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The Notre Dame Scholastic 587 [•]ll1lll||l|l||||||||||||||||||||||t|||t|||||||||||||t|||||||||||tllt||||||||||||t||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||t|||||t||||tlltlllllllllllllllIltlIlll|B] COMMENT I The Notre Dame Scholastic i With Neil Hurley in charge of the I Disce Quasi Semper Victurus Vive Quasi CrasMoriturus 1 current issue of the Scholastic the i Founded 1867 I staif members have all bought new shoes, having woi-n out one pair over EMIL L. TELFEL—EDITOB-IN-CHIEF the week-end running down stories for the first form which was complete Assistant Managing Editor Managing Editor Assistant Managing Editor NEIL C. HURLEY JOHN E. BERGAN JOHN A. KIENER ahead of schedule, lacking only that famous (?) column dubbed "Com­ Associate Editors ment." As "Cookie" Leonard was EDWARD E. BRENNAN JAMES J. KEARNEY EDWARD K. BRENNAN "tough on rats" (copied from The AUSTIN BOYLE JAMES CARMODY PAUL J. HALLINAN JOHN PICK WiLUAM W. CORR LLOYD TESKE Last Parade) so is Neil "tough on the staff." He wants work and he gets it The Week Make-up Editor College Parade RICHARD J. O'DONNELL WALTER V. BEESLEY DANIEL C. WILLIAMS —with good results. Music and Dra^na Feature Editor Campus Clubs We are beginning to feel sorry for FRANK E. SEWARD JAMES K. COLUNS W. LESUE RADDATZ our poor President, Mr. Hoover. About the only time he had a chance News Staff to assert himself (when he chose to WILLIAM G. KARL, NCIDS Editor WILLIAM F. FITZGERALD, Assistant News Editor do so) was when the bonus bill came JOHN CONLEY ANTHONY R. SCHREINER LA-WRENCE PRYBYLSKI up, and then when he did speak his MYRON CRAWFORD F. GRANGER WEIL EDMUND STEPHAN mind his legislative bodies walked RICHARD MOLIQUE WALTER JOHNSON JOSEPH DEGXAN right over him. Now the stampede LA^VRENCE DUNDA has begun for loans from the govern­ Sports Staff ment. The veterans are undoubtedly HENRY B. ASMAN, Sports Editor deserving of a little return for their CLEVB CAREY GEORGE BELTING T. EDWARD CAREY services but where is the money com­ JAMES E. MCFEELY, JR. JAMES KEARNS IRVING B. HALPER ing from? Just a few more taxes, Business Staff that's all. About the only thing Ave JOHN R. BLANDA, Local Circulation Mgr. ANDREW JICGUAN, Foreign Circulation Mgr. haven't been taxed for is our lease on FREDERICK BAUER RAYMOND J. NABER JOHN P. HESS life, but the rest of the taxes are be­ J. ALBERT SJIITH DANIEL E. BRENNAN coming so burdensome that life isn't JAMES H. RORKE, Advertising Manager worth living anyway. JOHN F. STOECKLEY—GRADUATE MANAGER OF PUBUCATIONS MERLE BALDWIN, Publications Office Manager It will be interesting for some of us to return to Notre Dame ten years hence and see the campus as we once Vol. LXIV MARCH 6, 1931 No. 19 dreamed it. With the erection of two new residence halls, which will bring I Issue Editor—NEIL C. HURLEY | nearly all the students on campus, and other new buildings, Notre Dame I The Week—Richard J. O'Donnell L 588 i will be a city of itself. A local city I University Breaks Ground For Two New Buildings—Lloyd Teske 589 | paper emphasized the importance of I Music and Drama—Frank E. Seward 594 | the building program. as carried out i A Man About the Campus—Austhi Boyle 595 i by the University in that it added to i • Glances at the Magazines—Edward R. Brennan 598 i the prestige of the city as well as the I Book Reviews—John Pick 599 = school. No one doubts that, but i Alumni Office Busy—Edmund Stephan 601 i beauty and relief of the unemploy­ i Campus Clubs—W. Leslie Raddatz 602 I ment situation aren't the only things I Editor's Page 603 i backing the construction of new build­ I The Wink 604 | ing on the campus. Notre Dame, as i College Parade—Daniel C. Williams 605 | always, is looking forward to the edu­ I Notre Dame Splits on Eastern Trip—James S. Keai-us 606 = cation of Catholic young men. Beau­ i Joe Gavin—Irving B. Halper 608 = tiful buildings aren't necessary, but i Trackmen Beat lowans—Edmund Mo-narty 609 | their erection reflects upon the success I Splinters From the Press Box—Henry B. Asman 612 i of Catholic education and the recog­ i On Down the Line—Cleve Carey ^- 616 i nized merits of the University. May she continue to grow! i THE SCHOLASTIC is pubHshed weekly at the University of Notre Dame, Manu- : I scripts may be addressed to THE SCHOLASTIC, Publications OfBce, Main Buildinsr- = Maybe Medbury and I are wrong . but it looks like the baseball i Entered as second-class matter at Notre Dame, Indiana. Acceptance for mailing at | team will be doing their training out i special rate of postage. Section 1103, October 3, 1917, authorized June 25, 1918. | in the open