The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus The Notre Dame Alumnus Vol. 1 Contents for May, 1923 No. 3 The General Program 61 Alumni Responsibility, by Frank E. Hering 62 The Other Side of Another Sentiment, bj^ M. M. Footc 63 Notre Dame Laj's Claim to Debating Leadership 64 Endowment Organization Personnel 65 D. S. M. Conferred on Colonel Galen 66 Columbus and Rockne 66 The Election of Alumni Trustees 67 Editorial Comment '. 68 Campus News and Views 72 Athletics 75 The 79th Annual Commencement 78 Nejv Alumni Addresses ., 87 The Alumni „ 89 The majrazine is' published by the Alumni Association of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, and will have four issues during the current scholastic year. During the next scholastic year, the magazine will be published monthly, from November to July inclusive. The subscription price is $2.00 a year; the price, of single copies is 25 cents. The annual alumni dues of $5.00 include a year's subscription to The Alumnus. Kntered as second-class matter January 1, 1923 at the post office at Notre Dame, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. All correspondence should be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus, Box 81, Notre Dame, Indiana. THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE University of Notre Dame Alumni Headquarters: Administration Building, Notre Dame. Rev. J. C. McGinn, C.S.C., A.B., '06, General Secretary. ALUMNI BOARD REV. WJI. A. MOLONEY, C.S.C. Honorary President F. HENRY WURZEU, '98 President Tiios. T. CAVANAGH, '97 Vice-President G. A. FARABAUGH, 'O'i Vice-President K. K. ROCKNE, '14 Vice-President WILLIAM E. COTTER, '13 Vice-President Jos. RHOMBERG, '22 Vice-President JOS. M. HALEY, '99 Trustee FRANCIS O'SHAUGHNESSY, '00 Trustee ROBERT E. PROCTOR, 'Oi Trustee HARRY HOGAN, '04 Trustee DANIEL E. HILGARTNER, JR. '17 Trustee FRANK E. COUGHLIN, '21 Trustee LOCAL ALUMNI CLUES THE NOTRE DAIHE CLUB OF CHICAGO DANIEL E. HILGAUTXEK, JR., *17 - - - -. President AusTix A. McNicHOLS, EX-'l8 - _ _ - Vice-President E. J. MEAGHER, '21 - - - - -- - Secretary ALDEX J. CusicK, '21- - - - - - - Treasurer THE NOTRE DAME CLLTB OF CLEAT:LAND FRANCIS X. CULL, '08 ._--_- President JOHN P. MURPHV, '12- - - - - - Vice-President EUGENE A. KANE, '14 ----- Secretary-Treasurer RAYMOND T. MILLER, '14 - - - ALUMNUS Correspondent THE NOTRE DAME CLUB OF COLUMBUS RAY J. EicHENLAUB, '15 - - - - - - President DON M. HAMILTON, '12 - _ - - - Vice-President FRANK MCGRATH, E.\-'04 - - - - Secretary-Treasurer THE NOTRE DAME CLUB OF DETROIT LOUIS J. SALMON, '05 - - - - . - Honorary President RAYMOND J. KELLEY, '15 - - - - - - President J. F. O'BRIEN, '13 - - -- - - Vice-President EDW.IRD N. MARCUS, '16 ------ Secretary HARRY W. CULLEN, '12- - - - - - - Treasurer THE INDIANAPOLIS NOTRE DAME CLUB A. G. FEENEY, EX-'11 ------ President J. L. KEACH, '08 ------ - Vice-President R. O'CONNOR -------- Secretary T. J. JONES, '14 -------- Treasurer THE NOTRE DAME CLUB OF KANSAS CITY GEORGE REINHARDT, JR., EX-'15 - - - - President FRANK WELSH, '16 ------ Vice-President RUSSELL HARDY, '16- - - - - - - Secretary JOSEPH STEWART, EX-'19 -__--_ Treasurer THE NOTRE DAME CLUB OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA LEO J. VOGEL, '17- - - - - - - President EUGENE R. MCBRIDE, '16 ----- Vice-President THOS. A. HAVICAN, '11 - - - - - - Secretary A. J. O'DoNNELL, EX-'04 -___-- Treasurer THE NOTRE DAME CLUB OF THE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT THE NOTRE D-\ME CLUB OF CINCINNATI THE NOTRE DAJVIE CLUB OF TOLEDO WHAT CITY WILL BE NEXT? The Notre Dame Alumnus Vol. 1 MAY, 1923 No.l GENERAL PROGRAM 79th Annual Commencement June 8-10 1923 Fr'idai], June S Alumni registration opens in Alumni Office, Room 101, Main Building. General Informal Reception of guests by the University, Alumni Association and under­ graduate organizations. 8:00 P.M. Junior Class Play Washington Hall Book by Greavey, '24; Music and lyrics by Graham, '26, Engels, '26. 10:00 P.M. Informal Commencement Dance The Palais Boifale Saturday, June 9 8:00 A.M. Solemn Requiem Mass for deceased alumni.—" Sacred Heart Church 9:30 A.M. Senior Last Chapel. Exclusive Senior Class Ceremony. Sacred Heart Church 10:00 A.M. Class Day E.xercises Washington Hall Senior Oration, Senior Ode, Valedictory. Remarks by Very Rev. M. J. Walsh, C. S. C, President of University. 12:00 M. Alumni Luncheon Senior and Junior Refectory 1:30 P.M. Invitation Field and Track Events Cartier Field 3:00 P.M. Baseball, Illinois vs. Notre Dame Cartier Field Admission to Cartier Field, 50c. 6:30 P.M. Alumni Banquet Jttnior Refectory 8:00 P.M. Concert Washington Hall For Guests of University and Senior Class. Sunday, June 10 8:30 A.M. Academic Procession. 