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420 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLAST I C sHsasEsasasHSEsasHSHsasasEsasEsasasaKSHSBsasasHSi] THE WEEK a5H5E5a5H5E5E5HSH5H5HSESH5HSH5HSE5E5H5) Whoopee! Lots of whoopee! We're back: Further statistics which have just arrived It's 1928. It's Leap Year. To date over show that seventy-five attempted to crash nine hundred report having turned in duties Notre Dame dances in their home towns or labelled, January 1927, but the dear, good, in municipalities to which they emigrated for long-suffering professors have agreed to ex the evening. Every artifice in the catalogue tend a month for the reorganization of the was resorted to, and those who performed cori5oration. If, by February, you aren't the One-Eyed Connolly act in Cleveland came conscious that it's 1928 there is something to look the town over as a possible site for radically wrong and we suggest and advise the Democratic convention; while those who a visit to the family or prescription phys came to the Metropolitan club formal offered ician. Too, if, by February, eveiy man on friendship with Jimmy Walker, position as the lot hasn't had at least one Leap Year substitute dramatic critic for Life, or the proposal he may count himself a rank and Juggler, and countless other excuses which dismal failure in the social scale. Already might save a five dollar bill. All in all, one Sorin Hall Senior boasts of 56 offers, 40 though, the crashing was a bit weak and of which came New Year's Eve at one niin- amateurish, despite the fact that the seventy- ute after twelve. But after discounting the five crossed the line unsung and uninjured. 40, because it was New Year's Eve, we While you were out the basketball team should say that the surviving sixteen offer a called to say that everything was under con neat batting average. So fall to and too be trol and that there would be a performance cause you won't get another Leap Year un tonight in the gymnasium. Triumph after til 1932 (cries of "remarkable mathematics" triumph is the report of the Glee Club mem from the audience) and by that time every bers who are spending a hectic vacation in one will have been graduated, everyone will long jumps from Denver to Los Angeles to be quite antique, and the novelty of Leap San Francisco and back to Cairo and Elgin, year will have perished with that rapidity Illinois. But speaking of triumphs, the Scan and facility which so characterizes Indiana dinavian Bell Ringers performed last even in its collection of snow and slush. ing at the Palais Royal, doing everything Of course you had a charming vacation. from "Marcheta" to "Up in the Clouds." You received at least six cigarette lighters, Many of the students attended, and when one no one of which is working at this moment. of the bells with the metallic ring of the No Aunt Annie crashed through with her own tre Dame trolley car gongs was struck, some interpretation of "hot" socks, and Uncle body yelled, "Hold that car." Peter thought it would be mighty decent to For those who heard McCready Huston.in present a two dollar and a half gold piece his series of lectures delivered just before "to put in the bank, because it'll come in the holidays. The Week suggests the pur \handy when you get through school." You chase of the current issues of College Humor stormed and sweated over the advisability of and The Pictorial Revieio. In these maga- sending dear, dear Rosie, flowers, candy, or ines, the South Bend man has given a prac writing paper and compromised on a twenty- tical application to his short-story writing five cent greeting card bearing this inscrip principles in the form of two short stoi-ies. tion : "May this Christmas bring you health, "Face the Front, Please" the College Hu happiness, and prosperity." With the pros mor story, seems to have been Ifited from perity you wished her, you hoped she would the hotel and theatrical life of our busy lit buy her own flowers, candy, and writing pa tle city (that sounds like the Chamber of per. Oi! Sech cheap skates come from dem Commerce bulletin.) colleges. Pay your Christmas bills. —J-^*^'
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THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 421 Wednesday evening, December twenty-eighth, • NEXT WEEK'S EVENTS * by five hundred fellow townsmen in the ball room of the Hotel Bond, Hartford, Connecti Frida/y, January 13 — Basketball — Notre cut. Smith, following the banquet was pre Dame vs. Franklin College—at gym—8:00 sented with a scroll wishing him well and P.M. one thousand dollars in gold. Among those Saturdanj—Ti'ack — Blue and Gold meet in who came to honor "Johnny" were Governor gym —2:00 P.M. Trumbull of the state; Knute Rockne, direc 'Movies—Washington Hall—6:30 P. M. tor of athletics at the University.; Norman Sunday—^Masses in Sacred Heart Church at Stevens, Hartford's mayor; "Lou" Gehrig, -6:00, 7:00, and 8:30 A. M., student's home-run specialist. Masses—10:15, Parish Mass. Moiidwy—Dome Pictures—^La.-Miss. Club— DEBATE FINALS BEGINS TONIGHT 12:30 P. M.; Akron Club—12:40 P. M.; Varsity Debate Finals will begin tonight New Jersey Club—12:50 P. M. and end next Wednesday evening. Father Scribblers Meeting—8:00 P. M.—Pub William Bolger, head of the department of lications Office. economics and politics is in Tuesday—Dome Pictures—^Villagers Club— chai'ge of the team this year. 12:30 P. M.; Cleveland Club—12:40 P. M.; \\'''\ There are several veterans Tennessee Club—12:50 P. M.; Indianap out for the team this year. olis Club—12:55 P. M. v^i^' They are Joseph P. McNama- Le Cercle Francais Meeting—6:30 P. M. u •'l ra, James C. Roy, Arnold Wil- Hoynes Hall. ^ -''''• liams, George Courey, James Basketball—Notre Dame vs. Wabash McShane, William F, Craig, College— gymnasium—8:00 P. M. James Keating, Clarence Wednesday—Dome Pictures—^lowa Club — Buckley, Walter Stanton, and Pierce O'Con 12:30 P. M.; Detroit Club—12:40 P. M.; nor. Some fifty men are endeavoring to East-Penn Club—12:50 P. M. wrangle for Notre Dame this season. De Meeting of Wranglers—^Libraiy—7:45 bates have been, arranged to date with Earl- P.M. ham College, DePauw, Purdue and Franklin. Meeting of Spanish Club—7:30 P. M.— Several others are pending. Hoynes Hall. The schedule: Thursday—Dome Pictures—California Club FRIDAY, JANUARY 13 12:30 P. M.; Youngstown Club—12:40 James McShane James Roy P. M.; Missouri Club—12:50 P. M. James Walsh Harry Wall Meeting of Chicago Club—7:45 P. M.— John Roulihan John Blanda Faculty Dining Room. Friday—Dome Pictures—Wisconsin Club— SUNDAY, JANUARY 15 12:30 P. M.; Pittsburgh Club—12:40 P. William Craig Frank McCreal '~M.; West Virginia Club—12:50 P. M.; Pierce O'Connor James Keating , East Penn Club—7:15 P. M—South Timothy Bonitz Donald Coleman Roon\ of Library. MONDAY, JANUARY 16 Saturday—^Track — Northwestern vs. Notre Arnold Williams Thomas Keogan Dame—gymnasium. John McGinty Walter Stanton . , Basketball—Notre Dame vs, Drake Uni Mark Graham George Coury versity at Des Moines. TUESDAY, JANUARY 17 <• John O'Keefe Jos. McNamara • /'JOHNNY" SMITH HONORED Leo Dolan Arthur Stenius "Johnny" Smith, all-American guard and Walter Bernard Raymond Doyle captain of the University's 1927 football Debates take place at 7:30 P. M., Main team, was tendered a testimonial banquet Building, Room 327. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 422 UNIVERSITY BAND ACTIVE The band's season has just begun. Con cert programs are being prepared, and from The militaiy band terminated a very suc all accounts the concert band will maintain cessful season with a smoker given in the the high standards of the military band. Faculty Dining Halls just before the Christ Several concerts are being arranged for out- mas vacation. of-town appearances, and negotiations are It was the common opinion of the speakers pending for others. of the evening that the band of this year With John Robinson, the hard-working was the best in the annals of the University. president, behind the band, there is no rea A brief resume of the year: son why the organization should not continue The band organized the second week of to reflect credit upon itself and the Univer school, and over seventy candidates were sity for the remainder of the year. given try-outs. It was decided that forty- .> _ eight pieces would make an ideal band, both "CASEYS" HOLD MEETING from the viewpoint of instrumentation and Noti-e Dame Council, Number 1477, mobility. The organization was blessed with Knight of Columbus, held its first meeting three baritones, wherpas in former years of the New Year in its chambers in Walsh there had not been even one. The full tones hall, Tuesday evening, January tenth. Grand of the band were due in a gxeat measure to Knight Howard V. Phalin presided at the these insti-uments. The final personnel was meeting. picked the week preceding the first football game, and suits were issued to fifty men, Following the execution of regular busi forty-eight players, the director and the ness, the Council listened to talks delivered drum major. by Supreme Agent Butler, of the Knights of Each and every man is responsible for the Columbus and Ray E. Hoyer, director of splendid showing made by the organization, the K. C. Boy Guidance department at the but the bulk of the credit resides in two men University. Both speakers were well re who organized and moulded these individuals ceived; they were introduced by Lecturer into a harmonious whole. Professor Joseph Edward McKeown. Professor Antonio Gasasanta, director of the band for the past Joseph Provost of the University, a member five years, was responsible for the quality of the Council, gave an impromptu talk at of the music, and "Jeriy" Bigge for the qual Lecturer McKeo^vn's request. ity of the marching. Many intricate forma When the various speakers had been heard, tions were worked out this year and it was the Council's orchestra rendered several due to Mr. Bigge's direction that these were popular musical selections. Ice cream and possible. For the first time in the history cake were distributed by Bernard J. Kor- of the University, the band formed the ini zeneski and his committee. Chaplain Father tials of the opposing schools; the difficult James H. Gallagan, C.S.C, terminated the marching N. D. at the Southern California meeting with prayer at 10:00 P. M. game was the apex of the band's functioning ability. STAY-AT-HOMES ENJOY CHRISTMAS Another feature which added to the splen DINNER dor of the band's appearance, was the acqui More than one hundred students of the sition of the blue-and-gold capes. These capes University partook of the Christmas dinner, came as the result of the untiring efforts of the first to be served in the University Din the officers. ing Halls, at noon of December twenty-fifth, The band made two football trips during the 1927. The dinner was arranged for by Mr. season: One to Detroit and one to Chicago. Robert H. Borland, manager of the Halls. The improvement made between the first and The menu, in harmony with the Yuletide sea last appearance was tremendous, and 117,000 son, included chicken cream soup, cranbeiTy people at Chicago were loud in their praises sauce, celery, nuts, roast turkey, Christmas of the organization. cake and ice cream.
