The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus 9o7^ The Notre Dame Alumnus ;•• Vol. IV Contents for Octobei-, 1925 "No. 1 The New Year at Notre Dame S The Community Changes of 1925-1926 6 Dr. Max Pam, LL.D 7 Faculty Board of Control of Athletics, by Eev. George J. Finnigan, C. S. C 8 "The Four Winners"—"Coaching" 10 A 1925 Texas Eeaction 11 Editorial 12 The New Extension to the Gymnasium 13 Athletics '. : 14 The Alumni :. 19 The magazine is published monthly durinjr the scholastic year, by the Alumni Association of the University ot Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. The subscription price is S2.00 a year; the price of single copies is 25 cents. The annual alumni dues, of S5.00 include a year's subscription to The Alumnus. Entered as second-class matter January 1, 1923, at the post office at Notre Dame, Indiana, under the Act ot March 3, 1S97. All corres­ pondence should be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus, Bo.x 81, Notre Dame, Indiana. ALFRED C. RY-iN, '20, Editor The Alumni Association — of the — Hi'- University of Notre Dame Alumni Headquarters: 232 Adminhtrathn Bldg., Notre Dame. Alfred C. Ryan, '20, General Secretary. ALUMNI BOARD EEV. M. L. MORIARTY, '10 Honorary President WILLIAM P. MCPHEE, '90 President DANIEL J. O'CONNOR, '05 Vice-President ALFRED C. EYAN, '20 Secretary WARREN A. CARTIER, '87 Treasurer THOMAS J. MCKEON, '90 Director JOSEPH M. HALEY, '99 Director JOHN P. MURPHY, '12 Director EDW. C. MCHUGH, '13 Director ir m THE NEW YEAR AT NOTRE DAME m m s EACH SEPTEMBER has brought to the tic change was made in the prevailing code, University of Notice Dame increasing but a better understanding and a more A^numbers of students and enlarged intense sense of individual responsibility faculties, broader views of administration had changed the complexion of student life. and new university policies, there have been There were many more influences, quietly predictions that surely that particular year at work, that brought to the portals of Notre marked the beginning of a new era in the Dame, the high type of youth that came in history of the school. It was heralded as the increasing numbers. Greater Notre Dame. Voices were sincere Naturally, the nationwide publicity given in the acclamation that the Notre Dame of representatives of the University in student that period was the greatest year Notre life awakened an interest among the pre­ Dame had ever enjoyed. Truly, the gratify­ paratory school boys. The youth sought ing signs of the new terms were the bless­ the place where achievement, physical or ings favoring the University as a reward mental, enjoyed the proper recognition. for its unwavering adherence to the policies Notre Dame was becoming more nationally of a thoroughly genuine higher Catholic known and respected. The University, ever education. among the leaders in Catholic education, Shortly after the war, the demands of was becoming, year after year, a more out­ the different colleges of the University standing institution in circles of learning. necessitated the abolition of the preparatoi-y Each year, the alumni of the University school. The classrooms, the residence halls, were meriting the success of a Notre Dame the dining rooms—yes, even the professors training—a Catholic training, if you please. were needed to care for the large enroll­ Our alumni, small in number years ago, ment in the college departments. A year were multiplying. They were gradually, or so later, the campus residence rule was but effectively, establishing themselves in discarded through necessity. Rooms on the positions where the success of individual ef­ campus were not available for the number forts and thorough training, coupled }vith of men who sought to enter the University. an inherited ability, was commanding at­ Hundreds of men were forced to live in the tention. To these men must be attributed city, lose that undeniable influence of campus some of the credit for the spread of the life and participate only half-heartedly in good words about Notre Dame. They have the activities of the student group. reflected the spirit of Notre Dame in every The increasing number of students war­ day life and it has prompted the sons of ranted a change in the administrative their friends to matriculate at Notre Dame. policies. The old, rigid rules of campus To the University, its priests and profes­ life were made more attractive. There was sors, is the highest tribute to be paid. They an influence among the students that Avas have sacrificed in the spirit of faith in the materially reducing the disciplinary pi-ob- institution. It was their vision, their poli­ lems. It was the edifying spread of prac­ cies