^^^^fE€E^B|R6. 1935 u/>e NOTRE DAME I SCHOLASTIC Xl% D^^^.- =^^'' Volume Sixty-Nine Number Ten I gms^^asjBiai^s^aaBSBJBasiiag^iag^asaaa^^ Patronize Our Advertisers Established 30 Years COLLEGE PARADE By Robert L. Grogan Marriage in college—a problem not OPTOMETRISTS so prevalent in this university as in others—^is, nevertheless, worthy of 222^ South Michigan Street our attention. Investigations have South Bend, Indiana been conducted in several univer­ sities to determine the relative success of student marriages while the par­ ties are still in college and after FLY -HOME FOR graduation. According to an article in the Indi­ Have the prescription of XMASI ana Daily Student, leading universi­ your glasses filed with • Take a number! The number of days ties have various attitudes toward us. It will serve in an you have for Christmas vacation, for the question. Most co-ed schools give emergency. instance. Well, we'll give you exactly full sanction to student marriages that number of days AT HOME—by fly­ regardless of whether the parties are ing you there OVERNIGHT in a 200- self-supporting or not, regardless of mile-an-hour plane. Or leave in day­ whether they are living together or time and be home the same evening. not. This means you, if you live in Cleve­ land, Chicago, Twin Cities, Omaha, "In Vassar," says Dr. H. N. Mc- Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cracken, "the basic principle in deal­ BROKEN LENSES Portland, Seattle! Reservations: any ing with students is to confer on them DUPLICATED IN OUR United Air Lines Ticket Office, Tele­ the privileges of maturity. Thus the graph Office, Hotel or Travel Bureau. OWN LABORATORY. question of marriage is entirely in­ cidental. the college regards it as UNITED AIR LINES a matter for the family to decide." This attitude is representative of that taken by most college officials today. Dean of Women Agnes E. Wells, Lighten Their Climb Back to Health- of Indiana University, finds that stu­ dent marriages make no apparent dif­ Buy Christmas Seals! ference in scholastic ability, and that most of the student marriages "have been happy ones." The dean of women at the University of Minnesota ex­ presses a similar opinion. The University of Notre Dame is in accord with the majority in per­ mitting married students to continue at the University. The question is properly left to the discretion of the more mature students but should be subjected the guidance of proper au­ thorities. Since such a tremendous majority of college students are im- married, the institution seems out of place in college. —o— From the University of Minnesota student directory come the following phenomenal names: Gee and Golly, Long and Short, and Best and Wise. They also have Light and Arey, Wilde and Wooley, and, 'Lastz but not Leitz' (lousy pun quoted), Stein and Beer. FAMOUS SPEECH "James Fenimore' Cooper was a goon."—Professor Nichols in a Min­ nesota American Literature class. An assignment at Utah State re­ quired students to hand in a report on the Middle Ages. One student sub­ mitted a review of Life Begins at Forty.—Daily Califomian. Two The Scholastic CALENDAR Friday, December 6 SCHOLASTIC Staif meeting, Editorial Staff 6:30, General Staff 7:00 p.m.; German Club meeting:, Carroll hall Rec, 7:45 p.m.; Movie, Washington Hall, 6:45 and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, December 7 Basketball, Double - header, Notre Dame versus St. Joseph and James Milliken at Studebaker Gymnasium, first game 7:00 p.m. Sunday, December 8 Student Masses 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, and 9:00 a.m.. Sacred Heart Church; Communion breakfast for the New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Memphis Clubs after 8:00 o'clock Mass, Lay Faculty Dinnig hall. Rev. John J. Reynolds, C.S.C., speaker; Meeting of Officers of Knights of Columbus, Walsh hall clubrooms, 10:30 a.m. Monday, December 9 Philippine's Day Observance, con­ vocation for conferring honorary de­ grees, 2:30 p.m., Gymnasium, no af­ ternoon classes. Broadcast of cere­ monies and President Roosevelt's ad­ dress by NBC and Columbia chains, speaking terms with tlie sky 2 -.BO; Lecture by Dx-. Frederick Kins­ man, Washington Hall, 7:45 i^.m., "Calvinism." Tuesday, December 10 Dr. Frederick Kinsman lecture in IAR above the clouds, on all the leading airlines, your Washington Hall at 7:45 p.m. entitled pilot is always within hearing and speaking distance "Anglicanism." F Wednesday, December 11 of airports—via Western Electric radio telephone. Basketball, Notre Dame versus Wasliington University at St. Louis; This equipment, made by the manufacturing unit of the Lecture by Dr. Frederick Kinsman on Bell System, is helping the airlines to set a notable record "Catholicism, the Home of Faith, Hope and Charity," Washington Hall, for' , safe transportation. Teletype—another Bell System 7:45 p.m.; Meeting of Campus Radio Group, Engineering Bldg., 6:30 p.m. ,xvice—speeds printed weather information to airports. Thursday, December 12 \ Long Distance and local telephone facilities, too, play Lecture by Christopher HoUis, "English Capital in Ameiica," Wash­ important parts in airline operations. ington Hall, 8:00 p.m.; Piano Recital by Hugo Melchione and Arthur Bell System services reach out in many directions to Davidson in Washington Hall. the benefit of industry and commerce. RADIO CALENDAR Monday, 3:15—The Man Who Knows. You can "fly" home by telephone, in Monday, 7:00, p.m.