..cik THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 423 <> <> ^ • • <• * * ••• ••* ^ *'' <• 'J* • • • <• •> • •:• DOME ANNOUNCEMENT • OUR CONTRIBUTORS • * ^ <• • • <• ''* ••• ••• ••• •> •> •> •> •> • • • • • • The Dome Photographers will take photo graphs of sixteen clubs during the coming Turning for the while from the proved ex week. Names of clubs and time assigned cellence of his graceful verses and humorous will be found in the Week's Events column of essays, the versatile Jasper Brent ventures the SCHOLASTIC. All pictures are to be taken his popularity in the field of fantasy. His on the steps of the University Library. "In, search of the Sea" pleasantly recalls the Other clubs may ai-range to have pictures work of Lord Dunsany and the lighter treat taken by seeing Frank Doan, 309 Walsh Hall. ment of Ernest Brahmah's tales of Kai Lung. «. In common with both these writers, Jasper Brent offers his subtler meaning only to the EAST-PENN CLUB FORMAL SUCCESS subtler reader. The first formal dance of the East-Penn Cyril Mullen's disarming candor and dis Club of the University, held in the crystal passionate expression alone relieve his essay ballroom of the Hotel Casey, Scranton, the "On the Mysterious Ladies" from being very evening of December thirtieth, was a success cynical. H. L. Mencken vsrill probably adopt fi'om both the social and financial stand a style like this when he grows older and points. The success of the affair is due in no writes more leisurely. small way to the work of the dance com mittees. "Germaine and Josef" is taken from Vince Engels' text for an opera "Gennaine of Gas- More than seventy couples danced to the cony." The lyric simplicity of this passage music manufactured by "Eddie Gilligan and has the same strength and spirit that Edna his orchesti'a of Wilkes-Barre, reputed to be St. Vincent Millay achieved in "The King's the best manufacturers of jazz in Northeast Henchman." You will remember that Vince ern Pennsylvania. Guests were present at wrote the libretto for the operetta "Lord By the dance from all the towns, cities and vil ron," presented by the University Theatre in lages of Eastern Pennsylvania, from Bing- 1926. hampton, and New York City. In his story "Sam, the Accordion Man," The ciystal ballroom was attractively dec Louis Hasley first exercised his qualities of orated in the University's colors, blue and, \ naturalness and sympathy. His present gold, set off by N. D. blankets and suspended story shows that he has acquired an impres pennants, representative of the universities sionistic sense that adds gj-eatly to the force with whom Notre Dame competes in ath of his style. letics. The orchestra booth was intermittent Prank Connolly has done a very finished ly concealed from the terpsichoreans' view piece of work in his essay "Three Poets." A by a curtain composed of N. D. banners poet of frequent' appearance in the SCHO which regularly rose and fell. The lights LASTIC, Frank brings to his composition a were covered with gold and blue crepe paper. sincere enthusiasm for his subject, a warm The dance committees were headed by understanding of the three poets he consid Robert A. Mulhall. The officers of the club, ers". Literaiy essays or merit have a pre Leo R. Mclntyre, Francis M. Flanagan, eminent place in the SCHOLASTIC ; there will Joseph F. Manning, A. J. Ransavage, Peter be more of thqm in the future. J. Gallagher, John F. McMahon, Father Pat Please do not shy off, as we at first did, rick J. Haggerty, C.S.C, and many others, from reading "Down to a Science" because including Larry Weniger, Tom McMahon, its author's name has "C.S.C." after it. The Nick Maureillo, Bill Moran, Bill Bums, Pete friendliness of this essay proves that true Casteriine, John O'Donnell, Charles O'Mal- humor has nothing to do with prejudices or ley. Art Lesch, Joe O'Hora, Jack Boland, Joe the initials after authors' names. —R c.E. McHugh, constituted the committees. 424 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC sured that Notre T>arr.e produces much more • MUSIC AND DRAMA * than great football machines. Superlatives <• •,• • ••• •>••••••••••<•**<• dominate each clipping and praise permeates the whole. Feted upon every possible occa The new year is bringing a new policy to sion, entertained by every organization that the Oliver Theatre and we are promised nur was given the opportunity, the club returns merous legitimate stage productions within from the most successful tour in its histoiy, the next few weeks; productions which are socially tired, but nevertheless enthusiastic, in no way second-class road shows, but hoping that they may be able to make their rather, plays and musical bits' carrying such Easter trip just as great a success as the one historic personages as Walker Whiteside, which caused their Christmas holidays to be Queenie Smith, Mrs. Fiske and Otis Skinner. spent in almost solid travel. Surely they de To show that this is in no way a financial promise, "It Makes a Difference," the new serve the ovation of any victorious athletic play of Edwin Stanley and Hugh Ford, holds team. Let us give it to them. - —A.s. " ^^r-J the stage Saturday night when the silver screen is lifted after the last showing of that LAWYER APPEARS splendid motion picture "The King of Kings." The play is here for the one night only, the The Notre Dame Lawyer made its second pause coming to break a jump before taking appearance of the year just before the holi the production into Chicago, where it opens days. Judge Sunderland, professor of law a limited engagement the following night at at the University of Michigan, has widtten the Princess Theatre. An absorbing play a very intei-esting article entitled: "The dealing with the ephemeral and somewhat System of Appeals." "The Influence of Ro superficial tendencies of today, "It Makes a man Law in American Jurisprudence" is a Difference" can in all justice be placed un clever article by Gerald J. McGintry. William der the category of strong and exceptionally F. Craig has written "The Legal Blues," a timely plays. With a rather well balanced humorous treatment of the oddities of Colo cast including Kenneth MacKenna, Thais nial legislation. Joseph P. McNamara, edi Lawton and Mayo Methot, this play present tor-in-chief of the Laivyer asserts that there ed by Lawrence Weber and Hugh Ford will should be a revision of the classification of provide a splendid evening's entertainment, felonies.in his editorial on "The Habitual and it is much to the credit to the manage Criminal." There are also a number of re ment of the Oliver Theatre that it is only the views of recent important cases. first of a scheduled series of productions. PROFESSOR HONORED BY SCIENTISTS Tonight we m,ay expect the arrival of a E. G. Mahin, Ph.D., professor of chemistry few of the members of the Glee Club while at the University was elected president of the rest remain in.Chicago Saturday so that the Indiana Academy of Science at the con they may have the opportunity of attending clusion of the convention of that body held the Chicago Civic Opera either in the after recently at the University. He succeeds noon when "Tannhauser" is given or at Frank D. Wade of Indianapolis as president. night when "II Trovatore" is produced. Per Dr. Mahin, the new president, has taught haps there will be no gathered student body at Notre Dame since 1925. He received to greet them as they straggle in, but surely Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue Uni no organization of Notre Dame has ever versity in 1901 and was conferred the Ph.D. gained a more "victorious" tour than that by the John Hopkins University in 1908. He which has just terminated for the Glee Club. taught at Purdue University prior to coni- From press excerpts sent to us during vari ing to Notre Dame. Professor Mahin is di ous stages of the trip, it is easily seen that rector of the Metallurgy course which was cities throughout the far west have been as introduced at the University in 1926. ^ THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 425
• ^ "The Corby Hall pool table has been re-covered with new cloth, much to the de- « Fro7n the Files of THE SCHOLASTIC • light of the lovers of the cue. The vigor with which the balls now bound from rail The leaves are falling, let them fall; to rail is a sight which has not been wit It'sjiime that they should go; nessed on the table for many a day." We now are eager for the ice. —A. A. HERBiaiT, '11. The cold and fljring snow.- —F. M. GASSENSMITH, (. f., NEW PICTURES IN ART GALLERY Two new pictures have been added to the "The social year at Noti-e Dame was University Art Gallery; they are the gift of inaugurated when the class of '09 held Dr. Charles A. Wightman of Evanston, 111., the first Junior Prom at Melville Hall in whose generous art gifts in the past have South Bend, and the event was a typical made the Wightman Memorial Gallery pos college function. The affair was restricted sible. to the upper classmen and the post-grads, The first picture is a Russian Ikon four feet and nearly fifty couples glided about the in height; the second is a beautiful work in polished floor to the strains of Petersen's oil, "The Meeting of The Blessed Virgin and College Orchestra. The interior of the Elizabeth." Hall was tastefully decorated with the col Both works are to be refinished and will lege and class colors, interspersed with a be placed on display in the galleries in the large number of college penants. The near future. unique lighting scheme added a most pleas ing glow to the decorative effect." ALUMNUS HONORED Paul J. Harrington, a member of, the "The program rendered by the Brownson graduating class of 1926 of the University, Literary and Debating Club was in keep was selected as one of the nine Indiana can ing-with the splendid work of the organi didates for the Rhodes scholarship to Oxford zation. It consisted of the following num University, England, at a meeting held by bers; 'Sheridan's Ride,' F. A. O'Brien; the scholarship committee in Indianapolis, 'Little Golden Hair,' M. J. Heyl; and, Saturday, December 10. 'Mormonism,' T. F. Smyth.' " The candidates were presented to the com mittee at the meeting and a winner will be announced later. "Last week the Misses Biggens of Alton, Mr. Harrington achieved distinction at the Illinois, visited their nephew, Lucian Cop- University in not only athletics but in aca pinger who is a student of Corby Hall." demic work as well. He was valedictorian of his class, captain of the track team and holder of the indoor world's record for the "A word of praise to the varsity subs pole-vault. To whom we owe esteem. He received the bachelor of science degree Who get their knocks and awful rubs in chemical engineering and was editor of the Catalyzer for two years. He was also a . But yet support the team. contributor to various literary magazines at~ They've pep galore on every play; the University by his poems and plays. At They push and plunge with might; graduation he was given the "Maxima Cum And never do we hear them say. Laude." At the present time he is a student They're wearied of the fight." at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 426
