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Rt. Rev. John F. Noll, DD., LL.D. Frontisjyiece The Week James Armstrong 837 The New Bishop of Fort Wayne 838 Editorial ., 845 Funeral Sermon for Rev. Father Maher, C.S.C., Rev. Thos. Lahey, C.S.C., Ph. D. 847 Our Help (A Poem) .' M. H. 848 The Passing of Amy Lowell Walter Layne, '28 849 Grass ...John King Miissio 850 The Thinker (A Poem) Anselm Miller/25 851 The Beloved Tree Lester C. Gi-adnj, '21 852 A Question (A Poem) A. Stenius, '28 853 All In the Wash Leo J. McCauley, '27' 854 In Re: Onions John F. 0'Donnell,l'26 855 The Choice Eckuin Berkemj, '21 856 Book Leaves Josejoh P. Burke, 25 858 Gold In His Baclvj^ard = William Daily, '21 859 Pictures M. C. • 860 Sports Tom Coman 861

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The ball is over. Sic transit gloria, mundi, dent was unable to inform us of the prog­ as you heard recently. But most of those ress of this knightly tournament. The who enjoyed the ball and its attendant af­ prizes, however, guarantee an intensity of playing that should reveal discoveries great­ fairs are willing to adopt the more youth­ er than that of Columbus himself. At least ful and understandable slogan, "One crowd­ a lot of new land will be uncovered. The ed hour of glorious life is woi-th an age interhall baseball series is also in mid-sea­ without a name." And for brilliance, pleas­ son foi-m and playing to enthusiastic galle­ ure and propriety the ball of 192.5 achieved ries. The usual quota of new material has an enviable name. been discovered—"baseball diamonds in the rough." Among the features of Ball Week was the issue of the Girls' Number of the Juggler. Thursday, beside being a Holy Day, was Copies were distributed without charge at the day set aside for collecting bundles of the dance on Friday afternoon, saving quar­ clothes for the Near-East relief. Collectors report that the halls on the West side of the ters where quarters were most needed, and Campus, believing that the collection was were circulated without difficulty on the for Freshman and Sophomore Halls, con­ campus Friday night. Sparkling and talent­ tributed veiy generously. To which the in­ ed co-operation from fair contributors in jured parties on the East replied that in a the outside world made this issue one of the collection of old clothes the halls on the best and most girlish of the girls' numbers West ought to be able to contribute gener­ that the Funny Fellow has put out. One ously, except that the donors' need for them beats that of the Near-East. might Kipple a little and say that it proved that "the female of the species is funnier Elections were held a week ago in the than the male." The drawings by McElroy g-jTii vnt]i all the pomp, politics and cere­ were especially good. mony of the "big time." The election com­ mittee seems to have attended the ball Natiu'e was kind, we take great pleasure rather en masse, so that the ballots weren't in assuming, to the Michigan State College counted until Saturday. In the Senior elec­ track team, aiid by a generous prograni of tions it was "Bon jour," as they say in the irrigation made the track meet scheduled French, and the whole ticket of all the for Saturday afternoon impossible. This classes looks like first class transportation seems to deprive campus enthusiasts of from September, 1925, to June, 1926. their only opportunity to see the 1925 tracksters in action—at least on home terri­ The Engineers planned their annual pic­ tory. It wouldn't be surprising, however, nic for Thursday and they have a habit of to find a delegation of followers at the State carrying out their plans. Another gTOup of Meet at Purdue. the same college are in Chicago on a tour Local sports progress rapidly. The first of various plants. Neither event lacks round of the K. C. golf tournament ended thrills. Friday night. Our "links-eyed" correspon­ Do your summer job-hunting early. 838 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

Rt Rev, John F, Noll DD., LLD., The New Bishop of Fort Wayne

Because of lack of information, the SCHO­ priest at Elkhart and Logansport, Ind., he LASTIC was unable in the last issue to pro­ was made pastor of Ligonier, with Kendall- vide its readers with a full account of the ville and two or three places as missions. naming of the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John F. Noll He also held pastorates at New Haven and as bishop of Fort Wayne. It is possible now Hartford City, Ind., before he was given to write more fiilly concerning the life and charge of St. Mary's parish, Huntington, in work of Monsignor Noll, whose appoint­ July 1910. ment to the Fort Wayne bishopric was re­ When Bishop Alerding assigned Father ceived at Notre Dame with so much Noll to Huntington, it was to give him a pleasure. parish which had no debt, whose church was Bishop Noll is well-known here at the a beautiful memorial edifice built by Bridget University, having received an honorary de­ Roche. His Bishop wanted him to havp am­ gree of LL.D. from Notre Dame in 1915. ple time to take care of his work which the The records of that time contain this pas­ publication of the Parish Monthly entailed. sage concerning the recipient of the degree: Because between sixty and seventy pas­ "On a priest whose devotedness has found tors desired to have even their local "copy" expression in a new form of Catholic jour­ printed at Huntington, that they might re­ nalism, and whose labors for the spread of ceive the finished magazine ready for dis­ truth have borne fruit in every section of tribution, it became necessary for Father America, the degree of LL.D. is conferred." Noll to get possession of a printing plant. Bishop Noll is a voluminous wi'iter. He When in 1912, a great anti-Catholic drive is known chiefly throughout the United began, Father Noll conceived the idea of a States, however, as the editor of Our Sun­ one-cent paper for distribution at the day Visitor, which is distributed at Catholic church door, to place in the hands of Cath­ church doors in every state in the Union. olics the answer to the charges of their ene­ Occupying a rural pastorate, he found his mies, and to instruct them well in their genius in the establishing and building up faith. This was the genesis of Our Sunday of this little weekly paper which today is Visitor, launched May 5, 1912. It seemed read by more than 3,000,000 persons every to be the need of the hour, and became Sunda3^ The vast success of this work popular at once. Its circulation grew so has overshadowed other highly successful rapidly that within a few years it had the writing he has done. largest number of readers of any Catholic He is fifty years old, the date of his birth paper in the world. Today some 60,000 being Jan. 25, 1875. While on the paternal copies reach homes directly by mail, and side his ancestors were Americans for years nearly 500,000 are distributed before the before him, his mother was born near Cork, exits of churches on Sunday. Ireland. Bishop Noll is particularly well qualified He received his early education in the for the new work he is undertaking. His Brothers' School at Fort Wayne. At 13 he staunch support of the church and her in­ went to St. Lawrence College, Mt. Calvery, stitutions, his keen grasp of present day Wis., for his classics, and thence to Mt. St. movements in relation to the Church, his Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, for his militant leadership, and above all his priest­ course in i^hilosophy and theology. He was ly spirituality founded upon a spirit of hu­ ordained June 4, 1898. mility, assure a successful reign as bishop After s^'ving nine months as assistant of the great diocese of Fort Wayne. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 839

A TRIBUTE TO FATHER MAKER BARRY MEDAL WINNER TO BE The following letter from Mr. Mark M. CHOSEN MONDAY Foote, '73, is a beautiful tribute to the Marking the close of the first year of a memory of Father Maher. Mr. Foote is the public-speaking renaissance at Notre Dame oldest living alumnus of the University: the finalists in the Barry medal elocution contest and the candidates in the Freshman, May 18, 1925. Sophomore and Junior oratorical contests Dear Father Walsh :- are looking forward to next week when the The sorrow that I feel upon reading in four winners will be picked. this morning's paper of dear Father Ma- her's death, is increased by my inability to This past week on the afternoons of Wed­ be present at his final obsequies. Had I nesday and Friday the preliminaries were known it in time, I certainly would not held in the Barry medal contest. The final­ have allowed anything to keep me away. ists were chosen and they will take part in To mourn the loss of a life so long spent the finals to be held Monday afternoon at and filled as his with purity, holy inno­ 4 o'clock in Washington hall. A gold medal, cence and beautiful charity, would seem al­ the gift of the Hon. P. T. Barry of Chica­ most a selfish inclination to shoi-ten the go, is awarded each year to the student ex­ everlasting happiness that is due it. How­ celling in elocution. ever, the picture of well nigh sixty years ago that memory brings to the mind of one The men who took part in the prelimi­ who in daily association then knew and felt naries were: Brother Pius, C.S.C., Sidney his friendship, his kindly care and his beau­ Eder, Bob Hamilton, George Couiy, Rich­ tiful example of life, cannot help but bring ard J. Wehs, Francis E. Steel, Raymond J» with it a tinge of sadness in the thought Kell}^ John W. McGowan, R. M. Norris, C» that this friendship which has endured ever S. C, J. P. McNamara, L. M. Swiggart, since is now of the past. Sam Privitera, Victor F. Lemmer, Pierce What a wonderful example he has left of J. O'Connor, Oscar D. Rust, John W. Cava- the inestimable value to a cause such as he naugh, Ray Cunningham and Marc Fiehrer. was a part of, and of the good that can be The Freshman oratorical contests will be dispensed by a life that would seem conse­ held Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in crated not only to its noble purpose, but to Washington hall. Wednesday afternoon at beautiful unpretentious modesty in its ef­ the same time and in the same place the fort. I certainly feel in his death that one Sophomore contest will be held. Thursday more link in the beautiful chain of memory that binds my heart to the joys of my boy­ afternoon the Juniors wiU meet at 4 o'clock hood days at Notre Dame has been broken, in Washing-ton hall to contest. The win­ and I wish to ofl!er to all of my dear friends ner in each class is to be awarded a $10 of Holy Cross my sympathy in the loss of gold piece. one who must have been in life and will The candidates for the contests are: ever be in memoiy, cherished in deepest Freshman, Joseph P. McNamara, Robert P, love. I have been so hopefully expecting Fogarty, Pierce J. O'Connor, J. Charles the pleasure of greeting him again next Short and James McGonagle; Sophomore, month when I go to Notre Dame, and I now Franklin ,L. Conway, Edward M. Rowe feel its impossibility a severe disappoint­ Paul N. Rowe, E. M. Swiggert, Sam Privi­ ment. tera, George J. Schill, Jack L. Flynn and William Coyne; Junior, Seymour Weisber- With kindest regards to all. ger, Sidney Eder, John T. Griffin and Vic­ Your sincere friend, tor F. Lemmer. Mr. Mark Nolan is super­ Mark M. Foote/73 vising the contests. . 840 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

