Notre Dame Alumnus, Vol. 12, No. 09
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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 ^K^?^i^e^^ali^t»»'!^if£Ka^^ sidetrips you want to male, then continue whenever yon are ready (^AZUM^CL^ (^^/^A^^ Suppose you are making an Orient cruise: arrive at Shanghai, and find China more fascinating than you ever dreamed any place could be. One of the nicest thmgs about cruising on the famous President Liners Stopovcrl Visit Hangchov and Soochow, Tientsin... and Peking. Stay is the absolute freedom they allow you—to sail when you pIease,stop- as long as you like. Then continue on... on another President Liner. over as you like, continue on when you choose. ORIENT ROUNDTAIPS President Liners sail every week Actually you may go through the Panama Canal to California from Lo:s Angeles and San Francisco via Hawaii and the Sunshine (or New Vork), to the Orient and hack, or Round (he Afijrid almost Route to Japan, China and the Philippines; every other week from as freely on these great ships as you could on your own private yacht. Seattle, via the fast Short Route. You may go one way, return the other And the fares are no more than for ordinary passage! —stopping over wherever you hke, travel on the new S. S. President STOPOVER AS YOU LIKE Regular, frequent sailings of Coolidge and S. S. President Hoover and as many others as ) ou choose the President Liners make it possible for you to stopover exactly of the President Liner fleet. Special summer roundirips are from $450, idieie you want to—see the things you want to see and make the First Class $240 for extra-economical Tourist Class. ROUND THE WORLD The most thnlUng cruise of all. the Vorld liners and fromSlCS on the Trans-Pacific vessels. Round- 26,000 miles. Visits in 21 pons in 14 difierent countries, including trips by President Liner are generously discounted, and Round Amer Hawaii, Japan, China, the Philippines, Malaya, hidia, Egypt, Italy, ica roundtrips—one way by President Liner, the other by train—^are France — Take only 85 days, or up to two full years—stopping over from $230 First Class, hometown to hometown. There is a sailing wherever you please, at no additional fare. First Class fares are from every week from New York; fortnightly from California. $833.50. And you may sail any week from New LINERS Ask any travel York, Los Angeles or San Francisco; alternate PRESIDENT weeks from Seattle. Get full details at once. it? (gent to show you picttires of the charming public rooms and ample decks, the staterooms Uiat are CALIFORNIA President Liners bring all STEAMSHIP LINES AND all outside—and samples of the splendid menus I the thrill of real world travel to this speedy hiter- Get all information from your own travel coastal trip.. .via Havana and the Panama Canal agent, or at any one of our offices: New York; to California. If you like, you may stopover with Boston;'Washington, D. C; Cleveland; Chicago; the same freedom that these liners allow you on HlHl Toronto; Vancouver, B. C; Seattle; Portland, Ore.; die longer cruises. Fares are from $140 on Round MAIL UNE San Frandsco, Oakland, Los Angeles or Sao Diego. June, 1934 THE NOTKE DAME ALUMNUS 251 Why not help us in thinking over Do you want Father CHara to write CCAiMENT and planning next year's ALUMNUS? It's a Religious Page? for you. Several articles of an experi mental nature have been printed this Does Petritz's sports section satisfy Another volume of the ALUMNUS year. One by the Editor was an outright you? closes. effort to find out whether you wanted a Do you want a page of campus news little culture mixed in with your busi We have completed what we believe by an undergraduate? ness and social news and the news of the is a good year, through the grace of the campus. The reactions were very favor The Editor has been in the imenviable University. We do not consider our able—if and when they materialized. But position of htaving to content the above selves entirely on the dole, for the year there weren't enough comments actually generous and co-operating contributors has given us an opportunity to return reaching the editorial desk to make up with something akin to "Well, I haven't in valuable service this courtesy. the floating power deficit of a cake of had any complaints." But it leaves us as we begin a new soap. year two great objectives—first the build Do you, or do you not, want articles ing up of our machinery so that it will of definite intellectual appeal? not fail us in mid-year again. And Take it away. Summer! Do you want Father Cavanaugh to second, the continuing of the service we write book reviews? And a pleasant tan to you. have been privileged to perform, so that we may enjoy at least a spiritual freedom from obligations. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Our own machinery depends upon JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25, Editor those five gross and material coins of the realm called dollars. You have al The magazine is published monthly during the scholastic year by the Alimmi ready been reminded. The more prompt Association of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame. Indiana. The subscription price is $2.00 a year; the price of singJe copies is 25 oents. The the response, the more economy in post annual alumni dues of $5.00 include a year's subscription to THE ALt73INT7S. age saved. Entered as second-class matter January 1. 1923, at the post office at Noire Dame, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. All correspondence should Our opportunity for service lies in be addressed to The Hotre Dame Alumnus, Box 81, Notre Dame, Indiana. continuing to contact the hundreds of MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ALUMNI CtoUNcn. boys who, with their parents, are study ing these summer months the facilities MBMBES OP THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC ALTOINI FEDERATION and the possibilities of attendance at the various colleges. Literature explaining the academic and financial phases of THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Notre Dame will be supplied to you or of the to these boys or their parents as re quested. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Alumni Headquarters, Main Floor Administration Bldg., During the summer, early in July as Notre Dame, Indiana planned, the administration of the Uni versity will be changed, in conformity JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, Secretary-Treasurer WILLIAM E. DOOLEY, Assistant Secretary with the rules of the Congregation of Holy Cross. ALUMNI BOARD What would ordinarily be an event of FRANK C. AVALKER, '09 ------ - Honorary President tremendous significance in the life of a TIMOTHY P. GALVIN, '1G ---------- President university, goes with little more than personal interests and attachments for BERNARD J. Voix, '17-------- First Vice-President individuals, since the history of Notre GRATTAN T. STANFORD, '04 ----- - Second Vice-President Dame is a history of progress achieved ROBERT E. LYNCH, '03------------ Director by all those connected with it, dependent HUGH A. O'DONNELL, '94 -- Director upon no one. FRED L. STEERS, 'H------ ------- Director It is the hope of the Alumni Oflice to JAMES E. DEERY, '10------------- Director issue a special news bulletin announcing M. HARRY MILLER, 'IQ ------- - (ex officio) Director these changes as soon as possible after their publication. >t^f^' '"• -J^~^ V ^C 'iLi '^•* / ^^^. s 377 mortality. (One of the many beautiful poems by Father O'Donnell.) I shall go da\\*n as the sun goes I shall take flight as a bird wings I shall mount, strong as the promise Over the rim of the world— Into the infinite blue— Forged in love's white, first fire— Will there be quiet around me. What if my song come ringing A soul through the rustling darkness As of sunset banners furled? Down through the stars and the dew? On pinions of desire. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Vol. XII. June, 1934 No. 9. FatKer O'Donnell, Brilliant, Beloved President, Dies June 4 Outstanding Priest, Scholar, Educator, Executive and Soldier Is Taken Just as Commencement is Completed; Funeral Services, Simple but Impressive, Are Held June 6 His courageous and sacrificing His brother, Michael, and his sis heart yielding only when the nine ters, Mrs. Agnes Carey, Mrs. R. A. tieth annual Commencement cere Lundgren, and Miss Maiy O'Donnell, monies had passed into history, Rev. of Kokomo, Ind., were with him when Charles Leo O'Donnell, C.S.C., presi he passed away. dent of the University of Notre The Rev. John P. O'Hara, C.S.C, Dame, died in St. Joseph's hospital. who was appointed vice-president in South Bend, Indiana, at 1:50 a.m., July, 1933, had been carrying on on June 4. The awarding of degrees many of Father O'Donnell's duties had been completed at 6 o'clock the since then. He will serve as acting previous afternoon, June 3. president until July, at which time Father O'Donnell's condition had Father O'Donnell's second three-year been critical since May 1 and on term wotdd have ended. many occasions the word had come Father O'Donnell, eleventh presi from the hospital that he could not dent of Notre Dame and one of the live "through the night" or "another most brilliant minds of the day, was 24 hours." Several times he seemed bom in Greenfield, Indiana, Nov. 15, to be on the point of death. 1884. In each instance, however, his tre He was graduated from Notre mendous determination and unbeliev Dame in 1906.