—Faculty lecture. a couple of minutes. Why not do it Prof. Froning (WSBT-WIND). Tuesday, 3:15—Musical program. tonight? Station-to-Station rates are Wednesday, 3:15—The Bookmen Pro­ lowest after 7 P. M. gram. Thursday, 3:15—J a c k Robinson's Sport Talk. Friday, 3:15—The Scholastic of the . Air. HELL TELEI»IIO>E SYSTEM December 6, 1935 Th ree Draion especiallij for THE SCHOLASTIC ba Art Editor William Ellis PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT The Notre Dame Scholastic Entered as second-class matter at Notre Dame, Indiana. Acceptance for mailingi t at special rate of postage. Section 1103, Oct. 3, 1917. Authorized June 25, 1918.J Volume LXIX December 6, 1935 No. 10 PROGRAM COMPLETE FOR PHILIPPINE DAY Many Notables Will Participate in Ceremonies; Roosevelt and Romulo to Receive Degrees 2:30 o'clock, will open with "The Star tary units of the area have been mob­ Mundelein Will Preside Spangled Banner," played by the Uni­ ilized for service along the route, and versity band; this ^\•^ll be preceded by school and service bands will be sta­ "Hail the Chief," when President tioned at inter\-als. By John A. Gillespie Roosevelt appears on the stage. Ne.xt, After the ceremony, the president On Monday, Dec. 9, the University the Rev. John P. O'Hara, C.S.C, will make a tour of the University- of Notre Dame will observe Philip­ president of the University, will an­ grounds, and then will leave immedi­ pine day in a program which will nounce the purpose of the convocation commemorate 400 years of Catholicity ately for Washington. and Father Carrico will read the cita­ All arrangements were approved by in the Philippines as well as the birth tions for the honorary degrees to be of the infant republic, which has just Col. E. W. Starling, who personally bestowed on President Roosevelt and supervises all details where the presi­ inaugurated its first president. Carlos Mr. Romulo. P. Eomulo, Manila publisher and in­ dent is to make an appearance. dependence worker, and President Moreau Choir to Sing A special platform has been built Franklin D. Roosevelt, will be award­ The Filipino national anthem, "No along one side of the gymnasium for ed honorary degrees. Mas Amor," will be chanted by the the newsreel cameras which will make His Eminence George Cardinal Moreau seminary choir, after which a permanent record of the impressive Mundelein, of Chicago, Governor Mr. Romulo will deliver a short ad­ program. Paul V. McNutt, of Indiana, and the dress. His Eminence George Cardinal Some additional guests will be: Hon. James E. Farley, postmaster Mundelein, presiding officer of the Thomas J. Courtney, state's attorney general, will be among the notables convocation, will then introduce Mr. from Chicago; Sister M. Benita, pres­ present, as will Governor Henry Hor­ Roosevelt, and the program will close ident of Rosary College, River Forest, ner, of Illinois, and Samuel B. Pettin- with the "Victory March," played by Illinois; Harold E. Rucavado, of Chi­ gill, congressional representative from the band. cago, Consul of Republic of Costa Indiana. Rica; August Rontoux, Latvian con­ The official program, arranged by Because of the limited seating ca­ pacity in the gymnasium, the actual sul, Chicago; Dr. Jerome G. Kerwin, the Rev. J. Leonard Carrico, C.S.C., official representative of the Univer­ to take place in the gymnasium at attendance has been restricted to 9,000. Two national radio net­ sity of Chicago; S. E. Thomason, pub­ works, CBS and NBC, as well as Sta­ lisher of the Chicago Dail>j Times; S. tion WSBT, will broadcast the entire C. Yoder, president of Goshen Col­ proceedings, starting at 2:30 o'clock. lege; Victor Kleisrath, of the Bendix Corporation, and Walter J. Cummings Arrangements for handling a crowd chairman of the board. Continental of at least 125,000 persons have been Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. made by a civic relations committee headed by Bernard J. VoU, president of the Notre Dame Alumni Associa­ tion, and Mayor George W. Freyer- muth, of South Bend. Noll, McNutt To Be Hosts To afford them an unobstructed view, 25,000 school children of South Bend will be assembled in Leeper park.