' THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC PUBLISHED WEEKLY - FOUNDED 1867 v•-,^« noi^e ^a§m QeHte4i4i4xil 'UI ^^ *fO- '1 # <i ] i ft '*^~V..f;""'> it » • J > J ra Vol. 77 SEPTEMBER 18. 1942 No. I ^1 ii^««^ IS »,• fjs il nil p if 5' 3 » Sw^' III nil .-^j:^: PRAYER AT THE GROTTO 182138 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC Disce Quasi Semper Victiirua Vive Quasi i' COLLEGE PARADE Cras Moriturus FOUNDED 18 6 7 JOHN A. LYNCH Entered as second-class matter at Notre Dame. Indiana. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage. Section 1103, Oct. 3, 1917. Authorized June 25, 1918. COOPERATION Prof: Right. Now tell me the formula for sea water. "The first issue will feature pictures Zahmite: CH20. of all new women on the campus along with their phone numbers and other He :fe V important data." This has nothing to do Dean: Are you in A. B.? with the pc^r pigeons in the near-by Lost Frosh: No. I'm staying at the roost, but concerns the co-eds at De- LaSalle. Pauw, just a few miles down-state at ;^ ^ >: Greencastle. The Boulder, DePauw cam­ Industry personified: Does your his­ pus magazine finds it pays to advertise tory give you any trouble? A> such features as this. Disinterested roomie: No. I don't i \v. Subscriptions are now being filled think anyone around here has found cut through this office. A road map with about it yet. DON* HELTZEL, Editor each subscription. • EGBERT D. l.EMEis:SE....Managing Editar DANIEL DOWNEY Campus Editor THIS IS WAR BILL EEYNOLDS Spo^-ts Editor ROBERT DUNNE Admin. Editar ^ IT SAYS HERE We're going to borrow another item ROBERT LONERG.A.N Promotio^i from Pvt. Bill Scanlan, '42, who writes TED WEBER Photo Editar Last September 8 at least two college for the Fort Sheridan Toicer. Bill, by GEORGE THOMPSON Art Editar papers canned articles the likes of which" the way, has two columns in the Tower JAMES CHRiso\'ERGis..Sfa# photographer shall never be seen again. GAIL FITCH, JR Advertising now^ as well as being assistant sports "With a quota of 448 students the Col­ REV. C. M. CAREY, C.S.C, Faculty Advisor editor. orado School of Mines will this year offer its students a chance to enlist in The Daily Telegraph of Sidney, Aus­ •^ the reserve corps of the army or navy tralia, carried the following (/letter from Member of Catholic School Press Association and Associated Collegiate Press, Distributor of Colleg­ and thereby ensure them an opportunity an Iowa miss: "Please do all you can iate Digest. Represented for national advertising to continue their college education with- to prevent marriages between United by National Advertising Service, Inc. 420 Madison Avenue, New York City—Chicago—Boston—^Los ^_ out being drafted." States soldiers and Australian girls. Angeles—San Francisco. THE SCHOLASTIC is Already thousands of American girls published thirty-three times during the schoolyear The Oredigger. at the University of Notre Dame. Address all man­ ^ . "No change as yet has been made by face spinsterhood and lives of loneliness uscripts to Editor. 151 .Alumni Hall or 121 Admin­ istration Bldg., Notre Dame. Ind. the War Department in the original plan because of a shortage of marriageable announced for the Army Tnlisted Ee- men occasioned by the war." Staff meetings in the Editorial Rooms, Old Ave Maria Building: Sunday through "Wednesday at serve Corps. This plan allows Universi­ 7:15 p.m. ty students who are accepted to continue their schooling until graduation if they HILLTOP HOUSING maintain fair grades." IN THIS ISSUE Indiana Dailg. The housing- project in Washing-ton nearly got out of hand when buildings CAMPUS started to rise on the Visitation golf course. The Georgetown boys next door Senior Ball Tonight - 5 . SIGNS OF THE TIMES were banking on the rumor that Navy Sophs Sign Howard „. - 7 "The modern miss is week in the Department secretaries would occupy the Cheerleaders Turn Tumblers 8 " nays." buildings, while the Visitation g-irls were Louie of LaPorte. hoping for no such competition. The ADMINISTRATION buildings, however, ax-e for defense workers and their families, and the 3,200 Register ,....11 POME Georgetown Country Club will still have Faculty Changes 11 I think that I shall, never see restricted dating with the girls of Vizzy. Inter-American Seminar 12 A "D" as lovely as a "B"— A "B" whose rounded form is pressed SPORTS Upon the records of the blessed. A "D" comes easilj'—and yet, Add Fairest Flower Wisconsin Game ...15 It isn't easy to foi'get, A couple of weeks back we listed what Sports Movies Program ...23 "D's" are made by fools like me, we thought were all the line tributes pos­ Meet the Coaches 20 But only God can make a "B". sible to womenkind. Since then the fol­ lowing have also come our way. FEATURES PHLUG Heaven might have spared one torment College Parade 3 To the freshmen we owe the following when we fell. The Week 4 fillers. Not left us women, or not threatened The Navy ,. 