, Daniel What probably should be considered the E. Hudson and John W. Cavanaugh En­ first production of the theatrical season dowment." One-half of the income from of 1927-28 came to town last night at the this shall be used for the education of Earl Cai-roll. It is a revue, called "Allez- priests of the order of Holy Cross and the Oop!" and in a sense it is successor to the other half for the education of poor deserv­ well-liked "Americana" of last year. At all ing boys in the University as selected by events, the same Mr. McEvoy has contrib­ it. uted the sketches, the same amusing Mr. The will of Mr. Phillips shows the wide Buttenvorth isi again in evidence. range of his interests and his evident ap­ Next to Mr. Hemmer's dances, the list preciation of those things that make for of good things should probably be headed the welfare of humanity. He was of a by Charles Butterworth, who A\all be re­ quiet, unostentatious disposition, but was membered from "Americana" for his Eota- keenly alert to the opportunities of well­ ry Club speech. He has another speech in doing and even during his life many worthy "Allez-Oop!" and it suffers considerably causes received his assistance. /The will was from the fact that it is imitative of the made August 9th, the day preceding an earlier effort. Mr. Buterworth scores enoi-- operation at St. Joseph's hospital, and six mously, however, in a sketch called "Alone days prior to his death. Witnesses to the at Last"—even to the point of encouraging will were Benita A. Fox and Maiy L. the belief that he is likely to be an import­ Kohr. ant comedian before long. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 11 Deep Plowing By PROF. CHARLES PHILLIPS, M.A. (Delivered at the Commencement Exercises of the 1927 Summer School)

FEW nights ago I was talking to the son? Two words—just two little brief Father Cavanaugh about a former words.—Ploiv Deep. A student of Notre Dame, a friend of Facing the problem of crop destruction his, Frederick Murphy, ('90-'92) now the in the Northwest, Fretlerick Murphy re­ publisher of one of the great daily news­ membered his father's words—Plmv Deep. papers in the United States—the Minne­ He tried it on his Minnesota farm: he apolis Tribune. That pa­ introduced to that section a new system of per, one of the representa­ soil cultivation—he set his plows three and tive organs of the North­ four inches deeper than they had ever been west, is naturally inter­ set before in that part of the country. ested in farming and the He put in his crops. They grew and problems of the farmer. flourished, as did all the fields around him. But it is even more inter­ The golden harvest raised itself richly, ested in all this because abundantly over the prairies. Everything Mr. Murphy is himself a pointed to what the farmer calls a bumper farmer, born on a farm year. Prosperity smiled over the plains. in Wisconsin, raised on a farm—a man who And then the hot winds came once more knows the soil. A few years ago Mr. from the burning southwest; one day—^two Murphy went into the questions of soil days—another and another day of devas­ and climate as they relate to the farmer; tating, consuming heat—and day after day not only of the Noi-thwest, but of the the golden riches of those fields faded and entire country—^but specifically as they re­ drooped—and died. All but Frederick Mur­ late to Minnesota and the Dakotas. In phy's fields. They stood. They ripened, those regions, Mr. Murphy leametl, peri­ richer and heavier day after day. All odically the farmers lost their crops through around him the wheat withered, failed, the hot dry winds that visited the North­ faded, burned away and died. Only his west. Over and over again the same thing wheat remained. He had plowed deep. He happened—^the crops were planted, grew to had a harvest. His neighbor had nothing a beautiful maturity—and were destroyed by but barren dried up land. the hot wind. Tinie and again this hap­ Mr. Murphy had talked this deep plowing pened on the very farm that Mr. Murphy theory of his among his neighbors. He had had bought from a man who had given it preached deep plowing, urged deep plowing, up, discouraged by the uneven struggle begged for deep plowing. But it had with the elements, feeling that he had sounded to them like just another theory^ exhausted the land in all its possibilities. a gentleman farmer's innovation. They had Could anything be done about it? Can man listened—^but they had gone on in their own get the best of the elements? way. Those destroying hot winds do not Frederick Murphy, as I said—this Notre come every year. The farmers had plowed Dame man who now is among the foremost and planted as they had always done, and journalists of the country—^was a farmer. they had got their crops—until the year His father was an Irish immigrant. That of the wind came around again. Then they Irish father of his told his son, in his boy­ had lost. Like a golden oasis in the desert hood on the farm, and if he told him once of ruin Frederick Murphy's farm stood out told him hundreds of times, the secret of on the prairies—^busy with the whirr of successful farming—^for this father was a hai-\'esting machines, while their fields lay success where men around him failed. And silent as death; noisy with the hum of what was this secret that the father told threshing machines, while they watched in 12 THE NOTRE DAME ALUM^fus the hush of ruinous idleness. In the end where we lose, it is because he is lucky in there was nothing left for them to do but his land and we imfortunate. The land is plow their spoiled wheat under and hope the same for all and the land is rich, the for a better crop another year. But how wealth is there. But it is deep down under did they plow this time? Deep. They the surface. And unless the roots of the plowed deep this time. They had learned planting of our endeavor strike deep down learned their lesson. also, to seize upon the buried riches of the When I had told Father Cavanaugh that soil and to draw sustenance from its hidden story, do you know what he said? "What nourishment—^unless we plow deep, our crop a theme for an address to graduating stu­ will fail—^there will be no harvest. dents! What a story to tell men and The land, then, is ours; the rich fields of women starting out after completing their life are our legacy. No matter how they university studies!" And so, ladies and have been tilled before by others, no matter gentlemen, here I am, telling you the story. how they have been worked and turned It is all fact, you understand, it is not and used and turned again, still, by "made up." It is a "real" story. And it is the grace of God, by the fertilizing power so clearly pointed a story, with its moral of rain and sun and inherent substance, so manifest and plain, that it seems a pity their riches remain, waiting only for us, to spoil it with comment. Nevertheless, for the revivifying touch of our hands, set because it has implications and a signifi­ sti-ong and firm to the plow that shall plow cance of very special application on an deep, to yield once more, and over and over, occasion like this, I shall take the liberty their hidden wealth. The land is ours; the of saying a few words to you this evening fields of life are ours, to make of them drawn from the inspiration of that story what we will. We are the tillers and the and its unforgettable theme—deep plowing. masters; and as we till and as we plow, so Plowing of any kind means two things, shall we reap, so shall the harvest be. at least—^the land: and the plow to plow But what of the plow? What is a plow? the land. The land, my friends, the soil It is steel, forged and cut and tempered that is yours to cultivate and plant and and polished and set in its frame, fashioned harvest from, is the world and the years and shaped for one purpose solely-to furrow before you. You are heirs to the great the earth for the planting, to tui-n the soil estate of man, Life itself. Like the wide for the germinating seed, to freshen it for prairies of the Northwest, Life lies before the sustenance of the root and stalk and you. Hidden riches, undiscovered wealth, flower and kernel. That is what a plow Is, lie under its surface. Do not think for a my friends—^the oldest, the most primitive, moment that that farm land of Minnesota the most beautiful, the noblest of all the which the deep plower made to yield a instruments that man has made that he harvest, in spite of the destroying winds,— may live upon this earth and enjoy the do not think for a moment that that land bounties of God's abundance. But whence was a special land, rich and fruitful, set came this noble thing, this almost sentient down in the midst of meagre or sterile and stately thing, that opens the earth, that or outworn soil. No. It was the same folds back the living sod with the silent identical soil that his neighbors tilled. It minor chorded rhythm of an elemental ma­ was rich, whether fructifying rains or jestic music ? That stirs the deep soil with burning winds swept over it. But its riches its great shearing blade until the folds lay deej)—deep down—^too deep to be exhale the fresh perfume of Adam's Eden tapped, too far buried to be revealed, by and the ultimate hai-vest feed us with the the mere scratching of a perfunctory plow. miracle of bread? Whence came the plow? It was something that had to be dug for, It came from the mind of man; it came prodded into, searched out with persistence from God. Who else but God told man and patience and days on days of sweating first to make this half-divine, this almost toil. No, my friends—^if the crop fails, if eternal thing, that should unseal the earth the harvest of life is lost, we cannot blame to him, that his body might live and his the soil, or say that if our neighbor wins soul endure? When did the first plow set THE NOTRE DAME ALXJMNUS 13 its share into the sod, to prepare for the that deep plowing was the plow of the bread that man might eat? Go back, and man's mind, forged by study and attention, back, and back, into the lost ages; turn sharpened by thought and reflection, pol­ the leaves of all records of all the races ished by long contemplation, careful re­ that have inhabited the earth—and still the search, tireless zeal. He knew that there plow is there; and still man is there, man, were south winds that periodically destroyed alone of all creatures, endowed with in­ the crops:—^but to know that was not tellect and will to invent and contrive those enough. Everyone knew that. He wanted things which shall utilize the earth that he to know why. Was it the soil? He stu­ may honor God and sustain himself. Do died the soil; the soil was rich. He looked the beasts till the land ? Do the birds plant back into the weather records and the crop and reap? Man, only man, to whom the reports for years. When there were no earth is given to rule over and to use, is south winds there was a harvest to reap. given also the mind and the mil to rule it He turned to the topograhical charts, he and use it. Man and man alone is given found depressions, he located the opening.s, the plow—^the idea of the plow and the wit the vents, the avenues that those fatal winds and strength to make the plow—that he followed on their destroying course up fron; may till the earth. the gulf, up over the hot lands of the south­ So there, my friends, is the land, the west, till they turned—^invariably they field of life; and there is the plow, the God turned and he knew just where and. why given plow, springing divinely, we might they turned—sweeping from the Dakotas say, out of the mind of man. Indeed it is over onto the Minnesota prairie with their our minds that are