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NOVERIBER, 1923.

CONTENTS.

The Wings of Winter 131 The Laetare Medal Presentation Harry A. McChdre 132 The Spirit of Gipp (A Poem) Joseph C. Ryan 136 Rainy Day Thoughts Ed^vin W. Ahio-phy 137 Brother Flo 139 St. Thomas and Modern Thought R. R. Macgregor Ph. D. 140 Any Old Timer (A Sketch) Francis Kolars 144 L'Envoi (A Poem) Francis Collins Miller 146 Reiiections of a Movie Reviewer John Brennan 147 Historical Fables—I. E. T. Lyons 149 The Elusive Mr. Stunton (A Story) J. R. Davids 150 Tears (A Poem) James F. Hayes 158 Onions Lt'd. (A Story) James Armstrong 159 A Page of Poetry (A Poem) J. 162

Editorials—The Sad Part of a Story; Why Is a Critic?; The Danger of Learning; Art for Your Own Sake 163 Lunar Log—October Summary; The Poetry Contest; Dr. Flick's Address; Homecoming; The Blue Circle; Publications Lt'd.; Brother Columba Dies 167 Reviews 177 Education Elsewhere 181 Holy Smoke 182 What's What in Athletics—Georgia Tech; Purdue; Nebraska 183

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prospect of a "deal." And then re­ THE WINGS OF WINTER. member, the earth will roll round the ITH stoical grace the trees sun thirty times, and the seasons will that but a little while ago change, till all these faces and minds were proudly rich have and eyes have melted into the terrible watched their holdings grin which earth tries to keep a mer­ decrease, have given over to the ciful secret. stem and inevitable creditor all For millions of people living today, that made them beautiful and lus­ man is not separate from nature. trous. It is one of the oldest The "cosmic chill," which must freeze of stories, though one which we read the naked soul more brutally than ice again with a melancholy flutter, as if fastens on a pool, drifts in upon the the pathos were ours, too. And so it hedonism of comfortable days. To 'J- is, of course. Finally we shall be get what you can while the getting's stripped of everything—^hopes, pas­ good is one part of the philosophy; sions, and the booty of possible vic- and the other part is an iron song that toiy, even the halo of our defeats. rasps the surface of laughter and What will remain? Only the out­ tears. Millions of people who face stretched arms that suffer in the tomorrow as the trees face winter! blast, only the hope against hope for There is the tragedy—^not so much spring to bloom again. elsewhere, even in the great, dark The irony of human living is al­ lands where hunger stalks and peace ways that the tinsel of the outside is a forgotten word. After all, our should seem more important than the most important hope is to escape this .s? flood that streams within. Everyone —^to find an answer in which there is knows that the passing show is trans­ at least one strong, sage whisper of itory, sees the human leaf bur­ unending spring. nished and then gone. How piteously And the answer? Oh, just the peace little it amounted to, after all! Laugh which is above seasons and beyond at the old lady who wishes to be the winds. It is a peace made half of buried in a platinum coffin, but laugh a poem and half of a prayer, a peace as well at the man who would live in makes rhymes smilingly and prays one. Watch them go by! The strained without rebellion. No one can find it faces that pursue another million, for you. It can enter only t^ou^ perhaps another thousand; the minds the windows which are unseen, whis­ that spin with figures and calcula-. pering words too strange and distant *> tions; the eyes that glitter with the^We n for a wordless song. THE SCHOLASTIC

is important. He realized that his was THE LAETARE MEDAL PRESEN­ a rare opportunity for influencing TATION. young men, and he further realized HARRY A. MCGUIRE. that these young souls were avid for "At the present time, it is peculiarly sig­ such wisdom as his—^wisdom refined nificant that the LAETARE MEDAL by half a century of varied experi­ comes to you as a recognition of excel­ ences, wisdom presented because it lent citizenship. You have been a note­ was wise and sane, not because it was worthy professional man, and a leader aesthetic or clever. in the law. But beyond all of that, has come your fidelity to American princi­ What Mr. Smith said was signifi­ ple in the noblest and most disinter­ cant—but what he said you may ested sense: devotion to the conscience read below. Those who missed this of our country in the conduct of affairs, occasion cannot, however, find in the to the charity of our people towards formal addresses the quality which the unfortunate in other lands, and to the progressive instincts of our politi­ embodies the scene so deeply in one's cal traditions. You have moved on­ memory. First there was the short ward without faltering; you have de­ talk of Bishop Edward F. Hoban, fended, with honor and often against who presided. His is a temperate, odds, the things that must not perish." melodious voice, and his is a graceful T IS seldom indeed that Notre manner that pleases; it was his task Dame men have the privilege of to say something of the significance I listening to such an address as of the awarding of the medal, and was delivered by Mr. Walter George to put the vast audience at ease. He Smith on the occasion of the did these things with skill. Laetare Medal presentation on No­ Doctor Lawrence F. Flick, who had vember 8th. Professors may possess been honored several years ago as a great knowledge of their subject, Mr. Smith was honored that night, and be adept in presenting it; but followed Bishop Hoban with an ad­ their classroom is confining in its at­ dress upon the recipient of the medal. mosphere, and even the eve of exam­ Doctor Flick, who is a close personal inations is not an occasion so tense friend of Mr. Smith's, enumerated so with feeling as the occasion of the many offices held by that gentleman presentation of the Laetare Medal. that we lost count after 173. Suf­ Lecturers may be sincere, they may fice it to say that they were almost be oratorical and effective, but the wholly honorary positions that gave students cannot forget that they are vivid testimony of Mr. Smith's lead­ lecturers. Sermons may be fervid, ership and philanthropy. Typical appealing, but students cannot but were such offices as President of the remember that there have been ser­ American Bar Association, and mem­ mons for 6,000 years. ber of the committee of 21 called by Now these comparisons may not President Harding to consider the have entered Mr. Smith's head. They limitation of armaments. Doctor need not have entered his head, be­ Flick was so glad to have the oppor­ cause apparently he labored under no tunity of telling the world about his delusions as to the student mind. friend, and so altogether amiable in What he realized, on the other hand, his narration, that the audience 132 THE SCHOLASTIC could not but feel that it too shared and a greater diffusion of the means for in the friendship and greatness of physical ease and comfort. While the old this man. world is torn with dissension, burdened with debt, and its future under so dark Now, on behalf of the university. a cloud as to challenge the courage of the Father Matthew Walsh read the for­ most stout-hearted, in America we seem to mal presentation speech, and the be progressing by leaps and bounds to­ medal was pinned on Mr. Smith by wards a material prosperity that staggers Bishop Hoban. the imagination. Are we happy under these conditions? Contrast our hurried and Until this time Mr. Smith had sat anxious lives with those of our ancestors quietly, with that expression of toler­ in the early and middle parts of the nine­ ant boredom which almost always teenth century. Can we say the marvel­ marks the expression of modest men lous adaptation of the hidden forces of na­ ture to the will of man has conduced in when they must witness the singing the long run to happiness? What happiness of their own panegyrics. Now he means has been the subject of debate, but arose with calm majesty ("He must I take it in speaking to this audience w^e surely be a member of the Bariymore <:an all agree on the definition of what con­ family," we heard someone say), and stitutes happiness as we pray for it, peace with God and peace with ourselves; and in words low with suppressed emo­ with inward peace the most hurried and tion, gave his thanks for the great restless life, burdened with responsibilities, honor bestowed upon him. His ex­ racked by illness, strained by poverty, still pression of gratitude was not lengthy, leaves the possessor triumphant over vicis­ because Mr. Smith is a sincere man, situdes. Without it, there is no imaginable condition where real happiness, or such an and his mind is a relevant one. Then approximation to it as is possible for sinful he proceeded to the unfoldment of his man to attain, can exist. address, which concerned itself with Why are we as a community dissatis­ national matters of the highest sig­ fied? Why is it that every action estab­ nificance. But we must not mar it lished by the experience of mankind in our with our own clumsy interpretation. day is challenged, beginning with the ex­ istence of the supernatural and following Let it stand as the most appealing from that general principle to any form of monument by which many at Notre individual or collective conduct of life? To Dame will remember Mr. Walter Catholics the reason for all this is not far George Smith. to seek. We trace our civilization to the Roman Empire. Its pagan customs, so far The address follows: as natural equity and truth made them No one can travel through the length just, were adopted by Christianity, and and breadth of the United States without Christianity gave its sanction to every­ marvelling at its material wealth. Recent­ one of the basic principles upon which mod­ ly I have read a speech by the President of em civilization has been built up. The the Chamber of Commerce of the United oath invoking the Deitj^s vengeance on States, Mr. Julius H. Barnes, delivered last falsehood is perhaps the most salient and month in Boston, in which he gives amaz­ impressive testimony of the fact that civili­ ing statistics of the production and con­ zation, as we know it, is based upon belief sumption of manufactured material, as well in the supernatural. The whole trend of as of the raw products of nature. I will modern thought is realistic. While admit­ ting that "the riddle of the universe" has not dwell upon these figures, indeed they not been solved, and is perhaps insoluble, it are unnecessary to convince anyone who is rejects any explanation that transcends ex­ at all familiar with the history of mankind perience. Rationalism necessarily yields to that probably at no age in the world has skepticism, skepticism to infidelity in relig- there been so widely extended a prosperity 133 THE SCHOLASTIC

ious matters, and infidelity in religion by immediately pending questions now agi­ tends surely to class consciousness, the dis­ tating the public mind. Ever since the ruption of society, and the horrors that emergencies of the great world war re­ have afforded the world an object lesson for quired the concentration of authority in so many years in Bussia. the Federal Government for its prosecu­ One is not necessarily^ a pessimist be­ tion, there has been an accelerated tendency cause he raises a warning voice when towards bureaucracy. The principle of in­ danger threatens. It is the insidious ap­ dividual liberty, which, as has been well peals to the lower elements of human na­ said by a great lawyer, "has grown out of ture, it is jealousy and selfishness that the life of the Anglo-Saxon race and has little by little take away the spirit of loy­ been waxing strong during all the seven alty upon which the foundations of the hundred years since Magna Charta," has State must ultimately rest. Granted that been invaded by amending the Constitution contentment depends vary largely on eco­ in a manner undreamed of in other and nomic prosperity, that is not the whole saner days. We fought to maintain the truth. If it be, when hard times come principle of individual liberty as against the State must fall amidst the execrations the dominance of the state in the great of those who, when they were well-clothed v/ar, and it seems an irony that the main and well-fed, applauded it. The famish­ question now pending before the people of ing and tattered soldiers at Valley Forge, if the United States regards the alcoholic con­ they had thought only of material well- tents of their beverages. To quote again: being, would have dropped their muskets *^The power of that principle of individ­ and hurried to the lines of Howe in Phil­ ual liberty that develops in the life of our adelphia. From Thermopylae to Bunker race is the greatest formative power in the Hill, from Bunker Hill to Warsaw, the liistory of the world. Over against it spirit of freedom has asserted itself and stands the principle of the State. On the one scorned the sleek prosperity that might hand is the declaration. In that great in­ have come from surrender of principle. strument, the value of which we hardly yet These considerations are obvious enough, appreciate, the Immortal Declaration, and yet they are too often forgotten. It penned by Thomas Jefferson, that all men is time that our minds be brought back to are created with inalienable rights which the contemplation of the primordial, basic governments are created to preserve. On truths upon which our institutions, social, the other hand is the principle that States civic and political, rest. They are pri­ are created with supreme rights which all marily religious, as I have said. Train the individuals are bound to observe. The one citizen to faith in a God of justice and of centres the system of law and order and mercy, before whose tribunal he must in­ justice upon the inalienable right of the evitably stand to render account of ihe individual, the other centres the system of deeds of a lifetime, teach him the Com­ law, order and justice upon the rights of mandments, and make him realize that so­ the State, which subordinates the rights of ciety exists, the State exists, to protect him the individuals." in his rights and to prevent his violating That question as we supposed in 1916, the rights of his neighbor, and you have when Mr. Root, from whom I quote, deliv­ a conservative element that will resist all ered his address before the New York change that would endanger the State. State Bar Association, was then being Of course there must be change, noth­ fought out on the battlefields of Europe. ing is static in the universe. But this ap­ The battlefields have now been transferred plies to accidents. Right and wrong in to the United States, and the contending their essential attributes remain the posi­ forces are a combination of fanaticism and tive and the negative, and cannot be con­ commercial greed on the one side, and those ceived in any other aspect. Conventions of Who are endeavoring to preserve the doc­ society are not sanctions of right, they are trine of inalienable rights of the individ­ deeply written on the heart of man by the ual on the other. finger of God Himself. My plea to an audience of educated men ~ These general observations are provoked is that they study the basic principles of 134 •iSdiBiaiMBhl

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American Governmental institutions in the to establish for their future government light of the eternal rules of justice as be­ such principles as in their opinion would tween man and man, which we learn from most conduce to their own happiness, and Revelation. Forgetfulness of these princi­ when those principles were established they ples or deliberate rebellion against them for were fundamental and designed to be per­ selfish reasons, is responsible for a very manent. He showed that originally a su­ large proportion of the attempts to remove preme will organizes the governments and the ancient landmarks. There is nothing assigns to the different departments their sacred in any form of human government; respective powers, and then adds this will it is a means to an end, and one form will may stop at that point or establish cer­ work well in one nation which would be dis­ tain limits not to be transcended by those astrous to another. Our own has stood departments. The Government of the United the vicissitudes of a century and a half, States is divided into the legislative, the marked by greater changes in the social executive,, and the judiciary. The powers life than in any century of which we read. of the legislative are defined and limited Our National Constitution, which was the and that those limits may not be mistaken evolution of thought and human experi­ or forgotten the Constitution is WT."itten. ence of our British ancestors, during cen­ The Chief Justice asks: "To what pur­ turies, has proved itself sufficiently elastic pose are powers limited, and to what pur­ to meet the wants of a population of more pose is that limitation committed to wTit- than a hundred million, though when the ing if these limits may at any time be Fathers of the Republic drafted it there passed by those intended to be restricted? were but three million. The checks and The distinction between a government with balances have shown astonishing efficiency, limited and unlimited powers is abolished yet there are emotional people ready to fol­ if those limits do not confine the persons low the lead of men hardy enough to lay upon whom they are imposed, and if acts hands upon the Supreme Court itself in the prohibited and acts allowed are of equal ob­ effort to make a minority control the ma­ ligation. It is a proposition too plain to be jority. contested that the Constitution controls any As everyone knows, the Constitution of legislative act repugnant to it, or that the the United States having received the nec­ legislature may alter the Constitution by essary ratification from the various states an ordinary act. . . . This theory is es­ which had previously composed the Con­ sentially attached to a written constitution federation, went into effect in 1789. It and is consequently to be considered by this was the fundamental law of a new nation. court as one of the fundamental principles It consists of a comparatively few provi­ of our society. . . If an act of the legis­ sions conferring jurisdiction upon the Fed­ lature repugnant to the Constitution is void, eral Government and all those powers not does it notwithstanding its invalidity bind conferred were of course reserved to the the courts and oblige them to give it ef­ states or the people. There were then, as fect? Or in other words if it be not law- now, two classes of thought in the inter­ does it constitute a rule as operative as if pretations of those provisions, and it re­ it was a law? This would be to overthrow quired a long and bloody Civil war to de­ in fact what was established in theory; and termine finally that the claims of the ex­ would seem at first view an absurdity too treme advocates of the doctrine of state gross to be insisted on. . . . Those then rights were wrong. The state had no right who controvert the principle that the Con­ to secede. John Marshall, sitting as Chief stitution is to be considered in court as a Justice with his colleagues of the Supreme paramount law are reduced to the necessity Court, was called upon in 1803 to decide of maintaining that the courts must dose for the first time upon the power of the their eyes on the Constitution and see only Federal Judiciary to pass upon the con­ the law. ... It would require that if the stitutionality of acts of Congress. In sim­ legislature shall do what is expressly for­ ple, vigorous language, with irresistible bidden, ..such act notwithstanding the ex­ logic, he demonstrated that power. He press prohibition, is in reality effectual. . . . showed the original right of the people This is too extravagant to be main- 135 THE SCHOLASTiO

tained. . . . Why does a judge swear to dis­ we have come to look upon as axiomatic—^ charge his duties agreeably to the Con­ life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, stitution of the United States if that Con­ covering freedom of conscience, freedom of stitution forms no rule for his govern­ religion, the right to a speedy hearing and ment?"—Marbury vs. Madison. trial in criminal cases, and all those gains And so the Supreme Court of the United of individual freedom which have been the States has stood as the interpreter and the fruit of experience and of conflict between defender of the fundamental law calmly the tyrant and the people. and unflinchingly to our day. Although but The time has come for a rebirth of the forty-five decisions have been rendered de­ spirit that actuated the Fathers of the Re­ claring null acts of Congress, each one public when they gathered in the City of has been followed by an assault upon the Philadelphia in 1787 to frame our new court by those radical people who often, Government. The outcome of their work with good intentions, would violate the fun­ was the result of their own studies and damental law to accomplish their purposes. the experience of mankind in political gov- Of late, under the leadership of not less enunent from the days of Pericles until than four United States Senators, many their own, and their greatest contribution members of Congress, some Governors of was first a written Constitution whereby States^ an effort is being made either by the majority of the people deliberately re­ amendment to the Constitution or by legis­ strained themselves from hasty action and lation, to restrict the power of the court. constituted an impartial tribunal to warn All this is of a piece with that ignorance them when they overpassed their self-im­ and irreverent attitude which would lay posed bounds. It is not strange in a day hands upon the very charter of American when the fundamentals of religion are liberty and set up the will of a temporary challenged that all other principles which, majority as against the j)rinciples laid as I have endeavored to show depend upon down by the Declaration of Independence of them, are also challenged. I can but ap­ the inalienable right of the individual. It peal to all educated men wherever oppor­ is a striking evidence of the un-American tunity affords, to hold the torch of truth idea of the power of the State in making- amidst this gathering darlaiess in the hope it supreme whether it be the representa­ that under God's providence the clouds that tion of a temporary majority or of an in­ now obscure the minds of so many of our dividual monarchy. fellow-citizens will pass, that our ship of I have taken this particular evidence of state will right itself, that class hatred un-American attitude of mind as one of will give way to charity, and the holy ex­ the most striking. If it should succeed it periment of the American Republic will not lays the door open to legislation that would fail through the long years in which our be subversive of those inherent rights that children will live.

