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The Week... J. A. 229

Spiritualities Rev. John F. O'Hara, C.S.C. 235

Father Corby Joseph P. McNmnara, '28 238

Editorial 239 A Pinch of Dust... Francis C. Miller, '27 241 The Seers (A Poem).. Francis C. Miller, '21 242 Our Fathers Have Told Us Rev. John Cavanaugh,C.S.C. 243 College Education Pays Joseijh D. Becker 245 Lines on Life.... A^iselm D. Miller, '25 246 Book Leaves Joseph P. Burke, '25 247 Sports 248

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Oh, for the confidence of Deor, he of the and returned without exciting the comment famous lament, who consoled himself ^^ith that advance publicity would have indicated. the optimistic refrain, "That was o'erpassed, Alas, poor James! The reporter steers a this will pass also." precarious path between the Scylla of mis­ information and the Charybdis of misin­ Another week has rolled by, bringing with terpretation, and many are destroyed. it the confirmation of our belief that pro­ fessors reck not of time or space. Ignoring Campus organizations are warming up. the quarterly struggles of the previous week, The Scribblers having- finished the one-act ignoring the aftermath of the Nebraska IDlay contest are expecting gratifying results delirium, refusing to recognize the proximity from the poetry Contest which- closes De­ of the Northwestern game, and alloting no cember first. Brownson opened the smoker consideration to the approach of Thanks­ season, and the MetropoUtan Club has giving, assignments have commenced pour­ fallen into line behind them. City and state ing in with renewed vigor and intensity. clubs are working feverishly on plans for All of us who are coming back after Christ­ Christmas Dances that will put out the mas should let our professors know. The cur­ native eyes. No matter what part of the rent opinion seems to be that we want to country a Notre Dame man finds himself take our A. Bs. and ETCs. home with us in during the give-season, if he keeps his. for the Holidays. freedom he'll have an opportunity to attend; The Purple grasped a mean grip on the a real Notre Dame dance. The Engineers are tail of the Blue Comet, but only succeeded dividing their vei-y little spare time between in securing- a good ride and failed to pull admiring- the cup the S. A. C. gave thent the star to earth. Now Mr. EckersaU grants and AATiting letters to Father O'Hai-a. The that if Notre Dame succeeds in winning the S. A. C. is kept busy awarding cups and Carnegie Tech game and any post-season ti'ophies and arranging rather relievedly for battle, that there will be no dispute about the last Gridgraph exhibition Saturday. the national championship. As they say in Honors for carrjdng the ball this season some instances, "Magister dixit!" seem to be split between the quartet of equestrians and Bill Daily. Chicago must look upon her stock-yards with increased respect after the great in­ Rumors of a Thursday only hohday were flux of pigskin enthusiasts from Wisconsin satisfactorily stilled by the posting of notices and Notre Dame for the two games last that the usual Wednesday afternoon for Saturday. And in the games, the scriptur- fasting and Friday morning for recovering- ally minded saw the humble Northwestern would surround Thanksgiving. comparatively exalted, and the exalted Chi­ Only three more weeks until Christmas. cago comparatively humbled. You'd think Good news for both of us. In the meantime,, the Conference was twisted enough as it is you'd beter start buying up the pillow-tops, without instituting "moral victories." Notre pins, rings candy, etc., because there's a Dame's "he-man" contingent apparently'' in­ scarcity the last few days, and an alibi vaded the habitat of the wily haberdasher doesn't make a good Christmas present. 230 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

"RESOLVED, that we deeply deplore the loss A dministration which the Board of Lay Trustees has sus­ tained in the death of our esteemed Col­ league, and we offer to his wife and chil­ The annual meeting of the Board of Lay dren our heartfelt sympathy. Tmstees was held on Tuesday, November 18. The officers of the Lay Board are: RESOLVED, further, that these resolutions be inscribed in the permanent records of the Mr. A. R. Erskine, President of the Stu- Board of Lay Trustees adn that the Secre­ doebaker Corp., President. tary of the Board be instructed to send a Mr. Edward N. Hurley, Chicago, Vice- copy of the same to the bereaved family President. of our departed friend. A. R. ERSKINE, Mr. MHes W. O'Brien, South Bend Lathe Pres. of Board of Lay Trustees Works, Treasurer. BROTHER FLORENCE, Secretary Mr. William A. Mclnerny, Assistant Treasurer. NDS The Finance Committee is made up of Plans are afoot for the enlargement of ]\Ii\ A. R. Erskine, Mr. Miles W. O'Brien the gymnasium. Before the close of the and Mr. Edward N. Hurley. year it is hoped that the work will be com­ pleted, and the gym enlarged to about The meeting concerned itself largely with twice its present proportion. The plan in­ the investment of the Endo\vment Funds cludes a basketball court with a seating collected by the University during the past capacity of about five thousand. two years. NDS -NDS A report was read to the Board of Ti-us- Word has been received from the Office tees by the President of the University deal­ of the Director of Studies that Notre Dame ing with the Academic changes and im­ has been admitted to the Association of provements dui'ing the past year. American Universities.

N D S The financial report was presented by K. OF C. DRIVE FOR THE Brother Florence, C. S. C, Treasurer of the GIBAULT HOME University. The Notre Dame Council of the Knights N D S of Columbus completed the campaign for Resolutions: Condolence sent by Board the Gibault Home for Boys Thursday even­ of Lay Tmstees to the Widow of Mr. Joseph ing, November 20, and, according to the M. Byrne. local authorities, it was a complete success. The campaign was started here on the WHEREAS, the members of the Board of evening of Tuesday, November 18, at the Lay Trustees have learned with deep re- Knights of Columbus meeting. Father gi'et of the death of their Colleague Joseph Hugh O'Donnell, Mark Nolan, and Grand M. Byrne and Knight Harry McGuire talked to the meet­ WHEREAS, the deceased through his mem­ ing, their purpose being to instruct the bership on the Board and his life long members of the Council as to the nature interest in everything that pertaind to the and plans of the Home. The following day welfare of the University and its Alumni, at a mass-meeting in the Gymnasium, the an interest unabateid through nearly half same speakers told the students of their a century of years, had won the affection plans. The active campaign began on Wed­ of all friends of Notre Dame; therefore nesday with the soliciting of funds. Mem­ be it bers of the committee canvassed the halls THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 231 on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, and unanimously elected President of the Na- the Blue Circle worked Thursday. tional Association, and for the past four Comprising the Knights of Columbus years he has been an Alrnnni representative Committee are: Mark Nolan, chairman, Al on the University Boai-d of Lay Trustees Hockwalt, Al Foos, John Hurley, Art Bid- Until a short time before his death Mr well, Gus Scolaro, Paul Rahe, Bob Hurley, Vincent Schneider, Willard Jones, John El­ liott, John O'Donnell, Dan Culhane, Bill Daily, Jun Sheerin, Jake Purcell, and Mc- Lane. Les Brady had charge of the Gibault Home Drive publicity. Ai't Bidwell has been appointed director of K. of C. mem­ bership for the local council. This is a local office, newly created by the Notre Dame Council. The Blue Ch-cle Committee was composed of, George Schill, John Kilkenny, Firmin Fusz, Henry Hudson, Dan O'Neill, Walter Cyr, Dutton Griffin, John Dugan, John But­ ler, Harold Watson, Frank Murray, John Stockley and Ed Crowe.

DEATH OF JOSEPH M. BYRNE, SR. Mr. Joseph M. Byrne, Sr., a Trustee of JOSEPH M. BYRNE, SR. the University of Notre Dame for the past Byrne was President of the fimi J. IVL four years, died suddenly at his home in Byrne Co., Brokers and Insurance, of New Newark, N. J., Sunday evening, Novem­ York City and Newark. He was a trustee ber 23. in the Fidelity Union Trust and Sa\ings. Mr. Byrne had not been in the best of Co., of Newark, and Vice President of the health for some time but no one looked for United States Savings Bank of the same a fatal culmination of his illness at this city. He was a director in the New Jersey time. Funeral services were held at St. Fire Alarm Company and President of the Colombia's Church, Newark, Wednesday New Jersey Fire & Casualty Insurance morning, November 26. Mr. Byrne is sur­ Company. He was also President of the vived by his widow, his son, Joseph M. Newark Athletic Club. Byrne, Jr., of the Class of '12, and three For many years Mr. Byi-ne has been a daughters, Mrs. Frank J. Radel, Mrs. John Knight of Columbus and has held vaiious E. Denner and Miss Constance Byrne. offices in that organization. It was his Mr. Byrne will long be remembered as honor to be the first Grand Knight of one of the most enthusiastic Notre Dame the Knights of Columbus in the City of men in the United States. Although a man Newark. of large business interests, he found time Mr. Byrne was deeply interested in the always to attend to matters pertaining to young graduates of the University. His his Alma Mater. He left Notre Dame in office was a rendezvous for serious-minded 1879 and hardly a year has passefd since Notre Dame men who found in his jovial that time without his doing something in disposition and eagerness to help a gTeat one way or another for Notre Dame. He inspiration. They will miss this old friend was permanently identified with the Ex­ who had shown them such a beautiful ex­ pansion work of the University in the East­ ample of loyalty and devotion to his coun­ ern part of the country. In 1921 he was try and especially to his Church. 232 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