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This vage- will, be devoted to dub news each Several days before the dance, on December 27 week. Club aeo-etaries wre requested to send all the Chicago Clubs of .Notre Dame and St. Mary's' club neioa or announcements to J. D. Murphy, Club held a tea at the entral Plaza Hotel, Chicago. Miss Ediior, Room 18, Morrissey liall, so as to reach him Ii-ma Thompson, president of the St. Mary's organ by Tuesday noon. ization, acted as hostess to the iifty couples which were present. ACADEMY OF SCIENCE The Chicago Club will meet next Thursday even The'fegular meeting of the Notre Dame Academy ing in the Faculty Dining Room at 7:45 P. M. One of Science was held Monday evening, January 9, in of the principal matters for discussion will be the Science Hall. The entire period was devoted to the Mass at 6:20 A. M., Saturday, January 21st, in presentation of a paper on "Study of Opium and Sorin Hall chapel, at which Mass the club will re its derivatives," by Mr. Francis Meyer. Folowinlg ceive communion in a body for the repose of the the discussion of the properties of Opium and its soul of deceased members and deceased relatives of derivative alkaloids, Mr. Meyer demonstrated the present members. action of Morphine Sulphate upon a dog. The paper was not only practical and instructive but also car ried a moral lesson to the members of the society. PROM TICKETS NOW ON SALE INDIANAPOLIS CLUB Tickets for the Junior Prom of 1928 were Members of the Indianapolis Club were. guests placed on sale last Saturday afternoon. The , of the Notre Dame Alumni of Indianapolis at a ban ticket sale is in charge of Thomas A. Ryan. quet during the holidays. An Easter Dinner-Dance was planned and a committee appointed. It con The Prom will be held at the Palais Roy- sists of John Harrington, chairman, William Boles, ale. The music will be furnished by either William Krieg and William Craig.. The affair will Guy Lombardo, Fred Hamm, Jack Chap be held at the Highland Country Club on Monday, man, or Ben Pollack. April 9th. The Indianapolis Club is the first of any city Tickets may be purchased from William clubs on the campus to adopt a club paper. It will Seidenfaden, Badin; Herb. Shimberg, Walsh; be issued once a month. J. P. McNamara, Arnold Pete Brysselbout, Walsh; Joe O'Brien, Mor William and William F. Craig are its editors, Wil liam H. Krieg is business manager and John Eocap rissey ; Jack Grey and Hank Bums, Off-Cam circulation manager. pus; Buck Ahera, Corby; W. Mclnnany, Ly ons; and Bernard Nalty, Morrissey. CHICAGO CLUB President Dick Halpin and his fellow club mem Walter Stanton of Gary, Indiana, is gen bers .from the Windy City celebrated their annual eral chairman of the Prom. From all pres Christmas Holiday formal in the Gold Room of the ent indications this year's Prom will be the Congress Hotel, Monday, January second. To the best staged at the Palais Royale in a score of lingering tunes produced by Ben Pollack's Black- hawk gang, the members and their guests passed a years. warm evening, in spite of the zero breezes that were blowing frpm Lake Michigan. Ben was in his best form; he-flayed hot music that needed asbes PROM SIGNS APPEAR tos instruments, and the sweet kind sweet enough to Of the twenty announcement signs put up make Cal Coolidge look sentimental. Favors in the on the campus by the Prom publicity com form of leather encased bridge sets embossed with the seal of the Chicago Club were presented to the mittee last Tuesday, nineteen had been re- guests. Above the orchestra, a large Chicago Club m,oved at Wednesday noon. Similar myster banner, recently purchased by the organization, was ious disappearances have occun'ed at inter resplendent in Gold and Blue seals of the Univer vals all year. The Prom committee requests sity of the club. that in the future, when signs are put up, According to Halpin, the dance was the most suc those who consider said signs lawful prey cessful that has been held, and according to those present, he was right. The members look forward and appropriate wall decorations will leave to more and bigger affajrs arranged by their effi them up at least until their term of useful cient president. ness as publicity has expired. flv--',' •
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THE COLLEGE PARADE -.- By J.F. Mahoney ^ |g2SH5a5E5HSHHBSH5E5H5S5252SHSHSHSa5H5H5HSE5H525H51HESHSaSHEfa5H5HSiSBSH5H5HSH5E5aSH5HH Up in Vermont, where the President of the coves of learning we were doing a bit of re United States does his whittling, there is a search work. The one subject which was the girls' college. This college harbors some very most popular among our humble circle was aggressive girls. These girls found a copy entitled: What is wrong with the modem of the Religious Survey for 1925-26, and im girl? mediately sat themselves down and took pen "To make a long stoiy short, let me say: in hand to register some complaints; of you sure have your opinions, but, prithee course, they couldn't know, away up there, listen to a few of ours. We won't be too that the same complaints had been made by long. However, we feel compelled to correct indignant girls from the rock-ribbed shores some of the outstanding errors that seem to"" of Maine to the sunny—well, from all over have taken root in that great Middle West this great land—and had remained unan expanse." swered because no one had bothered with them. The letter was sent to a Notre Dame (Here Miss McGovern and her cronies student, whose name will remain undisclosed, proceed to uproot some of the "outstanding but addressed to the whole student body. errors." For three pages they attack and Here is your letter, with some unimportant counter attack, they argue and upbraid in a features omitted: grand fashion—the like was never seen be fore, here or elsewhere. The Defenders of "To come to the point: the Modern Girl conclude) : "I'm sorry, Mr. , for taking so much "My name is Miss M. McGovern—address. Trinity College, Burlington, Vermont—occu of your valuable time. But it was absolutely pation, student. The remainder of the pedi necessary. Positively! Of course you know gree I will postpone for the present. The I have not directed all these charges at you— subject of this miss^ is—In Defense of The they are for whom they concern. But, judg Modem Girl. ^"^ ing that every Notre Dame man counts loy alty to his college as one of his outstanding "Recently ... a few of my classmates and characteristics, I felt that, in behalf of your I miraculously came across an object which honorable institute, you would perhaps ap curiously enough attracted our instant at preciate the opinions of others concerning tention—What was it? The Religious Survey the inconsiderate statements made by your of Notre Dame for the years 1925-26. It held buddies, us spell-bound. And how? It is a sad story "If you should care to defend your to tell, but we determined to steel ourselves selves, we would be willing to hear your plea. against the inevitable and bravely answer You'll find we have ammunition enough for the call of duty by breaking the news to you. all charges made against us. (Ed. Note: Heavens! Will these girls never "I found your name in the . . . Netv York stop answering the call of duty?) . . . Who Times, That is how I picked on you. Con Was the guy who said, 'Never judge a book gratulations for your lucky strikes. Am I ex by its cover?' He sure said a mouthful. Sour onerated? Say 'Yes.' Yours for Merry .Shapes, what a deception! And we had pic Christmas and the Modern Girl." tured Notre Dame as such a Haven of An- Very well, Miss McGovern, your applica 8els. (Ed. Note: Make no mistake, Madam.) tion has been placed on file, and will be an- • • What opinions you poor children do have! swered as soon as our Dep't. For Replying to- % word! Defenders of the Modern Girl can get around Of course you know by now that we were to it. I ami informed that your number is studying the questionaires. Yes, in the al 9,468. Meriy Christmas!
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PATRIOTISM AND WOMEN'S CLUBS jealous, too bent on self-aggandizem'ent to give up fighting over the dry lentils of the A letter to the SCHOLASTIC, enclosing a world. And nations are composed largely of clipping concerning the recent proposal of men. the New Jersey Federation of Women's From the above, a reader might come to Clubs to abolish all patriotic songs of martial think that we loved war. Not so. War is to character deplores the fact that "the con be hated, forever and unalterably. There founded women's clubs" have already done were probably men who hated war among too much campaigning against patriotism. those who enlisted in wholesale lots from In addition, the writer sends clippings stat Notre Dame in 1917. There were probably ing that Great Britain is building eleven new men who hated war among the numerous cruisers, that the United States needs a large chaplains that the University furnished. air fleet, and that we are at present in a la There are probably men who hated war mentable state of unpreparedness. He neg among those commemorated on the side door lects to mention that students at the Uni of Sacred Heart Church. And we feel' much versity of Wisconsin have recently rebelled as they must have felt: that while terrible in against niilitary training, a matter that itself, war would come, nothing could pre seems neither insignificant nor irrelevant in vent it, and fighting was the only way to end it. a period of loud and windy debate between jingoism and pacificism. There really is not anjrthing to be alarmed about. Let the jingos shout and the paci Ordinarily, matters of international or fists rave: war will neither be thrust on the even of national policy are nothing to the weary world until it has at least partly re SCHOLASTIC. In this case, however, the many cuperated from the late burst of insanity, contemporaneous outbursts of student opin nor will its coming be prevented by college, ion, against war, jingoism, preparedness, bat students who dislike military training. As tleships and shooting galleries makes a state for the women's clubs: it is a traditional fact, ment of views justifiable and even advisable. handed down from father to son for rnnpty- There are, in these United States, a num ump centuries, that the first women's asso ber of persons who are against war. Fine! ciation passed a resolution that men leave off They would sink the fleet. Noble! They carrying clubs because of the damage that would put the ludicrously small army to dig said clubs might do to the poor, starving ging ditches or other constructive endeavor. saber-toothed tigers. Admirable! They say that war is foolish, futile, a great waste of life and property, a blot upon the otherwise (we suppose) unsul NEXT WEEK'S EVENTS lied history of man. When the above named feature of THK War is all of the evils mentioned above; SCHOLASTIC was first run last September, the granted. But there appears to be no cure staff hoped to make it a complete list of all for the world's recurrent ailment. The So future occurrences from week to week. Un cieties for the Prevention of War, the Socie fortunately, some organizations and news ties for the Destruction of Fleets; and the sources have not given the names and dates Societies for the Abolition of the Sale of of their particular functions. The column is Pop-guns to Little Children propose that the consequently not so complete as we should world lay down its arms. The results from like to have it, and we will be glad to pub such a procedure might be gratifying, but the lish any more weekly meetings, conferences, procedure will never be accomplished. Men or smokers that the organizations care to are not like that; they are too envious, too, announce. —J.A.,M.
