Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 63, No. 04
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The Notre Dame Scholastic 101 COMMENT H '" "'" iniiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiii ni •• •••••••••••••••••••••••Ill ••••• •••••••••• •iiiiiiiiiiiiiii'Q At present, the main topic of com ment seems to be the World Series. In bated breath one hears reverent mention "of the gi-eat Ehmke, the lesser Root, the hapless English. And No^re Dame 5cko\abt io predictions as to the ultimate out Disce. Q.ua5i-5ermpeT»ViciiUPUs«-Vive-QuQsi^Tas-MoriluTiis Founded in 1872 come are as many, and thick, as swai-ms of bees around a hive. MURRAY HICKEY LEY Editor-iv^Chief HARLEY L. MCDEVITT Graduate Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Which, of course, is all the business T. VINCENT MCINTIRE Managing Editor of the self-appointed prophets, and EMIL L. TELFEL Ass't Managing Editor not ours. But we wonder if it has THOMAS A. CANNON Ass't Managing Editor ever occurred to you that you are, J. AKcnEK HURLEY The Week WALTER LANGFORD The College Parade night and day, the holder of a box JOEL EGEKER ikfjtaic and Drama seat at what is for you, the Woi-ld JOSEPH REEDY Campits Chtbs Series of World Series? ALFRED E. GALL Script Editor PAUL J. HALUNAN Features Editor LITERARY STAFF NEWS STAFF SPORTS STAFF In other words, from the time that RICHARD SULLIVAN JOHN BERGAN, News Editor JOHN A. KIENER. Sports Editor slightly groggy feeling strikes you as Literary Editor JAMES J. KEARNEY WiLUASI J. MAGARRAL. you pull yourself from bed in the WILLIAM KNAPP JAMES COLLINS InterhaU Sports Editor morning, until the time when you LOUIS L. HASLEY HOWARD WEBSTER HARRY A. SYLVESTER JOHN L. NANOVIC RICHARD J. O'DONNELL HEXKY B. ASJIAN shut your eyes on it all at night, you EDWARD E. BRENNAN NEIL HURLEY JA3IES MCFEELEY' are watching, avd playing, the game LOUIS A. BRENNAN ROUERT C. BALFE of games for you—the pitting of BUSINESS STAFF yourself against the World. HARRINGTON J. NOON Local Circulation Manager CHESTER M. AsHJXAN...F'ore2ffii Circulation Manager FREDERICK N. DAVIS Local Advertising Manager Each day is a game in the longest JAMES L. RIZER Foreign Advertising Manager series ever played. The World is JAMES H. RORKE WILLIAM SHERMAN JOHN BLANDA facing you; it is your job to take her FREDERICK J. BAUER FRANK J. CONBOY ANDREW MCGUAN offerings and make the most of them. And a foul never lands anything for VOL. LXIII. OCTOBER 11, 1929. No. 4. you! But you have the consolation of TABLE OF CONTENTS knowing that, if you don't do so well one day, you'll always come to bat The Week—Arc/ier Hurley i 102 again. Life has a habit of renewing Coming Events 103 one's innings and then, suddenly, like A Man About the Campus 104 an ill tempered umpire, calling the A Man You Know—Sim'Z L. Telfel 105 game off. Campus Clubs—Joseph Reedy 107 Editor's Page 1— 108 And it's all over—^then! Two Stories—i2o6ert Mulhdll 109-110 * * * In a Romany Circle of Light—Robert Clemens __ 111 Our Dining HaUs—Cornelius S. Ruffing . 112 But one thing we do know—in our The Wink 114 particular World Series—Ourself ver Rockne's Rockets Shoots to Initial Win—John A. Kiener 115 sus the SCHOLASTIC—^we are bottle- throwing spectator, cheering specta Splinters From the Press Box—J?. A. S., Jr. 126 tor—^though we do most of that our self—striking hitter, and struck-out THE SCHOLASTIC is published -weekly at the University of Notre Dame. Manu batter, all in one. scripts may be addressed to THE SCHOLASTIC, Publications Office. Main Building:. Entered as second-class matter at Notre Dame. Indiana. Acceptance for mailing Which is something of a consola at special rate of postage. Section 1103. October 3, 1917. authorized June 25, 1918. tion. And again, something of some thing else. We can't quite think of The Advertisers in Notre Dame Publications Deserve the Patronage of the right word. And so, with your All Notre Dame Men kind and eager permissions, we'll con sult—the SCHOLASTIC! (3iiiiniitliiiiiiiiiiiniii"iiii"><i""""i">">>< •• • iiiiiiMiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiufiiiHiMiuiiiii iiii ui>ii,in 102 The Notre Dame Scholastic LilTERATUR E supplanted by architecture. A general all are, that^-well, it usually ends by believing one another. complaint from the hall janitors that their pay should be All men li^^ng within a radio distance of any large city raised if so manj'' SCHOLASTICS are to be thrown in the have met in. Badin "rec" to decide just who is going to buy refuse boxes every Saturday morning. And a complete the crepe paper for the Christmas