14 Prof: What's the formula for water? hell. Pressbox Splinters 22 Zalimite:H20. —Granville Telescope 9 3 the Ball, Veet Capello was heard to mut­ ter, "So Donahue did cut the price!" w4S THE WEEK JACK WOELFLE LADE DA One of the football players lost three i TOP OF THE WEEK Spanish students are oiling up their best teeth so far this season. All he needs i^I "Carambas." Many treats are in store is a fourth for (a) bridge Definition Top hats, white ties, and the "Rock" for the guests however. Commissioner of ambition in the dining hall. "To be opens again! Commissa is staging a water ballet Sat­ promoted from butter dispenser to chief urday night. Badin Bog is to be the gravy pourer." With this first and "* scene of some mighty fancy toe twirling second shift system Ave're beginning to by Commissa and his Water Nymphs. feel like a bunch of coal miners... Since ' HAPPy DAY Said the commissioner, "We are looking that notice in the Tribune last week a i Well here we are again, just one big forward with excruciating anticipation lot.of the boys think it would have been happy family. Just Molly and me and to twittei'ing our big boats in Badin's safer to join the C.S.C. instead of the baby makes for a nice deferment. The brmey bog." E.E.C. From the looks of things a lot J gentlemen of leisure who weren't with of us instead of receiving a B.A. degree "^^ us for the summer think it's great to be Lucretia Candeebah, when interviewed will receive a P. A. (Private in the back. The gentlemen who were here for last week at the Bronx Zoo, had the fol­ Army).... With the Eock so close it the summer think they shouldn't have lowing to say about the coming event: could be punningly said that we are a stone's throw fo-om heaven. With a few been here for the summer. It was nice "The Notre Dame Senior Ball Avill be my going home for a vacation, the kids from minor rule changes of course, and a few coming out partj'' if I can just bust a major face changes most certainly.... ... South Bend tell us. Most of the vacation few of these bars." St. Mary's girls are was spent on the train figuring out the all rushing back to be on time for the m best train to catch' back to school. It Ball. We owe them a big debt of thanks really was nice and roomy on all the I for volunteering to be hat check girls. FAMOUS LAST WORDS trains though wasn't it? Why we had "The Week" has been given permission m the baggage rack all to ourselves. to di\Tilge what the favors AA^II be. Each "I'm safe, I'm in the E.E.C." m lucky guest will receive absolutely free The girls on our train were all so of charge a genuine (it can only happen lovely, especially that one sitting in the here) gold plated lamb chop. When asked next seat. The conductor thought she BOTTOM OF THE WEEK why the "Cavaliers" weren't playing for looked like a suit case, at least that's To be an underclassman! what we thought he meant when he asked us to get that old bag out of the seat. The E.E.C. boys were flashing their cards all over the train telling the pas­ sengers that they were members of the Intelligence Dept. Passengers would al­ ways answer Avith, "But I thought you said you went to Notre Dame." It w-as nice getting back to the campus again though wasn't it? The most popular greeting Avas the professor greeting better knowTi as the exam greeting: •"Whaddya know?" It's easy, to spot the fellas who were not here for the summer. They lay down a 15 cent check and ask for a milk shake. Ha! The sailors are still here though. One of them was heard to exclaim as the students began arriving, "Jeepers, more competition!" Maybe if we're nice the V7s will introduce us to some pretty South Bend girls. Ha! SWING AND SWOOP The Ball is here, so get out the top hat and half empty bottle of tomato juice. The rhythm beater tonight is Al Donahue. Al changed his slogan for the ^ Ball to, "Low Down Ehythm In- a Cap." The decorations being Latin American, all the former freshman and sophomore Senior Ball, A.