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VOLUME XXIT. CINCINNATI, OHIO, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1937 NO. 22 BALL SET FOR TOMORROW

Dolly Eslinger's Ba n d Date Set For Da·n-t-e -Cl-ub---,- Xavier-Night-On-The-Ohio Signed For Event 0 Which is to End Social A.nnual Is s 11 e ,______r _Ba_n~qu_e-..1t j Scheduled For Tuesday Season. :r The annual banquet and social ~ et e er meeting of the Dante Lecture On Island QUeefl steamer Of Musl Club of Xavier University, now completing its seventeenth year MAKETEWAH of existence, wil~ be held imme­ COUNTRY CLUB Several Additions Are diately following the semester l(emble Fourth Annual Boat To Be Made In Year· examinations which are sched­ Ride Held For ·Stu· uled to begin'-May 29. This was announced yesterday Sixth dents, Parents And To Be Scene of Summer hook Which Goes To by Leonard C. Gartner, presi­ Press Next Week. dent of the or.ganization. The Friends Of Xavier Uni· Formal, . Chairman event is held especially. to honor In Contest Thomas F. Hogan An­ the graduating members of the versity. :Publication date for ·the Mus­ Club who are in addition to nounces. keteer Annaul has been set for Gartner, Raymond J. Kemble, St. Louis University May 28, the eve of the final ex­ Jr., Louis J. Haase, and Leonard CLYDE TRASK PLAYS aminations, Leonard V. Griffith, V. Griffith. Wins First Honors In Dolly Eslinger, popular Queen editor, announced this week. The ·banquet will probably be FOR MOONLITE RIDE City maestro, will provide the No definite theme for the Mus­ held at the Palace Hotel, the Annual Competition.. music for the Senior Ball to be keteer has ,been chosen for this year, according to Griffith's an­ scene of a successful banquet held tomorrow night at the Mak­ last Spring. Prior to that, the Alumni Association Aids etewah Country Club, located nouncement. He would not dis­ Raymond J. Kemble, Jr., a close to whom the book was ibe­ banquet had been held at Swiss senior in the college of liberal off· Reading Road just north of Gardens. In Plans For Affair; California Avenue. · ing n •the J:sland Queen for air dansants in the middlewest. The annual is expected to have , V · . utive year in which Kemible has all gr.cups affiliated with Xavier The committee decided to hold a hundred an

break-down of his mig'hty empire. Only THE XAVERIAN NEWS the tyipical British concessions will avert NUMEROUS Published weekly during the school a war; if there are no concessions, war year by the students of Xavier YOU SAID IT will make them. Then, England which J"OHN FOGARTY INDICATIONS University from their offices in Room was recently characterized by Belloc as ~6, of the Biology Building. Phone the most anti-Catholic country in the JEfferson 3220. world cannot long continue so and re­ F YOU want to be enthralling BETOI(EN Entered as second-ctn.as matter February 18, main under a democratic form of gov- And your competition stalling, 1937, at the poet office nt Cincinnati, Ohio, under I the Aet of lllarch a, 1879. ernment. If you want to see her falling, PR10GRESSIVE Subscription: l'er Year $1.50 Why just take her Senior Balling. The Hindenburg- SPIRIT Member: Jesuit College Newepnpcr A88oclatlon, According to those in charge this will Natlon11l College Pre88 Association, Ohio College ERMANY'S great silver' airship, be one Ball you can't afford to miss with­ Newsp11per Assoclntlon. G queen of the skyways !for a year out having three strikes called on you; AVIER - Night - On - The - Ohio next ftEPRl:BENTIED FOR NATIONAL. ADVERTISING BY and a half, exploded and plunged to a make a hit with .the gal, run to the Senior X Tuesday night is expected to be a National Advertising Service, Inc. horrible destruction last week, the Ball and you'll not be in error. Who will "family party", according to plans made Collete Publishrs R11priuentoti1'11 eighteenth dirigible in history to .be de­ the boys listen to now that Steve Sofka 42.0 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. by the University Student Council. Ef­ CHICAGO • BOSTON • SAN FRANCJSCO olished. Various conflicting theories the preaching Pole is departed from our forts will be made by the committee to L.os ANGltL.ES • PoRTL.ANP - SEATTLE as to the origin of the blast have :been midst? Dorothy Doan is to be O. L. C.'s inter-acquaint the students, parents, and Editor ...... VINCENT E. SMITH · advanced, but more than likely will Prom Queen, May 21, and the odds are friends of Xavier in the hope to arouse a Bn81ncss !llanager ...... LEO C. VOE'l' never .be substantiated. No data seems against Overmeyer leading the Grand healthy, united, active spirit for a greater RAY!IIOND J. J{EMBLE available except that the $3,000,000 craft March. Incidentally