The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus 'n'^""^''"''"'^™^ -.s-i".'; ".-=^ This book is not tt '32 ! "THE MAKCH IS OX" .4 Scene from the Carnegie Tech Game—Lnkutu iS 1932 VICTORY to the Team! VERY Notre Dame adherent is familiar witli Hotel McAlpin so many j'^ears privileged to be E the Team's host in New York. The Management wishes to assure again the Notre Dame contingent of its willing spirit to accommodate more luxuriously, to serve more willingly and to en­ tertain more enjoyably everj'^ guest visiting New York for the game. McAlpin rates for large, comfortable, immaculate rooms with bath start at per 3 day Please w rite or wire for reservation — to me, personall}'', if you prefer. JOHN J. WOELFLE, Manager. HOTEL McALPIN Broadway at 34th Street ii' 'T/ie Centre of Convenience^'' November 1932 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNTJS 35 COMMENT THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25, Editor I've enjoyed sincerely the almost universal moral support that has The magazine is puBlishcd monthly during the scholastic year by the AInmni Association of the- University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame. Indiana. The come with the launching of this subscription price is S2.00 a year; the price of single copies is 25 cents. The annual alumni dues of $5.00 include a year's subscription to THE ALUMNUS. year's volume of the ALUMNUS. Entered as second-class matter January 1, 1923, at the'post office at Notre Dame. Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. All correspondence should be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus, Box SI. Notre Dame, Indiana. Letters, conversations, reactions in many other fields, convince me that MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL the alumni of Notre Dame realize ME.MBER OF THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC ALUMNI FEDERATION that the Alumni Association has a definite and valuable part in the life of the individual graduate and of the THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION University. How definite and how of the valuable involve intangibles that defy adequate translation. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Alumni Headquarters, Main Floor Administration Bldg., This presidential year has drawn Notre Dame, Indiana the attention of our Association's JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, Secretary-Treasurer leaders to political fields. They will emerge November S with varying de­ ALUMNI BOARD grees of success but entirely stimu­ REV. JOHN CAVANAUGH, G.S.C, '90 Honorary President lated by the keen conflict that sup­ CLARENCE JIANION, '22 President plies the alleged check and balance TIMOTHY P. GALVIN, '16 - First Vice-President for good government. Almost every JAMES E. SANFORD, '15 - - - Second Vice-President locality finds Notre Dame men, alum­ T. PAUL MCGANNON, '07 Director ni of that excellent though uncata- JOHN F. O'CONNELL, '13 Director logued college of practical politics on ROBERT E. LYNCH, '03 - - - Director the campus, similarly caught in the HUGH A. O'DONNELL, '94 Director swirl of ofiice-seeking, for themselves GEORGE HIGGINS, '32 - - - Director FRANK H. HAYES, '14 . - . or for someone else. (ex officio) Director Hence the ALUMNUS these first few months has been content to pur­ ers and sporadic writers. They suffer least valuable point in the two para­ sue only those sine qua nons of its from intellectual tapeworm and Spen- graphs above. existence, DUES, LmNG ENDOW­ cerian paralysis. Last year and this year, in Frank MENT, CLUBS and CLASSES, know­ A former president of the Associa­ ing that after the tumult and the Hayes and Pat Manion, the Associa­ tion told me recently that if I could tion has had presidents who were im- shouting dies the captains and the hold on for six more months I should kings will come back. usually situated to do the most good begin to feel faint tremors of return­ for the alumni interests. All during The Class and Club Secretaries de­ ing prosperity. Inasmuch as at pros­ Frank Hayes' administration, and to serve special mention for the splendid perity's peak the Association enjoyed date during Pat's, they have fought improvement shown in response to only faint tremors, while the rest of that impossible pall of poverty. The appeals from the Alumni Office. It the world shook, I cannot do more live enthusiasms which they brought is reflected in the interesting letters than smile wanly, and plan only cas­ into the Association work have been in both departments of the magazine. ually on buming-the-mortgage cere­ anaesthetized, and it's a wonder they monies Universal Notre Dame Night. That brings up a point for the con- weren't killed, by the drug of