The Notre Dame Scholastic 323 CCHMENT Qiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii •iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii nil IliillilllliliillllllililillMllltlllltllllllillllllilillllllllillllllllllllll Not so very long ago we were writ­ ing, in this column, "choose far stars to check near objects by." At the time we thought it a fine thought in fine dress. No^re Dame Scholastic t)isce- Quasi- Semper-Vic%upus-Vive-Quasi<CTas-MoriluTas And we still do: but in the hustle, Founded in 1872 the rush and the crush of modern MoRRAY HiCKEr LEY Bditor-in-Ckief day life, it is sometimes hard to find HARLEY L. MCDEVITT Graduate Manager. the star. And, too, stars are usually EDITORIAL STAFF seen only at night. T. VINCENT MCINTIRE Managing Editor KillL L. TELFEL Assistant Managing Editor Suppose you are a clei-k, or, if you THOaiAS A. CANNON Assistant Managing Editor will, a department manager in a store J. ARCHER HURLEY The Week WALTER LANGFORD. ..: The College Parade in some large city. You report for JOEL EGERER Music and Drama work around seven-thirty or eight in RAMON G. SMITH Campus Clubs the morning; the afternoon is a repe­ ALFRED E. GALL Script Editor tition of the morning; evening comes, PAOL J. HALLINAN .'.Features Editor home, dinner, and many ways to NEWS STAFF spend the evening; but no time for JOHN BERGAN, Neios Editor the stars. JAMES J. KEARNEY RICHARD J. O'DONNELL GEORGE ALLVN NEIL HURLEY JAMES COLLINS JOHN JVIotz JOSEPH REEDY T.F-S1.TE RAODATZ HOWARD WEBSTER EDWARD BRENNAN EDWARD CONNORS Not, by any means, that we are AUSTIN BOYLE JAMES CARMODY writing a brief for star gazing. But we would like to point out the im­ SPORTS STAFF portance of some concern with the JOHN A. KIENER, Sports Editor WILLIAM J. MACARRAL, InterhaU. Sports Editor HARRY A. SYL\-ESTEI:, JR. black spokes, flecked with the dust of HENRY B. ASMAN JA^IES JICFEELEY the stars, in the great wheel of Night. BUSINESS STAFF HARRINGTON J. NOON Local Circulation Manager CHESTER M. ASHMAN. .Foreign Circulation Manager We can't expect to know the inner FREDERICK N. DAVIS Local Advertising Manager parts of the spokes of a wheel—es­ JAMES L. RIZER Foreign Advertising Manager pecially Avhen they are black. But JAMES H. RORKE WILLIAM SHERMAN JOHN BLANDA when they are illuminated by dust— FREDERICK J. BAUER FRANK J. CONBOY ANDREW MCGUAN that dust sparkling with a light all MERLE V. BALDWIN NORMAN E. DUKE its own—we can know something. VOL. LXIII. NOVEMBER 29, 1929. No. 11. And when we catch glimpses of -the far-off dust, we catch, at the same time, some idea of how infinitely less TABLE OF CONTENTS sparkling, less illuminating, is the dust in our own lives. Frontispiece 324 Coming Events 325 Again, a great deal of what we 'do' Quarterly Out Wednesday—JS'wnY L. Telfel 326 is dust on the roadways of our lives. A Man About the Campus—Richard O'Donnell 329 And when we see another roadway, A Man You Know 330 strewn with the dust of light (that Music and Drama—Joel Egerer 332 is a roadway in itself) we can al­ Gleanings 332 most say, with all due respect for the Campus Clubs—Ramon Smith - 333 man who gave us our first idea, College Parade—Walter M. Lang ford 334 "Choose far dust to check near dust The Week—Archer Hurley 335 by!" The Story of a Forward Pass—Paul J. Hallinan- 336 Editor's Page 339 In the checking, several new val­ The Wink 340 ues are likely to be assigned. And Notre Dame on Wildcat Rampage—John Kiener 341 too, the ultimate thought may break First Basketball Game Tuesday 345 a few of its arrows in the ordinarily Splinters From the Press Box—H. A. S., Jr. 351 rather well castled country of our mind—that thought that asks us where the real path, the actual road, THE SCHOLASTIC is pobliahed weekly at the Univeraty of Notre Danteu Maao- may be, if all our roadways, near and scripts may be.addressed to THE SCHOLASTIC. Poblieatians Office. Uain BoiWns. far, are dust on a greater? Entered as second-class matter at Notre Dame. Indiana. Acceptance for waiting at special rata of postage. Section 1103. October 3. 1917. aathorized June 2S. 1918. But that is a disturbing thought. Possibly, we are open to censure for The Adrertisen in Notre Daae PahUcatiwu Dcaerre tiw Patronace et . advancing it—and yet, real living is All Notre Dame Men disturbance! Q.., 324 The Notre Dame Scholastic Sacred S^eart Ghurch in Winter I The Notre Dame Scholastic 325 ance of the Review by December 14 sisted on accompanying the team to Coming Ei nts is promised by the editors. Chicago, two weeks ago. It is believed Write-ups of the players who are that the recent cold snap, by driving maintaining Notre Dame's acknowl­ the dampness out of the air, will edged supremacy by men on the cam­ facilitate his recoverv. FRIDAY, November ? J-^SCHOLASTIC pus who know them intimately, and Editorial staff meeting, Publica­ by famous sports writers who obsei-ve tions office. Main B aiding, 7 p. m. THREE PRIZES OFFERED them in the gi-eat stadiums of the FOR ENGLISH ESSAYS country every Saturday, will give SATURDAY, November 30—Mass Notices of three prize contests foi football followers an enduring record for the team, Sacred Heart Church, university men have been received by of the great 1929 combination. The •6:25 a. m.