THE BREEN MEDAL FOR ORATORY Music The first preliminary in the competition for the Breen Oratorical medal will be held Dr. J. Lewis Browne of Chicago, who is next Monday. The second mil be held the well-known at Notre Dame as a benefactor following day, the third on Wednesday and and instructor of the Department of Music, the semi-finals will be held Friday of the assisted in a musical recital held at St. same week. The finals will be held Decem­ Patrick's hall in South Bend last Sunday. ber 10 in Washington hall and will be open Mss Sara McCabe, who visited the Univer­ to all who wish to hear the contestants for sity several times last j'^ear with Dr. Browne the honor of representing the University in and the St. Patrick's choir of Chicago, was the State oratorical contest. also on the program. The recital was given The Breen medal is the gift of the Hon­ by the Children of Mary Sodality, and was orable William Patrick Breen, prominent in charge of Miss Clara Bognar. Fort Wayne lawyer, an alumnus of the ^r D s class of '77. It is a solid gold medal award­ ed annually to the student who excels in The Glee Club mil give its first concert oratory. The award is made after com­ of the year in Saint Patrick's Church in petition in delivered orations, decided by South Bend on December 7. The progTam three judges selected by the faculty. The given then mil be somewhat different from mnner represents the University in the In­ the one used for the various concei-ts diana State Oratorical Contest, held on the tlu'oughout the year, as a large number of third Friday in February. All undergTadu- sacred songs have been learned by the Club ates are eligible. Contestants must deliver especiallj' for this concert. Father Moloney, an original oration of not more than 1,500 the pastor of St. Patrick's Church, has made words and mil be judged both on the sub­ the arrangements with the officers of the ject and the oratorical delivery. Club for the concert. Mark Nolan, last year's medal winner, is N D s coaching the contestants under the direc­ tion of Prof. William E. Farrell. Professor A joint concert by the Glee Club and the Farrell has coached the last five medalists. Orchestra, mil be given in Washington Nolan represented the University in the Hall before the Christmas vacation. This state contest winning the coveted honor of concert mil mark the first appearance of both of the organizations upon the campus representing the state of Indiana in the In­ this year. The date mil be announced at ter-State Oratorical contest. His subject a later time. was "The Guardian of the Constitution." Nolan was one of the preliminary winners N D S and was third in the finals of the Inter- State contest. "Rob" Rink, a former student at the Uni\^rsitj% and a member of the Glee Club For the past two years Notre Dame has for two years, was on the campus last won the State contest. It is the task of the week-end to arrange for the appearance of Notre Dame man who wins the coveted the Glee Club in concert at Indianapolis. medal this year to again bring fame to the One of the most successful concerts of last University by giving Notre Dame the honor year was given at Indianapolis, followed by of winning the State contest for the third a dance at which Harry Denny's Collegians consecutive year. appeared as the orchestra traveling with There are fourteen states represented in the Club. Music critics of Indianapolis were the Inter-State contest. There are two sec­ enthusiastic in their praise of the Glee Club tions of the states. East and West. In the following its appearance there last year. East section are the states of Pennsylvania, s«ai:;:--=:;s:^-:=l ^: ir^rr;

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Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin Illi­ SCRIBBLERS HEAR FATHER MILTNER nois and Indiana. In the West state sec­ "Philosophy and Success in a Literary tion are Minnesota, North Dakota South Career," was the subject of an address Dakota, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa and made by the Rev. Charles Miltner, C. S. C, Kansas. Ph. D., of the Philosophy depai-tment of the The winners of the State contests in the University, at a meeting of THE SCRIBB­ East section meet at a different University LERS, Monday night in the K. of C. cham­ each year for the semi-finals. Last year bers of Walsh hall. the semi-finals were held at Notre Dame. Then three are picked of the seven contes­ "Literature is not all of life," said Father tants to take part in the finals held in April Miltner. "Neither is it the most important of each year at Noi-thwestern University. thing in life," he continued. "For tnith is. The same course is pursued in the West sec­ always more important than its artistic ex­ tion. pression; goodness is nobler than knowl­ edge ; and beauty is broader than any or all The Breen medalists have made a fine of the human fomis in which it is por­ showing in the past. In 1907 Joseph Flynn trayed." of Butte, Montana, Avon the state contest and then was declared winner of the Inter- "Still it is true," he said, "that literature State meet. In 1923 Raymond Gallagher, touches upon all matters of human interest.. after taking the State championship, went It is written discourse cast in beautiful to Northwestern and was declared best ora­ foiTn. If beauty were merely subjective, tor of the six best of the fourteen repre­ literature would be a mere matter of taste, sented states. Then Mark Nolan in winning and there would be no criterion by wliich the State contest and making a third in the it could be distinguished from mere writ­ Inter-State finals again showed the quality ing." of Notre Dame orators. Literature loosed from the solid ground Seventeen men have signed up with No­ of the real world and transferred into the lan to take part in the preliminary contests purely subjective regions of taste, the speak­ next week. er described as lasting but for the moment, and destined never to be remembered as representative of real literaiy merit. On THE EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR the other hand, he showed the relationship Tuesday, November 2.5, the Educational of a sound philosophy to the success of liter­ Seminar brought to a close its study of the aiy efforts by pointing out that both philo­ lower levels of the Educational Ladder by sophy and literature must be solidly anchor­ an observation trip to the Linden Public ed to objective reality. For only with such, School in South Bend. Mr. Byron Kirb}^, a mooring is it possible for them to escape a member of the Seminar, is principal of the fickleness of fashion and to maintain; this school and at the last two meetings their optimism or insure their progTess. presented the theorj^ and practice of the platoon school as conducted in South Bend. "So many of our books," Father Miltner- Misses O'Neill and Lushbaugh, also of the said, "are not only shallow and ephemeral, Public Schools, discussed respectively the vapid and insipid, but also destructive, and modern kindergarten and the primary school. pessimistic, because they are little more These three units of the modern elementary than the expression of momentaiy imagin­ school were all observed in operation through ings, transient impressions, or ever shifting- the kindness and under the supervision of opinions of men who, in the name of liberty, Mr. Kirby. The discussion in the Semincir of independent thought, of progress, have from now on will be concerned primarily undertaken, each in his own way, and each with the psychology of the first cycle of by his own method, to reconstruct a better Secondary Education, the Junior High School. basis for truth, a more attractive sun of - •••--- • •'•• •-^T rrriil»Ti-TrlTf l^^jjiu^^ti^miBmS^ •-.rir;fi;i.wii.;.i..-,.,ii^v^j^~-

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goodness, a more fertile soil for beauty than Hemy McNabb, chairman of the publicity the world which both common sense and committee has appointed Bernard Losh- sane science and sound philosophy tell us bough, Thomas Murphy and Irving Hurwich exists." to serve on this committee.

Follo^^ing the discourse given by Father -A"^ D S- Miltner, papers were read by La^Tence The FORUM met last Tuesday evening O'Leary and Gerald Holland on "The Vis­ for its usual weekly meeting in the Law ions of a Writer Thoroughlj'^ Scribbler in Building. After the business was completed His Imaginings," written in prose, and "A the question for discussion was made known Comparison of Machinery to Man," in verse, to the members for the first time; "Resolved: respectively. That the honor system should be adopted at Election of a new member to THE SCRIB­ Notre Dame." All speeches were extempo­ BLERS was postponed, and will probably be raneous and limited to five minutes. held at the next meeting of the group. At next Wedneesday's meeting Mr. Man- ion, professor in the Law School, will ad­ POETRY CONTEST CLOSES dress the club and its friends on the subject, The Second Annual Poetry Contest of The "The Constitution and Its Relation to Our Scribblers comes to a close December 1st. Government." Everyone is invited to attend. The rules of the contest have been posted on all the bulletin boards. Chief among them are: the contest is open to everyone; The Theater three poems of any length or form may be rsubinitted; five tyj^ed copies of each poem must be handed in, no name appearing on The historic scenes of West Point are the copies. used as the background for "Classmates," Last year's contest resulted in a very which is being shown this week at the Or- gratifying stimulation of campus interest in pheum. This very interesting picture is Poetry. The word from many outside maga­ generally acclaimed as the finest in which zines is that thej'^ would welcome fresh, Richard Barthelmess has appeared since "wholesome, college verse. Notre Dame has his epoch-making "Tol'able David." shown marked poetic abilitj'^ in the past, and it is the aim of The Scribblers, in inaugu- At the Palace we have the somewhat de­ Tating these annual contests ,to keep alive linquent arrival of Harry Yerkes' Flotilla "the poetic fires, and to offer a concrete Orchestra, which is the headliner of the stimulus. vaudeville program during the latter half A prize of $10 will be awarded to the of this week. All who would derive keen •author of the single poem wimiing the high­ enjoyment from hearing the best in jazz est number of points, and another prize of orchestras should not fail to be present at $10 will go to the author of the group of the performance of Yerkes and his merry •poems winning the highest total number of men. Franklyn Ardell and Co. in a comedy points. playlet, "The Wife Saver," Flo and Ollie Walters in "Telling Tales," and two other acts, are also on the bill. The current Clubs screen attraction at the Palace is called "Fools in the Dark," with Matt Moore and It was decided at a meeting of the officers Patsy Ruth Miller as the leading characters. of the VILLAGERS to hold the next club- This picture is a rather happy combination dinner on Thursday evening, December 11, of mystery and comedy, interspersed with 1924. This meeting will be held in the great, broad, patches of good old-fashioned Eotary Room of the Oliver. hokum. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 235