THE SPIRIT OF GIPP. JOSEPH C. RYAN. (Homecoming. The players are leaving the field after the game.) But one alone, the last, remains Where on this field in other years He played and ran and won, like these. And thrilled at mad, stupendous cheers. Today he heard a bugle call. He smiles, for they had thought of him, And smiling, fades into the dusk. The chalk-marked field is silent, dim. 136 THE SCHOLASTIC

unnumbered generations. About it RAINY DAY THOUGHTS. has accumulated a body of exquisite traditions. EDWIN W. MURPHY. The chap who sees happiness in the OTTED lines of rain vagaries and fol-de-rols that, like against a latticework of meadow flowers and forest echoes, so naked twigs and tree infrequently touch the great world, limbs, jaundiced foliage wiir breeze along the even tenor of that drops to earth like so many his way, singing or sleeping when­ dead souls, a lacklustre sky, and the ever he has a mind to, while the vic­ wet breath of the east wind betokens tim drags gi'ievous burdens imjwsed evening—^the evening of the year. by learning, pride, or natural gifts, Serenity has settled over the harvest too tired to sing, or too distraught to fields, a contemplative mood that re­ sleep. sembles nothing more than the wist­ In panorama, this civilization of ful softness of sweet music. ours must resemble an immensely in­ Not everybody can appreciate Au­ tegrated and wonderfully complete tumn. To get most out of this sea­ piece of machineiy. Not the least son, your nature must be sombre and marvelous thing about it is, it works. best at home in shadows and seclu­ There is even comlaint that it works sion. But most men's minds run pre­ too fast. At any rate, few men have dominately to tints. Your prototype, had the hardihood to say we might if you are a devotee of Fall, will be get along without it. And it has im­ II Penseroso, the so-called German pressed some astute individuals as mind. You will find Spring has no complete in itself, the original i)erpet- spell; her lavish alchemy, if anything, ual motion machine. During the war will be blinding. it backfired. But, according to Hoyle, if a man The Orientals thought the earth does not leap and gambol in vernal rested on the back of an elephant, hilarity, he must be possessed of a the feet of the elephant resting on devil, while the canons of good taste, four huge turtles. In 1923 the world after a succession of rainy, overcast takes the form of a heavier-than-air days quite permit you to grow a bit contrivance, designed to traverse that morose and even irritable. The portion of eternity contained within glamor of Spring, her delicate hues time and space. It whirs magnifi­ and ecstatic odors, but suggest for cently and makes a tremendous noise, many men the ethereal melancholy of while probably frightening no one. Autumn, the climax of the seasonal None of us can be sure, however, it is pageant. not advancing upside down, or that Yet Spring furnishes us with more we are going in a straight line. And, than verses. It is the season of dal­ too, there remains a great amount of liance. And the art of dalliance rep­ speculation as to how far it would resents undoubtedly the perfect thing run on momentum, and on what achieved in this sublunar existence. shores we would land if the machine Great talent for shirking responsibil­ should go to pieces. ity indicates a heritage added to by That this mighty engine operates 1S7 THE SCHOLASTIC without serious trouble amazes us the climax—was preparing through- every day. But just what good it ac- out the whole period of the dark ages complishes, how far it refines and im- when the Western World lay fallow, proves the man beyond operating And in order to have a national art merely will be the prey of multiple it will be necessary to develop a na- doubts. With us we have always the tion of "free" artists as distinguished barbarian, whether he wields a pneu- from creative artists. In making the niatic hammer or a pleistocene axe. soil ready the first thing to recognize Both barbarism and culture are large- is that it is impossible to bring under ly atavistic. Art lived in the inner- cultivation more than a meagre frac- most recesses of human nature in the tion of the race, exactly as but a cave age. Perhaps it took the form sm.all proportion of the land produces of carrying swagger sticks or ex- the food suply. But the growth must pressed itself in some little Bohemian be free and untrammeled. Probably oddity such as letting the hair grow the most odious thing in the sight of (in all directions). God is hot-house culture. In our own The modern barbarism mil often country we see that it results in be highly civilized; the artist of pre- sentimentalism, sophistication, and histoiy was crassly primitive. The vulgarity, not to mention a number fonner has now softened down to the of monstrosities as by-products— smug materialist. Nowadays he does Christian Science for instance, obscurantist. He may even con- The first and most pressing urge stitute the material of art. But as in a man is the instinct to collect and such cannot be else than impassive, enjoy the thnigs that makes for posi- inert, whose spirit lies imprisoned in tion and affluence. The natural se- his nature like the geni of the Ara- quel is to purchase with these goods bian Nights had himself compressed the leisure for self-expression- Bar- not necessarily have to be an barians never get beyond the first into a bottle—^and tossed into the sea. stage. And there must be a kind of Contemporary barbarism roars and metempsychosis in the process of surges about us, as the same thing culture. The man who finds himself has threatened the world throughout the messiah of his day will have his the eons, sometimes entirely inundat- poetry moulded out of all the myriad ing the Eden of Ai-t, but only to unsung dreams and visions that come leave the soil more fertile. to each of the race in his Gethsemane. The germ of the Rennaisance—^the For, if we look closely, we will find spontaneous combusion of culture of life is altogether a pathway paved which the present age has not seen with the ashes of dead dreams.

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smoke with odors of Havana. The BROTHER FLO. flavor of Flo's handshake combined {In Memory of Brother FloHan, C. S. C, f "^^^^ing of the dignity of a Presi- „,, r.- 7 ^ , X dential greeting with the spice of Who Died on October 27.) i- i, , «..j -e .1 - ' bemg recklessly off-side—as if this HILE the field was ringing expression of cordiality on his part with enthusiastic delight in were being done against all the rules W one of the best games Notre 01 the game, for the sheer pleasure of Dame has seen, a little bell rang out 'the thing. And to proceed with Flo also to say that Brother Flo had died, down the spaces of the art-galleries! We should have chosen no other set- His were the remarks of a connoisseur ting for this last voyage of his; he who treated eveiy picture with rev- must have liked to know that as the erence—and originality. How could hard days v^ere drawing to an ever- he have told the same story twice? lasting end for him, the boys were And it is to be feared that those who back at the old school once more, took his statements concerning Van thronging in to find it the same place Dyke and Botticelli literally were that their youth had dreamed it was. slightly misinformed. But to those The boys! The work, the purpose, the who knew, liis guide-book to art was beauty of his life are associated v^^ith unmortal, like the best of Dickens these two words. Boys—their pranks, and Boswell. their laughter, their tempers and It is to the life in old Saint Joseph's their temperaments, all focused some- hall, where Brother Florian estab- how in the shrewd simplicity of his lished himself as rector during many eye. He loved them individually and a year, that remembrance returns to- collectively, and was beloved in the day. St. Joseph's hall was a re- same way. markable institution; it housed lads Brother Flo was a man of God, of who were working their way through course, but also a man of earth. There school, and who lived for the most was the unflagging question-mark in part in dormitories. No king ever his character which beguiled us. ruled over his subjects with greater There was the canny calculation of a pomp and splendor than Brother Flo mind utterly too simple for strategy, did here—at least in attitude. His You met Flo, but that wasn't the end condemnations were innumerable, of it. Every new contact was a rev- but his pardons exceeded them in elation that made you smile, but smile number. The hall has been a reminis- affectionately. Not even the dome cence for several years, now; but was more of a Notre Dame land- when ever a St. Joseph's boy ap- mark. He had in himself everything peared on the campus, his first ques- that has run like a stream through tion was, "Say, where's Flo?" That the generations of education here, was a kind of extension to his reign. His pockets were crammed with com- He exacted that question imperiously munity cigars, which atrocities were and answered it with benignity, bestowed with a condescending grace Youth stayed by hun, even into the (and often as not a sham label) that days when the fatal disease began to somehow perfumed the ensuing show on his face. 139 THE SCHOLASTIC

There never was a better Notre porter in the realms of Heaven. Per­ Dame man. Every stone and stick of haps shortly he will be showing oif the place was catalogued in his heart, the place to new guests, and intro­ and he treasured the voices of old ducing them to the Saints. What if he boys long after they had been does confuse the apostles with holy brushed away by the long winds. martyrs? What if, as he tells the And so now, while we speak our lit­ story, celestial landscapes take on the tle prayers for the peace of his soul tint of his imagination? After all, and treasure the austere lesson of his laughter must be the bliss of Heaven, religious life, it may not be out of just as it is the only radiance on place to send a smile after him. Per­ earth that lasts over and beyond the haps he has already been appointed a night.

utter barbarism. The intellectual SAINT THOMAS AND MODERN world is suffering today from a lack THOUGHT. of any profound belief; philosophy is bankrupt. The world has lost its re­ R. R. MACGREGOR, PH. D, ligion and with it that central posi­ HESE notes are being writ­ tion from which it could once see life ten in commemoration of the steadily, and see it whole, under the T Angelic Doctor. Despite the eternal aspect. Rules and conven­ vagueness of the title, I want to at­ tions, being no longer related to any tempt on this occasion a very definite central certainty or authority, have task. I believe that the time has degenerated into a mere social code come in art, literature and philoso­ which is subject to every whim of phy, as in every other branch of life, fashion. The ruling passion, with when we must take our bearings; old and young, is to be in the "move­ when we must try to discover, if pos­ ment," no matter where it may be sible, the direction in which we are leading; and still more the fear of moving, and still more important, the being thought to be "out of the move­ direction in which we ought to be ment." It is a matter for curious re­ moving. We ought to make up our flection that these people are doing minds about certain fundamental precisely what they think quite er­ principles, and say definitely whether roneously was done by the nineteenth we really want or do not want some century. They are slavishly follow­ of the new ideas which are rampant, ing conventions, and forgetting (sim­ which the police are engaged in sup­ ply because their conventions are pressing and many critics of art, lit­ new) that there are realities, and erature and philosophy are encourag­ eternal realties; standards, and eter­ ing. It is time, in short, to wake out nal standards; foundations, and eter­ of our Laodicean slumbers, and de­ nal foundations. cide whether we are on the side of de­ One of the results of the great en­ velopment and construction, or on largement of the field of human that of destruction and a reversion to thought during the last century was 140 THE SCHOLASTIC the increasing tendency among mod- litically in Russia—an intellectual em writers and thinkers to lose sight Bolshevism—a fight not between old of these realties, and to lose their fogeyis m and bright young rebellion, hold on any central, unifying and au- but an abnormal struggle between thoritative principle; to treat all sanity and downright insanity; be- kinds of complex matters as if they between the destructive forces that, were quite sunple, and, where a hun- consciously or unconsciously, aim at dred human factors were involved, to obliterating all the finer shades and treat a problem as if it involved the tones in language and thought, and at consideration of only two or three, exalting incompetence and disorder. It was a century of specialization, and There is an enormous difference be- each group of specialists strayed far- tween some of the destructive move- ther and farther from the conunon ments of today and the progressive intellectual center where they could revolutions of the past. Up till thir- all once meet. The old complete- ty years ago revolutions in art, let- ness of view, the white light of vision ters and philosophy had a way of ad- in which men so different as St. Ber- ding something valuable to what we nard of Clarivaux, Peter Lombard, already possessed. Tempora mutan- Albertus Magnus, Duns Scotus and tur. Today's revolutions merely take St. Thomas Aquinas could see the away, and add nothing but confusion essential unity of this complex world; and worse. man as a soul and a body; life and We cannot do without continuity of death as a march to immortality, and tradition and authority. If I were a the universe as a miracle with a sign-writer I should like to paint single meaning; all that white light these words in the largest letters on of vision has been broken up into a every hoarding in the country. All thousand prismatic colors and shift- the unrest of today is due to failure ing reflections. We are in danger of or refusal to accept the proven truth losing the white light, not because it of these words. This brings me at is no longer there, but because the last to St. Thomas. The philosophy age has grown too vast for us to re- which gives this sanity of outlook is combine its multi-colored rays. An- called Scholasticism, and St. Thomas alysis has gone so far, decentraliza- is its greatest master. I have not tion (or, in the most exact meaning space to detail his career. Suffice it of the word, eccentricity) has gone so to say that his greatest work is the far that we are in danger of intellect- Summa which to the present day re­ nal disintegration. It is time to make mains the standard work of Scholas- some synthesis, or we shall find that tic philosophy and theology. It has art, letters and philosophy, indeed, taught students to think, to dis- everything that is worth while, are tinguish carefully the meaning of lost in a chaotic and meaningless technical words and to systematize world. There are signs of it already knowledge. Its philosophy has on every hand which must give us brought true Christianity into closer pause. On every side there is in art, relations with civilization and with letters and philosohy being fought science in its widest scope; and that the same fight as is being waged po- is exactly what is needed today, no 141 THE SCHOLASTIC

more and no less. Yet while fully and development of any individual protecting the ascendancy of religion, community or race. That is precisely St. Thomas also was careful to award what the world needs today, to the other departments of life their It is due to a movement called Neo- respective rights. In fact, the very Scholasticism that some parts of the essence of Thomism, as his philoso- world are awakening to the fact that phy is called, is, first, its clear defi- a sound philosophy is a national sine nition and delimitation of the respec- qua non. It was, however, in 1879 tive claims of philosophy and theolo- that Pope Leo XIII. gave impulse by gy, and, second, its advocacy of the his encyclical Aeterni Patris to the use of reason. renewed study of Scholasticism, and St. Thomas is one of the great re- above all, of St. Thomas Aquinas, conciiers, of that order of spirits who The philosophy of the Angelic Doc- have no rest until they discern truths, tor was freely admitted to be one of seemingly at strife together, converg- the chief marvels of the ages mis- ing towards and merging in truth it- called the Dark. It could be admired self, the ineffable. One can readily in the way of an incomparable cathe- imagine him anything but dismayed dral. More than this, it was then at the present results of physical claimed that the majestic monument science. Like Aristotle (whom he was capable of being restored and knew only through a Latin transla- adapted to the requirements of our tion), his master, he would eagerly own times. How true this prophecy and promptly apply to them his doc- was is now too manifest. The en- trine of "form" and "matter". Truth, cyclical describing Christian philos- to him, would still be the equation of ophy as Scholastic urged the renewed perfect assimilation of the subject study and application of tthe methods knowing with the object known. And and principles synthesised by St. "in solving riddles offered him he Thomas Aquinas. Side by side with would still have pursued his careful the lessons of ancient wisdom, it also method of equilibration, of balancing advocated the full use of recent dis- between conflicting statements. He coveries in the natural and social cherishes the "aurea mediocritas"— sciences, from which treasures might in the history of the ultra-modernism be drawn "equally profitable to re- of the times especially notable by its ligion and society." absence. Nominalists and Realists The world today feels more than might contend; he is with both par- ever the need of a philosophy which ties and with neither. He seeks that is, at one and the same time, true to higher truth which, haply, should all the facts . of human experience, satisfy. And, as is ever the case which gives an adequate account and with the conciliatory, he is claimied explanation of the things that are, by all parties in turn; declared to be and which also safeguards the great inconsistent; praised or blamed for and immutable principles of justice inveterate skepticism. For philoso- and moral law. By this time the phy, pure and well-reasoned, founded world should be fully alive to the on the broad basis of scientific fact, dangers of the gospel of might (even is the greatest human asset in the life in its many aliases), and should be 142 THE SCHOLASTIC ready to receive a gospel of right in people, among whom are numbers of its place. Mankind cannot live and prominent Protestants (Coleridge, exist without a philosophy, and we Huxley, Mackintosh, MacDougall, to may venture to hope that one of the mention only a few), and becomes results of the greatest unrest known their adequate intellectual expression to history will be a return of world —^that sort of constructive power we thought, and of European thought do not appear to possess, at any rate especially, to those sane principles of in large measure. Scholastic philosophy which alone of- Philosophy is, indeed, perennial, fer a satisfactory basis for human alike stable and full of change. Duly knowledge and human activity. recognizing our human iimita- It would be difficult to conceive a tions, we had best accept the words of more demonstrative object-lesson of Bossuet: "We must not loose hold of the hopeless bankruptcy of the phi- any truths which we know for cer- losophies that have reigned in Europe tain, whatever difficulty there may be from Hume to Eucken. Assuredly in reconciling some of them with this should be a hopeful season for others; we must, so to speak, hold on urging by every means in our power tightly to both ends of the chain, the claims of an old philosophy that though we cannot see the middle of is ever new, that justifies our trust in it, nor follow it with our eyes from our intellectual faculties, that pro- end to end." Philosophy must for vides a solid foundation for the ethi- ever start from the facts of which it cal convictions of mankind, that sat- claims to give an adequate explana- isfies the religious instincts of our na- tion. In other words, philosophy is ture, and that finally furnishes a co- not, and should not be, divorced from herent rational theory of life for the the particular sciences; it must on human race—for the individual, for the contrary, go to them for its facts, the family, and for the state. We are and keep in touch with their develop- living in an age in which the critical ments. There are also the relations or destructive faculty far overweighs of the new philosophy with its com- the constructive, when we can see the petitors, and with the data of science, faults of what exists and expose Philosophy, to Cardinal Mercier, the them, and see and appreciate all greatest Neo-Scholastic today, is **the kinds and sides of truth very much full understanding of the order in the more effectively than we can build universe, of man's moral duties re- systems which can commend them- suiting from it, and of his knowledge selves constructively. I do not say and reality." Philosophy is science that a critical age is more intellectual at its highest degree of perfection, or exhibits more intellectual power that knowledge which penetrates to than a constructive age, or vice ver- the bottom. Other knowledge grows sa; but they are overtly different, from more to more, and also the The great power of St. Thomas knowledge of human limitations. Aquinas to construct a system, great Systems perish. Truth, philosophy intellectually, which takes into ac- are ideals which "in the present con- count all the known facts, and which ditions of human life we can only commends itsejf to a wide circle of approach and never attain," 143 THE SCHOLASTIC

men and old gentlewomen who lived ANY OLD TIMER. in those good old days. I tell you they were immense, those olden FRANCIS KOLAES. times. AM not very old. In fact My discovery of the devil modern­ I am not nearly old ity came about through a desire on enough. I should like to my part to obtain material for an be five or six hundred at article on the differences between least, but I must be content with the those and these days. And so one measly forty years that have done so night I bethought me to call on and much to make me what I am not. interview an old gentleman who lives There was a time when I was on our street. He answered the door glad that I was still in the late for­ himself, and asked me to come in. I ties. A time when I, in my ignor­ entered and sat down in one of those ance, delighted in the thought that I rigidly comfortable, stiff-backed old was enjoying all the blessings of a chairs, that are so typical of the modem age. This smudge of befud- thoughtfulness of the old days. I dlement is past (due to some one's fairly squirmed with delight at the prayers, I presume), and now I al­ way it kept my back in line, while most gasp and catch my breath when the old gentleman began by starting I think of how misled I might have off some good old tobacco which my remained. I simply mean that the modem nose could not at all appre­ modem age is all wrong. It grows ciate. wronger as it grows more modem. Then he said, "Now, when I was a The beginning of the modern age is boy—" perhaps the least harmful. What I "Hold on there. Stop," I said po­ mean is that the head of it is not litely. "You mean 'Then, when you nearly so bad as the tail of it, in were a boy.* Fang an." (I wanted which we live. The head is better him to know I understood German.) because it is more closely associated He ogled at me, cast a tender with the "Old Days." glance at his old cane where it leaned The "Old Days"—nay, I shall say: in the comer, and resumed, "All the "Good Old Days"—^were always right, then. Then when I was—" the best. If you do not believe me, "Oh, I'm sorry, indeed I am," I said ask anyone who lived in them. They hastily. "I didn't mean that you will tell you quickly enough. Thesr were to use two *thens'. You did, you will say; "In the good old days"— know. You said—" and then start off on a long tale of "Young man," he broke in rudely, almost anything; and before they are though I must admit I was flattered through you will admit very frankly at being so addressed, for I had not that the good old days, or any old day yet learned the folly of being young. for that matter, must have been much "Young man, you will do me a favor better than the days or day you just by leaving my house." spent. I know this because I have I was aghast at this but, never been talking a great deal, or rather losing my composure, I said in sharp listening a great deal to old gentle^ retprt, "I had no idea of taking it X44 THE SCHOLASTIC

You can have it. Keep it." And I "And the boys of today don't? Is departed. I have since regretted my that it?" I said eagerly. At last I sudden taking leave of him for I be- was on the right track. I could al- lieve I should have heard much more, ready see the headlines for my ar- had I but stayed on a bit. tide: "Give a Thought to Thinking." Now I believe that it was the veiy "We thought," he went on, "we fact that my first interview was so thought—" unsatisfactory that led me to risk "Pardon," I said, "pardon, but I another. The supply of old men in got that phase of it. Go on please." our village is limitless it seems, and I And then I left. I left very quickly, am sure that they all are, or have for at moment his face came out of a been gentle. There are just loads of shadow where it had been concealed them. They refuse to die. They from me, and what I saw on it won't get sick. It puzzles me no seemed to urge me toward the door. I small amount why they persist in liv- pretend to know little about faces, ing in such a pesky age as this is. I but I am no fool. I do not know think that it must be purely spite, or what brought on what I saw, but I else a desire to see how bad we are do know that I saw it. So I left. The really going to get. evening was still in its infancy and But whether for spite or to criti- I was not going to be robbed of what cize us, they are still with us, and my I wanted to know merely by the ec- next number, as the delinquent rent- centricities of an old man. I would payer would say, was a fine specimen, choose a woman next time. And I Six foot, two, he stood, although he did. I stopped at a little cottage never stood to any great extent, and wherein dwelt a veiy fine little old on "his face was etched all the fond woman. I knocked at the door, and and tender marks of the good old told her my mission. She seated me days. The meanness of the beetle and yanked out an old clay pipe brows, the disreputable scars on the which she lighted, while I could face, the broken knuckles, and the scarcely repress a shudder at think- flattened nose I attributed to recent ing of the modern women with their waywardness brought on by the devil vile cigarettes in contrast with nice, modernity. He took a pinch of snuff dirty, little clay pipes, (a beautiful custom which I am told She coughed twice and then started, is fast becoming extinct) and I took "Now, when I was a—^" a chair. But I fled the place in horror, my "Now, when I was a boy," he be- cheeks crimson with modesty. gan, while I, as if by some sixth I shall admit right here that it was sense, repressed a gentle reproof that some little time before I again had was on my lips. "When I was . . . courage to seek out the wisdom of now let me think—I—" the relics of the old days. But as "Surely," said I gallantly. "Think time went on I grew aggressive once by all means. Here let me help you more and finally found out the things to th—" I wanted to know. There is scant "Now, when I was a boy we need to tell you just how I did this, thought—" and just what I found out. But it 145 THE SCHOLASTIC would be wrong of me to waste this faster, dogs bit better, and mules much of your time and then say kicked harder. Fire was hotter, ice nothing. So I forthwith present some was cooler, and the sea was wetter. of the invaluable information that I It seems too that the night was longer gleaned concerning the "Good Old and the days were not so short, the Days." It is a little bewildering and moon was bigger and the sun was somewhat jerky but you shall have rounder. it. I also understand that airplanes Those good old days must have flew faster, radio was plainer, and been infinitely better. As near as I that the subways and Mr. Bryan ran can gather the winters were longer oftener. and so were the summers. The Besides this the beer was better. mountains were higher, rivers ran

L'ENVOI.

