The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus March, 1930 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 193 |5|tniin IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIII llllltlliMllitl^^ IN THIS ISSUE Comment Editorial 194 Under the athletics department in The Hon. William J. Graniield 195 this issue, the announcement is made G. K. Chesterton to Lecture at N. D 197 of the new plan of season tickets. Frank Hering Further Honored 198 Probably the usual criticism will arise as an echo. But upon mature AVashington's Birthday Exercises . 199 consideration, the season ticket idea Suggestions for N. D. Readers 201 ought to appeal to alumni. And the Commencement Program 202 alumni section in the new stadium has been improved. Notre Dame Academy of Science, by S. Bocskei, '29 203 Notre Dame has literally thousands Women's Club 205 of followers who are not offered any Athletics 206 preference in football tickets for their Alumni Clubs 208 evident loyalty and interest (i. e. non-graduates who are not members The Alumni 210 of the Association). These people are in a position to do much (and have The magazine is published monthly durinc the scholastic year by the Alumni done much) for Notre Dame. Their Association of the University of Notre Pame, Notre Dame, Indium. The subscription price is $2.00 a year; the price of single copies is 25 cents. The support is essential. If it can be annual alumni dues of $5.00 include a year's subscription to THE ALUMNUS. Entered as second-class matter January 1. 1923, at the post oiSce at Notre gained by a courtesy equal only to Dame, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1897. All correspondence should be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus, Box 81, Notre Dame, Indiana. that granted to the supporters of the MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL opposing team, it seems a reasonable MEMBER OP THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC ALUMNI FEDERATION enough method. Season ticket holders contribute more, without considering remote re­ sults. They support every game. They THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS do not choose the "big game" alone JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25, Editor That is worth a great deal in itself. HARLEY MCDEVITT, '29, Advertising Mgr. The Athletic Association has an­ nounced that whereas, in the old Car- tier Field stands, season tickets were THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION distributed both ways from the fifty yard line, under the new system they of the move only one way, and the Alumni UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Section begins at the fifty-yard line Alumni Headquartors, Main Floor Administration Bldg., on the west side and moves north. Notre Dame, Indiana Therefore, an alumnus, while not JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, General Secretary receiving preference in the purchase of season tickets, is assured good ACmiNI BOARD seats, and in addition, can secure his full preferred allotment in the Alumni MARK M. FOOTB, '73 Honorary President JOHN W. EGGEMAN, '00 President Section. JAMES E. DEERY, '10 Vice-President You can't crowd everybody bebveen JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25 Secretary the forty-yard lines. But compare the WALTER DUNCAN, '12 Treasurer ALFRED C. EVAN, '20 Director preferences you get as a Notre Dame GEORGE M. MAYPOLE, '03 Director alumnus with those of the alumni of M. HARRIT Mn.TfiR, '10 - Director other large schools, whose teams draw T. PAUL MCGANNON, '07 Director capacity crowds, and rest easy. DON M. HAMILTON, '12 {ea officio) Director Besides, every seat in the new stadium is a good one. (adv.) Qiiuuit***, iiiitiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiitiitiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii llllllllltllM B 194 THE NOTEE DAME ALUMNUS March,loso f- QHMitutMiiitniMtttMii»iii»iii»iiiniitt>i»»tniiiMttM)iMnnnutiHn)iM)iiMttMtti*iiii>>)n)»nt)iiiin>iiiiiiniiiiiiitii)iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiatiiiiitiiiiiiitiiiiaiiii iiiiiii •••ii ttniimiiititmiit^ I EDITORIAL | QllllllllMlllltlllltlllllllll lllltllllllMlllllllltllllll >•! llltllMIIIIIII ••••••••••Itllllll lllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllXlllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllMllllllllllltllllllllll II til I mipT Twenty-Four Million Vs. the Grace of God "Buildings housing approximately 250 students,"—"thus under one roof is lodged a group of un­ dergraduates, large enough to afford variety of tj-pe but small enough to secure considerable intimacy," —"the whole point of the .... plan is to throw groups of undergraduates, without regard to class, creed, or previous condition of society into an intimate group for the purpose of coming to know one another through four years of daily contact. You cannot live with a man, study -with him, eat with him, and talk vnth him witliout finding out something which you did not know before because no two human beings are exactly alike or possess the same degree of experience. Multiply this by two or three hundred, and you have a closely knit society of young men, embodjdng many different types of ability and interest."