even if they are deprived of a southern trip. And with most I THE AOVERTISBRS IN NOTRE DAUE PUBUCATIONS DESERVE THE PATRONAGE OF -i of the games being played at home, it i ALL NOTRE DAME MEN. | looks like a good season. W. V. B. ffli Ill ••iiiiiiiii ••iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiii" •iiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiil iipl 588 The Notre Dame Scholastic i 4 "T* HOUGH they live in Serin subway, still you can't /\ CEUCIAL day in the lives of A.B. sophomores is keep them down . ." that, according to the Music '^~*- approaching. Word has come from the office of the Corporation of America, will be the title of the next song dean of the College of Arts and Letters that the second- to be composed by Walt Phillips. Additional words will year men should prepare to decide upon a major subject. be fitted in by the Beamy Bard. These two campus ar­ The decision is a momentous one, so it should not be made tists received their inspiration amid the perspiration in hastily. The correctly chosen course may lead a talented the gym on Tuesday evening. The sight of Sorin's fight­ youth to fame and fortune, and to other such alliterative ing five triumphing over the invading Day Dogs stirred and hackneyed successes. Not the labor involved, but the their sensitive souls, and brought tears of joy to their benefits derived should be the consideration in choosing honest old eyes. Therefore the idea to get together with a major. There are men on the campus today whose lives the muses of poetry and music. So the gallant defenders have been almost ruined because they failed to select a of campus honors may expect to find themselves soon im­ course of study that fitted their natures. Some men have mortalized, in the lines of a commemorating ballad. It an innate aptitude for, let us say, a subject like speech. has been long a custom among men to record valiant You notice them in the cafeteria, in the recreation halls, deeds and stirring victories in rousing songs and martial in bull sessions. Now should they waste their time in verse. Therefore, it is fitting that the success of the sub­ pursuing culture via majoring in economics or history? way crew be thus announced to a listening world. Of The answer, which you may have worked out is, as listed course all the praise need not be directed at those who on page 465, "No." "Choose a major that suits your live below sea-level in the senior holy of holies. The hall nature," is the SCHOLASTIC'S advice to the second year rector had much to do with the winning of the champion­ gentlemen. They might also visit Sorin hall, interview all the A.B. men there, and get their opinions of the respective ship. He kept the spirits high, gave much needed advice merits of the different departments. Most of these men and encouragement, and helped the boys in their training. are doing their theses now, and will probably be able to In regard to the latter: he saw that they did not inhale remember right off just what course they are taking. too much of that damp night air, and also safeguarded them against germ-carrying insects, by keeping close watch on the screens in the subwav. -0 TV/f K. EIPLEY will probably devote some space in the near future to the fact that this week's SCHOLASTIC T T looks like a pleasant spring for everyone but the local has been turned out without even a suggestion fi-om the -*• lawyers, and the law profs, and the janitor in the Law erstwhile editor. His absence from the office has been building. The engineers aren't so well off, either, but extremely noticeable ... as noticeable as quiet in a boiler their situation is not so unbearable as that of the embry­ onic barristers. The former labor much, and talk but factory. And that figure is not.far fetched. While the little. The latter are preparing for the world's most lo­ Judge vacations, peaceful placidity reigns in the news quacious profession, but you can never tell how much they shoi}. There are no frantic cries, no savage foot-stamping, are working. Up to this week they were able to orate, no wild hair-tearing. No jangled nerves have released and recite, and argue to their heart's content, over in themselves in babbling incoherencies. No occasional im­ their own private comer of the campus. But now all is changed. Competition has burst in upon them. The proper, that is, ungrammatical, phrases have banged long and eagerly-awaited steam shovel has arrived. Soon against the hallowed walls. This week, the Judge is sup­ it will be filling the air with amazing, ear-splitting planted by a younger member of the staff.

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