FRANCIS COLLINS MILLER Waiting waste of Time's ontreading legions, How their feet are pressing Years into the paths of living, Half fearful, scarce forgiving, Narcotically caressing.

To the youth that steady, wearing tread Throws no shadow on the way; Rather 'tis a joy in passing, More like latent forces massing For a dress parade, decked gay.

For all of Time is his for spending As he will, for stone and clay; He, the spendthrift, soon is thinking Of spent hours with mad drinking From the fount of Yesterday.

One hour to live! Could Youth but know The priceless treasure of a minute; Worlds were lost or gained in less, Sadness turned to happiness. Hate made love within it!

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growling vile diatribes, and focuses REFLECTIONS OF A MOVIE RE- his attention on the screen. He takes VIEWER. a hasty glance at the cast, reads the JOHN BRENNAN. foreword, and waits for the flrj few scenes with more or less mipatience. HE reviewer of movies is a most Before five minutes have elapsed, he peculiar creature who need have decides what kind of a play it is go- T no particular qualifications for ing to be. First he catalogues it as his task other than the patience of good, bad, or indifferent. Then he Job, the diplomacy of Machiavelli, the tabulates it as comedy, tragedy, melo- wisdom of Solomon, and the cunning drama; as crook, society, simple of Judas Iscariot. He needs all these, countiy maiden, trying to make her for he must keep the theater people sat- way in the city, chorus girl, poor isfiedorthey will cancel his passes and working girl, hero in homespun, refuse him admission; he must per- rough diamond; "You've got to do suade his business manager that a right by our Nell;" "Some day I'll few caustic remarks concerning Win- come back to you;" "No, Alphonse, I nie Winsome in "Scarlet Vengeance" love you, but I can't marry you." "Is it will not seriously impair his advertis- somebody else?" "No, but Percy St. ing contracts; and he must, last of Clair has father in his power, and if of all, devise a stickful of pure, una- I don't marry him, he'll give every- dulterated, viciously concocted bunk body the low-down on papa," and for a handful of readers. so on. Now as to the method of reviewing "Gosh," he thinks, "this is terrible, a show. Let us say that his copy Why don't they get some people in must be in at 5:30, although the time the movies that can act? If that lead- will not matter much because punctu- ing lady ever had anything resem- ality is a virtue that the reviewer bling a gleam of human intelligence has not. He starts for the theatre at she wouldn't fall for that sleek col- 4:45, arriving there at 5:00. After lar ad. If she had any sense he'd be dashing past the box-office, he accosts about as welcome as a conscientious the Cerberus who guards the door, revenue officer. He is as expressive That individual does not approve of and as human as a cigar-store Indian, free lists, but after giving the review- He and the villain are having a fight; er a haughty stare, he waves an indif- the villain is getting the worst of it. f erent hand, giving him permission The villain must get a good laugh out to stumble down the darkened aisle, of this. If he really wanted to fight the He steps on at least five pairs of feet hero would have as much chance as a of assorted sizes, nearly sits on an woolly lamb in a lion's den, but I sup- old lady's lap, changes his mind and pose he gets paid for letting the hero slides into a space where a seat knock him out. If I were in the should be. Sometimes the seat isn't movies I'd want to be a irillain; he there—^patrons have a bad habit of always has a much better time of it pushing them up—and the luckless than the hero has, until the end of reviewer temporarily disappears the play, at least. There, he kidnaps from sight. He soon reappears, the heroine and drags her to his lair. 147 THE SCHOLASTIC

Being a villain has its advantages— what somebody called a camera shut- but here comes the hero." ter smile in return. With much The reviewer lapses into his usual wrath, punctuated by periods of state of coma until the cheers and the berserker rage, and interspersed with stamping of feet inform him that the words that would give the late Mr. villain, who in real life is a charming Webster the creeps, he evolves the gentleman devoted to his wife and following review: family, a church member and a high- ''What is beyond the shadow of a ly respected citizen, has been knocked doubt the best motion picture in off a cliff six hundred and forty-one which Gwendolyn Garnet ever ap- feet high. peared is this week's attraction at the Now that the heroine has been de- Dreamland. "The Dawn of Love" is livered from the clutches of the vile an appealing story which gives Miss wretch, the hero takes her in his Garnet ample opportunity to display arms and gazes soulfully into her the histrionic ability for which she is eyes. The reviewer grabs his hat, justly famous. Her interpretation of makes an appropriate quotation the role of Mary Jones, a girl stand- from Horace, and makes a break ing at the crossroads, torn betwixt for the door, leaving scores of mashed love and duty, is a masterpiece of art. toes, and several ruined dispositions Harold Hackett, as the hero, gives a in his wake. perf omiance the like of which we It is 5:13, and as he trudges to the have never seen, and one which office his thoughts are something like promises to add greatly to his pop- this: "Of all the banal motion ularity." This continues until the re- pictures ever foisted upon a too gulli- viewer jams his finger between the ble public, that was the crowning "a" and the "s" on the Underwood, achievement. The beginning was and gives up in disgust, y.ba d enough, and it got worse and He puts on his coat, rams his hat worser." The scenery was phony, on his head, and prepares to leave in and the acting, such as it was, was a humor that is for anything but horrible. The plot was unthinkably peace when the telephone rings and dull, and altogether devoid of any- he hears the stenographer say, "Gee, thing like entertainment. The lead- I'm sorry, Ralph. Mamie and I went ing lady should be complimented on to see it last night. Ya, it was great, her courage in appearing as a sweet I think Gwendoljm Garnet is cute, young thing of sixteen. She was don't you? And isn't Harold Hackett playing juvenile parts when E. H. the handsomest thing? You don't Sothern's father was playing Lord think so? You're jealous, that's all. I Dundreary. The leading man defies think he's just grand." classification and analysis. I feel like The reviewer makes another quo- chewing tacks or robbing a blind tation, not from Horace, but one from beggar." Colonel Watterson concerning the He arrives at the office, says "Good woodcock, and flees, evening" to the stenographer, if he is woodcock, and flees. Rosy-fmgered not so far gone that he forgets what dawn is just about ready to show up little manners he has, and receives at the office. 148 THE SCHOLASTIC

ly glancing at the people about them, HISTORICAL FABLES. these two ladies make their way to their carriage which is waiting at the I. curbing. Here they hesitated a mo­ SIR WALTER RALEIGH. ment. Between the curb and their carriage is a small pool of muddy E. T. LYONS. water. Finally, one of them, by far T IS the matinee hour in London. the prettier of the two, gathers her The weather can be described skirts in her hand and steps through I only by that word which every the water into the carriage. The Englishman reserves for such other still hesitates. weather, beastly. The driving rain Sir Walter Raleigh, plumed hat in which has been falling all day slacks hand, steps up and bows so that the down to mere drizzle. The unpaved plumes sweep the gTound. street, on which London's most fa­ "Can I be of any assistance?" mous playhouse, the Globe Theater, "Sir, I cannot recall your ever hav­ fronts, is slotched with mud-holes. ing been introduced to me," the As the last few raindrops splash in hawk-nosed lady archly replies. the small pools of muddy water, an Sir Walter looks injured, then attendant comes out of the theater smiles most winningly. attendant comes out of the tehater "Don't you remember? I believe it and relights the candles in the sign was at a Scholarship Dance,—^The above the door. Through the fall­ one at the Tavern." ing dusk and thickening fog the faint, "Oh, yes," exclaims the lady, all flickering words, "Shakespeare's As smiles now. "It was your dance I You Like It," are discernible. cut. . . However, you may help me The matinee is finally over. People to my carriage." begin to stream out of the entrance, The gallant Raleigh majestically gallants in knee-pants and ruffles, la­ takes off his fine coat and, taking dies in their tight-waisted, full- pains to show the label of his Bond skirted, lace-frilled dresses. A small Street tailor, spreads it over the mud- group of men stands near the cm^b- puddle and helps her to her carriage. ing, whispering comments about their Then, leaning debonairly on the door friends and the ladies who accom­ of the carriage he continues: pany them. One of this group pauses "I would like to see you again." in the act of taking a pinch from his "Oh, would you!" A pause. . ."I gold snuff-box to laugh at a remark would be glad to have you. Call made by one t>f his fellows. It is 'Buckingham 1234' and ask for Sir Walter Raleigh, but lately re­ Bess." turned from the wilds of Ireland. The driver cracks his whip and the There is slight commotion as the carriage moves off. Sir Walter Ra­ attendants make way through the leigh looks after it a moment, then crowd for two ladies. Some one picks up his coat and brushes it off whispers, "Queen Elizabeth." Scarce­ with his hand.

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Matt made a laborious mental com­ THE ELUSIVE MR. STUNTON. parison between the burly arms of his helpmate and the muscles of the J. R. DAVIDS. makeshift out yonder, but being wise ES, SIR," he told himself in his generation said nothing and through a barricade of went out on the porch to smoke a ill-matched teeth and a pipe. clay pipe-stem, "I'm hun­ Then, one after another doors gry, that's wots* the matter." slammed, keys grated, lights flashed From where he was standing under in upstairs windows only to disap­ the ancient elm at the corner of pear quickly, and good folks were in Crosby's lawn, the Vagrant could bed. The Vagrant was hungry all hear the dinner-service of a half- over. An overmastering desire for dozen families in process of re­ food was creeping up his spine, over generation. He was a strange type his legs, and through every cell of his of makeshift, this youth whose dirty brain. He thought of all the tried face mirrored all the desperate poetry nooks—^Kendall's Grocery, Fros- of an Arab. He came from, a queer cham's Meat-Market, Alexon's Res­ family down by the river, folks said, taurant and a dozen or two private and wasn't quite right—upstairs. cellars. But these lacked the import­ He flung himself wearily on the new- ant element of security. He had looked mown grass, and slapped his pipe on in at them too recently. Then he be­ the head. thought himself of an expedient A vague sense of thirst for the which was dangerous also, but still quiet around him, with the dew and comparatively simple for a practiced the fragi'ance of the smoky air, hand, the old-fashioned occupation of sprang up in his wandering soul. So, chicken-stealing. A nice, fat pullet carefully removing a mouth-organ served up hot! At that precise mo­ from one of his rear patches, he be­ ment a sleepy rooster, wakened by gan a series of quaint, appealing mel­ the bright full moon, uttered a odies as unmistakable to the towns­ startled crow. That settled it. folk as the gait of their one drunk­ Dimly outlined behind the Miller ard. mansion, the Vagrant could see the "There's that pesky vagrant residence of Mrs. Miller's pet Ply­ again," said Mrs. Miller to her hus­ mouth Rocks. Everybody knew that band, as that belated person was these were the juiciest and plump­ helping himself to fried potatoes. est for miles 'round. So after the "If it don't beat all how some Vagrant had slapped his burned-out folks—" pipe against the Crosby porch-rail, "Oh, weU, well," purred Matt, "he he slunk up the alley quietly enough won't hurt nothin' and I kinda like not to disturb the peace of a single his tunes somehow, don't you, Liz­ dog and slowly climbed over a zie?" shaded bit of fence. "Oh, I ain't got no kick agin his With deft quickness he cut away playing, but it ain't safe nights; just enough of the wood around one that's what it aint." of the square little panes to make it 15Q THE SCHOLASTIC

fall out easily. Then he placed it care- ever-restless river, all steaming from fully on the ground, and thrust his the night-shift it had to do in the hairy hand through the opening till cold, he heard the first shrill notes of it found the tail of a chicken slumber- the river birds. There was joy in ing below. Gently his fingers felt his soul too this morning, so he their way along the back till they reached for the mouth-organ. It was closed round the neck partly tucked gone! under the wing. A firm pressure, a He rushed back to the cave but quick pull, a jerk sideways through there was no sign of it. It might be the square pane, a further wrench, on the road, it might be—oh Lord, it and all was still. The other fowls was where it had slid from his pocket dreamed ahead undisturbed. when he had climbed the Miller fence. The Vagrant cast a look of hearty The difficulties of existence had set- satisfaction upon his prize. "I don't tied on the Vagrant a belief in the guess this chicken ever wuz hungry," constant perversity of fate, so he re- he muttered with a smile and held it fused to doubt his new misfortune for out to feel the "heft" of it. Then he a single moment. Well, it was too late replaced the pane and sped up the al- now. The only thing to do was to ley out of town. But before very long evacuate his present territory. Many,- he stopped to pluck and clean his loot, many people longed for a chance at Circumstantial evidence will never him, and now that they had it, the do. Finally, with only the plump cave would become a sort of shrine. flesh of the chicken dangling from his Meanwhile there was a great com- hand, he walked briskly down the motion in Swandale. Mrs. LaVeme country road. Where the silver fog Crosby, upon arising, had felt it ex- of the Mississippi pearled in the star- pedient to take a good long look at light, he had a cave, quite cosy indeed her diamond brooch. This article of but not always well stocked. The jewelry had settled her in the social moon was gone, and when he looked leadership of Swandale, had been for the key to the tumble-down door duly and unduly lauded in the local he could scarcely find it. press, and had, first and last aroused Once in he lit a candle, gathered the undying jealousy of Mrs. Everett some dry branches into the rudest of Watkins. Now imagine Mrs. Cros- fireplaces and started a fire. When by's terror and hysterical grief upon the water was boiling and the salt in, discovering that her treasure had he sat down on an old box and lit his gone. Yes, gone it was from the pipe. Every bubble that sizzled in pretty little jewel-box right there on that pot was a burst of delight, and the dressing table. Tears, sobs, the yellow grease that danced upon groans from Mrs., and expletives the top was as fascinating as gold, from Mr., had disturbed the Crosby The best of meals comes to an end, so home for a whole hour, when all the bones were clean, the «—j always told you, Adelia, to Vagrant watched the fire die out, and put it in the safe." lay down to slumber in peaceful inno- "Yes, but, LaVeme, I was so tired cence. Dawn came and with it awak- last night!" ening. As he walked along the silent, "Well, nothing to do but call up the 151 THE SCHOLASTIC sheriff, I guess. Good Lord!" there, and to behold the marshal and All the neighbors on the party line the deputy-sheriff in solemn conclave had their receivers down with the on the front porch. usual expedition. Soon there were "Oh, Mrs. Miller," said Miriam excited groups at the corners. O'Hannan to the open-mouthed ar­ "Jim sez that Mrs. Crosby's rival. "Think what's happened! Mrs. diamond stick-pin has been took." Crosby's diamond has been stolen!" "Yes?". . . "Well, ain't it a Such a sturdy dose was too much shame," etc., etc. for Mrs. Miller. For a moment her Mrs. Miller, sober, steady house­ chicken faded away into insignifi­ wife, never thought of gossip till her cance. work had all been done and the polish "Well, don't that beat all! There blazed on every article in her kitchen. some one went last night and stole But this morning her German temper my best rooster and I was just going was struggling to make a record rise. up to see the marshal and now—" When she stepped out bright and "Your rooster stolen too? Well, early to feed her hens, the young don't it beat all!" rooster had been missing. No trace The marshal was coming down the of him was to be found, and her sidewalk and Mrs. Miller suddenly sharp blue eye grasped the meaning remembered her errand. of the loosened pane at once. She "Mr. Cunmiins! Say, I was just a hurried to the house. "Matt, what comin' up to see you about my did I tell you last night? My best chicken that was stolen last night." rooster is gone. Somebody cut.out a The marshal turned and smiled window and stole him, and there upon the deputy. "Gad, Barlow," he ain't nobody else smart enough to do said; "here's another. Chicken-steal that except the Vagrant." you say, Mrs. Miller?" But I didn't hear nothin'," re­ "Yes, and I'm sure it was that no- sponded the crest-fallen carpenter. account Vagrant. I heard him play- Still he was in such a hurry to get to in' 'round here last night and I says work that he almost forgot the mat­ to Matt that no good would come of ter. But Mrs. Miller was possessed it. But he—" of an indignation beyond ordinary Everybody stood and looked at each palliating capacity of any common­ other. The Vagrant? Why of course. place excitement. Then it was that Mrs. Miller accom­ "That pesky Vagrant! I'll see if plished what the fates had decreed. there yet some law in this town or She stooped and lifted up from the not." ground below the porch a mouth-or­ Accordingly she put on her black gan in a battered case. The vagrant serge skirt, her best shirtwaist, her had dropped it there while lighting wedding-brooch and her turban hat, his pipe. and sallied forth in quest of the Jaws closed in unison. The deputy champions of peace and order. What whistled and looked as if Sherlock was her astonishment upon reaching Holmes had nothing to distinguish the Crosby comer to find three of her him from other mortals. It was as best friends excitedly whispering big a clue as was needed. 152 THE SCHOLASTIC

"Well," said Barlow, "I'll go right is on ye hard. You've done a horrible off to have the Boss make out a war­ deed and there's a price on your head. rant." 'And off he was. Begone before I disgrace myself—" All the village was presently in the "Holy snakes!" said the Vagrant maelstrom of the most gigantic ex­ to his frightened self. "Are they citement it had known since the Civil making this much fuss over that?" war. The Swandale Signboard pro­ But he took Pop's warning in good duced an extra. Under the awe-in­ grace. Having done a rather speedy spiring scare-head of "Robbery! Rob­ mile and stopped to light his pipe, bery !" it presented to its readers an the sound of a thundering auto intimate account of Mrs. Crosby's reached his ears. Before he had time state of feeling and a valuation of to collect himself and run, it had the diamond not intended for asses­ rounded the comer. The sheriff and sors. Then it rambled into a detailed a couple of others! He ran headlong history of the Vagxant and a de­ into a wood-patch beside the road. scription of his clothing, his person, "There he goes now," shouted the and his morals. It eniraierated vivid sheriff, and all of them concurred instances when the offender had en­ with the addition of certain exple­ tered farmhouses and made himself tives. The trio leaped from the car, quite at home in the pantry. leaving the engine to puff in jovial The Sheriff set to work with the companionship with the chauffeur. utmost promptness and exceeding They dashed into the wood and be­ firmness of purpose. Telegrams held after much investigation that popped out in far-distant and thunder­ the foot of the Vagrant was extend­ struck offices. Townsfolk all over the ing from the yellowed foliage of a country were in unprecedented ex­ tree. citement. "Get down from there, you scamp," "That there Stunton the vagrant," yelled Morris. "I haven't got much said Pop Annersley, proprietor of time to waste." the Kielerville Blaze bar; "well, I For a moment there was a balan­ never would a thought—" But he cing of opinion in the tree-top, then was not permitted to complete that a coat descended and finally the Va­ sentence because at the precise mo­ grant. The warrant for arrest was ment the Vagi'ant walked quickly duly mumbled and the company was down the country road straight for put in march towards the rear. Sud­ the bar. denly the offender stopped. "I say. Pop, darn it, kin you gim­ "Please sir, I forgot my coat. Can me a drink? I'm terribly dry." I go fetch it?" The man looked so Upon other and numerous occa­ crestfallen and the law appeared so sions Pop had been only too glad to majestic that Morris consented. But fill the wanderer's cup; for his stories no sooner had the Vagrant passed a and melodies could keep any crowd few trees, than he turned, picked up in the bar-room. But today his gray his coat and started into the woods. head trembled and rising to his full For a moment the sheriff was be­ height he stated in a dramatic voice: reft of his customary ease of respi­ "Nick Stunton, the eye of the law ration, 153 THE SCHOLASTIC