ENGINEER FROM TWIN BRANCH SPEAKS TO A. I. E. E. MaSIC According to the opinion of the most of The Minims of St. Edward's Hall broad­ those present, the meeting of the A. I. E. E. casted a program from WGAZ, the South Monday evening. May 27, was one of the Bend Tribune station, on Wednesday night, best held this year. May 20. The program was as follows: The principal speaker of the evening 1. "Waltz" Franz Behr was Mr. Phillips of Sargent and Lundy, a John O'Connoi- and Maurice Carr. Chicago firm which is building the TA\'in 2. "The Hay Ride" Edmund Severn Branch super-power plant east of Misha­ The Violin Orchestra. waka. In his talk, in which he gave many S. "Schei-zo Brillante" .4. H. Spunholtz incidents from his personal experience, he Sigmund and Leo Lipowski. 4. "Notre Dame Victory March' M. J. Shea gave five qualifications for a successful en­ Violin Trio: gineer as follows: consecration to life work, Jerome Hellmuth, Jack Crampton, Jack Duffy. experience, work, loyalty and thrift. To The boj's giving the program ranged in many persons these five points would seem age from ten to fourteen and are pupils in to be trite, but Mr. Phillips' interpretation the grades from the fifth to the eighth. The of them was interesting and worthy of con­ program was given for the parents of the sideration; thus an engineers' thrift per­ boj'S who are located in different parts of tains not so much to financial matters as to the world. the profitable use of time, off the job as well The Violin orchestra is composed of Hell­ as on the job. muth, Duffy, Curielli, Tooley, Guljas, The second speaker was Edward J. Pfis- Crampton, Fransen, Tooley and Smith. The ter who gave a summary of the thesis work accompanist is Sigmund Lipowski. done by Lester J. Wolf and himself. This Sister Malachy, Sister Ursulita and Mrs. work included the making of the necessary K. K. Rockne were guests at the broad­ alterations to change an old type bi-polar casting of the program. series direct current dynamo into a three- phase rotaiy converter. Mr. Pfister told of NDS the various tests that they made, both be­ The University Orchestra played at the fore and after making the change, the me­ graduation exercises of the Nurses Home chanical changes that were made, and the in Mishawaka, Thursday evening. May 21. operating characteristics of the altered The Varsity Quartet also redered several machine. numbers on the occasion.

DOMES TO BE DISTRIBUTED THE DOME ELECTIONS Copies of the 1925 Dome are to be dis­ As a result of the elections held Wednes­ tributed Wednesday, May 27, according to the day in the Library, the following men were announcement of Dennis O'Neill, Editor-in- chosen by the Sophomores to compile the Chief. There is to be a central distribution I>oint in each of the halls except Brownson Dome for 1926: Editor-in-Chief, Walter and Carroll; subscribers in these two halls Smith, Green Bay, Wisconsin; Business are to call at the Dome office in the rear of Manager, Mark Nevils, Louisville, Ken­ Corby Hall for their copies. Day students tucky; Art Editor, Porter Wittich, Joplin, will be handled at the Day-Student office. Missouri. All three men are Sophomores Students who have subscribed for the in the School of Journalism It will be Dome, but who, by next Wednesday, mil not have paid for the subscription, will necessary for them to start upon their tasks have to paj'^ cash at the Dome office before at once in order, to properly record the last receiving a copy. events of the present scholastic year. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 841

THE COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM The following program has been an­ Library nounced for the 1925 commencement and alumni reunion: The following books have been placed in FRIDAY, JUNE 12TH— the stacks recently: General Eegistration of Alumni. Assignment of Eooms. Baker, Mrs. J. (T)—Correct English in the School. Alumni Office: 232 Main Building. Barret, E. J. B.—^New Psychology, How it Aids 10:00 P. M.—Commencement Dance. Harry- and Interests. Denny's Collegians. Hotel Oliver. Beam, J. B.—Chemistry of Paints, Pigments and Varnishes. SATURDAY, JUNE 13TH— Best News Stories of 1924. General Registration of Alumni. AssigTiment of Browning, Robert—An Introduction to the Study of Rooms. Robert Browning's Poetry, by Hiram Coi-son. Alumni Office: 232 Main Building. Burnham, W. H.—Nomial Mind and Introduction 8:00 A. M.—Solemn Requiem Mass for Deceased to Mental Hygiene and the Hygiene of School Alumni. Rev. M. J. Shea, '04, Celebrant. Sacred Instruction. Heart Church. Conrad, Joseph—The Rover. 9:30 A. M.—Senior Last Visit. Sacred Heart Conrad, Joseph—Secret Agent. Church. Grey, Zane—Desert of Wheat. 10:00 A. M.—Class Day Exercises. Washington HoflFmans, Jean—Philosophie Ee Les Philosophes; Hall. Ou%rrages Gcneraux. 12:00 M.—Alumni Luncheon. Senior and Junior Hoist, B. P.—International Reference Work. Refectories. Howe, H. E.—Chemistry in Industry. 1:30 P. M.—^Invitation Track and Field Meet. Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 1924 Edition. I. A. C. vs. Notre Dame. Lang, Andrew—Maid of France. 3:00 P. M.—Baseball. Iowa vs. Notre Dame. Lee, Tolmon—Funds and Friends. Cartier Field. McGill, A. B.—Sisters of Charity of Nazareth„ 6:00 P. M.—Annual Alumni Dinner. Junior Re­ Kentucky. fectory. Noyes, Alfred—Some Aspects of Modern Poetry.. 8:00 P. M.—^Notre Dame Combined Musical Parsons, C. C.—Office Organization and Manage­ Clubs Concert. Washing-ton Hall. ment. SUNDAY, JUNE 14TH— Randell, Wilfred L.—Michael Farady. 8:30 A. M.—^Academic Procession Main Build- Remington, J. P.—^Practice of Phai-macy. ing. Sortais, Gaston—Manuel De Philosophie. 9:00 A. M. Solemn Pontificial Mass. Sacred Spalding, H. S.—Introduction to Social Sei-vice. Heart Church. Sterling, Ada—Jew and Civilization. Rt. Rev. Samuel Stritch, D.D., Celebrant. Weekley, Ernest—An Etymological Dictionary of Rt. Rev. Philip R. McDevitt, D.D., Baccalaureate Modem English. Sei-mon. AVhitehead, A. N Principia Mathematica. Music by The Moreau Seminary Choir and Uni­ versity Glee Club. LAETARE MEDAL PRESENTATION 11:00 A. M.—Senior Flag Raising Exercises. The Laetare Medal will be presented to Dr. Main Quadrangle. Zahm at Washington, D. C, and not at 2:00 P. M.—Annual Meeting of Alumni Associa­ tion. Washington Hall. Notre Dame, as was previously announced. Election of Officers and Trustees. Election of Alumni to Board of Lay Trustees. DANTE CLUB BANQUET Adoption of new Constitution. The Dante Club gave a banquet at the 5:00 P. M.—^Awarding of Degrees. Commencement Address by Hon. E. H. Moore, LaSalle Hotel on the evening of May 21 at Cleveland. Main Quadrangle. which Philip Lopresti, secretary-elect, pre­ sided as toastmaster. Italian music was CHANGE IN M. A. C. furnished by Conrad Ochoa, Joseph Prelli The Michigan Agricultural College which and Philip Lopresti. President Celebrezze, opened its doors to students on May 13, a member of this year's graduating dass, 1857, has announced that by act of the and Adolph V. Capano, president-elect, Michigan State Legislature it has become spoke interestingly. The program was the Michigan State College of Agriculture closed with an address by Father Finnegan^ and Applied Science on May 13, 1925. C.S.C, Superior of Holy Cross Seminary: 842 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE well for the continued success of the organ­ In preparation for the month of June, ization. Brother Martin, C.S.C, local arch-promoter The program, conducted entirely in of the League of the Sacred Heart, has French, included piano selections from Chopin by Miss Maude Weber of South Bend, vocal selections by Professor Jose Co­ r rona accompanied by Miss Florence Thomp­ 1 son at the piano, a declamation by John A. Waters, '27, and an interesting causerie by Madame Starz, professor of French at St. Mary's. French songs by the assembly and several impromptu talks were followed by La Marseillaise and the Star-Spangled Ban­ ner which completed the program.

ENGINEERS' PICNIC IS ENJOYABLE Tired muscles and aching joints tell the storj'- of the Engineers' picinc at Lake issued a beautiful four-color picture of the Christiana on Thursday, May 21. In every Sacred Heart reproduced from a strikingly waj'' the outing was a notable success. original painting by a Sister of St. Joseph. Included on the program was the cus­ Undying zeal is the theme of the picture, tomary list of events: boating, bathing, which represents a heart enveloped in a horse-shoe pitching, baseball and most im­ flame which bursts from a gaping wound in portant of all, a sumptuous dinner. A team the side. A cross surmounts the heart, a composed of McDonald and Kerwin won the cro^m of thorns encircles it, and a single honors in horse-shoe pitching after compet­ drop of blood issues from the wound; and ing against a briUiant field. In baseball these emblems of the Sacred Passion tell the Franlc Mayer, an unheralded pitcher, dis­ storj'^ of price zeal paid for man's redemp­ played dazzling skill in striking out nine of tion. the fifteen men who faced him. Unfortun­ The picture will be placed on sale in the ately the same Mr. Mayer was himself halls during the next week. The proceeds struck once by the opposing pitcher but be­ of the sale will be used to meet the finan- ing a person of considerable physical.devel­ •cial needs of the Apostleship of Prayer in opment he suffered no serious injury. providing the monthly leaflets, morning- The dinner was the last event of the day. offering cards, etc. And in the words of one of those present "much good food was destroyed." After all had partaken sufficiently the committee on THE FRENCH CIRCLE HOLDS FINAL smoking evidenced its originality by pass­ MEETING ing around corn-cob pipes instead of Har­ Le Cercle Francois held its final meeting vesters, and immediately a great cloud hov­ of the present school year last Thursday ered over the countryside. Then President evening in the parlors of the main building. O'Neill began the speaking program, which From ^the point of view of attendance and under the influence of the corn-cobs, was enthusiasm displayed the meeting was the especially entertaining. Roland Menou in most successful since the founding of the particular exhibited many of the qualities club last winter by Professor Antonio Pro­ of the foremost orators. vost, head of the Department. of Modem At the close of the dinner the giant blue Languages at the University. Sixty-seven and gold T-square, which is the symbol of members and friends from northern India­ authority within the Engineers' Club, was na and southern Michigan were present, presented by President O'Neill to next -and the enthusiasm displayed by all augurs year's officers. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 843

