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HOMECOMING! -«>- Scut. JjUWOACD J>0£fJWtoL Special QAAJUUL OFFICIAL PUBLICATION, ASUSF NOVEMBER 2, 1951 Pictured above are Homecoming student co-chairmen Jim Disney, left, and Joe Troy. Tanforan Turf Club Bronco Clash Marks Hundreds of Alumni The Last Home Game Return to Hilltop For 17 Senior Dons or Celebration Three National Records Are utdoor Rally Tonight, Threatened by USF's Matson December/13 D Grads Register Tomorrow By AL SCHLARMANN For Draft ] esfs By JACK GIBEAU Sports Editor The Selective! Servi Welcome home, Dons! Welcome to the greatest Don Home- Sunday's clash between the USF Dons and the Santa Clara Qualification Test is to^R adminis­ < orrttagof all time. Hundreds of Old Grads have returned to the Broncos at Kezar Stadium will be the climax of the University tered to new draftees.Jfflhether iter o^he Universe bounded by Fulton and Parker, Golden of San Francisco's first annual four-day Homecoming celebra­ not you are in the ROTC or in e and Masonic. A famous block, one filled with memories tion. While the two teams are knocking heads down on the field, organized reserve, be certain to taki iaMM i have not already done have endVred through the years; memories which will be the thousands of alumni, students and fans seated in the stands Clothes came train of though "^refreshed this week-end in the biggest ^will-be,watching the close-out horned i shown that one can white lace over t m back-slapping fiesta that the St. Igna- appearance of the greatest gridiron QJ » jr\ the test by schooling shoulder, you know.' ve for Engl Club Week tius towers have ever looked down power ever to wear the Green and &OPll MjrO>££ in equivalent tests. No Jean works for the State of Cali-j gates from Stanford, Columbia, and upon. will be given by the Uni- fornia as a secretary at the Customs the University of Chicago, late next As everyone knows by this time, After the game the Dons will take the Bookstoflfc-hjOSpfl House. We asked what the boss spring. 4&P>ML M WA an imposing schedule of events has to the road to meet College of Pacific number of books containing thought of all the confusion with ct^r the 1952 syffilG- been arranged to keep both the old- at Stockton and Loyola at Pasadena, me type of examination which dress fittings, pictures and the evolution, an^rDr. timers and the up-and-comers happy and therefore it is a fitting contrast will be administered to you, when "kr treat for many days to come. These events that on the day when the "Old Grad; strongly urged that you purchase a tics a rrow form only the basis for the real rea­ copy of the same and prepare your­ r return to the school they love, tl \stponed r!dffr _l_ E>ject By HA; Y WENDT son for the Great Return. The Dons fabulous Ollie Matson and his se self, otherwise you may, as one-third cussing polyn Bejcjrtence will come back to renew friendships, of the draftees last time, fail the test. The first i#ual Club Week of the to talk over old times, to revisit the teammates take their departure from By JOHN RICH niglffi of different gem thSpopu It is up to you to apply for the test University will officially begin on settings of joyful times on the cam­ the San Francisco football scene. mitted for^spglStiQ,^ lation. His Arne leaguesWho * Due to«tft^Punfortunate accident, at one of the local draft boards as an aturday Jpbrning, November 3, at pus. The inscription over the fireplace The rivalry between these jt*0' submitted to represent the day school, will present pape at aspects it now appe«£j&8t*b$ annual Soph­ applicant for the test on December ,m whwjji the displays of the vari- in the lounge sums up the Home­ Bay Area Jesuit institutions has been tball team was given the evolution rangh the biochemi- omore Drag^ilrnot De held on No­ 13, 1951, or April 24, 1952. A] arflj&us organizations will be coming feelings as only a Vergilian long and bitter as is characteristic of of choosing the queen. cal to the statistic ib family feuds, but since the end of the vember 3Q,.a4 previously announced. tions for the December test m r indent and alumni in- quotation can. It is in Latin and it Members of the court are Beverly I VaW n Neale c ^and Dr. Theo- War the battle has reached its high­ This was the announcement made by postmarked no later than midnight Ttf£< exhibits will remain advises: "Forsan et haec olim mini- Luchetti, Arleen Young, and Lois| do 'of Columbia, est intensity. Prior to 1947, the Dons Soph President and lirag