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PAGE Frontispiece -. 420 The Week J. A. 421 Editorial 427 The Weave in the Character of Lady Macbeth, (First Part) Brother Agatho, C.S.C., '25 430 Love (A Poem) -.... Edtvard A.^ Walsh 433 Verse ::d:-i ^J...2-:.... 434 Keep Cool ..-:. Lester Grady, '26 435 Sunset (A Poem) :„,:! Dennis J. O'Neill, '26 436 Book Leaves Josejjh P. Btii^ke, '25 437 A Resurrection Paul Harrington, '26 438 In the Foot-Hills Anselm Miller, '25 439 A Pseudo-Moses L. A. C. 440 The Mail James Armstrong—Tom Coman 441 Sports Tmn Coman, '25 442

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Poetry has recorded the relief of the in­ ities, or the stern but paternal activities of habitants of Lucknow when they heard the the prefects—at all events, the doors failed heralding pibrochs of the reinforcements. to open as early as usual and both entrances The semester examinations ended Saturday were jammed with a crowd clamoring for and most of the students feel qualified to admittance. And the picture justified the give the people of Lucknow lessons in re­ clamor. A few more pictures like it, and lief—at least until the bulletins come in. Washington Hall will have passed into the You never can be sure about girls, and pro­ categoiy of oil lamps, phaetons, and large fessors. families.

The period of strain was followed by a February is noted for three great events whirlwind series of events calculated to —^Lincoln's birthday, Washington's bii-th- purge the worried brain of doubt and fear. day, and the first appearance of the Seniors Saturday afternoon the Varsity and Fresh­ in cap and gown. To the Seniors, the other men track men put on the Mercurial ox­ two events mean little. With Washington's fords and sped around the gym. The fii-st birthday on Sunday this year, the Class of string material showed up like Charley Pad­ '25 is becoming worried. But no one pays dock in a high school meet—and nobody, on any attention—Seniors are always worried the campus or off, accuses the PVeshmen about this time of year. Last February had of being slow. the advantage or disadvantage of being the "Three parties" seems to put in an ap­ "one in four," but this year the men are en­ pearance frequently of late. Saturday night joying it. Ash Wednesday inaugurates the the active feet and tired brains were drawn reduction in the expenditures for dance in three directions. Rodge Riley's Loyolan tickets and cigarettes. Also the ideal season basketeers invaded the Notre Dame bound­ for writing a thesis—but the resolution to aries and were driven back with severe wi-ite your thesis before Easter follows the losses. Coach Keogan's quintet is out after crooked trail of all New Year's resolutions. big game this season and it seems to take an extraordinaiy outfit to check them. The Boy Guidance Number of the SCHO­ LASTIC certainly established that department Besides the game, the Villagers staged a of Campus Life. Until this event the Boy dance at the Knights of Columbus Hall that Guidance students occupied the position of drew all the hall could comfortably accom­ the famous prophet in his own country. modate. With these two major attractions The "He-Man Number" of the Juggler- is it would not have been surprising if the expected this week to give the campus "a promoters of the Washington Hall entertain­ world view of Notre Dame." With these ments had closed their doors. But they had two publications on hand, the Freshman prepared a strong counter-attraction in will be able to better write the customary- "The Sea-Hawk." Whether it was the cold essay on "My Impressions of Notre Dame," weather, the enthusiasm of the movie fans, the sequel of his first attempt, "Why I Came the overflow crowds from the other activ­ to Notre Dame." •422 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

Manufacturing Company of Cincinnati and S. A. C Notes the Da\as Memorial Company of Syracuse, New York, both asked for specifications. There mil be a very important meeting of the S. A. C. in the Library on Sunday HARRY DENNY'S COLLEGIANS TO morning at 10:00 A. M. The business is FEATURE STUDENT VARIETY SHOW urgent and a full attendance is necessary. Harry Denny and his Collegians will be A survey of the letters received recently billed as one of the feature attractions in the by the Chaimian. of the S.A.C. reveals a Student Vaudeville, which is to be presented wide, diversity of subjects. on the Washington Hall stage under the : A representative of the Student at Har­ auspices of the off-campus organization, vard ^^'ished to have information on the Thursday and Friday evenings, February 26 Studeiit Union or aiiy similar building at arid 27. Notire Danie. Of course, because such a ' Mr. Denny, an alumnus of recent years, building "just isn't" here, the chaimian and his group of eight assisting musicians was not able to transmit a great deal of the are in popular demand throughout the state, desired data. as the orchestra is considered to be one of A member of the All-University Council the finest in this section. They are at pres­ at the University of Minnesota asked how ent engaged in a local hotel, and have won the non-fraternity men were organized at instant favor by their pleasing renditions . Notre Dame. That one was easy for the of the latest musical hits. Chairman. It will be remembered that Mr. Denny and A gentleman from Brooklyn requested in­ his Collegians appeared in the Day-Student formation about the mascot of the Notre vaudeville last year, and presented ah elabo­ Dame football team. He was writing a fea­ rately staged musical act. The same pro­ ture article on college mascots for a New gram of music and stage settings were used York newspaper, and desired material on by the orchestra when it appeared in an the follo\\'ing points: What is your mascot? amateur vaudeville contest at the Palace When he was selected? Why was he select- Theatre and won a silver loving cup as first • ed? What was his history? What does he prize for the best amateur act, the mnner stand for? being selected by the vaudeville artists who The Chairman immediately telegraphed were appearing on the regular Palace pro­ long paragraphs on "Tipperary Terrence." gram at that time. A suggestion from Montana: that during This year Mr. Denny has arranged a vacation, Notre Dame students wear skull special program of the latest sensations in caps of blue and gold boldly emblazoned the musical world for presentation in the with the words "Notre Dame." The motiv­ Student Vaudeville, and elaborate stage.set­ ating purpose in his suggestion was that tings and Ughting arrangements are being Notre Dame's sonship be displayed by her prepared for the act by Richard Lightfoot, students everjnvhere and always. This man who will be in charge of the production of was the proud father of a son of Notre the show. i)ame. Seven other high class acts will be offered The Chenoweth Film Company of Omaha, in the bill of vaudeville, which will include hearing of the proposed memorial to the a well balanced program of music, dancing, team, asked the S. A. C. to buy a reel of singing, and humor. Committees in charge the Nebraska-Notre Dame game, presum- are bending every effort toward the success -ably the last one. The price was given as of the production and the students will have , thirty-five dollars. an opportunity of witnessing one of the Other offers of assistance in providing a finest bits of student entertainment ever memorial are not lacking. The Newman offered in Washington Hall. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 423

PROGRAM BY THE CERCLE FRANCAIS and the Day Students Vodvil is billed for a The Cercle Francais announces its first two night run on the following Thursday public progi-am for Wednesday evening, and Friday. On the evening of Saturday, Februaiy 11, at eight o'clock. The program, Feb. 28, the moving picture "Abraham Lin­ which will be entirely in French, will consist coln" will be shown. largely of literary and musical numbers. It will be presented in the parlor of the Main POST-EXAM DANCE POPULAR Building of the University, under the direc­ The Post-Exam Dance given by the Vil­ tion of Professor Antonio Provost, head lagers Club at the Knights of Columbus ball of the Romance Language Department. room, Saturday evening, January 31, was Teachers and students of French, both of so well attended that it was necessary to Notre Dame and St. Mary's, are particularly open the gymnasium to accommodate the invited to attend. Friends of the University surplus. An estimated crowd of six hun­ in South Bend who are interested in the dred was present. The Druids, a nine- French Language are cordially welcomed. piece orchestra, furnished an excellent pro­ PEOGRAM gram. The affair was another feather in Introductory Remarks Professor Provost the already crowded cap of the Villagers. Piano Solos Clah- de Lune Ptigno On Monday evening, February 9, the La Jeune Fille aux Cheveaux de Lin members of the Villagers Club who have De Biissy won the "Banquet Prize" will be announced Mrs. Berteling Galloway at the business meeting which will be held Address: France, Louisiana, and Notre Dame at the Chamber of Commerce building. Ev- Professor Charles Mercier eiy Villager is urged to be present. Trio—Abendlied Schumann Andante Beethoven Piano, Mr. Becker; violin, Mr. Cunningham; JANUARY "ALUMNUS" CIRCULATED cello, Professor G. Endres Recitation: Le Petit Chat Noir Rostand "The Brothers of the Congi-egation of the Professor Provost. Holy Cross," an article by Brother Gilbert, Songs—Elegie Massenot C. S. C, of the Central High School, Fort Berceuse de Jocelyn Godard Wayne, Indiana, features the latest appear­ Mr. Joseph Becker. ance of The Notre Dame Alumnus. The Le Mort du Pelican—Poetical selection from de Musset's Nuit de Mai Professor Charles Mercier story, which deals with the appeal of the La Marseillaise Cliante en comvmn Bishop of Vincennes, the response and the Closing Chorus The Star Spangled Banner arrival of Father Sorin and six companions, and the founding of the University, is told WASHINGTON HALL ATTRACTIONS in a very interesting way. Other topics of the Januaiy issue of The Events so far included on the Washing­ Aluvmus concern the Bonniwell National ton Hall program for Februaiy are the fol­ lowing. On the evening of Saturday, Feb. 7, Football Award, the giidiron invasion of Coleen Moore will be seen in the screen ver­ Pasadena, and the Notre Dame-Stanford sion of Edna Ferber's best seller "So Big." contest. News of "Our Alumni" and "Local Mr. F. Branch Riley arrives on the suc­ Alumni Clubs," together with "Campus News ceeding FViday, Feb. 13, to give a Travel­ and Views" complete the pages of the publi­ ogue on "The Great Northwest." The fol­ cation which is edited by Al C. Ryan. lowing evening a moving picture "The Bat­ tling Orioles" will be shown, and a tenta­ The "Sea-Hawk," showing in Washington tive engagement of the Glee Club is sched­ Hall last Saturday night, pleased the record uled for Wednesday, Feb. 18. crowd which enjoyed it. Father Carey, On the evening of Friday, Feb. 21, the director of Washington Hall entertainment, student body will have the opportunity of is to be congratulated for the excellent pr<>- hearing the Jackson Jubilarians in concert. grams he has been providing this year. 424 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