SPIRITUALITIES REV. JOHN F. O'HARA, C. S. C. i^:^QU^^^^^:?^^^^'^^^S^^S)^^: but at their cleverness. The big blasphemies come FRIENDS AND ENEMIES OF later; and Avhen they put on a gTeen garb and YOUR MIND charge fifty cents a performance for their gi-oss The University library furnishes the following blasphemies, we gladly pay the four bits because report of its departments for October: we are wedded to their cleverness. Oct. Oct. Sept. Sept. :!; :•: :|t H= * 1924 1923 1924 1928 A colony of Eussian has lately planted itself in our back-alley, a strange, crummy swann. They Circulation 2190 1287 1062 516 are mysterious people, and mystery is always fas­ Eeference cinating. Musk does not kill, i-ather it intensifies Books from desk 2361 811 448 95 their strong odor of rotting flesh, and we hold our Attendance, (wthout noses while we listen to their tales of blood and taking books) 3797 No Kecords. lechery, of lechery and blood. Bootleggers are Art galleries 973 N.E. 810 N.K. interesting people, and they are bootleggers—of From which it follows that the use of the var­ half-truths sired in hell. Once we start dealing ious departments has increased at a rate varying with them we should go and come by the alley from 70 to 200 per cent. This is precisely what the gate, and keep away from the park. University wants; and if the increase reaches 1000 per cent, no one will have his feelings hurt. One meets wonderfully decent people in the park: :!; ^ * ^ H: that is, they can be met, if one knows how to look Books are the playmates of your mind. Did you for them. There is a hierarchy among decent peo­ ever thank God that you know how to read, when ple, just as there is among devils; and if one has so many of your ancestors were illiterate? Per­ good sense and good guidance in meeting the right haps your own grandparents, through no fault of people in his own. set, he can be handed on from their own, were denied this privilege. Eeading one set to another until he is socially equipped to brings us as playmates the minds of all the world. be presented in any company. But if one plays They come and go at our command. They laugh with Harold Mencken on week-days, how on earth and weep with us by turns, they poke fun at our is he to play with Newman on Simday? He would foibles, they cheer and command, they upbraid and not be able to talk his language. He would find condemn; but they act only at our bidding NewTnan an insufferable bore, and leaving New­ man with Aquinas, he would seek out some Eus­ :J: :J: ;•; :•; :J: sian tanner, lately Ph. Deed by Columbia, and roll dice %rith him for the drinks in a cheesy wine. Unfortunately, while our homes front on parks and boulevards, the back doors give onto alleyways, room. and where there are alleyways there are alley * * * * rats. Sometimes the alley rats steal a clean shii-t and come around to the front yard to play. But It is the duty of your mother to watch over yovtr an alley rat is an alley rat, and we cannot play companionship. She introduces you to good com­ with him without descending to his level. He panions, she forbids you to associate with those would not understand. who would seduce and corrupt you. And if she found you in the company of anyone whose sole purpose in life was to poison your mind against Sometimes the alley rats wear a cap and bells, your father, she would do everything in her power and tickle their way into our favor. If they are to keep you away from such companionship. God coarse and obscene we drive them away, but if they is your Father; Holy Church is your Mother: and jest with tiny sacrileges only at first, we bless our­ herein lies the philosophy of the Index of For­ selves and laugh with them, not at their blasphemy. bidden Books. 236 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC Ill the name of the student-body, letters S. A. C Notes of condolence are to be sent in the future to those families of students in which occur death or other serious misfortune. A long- 111 previous years the names of S. A. C. felt need of officially expressing sympathy members appeared on S. A. C. letter-heads, will be thus filled. and in that manner students were occasion- NDS allj'' reminded of their representatives. In Mail and especially telegrams, will re­ the absence of such letter-heads this year, ceive more careful handling in the future the follomng personnel is given as a mat­ if the contemplated action of the S. A. C. ter of information: is productive of results. The complaint was made that, due to various causes, some Class Presidents: Don Miller, Senior; telegrams have not reached the addresses Dan Brady, Junior; Tom Green, Sopho­ until several hours, or even days, after they more; Edward Collins, Freshman. were sent. Several pieces of mail have Class Presidents of last year: John Mo- been lost on account of distribution methods ran, '2-5; Mark Mooney, '26; John Reidy, in the halls. Means of remedying these '27. complaints were discussed.. Representatives of various Colleges (all NDS Seniors) : Jack Scallan, Arts and Letters; Permission, subject to the approval of the Joe Bach, Science; Paul Rahe, Law; Ben Faculty Dance Committee was granted the Kesting, Engineering; Ralph Heger, Com­ merce. Engineers Club to hold a dance on the night of January 10. Representative of Off-Campus Students: N D S Paul Kohout. As in previous years, a band of comely Representatives at large: Seniors: Elmer young ladies will sell Red Cross Seals on X»ayden and George Bischoff; Juniors: Ed­ the Campus this year. The sale will very ward O'Neill, John Tuohy and John Pur- probably begin within a short time and cell ; Sophomores: William Daily. continue for a day or two. George Bischoff is President of the S. A. NDS C, John Tuohy, Secretary and Ralph Heger, Treasurer. The Metropolitan Club was granted the NDS use of the electric "N. D." sign, owned by Reverting to a custom of previous years, the S. A. C, after a contest with the Evans- "the S. A. C. will meet hereafter in a room ville Club. The priority of the Metropoli­ on the third floor of the Libraiy. This ac­ tan Club's petition was the deciding factor commodation is made possible by the cour­ in this contest. tesy of Mr. Paul Byrne, acting Librarian. NDS The Faculty Advisory Committee, consist­ NDS ing of Fathers Irving, Lahey, O'Donnell, Plans for advertising the gridgraph pi'o- and Coach Rockne, will be present at the •duction of Saturday's game with Carnegie S. A. C. meeting next Monday night to dis­ Tech were discussed at considerable length. cuss matters of common concern. Chaimian George Bischoff suggested that handbills be distributed through the busi­ ness district of South Bend Friday as a JUNIOR CLASS TO MEET means of publicity. This idea met opposi­ A meeting of the Junior Class will take tion by those who advocated advertising place in the South Room of the Library space in the South Bend papers as a more next Tuesday, December 2, at 12:30. A desirable medium. On vote the matter was class secretary, to succeed Eddie Barry left to the dictatorship of the Gridgraph who has left school, will be elected, and Committee of the S. A, C. plans for the Junior Prom discussed. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 237

FRENCH CIRCLE home at Pomeroy, 0.; and IMi*. Willihganz is an instructor in the Chemistry Department With a substantial increase in the number of the University. of students who speak French attending the University, the French circle is displaying The next issue mil be out in a few weeks. renewed activity this year. It meets every Wednesday evening from 6:30 to 7:30 in Room 51, Community House, and all inter­ THE CHICAGO TRIP ested in improving themselves in "la belle A great part of Notre Dame attended langue" are invited to join. two important events in Chicago over the The meetings are most informal and par­ last week-end—^the Northwestern game and take of the genial nature of Professor the affair at the Edgewater Beach Hotel. Provost who is actively interested in pro­ Hundreds of students came to the great moting the study of French at the Uni­ city on the lake by special and regular versity. Wednesday, November 26, Dr. trains and by cars over the Dunes highway. Charles Mercier, recently returned from They pushed through the crowded boule­ France, addressed the Club. vard to the great, cold, concrete struc­ ture in Grant Park, the stadium. Chill winds from the lake, black clouds of smoke THE CATALYZER APPEARS from the neighboring railroads, and the The initial issue of "The Catalyzer," of general altitude of the seats detracted some­ this year, made its appearance upon the what from the pleasure of Saturday after­ campus recentlj\ The magazine a ten page noon. mimeographed sheet,is published monthly by Saturday evening four hundred couples the Catalyzer Press and each issue contains attended "the dinner and dance in honor a paper prepared by an alumnus or by a of Knute K. Rockne and the Notre Dame professor in the Department of Chemistry. Football squad" given by the Notre Dame As its most important feature, the first Club of Chicago and the Chicago Club of edition sets forth a well prepared discussion Notre Dame in the New Ballroom of the on "The Halogenation of the Acetals," Edgewater Beach Hotel. The program of ^mtten by Professor Joseph Reichert of the the dinner: Chemistry Department. This paper treats very thoroughly of a process for the prepa­ Invocation Eev. Matthew Walsh, C. S. C. ration of Chloral from Acetylene. Ballads Vernon Eickard, '24 The rest of the paper is made up of Selections Harry Denny's Collegians A Welcome to Notre Dame, Hon. Wm. E. Dever records of past meetings of the club, and of Reply Captain Adam Walsh other chemical societies, and personal items A Toast to Notre Dame,__Dan'l J. O'Connor, '05 concerning the members of the club. "Northwestern Fights!" Glen Thistlewalte In hte second year of its existence "TAe Retrospects and Prospects Knute K. Rockne Catalyzer'* has Clarence Kaiser as its editor Francis O'Shaughnessy, '00, presided as and William Foohey is occupying the asso­ toastmaster. ciate editor's desk. Contributions are re­ ceived from all the members of the organi­ Dancing began at nine o'clock, the pro- zation for which the sheet is published. gi-am being played by Harry Denny's Col­ Last year's staff w^as composed of Paul legians. The crowd was an enthusiastic DePaolis, editor, and Paul Harrington, Wil- one, allowing the orchestra few intermis­ ham Bailey, and Eugene Willihriganz, asso­ sions. ciate editors. Mr. DePaolis is now a gradu­ Credit for the success of the affair goes ate student at Massachusetts Tech; Mr. to Edward W. Gould, '23, secretary of the Harrington, a track star, is Vice-President Notre Dame Club of Chicago, and general of the Chemist's club; Mr. Bailey is at chairman of the occasion. •,;-^. .. ,--.v-.T^-t.,^

238 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC Father Corby, C. S. C. book, The Army CJuqjlain, written in plain, This is the first of a scries of articles to be clear style. published with the idea of acquainting the neio After the war Father Corby was made men, and some older ones, ivith the lives of those Vice-President of the University, from jnoneers icho have helped-in the building of Notre which position he became in 1866 the third Dame. President of Notre Dame. He served two In the great National Cemetery at Get­ terms in this capacity and his success is tysburg there stands a statue of Father mirrored in an old book which refers to him Corby. An exact replica of this may be as "the popular President."

FATHER CORBY AT GETTYSBURG. -Paul Wood seen in front of Corby hall by the passerby. On the first of April, 1879, the college It depicts that noble pioneer of Notre was destroyed by fire. This occurred dur­ Dame, Father Corbj^ giving a general ab­ ing Father Corby's presidency so that he solution to the Union forces before the acted an impoi'tant part in the building of battle of Gettysburg. Union generals pres­ Notre Dame as it is today. ent on this occasion were struck with rever­ Later Father Corby was elected Provin­ ence for this fearless man of God. A paint­ cial of the order and was completing his ing of this stirring scene is to be found in second term in this office when he died on the University Art Galleries. It was paint­ December 27, 1897. ed by Paul Wood in 1891, at the age of Father Spillard, C. S. C, A. B., A. M., seventeen while he was a student at Notre the oldest living graduate of Notre Dame Dame. and a very close friend of Father Corby, Father Corby was born in 1833 and or­ tells us that he was of a cheerful disposi­ dained a Holy Cross priest in 1859, In tion, kind and pious. He had an iron will, 1861 he was commissioned by the governor the heritage of his military discipline. of New York and served throughout the Father Corby's life epitomizes the things war as a chaplain. His thoughts during a true Notre Dame man holds dear: God, those four years were summarized in his Country, and Notre Dame.—/. P. McN. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 239

