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THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS

VOL. VI. CONTENTS FOR JANUARY, 1928. NO. 5

Board of Lay Trustees Frontispiece Notre Dame's Board of Lay Trustees 195 Report of the President : 200 Stadium Under Lay Trustees' Scrutiny : 201 Christmas Bii-d Census at Notre Dame 203 The Alumni Clubs 206 Editorial 208 Athletics J. P. McNamara 212 Rockne's Student Contemporaries, Walsh and Boland, Bert V. Dunne 215 Rockne Explains Notre Dame's Success Knute Rockne 217 The Alumni 219 None too Soon! 220

The magazine is puhlished monthly during the scholastic year by the Alumni Association of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. The subscription price is t2.00 a year; the price of single copies is 25 cents. The annual alumni dues of $5.00 indade a year's subscription to THE ALUJINDS. Entered aa second-class matter January 1, 1923, at the post office at Notre Dame, Indiana, under the Act of Mardi 3, 1897, AH corres­ pondence should he addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus, Box 81, Notre Dame, Indiana.

JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25, Editor

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

ALUMNI BOARD EDWARD L. MAURUS, '93 - - - - Honorary President JOHN P. MURPHY, '12 ------President JAMES F. O'BRIEN, '13 ------Vice-President JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25 ------Secretary WALTER DUNCAN, '12 ------Treasurer EDWIN C. MCHUGH, '13 ------Director JOSEPH M. HALEY, '99------Director ALFRED C. RYAN, '20 ------Director GEORGE M. MAYPOLE, '03------Director DANIEL J. O'CONNOR, '05 - - - Director {ex officio) BOARD OF LAY TRUSTEES, NOV. 15, in27—TOP ROW: FRED ,T. FISHISR, FRANK E. HERING, M. W. O'BRIEN, W. A. CARTIER, W. P. BREBN, REV. BRO. FLORENCE, C.S.C—BOTTOM ROW: JAMES J. PHBLAN, EDWARD N. HURLEY, VERY REV. J. A. BURNS, C.S.C, A. R. ERSKINE, PRES., VERY REV. M. J. WALSH, C.S.C, B. V. KANALEY-,*ABSENT: C C. MITCHELL, DANIEL P. MURPHY.

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THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS

A magazine which seeks to unify Notre Dame spirit among Notre Dame altmini; to keep alive the friendliness and democracy of the campus when campus days are gone; to acquaint Notre Dame alumni with the development of the University, and the broader devel­ opment of the principles of Catholic education; to organize alumni activity so that it may better and in a greater measure attain its ends; to live in print as Notre Dame men live always, "For God, for Country, and for Notre Dame."

Notre Dames Board of Lay Trustees fund to be cared for in addition to the al­ PERSONNEL most invaluable property and the large funds of the school that comprise its an­ Non-Alumni nual income and expenditures. Term Exp. Million dollar endowment funds are not Albert Eussel Erskine, LL.D., luxuries to the modern educational institu­ South Bend, Ind., Pres 1931 tion. Yale has just completed a twenty James J. Phelan, Boston, Mass. —1931 million dollar endowment drive, which was Fred J. Fisher, Detroit, Mich. 1929 over sub scnbed two hundred and fifty Miles W. O'Brien, South Bend, Ind. 1929 thousand dollars at the time appointed for Edward N. Hurley, LL.D., Chicago its completion. But the careful investment Illinois 1933 of this fund at Notre Dame, and other Fi-ancis J. Eeitz, Evansville, Ind—1933 permanent funds of the University, by rea­ Alumni son of their limited content, demanded "multum in pai-vo." William P. Breen, '77, Fort Wayne With the wisdom and foresight that has Indiana 1933 developed Notre Dame from the little brick Frank E. Hering, '98, South Bend, building to its present state of expansion, Indiana 1933 Notre Dame had already created a Board Bjn.-on V. Kanaley, '04, Chicago, 111. 1931 of Lay Trustees. This Board, whose con­ Daniel P. Murphy, '95, Eockaway, stitution was practically wiitten by William N. J. 1931 P. Breen, '77, one of Notre Dame's oldest Clement C. Mitchell, '02, Chicago and most active graduates, is comprised of Illinois 1929 twelve men, six graduates of the University Warren A. Cartier, '87, K.S.G., and six non-alumni from the business Ludington, Michigan 1929 world. The six alumni are men who know Notre Notre Dame has, in the Board of Lay Dame as only men who have studied here Trustees, what appears to be an exem- can. The other six men are men prominent plai-y solution of the problem of the re­ in the business world whose interest in ligious institution conducted along the in- Notre Dame and in education is such that e^^table lines of big business. they are willing to give their valuable time The history of the University covers and expert advice to further the progi-ess eighty-six years of idealism, sacrifice, of the University. The services of these achievement, discouragement, and develop­ men have been of inestimable value to the ment,—from the time when Father Sorin University already. They are sei-vices that and a little band of Brothers stopped be­ the University would find it impossible to side St. Mary's lake and chose it as the purchase. The services of the alumni on site of Notre Dame, in 1842, to the New this board are appreciated as one of the Year, when the University is operating at finest services a graduate could render. The capacity, 2600 student enrolled, a 1200 acre service of the men who have never attended campus, and a million dollar endowment Notre Dame but give their time because 196 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS of friendliness for the University and ap­ Fred J. Fisher preciation of education should be even more Mr. Fisher, President of the famous appreciated by Notre Dame and Notre Fisher Body Corp., is another outstanding Dame alumni. figure of national prominence on the Notre The personnel of the present Board in­ Dame Board. A pioneer in the automobile dicates the unusual genius that is gathered industry. Mr. Fisher and his brother were in this body. So outstanding has been the confident of the future of the business and success of the plan that many other uni­ expanded their corporation to take care of versities and colleges have asked for a con­ its needs. In addition to his connection stitution to establish similar boards. Fol­ with his own company, Mr. Fisher is a lowing is a short review of the men who vice-president, director and member of the are at this time in charge of the invest­ executive committee of the General Motors ment of the permanent funds of the Uni­ Corp., one of the country's greatest indus­ versity : tries. He is prominently identified ^\ath the A. R. Erskine, LL.D., '24, Pres. business, civic and social life of Detroit, Mr. Erskine is internationally known in and is outstanding for his activities as a the automobile industry, President of the capitalist and philanthropist. Notre Dame Studebaker Corp. of America and Canada, is fortunate in securing the friendship and and one of the country's most astute finan­ services of a man such as Mr. Fisher upon ciers. He began his career in very moder­ whose time great demands ai-e being con­ ate circumstances and worked his way up stantly made by a variety of interests. His by hard work and ability. He became contribution of service is a testimonial of treasurer of several large concerns, the true friendship for the University and edu­ Yale & Towne Co. for six years, the Un­ cation. derwood Typewriter Co. for another year Miles W. O'Brien at which time he joined the Studebaker Mr. O'Brien has always been a patron of Corp. as treasurer. He became President Notre Dame and a friend of the men who of the Corporation four years later, 1915. have guided Notre Dame affairs. It was Mr. Erskine was director and chairman natural that they should turn to him, so of the War Chest in South Bend 1917-19 friendly and so close at hand, when such a and has been prominent in civic activities project as the Board of Lay Trustees called generally. He is a member of many local for outside aid. and national clubs, business and social. His The South Bend Lathe works, with na­ leadership in the development of the Stu­ tional and international business connec­ debaker Corp. during the recent intensive tions, founded by Mr. O'Brien and his competition in the automotive industry has brother in 1906, is eloquent testimony of been outstanding. He has constantly worked the business acumen of Mr. O'Brien. He for the development of Notre Dame. The is considered one of South Bend's leaders Studebaker Corp. employs a number of No­ in every walk of civic life that summons tre Dame graduates. For his outstanding the sei-vices of the ideal citizen. Mr. achievements and his friendship toward the O'Brien can be seen at most of the func­ University Mr. Erskine was awarded an tions of the University, athletic and non- honorary LL.D. in 1924. athletic, and is a close personal friend of Rev. John Cavanaugh. James J. Phelan Edward N. Hurley, LL.D., '18 Mr. Phelan, the most recent appointee of Ml-. Hurley's connection with the Uni­ the Board, was written up, following his versity is not new. He has long evidenced appointment, in the December issue of THE a real interest that has not lessened as his other activities and distinctions increased. ALUMNUS. He is a member of the famous An honorary Doctorate of Laws in 1918 in­ banking firm of Hornblower & Weeks, Bos­ dicates the esteem in which the University ton, Mass., and a distinguished Catholic held Mr. Hurley and his friensdhip and layman. achievements. The school further evidenced THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 197 its appreciation of his many merits by con­ Frank E. Bering, '98 ferring the highly prized Laetare Medal So many things come to mind at men­ upon him in 1926. tion of Mr. Bering's name that his selec­ National honors have also rewarded Mr. tion as a member of the Board is at once Hurley. He was appointed Chairman of approved. He is at present editor of The the U. S. Shipping Board and Pres. of the Eagles Magazine, official organ of the Fra­ Emergency Fleet Corp. He has been iden­ ternal Order of Eagles, an organization in tified with several other federal enterprises which he and several other prominent No­ with distinction. He has a number of busi­ tre Dame men have been leaders. Mr. ness interests and is at present chairman Hering has led the campaign for various of the board of the Hurley Machine Co. of ends, chief of which at present is an old Chicago. He is also a director in various age pension law. He is also the recognized banking and business companies. founder of Mother's Day. Francis J. Reitz Mr. Hering was captain of the Notre Evans^^lle, Ind., is the center of activity Dame football team 1896-7, and played of Mr. Eeitz and so successful were his en­ varsity baseball the same years. He coached terprises there that the University was the football team the year of his captaincy pleased to take advantage of his friendship and for the three years following, and has by selecting him as a custodian of its funds, always been a loyal and interested follower Mr. Eeitz is prominent in bank, lumber, of the team, and of all things Notre Dame. furniture and real estate interests in Ev- He coached basketball in 1897-8, baseball ansville and has played a prominent part from 1896 to 1899, and track in 1897-8. It in the development of the city. seems quite natural that Mi-. Hering should Mr. Eeitz' lumber company, founded by be head of the committee of the Board in­ his father in 1845, has manufactured more vestigating the proposed stadiimi. - hardwood lumber than any other mill in Byron V. Kanaley, '04 the U. S. Mr. Eeitz is a devout Catholic Whatever is good for Notre Dame in an and erected a high school in Evansville for alumni way inevitably involves Byron Ka­ the Congregation of Holy Cross which is naley. The policies of the Association and now conduucted by the Brothers. He is whatever the Association has done for the very public spirited and able and has con­ University bear his signature among the tributed much to the activities of the Board. others. Mr. Kanaley is a partner in the William P. Breen, '77 investment banking house of Cooper, Kana­ ley & Co., Chicago, and is prominent in Mr. Breen is so well known to every No­ Chicago's financial circles. He has occu­ tre Dame alumnus that further comment pied official positions of honor and trust in seems merely formal. Graduated in 1877, various organizations there but has always he is one of the oldest alumni in point of found time to devote to Notre Dame. years. He is one of the most active in Mr. Kanaley at present heads the com­ point of service, and one of the most loyal. mittee establishing the Lay Faculty Foun­ He has contributed immeasurably to the dation Fund for the Association, a unique progress of Notre Dame and Notre Dame alumni movement that is a step in American institutions. In University activities he alumni activities, and a significant achieve­ donated the Breen Medal, which has annu­ ment of the Notre Dame Association. His ally kept the fires of oratory burning zeal in alumni matters is untiring and his brightly. He was the first president of the response to Notre Dame's appeals, however reorganized Alumni Association 1908-9. numerous, has always been both prompt Mr. Breen was admitted to the Indiana and efficient. bar in 1879 and has since practiced at Fort Wayne. He is a member of the firm Daniel P. Murphy, '93 of Breen & Morris, and is also president Mr. Murphy is another alumnus who of the Peoples Trust & Savings Co. He needs little introduction to the members of is a member of the American Bar Assn. the Association. He was vice-president of and the Indiana Bar Assn., acting as presi­ the rejuvenated organization in 1909-10, and dent of the latter 1903-4. his services for its welfare were so earnest 198 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS and successful that he was made president some idea of the high type of men handling in 1911-12. Since that time Mi-. Murphy the financial affairs of Notre Dame. Even has taken active intei-est in the growth of in their necessary brevity, however, they the Association whenever his time per­ convey the power of the friendship and loy­ mitted. alty of these graduates and friends of the Professionally he is a lawyer and is gen­ University who sacrifice a really appreci­ eral counsel for the 4-One Box Makers, a able amount of their time in the conduct of Eockaway, New Jersey, industry, which of University affairs, so that the University late has kept Mr. Murphy down where mos­ may prosper and the cause of education be quitoes are mosquitoes. Almost every advanced. The University and the Alumni Commencement visitor of any experience owe to the Board of Lay Trustees an ap­ will ask before his grip touches the ground, preciation sincere and lasting. "Is Dan Murphy here?" And Notre Dame men of that type can always be trusted when the University needs to call on its FACULTY FUND PROSPERS laymen. The Lay Faculty Foundation Fund, pro­ posed at the annual meeting of the Associa­ Clement C. Mitchell, '02 tion last June and quietly developed by Mr. Mitchell was a most valuable addi­ tion to the Board of Trustees. He had headed a bond and mortgage business for many years and was recognized in Chicago, his home, as an expert in these broad fin­ ancial fields. In addition to his expert knowledge of investments, Mr. Mitchell has always evidenced a loyalty for Notre Dame that assured the University of his co-opera­ tion as a member of the Board. In addition to his interests in. bonds and mortgages as head of the C. C. IMitchell & Co. Bonds and Mortgages, and the Ameri­ can Bond and Mortgage Co., Mr. Mitchell has interested himself in real estate and fanning, and has been very successful in law. Warren A. Cartier, '87 Eighteen years as treasurer of the Alum­ ni Association unquestionably qualified Mr. Cartier for the most complicated financial problems of the Board of Lay Trustees. His banking interests in Luding^ton, Mich., also bear testimony to his astuteness in matters of money, so that from the angle of ability, his presence on the Board is a BYRON V. KAN-^LEY, '04 reassuring one. Mr. Cartier is the foster-father of Notre Byron V. Kanaley, '04, chairman of the Dame football, having given to the Uni­ committee appointed to handle the Fund, versity Cartier Field, upon whose grassy during the subsequent months, is progress­ surface have developed and fiourished the ing vei-y satisfactorily. The Fund pro­ great teams that have won athletic fame posed is $10,000, to be invested so that a and made athletic history. Mr. Cartier's prize of $500 will be available annually to hand, seen or often unseen, has always been award to the member of the Lay Faculty ready to- give help to the University or the of the University of Notre Dame who shall Alumni Association. be deemed to have performed the most The above sketches give, inadequately. meritorious services for the University. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 199 A letter from Mr. Kanaley states: TO PUBLISH PLAYS "In response to your request, wish to The authorities of Notre Dame have grant­ state that the Lay Faculty Foundation ed the faculty committee of the University Fund is $10,000; it is now a little over half Theatre peiinission to proceed with the pub­ completed . . . The first faculty prize will lishing of plays. The University Theatre be awarded this coming June at Commence­ of Notre Dame was organized a year ago ment. Provision has been made by alumni for the purpose of encouraging Catholic at large to take care of the $500 annual writers in the writing and production of prize until the Fund is completed. plays. There have been several produc­ tions, and interest in the project has be­ "The total amount thus far contributued, come so widespread that a demand has amounting to a little over $5,000, has been grown up for Notre Dame plays to be pro­ invested by the Finance Committee of the duced elsewhere than at the University. Lay Board of Trustees, so that it is bear­ ing interest, I think, to net about 6%, and The University proposes to begin this this interest will be used as part of the year "The Library of the University Thea­ prize this year. Of course, when the Fund tre of Notre Dame University," which will is completed, the interest yield from the in­ comprise short and long plays in book foim, vested Fund will be sufficient to take care published at low rates so that they shall of the prize each year. This Fund is per­ be available to parochial organizations, petually in the care of the Lay Board of little theatres, and others interested in the Trustees and will be administered as to its propagation of the Christian drama. It is investment by them in the same manner as hoped that the first plays will be issued the other funds in their charge are admin­ early in 1928. istered by them. "The Alumni have shown a very great NOMINATING COMMITTEES interest in this Fund, and it is only a THE ALUJINUS is reprinting the Nomina­ question of calling to their notice the mat­ ting Committees, announced last month by ter of subscription. Insofar as we know, President John P. Murphy. The reprint­ this is the first instance in an American ing is for two reasons. One because the university that the alumni have sponsored Constitution calls for it. The other be­ a recognition of this kind for a faculty. cause it was inadvertently printed opposite Notre Dame has received a good deal of a reminder, gentle as it was, that all dues favorable notice from various educational are not yet paid. And from the financial quarters because of this movement." results those pages were not widely read. Mr. Kanaley's letter makes clear the effi­ If you have your candidates for Presi­ cient disposition made of the Fund and the excellent progress that has greeted its dent, Vice-President, Treasurer and Direc­ inauguration. Its merits are so obvious tor picked out, let the Committee know. that it seems only a matter of acquaintance They probably want advice, as naming • a and financial ability to complete the re­ slate is not easy. The names and addresses maining half of the Fund. It would be a of the Committees are as follows: decided asset to the Association to have this Fund completed and functioning inde­ Committee 1—William E. Cotter, '13, 30 pendently at the end of this fiscal year. E. 42nd St., New York City; Fi-ank X. Cull, '08, Bulkley Bldg., Cleveland; Leroy Mr. Kanaley's address is Cooper, Kana­ J. Keach, '08, 108 S. Delaware St., Indian­ ley & Co., Chamber of Commerce Building, apolis, Ind. Chicago. Any contribution to the Fund will be welcomed by the Committee, for it is as Committee 2—Thomas A. Dock%veiler, '12, desirable to have it represent the senti­ I. N. Van Nuys Bldg, Los Angeles, Calif.; ments of the general Association as the Fred L. Steers, '11, First Nat'l. Bank Bldg., generosity and loyalty of only a few of the Chicago; William J. Granfield, '13, State members. Bldg., 1200 Main St., Springfield, Mass. 200 THE NOTBE DAJIE ALUMNUS

