The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus If This book is not to be U/>etake n from the Library Notre Dame ALUMNUS JOHN T. BALFE, PH.B. COM., '20 Catholic Leader > Notre Dame Leader Business Leader April, 1935 n» MaOtr Dm Liam Tmm Stimm ITS nUTEH BEAUTY HEFLECTS ITS IWEH UUALIT\ Chevrolet has given as much care to the manufacture of hidden parts as to the fashioning of the bodies of this aristo­ crat of low-priced cars. Careful selection of materials—precision engineering—and rigid inspections—assure sterling quality all the way through. When you buy a Master De Luxe Chevrolet, you may expect performance that equals its beauty . comfort and safety fully as advanced as its streamline styling. The prices are an added inducement to choose Chev­ rolet for quality at low cost. CHEVROLET MOTOR CO.. DETROIT, MICH Can-.pare Chevrolet'h /ow delivered price>- and eaf^ 0 ^ A ^ The Notre Dame Alumnus JAMES £. AIUISTROXG, '25. The masrazine is published monthly durinp the scholastic year by the Alumni Association Member of the American Editor of.the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. The subscription price is S2.00 . a year; the price of sinele copies is 25 cents. The annual alumni dues of S5.00 include Alumni Council. a year's subscription to THE ALUMNUS. Entered as second-class matter January 1, WILLIAM R. DOOLEY. '26. 1923. at the post office at Notre Dame. Indiana, under the Act of March 3. 1879. All Member of Nafl. Catholic Associate Editor correspondence should be addressed to The Notre D.ame Alumnus. BQTZ SI. Notre Dame. Ind. Alumni Federation VOL. XIII APRIL, 1935 No. 7 DEATH TAKES FATHER JOHN CAVANAUGH, '90 Former President of University, Foremost Catholic Orator, Inspiring Friend of all Notre Dame Men, is Buried Amidst Impressive Services. He was a great president, a great dent of Notre Dame, was deacon, and students, alumni, friends and reli­ orator. He wrote beautifully and the Rev. Eugene Burke, C.S.C, sub- gious filed past the body to pay hom­ spoke charmingly. His delightful hu­ deacon. age to one of Notre Dame's greatest mor would fill books. His learning Other members of the hierarchy presidents. Religious, students and was unbounded and deep. in the sanctuar>' to pay their last lay professors had, in turn, formed a respects to Father Cavanaugh were constant guard of honor at his bier. Yet "Cavvy"—and there is no ir­ the Jlost Rev. Joseph Ritter, D.D., reverence here—was immeasui-ably Telegrams and messages of con­ more than that to eveiy Noti'e Dame dolence poured by hundreds into the man, of the past, the present and University from all over the land. even the future. Among them were words of sympa­ thy from President Roosevelt, Arch­ He was their friend, their ever­ bishop Amleto Cicognani, Apostolic lasting, inspiring friend. Delegate, and from almost every Hundreds of these Notre Dame member of the hierarchy in America. men knew it—and the letters and tel- At the services the sanctuary and egitims show well they knew it. body of the church were crowded Other thousands didn't realize it with eminent clergj-men and with for they never met the man of whom men prominent in the business and the Religious Bulletin said: "No man industrial life. ever loved Notre Dame more pas­ Bishop Noll delivered a brief sionately than Father Cavanaugh." eulogy after the funeral JIass, saying Yet these thousands were just as in part: truly Father Cavanaugh's friends as F.\TIIER JOII.N- C.WAXAUGH "It is only by a great exception the wide circle of his intimates. In May He Rest In Peace. that a tradition and a i-ule of the his gi"eat heart Notre Dame men were Holy Cross Congregation permits a enshrined. Bishop of Indianapolis; the Most Rev. sermon to be preached at the ob­ Joseph Schrembs, Bishop of Cleve­ sequies of one of its members. The So it is that Notre Dame men exception in this instance does not evei-ywliei'e are sad today at the land; and the Most Rev. Philip Mc- Devitt, D.D., Bishop of Harrisburg; nullify a tradition or that rule. thought that Father John W. Cava­ Many of vou who are gathered here naugh, C.S.C, '90, president of the the Most Rev. Karl Alter, D.D., Bish­ op of Toledo; and the Most Rev. this morning to pay your last tribute University from 1905 to 1919, is and respects to Father Cavanaugh dead. He died in the Community In- Michael James Gallagher, D.D., Bish­ probably knew hira in many aspects fii-mary (formerly St. Joseph's No­ op of Detroit. better than I, but I knew him in vitiate) on Friday, March 22, at 5:30 Since Saturday afternoon the body other respects