'By » he muttered, then sent "Ant den de vorst iss—one whole revolver shots crashing through the loaf of pread and a char of beach bre- timbers, and ordered a quick pursuit. serves was took from my cellar—and The men tore through the blackberry there's only one who kin do dat, and vines, grape vines, hazelbush, and he's de Vagrant." every other sort of impediment na­ The sheriff and his aide looked ture is capable of constructing in the knowingly into each other's eyes. course of fifty years, but after an Then, without saying a word, Morris hour or two they uttered a few tired strode to the faim-house and sum­ remarks and withdrew. The auto moned all the other parties by tele­ returned in silence. The sheriff had phone to join him at the Akenham­ been beaten and was not conversing. mer place. Then he went out and The papers of the country took up engaged in a systematic examination the stunning matter and inflamed the of the premises. All that could be citizens by means of an editorial of found, however, was a few pale foot­ highly eloquent quality. A general prints "undoubtedly those of the d—d search was organized, and so high a criminal." reward was placed on the criminal's By noon a row of autos had gath­ head that the civic mind was ob­ ered in the driveway and a real crowd sessed by a "get-rich-quick" idea. consisting largely of neighbors eager One of Sheriff Morris' most pre­ for the excitement of the man-hunt, eminent qualities was perseverance were seated at the Akenhammer until the end. You might trick him board. The "Missus" was stranded but he was right at you the next in an unparalleled deep of bustle and minute. Before the dew had left his perspiration. Soon the meal was front lawn, the big officer with twelve over and the sheriff armed his com­ special police, set down the country pany of regulars and volunteers with road in four autos. South of Swan- toothpicks, led them out of doors, and dale they separated, going by twos to sent them scurrying in various direc­ every one of the four flanks of the tions. I fatal wood and making inquiries. "Much obliged to you, Mr. Aken­ They found the people eager to help hammer, and we'll bring you the and of course anxious to make a per­ scoundrel tonight." sonal and hair-raising capture. But the old man shook his head It was the sheriff's fortune to skeptically. A fellow who could steal alight upon the model premises of his bread from his pantry—^well, he Nicholas Akenhammer and to find was an arresting personality. Night that stocky, bearded individual in a arrived and the wearied recruits state of genuine commotion. came ambling back in defeat. "That "I see de extray baper this morn- vagrant must have had a deuce in'," he said to the sheriff, "ant chust of a start," was all the conmient they dink vot I find den. Some tramp has made. But when dusk descended, the vent and slepted in mine parn. Now Vagrant stretched his arms on the I vas sure it vas Stunton because no top of a hayrick Akenhammer had rale bummer vould risk it. Dey got constructed in his barnyard, yawned, dis blace spotted." and got down, "That wuz a close 154 THE SCHOLASTIC shave," he muttered to himself and chop the calm surface of Swandale trotted oif through the dark. On the existence. lone country road beneath the stars The first of these dealt exclusively he thought deeply on the problem of mth prominent personages. Andy the best hiding place. He knew the Froscham, the butcher, noticed one sheriff too well to doubt his mettle morning that his supply of sausages and realized that the thoroughness of looked somewhat smaller than it had the search in the country would not the night before. He tried to ease give him anything like a flying stai-t. his business sagacity by calling it an From the talk which had eddied oc- "idea," but he took the precaution casionally round the stack he had that evening to count his rings. What gathered that a leash of good blood- was his surprise and dismay the next hounds were to be brought from the morning to find himself six poorer! neighboring county-seat. John H. Kendall, the grocer, had a "I'd just like ter know what they'll similar experience in regard to say when they come to the stack," he canned goods and ginger-snaps, while chuckled. "But, shucks, them dogs the baker awakened one chilly morn- is easy to shake off." ing to find himself deprived of a He walked silently down the road, dozen loaves of bread plus his entire leaped from one side to the other, supply of pies, jumped fences and forded a creek. A Not yet did the plague cease. Re- little house slumbered in the star- spectable cellars all about suffered light. minute leakages in their canned fruit He splashed up the creek for a dis- and their drink departments. People tance and then sauntered along the began to wonder whether an or- road. A very belated farm wagon ganized band of cut-throats were came rumbling towards him, and he upon them. Then one evening as crouched down among some bushes Sheriff Morris was walking leisurely to wait. Having executed a noise- home from the postoffice in company less leap into the box, he lay on his with a big Havana, a shabbily attired stomach and bounced up and down individual ran past him. He made for three miles or so. During this no special note of the figure till it period he formed a daring and pecu- stopped suddenly at the corner of liar resolve—^to liide himself in the Beale's drug-store and shouted: town, under the sheriff's very eyes. "Well, here I am. Sheriff; come and During the next week and a half get me." the country-side was searched fever- By all the gods, it was the Vagrant! ishly till it seemed that every tree had The Sheriff gave pursuit, but when been climbed. The blood-hounds he reached the corner and gazed were unable to make headway; the down the street, nothing but an ach- special police were dismissed one by ing void greeted his vision, one, and the tillers of the soil again The mystery of the disappearing sought riches in their regular work, food was solved. Imagine who can. It was at this ebb-tide of the law's the ghastly indignation of Swandale. prowess that certain disturbing and Men who didn't know the feel of a disagreeable phenomena began to rope began to dream of tying a fatal 155 THE SCHOLASTIC knot round the villain's throat. "Been up to the tower this morn­ Peaceful women vowed they would ing, Dan?" he called to the sexton. scratch his eyes out yet. Every at­ "No, sir," answered the old man. tic, every hay-loft, every cellar was "not I. Why, there's footprints here searched and then guarded. Traps in­ and see, snow on several of the numerable were set; but alas, there steps!" was no trace of the scoundrel. "Come on, then," said Bayley; On top of all this horrible burden "let's take a look at what's up there, descended the last straw. The Danny." Sheriff awoke one day to discover the They climbed the stairs and mayor's honorable but ill-fitting ascended a ladder which led to the shoes under his bed; the marshal's bell-room. The place was empty. table was endowed with the banker's Bayley recalled the existence of a lit­ cloth and vice-versa. Last, but fore­ tle abandoned room above which had most, Mrs. Alexon's petticoat strayed been constructed mth a view towards into Mrs. Froscham's boudoir! the possible wish of the town to in­ Swandale raved and cursed and stall a tower-clock. The two went up swore, but all in vain. a narrow board ladder and pushed With the snow came a lull in ac­ open the little door. tivities. People began to breathe It was bitter cold, but the first freely again and even to vary the thing that greeted them was the topic of conversation. The "Sign­ amazing sound of a comfortable board" featured other items of inter­ snore. There on the floor, rolled up est. Life, in fact, was becoming dis­ in a half-dozen blankets lay the long- tressingly dull. One morning when lost Vagrant! Both the men jumped the snow lay thick on the air,. Mat­ and gasped with the pleasing shock. thew Bayley, register of deeds, went The register-of-deeds smiled. to his labors much earlier than "Dan," he whispered, "Go and tell usual. The court-house was an ob­ the sheriff and I'll stay here. We've long, four-story building adorned by just made four hundred dollars." the once fashionable square tower Dan's ancient legs were down on with a peaked roof. In the tower the ground-floor in one instant and hung a bell by which the aged sexton over on the sheriff's porch in another. announced the glad tidings that the The worthy officer was engaged at court was in session and the judge breakfast and was for the moment safe upon his bench. practically petrified. "For the Lord's As the register-of-deeds entered sake!" was as much as he could say. the court-house, he remarked an ex­ Without another word he laid do-woi traordinary circumstance. A series his knife and fork, put on his over­ of fresh foot-prints, from which the coat and dashed over to the court­ snow had not all melted away, led to house. Dan led the way up the stairs. the bottom of the stairs ascending The door was pushed open, and the to the bell-tower. "I wonder who sheriff without stopping to breathe, could have gone up there so early roused the sleeping man, who awoke this morning?" he asked himself with a start, rubbed his eyes and thoughtfully. smiled. 156 THE SCHOLASTIC

«T>'I'v, e got you at last, Stunton," by this time. muttered the excited officer, really "Oh, well," said the officer, "There addressing himself, however, and is time enough to find out whether trying to realize that the trials of the you did that or not." And therewith past were in some measure rewarded. the offender was conducted to quar­ "Well, now yo've got me, what you ters in the county jail. gointer do with it?" The trial became a reality. Intense "Never mind that. March along! excitement prevailed, many bets There'll be no stopping for coats this were offered on the defendant's inno­ time!" cence of the leading accusation, and The Vagrant, except for shoes, was the jury—all from outside the coun- as completely attired as was his cus­ ty—^were disconcerted By the ablest tom. He arose slowly, stretched his lawyers in the district. Then, just arms far and wide, and thrust his as matters began to assume an ex­ feet into a pair of tattered Oxfords. ceedingly dusky hue for the prisoner, The expedition marched down the an event of the most surprising na­ ladder into the arms of a breathless ture came to pass. gathering which had learned the Little Evelyn Crosby, whose teeth news. In front of them the sheriff and bare legs made her in company paused, pressed handcuffs upon his with ten million other little daughters prisoner, and said solemnly: "just too cute for anything," decided "There's no need for you to hear that her Teddy Bear, who had slum­ the warrant again, Stunton. You're bered for a good, long while, might arrested for disturbing the peace, be longing for affection. Accordingly petty thievery, and the outright rob­ she conducted him downstairs and bery of a valuable diamond brooch out upon the porch. Just when she belonging to Mrs. La Verne Crosby." was explaining to him how she was An excited murmur of approval rose going to become an angel with light from the crowd, but a look of woeful blue wings, mamma came out of the perplexity clouded the features of the house. villain. "What iz my lizzie zirle zoing "What's that there about a dia­ here," she began, but ended with a mond brooch. Sheriff?" sudden shriek of dismay and lang- "The diamond brooch you stole guage much more prosaic. "Evelyn! from Mrs. Crosby, I said. You know What have you pinned on that Teddy perfectly well what I mean. Come Bear?" along." It was really the most useless of "Sheriff, I never took no diamond. questions, for though the apparition All I wanted wuz eats and I went had all the characteristics of a spectre and got 'em. But diamonds or cash? otherwise, it was extremely material. No, sir. D'you think I'd be here if I'd "Where did you get that, Evelyn?" done that?" "I tooked it off of the desser long, The crowd was impressed. Why, long time ago, and then Tedda he got certainly, the Vagrant had never sick, so Ise brought him down to pay '• touched a till or a safe. If he had, wif me." surely he could have been in Europe The appearance of the magic 157 THE SCHOLASTIC brooch was a blessing but it wore ty observation from the bystanders, considerable disguise. After all the The law, however, lay under the things that Mrs. Crosby had enumer- painful obligation of upholding its ated regarding the Vagrant's charac- rigor and dignity. After due discus- ter and fitness for life occupancy of sion, deliberation and consumption of the most secure penitentiary imag- the county judicial funds, the pris- inable! But after awhile she viewed oner was found guilty of chicken- the matter from its humorous angle stealing and sundry misdemeanors and indulged in a long laugh. and sentenced to one year's sojourn After this the Vagrant's trial be- in the state penitentiary, came simpler. Sympathy of all sorts The Vagrant looked out from be- descended upon him. Why, he had hind the bars, thought of the chill merely been hungry and what was hidden in the thick snow on the roofs more natural than a desire to fill of the village, and there was a gen- one's stomach? The whole matter uine smile on his face, began to be viewed in a humorous "And just think," he mused, "if it light. Sheriff Morris was actually hadn't been for that bloomin' mis- the object of an occasional bit of wit- take, I wouldn't a had all this fun."

TEARS. JAMES P. HAYES. I saw a leaf from a Cypress tree,' Drift down in an everglade. It touched the ground So silently Not a whisper it made.

Then I thought of the tears— Shed for me— That fell, like the cypress leaf. Not for any eye to see, But in tender grief.

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feature of the trip. ONIONS LT'D. Jacksonville was pretty, but it was not what I had come the length of the JAMES ARMSTRONG. continent to see. My onion crop had I HAT it was that made me been good, but it didn't encourage leave Michigan, I don't Palm beach; so I looked up a little know. Perhaps it was the town on the Gulf at the mouth of one successful harvesting of of those Seminole tongue-twister riv- my onion crop after a season of un- ers. It was a fine little place and I usually hard work. At any rate I had just about decided to unpack my had strong reasons for coming back grip - and get my winter program —but that's the story. made out, when the steamer stopped. In the first place, I'm not, and Every one was surprised. It was never was or will be, a seafaring the first time in the history of the man. I actually used to have an un- town—and the last in the history of settled feeling when I'd cross the the steamship company—^that a ship bridge over the river at home. But, had docked there. But accidents are anyway, the winter resort advertis- accidents, regardless of location. I ing that year was especially resplend- was industriously sitting on the dock ent with fruit and bathing beauties when the ship made ready to pursue and I decided to go to Florida for the its cruise of the Caribbean. Steam Avinter. This wasn't as hard for me was up and the gang plank had been as for most folks, because I wasn't so hauled up when I saw it let down old; my wardrobe could be packed in hastily, an officious man in uniform one suit-case, and still leave enough came rushing down looking frantical- room to collect hotel and railroad ly in every direction. He disappeared linen on the way down; and most im- up one of the side streets but soon portantof all—^the fact that ultimate- came into view again dragging an- ly shapes the plans of man—^there other uniformed man by the collar, was no cardiac combustion registered It was evident that the mate had an- when the news of my trip filtered into ticipated the three-mile freedom. All the columns of the Daily Planet. his eloquence failing to elicit a re- Numerous incidents on the trip sponse, the captain loosened his hold opened my eyes to the fact that I and the mate severed connections might have done well to have stirred with his job and his equilibrium at out of my native state sooner. I the same time. Idle white men aren't wasn't pitifully young, but the seat of so abundant in that part of the coun- my pants at the time bore only a try and I must have looked deceiving- Michigan shine. I finally reached ly intelligent. The officer started my Jacksonville, after having listened to way and if the water hadn't cut off advice from traveling acquaintances, my retreat I surely would have long dissertations on the value of missed the adventure, for he was not travel from pioneers in the field like the picture of southern hospitality, myself, and the seductive patter of a "Any experience on the water?" he card sharp in the smoker. The last snapped as he came up. mentioned w^ tbe least enjoyable I had taken a we^s canoe trip m THE SCHOLASTIC

down the river that summer, so I guages and smiling my sweetest I said, "Yes, sir." bowed, "Pax vobiscum, senor and "Working now?" senorita." I know now that I must "N-no, sir." have missed a wink from the old man "Want to take this job for one trip to the girl, to Porto Rico and back? Three weeks, "How do you do, sir," he replied thirty dollars a week,. board, uni- in softly modulated English. "You form?" are an American visitor?" Well, money wasn't the greatest I confusedly answered that I was, of my worries, but I had that north- and was immediately invited to the em inaptitude for refusing to accept old gentleman's country place for din- it, especially when accompanied by ner. In view of the girl and the fact an offer of adventure. I nodded ac- that lunch had escaped my attention quiescence and was rushed aboard. until now, I accepted quickly. I won't mention the trip. The cap- "My daughter does not understand tain wasn't long in discovering my the English," the father informed limited experience on the water, but me, "but I was in America on busi- under the circumstances permitted ness and in dealing with your coun- me to devote most of my time to the trymen here I have learned somewhat social side of his duties while he re- of it.»'> signed himself to doing two men's I was certainly glad to hear that, work. We had a week's stop-over in for I could see that my Porto Rican Porto Rico, but that didn't woriy me. was a trifle crude. We talked on, the I knew that in those Latin-American father translating some of my obser- countries, my prayer-book knowledge vations to the daughter, who smiled would stand me in good stead, and in the approved moving picture man- anyway they said that in most of the ner. And I might say here, too, that restaurants English was understood, the girl would have looked good on I had no trouble in convincing the any screen. There was only one thing captain that I would appreciate shore that prejudiced me unfavorably, leave. In fact he suggested it, not When I entered the car there was a even warning me to be back at cer- strong odor of onion. I figured that tain hours as he did the other men. the chauffeur had been at a tamale It didn't take me long to see that the orgy somewhere in town while the town where we landed was similar to girl and her father were engaged, those of the Pathe weeklies, so I de- but I was surprised that they didn't cided to walk out and see if there were seem to notice it. After having any of the customary revolutions run- harvested forty acres of onions, the ning around loose. least I can say is that the slightest About two miles out of the city, a trace of one touched me strongly, large car pulled up beside me and The country place was all that when the dust had settled I saw an such places are fictionally supposed old gentleman and a beautiful girl in to be. My host told me the imporfc- the rear seat, with a smartly dressed ant details of the family history and, chauffeur at the wheel. Summoning having instructed his daughter, in all my knowledge of foreign Ian- their own language, he retired to his xeo THE SCHOLASTIC

study. I had patronized a Chinese moonlight night for love-making but laundry long enough to be pretty in a pinch there is nothing against a handy with sign language and man- lovely warm afternoon. You may aged to enjoy the sight-seeing tour think that not being able to under- conducted by my fair guide. I even stand the young lady was a handicap— managed to win a smile or two by you MAY think so, but don't say you several unmistakable hints that she got the opinion from me. By the compared favorably with the roses in time dinner was announced we were the garden, etc. But the ride had left getting along famously. She could one evil imprint—I still imagined the say, "I love you" with just a little ac- smell of onions. cent that sounded better to me than Things were progressing as rapid- the original English, while I could ly as any of our screen lovers could say, "Te amo" I guess it was, and get desire (in the absence of the villain, a pretty fair response. I was even the bandits, etc.) when the father ap- wording a resignation to the captain, peared to announce lunch. When we not to mention a long news story for entered the dining room, I knew the the home town Planet. But my spirits chauifeur had eaten first, for the received a jolt at the dining-room place was still strong with the odor door by being met with that ever- of onion that had haunted me since present odor of onions. I could see morning. by this time that the girl and her The senorita—how a foreign lang- father were fond of them to an uage does stick with you—spoke a alamiing degree, but I had hopes that few words to her father and the perhaps the lunch and dinner occur- old gent smiled at me in a knowing rence of the onion—^first in the ome- manner. lette, and now in an otherwise deli- "You have made the hit with my cious fowl—was only a coincidence, daughter," he chuckled. I rehearsed mentally several of the I was about to blush accomodating- noted speeches of our best reformers, ly and hint that the feeling was substituting the word onion for the strongly mutual, when a fresh wave less objectionable terms they em- of onionized air was followed by the ployed. production of an otherwise wonder- When the moonlit night rolled ful omelette. In view of their hospi- around I was certain that sheepskin tality I swallowed my aversion and coats and snowshoes were forever a goodly portion of the lunch. A few banished from my wardrobe. That words from the daughter and I heard night I dreamed dreams of a life of the old gentleman invite me to re- ease as the son-in-law of a tropic main at the place during my stay. It politician, and I visioned triumphant seems that he had come out to do visits to my old home town. How the some work and the young lady rather Planet would expand: "Former Resi- enjoyed my company. I looked at dent Weds Tropic Heiress," "Ex-Citi- the girl again, reflected that the ship zen Returns with Tropic Bride," etc. captain's grief would not be incon- The dreams were so pleasant that the solable, and accepted. sun was well up when I awoke. I Popular opinion prescribes the found the daughter of the house 16X THE SCHOLASTIC waiting for me with a warm tropic ceived design on the part of my host greeting and a gesture toward the and hostess, and to one who could dining room that meant breakfast, eat onions three times a day, all hope One of our poets has sung,— was lost. I sought out the old man in his study and thanked him for his "You may air, you may scour hospitality, but informed him that Theroomif you will; suddenly-remembered duties aboard ship were urgent. It was a little But the scent of the onion ^^^^^^ ^^ 1^^^^ ^j^^ ^^^^^ l^^y g^e Will hang round it still." was not only surprised but grieved at my unexpected departure. She rode It was too strong to be mistaken. I with me to the city. There I found hoped that there might be a garden the captain indifferently willing to near the window, but it seemed not. take me back (thank goodness, the I was confronted with a large bowl girl didn't understand English). Tell- of soup and the chief ingredient was ing her that the captain insisted that strong, unadulterated, onion! I go aboard ship at once, I made my It was too much. I could attrib- escape. But as the ship sailed out of ute coincidence to its appearance at the harbor two days later, there were lunch and at dinner, but at breakfast, tears in my eyes. It was possibly the never. It was the result of pre-con- memory of the onions.

A PAGE OF POETRY. TO F. B. S. Death stole the beauty from his lips. And robbed his brain of every quickening thought, But still the splendor of his vision slips From out the dark-robed tomb where it was caught.