Report of The President — Board of Lay Trustees-' University of Notre Dame Meeting, November 15, 1927

GENTLEMEN : It will be noted from the balance sheet that the new funds coming into the hands of the Trustees during the year ending September 30, 1927, amounted to §14,492.75 and that the total of such funds received up to that date amounted to $1,105,832.69, consisting of—

General Endowment Fund $1,000,000.00 Scholarship Funds 61,750.00 Prizes and Trust Funds 13,000.00 Gain from Sales of Securities 31,082.69

Total $1,105,832.69

It will be further noted also "that the investments of the above amount, excepting $1,507.69 in process, show the following classification and yield, viz.: Real Est. Bonds & M'tgages § 908,755.00 ( 82.2%) yielding 6.00% int. Government Bonds 50.00 yielding 4.25% int. Public Utility & Eailr'd B'ds 23,000.00 ( 2.1%) yielding 5.04% int. Preferred Stocks 172,520.00 ( 15.7%) yielding 6.71% int.

$1,104,325.00 (100.00%) yielding 6.09% int.

According to the market quotations of November 10th the above preferred stocks could be sold at a profit of $24,000 above their cost. These preferred stocks yield 6.71% upon the investment and the prin­ cipal is protected by a vn6.& margin of market value over cost. How­ ever, the Board might discuss the possibility of disposing of some of these stocks. During the year the Trustees remitted to the University income from investments to the amount of $71,772.10 and had $1,590.81 addi­ tional on hand for their account. The balance sheet shows that there is only $1,382.69 of bank bal­ ances in the hands of the Trustees awaiting investment. Respectfully, A. R. ERSKINE, President. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS ^01

Stadium Under Lay Trustees* Scrutiny

The dream of a stadium for Notre will be made to study the possibilities of a Dame's football teams has reached a de­ stadium than at any time previous in the velopment which may decide the case either history of Notre Dame. for or against the stadium. A committee appointed to consider all A further sub- di­ phases of financing included A. E. Erskine, vision of the duties South Bend, chairman, B3rron V. Kanaley, incidental to laying Chicago, secretary. Edward N. Hurley, definite plans for a Chicago, Miles O'Brien of South Bend, and football stadium was the Very Rev. Matthew J. Walsh, Notre made Saturday, De­ Dame. cember 18, when two The second committee, empowered to ex- • special investigating amine into the prospects for a stadium site, committees were ap­ the nature of the architecture and the con­ pointed to make a struction of the project, is said to include detailed study of the the Very Rev. James A. Bums, Notre stadium proposition Dame, Knute K. Rockne, director of Notre and report the re­ Dame athletics, the Rev. Thomas P. Irving, sults to the sub-com­ and the Rev. Thomas Steiner, professor of mittee of the board engineering. of lay ti-ustees, next These special committees will report to FRANK HERING May. (This commit­ the sub-committee of which Frank E. Her­ tee, appointed No- ing of South Bend is the chairman, some­ of Frank Hering, vember 15, consists time early in May of next year. J. A. Burns, C. chairman, Very Rev. The sub-committee will then present a S. C, Very Rev. M. J. Walsh, C.S.C, Hon. detailed and exhaustive report to the board Edward N. Hurley, and Byron V. Kanaley.) of lay trustees with recommendations. The committees were authoiized and em­ powered to carry on investigations by the The membership of both investigating full membership of the lay trustees' sub­ committees represents select powers in the committee which lunched at the University higher councils of the university and in the Dec. 18, and included such notables as Ed- business world. V/ard N. Hurley, war-time chairman of the Knute Rockne holds an important place United States shipping board; B3n.-on V. on the committee investigating the site, Kanaley, Chicago; A. R. Erskine of the construction and architecture. His experi­ Studebaker corporation;; the Very Rev. ence traveling with his football team, "has Matthew J. AValsh, president of the uni­ teeth in it," as one man described it, while versity; the Rev. Patrick Carroll, vice-pres­ speaking of the success with which the ident of the university, and the Rev. latest movement for a stadium has taken Thomas P. Irving, vice-provincial of the root. Holy Cross Order. Fathers Burns, Walsh, Irving and Stei­ The questions of the site for the stadium, ner are men of repute in the scholastic and the nature of the stadium architecture, con­ administrative councils of the University. struction and feasible plans for financing Father Steiner was graduated from Notre the project, were reported to have been dis­ Dame in 1898 as a civil engineer', and for cussed. years practiced his profession before re­ There was no action taken committing turning to the teaching fold. His reputa­ the University to the building of the stad­ tion as an engineer will be an important ium. But the nature of the discussion is factor in the forthcoming studies of the said to have indicated that a gi-eater effort committees. 202 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS mittee will continue its helpful work of en­ JIM EGAN RESIGNS lightening the people of America on the James V. Egan, '24, Boy Guidance, '26, true situation of the Catholic Church and director of the Catholic Ck)mmunity center, the Catholic people in Mexico, and acquaint­ Fort Wayne, has resigned to become direc­ ing them with the great burdens which the tor of community activity with the South Catholics in that country have to bear un­ Park board, of Chicago, Charles M. Niezer, der present conditions. '97, chairman of the board of directors of The committee, under its retiring chair­ the community center association, an­ man, has made considerable progress to­ nounced recently. Mr. Egan's resignation wards its goal. It has published and dis­ was effective January 1. tributed a vast amount of literature, in­ James V. Egan, for the past year direc­ cluding approximately 600,000 copies of its tor of the Catholic Community center. Fort pamphlets and other publications. This work Wayne, who left on Monday, January 2, has been done with very limited funds, but for Chicago, to enter upon his duties with in such a way as to meet all the responsi­ the South Park board, was tendered a fare­ bilities that have been placed upon it. well in his office on Friday, Dec. 30 The directors and staff of the Community center made presentation of a fine Glad­ • • .:.•:.<.*•••« • <• •> • .> .> • .> •:• stone bag. Alex A. Kartholl, his successor in office, gave the presentation address. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE • ••••••*•••••••••••• ALUMNUS HONORED Two men have written in recently asking Judge Morgan J. O'Brien, LL.D., '20, of about jobs. Both are extremely capable New York has resigned the chairmanship and THE ALUMNUS wishes every reader of the National Committee for the Protec­ v.-ould read the following: tion of Religious Rights in Mexico, a post 14a. Law graduate, caught in the sud­ he has held since the organization of that den decline of a boom town, needs change body, Charles F. Dolle, secretary, has an­ of location. Legal work of any type con­ nounced. Pressure of other business has sidered. Efficient and experienced. LL.B., compelled Judge O'Brien to retire from the '26. committee's headship, but he will continue 15a. '20 Letters man, experienced sports his deep interest in its work, Mr. Dolle writer, sports and state editor, city editor­ said. ship. Would like journalistic work, or will A new chairman of the committee will be take coaching job in high school or small chosen by the members of the executive college and teach if necessary. Monogram board in the near future. baseball man at N. D. Judge O'Brien heads the Reorganization Both of these men will be very valuable. Committee appointed by the mayor of New Prompt action will result in mutual benefit York early last year. The responsibilities to employer and employed. Address Alumni of this office and of the many other activ­ Employment Service, Box 81, Notre Dame, ities in which he is engaged are maknig Ind. great demands on his time and energy. Moreover, Judge O'Brien has lately been appointed by President Coolidge to be a member of the American delegation to the N. C. A. F. CONVENTION Sixth International Conference of American The National Catholic Alumni Federation States to be held in Havana, Cuba, begin­ has announced its convention for April 20, ning January 16, 1928, and Avill attend that 21, and 22 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, conference. New York City. The Notre Dame Associa­ Judge O'Brien, Mr. Dolle said, shares tion is a prominent member of the Federa­ ^v^th the other members of the National tion. Mr. Hugh A. O'Donnell is its Secre­ Committee for the Protection of Religious tary. John T. Balfe is Chairman of the Rights in Mexico the hope that the com­ Committee on Organization. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 203

