VOLUME II ST. PAUL, MINN., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1935 NUMBER 1 New Members of Staff Enrollment Greatest in History; Briefs.. By R. H. Students from Seventeen States Thunder in the East: All eyes to the east where Late Registrations Bring famous diplomats in solemn as- College Opens sembly puzzle over ways and Number High; Fresh- means to stop an obstreperous fel- Year With Mass man Class Largest low-member from his avowed in- tention of gobbling the largest of If college enrollment is any indi- the two remaining independent Father Cullinan is Celebrant cation of the economic conditions states in the great dark continent At Traditional Begin- of the country, this year's number of Africa. of students here shows a decided "Stay on your own side of the ning Ceremonies upward trend. New registrations Mediterranean and be content with are still straggling in, to swell the With the opening Mass at nine number even beyond the present your present African sample Mon- 529. Registration officially closed sieur II Duce," say they, "or our o'clock, Monday, October 7, St. Catherine's will officially begin the Tuesday, October 1, with the great- governments, the great protectors est number of students attending of the persecuted peoples of the year. Mass will be celebrated by the Reverend John J. Cullinan of the College in the twenty-five world, will instigate snch punitive years of its existence. The fresh- action as seems sufficiently drastic Nazareth Hall in the Chapel of OUT Lady of Victory. man class is the first in number, to keep you on your long, slim pen- with 195 members. Sophomores insula. Ethiopia must be kept in- In conformity with the tradition Dr. Alphonsus L. O'Toole follow, with 130, then seniors, 103, tact foT Haile Selassie and his Dr. Martin B. Ruud of former years, there will be an and juniors, 88. Thirteen graduates barefooted countrymen." academic procession, from Whitby have returned, or come to the col- "But why can't I have Ethiopia," New Teachers Join Faculty; Hall to the Chapel. The college lege for the first time, for graduate answers II Duce. striking a pose association officers and seniors work. Including the Saturday ex- reminiscent of Caesar, "you fel- will lead, with the other classes fol- tension classes for teachers, the en- lowing in their respective orders. lows all got your slices of the con- Former Members Change Posts rollment has already exceeded the Everyone is requested to be in cap six-hundred mark. tinent. Why not give me a bite?" and gown for the occasion. "Monsieur Mussolini," respond Dr. OToole, Dr. Ruud Science, Religion, and Such a number would, of necessi- the diplomats, "never attempt to Now in Mathematics, Health Departments ty, represent a number of states, do what we did, do what we preach. Art Teacher Exhibits as well. Students have come from Now be a good little dictator until English Departments Note Changes the extreme western state of Wash- December 4, and we might give you Charcoal Drawings ington, from the east as far as a nice A f TIC an desert." Two new instructors have join- Annals of Mathematical Statistics New York, Vermont, and Massa- To which noble advice and cheer- ed the faculty of St. Catherine's of which he was associate editor chusetts, and from West Virginia ful promise answers II Duce an this year, and three former mem- in 1931 and 1934. He is also Chicago Academy of Fine in the south. Other states which Italian equivalent of "phooey to bers are continuing their work chairman of the committee on the Arts Compliments Sister claim students here are Idaho, Mon- you." elsewhere. constitution and by-laws of the tana, North Dakota, South Dakota, * * # Institute of Mathematical Statis- Philomene on Work Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Oklaho- Mr. Alphonsus L. OToole, Ph.D., tics, and the author of many pa- Smoke Screen: and a national research fellow in ma, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and of In the guise of noble patriots per? . on the theory and practice Fourteen portraits in charcoal course, Minnesota. mathematics, is the new member of statistics. drawn by Sister Philomene of the savins: their country from the St. Catherine's has, besides its of the mathematics department of Dr. O'Toole is a member of Phi art department are now exhibited "Red" menace, two foreign party the college. native Americans, one foreign stu- leaders marched their way into ab- Beta Kappa and of Sigma Xi. na- in room 210 of Mendel hall. The drawings represent a part of Sis- dent, Odette Guth, who comes from solute dictatorships: Mussolini He comes to St. Catherine's with tional honorary scientific research France. with his Fascisti; Hitler with his a notable scholastic background society. This year at St. Cather- ter's work done this summer dur- Nazis. Quietly a third ambitious of eleven years of teaching experi- ine's he is teaching courses in ing her study at the Chicago Aca- Three nurses, having their R.N. soldier paves the road to the dic- ence in some of the outstanding Calculus, Statistics, Algeba, and demy of Fine Arts. diplomas, have come here to study tator's crown, flying the banner institutions in the east. At the Analytic Geometry. The drawings, made from life for their degrees. Catherine Sitrgins of "Down with the Reds." That present time he is acting editor of (Continued on Page 4, Col. 4.) models, portray characters of dif- and Phyllis Bartholomew will get soldier is Colonel Francois de la ferent races, ages, and personali- their B. A., and Elizabeth Smiley Rocque of France, leading his (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3.) is working toward her library de- Croix de