better than you. in the evening, the second "good had lain in state in the Administra­ Notre Dame man to depart this "My acquaintance with him ex­ tion Building of the University and tends back forty years, and this ac­ world that week; the first was Joe thousands of persons knelt in prayer Sullivan. quaintance developed into a warm beside the simple black casket. Day friendship which on his part was Father Cavanaugh was buried on and night, a constant procession of manifested to me in many ways. You Tuesday, March 2C, in the cemeterj- knew hira as the genial gentleman, of the Congregation of Holy Cross the scatterer of sunshine in whose on the Notre Dame campus. warmth and rays you regaled your­ The simple service at the grave selves. You knew him as a profes­ marked the close of ceremonies which FATHER CAVANAUGH sor and president of Notre Dame Uni- began in Sacred Heart church at nine MEMORIAL vei-sity, as a profound scholar, as the o'clock in the morning when the com­ wise counsellor, as the builder of munity assembled to chant the office SUPPLEMENT character, as an extraordinary ad- of the dead. ministi-ator. will be the Feature This was followed by a Solemn "You knew him as a pulpit orator Eequiem Mass celebrated by the Rev. of the of unusual ability. I knew him as an James A. Burns, C.S.C, provincial editor whose facile pen, steered by a of the Order of Holy Cross, with the MAY ALUMNUS brilliant mind, wrote com-incingly, Most Rev. John F. Noll, D.D., Bishop entertainingly, and interestingly. I of Fort Wayne, presiding. The Rev. —The Editors knew him as the serious religious in­ Hugh O'Donnell, C.S.C, acting presi­ tent primarily on his own sanctifica- 178 The 'Notre 'Dame oil umnu s April. 1935 tion, as a religious consecrated to Al­ mighty God by the vows of poverty, IMPORTANT CHANGES FOR CURRICULUM chastity, and obedience, vows which detached him from the world and Aero-engineering whether national, state, or local. It which stimulated him to the pursuit is anticipated that Governmental As predicted in recent news re­ Service will offer increasing oppor­ of higher things. It knew him as a leases from the Universitj-, a four- priest, and it was particularly in his tunities for speciallj- trained and year course in aeronautical engineer­ specially qualified j'oung men. priesthood that he found satisfac­ ing will be inaugurated by the Notre tion. Dame College of Engineering next Architecture "Father Cavanaugh's answer to September. The progi-am in detail enemies of the Catholic Church and will appear in the next general bul­ Beginning with fi-eshmen students Christianity was 'Show me your letin now on the University Press entering next September, the Depart­ fruits.' Show me a single accomplish­ which will be available for mailing ment-of Architecture in the College ment or achievement conformable in later in the spring. The progi-am will of Engineering will increase to five the slightest degree to those of the be the result of conferences held by j'ears the course leading to the de­ institution which you oppose. Show the President of the University, the gree of Bachelor of Science in Ar­ me a civilization you have cultured, a Dean of the College of Engineering, chitecture. Heretofore the Depart­ republic you have founded, a cathed­ and a committee of facultj- members, ment has offered two courses, one in ral you have erected, a service station with a number of nationally known architectural design and the other in you have built for the sick, for the technical and commercial experts in architectural engineering, but in aged, or the poor or the widow or aeronautics. The first two years of conformity- with standard practices the orphan or the outcast. Show me the course will be quite similar to the among the better schools elsewhere, the art you have developed, the pic­ first two years of the pi-esent course the new five-j-ear course will include ture you have painted, the master­ in mechanical engineering. The Uni­ both engineering and design. This piece you have conceived. To your versitj' authorities are cominced of cliange will i-aise the already high credit belong only the French revo­ the necessitj- for all engineering stu­ standards achieved by this Depart­ lution, the Bolshevism of Russia, the dents first getting the fundamental ment. diabolical satanism behind the Mexi­ courses in mathematical and the phj'- sical sciences regardless of the field can persecution, the hatred which Social Work produces wars, the materialism which of engineering in which thej- may breeds depressions'." specialize.