INDIANA STATE ORATORICAL CONTEST FEBRUARY 13. Hany A. McGuire, winner of the Breen Music Medal for Oratory, mil compete for Notre Dame in the Indiana State Oratorical Con­ The Glee Club, entour through Michigan test at Franklin College on Friday, Febru- and Wisconsin, appeared in Grand Rapids ariT- 13, and by his speech, "Peace Through Saturday night, January 31. An excerpt Independence," try to win for his scohol its from the Grand Rcvpids Herald follows: tliird successive state title. "The Notre Dame Glee Club, last night in The schools represented will be: Butler, a concert of classical; football, modern and Wabash, Earlham, Purdue, Evansville, sacred music, exemplified to a capacity audi­ Notre Dame, Manchester and Franklin. The ence at the Knights of Columbus hall, that sequence of speakers will be that just given. the institution of which it is a part ranks • According to the rules of the state or­ among the greater American universities in ganization each speech is limited to fifteen musical training. hundred words. The prizes are two: Fifty "Throughout the concert was character­ dollars for first place, and twenty-five dol­ ized by the individuality of the group and lars for second place. Each school sends the unusual talent of many of its members. one faculty representative who acts as a There was finish and feeling in the more judge. Each judge gives a place of rating difficult selections, such as "Laudate Pa- to eveiy candidate in the contest except the trem" and "0 Bone Jesu;" the latter num­ candidate from his own school. ber was given with magnificent control and That school which wins the State Contest hannony. gains also the privilege of sending its repre­ "The club perfoimed equally well in Irish sentative to the Interstate Oratorical Con­ and Scotch airs, John Butler, tenor, giving test, held later in the year, in which four­ an exceptionally pleasing touch to these teen states of the Middle West are repre­ lyrics. sented. "Hike, Notre Dame!" by Joseph J. Casa- Raymond M, Gallagher won both the state santa, assistant to Director Dr. J. Lewis and Interstate contests for Notre Dame in Browne, was encored again and again. "Old 1923. In 1924 Mark Nolan won the State King Cole" by Forsyth, also pleased, as did Contest and placed third in the final contest. "Song of the Volga Boatmen," a Russian number. "George Koch appeared in a baritone solo, John Cavanaugh, '23, has entered the singing "Mother Machree" and "The Rose Holy Cross Novitiate to prepare for the of Picardy" with exceptional clarity and a priesthood. The ceremony of receiving the finished control. habit of the order occurred last Sunday "John Butler, Arthur Haley, George Koch and Alfred Meyers entertained with quartet mormng numbers. Mr. Cavanaugh graduated from the Com­ "Three of the "Four Horsemen," noted merce school in 1923. While at the Univer­ football players, appeared in a humorous sity he was noted for his part in campus number. Vincent P. Ducey and Gladstone activities among which was his work as McDermott, two Grand Rapids boys, ap­ chairman of the S. A. C. during his senior peared with the club. year. After graduation he accepted a po­ sition with the Studebaker Corporation and "The singers and football players were had just completed a tour of the United guests at a dinner at the Morton hotel pre­ States in the interest of their advertising ceding the concert. Dancing followed the before his entry into the order. program at the hall." THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 425

WILLIAM DOOLEY ELECTED TO The Boy Guidance Department SCRIBBLERS The Scribblers on Tuesday night held one Through the courtesy and co-operation of the of their periodic All-Scribbler meetings, at Editoi-ial Staff of the SCHOLASTIC, members of the which each member is expected to read a 1926 class in Boy Guidance were enabled to pub­ lish the "Boy Guidance" number.. Through the paper for the entertainment of the Club, medium of this column the members of the class and for subsequent criticism. This meeting acknowledge their grateful appreciation for the was marked by the reading of a number of prompt and favorable response to their request. NDS excellent papers and a very lively discus­ The class wishes to express its thanks to those sion. Father Charles O'Donnell, honorary- who worked so industriously to make the Boy president of The Scribblers was present. Guidance number a success. Special credit is due Messrs. Connelly, July and Lacey for their work, Sesides the literary aspect of the meet­ and also to all those who contributed articles to ing, there was the election of a new mem­ the number. NDS ber to fill a vacancy. This honor went to Many of the men in the Boy Guidance course William Dooley, Badin Hall, a Junior in went to the High School auditorium, Monday after­ the school of Journalism. Mr. Dooley has noon, to hear Lieutenant Wade, one of the Amer­ been a member of the SCHOLASTIC staff. ican fliers who circled the Globe, speak on his ex­ periences. The address, Avhich was given under Among the most interesting papers read the auspices of the Boy Scouts oi'ganization of were "The Way of a Maid," by Les Grady, South Bend, was both interesting and enlightening. which appears in. this issue of the SCHO­ NDS LASTIC, and which caused much comment at Although Monday was a holiday, the Boyologists the meeting; several poems by Jerry Hol­ were privileged to hear an interesting lecture by land, and Jim Withey's lighter contribution Rowland C. Sheldon, Executive Secretary of the Big Brother and Big Sister Federation of New at the shrine of the same muse. "House York. After the lecture there was an informal Rules" prevented the reading of a very in­ seminar in the afternoon. Mr. Rowland devoted teresting playlet by Harry A. McGuire, his time to explaining the methods and the motives, president of The Scribblers. The nejct of the Big Brother movement which has gained meeting of the club will be on Monday- great recognition in this country because of the effective work it is doing in preventing the inroads night, Februaiy 9, when Mr. MacCready of delinquency. During the seminar period, the Houston will speak. Mr. Houston has de­ class had time to ask questions, and derived great livered several fine talks before The Scrib­ benefit from the interesting answers which Mr. blers and an announcement that he is to Sheldon was able to give because of his-vast ex­ speak is the guarantee of a full attendance^ perience. .*^ NDS "Tommie" Murphy's fast Freshmen basketball team added another victory to its list last week CHICAGO CLUB MEETING MONDAT when they journeyed to Culver and defeated the speedy Culver Academy five by the score of 31-17. The Chicago Club will hold a veiy im­ Negotiations are under way now for a trip for the portant meeting in Brownson Rec RoiHUt Freshmen team which will include games at Day­ ton and Terre Haute. Monday evening. A financial report of the- NDS Christmas dance will be read, and conmiit- Edward A. Walsh was awarded first prize in an tees will be appointed for the Easter Dancer essay contest for his story of the International Every member is urged to be present, as Boys Work Conference held in Chicago last De­ cember. Three prizes were offered by Brother some important matters concerning the Barnabas. Joseph Becker won the second prize and Easter dance Will be discussed. Romeo Leclerc the third. 426 THE NOTRE DAME' SCHOLASTIC

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NICE COBWEBS Drama Club of last year, stiaigghng over COBWEBS. .. cobwebs... nice, long, intri­ many obstacles as it was, gave one All-Notre Dame production that was well-received. cately woven cobwebs everywhere. They But this year?—a blank. hang in festoons from our student organi­ There are men here who ai'e anxious to zations this year. They are almost alive, combine in a dramatic effort. Are they they are so dead and nmnerous; they pull going to allow the year to be wholly barren tenaciously at the fingers of the man—^by of a dramatic attempt, because they cannot the way, where is he?—yvho would stir up marshall the necessary leadership and di­ some campus activity. They droop vai\\ gi-eat rection? Even productions directed by stu­ dignity -from the ears and noses of our stu­ dents would be better than no production at all. They would at least be stimulating and dent leaders. But it is on us—you, dear interesting. cobwebby reader, and I, more cobwebby writer—^that the Kingdom of Cobwebs rules False modesty hangs on the steps of only mediocre men. Nor do any but mediocre in the height of its majesty and power. Dull men allow cobwebs to thrive on theih till people we are, indeed, if we think the Nirvana they look like weeping willows. H. A. M. in which we sleep is a sort of Elysium. But we are chiefly concerned at present THE ONE-FOOT LINE with the cobwebby condition of one particu­ lar phase of activities—dramatics. If any COACH ROCKNE, when speaking at a recent student effort is representative of the vigor banquet, refei-red to Notre Dame^s valiant and energy of the student body as a whole, stand against Stanford on the one-foot line it is the dramatic effort. When students as, "the greatest moment in the entire con­ want to act on the stage it is a sign that test." It was courage that stopped'the ap­ they are active elsewhere. And since cob­ parently invincible, uncheckable Nevers, it webs infest all activities this year, it is not was the kind of fight that never ceases un­ surprising to find the Muse of Make-believe til its life is crushed out, that held off the in a state of total coma. charging Stanford team and hurled theno: back from the Notre Dame goal line. And as Our dramatic tradition is a good one. Coach Rockne, who depends upon fightiiig' Years ago student productions constituted spirit, admires the courage of the men who a great part of the campus' extra-curricular would attempt the impossible and succeed,. interest. The partial decay of campus cocial so too does all the world love the hero who iifein the past few years has lessened this never gives in. \ " : " '. • interest. But that it never completely died was manifested by the Players Club of two At Notre Dame, it is well known that the and three years ago, which did a number of heroes of the gridiron are men of stout good, things very enthusiasticalUy under the heart and incomparable fighting spirit.' It direction of Steve Willson, Richard Light- did not require the Stanford victory^'^toj foot, and others. Even Ray Cunningham's demonstrate this. Notre Dame does "not 428 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

