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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 MMF- ALUMNUS REV. MICHAEL J. SHEA, A.B., '04 Composer of "Victory March" Music Recipient of Major Monosram, November 23, 1935 DECEMBER, 1935 SPECIAL LOW ROOM RATES. A CORDIAL WELCOME AND EVERY CONCEIVABLE FACILITY. COURTESY AND SERVICE ARE AVAILABLE TO Notre Dame Alumni^ Student Body and Faculty ONE OF CHICAGO'S VERY NEWEST, VERY FINEST HOTELS "As Modern As Tomorrow" 450 guest rooms, each outside, spacious, beautifully furnished and each equipped with bath and shower combination, Servidor, circulating ice water and every other convenience for your comfort. THREE COLORFUL RESTAURANTS INCLUDING POPULAR-PRICED COFFEE SHOP TEN PRIVATE DINING ROOMS and BALLROOMS With capacities of from ten to twelve hundred persons and providing for dances, dinner-dances, banquets, suppers, meetings and social affairs of every description, at low prices. Be Sure to see our new All lobbies, restaurants, ballrooms and NOTRE DAME private dining rooms are air-conditioned ROOM or equipped with cross ventilation. HOTEL KNICKERBOCKER Walton Place Just East of Michigan Boulevard CHICAGO ALLAN G. HURST Manager The Notre Dame Alumnus JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, 75 The masazine is published monthly during the scholastic year by the Alumni Association Member of tfie American of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame. Indiana. The subscription price is $2.00 Editor a year; the price of single copies is 25 cents. The annual alumni dues of $5.00 include Alumni Council. WILLIAM R. DOOLEY, '26 a year's subscription to THE ALUMNUS. Entered as second-class matter January 1. ' Member of Nat*l. Catholic 1923. at the post ofHce at Notre Dame. Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. All Managing Editor correspondence should be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus. Box 81, Notre Dame. Ind. Alumni Federation. Vol. XIV. December, 1935 No. 3 President Roosevelt Will Visit Notre Dame Carlos P. Romulo To Receive Honorary Degree with President; George Cardinal Mundelein To Attend Ceremonies; Committees Are Appointed For Event. President Fi-anklin D. Roosevelt cementing the cordial relations which tion committees, which will include •n-ill be guest of the University of now exist between this country and South Bend persons, will be an Notre Dame on December 9, it was the infant republic. nounced by Bernard J. VoU, chair announced after a visit to the White Committees appointed by .Father man of the group and national presi House by the Rev. John F. O'Hara, O'Hara to direct arrangenients for dent of the Notre Dame Alumni As C.SlC, president of the University. sociation. The chief executive ^\-iU take part Press publicijy will be directed by at Notre Dame in the observance of Thomas J. Barry and William R. a Philippine Day tribute to the new Dooley. Transportation will be under republic of the Far East. This pro the guidance of the Rev. William A. gram was originally planned for No Carey, C.S.C, and Francis Jones, vember 15, but has been postponed president of the St. Joseph Valley out of deference to the President who Notre Dame Club. The dining hall indicated a desire to take part in the will be in charge of E. F. Connelly. ceremony. The University Choir of Moreaa Seminary is to sing the Philippine In addition to numerous other na national anthem in Spanish, as the tionally known persons. His Excel keynote of the function. lency, George Cardinal Mundelein, of Chicago, has accepted an imntation The University band will escort to attend the observance. the President's car with the recep tion group as it reaches the campus. The ceremony has been planned Members of the faculty and the Sen not only as a tribute to the republic ior Class will participate, wearing but to mark the close relations which cap and gown. have long existed between the Uni versity and the Spanish speaking Separate reception committees countries of the world, including the have been appointed to greet his Philippines and Central and South President, Mr. Romulo and His Emi America. nence, George Cardinal Mundelein. In connection with the ceremony, University officials wU bestow the AQIVE IN N. C A. F. honorary degree of Doctor of Laws and Letters on Carlos P. Romulo, Chicago alumni are contributing a member of several Philippine inde CARLOS P. ROMULO large share to the success of the suc pendence committees to this country Notre Dame to Honor Him cessful activities of the Chicago and also a member of the board of Chapter of the National