the plows with which devastating power. Can a man rebuild we till the soil of life. As thei'e is on man's the valleys and level the hills so that his earth no nobler instrument of toil than the wheat shall be sheltered and his com safe? ancient plow, ancient yet ever new, so in He can not. Yet man can master the ele­ man there is no nobler thing than this ments, he can conquer the winds. Against ancient yet ever new instrument of God their burning force he can set up the within him, his mind, his intellect. It is invisible barrier of nurtured strength in steel from the hidden mine of God's un- each separate blade of wheat, of ever revealed essence. It is metal of Heaven. It is freshening succulence in every stalk of com treasure from the deeps that lie under the —strength, succulence, nourishment, drawn highest peaks of Paradise. It is the thing from the deep-plowed bosom of the earth, in man and of man that makes him man, from the deeps of the wellsprings of the setting him above all other things of God's earth's subterranean life. He can plow creation. deep. He can make the earth yield its riches in the face of the winds of destruc­ But the plow, let us remind ourselves, is tion itself. more than mere steel drawn from the mine. It is steel forged, it is steel tempered, steel That man did plow deep. But he plowed cut, steel set in its frame. God gives the deep with his mind, my friends, that is the metal; man makes the plow. He shapes it, whole story. That plowshare of his went he fashions it, that it shall do its work. So just as deep, and no deeper, into the soil you, my friends, have brought to your of the Minnesota prairie, as the plowshare school work during the years you have of his mind went down into the soil of the spent in study, the metal of your minds, field of life. Into every detail of his prob­ that it might be forged and sharpened and lem he sank the blade of his mind, never polished and set in its frame, ready for the glancing over, never skipping, never skim­ field. Do you think that the deep plomng ming the surface, never satisfied with any­ of that man on the Minnesota prairies thing but the final and ultimate thing—^the meant nothing more than the mere setting rich crop of the harvest of success. He of his share so that it might sink a few had trained his mind; he had schooled him­ inches deeper into the soil than before? self to think. He had made a plowshare Tliere was more to it than that. Before of his mind, right here where you have stu­ that, there was the plow itself. Back of died, being on the same campus, working in 14 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS the same classrooms that have been yours; President Walsh, in his short address forged, tempered, cut, sharpened, polished, incident to the presentation of the com­ set in its frame soundly and securely, sen­ mencement speaker, expressed pride and sitive to every turn of the guiding hand of pleasure in the excellent work of the sum­ reason. He made a plowshare of his mind, mer school and heartily congratulated the he learned how to use that plowshare in students. such a way that it brought him a harvest "We have had the privilege and pleasure,'' even in fields abandoned by others, even in he said, "of seeing one whom we love so a land where others failed. much raised to the high dignity of the That is the lesson that I would draw episcopate and taking his place in the rank from this true story of a Notre Dame man, of the American hierarchy. It is a very my friends. As it has been with him so it special pleasure and blessing for Notre is with all of us, so it is with you. The Dame to have one selected from our own land is yours, the soil of life's estate and all ranks. The consecration of Bishop Finnigan the riches thereof. And the plow is yours, coming almost at the close of your summer the keen blade of the ti-ained mind that school session is a notworthy event in which grows sharper with usage, that cuts deeper, I feel you are all interested. In addressing more evenly, more unerringly, with every you before Benediction you will remember furrow that it turns. May the Divine that in asking your prayers he also gave Plowmian, may the Bountiful God of Har­ assurance of his. vests, bless you, that is my wish, my prayer "Each succeeding summer school we have —may He bless the fields of your life, may tried to select a speaker equal to the occa­ His great kind Hand be set upon the plow sion and one Avlio would be pleasing to the of your minds, may He give a golden reap­ students. We have as the commencement ing, for His glory and your temporal and speaker to-night a man of great talent who eternal happiness. has endeared himself to the entire student body, whose literary accomplishments and love of Notre Dame qualify him without SUMMER SCHOOL GRADUATES question. In a word I wish to tell you how NINETY-EIGHT happy we all are to see the success that Degrees received from the Colleges of has crowned the work of the summer school Arts and Letters, Science, Law, Engineer­ and welcome in the person of the graduates ing and Commerce, of the Univrsity of the sons and daughters of Notre Dame." Notre Dame, were conferred by the Very Rev. Matthew J. Walsh, C. S. C, president, AL RYAN IN NEW JOB on ninety-eight students representing the Alfred C. Ryan, '20, former Alumni Sec­ graduating class at the tenth annual sum­ retary and more recently with the Motor mer school commencement exercises held and National Discount companies, has be­ Wednesday night, August 3, at Washington come associated with the Central States hall. Finance Corp., 811 Harris Trust Bldg., Priests, brothers, and sisters in the class Chicago, according to an announcement are members of nearly a score of religious from the corporation offices September 1. communities and, with the lay students, came from eighteen states of the Union. They include: New York, Maryland, Penn­ SECRETARY AT LAFAYETTE sylvania, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tenn­ James E. Armstrong attended the annual essee, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, outing of the N. D. Club of the Wabash Nebraska, Arkansas, Minnesota, Colorado, Valley at Lafayette, Ind., Aug. 20, on invi­ Texas, Oregon and California. There was tation of the Club. John Wagner and Char­ also a graduate from Mexico. ley Ward, who have a law office in full The Rt. Rev. George Joseph Finnigan, C. blast, formed a personal bodyguard, and S. C, S. T. D., Bishop of Helena, Mont., Herman Kamp, commander-in-chief of the attended the exercises at which he im­ organization's activities was a genial host parted his episcopal blessing. to guests and members alike. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 1.5 Rt Rev. George J. Finnigan By JIARK E. NEVILLS, '27

The Et. Eev. George Finnigan, C. S. C, Bostra, who was consecrated Inshop of who was appointed bishop of the Eoman Dacca, India, here 33 years ago, began the Catholic diocese of Helena, Mont., May 20 ceremony which was to .elevate another of by His Holiness, Pope Pius XI, was elevated Christ's apostles to leadership. to the episcopal rank Monday morning Aug. Like a bearded patriarch of the ancient church, attired in all the vestments of his office, Archbishop Hurth officiated on the occasion with the assitance of the Et. Eev. John F. Noll, D. D., bishop of Fort Wayne diocese, and the Et. Eev. Edward T. Hoban, titular bishop of Colonia, and auxiliary bishop of Chicago. The Very Eev. Matthew Walsh, C. S. C, university president, on his left, with the Eev. Thomas Irving, C. S. C, seminary rector, and the Et. Eev. Monsig- nor Victor Day, Helena administrator, wei-e his deacons of honor. Bishop-elect Finnigan, garbed in the red robes of his episcopal rank, first was pre­ sented for consecration. Then he was ap­ pointed to the diocese of Helena. After­ wards, he was commissioned by His Holi­ ness through the notary, the Eev. Eichard Collentine, C. S. C, novitiate director, to govern and administer to the Helena dio­ cese in the interests of Christ. The papal message sealed in the church of St. Peter's, Eome, and dated May 20, 1927, in the presencec of the cardinals of the holy Eoman council, provided that the Very Eev. George J. Finnigan, C. S. C, provinvial of the Congi-egation of the Holy Cross, had been chosen as an apostle of Christ to rule the principality of Helena. 1, amid solemn and impressive cei-emonies The document also provided that Bishop in Sacred Heart church, Notre Dame. Finnigan should rearrange the territory in Approximately 400 churchmen, including his diocese. This clause applies to an three archbishops, 16 bishops and eight agreement between the diocese of Helena, monsignors assisted in the consecration ci which consists of western Montana, and the Bishop Finnigan, the first member of the diocese of Great Falls, comprised of eastern Congregation of the Holy Cross to re­ Montana. It was read from, the pulpit of ceive a diocese in the United States. These, the church by the notary. together with minor religious representa­ Following the traditional ritual attending tives of every order and part of the nation the conferring of the diocese. Archbishop attended the second consecration of its kind Hurth examined the bishop-elect, according in the history of Notre Dame. to the terms required by the church. After­ Preceded by a procession of 400 ecclesi­ wards, the mass of consecration began with astics from the Main building to the church, the consecrator officiating at the main altai% the event opened when the Most Eev. Peter and the new bishop at the right altar. J .Hurth, D. D., C. S. C, titular bishop of The Eev. Frank Jansen, Hammond, and 16 THE NOTEE DAME ALUMNUS the Rev. John Bennett, Gan-ett, Ind., per­ of arms of Rt. Rev. Bishop Finnigan, com­ formed as deacon and subdeacon, respect­ bined ^vith those of the Congregation of ively, to the archbishop, while the Rev. Holy Cross and the State of Montana occu­ William McNamara, C. S. C, Notre Dame, pying a prominent place near the speaker's and the Rev. John Margraf, C. S. C, also table. Floral decorations were most at­ of Notre Dame, both of whom are warm tractive and covers were laid for 500 guests. friends of the newly consecrated, were The Very Rev. John Cavanaugh, C. S.C. chaplains for Bishop Finnigan. former president of the university of Notre Bishop Hoban was attended by the Rev. Dame, most happily presided as toast- James J. French, C. S. C, superior of master. the Holy Cross mission band, and the Rev. Those responding to toasts on the post­ George Marr, C. S. C, of the university's prandial program were the Rt. Rev. Joseph philosophy department. The Rev. Charles Charti-and, D. D., Bishop of Indianapolis, Miltner, C. S. C, dean of the college of arts "The Holy Father." The Very Rev. James and letters at the local university, and the W. Donahue, C. S. C, Superior General of Rev. Michael Moriarty, Wooster, 0., waited the Congregation of Holy Cross, "The on Bishop Noll. American Hierarchy." The Rt. Rev. John During these services, the bishop-elect F. Noll, D. D., Bishop of Fort Wayne, "The was instructed in the duties of his office by Congregation of Holy Cross." The Rt. Rev. the consecrator, after which the episcopal Victor Daly, Administrator, Helena Dio­ powers of the" Roman Catholic hierarchy cese, "Greetings from Helena." The Re^. were conferred upon Hm. The bishop-elect Timothy Holland, S. T. L., Pastor of. was blessed, then annointed with holy Sacred Heart Church, Massena, N. Y., chrism—and the ceremonies of consecration "Greetings from Ogdensburg." having been perfonned, he was proclaimed bishop. The reading of the epistle and gospel, FR. FRENCH CONDUCTS followed by a sermon by the