NOVEMBER 26, 1963 SCHOLASTIC P S A ^ ^ IIYIIII •*^J^''J"f»j).'^*-3JJ*~;<**«^_^^, Jt?^^35f':^^'?*^»*»5?^''3*SfT»«*?*SWfS**^| ii4if % 1 s.^-**!*! / Wxi^:mst ss:-"-.^-" SCHOLASTIC The Student Weekly of the University of Notre Dame Founded 1867 Disce Quns! Semper Victunis Vive Quasi Cras Moriturus Vol.105 November 26, 1963 Extra Tom Hoobler . editor-in-chief Dick Stranger managing editor Mel Noel news editor Frank Smith news assistcmt Larry Sicking , . , layout and art editor At the news of John F. Kennedy's tragic death last Friday, the staff of The Scholastic decided to publish Jack Pope copy editor this extra edition in his honor, stressing the particular aspects of his life that related to Notre Dame. He is Joe Wilson the only man to have received all of the three highest . copy editor awards that Notre Dame bestows: the Laetare Medal, Brian Barnes an honorary doctorate, and the Patriot of the Year business vianager award of the senior class. He was also a member of Tom Keane the Advisory Council for the College of Liberal and . circulation Fine Arts. We dedicate this issue to his memory. Frank O'Malley faculty advisor The SCHOLASTIC is entered as second-class mail at Notre Dainc, Indiana, at a special postage rate authorized June 23, 1918. The magazine is represented for national advertising by National Advertising Scn'icc. Inc., 18 East 50th Street, New York 22, N.Y. It receives its covers including the four-color back-page ad­ vertisement from College Magazines Inc., of New York City. Published weekly during the school year, except during vacation and examination periods, the SCHOLASTIC is printed at Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Indiana. The sub­ scription rate is $5.00 a year (including all issues of the academic year and the FOOTBALL REVIEW). The special subscription rale for St. Mar>-'s students and faculty is $3.00 a year. Please address all manuscripts to the SCHOL­ ASTIC, Notre Dame, Indiana. All imsolicited material becomes the property of the SCHOL­ ASTIC. The Road By Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. OTRE DAME^ like other famous And now he is dead, cut down in mortal hands, and to continue the im­ N universities, is one of the cross mid-stride along the road. There is mortal work to which their lives, aU roads of the world. Many of the great no answer, outside the inscrutable too brief, were dedicated? men of this world, among them Providence of God, to the question on Too few travel this high road today President John F. Kennedy, have everyone's hps: Why? But there is because few men indeed live lives passed this way and have become an understanding that can mean much characterized by commitment and members of the Notre Dame family. more to each of us than a clear-cut dedication. If this community of As a fledgling Congressman, only 33 answer. In this very real world of Notre Demie men is touched today by years old, John Kennedy came here shining good and blackest evil, every­ the tragic event, let us see it for to deliver the Commencement Ad­ one who works for what is good and what it is and be convinced that there dress and to receive an honorary de­ noble can expect to unleash against is room for aU of us on this road that gree in 1950. As a Senator, a few himself, all of the dark irrational require high commitment and deep years later he returned to receive the power of evil — anger, hatred, and dedication if the great things of time Patriotism Award from the Senior violence. John Kennedy, in a very are to be triumphs of good, not evil Qass. He also became a charter recil sense, was a martyr to these travesties. member of our Advisory Council for evil forces because he stood without Human rights and human dignity the College of Arts and Letters. Just compromise for their opposite reali­ xequire new champions today and to­ two years ago, on the same fateful ties, peaceful understanding and con­ morrow. These causes have lost a date of November 22, he accepted at structive human fellowship, here and great cheimpion. Are there new cham­ the White House, Notre Dame's high­ abroad. The evil does not now dis­ pions in our midst? The Alliance for est award, tlie Laetare Medal. appear with the evil deed; it is only Progress, the Peace Corps, world-wide starkly and cruelly visible in his The words of that last citation speU and for developing nations require tragic death. The road too is still out the promise of his young life, as new human talent, rare conviction there, stiU leading to' the realm