Notre Dame Alumnus, Vol. 09, No. 05
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The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus Jamtari/, 1931 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 161 -a COMMENT IN Tills IXJUE The Fire of 1879 Frontispiece Dues in the Alumni Association are A Happy Notre Dame New Yeai'_ 163 five dollars annually, payable on June This Notre Dame 165 1 .of each year. Erskine Trophy Award- 169 Editorial 171 Payment of dues includes a charge New Academic Requirements- 173 for the ALUMNUS. Art at Notre Dame 176 Athletics 182 This obligation has not been taken The Alumni Clubs 184 seriously enough by alumni in the The Alumni 188 past. The future of the Association rests on a change in attitude. The magazine is published monthly during the scholastic year by the Alumni Association of the University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame. Indiana. The If you received nothing more than subscription price is S2.00 a year: the price of single copies is 25 cents. The annual alumni dues of $5.00 include a year's subscription to THE ALUMNUS. the magazine, with its news of Notre Entered as second-class matter January 1. 1923. at the post office at Notre Dame and your classmates, your Dame. Indiana, under the Act of March :!. 1897. All correspondence should be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus. Box 81, Notre Dame, Indiana. money would be well spent. And in MEMBER OF THE AJIERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL all frankness that is about all you've ME.MBER OF THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC ALUJINI FEDERATION been receiving. The freedom of the University at Commencement has been e.xtended to all alike and can not be justly exploited as a benefit. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25, Editor Now, the Association is on the verge HAKLEY L. MCDEVITT, '29, Advertising Mgr. of making it eminently worth while to be a Notre Dame man before the public, just as it has always been THE . ALU MNI ASSOCIATION worth while individually. of the But the cost of progress finds re UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME flection in the Treasury. The maga Alumni Headquarters, Main Floor Administration Eldg., zine, published as economically as the Notre Dame, Indiana officers believe to be suitable for its JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, General Secretary purposes, still presents the greatest item in the annual budget. ALUMNI BOARD EEV. JOHN CAV.^NAUGH, C.S.C, '90 Honorary President The upkeep of the Alumni Office, FRANK E. HERING, '98 - - - President postage, mechanical equipment (our HON. WILLIAM J. GRANFIELD, '13 Vice-President JAJIES E. ARMSTRONG, '25 Secretary own addressing system has just been WALTER DUNCAN, '12 - - - Treasurer installed with most promising advan GEORGE M. MAVPOLE, '03 Director tages), telephone and telegraph ser\-- M. HARRY MILLER, '10 - Director Director ice, is no longer a negligible item T. P.WL MCGANNON, '07 PETER P. MCELLIGOTT, '02 Director with a direct ser\'ice to more than JOHN W. EGGE.MAN, 'GO (ea; officio) Director 5,000 alumni. •iminnnniiitmiiiiiitiiiiipl The Alumni Secretary and two young ladies, despite their love of thus endangered. It would be a ter those old tent re^'ivals, in the same education and their admiration for rific step backward when all Notre Christian spirit of overlooking the Dame is moving in the opposite di past in the greater glory the future the purposes of the Association, are rection. offers. not sufficiently endowed to pursue their efforts unremunerated. The other road seems much more While every effort is being made to inviting. The only obstacle is five bring success to the Living Endow Two roads are open. One is de dollars for each individual who is not ment, the Association is the basis paid up. of the Living Endowment Plan, and priving many alumni of their contacts until the Association is properly sup with the University. This is contrary If you haven't paid your dues since ported, little can be hoped for the to the aims of the Association. It is graduation, be that in '49 or '30, let success of its ramifications, no matter contrary to the desires of the officers the dead past confine itself to keep how worthy. ing you awake nights with its ghosts. of the Association. It is contrary to For the sake of unity and progress, Those whose dues are unpaid for the desires of Notre Dame. We be the Association policy at present is 1930-1931 still have time. lieve that it is contrary to the wishes to welcome those who hit the sawdust of the alumni themselves who are trail with a five-spot as heartily as It is never too late to spend. 