Christmas Bird Census at Notre Dame (The following interesting report was A walk should last four hours at the very prepared by Brother Alphonsus, C.S.C., who least, and an all-day one is far more pre­ has followed the movement of the birds on ferable, for the observer can then visit the campus since he was a student here in more of the different types of country in 1884—^not to mention the movement of the his vicinity, and thus obtain a list more in­ birds in Brownson Hall who have been un­ dicative of the birds present. Each report der his supervision. It will interest the must cover one day only, that all censuses host of friends his kindness has made for may be comparable. him among the graduates of Notre Dame. It should be signed by all the observers Brother Alphon­ who have contribut­ sus and his field ed to it. When two. glasses have been or more names are familiar to eveiy signed to a report, student at Notre it should be stated Dame as he walked whether the workers through the beauti­ hunted together or ful campus woods separately. Only cen­ and about the shores suses that cover of the little lakes of areas that are con­ St. Mary and St. tiguous and with a Joseph. The birds total diameter not seemed to recognize exceeding 15 miles his quiet step as should be combined the approach of a into one census. friend and to help Each unusual rec­ him in the intensive ord should be ac­ study he has made companied by a brief of Notre Dame's statement as to the bird life. identification. When Twelve hundred such a record oc­ acres of campus, curs in the com­ embodying as it does bined list of parties the two lovely lakes that hunted separ­ and acres of wood­ BKOTHEB ALPHONSUS, C. S. C, ately, the names of land, offers a haven those responsible for to birds, and specimens have been found the record should be given. Such reports here by Brother Alphonsus that appear should be headed by the locality, date, hour very rarely in any other section of this of starting and returning, a brief state­ part of the United States. The following ment oi the character of the weather census indicates the surprises that await whether the ground be bare or covered with the bird-lover who walks about the appar­ snow, the direction and force of the wnd, ently deserted campus in mid-winter.) the temperature and the distance or area Each year during Christmas week a na­ covered. Then should be given a list of the tional bird census is taken and the i-esults species noted, with as exactly as possible, are published in the February issue of Bird- the number of individuals of each species Lore. To the average person unacquainted recorded. with our birds, the large numbei- of species Brother Alphonsus and Mr. Theodore that may be recorded on a winter's day is Mehling took the census at Notre Dame on quite surprising. December 22. In the morning they worked This year the census was to be taken on separately and obtained the following spe­ any day from December 22 to 27 inclusive. cies: (1) Brother Alphonsus,^-Cardinal, 204 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Chickadee, Crow, Cooper's Hawk, Blue Jay, only one other approaching it in the num­ Slate-colored Junco, Prairie-homed Lark, ber of species recorded. White-breasted Nuthatch, Song Sparrow, Tree Sparrow, Starling, Tufted Titmouse, BROWNSdN DEBATERS WIN Downy Woodpeckei-, Hairy Woodpecker, Herring Gull, Purple Finch, (2) Mr. Meh- The Victor Lemmer cup for interhall de­ ling,—Chickadee, Golden-crowTied Kinglet, bating (donated last year by Victor Lem­ Cardinal, White-breasted Nuthatch, Downy mer, '26,) was formally presented Dec. 11 Woodpecker, Crow, Herring Gull, Blue Jay. to the Brownson hall debating team of the University of Notre Dame which for the In the afternoon they worked together second consecutive year has captured the and obtained the following species: Brown forensic award. Creeper, Goldfinch, Chickadee, Crow, Slate- The presentation was made by Joseph P. colored Junco, Meadowlark, White-breasted McNamara, president of the college Wran­ Nuthatch, Tufted Titmouse, Downy Wood- gler's club, which is sponsoring the inter­ peckei-. Herring Gull, Purple Finch, Brown hall meets. Thi-asher. The total number of species for Preceding the presentation of the award the day was twenty-one. a Victory banquet was held in the faculty The number of indi\'iduals of each spacies room of the University-dining hall with recorded was as follows: Cardinal, five; Brother Alphonsus in charge. Featuring Chickadee, ten; Brown Creeper, one; Crow, the dinner was an address by the Eev. Wil­ one hundred and twenty-six; Goldfinch, liam Bolger, C.S.C, head of the depart­ two; Cooper's Hawk, one; Blue Jay, nine; ment of economics and politics and debating Slate-colored Junco, fifteen; Golden-crown­ coach of the University. Father Bolger ed Kinglet, two; Prairie-horned Lark, one; lauded the Wranglers for the promotion of Meadowlark, five; White-breasted Nuthatch, the forensic activities and expressed the twelve; Song Sparrow, two; Tree Sparrow, confidence that interhall debating which two; Starling seventy-four; Tufted Tit­ was started last year will prove a great mouse, five; Downy Woodpecker, one; Her­ aid toward the development of better teams. ring Gull, fifty; Purple Finch, eight; Brown Thrasher, two. The only unusual record was that of the GO AHEAD, ACCEPT HER! Brown Thrasher. Successful college men have the largest The winter species not obtained on De­ families, and children from large families cember 22, but obtained on other days dur­ are the most successful in college, says Dr. ing the month were the following: Bob- Ellsworth Huntington, research associate white, Mourning Dove, Sparrow Hawk, at Yale university, writing in the Yale Kingfishez-, Killdeer, Eobin, Great Blue Scientific Magazine, a publication issued Heron, Eing-neeked Duck, Eusty Blackbird, by students in the Sheffield scientific school Screech Owl, making a total up to date of of Yale university. thirty-two species recorded for the month Fi-om his investigation of student recoi'ds of December, 1927. at Yale, Professor Huntington has found The time they spent observing was six that students from large families, "decid­ and one half hours,—^three and a half in edly excel those from smaller families in the morning and three in the afternoon. In literary, dramatic, religious and musiccal the morning they started at eight o'clock activities, in managing teams, in student and in the afternoon at one thirty. After government and the like," and comes to the three o'clock it began to gi-ow dusk, as the conclusion that "it is a decided advantage sky was cloudy. In the morning it was to belong to a large family." partly cloudy. The temperature at 8 A. M. His investigation of records of 700 Yale was 20 degi-ees, and at 4:30 P. M., 31i de­ graduates shows that 95 per cent, of the grees. The wind was northwest and light, most successful of these are married, as and the ground was thinly covered with compared to 67 per cent, among the least snow. successful, and have on the average "about This bird census was the most successful three times as many children per graduate" one that Brother Alphonsus has ever made. as compared to those least successful. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 205 '14 ALUMNUS HONORED N. E. A. HONORS FR. DE WULF Theodore F. MacManus, LL.D., '14, head The appointment of the Rev. Dr. Emiel of the advertising firm of Theodore F. Mac­ DeWulf, C.S.C. as committee chairman on Manus, Incorporated, of Detroit, has been National Education Association board was proclaimed a Knight Commander of the announced in a communication from J. W. Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Crabtree, secretaiy of the association, Wed­ Pius XI, according to word received from nesday, Jan. 4. Dr. De Wulf is Director of Rome, Saturday. Studies at the University of Notre Dame. This decoration, one of the highest which The National Education association is an can be achieved by a layman in the Cath­ organization of college faculty members, de­ olic church, was originally founded to re­ voted to aiding in solving problems relating ward the civil and militaiy virtues of sub­ to their general welfare. The problem of jects of the Papal States. In modern times readjusting salaries of college professors it is bestowed in recognition of outstanding throughout the United States is now being achievements in some one of a number of considei-ed by the organization, which in­ activities. cludes members of the faculties of almost every college and university in the United Mr. MacManus, who is the author of two States. books and much literature of a briefer soil, was largely instrumental in founding the Catholic University of Peking, China, CORRECTING A MISTAKE which was started two yeai-s ago by the Through the omission of a line in the Benedictine Order. The Academy of Let­ copy for "An Echo of the Eucharistic Con­ ters of this university bears his name. gress," in the December ALUMNUS, the fu­ ture of the Congregation of Holy Cross was The Order of St. Gregory the Great was almost nipped in the bud. The misguided founded in 1831 by Pope Gregory XVI. who version read, "— the Congregation of Holy placed it under the protection of the saint Cross has three Novices, and a Little Sem­ whose name it bears. inary of about 140 students." Whereas, the The decoration will be conferred on Mr. original translation from Bishop Brente's MacManus in the Benedictine Abbey Church comments read, "—The Congregation of of St. Vincent's, Beatty, Pa., at an early Holy Cross has there about eighty priests, date. seventy Brothers, a hundred scholastics, seventy Novices, and a Little Seminary—" You can see the difference. MADIGAN GIVEN THE "SLIP" "There's a schedule scandal on the West DISTRIBUTION OF STUDENTS Coast these days. The following interesting figures were re­ It popped up when the public was given cently compiled from the records of stu­ its first glimpse at the 1928 football sched­ dents now at the University: ule of Stanford University. Then, and not College of Arts and Letters 1,124 until then, it became known that foxy old College of Science . 245 "Pop" Warner had dropped St. Mary's College of Law 188 ~ College from his visiting list, College of Engineering 440 St. Mary's, it will be remembered, is the College of Commerce 820 team that defeated Stanford, 13 to 7, while Graduate Students 45 "Pop" was away scouting the California Beai-s. He thought the Saints were a set­ Total enrollment 2,862 up, but they turned out to be an upset. Of this number ninety-five are students San Franciscans are complaining bitterly. in the Seminary or in Dujarie Institute, and St. Mai-y's has one of the best teams in fifty-five are residents of South Bend, re­ the Far West, but it can't get in the Pacific ducing the total enrollment of students in Coast Conference, and can't even get in­ the full Univei-sity significance of the term, dependent games with Conference teams. to the approximate 2,600 outlined as the U. S. C. dropped the Saints several years enrollment limitation by the University ago after taking an unexpected beating." authorities. 206 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS