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VOL. I. NOVEMBER, 1923. NO. 3.

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THE SAD PART OF A STORY. We rather had our hearts set on a unique football season. There was the schedule, brimful of knotty games and determined opponents, and there was the Notre Dame squad, pitting its best against the other side of the scales of victory. Then came Nebraska, with the tenseness of danger and the bitterness of defeat. The air is fUled with "if's," but naturaUy we put no stock in alibis. They have no honest place in the world of sport. It was a hard game to lose, but in a certain sense it is a good thing we lost. We may imagine a train moving swiftly from the fields of the West back towards Indiana, and on the train the lads who had struggled desperately to win and had failed. There is a quantity of heart-ache, a great deal of undeserved self-reproach, and a desperate, futile longing for another chance. The battle is fought over and mingles itself with dreams that are at one and the same time tired and disconsolate. Now a dim recognition of these things struggles into the mind of the school these lads have represented. We see them at present, not as auto­ matic heroes, or "athletes" who run out upon a field to play, but genuinely as boys. They suffer, they feel intensely the disappointment which we have experienced very truly but still more or less on the surface. A bond of sympathy is created which nothing but the force of defeat can bring about. 163 THE SCHOLASTIC

For it is defeat and not victoiy which ties men together. The page in American history that is easiest to remember is Valley Forge. We may forget Lincoln's stories, but we can never lose sight of his martyrdom. So it is with Notre Dame. We shall possibly lose track of the Army score. It may be hard to remember just how many games we won. But we shall never forget the night the team came home from Nebraska.

WHY IS A CRITIC? If a man came up to any one of us, on the street, and asked, "What do you think of that building behind you ?" how would we reply ? The chances are we would turn around, direct a hasty glance at the edifice and then drawl a very judicial decision something like this: "Well, it is not much of a place, is it? Those windows there; and that stone work. Pretty bad!" The fact that we had never noticed the place before would make no dif­ ference. Our opinion is requested; we take pleasure in showing that we are one of those gifted individuals who can judge adequately and without loss of time or brains. That is the most attractive thing about unfair criticism. We give our­ selves a mental pat on the back with the minimum of thought expenditure. We set up our own little appraisal shop and hand out free samples to every passer-by. The impression of a moment, a single annoying experience, con­ stitutes a license. Of course, we never build up a paying trade; that is im­ possible when every prospective customer is himself a competitor with his own place of business rather uncomfortably close by. Still, we manage to get a good deal of pleasure out of serving the public for nothing. The college man's adeptness at criticism is the natural result of his cir­ r-h ' cumstances. He has just realized the delightful fact of his existence as an individual, and his personal reactions are events of first importance to him. He loves to air his impressions of events and personages. The trouble is, he forgets to label his criticisms as the product of his own ex­ periences. Therein lies the danger: some one may take him as seriously as he takes himself. And look at the fruitful field he has to work in! Uni­ versity regulations, the subjects he is studying, his fellow students, cam­ pus life, marks, professors, personalities,—a mere bowing acquaintance m^' with any of these makes him an authority of their every phase. If he is politely informed that the book he desires is out, he feels the necessity of declaring the Library a farce. If he has to wait in line for something or other, he is not slow to characterize the University system as inefficient. -:m At every conflict of regulation with convenience, the uncommon strict­ ness of college rules, long outgrown, must be spoken of at length. And so it goes. True, we are not malicious in our criticisms for we do not ourselves believe a half of what we say. Opinions are good things to have—necessary too, if progress is to be made. But before we take an opinion formed on more or less trivial data, and use it as a basis for a sweeping criticism, let us spend a little time in reflection. And if we are uncertain whether it is wise to criticize, the safe rule is—^not to. 164 THE SCHOLASTIC

THE DANGER OF LEARNING. A banker in a small mid-western town was asked to contribute to the endowment of a great university. His reasons for refusing to give centered about the argument that our colleges are turning out men with distorted ideas of service and without a balanced sense of values. In the opinion of this particular individual the college men of to-day should be going to the farm, and into the factories; they should be fitting themselves for work as bricklayers, and should not question the utiUty of becoming successful hack-drivers. Too many men are working toward the pro­ fessions with the result that professional lines are becoming filled to over­ flowing with fakes and quacks. The college man seems to be equipped for nothing but the pursuit of something of which he is not quite certain. He is dissatisfied and not content on the walk of ordinary life. It then follows, our banker friend thinks, that a college education is unnecessary. Philosophy teaches that every statement contains a half-truth. The v/ords of the small-town gentleman vouch for this. His trouble, however, is that he has allowed his prejudices to convince him that he speaks the whole truth. In many ways he is right; for even a sieve retains some choice bits. Who is to blame for this illusion which exists among those who watch the college student? Is it an illusion? College men too frequently are deserving of the criticism. Many of them apparently have no aim in view. College is a port of pleasant associations at which to spend several happy jrears before putting forth upon a stormy sea. Contact with fellows is a helpful part of college life. But it is well to hold in mind that there is something more than just that behind so­ journing at a university. There is a background of general knowledge to be acquired which makes the well-rounded man. Often this fact is ignored, or forgotten altogether, and the result is a half-finished product. Knowledge is a queer thing. To trifle with it is dangerous. It strengthens conceit and develops the ego. A thorough knowledge knows no conceit. It produces humility, which is nothing more than common sense. The diploma is not a proof of worth. A man must prove himself. Graduation should stand for a broad background which is the only preparation for a wide range of work. A recent graduate of the University of Washington became a plasterer. By reason of his college training he is able to do the work well and with a certain amount of pleasure. An education developed in him practicability and common sense. Many men pursue some vague nothing which at life's end has for some strange reason failed to materialize. To keep the soul alert and the heart pounding we must enter life with a pmTpose in view and a back­ ground of knowledge that will enable us to accomplish it. Thoreau's words express the idea, "It is time that villages were universities, and their elder inhabitants the fellows of universities, with leisure—^if they are indeed so well off—to pursue liberal studies the rest of their lives." 165 THE SCHOLASTIC

.'.• w ART FOR YOUR OWN SAKE. I!: Assuming that a university is devoted to higher culture, a curious sit­ uation arises. There is a certain midwestern university that has an art 'J,- gallery on its campus, an art gallery, which is little known to, and little used by that university's students. Is it necessary, then, to believe the assumption wrong, or is it wrong only in the application to this particular university? If this art gallery housed only a collection of primitives, or paintings of interest solely to art students, it might be possible to meliorate the defini­ tion with the university's attitude. But when, instead, it is found that they are chiefly the works of artists of the golden era of painting—^the Ren- naisance—^and that it includes even some of the masters of this age, then one is led to believe that it should at least prompt some curiosity among a representative number of its students. But curiosity is not culture, and, of course admitting that we are pos­ sibly wrong, the students are coming to Notre Dame for reasons greater than curiosity. Culture does not imply that one must be an artist or an artisan to appreciate art, otherwise there would be no art. Art is some­ thing that can usually be appreciated without an effort on the spectator's part. It is not necessary to know that a painting is the work of the Bolognese school, that its draughtsmanship is strong, that it shows a splendid sense of balance—^these are for the art. student, to be attained to by the lay­ man. It is the cultivation of a taste for that which strives for beauty, as well as for that which strives for truth, that completes the college educa­ tion. The commerce graduate who can immediately step into a business office with a confidence in his knowledge, but who has never stepped into the Whiteman Art Gallery at Notre Dame, has taken only a part of his col­ lege education into that office. To be strictly utilitarian, that man has neg­ lected the cultivation of a possible means of pleasure that produces, with, perhaps, the highest and greatest satisfaction for the smallest money out­ lay necessary for the enjoyment of any pleasure. And, finally, to be con­ fidential, that man has neglected something which men expect of college graduates; a universal appreciation of the arts.

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Rothert, and his Blue Circlers un­ LUNAR LOG. stinted praise is due. As we look back now on the pageantry and glam­ OCTOBER SUMMARY. our of this happy occasion we can see ID-OCTOBER found the cam­ more clearly the machine-like order pus in a state of feverish which arose from the maze of traf­ M activity which considered not fic regulation, registration, barbecue, the examinations looming but one entertainment, decorations, and the month away. Someone, it may be hundred other details. For this effi­ remembered, prophesied that the ciency many are to be thanked,—^in­ Daily would not be able to find dividuals who helped, faculty mem­ sufficient news to fill its columns. A bers who cooperated; but since the glance at the crowded pages of this burden of the work was theirs, the "campus news letter" will refute the Blue Circle must come in for the pessimistic gentleman who made the lion's share. The hall and South prophecy. Autumn is a spicy, vigor­ Bend decorations were colorful and ous time at Notre Dame with the attractive Sophomore Hall, with its thump of toe on pigskin resounding monogram decoration won the prize over the campus, during the day, and cup, donated by Ray Cunningham's the thump of the gavel at night. Toledo firm. Father Gassensmith is The Seniors and Don Gallagher, to be congratulated for the decora­ convinced that civilization is but a tion, and Ray for securing the dona­ thin veneer, and that close to the skin tion. lies the primitive desire of man to Homecoming dance, held at the Pa­ «arry a stick, adopt canes as their lais Royale, was flawless, both from mark of distinction. The different the standpoint of location and synco­ colleges will have variously colored pation. Hundreds of couples crowded canes, and thus the "cane-gang" of the magnificent ballroom, and those Notre Dame has been formed. Don who were not so fortunate as to come also announces Senior Ball Commit­ early were forced to seek another tees, and appoints Owen Desmond of dance hall for their entertainment— Chicago to direct the affairs of what not so pretentious as the Palais, but is sure to be the "apogee of the 1924 equally harmonious. The S. A. C. social whirl." Frank O'Boyle, Con- could safely have contracted for two roy Scoggins, Paul Kennedy, Walter other halls for this dance, the over­ Stapleton, Leo Cavanaugh, Tom flow was so large. Walsh and George Glynn will head Incidental to Homecoming, Purdue, the various Ball Committees. following the example of Georgia Homecoming, the big event of the Tech and others, bowed to the skill of month, was staged under the direc­ Rockne and Stuhldreher. tion of Bill Greavy, the senatorial A bit of color was added to Home­ journalist. His splendid work in coming by the appearance of our this, the best Homecoming ever, will band in their new uniforms. Natty be recorded in another part of this blue uniforms, with leather puttees, magazine. But it must be entered in and "Sam Brown" belts makes us the Log that to Bill, and to Matt prouder of the boys than ever before, 167 THE SCHOLASTIC while Potts strutting at the head of The Juggler, devoted to the^Fresh- the column, bids fair to rival the men, makes its initial appearance for much-famed "Peacock of the Navy." the year. A fine number, well or­ Shortly before Homecoming Day, ganized, which promises a brilliant the day on which so many of his year under the direction of Dan friends returned to Notre Dame, Hickey. A Football Number is Brother Florian, for eight years promised for the November issue. guest master, and familiar figure in As the Log closes for the month, the Main Building, died at the Com­ Nebraska, jinx now for two years, munity House, after several months' has settled the Irish question—^for illness. this year. The Log does not proph­ The men who knew the genial, ami­ esy, it simply records, but the Log- able Brother Florian will hear these looks forward with pleasure to next words with sorrow. Whether it was Fall when it will again record the Ne- the gift of a "faculty" cigar, or the braska-Notre Dame score, and it -will saving of a man from expulsion. say "the Irish question has been re­ Brother Florian was always the opened, and it intends to remain open friend, and we hope they will not for­ for a long time." get him now that he is gone, nor neg­ —JAMES P, HAYES. lect him in their prayers. Just a word about the ever active clubs. The tyranny of the S. A. C. THE POETRY CONTEST. forces clubs to hold meetings regu­ larly, to act, to show action, to pro­ The Scribblers' Poetrj^ Contest of duce results. Jack Scallan's heart 1923 has come to an end and fills with glee to see Clubs assemble the prize-winners have been an­ for Dome Pictures. Chemists Club nounced. Though it failed to produce plans publication; Charles de la anything rivalling "Paradise Lost" or Vergne heads the Louisiana-Missis­ "The Fairy Queen," it has shown that sippi club; The Toledo Club, famous there are men at Notre Dame who can organization, initiates and banquets write verse, surprisingly good verse new members, and then forces them for undergraduates. The contest has to listen tp words of wisdom from been a success in that it more than President O'Boyle; Rochester Club fulfilled every expectation of its spon­ gives smoker; Shakespeare Club sors. elects Hayes and Martin; Pacific The purpose of The Scribblers in Coast and Grand Rapids Clubs plan fostering this Poetry Contest was dances; Lifers select George Barry solely to encourage the writing of to show them about the school verse by students at Notre Dame. through the coming year; the Rocky They believe that they were amply re­ Mountain Club under the "grand warded by the fact that this contest young man of clubs," Harry Mc- brought into being five or six poems Guire, makes plans for a banquet— of sufficient merit to be included in and so passes the student's) time away "The Scribblers' Book of Notre most clubbily upon this well-organ­ Dame Verse," which is to be pub­ ized campus. lished in the near future. 168 THE SCHOLASTIC

The Scribblers were fortunate in­ The second prize of ten dollars was deed in securing as judges for the conferred on "Transubstantiation," contest such authorities on poetry as by Dennis O'Neill. Mr. O'Neill's Mrs. Aline Kilmer, Mr. T. A. Daly, poem bears out the contention of the Rev. Thomas Crumley, C. S. C, Pro­ advocates of vers libre that certain fessor George N. Shuster, and Rev. subjects can be given better expres­ Charles L. O'Donnell, C. S. C. sion in free verse than in more regu­ The judges awarded the first prize lar rhythms. For the benefit of those of twenty dollars to "Fancy," by few who are inclined to doubt our Francis Collins Miller. As addition­ statement, we reprint his poem: al praise would be futile as well as unnecessary, we reprint the prize- TRANSUBSTANTIATION. winning poem without further intro­ Stars burn duction. Like candles FANCY. On an altar of ebony. Clouds kneel I am he who dreams of a philosophy Like acolytes Like a half-fledged bird who longs for flight, Reverently at the foot. Like a prisoner beating on the bars to free Winds chant His ecstacy. A Gloria I am he Then hush expectantly. Who dreams of a blue mountain far away, The clouds stir The top of which is laureled with silver And touch each other snow Gently on the shoulder And wanting it I start each day And bow and go. But turn back—^Why?—^I do not know! For Nature'5 wine and water— -• I am he who phantasied the common stone. Wind and rain. Who may see in the spark a star, But when I reach I find myself alone: My star Tomorrow will be roses, A dead ash. On the hiU, Why it is the future bears so much Where yesterday were thorny things. For me, and todays are dead and gray. Why it is that gold rings lead as I touch In addition to these selections, the It—Lord, I can not say. judges gave honorable mention to: I am he who visions on a filmy screen, "Home Is the Warrior" by Dennis Paints with a master's touch, Who builds a magic play, scene by scene O'Neill, "In an Old Church in Ma­ To have it fall nilla" by Harry McGuire, and "Pur­ Stage and all pose" by Edward Lyons. As the prelude melody is begun. We hope that The Scribblers will I am he who would be make their Poetry Contest an annual High up on a radiant sun institution. Who can say but that it Where all might see. I am he who lolls and dreams of love, may be just the stimulus necessary to f And yet no loves are mine; lift the writing of poetry at Notre I am he who rides the clouds above Dame to the level achieved by other In highest clime forms of endeavor? Of dream sublime; —^E. T. LYONS. I am he who has a diamond in his hand And drops it for a phantom beam; I am he who gathers only golden sand In a dream! 169 THE SCHOLASTIC

his success as a lawyer began two years after his admission to the Bar, when he DOCTOR FLICK'S ADDRESS. entered active practice. For some years The address of introduction for he took an active part in politics as a Mr. Walter George Smith, Laetare Democrat, usually v/ith the reform ele­ ment, and on one occasion was a candi­ Medallist, was delivered by Doctor date for Select Council and on another for Lawrence F. Flick, of Philadelphia. Congress. He supported Palmer aiid We are happy to be permitted to print Buckner in 1896. With many other Dem­ it entire: ocrats he left the party after President Wilson's first tevm. The University of Notre Dame has made As a lawyer Mr. Smith filled many po­ the Laetare Medal the symbol of virtue and sitions of service and honor. In 1905 he achievement. The medal seeks the individ­ was appointed commissioner for Pennsyl­ ual by the closest scrutinity and often finds vania on uniforiri state laws, a position he the recipient of it in one to whom the world still holds. In 1906 he was a delegate to has not given due recognition. It is mar­ the National Divorce Congress called by vellous, however, with what unanimity the Governor Pennypacker, meeting in Wash­ choice of the medallist is acclaimed. ington. In 1909 he was elected President of the Conference of Commissioners on Uni­ In selecting Walter George Smith as the form State Laws for the several states. In recipient of the medal for 1923, the Uni­ 1916 he was elected President of the Ameri­ versity has added lustre to its own name can Bar Association in which he had been and honored the medallists who have gone an active working member for many years. before. It is a pleasure and a privilege to be associated with such a colleague. | Throughout his career Mr. Smith has Walter George Smith was born in Mac 0 been a valuable citizen to his own city and Cheek, Logan Co., Ohio, November 24th, to the country at large. In 1891 he was 1854. He is the third child in a family of elected a trustee of the University of Penn­ nine and the first of five sons. His father. sylvania to represent the Alumni Associa­ General Thomas Kilby Smith, was of early tion. As such he became a Manager of the New England stock, reaching back into the University Hospital and served on many middle of the eighteenth century with roots of its important committees. When the in some of the foremost families of that Drexel Institute of Philadelphia was country. His mother was Elizabeth Budd founded he was made a member of its McCuUough, of a prominent New Jersey Board. In 1916 he was appointed on the family, a gi-anddaughter of Judge Benja­ Board of Public Education of the City of min M. Piatt, a pioneer in Illinois, Ken­ Philadelphia. In 1919 he was appointed a tucky and Ohio. At the age of eleven Commissioner for relief in the Near East years he came with his parents to Torres- by the Near East Relief, a corporation dale, Philadelphia, where he now resides. chartered by act of Congress. In rj21 he His mother was born of Protestant parents, v/as appointed by President Harding/ a was brought up a Catholic by her grand­ member of the Advisory Board of Twenty- mother, a convert to the Faith, and his one, of the Conference on the Limitation of father entered the Church late in life. Armaments, meeting in Washington. In 1923 he was placed on the Board of Indian Mr. Smith received the greater part of Commissioners. He is a member of the his pi'imary education at the Protestant Pennsylvania Historical Society. Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia and his training in Arts at the University of In the field of Catholic endeavor he has Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1873 held important positions. In 1895 he was and where he received his Mastership in sent as a delegate to represent the Archdio­ 1877. He studied law under a nominal cese of Philadelphia at the Catholic Con­ preceptor and was admitted to the Bar in gress in Chicago. In 1898 he was elected 1877, on his degree of LL.B. from the Law President of the American Catholic His­ School of the same University. torical Society. For years he was Presi­ A logical thinker and a ready speaker, dent of the Pennsylvania Federation of 170 THE SCHOLASTIC