where the first Catholic to hold the highest and personal dedication to become the truly great tilings of time are post in our land: realities. Are we willing to get on yet to be decided, a road still beckon­ the road, or at least prepare well for ing to each of us, a road yet to be the day when the road will be ready "You have our admiring realiza­ walked with sincerity and courage. for us? tion that your words, embodied in If John Kennedy's death has any Every trip along this road is your deeds as Chief Executive, message for America and aU the dangerous, because it is the high carry the candor and the urgency world, it is this: Get on the road, road. Tragedy lurks at every turn; of the ablest contemporary think­ because the hour is late. Tom Dooley's the moment of truth appears each ers in the Church, men whose message, borrowed from Robert Frost, hour of the joiuney. The truest thought, like yours, is crystallized was no less urgent: tragedy is not that some like John in this expression: 'Do everything Kennedy faU victim along the way, that is to be done with respect for The woods are lovely, dark and but that so many others lack both truth, and do it in freedom of spirit, deep. the commitment and the dedication in spite of the obstacles within and But I have promises to keep to get started. Those who fall along without, and in the teeth of selfish­ And miles to go before I sleep. the way do indeed become great ness, sloth, cowardice, popular beacons of light for all who follow opinion. And do it with confidence! They both sleep now. One can them. May this sad day be not one When one so acts he paves a road speak of memorials and medals for of darkness, no triumph for the pow­ which, followed with sincerity and them, but what greater memorial can ers of evil, but the birth of a great courage, leads far into the realm Americans, young and old, construct new light that will for years to come where the great things of time are for their heroes than to take up the inspire others to great deeds, come decided." torch of light that slips from their what may. wmmF.m "For loitliout belittling the courage injured, towed disabled members of icith ivhich men have died, we should his crew to a nearby island and led not forget those acts of courage with them back to friendly territory after ivhich men . have lived. The cour­ nine days behind enemy lines. His ef­ age of life is often a less dramatic forts merited him the Navy and spectacle than the courage of the final Marine Corps medal, and after treat­ moment; but it is no less a mag­ ment of his injuries the young lieu­ nificent mixture of triumph and tenant was discharged for physical tragedy." disability in March of 1945. Back in civilian life, the late Pres­ HESE CLOSING WORDS of John Ken­ ident worked for a while as a news­ Tnedy's "Profiles in Courage" serve paperman. He covered the San Fran­ as a warning against any dispropor­ cisco Conference for Chicago's Herald tionately dramatic consideration of his Ame7ica7i and the Potsdam Confer­ death. One can produce a valid por­ ence for the International News trait of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, not Service. r in terms of a few violent moments on Attracted to making news rather the streets of Dallas, the assassination than reporting it, John Kennedy ran of a Chief Executive, but only in light successfully for a seat in the House of a forty-year span of struggle and of Representatives in 1946. The Na­ tional Junior Chamber of Commerce achievement. A man of the late Pres­ af- ident's vitality would ask no more noted that the new Congressman was than to be judged as one who lived one of the "most outstanding young to the full extent of his capabilities. men in America." In a year of Re­ A short life by modern standards, publican successes, Kennedy had been but one of extensive activity, began elected on a platform of "allied co­ on May 29, 1917. John F. Kennedy operation to hold world leadership for was the second of nine children de­ the democratic nations of the world." scended from a family of colorful He also stood for a defense policy, public figures. His father, Joseph P. one year after the conclusion of peace, Kennedy, served as Ambassador to that included armaments development Great Britain aind as Chairman of the and a strong standing army. On the Securities and Exchange Commission. home front, the Congressman "fol­ His maternal grandfather, John F. lowed the dictates of his conscience Fitzgerald, was elected Mayor of ..