M'GUIRE WINS PLAY CONTEST Bobbs, president of the Indiana Literary Announcement that Harry McGuire's one- league, were in charge of the exercises. act play, "The Old Man," had won first prize in the Indiana college play-Avi'iting contest, sponsored by the Indiana Literary EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR League, was made at Culver Military Acad­ The final session of the Educational Semi­ emy last Saturday as one of the features of nar, under the direction of Rev. William F. the first annual literaiy day held jointly by Cunningham, Director of the School of Edu­ the Indiana Literary League and the Indi­ cation, was held in the Libraiy on Monday ana Literary League and the Indiana So­ evening. May 18. The subject under ciety of Chicago. discussion was "The Direction of Our It ^^^ll be remembered that "The Old Educational Progress," the material Man" was presented in Washington Hall on for which was di'awn from the Pres­ Wednesday night, April 29, by a student ident's Report, 1924, Camegie Foun­ cast. It was presented again at Culver on dation for the Advancement of Teach­ Saturday by members of the Culver dra­ ing. Many enlightening points were brought matic classes. Just after this last produc­ out by the study of the report, and follow­ tion, the author Mr. McGuire, was intro­ ing a detailed analysis of it by several mem­ duced to the audience by George Ade, the bers of the Seminar, an open forum was famous ^^Titer. held and general discussion invited. The Indiana Literary League's contest During the past two months speakers was divided into two general classes; col­ have addressed the Seminar on a series of lege and high school. In the high school related subjects. Last week Professor Mac- division prizes were awarded for the best Gregor, Head of the Depaitment of Soci­ poem on "the War Dead," the best essay ology, spoke on "School Systems of Ger­ on citizenship and the best cartoon. In the many and New Zealand," and Mr. Sharma, college class prizes' were awarded for the Instructor in the Depai-tment of Engineer­ best poem and the best one-act play. Miss ing and Graduate Student in the School of Elizabeth Reed of St. Mary's Academy won Education, read an interesting paper on third prize in the cartoon contest for high "Comparative Study of the School Systems schools. Philip Rice of Indiana University of England and India with that of the this year's Rhodes scholar from Indiana, United States. On May 4, Mr. G. F. Weber, won second prize in the one-act play con­ Principal Boys' Vocational School of South test and third prize in the college poetry Bend, told of the work which he and his contest. associates are doing in that institution, and Among the notables who were at Culver the preceding week Miss Helen Dembach, for the day were Meredith Nicholson, of the Vocational Guidance Bureau of the George Ade, William Herschel, poet of The South Bend Public Schools spoke of her Indianapolis Neius; "Kin" Hubbard, the work, the history of this administrative di­ creator of "Abe Mai-tin;" "Chit" Jackson, vision of the city's school system, and its cartoonist of The Indianapolis Star; Har­ accomplishments particularly on the Junior riet Monroe, editor of "Poetry;" Anna Ni­ High School level. cholas, literary editor of the Indianapolis Expressions of regret at the closing of Star; Mrs. Pauline Palmer, a Chicago art­ the Seminar were manifold, as the year's ist; Dr. E. A. Steiner, writer on immigTa- work has been most engrossing. tion problems; Lorado Taft, famous sculp­ tor; Rose V. S. Berry, Maiy 0. Buraett, H. H. Howland, Wallace Rice, George Wey­ SCHOLASTIC NOTICE mouth, Mrs. Guy McCabe, Mrs. Louise Ay- Because Saturday, May 30, is a legal holi^ ers Garnett and President W. M.Evans, of day, the SCHOLASTIC will not. appear on the Valparaiso university. campus until the following Wednesday. Col. George T. Buckingham, head of the That issue (June 3) will be the last untit Indiana Society of Chicago, and W. C. the Commencement issue of June 13.

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PLANS FOR K. OF C. DANCE Bourne; Day-Students, Urban Simons. COMPLETED Class of 1927: President, William Daily; Complete plans for the dance arranged by Vice-President, Louis Conroy; Secretary, the Knights of Columbus were announced Joseph Boland; Treasurer, Gerard Le during the week by Grand Knight McGuire. Strange. S. A. C. representatives: one May 29 has been definitely decided upon as year, Vincent McNally; two year, Daniel the date for the formal which will be held Cunningham, James Quinn. at the K. of C. ballroom wath Harr^'' Den- Class of 1928: President, Fred Colhns; wy's, Collegians furnishing the music. The Vice-President, James O'Toole; Secretary, •dance will be limited to members of the Pierce O'Connor; Treasurer, Thomas Mur- Order, and tickets will go on sale Monday. ph5^ S. A. C. representative: John Cava- Paul Rahe has been appointed general naugh. •chairman and under his direction several sub-committees are completing final ar­ Francis Bon is from Cheyenne, Wyoming, rangements for decoration and ticket sales. and is a student in the College of Aits and The final meeting of the year will be held Letters. William Daily is from Wilkins- on Tuesday evening with Professor "Pat" burg, Pennsylvania, and is also a student in Manion addressing the members. At the the College of Arts and Letters. Fred Col­ business meeting, which will precede the lins comes from Portland, Oregon, and is speaking, arrangements for a general get- taking Pre-Law. to-gether dinner early in June vnW be com­ pleted. The dinner will act as a substitute JUGGLER NOMINATIONS for the picnic, which had been intended and will be confined strictly to members of the Lester Grady, '27, and Donald Wilkins, Council. It is expected that election of '27, were nominated for the position of Edi­ officers for the ensuing year mil also be tor-in-Chief of next year's Juggler at a held. joint meeting of the Senior and Junior The preliminarj'- matches of the golf classes in the North Room of the Library, tournament began Thursday and the fiarst Monday noon. May 25. •will be completed by Monday, May 25. Four George Sadlier, '26, was the only man •days will be allowed for the completion of nominated for the position of Business Man­ the other rounds and the prizes to be ager. Wilbur McElroy, '26, the present Ai-t awarded in the Grand Knight's flight will Editor, was likewise the sole nominee for be a 20-inch loving cup to the winner and the position he now holds. ?old and bronze medals to the runners-up. In the Warden's, flight a 16-inch loving cup In conformity with the rules governing will be offered to the ^vinner with gold and Juggler elections, the S.A.C., at its next bronze medals to the runners-up. Added meeting, will select one of the two nominees interest has been taken in the tournament for Editor-in-Chief. It will then submit the with the offering of the prizes and final en­ name of this man, together with the names tries showed sixty men who will compete. of Sadlier and McElroy, to the Faculty Board of Publications for final approval.

CLASS OFFICERS ELECTED S.A.C. MEMBERS TO DINE The election on Friday, May 15, resulted as follows: Class of 1926: President, Fran­ The members of the present S.A.C. and cis Bon; Vice-President, Malcolm Knauss; the members of the S.A.C. for next year Secretary, Edward Crowe; Treasurer, dined in the Turkish Room of the Oliver Roger Nolan. S. A. C. representatives: Hotel Tuesday evening. May 26. The din­ Arts and Letters, Paul Fleming; Law, Har­ ner served to acquaint the new men with old Robertson; Science, Worden Kane; each other and to give them an insight into Conunerce, Paul Johnson; Engineering, Ben the workings of the Council. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 845

THE NOTRE DAME LAWYER Notre Dame, as the Yale Review, does them THERE is a famous little dialogue in which, for Yale. at intervals, every student of the University The Notre Dame Lmvyer is worthy of is called upon to take part. We will guar­ the support of every student of the Uni­ antee that it will be run off, word for word, versity: it is doubly woi-thy of the support no less than four thousand times during of every law and pre-law student. Its suc­ the coming vacation. Here it is: cess or failure will depend largely on the "What school do you go to?" record of its first year. It is to be hoped "Notre Dame." that the enthusiasm of the law students, "Oh yes. . . you have a great football who themselves initiated the project, will team, haven't you?" not cool during the months that elapse be­ Now we, of course are not at all loath to tween the present and the publication of the admit that we do possess a great football first number in October: their interest, team: but sometimes we wonder if, in the their contributions, their subscriptions, end^ football is the only meaning that No­ their co-operation, are all necessaiy to in­ tre Dame has to the outside mind. Cer­ sure the attainment of the position to which tainly such should not be the case. Notre the magazine aspires. Dame has scores of activities which are Things have started with a rush: we hope just as worthy, just as deserving of notice. that a project which promises so much And every one of her activities, from foot­ good to Notre Dame and her College of ball to the Religious Survey, brings its ad­ Law win not be allowed to languish. What ded bit of credit to Notre Dame and her the future will bring rests with unusual in­ men. timacy upon each man affiliated with the Word that the faculty and students of the law school. Success to The Notre Dame College of Law are planning the publica­ Laivyer! —J. A. w. tion of a law review next year is, there­ fore, of particular interest. The law schools THE FRESHMEN of other universities—Michigan, Yale, Co­ lumbia, to cite a few—^have their maga­ Last fall the SCHOLASTIC took occasion to zines of law—^journals in which articles by criticise certain members of the Freshman eminent jurists vie in importance with re­ class because seemingly they had absorbed ports on original research work done by none of the traditions and customs of Notre students themselves. These publications are Dame even after a residence of nearly two recognized as authoritative, up-to-the-min­ months here. It was said that one con­ ute, important. They carry the fame of servative Senior had even characterized the their university's law school into circles Freshmen as being "slow to leam, appar­ where such fame is worth much to its grad­ ently uneducated, uncouth, ill-mannered and uates. They furnish an incentive for work dumb." The Freshman class as a whole outside the classroom, and thereby foster was called upon to clean its soiled name, by the student's interest in the profession to suppressing and educating the offending which his life will be given. All these men within its ranks. things The Notre Dame Lmvyer can do for The suppressing and educating seem to 846 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC have been done well; time has done its until the SCHOLASTIC shall come into its work. As the end of the year draws near, o^\^l as a recognized part of the machinery one notices that the Freslmien have be­ of education in the training of writers, it come almost exemplary in conduct, that cannot fully succeed. —J. w. S. thej'- have taken to heart the traditions and customs of Notre Dame. This is gratifying. THE ELECTIONS And one notices, too, that there is a wealth of able men in the Freshman class: orators, The efficient manner in which the spring debaters, •\\T;iters, athletes, musicians and, elections were conducted this year is worthy most miportant of all perhaps, capable of comment, and praise for those responsi­ leaders. In fact the Class of 1928 is one of ble for their arrangement. the most promising that has entered Notre The new S. A. C. election rules, as for­ Dame in recent years. The SCHOLASTIC mulated by John Moraii, John Tuohy, and congratulates the Freslmien while predict­ John Purcell, were most successful in their ing that tliej'' mil do much for the Univers­ initial tryout. There were minor defects in ity before they receive their degrees. the rules which only actual use could dem­ —w. R. D. onstrate, but on the whole, their value and efficiency have been clearly shown. It is safe to say that Notre Dame elections un­ THE CAMPUS PUBLICATION der these regulations will be conducted in The SCHOLASTIC editors have announced, an orderly and just manner. not altogether mtliout satisfaction, that The SCHOLASTIC congratulates the new there will be but one more issue of the class officers, S. A. C. representatives, and SCHOLASTIC this year. This editorial is a heads of publications and wishes them every word to the campus -wTiters concerning success. —J. w. s. next j'^ear's SCHOLASTIC and their part in fr >-\ its publishing. THE STAFF For a student with ambition to become a writer, the campus publication is the most J. W. SCALLAN valuable instrument of instruction. Litera­ Editor WILLIAM R. DOOLEY JAMES E. ARMSTRONG ture, the production of which should be the News Editor Literary Editor aim of every prospective writer, is in its TOM COMAN GERALD HOLLAND very foundation dependent upon publication. S})orts Editor Ass't Literary Editor THE NEWS DEPARTMENT Literature is man speaking to man; it is JOHN F. STOECICLEY ANDREW MULREANY JOHN GALLAGHER JAMES "V^riTHEY the product of the impulse of the one to tell LESTER GRADY JOHN F. O'DONNELL MARK NEVILS ALFRED MEYERS others. Literature is published thought. JOHN CULLINAN CARLOS D. LANE, JR. Therefore to the young writer, to the stu­ THE LITERARY DEPARTMENT HARRY A. McGUIRE ANSELM MILLER dent who has the desire to develop into a R. 0. CUNNINGHAM EUSTACE CULLINAN JOSEPH P. BURKE BERT V. DUNNE man of letters, publication is important, and FRANCIS C. MILLER ALBERT SOMMER at this particular time of his life, his time BUSINESS DEPARTMENT of training and development, the campus CORBESr PATRICK publication is most important of all. Business Manager ALFRED DIEBOLD JAMES A\aTHEY Local Advertising Mgr. Foreign Adv. Manager The editors of the SCHOLASTIC in their RUPERT WENTWORTH efforts to maintain a high standard of pub­ Circulation Manager lished student work have arrived at many BUSINESS STAFF CHARLES CASEY JOHN LOFTUS interesting conclusions. Most important, how­ FRANKLIN CONWAY ROBERT ROY CLAYTON.LEROUX JOSEPH DUNN ever, is this: until work written for the BERTON TOEPP EDWARD BRODERICK GERARD SMITH ROBERT STMCKEL English class-room is done with a positive JOSEPH HILGER EDWARD CUNNINGHAM DAVID HICKEY LAWRENCE WINGERTER view to publication; until the professor of WILLIAM GALLIGAN HERBERT WALTHER English makes it a duty to develop in his GEORGE J. SCHILL DOROTHEUS MEINERT =i students the "will to ^vrite" for publication; X '. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 847 Funeral Sermon For Rev, Timothy Maker, C S. C. REV. THOS. LAHEY, C.S.C, PH.D.