9:00 A.M. Pontifical High Mass Coram Episcopo Sacred Heart Church Rt. Rev. Joseph S. Glass, CM., D.D. Bishop of Salt Lake City. Celebrant. Rt. Rev. Herman J. Alerding, D.D. Bishop of Fort Wayne. Baccalaureate Sermon by Rt. Rev. Msgr. J. M. Kirwin, D.D. Vicar-General of the Diocese of Galveston. 11:00 A.M. Senior Flag Raising Main Quadrangle 2:00 P.M. Annual Meeting of Alumni Association Washington Hall Election of officers and trustees. ,5:00 P.M. Awarding of Degrees _ Main Quadrangle President's Report. Commencement Address. 7:00 to 7:30 P.M. Alumni Buffet Luncheon Junior Refectory NOTE: Every returning alumnus or old student should register at once upon arrival at Room 101, Main Building, so that assignment of rooms and other arrange­ ments may be made. (61) 62 The Notre Dame Alumnus *'- Alumni Responsibility 1 By FRANK E. HERING, Litt.B., '98, LL.B., '02 HERE IS NO ALUMNUS of Notrc Dame ural talents, how quick she was to note who does not o^vn her with great them and encourage them! Thousands of Tjiride as his Alma Mater, Though us know and remember the first stirrings he should travel to the ends of the earth, of ambition which she kindled. Some her name and her member of the faculty spoke the word that fame, he will find, thrilled. Some course of study opened have preceded liim the vista of a career. Some fellow student there, and he has caught a glimpse of things to • be and but to speak her passed it on. Her ivied walls are cryptic sacred name to be with youth's hopes and plans. These are accorded a respect the things that we remember when we look not for himself—a back and wonder what Notre Dame should stranger—^but for be to us, and we to her. the dower of train­ What she has been to us, we very well ing which Our know. What we have been to her—there's Ladj"^ is knoAvn to "something to give us j)ause." Being give. Her alumni grateful is not one of our cardinal native are numbered virtues. We are glad we got what we got throughout the —^but that is about as far as our compara­ civilized world. tively new-fledged brains can fly in the Did we not ourselves hear of her afar and ethics of looking backward. come unsought, Immbly knocking at her Let us begin with the "bread and but­ gates? She took us in and made herself ter" account. Has the investment of the the august guide of our uncertain steps in few hundred dollars that we made in the fields of knowledge that stretch to the Notre Dame in those years, returned outermost bounds of an active life. many-fold? Would it not be merely square- She spread before us with consummate ing the account if for every material bless­ skill the ordered experience of all the ing that we can trace straight back to the ancients. She unlocked for us the fascin­ educational equipment which Notre Dame ating researches of science. She taught us gave us there at the threshold of our where to look for beauty—^in all the arts careers, we should now add a digit to the of all the ages—and she planted for us dollar sign on our check, and when the the seeds of character in laws, philosophy accounting is complete, affix our signature, and religion. Notre Dame did yet more with a generous flourish, and mail it to for us. This she had done to please her­ Alma Mater She can use that clieck self—fulfilling a school's highest aspira­ rounding out some half-awakened youth's tion, which is the regeneration of man education, which his few dollars of tuition into a being more socially perfect. But do not begin to pay for, even as she fitted she was not forgetful that life is hard for you for the making the most of your life. the unskilled. She kejDt in mind our indi­ Then there is that moral obligation to vidual gifts and gave us a training such be a credit to Notre Dame abroad. How as would, first of all, jirovide us with the have we succeeded there? There is a vast necessities of life. So that today we are deal of harping on the subject of the obli­ grateful to her for the very bread we eat. gations of citizenship and so much of it What opportunities in the workaday world out of tune that one could wish the harpers she discovered to us! How eagerly and would just shut up and go awaj'. A little unselfishly she labored to fit us for grasp­ more silence from the word-spouters and ing these opportunities! If we had nat­ (Continued on page 87) The Notre Dame Alummis 63 *._.- ——• I The Other Side of Another Sentiment I By MARK M.