harbor the dastard, the poltroon, the cow­ of courage just begins to fight—or talk. ard; much less are they found on her foot­ These men receive no remuneration beyond ball teams. But there are "one-foot lines" the sense of being loyal to their school. other than those of the gridiron; there are Their display of courage is rewarded by no battles fought, as if hopelessly fought, and fanfare of trumpets. It is appreciated by gloriously won by valiants who never re­ few, but by some a veiy great deal. ceive the plaudits of the crowd or the laurel of the victor. Every training ground for Finally there is the courage which en­ j^outh must be a place of trial for youth, a ables a man to follow a vocation to the place where many at some tim.e and in some priesthood though it involves tremendous way are tested; where most experience the sacrifice. Such courage is admired on earth coldness of the wall at their backs. universally and in Heaven eternally. There is, parallel to this, the courage of one who There are the men who because of finan­ will tear a thing from his heart because it cial reasons, must struggle for an education. does not belong there, who will renounce These men must possess a brave heart for what is sweet and desirable and good, be­ they know well the discouragement which cause there is the conviction that such a comes to the person who fights a hard bat­ thing can exist more happily elsewhere. tle. There is always the scoffer with an There is a courage which brings a man •"Is it worth it?" to make hard the struggle back from sin when that return must be ac­ for an education. Fight, fight on the "one- companied by agony, which makes a man foot line," mil always %vin out for the man smile at the world when his heart is of courage. breaking. Then there is the plugger, the student It takes courage to cry all night and rise who learns with difficulty. Each credit re- at dawn—to laugh! —M. C. •quires struggle; each success must be earned toy hours of hard grinding study. This man, too, knows discouragement, knows the mean­ UNITED WE FALL ing of failure which seems inevitable. And there are many such, watching then* more THERE is an iminent decay of campus clubs brilliant friends achieve easy success, al­ that ought to be growing, and a decline in ways tempted to drop it all. The fact that campus literature at a time when things are they have the strong will to whip the lag- ripe for literary achievement. :gard mind to its work bespeaks courage. As in similar cases, the effects are ob­ Their degree to them is not so much a tes­ vious but the causes are not so plain. timonial of knowledge acquired as of a Graduation has been used by many schools :great battle of courage nobly won. to explain drops in standards set in prev­ In school activities, there are trials of ious years. Notre Dame has not that excuse. fljourage. Most men are loyal to their school; Many of the men whose names stood out in not all men have the courage to assert that their Junior year have suddenly become lost loyalty or to practice it. The advertising to their former pursuits. solicitors for a college publication must pos­ Changes in personnel are often cited to sess courage. Those who do not possess the excuse deficiencies in an organization. The spirit of fight do not persevere. They are personnel of most of the campus clubs has the men who take care of the skirmish line not changed to any appreciable extent. Fail­ of the publication. They deal with the pub­ ure to make the work of the organizations lic, accepting the rebuffs and the disappoint­ interesting cannot be advanced. How can ments which the public always gives anyone the staff of a publication or the officers of with something to sell. Anyone who has a society arouse the interest of men who

RATHER than have his murderer son's life THE STAFF snuffed out by the noose of the hangman, J. W. SCALLAN Thomas Scott, the convicted youth's father, Editor begged and pleaded with tears in his eyes JOHN F. STOECKLEY JAMES E. ARIISTRONG to be given a chance to substitute for his News Editor Literary Editor TOM COMAN GERALD HOLLAND boy on the gallows. "I am old," he en­ Sports Editor Ass't Literary Editor treated, "and my son is just entering the THE NEWS DEPARTMENT JOHN GALLAGHER ANDREW MtTLREANY threashold of life. I have worked out my LESTER GRADY JAMES WITHEY MARK NEVILS WALTER HAECKER life; there will be nothing left for me if WILLIAM DOOLEY ALFRED MEYERS my son dies. Let me take his place." JOHN CULLINAN CARLOS D. LANE, JR. THE LITERARY DEPARTMENT This story made streamer headlines in HARRY A. McGTJIRE ANSELM MILLER R. C. CUNNINGHAM EUSTACE CULLINAN many newspapers because, from an editor's JOSEPH P. BURKE BERT V. DUNNE point of view, it was news. Yes, it was FRANCIS 0. MILLER ALBERT SOMMER BUSINESS DEPARTMENT news—sad news that the unfortunate CORBIN PATRICK youth was sentenced to be hanged; but the Businesa Manager ALFRED DIEBOLD JAMES WITHEY feature about the father offering up his life Local Advertising Mgr. Foreign Adv. Manager for his son, which was "played up'" in the GEORGE J. SCHILL news story really was not news. Every day Circulation Manager BUSINESS STAFF in every home parents are making sacri­ CHARLES CASEY JOHN LOFTUS FRANKLIN CONWAY ROBERT ROY fices that their children might have a RUPERT WENTWORTH JOSEPH DUNN CLAYTON LEROUX EDWARD BRODERICK chance to succeed. It is the human instinct BBRTON TOEPP ROBERT STRICKEL GERARD SMITH EDWARD CUNNINGHAM in the parents, that noble, unselfish char­ JOSEPH HILGER LAWRENCE WINGERTER DAVID HIGKEY HERBERT WALTHER acteristic of love for those of their own DOROTHEUS MEINERT flesh, that makes them subordinate their 430 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

for power and that for her husband as well The Weave in the Character of Lady as for herself."* Both of these views are Macbeth supported by equally eminent critics, but BROTHEE AGATHO, C.S.C, '25 when placed in the scale, the weight of evidence in favor of the latter interpretation An adequate analysis of Lady Macheth's char­ makes the balance kick the beam. acter requires more space than can he allotted in a single issue of the SCHOLASTIC. This treatise We first see Lady Macbeth in act I. sc. 5, ivill therefore he divided into tivo articles. reading a letter from her husbaiid in which EVERAL 3'^ears ago a young artist he acquaints her with the prophecies of the became noted for the unusual manner Weird Sisters. The contents of that letter S in which he painted his pictures. touch the chord of her ambition, and we are To the beholder, he seemed to be working to hear its jangling vibration throughout without any definite idea in mind as to what the medley of the next act. Fully aware his picture was to represent. Just when one of the vacillating character of her husband, thought he had caught the outline that was as is indicated in the same act and scene, to be developed, a smear or daub of paint she becomes so entirely possessed by the would efface the suggested figure. In fact desire to see him king that, on her husband's one might think the artist was depicting return, her greeting is devoid of every indi­ the fantastical images of a deranged mind, cation of wifely affection, of every vestige so grotesque were they in contour. There of concern for the dangers through which was no indication of an ideal, no apparent be has passed. The one thing uppermost in attempt at a color scheme, not a hint at her mind is revealed in her words: sjmimetry. The whole thing looked like a "Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor! huge blotch of paint that a mischievous Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter."t child might have smeared on the canvas. When told that Duncan is to visit the But what a surprise when the picture was castle that same evening. Lady Macbeth inverted! What before had appeared so can hardly believe that circumstances are utterly shapeless now proved to be a repre­ so soon to aid her in carrying out her sentation of a beautiful landscape or a close designs: study of a human face in which nobility of Thou art mad to saj"^ it" | purpose and high intellectual power were depicted in every lineament. she tells the messenger. To the casual Spectator of MACBETH, No one will gainsay the statement that Shakespeare's delineation of the character of Lady Macbeth was ambitious, but not all are Lady Macbeth might seem to resemble the in accord as to what was. the impelling work of the artist who painted his pictures motive of that ambition. Some there are jupside down. In order to appreciate the who affirm that her personal lust for power, picture of her character, one must turn it like that of the fallen angels, was the moti­ jaround in its natural position, examine it vating principle of her action; that to her from every perspective, as the mastei*piece the crown was the "ornament of life" for it is, or else a snap judgment will be formed. which she was willing to sacrifice every She is simply too complex in her makeup dictate of honor and morality; that she set ^o be understood at once. She is not a saint— up an altar to the god "Power" at which no; neither is site the devil incarnate. There she worshipped in utter abjection, and on l^re two opinions of her true character: some which she was immolated by the fires of ^hare the view of Samuel Johnson that she. her own passion. Then, on the other hand, Was a "species of female fury;" others there are those who maintain that her love accept Verplank's judgment that she was * Shakespeare's Heroines—Mrs. Jameson, p. 322, "a w^omari of hii^h.intellect, bold in spirit, fAct I. sc. VI. 1.59. and4(rf^ in desire^nastered by a fiei'^'; thirst |Act I.SC. V. 1.35 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 431 for her husband and her knowledge that he From what has been said it is patent to • was "too full of the milk of human kindness" all that ambition is the dominating trait in urged her to discard all feminine qualities Lady Macbeth's character. Let us next ex­ of tenderness, all regard for the moral and amine the evidence in order to determine divine law, even all regard for herself, and whether she was actuated by a purely selfish to incite her husband on to the dastardly motive, or whether she was instigated by deed which in the end was the cause of his love of her husband and a consuming desire ruin and of her own misery, remorse, and to see him king. Her soliloquy which takes siiicide. It would be the height of folly to place immediately after perusing the letter think that such a controversy could be from her husband* may shed some light on settled arbitrarily. In the fabric of every this mooted question. In it we fail to find character are interwoven varied-colored any reference to herself. On the contrary, threads; some are dark, others ai'e golden. the whole tenor of the passage is vibrant The composite whole is adjudged by the pre­ with a desire to see her husband on the dominance of one or several strands. It is throne: in this way we can best analyze Lady "Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shall be Macbeth's ambition. What thou are promised; yet do I fear thy nature; Royalty to this poor, misguided woman, is It is too full o' the milk of human kindness the acme of all that is desirable on earth. To catch the nearest way." Infatuated by the glitter of the jewels in the Were she acting solely from a selfish motive, diadem, by the purple of regal robes, her would it not be quite natural that she ambition never once falters in its purpose; should make some allusion to the benefit's never tolerates the slightest opposition. The that were to accrue to her individually, rather inconstancy of her husband evokes her wasp­ than to be wholly concerned by the emolu­ ish taunts to his manhood, his bravery, his ments her husband was to enjoy? There is, love for her. She even goes so far as to however, in this monologue, an evidence of desecrate motherhood. Fairly swept away her superior mil and of a deep-seated con­ by the force of her passion, she fears viction that she can and will assist Macbeth to trust the execution of her plans to an­ in surmounting all obstacles which may be­ other, and with masculine intensity insists: set his path to the throne. In the sixth "You shall put scene of the same act, where she assumes This night's great business into my despatch responsibility for the accomphshment of the What shall to our nights and days to come murder, we cannot fail to notice that she Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom."* uses the plural form "our" in referring to Like one in a horrible dream, driven dn'and the "sovereign sway and masterdom"jvhich on by some intangible force to the vlry brii* they are to acquire. :•:.-:'-•. of a precipice, her ambition .ruthlessly, But what do commentators say on this persistently, doggedly pushes her on in her I)oint ? In Fumess' Variqrumf we read "She mad purpose. Loyalty to Jier sovereign, re­ (i.e. Lady Macbeth) the wife; of his bosom, spect for the unwritten laws.pf hospitaUty, knows the direction of his thoughts; and reverence.for the sanctity, of sleep—all are bound to him in love, exerts every energy indiscriminately brushed aside. There is no and sacrifices every feeling to minister to mandate, divine, or human, no dictum of his hope and aspirations. This is her sin honor or of ethics, no tenet of refinement and no more. She affords another instance or of delicacy, that could stay the insane of what women will be brought to do for career of such, an ambitious.soul. Her ra­ love which listens to no consideration save pacious nature brooks no restraint. "She is love for her husband." Accor^ng to doubly, trebly dyed in blood.* ' Fletcher, (cf. ibid) "She covets the crown