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NEMESIS OF LOVE NO, NO; THE WORDS WERE "WAITER, A A maiden speaks: HORSE'S NECK" 0 CupidI I dreamed a dream last night, DEAR SIR DALE : When contributions become slack, A. haunting, spectral dream: and original ideas fail, why don't you tell the boys ji seems tliat I had held your empty botv about some of your experiences in Sherwood Forest, Within my hand a yea/r. HIS heart liad healed and the vicinity? Around an arrow; and xvhen I turned away, For instance, I know they're all dying to learn HIS flesh was torn by some mystic string; about the time that Robin caught you with Maid The blood streamed out upon the ground, and Marion in "Ye Sherwood Inn." there HE lay You know they all figured that you should have Expiring. And so I ran, afraid, been canned from the club for that trick, because A bloody arrow trailing in the dust! Friar Tuck said he distinctly heard you say, "Let's 0 Gupidl^ Where can I find HIM Neck," to the Maid—but I guess she was too par That I may repent and be forgiven? ticular—anyhow, maybe that's the reason Bob didn't give you the gate. Then, again, perhaps you have Cupid replies: something on "The Hood," and that is the thing in Too late! It is no dream! Your destiny was fixed which we really are interested, because after^.all, When you dreiu out my quiver from its liiding, what's a maid or two among friends? And bow therewith. In fun avoxved So you'd better come across with the dope, Al, You pierced his heart. 'cause we know you. And left the arrow deep etnbedded. Yours for cleaner politics, (And still-in fun you healed the flesh around it.) —THE SASSY KID. Now you have turned from liim and danced away, , And taken his life's blood tvith you. CONFESSION You ask vie why I love! Bah! It is to scorn! Know, then, tliat sJie is fine What mortal dare to judge sxicli infidelity? From tlie finger of her glove What punishment can I provide To the lips, like rich old wine. Except tff say: But— "YOU DIE; HIS SOUL SHALL GO ON LIV No, it isn't tliat. ING." She's beautiful and gay, —^LOUIS L. HASLEY. Slie wears a briglit green hat HELL HATH NO FUEY LIKE THIS On curls gone astray. DEAR ALLAN: Here's the hand you requested for Site's luitty and shes' keen the little girl across the way. The kid/has tact. And slie's more tilings than I've said Vampire used her head when she substituted letters But— for words, when she said "s. s. and g. convent girls," I love her (I'll come clean) for she undoubtedly meant, "(p)seudo-sophisticated For the toss of her proud head. and gawdy." Now give me your "pretty" for you —NICK BOTTOM. know what she means. IT'S A SYNONYM FOR APPLE-SAUCE "For all men kill the thing they love." They DEAR AL: Have you ever noticed the signature should. —CYNIC. of the guy that signs The Editor's Page? Are those . THAT IS A QUEAH ENIGMAR initials straight or does he sign himself that way P^'AR ALLAN: "Why yes," says my English p.-of, just because he's always in one? —JOE CAMPUS. We will now study the drammar; a man from "The melancholy days are come, the saddest of South Bend, Indianar, will lecture; by the way, is the year." Ah, there go the brainy boys yelling anyone in the class studying Lawr?" I don't get "Fraud! Yeh, Alan-A's a fraud! Them lines mean the idear. — JEFF. autumn, and he's using 'em at New Year's!" Hush ; TO AN CIGARETTE your mouth, brats. There are seventeen more issues ^iacco from an ancient land of Hobnails, and each issue means two columns, and ".hmmoalema bend tlieir morning prayer; so far the usually-swelling Hobnails mail has con imamlate paper; cool and sweet; tained exactly two contribs. Ah me, hope is blotto, ',«? anrf smoke without a ca/re. ' and "the melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year." —ALLAN-A-DALE. ,','.:.. —J. EUSTACE TEWKSBUIIY •: '-iH
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In Search of the Sea A Fantasy of the East. JASPER BRENT. NE morning, a traveler came to the To which the traveler replied: '-'I have walls of the great city of Kaphut come in search of the Sea." O Thorn. He approached along the road At first the captain was angered at this that the caravans from the East have fol absurd answer, but he saw that the traveler lowed, and as he neared the Gate of the had the look of one searching. He-said: Rising Sun, he paused often to absorb the beauty of Kaphut Thorn, her temples and "Never before has a man come to Kaphut her palaces. For there were mosques of mar Thorn, the Mighty," and he bowed his head, ble with golden domes and marble minarets "in search of the Sea. Men have come to ad like the spears of the old heroes pointing to mire the beauty of the city before they die." the sky; there were temples of marble (built "But in a far off country, I have been by those who were not followers of the told that the Sea lies to the westward of Prophet) rising step on step, all carven with Kaphut Thorn but a short distance," said the masks of strange men and of animals that traveler. _no man has seen; thei'e were hundreds of "Then pass on, madman. I warn you that palaces of the rich merchants, desigiied and you have blasphemed Kaphura, the great decorated according to the faith of those who god who sits in the Sacred Shrine ;.you have lived within, but all built of rare stone and come without wishing to see his city. If evil rich woods that had been brought over the follow you through the streets, it is because mountains from the lands to the eastward. Kaphura is angered at your infidelity." And the wall around the city was not the But the traveler was not frightened at least of its beauties; it was of great strength the words of the captain, and he walked on and thickness, but along its length watch past the guard with gilded armor and towers had been constructed high above the through the great swinging valves toward battlements, carved to represent the victo the markets of Kaphut Thorn. ries of a hundred kings. The roofs and tow There he saw the riches and the merchan ers flashed and glittered like a jeweled dise of the East. Merchants were bargain crown in the sun of early morning., ing for fine and delicate silks of brilliant When the traveler reached the Gate of colors; others quarrelled over precious the Rising Sun, the iron valves swung out stones; still others bought and sold splen ward to admit him, and a guard of soldiers did camels, and the sturdy horses of Tibet. in gilded armor marched into the opening. The traveler approached one of the mer • The captain of the guard saluted the travel chants and said: er and said: "I have come over mountains and deserts; "It is- not the season of the caravans; it I have crossed the River of the Color of Sand is not the season of the pilgrims to the Ce during the flood season." lestial Shrine; it is not even the season in And the merchant, a courteous man, which our enemies send spies, whom we de asked: "Why have you done these things? tect and put to death with exquisite torture. Why have you come to Kaphut Thorn, the "Because," said ^the traveler, "I am Mighty?" searching for the Sea." , "I have never heard of the Sea," returned _ \
\'-jiim THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 431 the merchant, taking up his bargaining once and the merchants with their merchandise. more. Some of the others gave no answer; some Another merchant told the traveler that had heard of the Sea but could not remem perhaps a priest of Kaphura could direct ber its location; many answered that there him to the Sea. So he went to the Temple of could be no goddess outside the walls of Ka the Celestial Shrine, which was the tallest phut Thom, the Mighty, for all other gods and most beautiful building in all the city, were false gods. And many thought him mad. and when he entered he almost forgot the ' But the traveller persevered. Some said: Sea so sweet were the incenses and the "Ah, yes, the Sea. It is by the Gate of the music of Kaphura's worshipers. But re Unchanging Star." And others: "It is by the membering, he asked of a priest in silken Gate of the Wai-m Wind," And still others: robes with gold and silver ornaments: "I "It is far away across the mountains, and it have traveled far in search of the Sea; how is a strange land where all men have heads can I find it from Kaphut Thorn?" To which like camels, and feet like those of dogs." But the priest answered: none would lead him to the Sea, and none "I am very old, and very wise. When I had heard of the goddess, Beauty. was young, and had the wisdom of a donkey And at last, wandering into a street that that has not lived a year, I was told that to was poorer than the rest, he saw, coming to the westward of Kaphut Thorn is a country ward him a tall young man clad in a coat of called the Sea, which is more beautiful than many beautiful colors. Although the colors even Kaphut Thorn, the Mighty." And he were still brilliant, the coat was torn and bowed'his head, as had the captain of the had the look of great age and of poverty. guard. "But although I was young in years The young man's face was lean and hungry and in wisdom," he continued, "I knew that but there was a light in his eye as4hough to the westward of Kaphut Thorn was only a the stars had shone often into them. And the country of howling beasts, and I knew that traveler said: nothing in the world could be more beautiful "I have come over mountains and deserts; than our city. So I did not believe the false have crossed the River of the Color of Sand tale, and I reported the liar and blasphemer during the flood season." to the Sublime' Master of the Temple, who "You are searching for the Sea!" said the had him executed. Kaphura has rewarded young man. me by making me the successor of that "But how did you know?" asked the trav Sublime Master." eller, wondering. The traveller turned to go, but the priest "Because I am a poet, and have long called to him that he return, and asked: wished for the Sea in this accursed city. But "Why do you go in search of the Sea?" the priests alone can tell of its location, "I go," answered the traveller, "because and they will not, for it is said that the Sea it has been told to me that the Sea is a great is the home of the goddess Beauty, who is body of water, and that it is the home of the greater even than Kaphura, whom they wor- goddess Beauty." sTiip. It is said further that the Sea is to the "Go then," said the priest. "I haye never westward of Kaphut Thom, but the priests heard of the goddess Beauty. She must in forbid men to climb the western wall and no deed be one of the minor deities, for it is one dares disobey them. They have killed my well-known that Kaphura rules the earth and father, and, they shall some day kill me, for the heavens. If you find her, bring her back, they do not love poets. A curse upon them that she may do homage to Kaphura." - and upon their god, Kaphura." The young So the traveller went forth once more man walked onward down the street that wpon his search. He asked the merchants was poorer than the rest. jnd he asked the priests if they could show So the traveler made his way to the Gate •^im the Sea; at last, he began to ask the of the Setting Sun, thinking that there he same question of every passer-by. But the would find a way /to the place which he Pnests were all too busy with their gods. sought. The great gate was barred and '•"'''IIS
432 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC sealed with the Sacred Seal of Kaphura, and ern wall during the night—"That the priests a guard told the traveler that it had not will not see us," said the man. been opened for centuries. Beyond the wall, When the night was no longer purple, but he said, lived a race of frightful beasts who had become black, the evil-looking man led moaned and howled eternally for admittance. the traveller through certain devious and Sometimes they rested and sang softly to ugly streets that grew each one darker than themselves. The priests, he told the traveler, the last. Finally, at a signal from the guide, had taught the people that if any man ever thieves fell upon the traveller, wounded him' ascended this portion of the Wall of Kaphut and having robbed him of his money, left Thom, the Mighty, the beasts beyond it him in a place of horrible smells and would reach up and destroy him. Conse noises. quently, no man had ever climbed the wall, The next day, the traveler passed again for none wished to die so horribly. It was through the Gate of the Rising Sun, on his the tradition of the city. return to the East. During many years, he But the traveler heard the great voice of lived to dream of the Sea, and of the god the Sea through the wall. He knew that the dess Beauty, but never again did he hear of goddess Beauty was not far away; and his Kaphut Thom, the Mighty. heart quickened at the thought. Before dark For one night the Sea arose and destroyed ness had settled upon Kaphut Thom, he found Kaphut Thom, and its people, and the image an evil-looking man who, for a price, would of the god Kaphura was buried at the bot lead him through SL secret gate in the west tom of the ruins.
