The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus April, 19S1 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 257 "9 COMMENT IN TlilS I##1JC Knnte K. Eockne_ -Frontispiece "The Inevitable Hour" 1 259 As announced in the lead U. N. D. Night, A Map, by Prof. F. X Ackermann_ . 260 story, the ALUMNUS in this Alumni Hall :_ _i . 261 issue, out so soon after the James J. Phelan, Laetare Medallist _. 263 Eockne ti-agedy, will not attempt Athletics, by Joseph Petritz . 264 to include the details of that Editorial 269 story. Religious Survey Questionnaire 275 The Alumni Clubs 277 The public pi-ess in this coun­ The Alumni . 282 try and throughout the world, have brought to Notre Dame The magazine is published monthly during the scholastic year by the Alumni men the facts of the case that Association of the University of Notre Dazne. Notre Dame. Indiana. The subscription price is $2.00 a year; the price of single copies- is 25 cents. The are interpreted in the word annual alumni dues of S5.00 include a year's subscription to THE ALTJMKtTS. Entered as second-class matter Jtuiuary 1, 1923, at the post o£5c« at Notre "news." There have been many Dame, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. All correspondence should feature stories, many poems, be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus. Bmc 81, Notre Dame. Indiana. and many other journalistic ex­ MEMBEB OP THE AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL pressions that have paid their MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC ALUMNI FEDERATION tribute to Rock, the most con­ sistent news copy of the last decade. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS JAMES E. ARMSTEONG, '25, Editor The ALUMNUS is planning to make the May issue a Me­ morial issue in which the best of the news stories, the best of the THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION editorials, the best of the car­ of the toons and photographs, the best UNIVERSITY OF NOtRE DAME. of the features, the sermon, the Alumni Headquarters, Main Floor Adininistration Bldg., telegrams, the letters, and the Notre Dame, Indiana thousand other beautiful expres­ JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, General Secretary sions of these tragic hours can be put in the hands of alumni in ALUMNI BOARD a form that will enable them to REV. JOHN CAVANAUGH, C.S.C, '90 Honorary President FRANK E. HEBING, '98 President" be preserved. HON. WILLIAM J. GRANFIEXD, '13 Vice-President JASIES E. ARMSTRONG, '25 Secretary This will take time and effort "WALTER DUNCAN, '12 - - Treasurer at a season when time and effort GEORGE M. MAYPOLE, '03 Director M. HARRY MILLEE, '10 Director are at a premium. The co-oper­ T. PAUL MCGANNON, '07 Director ation of the members is asked in JOHN W. EGGEMAN, '00 (ex officio) Director sending in immediately those clippings from the press that ^••<ii iiiiiiiitii IIIIMIIIIIIIlit ••iinttllinMtlllMtlUllltHiiltllllllllllllltfllMlllttllilUtMtllllilDllliUIIHQ stood out in the various cities of this national Night, but turn But everywhere there can be, that our Association includes. its purpose this year to the com­ mth all the natural grief and memoration of one of the great­ regret, the comiction that Notre est of the sons of Notre Dame. A few suggestions have been Dame and Notre Dame men will join, as never before, in the per­ made that Universal Notre In honoring him, we honor petuation of that fame which Night this year be abandoned in Her whom he loved and served. memory of Rock. It seems, how­ Eockne brought to Notre Dame. ever, to those officers of the There can be none of the old There can be the "Victory University and the Association joyousness. There can be none March" more stirring than ever whom the Alumni Secretary has of the securily of ti-iumph that before in the face of a great consulted, more fitting that we reposed in the knowledge that go ahead Avith our observance Rock held the reins. adversity. 258 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS April, 1931 KNUTE KENNETH ROCKNE, '14, (1888-1931) R. I. P. April, 1931 THENOTREDAMEALUMNUS 259 THE INEVITABLE HOUR When Death intercepted the pass that Knute Eockne had resorted to in an effort to run up a score for Life, it raced for a victory against Notre Dame that is difficult to accept in the Notre Dame manner. The ALUMNUS cannot attempt in this issue, which was already on its way to the press, to digest for alumni the gi-eat mass of material that has mirrored one of the nation's greatest griefs, a loss to Notre Dame that is irreparable. News was flashed to every corner of the world of the death of Knute Rockne, a death as meteoric in its dramatic tragedy as the few years that brought him to a peak of prominence transcending the narrow confines of the