*Act I. so. V, 1. 67 * Act I. sc. V. 1.1 5 ff fMrs. Jameson, Heroines of Shakespeare, p. 323. tPg. 427. 432 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC for her husband, even more eagerly than he perturbation of soul quite unmans him. Fas­ desires it for himself." We might be led cinated by the idea suggested by the third to believe that pride in her husband's career Witch, he vainly strives to reconcile "this acted as an impetus to her ambition. But supernatm'al soliciting" with the principle of we are not without opponents in this view. good, since, he says, "it commenced in a Some writers stigmatize Lady Macbeth as truth." Still, he is not satisfied that the a virago, a human leech, a domineering, self- suggestion "whose horrid image" makes his centered, egotistical woman, whose soul is hair stiffen on his head and his heart pound bereft of every redeeming quality—a harsh violently against his ribs, could have had its judgment, to say the least, when we recall, origin in anything good. Yet, if we are still for instance, her reflection, in doubt about this question as to whether "Had he not resembled my father as he slept Macbeth had conceived the idea of assasin- I had done it." * ation, or whether it was the product of the fertile brain of his wife, we have but to turn and the numerous expressions of tenderness to Act I. Sc. IV., 1. 47 to find proofs, the she uses in addressing her husband through­ import of which would seem to settle the out the play. question. In this scene Malcolm is appointed We can hardly know what proportion of successor to his father. And what are Lady Macbeth's ambition was personal and Macbeth's thoughts about this? He likens set it over against the part that was in­ the heir to a step over which he must fall spired by her interest in her husband's wel­ down or else overleap, if he would hold the fare. Her character defies such scrutiny. scepter in his own hand. Whatever her degree of guilt, let it be said in extenuation of her participation in the "Stars, hide your fires; deed that she was not the first to propose it. Let not light see my black and deep desires."* That idea originated in Macbeth's mind are words which portend evil intent to the immediately after the verification of the first royal person and his son. Later on, when prophesy, in which he was greeted by the Macbeth is wavering in his resolve to gain king's messenger with Macdonwald's title of the throne at the price of blood, his wife "Thane of Cawdor." Evidences of this are blandly accuses him of having proposed the shown by his demeanor, in his utterances, murder first. In forceful language she asks: and in his musings in the first act. Banquo "What beast was't then notices the absorbed mood of his companion That made you break this enterprise to me?"t and cautions him against putting confidence in the Witches: Furthermore, as Mrs. Jameson sagely ob­ serves, Macbeth could not be the hero of the "That, trusted home, Mght yet enkindle you unto the crown play were he the mere accomplice of his Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange! wife; she would in that eclipse him. It is And oftentimes, to win us to our harm clear, in view of the sequence of the tragedy, The instruments of darkness tell us truths that Macbeth is not the foil of his wife. Win us with honest trifles, to betray's While she adroitiy batters down the consci­ In deepest consequence." f entious scruples of her husband with the Is there any direct evidence that Macbeth vigorous denunciations of her glib tongue, contemplated the murder of Duncan before it is only fair to her to admit that she was his wife's whisperings and subsequent chid- not the first to propose regicide. ings were poured into his ear? There seems A further circumstance that palliates to be conclusive proof of this in his revery Lady Macbeth's seeming grossness of while he is still enveloped in the fog of the character is the fact that she is in no way blasted heath; in act I. sc. Ill 1. 130 his implicated in any of the other murders. She

*Act n. sc. 1.13 *Act I. sc. IV., 1. 49 t I. sc m. 1. 120 fAct I. sc. VII., L 48 ff THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 433 is unaware of her husband's designs on "This is the air-drawn dagger which you said Banquo's life. This we can gather from the Led you to Duncan." * context of act III, sc. III. 1. 40-49, where who, learning from the Weird Sisters the Lady Macbeth tries to arouse a more jovial futility of his efforts to prevent the ac­ spirit in her husband, whose mind "is full cession of Banquo's descendants, strikes like of scorpions." She naturally believes this an enraged animal at the nearest, object fit of melancholy is caused by the qualms of which bears any resemblance to complicity conscience that accuse Macbeth for Duncan's in preordained developments. He has been murder. He lets drop an inkUng that some cautioned by the Witches to avoid Macduff. business of considerable import is afoot, to Learning of his flight to England, Macbeth which she asks: cravenly sets his murderous confederates on "What's to be clone?" the defenseless wife and children of the man he fears. In the sleep-walking scene. Lady And her husband replies: Macbeth asks:

"Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, "The Thane of Fife had a wife. Till thou applaud the deed."* Where is she now? Nor is she in any way connected with the a passage which commentators jwint out as butchery of Macduif's wife and family. That evidence that she was in no way involved wanton deed is done at Macbeth's bidding in that abominable murder.

*Act III. Sc. I. 43-45 * Act III. Sc. IW. 1. 62-seq

I saw a Cross of Sorrow in my dreams. In tragic silhouette 'gainst an evening slqr. I heard a cry Of sorrow that re-echoes endlessly j' Within the channels of my tortured soul. Until my tired heart knows The peace that comes from grief and pain to those Who gain Love's goal. —EDWARD A. WALSH. 434 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

VERSE Faith 1 found you in the brightness of the stars And in the beauty of the twilight's glow, Wlien all the world was hushed, and, lapping low. The darlding waves, unliurried, murmured by. 'Twas then a silent voice spoke in my heart And turned my face, transfigured, towards the skJ^

Others Midnight The smi, the stars. The clock strikes in the tower: The streets, the cars,' Another day is done! The faces and looks, Behind me lie ten thousand days, Words and books: These are beautiful things. Before me maybe none! —^p. c. M. —C. WOOD,'26

Cause of College Correspondence I try to write verse. And my pen begins bravely— But it grows ever worse. I try to write verse. But her eyes mine immerse: Frpm the frame they plead gravely— I try to write verse, And my pen begiTis bravely. —JAMES WITHEY, '26 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 435 Tommy McFadden smiles at the boast of Keep Cool his pupil. It pleases him to think of the confidence that Mui-phy has in him, the LESTER GRADY, '26 confidence that has enabled him to become OMMY M'FADDEN had been a con­ one of the two leading contenders for the tender for the middle weight champion­ lightweight crown. T ship. That was some eight or ten "You know, Steve, sometimes I think it years ago. Now he is managing the fistic ain't good for me to go dumb while you are aspirations of "Young Steve" Murphy, who fightin'. Maybe it is, though. Whether it's distinguishes himself more and more as a good or not don't matter much. We're lightweight every time he enters the ring. gettin' along 0. K. just the same. I would Murphy could not have employed a better like to know what goes wrong with me when guide. No one knew more about the boxing the fight starts. I can't figure it out. Ever game than Tommy McFadden. He knew the since I got my head socked off me that night inside and the outside and any other side of —neai'ly ten years ago at that—^I don't all that took place in the world of fisticuffs. know what's what.when I sit by the ring­ There was, however, one serious fault with side. All I think about is the wallopin" I McFadden: he was absolutely useless at the took and what I might have been if I was ringside; couldn't make his mind function at the guy givin' the wallopin'." all. There he became melancholy—^in fact, Some one raps on the door and informs a different man. This peculiar characteristic McFadden that it is time for Murphy^s bout, never was explained satisfactorily; but it "Let's go, Steve. Keep cool no matter what was known that his decisive defeat in a mid­ happens. If you don't you'll be hcked. Re­ dle weight championship bout had con­ member what Itold you, carry the fight in siderable to do with it. every round. Don't forget about the guy's This characteristic of McFadden's was left mit. Use the old noodle and when the somewhat of a handicap to the career of fight's over you're goin' to be in line to "Young Steve" Murphy. It was an obstacle tackle the champ." that had to be surmounted eveiy time the They enter the ring. The usual hand lightweight put on the gloves. Murphy had shakings, introductions, flash lights, and overtopped it right along. During a fight he announcements are made. paid no attention to his bewildered manager, McFadden leaves the ring. He goes down although outside the ring Murphy was all into the ring-side seats. He watches Murphy attention to his advice. Before a fight he closely, sees him get the final instructions always secured enough suggestions from Mc­ from the referee in the center of the ring, Fadden to tide him over. and shake hands with Tony Mossino. But It is the evening when "Young Steve" when the bell clangs for the oi)ening round Murphy is to meet Tony Mossino in a scrap McFadden's mind becomes clouded. He is which is to nominate the opponent for the unaware of what is taking place as the bout hghtweight champion. Manager McFadden starts. is in Murphy's dressing room. Murphy immediately takes the offensive. "Steve, I think I've given you all the dope He peppers the Italian with rights and lefts on the wop. I can't think of anything else throughout the opening round, which ends in about him that'll help you. Just remember his favor. Already the crowd, strongly in that he's got a nasty left. Keep out of its favor of the Irish lad, start to howl for a way. If he ever hits you with it your act knock out. The second round starts. Again is finished." Mossino is forced to take the defensive "I ain't goin' to give him a chance to use side of the bout. Murphy lets go his right his left. I'll make him take the defence, just and staggers Mossino. The crowd rises and like you told me, and then I'll make him pleads for a knock out. Mossino is slow in take the count. getting his hands up and Murphy lands a 436 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC right to the jaw that topples the Italian. "What do you mean, 'defence'? You told The referee starts his counting, and me to carry the fight in every round. He Mossino gets up slowly. Murphy uses his won't hit me with that left of his once in right-hand wallop again; but, in his anxiety the next round, I was all off before. You for a knock out, he misses. The Italian is scared the head off me jumpin' up. You staggering. He can barely keep his hands was the cause of me not bein' cool. I'll carry up. Murphy sets himself to give another the fight to him. I'll knock him clear out right wallop. He delivers the blow. It of the ring." strikes Mossino's chin and he goes down in "You do what I told you and let him carry a slump. The referee calls off the count. the fight." The bell clangs for the end of the round. "You're crazy! You shouldn't have come Mossino, saved by the bell, is assisted to his out of your sleep. You're gettin' me all corner. balled up. Tellin' me before the fight to McFadden has jumped to his feet. Some­ carry the fight and now to let him carry the thing strange has happened. His mind has fight. I'm goin' to carry the fight! stopped wandering. He realizes that he is The bell clangs for the fourth round. at a prize fight, that his fighter is in the Murphy hops up convinced that McFadden ring. His mind is right again! is not thinking properly owing to the deliver­ "Praise to God! I'm back on earth," he ance from his customary stupor. yells. "That's my man in the ring. It's McFadden becomes frantic when he sees Steve!" that his orders are going unheeded. Mossino, He pushes his way to Murphy's corner. as desirous as Murphy to be assailer, stands "Steve, I'm all right. I know where I'm toe to toe with his opponent and a slugging at and what's doin." match develops. It is over in Murphy's Murphy becomes alarmed. The un­ corner that the milling is going on. expected change that has come over his McFadden, almost delirious, is trying to manager startles him. Before he is able to get the attention of his man. Murphy knows comjwse himself the bell is sounded for the but ignores his trainer. McFadden is ex­ third round. citedly shouting to the confused Murphy. Mossino has managed to recover from the "Steve! Steve! don't be crazy. Move beating he received in the second round. away. Get out of that. Steve! Listen to Murphy is showing the effects of McFadden's me. Move away. Steve! Look at me! Steve! sudden recovery. He is somewhat dazed. Look here a second!" He has not the same sprightliness he ex­ Murphy obeys. hibited in the first two rounds. His oppo­ As he turns, Mossino lands a fatal punch nent appears to have stolen it from him. and floors him. Murphy has been knocked Mossino becomes the aggressor in this round. unconscious. The referee counts him out. He hits Murphy at will. The round ends. Murphy's seconds crawl into the ring and "Steve, you ain't in there. You're not drag him to his comer as the referee holds cool. You're away off. You ain't watchin' up Mossino's arm designating him as the his left. He's hittin' you with it every time. winner of the bout. Keep on the defence like I told you."