Catholic Societies. In 1917 he was made resignation will be remembered and wiU a member of the Board of Trustees of the work for the principle which prompted it Catholic University in Washington. For when the men who precipitated it have-been at least thirty years he has been a Man­ forgotten. ager of St. Vincent's Foundling Asylum. Mr. Smith has exemplified his Catholic In fields in which finance and philanthro­ Faith in his life. He has been a stimulating py touch elbows, he has been a Director in force in every Catholic work with which he the Beneficial Saving Fund Society, the has been connected. An active worker Philadelphia Contributionship Society of force in every Catholic work with which Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Company he has been connected. An active worker for Guaranteeing Mortgages. in the American Catholic Historical So­ Socially he has been a member of the ciety from its earliest years, its President military order of the Loyal Legion of the from 1898 to 1900, he did much to help United States, of the Sons of the Revolu­ to place that Society in the favorable po­ tion, of the University Club, of the Penn sition which it occupies in the educational Club, the Philadelphia Club and the Ritten- world. He was the head and front of St. house Club, all of Philadelphia, and of the Vincent's Foundling Asylum's outside ac­ Cosmos Club of Washington. tivities for many years and raised the An enumeration of the organizations in money which was necessary for this work which Mr. Smith has held membership or by personal solicitation among his friends. office, and the commissions on which he He has given faithful service to the Catho­ has served, is not an adequate indication lic University of America in Washington. of his activities. Every position which he As Commissioner for Relief in the Near has held has been a sacred trust with him, East he helped to organize the distribution receiving the best that was in him. of food and clothing in the stricken regions In the organizations which have to do of Asia Minor by untiring efforts in those wdth his profession he has been a conscien­ regions. He presented the conditions there tious, enthusiastic worker for the good of to the Peace Conference in Paris, to the the people and the elevation of ethics and British Cabinet and to the League of Na­ morals. His unselfish labors led to enact­ tions and made every effort to induce the ment of reform laws and concerted effort Powers to do justice to the Christian minor­ to restrict the evils of divorce, the full ities in the Near East. He returned to fruit of which cannot as yet be evaluated. Europe in 1920 to participate in the de­ To his Alma Mater, the University of liberations of the Phil-Armenian Congress Pennsylvania, in its fairest fields of labor in Geneva, and at the same time presented he gave service by deed and example. His the matter of relief of the Near East to life was an inspiration to his co-laborers the League of Nations then assembled at and to the young who sought instruction in Geneva. On his return to America he the University. After eighteen years of helped to found the Armenia-American So­ service he severed his connections with it ciety for the improvement of the political because a professor had been chosen whose conditions of the persecuted Christians in views on ethics and morals were irrecon­ the Turkish Empire. He was elected first cilable with what Mr. Smith regarded as President of this Society. fundamental truth. He resigned as a pro­ He served with scrupulous attention on test. A fairly plausible criticism of this the advisory board of twenty-one at the act has been made by those whose philos­ Conference on the Limitation of Armaments ophy of life is more flexible than that of in Washington. Since his appointment to Mr. Smith. "Resignation is decapitation," the Board of Indian Commissioners he has they say. Why sacrifice the opportunity of spent much time in a personal inspection of doing good, for a principle which is not Indian Reservations. directly involved? But there was a decapi­ The honors which have been conferred on tation at the threshold of Christianity Mr. Smith have been in recognition of ser­ which still resounds around the world and vice rendered to Church and State. In 1910 teaches its lesson more forcibly than any­ the Holy Father made him a Knight of the thing else could have done. Mr, Smith's Order of St. Gregory the Great for his in THE SCHOLASTIC valiant campaign in behalf of reform in di­ vorce laws. In 1915 the Catholic Univer­ HOMECOMING. sity of America gave him the honorary de­ gree of Doctor of Laws and in 1920 Grin- On the Thursday morning preced­ nell University gave him the same degree. ing Homecoming Harry Flannery's These honors were earned by his education­ Daily carried a pretentious story al work. Now the University of Notre headed: "Blue Circle Has Meeting." Dame bestows on him the Laetare Medal. This was run not only to prove con­ As a writer and a lecturer Mr. Smith has done work of a high character. His Life clusively that Homecoming was nigh and Letters of his distinguished father, is but also to disprove the theory that well wi'itten and most interestingly put to­ '"the mills of the gods grind slowly," gether. His lectures and addresses have for the evening following the publica­ been models of good taste and instruction. tion of the story, the celebration be­ To the looker-on the most striking quali­ ties of Mr. Smith's character are his keen gan, and to continue the quotation sense of duty and his urbanity. Duty has (with some little distortion) they been the mainspring of his life. Kindness "ground exceeding fine," everyone illuminates every act. In one's thoughts of agreeing that it was a wonderful cele­ him these qualities are in the foreground. bration. Next to these comes courage of convic­ tion. Right cannot be displaced by ex­ The Blue Circle, Eocky Mountain pediency. It might not: Club and Harry McGuire prepared the fatted calf for the Annual Return "For Fortunes' bastard be unfathered of the Prodigals in the nature of a As subject to times' love and to time's real barbecue; and in spite of the fact hate,- that several people are known to have attended the feast no casualties were Weeds among weeds or flowers with reported. flowers gathered. The activities of Friday evening No, it was builded far from accident; initiated Homecoming. The Alumni It suffers not in smiling pomp nor falls and the Purdue team were honored Under the flow of thi-alled discontent in the snake dance through the Whereto inviting time our fashion calls; streets of South Bend which ended at It fears not policy, that heretic, the Elks' Temple. Eddie Luther led a crowd estimated by a one-eyed man Which works on leases of short-num­ at ten thousand, in a series of yells bered hours." for the teams, coaches and practical­ ly everyone that had anything to do What Mr. Smith has meant most to his with the game the following day. The commnuity, perhaps, is the strength he has given it by his example. The full value of crowd shouted loud and long for this may be gleaned from that pretty story Coach Rockne, but he could not be in the Old Testament which tells that God found. Eddie then introduced Coach spared Segor for the sake of Lot and Phelan of Purdue, a former protege would have spared Sodom and Gomorrah of Rockne, who said, "We'll try to had ten just men been found in them. give you sixty minutes of the old fight and scrap tomorrow on Cartier field." Phelan needed little introduc­ tion to most of the crowd and was given a great ovation. 172 THE SCHOLASTIC

After the celebration at the Elks sic. "Spark Plug" then made his the crowd departed for Notre Dame somewhat reluctant appearance with to attend the vaudeville and boxing a mysterious rider who opened a shows. After convincing themselves basket of carrier pigeons in the cen- of Notre Dame's versatility in these ter of the field. Twenty or thirty toy two, admirable lines of endeavor, ev- balloons bearing the colors of Notre eryone retired to the side of the gym- Dame and Purdue were let fly and at nasium to watch the boys from the the latest report were sighted by an mountains apply the torch to a gener- eagle-eyed Daily reporter, "some- ous portion of beef. This sight set where in the vicinity of Lake Michi- many of the old grads to reminiscing gan." about the old refectory, and it was After the game the Monogram ban- quite late before most of them awoke quet was held in the junior refectory, to the realization that it was time to Over three hundred reservations had go to sleep. been made. Coaches Phelan and Eddie Degree, of Purdue, were the guests of the club as well as the en- So much was planned in the way of tire Purdue team. Short talks were entertainment that a multitude of in- made by Father Matthew Walsh, formation booths were strategically president of the University, Coach placed about town and at the en- Rockne and members of the club, trance of the campus so that no one All the halls on the campus vied could have an excuse for being idle, with each other in elaborateness of Saturday's program began with the Homecoming decoration. The new celebrating of the Monogram Mass at member of the group. Sophomore Hall 8 o'clock in Sacred Heart Church. At won the silver loving cup donated by ten-thirty the barbecue meat was the Toledo Jewelry Company through considered, by its toasters, sufficiently Ray Cunningham. The judges were toasted, and within a short time two prominent alumni, Mr. J. H. everyone had had breakfast. Neeson, of Philadelphia, and Mr. The track team did its part in Henry Wurzer, of Detroit, former making the day a success by winning president of the Alumni Association, over the Michigan Aggies, 25-30. As usual everyone went away vow- Captain Paul Kennedy incidentally ing to return next year and for many set a new local record of 18:08 for years thereafter if only to test the the cross-country run. originality of the Homecoming com- The activities of the afternoon be- mittees that every year succeed in ar- gan with the firing of the salutes at ranging a novel program of events. 2:28. Two minutes later the teams —^DENNIS O'NEILL, trotted on the field and Notre Dame's fourth Homecoming football game was about to begin. Between halves of the game the band, resplendent in their new uni­ forms, paraded the field and thrilled the packed stands with real band mu- 173 THE SCHOLASTIC

f oraied with exactitude and unselfish- THE BLUE CIRCLE. ^^^^ ^^^ ^j^^^ demonstrated that stu- About a year ago the need of a dent management of affairs is trust- group of men to conduct student ac- worthy and desu'able. tivities resulted in the formation of a Another prominent activity of the new campus organization, the Boost-' Blue Circle was the campaign for ers. The immediate purpose of the subscriptions to THE SCHOLASTIC, club was to manage the Homecoming The Dome and The Daily. Other pro- festivities. They did this with an jects will be inaugurated during the admirable display of energy and un- year. selfishness. During the year new Each member of the organization tasks confronted the Boosters and wears a small pin, on which are a the organization became a prominent blue circle and a gold N. D. The blue factor in student affairs. A new signifies loyalty, and the gold, friend- name has been given the club this ship and service. Primarily a Notre year. It is now the Blue Circle. At Dame aggregation, the Blue Circle a meeting of the Students' Activities' works to benefit the university and Committee fifiy men, representing the students. every phase of thought at the univer- The mere mention of the Blue Cir- sity, were selected to compose the cle brings to mind its chairman. Matt personnel. The zeal that marked the Rothert. He personifies its capabil- Boosters has been demonstrated this ity. The personnel of the organization year by the Blue Circle. follows: The initial activity of the Blue Cir- J. Q. Adams, John Barr, John A. cle was the conducting of "Hello Bartley, Ed Buckley, Ray Cunning- Week." This has become a yearly ham, C. P. Collins, Ed Crawford, event at Notre Dame. Its purpose is James Corbett, James Conroy, Owen to acquaint the men of the university Desmond, Ed Dinneen, Tom Dono- with one another and to increase the van, John A. Elliott, Ralph Heger, fraternal spirit which characterizes Tom Hodgson, Ed Hogan, John the students. Hurley, Jos. Hogan, Paul Funk, J. F. The Homecoming celebration was Johnston, Frank Kane, Paul Kenne- under the auspices of the Blue Circle, dy, W. A. Krider, John P. Lynch, The members gave their time and ef- John F. Ryan, Ed Luther, Harry Mc- forts unsparingly to the work. Not Guire, Clifton Mcintosh, Maurice D. only the major events were conducted McNulty, Jas. McSweeney, Jerry by them, but also the endless little de- Miller, Anse Miller, Walter Moran. tails that accompany a celebration Eugene Noon, H. L. O'Brien, Tom such as this. The decorating of the O'Connor, Paul DePaolis, F. E. Pie- campus, the reception of alumni and carkski, Donald Ryan, Gilbert Schaef- visitors, the staging of the barbecue fer, James Sheerin, Walter Staple- and the vaudeville performance, and ton, V. J. Schneider, R. C. Scoggins, various other matters were taken Al Sommers, Tom Whalen, Tom care of by the Blue Circle. The work Walsh, Leo Cavanaugh, Paul T. that was entrusted to them was per- Breen. —JOSEPH c. RYAN.

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PUBLICATIONS LT'D ^^*^ *^® commendable observance of the warning of St. James. Thus, It would be a grievous offense wMe The Dome a.nd The Juggler arQ for THE SCHOLASTIC to ignore its of, by and for the student body theo- campus contemporaries, notably The retically, these gentlemen take no Juggler and The Dome. The Daily chances and any neglect on the part sei-ves an admirable purpose. With of the many is well cloaked under the support and cooperation it shows works of these exemplary few. promise of carrying out the platform Without personal prejudice, we that appeared in its initial issue, "... consider The DoTiie the most import- to represent the University, to mirror ant book on the campus in that it rep- its life, to foster and protect its tra- resents not the achievements of a mi- ditions, and to preserve a spirit of nority, but the achievement of every loyalty among the students." But the Notre Dame graduate. Each volume character of a newspaper and the of The Dome tells the college-life his- character of the publications we pro- tory of every man who is graduated, pose to discuss are related by rather it is also a history of the activities of obscure bonds, and Einstein has the scholastic, athletic and social never been our hobby. So The Daily, life of the whole school during the we hope, will not feel slighted when year. And it is to its status as a we devote most of our space to The work of history, rather than as a Juggler and The Dojne. There are work of art or literature, that we at- other worthy campus cousins of THE tribute its great importance. SCHOLASTIC, for instance, the Santa Under its able editor-in-chief, Jack Maria, The Alumnus, and the Relig- Scallan, The Dome of 1924 is press- iov^ Bulletin, but the special interests ing close upon the heels of its excep- served by these publications removes tional predecessor, the 1923 Dome, them from the scope of this article, which took first place in a college an- With these necessary explanations nual contest last year. With his un­ made, and we trust accepted, we may tiring energy and pecuKar powers of proceed. persuasion, Mr. Scallan has infused It was our original intention to his own enthusiasm into the staff and have incorporated in this article a the book is well under way. Indica- statement from each of the editors- tions point to exceptional art work, in-chief of the respective books under .originality and early production, as discussion. But when we had located the outstanding features of The them after days of diligent search it Dome of 1924. was only to find that they were re- The Notre Dame Juggler is the sil- ligiously pursuing the doctrine of St. ver lining of many student clouds. James, who says, ". . . . and so also Since its inception five years ago, this faith, if it hath not works, is dead in monthly comic has become an integ- itself." Mr. Scallan and Mr. Hickey ral part of campus life. K texts placed the utmost faith in the coop- were read as thoroughly as each issue eration of the student body in the of ^The Juggler, professorial mortali- production of their respective vol- ty due to shock would increase alarm- umes, but each supplements his faith ingly. The quality of the humor and 175 THE SCHOLASTIC art found in I'he Juggler is evidenced of Holy Cross, the famous Dr. Senn, of Chi­ by the frequency with which its work cago, operated on the brother's feet. The is copied in the college and profes­ operation was so successful that almost all trace of the original condition disappeared, sional humorous publications through­ though the brother always walked with a out the country. slight limp. Dan Hickey, this year's editor-in- At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to chief, and Joe Ryan, managing edi­ a shoemaker, and learned the cobbler's tor, with the self-confessed and indis­ trade. For a few years he traveled about, working at his trade in Pennsylvania. Later pensable services of Hugh McCarthy, he went to Denver, Colo., and from there to have gotten away to a big start in California. During this time the idea had the annual endeavor to "make this come to him that he should devote his life year's Juggler a bigger and better to the service of God in some religious proposition." We consider The Jug­ community. He learned of Notre Dame through a chance meeting with a man who gler not a relief from college educa­ had been formerly an apprentice in the tion, but a valuable addition to the shoemaking trade at the manual labor more serious studies. For many a school then conducted at Notre Dame. He man has passed a vital test, who had decided to apply for admission to Notre at his tongue's end a ready jest. Dame as a working brother. He did apply, was accepted and entered the novitiate With these few inadequate re­ July 9, 1874. On the completion of his no­ marks we wish to take cognizance of vitiate he was assigned to work in the col­ the important work being done by lege shoe shop, though he had offered him­ our campus colleagues. self for the Bengal mission, and also to go to the assistance of Father Damien, among —JAMES ARMSTRONG. the lepers of Molokai. Brother Columba first attracted attention some 25 years ago, when he began actively to propagate devotion to the Sacred Heart. BROTHER COLUMBA DIES. It gradually became noised abroad that the The following obituary account of prayers of this simple shoemaker were Brother Columba, C. S. C, is taken very efficacious and soon people of all kinds and all classes of society came to him and from the South Bend Tribune: asked for his prayers. Mostly these were Brother Columba, of the Congregation of cases of physical ailments and distress. They Holy Cross, died at 7:35 o'clock Tuesday received sympathy and wise advice, to­ morning, November 20, in the community gether with the promise of prayers. infirmary at Notre Dame. Death was due Brother Columba attached importance to no specific cause, but to the general to the wearing of a little badge of the weakness and physical infirmities attend­ Sacred Heart. Many of his clients loudly ant on advanced age. November 5, this proclaimed that they were cured through year, marked the 75th birthday of the de­ his ministrations and assistance. The un­ ceased. lettered called him a "Divine Healer," and Brother Columba was known in the world newspaper writers have sometimes referred at John O'Neill. He was the fifth of six to him as the "Miracle Man of Notre Dame." children born to Michael and Ellen (Mc- Brother Columba never took any credit to Quire) O'Neill, at Mackeysburg, Pa. His himself for any cures that may have oc­ parents were very poor and at an early age curred, j To the end he w^as simple and un­ he was working, like many of the children assuming. He had a remarkable keen sense of that neighborhood, picking slate from of humor and was a shrewd judge of char­ the coal in the mines. He was bom with a acter. No official investigation was ever physical deformity, being club-footed. In made of the so-called cures attributed to later years, after he entered the Community his influence. 176 THE SCHOLASTIC

Suppose Mr. Wyaat had come back to re­ REVIEWS. venge his wrongs, he would have met with some opposition. For the subject of his READING INSCRIPTIONS ON TOMB­ anger would undoubtedly have cherished STONES. some iU-feelings toward the uncharitable gentleman. Sir Thomas More could not J. J. N. protest. He had received a meal.of worth, Reading inscriptions on tombstones is in­ and in his ingratitude he had wronged the teresting in itself, but it becomes almost lady. But both parties in the latter case infinitely more fascinating when we con­ had their grievances, and I do believe that sider what the sentiments of those who are were they to meet in an encounter both favored with these bits of poetry and fool- would have made things interesting. hardiness combined, really are. If the dead And so we wonder. But when I finish could only make forward to express their wondering I always resolve never to make opinions regarding those who were so the mistake of writing an epitaph. thoughtful as to write four lines about them and call it an epitaph, their words would be of such consequence that even *** the most loquacious parrot would be shocked at their outburst. Had Mary Blake, the stingy inn-keeper, "A LOST LADY," BY WILLA CATHEK; who fed Sir Thomas More royally, and Alfred A. Knopf, New York, $1.75. gratis, on condition that he would write the first part of her epitaph before he ate, —In "A Lost Lady" Willa Gather draws and the last lines after her demise, been a picture of the aristocracy which sprang able to protest the ending, I should have throughout the West while the trans-conti­ feared for the welfare of Sir Thomas. He nental railroads were being built by far- began his masterpiece by saying: sighted business men, keen in their percep­ tions, and lavish in their hospitality. It is "Good Mary Blake in royal state, told in so exquisite a manner that as dis­ Arrived at last at Heaven's gate," cerning a gentleman as Mr. William Allen White declares that it is the one book he But the aesthetic gave way to the com­ would have liked to have written above all monplace and he ended: others. Only Miss Gather is capable of this brilliance, the same which is seen in "But Peter met her with a club, her earlier success, "One of Ours." And sent her down to Beelzebub." Throughout the story moves Marian Imagine the doleful plight of the dona- Forrester who is, mere than anything else, tor of verse if "Good Mary Blake" had been a feminine Lord Jim. She is not a Lord granted permission to give vent to her ire. Jim in that she was cowardly at one great Certainly she would have over-stepped her moment, because her courage is but one of permission while the unhappy subject of the qualities that makes her the fascinating her anger dodged the violent and repeated woman she is, but because she is equally in­ blows of woman's battle-ax, the rolling pin. scrutable in her moments of weakness and But let us leave Sir Thomas. of resolution. Little did the English-Jew, of the days She is idolized by two men, by her hus­ of our forefathers, realize that one of his band, and by Neil Herbert, who holds her acquaintances to whom he probably re­ in the high regard which some boys can fused to lend a shilling, or a meal ticket, have for a woman many years their senior. would have sought revenge by writing: One of the disadvantages of having idols is that the idolator sometimes discovers his "Under the roots of this oaken tree. idol has feet of clay. Captain Forrester, Lies Stingy Jimmie Wyaat. rugged and upright, understood his wife He died one morning just at tea, better than she knew herself, but it re­ And save^ a dinner by it." mained for Herbert to be disillusioned, and 177 THE SCHOLASTIC

to retain his affection for her after she had and Fields were performing to witness this toppled from her pedestal. likeness for themselves—^truly, a pleasant As a woman, Marian Forrester was a form of research work. failure, as a character depicted by the singularly honest pen of Willa Gather she *** is a glorious success who stands in the fore­ most rank of those who tell a bit of the 'history of the West. "FATHER PRICE OF MARYKNOLL;" "IN THE HOMES OP THE MARTYRS," BY VERY REV. JAMES A. WALSH, M. AP., Maryknoll, N. Y., $1.00 each.