Tom Gorman has Managing Editors; •. JOSEPH R. KRUSE Xavier University. . ~ ALBERT A. STEPHAN burst into flames but a minute or two been keeping this gal's .phone ringing but EDWARD J. l{ENNEDY up till now it has been in vain. The lad News Editors: ...... ROBERT F. GRONEllIAN before it would have ·been safely moor­ LONG a similar line, we learn that { JACIK A. JONES ed at Lakehurst after its sixteenth from Adrian who wrote: 'Going around efforts will be made next year to DON M. '.l\IIDDENDORF flight across the ·Atl1antic. with women keeps me young. I started A Copy Editors: ...... { ALEX GRISWOLD hold frequent convocations of the stu­ OHARLES L. l\IOEVOY ·The Hindenburg disaster proves one going with them when I was a freshman dent body at Xavier and to increase the Sports Editor ...... ROBERT E. CUMMINS fa,ct clearly: Man has not yet learned four years ago-and I'm still a freshman.' recreational facilities, thereby to add to ~ Business Asslstnnt ...... ROGER lllcDERl\lOTT to conquer the air. The Akron, the Then there's Tom Harper who writes to ASSISTANTS: John J. Bruder, Joseph H. a school-spirit which has perhaps been Fish Elmer J. Gt-uber, Alex "\V. Heck, Charles Macon, and the Shenandoah were dir­ Margie at Briarcliff College, and the cut­ slightly under par during the past few W. Hnirhee, Frnnlt Luken, John F. O'Connor, est grey stationery-woo, woo! The Raymond .J. "\Vlleon. igibles listed among ·the eighteen air­ years. ships that have met destruction, and Peters gal ·on hand to watch 'Lionhead' THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1937 the chapter of air-plane navigation, es­ Kruse peJ.1form in the inter-squad foot­ N ANNUAL is a criterion not partic­ ball game. Also Millie to see 'Rose Bowl' pecially trans-single month. classes.. A man's qualifications should be ing the ta~k of Mr. Michael O'Flanagan funny as the college journalist who says: Of ·course, these are not entirely en­ viewed objectively :by his electorate, and at the Emery Auditorium last w~k. 'Of course Joe Schmaltz and his Smuttz­ durance contests,-inndeed: they are pos­ the candidate most fitted for office should According to the handbill, Mr. O'Flan­ lers, who are p'laying for our Sophomore itively interesting at least to those who be supported vigorously by his fellow­ agan was qualified to speak in behalf of Stomp, need no introduction'; and then have a sense of humor. For example, -cl'assmates . This philosophy, unfortun­ so-called Spanish democracy for three write 50-0 words words of descriptive they afford an intriguing bit of psycho­ ately, was not true of either junior class reasons. praise about the band. Schwetschenau logical field work for one who is so "per­ during the 0past week. 1. He was a Catholk priest. at the Roger Bacon Alumni dance, but no verted" as deliberate}y to observe with If the commer.ce candidate has inher­ 2. He was a former president of the; Mary. No one so gullible as Culver. We wha·t reckless abandon speakers, fortified ent abirities for office, his name should Irish Parl'iament. imagine that the air around Harlem was with almost endless pages of manuscript be considered by the students in the col­ 3. He was a brother-in-law of Pre.Si- extremely torrid last Sunday when the and excellent light for reading, throw out lege of arts. Likewise, the commerce dent Eamon de Valera of Ireland. orchestras of Chick Webb and Benny words and phrases without saying a students should not be hostile ito the arts A cablegram to the chancery from Mr. Goodman staged a swing contest at the thing. Perhaps it is even more fascinat­ candidate merely because he is from the O'iFlanagan's bishop in Ireland revealed Savoy. Another year has staggered by ing to study the posers, the "''original" col1ege of liberal arts. But unfortunate­ that he was suspended from his priestly and the boys are still stampeding each thinkers who apparently are not aware ly the commerce students ·chose to adver­ office in 1925 and was never re-instated. other on the !basement steps of Science of their plagiarisms, the repeaters, and tise that they were organized splidly for Probably not .primed 1by his falsifying Han trying to smoke. Now we'll give the aye-aye boys and girls whose one the'ir particular candidate. And the arts sponsors, he denied to the press that he the Alumni just one more chance to put aim in the convention, if not in life, is to students were justified in 1banding to­ was a relative of de Valera and .that he up another building on the campus and if please. And if you have not the hardi­ gether to offset the great disadvantage was at one time president of the Irish this fails, why the 1back of our hand to hood to remain almost uninterruptedly under which they approached the