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THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 835 Ue Notre D ame Scholastic A LITERARY—NEWS WEEKLY PUBLISHED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME —ILLUSTRATED— MiUtt (gusKi temper Vittuxus : Vi\}t (Suadi €tai illorituruK INDEX « PAGE 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 Advertisers in Notre Dame publicaiions deserve the patronage of Notre Dame men. Entered as second-class matter at Notre Dame, Indiana. Acceptance for mailinn at special rate of poatast. Section 1108. October 3. 1917, authorized June 23. 1918. 836 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC Rt. Rev. John F. Noll, D. D., LL. D. Bishop of Fort Wayne I THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 837 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.