THE HALL SMOKER THE INSPECTOR IT has often been said that Notre Dame THE pubhcity given to income taxes paid by has in the past few years been undergoing American citizens, which is authorized by a metamorphosis. She has been advancing the revenue act of 1924, is the latest ex­ and because of this advance certain of her pression of the bureaucracy craze. In­ institutions have changed or been supplant­ trinsically publicity is not hai-mful, but cir­ ed. The hall "rec" room with its fostering cumstances often make it so. Publicity of haU spirit has lost ground most notice­ with no purpose, publicity for the mere ably in this broadening process. sake of making public what is by natiu-e private, is nauseating to people of ordinaiy When an evening in town was a rare good taste. This latest eaves-di-opping of event for a student, whether Senior or bureaucracy about the "castle" of the Amer­ Freshman, the "rec" rooms flourished. Vis­ ican family makes the proverbial goldfish iting in rooms those days was a most pre­ as secluded as a hermit by comparison vnth. carious undertaking, and the halls gath­ the average American. ered in their recreation rooms. Pool, • bil­ liards, cards, and checkers attracted many. Is it no longer possible for an American Today Bro\^^lson and Carroll are the only citizen to have affairs which are personal and private? It is but a little way from halls which seem to need such a room. The Prohibition to the pantry, from a cigarette- others are all deserted. Corbys' and Sorin's ban to the cellar. We may soon expect a have ceased to exist. Government ruling to the effect that every family, except the families of Congressmen With this passing of a former part of and Senators, shall provide board, room, Notre Dame life, has lapsed to an extent and entertairanent for a Government In­ an old custom—^that of Hall Smokers. These spector, whose sole duty shall be to scrutin­ intimate gatherings served to unite each ize and regulate that family's doings. You •hall into one large family. They were de­ may not go to a dinner party but the In­ spector goes. You may not put coal in your cidedly useful as well as entertaining. To­ furnace but the Inspector looks on. You day, with only a vestige of the old hall may not kiss your wife without the eyes spirit apparent, there appears to be a need of the Inspector peeping at you. You may for Hall Smokers. A short time ago not wi-ite a letter without the Inspector's Brownson Hall undertook a very success­ reading It and stamping it with the seal of ful smoker. Washing-ton's approval. Your one consola­ tion may be that you might decoy the In­ Will there be any more hall Smokers this spector and shoot yourself in private. year—or have they passed with the "rec" Hail to the Goddess of Liberty—become an rooms? —J. P. S." Inspector! —H. A. M. 240 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

"NO TIME!"- die awaj'^ within you; they die away, not only on your lips, but also in your soul. "I have no time! They die away because the busy man who He has no time! needs to hear your words, and whose words We have no time! you need to hear, has no time to listen to It is the cry of our great cities. They you. are forever conjugating the verb: To have He has no time! What a terrible expres­ no time! sion! We should do well to tiy and fathom These four little words are very short, the depths of its cruelty. very quickly uttered. Yet how many things He has no time to work. He has no they imply! How many things they put a time to love. Should some important stop to altogether! stranger cross his path—someone whom in When I was a young man, literary dis­ his own highest interests it is most urgent cussion, intellectual discussion, roused and he should know—he has not even time to elevated the mind. We were full of eager perceive his presence. He has no time to thoughts, and our words were wami and act. For to act and to hustle are not two enthusiastic. synonymous verbs. He bustles, he bustles, What has become of enthusiasm? Today he bustles! He distributes to left and to men are too busy; they are for the most right of him, here a word or two, there a part almost exclusively occupied with their shake of the hand, and his absent glance business. —absent because he is always in a huiiy— Now, what is a man of business? never really rests upon anybody." The busy man, the modern man of busi­ ness var excellence, is the man who has no time. He is up to his neck in engagements; hopelessly entangled with innumerable ac­ THE STAFF quaintances ; harassed by a multitude of de­ tails, contradictions, unexpected misfor­ J. W. SCALLAN tunes, difficulties; harassed also by the need Editor of caution. On all sides are conflicting JOHN F. STOECKLEY JAMES E. ARMSTRONG claims, complications. At eveiy instant the News Editor Literary Editor ALBERT SOMMER GERALD HOLLAND crowd around him varies in costume and Sports Editor Assistant Literary Editor in appearance, but there is always a crowd THE NEWS DEPARTMENT —^always a crowd followed by a crowd. JOHN GALLAGHER ANDREW MULREANY LESTER GRADY JAMES WITHEY You accost a man, a friend, a brother. MARK NEVILS WALTER HAECKER You are full of ideas and feelings which it WILLIAM DOOLEY ALFRED MEYERS JOHN CULLINAN CARLOS D. LANE, JR. is imperative that you should communicate THE LITERARY DEPARTMENT to him in the interests of your common HARRY A. M'GUIRE ANSELM MILLER R. C. CUNNINGHAM EUSTACE CULLINAN destiny. He needs your ideas, you need JOSEPH P. BURKE RICHARD LIGHTFOOT his, and the interchange of thought is really FRANCIS C. MILLER BERT V. DUNNE a necessity. EDWARD T. LYONS BUSINESS DEPARTMENT But all sorts of business matters are CORBIN PATRICK there clamoring for his attention. They Business Manager GEORGE SCHILL JAMES WITHEY watch for him, they throw themselves upon Local Advertising Manager Foreign Adv. Manager him, they load him with chains, they drag ALFRED DIEBOLD Circulation Manager him away, bound hand and foot, to the cell BUSINESS ASSISTANTS where they stifle their victims. CHARLES CASEY DAVID HICKEY And the words you were about to utter FRANKLIN CONWAY JOHN LOFTUS

*"Life, Science and Art"—Ernest Hello. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 241

A Pinch of Dust gripped between his lips. In his eyes was a dull appeal, excited by fear, probably. He. FRANCIS COLLINS MILLER, '27. had lost his nerve. He realized that it was HE CITY EDITOR glared through the end. His fii'st error had caused him to the blue tobacco vapor at the head slip back, this second had pushed him into Tcopy-reader; the copy-reader blinked the gutter. back vacantly, fearfully, and inquiringly. When Madison had gone the young City "Madison," the City Eidtor roared, Editor sat silent at his desk, the big city thrusting a freshly printed newspaper to­ room deserted except for Tim Neal, the star wards him, "this is unpardonable. Look at reporter and feature man. Tim's type­ that 'streamer* on page one! D n it, writer had the monotonous click of a sten­ there it is there it. is a blind error, ographer's so fast was his ability to com­ a slip. You let that get by!" pose. Perhaps the City Editor had a notion that Without waiting for the astonished Mad­ he had done the wrong thing by old Madi­ ison, the copy-reader, to make a quivering- son. At any rate he sat there, meditatively reply, the City Editor growled into the pulling on his pipe, dreaming out of the speaking tube connected with the press window into the gathering evening gloom. room: At last Neal finished his copy, glanced "Stop the mill. Angel. Have to make over it, made a few pencil corrections, over the head on page one You say shuffled the sheets, and advanced to ther 5,000 have been i-un off for the street City Editor's desk. Well, stop selling now and get in the circu­ "That Friday feature on Vera la Versus, lation as much as you can!" Al," he called out tossing the copy on the The great presses of the Altotia Republi­ City Editor's desk. can droned to a whisper, then to a silent "Thanks, Tim," said the City Editor. standstill. There was a quick recast, and "Ought to make illustrating material for ten minutes later the rolls began to hum the 'bulldog edition' next Friday." again as if nothing unusual had occured. The star reporter stood there a minute, Yet the public, the inanimate presses, the started toward the door, then hesitated. world, did not know that during those ten "Old Madison made a 'bull' today on the minutes, Madison, "Old Madison," once edi­ last edition, didn't he?" said Neal, glancing tor of the R&inihliccm had been fired. meaningly at the door where Old Madison While the re-make was going on and had gone out some minutes before. "Let Madison's faulty "head" revised, the City him go, eh?" Editor raved furiously. The City Editor "Yes," said the C. E., "I had to. I can't was young, success had filled his eyes with tolerate errors like that. They reflect on the lustre of madness. He had a snappy me. Euin my chances." style, an aptitude for leadership, and good Neal bit his lip slightly, fished in his judgment. In four years he had success­ pocket, found a cigarette, lit it, and puffed ively became city reporter, star reporter, a moment. special correspondent, then City Editor. "He's been here twenty years, Al." He fired Madison. Told him to get out, "I know, Tim," said the City Editor. "But stay out, and not to come back. It was I'm up against it. I can't help it. The .late Saturday afternoon, the final edition newspaper grind is hard, and old men are for the week. out of it, they can't stand the gaff. You Madison looked so old, so gray, so woe­ know that." begone, as he trundled his spindly legs out "Ever heard old Madison's story?" asked of the Rejnihlica/n editorial office. He wore the star reporter. that old black, battered hat pulled down "No I never have. Always been a copy- over his head, and a burned out stogey reader I guess." 242 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

"Nope," commented the star reporter, time. He got smothered. It was terrible "he was once the editor of the RejnibUcan." By the way, it was just fourteen years "Editor?" ago today. "Ya, Editor. "Of course they fired him. He went on "He came here when Stricler was editor a vacation for about two months and then of the sheet, when the circulation was about came back begging for a job. They put a fifth of what it is now, when they print­ him on the copy desk. It seemed to me it ed hand set type from a flat job press. Came pleased him to just be back in the city here green from the country. He was a room. He had what I called 'newspaper cub, then worked into police reporter. fever.' We all get it. We couldn't leave "WQiile on the police run he became sort the game if we wanted to. So they put of famous for his writing. It was the him on the copj'^ desk." most brilliant in the East and he got to be "And he's been fourteen years on the quite a criminal writer. copy desk?" "Stricler made him citj'^ reporter, and "Ya, that's it," affirmed the star reporter, then star like myself. He was too good! creasing the dent in his brown, soft hat. He never made a mistake. He A^Tote bright "He married, wife died, but he's got a boy copy, live copy, copy that made you feel at Yale, a sophomore no\^, he is sending the incidents in his stories just like you through by the sweat of his brow. No were right on the gi'ound. He went to Eu­ wonder Madison's clothes are so frayed. rope and China as correspondent on wars, You know, when you fired him tonight he etc. looked so worn out, so haggard, so afraid, "Then they made him city editor. He was he reminded me of some sort of a ghost, a just about thirty-eight then. You're thirty- pinch of dust being cast on the four -svinds. eight, aren't you, Al?" Maybe he was thinking of the boy at Yale "Yes, thirtj^-eight last May." and what'd become of him. "Well, anywaj'-, Madison became editor "Do you think he'll come back and ask when he was thirty-eight. During the first for a job," said the young City Editor after two years he got along fine, made the Re- a pause, leaning toward the star reporter. imhlican the best paper within 200 miles, "Well," grinned Tim Neal, "I guess he made it solid politically and editorially. We might if I'd urge him a little—^kinda tip always got news first, and always got it him off that his job might be waiting Mon­ right! I was a cub then. day if he cared to come and see about it." "Then we saw he couldn't hold out. He "Will you do it? I'm going to take him got paler under the strain. I tell you the back." ciiy editor's grind will get any man! They "Ya," said the star reporter, pausing at ground the life out of him. It seems to take the door. "I'll tell him." the finer qualities of a man and pour them Again there was silence. The C. E. sat out of him, grind them up to fine powder, in the darkness for what must have been like dust. We knew the crash had come, hours—^thinking. He saw such a resem­ Madison was failing. blance between his life and Madison's. "It happened. He got scooped on one of Would it end the same way? Madison had the most sensational shooting affrays ever a boy at Yale! Probably a nice sort of a known in the newspaper game up to that chap.