elec­ parliament. you sir! On the level boys, couldn't you in the same chair in the same grand ball tion. Yet the handbill qualified him in the come thru with say, a large, remodeled room for the duration of the convention, three ways enumerated above, and the dog house? Flittering lightly from blos­ a few detours along corridors will make you a better satirist than Junius; for you The Coronation- Red propaganda experts put similar lies som to blossom and from hill to dale, will find the office-seekers and the lobby­ in Cincinnati's three daily papers. Hal­ Cummins and Mahoney went picnicking VES'DERiDAY a man who but a year ists wh·o are always splendid material for lowe'en is still five months away. Sunday. Razz ma tazz! I · ago had no thought of ruling a even amateur psychoanalysts. world-circling empire of 500,000,000 was------Yet with all the usual balderdash, the officially crowned King George VI. He I ' Ipolicy-propaganda and the jockeying for came to the throne. unheralded, his older Wh M · d Th. k positions, an occasional crumb does fall brother having monopolized the glory of at r. tu ent 1n s from the convention banquet-board to years of preparation to rule over the 8 keep the truly intellectual from sheer mightiest empire in history. starvation dwring those days of famine. The success of Great Britain in keeping One such crumb fell my way at one of its dominions intact during one of the CAT'l1ERED dispatches in the daily of Agriculture Henry Wallace seem the many conventions last month. Sinc·e stormiest periods in history is a feat that S press are attempting to build can- to have an early lead in the straw- "Gonum est diffusivum sui" I pass it on has aroused world-wide admiration. At­ did~tes for the 1940 presidential elec- voting to determine the Democratic to you. It was the text and the key tempts have and are being made to en­ tions which will probably be held at a standard-bearer. thought in a talk by President Hutchins croach UIPOn ·England's possessions, espe­ time when revivecJi business conditions Farley and Muriphy are both Catholic, of the University of Chicago; and it was cially Jn the regions of the Mediterran­ would bespeak praise for the incumbent and the Democrats may be foreed by the this, "The trouble with Catholic colleges ean, ·but thus far, British diplomacy has Administration. history of the 1928 campaign to overlook is they are not Catholic enough." succeeded in holding the empire in an Senator Arthur Vandenburg seems t~eir names when the time comes to bal- I should like to ask the students of undivided whole. to be a likely choice for the Rcpub- lot in the summer of 1904. Xavier: first, if they agree with his state­ The abilities of the present king will licans :after his success at the last WaUace, then, has the edge. Regard- ment; second, what they think about it. have little effect in shaping the future of convention and his liberal views ing his qualifications, the publication I should like to compare their thoughts the British empire. In spite of reruns of which parallel those expressed in Wisdom says: "One of the most thought- and especially their reasons with those publicity to t'he contrary, it seems to be much of the New Deal legislation. ful men in our Government is Secretary of one who in a sense has observed Cath­ a matter of common knowledge that The Democrats on the other hand seem of Agricuiture, Henry A. Wallace. He olic colleges from without. You have ob­ George VI has ·certain physical and men­ headed for the same problem which con- is a versatile man, wit1~ iittie taste for served at least one from within. May I tal peculiarities, lbut these cannot in any !fronted the GOP in June. President poiitical iife, but with abilities as an ed­ ask you to reflect upon it and give me way affect power. which really does not Roosevelt has emphatically declared that itor, a statistician, an economist, a public the benefit of ·your serious mental gym­ exist, power which is .only nominal. Yet, he will not 1be a candidate for re-election.