Feu Nationalists. All the Library Instructors Participate gree. Dictator's Club needs is a fourth The heaviest registration is in for a nice friendly game ... of Graduates Enter Novitiate the business, science, education, and In State Association Meet literature courses. "Nations." Five alumnae, graduates of the * • • Notable Figures in Library last three years, entered St. Jo- In the Sportlight: Sister Cecil Compiles seph's Novitiate, September 8. What with the Cubs and the Parochial School List Circles to Speak Catherine Kelehan and Jean Ir- Little Sisters Meet Tigers running neck and neck with At Meetings vine entered from the Class of '35. Mussolini and Haile Selassie for Selected Annotated Lists of The Class of '34 gave one graduate Faculty at Party page one headline space, football Books and Magazines for Paro- Sister Marie Cecilia and Sister to the Novitiate—Elizabeth Gal- seems temporarily strampled under chial School Libraries compiled by Cecil, instructors in the library lagher, who was instructor in the Mother Antonia and Sister foot, so much so that Purdue and English department at the College Sister Cecil, professor of children's school, will take active parts at the Northwestern needs must play the annual meeting of the Minnesota last year. Mary Sexton, a gradu- Ste Helene Officially first night football game in the literature in the Library school, Library Association to be held at ate of two years, who has been Greet Newcomers Western conference tomorrow will be published in November. the Hotel Lowry, October 10-12. teaching since that time, and Gene- night. Anyone so inclined and so This compilation of Books and Choosing as her subject, the latest vieve Crowe, from the same class, The traditional Big-Little Sister financially opulent may see both developments in the library school who has been doing secretarial party introducing new students to the World Series game and the of- Magazines for Parochial School lists in a classified arrangement (Continued on Page 3, Col. 1.) work in Chicago, also entered. the members of the faculty was ficial Big Ten debut of Coach Lynn held last evening, Thursday, in the Wsldorf, new Wildcat mentor. approximately 1,500 books in every subject of interest to the growing Health Center. Introduced by their Incidently, the mighty Irishman, boy and girl. Rev. Henry Regnet, College Invents New Housing Program big sisters, the new students at the James J. Braddock, must be pulling S.J., librarian of St. Louis univer- Colleee of St. Catherine were pre- petals off a daisy, murmuring "Do sity, said that, "The book gives sented to Mother Antonia, the I fight, don't I fight, do I fight Mendel, Derham, Cecelian, Whit- room to lounge progressed rapidly many valuable hints and helps to by! Even the old girls are con- during the summer, work is at a president of the College, Sister Ste Joe Louis?" teachers and parents for the gui- fused by the changes wrought dur- standstill now, but if you have Helene, dean of the College, and to * * * dance of youth in the all impor- ing the summer. Beds are found seen a woodnre in the handsome the various instructors. This and That: tant years when reading tastes rubbing elbows with blackboards fireplace, the flames lighting and The Big-Little Sister party is Latest addition to sonorous titles are formed." in 205 Whitby. Mary Kay King warming the room, you can picture given each year and climaxes the on the Washington payrolls: "Co- Sister Cecil worked on the list and Catherine Murphy, the occu- the future coziness and intimacy big-little sister activities on the ordinator of industrial co-opera- pants of the room should find it of this college girls' room. campus. More than five hundred tion," Major George L. Berry, The as an outside activity during her preparation for the preliminary conducive to study. The former Two practice rooms off Cecelian upper classmen and their little sis- next step will probably be a steal alcoves on third and fourth Whit- Concert Hall have been taken over ters attended the party this year— of The Mikado's Pooh Bah, Lord examinations for her doctorate at the University of Chicago. by are transformed into closet-less by boarders. They shouldn't need one of the largest groups of under- High Everything Else. boudoirs with enviable views of the radios anyway. Mendel Tower— graduate students to be assembled + * * Dewdrop. The Whitby twin par- that mysterious high-spot of the at one time in the history of the Good Theater: Black Monday lors on first floor are now one— campus has accepted a few lucky school. Down Broadway they're saying and not united, for one has be- students with members of the fac- Assisting the faculty members "Have you seen Remember the You must have one! come yet another bedroom. ulty this year. with the receiving were the officers Day?" Hilo Rigley and Phillip Tradition requires that every Sister Ste Helene has moved her If you aren't a senior, do peek of the College Association: Amy Dunning wrote the scrip. Writes St. Catherine's student don cap sleeping quarters to Whitby and into the senior dining-room. There Casey, Elsie Sachs, Margaret Boyd, one critic, "The play is distinguish- and gown for the Opening Sister St. Charles really has re- are rows of sea green covered and Isabel Grimm, and the presi- ed by the outstanding perform- Mass,, Monday morning at 9 entered novitiate life on fourth Duncan Phyfe chairs which con- dents of the three upper classes: ances of Francesca Bruing and o'clock. floor Derham. trast strikingly with the rows of Rosemary Holden, senior president, Frankie Thomas." Although the change from trunk red hobnail glasses on the tables. (Continued on Page 3, Col. 4.)