Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 67, No. 20 -- 23 March 1934

\<^v This book is not to b« tsksa froB th« Library THE NOTRE DAME Sc HOLASTIC -t. "». 15 CTS. A COPY M A R C H 23 $2.60 THE YEAR Nineteen Thirty-four Start Your Vacation via SOUTH SHORE Line Our South Bend Office Will Make THE^AFEfT Reservations for QUICKE5T Connecting Trains MWTCONVENIENT Nobody wants to waste any precious WAY TO minutes of vacation time. Let us make your reservations for you, plan ning to save you delay and bother. You can leave South Bend via the frequent, regular South Shore Line Service, and travel to Chicago the safest, quickest and most convenient way. The low cost round-trip fares save you money and your ticket is good for ten-days. Let us make from your reservations today. SOUTH BEND There is no charge for ROUND $ this service. Call our TRIP South Bend office at 10-Day Return Limit 3-311L : : : For complete information, ask or phone C. W. VEACH City Passenger Agent Chicago South Shore and Telephone 3-3111 South Bend Railroad THE SCHOLASTIC is pub Entered as s«cond-claas lished 26 times during the matter at Notre Dame, In school year at the University The Notre Dame Scholastic diana. Acceptance for mail of Notre Daine. Address man ing at special rate of postage. uscripts to editor, 119 Sorin Disce Quasi Semper Victurus Vive. Quasi Cras Moriturus Section 1103, October 3, 1917. Hall, Notre Dame, Ind. FOUNDED 1865 authorized June 25, 1918. JAMES S. KEARNS Editor-in-Chiej MITCHELL C. TACKLEY.. ..Managing Editor Associate Editors News Staff EDWARD J. O'BRIEN JOHN D. PORTBRFIELD THOMAS G. PROCTOR I JOHN E. CONLEY RICHARD B. TOBIN JOSEPH A. BUCCI j • Mews Editors EDWARD F. MANSFIELD IHCHAEL F. WIEDL ROY 0. SCHOLZ -ROBERT F. ERVIN WILLIAM A. KENNEDY- -JOHN W. WAUKEB Departmental Editors GEORGE P. LEYES ••—LOUIS R. HRUBY THOMAS J STRITCH The Week FRANK KELLY JAMES T. FITZPATRICIC ..College Parade Sports Staff RICHARD P. PREZEBEL Staff Artist JOHN D. CARBINE- -Sports Editor* Biisiness Management EDWARD J. VAN HUISSF.T.ING_ NICHOLAS J. CONNOR .:HOWARD T. WALDSON JOHN F. STOECKXiEY Graduate Manager CYRIL F. STROKER VOLUME LXVII MARCH 23, 1934 ' No. 20 GRATEFULLY YOURS ment to big in the month of planning and preparing, and in the last minute rush. The Bengal Boxing Show Wednesday evening was, we feel, well conducted. Editorially and personally THE To the boxers, and to the patrons: thank you, and SCHOLASTIC wishes to give assurances of gratitude to the we hope you found the Bengal Bouts up to standard. many persons who contributed to the success of the project: To Athletic Director Elmer F. Layden for consistently SAVE THE BALCONY generous permissions and assistance in the original plan Borrowing a paragraph from "The Week" because we ning of the show, in the eleventh hour change of dates, wished to add a word of agreement with the reaction and in every detail of the arrangements. expressed, Ave present: To Studebaker's, and especially to Mr. Ealph Hecka- G-r-rr- men, for the use of the ring. To Mr. Frank W. Lloyd, "We went over to hear Mr. Thompson read Cyrano de University Comptroller, for generous support that greatly Bergerac, which play is a favorite of ours. But before he mitigated the mental anguish of the ticket-sale period. was half through we were annoyed to tears. Not with Mr. Thompson, a gallant gentleman whom we had heard To the officials who contributed their services on the before, and who performed a difficult job well; but with night of the final bouts—referee Albert Tellson, Judges that infernal clacking that proceeded from that myster William Sheehan and Chet Grant, Tinier Tom Conley, ious chamber in the rear of the building. It happens and Announcer Harry Rockett. quite often in Washington Hall that performances are To Trainer Eugene Young, who attended the boxers; disturbed by that familiar noise which sounds like the and to Equipment Manager John McAllister who super clicking of giant castanets. Everybody says, "Oh, it's the vised the erection of the ring and the bleachers, and both ventilation" which gets us just nowhere. Something ought of whom were at all times interested and willing coop- to be done about it before some perfectly justified gentle erators. man goes berserk and tears down the balcony." To Tom Gorman, Joe Sullivan, Tony Andreoni, and Reuben Grundeman, who handled the preliminary elimin ations during the week preceding the final bouts. And to Someday, by some modem miracle, one of the grass- the official seconds on the final night: John Michuta, John trampers is going to be inspired to try