Very Rev. RETREAT Charles L. O'Donnell, C. S. C, first assist­ Very Rev. James J. French, C. S. C, ant general of the Holy Cross congregation, superior of the Holy Cross mission band, whom Bishop Finnigan succeeded as late Notre Dame, on invitation of the Rt. provincial, were the features of the ser­ Rev. William Turner, D. D., Bishop of the vices which followed. Diocese of Buffalo, N. Y., Conducted two The entire ceremony was directed by tlie retreats for the diocesan clergy. The first Rev. William R. Connor, C. S. C, superior was held August 22-26. Monday August of the community house, with the assistance 29th Father French opened the second of the Rev. Francis X. Wenninger, C. S. C, which closed Friday, September 2. dean of the science department, and the During his stay in Buffalo the eminent Rev. Thonies Steiner, C. S. C, of the Holy Cross missionary attended the Fourth engineering faculty of the univei'sity. Regional Conference of the Priests' Euchar- Others who assisted in the ceremonies at istic League held August 30-31. the altars, were the Rev. William A. Molo­ Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock the ney, C. S. C, pastor of St. Patrick's Church, opening paper will be presented by the here; the Rev. Bernard J. Ill, C. S. C, Uni­ Very Rev. James W. Donahue, C. S. C, versity treasurer; the Rev. Kerndt Healy, Superior-General of the Congregation of C. S. C, of the Ave Maria editorial staff, Holy Cross, Notre Dame. His topic is the Rev. Michael Early, C. S. C, superior "Means of Promoting Eucharistic Devotion of Holy Cross seminary, and the Rev. Among the People." Rt. Rev. Msgr. Au­ Patrick J. Carroll, C. S. C, vice president gustine J. Rawlinson will also be heard at of the university. this meeting. A solemn Holy Hour for for Following the consecration, a banquet the visiting clergy will be conducted at 8:00 was served in the Carroll hall refectory P. M. by the Rt. Rev. Joseph Schrembs, which was attractively decorated for the D. D., bishop of Cleveland.—Catholic Union occasion in yellow and green, with the coat and Times. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 17 EDITORIAL

ANOTHER YEAR ber of the Congregation of Holy Cross and Notre Dame is opening another year. so admired a teacher and friend of the Another challenge lies before those who members of the Commimity and the Alum­ wear the University's colors. More diffi­ ni of Notre Dame, gave way early to re­ cult than the obstacles to overcome are the joicing in the honor bestowed on Bishop precedents to equal. The passing years Finnigan and in the great promise in his have brought mth them developments that administration of his new office. Tributes have kept Notre Dame always in the van. flowed from all sides during the days of the A look at the frontispiece of this issue of consecration and enthronization. Friends THE ALUMNUS wall show the gi-eat physical from the business world, friends from the changes that the new buildings have religious world, and the innumerable brought about. The Alumnus has tried to friends from all the walks of life that report the various changes in system and Bishop Finnigan had found occasion to in personnel as they have been made. make, joined in honoring him. Greater than ever, the University is en­ The Alumnus lifts a strong if belated tering 1927-28. All the resources of the voice to wish the new Bishop all the bless­ school; all the help of the students and ings of his exalted office, to assure him of faculty; all the support of the alumni; all the good will of all his fellow Alumni of the aid of friends, will be needed to com­ Notre Dame, and to ask that his prayers plete the developments that are planned for may be for them to repi-esent their varied the new year. callings as well as he has carried the high The new dormitories are bringing hun­ principles of Notre Dame through his vo­ dreds of boys back to the congenial waraith cation. of campus life. The gi-eat new dining hall ^#. stands beautiful and inviting, promising a NON-CATHOLIC STUDENTS renaissance of the fine arts that flourished There are 10,000 non-Catholic.students in in the old refectories, when the whole stu­ the Catholic colleges and universities of the dent body gathered for buns or pie or United States. They are about 20 per cent rhubarb in season. of the total attendance. Their number and You are going to miss the fun of coming their proportion have been increasing year back to the old room, shaking hands with by year. By their presence in these Catho­ old friends, and haunting old places. But lic institutions they magnify the problem of you will get even a richer and more satis­ suppljdng the additional buildings, teachers, fying joy from lending your wholehearted and facilities that are required for a grow­ support to the acti^^ties of an institution ing Catholic population. that each year gives 2600 boys these whole­ This preference of non-Catholic parents some thrills. and students for Catholic schools is not —:— merely a compliment to these institutions BISHOP FINNIGAN and their teachers; it is also an impressive Right Rev. George J. Finnigan, C.S.C, lesson—in many cases a rebuke—^to Catho­ S.T.D., is exercising his episcopal duties in lic parents and students. It is not lightly, the diocese of Helena. His ascension to the surely, that these non-Catholics sacrifice Montana bishopric was marked by all the their prepossessions and risk the criticisms brilliant ceremonies of the Church, aug­ of their non-Catholic relatives and neighbors mented by the sincere tributes of hundreds when they choose Catholic schools. Their of friends acquired in a career filled with choice is dictated by concern for the spirit­ achievement and good will. ual welfare no less, if not more, than for Regret for the loss of so valued a mem- the educational advantages which are guar- 18 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS anteed to them in Catholic institutions. ceived in St. John's parochial school of his Non-Catholic parents know that in Catholic native town, and in 1907, having completed schools their children "will he safeguarded his high school course, he matriculated at from materialism and atheism and every the University of Notre Dame, receiving other menace to their Christian faith, and his A. B. in 1911. that they will learn from the example, if Desiring to labor in the west. Father not from the formal precept, of their teach­ MuUin obtained his "Exeat" from Rt. Rev. ers the love of God and the claims of re­ Michael J. Hoban, D. D., Bishop of Scran- ligion and morality. ton (and was incardinated in the diocese In all this non-Catholic parents and stu­ of Cheyenne, the Rt. Rev. James J. Keane, dents testify in an eloquent and effectual D. D., then being bishop). fashion to the excellence of Catholic edu­ October 30, 1911, Father Mullin sailed cation. They must one day become a from New York to Naples, in order that powerful influence in quieting the suspi­ he might pursue his thelogical studies at cions and allaying the prejudices with which the American College in Rome, Italy. many Catholics regard the Church's schools. February 27, 1915, Father Mullin was They and their children, it may be, ^vill ordained in the Cathedral of St. John sometime stand between those schools and Lateran, Rome, by the Patriarch of Con­ the grand assault which the enemies of the stantinople. Catholic Church are planning. Due to the World War Father Mullin Meantime these non-Catholics are sham­ was forced to return to the United States ing the Catholic fathers and mothers who by a direct route, Naples to New York, the are depriving their children of proper same route traversed by him four years Catholic training. How many Catholic before in going to Europe. young men and young women are electing In April Father Mullin was assigned by to attend secular schools when they might the Bishop of Cheyenne, Rt. Rev. P. A. Mc- be enrolled in their own? That question Govern, to the parish of Newcastle, which reveals an unpleasant aspect of the situ­ embraced several counties. In Newcastle ation. It is a comfort, indeed, that 10,000 Father Mullin remained until December 18, non-Catholics are to be found in Catholic 1915, when he was transferred to his pres­ colleges and universities, but they are no ent pastorate, Casper, Wyoming. fair equivalent for the Catholic youth who, out of deliberate choice of their parents or of their own volition, are attending non- FR. MORIARTY PRAISES CLUBS Catholic institutions.—The Catholic Union Growth of the luncheon club movement, and Times. its beneficial effects upon the community and the good fellowship among members which it sponsors, were outlined by the FR. JOHN MULLIN, '11, PRAISED Rev. Michael L. Moriarty, professor of The True Voice, a Catholic paper pub­ Latin at Notre Dame before a summer lished in Omaha, Neb., recently contained meeting of the Lions' club. South Bend. an entire page of the history of the parish Father Moriarty declared that the move­ of Casper, Wyo. Rev. John H. Mullen, '11, ment has developed to a position which now has been pastor there since 1915 and has supplies a vital need in every growing built a new church, established a young- community. men's club, introduced many new features of Catholic interest and receives great FR. O'DONNELL RECEIVES praise in the write-up. The following MEDAL sketch of Father Mullin's life followed the The Very Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, C. history. S. C, one of America's foremost poets and John H. MuUin, bom in Pittston, Pa., on chaplain of American forces in Italy during October 22, 1888, is the third of ten children the world war, received on August 2nd a bom to John H. and Margaret Cosgrove- commemorative medal from the Italian Mullin. His elementary education was re­ army for his services. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 19

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OMEBODY told me that it was a But Notre Dame is Notre Dame because great honor to be elected President of of another type, which includes the men who S the Alumni Association. I believed are not only willing to do their share but them, and in fact still do feel that it is a are willing to help carry the load of the great honoi-. But I learned long ago that first type as well, who are willing to make you pay for your honors like you pay for sacrifices. Fortunate for Notre Dame, she everything else that is worth while. The has many of this type among her alumni. principal honor I see is an opportunity to This is the type that have received the real do a lot of work for Notre Dame. For ex­ benefit of the tremendous example and ample, the Board of Directors told me that spirit of Father Sorin. This is the type it would be nice if I contributed at least a that I would like to call "the Sorinites of page to the Alumnus each month. Well, Notre Dame" because they are truly carry­ here goes my first contribution, and I ing on the work of Father Sorin, of blessed promise you that if you read these pages memory. A lot of these chaps are so modest each month I will have you working too. that you have never heard of them. I in­ tend that you shall hear of them, and I am going to use this page from time to time to WHAT KIND OF A NOTRE DAME call them by name and tell you what they MAN ARE YOU? are doing. I think they at least deserve I would classify Notre Dame men into the recognition, and I feel that their fine three types. The first type is represented example will prove an inspiration for by the chap who is seen only at football others to join them. games, or who is heard "to tell the world" In this connection I want to tell you that he is a Notre Dame man after a