Notre Dame Alumnus, Vol. 20, No. 03

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 DAME ALUMNUS New Alumni Program (Page 3) Trustee Board Expanded (Page 7) Centenary Festival Planned (Page 8) N. D. Men in Service (Page 9) The Undefeated Team (Page 13) Battalion Staff, Notre Dame N. R. O. T. C, at Entrance to Rockne Memorial (SEE NEXT PAGE FOR IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUALS) Vol. 20 DECEMBER, 1941 No. 3 The Notre Dame Alumnus UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS 'm* COVER PICTURE Fint row: Caclet Lt. Commander Robert L. Bobbett, St. Louis, Btn. Commander. Second row, left to ROSCOE POUND AT N.D. HANLEY EXHIBITION right: Cadet Lt. (junior grade) James J. Phillips, Kane, Pa., Btn. Soscoe Pound, dean emeritus of the A water color exhibition of Francis J. Adjutant;' Cadet Lt. Thomas T. Harvard Law School, and one of the Hanley, assistant professor in the De Reybum, Leavenworth, Kans., Btn. foremost jurists in America, will give a partment of Arts, will be shown in Chi Sub-Commander; and Cadet En series of lectures at Notre Dame on Jan. cago, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Reading sign John R. Keane, Garden City, 22 to Jan." 26, inc. Kev. Hugh O'Donnell, and Fremont, O., Ferdinand, Ind., and N. Y., Btn. Commissary. Third C.S.C, president of the University, said several other cities. The 24 painting ex row: Cadet Chief Petty Officer in announcing these lectures: "On the hibition opened Nov. 20 at Mundelein Charles M. Urruella, Miami Beach, •invitation of Dean Clarence E. Manion College in Chicago and will remain there Fla., Btn. C. P. O., and Cadet Sec of the College of Law, and through the a month before being taken to the other ond Petty Officer James T. Crow generous cooperation of an anonymous cities for display periods of three or ley, New York City, Btn. Bugler. benefactor, I am happy to announce that four weeks each. Fourth row, in Color Guard: Dean Emeritus Eoscoe Pound of the Many of his water colors are marine, Cadet Petty Officer Fourth Class Harvard Law School will deliver a ser depicting the sea in its diverse moods. Charles E. Kane, Jr., Flossmoor, ies of four lectures at Notre Dame the A few are scenes from about Notre IIL; Cadet Petty Officer First Class latter part of January." Dame. Edward J. Singelyn, Romeo, Mich.; Dean Pound will take for his subject, Mr. Hanley studied water coloring in Cadet Petty Officer Second Class "The Revival of Natural Law." All Kyoto, Japan, as a traveling fellow of William T. Dwyer, Chicago, and members of the Bar Associations in the Rhode Island School of Design. He Cadet Petty Officer Third Class Indiana and many prominent lawyers was a student of Benjii Asada. Thomas R. Shellworth, Portland, are expected to attend. Ore. Father O'Donnell said that Dean Pound is the first of a group of distin PRESS MEETING guished American scholars to be incited Delegates to the midwest regional Dame to further the advancement of Dr. annually to lecture to the students of meeting in Huntington, Ind., of the Cath Menger's original work, and the two the College of Law, according to the olic Press Association were guests of papers on non-Euclidean geometry are policy adopted by Dean Manion and the Rev. Hugh O'Donnell, C.S.C, president parts of the doctoral dissertations of faculty of the College. of the University, at a luncheon preced Frederick P. Jenks and James C. Abbott, Dean Pound has had one of the most ing the Notre Dame-Illinois game. At the latter now an instructor at the distinguished careers in the history of the luncheon the group was addressed United States Naval Academy. legal education in America, culminating by the Most Rev. John F. Noll, D.D., his work in the Har\-ard Law School, of editor of Our Sundai/ Visitor, and by An abstract of Mr. Jenks' doctoral which he was dean from 1916 to 1936. Father O'Donnell. thesis has already appeared in the Pro He is the author of several recognized ceedings of the National Academy of At the meeting in Huntington on Fri Sciences for 1940, an unusual honor. books and is a widely quoted authority. day, Clarence E. Manion, dean of the Law School, spoke on "The Press and The first mathematician to receive his Americanism." doctorate at Notre Dame has also con FATHER BOLAND'S PAMPHLET tributed a paper to this issue of the • A pamphlet entitled "The Popes and Reports. He is the Rev. Bernard J. Topel, Christian Citizenship" containing ex MATHEMATICS REPORTS now of Carroll College, Helena, Mont., cerpts from Encyclical Letters of five Research papers by members and stu whose paper, represents the solution of a popes, compiled by Rev. Francis J. dents of the Mathematics Department problem begun in the summer of 1940 Boland, C.S.C, '18, dean of the College at Notre Dame are