deficit. stituency-at-large. No later than this Another former president sent me "It is more blessed to give than to month, several letters from these a pamphlet by a Religious Order ask­ receive" works both ways. Let me long suffering media have echoed age- ing for securities which the investor remind you of one of Skippy's friends old plaints with fresh vigor concern­ had given up as hopeless, but which, —"We gives and gives and nothing ing the psychic powers apparently at­ through the advantages of the larger does we ever get. It's no wonder we tributed to them, the Class Secretar­ organization, the Order might liqui­ owes and owes." ies in particular, by their foUow^ing. date to better ends. The logic was A letter to the Class Secretary plus good. The idea was excellent. Its And now, having become the father a letter to the ALUMNUS equals application to Notre Dame, through of sons in 1929, 1931 and 1932,1 feel Class News. But it takes the first 2 the Association or through Living that I have done right by Catholic as well as the second to make the re­ Endowment is something for you to Action, country, and Notre Dame. sulting 4. It seems, from the raps think about. on the local table, that the general And the continuing interest of So to press, the pawnshop, and the run of Classmates are voracious read- these two former presidents is not the polls. 'O Notre Dame Thou Beauteous Place —' "The purple air, the misty hills; The meadotvs, green with hidden rills; The grove, that screens from curious gaze Its sacred medi­ tative ivays; The lake beyond, its placid eye Blue as the arch of vernal sky; The dome, and chapel S2}ires, that claim Our Lady's favor, with her name; Hoio, like a thought of peace, the whole Takes calm possessio7i of the sold!" (ELIZA ALLEN STARR) THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Vol. XI. NOVEMBER, 1932 No. 2. Catholic Collese Alumni Meet N. D. Nov. 20 Famous Economists of Middle West to Discuss Social Justice in the Economic Crisis; Rev. Joseph IHuss- lein, S.J., Rev. William A. Bolger, C.S.C, '07, and Rev. B. P. O'Reilly, S.M., Already on Program. Sunday, Nov. 20, at Notre Dame, Dining Halls, a banquet will close the ton in Nebraska; U. of Dayton, John in conjunction with similar meetings conference. Rev. William A. Bolger, Carroll, St. John's and St. Xavier's throughout the United States, Cath­ C.S.C, '07, outstanding lecturer an.l in Ohio; St. Gregory's in Oklahoma; olic college alumni of the Middle West debater in the field of economics, for U. of Dallas and St. Edward's in Tex­ will meet under the auspices of the years head of the department of eco­ as; Marquette, St. Norbert's and North Central District of the Na­ nomics at Notre Dame, and at present Campion in Wisconsin — are also tional Catholic Alumni Federation. urged to avail themselves of the con­ ' The theme of the one-day conference, centration of the. best Catholic held in lieu of the 1932 national con­ thought on a vital Catholic theme. vention of the Federation, is "Social Catholics who have graduated from Justice in the Economic Crisis." non-Catholic colleges are even more Much of the discussion will be based cordially invited to attend this con­ upon the two great encyclicals, Renim ference. Novanim of Leo XIII., and Qiiadrag- Every Catholic College, every Cath- esimo Anno of Pius XI. .olic Alumni -Association, and every James E. Armstrong, alumni secre­ Local Club of a Catholic Alumni As­ tary at Notre Dame, is vice-president sociation, should have an official dele­ of the Federation, director for the gate at this meeting. In addition in­ Middle West, and ex-officio chairman dividual alumni in any and all of the of the Nov. 20 conference. above categories are invited. Rev. Joseph Husslein, S.J., fam­ REV. WM. A. BOLGER, C.S.C, '07 _A registration fee of three dollars ous Catholic economist and author of Champion of Decent Livelihood. will be charged all in attendance, a number of recognized books in the which will include tickets to all of the field, including a recent volume, The vice-president of the College of St. events of the day, including the Mass, Thomas, will give an address, "De­ Luncheon, Round Table and Banquet. Christian Social Maiiifesto, which For those who can attend only the treats the two encylicals, will deliver cent Livelihood, Its Content and Moral Basis." banquet, tickets will be available at the sermon at the Solemn High Mass two dollars. which will onen the conference. The Another address in the field of so­ Mass will be held at 11 o'clock in cial legislation will be delivered, but Reserve tickets for yourself and Sacred Heart Church on the campus. is still in the tentative stages. One friends at once, please, with James of the most prominent Catholic lay­ E.