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The Notre Dame Mardi Gras Merriment Februari) 17, 1950 PROVE TO YOURSELF NOGlBARETTC HANGOVER when you smoke PHILIP MORRIS! HERE'S "ft ALL YOU in lost a few *»•..""r DUILIP NiORW^ '•"te i?^r-- -y than the brand ^ ^^^ •iC^^ •O .»\-l F^k Remember: less irritation means more pleasure. And PHILIP MORRIS is the ...light up your ONE cigarette proved definitely less irritating, ...light op a present brand definitely milder, than PHILIP MORRIS 2 any other leading brand. ff-DONt IMHAIE NO OTHER aGARETTE I DO exactly the ^^^^^IX^^'tZl CAN MAKE THAT STATEMENT. Arough your nose. An S„oUtOBESMOKmOP»a.PMO«.Sl HOWXOUKNOWWHYWU niUP MORRIS The Scholastic Letters MEN GET FONDA AND FOiVD^ OF Bouquets Editor: Arrow Shirts and Ties In behalf of the Y.C.S. committee charged with promotion of the recent be­ tween semester's retreat at Gethsemani, we should like to express thanks for the « kind notice of our venture in the Jan. 13 issue of the SCHOLASTIC. We are sure that said notice was of great aid in the successful operation. Donald Bartnett Jack Maher Alumni Hall —:— Nice Trick Editor: In Al Laporte's "She Loves Me Not?" % (Feb. 10), how come Dan wishes.he was '"up in Chi" when his Windy City gal is, three paragraphs later, in "some East­ ern girls' seminary eight hundred miles away?" That kind of traveling's all right for Columbus but this is 1950. Jim Kingsley Jim Carrig Alumni Writer Laporte maintains he left out the inipoo-tant explainhig sentence ivhe7i retylying the article.—Editor. §3.65 up ties S1.50 up Next Week Is Designated Here's Henry Fonda, star of "Mr. Roberts," one of many well known men who prefer Arrow National Brotherhood Week shirts. Men like the good looking, ccjafortable Next week, Feb. 19 to 26, is being cel­ collars (Hank is wearing the widespread PAR), ebrated as Brotherhood Week through­ the trim Mitoga fit and the fine, long wearing out the country. Sponsored by the Na­ fabrics in ever}"- Arrow shirt. tional Conference of Christians and Jews, the campaign intends to promote respect for people and human rights. ARROW SHIRTS & TIES In a statement prepared for the con­ UNDERWEAR • HANDKERCHIEFS • SPORTS SHIRTS «& ference the Eev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C, President of Notre Dame, said: "A return to peace and hannony among men, like charity, begins at home. The modern world is an unhappy one because too many people, including many Americans, are suffering from The Place to Go man-made economic, racial and religious tensions. "Although at first thought, removal for the Names You Know of these tensions may seem completely e quixotic and Utopian, let us suppose that we Americans were to resolve to reaf­ firm our faith in the philosophy of the Declaration in the light of the father­ hood of God and the brotherhood of man, to become as scrupulous in our duties as we are zealous of our rights, we could GILBERT'S do much, this Brotherhood Week of 1950, to help shatter the barriers of interna­ tional and inter-religious misunderstand­ for ARROW ing that man in his blindness or perver­ sity has permitted to arise." Feb. 17, 1950 #1 that University as it has for some other organizations. Athletic Director Richard C. Larkins said some of the universities on both the College Parade East and West coasts have been hurt by television, but he cited Notre Dame and Michigan as teams that draw well in Unforgivable to Lose an area that has 50 to 60 thousand TV sets. In an article appearing in the Tiger No Doze Is Good Doze Rag of Memphis State College, certain "The idea of taking drugs during exam 0A "big time colleges" are censored for "op­ periods is basically wrong from an edu­ 'Fatal 14th' fi erating under the impi-ession that it is cational and physical standpoint," says In an article listing the 1950 football an unforgivable sin to be defeated in an Dr. William Fitz Patrick of the North­ schedule, the Tulane Hullabaloo, the athletic event." western Student Health Sei-vice. paper has this to say about next year's Notre Dame gets off rather easily in Most students who feel a need for game with the Irish: the story, however, since the -wTiter cen­ keep-awake drugs are in the \vi'ong place "High spot of the schedule, natui-ally sors those teams which refuse to play explained Dr. Fitz Patrick. They should is the fatal 14th of October game with teams which can't be beaten. be out earning their living instead of Notre Dame." The article ends with the old quota­ trying to cram under the influence of tion, "It's not whether you win or lose, NoDoze or benzedrine. Spartans Finally