—"It is not, of course, to be expected that all these young men Avill find them­ selves in accord. It is not even to be desired that they should. A man "svill have his o^vn particular group of friends wherever he goes and whatever he may be doing. But if he is compelled daily to come in close contact with many different soi-ts and conditions of men, representing many varjang interests and hobbies, he is surely the better for it. During the plastic yeai"s of college life, when he is reading ^^adely and beginning to think for himself, such a community of life, offering as it does the opportunity to exchange his ideas and defend his views and modify them when he finds they are wrong and offensive to his fellows, or, if he believes them to be right, stick by them,—surely such an expe­ rience is invaluable." Consider those statements. With a few modifications, couldn't they mean Sorin, or Corby, or Walsh, or Brownson, or any of the halls on the Notre Dame campus? Add to the above pleas for physical and mental companionsliip a chapel, and couldn't that be an excerpt from the Notre Dame Catalogue? But it isn't. It is the substance of the interpretation of the House Plans being inaugurated at Harvard and at Yale universities. Mr. Edward S. Harkness was so impressed by the possibilities of this "radical plan of educational life" that he has given to each of these institutions the munificent sum of $12,000,000 for this specific purpose. If ever a claim for the gi'ace of God was supported b5'^ facts, it would seem to be in a comparison of the tedious process of sacrifice and prayer by which Notre Dame has arrived, tlirough eighty-eight years of suffering, of saxang, of foresight and determination bordering on the supernatural, at a posi­ tion in the educational world equal to that being considered vrith all the awe and reverent suspicion of a new movement by our Eastern contemporaries. And they, through the vision and generosity of one man, will escape what Notre -Dame endured, backed in their "pioneering" by the veiy influential factor of a t^velve million dollar bank account. Dollar vs. Dolor is an old argument. It may be that Notre Dame has, in the price she has paid in men and prayers, stored up gi'aces that can never come with a material agent. But as one ponders the new Living Endo^vment Plan, the material problems that rest heavily upon the material plant of the University, and what the future may hold for Notre Dame, one can but surmise, ^vith a certain amount of ambition, what the grace of God might accomplish, backed by t^venty-four million dollars. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Volume VII. MARCH, 1930 No. 7 The Honorable IVilUam /. Granfield "Peaches" Gmnfield, LL.B. '13, Elected to Comjress From Second District, Massachusetts, in Political Upset February 11. EPUBLICAN leaders through­ ideals, firmness, vitality,—these are have alumni described, embodying the out the nation were startled but a few of the complimentary high principles and practical ability R on Feb. 11 with the news that characteristics in the Granfield \'ic- that the University tries to inculcate. for the iirst time in 40 years a Dem­ tory literature. He is identified as a Jeffersonian ocrat, a "wet" Democrat in fact, had Sir. Granfield's career has been Democrat, and maintains that the been elected to Congress from the one that easily explains his success. function of government is to serve second district of Massachusetts, He was born in Springfield, Mass, the people. He emphasizes human which embraces the state capital and in 18S9. His parents were not rights as opposed to property rights. includes Northampton, the home of wealthy, and even during his train­ His law practice has been more or former President Calvin Coolidge. ing at Williston Academy he worked less distinguished by the application The margin of victory, 5,252 votes, a great deal of his way. While at of these principles. He has defended left no strength in any explanation of Notre Dame he paid most of the ex­ many unfortunates against unjust the special election. National poli­ penses of his course by working charges, with little or no recompense. tics still reverberate with the victory summers for various concerns in his His practice, however, is largely civil, of William J. Granfield. home town. After graduation, in though he is considered one of the The new Congressman is better spite of the attractions of the salaries finest criminal trial lawyer in his dis­ known to his fellow Notre Dame in professional baseball (which were trict. He has won the largest civil alumni as the "Peaches" Granfield much less then than now, but still award ever made in Hampden County, whose bat was the terror of Notre comparatively good), "Peaches" de­ and secured one of three acquittals Dame's baseball opponents for three cided to give up baseball and take up for murder in the legal history of the years, and who played third base the practice of law.