featured in the latest at Notre Dame. issue of Reports of a Mathematical Col of Arts and Letters, has been issued by Other papers of the issue, by Profes loquium, edited and published at the Uni the social action department of the Na sors A. N. Milgram and P. M. Pepper versity. tional Catholic Welfare Conference. Deal of the University faculty, deal with anal ing with the citizen in all aspects of his Two papers are devoted to the new ysis and metric geometry, and their ap social and political life, the handbook foundation of non-Euclidean . geometry plications to the various branches of discusses authority and origin of the which Dr. Karl Menger, head of the mathematics. The current Reports is the state, natural rights, the family educa Mathematics Department, presented third in a series which is being published tion, and government. The excerpts were three years ago to the National Academy annually under the sponsorship of the carefully, chosen from the letters of of Science. Mathematics Department. Leo XIII, Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius Non-Euclidean geometry replaces Eu XI, and Pius XII. clid's postulate about parallels by an Father Boland in 1935 organized the other assumption, while retaining the McCLURG ELECTED present Department of Politics at the remainder of Euclid's principles. This At an Oct. 31 meeting of the Indiana University. Last year he collaborated one exception leads to strange results, State Conference on Social Work, Pro with the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John A. Ryan, contradicting those of ordinary geome fessor J. J. McClurg, of the University D.D., of Catholic University, in publisli- try. The science has found numerous faculty, was elected to the board of di ing the textbook. Catholic Principles of applications in modem physics, particu rectors replacing Judge Daniel Pyle, cir Polities, which is now used in many larly in the theory of relativity. cuit court judge of South Bend, whose Catholic colleges and universities. Research is being conducted at Notre term as a board member had expired. The Notre Dame Alumnus This magazine is published mont-hly from October to June, inclusive (except January), by the University of Notie Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. Entered as second class matter October 1. 1939, at the Poetoffice. Nf^xe Dame, IndUna. under the act cf August 21, 1912. Member of the American Alumni Council and of the National Catholic Alumni Federation. JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25, EJitor; WILUAM R. DOOLEV. '26, Managing Editor Vol. 20 DECEMBER, 1941 No. 3 Clubs to Key New Alumni Program Board of Directors Launches Drive Through Clubs to Boom Alumni Financial Program for Centennial President Harry F. Kelly and his ciation in this program so effective that Board of Directors, after several confer the support of non-alumni, — friends, ences with Club and District oiiicers and educational foundations, corporations, the administration of the University, etc., — will be secured by the force of offer the following program to the Clubs your zeal and your example. and the Alumni Association as a whole, Through articles and pamphlets, you as a fitting contribution of the alumni to are aware by now of the major problem the 100th anniversary of the University of Notre Dame. of Notre Dame: 1. Increase of participation by alum- ' ni and non-graduate former students in the financial program of the University. (Through the personal approach possible with the cooperation of the Clubs, it is hoped that the present annual low figure of some 2,500 contributors will be raised Alumni President Kelly far higher toward the total potential of 20,000.) 2. Increase the amount of annual con tribution. (The objective of the new pro gram is a fund to exceed the cost of operation of the Alumni program by. approximately $100,000 annually, and / heartily endorse the general idea of minimum, which sum will be turned over making the Alumni Association truly a to the University as unrestricted income national fwee. for the advancement of to take the i)lace of income from endow our beloved Notre Dame. The attempting ment which the University lacks and of any such program through the local which the alumni cannot now contribute. clubs will not only assist the University The present per capita contribution av on the road to even more glorious erage of only 95 cents per lay alumnus achievement, but it loill redound to the is not enough to pay the cost of opera advantage of the individual alumnus in tion of the Association itself, but the The Notre Dame Club of Chicago his own etymmunity. Never yet has Notre Board feels confident that with the new Dame been found wanting.

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