· interpreter. He is an administrator who nastics. If you do in sufficient numbers, . it has been predicted by more than one ;James A. Farley, Governor Frank recognizes the necessity for an education­ I shall later give you my judgment on historical expert that George will see the Murpby of Michigan, allld Secretary al basis of effective programs." the subject. THE XAVERIAN NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1937 PAGE THREE going to Cincinnati to revise the dictionary." SAY, JUDGE, iHIS And we woke up in the Twen­ NOT NECESSARILY, 11-IEN I CERTAINLY SOME'Tl-llNodbye, dear old with the annual election meet­ Locomotive· Steam Engine. ing on Wednesday afternoon, · We were reminded of this fact May 19, in the lobby of the Bi­ -by standing out in the rain in an ology Building on the Xavier up-state town, awaiting the mid­ campus. night flyer's special stop for a Mrs. J. B. Casello has been gr o up of semi-conventionites designated chairman of the bake eager for Cincinnati and the sale which will :be a feature of dawn. The train was la~e. Some the afternoon's money-raismg of the more adventuresome were program. The Booklovers are ih'olding their ears to the rails to making every effort to surpass detect her approach. Finally the fine donation which they there seemed to be some agree­ made to the Xavier library fund ment among the detectives, last year. : which was soon confirmed by a Mrs. Adolph Koch, retiring misty blur of light over what president, is organizing the com­ must have been the corn fields. mittees which will wurk at this That Hght, growing like a min­ final party of the year. Candi­ iature dawn, set all feet astir. dates selected at a recent nom­ There was the wierd mixture of inating commiUee meeting · are loudened talk and scuffing feet now being consulted about their on the platform, an almost silent candidacy and the ticket for the hum of farewells, the creaking of coming year will be announced manned baggage. The Cyclopean shortly. pipefula of fragrant tobacco in eye of the engine was now a .blue Since a large crowd is antici­ 5 0 every 2-oz. tin of Prince Albert star on the horizon, and the pated for the election meeting driving 'rain of the night grew and card party, Mrs. Louis J. more and more clear and crystal Tuke, vice-president in char.ge in the growing .glare. "I'm glad of programs, is asking that res­ it's not the stream -1 in e d ervations be made. Thooe should Zephyr," our companion was say­ be telephoned or mailed to Mrs. ing. "They're 0. K. in the day Catherine A. McGrath at X·avier. time, but in the night they're like snakes in the .grass. Give theme a night,nice .. snortingespecially dragon a rainy for ------. "Toot-toot-too-oo," said the dra.g- on with an unmistakably steam timber. "Yes," we agreed through the whistle's echo. It's time for NTIL that moment we had MEN! U ·been. v a g u e 1 y wondering what was wrong with the Diesel­ driven, stream-lined Z e p h yrs. There in that hypnotizing exper­ ience the_ problem cleared up in a flash. · The Zephyrs are too smuoth, to· white, too clean. WOOL They have a whistle, but it isn't backed by steam; they have the head-lit eye, but without the proper roar and smoke to show to advantage; they have chrom­ iumed spark-plugs, but no fire­ box to glow rosy and saffron in SLACKS the black night; they have no steamy let-offs, no choo-choo pickups, no smoke ·belchings, no They're casual, com­ nothing that would interest Her­ fortable and correct! .. cules, or Jack-the-Giant-killer, or St. George, or Kipling, or Carl Sandburg. If you don't believe us,. drive up to Ashtabula or somewhere like and wait for a ·rainy mid-night to board the flyer. 6.50 We stopped beyond the tur­ moil of the boarding, near par­ alyzed with delight, wrapped in the rain and the wonder of it all. We thought that Beowulf would have laughed at Grendel with Wear them on the campus; wear our e:i,,perience, that St. George was centuries too early for really them for sports. Slacks are rapidly snorted smoke and fire. The coming to the fore where men want blue-white, far-seeing eye, the to enjoy informal moments knowing steaming nostrils, the red-burn­ ing brain, the white scales of they're well dressed and comfortable_ windows stretching length and too. Mabley's has a fine collection of lengths-no :wonder we au want to be locomotive engineers in pleated front styles and some are star-grasping childhood. If we, Talon tailored. Get at least one pair for one, had known as much of of slacks to complete your summer the Choo-choo in childhood as •Gay Plaids now, may.be the old wish had outfit. made the engineer. But who • Club Checks • Plain Colors can imagine Junior wanting-to Store For Men . • . Second Floor be a Diesel engine motorman? • Novelty Patterns "Board," yelled the brakie, and we did. We were still slightly hypnotized by the snorting and the creeping pull, as the dragon talons bit into the steel rails. "Oh," our companion rwas an­ MAHLEY & ~ARE\V swering· the grinning porter, ''it's just a delegation of college yaps L.------paim______. Three Years A.Ko This Week: One Year Ago This Week: Inclement weather held . down Denial was made by Xavier Uni­ the competition in the indoor and versity officials of .the rumor The Xaverian News tennis tournaments for the intra­ that double-headers featuring mural athletes at Xavier Univer­ Xavier and the University of sity. Jim Dorsey and Jack Jeffre Cincinnati had been arranged had reached the tennis finals, and for the ensuing basketball season p four teams remained in the base­ in the Xavier fieldhouse. s 0 R T s ball t<>urney. PAGE FOUR CINCINNA'N, QI-ITO, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1937

