Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 56, No. 03
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-:< ,.' •••• aiDeacbolastie j^sr:^^ DISCEQUASISEAIPERVICTVRVS VIVE-QUASI-CRASinORITVRVS Vol. LVI. October 14, 1922 No. 3 FORWARD, MARCH! mistake—^in us, if all will keep alive \\ith good suggestions and good criticisms, the JOHN CAVANAUGH. Students' Activities Committee will surely HE Students' Activities Committee have its most successful year. begins this fall what promises to be In exchange for this new and improved- the most successful year of its exist attitude, every member of the Conunittee Tence. In the two previous years the promises to give his best energies to your^ Committee had to convince the student body service. The Committee has already manjr. that there was work which it alone could do movements in mind that must necessarily^ for the general good of the University. Some have full student cooperation. It is not of the students were reluctant to feel full because we believe in a policy of meaningless, confidence in the S. A. C, but the popularity secrecy that we cannot announce now our and prestige of the Committee gTew gradu full progTam, but often, for the best interests, ally with its increasing service. Now the of all, it is well to delay publication of plans Committee is generally recognized as an in- until they ripen into probility. You may feel dispensible element in student life. confident—confidence again—^however, that The members of the Committee this year your work is our work, that we are trying to do not believe, however, that the relations of do everything possible for yom- good. On the student body and the S. A. C. should your part, feel interest in the S. A. C, give cease to become better merely because the us your cooperation, your suppoit, and students feel confidence in the Committee. In until they ripen into probability. You may fact, the most effective work,of the organiza feel confident—confidence again—^however,, tion will not begin until there is a close feel that your work is our work, that we are try ing of cooperation between the general ing to do everything possible for your good.. student body and the S. A. C. Just as it is On your part, feel interest in the S. A. C, , the business of every citizen to take an active give us your cooperation, your support, and- interest in the conduct of his government, so altogether we should have a pleasant and; also, we believe, it is the duty of every fruitful year. student to do everything within his power to Notre Dame never was, or shall be, a place see that the Students' Activities Committee where somebody has everji^hing done for him is run satisfactorily. For this reason, we do or where somebody does everji;hing. Wei not merely say that constructive criticisms have no weird and magic machineiy which will be welcome—we say that it is your duty will fashion things to your liking. College to make helpful criticisms. The'business of existence is a constant business of getting up the S. A. C. is your business. The S. A. C. a pool. Wlien everybody has chipped in, lives and grows on complaints and sug there will be turkey and dressing for all. If gestions. If you, a disgruntled member of only one man chips in, he generally reserves the student body, or you who have a bright the banquet for himself, and rightly .so? If suggestion in your head, stand timidly by you want to yell, do it where somebody can awaiting an introduction to the S. A. C, you hear you. Don't be your o-^ai private cheer- will never feel comfortably that you are in leader, and other people's private knocker. the life of the school. On the other hand, if That's the S. A. C. idea and with malice, every student will feel a friendly confidence towards none and charity to all, as Lincoln: —^the confidence that will permit at least one says, we want to have you agTee. "^2 '^e Hocre 5ame Scholascic T\,r A r^-rn T:^r\-r> o A T -n^ Q^^e knives, stoueware that was covered with illegible hieroglyphics, old prints that were "Shall I wrap it up?" asked the shrivelled almost faded away and a miscellany of other old clerk who was fingering the strange stuff that his less generous friends called mirror. ' "Tommy's bric-a-brac." The mirror that Latlu'op shook his head as he fished in his ^as obviously to be added to his collection iwckets for his bill-fold. would hannonize well with them. It was "A good buy, sir," resmiied the clerk, pentagon-shaped,, bearing a border of figures "•You'll not regxet it. There was a woman that to the average person would have been here today who promised to come back later suggestive only of pages from histories de- to get it. As a matter of fact, there is voted to ancient Egypt. There were robed probably not another one like it in the coun- figures with straight beads and crowns, and try. We have had it scarcely a month. You women wearing ribbons and sandals. On , remember the English archeologist, Dr. Sam- the back of the mirror were numerous fig- well, who died at the Cloverton? This was ^res, which were almost indistinguishable, his. His v/ife sold it to us when disposing - as if worn away after many years. Around of some of his effects—Twenty-five is right, these, a circle, was inscribed. Except for sir. Perhaps jon have many blocks to go. a crack across one of its corners, the mirror Should! make a package for you?'! was in perfect condition. Insize, the whole Lathrop brushed aside the hand of the thing was not more than eight inches across, dried-up salesman as he picked up his pur- "Jumping jack-rabbits," Lathrop mused, ^^^^se. as he continued his way along the street, "1 must enjoy the touch of it on my way "Eddie Pratt would have given a million to home. To wrap it up would be to take get his hands on this. It would have com- away half the_ delight of carrying it. I'll 23ieted his Egyptian collection. The real cut my face if 1 shave in front of it, but who stuff, too—that old boy in the shop didn't would mind that?" Then caressing the mir- realize what he had, else he wouldn't have ror as he placed it under his arm, Lathrop parted with it for a mere twenty-five dol- left the disordered shop. lars." The street lights were twinlding here and The damp warmth of the evening, which there along the avenue as he walked out of seemed to ebb and flow v/ith the wind, caused the place. A heavy mugginess hung over the him to continue his way on foot. The lighted city, pressed do^ai like a damp comforter street-cars that noisily passed exuded heat, by the dark clouds. There was a scent of Lathrop nervously wiped his forehead. It warm rain in the air, and pedestrians who was sultry even in the open air. In the west, hurried along the street seemed to wear paie long streaks of lightning shot between the colors of green and gray. heavy banks of cloud, while the low rumble , The threat of an approaching storm did of thunder rolled away into the distance, not worry Lathrop. He bit his lip as he "Well, well,—^j^ou'd better hurry, Tommy, stepped briskly along the pavement. Bach- old boy," sugg'ested Billy Evans whom elor though he Avas, there was still, even at Lathrop met in front of the Transit Club, thirty-five years, a curious energy in his "You'll get a drenching like the old nick, if bones. His tallness, emphasized by his sleii- you're not careful. It's going to pour down der build, gave hun the appearance of an un- in about ten minutes." gainly youth fresh from some frolic of mis- "Wet weather doesn't bother me," he re- chief or plmider. One arm swung along in torted, "at least, not the kind you mean, rhj'thm; the other held firmly the mirror Better watch out yourself or your wife'll that he had purchased only a few minutes have to wrap you up in flannels tonight." before. Evans' vords made Lathrop realize the "Tommy'^ Lathrop, as his friends called menacing threat of a storm. He preferred him, had a weakness for odd things. The however, to take his time. He did not like walls of his rooms were decorated mth the thought of consciously feeling that he strange objects, like broken swords, grotes- might have taken anyone's advice. In his '5^e Hcfcve 5ame Scholastic 73 present mood, any advice, he felt, was storm," the hostess began. "I always am. offensive. Stoniis give me the shivers. There, you The flashes of lig-htning that heralded the must let me place that mirror on the table. breaking' of a storm a few minutes later Yes,—^what a curious thing. You have got ma'de him reconsider. Big drops of rain fell wet, though. Do you think John wiU get like hot lead on the sidewalk. The rustling wet?" of the trees filled the atmosphere with vague Lathrop folded his hands. He confided restlessness. When, with one rush, a heavy that he wasn't sure about John's getting wet. downpour followed a sharp flash of light "You don't know John. We've been mar ning, it was enough to send even a hardened ried since January, you see, but he's always bachelor looldng for shelter.