sporting world. "Rock" was the idol of neighborhoods and nations. Praise of Rockne forms a litany that brings a responsive Requiescat from the hearts of the world. Inspirer of youth, maker of men, apostle of sportsmanship — death has removed a character whose influence stretched far beyond his official sphere. He died as perhaps he would have wished to die, a patron of progress. Knute Rockne was essentially progressive. Years, few in number — he was only 43 — had brought him more fame than most men's lives can measure. And death, aside from its religious significance, has brought him life. Those virtues which Knute Rockne embodied and which he inculcated in those fortunate boys who came within his influence, will erect a monu­ ment to him at Notre Dame, permanent, priceless. "Rock" taught Notre Dame how to lose, as well as how to win. Never has the knowledge been more needed. Notre Dame and Notre Dame men will not fail, in those lessons he has left. "Take it on the chin." Notre Dame has always kno^^^l that. When religious and laymen scraped the hot bricks of the ruins of an older Notre Dame to rebuild immediatelj", they knew this virtue. It was here when "Rock" came, and he absorbed it and used it at its best. "Never boast." To "Rock," with all the laurels that were proffered that famous brow, it was always "Notre Dame." And under his guidance the extraordinary success that came to Notre Dame was tempered with this modesty of achievement. The temptation to go on in the pages of eulogy that could be justly heaped upon him is sti-ong. Alumni, however, are reading in every printed medium the thousands of tributes that have followed his tragic passing. It is the purpose of the ALUMNUS, in the May issue, to gather the outstanding results of this catastrophe into a Memorial Edition that can bring to alumni those things about Knute Rockne that Notre Dame men want to remember. 260 THE NOTRE DAHE ALUMKXTS April, 1931 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Volume IX. APRIL, 1931 No. 8 Alumni HalK^ Is The Name of New Dormitory Realization of Former Plans for Old Students Building on Campus Announced; "Dillon Hall" Second Selection Alumni of Notre Dame, particularly those active before would wish to make use of the building on their visits to 1923 in the interests of the Old Students Hall Fund, will the University." be especially interested in the announcement by the Uni­ The term "alumni" has come, in American education, versity that the new residence hall at the comer of Notre to be general for all matriculates of a college who have Dame Avenue and and the Dorr Road drive will be called been graduated or who have left school permanently for Alumni Hall. one reason or another. Hence, The University has de­ the new term "Alumni Hall" cided upon this recognition is not only more euphonious, of the loyalty and interest of but equally comprehensive^ alumni for several reasons. Another interesting ex­ First, at the time of the cerpt from the historical files school's building and endow­ of the original fund is found ment drive in 1922, the Asso­ in the minutes of the annual ciation turned over to the meeting in 1917: "A motion campaign the sum of sixty was unanimously agreed on thousand dollars (?60,000) that the Old Students' Hall which enabled the University funds be invested in Liberty to complete the arrangements Bonds." The funds at that upon which the gift of the time approximated $20,000. General Education Board was At the next annual meet­ conditional. ing, however, the Building At the time this gift was Committee reported that $25,- made the following resolution 000 had been loaned to the by William A. Mclnemy, '01, University, as a more inmie- was offered and unanimously diately worthy project, and approved: the meeting ratified the loan "Be it resolved by the and instructed the Treasurer Notre Dame Alumni Associa­ to turn over subsequent funds tion that all moneys and received, when they aggre­ securities in the Old Stu­ gated ?1,000, to the Uni­ dents' Building Fund as well versity, the rate of interest as all unpaid pledges to the being fixed at 4%. Activity same be turned over to the in soliciting was practically University of Notre Dame in suspended during the Gov­ use in its Endowment or ernment's appeals for funds Building Fund as suggested for the conduct of the war. in the communication of Rev. In 1920, the Associatioii Father Bums, C.S.C., Presi­ was on the verge of begin­ dent of the University. It is ning the erection of the pro­ understood that by the terms posed Hall, but because of of said letter, the first addi­ the unsettled conditions in tional dormitory to be con­ the building field, no satis­ structed by the University factory contract could be se­ will be known as Old Stu­ REVEREND PATRICK DILLON, C.S.C.