THE ALUMNI CLUBS

FOET WAYNE a communication from Joseph Haley, "The secret of any success is confidence vdce president of the alumni club and direc­ in one's self; ability to be courageous even tor of the National Alumni association, who after defeats and constant dependence upon was unable to be present at the banquet one's own idea of what is right and what because of illness. The club unanimously is wrong," Judge John W. Eggeman Sr., passed a resolution expressing the wish president of the Allen County Bar associa­ that Mr. Haley's recovery from his present tion and former president of the University illness may be speedy. of Notre Dame club, declared in an address Vocal selections were provided during Wednesday, Dec. 28, at the Notre Dame the banquet by the Golden Gate singers, a alumni's annual banquet in honor of un­ colored quartet. Musical selections were dergraduates home for their holiday vaca­ also provided by the Keenan hotel orches­ tions. The banquet was held in the private tra. Thomas A. Hayes was in charge of dining room of the Keenan hotel. the entertainment. Among the guests of Judge Eggeman warned the undergrad­ honor at the affair were the Eev. Charles uates against expecting too much of them­ H. Thiele, rector of St. Peter's church, and selves the first few years after graduation, a former student of Notre Dame. citing his own experience of having earned George R. Hamilton, formerly of Port $65 a month before going to college and Wayne and an alumnus of Notre Dame, only $275 the entire first year after gi-ad- who came from Tulsa, Okla., to attend the uation. annual function, was introduced and re­ "Success," said the judge, "demands lated several humorous anecdotes. physical courage, but more especially men­ tal and moral courage. Don't think when you get out of college that your goal is The University of Notre Dame glee club material wealth alone. Keep in mind that will give a concert in the Catholic Com­ those who sent you to college would want munity center, Friday night, February 3, first, that you be good, substantial citizens Alex A. KarthoU, manager of the center, of whom they may be proud." announced last week. The club scored suc­ The annual Christmas banquet of the cesses in many of the largest cities of the Notre Dame alumni club was attended by East and Middle West last year. 26 Fort Wayne boys who are attending Washington, D. C, proclaimed the Notre Notre Dame. The students were guests of Dame chorus as giving the best concert in the graduates and former students of the the recent music history of the capital, school. Stations KYW, WGN and WCFL of Chi­ William P. Breen, president of the alum­ cago; KDKA, of Pittsburgh; WSBT, of ni club and trustee of the University of South Bend; WNYC, New York, and Notre Dame, acted as toastmaster, Ed­ WEEI, Boston, are among the many radio mund Bresnahan, president of the campus stations which broadcast the program of organization which the Fort Wayne boys the college men. have at Notre Dame, in a brief address thanked the alumni for the banquet in honor of the students and assured the older NEW YORK men that upon graduation they would give (The following account of the Post-Army their efforts to perpetuating the custom of Banquet arrived too late for the December holding a Christmas dinner and in other issue, which contained a picture of the af­ ways keeping active the Notre Dame alum­ fair. The following is from Ambros.e O'Con- ni activities in this city. nell, Secretary of the N. Y. Club Football During the meeting, Mr. Breen read Committee.) THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 207 Over 600 people attended the dinner and things the dance is to be the largest ever dance of the Notre Dame University Club held with an attendance of from £00 to of the City of New York held at the Eoose- 250 couples. (Eeports since this letter in­ velt following the Army game. President dicate that it was up to expectations.) On Walsh of the University was the guest of the twenty-second of December a meeting honor of the occasion and delivered a short will be held to which the undergraduates talk on the ideals of Christian education. have been invited. We intend to put on an The deep affection with which the Presi­ entertainment of some sort for their ben­ dent is regarded was sufficient to make efit .. . everyone happy, but after dinner a tone of BUFFALO frivolity appeared when the crowd cele­ Paul Hoeffler dropped an. interesting note brated next year's victory over the Ai-my. on the acti\aties in Buffalo during the holi­ President John Balfe was the ideal host in days. The Buffalo undergraduates staged seeing that evei-yone had a splendid time, a dance at the K. of C. Hall Dec. 29, which but his work was greatly facilitated by the organized them and many of the alumni. work of Larry Doyle and his efficient com­ mittee of arrangements. Madame Cassen- Paul dwelt at some length on the beauty nilli, the film star, entertained with a reper­ present, and indicated chivalry was also toire of delightful songs and received a present. In fact the union was so effective genuine ovation. Treasurer Louis Wagner that Paul heard rumors of definite dates is now cherishing a big bank roll, and how! being an-anged, but rumors only. Jay L. The attendance of Notre Dame New York­ Lee made a big hit with everyone present ers was complete, and the event is pro­ and kept the dance as peppy as he has kept nounced on all sides as the finest success the Buffalo Club. in the history of the organization. Eeser- WOMEN'S CLUB vations are being received for next year's event, together with applications for seats The following information will be of in­ on the 50 yard line. terest to all women gi-aduates: Sister Mary Agatha, of the Toledo Ursulines, A.M., '26, The Metropolitan Club, New York under­ has been recently honored by Archbishop graduates at Notre Dame, held their Christ­ McNicholas and the Executive Board of the mas formal at the Biltmore Hotel in New Catholic Students Mission Crusade. Father York on Wednesday, Dec. 28. It was a Thill, secretary, writes her, "Because of success in eveiy respect. A large gathering your outstanding leadership in the plan­ of undergraduates and alumni were present. ning of The Shield in its magazine form, For the first time in the Club's histoiy a and because of your efficient and devoted slight profit was made on the dance, which work as directress of Crusade work at St. will be applied to campus entertainment Ursula's Academy, it was decided at a for the Club members. The dance, with meeting of the Most Eev. President of the many other Catholic school dances, narrow­ Crusade and the Eight Eev. Chairman of ly escaped a ban by Cardinal Hayes, which the Executive Board that the supreme dona­ was, however, in respect to the many con­ tion of the Crusade be conferred on you tracts already signed, lifted at the last I am sending you the Grand Cross of the minute. Order of Paladins and the brief conferring NEW JEESEY this highest Crusade decoration on you. The following letter from Al Bryce of Sister M. Ancilla, O.S.U., Toledo, has the New Jersey Club came too late for the written a hymn to the Little Flower, words December issue: and music. Criticism of it states that it is On the twenty-sixth (Nov.) we had a fascinating and devotional and a favorite play-by-play description of the Southern of school children. Sr. Ancilla received her California game in our meeting room at A. M. in '22. the Newark Athletic clUb. "The Exceptional Child," an article which Dec. 5 at the i-egular monthly meeting appeared in the October number of The the principal topic was the dance being run Catholic School Journal, was writted by by the New Jersey carcpus club on Dec. 27 Sr. M. Agatha, A.M., '26, of the Toledo at the Newark A. C. From the looks of Brsulines. 208 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS EDITORIAL

The Alumni Association wish­ has been reflected in increasingly interest­ HAPPY NEW es you a Hajopy New Year, ing reports of these activities. YEAR! certainly, and takes this occa­ Putting out this magazine is the prin­ sion for a few suggestions that should cipal item on the Association's budget. To make it happy. continue successfully there has to be more First, pay your dues. That doesn't sound support. There are t\vo main methods open like the original recipe for happiness, but to the membership. One is the always it is the essential means to a happy end in urged payment of dues. The other is ad­ matters alumni. Then read THE ALUMNUS. vertising. "tt'hen 'the first ecstasy has subsided you Advertising in an alumni magazine is will find in its pages news of what your an entirely different proposition from ad­ friends and classmates are doing, news of vertising in undergi-aduate publications. In what the Association is doing, news of THE ALUJINUS you are appealing to a na­ what other Local Clubs are doing. You wll tional group of men, usually representative find articles on the progress of the Uni­ citizens in their communities, earning sub­ versity, developments in education and in stantial incomes. Advertising your busi­ your field. You will find illustrations of ness to fellow Notre Dame men has a per­ the big events. sonal appeal. Instances could be cited in As a third injunction, tune in on your numbers of the patronizing of one good Local Club. There may be a little static Notre Dame man by another. Notre Dame in your territory, but the air is clearing. If men are associated with many btisinesses there isn't a Club near you, get together that could afford to advertise in THE ALUM­ the other N. D. men there must be around NUS, and could advertise with profit. The you and organize. The Alumni Office will rates of THE ALUMNUS, sent on request, are be more than ijleased to send you lists of comparatively low for the quality of the the men in your territory and the outline circulation. Sign your own business for for organization. For a fourth guarantee space, and then sell somebody else. of enjoyment, take part in the Local Club and Ass'n. acti\dties—^luncheons, smokers. Universal Notre Dame Night, Commence­ In spite of an excess in. payment of ment, Class Eeunions. DUES dues betvveen June and January As a fifth and parting means to enjoy this year over any similar preceding per­ 1928 to its fullest, keep an eye for the little iod, the Alumni Association is going into things of alumni affairs that mean the effi­ 1928 almost sixty-six per cent DELIN­ cient realization of the Association's pro­ QUENT. . gram. Keep your address straight in our The November Alumnus contained a records. Send news items of your friends, table showing dues paid by classes and by your activities and yourself for the Class states. The highest percentage in the Notes. Get acquainted with the students classes was only 45 per cent. at N. D. from your community during their vacations. Criticize, good or bad. Indif­ The activities of the Notre Dame Asso­ ference kills more quickly and surely than ciation are on a rapid upgrade. They are getting away from the details and routine opposition. * * * of organization. They embrace placement of members; moving pictures for the Local With no personal refiections, Clubs; a more developed magazine; bigger THE ALUMNUS ^^^ Association seems for Class Eeunions; bigger Commencement pro­ the most part to enjoy THE ALUMNUS. Ex­ grams; organization of morei Clubs through­ pansion of the activities of the Association out the country; the Lay Faculty Founda- THE NOTRE DASIE ALUMNUS 209 tion Fund; a nation-wide observance an­ • distinct service to the University, and a nually of Universal Notre Dame Night in "reason for being" to the Association. They a bigger way;—these things and many depend upon your dues for their success. more. With an organization running at a third of Many of these activities represent ex­ its strength, the ratio of its success is ob­ penditure without income but mean honor, vious.