I Wilke Signs As Assistant Coach \ \ Bob I i fore enrolling at Notre Dame. to reside in Hamilton and to I owe Kruse a dime for a lop­ His addition to the coaching rpake the daily trips to and from sided ping pong ball; and I owe Star Irish staff is expect.ed to assist in a Xavier by auto throughout the Table Tennis Champ a Price Hill flower shop for my material way to make the season season. Explains His Victory prom corsage. Whoa, check that of 1937 one of the most success­ Crowe announced Wilke's ap­ last part. · Halihacli ful ever enjoyed by a Musketeer pointment after a conference in BY JIM HAUSMAN I have written a book entitled football team. South Bend. Wilke, odd 1 y How to Win at Ping Pong or Ig­ Last Year As backfield coach, Wilke's enough, was coached by one of (Xavier Ping Pong Champioo) nore Your Comcience. The fol­ duties will be mainly to school Crowe's old teammates, Elmer Sports Editor Cummins bas lowing rules are given: Crowe's inexperienced sopho­ Layden. asked me to tell how I "happened Bob Wilke, famed left half­ to win" the table tennis cham­ 1. Play your little brother, un­ more talent-Bob Farley, Andy less he's good. back of the Notre Dame Univer­ Craffey, Val Boehm, Russ Nickol, .------,: pionship. I can't truthfully say sity football team last ·season has Whitey Walsh, and Nick Weiler Tennis Season I "owe it all to my father (al­ 2. Cheat on the score. si•gned as assistant football coach -into first string and replace­ though I realize that this is us­ 3. Move the net farther over at Xavier University, according ment material to fill several va­ ls Announced ually said). for I owe $1.03 to a Triple Threat I will be opEm seven,days a week------­ ...., time "greats" produced at Notre Wilke was a triple-threat man from early morning to dusk at Drune and one of the best half­ at Notre Dame. His ph~nomenal the start of the Ten'.nis season. backs there since the days of kicking and p ·as sing ability The fee will be $5.00 for the Knute Rockne. should also aid Coach Crowe in season to adults and $3.00 to Hidden Ball these departments where there junior members, including the are many potentialities, especial­ He starred in the Irish-Army students of Xavier University. Boss, you sho Thais ly among the fl;eshman and Applications for membership game in New York last fall, pull­ sophomore candidates. se~nn ing a "hidden" . ball trick-an can be made by writing or call­ .. do . use · Wilke will graduate from ing the Alunmi Office, Xavier be; unusual feat fur a football play­ unr.erturbed / er-to catt the oval across the Notre Dame in June. He plans University, JEfferson 3220. goal-line while the West Point­ l;ythe Palm Beach ers looked on dumbfounded. e.:::.======;'\ Wilke also starred when the heat- suit is Irish routed Northwestern, end­ lookin' from the ing a prowl that was not halted as cool during a eight~game winning streak, a prowl that found the a.s no Wildcats feasting on undefeated, SP.ORTSIDE mighty Minnesota. clothes In that game, Wilke not only by Red Haugh,ey led in scoring and in the ground­ at all gaining department, but his kick- ing-especially a quick-kick in A!NNOUNOEMENT given out throug.h the athletic depart­ ~~- the third period that paved the 'T'HE way for a score-was some of the ! ment that intercollegiate baseball may be revived again next best seen at the Notre Dame season, gave rise to the thought that Xavier U. has sent quite a few Stadium which Rockne built be­ 1ball players to the Major Leagues in years gone by. fore his death. Although baseball has been passe here·for a number of years, Native Of Hamilton time was when Xavier was represented by some very fair ball~ throwers who were destined for better things than amateur ball. Wilke is a native of Hamilton, Ohio, where he prepped at Ham­ Even though some of these date away back, what average ball-fan ilton Cathoiic High, School be- has never heard of old-time 'National League players such as Bill Sweeney, Neal Brady, Eddie Sicking, and others who attended X ibefore entering upon a baseball career? x x x x x WEENEY and Sicking, perhaps more than the others, gained CLOTHED IN AIR For Summer S the most fame from their exploits on the diamond. Sweeney dates back to before 1910, when he played a flashy second-base for the New York Giants. He was the first representative from • To the world you are an unusually Select a X to break into the Big Time, and after his entry into the league with the Giants, that team