Notre Dame Alumnus, Vol. 08, No. 05
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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 January, 19-iO THE NOTKE DAME ALUMNUS 129 Charles E. Doyle £ Co. ALLERTON INVESTMENT SECURITIES CHASE NATIONAL BANK BUILDING Club Residences TWENTY PINE STREET NEW YORK CITY • • • • Headquarters for Notre Dame Men in New York - Chicago Cleveland WEEKLY RATES TBANSIINT BARS ¥12.00 to f 22.00 12.50 to $3.50 HABRY J. CULLBN, '23 EXECUTIVE OFFICE: LOUIS E. WAGNER, '18 285 HadiMn Ave, New York Notre Dame Club Of the City of New York Marquette mil Club DINNER DANCES One of the finest Feh'uani 15 units of the Notre The St. Regis Dame Alumni Annual Dues $5 March 17 Hotel Plaza iHiiii MARQUETTE CLUB 22 East Thirty-Eghlh Street 22 East Thirty-Eighth St. At Madison New York 130 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS January, 1929 >^ IKI Eyt9.'< ^ SPEAKERS Cltoicc of Leading Statlotty •' Roiiios- liuuidibte ^ Ift Adjoittttig Roomy fALLERTON HOUSE! TOlNQRIKMIOHrOANAVENUB' emcAQors CLUB RZSW^HCB^ iTOR MEN AND WQMEJVf-rlOOOJJDQMSi iOTFlCJALcmCAGP liZAVQUhmBRSj for 102 CotteQes-and tUuvixsfities- ^ yattJ.20'NadotuiLSororitias**'j ^~»1Z^ l3Cf week, -np^-^-^^ JTOP AT THE ALLEKT€N NCTCE DAME liEADQUAI^TEI^X IN CMICAGC Jamtary, 1929 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS IBl ISyiiiniiiiiiiiinmiiHimnimni llliillllllllllllllllll iiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiif•"EaJ ^•l^^^^^^^^»^>^^^^^w^^^^v^v^w^^w^^^w^v^w IN THIS ISSUE Commera A Merry Christmas The Notre Dame of Today Frontispiece and a The Needs of the University, by Rev. Charles L. Happy New Year O'Donnell, C. S. C 133 from the Notre Dame's Alumni—The Solution (A Plan) 136 Alumni Association Editorial 139 . of the Notre Dame's Football Deficit 140 University of Notre Dame Centennial 142 Athletics, by John Kiener, '32 146 The Alumni Clubs ,: 149 To which our records show you still owe dues The Alumni 151 The above Christmas card, sent to members whose dues are in arrears, The masaxine is published monthly during the scholastic year by "the Alumni is reported to have met \vith disfavor Association of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. The subscription price is S2.00 a year: the price of single copies is 25 cents. The among a few of those who received annual alumni dues of 95.00 • include a year's subscription to THE ALUMNUS. it. The Office is sorry to hear that. Entered as second-class matter January 1. 1923. at the post office at Notre Dame. Indiana, under the Act of March 3. 1897. All correspondence should be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus, Box 81, Notre Dame, Indiana. The obligation of the alumnus to MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ALU.MNI COUNCIL his school is outlined further in this issue. Every graduate of Notre Dame MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC ALUJINI FEDERATION is, immediately upon graduation, con sidered a member of the Alumni As sociation. This is a privilege, and was considered so by those responsible. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS It has seldom been interpreted as an effort to "draft" members. The Asso JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25, Editor ciation is very efficient machinery HARLBY MCDEVITT, '29, Advertising Mgr. (properly supported) for the fulfil ment of the debt of the alumni to the school, and goes beyond that (prop erly supported) to become a very ef ficient agent in continuing the benefits THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION of the school to the alumni. of the The relations involved, while not UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME in the form of contracts, are even Alumni Headquarters, Main Floor Administration Bldg., more binding upon those who have ac Notre Dame, Indiana tually received the benefits and rea lized the significance of university training. The Alumni Oflice has at JASIES E. ARMSTRONG, General Secretary tempted to make these relations pleasant, removing from the bills for ALUMNI BOARD dues, as an example, the sting of the MARK M. FOOTE, '73 Honorary President more formal Please Remit. JOHN \V. EGGEMAN, '00 President It is impossible to find any senti JAMES E. DEERY, '10 Vice-President ment that will produce exactly the JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25 Secretary same reaction upon 5,000 persons. WALTER DUNCAN, '12 Treasurer The Editor only wishes to say that ALFRED C. RYAN, '20 Director every bit of literature that comes GEORGE M. MAYPOLE, '03 Director M. HARRY MILLER, '10 Director from the Alumni Office is intended to T. PAUL MCGANNON, '07 Director promote the interests of the Asso DON M. HAMILTON, '12 {ex officio) Director ciation and its members. Moral: When in doubt, pay your RilillllllllllKllllltllll illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHn dues. uw^mmimmwi)!UiWAmm)mmmmmmmwiWimmm^^^^^ I II I I d I I I 1 I iI i nMrmmMrmmrmmrmmmmrtwmmrmmmmmrmmv/i^r^rtm^^^^^^^ THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Volume VII. JANUARY, 1930 No. 5 The Needs of the University Bij CHARLES L. 0'DoN>fELL, C. S. C. HAT Notre Dame is, every Princeton, which offers a fairly sors are paid at Notre Dame reaches body knows, or may discover. close parallel to Notre Dame in num the average of the salaries paid in W What Notre Dame might be, ber of students, and in general mode those colleges and universities affili and must indeed become—that is a of operation, has an endowment of ated with the North Central Associa matter on which we all need to be $18,000,000. tion. -A. very special type of instruc moi-e fully informed. Nobody, least These are permanent endowment tor and instruction is demanded at of all myself, pretends to possess the funds only. The figures do not in Notre Dame. Elsewhere, it makes limits of that vision. clude gifts of money and land for little or no intrinsic difference, wheth building purposes. That total would er a professor is teaching at the Uni I have been asked to make a state run into hundreds of millions. versity of Michigan or the University ment of the needs of Notre Dame, but of Wisconsin. It makes a very great it is to be assumed, no doubt, that a difference to us to secure of all pos mere list of these would hardly satis sible men the very type of professor fy the assignment. It so happens that to whom we care to entrust the aca many of us want to know why the demic destinies of Notre Dame. These University needs more money. men properly regard their work as a The general answer is that no uni vocation: it is for us to see that they versity is financially sufficient unto it are not financially handicapped be self. Tuition, which is all that the cause of their idealism. student pays for his education, does not cover the cost of his education. Obviously, Notre Dame needs fur Last year (1928-29), tuition fees at ther endowment for professors' sal Notre Dame amounted to $590,106.26. aries. There is not a single endowed (.Auditors' Report as of June 30, Chair in the University. Ten years 1929). For the same period, oper ago, $60,000.00, representing an in ating e.xpenses totaled $922,406.70. come of §3,000.00 a year, was regard This figure would be considerably ed as sufficient for a Chair. Today, higher if salaries were paid to the such a foundation should run from Religious who conduct the University. seventy to one hundred thousand dol In other words, if Notre Dame were lars. The need of such established a secular university, under State con- funds is particularly pressing in the , trol or private management, it could College of Law and the College of not exist at all without a substantial Science, but they are needed in every department of the University. increase in its endowment. REV. CHARLES L. O'DO.V.VELL, C.S.C. It cannot develop as it should with President of Notre Dame We need special funds to enable us out a substantial increase in its en to bring to the University eminent dowment. Endowment means assured lecturers. I have in mind such courses Our one million dollars of endow as are given, for example, at Harvard, income, and assured income means, ment, secured with great effort principally, independence. under the IngersoU Lectureship Foun through a campaign extending over a dation. Under similar endowment, The following table of endowment two-year period, with five years for there could also be arranged ex figures is eloquent: the redemption of pledges, is reserved change-professorships between Notre for the payment of salaries to lay Dame and the leading universities of Har\'ard $82,820,000 professors. The income on this fund, this country and Europe. Columbia (New York) 69,550,071 owing to its excellent management by the Board of Lay Trustees, last year Yale 58,024,459 Up to the present, the character of was $62,508.10. Professors' salaries Notre Dame has been almost entirely Chicago 43,409,467 for last year totaled $272,796.42. that of an undergraduate school. Mass. Institute of Tech Thus, the combined income deriving There is no thought of departing from nology 29,750,000 from tuition and endowment covered this established tradition. At the same Leland Stanford 28,917,532 only 70% of the cost of operation. time, the development of our grradu- Notre Dame 1,000,000 The salary scale on which profes ate work will be in reality only the 134 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Januanj, 1929 STBRT PRESENT DIAGRAJI OF CAJIPUS (Neiv developments carelessbj sketched in by Editor) continuation of another tradition that was first worked out in a Notre Dame Art in all its forms, is the University is also sacred.