THE SEERS The cynic sat in a cynic's chair And gave the world his cynic's stare; The world stared back in a laughing way And thus they sat staring, day on day. P. C. MILLER. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 243 tics, the sturdy old contempt for "snitch­ Our Fathers Have Told Us, ing" or for smelling at another man's heel's, By The Rev. John Cavanciugh, C.S.C. the old scorn of unclean speech or cheating or stealing or unfair self-seeking. These Traditions are the real tapestries of all things are such stuff as dreams and tradi­ noble halls. Traditions claim and receive tions are made of. Like epic poems these the plenerary loyalty of all high and fine things are never "started" or "made"; they spirits. "Our Fathers Have Told Us" is a slogan of all reverential—^that is to say, the best—minds. It is almost a touchstone of refinement in a man to be mindful of the cave from which he was digged and the rock from which he was hewn. In theology tradition is a fount of revelation; in educa­ tion tradition is a fount of culture. You hear much of the Notre Dame spirit; do you know what it means except in ath­ letics? Eaucous screaming about it in print, frantic appeals to create it (as though it had not existed these eighty years), puerile zeal to "start" traditions, lowbred hanging out of the family lingerie in public—^these things are the properties of the vulgar, The Great Unwashed. Once while visiting a new university I was importuned by stu­ dents (as an Ancient, who should know) to "suggest some traditions to start." These imiocents will by divine arrangement go to THE REV. JOHN CAVANAUGH. C. S. C. their graves without ever understanding gi"ow. They are the cream skimmed off the what a tradition is. rich milk of the college mind. Traditions are never started. They exist and grow strong long before anyone dis­ Hence the crudities among us who "im­ covers them. They exhale from any dis­ port" traditions (God help us!) from with­ tinctive group life as naturally and inevit­ out, who lug in manners and customs and ably as perfume exhales from a violet. They symbols and badges and nomenclature and are the fragrance of.life and can no more clothing and programs and sundry other oddities from alien schools, are not normal, be created than a new star. The old songs nor civilized. They are not creative but sung by generations of happy students with­ merely mimetic, and they are fully entitled out any thought of "starting a tradition"; to all the respect due to industrious mon­ the old jokes (the marble champion, the keys. Only I submit they ought not to fake athletic captain, pew-rent and water- monkey with an historic and picturesque rent and the "holy hour" at the Grotto), school, that has gone on these four-score the old stories about Brother "Bony" and years facing sometimes hostility—often Brother Hugh's "hawses" and Rockefeller coldness and occasionally (as in midwest Hall and the dead Caesar in Washington athletics) low theological prejudices—doing Hall who had to sneeze while Mark Antony its own work in its own way, fighting its was delivering his funeral oration in the own battles, meeting its misfortunes and play, the old atmosphere, the old dreams calamities with a level eye and a stout and enthusiasms, the old "razzes" and heart, and with never a thought of borrow­ "rough houses" (in due place and season), ing old clothes from the neighbors. the old thrilling stunts handed down by word of mouth, the old unaffected pieties Perhaps we elders are to blame for not and reverences when there were no statis­ indoctrinating freshmen more zealously in 244 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

Notre Dame traditions—for not telling them all, and whose days were one unending pro­ that the pioneers on winter mornings often cession of kindnesses to the ungodly and had for coverlets the snow that had sifted the affectionately reverential, whose Libra­ in through the chinks of the log hut dur­ ry, and Museum, and Bishops' Hall, and Ar­ ing the night; that Sorin and Granger at chives are merely his monument and not one time possessed only one hat between the whole stoiy. And, thanks be! there is them (povertj'^I) so that wheix one was seen still "the Colonel"—one William Hoynes, of abroad on the campus the other was known jovial and beneficent repute, favorably to be for most excellent reasons at home; known in Rome and Chicago (among other that once the students must have gone sup- places) Doctor of Laws as well as ex­ perless to bed had not the arrival of an un­ pounder of them. Knight of St. Gregory, expected gift from a friend relieved their these recent years, but a true Knight al­ distress; that while the foundations of our ways, who is a very lively tradition indeed resplendent ait traditions were being laid but who would have to admit, if indiscreetly by the purchase of pictures many years ago questioned, that he is not of today or yes­ the horses were once actually unyoked from- terday! And the Colonel, who went into the plow to be sold for debt. (Saints and the Civil War as "a mere stripling" (ouch! fools do such beautiful things and the saints these historical dates!) who was sent home "get away" \\'ith it.) Perhaps we ought to La Crosse when a southern bullet more often to recall the old missionary days ploughed across the top of his skull, leaving when after long journeys in sub zero the trough of the wound to this day, as the weather the priest had to be lifted out of most honorable of decorations; the Colonel the sled and his feet thawed back to life; who most wickedly and disobediently in­ when teaching Brothers returning from a truded himself by stealth once more into hard year's work in the mission schools the aiiny before he was half recovered— walked forthwith into the harvest field to well the Colonel may perhaps stand as a garner wheat against the next year's bread; symbol not only of the professors' devoted- when in the old Argonaut days of the "fool­ ness but also of the patriotic devotion that ish forties" three grave and reverend sent out priests to the front as chaplains, Brothers set out pathetically for the gold our nuns as nurses, our battalion of stu­ fields in California in the desperate hope of dents under Col. Lynch to the ranks, and gathering enough bullion to lift the college that later gave Notre Dame the singular debt. They got no gold, the splendid old distinction of the only G. A. R. Post made heroes, but they were willing to do that up exclusively of priests and Brothers. terrible thing—^to leave the peace and safety and refinement of their monastic shades— But must heroism be ancient before it to endure not only the privations and perils may be canonized as tradition? Happily of the Argonauts but (worse still, some­ no! Consider Dave Hayes. He came to us times!) to endure the Argonauts them­ penniless and ambitious, washed dishes for selves—in order to save our Alma Mater his meals in a South Bend restaurant for from the auctioneer. No, they found no a year, became a famous athlete as well as nuggets of gold, but they left behind them a brilliant student, coached backward fel­ golden memories. Their superb failure is lows in their classes for spending money one of the most thrilling traditions of Notre during odd hours, and on his graduation Dame, and the sheen beneath thy feet, day turned over the savings of these years sweet Lady of the Dome, is all the brighter and labors—one hundred fifty sparkling, for their adventure. . consecrated dollars—^to the Notre Dame Drive and left the school with the same old And the heroic memories are not the dis­ grin on his face as penniless as he came. tinctive glory of priests and Brothers alone. There was Prof. "Joe" Lyons—^Lyons of the Perhaps, after all, a student of today can sunny smile, the shy manner, the heart of start a tradition, but to do so he must be gold, who took no vows but practiced them such a one as David. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 245

^72,000. Our authority for this evaluation College Education Pays is Dean Everett W. Lord of the College ,of BY JOSEPH D. BECKER Business Administration, Boston Univers­ ity, who has made a long and careful study HROUGHOUT the centuries the sages of the earning capacity of three types of have declared most emphatically for men, college and high school gi'aduates and Teducation. Their arguments were those who quit school at the age of four­ of various kinds, some pointing out the cul­ teen. tural value of the fuller life open to the educated, others emphasizing the utilitarian The figures show that the average un­ side. In spite of the teaching of the sages, trained man reaches his maximum income, however, millions have failed to receive less than $1,200 a year, at the age of thirty. even an elementary education, while very His total earning capacity up to the age of few have sought collegiate training. There sixty is ?4.5,000. has even been a practice of recent years The high school graduate reaches his for humorists to belittle the value of col­ maximum earning capacity, $2,200, at the lege education and to exalt the skilled age of forty, and continues at that level trades. The cartoonists have given us for the remainder of his life. He averages inumerable caricatures of the college pro­ a total earning capacity of |78,000 from fessor in rags envying the opulence of the the ages eighteen to sixty. plumber in his magnificent motor car. The The college or technical school gi'aduate humorist has told us of the man whose son increases his earning capacity with his had completed college and who remarked: years because it is dependent on his mental "Well, I sometimes feel like saying, as did ability and training which constantly in­ Aaron in the wilderness, 'Behold I poured creases with practice. Thus at sixty his in the gold, and there came out this calf.'" average annual income is §6,000. His total Another example is a conversation in which earnings from twenty-two to sixly are a friend said to the father of a college man: $150,000. By subtracting the average to­ "I understand that your son got his B. A. tal earnings of the high school graduate and his M. A." To which the father re­ from that of the college graduate we thus sponded: "Yes, but it is still his P. A. that have a difference of $72,000. This differ­ supports him." From innumerable stories ence we accept as the cash worth of the like these backed by the prejudices of the college education. ignorant, invincible and otherwise, many Dean Lord also shows that during the still believe a college education stupid. This first four years of work the untrained per­ is often so of the young who are easily de­ sons usually earn not more than $2,000. ceived by such fallacies, because they tend These four years might have been better to justify their quitting school and getting spent in high school had the parents and to work as soon as possible, when they will children been willing to make a little tem­ earn money and be independent. Sad to say porary sacrifice. As a result $83,000 is lost many shortsighted parents permit or even on the average because of this too early urge their children along such a course. entrance into work. Further, since the in­ In order to "wake up" as well as to en­ come of the untrained man is usually courage our youth who are so anxious to earned through labor dependent on phys­ quit school and go to work, and who at the ical strength it begins to fall off at the age same time have the opportunity to acquire of fifty or earlier and at the age of sixty a complete education, we shall here present so many are unable to secure employment in terais of cash, which is least important, that over sixty per cent of such workers the latest proof that education pays. Our are dependent on others for their support. facts show the average college education is Such eai'ly entrance into industiy often worth the very comfortable fortune of overtaxes the strength of the boy or stunts 246 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