THE INTERIOR ENTRANCE HALL OF THE NEW DINING HALL 210 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS •••••••••••••••••• America what not a few Europeans have • been saying of America in general. BOOKS •:• "The Chicago alderman's famous reply, •> •!• •> •> •> •> •!• •> • V •> •> •> •> 'We haven't taken up culture yet, but when "THE CATHOLIC SPIRIT IN AMERICA," By we do we'll make it hum,' is perhaps more George N. Shuster, '15, A.M. '20. (Dial in touch with reality and closer in spirit to Press). the national genius than the impatience of Alumni will be interested in learning that the philosopher who would hurry to meet George Shuster, former professor at Notre his vision. As Father Ronald Knox justly Dame and now on the editorial staff of the observes in his "The Belief of Catholics": Commonweal and a pojralar Catholic jour­ "He that believeth, let him not make haste nalist, has produced another book. To —it is commonly, among Catholics them­ avoid injustice to Mr. Shuster, the Editor selves, where faith is weakest that clamor leaves the review of his new book to the is loudest for a policy and a world-atti­ scholarly Ave Maria. tude." Whatever the Catholic spirit is, it is not abortive, and that is the one lesson "It is difficult to evaluate "The Catholic the official Church has seldom been able to Spirit in America." So much of it is splen­ teach the unofficial layman, or for that did, sound in its thinking and better than matter, the unofficial cleric. The legion brilliant in its presentation, that one can whose name is Maurras may be matched, in not help regretting all the more those few the history of the Church, by another le­ points where following is not so easy. The gion whose name is De Lamennais. And result, none the less, is not unevenness. Few while no one who reads Mr. Shuster's book books are more unmistakable or compelling can for a moment question the faith that in their general drift. Simply, the author inspired it and irradiates it, nevertheless, has not always succeeded in achieving fin­ its final apjjeal from "the crimson or pui-- ality. Doubtless, Mr. Shuster himself would ple magnificence" of what its author tenns be the last to imagine that he had said the "political or public manifestations of relig­ last word. Aiming at effecting a o-ap- ion" to simple, unimpeded, personal contact j/rochement between the Church in the ^\^th the "Beyond," is somewhat open to United States and all phases of life not misintei-pretation. The volume is dedicated, Catholic, he reaches this end with most sat­ with his permission, to the Most Rev. Arch­ isfactory precision and force in his study bishop Dowling." of the Catholic Church and government, in the chapter entitled, "The Oath of Alleg­ iance." PROCTOR HONORED "His historical surveys, while in the main The following clipping appeared in the accurate, and even luminous, have here and Sunday Visitoi-'s Elkhart news Jan. 8: there a cryptic character apparently intend­ Attorney Robert E. Proctor, prominent ed to baffle. The chapters on education and literature are substantially an indict­ member of St. Vincent's cong^regation, Elk­ ment of the Catholic achievement (or lack hart, assumed the presidency of the local of achievement) in these two important Kiwanis club, at installation ceremonies fields. An undertone of dissatisfaction, conducted .by John F- Wiley, superintendent which the author indicates is not merely of schools, Tuesday, during a ladies' night personal, but somewhat general among the more intellectual of our lay folk, rumbles dinner at Hotel Elkhart. One hundi'ed through this criticism. The criticism itself and fifty Kiwanians and their guests were is not specifically constructive. Mi-. Shus- present. Mr. Proctor succeeds Jay G. Wal- ter's quarrel with the colleges and their lick as president of the club. "mass" education results in the proposal of The ALuaiNUS also wishes to take this no better way of meeting a situation which, after all, has to be met. In the matter of opportunity to extend the Association's literature and the arts generally, it seems sjmipathy to Mr. Proctor on the death of to us that he is saying of Catholic life in his mother, which took place in December. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 211 live stock at the university. Notre Dame' BROTHER LEO WINS AGAIN spent $30,000 moving these, all to a differ­ Notre Dame's prestige on the gridiron ent position, to put up a million dollar res­ was accounted for Nov. 17 when it was re­ taurant for their students. It is said to be vealed that four loads of yearlings, the the finest restaurant in the United States. kind this university feeds to the students, Brother Leo has won championships in the were marketed at $18.50, a new yearling show in past years, and also first in other top for 1927. A Chicago notice follows: instances with cattle. In the last two In­ Brother Leo, steward of the University ternationals he won grand championship of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind., today honors with Hamshire hogs of his own raising. He has two loads of hogs entered in the international this year. His drove of yeai-lings were the talk of the Yards and buyers said they were the best shown on the Chicago market in 1927. They were bought by Wilson & Co. for ship­ ment east.

PROF. PHILLIPS HONORED Charles Phillips, M.A., editor, author, plajAvright and a professor of arts and let­ ters at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected by officials of Indiana univer­ sity as the annual "George Washington lecturer," to feature the patriotic program of that institution, Feb. 22, in Bloomington. The selection of a Catholic layman from Notre Dame in Prof. Phillips to officiate in the Washington day services at Indiana university is said to be without precedent. In view of recent attacks on the private life of Washington, notably those by Rupert BROTHER LEO Hughes, Prof. Phillips will deliver an ad­ dress entitled, "Some So-Called Biographies marketed 79 head of Montana Herefords, of George Washington." averaging 1,003 pounds, at $18.50, and 15 A national demand for knowledge of head of tail-ends sorted off in another pen Mexico, its officials, resources and existing that brought $17.25. The steers were pur­ conditions, all of which Prof. Phillips has chased here on the Chicago market a year treated in lectures and debates throughout ago at $10.00, when they averaged 363 the middle west since his return from a pounds. At first they were fed a little oats tour through that country, prompted him with alfalfa and silage. Later they were to accept invitations from several promi­ given corn and cottonseed meal. They were nent clubs on the Pacific coast to discuss not fed for experimental purposes, but were the republic on the south. fed in the same manner as the steers which He left Notre Dame Friday, December are fed for the students. 13, for San Francisco, where he delivered Brother Leo is recognized in Chicago as on Friday evening, Dec. 23, a lecture on a master feeder, one of the greatest in the "Mexico" to the Commonwealth club of that country. Ordinarily he would have put a city. great many of these cattle in the Inter­ After leaving San Francisco, Prof. Phil­ national show ring, but he has been too lips went to Los Angeles where he delivered busy this year, as he superintended the another lecture on "Mexico" before a civic moving of the farm buildings and all the organization of that place. 212 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS

City of Cleveland . . . Msgr. O'Reilly, whose '09 ALUMNUS BISHOP entire career in the priesthood has been spent in our city, had distinguished him­ Et. Rev. Thomas C. O'Reilly, LL.D., '09, self as a pastor, orator, business adminis­ of Cleveland, Ohio, was named Bishop of trator, high minded churchman, and as a Scranton last month by His Holiness Pope leader in every civic movement which had Pius XI, in conjunction with the elevating to do with the advancement and progress of three other United States priests to the of Cleveland, and has endeared himself to Hierarchy. Bishop-Designate O'Reilly has every citizen of this community . . . always been a great friend of Notre Dame Myi-on T. Herrick, Cleveland banker and and has many friends among the alumni former U. S. ambassador to France who and the members of the Congi-egation of had just returned from a ^^sit to President Holy Cross. Coolidge when Msgr. O'Reilly's appoint­ The City Council of Cleveland adopted a ment was announced, has joined in the resolution congratulating Msgr. O'Reilly, many tributes paid, by Protestants as well who was rector of the Cathedral there, as as Catholics: ... I count the Bishop-Desig­ follows: This honor, the first of its kind to nate as one of my dearest friends and one be conferred upon a native Clevelander in of our most valuable and outstanding citi­ the present diocese of Cleveland, is not only zens. He has always been foremost in every a recognition of the services of Msgr. good work. He has a delightful personality O'Reilly but a mark of distinction to the that radiates good will and friendship.