On The Mysterious Ladies Where There's Smoke, There's Fire—Mwybe CYRIL J. MULLEN
NE time, while browsing through a grabbed it from my hands and vanished into very decrepit second-hand book shop, the next room. I have never found another O I came upon a story of rare beauty. copy of the book; I think I never shall, for The book "How the Young Goddess Found the same reason that kept it out of the usual Mystery" was apparently a forgotten part anthologies of myths. It is a closely guard of the original Greek mythology. Needless ed feminine secret; and, although a myth, to mention, the particular goddess in this one that women believe in almost as much as story passed her secret on to her sisters in do their simpler brethren. divinity, who in turn whispered it to the so Naturally my curiosity was whetted, and ciety dames of ancient Athens. It seems that I tried to find some trace of the lost stoiy if one was high enough in Athenian society, and its obscurity. After much perspiration one could associate with goddesses at the an and page-turning, I found mention of it m nual mortal-immortal get-together given by the translations of an ancient Greek his the Goddesses' Literary League. That, ac torian. Herodotus relates that through the cording to the book, is how women gained influence of the first Greek feminist, the "mystery," that valuable adjunct to their book was judged unfit for the eyes of all other charms, which they have used to such Greek men. In short, it was put on the advantajfe ever since. Pagan Index. Although chivalry forbids my I did not have the opportunity of finishing telling of the lady's name, for the benefit ot the book. An old woman in charge of the those who care to investigate, she was the shop came upon me unawares, saw what I same feminist who gaVe pedestal orations was reading, and, with a gasp of dismay. about women's physical and mental equality.
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THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 433 and later killed a man for not offering her hesitates, and in answer to her escort's oh- his seat in a chariot. how-I-desire to serve glance, murmurs, re Well, the amazing thing about this devas signedly : tating mystery possessed by all womankind, "Oh, well, it doesn't matter." lies not in the fact that it has sm*vived as a "But what were you going to say?" he in myth in a book, but in the way it is venerat quires. And he spends the rest of the even ed as a fact in practice. For it is only a ing trying to draw out a thought that didn't myth, like culture among college men, the exist in the first place. innate virtue of the poor, and the consump Or take a college man, put him in a fur tion of fish for brain power. According to coat and a Vauxhall (I have read that nearly Baron Haldeman-Julius, W. S. George, and all college men wear fur coats and drive Doctor Erskine—^the staunch admirers and Vauxhalls), and listen to his conversation as loyal portrayers of women through the ages he drives with a girl friend. —popular gals froni Eve on down have used "What are you thinking, about?" " "mystery" on their fat military or political "I'll never tell," she replies, thinking most boy-friends. Whether the ladies recognized likely of exactly nothing. the thing as a lovely lie, or believed in it as If the deluded boy persists, he will prob sincerely as the men they so efficiently ably get vague, ethereal stares, and intermit turned into clowns, I do not know. But if tent incoherences such as: "You wouldn't im- you don't believe that the tradition exists, derstand, I know," "I'll tell you some other read the ancient, medieval, or modern poets. time," and last, perhaps most effective, "I For example, Mr. Kipling, who has had liter feel it in my bones." ature imputed to him, has flapped a great If you have ever noticed, women have a deal about it. Even the most extreme of our different nervous system, which unfortun modem writers, who deal in ash-cans and ately, allows them to "feel in their bones." like containers, tell us about contemporary Scientists, who are notorious for their neg ladies with all sorts of mystic mental pro lect of really vital things, have failed to cast cesses that are far beyond the understand any light on this bone-sense of women. In ing of uninstructed males. And if you have fact, except for a few gaudy trance-flitters ever known a young man in love, recall his and fortune-tellers, scientists have neglected idiotic utterances about her mysterious the Female Mystery Phenomenon altogether. glances, her mysterious sayings, and her Only one scientific man that I know has mysterious this - that - and - the-other-thing. given us any information that sounds at all Better yet, consider the methods of the plausible. sweet young lasses that have hypnotized you Doctor Griffin, that untiring inquirer, has into delusions of grandeur. ' deduced in his treatise on the subject, that Let us, with great reverence and open as the skull of the female is smaller than the minds, ponder over some of the more com skull of the male, and as the smaller the skull mon symptoms of "mystery." A young of a given woman the more mysterious she author is going on a date. After applying a seems to become, "it is not illogical to believe due amount of hair-slickum, adjusting his that the degree of mystery varies inversely tie, and rejuvenating his shoes with his other with the size of the skull." This, as the doc shirt, he tows the girl forth to a select movie- tor admits, is only a theory. Still, it is one house. Coming out, the girl starts to speak. well worth pondering.
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Song of Germaine and Josef From "Germaine of Gascony"
Germaine: / "O my beloved, . ' This is an hour of sadness; we must part! •> , ,,•' - ' ' Heaven and ewrth loere never meant as one^ ,v . ' ; And I, who am of earth, can only reach , \ , And.cry for thee, who, from thy distant throne, Hath deigned a slight smile of thy mouth to me, , • And christened here tvith tears my own, one hour , ~ More slender than the rest, but deeper far And dearer in its treasure of thy love. ' A single hour hast thou given me To know thy love; notv mzist I go the chain Of endless days only in memory ? They will be tvalked beneath thy shadoiv, love. And I %oill pray for thee and think thy name Till this eternity shall fade away To let another find me praying still. So this, the hour of retribution come, I gladly go to empty at thy feet •The flooding purses of my heart, to give To thy sweet heritage a golden moment Of a golden hour; and this shall be The crest of memoi-y, the cadenced song •\ Of life, and love, and death!" Josef: "Germaine!" . , • Germaine:. "Beloved, The skies are ridden hard by clouds today. And one has cast its darkness on your name. I am afraid, remembering these toords, • • 'I'll kill him first, then yoti—gypsy—.' " . . Josef: "Kill you? Kill me because my God has given me ' • . A poet's heart and beggar's lips; a soul To love you xoith, a gypsy's arms? Germaine, God would not have it so! Though your Michel* • • / ' Is bound to you by flesh and blood, and I Only by stars and moon, and poetry And song; by the wind that whispers in the night, ; . And the vjarm south streams that suckle from the earth. •'i, Yes, heJs flesh and blood to you, and I, • . The xoind that blows.a song ofiross the sky." —NORBERT ENGELS • * Her brother who plots against Josef. h:i(wr.:....\:- . ^ • . • ••v:^:.:;;^ EK*'>''
THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 435 Down To A Science With Emphasis on the Word "Down" ROBERT WOODWARD, C. S. C.
O doubt you have many times heard take some time before I would get used it said that "they" have such and to them. He "said a mouthful." N such a thing down to a science, I am The outcome of the matter was that the not so sure what people mean by that. lens tested for the left eye was placed in Many take it that all the difficulties and my right eye, and vice versa. I have heard, doubts in connection with a certain matter since that time, of numerous other cases of have all been cleared away, that science this same nature. Sortie of them were so has spoken and the case is finished. But serious that they compelled men to change is it finished ? Aye, there's the rub. Sci their professions. ence has its limitations and it might be I know a case of a young man who was good for us to recognize them. As long troubled with severe headaches. They as scientists are human, there will be blun were so severe as to make him an absolute ders. There is nothing wrong with science invalid. He was examined by the doctor, itself. I mean that truth coming from and underwent a sinus operation. His suf scientific study will never conflict with fering became worse instead of better. At truth coming from any other source. Truth last the doctors discovered the real cause is one just as God is one. But there are of the malady: the man had had a tooth some difficulties and obstacles science can filled and the dentist had inadvertently never overcome. Mistakes now and then left a piece of cotton packed up against will occur. This is always true where the , a nerve. human,element enters in. No machine is All this reminds me of the story in the fool-proof if the man operating it is a fool. gospel about the woman that asked Our He is bound to stick his fingers into the Lord to cure her. I can never read the cogs, forget to turn it off or flip a cigar text without smiling to myself. The ette into the gas tank. Maybe I could Evangelist puts it something like this: make myself clearer by giving some con "There was a woman troubled with an crete instances. issue of blood. She had spent all her sub Not so long ago I went to have my eyes stance on the physicians and instead of be examined, i They had been bothering me coming better was rather worse." Human nature is pretty much the same now as it for some time and had caused me no sligiit was in those days. Men, no matter how headaches. After the examination the careful they be, seem bound to blunder. doctor said I would have to wear glasses. Really, we should not expect perfect action He had all sorts of machines in his shop or movement in an imperfect machine. and he tried them all. I looked through Some one has compared man to a cracked long black telescopes, stared with dripping violin; I think the comparison is a good one. eyes into a blaze of light, and read the alpha We know better than to expect perfect bet hanging on the opposite wall. The test melody from poor instruments,* and none of came out well. The doctor said he had his us is perfect. I was going to say that some of . finger right on the difliculty, and he told us are more cracked than others, but that me to return in a few days and try on the would be vile. Our attitude toward scien glasses. I did. But something went wrong. tists should be one of moderate scepticism. My headache increased by compound in Of course all scientists are not to be re terest. I couldn't see well enough to walk garded in the same light. But in particular ^own the street. The man of science told cases let me give the advice of St. Bernard, nie when I put on the glasses that it would "let every man abound in his own sense.."