his growth so that he suffers poor health, gi-aduate, $2,200. His income increases deformed body and perhaps a very sour then practically without a break. Further­ view of life throughout his days. Indeed more the health of the college man due to he is often lead to curse the fate that al­ his engaging in athletics and other forms lowed his parents to peimit him to throw of physical training will probably be much away his early opportunities for an educa­ better at this time than that of the -un­ tion. The loss of these four years of school­ trained man at the same age. He will have ing often means a life of drudgery instead a brighter and broader outlook on life. He of one of wholesome work balanced by in­ will have niade many friends who may be­ vigorating leisure. come influential and help him throughout This sad state of affairs does not exist in life. He has much easier entree into polite the case of the high school and college grad­ society than his less privileged brother. uate. Although the high school graduate In short he should enjoy life more because has lost the opportunity to earn the $2,000 he has learned to play, something which his untrained brother has received from the will keep him eternally young and adapt- age of fourteen to eighteen, in seven years aole. Contrast with him the prematurely he passes the maximum income of the lat­ old, untrained man. No matter how much ter, §1200, rises to his owm maximum, he earns, and he usually does not earn |2,200, at forty and maintians that level much, he seldom is able to enjoy completely during the remainder of his life. Further the better things of life which mean so- he has probably taken better care of his much to the culture, and help them to pass health and development during these four successfully through sickness, misfortune years so that when he does begin work and old age. The better things of life are he is physically and mentally better pre­ good music, literature, di-ama and art, and pared than his untrained brother. He, at these tastes may best be acquired by the least, has learned the art of play and has young and plastic. received a fair cultural background which Therefore, high school graduate and col­ will enable him to enjoy many of the ameni­ lege student as well as your younger breth­ ties of life which his less fortunate brother ren, let no jobs lure you from your resolu­ A\dll never enjoy no matter how much op­ tion to secure, a first class college education portunity he may have in his old age. ^vith the fallacy that it does not pay. All "You cannot teach an old dog new tricks." the experience of the world will prompt you As would be predicted, the old age of the to continue steadfast to the end, the goal. college man holds forth still more pleasant which opens the gates to material success prospects. His permanent earnings begin and the spiritual wealth of all ages. Your- at twenty-two and in six years his income decision may make or ruin your entire; equals the maximum of the high school career.

LINES ON LIFE Life is the shadow of a smile, So short a while. Life is the echo of a song, Drifting along. Life is the ever-changing sea Waving at me. Life is a beggar's prayer, then Death is Amen. —^ANSELM D. MILLER THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 247

BOOK LEAVES JOSEPH P. BURKE. '25

The Public Service Bureau of The Chicago Trib­ A new Atlantic publication is "The Actor's Her­ une has published a book of excerpts from its de­ itage" by Walter Prichard Eaton, the well known partment, "A Line 0' Type Or Two." This small dramatic critic. It comprises "scenes from the pamphlet, paper bound, is called "The Line Theatre of yesterday and the day before." Book" and covers the years 1922, 1923 and .VDS 1924. The history of this well known column is interesting. Bert Leston Taylor (B. L. T.) Another new book of interest to lovers of the founded the column on the editorial page of The drama is "Footlights: Eecollections of My Life on Chicago Tribune in 1901. Since his death it has the Stage," by Otis Skumer. The veteran thespian been conducted by Eichard Henry Little (E. H. L.) reviews his years on the stage and has succeeded, it is said, in haAang produced a delightful auto- : —N D s— biogi-aphy. ^iV D s—• Cross word puzzle books have not only stimulated Small, Maynard Co. have brought out another an interest in words for their own rather than collection of one-act plays, including selections their literary sake, but they have unexpectedly from Mine, Bennett, Galsworthy, Bell, Conway, resulted in stimulating the sale of dictionaries. Hausman and others. "One Act Plays of Today" Book stores throughout the country report that is edited by J. W. Marriott. many of their customers for crossword puzzle books also buy an unabridged dictionary at about fif­ NDS teen times the price of the ordinary one and the "Communion Devotions for Eeligious" by the publishers of dictionaries are accordingly not tak­ Sisters of Notre Dame (Cleveland, Ohio), is a new ing active steps to discourage the crossword puzzle Benziger publication. It contains preparations craze. and thanksgiving for the daily use of the mem­ N D S bers of all religious communities. Eev. Francis P. Le Buffe, S. J., of Fordham University, has Speaking of crossword puzzles reminds us that contributed a preface to the volume. Publishers: Hodder & Stoughton in London have brought an Benziger Brothers. Price §2.7-5. English edition of the first "Crossword Puzzle NDS—• Book," published here by Simon & Schuster. The "Professor How Could You!" is the genial latter firm has already sold 250,000 copies of the Harry Leon Wilson at his best. The book is word-puzzle books which they have already pub­ written in the first person and relates the ad­ lished in this country. They promise another one ventures which befell Coppie, an absent-minded in January. pedagogue, who after "tugging at his string like NDS a toy balloon" finally breaks away from his moor­ The political boss is not an exclusive American ings and floats away. Mr. Wilson, as usual, dis­ institution. The medieval cities and England have plays a keen knowledge of human nature. His had their bosses by the score. These are but a characters are w^ell drawn and never during the few of the many interesting subjects discussed by whole story does the action drag. (D. C. C.) Professor William Bennett Munro of Harvard NDS University in his new Avork, "Personality in Poli­ Mary Johnston's new novel, "The Slave Ship," tics." is a story of life in Colonial Virginia and of the N D s eighteenth century slave trade. NDS "The Pipe Book" by Alfred Dunhill is sug­ gested by the publishers as a substitute for the "The Mirrors of New York," by Benjamin De inevitable Christmas cigars. The book is a history Casseres is a book of twenty-five short, humorous of pipe smoking, illustrated with some 300 draw­ essays in which New York is glorified, psychoanal­ ings. yzed and satirized. 248 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

Notre Dame, 13—Northwestern, 6 A determined Notre Dame team con­ the charge of the "Wonder Team," and they tinued on its way to greater heights when had to content themselves with a good per­ it suppressed a stubborn Purple effort last formance rather than victory./ Saturday by a 13 to 6 score. The battle We may have our hard-fought struggles took place before the largest crowd ever to but for sheer effort this game might be placed witness a contest in Chicago. It w^as the near the. top of the list. It was a game of second encounter of the season Avith a Big- grit and pluck all the way through and Ten foe and it was ^_ both teams were indeed a struggle for fighting to the end. the 35,000 zealots Starting with the present. The Evans- Purple bid in the ton men fought as no first quarter until Northwestern team the end of the com­ has done in years and bat the play w^as at their efforts could top speed. have been thwarted The opening scene only by the gTeat No­ saw the starring tre Dame w^arriors. Baker in the leading Fresh from their role. He produced. exceptional showing two drop-kicks to against the Maroons give the Purple a 6 the eager Purple set to 0 advantage over out to halt the inspir­ Notre Dame. This ing rush of Rockne's was all the scoring Juggernaut. They pre­ they did for the aft­ sented to Notre Dame ernoon but it proved the strongest opposi­ enough to make a tion they have met very interesting aft­ this year and showed er n o o n for the to the Middle West horsemen. Baker's the fighting abilities kicks were creditable of both elevens. ^WmW^$M scores with one es- Though Baker and Wi?:¥Mfl&0':^ Pecially notew^orthy. mates presented the greatest barrier of battered and for­ the season it was not ward passed the big enough to stop way to a score in THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 249

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I LES HEGELE, '26 THE PASSING SHOW What a Clebeland pajyer has to say aboiit it: I There ^\-ill be stars who are still paradin' | "Which is the greatest football team in the country? We have been asked that 1 Out in front with the flare of fame, s question not once but a dozen times recent­ 1 1 ly. Our answer may arouse the ire of some I But Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden I followers of the game but we don't ques­ i I tion for a single minute the superiority of I Are playing- their final game. ^ the Notre Dame eleven. Coach Knute K , I Rockne's great outfit stands out of the pro­ i Soon they rise and as soon are fadin', f cession which includes Yale, Dartmouth (or I should we say Dartmouth first), Rutgers, j Others will come from the laureled glen; i Pennsylvania and Chicago. ! I 1 But I want to see Miller and Crowley and T "It's our humble opinion Notre Dame I could beat any of the other gTeat grid out­ T Layden i fits. They have proved their worth against 1 i every foe and that to such an extent one I Taking that ball again. J might be tempted to say "Why pick an Ail- I —Grantland Rice. I American team when we have Notre Dame? i ^ It is a team made up of an outstanding ^1—iifl^_iin.^jn—-uo^—na-^im—iBi'^—na-^—BO—im^—nn-^—iiB-^im^—nB'^—BB—^BE^—n«§i the second period when Stuhldreher finally star at each and eveiy position, a team eased over for a touchdown. This was the that has speed, brain, knows football from only score of the period and allowed Notre "a" to "z", has co-ordination and a coach Dame to lead 7-6 at the half. among coaches." The third period saw both teams bitter- Two championships were settled when Ij'" struggling along mth Notre Dame carry­ Yale trounced Harvard for the Big Three ing the ball to the Purple goal only to lose title and Chicago tied Wisconsin to capture it and Northwestern coming close enough the Big Ten crown. It was the first time to allow Baker to miss an attempt at a in many years that a Crimson team was field goal. The duel was interrupted ab­ beaten by both Yale and Princeton in the ruptly in the final quarter when the aleii; same season. Chicago's record is not so Layden snatched a roving pass thrown by commanding yet they have not been de­ Baker and scuiTied to the enemy goal for feated and their claim is better than any a touchdown. This ended the scoring for other Conference team. It is the first time the remainder of the afternoon, although since 1913 that a Midway team has ended another Notre Dame march was not re­ at the top of the list. pulsed until five yards from the goal. The Upsets continued to assert themselves. crowning effort of the Northwestern men, Iowa, contrary to expectations, trounced as well as that of the Irish, was spent in Michigan while Minnesota was taking a this drive which showed the fighting qual­ drubbing at the hands of Vanderbilt. A ities of both elevens even to the end. fighting Badger team came down to scare the Maroons and battle to a draw with The Purple battlers were keyed for this them, and at the same time Stanford was struggle as for no other game of the year. holding California to a tie before one of the They hoped to do what no other eleven largest crowds ever to witness a football could accomplish but they too were un­ game in the country. It would be a diffi­ equal to the task of defeating Rockne's cult task indeed for anyone to attempt to prodigies, who continue to ride on the crest dwell on possibilities of the present season of football leadership. by comparative scores. 250 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

An All-American Team Selected by the Notre Dame Student Body

For the purpose of selecting the SCHOLASTIC All-American team for 1924, a blank is printed below. This blank filled in and signed is to be deposited in ballot boxes in the various residence halls and at the Off-campus office before December 8. In order that the team, finallly selected, may be representative of Notrie Dame opinion, at least fif­ teen hundred selections are necessary. Signed Blanks similar to that given in the SCHO­ LASTIC will be accepted but each person is permitted but one selection. Members' of the Community and the Faculty, as well as others who desire, may mail the blank to the SPORT EDITOR, SCHOLASTIC. Reasons for the choice of a cei-tain man for anj"^ position, if necessary, may be briefly given. That this ALL-American team, as selected by the Notre Dame student body, might com­ mand the proper publicity and respect among the other mythical teams picked this sea­ son, full and intelligent cooperation is looked for. Discussion and a broad survey of 1924 footballdom >>ill be necessary before making any selection.