dance, and to ask one sell-out of Hcu-pers at the campus news-stand. All these another how good the old high school team is going to be things as a result of my failing to write a Week for the last this fall. Organizations Week it is called; meaning, of issue. But a public, especially one whose paper baskets are course, that things should be organized for one week at such accurate barometers in attesting the power of my page, least. must not be deserted. And so here's for another Week. N^OT very often do we stoop to literary criticism—but anyone can tell a rotten tomato from a fresh, juicy one, OWN at Indiana we learned any number of things D especially if the tomato smears itself over the critic's ear. over ihe week-end—amongst others that fraternity And because Vince Mclntyre wrote an editorial in a recent brothers are mostly candied apples who will never recover issue that was e.xceptionally good—we want to thank him. until they get away, from old Lotta Bologna, that sorority It was courageous, not many of us would have our initials sisters ai-e sistei-ly only to brothers, and that school spirit under such a work. In that editorial was none of the at Indiana is about as strong as the Socialist vote in the artificial lustre of a literary glass eye, rather it had the Garden of Eden. Moi-eover, that the Book Nook has nothing calm truth that belonged to our eyes before we lost faith to do uilh either books or nooks, though one can easily see in Santa Claus, tales of cherry trees and hatchets, and the that it has plenty to do with crooks. other simplicities that are as great as truth. UR football team is as plucky a group of fellows as o HREE HUNDRED and fifty students working their ever jogged out on any field, and if they get the right sort 1 way through school, and as many more being worked of support from here, plentj"^ of surprises await some other through, and the rest jtist going through, pushed on by teams before November 30. If you think playing away nothing more exacting than ennui. Student trips to Chicago from home all year isn't difficult, wander down to Stude- should bring some out of the annual hibernation; quarterly bakers' alone some noon and shout to the force at large exams will take the toll in about three weeks; and then, too, what a very little you think of second generation Amer what a whale of a difference just a few cuts make. icans. You will then be fighting on a foreign field without support. JL LAYING in the band isn't what it used to be. Corcoran uncorks a few quips at their expense in his Cork Tips; MLA. N once used clubs to drive inquisitives, heathen, stray the piccolo players have struck because they all wanted to women, or hungry baboons out of his cave. Clubs in those be called Pete; and Busscher isn't to deposit his tobacco days were clubs, and as such wielded considerable influence. juice in the base horn any "longer. But then, there are Clubs protected men, their hearthstones, and their whet compensations. Four trips to Chicago seem like a gift to stones—but we degenerate into moderns. Now a club is those who are not musicians, but if they had risked the something that a man joins to protect himself from him hoof and mouth disease to the same extent that the band self. He knows that if he can get a crowd together with members have, they too would be worth taking on a few the implied purpose of having each andeverjf other mem excursions. Blow your own horn, and the band will blow ber tell each and every other member just how good they its saxophone. The Notre Dame Scholastic 103 V %* V V V V *•* %* V V V %* V V the lobby will be in charge of the BOARD OF PUBLICATIONS Jl Coming Events \\ Chicago Club and all student visitors MEETS **• •*• •J* •*• *** *** *** •** *** **• •*« **• *** •** are requested to avail themselves of The fii'st meeting of the Board of this convenience in locating them Publications for the present college FRIDAY, October 11—Scholastic selves in Chicago. year was held last evening in the Editorial Staff meeting. Publica After the Wisconsin game, October Publications office of the Main Build tions' OfRce, 7:00 p. m.; Scholar 19, there will be an informal dance ing. The Reverend P. J. Carroll, C. ship Dance, Playland Park, 8:30 p. at the Stevens. The cast of "Follow S. C, chaii-man of the Faculty Board, m.; Music by Indianans. Thru," now playing at the Apollo presided at the meeting, at which the theater, will entertain the host of various Editors and Advertising Man SATURDAY, October 12—Football, visitors. Admission to the dance will agers of the University Publications Notre Dame vs.