seemed .to be the goal for X ball men. well ~.dressed man. Your friends will Bill Barrs, who graduated in '16, caught 1_op. with the "Jer:nts" speak of the smartn,ess of your clothes, ,,. Burkhardt as a second baseman. And still another second baseman from and you'll absent-mindedly reply, X played with the New '.Yorkers in the person .of the colorful Ed Sicking, '17. Sicking was destined to travel around the "What clothes?" before you remember '~Styled" league somewhat durin'g the early '20's, leaving the Giants for you're wearing Palm Beach. the Philadelphia Nationals before ending up with1 the Cincy Reds. • It's tailored as . stylishly as suits .Then came Neal Brady, '18, who was a pitcher for the Palm ; Giants for a number of years before coming to the Redlegs. costing many times as much. And its x x x x x patented fabric resists wrinkles and Beach N 1924 there was a little fellow by the name of Tommy Hart who repels dirt, so that your pressing and I was still doing catching duties here a.t the university when he attracted the attention of Big League scouts. He was given a try­ cleaning bills are surprisingly low. out by the great John McGraw, then the fighting manager of· the Suit Giants, and after seeing Harl work out behind the plate, "Muggsie" G Your favorite clothier is showing a predicted great things for the little receiver. Tommy, a senior, took stack of fresh weaves and patterns that McGraw up on his word and after graduation was able to show .the will win scores of new Palm Beach fans. fiery Irishman that he had the ability to piay big-league ball. From the 1926 class there were two who made' the Majors for See the darker-tone mixtures which short stays-Hatty Albers, a third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds,, look like imported worsteds. Get yours and Jim Boyle, a catcher for the Giants. now while selections are at their best. Then more recently, we have Ralph "Buzz" Boyle, '29, who was one of Brooklyn's mainstays for a number of years after coming to 16.75 the Daffy Dodgers from the Boston Braves. Boyle passed out of the League last year on waivers. Tlll!,DRIED av !!DDDAL!, $16.75 The last of the Musketeers to make a bid for Big League hon­ ~~;.7!~Yk j ors was Ambrose Puttman of '31, who had a brief trial with the PAOM TRI aiMUIAi CLOTH Giants after graduation, but failed to make the grade. But now, after a lapse of some four or five years, baseball again Burkhardt's may .be revived, and it is hoped that once more Xavier can develop GOODALL COMPANY • CINCINNATI some future big-league stars to grace the diamonds around the Na­ tional circuit. At least, we might be able to get a few free passes, FOURTH NEAR VINE now and then. Anyway, it was a g?od idea. THE XAVERIAN NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1937 PAGE FIVE Plans Ne a r I y Senior Wins Entertainment Follows German Complete For 11{\ Verl{amp Club Banquet Clef 0 n c er t Negative T.eam i\ De­ c Officers For Next Year clared Victorious By Installed; Members Formal Dance Following Judge Spraul. Concert To Be Closed Sing Their Club Song Affair; Bids Can Be Leonard C. Gartner, a senior "Lorelei." Secured. in the college of 'liberal arts, won the ·annual Verkamp Debate held Annual He id el ib e r g dinner last night in the Mary G. Lodge Reading Room of the Xavier sponsored by the German Club Plans for the Clef Club Con­ was held last evening at the cert and Formal Dance to ·be University library building. given in the Gibson Ballroom He was a members of the neg­ Cricket restaurant in the .ban­ May 27, are rapidly nearing com­ ative team upholding the quet room of the Palace Hotel 1k~Pud pletion, according to Joseph question, "Resolved, that Con­ at 7:00 P. M. Schulte, chairman of the concert gress be empowered to fix min­ At this affair popular subjects commitete. This concert is the imum wages and maximum biggest affair of the year staged hours for industry." were informally discussed after which an interesting entertain­ by the Clef Club and consequent­ The critic judge of the debate lEONARO ly the preparations are elaborate. was the Honorable Clarence E. ment program followed. The The concert prom~ses to be a Spraul, a judge in the Cincinnati club's song, "Lorelei," together very fine musical production and municipal court. Judge Sprau! with several other German songs well worth hear-ing . The com­ praised the affirmative team of were sung by the mem1bers. mittee promises an e~cellent pro­ Charles L. McEvoy, Vincent E. The newly elected officers were gram. The choristers are work­ KEllEB Smith, and Alber.t A. Stephan installed in their respective of­ ing hard on several new selec­ for its method of attack. fices last night. Members who AND HIS O~CHESTRA tions