162 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS January, 1931 (ED. NOTE: Following are excerpts from a poem written a few days after the disastrous fire of 1879 bv Thomas A. Daily, '74, then editor of th-> South Bend Herald, and read at a public meeting of the citizens of South Bend to express their sympathy to the University.) »•;;?;•••' • ^ A cloudless sky, a sultry day; Lo! crushed to thy foundation stone; A wealth of sunshme in the air. From oitt those rttins comes a voice Young spring icas blooming soft and fair, That bids thee rise, ^l^ grief rejoice,— A7id o'er the Earth held sovereign sivay . In woe thou weepest not alone. A cry, a brief electric flash,— We feel thy loss, we saw thy birth: A burst of awful fear leaped out; Thy classic halls once more shall rise; A moment of suspense and doubt— Thy dome again sliall pierce the skies. Ere thousands from the city dash . The grandest momiment of earth. 0 God, it was a thrilling sight. .irise! O peerless Notre Dame! Where rolled the fierce flames to the sky. Forth from the gloom of thy despond. And great, brave men stood helpless by; To meet the coming years beyond, Crushed 'neath the monster's ivithering blight . ..•i.nd dedicate anew thy aim. Sarin, thy life work lies a glow Thy fame is oiu's; our strength we give: Of crumbled clay and shapeless dross. Sarin, thy Patriarch, shall not Thy brethren of tlie Holy Cross Go to his grave and be forgot; Behold their labor worthless grow . His name through ages yet shall live. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Volume IX. JANUARY, 1931 No. 5 A Happy Notre Dame New Year This heading is more than the cus tinguished gathering of alumni, to cult to avoid. Nor are the Classes tomary greeting of the season. consider seriously the problems of the likely to tiy to avoid it. The Class The Alumni Association is embark organization. These meetings nearest of 1926 holds its o-year Reunion, and ing upon the last half of its fiscal approach the possibilities of the if the good Dr. Hayes, Secretary of year. But between January 1 and Night. Everywhere it should mean that organization, can find enough June 1, the success of the entire an obsexTance that does three things time between patients during the next Association year rests. primarily—first, remind the alumnus few months, the members of the Class The outstanding features of the of Notre Dame in a very serious way; are fairly clamoring for the event. 1931 program between now and June secondly, remind him of Notre Dame The younger Dix group is that of 1 are: in a very enjoyable way, and thirdly, 1912, 1913, 1914, and 1915, which is 1. A successful completion of the remind the world about him of Notx'e enough in itself to guarantee large first year of the Living Endowment. Dame in a very creditable way. The times in that direction. The 25-year The University and the officers of the University, its graduates, and the Class is that of 1906. This is the Association are aware of the financial world at large form a triangle. Their Class of the President, Rev. Charles difficulties which the past calendar interests are mutually affected. The L. O'Donnell. It is also illustrious year brought with alaiTning universal education that Notre Dame offers for the publication of the first Dome. ity. The amount on June 1, 1931, Why more now? The other Dix group will not be the criterion of the suc is 1893, 1894, 1895, and 1896. The cess of the Fund. But what the Uni 0.. personnel of this group is going to versity and the Association officers surprise the later Reunion classes. hope is that the list of contributors, A large part of the success of the which will be published at the end of UNIVERSAL Reunions lies with the Class Secre the Association year, will represent NOTRE taries. The Alumni Office and the more than the ten per cent of the ALUMNUS will do everything possi members now listed. For that pur DAME ble to co-operate, but the Class Secre pose the Association has repeatedly NIGHT tary and the members of the Class urged members to contribute any must have considerable initiative to amount, from one dollar up, distrib make of the Reunion the real pleasure uted over any convenient period. The APRIL that it can so easily be. Fund is the crystallization of Notre 20 Dame men's faith in Notre Dame edu 5. The Second Annual Council of cation. Local Alumni Clubs. Reports of the First Annual Council, held last Com 2. The formulation of a rather ..Q mencement, have been sent to all of detailed program to be suggested to the Cliib officers. Even in this first the various Local Alumni Clubs. A affects the alumni as individuals, and meeting there was evident a great committee of Club presidents, appoint deal of the good that can come from ed at the First Annual Council of it affects the world by contributing to that world a percentage of its edu such a meeting of representatives of Local Alumni Clubs last June, is the growingly important local alumni working on this program at the cated leadei-s.