"He that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the gro-svth would be to ofi:end that delicate laiv." Romans: 13, 8. modesty which was always his during life, NE of the most beautiful things about and I think that modesty ought to be re­ the eternal beauty of God, my dear spected also in death. But there's one O friends, is the gentleness of His thing which is ours, about which, I think, hands. And one of the most consoling fea­ we ought to speak here. God gave him his tures of that gentleness is the fact that we laughter as he gave the perfume to the feel it at just such moments when we need flower, and those of us who have fed our it most. very souls upon that laughter do not want There are exalted periods in the lives of it to be stilled even here in this church in all of us when no comforts are needed, no the presence of his now silent body. For assistance is looked for, when the soul is somehow, now that we look back at it— afire with effort and the thrill of accom­ there was something holy about his cheer­ plishment. Then we need little to help us fulness, and we can feel the gentle touch of save only the reward and the glory that God's hands in the happy faces thcit always leads us upward to God. But much more suiTOunded this simple old priest of His frequently, my friends—^much more fre­ vineyard. quently—^we find ourselves stumbling and When that old man of God thumbed his groping and- seeking our help and consola­ rosary as his Irish mother had taught him, tion in the simpler and humbler things of when he pored over the record of saintly God around us. And so the beautiful mis­ lives in his spiritual reading, when he sion of these simple things of life—^the busied himself at his work in the office, laughter of little children, the blush of a when he carried his ninety years to the al­ rose-bud, the relief of a tear, the smile of a tar in the dark of the morning—^those were friend, the simple ways of a mother. And his hours and God's and woe to the dis­ I don't know, but considering this poor, turber at those times. Those were his hours weak, old human nature of ours and the and God's and we know how entirely he constant falls of even the best of us—I gave them to God and how well God re­ don't know whether we • ever thank God ceived them. But when he came away from enough for the tender touch of His hands his rosary and his books and his work and which we so constantly feel in those simplei- his altar and when- he literally laughed his blessings of life which He scatters so boun­ way through the every-day life of the re­ tifully around us. fectory and the recreation room and the This morning we gather to say our last campus into the veiy hearis of his fellow earthly farewell to one who spent the nine­ workers—^then he was ours, then God was ty-four years of his life in just this gentle giving back unto us through this simple old work of spreading the sunshine of God. soul lessons too delicate and too deep for Father Timothy Maher was born in Ireland the preacher's voice or the wi'iter's words in 1831 and in 1856 came to America and to express. took the Holy Cross habit as Brother John And it is a beautiful memory to hold of Chrysostom. The needs of his time de­ this simple servant of God that he did his manded priests, however, and with that best preaching and his best teaching in that simple adaptability which so characterized part of God's vineyard where preachers and his life he took up his theological studies teachers are least welcome—^in the refec­ and in 1869 was ordained priest. From tory, in the recreation room, on the walks that time onward until he was well nigh of the campus—and he did so largely with­ ninety years old, he assisted the growth of out words by the simple, the silent, but oh the University in many ways but particu­ the almost infallible way of the kindly larly in the two major offices of Postmaster smile. I know that there are thousands of and Secretary to the University. dark hours that might have been which To attempt to picture accurately Father will carry their brightness forever because Maher's contribution to Notre Dame's of him, that there are unkind words innu- 848 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC merable that have never been spoken be­ The greatest things in all life after all are cause they could not live in his pvesence. I the things that you can't touch or see or know that many eyes have looked through taste—^the patriotism of a people, the love the kindly spectacles of his gentle old eyes of a mother, the power of a smile leaping and have got a new vision of life, that many from the heart of a simple. Godly old man hearts have caught the kindliness of his old and firing the hearts of a community. God heart and have found a new meaning in bless old Father Maher! The days were the Master's words, "Little children, love brighter and happier and holier for his one another." presence—and God will reward him for Oh, it was no accident that kept those old that. eyes shrewd and those old ears sharp and And one last word. We who are the heirs that laughter mellow—^long after their use of his holy cheerfulness—and we all are in had departed from others. These were the some waj^ or another—^let us do now what very tools of Father Maher's apostleship of Father Maher would want us to do: let us good cheer during life, and well did he use ask God to look lightly on our old fiiend's them in the Master's service. imperfections; and let us resolve that we Father Maher went from us with the too wall tiy to follow his Apostleship of same cheerful simplicity with which he good cheer by bringing the gentle touch of lived during life. He left no great work God's hand and the warmth of God's sun­ after him which can be appraised by human shine into that all too barren part of His ej''es or measured by human standards, but vineyard—our eveiy-day contact with that would have bothered him least of all. others.

OUR HELP

At times when all's against you. When troubles make you blue, WTieii sunshine that's forgotten, Makes things look black to you. When flowers have lost their fragrance,. And joys you cannot see. When only He can help you. Then, say the Rosary. —M. H. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC sw Amy Lowell Passes Away WALTER H. LAYNE, '28

ATELY the newspapers throughout in 1910, Miss Lowell's life was an exceed­ the country carried a notice of the ingly active one. She worked diligently at L death of Amy Lowell. To the ordin­ her tasks and her rewards were many. She ary reader this mere bit of news meant has been a poet of amazing range, a brilli­ little; but to those who have been fortunate ant critic, a writer of colorful lyrics, and enough to be numbered among her audience her delicate adaptations from the Chinese of readers, or better yet, who have been have added to her fame. As an experi­ able to attend one of her numerous lec­ menter, she has met success at every turn; tures, the death of this outstanding literary and she is the inventor of the new verse figure was like the falling of a rose from a f oral, polyphonic prose. But her experiments rosebush that was not laden too heavily have not diminished her productions, as we with buds. To them it was the passing of shall see when we look at her published one of the most energetic and influential books. characters in modern American literature. Only when one looks at the works of this Amy Lowell had labored for the past twen­ writer can he appreciate her versatility. ty-five years in the cause of the advance­ Her first volume of poetry, "A Dome of ment of literature in this country; and now Many-Coloured Glass," which was publish­ her Master, seeing that her task had been ed in 1912, was no more than one would accomplished, and that it had been well expect from the pen of the average gifted done, called her home. and studious wi'iter. There was no one Amy Lowell was a distant relative of brilliant poem that stood out from the rest. James Russell Lowell and a sister of Presi­ Here and there throughout the book one dent Lowell of Harvard University and Per- could see the influence that Tennyson and cival Lowell, the astronomer. Miss Lowell Keats had played on her work. Her second was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in volume was much better and it showed that 1874. She inherited the indubitable tradi­ Miss Lowell had become an experimenter. tions of New England as well as those of For in "Sword Blades and Poppy Seed," the the old line of Massachusetts Lawrences first of her work in imagist poetry appear­ and Lowells. She was educated in private ed. Probably her best work in criticism is schools. Most of her knowledge, however, found in "Tendencies In Modern Poetry," was gained through travel in all parts of which was published in 1917. In this vol­ the world. Among the countries that she ume Miss Lowell gives us some careful and visited, and was especially interested in, interesting studies of the greatest contem­ were Greece, Turkey, and Egjrpt, She spent porary Amei'ican poets. In 1921 she col­ several years in American universities and laborated with Florence Aj'scough and gave was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa key by us, "Translations From the Chinese.'* The Columbia. crowning achievement of her life, however, Unlike most of our successful poets, Miss came during the present year when she pub­ Lowell did not decide upon her life work lished her "Life of John Keats." This until she was twenty-eight years old. She work is a great contribution to the liter­ began to study poetiy at an age when ature of America and is one of the finest Keats' and Shelley's careers were over. The biographies of all time. Keats was Miss next eight years of her life were spent en­ Lowell's favorite poet and in this study she tirely in the study of verse technique. At has covered every phase of his short life. an age when Byron died. Miss Lowell pub­ Amy Lowell has fulfilled her mission and lished her first poem in the Atlantic has left this world. But her literary treas­ Monthly. ures Avill last for all time, and in them she After the publication of her first poem will live and be immortal. SoO THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC Grass JOHN KING MUSSIO