Sunset To westward lies the gaudy tomb of day, A scarlet sepulchre, divinely wrought Of fragile things the wanton winds have caught In their loose nets to hold the night away. —DENNIS J. O'NEILL, '26 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 437

BOOK LEAVES JOSEPH p. BURKE. '25

The Santa Maria has again made its ap­ Barnum once wrote to Matthew Arnold that pearance and again reflects the genius of its while Arnold was famous, he, Barnum, was noto­ veteran editor, Kay Cunningham, and of' the rious. The Anglican clergyman. Dean Inge, well very capable staff. In this issue are gathered to­ kno\\Ti as "the gloomy Dean" of St. Paul's, London, gether a group of contributors which a more elabo­ is bidding strongly nowadays for notoriety. His rate publication might well envy. Dr. James Walsh, latest card in that game is a paper in the February K. K. Rockne, Grantland Rice, Hany Houdini, Atlantic Monthly on "Religion in the Future." George Trevor and Harrj' Stuhldreher have con­ Anyone who has read other outbursts of the London tributed ai-ticles. Lester Grady's cartoons are done dean need not be told that this one also is highly in his inimitable Juggler style and give the neces­ flavored with anti-Catholic bigotr>^ sary comic relief to the serious matter. If you have not seen a copy of Cunningham's latest brain­ NDS child, by all means borrow a dime and get one. "Nicholas Cresswell," edited by Samuel Thomley, NDS is an authentic journal of an early American family. This diary has been lost for two hundred and fifty The merry three-century war over Mr. William years. Cresswell visited this country just before Shakespeare, late of London and Stratford, still the Revolution and was on intimate terms with goes on. Professor Charles Phillips recently ana­ Washington and Jefferson. The book has unques­ lyzed Strachej''s famous essay on "The Final Pe­ tionable value as a mirror of the times and con­ riod of Shakespeare" in the Saturday Thesis Class ditions in which it was written. and it appears that Shakespeare's final period is still more of a question mark than anything else. NDS

NDS "Men and Politics" by the eminent American lawyer, Elihu Root, is a collection of addresses and "Selections from the Correspondence of Theodore writings from the activities of the past five or six Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, 1884-1918" is years. There are included in this volume Mr, a book to be published soon by Charles Scribner's Root's tributes to Roosevelt, Choate, Carnegie, Lin­ Sons. It should interest all students of recent coln, Cleveland, and Robert Bacon; various articles American history and politics. on law and its administration; speeches on the war and re-adjustment; and pronouncements on -NDS- the Permanent Court of International Justice. The publishers of the new Lincoln biography by Stephenson, (Bobbs, Merrill, Indianapolis), recently -NDS- noted in these columns, have now announced still "The Matriarch" by G. B. Stem is called a another addition to their Lincolniana—a novel by "Family chronicle" depicting the fight between Irving Bacheller entitled "Father Abraham." A year family and freedom. Miss Stem is a prominent or two ago, Mr. Bacheller gave us "A Man For the English novelist and her latest book is said to be Ages," which dealt with the earlier life of the highly original and striking. great Emancipator. His new work tells the story of the Last Years. -NDS- NDS "Lottery" is the title of a new novel by a young D. Appleton & Co., whe recently took over the novelist, W. E. Woodward. He has already con­ dramatic publications of the house of Nicholas tributed a satire called "Bunk." "Lotter3r" has been Bro\vn, continue their output of books relating to written with a purpose in view—^to show the part the study of the drama. Their latest is Barrett H. played in American life by luck. After reading Clark's "A Study of the Modern Drama." "Oxford 308 pages of the 424 in the book we are a trifle Poetry, 1924" is still another Appleton book of uncertain as to just what the story does reveal. special interest to university men. More on the subject may be expected later.

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lessened, nor are sight, hearing, taste, or A Resurrection smell affected. This was the exact way in which the drug' PAUL HARRINGTON, '26. affected Sanson. As he fell, so he lay, on his back mth his amis and legs extended, OCTOR SANSON of New York ac­ forming a perfect cross. He attempted to knowledged no soul and no hereafter, rise but found he could not move a muscle, D nor did he profess to believe in a God. nor even take his eyes off the now disgusting' After years of self-deceit, during which array of food which was in his field of vision. pride and fear of public opinion served as To close his eyes was a physical impossi­ torches to burn his bridges behind him, he bility. The rigid vocal chords refused to had come to believe implicitly in his absurd render audible anj- mental call for assistance. theories. He could hear nothing but the steady tick­ His only gods were Matter and Pleasure. ing of the wall clock. His head ached and As a final tribute to the latter God he had throbbed, and he soon longed to scratch vari­ assembled in his offices on the Thursday of ous spots on his tortured body. Flies Holy Week, in his thirtieth year—^when he alighted upon his hands and face and roamed should have had more sense—^a potpouri of about undisturbed except by the inter­ choice spirits to celebrate his latest discover­ mittent stream of air from his lungs. ies concerning Matter, and incidentally to Thought failed to help him. In vain did he sample other and older spirits from his have recourse to considerations, adaptation cellar. Friday morning the doctor was to to environment, self-control, rule of mind leave for a foreign "college" with atheistic over matter, materialism, and other pet views, while his friends slept off the effects theories. His mental anguish was only of the farewell party. increased and multiplied. As the minutes By three o'clock Friday morning all the passed into hours, moreover, the pangs of guests, save one, had departed, and the host hunger and thirst, augmented by the ever- and his lone companion were warmly arguing present sight of the food on the table—so some scientific point. They finally came to far and yet so close—^kept gnawing at his blows; the Doctor struck the other. The senses. From his eyes tears or rage, and of fight grew serious and ended only when the futile effort, fear and remorse kept flowing. "friend" possessed himself of one of the He knew he would eventually die if the Doctor's knives that Sanson had neglected poison did not loosen its grip on his muscles. to put away, and inflicted a small cut on Every nerve in his body throbbed, and each the young physician's head. The knife had succeeding interval between the clock-ticks contained along its edge considerable quanti­ seemed longer than the last. He came to ties of a drag called "curare." Sanson fell listen and await each tick in an agony of as though he were dead, the while his fear lest he die and never hear the next drunken opponent sallied forth, pulled the sound. He yearned to look at the clock, springlock door behind him, and immediately especially when it struck, for he had an over­ lost all thought of the matter. powering sensation that he had wrongly Now, curare is a drug that was first em­ counted the slow, solemn, resonant sounds. ployed by South American natives as a He had the same desire to shriek and scream material for tipping their 'poison' arrows. to the pedestrians who occasionally passed It's effect is to paralyze the motor nerves, before his closed door. thereby making all muscular movement im­ As the morning hours passed with the possible, even to the winking of an eyelash leisurely dignity of the centuries, he sudden­ or movement of the eyeball itself. And yet, ly remembered that the day was Good Fri­ the sensory nerves are not effected, so that day, That today—^the clock boomed once— the capacity for suffering pain is in no way at this very hour, Christ had begun to die. r THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 439 Simultaneously, it dawned on him that his sway in his b^y for more than ten hours. body, like that of the Master, was extended He no longer heard the ticks of the clock— in the shape of a cross. Could this be an he no longer saw—^where was he? what?— accident inspired by Matter? Surely not: who? And then came darkness and peace no one but an all-knowing God could bring and oblivion. The clock resounded thrice, him to such a realization of his weakness. mournfully, softly. While thus pondering he felt his heart falter Easter morning. The glad, joyous pealing and his breath fail him. He felt himself of the church bells told the world that Christ dying by inches, like the thief on the cross, had risen and cried, "Come and adore Him". and like that thief he was moved to repen­ In Sanson's office a bowed figure rose, tance. He turned to prayer for consolation, trembhng, from his knees to disclose a face and, as the drug paralyzed his brain and transfigured by the calmness, placidity, and weakened his faculties, a calm resignation settled maturity of the man who had risen took the place of the agitation that had held from the living gi-ave.