Catholic regents of the University of the the President's visit include: the Alumni Federation. Ray Gallagher Philippines. Dr. Romulo is the head Rev. J. Hugh O'Donnell, C. S. C, is vice-president of the chapter, Tom of the D. M. H. M., a newspaper vice president of the university, Oakes is secretary, and Jack Scallan, syndicate in the Philippine Islands, as general chairman; the Rev. J. president of the Notre Dame club of and is now in this country studying Leonard Carrico, C.S.C., director of Chicago, is a member of the executive recent advances in American jour studies as chairman of the invitations committee. nalism. and program committee, assisted by This will be the third time that an the Rev. B. J. Ill, C.S.C, the Rev. OPERATE ON FITZGERALD honorary degree has been awarded by Eugene Burke, C.S.C, and James E. Armstrong. Desmond Fitzgerald, noted Irish the University of Notre Dame at a statesman and member of the Notre special convocation. The first was on The gymnasium will be enlarged Dame faculty for a portion of the the occasion of Gilbert K. Chester to seat more than 5,000 persons. first semester, has made a satisfactory ton's visit in 1931, and the second Seating, arrangements and ushering recovery following an operation for when Count Guglielmo Marconi was will be directed by the Rev. Francis mastoid in St. Joseph's Hospital, the guest of the University in 1933. J. Boland. C.S.C, the Rev. George South Bend, on November 4. Mr. Notre Dame's roster of graduates Holderith. C.S.C, the Rev. John Far Fitzgerald's classes and weekly lec from the Philippines numbers more ley, C.S.C, J. Arthur Haley and Rob tures, the latter in Washington Hall, than 50 names, and it is believed ert Riordan. were, of course, discontinued tem that the recognition here will aid in A civic relations and three recep porarily. 66 The Notre Dame Alumnus December, 1935 //-Two-Minute Men Finish Successful Season Win Four Games in Total of Less than Seven Minutes of Play; Ohio State Victory is High Point of Season; Nineteen Seniors Finish Competition. The Two-Minute Men, Notre By Joiepb Petritz, '32 through the air in a tornado. Figure Dame's footballers of 1935, have con it out. Beltz was held at the top and cluded a season which ranks as the jarred at the bottom. He fumbled. greatest since Knute Rockne turned Henry Poiman recovered for Notre out his national championship 1930 Dame. Pilney then ran 26 yards to eleven. It is the greatest by a mat the .19-yard line in what many an old ter of less than seven minutes of footballer said was an exhibition sur play; two against Pitt, two against passing anything even the immortal Ohio State, something less than one George Gipp ever did in a particular against Army, and two against South- instance in a single game. Finally, em California. when three Buckeyes hit him simul During these less-than-seven min taneously, hut hard, Pilney was utes, this great team scored 27 points, stopped, not only for the moment, but enough for two victories, assurance until the last two minutes of the final of a third, and a tie with Army. game with Southern California. Nineteen seniors, 17 of them let- But Bill, the Bard, came in and termen in 1934, will be graduated in promptly passed to Wayne Millner June with the knowledge behind them for the touchdown which won, 18 to that all the old rules about persever 13, while Pilney, reclining on his ance and determination still go. Not stretcher smack behind the goal posts, only did many of them play in 1933 said, "Yeah, I knew we'd win." This when Notre Dame lost five games, remark deserves immortality, for Pil tied one, and won three, but all of ney and his inspired shock troops ANDY PILNEY were, indeed, the only 11 persons out them were at least out for football The Real Scourge. that year. The next year they went of this vast throng of 80,000, plus the millions of radio listeners, who out and won 6 out of 9 games. This Coach Francis Schmidt of Ohio year their records read: won 7, tied did know Notre Dame would win. State two weeks later sent his team Coach Elmer Layden didn't know it, 1, lost 1. on the field equipped with the most and after the game was over, he an On paper this team still is not as dazzling offense of the year, mixed swered the congratulations of fans, great, perhaps, as the 1931 team with power, and great defensive abil- one and all, with a quiet "Thanks, but which won 6, tied 1, and lost 1, or itj'. But when that shock troop line the boys won that one and the the 1932 team which won 7 and lost went to work on the Buckeye offense, coaches don't deserve a bit of the 2.