great about the meeting of our Board of Direc­ athletic victory—the sort of chap whose tors which I called at Notre Dame on July name is seldom, if ever, seen on the honor 31, 1927. Imagine my pleasure when I roll of the alumni whose dues are paid— found the entire Board, consisting of Dan the kind of chap who hasn't heai'd from O'Connor, Joe Haley, George Maypole, Al. the University since he left it, and is un­ Ryan, Ed. McHugh, Walter Duncan, Treas­ willing to write and complain about it and urer, and Jim Armstrong, Secretary, pres­ be sure that they have his right address. ent, having come from different parts of I feel sorry for this type because they are the country, at gi-eat expense and incon­ not succeeding in life, or at least in the venience, to map out a program for the better things of life, no matter how much year's work. It was a great occasion,' and money they have accumulated or what their a gi-eat many things weres accomplished. local social position is. My sympathy for For example: Dan O'Connor agreed to this type is real, and if during my admin­ cany on the splendid work he has already istration I can bring even one of this tjrpe done in organizing a placement bureau for into the fold I will consider it successful. Notre Dame students and graduates. Joe Then there is the type that does pay his Haley was charged with the responsibility dues, and who is willing at all times to be of organizing among the alumni a commit­ known as a Notre Dame man—the type of tee to investigate the needs of each of the chap who really has the interests of Notre colleges of the University. Al. Ryan was Dame at heart and who is willing to res­ given the job to prepare a plan for en­ pond when called upon, and is willing to do larging the scope and usefulness of the his share when appealed to—^the chap that Alumnus. George Majrpole is working on really has imbibed the Notre Dame spirit the idea of a loan fund for needy students. —and Notre Dame has many of these loyal Ed. McHugh is already at work on plans sons. for the 1928 alumni reunion and commence- 20 THE NOTRE DAME ALTJHNUS ment exercises, which it is hoped will be Notre Dame were elected to the board of the greatest in the histoiy of the Univer­ directors, while the Rev. Thomas R. Carey, sity. Walter Duncan is working like a of Lapeer, Mich.; the Rev. W. P. McDer- trojan to find the money necessary to pay mott of Racine, Wis., and Father O'Hara the expenses of the Association. Jim Arm­ were re-elected to that body. strong is proving himself a most industrious An invitation from the University of and enthusiastic Secretary. Notre Dame to hold the conference there This fine demonstration of loyalty by next year was accepted. The meeting will your Board of Directors plus the good word be held sometime in July, but the exact date that Jim Armstrong sends me, that dues has not yet been set. In this connection are coming in faster than ever before, it was announced that the university is augurs well for a gi-eat year for the Notre going to develop an intensive agricultural Dame Alumni Association. department. JOHN P. MURPHY. FIRE LOSS $35,000. 1,000 ATTEND LAY RETREAT Fire of undetermined origin, but believed With 1,000 Catholic laymen in attendance, to have been caused by spontaneous com­ the annual retreat conducted under the bustion, destroyed three buildings and en­ direction of the Fathers of the Holy Cross, dangered many others on the University at the University of Notre Dame, August of Notre Dame's 1,640 acre dairy farm 11-14, was one of the most successful held located eight miles northeast of South Bend at the great educational institution. Wednesday night, August 10, injuring two Eev. Patrick H. Dolan, a prominent mem­ persons and causing a property damage ber of the Holy Cross mission band, who estimated at |35,000. during the past season filled a number of Brother Ulrich, a member of the Con­ appointments in the east, was retreafc- gregation of the Holy Cross, suffered a master. Eev. Joseph J. Boyle, C. S. C, severe bum on. the back of his left hand director of lay retreats at Notre Dame and during the fire and Albert Luke, age 21, other missionaries assisted in caring for a lay employe, sustained a probable frac­ the retreatants. ture of the right ankle when he fell about 20 feet from a hayloft to a cement floor Approximately 200 from Fort Wajme below. The youth was crossing the hay­ under the leadership of Alex A. Kartholl, mow preparatory to shutting a door in one grand knight of Fort Wayne council No. of the cow bams when he slipped through 451 Ivnights of Columbus, and state sec­ an aperture. retary of retreats attended. Firemen from South Bend and volunteers Large groups were present from Indian­ from among the many spectators who apolis, Evansville, Logansport and South formed a bucket brigade unquestionably Bend, Ind.; Chicago and Joliet, 111.; Mil­ saved all the other buildings, three im­ waukee, Wis.; Cleveland, 0.; Louisville, mense bams, smaller farm buildings and Ky.; Washington, D. C; St. Paul and two houses from being destroyed. Firemen Minneapolis, Minn. could only combat the menace by the use of chemical but they utilized that to ad­ CATHOLIC RURAL CONFERENCE vantage. Several buildings which ha'l AT NOTRE DAME 1928 caught afire would doubtless have been con­ The Catholic Kural Conference held its sumed but for the advantageous use of the fifth annual meeting at Lansing, Mich., chemical. August 5-8. The conference was meeting Himdreds of motorists were attracted to in conjunction with the American Country the scene of the blaze by the flames which Life Association and the International projected skyward and illuminated the Country Life Association, which are gath­ countryside so that the pyre could be seen ered there that week. The Rev. Joseph for miles around. At the city limits of Schmidt, of HaiTisburg, Pa., and Prof. South Bend the illumination was at times James W. Hayward of the University of discernible. THE MOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 21 /./ / y N. D, Women Grads Organize An interesting development in the growth Sister M. Pius, C. S. C, St. Mary's, Notre of Notre Dame and the activities of the Dame, Indiana; Sister Aloyse, S. N. D., graduates of the University is contained Cleveland, Ohio; Sister Mildred, O. S. D., in the following account of the organiza­ Grand Rapids, Michigan; Sister Ursula, O. tion of the Alumnae of the University. S. U., Paoli, Kansas; Miss Antoinete Sem- The women graduates of the Notre Dame ortier. South Bend, Indiana. Summer school met on Friday, July 22, at The committee on the constitution in­ Notre Dame to organize the Women's club cludes Sister M. Benedictus, C. S. S., St. of the Notre Dame alumni. This group of Mary's, Notre Dame, Indiana; Sister Elea- graduates has grown to a considerable size nore, C. S. C, also from St. Mary's; Sister during the 10 years of the. existence of the Monica, 0. S. U., St. Martin's, Brown Co., summer school which was organized in 191S Ohio; Sister Crescentia, O. M., Grand Rap­ dui'ing the administration of the Rev. John ids, Michigan, and Sister Stanislaus, S. C, Cavanaugh, C. S. C, as president. The need Seton Hill, Greensburg, Pa. for such an organization was felt not only A program committee was appointed to by the women graduates who wished to be make plans for the first annual meeting to linked up definitely in bonds of love and be held at Notre Dame in 1928. On tWs loyalty to their alma mater, but also by are Sister Irene, H. H. M., Lowellville, the university ofiicials as well. Ohio; Sister Rose Elizabeth, St. Mary's, Father Patrick Carroll, C. S. C, vice- Notre Dame, Indiana; Sister Gonzaga, O. president of Notre Dame university, speak­ S. D., Grand Rapids, Michigan. ing for the latter, said that large numbers As a result of the preliminary meeting, of scholarly and talented women in the which was attended by one hundred of the various sisterhoods who are going out from religious and lay women who hold degrees Notre Dame to all parts of the country from Notre Dame, the following officers are the embodiment of Notre Dame ideals, were chosen by general ballot: intellectual and cultural. As such their work reflects credit upon their school and President—Sr. M. Eleanor, C. S. C, St. enlarges its influence and to it they should Mary's, Notre Dame. be bound by an organization which would 1st. V. Pres.—Sr. M. FideUs, O. S. U., not only afford a means of keeping grad­ Toledo, Ohio. uates in touch with each other and witli 2nd V. Pres.—Sr. M. Monica, O. S. U., Notre Dame but would be a means to the St. Martin's, Ohio. end that what they are doing as a result of their higher education may become more 3rd V. Pres.—Sr. M. Celestine, S. S. J., widely known and more far reaching in its Monroe, Mich. influence. Many of these are doing splen­ 4th V. Pres.—Sr. M. Monica, O. S. D., did work which redounds to the credit of Grand Rapids, Mich. their communities, of their university and of their Church. An organization ha^ Secretary—Miss Antoinette Semortier, means at its disposal to spread the in­ South Bend, Ind. fluence of such as these to every member The balloting brought in a return that and through them to the public beyond, proved the interest of the women gradu­ which is but slightly informed as to the ates in the new organization and heaped ability and attainments of the religious coals of the proverbial fire on the heads of teachers of Catholic schools. the "parent Association." To eifect an organization a nominating The new Club is organized on the same committee was chosen by those in attend­ basis as the Local Alumni Clubs in the ance at the preliminaiy meeting who various cities. All women matriculates prepared ballots to be mailed to all eligible whose classes have been graduated from to the club. Its membership was as follows: the University are eligible for membership. 22 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • <• • •> • • least recognized it as an imperfection and * • not exalted it into a religion, a matter for * BOOKS * confession rather than for baring it before • • • • • • • •> • • • • • • •> •> <• <• <• strangers. In many ways he is slow. He has not yet repealed the Ten Command­ THOMAS O'HAGAN, LL.D. ments, and he continues a scapular-wearing, By JOHN CAVANAUGH, C.S.C, '90 pew-rent paying, confession-going, Com­ munion-receiving, loyal son of the Catho­ The appearance of "Intimacies in Cana­ lic Church. Hie is a thoroughly good citi­ dian Life and Letters" reminds me that zen of the United States in a remote, sym­ Dr. Thomas O'Hagan has acquaintance pathetic way, for he spent some happy and with the inside of more great schools than most useful years in this country as a any other living \vriter. Among the insti­ member of the staff of the Duluth Tribune, tutions of which he has been a bona fide and as Editor of the Chicago New World. student are the follo\ving: St. Michael's But he is completely sold on the subject of (Toronto), Ottawa, Syracuse, Cornell, Wis­ Canada. No writer of the great Dominion consin, Chicago, Grenoble, Louvain, Bonn, to the North has ever been more loyal, Fribourg and Laval. The list of learned more enthusiastic, more devoted. societies to which he belongs is perhaps not O'Hagan has learned the art of living. quite so long, but it is at least as im­ Everj' once in a while, he writes me that pressive. he is just starting off for some European Here, too, is a list of his publications: university, or some international art center, A Gate of Flowers, 1877; In Dreamland, or social or sacred shrine. What's the use 1893; Songs of the Settlement, 1899; Stu­ of having a Pegasus if a sower of seeds dies in Poetry, 1900; Canadian