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THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 48£ INDEX Frontispiece .•- .-... 484 The Week ..:... J. A. Breig 48-5 Campus Opinion —i 491 The E. G. Rowley Scholarship 492 The Wheel of Life .•. .../. T. Cullincm 493 •Editorial 494 It Will Pass Francis Collins Miller 495 A Tragedy John McEnerij, '27 497 Sea-Sickness R. H. Clemens, '28 498 On Riding a Horse William W. Kelly, '28 -500 Eight Hours In Newspaperdom A7iclreio Mtdreany, '28 501 The Boil Evil R. G. Hennes,"21 504 Sport News /. P. McNamara 505 Safety Valve 512 .\i.:.-^:i/iii^r ""TiTiJimiihnNB 484 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 485 iy!MMMMMMMMMMMM^gtM"ii?MMBJ^Mq^^ THE WEEK ra^^y^1Vi^f^"^i^fty^fiy^?yy^^^ffi^ST^^T?^f;^?^^ The affair is becoming tremendous! The Student Body) is finished working—until campus is in a furore. "Red" Smith, "Bull" the next exams. Politzkj^, Joe Boland, and "Tiny" Mayer The boxing tournament was a grand suc fomi a four-cornered controversy, and ev cess. But we are puzzled about one thing. eryone is controversing. Each candidate Michael O'Keefe, the hero of that stirring for the honor of becoming the feminine lead play "A Pound of Flesh," was conceded the in the forthcoming dramatic effort of the championship of his class by default—no Monogram Club has a large following, and one wanted to argue with him. Now, such each insists that the honor belongs to him. a sterling ringster (we're technical, eh?) as And now, to make matters worse, whispers Mr. O'Keefe should be accorded an oppor-- are going the rounds of the campus to the tunity to improve his tactics in actual bat effect that Joe Maxwell, he of the lithe and tle. And, while we're not so good, we're lissome form, is expected to do the dark not so bad, either, and we are thinking of horse act and attempt to make the quartet arranging to argue Mr. O'Keefe out of his a quintet. What the outcome of the matter championship. If the matter can be ar will be is impossible to guess at this early ranged, we will enter the ring with a type period. writer behind each ear and a pencil in each It has been suggested that "The Week" hand—check! check! reverse! vice versa!— determine, by popular vote, who is the log and thus prepared, we will carry on a heat ical man for the final fadeout. But we have ed controversy with the battler. Date will never yet been compelled, for our bread and be released later. butter, to count votes, and we don't intend Great things are promised by the Scholar to start now. Our suggestion is this: that, ship Club, which will hold a dance shortly in mass meeting assembled, the Entire Stu before Lent. Those who enjoy dancing and dent Body (pardon. Safety Valve) be treat those who possess a sense of humor and like ed to a demonstration of the merits of the to watch others dancing are promised the respective candidates. Having been treated best entertainment of the year. to such demonstration, the E. S. B. should thereupon decide upon the man for the hon A word of the Glee Club. Their tour, or, and the other candidates should be then which covered important points in Ohio and formed into a chorus. We claim that this Pennsylvania, has been a complete success, solution is the only logical one. And there from what we have heard over our private we let the problem rest, and if our sug press line. The tour winds up tomorrow at gestion is not accepted, we will discover our Seton Hill College, Greensburg, Pa., where own candidate, and through our power over the songsters are being entertained at a tea public opinion elect him in a landslide. dance in appreciation of their efforts. We may expect proud reports of the Club's Having removed this much from our edi prowess upon their return Sunday. torial chest, we will now divulge a secret. The semester exams are finished! So are we, Listen, dears! Once there was a young- nearly, but that is a matter of slight import man whose line, he thought, was flawless.* ance. What we started out to say was that He had acquired it at various schools. But they were not nearly so terrible as we had one time the young man tried his line on a imagined they would be—but then, neither man who did not understand English, but is anything else. The important fact is that whose arm was strong. Therefore— Ihey are finished, and the A. S. B. (Average End of the line!