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The Spirit Lives A Short Short Story LOUIS L. HASLBY
T was Homecoming at Milton University. team outplayed—^yes, outscored—but he had But to Rowley, '02, it was more than not seen a Milton team outfought. I that; it was the last time he would ever As he continued walking aimlessly on the see the Blue and THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 437 Three Poets Their batteries black ^vith battle hold the bridgeheads of the Mame. —G. K. Chesterton, Ballad of St. Barbara. FRANK CONNOLLY HIS article is intended to be a brief por one ever loved life more wholly or more trayal of three great poets whose genius minutely—and then came 1914 and his pas T was extinguished by the World War sion for life had suddenly to face the thought almost before it had been fully kindled. I of voluntary death. But there was no strug refer to that great triad of heroic men, Alan gle: for instantly the passion for life be Seeger, Rupert Brooke, and Joyce Elilmer. came one with the will to die." To anyone who reads the poetry of these "It is not only because he died young and men a certain characteristic of their writings died in Greece that he reminds one of By must manifest itself. It is this, the beauty ron," writes H. W. Nevenson in the Nation. in the poetry of Seeger and of Brooke is es "He was possessed by the same exuberant sentially Grecian. In the case of Kilmer it and adventurous spirit, and the same protest is distinctly Hebraic. Whereas Seeger and ing passion for revolt and also the same de Brooke had merely a philosophy, Kilmer had light in real existence." also a religion. Perhaps it is because of this "protesting The effect of this divergence upon the passion of revolt" that Brooke has been ac poetry of these three men is always very cused of having a 'love of the ugly, the dis much in evidence. The result is that the torted, and the decadent.' Certainly Brooke poems of Seeger and Brooke have only a had nothing, in common with decadence. natural beauty while those of Kihner have Vigor and freshness ax*e characteristic of all in addition a supernatural beauty. his writings. "Rupert Brooke," as the Chi It is not surprising, however, that, al cago Evening Post observed, looked for though these men had different philosophies, sterner aspects of life than the convention they should all three be led, inevitably it ally esthetic, the drawing room circumscribed would seem, to pour out, in communion, and the literary." their blood as a peace offering, on the fields "Brooke seemed to feel by instinct that he of France. They understood only the prin would die," says the London Spectator, "but ciple at stake in the conflict. They saw only he let his mind hover joyously and quietly - war, the juggernaut, outraging beauty, vio about the sacrifice." lating sanctities, shattering ideals. All three "If I should die, think only this of me: heard the challenge. They girded on their That the^'o's some corner of a foreign field swords. That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed. These laid the world away I poured out the red A dust whom England bvre, shaped, made aware, Rich wine of youth: gave up the years to be Gave, once, her floivers to love, her ways to roain 0/ workjmd joy, and that unhoped serene A body of England's breathing, breathing English That men call age: and those %uho would have been air, Their sons, they gave their immortality. Washed by. the rivers, blest by suns of home." Brooke was a Cambridge man. Born at Of Brooke it has been written, "War made Ilugby in 1887, in September 1914 he re him a symbol and, as such, an immortal-^n vived a commission in the Royal Division. immortal in spite of the fact that he was a He saw service at Antwerp and in the Dar poet who wrote a few great poems, rather danelles campaign wherein he died. than a great poet. And eternal first of all ^tasQelles Abercrombie writing in the because he satisfied the world's old craving Morning Post, of London, says of him: "No for heroic figures: for the poet turned patriot W:C..' :W1 438 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC —the hero that leaves his songs for the Sidney in whom the hcydey of Romance sword and goes singing down to death." Came to its precious and most perfect flower Whether you tourneyed with victorious lance Joyce Kilmer thus writes in memory of Or brought sweet roundelays to Stella's bower his friend: I give myself some credit for the way I have kept clean of wliat enslaves and lowers "In alien earth, across a troubled sea, His body He's that ivas so fair and young Shunned the ideals of our lyresent day His mouth is stopped, toith half his so7igs unsung; And studied those that were esteemed in yours: His arm is still, that struck to make men free. For, turning from the mob tJiat buys sticcess But let no lamentation be By sacrificing all Life's better poA-t Wliere, on a ivarrior's grave, a lyre is hung. Down the free roads of human luippinesa We keep the echoes of his golden tongue I frolicked, poor of purse, but light of hewrt. We keep the vision of his chivalry. And lived in strict devotion all along To my three idols—Love and Arms and Song. So Israel's joy, the loveliest of kings. Smote notu his Jiarp, atvd noiv the hostile horde. The outstanding features of Seeger's life are Today the staj-ry roof of heaven rings his passionate love for the ideal and his dis With psalms a soldier made to praise his Lord; gust at the banalties of every day life. "By ATid David rests beneath etei-nal wings, temperament I am not interested in trivial Song on his lips, and in his hand a sword." talk," he remarked quite naturally to a friend Alan Seeger was of a somewhat different who expressed some surprise at his inatten type. Whereas Brooke's philosophy was es tion during a certain club meeting. sentially materialistic, that of Seeger was The war was only three weeks old when basically fatalistic. In a letter to a friend Seeger enlisted in the Foreign Legion. Love he writes, "In this universe strife and stern and Song had ceased to satisfy him. The ness play as big a part as love and tender gay life had grown suddenly drab and in ness, and cannot be shirked by one whose significant. A fierce desire for the hard and will it is to rule his life in accordance with virile shock of battle had taken possession the cosmic forces he sees in play about him." of his spirit. He seems from the beginning Seeger was born in New York, on the 22nd to have been confident of death. "Alan un of June, 1888. He was graduated fi-om Har ceasingly reiterated his presentiment that he" vard in 1919, and two years later he left would be killed in battle," a companion New York for Paris, where he settled down writes of him,—"he felt absolutely sure that at once in the Latin quarter. Here he gave he would be killed in action." "He was en himself over completely to the life and beau amored of death," says Henry Morton Robin ty of the throbbing city. He loved Paris in son, "not because he loved life less but be tensely. cause he loved glory more." -~ In the gay metropolis he found youth and His love for his comrades of the Legion love and poetry. These he fed upon, steep and his faith in their lofty purpose is well ing his soul in the evanescent beauty and expressed in a sonnet he wrote upon his re nebulous romance of a Bohemian existence. turn to the front from Paris after leave. "Come out into the evening streets. The Apart stoeet women (for whom Heaverti be^blessed) green light lessens in the West Comrades, you cannot think how thin and blue The city laughs and liveliest her fervid Look the leftov&i's of mankind that rest pulae of pleasure beats." Noiv tliat the crea/m has been skimmed off in you, War has its horrors, hit /los this of good— Seeger's principles were plain. He wi-ites That its sure processes sort out aitd bind in one of his sonnets. Brave hearts in one intrepid brotherhood And leave the sliams and imbeciles behind. "My creed is simple! that the world is fair And beauty the best thing to worship there." Seeger fell as he charged into the shell- swept town of Belloy-en-Santerre in April, That his code of natural virtue was a power 1915. He died in the teeth of a withering in keeping his ideals high is evident from blast of steel. Rif Baer, an Egyptian wid another of his sonnets: "^^ Seeger's best friend in the Legion, thus ae- i;?2^ Wm-i- THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 439 scribes that last charge: "I caught sight of Joyce Kilmer was born in New Brunswick, Seeger and called to him—He answered with New Jersey, on December the 6th, 1886 He gjnile^How pale he was! His tall silhou was graduated from Columbia in 1906. ette stood out against the green of the corn While still a sophomore, he became engaged field—I saw him running forward with bay to Ahne Mun-ay and immediately after grad onet iixed—that was the last." uation he was married. When America en Alan Seeger had gone to keep that rendez tered the war he went over to France with vous of which he sings in his best known the "Fighting Sixty-Ninth"," of New York, poem: and was killed in action on the 30th of July, 1918. He left behind him a wife and four / have a rendezvoiis with Death small children. At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with nestling shade Kilmer was essentially a fighting man. "Of And apple-blossoms fill 'Z'" air— com-se, I am going," he wrote to a friend, as / have a rendezvous with Death soon as our countiy had entered the war. When, Spring brings ^back blue days and fair. And this in spite of the fact that he was not It may.be he sha'l take my hand included in the draft. In one of his letters And lead me into Vws dark land he writes that he is seriously considering the And close my eyes and quench my breath— habit of chewing tobacco with a view to ac U may be I sliall pass him still. quiring it. He had a real affection for the I have a rendezvous with Death On some scarred^ slope of battered hill. Irish boys in his regiment and was himself When. Spring comes round again this year extremely popular. His Rouge Bouquet dedi And the first meadow-flotvers appear. cated to those of them who died during a cer tain engagement is a rosary of heartthrobs God knows 'twere better to be deep Pilloioed in silk and scented doivn, and tears. Where love throbs out in blissficl sleep. Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath. There is on earth no ivorthier grave Where hushed awakenings are dear . . . To hold the bodies of the brave Btit I have a rendezvous ivith Death TJian this place of pain and piide At midnight in some flaming toion, Where they nobly fought and nobly died. When Spring trips north again this year, Never fear btit in the skies And L to my pledged word am true, Saints and angels stand I shall not fail that rendezvous. " Smiling with their holy eyes On this netv-come band. Joyce Kilmer became a member of the St. Mioltael's stoord darts through the air And touches the aureole on his' hair Catholic Church in 1913. It is very natural And he sees them stand saluting there, that a'man who felt his religion as vitally as His stabvart sons; did Kilmer should give in his poems evidence Aiid Patrick, Biidgid, Columkill of strong religious emotion. Rejoice that in veins of luaniors still Kilmer, like Francis Thompson, expresses The Gae.'s blood runs, A7id up to Heaveti's dooriuay floats, in his poetry that close and personal touch From the wood called Rouge Bouquet, wiOi divine things which borders almost on A delicate cloud of biigle notes intimacy. This characteristic indeed is out That softly say: standing, -in all the Catholic poets whose "Faretvell! hearts have been kindled with the flame of Farewell! divine love. Thus Gilbert K. Chesterton Comrades true, boivi anetv, peace to yoti! Your souls shall bo tvhere the he^'oes are writes in Lepanto: . And your mmnory slmie like the morning-star. Brave and dear. "And Christian hateth Mai-y Shield Jts h&re, _ That God kissed in Galilee," Fareivell!" We findKilme r expressing practically the same simplicity in his poem Folly: Humanity is Kilmer's greatest character istic. "Had his poems no other quality, they •'.','.•: -., ^ord, crush our knoiuledge utterly would continue to be read for that alone," )••••.! •- ^^ make us humble, simple men." 440 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC writes Richard Le Galiienne in the-Bookman. All kindly things were brother to his soul; Evil he scorned and hated every wrong; "He was a many-sided genius of great nobil Gentle—another's wound often wounded him ity of character and definite spiritual ideals. But wlien his country called the freedman'a roll '• Kindness was a creed and fidelity the breath Forthwith he laid aside his wondrous song of his soul." And joined in Flanders, God's own Cherubim. "Unless the grain of seed cast into the The following tribute to Kilmer is by ground die," says Saint Paul, "itself remain- Joseph Bernard Rethy. eth alone, but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit." And so, Kilmer, Brooke, and He loved the songs of nature and of art; Seeger will go on down the ages, an inspira He heard enchanting voices everywhere; tion and a bright light to all who esteem The sight of Jrees, against the sunlit air, valor and high purpose. Their sacrifice is And fields of flowers, filled with joy his heart. just another exaltation of the spirit over He knew the romance of the busy mart, mere flesh and blood. And this because flesh The magic of Manhattan's throbbing life, and blood shrink from pain but the spirit And sensed the glory of the poorman's strife. goes ever onward undaunted, not counting And humbly walked ivith Jestts Christ apart. the cost. ^^^ggjf^ ^jcm-^W^ Sonnet His song is one of love, and things of mirth And fantasies he fondles in his mind That live alone for those who are not blind With blindness come from living on this earth. He thinks the fantasies and things of miHh That he keeps in a casket golden-lined— Locked xoith a key that he alone can find— Will not be stained by hands of lesser worth. But they who cannot find his treasure's key, For i)lindness come from living on the earth, Will draw their sharpened knives and to him .crawl And putting out his eyes, toith jealous glee Will laugh, to hear his cries, and knoxv that he Is beating out his life against a wall. —CYRIL J. MULLEN. mv3-' THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 441 Penn Humbled in Brilliant Victory; Score 30-28 The traditional fighting spirit which has to send his mates into the lead. The Quakers, characterized Notre Dame athletic teams with defeat staring them in the face, fought from the time athletics first came into vogue back desperately and once more deadlocked at the University, ti'ansformed an imminent the score when Schaaf sank a sensational basketball defeat into a magnificent basket two-pointer from near mid-court. But ones ball victory over a stalwart University of tasting victory, Notre Dame was not to be Pennsylvania five last Saturday evening in denied and once more with barely a minute the Quakers' own court in their beautiful to play, McCarthy, sub-forward, sent the ball Palastra at Philadelphia. The 30-28 score whistling through the net for the points which assured the Keoganites of a well-earn which assured the Westerners a hard-won ed, clean-cut triumph over one of the pre triumph. mier quints of the East, more than tells the Spirited play also marked the efforts of story of the teii'ific cage battle by itself,— both quints during the first half, and the sec a battle which will go down in Penn court ond too up to the sizzling finish. / Crow[e, history as perhaps the most thrilling, des Bray, and Colerick bore the brunt of the in perately-fought basketball engagements ever vader's attack during the fii-st two pei-iods waged in their spacious Palastra. and it was largely through their efforts, cou Outscored, but far from being outplayed pled with the work of Jachym and Smith, during the waning moments of the contest, that Notre Dame enjoyed a 16-15 lead at a26-2E count with the Red and Black on the half-time. The Quakers were kept in the long end seemed to spell disaster to the No running this initial twenty minutes by the tre Dame cause, especially as there remained masterful shooting of Lobley, star Red and barely a minute of playing time. The Gold Blue forward, who proved a continual thorn and Blue was undaunted however and sum in the side of the Westerners thi'oughout the moning up every bit of ability and fight they entire play with no less than five field-goals, possessed, in one last desperate, courageous and a lone foul toss to his credit to capture attack shoved Ed Smith into the breach, and the high-point scoring honors for the even it was his successful charity heave coupled ing. \vith a stirring, breath-taking two-pointer Notre Dame's defense cracked slightly from near thel'foul strip a few moments later, during the second half, but enough to enable that stemmed the tide of defeat for Notre Pennsylvania to gradually assume a very Dame and sent the game into an extra pei*iod. small lead which was overcome by a gallant This extra five minutes was as dramatic as Gold and Blue finish as narrated before. the conclusion of the regular playing time, The Easterners pitted their long passing and the 10,000 or so spectators present to game against their visitors' short passes see two of the nation's outstanding cage throughout the whole engagement, and each «ews do battle, were kept in thrilling doubt type of play seemed to meet with equal ^ to.the ultimate outcome until the final success. sun sounded. The Quakers demonstrated just why they ,. ^^jy seesawed up and down the floor for are rated among the elite of their sectional unfi n ^^^ minutes of this extra period, collegiate basketball heap by their good sports «ntU,Donovan, Notre Dame guard, brought manship and fine all around pl^y throughout. jnehuge assemblage to its feet with a beau- Notre Dame was extremely proficient in ^"' one-handed toss through the iron hoops passing and teamwork, but was unfortunate m 442 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTI C enough to miss many easy shots which NOTRE DAME 26—MINNESOTA 18 should have gone through the iron hoops. In their third victory over Big Ten teams There were no outstanding perfomiers for this year, the local aggregation came from the Keoganites. Each man contributed his behind to win from Minnesota on the Notre level best to make the first Eastern invasion Dame floor December 23. of his school an auspicious success. Both teams got off to a rather slow start Lobley and Schaaf stood out for Pennsyl in the first half, but Coach Keogan must have vania, employed some of Rockne's psychology be Lineup and summaiy : tween periods for the Irish came back like a house afire. Colerick led the scoring with N0TR3 DAME (30) PENN (28) ten points to' his credit when the final gun G. F. T. G. F. T. was fired. Ottemess showed up well foT the Crowe, f 3 1 7 Lobley, f 5 1 11 visiting Swedes. Jachym, f 0 2 2 Hartnett, f 2 0 4 Colerick, c 1 2 4 Connell, c 0 0 0 Jachym was held scoreless throughout the Bray, g 2 1 5 Schaaf, g 2 G 10 game, a'feature somewhat surprising to the Smith, g 2 1 5 Lazar, g 0 0 0 followers of the local quintet. When the No Newjjold, f 1 0 2 Herbst, f 1 1 2 tre Dame captain is kept out of the scoring Donovan, g 1 0 2 column his opponents certainly don't need McCarthy, f 1 1 3 Totals 10 8 28 anyone to tell them that they have been in a Totals 11 8 30 basketball game. But Jachym's ability to bi'eak up plays of his adversaries refused to Eeferee—Young, Illinois Wesleyan. Umpire Rumsey, Princeton. be kept out of the limelight, as Minnesota knows by this time. NORTHWESTERN 25— NOTRE DAME 23 SUMMARY OF BASKETBALL GAMES Notre Dame tasted defeat for the first PLAYED DURING VACATION time this season in a game with Northwest NOTRE DAME 28—NORTHWESTERN 22 ern played at Evanston the night of Decem Led by Donovan, who found the wicker for ber 29. The affair was one of the fiercest three goals, and by Newbold, who bucketed ever recorded, turning into a near football two from the field, the Irish trimmed North contest in the final period. During the last western December 20, after being held to a eight minutes of play there was not a single tie for the first half. point scored by either side, neither fouls nor Some idea of the closeness of the conflict field goals. may be gained from the fact that the lead Captain Joe Jachym and Fran Crowe were changed hands nine times during the early tied for the scoring honors with six points part of the game. But the Keoganites began each to their credit. These two played their functioning at the beginning of the second usual heads-up game and were the stars of period and gradually asserted their super the contest. iority. Colerick, one of the mainstays of the No The outstanding star of the Big Ten five, tre Dame quint, received an injured eye dur Waldo Fisher of the Wildcats, was unable to ing the course of the evening. do a thing due to the smothering blanket The Keoganites led at half time by three laid upon him by Colerick and Fran Crowe. points but ttheir lead was gradually cut The sterling work of these two kept the down by a desperate Wildcat quint attempt Evanston satellite practically out of the play ing to halt the Purple's cage losing streak for the entire game. to Notre Dame which had reached