Essays, 1901; must always follow the plow? Essays, Literary, Critical and Historical, Thomas O'Hagan has done a great bulk 1909; Chats by the Fireside, 1911; In the of work, and it is remarkable and valuable Heart of the Meadow, 1914; Essays on work. The signs all indicate that even Catholic Life, 1916; Songs of Heroic Days, though he has passed his seventy-second 1916; Complete Poetical Works, 1922; birthday, there are many years of brilliant With Staff and Scrip, 1922; Dean Harris service left for him, and all of them, we in Makers of Canadian Literature Series, may confidently believe, will be shot through 1924; Intimacies in Canadian Life and with the lovely oldfashioned gold and silver Letters, 1924; The Genesis of Christian threads of faith and genius. Art, 1925. It is clear that the genius of Thomas O'Hagan plays over an exceptionally large SUMMER CONCERTS and variegated field. There is hardly any One of the outstanding features of the subject in the realm of literature or art 1927 summer sessions was a series of con­ that he has not touched upon. He has his certs celebrating the Beethoven Centennial, limitations. He has never learned the gen­ presented by the faculty of the Notre Dame tle and delicate art of filling page after school of music. Weekly programs during page and chapter after chapter with mere the entire session were given by the fol- glorified phrases full of sound and fury lo^ving artists, individually or in groups: signifying nothing. It is a distinct limita­ Sir Carl Busch, viola; India Moore Heck, tion of his that he must have something to soprano; Eleanore Roesner, piano; Richard write about, else he cannot write. A lot Seidel, violin and viola; Charles J. Par- of very learned and serious readers have reant, violin; Elton Crepeau, baritone; a corresponding limitation, and confine Ralph T. Ambrose, piano; Charles Mathes, their reading to writers like Dr. O'Hagan. piano; Wilhelm Middleschulte, organ and Best of all, this industrious and scholarly piano; Jesse W. Crandall, violin; Russel writer is thoroughly spiritual in the good Hendrickson, cello; Glenn Dillard Gunn, old-fashioned way. If he has never felt lecturer and teacher; and John J. Becker, "the frustrate cosmic" urge, he has at piano, director of the department. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 23

^* ^ ^ ^ ^ ^« ^ ^ •^ ^* «^* ^* 4^« *^* V^* «*• fjft v^ ft^ 8a. '27 Elec. Engineer wants position in • • Middle West, teaching H. S., Col. or • EMPLOYMENT SERVICE •> Vocational. Two full years experience • • as stock room clerk, trimmer and up­ ^* ^ •^ •^ 9^ •^ «*• «^ •*« •*• •*• V^* •*• •*• **• •*• •*• »*• «*• holsterer. Knows Spanish. Unmarried. OJI f/«s poflre each month THE ALUMNUS Salary min. $1,500. wi7Z list the positioiis open to Notre Dame 'inen and the Notre Dame men who are seek­ 9a. '20 Law grad wants work, part out­ ing positions. All alumni are asked to co­ side. Credit, collection, claim adjustment, operate. Notre Dame employers or men in federal tax, etc. Rocky mountain ter­ close touch with employers are asked to list ritory preferred. Unmarried. Has been openings ivith this department. Notre Dame practicing law. men in search of positions should find this 10a. '27 Journalist wants newspaper or department helpful. Applications filed with magazine work ed. or adv. Any location. the Employment Service Bureau of the As­ Experience summer reporting two years, sociation wi'l be listed here regularly. campus ed. la. '27 graduate in Foreign Commerce 11a. '26 Lawyer wants work in law or as wants export work or position to learn adjuster. Year's experience in auto accounting. Year's experience auditing finance and sales. and collecting. Will go any place. 12a. '24 Elec. Engineer ^vishes to locate Knows Spanish. Typewrites. Sal. Ex­ in Middle West. Experience, four sum­ pected, $125. mers with R. R. and a yr. ^vith electric Co. Power or construction work pre­ 2a. '25 A.B. man who has had 1 yi-. Law ferred. Salary $200. wants work in New York City. Type- •writes. 13a. '26 grad in Com. wants sales or office work. Any location. Knows Fr. and 3a. '27 graduate B. Com. Sc. wants ac­ Sp. Typewrites. Office managerial ex­ counting or credit position. Writes perience 1 yr. Unmarxied. Salary $1800. Spanish, French. Experience pai-t-time work in advertising dept. Salary §125. Employers Addi-ess Communications to ALUMNI EMPLOYMENT SERVICE 4a. '11 Litt. B. gi"ad wishes position as Box 81 salesman, buyer for shoe company, or ex­ Notre Dame, Ind. ecutive in shoe business. Fifteen years eperience. Married, four children. Will BISHOP ESCORTED TO MONT. locate to suit position. Salary expected Among the Notre Dame priests who went $3,600. with Rt. Rev. George Finnigan, C. S. C, S. T. D., to attend the installation cere­ 5a. '23 graduate For-. Com., 3V2 years ex­ monies at Helena, were the Very Rev. M. J. perience purchasing agent, wishes posi­ Walsh, Rev. John Cavanaugh, whose beau­ tion in or near South Bend. Salary $250. tiful sei-mon is printed in this issue of The €a. '06 grad with eight years experience Alumnus; Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, Rev. in office management and shop super­ William Connor, Rev. William Bolger, Rev. vision desires executive work. Also James McElhone, and Eev. Joseph Boyle. served as public school principal for six The party went from Chicago to Helena on years. Family of 6. Will locate with a special coach and were met 100 miles position. Salary min. $200. east of Helena by a delegation of clergy­ man and laymen from the Helena diocese. 7a. '27 grad wants accounting or credit The evening of the installation Gov. work in South Bend or territory. Six Erickson of Montana, the Mayor of Helena, years of summer and part time book­ Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, and keeping and clerking exp. Knows Span­ Father Boyle, C. S. C, spoke at a civic tes­ ish and German. Salary $125. timonial to the new Bishop. 24 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS McELLIGOTT NOMINATED Among the N. D. coaches at the Notre The following article from the Brooklyn Dame session were Tommy Eeardon, Frank Eagle will interest the many classmates Eeese, Harry Thomas, Chet Wynne, Elmer and friends of P. P. McElligott, '02: Layden, Eoge Kiley, Harry Mehre, Eddie EIVEEHEAD, L. I., July 18.—Contrary Anderson, Joe Sexton and John McMullen. to expectations in some quarters, the Dem­ ocratic organization in Suffolk County has SPECIAL U. S. C. TRIPS decided not to indorse either the candidacy A number of special trips are being run of Surrogate Eobert S. Pelletreau of Pat- for alumni to the Southern California game chogue, for another term, nor leave the in Chicago. place on the ticket blank. The Notre Dame Club of Memphis, un­ Instead, they have caused surprise by der the leadership of Hugh "Eed" Magev- deciding to nominate Peter P. McElligott ney, Paul Eush and J. Eex Clai-k, officers, of Bay Shore, a prominent attorney, and is conducting an "all-expense pilgrimage" who is well knowTi in Brooklyn and Man­ from Memphis to the game. A special train hattan. His nomination has already been is leaving Memphis on Friday, Nov. 25, at formally indorsed by the executive commit­ 5 p. m., arriving in Chicago, Saturday at tee and he says this action is "greatly ap­ 7:50 a. m., and will leave Chicago, Sunday preciated." at 5 p. m. arriving at Memphis, Monday, Mr. McElligott was born in Manhattan at 7:50 a. m. on Sept. 25, 1878, attending the public and Joe Howard and Frank McCarthy are parochial schools and at the age of 17 went running a special train from Indianapolis, to the University of Notre Dame, where he leaving there 12:40 a. m., arriving at Chi­ worked his way through as a student. Ever cago 7:10 Saturday; leaving Chicago, Sun­ since then he has been active as an alum­ day, at 11:45 a. m. and arriving in India­ nus and has been secretary and vice pres­ napolis 4:15 p. m. The same sponsors are ident of the Notre Dame Club of New running a special from Cincinnati, leaving York. there 10:45 Friday night, arriving in and Politically, Mr. McElligott is no novice, leaving Chicago at the same time as the he having served 11 consecutive years in Indianapolis delegation, arriving in Cin­ the Assembly, being first elected in 1908 in cinnati at 7:45 p. m., Sunday. the 7th A. D., New York, serving on Codes Jim Brown, of the Louisville Club, is ar­ and Judiciary Committee and others. ranging for a special trip from Louisville For several years he has been a resident and the Joliet Club is planning on sending of Brightwaters, being now chairman of delegates in by all the routes. the Boy Scout troop and one of the gov­ These are the announced, organized trips. ernors of the Community Building. Hundreds of alumni from every place with­ In his acceptance of the nomination that in a riding radius will posr into Chicago the Democrats of this county are seeking for the game, according to applications re­ to give him, he says he has had aspirations ceived. The New York City Club has or­ for the bench and will give the best ser­ ganized a special trip to Baltimore for the vices at his command. Navy—N. D. game which includes round trip fare and a ticket to the game for COACHING SCHOOL SUCCESS $12.50, which is cheaper than it would be to The summer coaching school conducted stay at home in N. Y. And that trip can at Notre Dame by Z. K. Eockne and Dr. be made all in the same day if necessary. Walter Meanwell proved once more to be Walter Douglas is handling arrangements, a magnet for the high school and college 15 W. 33rd St. coaches of the middle west. Several hun­ dred men gathered at Notre Dame to ab­ sorb the tenets of football and basketball OCT. FOOTBALL NUMBER that Eock and Doc put out. Eock also con­ THE ALUJINUS for October will be largely ducted coaching schools this summer at devoted.to football and Alumni are asked Dallas, Tex., Corvallis, Ore.; Logan, Utah, to send in any interesting reminiscences of and Bucknell College, Lewisburg, Pa. the heroes of earlier years. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 25 C. S. C. CHANGES 1928 Notre Dame; Eev. Francis Nowakowski, Notre Dame men will be interested in fol­ C. S. C, assistant pastor, Holy Trinity lowing the changes of the priests and church, Chicago; Eev. Joseph McAllister, brothers of Holy Cross. Many of the re­ C. S. C, professor at Notre Dame; Rev. cently ordained priests are taking their James Kline, C. S. C, professor at Notre places in the educational life of the Order Dame; Rev. Frank O'Hara, C. S. C, pro­ this year. The following appointments have fessor at Notre Dame; Eev. J. A. Heiser, been announced by The Very Eev. James A. C. S. C, professor at Columbia college, Burns, Provincial: Portland, Ore.; Eev. Louis Kelley, C. S. C, Rev. Dr. Matthew Schumacher, C. S. C, professor of philosophy, Notre Dame; and who is a native of South Bend and who has the Rev. Francis McBride, C. S. C, who been director of studies at Notre Dame uni­ has been selected superior of Holy Cross versity during the past year, to the dean- college, Washington, D. C, succeeding the ship of philosophy in the University. Very Rev. James A. Burns, C. S. C, new- Father Schumacher has long devoted spe­ provincial of the Holy Cross congpregatiou cial attention to some of the deeper pi-ob- in the United States, who succeeded Bishop lems of philosophy, his book on "The Know- George J. Finnigan, C. S. C. Father Mc­ ableness of God," having been especially Bride is now stationed in Washington. well received. He has lectured on various philosophical topics, and is in great demand as a pulpit orator. He was also president CLUB LUNCHEONS of St. Edward's college, Austin, Texas. The Notre Dame Club of Chicago re­ The Eev. Emil P. DeWulf, C. S. C, pro­ sumed the weekly luncheon meetings on fessor of astronomy at the university, has September 8 in the College Inn of the Hotel been assigned as director of studies suc­ Sherman at Randolph and Clark streets ceeding Dr. Schumacher. Father DeWulf is and will continue to meet every Thursday well known in South Bend where he has noon between 12 and 2. Dan Curtis, '17, delivered many talks at various clubs on Chairman of the Committee, hopes especial­ astronomical subjects. ly that the men of '27 will turn out reg­ The Eev. Frank Eemmes, C. S. C, as­ ularly. Any Notre Dame man passing sistant pastor of St. Joseph's church for through the Windy City will get a campus the last two years, and formerly assistant welcome and probably see some one he at Sacred Heart church. New Orleans, La., knows because we have them from '72 to was assigned professor at St. Edward's '27. college, Austin, Texas. Eev. Joseph Bran- Plans are being completed by the Club to nigan, C. S. C, will succeed Father Eem­ receive play by play telegraphic returns mes as assistant pastor at St. Joseph's of the football games with the Navy and church. Father Brannigan was recently or­ with the Anny. A notice of the time and dained by the Et. Eev. John Francis Noll, place will be sent to evei-yone on the mail­ D. D., bishop of the Fort Wayne diocese. ing list of the Club. If you have changed The Eev. Joseph Muckenthaler, C. S. C, your address or if you have moved to and the Eev. Casimir Witucki, C. S. C, who Chicago recently, communicate with Jim recently said their first Masses in South Brennan, '20, Secretary of the Club, at Bend, have been assigned professor at Co­ Randolph 2814. Gerald Flynn, '18, chair­ lumbia college, Portland, Ore., and assist­ man of the Committee in charge, is assisted ant pastor of Holy Trinity church, Chicago, by Jimmy Foley, '13; Lucien Locke, '21; respectively. Emmett Burke, '22, and Tom Donovan, '26. The Rev. S. Lisewski, C. S. C, has been Members may bring guests, which is not to assigned as assistant pastor of St. Casi- be confused with the well known phrase mir's church, South Bend. that "the public is invited." Other assignments are as follows: Indianapolis is holding a luncheon meet­ Eev. Leo L. Ward, C. S. C, assistant edi­ ing the first Wednesday of each month at tor of the Ave Maria and professor at the Chamber of Commerce Bldg. Detroit Notre Dame university; Eev. Thomas Duf­ and the St. Joseph Valley Clubs are getting fy, C. S. C, member of the Mission band. luncheons under way. 26 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS

ATHLETICS J. p. McNAMARA

N. D.-S. C. GAME POPULAR where more of the public can be accommo­ The importance of the Notre Dame game dated: therefore, be it with Southern California in Chicago on RESOLVED, That the city council of November 26 can be gauged by the follow­ Chicago hereby extends to the University ing set of resolutions which were passed of Notre Dame the appreciation of the by the Council of the City of Chicago. The people of Chicago of their action in trans­ ai-ticle appeared in the Chicago Amencan. ferring a game of such great interest to King Ka-nute Rockne, monarch of South our city: and be it further Bend and other points, will receive a royal RESOLVED, That the mayor appoint a welcome befitting one of his station when committee of three members of the city he brings his Notre Dame huskies here council to co-operate in the arrangements this Fall. The city council, absorbed as it for this game and in the reception and is in the matters of widening streets, pav­ entertainment of the respective teams and ing alleys and getting good fight tickets, distinguished visitors. found time the other day to draft a set of resolutions extending the freedom of the Mr. Rockne, it might be stated in passing, loop, etc., to the Notre Dame and Southern hasn't selected any soft spots for himself California football teams when they come next season, nor for the young men who succeed in winning the coveted Notre Dame here on November 26 for a game in the football regimentals. Grant Park stadium. The action was the result of a motion by A couple of warm-up games ^vith Coe eighth Ward. Alderman Maypole point and Detroit will help get the boys accus­ ed out that the game is comparable in tomed to hard knocks and having their pointed out that the game is comparable in faces ground in the turf, but from there importance to the Army-Navy affair, which the lid is off. it probably will be in a football way. Bat Navy, Indiana, Georgia Tech, Minnesota, the bands and the bright unifomis won't Army, Drake, and finally Southern Cal- be there, which may be an obstacle hard ifoi-nia—all on successive Saturdays—^is to overcome in the minds of those who go what the Notre Dame footballers have to to places just to "be there." contemplate. The resolutions, in part, follow: (Note: Alderman Maj^ole, a director of WHEREAS, Tliis game is comparable in the general Association, is chairman of the public interest it commands to the committee of the Notre Dame Club of Army-Navy game wliich was played in^. Cliicago to arrange for the reception of Chicago last Fall, and -will attract many teams and visitors, and this is a forerunner thousands of visitors to our city, among of his thoroughness.) whom will be liis excellency, the governor of California: and FOOTBALL WHEREAS, Under the contract between Just say football to a Notre Dame man the University of Notre Dame and the Uni­ and you really don't have to say any more. versity of California this game was to be The old abiding confidence in Rock, and the played on the athletic field of the Univer­ knowledge that the N. D. system is adapt­ sity of Notre Dame at South Bend, Indiana, able to the changes in rules from year to but yielding to the desires of the Notre year tends to stabilize the enthusiasm and Dame alumni in Chicago and to the public leave room for nothing but optimism. And in general, the University of Notre Dame optimism in spite of the schedule that num­ consented to transfer the game to Chicago, bers Minnesota, reputed to be the Confer- THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 27 ence's white hope this season; the Army; MINNESOTA SIGNS BERGMAN the Navy, the formidable product of the fa­ Gopher brawn plus Notre Dame cimning mous Ingram Bros.; and Southern Califor­ is the brew Dr. Clarence Spears is pre­ nia, whose sunny and pleasant home-life paring at Minnesota, and if it proves as doesn't seem to have a bit of effect on the potent as he hopes a championship banner sincerity of their football. Not to mention may wave over the Norsemen's stadium Georgia Tech, even if the Golden Tornado this fall. Spears has signed Dutch Bergman, hasn't been able to catch_ Notre Dame out the great Notre Dame back of a decade or of the stoi-m cellar; and Gus Dorais' De­ more ago, to coach his backfield and it is troit eleven is not going to be taken entire­ expected that Joesting and his partners ly by surprise. Drake put up a fine game at will have some new tricks this season. Notre Dame last year—^the score didn't tell Bergman has been coaching for 10 years, the real story. Coe is about the only dark his latest engagement having been at Day­ horse. ton university, where he turned out teams The fellows on the squad are beginning that ranked among the best in Ohio. He is to drift in, looking for the most part as a great handler of men, a keen student of though the summer hadn't hampered the the game and knows every turn of the condition that spring training put them in. Rockne system. In fact when Eock takes them over Sept. 15 Minnesota teams in the past have been he can probably start right in where he left called dumb. If Bergman is as successful oif last spring. Some very important faces in his new position as he has been in others are going to be missing, but there will be the Gophers will be a pretty smart outfit faces of one kind or another to fill the gaps, this fall.—South Bend Tnhune. and they'll probably become as familiar during the season as faces for years past have become through the same procedure. THE NEW HALLS With the completion of the north ^ving FOOTBALL TICKETS of Lyons Hall, the new dormitory group designed by Kervick & Fagan is ready for Alumni have sho\sTi a fine spirit of co­ occupancy this Fall. The three halls, Mor- operation this fall in getting ticket applica­ rissey in the center, Howard on the east, tions in early. Ticket selling has become a and Lyons on the west, with the road form­ big business. Hundreds of thousands of ing the fourth side, gives a beautiful effect dollars are involved right here at Notre and a great deal of much-needed room. The design of the group is excellent and most Dame. System in handling the sale is im­ creditable to Profs. Kervick and Fagan of perative. The old elasticity is impossible. The the University's department of architect­ Athletic Association has consulted its own ure, who conceived it. A wing of Lyons experience, the university, and alumni, in an Hall, overlooking the beautiful St. Mary's effort to make its demands reasonable. The lake, has been set aside for lay professors, result has been a promise of preference on and an arch between the wing and the the one condition, that applications be filed main part of the hall is one of the beauty spots of the campus. early. The new dining hall will be opened with Minnesota and Southern California are the beginning of classes, but there re­ the favorites of the home schedule and mains much to be done on the interior. The prospects are for a sell-out long befoi-e the November issue of The Alumnus will con­ games. Because of the limited capacity of tain a full account of the new hall, thor­ Cartier Field, only eight tickets are being oughly illusti-ated, ^vith special articles. allowed to applicants. Southern California According to present plans, the issue will tickets are limited to eight in the alumni be several times the regular size. Tlie new section but more can be ordered, until a heating and sewage systems have been in­ sell-out, in the non-alumni sections. stalled and the huge trenches that marked Once more—apply early! their courses are leveled. 28 THE NOTBE DAME ALUMNUS THE ALUMNI

