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' This book is not to b% takon froM tho Librarv ,Cj\1^ l/^> •*«- 30 '33 OCT THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC $3.00THE YEAR O C T O B E R 27 iSCTS.ACOPY NiB«teMaTlihnj-thi«e Invest >• Now! and save yourself letters and postage Let us mail The Scholastic home for you—^from now until Christmas for only one dollar postpaid. The folks will read all about campus affairs, the football season, how you're getting along in Club circles. Give them this week-by-week record of your school year. Phone, write, or call the Publications Office, 232 Adminis tration Building—Anjrtime from Dawn to Dude BOARD OF PUBLICATIONS At the University Notre Dame, Ind. THE SCHOLASTIC ia pub Entered as second-class lished weekly at the Univer- matter at Notre Dame, In tity of Notre Dame. Manu- The Notre Dame Scholastic diana. Acceptance for mail tcripts may be addressed to ing at special rate of postage. THE SCHOLASTIC. Publi- Disce Quasi Semper Victurus Vive Quasi Cras Moriturus Section 1103, October S. 1917. eations Office, Main Building. FOUNDED 1865 authorized June 25, 19IS. JAMES S. KEABNS .....Editor-in-Chief MITCHELL C. TACKLEY .Managing Editor Associate Editors News Staff JOHN D. PORTERFIELD EDWARD J. O'BRIEN EDWARD F. MANSFIELD- _We«;s Editor RICHARD B. TOBIN JOHN E. CONLEY THOMAS G. PROCTOR .Assistant News Editor JOSEPH A. BUCCI -Issistant News Editor Departmental Editors JAMES A. BYRNE FRANK KELLY THOMAS J. STRITCH. The Week ROY O. SCHOLZ ROBERT F. ERVIN JAMES T. FITZPATRICIC College Parade MICHAEL F. WIEDL JOHN W. WALKER RICHARD P. PREZEBEL. Staff Artist WILLIAM A. KENNEDY '. PAUL J. DOYLE GEORGE P. LEYES .LOUIS R. HRUBY Sports Staff JOHN D. CARBINE EDWARD J. VAN HUISSELING Business Management NICHOLAS J. CONNOR HOWARD T. WALDRON JOHN F. STOECKLEY -Graduate jilanager VOLUME LXVII OCTOBER 27, 1933 No. 6 THE PUBLICATIONS Notre Dame student body, there should be considerable Four student publications are in operation at Notre creative writing talent. There is no better stimulus for Dame. To the student body at large, that may or may that talent than the publication of its products. With not mean much. It should mean something very definite. Editor Paul McManus still receiving contributions for Publications at any school furnish one of the most the first issue of Scrip, campus writers, tried or untried, attractive extra-curricular activities for individuals look should show no hesitancy in preparing manuscripts for ing for interesting and profitable extra work. At Notre consideration. Dame, where the publications are unquestionably success In the case of the Dome and THE SCHOLASTIC, it is ful, their appeal should be stronger than at many other obvious that both publications require more definitely schools. organized staffs than do the Juggler and Scrip. We do When characterizing the work as "profitable," it is not know the situation on the year book staff. We feel not meant that the publications furnish a field for mon sure, however, that any student interested in working etary gain. Rather, they offer a field for disciplined on the yearbook, and there is a super-abundance of work intellectual activity and an outlet for expressions of to be done, will find it worth his while to apply to the imaginative and organizing ability. editor. The Juggler made its first appearance of the year a Many requests and inquiries concerning the policy of week ago. As far as THE SCHOLASTIC has been able to THE SCHOLASTIC in the matter of appointments to the determine. Editor Degnan's magazine was decidedly staff have come to the editors in the past six weeks. popular. It has changed its tone considerably from that Because of the size reduction effected this year, and maintained last year; it has employed a new approach because • of the unusually large number of staff men to the business of being humorous; it seems to have returning from last year's organization, no new men have been added to the staff. That is not a permanent arrange found a middle course between the two-line, he-she joke ment. Rather it was thought wiser to meet the complica style of many collegiate humor papers, and the other tions that would arise from the new form of the maga extreme of long articles of doubtful satirical excellence zine with an experienced staff. When the school year is in magazines obviously imitating successful commercial a bit farther along and newcomers to the campus have publications. The Juggler deserves its popularity for it become more fully orientated. THE SCHOLASTIC expects is successfully handled. Naturally there is room for to add several members of the underclass