Chairman Monday, November 5 ' n\ lil &jpm, and it is during that misse juvabit," in short, "Perhaps it 'his trip to Europe, Dr. were annual underdogs, and it was Dom.TjKaflrmo at Tuesday's regular cations for the Apr at «£e fifteen alumni judges will make us happy some day to re­ (tfrill continue his extensive only through pure determination that mei^ng of the Stude Executive postmarked no' ; member the good times we've had butterflies in the Arctic £g||,the perpetual trophy to the Hilltoppers were able to stand Monday, March' here." f'whl^^^iebegan in 1947, which sets up the most up against the perennially mighty All of us have much to recall in our Dom explaih&plthat his cTtoimittee number of the^^SSksnyj Bv' Sj| grant display, Broncos. But since that time, USF years at the University. The dances, had contacted tfe'California^jpuntry Francisco Philosophical Society. Since the exception of the Was- has fielded teams which year after Club and MservedJMsJor the pftnned ical Society, whose booth the rallies, the jokes over coffee in the (ie he has visited the_North Ameri Green and Gold Room. We can re­ year could match the Santa Clarans date. The mat'reF«Wwferanteein|^he Friday nly on Saturday, the Arctic regions dunrrg^hguf^dif; member "rough" teachers and the in power as well as spirit. reservation with a depjSgtwas tur%e.d N. Rosen, parasitologist in its willBontinue from 9 am to Lt years. This European griping over marks. Most of all, we This season is no exception. The over to Student Body Treasurer f the California Department pRay, Tuesday, and Wed- Don Tttory Dc his first chanoe> can remember the friendships formed Dons are considered mighty, while Visbal, who saw to it tnarahe chec' sh and Game Laboratory, will )vember S, 6, and 7. The the genetic types in our college years which have occa­ the Broncos are called lowly; but yet was made out and mailed a week be guest speaker at the weekly pral locations of the club ex- imax( America with those found in sioned the party-times and the plans there is something distinguishing fore the deadline. But whaPhMgfened ilogy Seminar to be held in Room s are as follows: Europe. Dr. Hovanitz will co discussed for the future. Our Home­ about any team that wears the cardi­ after that has not been deterrSKed, 204 of the Gleeson Library at 2:00. In the Main Floor Lecture Room ters a%4 id ill gather research in Lapland in those p coming will bring new value to all of nal and white of the Valley school. except that the deposit didn't arrive Gleeson Library: Sodality of at Moose Lodge on Su ay night, The subject of Mr. Rosen's lecture Sweden and Nojrway lying wi these things. In 1949 they completely forgot about at the Country Club in time and rW November 4, for what shai up as a will be "Disease Research and Con­ Arctic Circle. M$ Lady, Block Society, Delta being underdogs, and dethroned Ken­ The celebrations began yesterday reservation was canceled. A thorough vktory dance wfe the HI ers. trol of Game Birds and Mammals." Both the prominence of Dr. Hova­ Sigma Pi, St. Ives Law Club, Inter­ tucky in the Orange Bowl, upset with the Kick-off Luncheon at the check of clubs and hotels in the Bay Mr. Rosen, an alumnus of USF, will nitz and that of this University will national Relations, Philhistorian De­ UCLA, and tied Stanford. During The dance, w" ve as a Marines' Memorial Club close to the Area has revealed that there just illustrate this highly interesting lec­ be heightened in scientific circles by bating Society, Pi Sigma Alpha, that same campaign they more than climax to the ac ies marking the eastern boundaries of the campus. aren't any places available for a func­ ture with aboitt fifty colored slides of this European trip, and by the publi­ Pershing Rifles, and the Evening Di­ held their own while losing to Okla­ annual USF-Sant; clash, will The throngs of assembled alumni tion of this kind before the end of work in the field with wild life. cation of Dr. Hovanitz's paper in the vision. •fi^m'wtH homa and California, the number one the year. And after that the social get under way at and last till were addressed by Father William J. annual bound volume of symposia, Within the R.O.T.C. enclosure: and four teams nationally. Among 1 am. Admissi have been Dunne, Fr. Herman Hauck (newly calendar is almost entirely full. How­ published by the Society for Experi­ their other notable upsets in recent set at $1.00 for 0 cents for Scabbard and Blade.
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