(Note Following is the list of Class Secretaries. The 1914—Frank H. Hayes. 25 N. Dearborn St., Chicago. function of the Secretary is to bring the general 1915—James B. Sanford. N. W. Ayer &Sons, 164 Alumni Office in closer contact with the men of the W. Jackson Blvd.. Chicago. various years. Not having a school of Black Magic, 1916—Timothy P. Galvin, 708 First Trust Bldg., etc., at Notre Dame, these men are not expected to Hammond. Ind. Sherlock Holmes around after you. Nor is roundabout 1917—John U. Riley, 146 Oliver St., Boston, Mass. word of your achievements and changes particularly 1918—John A. Lemmer, 309 S. Seventh St., Escana- interesting after six months or so has elapsed. But ba, Mich. it is interesting when it happens. A card to your 1919—Clarence Bader, 650 Pierce St., Gary, Ind. Cla.ss Secretary won't bring the world down about 1920—Vincent Fagan, Notre Dame, Ind. your ears. These items aren't printed for anyone's 1921—Alden J. Cusick, 1940 Curtis St., Denver, Colo. conceit. They are here to satisfy a wholesome curi­ 1922—Frank Blasius, Jr., 24 W. Main St., Logan, O. osity, based on friendship and inevitable distances 1923—John Montague, 7028 Cregier Ave., Chicago. and differences following graduation. The Reunion 1924—Richard F. Gibbons, 520 Homer Laughlin Bldg., Classes for 1928 are printed in blacker type.) Los Angeles, Calif. 1925—John W. Scallan, The Allerton Club, Chicago Before 1S80—Mark M. Foote, 501 City Hall, Chicago, 1926—Gerald W. Hayes, address pending. (oO-yr. Class 1878) 1927—Edmund J. De Clercq. 814 E. Madison St., 1880-1885—^Prof. Robert M. Anderson, Stevens Inst, South Bend, Ind. of Tech., Hoboken, N. J. 1886—Michael O. Bums. 338 S. 2nd St.. Hamilton, O. 1887—^Hon. Warren A. Cartier, Ludington, Mich. OBITUARY. 1888—John L. Heineman, Connersville, Ind. 1889—Hon. James V. O'Donnell, 420 Reaper Block, Mourned by an entire community. Mrs. Charles M. Chicago Niezer. whose death occurred on Saturday, September 1890-1893—Louis P. Chute, 7 University Ave., Min­ 3, folI(Twing injuries sustained in an auto crash, neapolis, Minn. was buried Wednesday morning from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The funeral was one 1894—Hugh A. O'Donnell, The New York Times, of the largest held in the parish and emphasized New York City the high I'egard, love and esteem in which the de­ 1895—Eustace Cullinan, Sr., S60 Phelan BIdg., San ceased, one of Fort Wayne's most prominent Catho­ Francisco, Calif. lic women, was held. 1896—^William P. Burns, 327 Willard Ave.. Michigan Citj', Ind. The accident in which Mrs. Niezer was fatally in­ 1897—Joseph V. Sullivan, 2650 Lake View Drive, jured occurred near La-Otto about 2 o'clock Friday Chicago. afternoon when en route from Fort Wayne to the 189S—F. Henry Wurzer. Buhl Bldg., Detroit, Mich. family cottage at Rome City. 1899—Dr. Joseph F. Duane. 418 Jefferson Bldg., Immediately following the accident her husband, Peoria Charles M. Niezer. president of the First National 1900—Francis O'Shaughnessy, 10 S. La Salle St., bank, was notified and with Dr. Henry 0. Brugge- Chicago man hastened to her bedside. Rev. Thomas M. Con- 1901—Joseph J. Sullivan, 160 N. LaSalle St., Chicago roy, rector of the Cathedral, of which Mrs. Niezer 1902—Peter P. McEIligott, 320 W. 23rd St., New was a most devoted member, also went to Garrett. York City. Deceased was prior to her marriage. Miss Rose 1903—THE TWENTY-FIVE YEAR CLASS—Francis Fox. daughter of Louis Fox, prominent business P. Burke, 904 Trust Co. Bidg.. Milwaukee. Wis. man of Fort AVayne, whose death occurred a few 1904—Robert Proctor, Monger Bldg., Elkhart. Ind. years ago. She was bom in Fort Wayne, 51 years 1905—Daniel J. O'Connor, 225 N. Michigan Ave., ago and had lived her entire life in this city. She Chicago was educated at Sacred Heart Academy and St. 1906—Thomas A. Lally, Sll-13 Paulsen Bldg., Spo­ Mary's College, Notre Dame, Ind. kane, Wash. Besides her husband, Charles M. Niezer, she is 1907—T. Paul McGannon, Bar Bldg., 36 W. 44th St., survived by one son, Louis, and two daughters, New York City Rosemary and Sally, two brothers, Robert L. Fox 1908—Frank X. Cull, Bulkley Bldg.. Cleveland, O. ('01), of Denver, Colo.; and Oscar A. Fox of Fort Wayne ('07).— ("Our Sunday Visitor.") 1909—John B. Kanaley, 29 La Salle St., Chicago. 1910—Rev. M. L. Moriarty. 527 Beall Ave., Woostcr. Ohio Hundreds of Notre Dame men will hear with sin- 1911—Fred L. Steers, 1635 First Natl. Bank Bldg., cerest regret of the death of JOHN GILLESPIE Chicago EWING, B.S. '77. A.B. '78, M.S. 'SO, A.M. '81. Mr. 1912—^Edmund H. Savord, Box 135. Sandusky, O. Ewing died in Washington, D. C, on August 2. 1913—James R. Devitt. 921 Engineers Bldg.. Cleve­ Death was .sudden, caused by heart disease. For land. O. twenty years Mr. Ewing was professor of Law and THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 29 Modern History at Notre Dame. Thereafter he was Miss Natalie Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. engaged in the practice of law, except for six years, W. H. Smith, South Bend, Ind., became the bride 1911-1917, when he was president of the Columbian of RAYMOND SCHUBMEHL, Wayland, N. Y. (•20), Fire Insurance Co. in Detroit. at a quiet ceremony in the Log Chapel at Notre Mr. Ewing was a Supreme Knight for Indiana in Dame on Saturday morning, July 16. Rev. William the Knights of Columbus and for many years was Carey, C. S. C, performed the ceremony. The bride one of the National Directors in that order. He is a graduate of St. Mary's Academy. The groom is practiced law in Washington until seven years ago a professor of mathematics at the University of when he became associated with the Department of Notre Dame. They are in a new home, 1642 McKin- Justice. Mr. Ewing, who was 69 years old, was born ley Ave. in Lancaster, O. He left a wife, two daughters, six brothers and a sister. Mrs. Annie F. Morrill announces the marriage of her daughter, Lucille, to MR. EDWARD LAMBERT A telegram from R. B. Sullivan, Oak Park, to COCHRANE, ('22), on Saturday, August the twen­ Prof. Maurus, brings word of the death of FRED­ tieth, San Francisco, Calif. ERICK LUDWIG BAER, E.E. '03. Mr. Baer died September 6, at 10 p. m., the result of injuries sus­ Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Fisk announce the mar­ tained in an automobile accident. Mr. Baer was a riage of their daughter, Catharine Helen, to JOHN resident of LaGrange, III., and was affiliated with G. BYRNE, on Wednesday, June twenty-second, Wil- the Automatic Electric Co., Chicago. liamsville, N. Y.

FRANKLYN JOSEPH KELLY, LL.B. '23, Water- Miss Marcella O'Brien, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. bury, Gonn., died at his home according to word re­ Thomas O'Brien, of Chicago, became the bride of ceived August 18, from W. F. Sullivan, '27, of EDWARD W. GOULD. ('23) of Chicago, at a pret­ Waterbury. The '23 Dome pictured Kelly as "athlete, ty ceremony in Sacred Heart Church, Notre Dame, scholar, arguer, 'good feller'—has the qualities of the Monday morning, August 29. Rev. L. V. Broughall, ideal lawTer. . . ." No cause for death was con­ C. S. C, performed the ceremony. The bride and tained in Mr. Sullivan's communication. groom left for a motor trip and after Sept. 15 will be at home in Chicago. The bride is a graduate of Alumni will regret to learn of the death of the the American Conservatory of Music. father of Walter Duncan, '12, Treasurer of the Asso­ ciation, which ofurrcd in LaSalle, III., the first of The wedding of Miss Sadie Eileen Sullivan, of September. Navasota, Tex., and MICHAEL A. NEEDHAM. JR., San Antonio, was solemnized in St. Mary's Church, Austin, on Wednesday, July 13, by the Rev. Michael The sympathy of the Association is also extended Quinlan, C. S. C. Mr. Needham is connected with to Thomas J. McKeon, '90, former Director of the the Stauffer Motor Co., San Antonio. Association, whose wife and father have died during the past month. Mrs. McKeon died in Duluth, Minn., and Judge McKeon's father at his home in Los An­ Mr. and Mrs. Edward James Kennedy announce geles, Calif., two weeks later. the marriage of their daughter Rose Ann, to Mr. PAUL LEO KOHOUT, ('25) Wednesday, the fifteenth of June, Libertysville, 111. MARRIAGES Mrs. Mary L. Lowe announces the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Clemens announce the her daughter, Helen Louise, to Mr. LEON MOES, marriage of their daughter, Anne Rackett, to MR. ('26), on Wednesday, the tenth of August, at S'. HAROLD PRESTON FISHER, (C.E. '06), on Sat­ Cecilia's Church, St. Paul, Minn. urday, July sixteenth, Chicago, 111. Miss Lucille Swank, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Dwyer announce the mar­ Leo Swank, South Bend, Ind.. and LESTER riage of their daughter, Elizabeth Denison, to DR. CHARLES HEGELE. ('27) of Chicago, were mar­ NEIL JAMES \VHALEN, (B.S. 'IS), on Wednes­ ried on Tuesday, August 16, in the Administration day, the twenty-ninth of June, at St. Paul's Church, Building of the University of Notre Dame. The Crosse Pointe Farms, Mich. Dr. and Mrs. Whalen ceremony was read by Rev. Kerndt Healy, C. S. C. will be at home after the first of October at 34.=i0 The attendants were Miss Donabelle Swank, sister Chicago Blvd., Detroit. of the bride, and EDMUND J. LUTHER. After Sept. 1, Mr. and Mrs. Hegele will be at home at the Mr. and Mrs. Pearson Cripps announce the mar­ Mar-Main Arms Apt. riage of their daughter, Emily Theresa, to MR. JOHN AUGUSTINE LEMMER, ('18), Saturday, the Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Mowers, 130 Altgeld eighteenth of June, Escanaba, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. street, announce the marriage of their daughter. Lemmer will be at home after the first of Septem­ Miss J. Italia Mowers, to MALCOLM K. HATFIELD. ber at 309 S. Seventh St., Escanaba. (John brought ('27) of this city. The ceremony was read Saturday the bride to Notre Dame where he taught during the at 12 o'clock noon by Rev. W. E. G. Webbink, pas­ stimmer school, and informs the Alumnus that he tor of St. Peter's Evangelical church. Mrs. Hatfield "made a Notre Dame man" of Mrs. Lemmer during for a number of years has been connected with the the session.) music department of Elbel Bros., and is well known 30 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS

by the music profession of the city. Mr. Hatfield is A letter from BILL DONAHUE, Indianapolis, lo­ a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and is cates him among the crowd that are putting the continuing in post-graduate work there. He has also Indianapolis Club on the same plane of activity as accepted a position in the Niles public schools. They the Dempsey-Tunney fight or the Southern California will make their home in that city after Sept. 1. game. Bill expects to be on the 50-yard line with the rest of the world at large for that game. The most important wedding of the summer took 1915 place at 7544 Phillips Ave., Chicago, June 25, as per A card accompanying another important slip of schedule. Kev. W. A. Carey, C. S. C, read the cere­ paper identifies MAURICE ANDREWS as the Sports mony. The sister of the bride and Mr. JOHN W. Editor of The Staten Islander. SCALIiAN were the attendants. Mr. and Mrs. Arm­ strong are occasionally at home at 509 N. Harrison Announcement has been received from C. C. Ave., South Bend, Ind. Britsch, architect, that HAROLD H. MUNGER has been taken into partnership and that Britsch & Munger will practice at 220 Colton Bldg., Toledo, O. PERSONALS 1917 1883 JOHN URBAN RILEY, INC.. Advertising, is pre­ Father John Cavanaugh sent The Alumnus the pared, according to a very neat and attractive an­ following interesting paragraph which appeared dur­ nouncement, to give close study and personal atten­ ing the summer in "The Cleaning and Dyeing tion to Copy, Counsel, Catalogues, Enclosures, Fold­ World." (Fr. Cavanaugh added that "I have always ers, Booklets, Brochures, Broadsides and Complete known that the world was dying in some of its most Campaigns, and House Organs and Printed Sales­ important respects, but it is a pleasant assurance to manship. John is still located at the 146 Oliver St. know that it is cleaning before dying.") The para­ address, Boston. graph concerns ALBERT F. ZAHM, holder of sev­ JOSEPH F. GARGAN, attorney and counsellor at eral degrees in course, an Honorary LL.D., and the law, announces his association with Hon. PETER P. Laetare Medalist in 1925: McELLIGOTT, in the general practice of law with "In another department at Washington is a man offices at 320 W. 23rd St., New York City. by name of Zahm, the government authority on LAWRENCE MARONEY, a student in the Law aeronautics. For years the Wrights, Curtiss and the School in '16-'17, won great praise this summer in rest have gone to him for counsel. the heroic rescue of five persons from drowning near "While at Notre Dame last week, a former presi­ Denver, Colo. A machine containing six persons dent of the university and a classmate of Zahm's left the highway and plunged into a large reservoir. pointed out to me the place where the little refec­ Maroney, who was driving past, stripped off his tory stood from the roof of which Zahm used to clothes and leaped into the lake and pulled out five experiment with gliders. He also called my atten­ of the party, one at a time. The sixth member, tion to studies, published in the university journal, Charles Grommet, of Detroit, was drowned before of how birds make their get-away and sustain Maroney could reach him. Maroney is cashier of themselves in the air. That was forty years ago. Let the First National Bank at Lafayette, Colo., and us not be impatient for results. Time and work will lives on a 700-acie estate near Broomfield, accord­ tell." ing to the Denver paper. 