nine con The Notre Dame team, as a whole, showed secutive games. the results of the tutelage of Coach George NOTRE DAME 35—PRINCETON 24 Keogan by a fifty per cent improvement Two days after the Norihwestem contest over the play of the previous game. the Irish came to their own stamping- ••.Afyii THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 443 srounds and registered a win over Princeton, FUTURE MEETS SPUR HARRIERS TO mnovan, with four baskets from the field, GREATER EFFORTS nd Newbold, who scored five consecutive free throws, led the attack. Stiff muscles and sore tendons have marked the track team's post-festive resum The players from the East pi-esented a ing of conditioning activities in the gymna typical Eastern team, relying on long passes sium. With the Northwestern meet looming to bring victory to their Alma Mater, But ahead a week from tomorrow, all work has they seemed to lack the coordination to in resolved itself into the most steadfast ser sure a victory. iousness. Coach Nicholson has been bring Both quintets were somewhat ragged in ing his proteges around into shape slowly their play, but the small ci'owd of six hun but surely, and the Wildcats and other pow dred who witnessed the affair seemed to go erful cinder squads to be met later on by the away satisfied that their money was well Gold and Blue trackmen will find a deter spent. mined aggregation of Notre Dame spike ar tists to stack up against. Old Nassau got away to a good start but could not maintain a sustained attack against Despite the lean amount of available ma Dr. Keogan's proteges, who were steadfastly terial with which he has been favored, and a intent to inaugurate another long winning number of unfortunate injuries which have streak. —D.w.s. been sustained by some of the most promis ing Sophomores, Coach Nicholson hopes to make a strong bid for the Central Intercol 1927-1928 BASKETBALL SCHEDULE legiate and Indiana State Collegiate Confer ence crowns. The Notre Dame mentor is The 1927-1928 Basketball schedule for blessed with only a few veterans from last Notre Dame with the results to date follows: year's combination, but with these men as a nucleus he will endeavor to mould a team OPPONENTS NOTRE DAME from new and as yet untried material. Per Dec. 5—Armour Institute 12 at Notre Dame 37 haps the three stroiigest elements composing Dec. 9—Illinois Wesleyan U. 23 at Notre Dame 40 the squad this year are the mile relay men, sprinters, and field event performers. In the Dec. 12—University of Iowa 20 at Iowa City 23 Dec. 20—Northwestern U.*" foi-mer division, McGawley, Kelly, Abott, 22 at Notre Dame 28 Dec. 23—U. of Minnesota at Minneapolis 2G and Quigley constitute a four which is des 18 tined to be heard from in the matches to Dee. 29—Northwestern U. at Evanston 23 25 come. O'Rourke, Elder, Chevigney, and Mor- Dec. 31-Princeton Univer. at Notre Dame 35 rissey in the sprints seem to have the edge Jan. 7—U, of Pennsylvania 24 at Philadelphia 30 28 on the other aspirants in that division thus Jan. 13—Franklin College at Notre Dame far. LaValle, Repetti, and McSweeney in Jan. 17—Wabash College at Notre Dame the field events are all veterans and much is Jan. 21—Drake University at Des Moines expected as a result of their efforts. "Jan. 28-Michigan State at Notre Dame Captain Joe Griffin in the hurdles is per Per, 3—Michigan State at E. Lansing haps Notre Dame's best bet in that event. Feb. 7-U. of Wisconsin at Madison Griffin has all the requisites for a splendid feb. ll-Butler University at Notre Dame hurdler and under the guidance of Coach Ni Feb. 17—Carnegie Tech. at Pittsbui'gh cholson should blossom forth this year as one Feb. 18-u. of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh of the best in collegiate ranks. Frank Doan m. 13~Marquette U. at Milwaukee and Vince Stace, another pair of veterans Feb. 25—Drake University at Notre Damo should give Griffin, plenty of competition. Feb. 29-Wabash College at Crawfordsville Bill Browzx, Charles Schlickert, and Bob M«r, 31-Marquette U. at Notre Damo Brennan, should be able to collect quite a few. ."ar-.T-Butler University at Indianapolis points for Notre Dame in the mile run this -3» 444 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC season. Brown in, particular, a monogram man from last year, should break into the charmed circle of stars. John Brown, and Vaichules, in the two mite run 'appear to be Coach Nicholson's best bets in that event Tom Bov in the pole vault is also more than likely to be heard from. Abbott, Dayton and several others have been performing in. the half milei and have shown up fairly well so far considering the length of the season. January Sales Kelly, Reidy, McKinney, McGawley, Abbotti and Quigley have been showing up exti-emely well in the quarter also. Coach Nicholson stresses the importance of having freshmen come out for track in their initial years at school here. The loss of one year of training may mean a lot to any youth who has any potential track abil ities in him. As an incentive to the frosh, Suits tilts have been scheduled with Culver and Lake Forest Academy in addition to a num ber of interhall relay races which are to be Overcoats run off shortly after the season opens. A Blue and Gold meet is to take place on the indoor track in the gym tomorrow and a Frosh-Varsity tangle has been planned for Shirts, Ties February 4.—^R.P.D. The Schedule: Hos e Northwestern at Notre Dame Jan. 21 Marquette at Notre Dame Feb. 11 Ames at the I.A.C., Chicago Feb. 10 Illinois at Champaigne Feb. 18 Wisconsin at Notre Dame Feb. 25 Nov^l Central Intercollegiate at N. D March 3 Illinois Relays at Champaigne Ma'^ch 17 Georgia Tech Relays at Atlanta April 7 Kansas Relays at Kansas April 21 Drake Relays at Des Moines April 28 Outdoor- Meets Illinois ,at Notre Dame ^^^ ^ Michigan State at Kalamazoo May 12 State Meet at Purdue May 19 I. C. A. A. at Boston May 26 THE HOME OF KUPPENHEIMER CLOTHES Central Intercollegiate Conference at Milwaukee "^""^ ^,,,Mm THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 445 NOTBE DAME GRADUATES RECEIVE Horsemen fame who will instruct the backs. COACHING RECOGNITION Chet Wynne, a graduate of '22 and one of The Southern Intercollegiate Conference the greatest fullbacks that has ever graced already possessed of a goodly number of the Cartier Field gridiron, has been coach Notre Dame alumni as football coaches wel ing football and track at Creighton Univer comes another Notre Dame gi-aduate as an sity, Iowa, and seems to be making an un addition to the coaching family, iind wit disputed success of it. Wynne, one of the nesses the elevation of still another Gold and most versatile athletics ever developed at the Blue player of a few years abck to the head home of the "Fighting Irish," was declared mentorship of one of-the outstanding teams by the well known football expert, Lawrence in the nation last season. Perry, to be the best running back of 1921, and in_ addition was prominently mentioned Charles Bachman, until recently head for all-American honors by several other ex coach at Kansas State has accepted a position perts. of like capacity with the University of Flo Creighton "U," through Wynne's five rida, and Harry Mehre, up to the present years of devoted efforts was brought from a time Head Coach Woodruff's right hand man relatively obscure position in football to a at the University of Georgia will assume the first class eleven, and this season has proved head coaching reins next fall as a result of itself victor over some of the country's fore Coach Woodruff's resignation to devote all most gridiron squads. Wynne, with his Tiis time to business affairs. Rockne system of coaching, has had little Bachman, a 1917 gi-aduate of Notre Dame, trouble in defeating such teams as the Uni has been coach at the Lawrence, Kansas in versity of Utah, Oklahoma, St. Louis, Mar stitution for the past eight years after a quette and the University of North and several year span as coach of Northwestern. South Dakota. Only one defeat spoils this His acquisition by Florida is considered a splendid record and that was a setback at the ten strike for the Gator school as the Notre hands of the Oklahoma Aggies, Dame alumnus, who ranks with the best At present negotiations are under way to linesmen ever turned out by his alma mater, obtain Wynne as a coach at the Kansas Ag has taken a very dominant part in the rapid gies institution but nothing definite has been- rise of the Kansas Aggies in the athletic settled as yet. world, especially in the affairs of the power The other disciple of the Rockne school ful Missouri Valley Conference. whose work as a gridiron mentor demands Mehre, while at Notre Dame was also a attention is Wilbur S. Eaton. Eaton went to sterling linesnian. He was a teammate of St. Charles College, Helena, Montana in the late George Gipp and was accorded all- 1926, after one year's coaching experience Western honors at center for several years. as Freshman mentor at Notre .Dame in Graduating in 1922 he immediately accepted 1925, and with what meager material he had .the job as assistant to Head Coach Woodruff to begin with this year, he evolved a team at the institution located at Athens, Georgia. which held Washington State to a 6 to 6 tie, His five years of labor at that place cul lost 8 to 0 to Montana University, defeated minated with the splendid eleven he helped Montana Mines 60 to 6, to win the Montana turn out last year, a team which occupied Collegiate Conference crown; beat Gonzaga f prominent niche in the nation's outstand University of Spokane 21 to 0, and amassed ing gridiron elite. Incidentally Coach Mehre 153 points against Montana State Normal Will have as his chief assistant no other a in one game. ' -, personage than another Notre Dame man Eaton was a former end on Notre Dame s Whose name is very prominently inscribed in 1924 National Championship eleven and is jhe list of the notable football players of also a strict advocate of Rockne's system of • . ^ country, Jimmy Crowley of 1924 Four coaching. —R.P.D. i ,• >^^^ 446 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC fr Finds Tobacco SAWYER SS SUCKERS for "Breaking SAWYER'S, ^In~' ' a Pipe Ocnulnt Oiltd ILICKER! ^ Columbus, Ohio are March 10,1927 I Qvaranttti Larus & Bro. Co. I Waterproof I Richmond, Va. > ftMMUBQgIMSSWKIRSO. MjuinemmmN s Gentlemen: . Two years ago my wife gave me an expensive pipe. I smoked it a great deal for two or three weeks, put it aside then began smoking it again. This =i' time it was very strong. Veterans told ,^,*^V/-%/\* •S.'N me that it had been smoked too hard for a new pipe and should be put away /?• The pipe was laid away again. 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