and their continued efforts that laid the tical, day-to-day Catholicity. Eeligion, al­ foundation of whatever favor the institu­ ways the outstanding influence at Notre tion and its men has received. Dame, had become an essential factor in That is the background against which to every student's life. Daily Communion was compare the Notre Dame of 1925-1926. on the increase. The closer contact •with the Today the University has over 2500 stu­ religious phases of Notre Dame, through dents registered in full college courses. The the remarkable efforts of Rev. John F. registration last year was 2097. Registra­ O'Hara, C. S. C, in bringing before the tion has reached its peak. Notre Dame has student body, the efficacies of religion in its full complement of students. Father a manner best suited to their unusual en­ Walsh, the president, announced last year vironment, had made unnecessary the more that Notre Dame would always limit its stu­ rigid disciplinary rules. Not that any dras­ dent body to approximately twenty-five THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS hundred young men. Within six months of Hall, in recognition of the renowned Pro­ his announcement, the University was oblig­ fessor Howard of former years. ed to reject the applications of several Howard Hall houses approximately one hundred young men. Notre Dame had com­ hundred and fifty freshmen. It is a brick pleted its family. There was no room structure rising four floors above grade. for more, and today, we find the ideal situa­ For a building of its size, the hall does not tion in'reference to numbers. make its height felt. The main lines of Dsspits the extensive building program eaves and ridge work are low and rambling inaugurated last year, as soon as funds were with ever-occurring gables of all sizes. The available, campus residence is impossible for tower is without doubt the most compelling approximately one thousand students. This feature. It fuses well into the building, number is accommodated in selected homes and has a broad hold on all around it. A in the different ssctions of South Bend. Al­ carved and cusped bay grows out of the location of day students has been made entrance buttress at the center archway, according to class standing. The fresh­ runs through two stories, and stops with men reside in the section close to the Uni­ the pierced coping of its parapet. versity campus; the other classmen are re­ As one enters the building the left door stricted to residences in other parts of the leads to the south wing and the right to the city^. What a change from the year when north wing. Dull stained doors of heavj'' "The Lilacs" housed the privileged few off- oak are equipped with rough iron hardware campus men. and a small pane of leaded glass harmonize To meet the changing conditions, the first with the random quoined and carved stone­ residence hall of the new Freshman unit, work which surround them. A small vesti­ situated directly south of the Library and bule paved with red brick and wainscoted west of Badin, or old St. Joe Hall, was awaits the visitor just inside the door. This erected and ready for occupancy at the opens into the terrazzo floored corridor. opening of school. It was named Howard The student rooms lead off this corridor. THE RECENTLY COMPLETED HOWARD HALL TH£ NOTKE DAME ALUMNUS MORRISSEY HALL. NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION Most of the rooms are designed for single Morrissey Hall, named for Eev. Andrew occupancy; but at the far ends of the corri­ Morrissey, C. S. C, former president of the dors there are a few double rooms. The University and Provincial of the Holy Cross floors are of oak and are stained in a dull Community, is under construction in the brown. Both the interior and exterior of western section of the campus, south of the the six-lighted windows benefit the scale. library. It will accommodate two hundred Each section of each floor has a conveniently and fifty men, mostly in single rooms'and located toilet and bath with gray tiled floors is the second building of the Freshman and wainscot. The quarters of the rectors Dormitory group, of which the recently and prefects are equipped in much the compl&ted Howard Hall was the first. same fashion as the student rooms. One of the special features of the build­ It is larger than Howard as planned and ing is the lounge rooms at the ends of the will be the central hall of the new quad­ corridors. Three panelled openings allow rangle. In architectural character.it will admittance from the corridor. The room hold its relationship with Howard. The is lighted by steel casements and the walls main entrancs will be marked by a tower are of panelled oak.