travelling on a Fisher, John McLaughlin, and Frank Schiavone. sidewalk. It is hard to say who will be the more surprised, To varsity coaches John P. Nicholson and Jake Kline the onlookers, or the lawn-walker himself on finding that who cut their practice periods short on Wednesday in there are paths intended for the pedestrian traffic, and order that the stands and the ring might be erected in that they are really as convenient as the short-cut through time for the fights. the shrubbery. To Clyde Lewis and George Demetrio and their man agers, who gave expert help on details, in a manner con sistent with the organization's reputation as the most effi Outstanding among the items in the new code of cient of student groups. conduct for students using the golf course is the one, And finally, and probably above all, to Howard "Decorum in dress must be maintained at all times." The Waldron, who was, more than any other individual, same stipulation might be applied with equal appropriate responsible for the staging of the bouts; who found no ness to students attending church exercises, and evening inconvenience too great, no detail too small, or no assign- lectures. March 2S, 19 3 U One Fr. O'Hara Answers THE WEEK Criticism of U. N. D. By Thomas J. Stritch In the Commonweal of March 2, Matters Liturgical The rats' strange behaviour jim 1934, there appeared a letter calcu mied up the experiment, of course; lated to do harm to the University of It has always been a matter of but what worries us more is where Notre Dame. A reply to this letter some amazement to us that a campus it will all end. We've more than a was sent to' the Commoniveal under so generally religious as this one suspicion that one has already been date of Feb. 28. Since the Common should follow the Mass so indifferent lain to rest between the floor and the weal has neither published this reply ly. We know that neai-ly everybody ceiling of 205 and 305. nor acknowledged its receipt, the Uni in the Church Sunday was rightly versity feels justified in making pub disposed, since nearly everybody went lic, through THE SCHOL-\STIC, the ob to Communion; why, then, didn't Come One, Come All jectionable letter and the Vice- they follow the Mass by standing and President's reply: sitting at the proper times? Once or So the Alumnus wants the old grads to come back and pay us a visit Washington, D.C. twice we put out one foot to stand, To the Editor: but, as has happened so often before, anjiime, eh? Well, that fine; wel we didn't have the nerve to carry it come, alumni, employed or not. And Friends of the late Charles through. stay right here on the campus with Phillips, a gentleman and a cre It is to rise at the Collects (that is, us, yes sir. But make sui'e you go ative scholar, will read the letters at the first "Dominus vobiscum"), to the right place. Go to Dillon, go in your column with a degree of then to sit during the epistle. Every to Brice's or Rockett's room in Sorin, sorrow. There is an unconscious body stands for the gospel anyhow, but get it straight: don't come to criticism of Catholic universities. so we needn't go into that. At the ours, or any of these strictly single Dr. Phillips should not have been offertory sit, though in Masses of Ex rooms. How would you like to pop allowed to correct school boys' position, like Sunday's, many prefer in some night and see Jim Carmody themes. That laborious work to kneel out of respect to the Blessed sleeping in 9/our bed—your only bed ? should have been done by a read Sacrament. Then, of course, kneel • er and his time husbanded for at the Sanctus. But the most fla Rewa^-d creative work. Our universities grant •violation comes at the Pater are penny wise and pound foolish. Noster, during wliich everybody is This stoiy was told in a Commerce Able men are made administrat supposed to stand, though over here class last week, and we think it's ors, and much of their work could nobody does. Rise, then, at the Pater good enough to be reprinted any be done by a capable steno Noster and remain standing until the place: grapher. In every university "Pax Domini Sit semper vobiscum." Back in the money era, when you there are a few men who by In retui-n, you may sit while the could spend tw^o bucks and not feel training, inclination and labor- priest is cleansing the cbalice, stand like a criminal, two bi-others went to iousness are able to do research ing at the Postcommunion, i. e. the college. Their father was wealthy, ^ work, but their time is devoured last "Dominus vobiscum).

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