"A MODERN MARTYR," BLESSED THEO- "PLAY^VRIGHTS ON PLAYMAKING," BY PHANE VENARD; Maryknoll, N. Y., $1.00. BRANDER MATHEWS; Charles Scribner's —The literature of missionary life has Sons, New York; $2.00. taken on a new interest for us. Americans, —In "Playwrights on Playmaking," Pro­ next-door neighbors of ours by blood and fessor Brander Mathews collects the memo­ tradition, have taken their part in the ries of over half a century of play-going, fight for the reign of Christ in heathen and sets forth the theories he has formed lands. Maryknoll, the home of the Cath­ during the many years he has been pro­ olic Mission Society of America, has taken fessor of dramatic literature at Columbia the lead in supplying first a readable mag­ University. azine, "The Field Afar," and second, a His theories may be stated briefly; the series of volumes that deal with many in­ laws of the drama are unchanging teresting aspects of the great apostolic en­ throughout the ages; the drama has con­ deavor. In "Father Price of Maryknoll," ventions without which it could not exist; we have a reverent and inspiring portrait and while some of these are essential and of a very saintly priest, whose life was one permanent, others are local and accidental, of humblest consecration and regal fervor. and therefore temporary; the dramatist As a missionary in North Carolina, ex­ writes his play always in the hope of posed to all the hardships of a rude and seeing it presented on the stage, and hostile environment, and next as the founder therefore the drama exists for the stage, of the American missions to China, he " and not the stage for the drama. must keep a place in our hearts. The bi­ ographer has been fortunate in his choice His essay, "Memories of Actors," is per­ of a subject; and the subject has profited haps the most delightful in the book. The by a discerning biographer. The second genial John Brougham, the prolific Dion of the books listed is a novel and Boucicault, John Philip Kemble, John T. charming volume. A number of places Raymond, Edwin Booth, and the gifted Nat in France are dealt with because in each Goodwin are recalled by one who knew one some martyr of the foreign missions them intimately when they represented the was bom and encouraged to achieve the height of the profession in what was the career which later distinguished him among golden age of the theater. the Saints of God. These are eager, radi­ Brander Mathews bdieves he was the ant sketches which one can not read with­ first to point out that the principle of out profit and exhilaration. The third of Economy of Attention which Herbert Spen­ the books in question is Father Walsh's cer applied only to Rhetoric, was applic­ complete and satibfying biography which able to the other arts as well, and more has been followed far by many young men particularly to the drama. There are few now in foreign missionary fields. The ca­ readers who will dispute the fact that Pro­ reer of Blessed Theophane Venard, par­ fessor Mathews was also the first to per­ ticularly as it is outlined in his own letters, ceive the similarity between the comedies is sometiiing no Catholic college-man ou^t of Aristophanes and the extravaganzas of to deny himself contact with. Weber and Fields. It was his custom to send his classes to the theatre where Weber All tliese books are handsome and well 178 THE SCHOLASTIC illustrated. The prices are extraordinarily the worlds' personages, and to go behind reasonable, too. In each case, the sum the scenes, v/hen some great event is tak­ asked is only one dollar. ing place. Philip Gibbs—Sir Philip now— has been more fortunate in this respect *** than the majority of his confreres; and in "Adventures in Journalism," he relates some of his experiences ranging from a "COLLEGE DAYS," BY STEPHEN LEACOCK," hurried trip to Scandanavia to interview Dodd, Mead and Company, New York; $1.25. the discoverer of the North Pole, to an ac­ count of how he was one of the first to —Stephen Leacock is in some danger of learn of the death of King Edward VII. becoming a national institution. His ad­ Gibbs was a special writer for the Daily ventures "Behind the Beyond," his "Non­ Chronicle, was associated with Lord North- sense Novels," and his "My Discovery of cliffe before that gentleman was elevated England" have won a place for him that to the peerage, became one of the five war he never could have attained as a staid correspondents officially recognized by the professor of Economics at McGill, or as the British government, published an after-the- author of a prosaic text on Political Econ­ war book entitled "Now It Can Be Told," omy. and, more recently, gave a series of lectures His most recent contribution to the mirth in the United States. of nations, or, of the American nation at In such a book, the first person singular least, is "College Days," a sheaf of essays necessarily predominates. The adventures which appeared in various periodicals, some are interestingly told, however, and one of them in college publications, during the feels when he has finished, that he has past twenty years. been chatting with the author, a modest, Here is Professor Leacock writing in gifted man whose journalistic ability placed somewhat the same mood as in "My Dis­ him in the centre of the political and mar­ covery of England." He is as humorous tial tui-moil of the past ten years. as ever, but here and there through J;he "Adventures in Journalism" is not, by drift of nonsense, appear many momentous any means, a mere recitation of the au­ truths, and a just arraignment of present- thor's acquaintance with people who figure day education. To offset his criticism is in the day's news. It goes deeper, and his piece on "The Oldest Living Gradu­ analyzes and throws new light upon many ate," a familiar figure at homecomings things concerning which we average mor­ and at class reunions, and his vacation tals can only make conjectures. song which will find favor with the more Gibbs, after his many years of nev/spaper leisurely college man. experience has naturally acquired the fac­ It would certainly be trite to say that ulty of writing with a praphic pen, and Stephen Leacock has never grown up, or this, together with his insight, makes the that he is a boy at heart, but after read­ book worth reading whether or not you can ing "College Days," it is the only conclusion agree with some of the things he says. to which one can come. Certainly he was, in his own college days, one of the blithe spirits for whom, as Booth Tarkington *** said, "Commencement came in September." "A SON AT THE FEONT," BY EDITH WHARTON; Charles Scribner's Sons.

"ADVENTURES IN JOURNALISM," BY PHILIP —^A one-armed man trpng to wind his GIBBS; Harper and Brothers, Nev/ York; wrist-watch meets with more distinct suc­ $2.50. cess than does the reviewer in an effort to say something that has not already been —Journalists have, more than most said about a "best seller" after it has been people perhaps, the opportunity to meet viewed and reviewed for several months. 179 THE SCHOLASTIC

"A Son at the Front," by Edith Wharton love of a father for his son, whom, because suggests the analogy. Every reading man of a conflict of circumstances, he has never is his own judge. But, plainly, few men really known. Campton, the father, looks possess enough originality to pick some eagerly to the day when he may become ac­ fresh and unti'odden path to the goal. Ideas quainted with his son. Just as his dream are mightier than armies but as scarce as is about to be fulfilled George is called to the men who attend morning prayer in war. For a long time Campton is a pas­ Senior Halls. Perhaps the reason for this sive observer of the horrors of battle. He lies in the fact that generally we give possesses an instinctive hate for war and more consideration to opinions which dif­ all that the woi'ld means. The terrible fer from ours than Vicar-General Butch- cruelties, he witnesses, make him finally, kavitch received from the revolutionary a half-hearted participant in relief work. Cheka at Petrograd. George is wounded fatally. His divorced In some circles to have read the latest parents believing that they have lost "best seller" is an honorable boast. One vi­ everything except victory for which George olates the most revered tenets of good gave his life, put their remaining strength society if he is unable to babble unintelli- and courage to that end. gently about So-and-So's most recent liter­ The story is a symphony. The style of ary bonanza, or concerning the sporadic the author is full, serene, and devoid of outbursts of Havelock Ellis and James Har­ frantic description which characterizes so vey Robinson. The Ladies' Literary So:ie- many war stories. Mrs. Wharton's only ty in the village, or in the city for all that imperfection is a seemingly slight effort matters (for towns differ only in size and to strive beyond herself. The power of her population), exists it seems for the very style like a diamond sometimes dazzles the purpose of gratifying an innate desire to reader but it never blinds him for one in­ be literary without knowing what the word stant to the inherent beauty of the story means. These organizations meet to dis­ and the controlled tenderness of its telling. cuss the latest books, and they do, after The author does not belong to the modern having deliberated upon the world of fad school of French writers. Her devices are and fashion. They arrive at no conclu­ those of Anatole France and Paul Bour- sion for nothing can come of nothing. An get. Instead of skimming the surface and inspection of "best sellers" is their method leaving the rest to the imagination of the of summoning the azure-eyed Minerva into reader she completes every incident. To their midst. The latest books are their interrogate the work down to the smallest standards of literature. When a book has detail is interesting, not for the sake of the a purpose or a deeply-laid foundation in the detail, but for its harmony in a common background of contemporary civilization the explanation. Ladies' Literary Society misses the point Throughout the war period Mrs. Whar­ altogether, or finds a conclusion which re­ ton lived in France. This accounts for her mains forever unauthorized in the authors' vital insight into the wartime mind of the eyes. This is sad. Yet we must commend country. She observed the shifting of their good intentions. ideals and the innumerable changes This is the day of realism in fiction. It wrought by war on men. She sensed the is a fanciful and illusory realism for it unknown forces that contrived so colossal emphasizes the dull side of existence to the a change in the emotional life of those who exclusion of truth and beauty which make were dragged into the fight abhorring even life good in the living of it. For this the littlest thought of war. She puts them reason it is delightful to find a book which forth amid constantly increasing excite­ lifts one for the passing hour above the ment. garish slough of trash which passes for The story intoxicates the best hearts as literature. wine does the strongest heads. You will be "A Son at the Front" is a tale of the immensely happy for having read the book;

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THEY AUGHT TO PROHIBIT THE EDUCATION ELSEWHERE. AUTO.

RAY CUNNINGHAM. Student-owned automobiles are getting to be a serious problem at the University OH, FOR PASCAL'S THOUGHTS! of Missouri. President Brooks, in a letter It's easy to love your neighbor like your­ to all parents of students requested that self,—if she's pretty enough.—The Torch. all autos be kept at home. The chief objec­ tion of the faculty to the cars is probably And Avilling enough. based on the fact that too many of the fel­ *** lows too frequently have a "clutch" in the back seat. A Puritan is a person who would have artists do nude in clothes.—The Columbia Spectator. A stadium is a large football field with It must have been a half-puritanic indi­ a university attached.—The Cardinal. vidual who prompted the statue of Venus. Even Webster dees not define it so well. *** *** The elevator may have its ups and downs; but the legless man can't kick.—The If you eat onions don't breathe it to a Daily Northtvestern. soul.—Exchange. "What's the matter with his artificial Don't worry! One couldn't get close limbs? enough.

**^ Kiss-stealing is now known in colleges as petting larceny.—The Spectator. It takes twenty years for one woman to Now that it has been made legally wrong, make a man out of her son and just twen­ ty minutes for another woman to make a try to force the co-eds to bring the thieves to justice—any other than the Justice of fool out of him.—The Torch. the Peace, of course. Does it take that long, even?

*** *** As wonderful a thing as electricity is, we In eating an apple it is difiicult to say find some people make light of it.—Ex­ which one would prefer,—seeing a worm or change. half a worm.—The Emerald. Shocking! Shocking! Remembering Adams' experience, it is *** rather difiicult to decide. The skin most students would love to touch is the sheepskin Cum Maximo Laude. *** —The Indiana Daily. Perhaps Man is after all, the Sap from Naturally, but don't think the magazine the Tree of Life.—T/ie Spectator. advertisement girl has lost her appeal. And when the Tree dies so does the Sap.

*** *** A true optimist is a fellow who tries to It's a great life. . . If you don't week­ draw a straight on a pair of deuces.—T/ie end too much.—The Indiana Daily. Torch. He may have been anticipating a deuce That is, not any oftener than once a of a wild game. week.. 181 THE SCHOLASTIC

HOW MANY DID HAMLET BUY? LOST. Tribune: Bell Boy Sells Tickets to Ham­ With a pitiful little gurgling let for One Dollar Until Detectives Spoil sound she sank at his feet, while he, rais­ the Game. . . . ing his eyes to the heavens sought relief there. And then suddenly he tore himself away from the spot, and walked rapidly toward dawn. . . The canoe was a wreck. The reason that Jim tosses so In his LIME.RICKS. Sleep A fat man named Mr. De Rank Is that Jim Of liquor too frequently drank. 7s a When he'd go for a swim Pitcher. The kids shouted at him. Oh, here comes the old swimming tank.

SLIPPY, SLIPPY. Since, under the guise of social gather-^ I yearn, I grope for Ivory soap. ings and tea parties, there is much worse It cleans me when I'm dirty. damage done than in the following, why It cleans besides, not only hides. not write up our criminal effects thus: For it will wash a shirty. A delightful little murder was held at And cups and plates and roller skates Tenth and Eleventh streets last evening. And other things real nifty. Mr. Everett True, the man in honor of You couldn't find another kind whom the murder was held, was tripping So good—^I've tried some fifty— home gaily when the Unknown placed a But this is true. I must tell you cute little gun daintily under his nose and Before I tell you more. gurgled with delight: "Surprise party! Don't ever, ever leave it lie Raise your little fingers aloft." Mr. True Upon the bathroom floor. in his skittish coquetry declined right mer­ *** rily and the Unknown lovingly pulled the trigger of the cute little gun, Mr. True OR THE MUSIC. laughing heartily all the while. The Un­ known politely shot him three or four times "What kind of man is John?" as graciously as he could. He then de­ "This kind. We were moving a piano parted hastily leaving Mr. True propped the other day. John took the stool." gracefully against a wall of beautiful red brick, where he died in nice cold, chilly *** blood. HELL HATH NO— ETC. Relatives of the late Mr. True, extend their hearty appreciation to the Unknown Lettie: Why was she so sore at Sam for such a delightful and successful even­ trying to kiss her? ing murder. Nettie: He didn't succeed. —KOLARS. 182 THE SCHOLASTIC

plunger who netted first downs for the WHAT'S WHAT IN ATHLETICS Rockmen time after time. Layden and Stuhldreher, members of this THOMAS COMAN. backfield quartet extraordinary, that has NOTRE DAME—GEORGIA TECH GAME. been the talk of the East since Rockne and his Fighting Irish trampled on the pride NUTE ROCKNE'S Notre Dame won­ of two great eastern schools, continued to der team, the sensation in football- play that same brand of football which has K dom for the season of 1923, defeated marked them as among the outstanding the Golden Tornado from Georgia Tech, 35 grid performers of the season. to 7 before a capacity crowd of 20,000, on Layden, Rockne's wonderful triple-threat Cartier field, Saturday, October 27. full back, gave a scintillating performance In a game that was replete with versa­ at every department of the game and out- tility and featured by the execution of a punted Albright, the stellar player in Techs* brilliant and terrific attack, the Hoosiers' hammering backfield, on every exchange of gridiron warriors under the masterful tu­ punts. The kicking game was another sad telage of Knute Eockne, inscribed in the displayal of ability on tiie part of" the annals of football history, their third con­ southerners whose kicks were blocked on secutive intersectional victory in as many nearly every try and one of which resulted weeks. in a score for the Irish, when Mayl on the Georgia Tech, the southern flower, and right flank for the Hoosiers, scooped up the heralded as one of the most remarkable ball and dashed over the line. fighting machines in the southern confer­ The work of Rockne's forward wall was ence, making its appearance on the local commendable on every play and through its playing field for the first time in the ultra-aggressiveness, has made itself feared records of Notre Dame football, treated the by both the Army and Princeton. The mammoth throng of spectators to an ex­ weight of the line was one of the points hibition of football such as is seldom seen that caused eastern critics to declare the in the northern gridiron section. The Army-Irish game in favor of the Cadets, spectacle was unique as it was colorful and but after the now historical struggle had remarkable for its precision of execution. ended on Ebbets field, the experts' opinions In the opening period of the game, the about Rockne's linemen were very contra­ southerners uncorked an attack that was dictory to the pre-game statements. beautiful for its power and praise worthy Adam Walsh at the pivot position, is a for its ability to gain ground. The Georg­ revelation of power and to describe the ians had perfected a shift that enabled game as played by he and his running their men to gain great momentum when mates. Captain Brown and Riser, would en­ charging on the offense to such an extent tail the use of the strongest superlative ad­ that during the first few minutes of play, jectives in the English language. the Rockmen experienced great difiiculty At the tackles, Rockne had two able per­ in stemming the onslaught until they had formers in Bach and Oberst that were sure solved the puzzle of the shift and prepared death to off-tackle smashes and Bach their defense accordingly. played a roving game with aggressiveness The one outstanding fault with the far above par and was the instrument of Georgians* play was their inability to pro­ destruction to many of the passes attempted duce the final punch when within striking by the Georgians. distance of the goal and likewise their lack Once more Rockne will be eulogized for of defense against the end running game, his phenomenal development of players who through which medium the Irish garnered hitherto have had no football experience. their five touchdowns. Don Miller, easily The latest luminary cultivated at the Hoos> the greatest running back of the year, ier school is Clem Crowe, whose work on reeled off long runs of 20 and 40 yards be­ the left wing has been sparkling with the hind an interference that was nothing short spectacular and whose ability to generate of peerless, while Jimmy Crowley, the ace terrific speed in geing down under punts of half backs, was the steady off-tackle combined with his adroitness in the art of 188 THE SCHOLASTIC tackling and weaving through the opposi- runs. Adam Walsh had intercepted a tion's interference has made him a valu- Georgia pass and on the next play Miller able addition to Rockne's force of wingmen. raced around the end for 59 yards bring- Rockne started the game with his second ing the score to 28-7 in favor of the Rock- string but soon sent in the first stringers men. to stave off the tremendous power of the With only a few minutes to play the Irish attack being cultivated by Coach Alexan- worked the ball deep into the southerners' der's proteges. ground and the brilliant Willie Maher, of Up until the middle of the first period, "snaky hips" fame, uncorked a scintillat- the game was a see-saw and punting affair ing run through and around the Tech team with the Irish trying out the defense of for 44 yards and the last score, the southerners to their versatile attack. As the sound of the final whistle died Then Don Miller stepped away for 36 yards away, the Notre Dame students and fans placing the oval deep into Georgia terri- arose in the stands and gave a mighty tory. A pass, Crowley to Miller, was good cheer for Georgia Tech as a tribute to the for 30 yards and mth a steady driving contingent of gallant southern gnetlemen, through center and off tackle by Layden who the year previous had accorded the and Crowley, the ball was carried down Fighting Irish a v/onderful reception on to the shadows of the southerners' goal their invasion of Atlanta, which marked post from where Crowley made a pretty the first defeat the Georgians had ever suf- dive through the line for 8 yards and the fered on their own battle grounds, first tally. The Notre Dame band made their first Shortly after the beginning of the sec- appearance at the Tech clash in their nat- ond period, Miller got away around the left ty uniforms of cadet gray and led by a wing for 88 yards and a touchdown but capable drum major. This is an innovation the baU was caUed back and Notre Dame ^ Notre Dame band history and was a penalized for holding. It was a great run part of the program to put the University and as the fleet Irish back sped over the among the collegiate leaders of the country chalk lines, his interference followed him i^ the matter of athletic standards with vdth equal speed and guarded his course ^hieh Rockne's proteges have so sensation- all the way to the goal. It was a momen- aUy set up during the past ten years of tary manifestation of that brand of foot- intercollegiate football. The final integral ball that swept the hopes of two great factor to be added to this standard is the eastern t^ms into obmaon stadium project, for which plans are at After Wycloff, of Tech, had kicked out present being consideredi of bounds on his own 37-yard line, Crowley picked a hole in the line that was good for PLAY BY PLAY 16 yards and on the next play, the brilliant Houser kicked off to the southerners Don Miller took the pigskin for another Wyckoff took the ball on his own two-yard long journey to the Georgians' goal line, line and returned it to his 23-yard line. The Irish scored their next counter Wyckoff failed to gain and Georgia Tech when Mayl scooped up Wycloff's blocked was penalized five yards for backfield in pimt on the 5-yard line and romped over motion when baU was snapped. Wyckoff the goal line. gained 10 yards around left end. Albright The Tech gridders came back with a gained three yards off right tackle, world of fight and uncorked a passing On a trick play Wyckoff made a first game that carried the ball through the down on his own 37-yard line. On a wide Irish ranks to the 10-yards line where, after end run Albright failed to gain. On the three line bucks the ball lay about a foot same play Wyckoff made five yards through from the goal. The Irish linesmen were center. Georgia Tech's ball on Notre down on hands and knees but without re- Dame's 45-yard line. Second down; four to suits for Wycloff dived over the lino for go. Walsh replaced Regan at center for the only tally of the game. Notre Dame. The fourth score for the Hoosiers r^- Wyckoff gained two yards through right suited from another of MiUer^s famous guard. Wyckoff hit center to two yards, 184 THE SCHOLASTIC