which they will present The negative team consisting were elected to offices at the last then for the first time. of Edward J. Kennedy, Jr., meeting were: ·Alex Griswald, OPENS DINNER SESSION The dance following the con­ George D. Bruch, and Leonard pre-medical junior, president; cert will be a closed affair; how­ C. Gartner were also lauded Vincent H. Beckman, liberal arts ever, bids can easily be secured highly in Judge Spraul's decis­ junior, vice president; and Rob­ FRIDAY, MAY 14th by pur.chasing three tickets for ion. ert Meyer, liberal arts junior, the concert. The tickets sell for The winning debater will re­ secretary-treasurer. .. , Well versed , , , this "Tone Poet" of 50c. music . • . well versed to give you divers!· ceive the Verkamp Gold Medal Founded In 1929 The next in the club's regular for debating at the· Commence­ lied dance music • , , both "swing.sweet" series of concerts presented ment Exercises in June, The This organiza·tion received its and smooth, romantic lyrics. May days name from one of the oldest of are play days and dance nights in the throughout the year will ·be .giv­ medal is the gift of the late Jo­ Florentine, you know. en at Mount Notre Dame Acad­ seph B. Verkamp, Xavier alum­ German universities, Heidelberg, emy, Reading, Ohio, on Thursday nus. romantic Heidelberg; and it was afternoon, at 2:30. founded March 3, 1929 iby Doctor 1.2&' min. check at wG&k· The Verkamp debate brought Paul J. Menge, then an eminent ntqht sup. sessions. the Xavier debate season to a faculty member and later mod­ 2.00 min. chk. al Sat. and close. erator of the club who inaugur­ Holiday Eve sup. sessions. ated the meetings with a lecture on "German Student University "L a d y D a y :: Life." After several years, the Ger­ Celebrated By man Club became less active. But LOOK AHEAD in 1934, after a short lapse of in­ Mermaid Tavern activity, Jack Linfert, '34, reor­ In Choosing Your Career ganized the club and was elected ' president' of tbe" organization in The ecience or the "new dentistry" his junior year. ia still in its infancy. It is a most New Host Presides At promising field for constructive "Wilhelm Tell" thou11ht and work. It cell• for the Meeting; Odes To The best minds intereotcd in health The meetings of that year were •ervicc careers. Blessed Virgin Read. actively taken up with the dis­ Because of advancing standards, cussion and criticism of Prod:. John F. Graiber's translation of enrollment in Dental Schools in "Lady Day," annual highday the United States haa been reduced Schiller's "WHhelm Telll" and of during the pa•t thirteen years. To­ of the Mermaid Tavern com­ other selected works of Goethe, day there ia one practicing dentist· memorating the Blessed Virgin, Lessing, and Hauptmann, togeth­ to ' approximately each 2 ;400 of was held Monday night in the population. er with the study of problems CJf Tavern quarters with Vincent E. German life and explanations of Marquette University Dental Smith, newly elected host pre­ School is given the highest rating siding. Teutonic "Ku1tur." -A- by the Dental Educational Last night's banquet crowned Council of America. It• diplomas The members read original to graduates are recognized in ell odes to the Blessed Virgin ,pre­ the German Club activities for 1tates. The close relationship of pared especially for the occasion. this year; and the officers .who dental-medical •tudy proves an ad· The usual social session followed were installed ·at the meeting vantage to student•. the meeting. will become active in their offices Entrance requirements: Two years Plans for the publication of during the scholastic term of in A recognized College of Liberal 1937-38. Arts with aatiafactory credits in the .patron stories written sev­ biolo&Y, organic chemistry, and eral months ago were completed Members of the 1banquet com· pbyaica. at the meeting. The publication mittee were largely responsible For complete information concern· date has been set for June 1 or for the success of the dinner. ina: opportunitica in dentistry, write June 8, the date of the annual The committeemen were Herman to the Secretary, Marquette Uni· highday to honor the graduating G. Ruff, Vincent H. Beckman and vC111ity Dental School, Milwoukee, seniors. This will be an all-pa­ Don M. Middendorf. Wiaconsin. tron meeting it was announced. 'rhe deadline for the submis­ sion of the patron stories has "Alumni Topics" been set for Friday. This will mark the second pub­ New Periodical lication of the Tavern, the first being a compilation of the An­ Widely Praised niversary Odes written for the MILWAUKEE e fifth anniversary of the Tavern in February, 1936. Quarterly Digest Of News And .Opinions SI e eve I es s Sweaters Of Interest To Alumni.