ATURE'S proud answer to the azure tar of poets, the jewel of the morn, the tear skies is her verdant shawl of grass. of departing night, out of all nature's fair N Wliat ugliness would flaunt itself be­ children chooses the caress of a blade of fore our eyes did not this gxeen fan ob­ grass. scure it from view! Bare is the earth, What joy the animals of God's creation barren the hills, cold seems the wayside and receive from the green! Even now I can repulsive are the river-banks mthout this see the dog rolling about, twisting and magic carpet. Without grass nature's other squirming as the grassy blades playfully jab gems would lose their radiant lustre. Imag­ him at every turn. Nor can the huge horse ine, if you can, the ruby rose, the sweet resist the temptation to fall on this downy scented lilac, the skj'--reflecting violet or cushion. And there on the hillside we can those stars of earth's green sky, the dande­ see the cows perfectly contented as they lie lions—^imagine, I say, how ghastly they on the moist cool grass. Wliy even the would seem against a background of yellow snake, considered by mankind as a hateful clay. Grass is a setting which brings forth reptile, finds love in his heart for this the warmth, the richness, the tlirobbing life daughter of nature and defends her mth his of nature's jewels. A heralder of a new­ stinging sword against an aggressor. born season it is; in its sweet smelling What a true friend of nature's creatures greenness we find promise of what is to is the grass! Willingly does it lay dowai its come both from the barren limbs of the life for their sake; that they may live it trees and the nervous buds of the bushes. sacrifice itself. The cows and the horses The god of Spring is awakened from his would perish without the grass. When the heavy skmiber by the prickling fingers of dog feels sick he runs to the only mother this early riser. If there was no grass to that he knows, the only doctor he can real­ tint the pallied cheeks of earth, to reveal to ly trust—a blade of grass. If mankind the skj'-lark's view a rich background for would learn true altruism then let it con­ nature's delicate designs, to call the robin sider the grass. Nor do the animals dis­ back again and to chase with a sleeping parage this kindness but return it as best laugh the southern breeze, then there would they can. All day with head bent low they be no Spring. converse with their little friend and then as Grass, like a brooding hen, covers the eve approaches they seem to nod a fond flowers and the insects mth her motherly farewell. Even cool night as he shades the wing. If we stoop down- low and part this sun, covers the grass with a blanket of green veil we "v\dll see the many things that white. All nature loves this child of earth. have found security and peace hidden from How indispensable seems the grass to the the common gaze. Violets, blue-bells, lilies life of man! Have you ever realized what of the valley, dandelions and myriads of lit­ it has meant or might mean in your life? tle white and blue flowers peep up at us When you could pluck the daisy without from this moss-like down. Now a frog, stooping the green was your playground. frightened by some invader, will hop into You rolled on it, thoughtlessly pulled it up, view only to find refuge in some thicker threw it, made whistles with it, even chew­ plumage of this grassy wing. Even the old ed its ends. Oh the exquisite delight you turtle loves to wend his way through the experienced in boyhood as you padded bare­ cool, fi'esh blades which seem to bow so footed over the cool lawn. It tickled you gladly at his approach. The creatures of and you laughed in youth's carefree way. the air, too, are enticed from their carefree Then came the age of dreams and love. soaring to taste of this delightful comfort. There on a grassy knoll you watched the And then let us remember that dew, the nec­ white sky-ships go sailing by and there per- THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 851 haps you dreamed. There too youth has breathe deep the grass' perfume, you close pledged his love and the only ears that your eyes and in the ecstasy of being in heard were those of the friendly grass. that old familiar spot you are carried back Now perhaps you are old. Out into the to your childhood days. In defiance of time scenes of your childhood you wander trying and life once more you are young. No to relive your life again. You look about more does grass seem a common thing, you but your heart grieves at the change. realize that it has a message; no more do Houses have crumbled, flowers have wilted, you thoughtlessly toss it about but see in it trees have been cut or blown down; even life a link of the present with the past. In its has moved on and taken those you loved. proper light grass elevates your thoughts, In an agony of despair you turn into the you see in its beauty, in its service to all, in meadow and there you find old faithful its comforting presence a reflection of Him beckoning to you as it did long years ago. who gave it its place in creation. You With a sob you fall into nature's lap, you realize how great the good God is.

THE THINKER

Shame does not ground his gaze. Age has not bowed his head; He is not seeking something lost Nor mourning someone dead. . .

And yet he walks the path of Spring- Ignoring all its views. Watching two baggy trouser legs Sag on a pair of shoes.

—^ANSELM MILLER, '25

« I? il /\tMik/U« 552 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC The Beloved Tree LESTER C. GRADY,'27

"What kind of a cigar is that you have "Now for a story." there?" "Yes, Mr. Halkins, a story from you and "La Calla, Tom. Pretty good." the evening will be well spent." "Smells nice." "Now, now. Will. No flattery. A story, "Tastes better. Can't say I ever smoked eh? Well. Lets think. Let me think—^j'-es, a brand I like as well." yes—^that's the one, that's the very one. "La Calla? Never heard of it before." And it's true. "Well, I'll tell you, Tom, it's a new one "Let's have it, Mr. Halkins." on the market. The Club here has only "Not very long, boys. A few words will had it in stock for, oh—about a month. tell it, but, I'll tell it, eh?'' It'll become popular, though. Here Tom, "Surely, Mr. Halkins." throw away that cigarette you have and try "Why of course." this one. Come on. Here. That's it." "Years ago an uncle of mine was one of "Thanks, Will." the many that got into the rush of the For­ "Here's a light. I know j'^ou'll enjoy it. I ty Niners to California. He couldn't rush can see the smile coming on your face al­ very much, for Uncle Ben must have been ready. You blow that smoke out as if you nearly fifty four years old at the time. It were pleased." wasn't the gold he went after, like the rest "Yes, a good cigar—now for a good of them, he had more than he wanted as it story. They both go together so nicely. was. It was a peculiar kind of lust, you Have you heard any lately, Tom? I might call it, that he had for nature which haven't." caused his going. Why, he actually lived "Not a one; but there's old gray-haired by feasting his eyes on the work of nature, Halkins over there leaning against the man­ especially beautiful trees. tel piece." "He had been told that California was "\\aiere?" blessed with trees and he set out for that "Against the mantel piece." state just about the time of the gold rush. - "So it is. I'll call him." Yes, he went to California and settled in a "Go ahead." place called Stockton, situated in the San "Mr. Halkins!" Joaquin valley, at the head of the San Joa­ "He didn't hear you." quin river. Trees were in abundance "Mr. Halkins!, oh, Mr. Halkins!!" around the little city, all kinds of them. "He's turning." "Uncle Ben called it a seventh heaven. "Good evening, Mr. Halkins. Come over He was perfectly contented. His admira­ and join us, won't you?—Pull up a chair tion for the trees was even greater than for him, Tom.—^W^e were just wishing for his love for his fellow beings. He would a story to accompany our smoke." sit for hours studying the trees, praising "You were, eh? Well." them, speaking to them, and then, he would "Tom says you surely could oblige us." leave the trees. A smile would come upon "He did, eh? Well." Uncle Ben's face as he left them, for he "Sit here, Mr. Halkins. There—that's it. would be back soon in their presence. Now j'ou look comfortable. Have a cigar. "There was one tree that he became at­ They're—" tached to more than the others. It was his "No thanks. Will, I have one here. Al­ favorite. Most of his time was spent idol­ ways smoke the same brand, La Calla." izing this particular tree. A day did not "Well! So do I. Tom here should tuni pass that Uncle Ben did not go to see it. convert soon. Take a light, Mr. Halkins." "Stockton was a city of cloth tents and "Yes, yes Much obliged." houses sprung up as if by magic. A fire THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 853 broke out not long after his arrival and the house in Stockton. It would be made into "linen city" as it was then called was swept furniture they told him." away. The fire did not harm the trees one "The poor fellow. He lost his mind, I bit, and he was so happy. Almost before suppose?" the ruins had ceased swouldering a newer "No, not entirely. Will, only partly. He Stockton was being erected—but this time began spending his money—and he had entirely of wood." lots of it—^buying all kinds of furniture "They cut down the trees he loved so to that he thought might have been made from build it?" the tree he loved so much. Uncle Ben never> "Theydi d, Tom, cut down most all of became convinced that he had bought a them, and it hurt the old man as if he had piece of furniture made from the tree. lost an only child. That one tree he loved Once he believed a certain chair was made so much more than the others was never from it, but a little investigation on his touched. He wouldn't let them. Guarded it part, showed his belief to be wi'ong. People night and day. It weakened him so, he be­ pitied him. Anyone would." came sick and had to give up and rest "What finally happened to him?" awhile." "He spent all his money buying up fur­ "He didn't leave California?" niture and never got anything made from "No, stayed right in Stockton. They told the tfee. It really was an absurd search, him the tree would not be harmed and when nevertheless people never told him so. It he became well he could go see it again. was all that kept him alive. After his money Wasn't long before Uncle Ben was able to was spent, his health—^the little he did have leave his sick bed. He went right to the —disappeared and Uncle Ben couldn't fight place where the tree stood. It wasn't there. off death. His funeral was simple. The It had been chopped down. He cried like city paid the expense. And what do you a baby. Nearly lost his mind. Old men suppose happened." don't usually become hysterical, but he did. "He was buried in a coffin made from the They told him a lumber company had tree?" bought the land, chopped the tree down and "He was, Tom." taken it away. It wouldn't be used for a

A QUESTION

As I walk the paths in the moonlight. As I stroll 'neath the darkened sky And look at the star-set heavens, I often wonder why A person should wish for the morning, A gray and gelid sight. When he has summer's evening And the moon's soft mellow light.