—Footbail, Notre Dame the English department. A prize of Review staff has garnered an aggre­ vs. U. S. Military i-.cademy, Yan­ §100 is offered in the Edgar Allan Poe gation of writers which matches the kee Stadium, New York City.— annual contest for the best critical class of the team itself, in Grantland Gridgraph, Gymnasium, 1:00 p. m. essay on the works of Poe. The Wit­ Rice, Coach Rockne, Irving Vaughan, —Dead line, 12:00 midnight for ter Bynner undergraduate poetry Harry MacNamara, Jimmie Bums of conti-ibutions to Christmas Juggler. prize of §150 is again to be awarded the I. N. S. Service, Max Hannum of —Movies, Washington Hall, 6:40 this year. the Pittsburgh Press, and Paul G. and 8:15 p. m.—S. A. C. Informal University freshmen are eligible for Dance, Knights of Columbus Hall, Sullivan of the Pittsburgh Sun-Tele­ graph. the annual contest of the American 8:00-11:30 p. m. Chemical Society, which carries six The Review is profusely illustrated; prizes of |500, six of $300 for second the picture gallery includes such un­ SUNDAY, December 1—Masses, Sa­ places, and six of $200 for third usual snaps as Rockne coaching from cred Heart Church, 6:00, 7:00 and places. Three prizes are offered for his wheel-chair and the interior of the 8:00 a. m.—High Mass at 9:00. the best essays on each of the six chapel car which the team used in its —Bendiction, 7:30 p. m. specified topics. rail journeys. Several of Art Kane's Further information on these con­ MONDAY, December 2 — Villagers' clever drawings complete the pictorial tests may be had by consulting the Club meeting, College Inn, Hotel assets. As announced before, a novel members of the English Department LaSalle, 6:15 p. m. feature will be the selection of an All- or seeing the Director of Studies. American team from Notre Dame's TUESDAY, December 3 —Lecture, nine opponents. There will be pic­ Dr. John T. Frederick, Washington tures and statements of all the oppos­ CATHOLIC WORLD CAR­ Hall, 8:00 p. m.—Scribblers* meet­ ing teams' captains and coaches. ing, 7:45 p. m.—St. Louis Club RIES ARTICLE BY McCOLE meeting. Law Building, first floor An article by Mr. Camille McCole, Court Room, 7:45 p. m. KONOP AND REVEREND instructor in English at the Universi­ HEISER WILL ADDRESS ty, appeared in the last issue of the WEDNESDAY, December 4—Pacific Catholic World. The title of this arti­ Northwest Club meeting. Law VILLAGERS cle is "Sherwood Anderson—Congeni­ Building, first floor Court Room, The December meeting of the Vil­ tal Freudian." Mr. McCole give^ us a 7:45 p. m.—Appearance of New lagers' Club' will be held next Mon­ well-drawn pen-portrait of Sherwood Quarterly Magazine. day evening, December 2. Announce­ Anderson, and then a criticism of the ment is made that the meeting is to Freudian tendencies that Anderson THURSDAY, December 5—Specta­ be held in th§ College Inn, Hotel La­ reveals in his novels, saying'that his tors' meeting, 7:45 p. m.—St. Jo­ Salle, and the time set is 6:15. utter absence of loyalties and his un­ seph Valley Alumni Football Ban­ Among the speakers who have been blushing disregard for good taste quet, University Dining Halls, 6:30 engaged to speak before the club is make it impossible for him to be a p. m.—^Detroit Club meeting. Law the Reverend J. A. Heiser, C.S.C, great novelist. Building, 7:30 p. m. Off-Campus Director, and Thomas F. Konop, Dean of the Hoynes College f7|iiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiinniiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiniii'»"'"*""^ FRIDAY, December 6—First Friday, of Law, as announced by President I NOTICE! COMMERCE f Mass, Sacred Heart Church, 6:25 John Marcus. Business topics are to A. M.; Adoration all day.—Bene- be discussed, and plans are to be I SENIORS! I ' diction, Sacred Heart Church, 7:30 made for the annual Christmas dance i The directors of the Com- § p. m. which is to be held on December 26. i merce Foi'um announce that | : Wednesday, December 4, has | I been set as the final date for i "FOOTBALL REVIEW" TO ROCKNE IMPROVING i the acceptance of applications = SLOWLY I from Seniors for membership = APPEAR IN TWO WEEKS Coach Rockne, Notre Dame's ailing = in the organization.