In the Foot^Hills In the foot-hills, when Winter lays A pure-white shroud o'er Nature's dead. There is no steel to desecrate the gi"ave; No smoke to smear with dingy finger-prints The virgin beauty of the snow. There are no narrow, ugly streets Where chasm'd walls shut in the sight. But only winding paths across the fields. Bordered by magic works of Winter's handicraft. Horizons lie on far-off tops of hills— No certain lines, but blended with the sky. So that the eye oft' thinks it sees beyond And fancy pictures far away Strange cities, states, and citadels. For Winter makes each man a poet and a dreamer In the foot-hills. —^ANSELM MILLER, '25 440 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

conversely. That is something which I A Pseudo-Moses should hate to believe. L. A. C. The gardner who has carefully tended his HE Universities have been criticised precious beauties, has kissed their dewj'' destructively and constructively by petals, torn away the attacking weeds, T those who have taught and those who dreamed of his treasures, fed them, loved are teachers, by those who think and those them,—gazes askance at him who says: who capitalize their inability to think. Our "They had gi'own better ^^'ild and untend- greatest humorists, Mr. H. L. Mencken and ed." The bespectacled pedogogue who has Mr. Stephen Leacock, have told us just treated it, disciplined it, steered it from what is the trouble and why it exists. Mr. the shallows of superficial thought to the Leacock's criticism is valuable: his humor depths of philosophy and the clear waters is conscious; Mr. Mencken, I fear, is some­ of worthy expression,... he, too, feels a times serious. Were he not so, the other trifle amazed when you tell him it has been should look to his laurels. in vain. Under tfie scathing strokes of the critic's Among the greatest truisms "the ability pen the college-professor and other pseudo- to think clearly is a requisite to clear ex­ litterateurs wilt and vanish: their useless- pression" is one whose catholicity we all ness is too apparent, their day is o'er. The admit. So, too, is the ability to hear a whole problem of education is now solved: theme essential to the violinist who plays dispense with the teachers and their meth­ from Wagner. Each one, however, requires ods and instead of clouding the mind of a touch of technique or all his native genius youth, in place of stifling his ambitions, and is worth little. quenching his upstarting flame, give him No pedagogue, not even the most blind leeway, give him latitude. With, the teach­ and "pseudo" ever taught or hoped to teach ers gone, the only remaining impediments a boy to write. But we all try to make a to true thought are the text-books and the boy write well, and use the means to that schools and colleges. end. Not until I had read Mr. Mencken did I Arguing against facts is much like bat­ realize the tragedy of it all. The idea of tering ones head against a concrete wall. trying to teach a boy to write! What ab­ Even if our head is as hard as the stone surdity! Buffons' ashes rise Phoenix-like we make no progress. You can't upset as his immortal axiom is Menckenized. The overnight what ages have established. Your fact is that we don't learn to write, we just petty onslaught may appeal to the rabble do it... probably by some scribulary gland but they laugh at your aching head after­ or literary secretion. Precepts of style rival wards and hail you as Don Quixote. the ten commandments in uselessness, and However useless, injurious and impossible the inability to write English drove Mr. may be pedagogic methods, we must use Spencer to philosophize on something which them till Moses comes to lead us forth and does not exist. show us the errors in our way. Moses must To those lacking in fundamental culture also show us how to correct them. Till and basic knowledge, the processes by which then he is not a true Moses: effects are produced are clouded by the ef­ There is one day for which pedagogues fect and, being unknown, are duly under­ pine. It is that on which all attacks, viru­ estimated and misprized. A person's Eng­ lent or amiable, on pedagogues and peda­ lish, following Buffon and his modem in­ gogics will be classed where they truly terpreter should be as his Philosophy and belong. ... in Humor of the Day. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 441

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Each hour the ailments of the world are multi­ "Laugh and the world laughs with you." We plied. are debating the feasibility of putting "Ha ha" This is the morose greeting from a pair of re­ after each of our intensely humorous quips. formers who would suffer even hyiieridrosis to N D s soften the harshness of life with a bit of humor. Some friendly critic will tell us that we know as Our specialty will be poetiy and prose. But much about conducting a column as an Eskimo anything else that's good will receive consideration. does about sunburn. We refuse to admit it. To NDS admit a fault is to denote a weakness. • Further­ FISH! more, we won't even argue, for that is to admit "0 Mr. Cerney, 0 Mr. Collins." two sides to the question. "And what's on your mind" this morning Mr. We feel chesty to think we are in competition Sheehan?" with other great columnists, far and near. We "I've a carload of white fish. won't mention any names. In parading our week­ Just as fine as one could wish, ly banter in the pages of the venerable SCHOLASTIC And I think if we could sell them 'twould be keen." we hope to have company and sympathy, (we scorn "O Mr. Sheehan, O Mr. Sheehan,— pity), in order that the success of our enterprise We're the best men at this job you've ever seen. may be assured. Its beginning has already as­ For as salesmen we are fine sured its commencement. Like all other things We've an extra strong fish line." and beings, the infancy of THE MAIL lacks ma­ "Absolutely, Mr. Cemey? Positively, Mr. Sheehan." turity. Hence we seek the good will of our readers, and especially their contributions. N D s You may be a poet or a versifier. Perhaps the Short verses, preferably a quatrain or two or a absurdities of life, and particularly college life, limerick, will be Avelcomed enthusiastically, at least have impressed you and you want to express them. till read. Send them to THE MAIL. Already my colleague NDS has written the diary of a self-confessed skiver This column is not an attempt to establish spirit who had a key to the door of the Main Building. communication with the late Mr. Grundy. Our • Your thoughts in any mood, your hidden hopes, motto is "Nothing that the victim wouldn't pay will find an outlet on this page. Our repertoire space rates for." will be as large as you make it. NDS And it is with the gx-eatest respect and affection Friendly ai'guments between contributors will be for Notre Dame and its memorable achievements in fostered by this column, and may the side-offer win. mental and physical fields that we invite you to.be a contributor. NDS N DS This is THE MAIL It's yours to fiU; "There's many a true word spoken in jest" runs If you don"t do it. the old proverb. To our prospects we would say We suppose we wiU. that if the jest is good, don't be squeamish. -NDS- NDS But when you've read one or two of ours, you'll If this column isn't run as it should be, remem­ do it. ber it has two conductors and no motorman, NDS

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VARSITY-FRESHMAN HANDICAP 40-yd dash—^Layden, V., first; Parisien, F., second; TRACK MEET Riley, V.,third; Cunningham, V., fourth. Time, :04. 3, L«w Hurdles—^Walsh, V., first; Barron, V., second; Coach Knute K. Rockne trotted out his Gebbhardt, V., third; Casey, V., fourth. Time, best varsity track team on Saturday, Jan. :05 2-5. 31, and pitted it against the freshman aggre­ Half mile run—Cox, V., (S) first Conlin, V.,(60 gation for a trial work out, distributing yd,)second; Degnan, F., (50 yd.) third Fischer, F., (75 yd.) fourth. Time, 1: 58 2-5. handicaps to both teams with a profound Broad Jump—Cunningham V., ( 6in.) first; Pari­ sense of liberality. sien, F., (6 in.) second; Layden, V., (6 in.) third; The varsity tracksters had much the bet­ Craydon, F., (18 in.) fourth. Distance, 20 feet,. ter of the meet, even though some of the 9 inches. Freshmen were given a fair start over the Pole Vault—Tied for first from scratch, Harring­ ton, v., and Carey, V., 12 feet; Hanmill, V., (S) more veteran performers. The Frosh took a third; Bannon, F.; (11 feet 6 inches) fourth. wide margin to start mth in each event, 440-yd. run—(First race) McDonald, V., (10 yd.) and came in for a share of the honors. first; Stack, V., (5 yd.) second; Lahey, F., (10 yd.)' Wayne Cox running from scratch won the third; Norton, F., (25 yd.) fourth. Time :52 2-5. half mile in 1:58 2-5. Layden taking off (Second race) McCauley, F., (20 yd.) first; Bru- nett, F., (10 yd.) second; Delia Maria, V., (5 yd.> the mark for the first time this year, came third; Riley, V., (5 yd.) fourth. Time, :52. home an easy winner in the 40-yard dash in :04.3. Adam Walsh, all-round athlete par excellence, won the high and low hurdles in NOTRE DAME-LOYOLA BASKETBALL good time. Wendland took the mile run GAME with a 30 yard handicap in 4:29.5. Harring­ Playing on the home floor for the first ton found a new rival in the pole vault when time since they were handed two defeats in he tied with Carey at 12 feet. Harrington succession at Creighton, the Notre Dame tried to make it three inches higher, but cagers took a 40 to 21 victory from that just touched the bar, and rattled it from its scrappy but ineffective Loyola quintet, Sat­ I)erch. urday night, Jan. 31, at the local "Y." The one mile relay team will go to Boston Notre Dame had the game pretty much this week to run in the Knights of Columbus its own way and chances are that many games. Walsh and Layden will also compete more points might have been piled up, al­ in special events. though the work of Capt. Devlin of the Summary of the events: visitors cannot be hidden, since his splendid, Mile run—^Wendland V. (30 yd.) first; Dalmadge, efforts at the guard position caused Notre v., (50 yd.) second; Judge, V., (S) third; Phelan, Dame some trouble. F., (50 yd.) fourth. Time, 4:2.5. Siiot Put—Milbauer, V., (S) first; Trombley, F., It was a case of team work against five (5 ft.) second; Boland V., (S) third; Bachman, F., willing but uncoordinated youths, and the (1 ft.) fourth. Distance, 41 feet, 4 inches. degree of mastery of the game displayed by 40-yard high hurdles—^Walsh, V., first; Ernewein, Notre Dame easily accounted for the vast F., second; Casey, V. third. Time, :05 3-4. difference in point totals. High jump—Carey, V., (S) first;Layden and So- batski (3 in.) third. Height, 5 feet 10 inches. Crowe, McNally and Nyikos contributed THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 443