—^A. STENIUS.'28 854 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC All in the Wash LEO J. M'CAULEY/27

ENNETH ARTHUR WALLING- foimer. All lovely women are lovelier when FORD was all that his name did not angry, at least so the stories say. K imply. His tender parents had no "Why, this is a disgrace," she denounced, conception of what the Fates had in store irately, her blue eyes flashing. "I'll go down for him or else they would have done bet­ and see about it tliis afternoon, and I'll cer­ ter by him in the way of christening. To tainly give those people a piece of my begin mth Kenneth played baseball and mind," chewed tobacco. Furthermore he had the Here she sniffed daintily, and fingered distressing habit of spitting tobacco juice the soiled gamients questioningly. on his glove and right hand, and then glee­ In the meantime Kenneth Arthur had de­ fully rubbing them on the shirt and trous­ cided that clean duds would be necessary ers of his uniform. Kenneth revelled in a for the afternoon's encounter, at least so he dirty uniform; it aided his batting eye, he told "Spike" Grogan, his "bunkie," as he said. But it certainly disgusted the fair busied himself opening his laundry bag, in maiden in the laundry. front of the gang assembled in Annex 105. Towards the middle of the season Ken­ "And, gentlemen, watch me hit 'em this neth was playing good ball for Middleton, afternoon," he chortled. and he decided his uniform needed the aid "Just watch me when I get this on," he of the Dutch Cleanser Tmns, so he sent it shouted, dumping the bag upside do^^^l, and to the Ideal laundry. By this time of the spreading all of Janet's dainty laundry on year the maid had learned to loath and des­ the floor before the eyes of his aghast male pise No. 750 from Middleton, so she did an audience, unethical but intensely human thing; she Kenneth's jaw dropped a foot, and he shirked the job, and thrust the all but reek­ flushed to the roots of his hair when he saw ing suit into a new and dainty bag that lay the melee of filmy silks fall to the floor, and nearby. heard the gale of laughter that burst from "For heaven's sake" she muttered, "I his buddies. ain't no wet wash machine." "Full cat's sake," he muttered. "Oh," groaned 'Spike' when he regained his ability to speak. "Wait till we see you Now the Ideal Laundry catered to the ex­ hit 'em when you doll up in them." clusive Carleton College for girls, situated "Yes," chimed Fogarty, "you'll star like on the banks of the river, about a quarter the front row of Ziegfield's when you step of a mile from Middleton. Among the elite out at short stop in that outfit.". of the school was one, Janet Williams, a "If mummer could only see you, Kenneth blonde damsel of Irish descent, who boasted dear." —and not vainly—^beauty and a temper. On "Aw, pipe down," grumbled Kenneth, re­ a very fine Saturday afternoon, Janet de­ placing the contents of the bag, gingerly. cided, with a woman's prerogative, to re­ "I'll hit a few today to spite yuh." arrange her room and put away the laundry that had just returned. "Heavens" she screamed, "What is this?" Hit 'em he did, but at five shai-p, just "Looks like a plumber's overalls," re­ before closing time, he dashed into the Ideal mark Ella, her roommate, who was plain, Laundry with the despised bag under his witty and therefore disliked. arm. However, there was a complainant As has been stated before, Janet boasted ahead of him, and he sidled up close to look beauty and a temper. The latter now ap- at her. I)eared rather to the acceleration of the "Wow," he whistled, "a blonde—and THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 855 class." could into her eyes for a young man who \'\Tien the girl finally came over to him used tobacco. Kenneth ruffled and growled: "Yes, ma'am," said Kenneth, "they are "What's the idea of sending a 'He-Man' mine." an outfit like this?" Janet looked at him, relentingly, (Ken- The girl picked up the bag and examined netli was not hard on the female eye) ; the contents. "You ought to be spanked for having a suit "Why, madam," she exclaimed, turning to like that," she said, "what were you doing, the lady at the counter, "here are your cleaning sewers?" things." "No ma'am" replied Kenneth, "I was Janet, for that was who it was, crossed playing ball." over, indignation in her eyes. A few minutes later they were walking "Yes," she said, coloring, "these are mine, out of the shop, talking and laughing, and I suppose, these are yours," (to Jim- "But can I really come and see you," he mie). questioned eagerly. She thrust the discolored uniform in his Janet laughed—"Yes," she replied, "but hands, summoning as much scorn as she don't bring any tobacco!"

In Re: Onions JOHN F. O'DONNELL, '26

DOROUS bulb, I hail you! Innocent praise to the onion! The onion book says victim of the soup pot, I pity you! that when cooked, the subject of this essay O Globular vegetable, perfume of loses much of its potency. This trick played breaths, outlaw of society, I have selected on the onion is as bad as that played on myself to inform you that you have not yet Samson by Delilah. To conquer it, man has passed from the thoughts of men! to throw the onion into a steaming emulsion Nature is a good Mother. She gives us so that he will not show, or rather blow, sweets and bitters and sours—and the onion. the effects of the battle. Many think that the onion's assets (if any) Not everyone knows that the onion is of are metaphysical. It is the one vegetable the same family as lilacs. The best of dic­ that everyone frowns upon. Like the sar­ tionaries say that the onion is of the fam­ dine it is of the world plebeian. People fear ily "Lilaceae," which is merely Vergil's the onion because of its potency in respect way of speaking of lilacs. Still the onion to breaths. And those who harbor this fear has a regular name. It is called "Allium miss one of Nature's tastiest boons. Cepa." You haven't a name like that. The onion is available to all. It comes The onion is nature's attestation to the even in three sizes: the pocket size, or geometric axiom about the straight line and spring onion; the one meal or winter onion; the distance between two points. The onion and the family size, or Bermuda onion. grows towards Heaven. It is self reliant. Think how fine it would be if financiers Nature made it so. It can stand alone. The took from their pockets spring onions in­ bean vine must have a pole to climb. The stead of fat cigars; or if men went about cucumber sprawls all over the ground. The golf courses rolling onions about their tomato isn't much better. The potato is an mouths instead of panetelas? undergTOund vegetable; you must even dig When the soup has a flavor about it that for it. But the onion stands erect, confi­ makes you cock your head in attempt to dent, strong! place "that queerly delightful taste," give 856 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC The Choice EDWIN A. BERKERY, '27. Ij\I]\'nE DUGAN ran along the hall try­ rewarded and he spotted Dan Sullivan of the ing the doors. At last one 3uelded and Detective Bureau with two of his assistants J he threw it wide. In the gathering twi­ eagerly scanning the incoming crowds. For light he saw the room was emptj^ He entered the moment Jimmie was puzzled, but an idea and closed the door softly behind him. occurred to him and he hurried up Front Jimmie crossed to the window, and keep­ street until he came to a large livery stable. ing himself concealed, carefully raised it. As Jimmie entered through the driveway a The noise from below was borne up to him man stepped out of the office and approached. and as he peered forth he saw two policemen "Hello, Charley," Jimmie called. round the corner and come down the street "That you, Jimmie," replied the man. ad­ followed by a small crowd of excitement- dressed as Charley. seekers. He dropped back on the floor and "Hey, Charley," continued Jimmie, "the gave way to his thoughts. He was in a fine dicks are after me and they have the ferries fix. Pursued by the police and in a strange watched. I want to get across the Eiver. part of tovni, Jimmie knew that if he were Have you anything going over in the morn­ caught it would go hard with him. He had ing i violated his parole and had attacked Fritz "Sure, Jimmie, I got a big van going over Eeuther, the political leader on this side of in the morning for a load," replied Charlej'. the tovra. He had fought fair with Eeuther "Here I'll show it to you and you can crawl but no one would believe that Jimmie Dugan in and go to sleep." of the South Side could hand "Bruiser" Jimmie followed the stable-boss past a Eeuther, boss of the East Side, a fair row of wagons and finally came to a big, licking. closed, moving van. The sound of footsteps in the hall awoke "This will be the berries, Charley," he con­ him from his reverie and caused him to cluded as he crawled in and arranged the slink back in a corner far from the door. fm'niture covers preparatory to going to The footsteps paused and Jimmie lay with sleep. bated breath. .Jimmie awoke next morning to the rumble "Well, Tim, it looks as though he has of the wagon on a cobbled street. He given us the slip," a voice in the hall pro­ crawled to the rear of the van and peeped claimed. through the crack in the doors. The van "By the Lord! Pat, Eeuther will be sore was wheeling into line to wait for the about this. He wanted to railroad that ferry-boat and after a short time Jimmie smart guy this time and he had the goods felt it moving again and once more took his on him too." "Well, I guess we might as well place in the rear, peeping through the crack go back and report to the boss that he got in the doors. The van trundled down the away," replied a second voice. runway and Jimmie saw two plain-clothes Jimmie heard the sound of retreating men on duty scanning the face of everyone footsteps and then all was still. After lay­ who entered. Jimmie could not forego a ing quiet for some time Jimmie arose. He chuckle as he realized how he had outwitted had decided what he would do. He would his old enemy, the police. skip over to the Jersey side for a few weeks When he felt sure the boat was in motion, and let this trouble blow over, and then when Jimmie reached up and unlocked the doors it was safe he would return to the gang. and leaped to the deck. He made his way As darkness descended Jinimie left his forward and stood leaning on the rail. It hiding place and passed swiftly through the was a gray, damp morning with a slight squalid tenement section. He headed for the mist hanging over the river. Out of the ferries but as he approached he became wary mist on his left appeared the forbidding but­ and slid into a doorway from where he could tresses and massive stone wall of the priison command a view of the ferry-sheds and the on Blackwell's Island. A shudder passed people entering them. His caution was soon over him as he remembered the time he had THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 857 served there and what would happen if he features a smile spread. Jimmie sat and were sent back. stared and then slowly he too, grinned. The The boat by now was in mid-stream and baby seeing him respond, stretched forth its was directly abreast of the Island. Jimmie tiny arms and cooed at him. Jimmie reached was about to return to his hiding-place. Sud­ over and took the youngster from the guard denly from the upper deck he heard a shrill and as he felt the little fingers grasp and scream; raising his eyes, Jimmie saw a tighten about one of his own, an unexplain- woman with a young baby in her arms able thrill gripped him. mount the rail of the boat, and as he The row-boat reached the Island and will­ watched, she leaped and disappeared in the ing hands assisted Jimmie and his bm'den to dirty water of the viviv. Jimmie stood as if alight. A messenger arrived and said that in a trance and then iii a moment the woman the warden was awaiting them in his office. and the baby appeared on the surface of the Jimmie dumbly acknowledged the praise water and then sank again. It was but the showered upon him by those on the island work of a moment for Jimmie to pull off his who had witnessed the rescue, and silently coat and slip off his shoes and dive over the approached the warden's office, conscious rail into the river. As Jimmie rose to the only of that grip upon his finger and the. surface after his dive he saw the baby reap­ strange feelings that were tugging at his pear alone. A few swift strokes and Jimmie heart. reached the child and then turned to see When Jimmie entered the office the where the boat had drifted. When he looked warden had his back towards the door. he could not believe his eyes. The boat after "That was a heroic deed you perfonned beginning to put about had resumed its out there," he began and then as he swung course and continued its journey towards around in his chair, he stared and ex­ the Jersey shore. But looking about him he claimed : saw a row-boat, rapidly bearing down upon "My God! Dugan, it was you." Jimmie him. manned by two guards from Blackwell's nodded but did not speak. Island. Then Jimmie understood why the The warden continued, "Well, Dugan, your ferry-boat had resumed its course. The act just now is deserving of a bettei reward pilot seeing the small boat put off from the but you are listed here as a parole jumper Island realized that it would reach Jimmie and although I am soriy, I am afraid that I before he could bring the heavy ferry about cannot reward you as I would like. You have and so he had continued on his way. still six months to serve of that sentence." The small boat drew alongside and the The warden turned and pressed a button and now exhausted swimmer handed the baby in a few minutes a guard entered. into the arms of the guards and clambered "Call a matron to look after this baby and in himself. He sat in the stern resting his then take this man to a cell," ordered the head upon his hands, deaf to the words of warden. praise poured upon him by the two guards, That evening as dusk descended Jimmie thinking of what a fool he had been to toss stood in his cell looking out across the river away his chance of freedom for a little brat. to where the lights of the city were begin­ •'•'Oh God!" he muttered, when he thought ning to twinkle in the gathering gloom, Jim­ of his return to the life on the Island. He mie was thinking and as he thought, he raised his head and as he did he saw the muttered: baby that he had rescued. The infant looked "Oh, hell! Six months ain't long and I nt him. blinked, and then over its chubby couldn't let the little brat drown." 858 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