body to its improvement, and much of it can come from new ideas organization. brought to those in charge by new contributors. This is not a cry for help for a fellow editor: the Juggler is in capable hands with its present staff, but it would welcome DEBATING FOR THE LEMMER TROPHY new men with new ideas. New men with ideas should in During the past week announcements have been made turn welcome the Juggler's existence as an opportunity by the Wranglers of their intention to sponsor interhall to turn the ideas into channels where they will be appre debating again this year. ciated and helpful. Probably no other campus club accomplishes such a On November 17th the first issue of Scrip, University worth-while end for the school at large. Last year's literary quarterly, will appear. It should not be news to interhall forensic competition was whole-heartedly re the student body, but we think that it may be to some ceived and enthusiastically carried out. The final, ihter- members of it, that Scrip is open to contributions from league debate for the University title and the Lemmer members of all classes in any of the colleges of the Trophy was held at St. Mary's where Howard defeated University. Its scope embraces creative prose writing, Dillon. poetry, criticisms, essays, book reviews. It is a publica A repetition of that success this year is within easy tion with a definite purpose, the fostering of literary reach if the student body will contribute a proportionate writing on the campus. That purpose certainly has a share of enthusiasm. The Wranglers are well prepared legitimate place in the undergraduate life of a imiver- to conduct the competition. President Arthur A. San sity. It is inevitable that, in a group the size of the dusky was chairman of interhall debating last year. October 2 7, 19 3 3 One Sophomore Cotillion THE WEEK Tonight At 9 O'clock By Thomas J. Stritch Tonight at nine o'clock will start Bugle Corps south end ruins the players' sense of the parade of the sophomores across perspective; the drab prospect that is Tomorrow we have the band march the stage of social Notre Dame. The the north end is equally disconcerting. ing for the first time. We are anx glare of the spotlight will be fo- The nets—^well, the nets are made of iously awaiting its appearance, to see fencing material, and they deflect the how the new freshmen come through. ball at the most impossible angles. Everyone says it will be the best band The tournament itself has been as we have ever had. "A band is as quaint as the courts. By the semi good as its druimners" is the old finals every varsity tennis performer adage among band-masters, and this had been eliminated; the fimalists are year's crop is bumper with drummers Fallon, a freshman, and McNulty, a rolling the individual Casasanta roll. sophomore. It is painfully true that Judging from these early forecasts Notre Dame tennis is of the common, we would predict an entirely success garden variety, but the setting makes ful season, despite its curious civilian the situation a perfect irony. All appearance at the Kansas game. A honor to the boys. But come over keen observer informed us that the yourself some afternoon to this lone 98 pieces slunk to their places rather ly strand; collect some driftwood and shamefacedly after an opening selec build a fire, and watch the boys go tion. But we think he was drawing to it. upon his imagination, for there must • have glowed the bright promise of good things to come in their breasts. Theatre The cause celebre is the new imi- Well, the Linnets have turned to vaudeville, and the results ought to forms. be very interesting. Father McAl No longer will our young men look EDWARD T. SULLIVAN lister, who is breezing in every di President of Sophomores. like high-school tooters. Tomorrow rection at once already, is enough you \v\\\ see our band great-coated in to insure us that no effort will be blue splendor. The coats are nothing spared, and the idea of a musical cussed upon the Palais Eoyale Ball short of magnificent, made on the revue ought to be novel enough to room, where the Cotillion will con style of the Pittsburgh ones only attract a good turn-out. If the Lin tinue until one a. m. Approximate wth pearl buttons instead of gold, nets remain a fixture on the campus ly three hundred couples are ex and sporting a short cape lined with it will be largely due to the efforts pected. gold wool. Wool is replacing silk fac of its founders, who have generated As noted before in THE SCHOLAS ing all along the line this year in all a new interest in theatricals around TIC, the Palais will be masked for the better bands. The coats are the here.