ATHLETICS J. p. MCNAMABA

BASKETBALL ARMOUR As soon as the newTiess had worn off the The full schedule for 1927-28 follows: month of December local strategists and Dec. 5—Armour Institute 12, N. D. 37. fans flocked to the Notre Dame g3mi to see Dec. 9—Illinois Wesleyan 23, N. D. 40. what Coach Keogan's new model was to be. The opposition was by way of Armour In­ Dec. 12—Iowa at Iowa City20, N. D. 23. stitute but was hardly stiff enough to make Dec. 20—Northwestern at N.D. 22, N. D. 28. the local sharpshooters loosen up on the Dec. 23—Minn, at Minneapolis 18, N.D. 26. baskets and as a result the aforementioned Dec. 29—Northw. at Evanston, 25, N.D. 23. strategians and fans flocked home without Dec. 31—Princeton at N.D., 24, N.D. 35. seeing anjrthing startling. Jan. 7—Penn. at Philadelphia, 28, N.D. 30. The official records show that Notre Dame took the game by a 37-12 score . . . The Jan. 13—Franklin at Noti-e Dame team was off on the right foot. Fran Jan. 17—^Wabash at Notre Dame Crowe, Colerick and Smith were the main Jan. 21:—Drake at Des Moines busybodies for the Blue and Gold. Crowe Jan. 28—Michigan State at Notre Dame stood out a little above the rest with his Feb. 3—Michigan State at East Lansing scintilating floor work and keen net work. Feb. 7—^\^'•isconsin at Madison ILLINOIS WESLEYAN Feb. 11—^Butler at Notre Dame Four evenings later, on December ninth, Feb. 17—Carnegie Tech at Pittsburgh Illinois Wesleyan, reputed for stiff teams Feb. 18—Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh in years gone by, visited the gym and after Feb. 23—Marquette at Milwaukee a listless struggle retired to the dressing Feb. 25—^Drake at Notre Dame rooms to talk over a 40 to 23 defeat which Feb. 29—^Wabash at Cra^vfordsvilIe Captain Joe Jachym and his playmates had Mar. 3—Marquette at Notre Dame presented. In this game the Keogan sys­ Mar. 7—^Butler at Indianapolis tem of basketball seemed to be coming into THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 213 play just a little bit more and gave prom­ v.-ould be the only man who could straight­ ise of greater things which eventually came en things out. later in the season when they, were needed. By and by the game got under way and IOWA the famous Flying Fenians strutted into first place right with the crack of the gun. Because of their pretentious showing and At the intermission Notre Dame was still past perfoi-mances those who follow the leading 17 to 14. Midway in the second hardwood sport opined that the men from half they retained a lead of one point \vith the tall corn state would smash the neo­ the tally at 21 to 20. Then came the break phyte Celtic cagers back into oblivion on of the game. Northwestern opened up with the occasion of their meeting at Iowa City a whirlwind attack and when the curfew on the twelfth. Iowa itself, after several stopped the melee the count stood North­ years of being nosed out by one point, pre­ western 25, Notre Dame 23. This was the pared for the big night when they could first defeat of the season for Coach Keo- chant "revenge is sweet" with verve. From gan's team. Fran Crowe was the head-and- the Irish standpoint things looked rather shoulders star of the game with Rut Wal­ bad. ters of Northwestern Colerick and Bray No doubt you too have heard the famous pressing him in about the order named. "goal post" story and have an idea about certain Notre Dame teams that just would PRINCETON not be beaten when they were supposed to. Smarting under the Northwestern defeat That's the story of the Iowa tussle which the Keoganites cut loose with a vengance v/ent to Notre Dame by a 23 to 20 score. two evenings later and played the old year Captain Joe Jachym, Jim Bray, John Coler- out with enthusiasm. The representatives ick, Fran Crowe, and Ed Smith, the regu­ of the erstwhile "Big Three" were power­ lar quintet, stepped into the game at the less at every stage of the game and were cutset and kicked the dope bucket a lucky easily swamped 35 to 24. Donovan was clout. the individual star as well as the leading NORTHWESTERN scorer with his four field goals that helped The Purple have been striving for sever­ Notre Dame win in a walk. Newbold and al years past to solve the Irish question. Ed Smith were his understudies in this On the twentieth they took up that line of starring act for the evening. endeavor in the Notre Dame gym but due PENNSYLVANIA to the timely tossing of one Donovan, a At Philadelphia was the first game in the newcomer in the home guards, they were year 1928. January seventh was the date effectively frustrated and the accountants and the score 30 to 28. The game was a chalked up a 28 to 22 victory for the team tight one from the start and with two min­ when all was done—but not said. Bob New- utes to go the teams were still fighting des­ bold and Ed Smith were among those gai"- perately for the supremacy. Then Ed Smith iiering glory in this setto. sent in a basket that gave the Irish the MINNESOTA lead. A Pennsylvania star sunk one short­ was the next squad to meet the onrush of ly after and Notre Dame won the game the winning squad. 26 points to 18 points only by virtue of a basket hung up by Mc­ gained by the Gophers tells the story in Carthy in the closing thirty seconds of play. concise terms. All those who had starred Tim Moynihan was especially good on de­ in earlier games again crashed through with fense on this occasion. a consistent game and the quintet seemed to be hitting the regular season stride. ROCKNE ON RULES COM. NORTHWESTERN Feeling Chestertonian we might say that Ijlayed host to the Irish on December twen­ "Rock" was the staunch rock of the recent ty-ninth in a crowded gym. In fact, the football rules committee meeting in New pasteboards were so scarce that consider­ York City. And if we ^vished to pursue able scalping was complained of and it the ignoble play on words to a more hor­ seemed for a while that J. Arthur Haley rible state it might be said that it was 214 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS largely due to his influence that the rocky way of the statute makers of the grid realm ROCKNE PLANS TOUR is to be made less rocky by the addition of The old Viking spirit has again been none other than "Rock". stirred up in Knute K. Rockne, Notre The coaches division of the meeting, led Dame's famous coach, and he has added a by Notre Dame's famous mentor, found lit­ new field of endeavor to his- long list that tle reason for a radical change in the by­ bids fair to make him more of an inter­ laws of the game for next year and sub­ national personage than ever before. mitted their findings to the larger body. How would you like to attend the They demanded that the coaches be given Olympic games next summer -with the representation in the body that actually greatest figure in the sporting world as draws up the whys and wherefores of the your guide? officious tooting of horns and whistles by The question is given here merely for the game officials. This demand was met rhetorical eifect; but the answer is the rea­ witth a coimter-claim and the result was a son "why" Rockne has chartered a boat on compromise whereby the coaches were au­ the Cunard Steam Ship Line,—and the rea­ thorized to select three of their group to son itself is because there are many more sit with the committee and make recom­ persons who have, and will, answer the mendations. question in just the same manner that you The three chosen for this work were did. In keeping with his usual style of do­ Rockne of the University of Notre Dame, ing things, Rockne went at this in a big Bezdek of Penn State and Cunningham of way. He chartered one of the Cunard the Southern Branch, University of Cali­ crack liners, the Carmania, for the large fornia. The dispatches emanating from number that will be in his personally con­ New York during the period of the meeting ducted party. According to Harold P. Bo­ all dealt with Rockne as the headliner. In rer, general passenger agent of the Cunard most, his sparkling wit and keen insight S.S. Line, this is the first time that an in­ were demonstrated by liberal "quotes." dividual has chartered a whole boat on any line to take a group of Americans to the Continent. SMITH TO COACH N. D. Captain John Smith, the lad with the Already there is talk of Rockne's tour historical name who made some history (which by the way includes Holland, himself this fall, has been signed to return France, Germany, England, Switzerland, to Notre Dame after graduation and take Italy and Belgium in its itinerary as well up the post of assistant coach. This an­ as the Olympic games at Amsterdam,) as nouncement came from Ejiute K. Rockne, being another good will jaunt. There are director of athletics and traveling repre­ some who believe that as an unofficial am­ sentative of Notre Dame, at a testimonial bassador the weather-beaten wizard of No­ banquet given in honor of Smith in Hart­ tre Danie will do a world of good. Promi­ ford, Conn., where everyone calls him nent among those holding this view is Rob­ "Johnnie" and where they can all remember ert A. Hereff, Universal Service Staff Cor­ when he was just "that Smith boy." The respondent who wrote concerning the enter­ Gov. of Connecticut was on hand to sprin­ prise. kle the welcoming nutmeg on Johnny. The expedition gives promise of being a In these days of wild and wooly,—^not to regular sporting ark as Rockne has an­ speak of frenzied, selecting of All-American nounced his intention of in\ating other fam­ elevens, the trick of being one of those to ous coaches, players and personages to take answer "present' 'every time one is pub­ the trip with him. lished is worthy of a Thurston. But it was In order to give the trip all of the time pie for the Irish guard. Having demonstrat­ that will be be needed for the carrying out ed himself an honest-to-goodness All-Amer­ of such a large enterprise Rockne will give ican of the first water he also proved that up coaching school activities that have, for he was one of Notre Dame's greatest cap­ the past few years, netted him on an aver­ tains.—That is a big order right there. age of $15,000 per summer. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 215 Rockne's Student Contemporaries, Walsh and Boland By BERT V. DUNNE, '26 PALO ALTO, November 15—From the "Your hands gone?" little cloistered Catholic College of Santa "No." The reply was shot fiercely thru Clara, tucked away in the same famous tightened, livid blue lips. sunshine valley that harbors the great Eockne leaned over the boy. "Give me Leland Stanford University and the 'fox those hands a minute!" of the foothills," Glenn "Pop" Warner, a The big blonde laughed as he jerked his mighty band of twenty four valiant heroes, hands free from Eockne's attempted grasp. coached by Adam Walsh and Joe Boland, "I'm in theie to stay, Eock, and you nor swept like a flood over the Cardinals last anyone else won't get me out until I'm Saturday, defeating them 13-6. The story ready to go out." of the sacred victory is imprinted indelibly in the minds of some 3,000 odd spectators II. who shivered in the rain-laden air of an The second half got under way. A big, unusual California afternoon. blonde lad in the center of the Irish line, It happened strangely—this Santa Clara smashed time after time into the terrific conquest. "Old Pop" thirty-three years in and death-dealing Army onslaught. Not the profession, didn't think much of many noticed that the vicious center dove Walsh's fighting eleven. In agreement with head-first into the line of scrimmage—^with Wamer, the critics, of sundry abilities, his hands behind him! Notre Dame took had consigned the Broncos from Santa the ball and scored once more to win by a Clara to the lowest position in the football touchdown. And the passes of the big ratings. So the "fox of the foothills" hied blonde were as true as an arrow from a himself to the lair of the Bear in Berkeley perfectly handled shaft and the half backs to watch California lose to Washington were "lead" with unerring accuracy. The and to gorge himself with information for next morning New. York's sport pages— the so-called "Big Game" to be decided with the lead on page one—canonized the November 19. Along in the third quarter, Irish center who had played thru three just as the Bear was snarling fiercely in quarters of mortal combat against the the defense of his goal-line against the cleanest and hardest playing eleven in the Washington marauders, the announcer country — with broken hands! That big sacerdotally intoned "Santa Clara, 13"— blonde was Adam Walsh, captain of the then, a pause—^Warner pricked his ears— 1924 National Champions and the player "Stanford, 6." "Old Pop" put on his over­ Knute Eockne characterized as the "boy coat. He was getting aged and his rheu­ with the backbone of steel." matism was bothering him again. • Let me draw you another picture. This Let us retrospect a moment. It is Octo­ time in fairer lines but still in a foreign ber, 1924, Yankee Stadium, Notre Dame field. is playing the Army in the annual fall It is the fourth quarter at the Tourna­ classic between the two great schools. The ment of Eoses, Pasadena. Time:1924. The half has just ended. A tired Irish eleven National Championship at stake, Notre staggered to their quarters beneath the Dame vs. Stanford. The Irish are tiring massive arena. Notre Dame was leading rapidly. The climate is taking its tolL by a solitary touchdown and the Army Stanford,, with the superb Nevers bearing were becoming more and more of a menace the major part of the labor, is slowly driv­ as the game advanced. A big blonde lad, ing the Irish deep in their own territory. with drawn face and a smouldering light The great Nevers;. in. his.final-and supreme of courage in his eyes, lay prone upon a effort, is devastating the Notre Dame for­ bench, both hands clenched on his chest. ward wall. A substitution is made. The The great football master— and greater radio roars: "Boland now at left tackle humanitarian, Eockne, swept to his side. for Notre Dame!" Nevers again hits like 216 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS a thunderbolt. No gain. Nevers again at leashed and another touchdowTi—the win­ the same spot—^left tackle. No gain. A ning margin—resulted. Then came the sophomore tackle stood up in the line and test for the fighting sons of the Jesuit grinned boyishly at the chagrin of the college. Stanford was stung badly. The mighty Nevers. The gun barked. The beast in the Cardinal was aroused and he day was saved. Joe Boland had enscribed stmck savagely with his forward pass his name on football's great roll of honor. claws. Walsh began to fumble with a ball The press service operators tuned up of mud. Boland uncrossed his legs and their keys. Usual lead for such a game leaned fonvard. It was Joe's gesture of as this. "Stanford's second string took the anxiety. Stanford tried pass after pass field this afternoon overwhelming favorites and failed. "Tricky Dick" Hyland, a budd­ to defeat Adam Walsh's Fighting Broncos ing novelist and a half-back of note, from Santa Clara. "Pop" Warner is at entered the fray. He was to supply the California scouting the Bear - Washington fiction finish. Hyland swept down the field contest and has taken Captain McCreery, to receive a pass. The ball was knocked center, with him. The game will serve as from his eager grasp. The gun sounded. a polishing-off one for the Cardinals who The field was a mass of spectators, players, meet California November 19 in the officials and urchins. Bedlam reigned! annual 'Big Game'". Boland and Walsh evaded the crowd and Ten minutes passed and the teams jock­ were waiting for the players in the dress­ eyed up and down the field. Superb pun­ ing room. "Fellows," began Walsh, "you've ting kept Santa Clara in Stanford terri­ done a noble bit of work today and we're tory. Suddenly, the operators reached all proud of you. Don't let the camp- frantically for their keys as the reporters foUowei's, who always are present in the shouted, "An inspired team is here today wake of victoiy, get your goat. We've got fighting with the viciousness of mad-men. bigger game yet—St. Mary's! I'd like to Santa Clara has scored. Cummings, 140 beat Madigan's team fellows. And I know pound back, just received a pass to put you can do it!" them in the lead 6-0. Broncos failed to (Editor's Note:—The wily "Slip" Madi- convert. Walsh's eleven uncovered a de­ gan and his eleven proved too much for ceptive offensive, employing the double hike the Santa Clara boys in their annual clash effectively, of such divergence and brilli­ and dowTied the Broncos, 22-0.) ance that Stanford's first string is wann­ ing up." A Tolstoy could not tell the rest of the KEOGAN SPEAKS story. The great Grantland Rice would Between 75 and 100 high school coaches throw down his pencil in shame! The tre­ and principals attended the sixth annual mendous effort that these boys from the basketball clinic and principals' conference little Catholic college made would still the held in Fort wayne Dec. 17. The clinic pen of a Zola or a Frank Norris. was sponsored by the Indiana university In the late part of the third period a extension bureau. deceptive offensive, with the use of the Coach George Keogan, of Notre Dame, double hike and the lateral pass, was un­ was in charge of the coaches' meeting.