1893 An interesting letter from RAYMOND C. LAN- 1920 GAN, who is practicing law in the Langan Bldg., JOHN T. BALFE became the father of a daughter Clinton, Iowa, was received during the summer. on July 22nd, according to The Stethoscope, the "To the students of '89-'93 I wish to send greet­ house organ of the John C. McNamara organization, ings. Occasionally I meet a Notre Dame boy, and for which Mr. Balfe is a senior supervisor. today I am reading a business letter from Hummer, Buckley & Hummer, of Chicago, the senior member 1923 of which firm is a valued product of Notre Dame. . . After a long three-cornered debate between BAR­ MICHAEL HANNIN, '93, drove through Clinton a NEY BARNHART, JOHNNY MONTAGUE and the short time ago on his way to California. MONSIG- Secretary, Johnny has agreed to take over the Sec­ NOR MCLAUGHLIN, 'is, probably as devoted and retaryship of the Class of '23 and to try to estab­ illustrious a son as Notre Dame has, lives here. . . . lish a reunion record for the five-year reunion of the In a few years I expect my two sens to matriculate Class next June. Barney felt that Marion was a lit­ at Notre Dame. I trust PROF. MAURUS and FE. tle out of the beaten path—so far—and that John­ MICHAEL QUINLAN, both of '93, willbe directing ny's Chicago headquarters gave him a much more forces in the education of the young men." logical position to work from. The matter was set­ tled on August 28 when John became the father of 1914 a daughter and his resistance crumbled. SIMON T. FAKRELL is putting Notre Dame on Mr. and Mrs. AUSTIN McNICHOLS also added a the map in Joliet, 111. A big banquet for Rock on citizen to Chicago during the summer. Austin is Sept. 12 is one of the numbers on the Joliet Club building him up already, he writes, for spring prac­ program for the Fall, and Si was one of a committee tice in 1945. And 12 3-4 pounds already makes the at the University recently to arrange for tickets for new candidate look like a lineman. He says the only a big Joliet delegation at the U. S. C.—^N. D. game thing that keeps him from crying is the Victory in Chicago. March, and he's worn out two records of that. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 31 1924 JIM MEEHAN dropped a couple of helpful lines during the summer. He met RAY SUTTER, o. s. '20, and his brother JIM, '25, in N. Y. Ray is with the New York Central and Jim is doing newspaper work in Newark. LES KENNEDY, '24, is in New York Selling doing construction engineering and living with FRANK McGRATH. Frank is pitching for the N. Y. A. 0. SERENITY NEWELL DE GURSE wrote from Port Huron that on a trip to Detroit he saw AL SLAGGERT, who is practicing with the WURZER & WURZER man wants tosell you law firm, and HANK WURZER, '25, who is in the serenity of mind — brokerage game. (A letter from Henry this summer A says he is enjoying the business.) Newell also saw one of the best possible RALPH DUMKE. who used to entertain with possessions. CHARLIE BUTTERWORTH (mentioned elsewhere). Dumke is in vaudeville and has a fine act. He offers to insure an Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT RIORDAN, Washington. D. C, announce the arrival of Robert Michael on adequate education for Saturday the second of July. your children. Two important items about JIM HAYES arrived during the summer. Jimmie Hayes, '24, is busy He offers to insure you "crashing the gate" to fame down East. LIFE for a sufficient and unfluc­ July 28th printed his "Page From a Song-writers Notebook After the Trans-oceanic Flights" and AD­ tuating income in your VERTISING AND SELLING published an article by later years. the great Jimmie at about the same time. The erst­ while ace of '24 Scribblers is making the national He offers to create an publications regularly. Captain William J. Pedrick, Vice-President and estate for your family. General Manager of The Fifth Avenue Association, He offers to make sure announces the appointment of James F. Hayes, for­ merly with The Wm. H. Rankin Advertising Agency that your business will and J. P. McEvoy, playwright, as Manager of the not suffer through the Publicity Bureau of that Association. Mr. Hayes is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. His death of a key executive. home is in New York City. He offers to be of great CHARLEY DE BARRY sent in a fine letter just under the press line. Charley is with Trowbridge & assistance to you in your Livingston, international bank architects of New relations with your em­ York, and is already well into the important work of the firm. According to Charley's letter the Notre ployees. Dame architects are going full speed in the East. BILL SCHOMBERG. WILBUR McELROY, PETE Who is he? He is a DUPAY and TOM DOLLARD hold positions which John Hancock Agent. He Charleys says are way beyond fellows of similar ex­ does not create a need in perience from any other of the schools of architect­ ure. Harvard, Columbia and the technical schools, you, he fills one. His among others. Charley also commented on how fine commodity is future ma­ it has been to have had the new developments at Noire Dame designed and supervised by men who terial security, the basis are teaching architecture at the University. Charley of serenity of mind. has been with the Hayes household in Bronxville all summer, but they expect to move so his mailing ad­ Ask him to come in. dress is 527 Fifth Ave., care of his firm. 1925 CLINT GLEASON stopped off twice at Notre Dame this summer, once on his way home from Cleveland, where he is practicing law with his brother JOHNNY, '23, and once on his way hack, looking OF BOSTON, M*tSAenu»TTs the better for a good vacation.

The old firm of (Ray) CUNNINGHAM & HUR­ A STKOKC COMPANY, Over Sixty Yeart LEY (John) took the "spirit of Toledo" to Europe ia Business. Liberal as to Contract. this summer. Cunningham has been through South Safe and Secure in Every Way. Bend a couple of times since returning and looks quite re-Americanized. Hurley hasn't been around 32 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS

yet,—wrote that he got back with two American 1927 pennies and a sixpence, so he may be on the road. A farewell postal card from RAY LOPEZ arrived The two met DAN CUNNINGHAM. '27, DON WIJL- saying that Lope was Madrid-ward bound. He sailed KINS, '27, and JOE RYAN, '24, in Paris. from New York on Wednesday, June 22. BILL BOSSINGHAM was one of a committee from W. WELLESLEY SMITH, the Brick, is occupying Joliet to insure tickets for the population of Joliet a broken chair and operating a defective typewriter who •will be at the U. S. C. game. for the Green Bay Sentinel, a special communication An interesting letter from JIM SUTTER reveals to The Alumnus states. Brick has heard from JOHN that Jim is engaged in the fine art of Journalism TUOHY, who is getting along nicely. FRANK BON •with the Elizabeth (N. J.) Daily Journal. His ad­ recently distinguished Notre Dame by carrying Wyo­ dress is 3 Miln St., Cranford, N. J. Jim's brother ming's greetings to President Coolidge at the summer is in New York. So grows the N. D. guy-line on the White House and breakfasting with the President East Coast. while there. Brick says that JACK HICOK is on his way to Nowhere, Mont., to carve out a name for BILL DIELMANN dropped a card to the effect himself in the copper mines. MIKE MURRAY is that everything was O. K. down in "south America" summering at .i logging mill in the Wisconsin but hot as, and that effort was saved by sending woods. the regards of MARK HESS, MIKE NEEDHAM Toledo has two new lawyers in the persons of and JAKE MENGER on the same card. WALTER WILCOX and JOHN CAREY who passed The furniture market reports are coming pretty the Ohio bar exams according to word received in regularly. AVith Hurley selling parlor furniture and July by Dean Konop. PAUL ROMAVEBER hitting the road for the HIL­ JOHN BUTLER'S business card came into local LENBRAND house, they ought to be. Paul was in hands this simimer reading Acme Fast Freight Ser­ Grand Rapids for the show and wrote from there vice, Cleveland. that he had met AL DASCHBACH who is to travel in the same line around Pittsburgh. Paul says he has JOHN QUINN CAREY, LL.B., '27, of 2514 Chase been kept close to the stone during the summer. Ex­ Street, and WALTER W. AVILCOX, LL.B. '27, of pects to see the Army and Navy games while cover­ 646 Palmwood Avenue, Toledo, Ohio, passed the Ohio ing eastern tei'ritori'. Bar Examination in July according to word received by the College of Law, July 27, 1927. PAUL DOOLEY is home from Oregon and BER- ALEX F. SIBVERS, LL.B. '27, is practicing law NIE LIVERGOOD is still going strong with the in his home town of Elkhart, Indiana. His offices are State Insurance Dept., according to a letter from located at 409 South Main Street. BOB GRAHAM, '26. from Springfield. Dl. Bob is ROBERT IRMIGER, 6532 Dre.xel Ave., Chicago. ^vith the High^vay Dept., which in Illinois is pretty 111.; CLARENCE RUDDY, 533 S. 4th St., Aurora. busy. CHUCK CORCORAN, '16, is with Bob in 111., and LEO J. HERBERT, 2500 1-2 Fifth Ave., Springfield. Rock Island, 111., passed the Illinois bar examination 1926 in July—above three LL.B., '27. Mr. Ruddy was edi­ tor of the Notre Dame Lawyer from the time of its The Cleveland Club has once more secured the establishment two years ago until his graduation last services of BOB ANDREWS, time not certain. Boh June. , is back at the Andrews-Fay northern headquarters. Says Cleveland seems to be quite an N. D. town. A note from the Fallon Law Book Co. in New York bore EDDIE FALLON'S signature but very DIOCESAN RETREAT AT N. D. little news except that Eddie is set for the Army Nearly two hundred Fort Wayne dio­ game. cesan priests under the leadership of Rt. TOM RYAN is now a full-fledged New Jersey law­ Rev. Bishop John F. Noll, D. D., attended yer and in a letter to Dean Konop of the Law School thanks the Dean for the thorough prepara­ the annual retreat held at the University tion that the Notre Dame course gave him for the of Notre Dame, August 15-19. Rev. Henry New Jersey bar. Of four hundred and eighty can­ Kulllman, S. J., a prominent Jesuit of the didates, only one hundred and ninety-five were suc­ St. Louis province, was retreatmaster. cessful, and it was Tom's first shot at it. A business trip brought ERNIE LANDRY out to Notre Dame but business also kept him from making connections at the Alumni Office so the New England SMITH WITH GIANTS dirt wasn't plowed up. Richard "Red" Smith, last year's baseball TOM FARRBLL stopped off while driving a new captain, whq went to the Giants last spring, car through. Tom was on vacation and was looking has been recalled to the National League like the combination of home-life in New Jersey and vacation life on the old stamping grounds made team by McGraw after having been season­ a healthy arrangement. ed up with the Jersey City club. Red seems to be hitting a big league stride. He is Heine, Bradne & Laird, Newark law firm, is keeping EDDIE DUGGAN busy while Eddie is get­ living with Heine Mueller at 720 Riverside ting set for the N. J. bar exams in October. Drive, N. Y. C.