«-eneroifsly to the total score, Nyikos play­ dazzling attack of the Little Giants, led ing but 12 minutes to register 10 points. by Chadwick, flared up often and strongly. Capt. Kizer and Crowe both appear to be The odds were just a little more than Notre well back into their regular forai, the Irish Dame could offset. Chadwick and Robin­ leader making himself most effective in son were the high-point men for Wabash, blotting out the few Loyola rampages that scoring 20 and 14 points, respectively, were directed towards the Notre Dame goal. for their team. Line-up: Summary: ^•OTRE DAME (40) G FT FG PF TP NOTRE DAME WABASH €ro\ve, If. 5 3 3 1 13 jMahoney, rf. 1 2 2 4 4 Crowe F Robinson McNally, c. 4 6 3 2 11 McNally F Dezol Nyikos C : Chadwick Kizer (C.) Ig. 0 0 0 10 Convoy, rg. 1 0 0 12 Kizer (C) G-lli Burdette Conroy G Caffel Dienhart, If. 0 0 0 10 Dienhart F Ley, rf. 0 0 0 0 0 Nyikos, c. 4 4 2 1 10 Mahoney F Dahman, \g. 0 O' 0 0 0 Field Goals—Robinson -5, Dezol 2, Chadwick 8, E. Crowe, rg. 0 0 0 3 0 Caffel 1, Crowe 5, McNally 1, Nyikos 1, Kizer 3, Edwards, c. 0 0 0 0 0 Conroy 1, Mahoney 1. Free throws—^Robinson 4, Chadwick 4, McNally 1, Nyikos 4, Mahoney 1. Totals lo 15 10 14 40 LOYOLA (21). G FT FG PF TP FROSH WIN FROM CULVER McGraw, If. 4 7 4 0 12 Connoly, rf. 1 3 2 14 The Notre Dame freshmen basketball Doyle, c. , 1 10 12 team took an interesting game from the Wiatiak, Ig. 0 4 2 2 2 Culver Military Academy cadets by a score Devlin (C.) rg. 0 112 1 of 31 to 17, Jan. 31. The fii'st half ended Kamin, rf. 0 0 0 0 0 with, the visitors leading 15 to 11. The Schlacks, c. 0 0 0 0 0 Hurtubise, Ig. 0 0 0 0 0 Academy boys were playing gamely but when play was resumed it was apparent Totals 6 16 9 6 21 that they could not hold out against their Officials—Kearns, DePaul; Reynolds, Chicago. more experienced and bigger opponents. Foi-wards Happer and Purcell were the HOCKEY SCHEDULE high point men for the Freshmen while Cole played an excellent guarding game for The Notre Dame hockey schedule in its Culver. complete forai is announced by Coach Tom The line-up: Lieb as follows: CULVER (17). B F PF TP Feb. 6—M. A. C. at Notre Dame. Briggs, f. 2 0 1 4 Feb. 7—St. Thomas at Minneapolis. Deford, f. 2 0 0 Feb. 9-10—Minnesota at Minneapolis. Folckemer, c. 1 0 Feb. 13—^Wisconsin at Madison. Harris, g. _1 0 1 Feb. 14—M. A. C. at Lansing. Cole, g. _0 0 0 Feb. 23-24—Minnesota at Notre Dame. Whitcrawft, g. _2 0 0

1 2 17 NOTRE DAME LOSES TO WABASH Totals NOTKE DAME (31). B F PF TP Playing desperately, and at times holding Happer, f. __4 0 0 8 the lead, the Notre Dame basketball team Purcell, f. -_4 0 1 8 went down to a 40 to 30 defeat at the hands Devault, f. __2 0 0 4 0 4 of Wabash college at Crawfordsville, Feb. 3. Murphy, c. ._2 1 Rust, g. ._0 1 0 1 Capt. Noble Kizer and Clem Crowe Harvey,. g. -_3 0 1 6 played a fighting game and found the vd on numerous occasions for scores, but the Totals 15 3 31 444 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

NOTRE DAME SPORT PROGRAM formers will also have played Wisconsin on Lake Mendota at Madison. February, the shortest month in the year, will The hockey and boxing teams will spread their be the biggest month in point of athletic events arms on Saturday, Feb. 14, the stickmen invading for the coaches and performers in the sport circle Lansing for a return match with the Aggies, while at Notre Dame. No fewer than twenty-eight events the glove pushers \vill be introducing Notre Dame are booked for the month on home and foreign to the middies at Annapolis, thus completing ath­ fields. Basketball, track and the minor sports, box­ letic relations with the government's two service ing, hockey and swimming, will vie with one an­ schools. The boxers are hopeful of making as other for a share of the limelight that is relin­ good an impression on the sailors as gridders made quished to the winter sports, now that the all-en­ on the Army guards last fall. grossing pastime of football is history. While these two teams are away from home, the The Saturdays throughout February are accord­ feature attractions on the bill for the local fandom ed the greatest favor as being the most convenient will be a track meet Avith Illinois at the Notre date on which to engage in athletic competition. Dame gymnasium in the afternoon and a basket-

Date Basketball Track Hockey Swimming Boxing Feb. 7 Illinois Boston St. Thomas Fort Wayne here Blue and Gold there here Feb. 9 Minn, there Feb. 10 Butler Minn, here there Feb. 11 Wisconsin there Feb. 14 Illinois M. A. C. Interteam Wabash Navy here here there here Feb. 21 Hoosier A. C. Penn State N. W. Ames there there there here Feb. 23 Carnegie Minn, Indiana there here there

Feb. 24 Minn. here Feb. 28 Fi-anklin III. Relays M. A. C. here there there Mar. 3 M. A. C. here Mar. 7 "Wisconsin there

Saturday, Feb. 7 will see Notre Dame teams com­ ball game Avith Wabash in the eA'ening at the "Y." peting on five different fields. While Coach George The track encounter is certain to be numbered Keogan's basketball team is entertaining a share among the stellar sport attractions appearing in of fandom with the Illinois game at the local "Y," South Bend this year. Harry Gill, of the Illini the swimming team will be engaged in a water track team, Avill bring several record-breaking stars carnival with the Fort Wayne "Y" at the City Avith him, including Dean BroAvnell in the pole natatorium. Away from home will be Coach Tom vault and Dan Kinsey in the high hurdles. Both Lieb's hockey team, playing St. Thomas at Minne­ men are Olympic perfoi-mers. apolis, while Rockne's crack one mile relay team, The Aveek of Feb. 14 to the 21, Avill be devoid of with Layden and Walsh in special events, will be any intervening attraction. On Saturday, Feb. 21, competing in Boston. Rockne will also stage the a boxing match Avith Ames AATIU be the only local annual Blue and Gold meet in the Notre Dame attraction and one that should be the equal of the gym, Saturday afternoon. Nebraska football game last fall. The Irish glove Intervening between Saturdays will be a game Avielders have a score to settle Avith the Ames with Butler college basketball team here, and two scrappers, and Springer's proteges are Avarming up hockey matches Avita Minnesota university at Min­ now for the feature ring attraction of the year. neapolis^ Before the end of the Aveek the ice per- On the same day, the Notre Dame basketball THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 445

team will meet Penn State at State College, Pa., in the Notre Dame gymnasium, Wednesday night. and Rocknes' track team will endeavor to annex Nearly one thousand spectators filled the gallery a victory over the Purple fliers at Northwestern. and ringside seats to witness one of the scrappiest The swimming team will also be engaged in pitting cards put on at Notre Dame this year. their speed and endurance against the Hoosier A. Lorenger and Harvey opened the program in the C. at the state capitol. bantamweight division, mixing it hard and fast On Feb. 23, Keogan's cage team will swing into for three rounds. Lorenger won the decision in the Pittsburg for a tilt with the engineers at Carnegie second and third rounds, Harvey taking the first, Tech and the swimming team will travel to Bloom- and showing a good right hand. ington to meet Indiana. Lieb's puck chasers begin Jack Spillane won the next fight in the feather­ a two game series with the Gophers on the local weight class from Brisbane, and appeared again in rink if robbins and peach blossoms have not dis­ the evening to clinch his title by winning a whirl­ pelled the ground work for the ice contest. wind scrap from Donnelly. Against Brisbane, Spil­ The basketball team will play host to Franklin, lane swapped punches on even terms in the opener the Hoosier "wonder team'" on Feb. 28, while the but took the last two with a flash of superior fight­ tracksters are seeking honors in the annual Illinois ing. Brisbane fought a game fight against his. relays at Urbana and the swimmers are enter­ more capable opponent. taining the Aggie water men at the city pool. Garcia and De Pasquali mixed three hard and These three events -will climax the sport calendar furious rounds in the lightweight class, De Pas­ for the month of February and likewise preclude quali taking the title in an extra round. The first the end of the winter program which will be com­ frame went about even, but Garcia showed plenty of pleted with a basketball game at Lansing on March fight in the second, winning it by a fair margin. 3 and a track meet with the Badgers at Madison The third round found both contestants tiring on March 7. from the furious milling, but in the extra round, The calendar of events will require the services De Pasquali landed to the face and body cleanly of approximately 70 performers played oflf in a for points. The greater part of the fighting in­ total of 35 hours, of which 16 hours will be played cluded body blows, both men missing considerably. on the local fields. Five coaches will be required Gosling and Willoughby took up the card for the to direct the destinies of these teams and the hours welterweight division. Gosling getting the decision. spent in preparing for the events are numberless. Neither man inflicted much punishment and the blows were wild but hard. Pat Campbell and Pete NAME PP]RSONNEL OF IRISH RELAY TEAMS Donnelly gave a clever exhibition of footwork and terly fought rounds, the tide of battling changing After conducting time trials in the quarter and in almost every round. Lyn started out with a halfmile events. Coach Rockne announced Wednes­ world of speed, but failed to last. Campbell ham­ day, the members of the two relay teams that will mered his way for winning points in the second compete on foreign tracks Saturday night. Capt. and won the third round and the fight by admin­ Barr, Coughlin, McTiernan and Stack will comprise istering a hard beating to his opponent who hung the one mile relay team which will run in a dual on the ropes till the bell. Lyn's speed was of no race with Harvard at the Knights of .Columbus avail in, the closing minutes and the terrific jabs games at Boston Saturday night. Elmer Layden of his opponent played havoc with his defense. will run in a special sprint race and Adam Walsh One of the best fights on the program was run will compete in a special hurdle race at the Boston off when Spillane appeared again to fight Donnelly, event. announced as the amateur featherweight champion A two mile relay team including Cox, Masterson, of Cleveland. Donnelly started out well and took Nulty and Judge, will compete in the Kansas City a fair share of aggressiveness throughout the fight, A. C. games at Kansas City Saturday night. With but lost on points in the extra round declared nec­ the exception of Judge, the other three runners were essary by the judges at the close of the third. included in the team that won the special two mile Donnelly gave a clever exhibition of footwork and relay race at the I. A. C. games in Chicago on the lightning punches. In the early stages of the fight, occasion of Nurmi's first appearance in the central he turned back the attack of Spillane, who was west. On that team, Young ran in place of Judge. handicapped by having fought one fight earlier in the evening. Donnelly took the second round, land­ ing flush to Spillane's face, the latter losing his N. D. BOXERS MEET IN ELIMINATION TO guard under the lightning-like blows. In the third DETERMINE TITLES round, Spillane came back, somewhat rerfeshed by The elimination bouts for the championship of the brief rest, and broke through his opponent's the university and to determine the personnel of the guard for blows that counted. Donnelly was tiring glove team that will defend the Irish colors against and in the extra rou.,i failed to ward off the the middies at Annapolis on Feb. 14, was staged aggressiveness of Spillane. 446 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