First down. Georgia Tech's ball on Notre 30-yard line. Wyckoff made two yards over Dames' 41-yard line. First down; 10 to go. right guard. ROCK USES FIRST TEAM. Reese made eight yards off left tackle. Layden punted from behind his own goal On the first play Albright failed to gain line to Hunt on Notre Dame's 30-yard line. at left tackle. Wyckoff fumbled on Notre Hunt returned it to Notre Dame's 32-yard Dame's 30-yard line and Harvey Brown re­ line. Williams made two yards off right covered for Notre Dame. Mayl replaced tackle. The period ended with the ball Murphy at right end. Notre Dame's first in Tech's possession. Second down, eight backfield was sent into the play. yards to go on Notre Dame's 28-yard line. On the first play D. Miller made three Score, Notre Dame, 7; Georgia Tech, 0. yards around left end. Crowley failed to gain at right end. Layden kicked 45 yards, MILLER MAKES PRETTY RUN. out of boimds on Georgia Tech's 37-yard line. Crowe replaced Collins at left end R. Miller replaced Oberst as right tackle for Notre Dame. Georgia Tech's ball on for Notre Dame. Wyckoff went through their ov/n 27-yard line. First down; 10 center for two yards. Third down and six to go. On a double pass Albright made two yards to go on Notre Dames' 28-yard line. yards at center, he was stopped by Walsh. Wyckoff failed to gain at right guard. Crowe threw Albright for an eight-yard Fourth down, five to go on Notre Dame's loss. Wyckoff punted 50 yards to Stuhldre- 27-yard line. Wyckoff out of bounds on her who returned it eight yards to his own Notre Dame's 12-yard line. Notre Dame*s 38-yard line. Notre Dame's ball on their ball, first down on their own 12-yard line. own 38-yard line. D. Miller went aroimd left end for 88 yards and a touchdown. The ball was called back Layden made four yards through cen­ and Notre Dame penalized 15 yards for ter. Miller ran around left end to Tech's holding and the ball was put in play on 36-yard line where he fumbled but the Notre Dame's one-yard line. ball was recovered by Notre Dame. A forward pass, Crowley to Miller, was good Famsworth replaced Reeves. Carpenter for 13 yards. Notre Dame's ball on Geor­ replaced Merkle, and Fair replaced McCon- gia Tech's 23-yaid line. Time was taken nell for Tech. Layden punted 50 yards to out for Georgia Tech. Hunt, who was thrown by Crowe. It is now Tech's ball on their own 43-yard line. Play is resumed. Crowley made five yards around right end. Layden broke Farnsworth made four yards through through the center of the line for three left guard. Crowe threw Fair for a two- yards. Second down; two yards to go on yard loss. W^yckoff punted to Notre Dame's Georgia Tech's 20-yard line. Stuhldreher 26-yard line, wliere the ball was declared made a first down through center. Crow­ dead. Miller went off right tackle for 20 ley hit the center of the line for two yards. yards. Notre Dame's ball on its own 36- D. Miller went around left end for four yard line. Layden made two yards at cen­ more yards and it is now the third down ter. On a criss-cross Miller made no gain. with four yards to go on Tech's eight-yard Third down, eight yards to go. Notre line. Time was taken out for Tech. Dame's ball on their own 47-yard line. A pass, Crowley to Crowe, was incomplete. CROWLEY MAKES TOUCHDOWN. Layden punted over the goal line. Crowley went off right tackle for a Tech's ball, first down, 10 yards to go on touchdown. Crowley made the goal. their own 20-yarcI line. Vergera replaced Score, Notre Dame, 7; Georgia Tech, 0. Kizer for Notre Dame. Weibel replaced Layden kicked off for Notre Dame to Brown for Notre Dame. On a fake play Mclntyre on Tech's 30-yard line. He re­ Famsworih made five yards through the turned it to his own 35-yard line. Wil­ line. liams replaced Albright as left half for Weibel threw Wyckoff for a three-yard Tech. Wyckoff made a yard at right tackle loss. Wyckoff punted to Stuhldreher on on a criss-cross. Tech was penalized five Notre Dame's 42-yard line. Time was yards for offside. It is now Techs* ball, taken out for Tech on the play. P. Miller second down; 15 yards to go on their own made two yards through center. Layden 185 THE SCHOLASTIC hurled off left tackle for nine yards. Third yards at left tackle. Wyckoff made two down, one to go. Notre Dame's ball on through the line. The half ended with Tech's 48-yard line. Miller made his first Tech's ball on their own 39-yard line. down on Tech's 4'J-yard line. Stuhldreher Score: Notre Dame, 14; Tech, 0, made three yards ihrough center. Miller failed to gain at the same place, Crowley's SECOND HALF. pass to Mayl was grounded. Layden kicked In the second half Connell returned to over Tech's goal line. Nabell replaced Sta- left half for Notre Dame, Bach to left ton for Tech. Wyckoff made seven yards tackle, Mayl to right end. Eeese went in as through center. Fourth down. Wyckoff quarter back, Kizer returned as right made two yards, fourth dov/n, one to go. guard, Eegan went back as center. Cerney Wyckoff punted out of bounds on his own went back as full back. Georgia Teck re­ 37-yard line. turned with the same line-up as at first The ball was caught by Walsh. Crowley with the exception of Farnsworth, who re­ made 16 yards around left end. First down, turned for Eeeves. 10 to go on Tech's 22-yard line. Noppen- Houser kicked to Farnsworth on Tech's berger replaced Bach for Notre Dame. D. 20-yard line. He returned it to his own 27- Miller ran around left end for a touchdov/n. yard line. Tech was penalized five yards Maher replaced Crowley and Bergman re­ for offside. Kizer and Bach blocked Wyc- placed Miller for Notre Dame. Layden koff's punt but Wyckoff recovered on his kicked the goal. own 20-yard line. First down at that line. Score: Notre Dame, 14; Georgia Tech, 0. Wyckoff made four yards at left guard but Hunsinger replaced Mayl for Notre the ball was taken back and penalized five Dame. yards for offside. Bach and Kizer blocked Noppenberger kicked off to Wyckoff on Wyckoff's punt. Mayl recovered and ran Tech's goal line. Wyckoff returned 27 five yards for a touchdown. Eeese kicked yards. On a fake kick Wyckoff failed to goal. gain. He was stopped by Crowe. Harmon Score: Notre Dame, 21; Georgia Tech, 0. replaced Walsh as center for Notre Dame. Time was taken out for Tech. Wyckoff Tech chose to receive. Houser kicked 30 punted 45 yards to Stuhldreher on Notre yards to McConnell, who was down on his Dame's 37-yard line. Stuhldreher returned own 31-yard line. Wyckoff failed to gain 30 yards to Tech's 32-yard line. at center. Weibel made the tackle. Car­ penter replaced Merkle in the Tech lineup. SUBSTITUTIONS MADE. A forward pass to Wyckoff was intercepted Bergman failed to gain at right tackle. by Cerney when he fumbled the ball, but On the next play Bergman made four yards the ball was given to Tech on their own 30- at right end. Time was taken out again yard line because of the interference by for Tech. Farrell replaced Crowe at end Notre Dame's defense on the receiver. for Notre Dame. Williams was hurt on Wyckoff made a yard through center. Al­ the play and was replaced by Moore. Maher bright failed to gain at right tackle. On failed to gain at left tackle. Stuhldreher's a fake kick Wyckoff passed 10 yards to Al­ pass to Enright was knocked down by the bright, who ran to Notre Dame's 20-yard Tech backfield. .vyckoff hit the center of line, where he was stopped by Houser. First the line for six yards. Tech's ball, second down, To to go on Notre Dames' 20-yard down, four to go on their own 39-yard line. line. Albright gained four yards off of Wyckoff failed to gain. Tech was pen­ right tackle kicking the ball on Notre alized five yards for offside. Fourth down, Dame's 16-yard line before the goal posts. nine to go on Tech's 35-yard line. Gluckert Wyckoff was stopped at center for no gain. replaced Noppenberger as left tackle for Eegan and Eozer made the tackle. Notre Dame. Vergera broke through and Albright was stopped by Mayl for no threw Wyckoff for a three-yard loss but gain. A forward pass, Wyckoff to Wil­ Notre Dame was penalized five yards for liams, was good for 10 yards and placed offside. First down, 10 to go on Tech's the ball on Notre Dame's five-yard line. own 37-yard line. Farnsworth made five First down and 10 to go. Williams made 186 THE SCHOLASTIC

one yard as left guard. He was forced out Notre Dame. Georgia Tech. of bounds. Wyckoff hit the line and failed for a touchdoAvn by an inch. Wyckoff hit Collins 1. e. ; Staton the line for a touchdown. Notre Dame's Bach 1.1. Merkle first string back fidd was sent in. Crowe replaced Collins and Walsh replaced Regan Brown (C) I.g. Mclntyre (C) at center. Wyckoff kicked the goal. Score: Regan e. Frye Notre Dame, 21; Georgia Tech, 7. Kizer r. g. McConnell Notre Dame chose to receive. WyckoiT Oberst r. t. HuflSries kicked to Crowley on Notre Darne's three- yard line. He returned it to his own 23- Murphy r. e. Gardner yard line. Crowley made a yard at left end. Stuhldreher q. Hunt Third dowTi, eight to go on Notre Dame's Houser 1. h. Albright 25-yard line. Layden punted 45 yards to Hunt, who returned it to the 48-yard line. Connell r. h. Reeves Another pass, Wyckofr to Hunt, made his Cerney f. b. Wyckoff first down on Notre Dames' 30-yard line. Average weight—Notre Dame, 172; Georgia MILLER MAKES TOUCHDOWN. Tech, 175. Albright passed to \vyckoff, but was intercepted by Walsh on Notre Dame's 31- Referee—Birch of Earlham. yard line. Miller ran 59 yards around left Umpire—^Williams of Virginia. end for a touchdown. Crowley kicked the Head Linesman—Strict of. Auburn. goal. Field Judge—^Kems of DePaul. Score: Notre Dame, 28; Georgia Tech, 7.

Layden kicked 56 yards to Wyckoff, who NOTRE DAJIE-PURDUE GAME. returned 30 yards to his own 34-yard line. Score: Notre Dame, 28; Georgia Tech, 7. The Homecoming celebration for 1923 was fittingly executed when Rockne's Fight­ FOURTH QUARTER. ing -'Team trampled on the Boilermakers* Wyckoff was stopped by Walsh and Kizer aggregation from Purdue, to the tune of 34 in the center of the line. Tech was penal­ to 7, on Cartier field, before a crowd of ized five yards for off side. Wyckoff kicked 20,000 people, Saturday, November 3. out of bounds on Notre Dame's 33-yard line. It was a brilliant treat for the vast Crowley made five yards at left tackle. Homecoming throng, many of which had Layden punted to Hunt, who fumbled the come a long way to see the sensational No­ ball and recovered it on his owoi 18-yard tre Dame football team in action. And line. Wyckoff went through right guard since the coaches of the Purdue team, Phe- for 10 yards. lan and Degree, were also Notre Dame On a fake punt Williams was stopped by alunmi, they perhaps found glory in their Bach for no gain. Wyckoff punted 35 defeat. yards to Stuhldreher, who returned four Seventeen years ago, on November 3, No­ yards to his own 44-yard line. Maher tre Dame and Purdue met on the giidiron failed to gain. On a fake pass Regan made turf and for 60 minutes the gruesome bat­ 10 yards off right tackle. Maher ran 44 tle raged over the chalk marks, with Notre yards through the entire Tech team for a Dame claiming the victory by a score of 2 touchdown. It was a spectacular run. Lay­ to 0. From then on Purdue and the Cath­ den kicked goal. olic squad have met many times and the Score: Notre Dame, 35; Georgia Tech, 7. records of the score book give the Kockmen a decided margin over the Lafayette grid- Noppenberger kicked to Williams, who ders in the matter of victories. returned to his own 25-yard line. Farns- Jimmy Phelan, a former football star at worth lost five yards at left tackle. Notre Dame, took up the coaching job at Score: Notre Dame, 35; Georgia Tech, 7. Purdue two years ago and since then has 187 THE SCHOLASTIC made rapid strides in football progress, and advance. The second tally was momentari­ this year brought a team to Notre Dame ly impeded when Layden fumbled on Pur­ that has made its presence felt in the Big due's 4-yard line, but he recovered the oval Ten conference, and will be a greater men­ before the Boilermakers' landed on it. ace next year, when Phelan and Degree Miller romped over for the second score, will have an almost veteran team to put and with the extra point successfully nego­ in the field. tiated, the count stood 14 to 0 for the Irish. The'Fighting Irish continued their bril­ The score maddened the visitors and the liant style in the Homecoming game, that charge of the Boilermakers' Brigade began. had marked their sensational invasions of The next few minutes was riot with action the East. Eockne's light, fast eleven raised and the Lafayette gridders accomplished havoc with the heavy Purdue line that had what the Army and Princeton failed to do. made such a remarkable showing against Gladders replaced Carlson at full back for Stagg's Maroon warriors at Chicago the Phelanites and stejiped off 33 yards short­ Saturday before. Rockne sent in his sec­ ly after the kick-oft'. The ball was now in ond team to star the game and uncorking midfield. On the next play, Prout, the di­ the knifing attack that ripped the lines of minutive quarter back of the Engineers, Army and Princeton to pieces, Maher and broke away from the Irish contingent and Bergman reeled off huge strips of yardage in a spectacular run, raced 50 yards for a Avith Bill Cerney crashing great holes in touchdown. the center of the line by his terrific plung­ To make up for this little incident, the ing. Deep in the Boilermakers' territory, Irish uncorked another track meet and Mil­ Bergman's passes to Maher was good for ler, the year's greatest running back, skirt­ 30 yards and placed the oval within the ed the Purdue end for 27 yards, and v/as shadow of the visitors' goal post. On the dropped on a hard tackle on Purdue's 17- next play, Maher took the ball and shot yard mark. But Notre Dame fumbled and through the tackles for the first tally. the visitors recovered to have the pigskin The seven points for Notre Dame and the when the second half opened. goose egg for Purdue had the same effect Purdue tried the passing game with vary­ as gasoline on a fire. The Engineers came ing success but were forced to punt. Notre back on the kick-off with a whirlwind at­ Dame took the ball and began another tack that drove through the Irish forward chalk line parade, with Miller and Crowley wall for the first down. This was followed picking up huge gobs of yardage, until the with a pass that netted 16 yards and an­ ball was worked down to Purdue's 8-yard other heave that was good for three. The line from where Crowley went over for a visitors were wild with fight and Carlson, touchdown. Phelan's versatile full back, was crashing In the last quarter, the Boilermakers the Irish line with every iota of power he opened up a brilliant aerial attack that was could muster up. Hetrick was dumped for sparkling with the long heaves of Wellman a loss by Collins and the Rockmen's de­ who had been called back from the end to fense tightened. On the next play, Het­ pass. But the superb Irish defense was too rick fumbled and Cerney grasped the much for the visitors and the last minute bouncing oval and raced over the chalk drive melted before the brilliant football marks for 60 yards and a touchdown. The work of the Rockmen. ball was called back, however, and on t^e Notre Dame hung up another score when referee's decision, the ball was given to Miller broke away on one of his long trips Purdue on their 37-yard line. and raced down the side lines after taking With the start of the second frame, a pass from Stuhldreher. "Rock" sent in his wonder back field, that With a few minutes to play, Rockne's put the damper on the Boilermakers' pa­ third backfield went into the game and imi­ rade. Crowe went in at left end and Lay- tating the brilliant style of their team­ den, Miller and Crowley made up the new mates, they rushed the ball through the backfield. The track meet started and in Engineers' ranks to the 5-yard line from four plays after receiving Purdue's punt, where Enright plunged through the line for Layden and Miller counted for a 41-yard the final tally. 188 THE SCHOLASTIC

side of the Nebraskans, it leaped out in all NOTRE DAME-NEBRASKA GAME. its glory and manifested itself in the most The biggest upset of the season occurred savage type of football tactics. when Nebraska won over Notre Dame, 14 Notre Dame, facing a team that was any­ to 7, at Lincoln, Nebraska, Saturday, No­ thing but superior to it in the line of foot­ vember 10, before a football frenzied throng ball maneuvers, was forced to contend with that was estimated at 30,000. several factors that played an important Perhaps never before in the football his­ part in the breaking of their string of vic­ tory of the country did the defeat of a won­ tories. They were playing on a new fielO der team come with such surprise and un­ of rolled dirt that crumpled under their expectedness. It was a case of the impos­ cleats as they tried to get away on their sible taking on the folds of reality. Hun­ running game. They were psychological­ dreds of thousands of football fans through­ ly influenced by the prestige which was out the country were stunned by the un­ theirs from early season conquests and they timely defeat of the brilliant Notre Dame were facing a team that determined to do football machine. or die. The outcome was 14 to 7. The Hockmen journeyed west, top heavy The Rockmen's great football team was favorites to win over Nebraska, a team enfolded in the pall of defeat, but un­ that had been beaten by Illinois and tied derneath that shroud the hearts of men by several of the leading teams in their burned with true devotion and loyalty and own conference. But Nebraska won by the they fought as no warriors ever fought be­ margin of a touchdown and won by play­ fore for the glory that was slowly ebbing ing football on that memorable afternoon from their grasp to sanctify the traditions as they had never played the game before. of the Comhusker school. The Com buskers played over their In the gymnasium at Notre Dame, 2,000 heads, played for the breaks and got them. loyal students jammed the enclosure to hear. And as the tide of the gruelling battle the reports of the game as each play was wended their way, the moleskin warriors reeled off. Never once until the final from the wheat plains of Nebraska went whistle blew marking the end of the game wild with fight and played the game with did one man in that throng falter in his the savage attack that had been smoldering devotion to that Fighting Team that was in their hearts for many weeks. giving their best for Notre Dame and for Having seen how the Notre Dame foot­ "Rock". And in the final minutes of play ball machine had swept three big intersec- when Bill Cemey of Chicago, at full back tional teams and one conference team out of for Notre Dame speared a pass from its way, the westerners held out little hope Houser, deep in the Husker territory, and of being able to check the Hoosiers' steam tore through the opposition for the only roller. For weeks Coach Dawson had tally the Rockmen gained, the crowd at drilled, pointed and primed his men for home broke loose in wild confusion and the great objective, when tiiey would meet cheered and cheered for the Fighting Irish, the Fighting Irish. For weeks the mentor till the volume of the yell rocked the waDs had goaded his players with the tempting of the old gym. And then—that displayal bait, the glory of defeating Notre Dame, of true American sportsmanship, they gave and when the hour of the game arrived, a big U. N. D. for Nebraska as a tribute the Husker warriors were seething with to the wonderful game they played. that frenzied fighting temper, that has sent Notre Dame just could not get started at many a football machine to victory over Nebraska with their famous running at­ great odds. tack and Stuhldreher restorted to the pass­ In the opening quarter, the temper that ing game. But the breaks were against had been so masterfully inculcated into the the Irish, 37 passes tried and 15 completed hearts of. the men that were to defend the for a total of 170 yards. Only two passes thirty-three years of Nebraska's football were intercepted. With insecure footing, prestige, was lying in obesiance and as the the Irish interference was ineflFective and first breaks of the game began to favor the the weight of the Busker's line which was 189 THE SCHOLASTIC greater than the Hoosiers by 10 pounds, Noble who raced over the line for the sec­ was able to stem the terrific drives of El­ ond score. mer Layden. How close the westerners came to losing The Bockmen had one good chance to this tally perhaps the world will never re­ score when the Irish forward wall com­ alize. As the ball was descending into No­ posed of Captain Brown, Walsh, Oberst, ble's hands, Layden made a flying leap into Bach, Kizer, Collins and Mayl, worked the the air and just grazed the oval with his ball down to the westerners* 10-yard line. fingers in a noble attempt to avert the Stuhldreher tried a pass over the goal line, completion of the pass, but the breaks which Layden made a superhuman try again went to Nebraska. for, by a flying leap, but the ball fell to the In the last few minutes of play, Kockne groimd untouched and the last chance had sent Houser, Cerney and Maher into the slipped from the Hoosiers' grasp. game to relieve the tired players that had Nebraska's offensive tactics were not made their supreme bid for victory. Hous­ overly good since they were only able to er continued the passing game and Maher battle back and forth between the 20-yard displayed some pretty receiving work. marks, but once getting to within striking Cerney raced around the line of scrim­ distance of the visitors' goal. Noble mage and took the last pass from Houser crashed through the guard and tackle and after the trio had marched through the raced 24 yards for the Husker's first Husker team for a total of 68 yards, and score. the fighting Irishman from Corby hall The Dawsonites scored again in the third romped over the line for the tally that period, when they had the ball on Notre meant more than seven points to Notre Dame's 19-yard line. Fourth down, and Dame. It was the last ditch symbolization nine to go, Lewellyn successfully passed to that Notre Dame was still the wonder team.

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