Top Michigan but how you play the game thiat^s' ini-"' Concentrated three hour study period The Michigan State Neivs celebrated portant." It might have been added that is the solution offered by the health serv­ the Spartan victory over the University the best Avay to play is to play to win— ice. Studies have proved that the satura­ of Michigan swimming team with a ban­ against the best opposition. tion point is reached after three or four ner headline. The victory for State was A. hours. V the first in 26 meets with their state Basketball Student Trip rival. Three hundred students and the EOTC TV vs. Football Receipts band from Creighton University hired The athletic board at Ohio State Uni­ Phillyites Hold Meeting a special ti-ain to take them from Oma­ versity is worrying about television ha to Des Moines, Iowa, for their an­ and not the other Big Ten teams at the The Philadelphia Club held a meeting nual basketball game with Drake Uni­ present. The problem wasn't serious last last Thursday night at 7:30 in the Law versity. The migration is an annual af­ season, but the OSU people fear that Building. Plans for the Mardi Gras and fair. the future may hold as much trouble for Christmas dance returns were discussed. /\fai4A /loadable . Winter Issue of the JUGGLER « The Scholastic -*" ed mainly in the post ciTice, with a no­ table mail increase. In keeping with the times, Valentine wires increased in pop­ THE WEEK ularity this year. Western Union form No. 227 was the favorite. It read: "At miles between us we can laugh; our by Slack Mc(^oldrlck hearts entwined by telegraph." Isn't that sweet? Top of the Week And it's just as well. Had the custom Famous Last Words « Indiana winter has finally caught up been kept up, you can imagine nowadays, the entire senior class out in the quad­ What can they do to you if you don't with us. show up on Wednesday morning? . ••. rangle every morning, tugging at Old Stars and Stripes Forever Glory in caps and gowns, at $3.75 per cap and gown, per morning. It would be Bottom of the Week Next Wednesday, close to one thousand kind of nice for the cap and gown com­ Many are cold, but few are frozen. seniors, attired in caps and gowns, will pany, though. march like fluttering crows to Washing­ ton Hall for the annual Class Day exer­ Although everyone knows that the cises. Wednesday, George Washington will class of '50 (1950, that is) flag will be EASTER RETREAT celebrate his 218th birthday, and he may presented on Wednesday, there are a lot Tentative retreat plans are being well do a couple of fast txirns in his of questions on the subject to which no considered for the Easter Vacation at grave trying to figure out the meaning one seems to know the answers. For in­ Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey, Ky. The proposed retreat would run from of this ceremony on the Indiana plains, stance, what happened to the old flags?; Holy Thursday through Easter Sun­ apparently in his honor. how often do they wear out?; who pays day. Transportation would be by bus. for them?; how much do they cost? In an attempt to clarify matters, the AH students who are interested in WEEK'S research staflF has come up with Who knows? For that matter, who such a trip are requested to get in some interesting historical data that may cares? touch with Bob Brandel, 120 Sorin help explain things: V Hall. The first record of any February 22 Life at Notre Dame exercises hereabouts indicate that in 1844 there was a free day granted. (To With all the fuss about George Wash­ DIAMONDS—JEWELRY—WATCHES ington, last week we let Abe Lincoln and give you an idea of how long ago 1844 J. TRETHEWEY was, Sorin Hall hadn't even been built St. Valentine's Day slip by almost un­ yet.) On this particular day. Father noticed. In a few history classes, Lin­ Joe the Jeweler coln got some eulogistic pats on the Sorin, the faculty and students gathered 104 N. Main St. I.M.S. Bldg. in some spot on the campus for speeches, back, and Valentine's Day was celebrat­ readings, poems, odes and plays of vari­ ous kinds. This annual affair was carried on for some 50 years. Then, in 1894, one Sam­ uel T. Murdock, '86, bought an American It's fun to DANCE flag for the occasion. When February 22 rolled around, Mr. Mui'dock had come ... when you learn the * down with a bad case of the mumps, and was unable to appear. In his behalf, exclusive George Davis way! a Professor Ewing, also of the class of George Davis K, '86, presented the flag to the University, with the provision that it was to be flown PRIVATE STUDIOS ..
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