McClure and O'Brien fought three rounds of the hope that the life after school would tame boxing, McClure being billed to fight a second find them putting into practice the ideals and the bout with Campbell. Campbell, however, forfeited philosophies they had learned from "Rock." because of injuries. Gosling also forfeited to De Among the guests Avere many men prominent in Pasquali, being badly cut in his bout wdth Wil- South Bend business and pi'ofessional life. Many loughby. of them Avere called upon by Rockne Avho acted The final event on the card brought together Pat as toastmaster, and their sentiments Avere ex­ Canny of Notre Dame and Bobby .McFarlane of pressed in keeping A\ath the spirit of the eA'^ening. Chicago, the latter being billed for the main event After the program of talks. Coach Rockne dele­ of the show at LaPoi-te Thursday night. gated Adam Walsh to send telegrams to Jimmy Crowley at Green Bay and to Ward "Doc" Connell at Beloit, stating the regrets of the team that they CLEM CROWE ELECTED TO LEAD could not be in South Bend for the last assembly 1925 VARSITY of the team as a Avhole. Clem Crowe, of Lafayette, Ind., a junior in Agri­ Coach Rockne, speaking his personal sentiments culture and substitute end on the Notre Dame foot­ on the occasion said that he regretted the passing ball team of 1924 was elected captain of the eleven of the team, because he was sure that the eleven of 1925 to succeed Adam Walsh at a banquet given of 1924 Avas the most perfect organization that by the athletic association to the members of the CA'er carried the standard of Notre Dame. varsity and freshmen teams at the Oliver hotel, "There are many fine boys going out," he said, Thursday evening, Feb. 5. "and their Avork during the past season reflects a Crowe Avho did relief Avork for Charley Collins credit upon them and upon the school that Avill not on the national champion eleven of last fall, is a soon be forgotten. We cannot expect to duplicate genuine Notre Dame football pi-oduct, being devel­ the performance of the past season for many sea­ oped by Coach Eockne since coming to Notre sons to come. Football cannot be learned OA'er Dame. Crowe was a basketball player in high night and the new men Avho Avill moA'^e up in the school and was picked as forward on the Indiana ranks con only hope to give their best while they all-state team for three consecutive years. • are acquiring the experience that Avas eax-ned by the men Avho ai-e passing on." After the balloting, Crowe spoke a few Avords In introducing each player Avho Avill be grad­ ±0 the players in which he thanked them for the uated in June, Rockne was generous in praise of exceptional honor they had bestowed upon him, their ability, expressed his regi-et at their leaAing, and promised them that despite the heavy schedule and Avished them individually the best of success that was outlined for next year, he and the team in after life. -would be out there giA'ing their best. "Remember," he said, "in the yeai'S to come, Rex Enright of Rockford, 111., a fullback on the that no matter AA'here you ai'e or Avhat circuin- teams of 1922-23, was placed in the race for the stances you are in, you Avill have a perpetual Avel- office with Crowe on the first ballot. After the come here at Notre Dame Avhere the latch string result had been announced, Enright congratulated is always out". When you come back here to A-isit, the new leader and told the players, that for the you Avill know that you are among friends. Also same reason that it was better to have loved and you Avill find in the years to come that the friend­ lost than not to have loved at all, so it also was ships you have foi-med Avith your teammates A\-ill that he was glad to have been considered and lost be the most durable of things that you can imag­ than not to have been considei-ed at all. ine. They Avill be lasting and sincere, and should The banquet board around which the varsity and the contending forces of life strew the shattered freshmen players sat, together with the assistant remnants of your hopes and ambitions at your coaches, managers and guests, was not entirely feet, you Avill knoAV that among your teammates one of rejoicing. The hour marked the parting of you AA^U find a friend and one Avho Avill sacrifice the way for a team that had played and sacrificed for you Avhen you are doAvn." together for three years and which in the final FoUoAving is the list of guests and players Avho act had brought to Notre Dame a national title responded to toasts: Rev. Hugh O'Donnell, C.S.C, and to the coach and players, lasting fame. George Hull, Mike Gallon, Frank Coughlin, Carl Each of the passing players as he was called Ginz, Dr. C. L. Guyer, William Hayes, Jess Pa- upon by "Rock," expressed his sincere regret for vey, Cap Edwards, Thomas Hynes, Al Ryan, George having to leave the team and the school and tear Keogan, George Vergara, Hartley Anderson, Tom apart the material ties of friendship that had Lieb, Eddie Luther, Leo Sutliffe, Charley Glueck- knitted the team into such a perfect unit of power ert, Ed. Hunsinger, Bernie Livergood, Bill Cerney, and coordination. Unanimously they voiced their Don Miller, Joe Bach, W. Eaton, E. Miller, John thanks to Rockne who by his patience and en­ Weibel, Noble Kizer, Charley Collins, Harry Stuhl- couragement and careful teachings had made them dreher, Elmer Laydon, Adam Walsh and Joe Har­ Notre Dame football men. They also expressed mon. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 447

SO THEY TELL ME BY WARREN W. BROWN HOTEL LA SALLE Knute Rockne is becoming as well known in the After Dinner League as in the council chambers Offers a of football. At the last reckoning, Eockne was two dinners Special Dollar Dinner up on Will Rogers, who is accepted as the world's- Friday and Saturday Evenings champion speaker after banquets, luncheons, and to welcome the at any and all meetings of the Associated Badge Notre Dame Alumni Wearers of North America. When the Notre Dame coach left South Bend a Music by Harry Denny's Orchestra few days ago, for a trip to Philadelphia to ac­ cept the trophy awarded his team as national champions by the "Veteran Athletes' Association, Mrs. Rockne suggested rather mildly that it was D D about time for the After Dinner Circuit's schedule * D D to end. "Never mind, my dear," Rockne told her. "Next D D season we'll lose three or four games and 111 be D D home for dinner every night." * * * The demand for Rockne's presence at so many . gatherings of the "That Reminds Me of a Story Lunches in the Coffee Shop Club" is due in a great measure to his fame as a football coach. But the reputation of the coach as a story teller is widening. His audiences no longer listen respectfully to what he has to say MICHIGAN AT LA SALLE about football. They want him to tell stories. And he can tell them. * * * Rockne"s Fogarty story, and the yam about the young man who didn't want to slip oif the bench, have been told and re-told so often that their au­ thor has had to dig up some new ones for this SEE BERMAN season in the After Dinner League. When he appeared at a dinner in Los Angeles, AND THE BOYS following the game with Stanford, Rockne, one of the last speakers, sat by while he heard Andy Kerr, Stanford assistant coach, relate the bench slipping yarn. * * * D D n One story that Rockne has been giving an aiiing^ lately has to do with a Notre Dame team of a certain season, playing Pittsburgh, and not having^ a very nice time of it. We carry a Complete Line of Finally a new quarterback was sent in to open things up, a quarterback, Rockne says, who had never opened anything up but an umbrella in his Radio Supplies life. He called for a double pass, followed by a lateral pass. The double pass was all right, but the lateral was all wrong. The ball rolled to the Notre Dame one yard line and Pittsburgh recovered, "The Coach shot in a new guard," Rockne said, n D D "and when he reported to the referee, the team could see he was just dying to tell them some message of great import. So they pitched into the defense with a fury, and Pittsburgh's first smash was held without gain. The players were around 126 NORTH MICHIGAN the new guard in the flash, ears up like donkeys. 'What'd the coach say?' the demanded. 448 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

"The new guard cleared, his throat, and gasped: 'The coach says to HOLD 'EM'?" ^ :•; :>: DNB\RM1ELED Eockne's wit is not limited to the After Dinner League. He 6obhdi)snie1bDis Si is as fast on the come-back as any one now before the sport­ * EUROPE ^' r'•*^^ ing public. AVhen he was in the East re­ '^ cently, it was called to his at­ Ask for (Mr Saiiling Schedules tention that Glenn Warner had said much about all the first Largie choice of downs and all the ground his itineraries tours team had gained at Pasadena. by leading Liners "That's right," answered Eockne. "And next year, in every few days the world's series, they'i-e going during season to decide the games by the GLO-Ctf^ number of men left on bases." ^ ^- ^ RATE>om;f25& Iburlveeks all expense tour visiting Pnris. One of the visitors at Pasa­ Versailles "Brussels Antwerp. London.ete. ''Educates" dena was an official from this territory, who had called three OMT Reputation is Yonr GtmrmOu! the Hair fifteen yard penalties against Notre Dame in a game last THOS. COOK & SON CHICAGO A few drops season. , 203 So. Dearborn St., cor Adams "Hello. Cyclops," Eockne before school greeted the official. keeps the hair When the coach had moved away, the official wanted to combed all know what was meant by that. He was reminded that Cyclops day. Refresh­ were mythical "One Eyed" Con­ ing, pleasing. nollys, whom nature denied any­ thing but a one-sided view of At ding connten and barber any situation.—Chicago Herald sliops eisijvlMxe. and Examiner. IXHX) CGioss-Comb) THE ORIGINAL LIQUIDI^Oft HAIR DRESS Real Men and Boys Send for Sample Bottle Mail conpon .TO DA IT for senerons trial bottle. IforBany Prodacta Co., esilMcKinleyAT^IiOS Angeles, CaL

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