BOOK LEAVES JOSEPH P. BURKE, '25

ARROWSMITH. —By Sinclair Lewis. New York: and but for the almost continuous absence of Ar­ Harcourt, Brace & Company. rowsmith from home, separation would have come before fate brings it about by the death of Leora. This is Sinclair Lewis's first contribution to con­ temporary letters in two years—since "Babbit" Science for its own sake and the old tale of merit appeared. "Arrowsmith" may be classified techni­ inadequately rewarded in the theme of "Arrow- cally an action story in which is woven four smith." Martin ever strives with his face towards powerful figures, Martin Arrowsmith, Leora, Gott­ the clouds. He tries to commercialize himself but lieb and Sondelius. Geographically it covers a large he is not of the stuff that can be tainted. territory from the sandy reaches of Minnesota to The book, like its pi-edecessors, "Main Street" and the pest infested island of St. Hubert in the South "Babbit," is remarkable for its subtle and clever Pacific. satire. The medical profession, as it is commonly The book is replete ^\ith medical phraseology and reflected in community boards of health and similar technical descriptions of experiments which are be­ institutions, is painted for us by Mr. Lewis so that yond the ken of non-specialist or lay mind. Mr. its obvious absurdities (and their name is legion) Lewis has collaborated with a member of the medi­ appear in their true colors. Like Dickens in "Bleak cal profession in the making of this novel and was House," who condemned the legal ]3rofession and wary of falling into the conventional "Craig Ken­ the prevailing system of English inheritance laws, nedy" treatment of scientific experimentation. His Sinclair Lewis has become sickened by the spectacle method is I'ealistic. An obviously fictitious account of the crude forces at work in the health preserv­ of a doctor fighting a plague-ridden island and ing institutions that hold forth in every hamlet and conquering the disease by an original curative, which municipality of the country." Arrowsmith" severely was to astonish the scientific world, would have berates the doctor who has no scientific bearing; marred his work. it hits the elaborately fixtured clinics which cater Arrowsmith discovers this curative for plague to the imagined sufferings of the wealthy; it calls after many years of arduous research and upon the by his proper name the "Health Director" (or is it completion of his experiment he finds that he has the "Director of Public Hygiene"), with his inane only duplicated the work of a French fellow- "health campaigns", who is ever willing to permit scientist. His friend, Gottlieb, reproaches him for his personal greed to rise above his sense of duty his despairing attitude after this blow and presents to the people whom he is employed to safegniard. to him tlie alternati\'es of quitting his work or write a letter of congratulation to the Frenchman. Here is the occasion for Arrowsmith to show his "HULING'S QUEST," by McCready Huston, of mettle and Mr. Lewis handles the situation as only the South Bend Tribune, is to be published by a writer of his attainments can. The reader Charles Scribner's Sons, New Yoi'k during the instinctively feels for Arrowsmith in the crucial coming fall. The author has spoken on a num­ struggle and from this point on Arrowsmith's cour­ ber of occasions to THE SCRIBBLERS and en- age and sincerity are unquestioned. coui-aged the publication of The Scribblers Book of Leora, the wife of Arrowsmith, is a very simple Notre Dame Verse. Mr. Huston has written a and uncultivated woman. She is good and true and number of shoi-t stories that have appeared in tries to understand her husband. But she realizes Scribnei'^s, the Red Book and the Bhie Book. Cur­ that she is laboring in spheres far beyond her com­ rent are "Shingle Bob," in June Red Book and prehension and contents herself with remaining at "Wrath" in May Scribner's. He has also written, home and fulfilling the duties of reliable domestic. satire for Life, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' For him she is a satisfactory companion. She Home Journal, Harper's Country Gentleman, and stands as a buffer between his rebuffs and disap­ other publications. "HULINGS' QUEST" will be pointments. Her only reward is a form of neglect Ml*. Huston's first novel. Watch for this in the which a more sensitive woman could not bear. But fall! hatred is the inexatable product of such a union —^THOMAS A. BURKE, "26. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 859 Gold in His Backyard WILLIAM L. DAILY, '27.

OR ten years Jim had climbed— America, as far as could be learned, and it cleverly. At twenty-two he had for­ was expected that this country would also Fsaken the village hamlet (and his girl) succumb to her charm. Her smile was as as socially inadequate and had sought the famous as her voice. It was said that when larger fields of New York. He had been suc­ she smiled all else was forgotten—it was her cessful in a measure, for ten years of per­ passport to all hearts. A woman on receiv­ sistent effort coupled with a pleasing per- ing it wanted instantly to make her a confi­ sonalitj'- and a handsome face are bound to dante, while a man would egotistically feel bring results. And where these were insuf­ that he had found favor in her eyes. Jim de­ ficient, subtle flattery or servile homage cided that he must be one of those fortunate •usually prevailed. Just why he was a climber enough to meet her. That was final. would be difficult to say. It was not that a The days before the reception passed firmly established place in respectable soci­ slowly for him but they passed as all days ety was so desirable to him, but rather that usually do and now the time was at hand. he loved to bask in the brilliance of those Often that day he became decidedly nervous fluorescent persons "who are." and his usual easy manner deserted him. Still his success had been lacking. Al­ But when the actual moment was upon him though he had been able to secure an entree his poise returned and he was ready for the into some of the best circles he had not been greatest occasion of his life. able to scale the forbidding walls that sur­ He was received among the late comers at rounded the inner sanctum. Those grey walls the Van Heusen mansion and was immedi­ liad %\athstood the battering-ram of his per­ ately ushered into the reception hall. Here sistence for years. No stone had been left Jim looked about him in awe. Never had he untampered yet a near approach had been seen such a resplendent and palatial room. his only reward. But last week fate had The high panelled walls were faced with Ibeen kind in sending him an impoverished gathered drapes—soft and golden. Sus­ blue-blood who was willing to commercialize pended from the vaulted ceiling were chan­ his name. Jim hated to do such a thing. It deliers of rare beauty. The magnificence of made him feel like a sneak-thief, yet he had it all was so striking to him that he was been trying for so long and had been disap­ scarce aware of the gorgeously gowned pointed so often that the desire had become women and dignified men about him. He an obsession. So he sacrificed his scruples stood for a moment; then rebuked himself and his dollars for an invitation to the Van for wasting time that should be spent in ar­ Heusen reception. Also the fact that the re­ ranging for a presentation to the guest of ception was to be given in honor of Made­ honor. moiselle Octave Allegro had helped his deci­ He found many acquaintances there, and sion. An opportunity to meet such a per­ these he approached. But none seemed to sonage meant more to Jim than a year of his be in a position to present him. Finally, he life. had exhausted his store of friends and, This Mademoiselle Octave was something driven to any extreme, was on the verge of of a mystery. Little was known about her; accosting a dignified stranger when the her ancestry was unknown; her nationality clarion voice of a liveried servant filled the was open to conjecture. What was definite room and choked into silence the murmur of about her was that she was unbelievably voices: iDeautiful and that she, in the past operatic "Mademoiselle Octave Allegro." season, had subjected all Europe with her A shuffle of feet as the crowd instinctively bird-like voice. This was her first visit to moved nearer the wide staircase. A moment 860 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

of silence, charged with expectancj-—then on his heel and left the house. he saw her and she smiled. His eyes wid­ For Mademoiselle Octave Allegro was ened—^his jaw dropped. Then Jim did a Mary White whom he had left ten years ago strange thing. He took his small diary from with a promise to return. his pocket, scribbled, "Lost—a pearl," turned

Pictures M. C. HEN primitive man killed a dino­ been immortalized by the glory of his work. saur, he desired to leave some record Pass from the art gallery to the church. W that posterity might know of his There find Madonnas, saints, angels, sacred achievement. Thereupon he invented the pictures of every description. The artist picture to adorn the mountain side with has spread God's beauty on the walls and the crude and marvelous portrayals of animals glazier has symbolized scripture in violet and bristling clubs. Generations before. blues and ambers, and glowing reds, and all Eve, chancing upon her own reflection in a the tints of flaming jewelled glass. Siu-ely clear fountain of Paradise, had made the God's house has been beautified by its pic­ first charming picture. Since then the tures and the Master Himself honored by world has been deluged with pictures— their presence. painted pictures, carved pictures, sacred Then there is the picture so characteristic pictures—^pictures of every description have of the country parlor. No matter how small come to hold a place in the life of man. the room or poor the furnishings, an im­ There is the humble family album. What pressive array of ancestors, glares forth a store of memories those cracked leather from behind a bulwark of great gilt frames. covers inclose! Smiling cherubs, clothed in The "likeness" is always a grim one. Great­ chaste nudity,- repose on great bear skins grandfather Dugan who came over from and exhibit wonderful pink toes, most won­ Donegal the j'^ear of the great famine pre­ derful to themselves. Little boys with bangs sents an austere countenance though it is carefully combed dowii over their eyes, well known that he was a jolly gentlemna. proudly exhibit their first suspenders and Pictures of ancestors, it seems, must frown, pants, and stare boldly out into a strange as though condemning the foibles and follies world. Lassies mth great hair ribbons and of the newer generations, and all the gi'eat- starchy, lacy dresses, stand on thin legs grandfather Dugans, however jovial in life, and smile forth most miserablj^ Picnic pic­ carry out the custom. Among the great tures, pictures of college youths in catchy pictures of the world, let us not forget these poses, pictures of father and mother at Nia­ humble portraits. The people who possess gara Falls; the ancestral album is truly the them, though homely, simple folk, are the family chronicle. "salt of the earth" and by their ancestral Who des not love the stately majesty of pictures you shall know them. the art gallery? Rows and rows of won­ And then there is one picture—a quaint drous pictures, products of man seeking old-fashioned picture of a woman dressed truth and beauty. Here the lowly picture in the style of a score of years ago. This on the mountain side has reached a supreme picture time cannot erase; it is as indelibly development. Man has sought the heavens printed on the mind as the most famous and reproduced the blue sky he has found artist could hope to put it on canvas. It there. Pictures of the sea, of beautiful is the picture of an old lady. Her hair is sirens breasting the waves, of ancient ships, white and wrinkles encircle her eyes, the have flowed from his brush. The laborer is eyes of a Madona. The hands that rest pas­ ennobled and the glory of his humble life sively on her lap are worn with toil, the transferred to canvas. Every phase of life toil of a saint. This is the supreme por­ has experienced the artist's touch and has trait, the picture of pictures—& mother. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 861