PALM BEACH .Congratulatory responses are being received from many points throughout the country on the 1.so first edi.tion of the new ~avier the smartest "WHITE" University A 1 um n i magazine, called Xavier Alumni Topics, With warm days at hand and tennis, qoUlnq, hlklnq and spectator the coolest dark suits which was published last week sports In the air • • • You'll want sweaters, and sweaters, cool. in <:onnection with the annual sleeveless sweaters. These are all wool and come la colors to ... a complete selection dinner of the Alumni Associa­ rouse your 11porllnq blood ••• qrey, royal blue, and tan. Small, tion. medium and larqe 1l1e1. in Alumni Topics . is planned to be a quarterly digest of news MEN'S FURNISHINGS - FIRST FLOOR and opinions of interest to Xa­ vier Alumni. This is the first time in the history of Xavier 49 POGUE'S MEN'S SHOP year old Alumni Association that an official publication has ap­ Second Floor peared. It is planned to have the second number ready for the Rollrrtan's commen<:ement rprogram in June. PAGE SIX THE XAVERIAN NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1937

• Golfers Will . Alumni Association. Both stu-1 the entertainment in the eve­ Cadets Alumni dents and friends of Xavier have ning. Only- Alumni will be eli­ "X" been invited to play golf and to gible for the trophy. Are Given Meet In Tournament------

Gun Rating possession. Duffers To Tee Off Next Heading the committee in Thursday at I O'clock; charge of the event is Maurice Highest Honor Given To "Bruz" Richmond, of the Class Students Invited. of 1934, chairman of the enter­ Students in Basic First tainment committee. Dr. Leon J. Renneker, of the class pf •1912, Year Course. The First Annual Golf Tourn­ is chairman of the golf commit­ ament of the Xavier University tee. Thomas J. Schmidt, of the Major Arthur M. Harper, head Alumni ·Association will take class of 1935, is chairman of the of the military department at place next Thursday afternoon, committee appointed by the Xavier University, announced May 20, at the Ridgewood Coun­ Board of Governors as their rep­ Thursday the list of Xavier ca­ try Club, Amity and Ridge resentative in making plans for dets who have been promoted to Roads. the tourney. the rank of Second Class Gun­ The golfer with the lowest The golfers will tee off at 1 ner as the result of the success­ gross score will be ,awarded a o'clock, according to an an­ fUl completion of basic military silver loving cup which he will nouncement by Dr. Renneker. studies in the field artillery di­ hold for one year. After win­ Foll-Owing the tournament, there vision. ning the trophy for any three will be a dinner and refresh­ These cadets include: F. -L. Lu,.. consecutive years, the cup will ments for golfing or non-golfing ken, E. J. Geers, R. T. Schmidt, become the winner's' permanent alumni. J. F. O'Connor, T. J. Schmitt, C. A blind bogey tournament will J. Steuer, E. B. Krekeler, R. J. M. J. Tepe, R. P. Trauth, P. J. also be held by the Association Antonelli, .E. C. F11.amm, F. G. Geers, R. J. Hartlaub, H. G. Ruff, in connection with the event. Konersman, H. F. Culver, J. P. J. M. Wekh, R. W. Oker, ·F. P. The fee for the day has been Elder, 1R. E. Inkrot, B. J. Ma­ Burke, F. E. Ruprecht, H. J. set at $2.00 for golfers and $1.50 loney, A. W. Efkeman, G. W. Russ, W. J. Gessing, J. A. Glad­ for those who come merely for Leugers, 0. C. Ernst, W. F. Con­ stone, L. F. Pieper, E. H. Willen­ the entertainment which is to do, J.E. Ryan. borg, R. F. Groneman, L. C. follow the tournament in the D. W. Kernen, L. G. Summers, Schneider, D. L. Riley, H. A. clubhouse. a:'. G. Muehlenkamp, E. J. Espel, Ritzie, J. C. Gibbons, R. J. Schu­ This is the first event of its R. M. Nordmeyer, J. R. Kern, R. macher, B. L. Bauman, R. W. kind ever to be held by the L. Sa:icton, J. F. Feck, G. A. Mar­ Benson, R. W. Berting, M. F. iton, R. P. Goesling, R. L. Wehrle, Daley, R. F. Meyer, J. A. Zurn- ···~~~~~ .P. F. Centner, F. X. Dalton, R. A. berg, J. W. Woestman, R. J. Julius Lohr, B. S. P• Meister, J. D. Burke, J. J. Clear, Weingartner, E. H. Willenborg, oR. L. Grogan, C. F. Holley, J. B. E. J. Gonella, R. J. Bockerstette. The favorite barber Rees, R. L. Dooley, L. E. Rack, The annual inspection of the ·V. H. ·Beckman, J. W. Brown, F. unit by high Army officers will of the Campus Duda, R. J. Piening, R. J. Farley, take place on Tuesday, May 25, 3757 Mongomery Road A. W. Geselbracht, C. W. Hughes, and the result of their findings ' n E' J HE R l A·n Ii· p l Az A .' Mnx Sciiulmari, M"nag"t. 800-rooms .... minimum rate $3 0W. J. Rielly, G. D. Bruch, J. A. will determine the ranking which XERVAC ~ ~ Piepmeyer, R. W. Bergamyer. the Xavier militairy department Scalp and Hair Treatments . N.1taon•d Hotel _M.:ind;cmcnt Company, Inc. Balpli Hilz, Pres1dnnt A. W. Heck, E. H. Heitzman, will receive for the coming year. °"·--· · - ' . . '' . • /Or the pleasure o/ hesterfle!d smokers ...

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