So get busy, j^ou prospective "Walter Camps" and let us have this blank before Dec 8!

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Signed - School Address. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 251

ALL NOTRE DAME REGULARS TO BE The horsemen made one mistake. They forgot GRADUATED IN JUNE to bring their boots from South Bend. In the heavy going which was not suited to the Irish NOTRE DAME, Ind., Nov. 20.—Graduation will style of game, the riders were lost. There were deal the Notre Dame football squad a staggering stretches of their noted dashing di-ives. But the blow, when twenty-three of the men, who have finishing touch was usually missing. Rockne, who played the leading roles in the most colorful epi­ is a sportsman as well as a gi-eat coach, refused sode of Irish grid history, are granted degrees in to attribute the sluggishness of Notre Dame to June. weather conditions. Eleven of these men now compose the varsity "Northwestern was great," King Knute said team, while the others played prominent parts in after the scuffle. "No alibis. And the game ex­ the campaig-ns of the last three years. Twenty hibited by Northwestern surely doesn't desei-ve the of the men are letter men and not a few are var­ aftei-math of "reason why."—Chicago Herald and sity representatives in other branches of sport. Examiner. The loss of these men, two full teams, files the edge off of 1925 prospects and leaves the Irish with apparently nothing around which Eockne can build another team of national championship cali­ "CHUCK" M'GUIRE COMMENTS. ber. On paper the outlook is as black as the pro­ "There is a snap, a precision to the play of the verbial ace of spades. Notre Dame team which few teams attain. WILL HAVE GOOD TEAM Especially is this true of the work of the Irish Considering the fact that Notre Dame's national backfield, consisting of Layden, Crowley, Stuhl­ prominence has been sustained over such a long dreher and Miller. Never have four backs worked period of time that its stability is hardly question­ smoother together. They are four evenly matched able, it is unfair to Eockne to say that he will not stars in size and speed, each a A\izard in a broken have a good team next Fall. But it cannot be ex­ field, but also each a willing interferer, and prob­ pected that he will have another eleven like the ably therein lies one of the most important reasons one cavorting for him this year. for the wonderful success of the 1924 South Bend Teams like the present organization take time to eleven. build. The men Eockne will lose this year were all Notre Dame is generously conceded the greatest members of the varsity squad last year. passing team in the country year in and year out. Thirteen of the senior players are linemen. Four Much of its success in the aerial game must be are tackles, while each of the other line positions attributed to the ease and grace with which all will lose three men. Capt. Adam Walsh, Joe Har­ Notre Dame backfield membez-s handle the ball and mon and Eussell Arndt are the pivots who end the accuracy of their throwing. Also the type of "their careers at Pittsburgh next week. pass plays used by Rockne is one of the chief rea­ The varsity guards. Noble Kizer and John Wei- sons for the fame of the Irish aerial game. Rockne bel, and two second string perfoi-mers, Charles has developed the fox-ward pass play to the relia­ Glueckert and Vincent Harrington, will be gradu­ bility of the buck or end run. ated, Avhile the ends will be gi-eatly weakened by the loss of Hunsinger and Charles Collins of the Many, probably most, teams will stick to one varsity and Eaton on the second team. Bach and type of attack as long as it works, only reverting Rip Miller, tackles, are through this year, as is to the other two when the first one is checked. Jules Roux, a substitute. This is not the case A\dth Notre Dame, and the uncertainty as to what to expect next usually has "FOUR HORSEMEN" TO GO a disconcerting effect on the foes of the Irish." In the backiield graduation will cause the pass­ —"Chuck" M'Guire in Chicago Evening Amei-ican. ing of Notre Dame's nationally famous quartet— Harry Stuhldreher, Elmer Layden, James Crowley and Don Miller. The four men have had more sensational and colorful careers than any set of THERE, THAT'S SETTLED! backs in the country. Wrath and indignation to the guy that hollers Doc Connell, Max Houser and Geri-y Miller, about Notre Dame "the Irish." He says Germans brother of Don, will be the other halfbacks to quit and Poles and others play there. They call Ne­ in June, while the fullback position will be weak­ braska the "Cornhuskers," and everybody knows ened by the passing of Bernie Livergood and Wil­ pumpkins grow between the rows of com, but liam Cerney. nobody suggested naming Nebraska "the Pumpkin Frank Reese, a quarterback of three years' ex- Kickers." You can't satisfy everybody. You al­ 3)erience, also will be lost. most can't satisfy anybody in football. —Herald and Examiner. —One Dozen Shoi'ts in American. 252 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

DAY-DODGERS END SEASON College at Dan\alle, Kentucky, for the Dixie title at large. A trip to Portland, Indiana, and a 7-0 To date the eleven is undefeated in the south­ defeat at the hands of "Our Boys," land ha\nng been Anctorious in all of its seven. pride of Portland, ended a rather ragged engagements with foes below the Mason-Dixon season for the Day Dodgers this year. The line. And in addition to this brilliant record the Day Dodgers left Saturday afternoon, en­ Bulldogs, as the gridders here are nicknamed, won camped at Fort Wayne over night, and enviable prestige when they held Yale University to a 7 to 6 victory early in the season. Only the played Sunday afternoon. Twentj'^ mem­ failure to kick goal after touchdown spelled their bers of the team made the trip. defeat. They outgained in rushing the ball, made The first half ended 0-0, but a third quar­ more first downs and were named by eastern, ter rally made by "Our Boys" was not to be sport critics as the best team which ever invaded denied when Machlin, former Purdue star the north from the south. Georgia is a member of the southern confer­ and all-Conference man, plunged over for ence and of course the conference title is her the mnning score. most coveted goal. And in driving to the champion­ Milton Leach, coach, manager, and train­ ship clash with Alabama the locals have beaten the er of the Day Dogs, who was in charge of following conference members, Vanderbilt, Auburn, the trip, said after the game: "We have Tennessee, South Carolina and Virginia. And more the Athenians have dusted off two members no alibis. We will not say that penalties of the Southern Intercollegiate Association— amounting to one hundred and ten yards Mercer and Furman. against our team took the \actory from Mehre and Thomas have been the kingpins in us." the developing of the team here since it was through their eifoi-ts that the Notre Dame system was instituted this year, the instituting of whick THOMAS AND MEHRE INTRODUCE has revolutionized football here. ROCKNE SYSTEM TO THE SOUTH George C. Woodruff, old Georgia star quarter­ back, is head coach, Mehre being his assistant in Athens, Ga., November 20, 1924. .charge of the line and Thomas filling the position Editor, THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC, " as assistant in charge of the backfield. Notre Dame, Ind., To say that Mehre has developed the greatest line Georgia has had in years would be expressing- Dear Sir: it mildly. He has taken the husky material on I am enclosing you herewith of my own accord hand and moulded it into the finished product and a story of Frank Thomas and Harry Mehre, for­ Georgia's line play all season has been spectacular mer Notre Dame football players who have been in eveiy sense. coaching here this year and who have been more Thomas has literally made Georgia's backfield than instrumental in giving the University of which includes around twelve men. And Coach Georgia her best team in years. Woodruff shoots them in at various stages of the I am reporter on The Atlanta, Georgia Jotirnal game just as his assistants' former tutor—^Knute and am over here handling the Georgia news and Rockne— does with his four horsemen and their I thought it would be a good idea to send you a cohorts. The second string backs are started, and story of the two boys for publication in your paper' as soon as a scoring opportunity presents itself so that their old comrades who are still in school the first stringers are immediately shot into the could learn just what a hit they have made down fray. here. In addition to winning the love and admiration Yours Trulj^ of Georgia men everywhere by turning out the W. C. MUNDAY, JR., great team which they have this year Thomas and Mehre have made a big hit everywhere they have N D S been in the south and especially in Athens where Athens, Ga., November 28—Two former Notre they are known and loved by everyone. They are Dame football players, Harry J. Mehre, who fin­ blessed Avith rare personalities and bubbling over ished in 1921 and Frank W. Thomas who drew with wit and their beings are inculcated with all his degi-ee in 1922, have been more than instru­ those elements of personal magnetism which dis­ mental in giving the University of Georgia her tinguish the outstanding from the mediocre. best football team in years—a team Avhich, on With Coach Woodruff they make up probably Thanksgi^^ng Day will meet Alabama in Bii-ming- the youngest coaching staff in these parts. Wood­ ham for the Southern Conference championship ruff is thirty-two, Thomas twenty-five and Mehre and on the Saturday following will take on Centre twenty-three. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 2oS