SPORTS

JAP-N. D. BASEBALL Besten xx. 1 0 0 0 0 0 Murray xxx. 1 0 0 0 0 0 A bit of the Orient, in its most delight­ ful mode, came to Notre Dame last week, Total 35 1 6 -30 13 2 and enjoyed its visit no doubt, as much as JAPAN the hosts enjoyed the grace and charm of AB R H PO A E their visitors' performance. Notre Dame Kirihara, s.s. 4 0 0 4 7 0 lost the ten inning game 2 to 1 to the Osa­ Fulakami, c.f. 3 10 3 0 1 ka Mainichi ball club from Japan, which is Fakasu, l.f. 4 0 110 0 making a tour of the United States. Nitta, 2b. 3 0 0 2 10 Sugai, r.f. 3 1 1 2 0 0 Both sides played great baseball for nine Koshimoto, 3b. 3 0 0 10 0 innings, but Notre Dame lacked the offen­ Ikawa, lb. 4 0 1 14 0 1 sive punch so noticeable in other home Mori, c. 3 0 13 10" games. Several of her star hitters failed to Ono, p. 3 0 0 0 7 2 deliver, and Bert Dunne was benched all Totals 30 2 4 30 1-5 2 afternoon for no apparent reason. Ronay pitching for Notre Dame, was in X Batted for Silver in tenth. XX Batted for Moore in tenth. top forai, as was his rival, Ono, from xxx Batted for Ronay in tenth. Japan. Both men were given excellent sup­ port in the field, and the ten frames were Score by innings:— Japan 000 001 000 1—2 4 2 run off in less than an hour and a half. Notre Dame 001 000 000 0—1 6 2 Both sides confined their offensive efforts to pop flies and easy infield rollers. Notre Stolen bases Fulakami; sacrifice hits Quinn, Prendergast; struckout by Roney 6, by Ono 3; Dame drew first blood in the third inning, base on balls off Ronay 1, off Ono 1; double plays when Dan Moore scored on Prendergast's Nolan, Prendergast, Crowley, Moore; hit by pitched infield out. Japan scored in the sixth, and ball Ono by Ronay. Cleary, Ft. Wayne, umpire. the count was tied to the end of the ninth. Japan scored in the tenth on a long drive INTER-HALL BASEBALL to left field by Mori, scoring Sugai from J. P. McNamara, '28 second. The Irish were powerless in their half of the tenth. CORBY, 11—BADIN, 8 Old Jupe Pluve pulled a stellar act in NOTRE DAME response to the fei-vent prayers of the wet AB R H PO A E bloc on Saturday last, so that the Inter- Quinn, r.f. 3 0 0 3 0 0 Hall bookings for Sunday were postponed Prendergast, 2b. 4 0 0 4 3 0 while old care-taker Sol remedied the su­ Crowley, 3b. 4 0 2 2 4 0 Nolan (C.) lb. 5 0 0 10 2 1 per-saturated state of the diamonds. The Farrell, c. f. 3 0 1 2 0 0 rain failed to damp the ardour of the Cor- O'Boyle, l.f. 4 0 0 1 0 1 byites, however, and they pounded Badin Silver, c. 3 0 0 7 1 0 for a 11 to 8 recording. For the winners, Moore, s.s. 2 1 2 1 2 0 Dahman, with two double-ply and one sin­ Ronay, p 3 0 1 0 1 0 Smith, X 1 0 0 0 0 0 gle out of three toddles to the rubber, fea- 862 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

tured. Noppenberger pitched a heady son's sand lot. A high wind came from the direc- game. Sheridan and McQuam were the ^^°^ °^ *^^ ^^^^' Building, and a dusty scene fol- headliners in the batting division for Badin. ^°7^' ^'"""^ ^'^"^^ Walsh brought forth the victoxy, TT J 1-.1 • 1 ,. ^ • 1 , and the umpire jumped his risky job, long before Harmon and Sheridan formed a nice bat- hostilities came to an end. A moratorium was teiy for the losing squad. proclaimed in Walsh. And in Sorin there was (.QjjBY 4B R H PO E sweeping and smashing of teeth. Burke, s.s. 6 3 2 3 1 Se™nger,^tf.~:::::i:::::I 2 3 .3 2 NOTRE DAME-ILLINOIS BASEBALL Moran, If. o 12 3 0 Irish O'Shaugnessey, the Illinois pitching Noppenberger, p. .5 13 10 g^ar humbled the Irish of Notre Dame at Edwards, lb. o 0 1 1 O-rii T.-J -IOJ.-. Tachman, rf -5 113 1 Urbana, Friday, 12 to 1. McAdams, 2b. 3 0 0 3 0 A grim determined team took the field Roberts, c. ^4 12 12 against the Illinois, but every thing went *Friske, ^_2 _^ J; _^ _^ wrong. The result was that the thousand Totals 43 11 18 20 4 spectators gasped at the ruthless massacre perpetuated before their eyes with BADix AB R H PO E ,, Til- • T J- • • 4.1, • J the Illinois Indians swinging their de- jjgjCullinan^ j.,^ lb 5 0 01 4 5 0 structiv, ,. e I.-^bats m truL e Jfrontie? J^- r J?Ifashion- . Wilson, 3b. 5 2 2 2 0 Besten started for Notre Dame but he was Crowe, s.s. .5 12 2 0 not Oil key. He simply could not groove the Maloy, rf. -5 2 2 3 0 ball and when he finally did get one through Sheridan, c. _^ 4 2 3 1 1 , .,,, xxr i ,..,.,, -, McQuam, If. 3 13 10 ^"^^ middle, Worth drove it out of the park. Cowles, 2b. 4 0 0 3 0 Dawes who relieved Besten, was hit hard. Harmon, p. 4 0 12 0 Playing a smart bunting game, inter- **Gallagher, If. 1 0 0 1 0 j -xi i j u-j. i n ^-iT TIT • _____ spersed with hard hit balls, the Illini gave Totals 42 8 13 24 1 the Notre Dame inner defence nervous pros- *B tt d f • "M 4d 5 tration. The Irish led for an inning. **Batted for McQuam? Crowley walked, Nolan singled and advanced SCOPE Crowley to third. Dunne drove him home. Q^^^y 930 000 006—11 18 4 •^^^^^' this mild outburst, the Irish spasmodic Badin IlZIIIirZIIZIIoio 300 031— 8 13 1 attacks at tallying but they ended in naught. In the fourth Ericton singled, Jestes, Jor- THE BAT IS mCHTIER THAN THE HORN <^^^^ ^^^^^ O'Shaughnessey were walked, forc- . , , , , , , , , ing Ericson. Worth then hit the groove ball It IS duly recorded that music, cheerleaders, pro- . , , i J?J y i T mi TIT • T n cessions, etc., cannot supplant a hefty bat, and a ^^^^ .^^^^p left field. The Ilhm SCOred five mighty pitching arm. Walsh Hall did not have a 11^ thlS stanza. band to write home about, for the Walsh-Sorin j^ the sixth the Indians again became baseball festivities last week but it did have a ^.^-^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ -^^j^. ball team, and Sorin furnished both the coffin and T • - ^ i • i the dirge of Chopin's "Funeral March," for its burden by this time and was breezing along own passing at the hands of the Walshites, 9 to 4. rather nicely. A base hit was registered by It was another bright chapter in Notre Dame's Worth, Paxton walked and then Fronting tradition concerning interhall spirit. Both halls j^j^ ^ ^^^.^.-^f^^ jjj^^^. ^^^^, Farrell's head for turned out enmasse, and it appeared as though , all classes would be dismissed also. Sorin brought ^ home run. a colorful procession, and Mike Dufficjr's Subway Illinois got two more in the eighth and one seven, to the ball field for the game with its rival Notrjj^ ^hee Damninthe . 1 6 Walsh. On the other hand, Walsh's haphazard Illinois 12 IS 1 ceremonial robe, was but a faint mask for the ball club Father Haggerty had secreted beneath its Batteries, Besten, Dawes, and Welsh and folds. Silver; O'Shaughnessey and Erickson. The parade of the two halls cii'cled around the main campus, and the game was played on Brown- THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 863

MINIM TRACK AND BICY­ CLE MEET DECORA­ TION DAY

At 2:00 o'clock on Decora­ tion Day, Cai-tier Field will be the scene of the Minims' Annual Track and Bicycle Meet. It is the biggest event of the year in the Minims' Department and it is char­ acterized by close competi­ tion and enthusiasm. The events on the track range from the 50 yd. dash to the quarter mile and the field events include the shot put, high jump, broad jump, and pole vault. According to the present indications some good perfoiTOances "svill be turned in on that day. Tom Lieb will be referee and starter. The bicycle races will be conducted under the sanction

of the Amateur Bicycle As­ ) O. E. CO. The Fisk BuiltUng, New York CtOf sociation of America and will CARRERE & HASTINGS be regulated according to Architects their rules. '^Designing in Masses'' The Minims' Department acknowledges the co-opera­ HE new architecture transcends detail and expresses tion of the Cycle Trades of Tthe component solids of the great buildings of today and tomorrow. Gigantic profiles are reared against the America Inc. and the dona­ sky—true expression of structural feas has now come tions of the following firms: into its own in architectural design, linking architect and engineer ever more closely together. Gold Watch- Certainly modern invention—modern engineering skill New Departure Mfg. Co. and organization, will prove more than equal to the Bristol, Conn. demands of the architecture of the future. Gold Watch- Eclipse Machine Co., OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY Elmora, N. Y. Offices in all Principal Cities of the World Gold Filled Medal- Sterling Silver Medal— Solid Bronze Medal— Cycle Trades of America, Inc. The complete file of THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC No. 2 Foot Pump— Bridgeport Brass Co., will form a valuable record of the year 1924-25 at Notre Bridgej)ort, Conn. Dame. Save your copy each week. Pair Tires— Federal Eubber Company, Extra copies, for mailing home or for friends, may Cudahy, Wis. be secured at the Notre Dame News Stand or at the Pair Handle Bars— Cafeteria. Chicago Handle Bar Company, N D S Shelby Ohio. 864 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

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