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Rockne Explains Notre Dame's Success From The Soiith Bend NEWS-TIMES By KNUTE EOCKNE There has been much talk pro and con have teams, of course, in every sport, but as to the reason for Notre Dame's success outside of Annapolis, West Point and some in football over a period of years. This military schools I know of no place where success dates back from the year 1887, when there as 12 fully-equipped, well-coached the game was first played at the univei-sity. football teams, playing on the campus be­ Having made a fairly close study while sides the regular freshman and varsity living at the University of Notre Dame for squads. 17 years, I feel I am in a position to de­ These hall teams play a full schedule scribe briefly what I believe are the real among themselves and the rivalry is so keen reasons. and so spontaneous that the student body as Don't misunderstand me. While I think a whole takes almost as much interest in we have a fine university, I believe that these contests as they do in the varsity there are hundreds of colleges just as fine games. from every angle. However, they lack Each ball team is allowed one game away conditions conducive towards the develop­ from home ^\ath an outside team. Some of ment of football teams. our critics said this was unfair. This sort First of all, there are no fraternities or of criticism is just one form of jealousy. If co-eds at Notre Dame. I can see no ob­ football is good for the U men who play on jection academically to either co-eds or fra­ the vai'sity, why isn't it good for any boy ternities, in fact, I believe that the co-edu­ in the university who is physically able to cational institutions are fine, and the fra­ play this rugged game? ternities in most schools serve a very use­ The Notre Dame teams, like Princeton, ful purpose. However, neither of these are Dartmouth and Stanford always have been helpful to the football coach or the foot­ known as great second half teams. I think ball player. the same reason holds true in each institu­ Co-eds take the boy's mind off the game, tion. At Notre Dame the lights go out at they emasculate him and take too much of 10:30 o'clock in the evening. That means, his time. When they take a lot of the ath­ except for the boys who are down-town at lete's time, they do so either at the expense the theater, that eveiy student goes to bed of his studies, his playing or his sleep. every night at 10:30 o'clock and he sleeps Fraternities, under proper leadership, soundly until 6:30 o'clock in the morning. can be helpful. Too often, however, they This not only means regular habits, but get into athletic politics and are a distinct there is nothing like sleep for an athlete to handicap to the coach. store up energy. Notre Dame, like Princeton and Dart­ In the second half of any football game mouth, has isolation. I mean by this that comes the test of endurance and condition. the school is situated away from town and A group of boys who have gone to bed all is a distinct entity it itself. The school is fall at 10:30 o'clock in the evening will compact and the distances are such that a have more "bottom" than the fellow who student can go from his dormitory to any has kept late hours to any extent. Social classroom in less than five minutes. life at our university is normal, and I mean This cohesiveness makes it easy to get by this that it is never exaggerated, nor the boys on the team together for chalk does it ever become ridiculous. talks at noon after lunch. This half hour Another point in which we resemble the period, which is wasted in most schools in above mentioned institutions is the tradi­ traveling to and fro we utilize to advantage. tion. Tradition is nothing but the record­ There are 12 dormitories located on the ing of past events in athletic history, which campus. Each one of these dormitories has are stored away and used as examples and a football squad of about 30 men. They inspiration to the younger chaps as they 218 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS come along. Any school that has a rich Southern teams in spite of a mediocre 1927 heritage of tradition will always have foot- campaign, is a close third, while two pow- ball teams coming along that are very dif- erful far Western arrays, University of ficult to beat. Washington and Southern California, are The Notre Dame scholastic standing is well up toward the top. Michigan and Illi- just as good as any school in the counti-y. nois show the best records of any in the This is proven by the fact that its alumni Western Conference over the five year in the communities in which they reside stretch. The first Eastern outfits to break compare favorably in every acti^^ty with into the list are Washington and Jeiferson the alumni from other institutions. How- and the Army. ever, this is written entirely from a coach's For those who care to delve further into point of -^uew, and any football mentor who the figures,i t may be noted that Washing- has to coach in any school where they have ton boasts the highest-powered scoring fraternities, co-eds and distractions of a team of any on the list, while Michigan's city or a scattered school can appreciate stone wall has by far the best defensive what a tremendous advantage a coach has record, who does not have to combat these propo- ^P- Sitions. Team W. L. Tied Pts. Pts. Pc. ^ Notre Dame 42 5 2 1,128 250 .SO-I So. Methodist 34 5 7 910 243 .872 Alabama 39 6 3 1,212 200 .867 N, D. FOOTBALL REIGNS Washington 43 7 3 1,556 259 .860 Stanford 36 6 2 972 310 .857 (Associated Press) Michigan .•i4 6 O 860 146 .850 .,,, 1, ii. J 1. , . .•„ . Illinois 33 6 1 713 221 .845 Although the debate IS Still going on over ^ash. and Jeff 33 6 5 708 236.846 the award of this season's championship /\i-my 35 7 3 969 266 .833 football honors, there isn't any dispute Lafayette 34 7 4 i,oio 280 .82» about the college team that has posted the Southern California 42 9 l 1,394 264 .824 , • i. . J J! II iT ^ Yale 30 7 3 838 261 .811 most consistent record of all over the past „ , , . . „„ .. „ r.,o o.„ =„,. '• Colorado Aggies 29 7 2 712 240 .805 nve years. Syracuse 36 9 4 934 234 .800 Measured by the yard stick, Notre Dame Texas Aggies 32 9 5 i.ooi 174 .780 leads the pigskin parade by a substantial Vanderbiit 32 lo 4 985 283 .762 • , T, ^ moo X, 1 -.norr Pittsburgh 31 10 4 781 215 .756 margin for the span of 1923 through 1927. pe„„syivania 34 ii 2 821 229 .756 Knute Eockne's Eovers step up to the head Missouri 27 9 6 502 248 .750 of the five year class this Fall after trail- Princeton 23 8 4 871 322 .73s ing Lafayette last year. But Lafayette ^^''^^'^ Virginia 24 9 6 837 312 .727 1 -jj J f-u- 1 M XI TT • California 31 12 3 775 324 .721 skidded this season, while the HoOSierS Nebraska 25 ll 4 643 282 .694 kept up a fast gait, losing only one game, Tennessee 27 12 3 669 433 .692 to the Army, and tying another with Min- Navy 27 12 5 82i 394 .693 neSOta. Georgia Tech 26 12 7 471 328 .667 Georgia 20 16 1 920 416 .652 Over the five year road, where Notre penn state 28 15 3 791 341 .651 Dame has journeyed from New York to Chicago 21 16 3 368 322 .568 Los Angeles and Atlanta to Minneapolis, the x-ecord shows forty-t^vo victories only COACHING five defeats and two ties, for a winning ^ wvx-m.^» « percentage of .894. It willl come as some- Knute K. Eockne, Notre Dame's wizard thing of a shock to the ancient gridiron of the gridiron, will continue his practice strongholds to note that Notre Dame's of holding coaching schools in the summer closest rival for the best five year record months by appearing at three summer is Southern Methodist's Mustangs, one of courses in 1928 according to reports. The the strongest outfits of the Southwestern schools at which the Eockne-Meanwell Conference S. M. U. has turned in thirty- courses will be offered are Southern Meth- four victories and suffered only five set- odist University at Dallas, Texas, Oregon backs, along with seven ties. State at Corvallis, Oregon, and Hastings Alabama, still foremost among the University at Hastings, Nebraska. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 219

Obituary of Gen. John Carr. He was wed in 1884 to Flora B. McClelland, a daughter of the Alumni everywhere will learn ^\^th sor­ then widely known Congressman McClel­ row of the death on Christmas Day of John land of Indiana. He was bom in Louis­ C. Dunlap, '65, Notre Dame's oldest living ville, Ky. alumnus following the death of Father Spillard, a gi-aduate of '64. Mr. Dunlap In addition to his son here Mr. Dunlap had attended the last two Commencements is survived by his widow and another son, at Notre Dame and several other functions John Carr Dunlap, of Hutchinson, Kas. at the University and seemed remarkably The sympathy of the Notre Dame alumni well preserved for a man of his years, and is extended to the family of Mr. Dunlap. death indeed came suddenly to Mr. Dunlap He was a loyal and an interested member who was visiting a son in Hutchinson, Kan­ of the Association and his passing ^vill be sas, for the holidays. The following inter­ mourned by many true friends in the As­ esting account of Mr. Dunlap's career ap­ sociation. Eev. James Gallagan, C.S.C, rep­ peared in the Chicago Neivs at the time of resented the University at the funeral, his burial: Dec. 28. The Notre Dame Club of Chicago was represented by Mr. P. T. O'Sullivan, Funeral rites were conducted today for '73, a life-long friend of Mr. Dunlap. John Carr Dunlap, pioneer Chicago devel­ oper and railroad builder, who died Christ­ Harry J. Aarons, a student in '08 and '09, mas day in Hutchinson, Kas., after a brief died Jan. 4 at Manistee, Mich. He was illness. born at Flint, and was educated at Manis­ The service was conducted from the home tee before coming to Notre Dame. He be­ of his son, Theodore M. Dunlap, insurance came associated with his father in the cloth­ broker, at 4825 Drexel boulevard. Burial ing business after leaving Notre Dame. He was in Oakwood cemetery. was a prominent sportsman, and according to Warren A. Cartier, a close friend, "was The business activities of Mr. Dunlap are always talking Notre Dame and was a closely entwined with the early history of good scout." Chicago. Back in the days when Chicago Trended its way on wooden sidewalks he and his father under the finn name of Dun­ The Association extends its sympathy to lap & Son, operated one of the first brick THOMAS O'NEIL, Akron, Ohio, whose manufactories in Chicago, at Green street father, Michael O'Neil, died in December. and the south branch of the Chicago river. Mr. O'Neil was chairman of the board of In later years Mr. Dunlap was identified the General Tire & Eubber Co. of Akron. with many large railway developments, among them the Nickel Plate lines in north­ ern Indiana, the old Wisconsin Central in Weddings the Madison (Wis.) region, the Terre Eobert Carr, '16, Ottawa, 111., has been Haute division of the Chicago, Milwaukee married recently to Miss Bemice Eude, & St. Paul and the Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Mr. and Mrs. Carr are now living in & Southern. Ottawa, where Bob is an attorney. The Mr. Dunlap, at the time of his death, date was overlooked when the information was widely known as the oldest graduate was obtained from Eev. J. Hugh O'Donnell, of Noti-e Dame university, a member of the C.S.C, a class-mate of the groom, but it class of 1865. For many years he had been isn't too late for a word of congratulation. actively identified with alumni activities. His parents were George W. and Maiy Frank W. Thomas, '23, was taken out of Carr Dunlap, his mother being a daughter the single state, apparently waiving extra- iiiliiliiliiiiiiiiiiiiijiiliiliiigiiliiliilliiiiiiiiiliiliilii 1-1 |_i M M fJ M M 1-1 t-l M M i ce 00 00 00 00 C0 CO CO CD CO CO 00 00 00 00 e oooo CD 05 -0 00 to W Ol 05 -5 CO I-' M M M M 00 00 00 00 CO CO CO CO CO CO CO CO CD CO 00 00 CO 00 oooo to to to tN9 to CO to CO >i^ en M l\3CO 1*^ OM toco *>. K* M M I-" OOOO OOOO CO 00 00 CO CO CD CO CD CO CO -a ~3 OOOO CO CO coo o l-» M M M to 00 CO OJ-' -q 00 coo en Oi -a OO CD en