WALSH TO PLAY TANKS the squad returned. Applications and tiy-outs of the new candidates A\ill be held in the near future. The annual Fort Wayne football dish for Water basket ball will be counted as any regular Thanksgiving will be served by the Fort swimming entiy, and will receive equal recogni­ Wayne Tanks with Walsh Hall as guests. tion in the awarding of minor monograms. The Tanks, a powerful semi-pro team repre­ Freshmen will be barred from varsity competi­ senting the Fort Wayne Tank Company, is tion starting this season, in confonnance to the recent revision of the eligibility mles. While the captained by Les Logan, former varsity loss of many promising yearlings will be noticed, quarterback for Notre Dame. it is not expected to make any serious difference The strong Badin Hall team of last year, in the strength of the tankmen. which won a 12-0 victory over Portland, The awarding of numerals to freshmen who dis­ was beaten by the Tanks by a drop kick in play marked ability will be introduced this year. This will prove a big incentive to attract many the last few minutes of play. Captain first year men to compete for berths on the frosh Stanhope is taking a championship team to squad. Plans are being considered for a series of Fort Wayne and expects to make the Tanks interteam meets, that will give the freshmen an fight hard for a victory this year. opportunity to display their ability in opposition, to the varsity. Coach Goss announced that an informal meet may be held with the South Bend Y. M. C. A. at either the tank at the "Y" or the THE SWIMMING SEASON municipal natatorium on West Washington street, Preparations are being completed for the open­ sometime before the Christmas holidays. ing of Notre Dame's second swimming season. The history of swimming as a spoi-t at Notre Coach Tom Goss began practice several weeks ago Dame began in 1921, when the first attempts were with his veteran squad from last year practically made to lift it from a mere pastime to a place of intact.' The schedule for the season is not as yet considerable importance on the minor sport card completed, but will be publishod as soon as nego­ of the University. Most of these early eiforts- tiations can be settled. were of little importance, but they caused the stu­ Goss possesses some unusual ability in the men dent body to take an interest in the new sport. on the present varsity, and should perfect a tank Gradually swimming became recog-nized as a neces­ team that will rank among the best aggregations sary part of the sport life on the campus. This in the middle west. John Weibel, varsity football increasing interest culminated last year in the or­ guard, will serve his second year as a pilot of the ganization of the first team that was officially Irish navigators and will constitute the center representing Notre Dame in the tank circles of the about which Goss expects to buUd his dashmen. middle west. Weibel, owing to the extending of the football sea­ Considering the handicaps that were encountered son, will not be able to join the team at present. in entering an untried field, the first season was In Jeriy Khodes, breast-stroke, Monte Tennes, a decided success. Several organizations were met free-style dashman, Dick Fuite, back-stroke artist in South Bend and nearby cities. The University and Ealph Alvarez, running mate of Weibel in the of Indiana, one of the best water aggregations in dashes. Coach Goss has a clever quartet of season­ the West, was met in Notre Dames' initial inter­ ed swimmers. Mike Anderburg will again repre­ collegiate appearance. Although the tanksters from sent Notre Dame in the fancy diving competition, .Bloomington were the most successful from the and in the 220 yard free-style sprint. Anderburg standpoint of the final score, the contest was just has few equals in the state, and will prove an im­ as much a victory for the Gossmen. An inex­ portant cog in the scoring machine this winter. perienced team was able to give their veteran op­ The trio of plungers, Seivers, Diebold and Cun­ ponents much unlooked-for opposition, and the meet ningham are all veterans from .last year. It is served as a fitting entry for Notre Dame into in­ expected'ithat at least one of these three will be tercollegiate competition. able to capture the state record. Eodgers, Mc- The shomng of last year's team fulfilled the T'- Laughin, Stephen and Gish are a few of the lesser expectations of the Athletic Board and of the lights that are expected to fill regular berths on general student body. It Avas then decided that the team. swimming was permissable as a minor sport at With the recent announcement from the Indiana Notre Dame. Beginning this year swimming is Conference that water basket ball will be consider­ placed on an equal footing with cross-country, box- ed as a regular part of every swimming meet in ingj hockey, and other minor sports. 'j-^ the future, preparations will soon be made for With the increase of interest in swimming as a the reorganization of last year's team, as most of minor sport, it was also recognized as an essential 254 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC part of the course in Physical Training. This It is a question whether four other men caused the requirement that every fi-eshman must could be picked from the entire country and swim 100 yards, to be added to the requisites for a credit in the Department of Physical Train­ drilled to such efficiency in a single season. ing. Freshmen are now given the opportunity to Certainly if the AIl-American team ever enroll in either of the two regular classes held in existed for playing purposes instead of for swimming, and are given the benefit of the best argument among the fans it would get facilities and instruction that present conditions much better results from this perfect-fitting, will permit. smooth-working combination of Rockne's The class system used at Notre Dame is unique- It is a novel method in the swimming world. The than from any quartet that Waltei" Camp old idea of teaching a pupil to swim consisted of will pick. These may not be the four best a few strokes executed by the instructor, who then backs in the country individually, but col­ told the bewildered candidate to practice at these lectively the yare in a class by themselves. until he had acquired sufficient skill to continue Notre Dame is doubly proud of them, too, Jiis equatic education. By the new method of because they are "home grown." The South class instruction the pupil is not only carefully trained in the technicalities of the sport, but is Bend institution does not seem to be able to given the added benefit of watching his colleagues offer the inducements to great stars of the j)ractice at the same time. The classmates can preparaory school ranks that some of the thereby profit by their own mistakes. other colleges do and she doesn't get many Students who have acquired a preparatory of them. So Rockne has to "raise them knowledge of swimming are placed in the ad­ vanced class. These men are given the opportun­ from pups." ity to develop speed, endurance and skill while at the same time overcoming any defects in their ability. It is from this latter class that candidates AS YOU LIKE IT are chosen for positions on the varsity squad. After acquiring a certain perfection of skill, the BILL REID, '26 advanced swimmers are drilled in the principles of Last Saturday, the "Blue Clomet" became Red Cross life saving. This is highly profitable enveloped in a purple mist. After flounder­ experience to the men who care to spend their spare time as instructors and as life guards. ing around awhile, it finally found a waj'' out and continued its journey along the paths of victory. Those who had depended "THE FOUR HORSEMEN" upon the ability of the Comet to guide them From Mr. Batchelor's Article iti the through an undefeated season, felt their "Detroit Saturday Night." confidence shaken just a little, when thej'^ could not pierce the purple haze. No printed word can begin to convey an idea of the speed, the precision and the NDS power of this (Notre Dame's) baskfield. Some of our world's greatest newspapers Imagine two Granges, a Friedman and a seemed to take extreme plesure in announc­ Lidberg placed on the same team. Imagine ing to fandom that the "Fighting Irish" them trained together for three years so were held to a thirteen to six score. Have that they could go through their plays in they failed to take into consideration the the dark, standing on their heads, or left- calibre of opposition. Captain Walsh and his handed. Imagine them drilled daily by a men have been fighting throughout the football genius whose plays would make season ? Not one game on the 1924 schedule crossword puzzles seem childishly simple. could have been considered a set up. Every Then imagine them geared up to the speed opponent required special attention and the shown by the participants in a slapstick pointing of the team for the weekly en­ movie comedy, and you will have some idea counter. The strong opponents, which con­ of "The Four Horsemen." It is not only stituted the Notre Dame schedule, exacted the greatest backfield of today, but prob­ that Rockne keep his men in the right men­ ably the greatest that the modern game of tal attitude, on edge and in physical shape football has produced. for every game. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 255

-CROSS COUNTRY SEA­ Phelan came in first, followed SON ENDS by Eyan. Fisher and Lahey finished fourth and fifth. The With Notre Dame's entrance first five to place were award­ into the Conference Cross ed numerals. The time made Country meet at Ann Arbor by the first two men was prom­ last Saturday morning the ising. Blue and Gold cross country season was brought to a close Notre Dame did not vnn the meet but the team's showing FRESHMAN HALL was creditable. Notre Dame DEFEATED finished eight in a field of 16 contesting teams.—Capt. Went- Freshmen hall team was de­ Bexfect poise land of the Irish finished third feated by the strong Jonesboro Cicero's toga might have been and was awarded a Conference more picturesque but Cicero had Triangles' team, Sunday, by nothing on him for voice and a medal. Phelps of Iowa won one touchdown. The boys from good bit less hair. the event for the second time Frosh hall journeyed down With every spear parked just so and not in the same number of years; a suspicion of tell-tale dandruff on his state in charge of Butch De- immaculate broadcloth, he has the su­ Wisconsin won the meet ha^'ing Vault, student prefect. The periority complex and perfect poise that the lowest score. The Notre begets confidence and success. Triangles, a professional team, "Vaseline" Hair Tonic helps to keep his Dame team finished in the fol­ secured the score after a fast hair on and down. His healthy scalp lowing order: Wentland, Nul- does not itch. Take a cue from him. At forward pass attack in the first all drug stores and student barber shops. ty, Young, Dolmadge, Master- quarter. They failed to add the Evtrj'' Vaseline'' product is recom­ son and Cox. Following the mended everywhere because of its point after touchdown. For the absolute fritj and effectiveness. finish of the race, which was rest of the game the Frosh out­ over a five-mile course, the played the down-state team but Blue Key Club of the Univers­ were unable to score. The ity of Michigan entertained the backfield men played good foot­ Vaseline contestants at a banquet at the ball for Freshman hall. Blume REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. Michigan Union building. and Schuh featured in the mn- Notre Dame has enjoyed a ning and passing attacks. They HAIVer thRe Healt TONIh andC good season in Cross Country made considerable gains, Capt. Appcaraoce ^ the H^r '• activities. Four of the Varsity Purcell ran the team in fine Chesebrongh Mfg. Cdmpany (Cons'd) team are Sophomores and will shape and played a good game. State Street New York be great aids to the team for the next few years. The team's success has been due to Coach Eay Hoyer who has given much of his time to develop­ Tours to Europe—Summer of 1925 ing the men. It was Hoyer's FOR STUDENTS, TEACHERS, ARTISTS, ETC. first season at Notre Dame and 30 DAY TOUR |* *%r\rk J LONDON he has shown gTeat ability. ALL EXPENSES AtjUU Umi tlD BRUSSELS INCLUDED ^*-»Vr*^ ««#(«« CC^ j^^D PARIS Notre Dame scored two vic­ SAILINGS END OF JUNE AND EARLY JULY tories this year defeating In­ OTHER TOURS INCLUDE IN CHARGE OF COMPETENT DIRECTORS ITALY. SWITZERLAND THOROUGHLY EXPERIENCED IN diana and the Michigan Aggies. AT MODERATE COST EUROPEAN TRAVEL Indiana won the state cham­ WALTER H. WOODS CO. pionship. The Blue and Gold 80 BOYLSTON STREFT BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS team was defeated by North­ western but in the meet last . Satui'day the Irish led in the Purple. Joe Nulty of Newark, N. J., The complete file of THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC ^a sophomore, was elected to will form a valuable record of the year 1924-25 at Notre captain the Varsity cross coun­ try team next year-. The cross Dame. Save your copy each week. country men will furnish the Extra copies, for mailing home or for ifriends, may long distance runners for the track team. be secured at the Notre Dame News Stand or at the In the three and a half mile Cafeteria. cross country race held last NDS week for freshmen candidates. v= 256 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

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