—J.A.B. 486 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC DRAMA CLASS FORMED in a quandary several times striving to se The Drama Club of Notre Dame has been lect the best pin from the many samples reincarnated in the Class in Dramatic Pro submitted by various firms, but they finally duction taught by Mr. Frank Kelly every agreed upon Auld's as the best.. Mondaj'^ and Thursday evenings. The offi The price of the pins will be $14, and cers of the club succeeded in putting it upon a deposit of $5 will be required of seniors a sound basis with faculty assistance. Father who desire pins. Announcement will be Mooney is still the sponsor of the club which placed upon the bulletin boards soon, and %vill not lose its entity in spite of the fact the seniors of '27 will be canvassed for or that a class has been formed. Two hours ders. credit will be given for the course. The new pin is of the same design as Acting will not come until the latter part those of the past has been, with the official of the course. The students will first be shield of gold on a black French enamel taught lighting, settings, balances, methods background. Thirty-three pearls surround of coaching, and all the fundamentals of the the figures and shield, the pearls being deli art. After mastering these it is expected cately graduated to fit. The pin is of ten- that the members of the class will produce karat gold throughout. The numeral is a number of one-act plays. Owing to the smaller, however, than that of the class of number of applications it has been found '26 pins. necessary to limit the class to not more than fiftv. DOME APPOINTMENTS BOXERS INVADE AMES All clubs having appointments to appeal* Saturday for Dome pictures must keep their Seven boxers, chosen by elimination appointments without fail, according to an through the boxing trials held in the Gym announcement given out by W. W. Smith, recently, left last evening for Ames, Iowa. editor of the annual. Clubs which fail to where they will engage in a dual meet with appear for pictures will not appear in the Iowa State. Several of the men taking the Dome, according to the. announcements. trip are as yet untried, and Pat Canny, leader of the team, has been unable to ac The snapshot contest which has been in company the boxers due to injuries received progress for some time will close February in the boxing try-outs. 10, the editor further announces. All snap The members of the team, as they board shots must be in the hands of either W. W. ed the train last night, were Maury Welch, Smith or George Meade, both of Walsh Hall, bantam-weight; Mike O'Keefe, feather before the close of the contest to receive weight; Jimmy Moran, lightweight; Gordy consideration, A Dome will be given to the Donnelly, welterweight; Harry O'Boyle, photographer with the largest number of middle-weight; Tom Hearden, light-heavy pictures published in the annual. Pictures weight, and Chile Walsh, heavy-weight. must be of events during the Spring of 1925 or during the present school year to be acceptable. SENIOR PIN SELECTED After many meetings to consider the rela The graveyard is the one ground that tive merits of various samples, the contract fools and wise men have in common.—^W.J.T. for the Senior pins of 1927 has been let to Auld's, inc., of Columbus, Ohio. The com The husband who is a good listener will mittee, composed of Mark Fiehrer, chair be proudly advertised by his wife as a good man, Russ Voyer and Frank McKinley, were conversationalist.—:S.E.B. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 487 DINNEEN FEATURE WRITER Monday for the purpose of allowing the students there an opportunity to subscribe Edward L. Dinneen, of the class of '24, to the Dome if they wish. New men who broke into newspaper ranks under his own enter at the beginning of the second semes name recently with a special feature article ter may sign for Domes at the Day Dog of written by him in the Ogdensburg (N. Y.) fice. Daily Advance. In his article Mr. Dineen Two features of the Dome of 1926 will be traced the activities of Joseph Rossell, pio The Scenic Section and the Senior Section. neer trader of the St. Lawrence River, and Much effort has been put upon these sec his close connection with the development tions, and the result justifies the effort. The of Ogdensburg. The growth and progress Scenic Section is a beautiful work of the of the town is closely connected with Amer photogi'aphic art, and the Senior Section ican history and trade from 1808 until the contains several new features. present day, and is picturesquely reviewed in Mr. Dinneen's composition.