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Stanchina, Nor­ in promoting the successful appearance of way, Mich., announce Jan, 21 as the wed­ the Notre Dame Glee Club in Denver, Dec. ding date of their daughters. Miss Rose 28. In a letter to the alumni and friends Mary Stanchina, who will be married to of Notre Dame in Denver Mr. McPhee said Eudolph Schiller, manager of the woman's that he thought the Glee Club could sing department of Adler Brothers, at a quiet as well as the Four Horsemen could play ceremony at the rectory of the St. Patrick's football, which should have attracted. church. They will be attended by Miss Olive Stanchina and James P. Stewart, 1894 v.-hose marriage will take place later at the A recent edition of the Havana Post fea­ Log chapel at Notre Dame with the Rev. tured the American Legion in Havana, and James Gallagan officiating. The brides are on its front page carried a large picture of graduates of the Norway High school and C. C. FITZGERALD, Commander in 1920 of the Northern State Normal at Marquette, and 1924. Mr. Fitzgerald presented a cere­ Mich., and have been serving as instructors monial badge last May to General Enoch ill South Bend schools. Mi-. Stewart, who Crowder, when Crowder was made a life is the son of Mrs. Julia Stewart, Chicago, member of the Havana Post of the Legion. was graduated froin the law school of the Mr. Fitzgerald is the veteran of two wars University of Notre Dame with the class himself. of 1926 and is practicing in Norway. 1904 TOM JONES of Indianapolis dropped a welcome line to the Office a short time ago, Augustus Harold Stange, '27, was mar­ mentioning at length the beauties of the ried Jan. 7 to Miss Frances Sherwood at New Dining Hall. They were emphasized St. Patrick's Church, South Bend. Mr. and in his eyes when the management restored Mrs. Stange left on a trip to the Bennuda several valuable rings to Mrs. Jones which Islands and after Feb. 1 will be at home had been left in the building when Mr. and in Merrill, Wis. Miss Rosemary Stange, sis­ Mrs. Jones were visiting their son in Mor- ter of the groom and a former student at eau Seminary. St. Mary's was the bride's only attendant. 1907 JOHN BALFE sends in the following in­ Personals teresting item: The many friends of Mr. AMBROSE O'CONNELL are congratulat­ N. D. PHILOSOPHER SPEAKS ing him on his appointment as an executive Prof. William F. Roemer of the depart­ Trust Officer of the Guaranty Trust Co. of ment of Philosophy of the University gave 140 Broadway, New York City. Mr. O'Con- an address on "St. Thomas and the Ethical nell is President of the Marquette Club, Basis of International Law" at the third one of the most important Catholic social annual meeting of the American Catholic organizations in the city, and he is also Philosophical Association, Dec. 28. The one of the most active members of the No­ meeting was held at Holy Cross College, tre Dame Club. Mr. O'Connell was presi­ Worcester, Mass. dent of the Class of '07. The program included addresses by Sir Bertram Windle, James A. McWilliams, 1908 Michael J. Mahony, Rudolph Bandas, Ed­ An attractive card from REV. P. J. 222 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS CEAWLEY, Anaconda, Montana, conveys Christmas in the Eobinson jail. The boys his Christmas and New Year greetings to were from New Jersey and were celebrating the University and the Alumni. Christmas a little ahead of time and away from home. 1914 1921 FEANK HAYES contributes a couple of The following item from a New York re­ interesting items to this issue. JOHN L. porter sounds very much like WALTEE HOOD, treasurer and general manager of O'KEEFE himself: the Golden Eule Stores, with headquarters "Gideon" is the latest slang word to gain at Pocatello, Idaho, advised Mr. Hkyes that popular currency on Broadway. Curiously his chain had sold out to a larger chain and enough it is a slang word that was not in­ that he has now gone into the financing vented on Broadway but was originated by business at 307 Carlson Bldg., Pocatello. Inez Haynes Irwin, president of the Authors He intends to come down to see the boys Guild. She has written a novel called at the next Class Eenuion. "Gideon," which tells of the world of today ME. CHAELES L. VAUGHAN of as seen through the eyes of the male flap­ MESSES. VAUGHAN & VAUGHAN, at­ per. Because the character is so real the torneys at Lafayette, Ind., is still passing word "gideon" has supplanted the word on large bond issues, the latest being a "sheik" in the glossary of slang to desig­ §500,000 issue on St. Mary's Hospital at nate the sort of chap who used to be called Grand Eapids, Mich. a lady-killer or a dude. 1915 Walter O'Keefe, the ukelele fiend and JIM SANFOED contributes the follow­ composer of lyrics, who has been responsi­ ing interesting note: Among the 1915 mem­ ble for so many wise-cracks, read the book bers who attended the N. D.-So. Cal. game and wrote a popular song on it called in Chicago were MAEK DUNCAN, BOB "Gideon." Now it appears an Oklahoma BOACH, JOHN MALKOWSKI, TOM paper has bettered the gag by adding a SHAUGHNESSY, EAY EICHENLAUB, female of the species and calling her a JOE BYENE, NOEMAN BAETHOLE- "Gideonette." MEW, STEVE BUENS, MAETIN HENE- 1924 HAN and FEEEMAN FITZGEEALD. The old reliable JIM MEEHAN drops the Steve Burns is in the engineering de­ following: Last Saturday while Mrs. Mee- partment of the Janette Mfg. Co., 556 W. han and I were making a final pre-Christ- Monroe St., Chicago. To many membei's of mas tour of Fifth Avenue, JACK COWEN, the Class this was the first reunion in ten C. E. 24, hailed me. Jack said he has years, others had not met since graduation. been in the city about a year and a half JOE PLISKA sent in the following song now and hasn't seen anyone from N. D. that was popular in Chicago after the So. He's working for the McGovem Contract­ Cal. game to the tune of "Broken Hearted." ing Co., as construction superintendent on There goes that team called Notre Dame, the new 53rd St. subway. He's living at Just watch them play that football game, 226 25th St., Jackson Heights, L. I. California broken hearted. Later Jim adds another note: I bumped Flanagan ran again, they cheered him from into AMBEOSE M'PAETLAND out in the The grand-stand again. Last two times these teams played, the score hall about a week ago. Mac told me that Was mighty close. he was with the General Eailway Signal Until Parisien and Niemiec trotted out their dose. Co., which is installing automatic train con­ There from the State called the Golden Gate, trol on the electric division of the N. Y. Another year they'll have to wait, California broken hearted. Central. Mac's one of the company's ex­ perts on the installation. Mac told me that 1916 HAREY PIERCE was married recently BILL BEADBUEY, Judge Advocate of and called to visit him while touring the the American IjCgion for the 23rd District, East on his honeymoon. Unfortunately Illinois, writes in that he recently saved Mac wasn't home so didn't get the par­ two members of the Legion from spending ticulars. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 223 DON GALLAGHER, president of the mail between Yale and Denver. Harry is Class in its senior year and popular" stu­ now in Denver, but didn't say who, why or dent leader, will be the Rev. Donald Gad- what, if any. Harry's father is in the pub­ lagher after Holy Saturday of this year. lishing business and can probably find A letter from Don who is studying at the enough to keep Hari-y from getting lone­ North American College, Via dell Umilta some. 30, Rome, Italy, brings that good news, and J. STANLEY BRADBURY is now as­ the even better tidings that he will return sistant to the General Counsel of the Chica­ to this country in July or August. go Surface Lines, address Suite 1427, 231 1925 S. La Salle St. His brothers P. G. and W. E. are in the law oifices of Bradbury & T. DUTTON GRIFFIN dropped a newsy Bradbury, Robinson, 111. letter in the Office not long ago. Dutt has signed with the Eastman Kodak Co. of 1926 Eochestei-, his home town, for a few years JERRY HAYES, Class Secretary of abroad, and "will be found very much alive 1925, came down to Notre Dame for the in Valparaiso, Chile, South America. Can Princeton game. New Year's eve, but his be reached c. o. Eastman Kodak Chilena, train was late and he missed the game and Ltda., Valparaiso, Chile, in case I am elig­ every one he expected to see. Jerry is at­ ible for assessment for the proposed stad­ tending the Northwestern University Med­ ium—and wish to temporarily check out of ical School, and is living with his brother all meetings sponsored by the Kane-Wrape at 3341 West Adams Street, Chicago. combination but will be back in a few TOM MALAY has forsaken the Steel years . . . P. S. I picked Valparaiso as a City for Detroit and can be reached at 103 tribute to STEVE CORBOY. Stevens Avenue, Highland Park, Michigan. A letter from HARRY M'GUIRE indi­ ED HAEGAN wrote for an extra copy cates that we have succeeded in losing his of the Dining Hall issue of the ALUMNUS

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FOR RESERVATIONS, WRITE ALUMNI SECRETARY. BOX 81. NOTRE DAME, INDIANA 224 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS and incidentally said that his hopes of June, he was a member of the Clyde L. coming back to Kenosha were postponed Eddy expedition which last summer con­ when he changed positions and would be in quered the dangerous Colorado river the East for a while longer. through the Grand Canyon. The perilous voyage was accomplished in 1927 42 days. During this time the party ran The Association extends its sympathy to all of the 600 rapids in their way except TOM NASH, '27, whose grand-father, 10. There were 753 miles to the death in­ Thomas Nash, pioneer Chicagoan, died Jan. viting cruise. 6, at the age of 101. Six • grandsons and Since 1911, 12 expeditions tried to make two nephews acted as pallbearers. Mr. this trip by boat. Two succeeded. The Nash had been a resident of Chicago for Eddy party is the only group which com­ seveanty-three years. pleted the voyage without loss of life or The following clipping recently came to even having one of their men injured ser­ the attention of the ALUMNUS concerning iously. BOB BARTL '27, and VINCE CAREY '28. BILL HALLORAN has come from Fall Shooting rapids is not as easy as it River, Mass., to Chicago to take a position seems in the scenic motion jjicture, if you with the Union Bank of Chicago, 25 n. ask Vincent F. Carey, of Duluth, Minn., a Dearborn St., and is living with JOE senior in the college of commerce at the REIDY at 130 Gale Ave., River Forest, 111. University of Notre Dame. And, Carey JACK BURNS is with Western Electric should know. in Buifalo; GEORGE MEAD is taking With Robert F. Bartl, of LaCrosse, Wis., Business Ad. at Hai-vard; ED BRODER- who was graduated from Notre Dame last ICK is taking Law at Fordham.

Local Alumni Clubs NOTRE DAME CLUB OF AKRON OHIO NOTRE DAME CLUB OF THE CONNECTICUT Frank Steel, "25, 543 Stratford Ave., President. VALLET John Dettling, '21, 437 E. Buchtel Aye., Secretary. William J. Granfield. '13, 31 Elm St, Sprinefield, Mass., President THE NOTRE DAME CLUB OF ARKANSAS James A. Curry, '14, 795 Asylum Ave., Hartford, Board of Governors: Warren Baldwin, '13, Little Conn., Secretary. Eook; A. Brizzolara, '13, Little Rock; Two- NOTRE DAME CLUB OF DENVER mey Clifford, '14, Camden; A. R. Hendricks, •18, Fort Smith; A. J. Porta, '25, Fort J. P. Loean, 3654 Marion St., President, Smith; Rev. Geo. F. X. Strassner, '14, Mor­ Henry Schwalbe, Argonaut Hotel, Sec.-Treas. ris Preparatory School, Little Rock. NOTRE DAME CLUB OF DETROIT THE NOTRE DAJIE CLUB OF BUFFALO Edward J. Weeks, El. '25, 465 Merrick Ave., Jay L. Lee, '12, 1509 Liberty Bank Building, President President. George T. Koch, '25, Secretary. Paul D. HoefBer, 280 Woodward Avenue, Secretary. NOTRE DAHE CLUB OF DES MOINES John F. Hynes, '14. 709 Crocker BIdg., President NOTRE DAJEE CLUB OF CALUMET REGION Harold P. Klein, '26,1704 Forest Ave., Secretary. Clarence W. Bader, '17, 650 Pierce St., Gary, Ind. President NOTRE DAHE CLUB OF DISTRICT OF F. J. Galvin, '23, First Trust BIdg., Hammond, COLUMBIA Ind. Secretary. Frederick Wm. Wile. '91. 619 Bond Bldg.. THE NOTRE DAME CLUB OF CHICAGO President Norman C. Barry, '21, 227 S. Racine St., Robert Riordan, '24, Care The Bengalese Brook- President. land, D. C, Secretaiy. James H. Brennan, '20, 111 W. Monroe St, Secretary. NOTRE DAME CLUB OF FORT WAYNE Wm. P. Breen. '77. 913 Calhoun St. President, NOTRE DAME CLUB OF CINCINNATI Clifford Ward. '22. 220 E. William St, Secretary. E. C. McHush, '09, P. 0. Box 429, President L. v. DuBois, o. s. '15, Fredk. Schmitt Co., Fifth NOTRE DABIE CLUB OF GREEN BAT. and Main Sts., Secretary. WISCONSIN Robert E. Lynch, '03. President NOTRE DAME CLUB OF CLEVELAND John Diener, '09. Secretary. Joseph Smith. '14, 355 Dalwood Drive, President. NOTRE DAHE CLUB OF INDIANAPOLIS NOTRE DAME CLUB OF COLUMBUS OHIO Leroy J. Keach. '08. 108 S. Delaware St. Raymond J. Eichenlaub, '15, The Hosier Realty President. Bldg., President Robert Worth, '25, 2640 College Ave., Secretary. Continued on Following Pace