MWTi-winni'ir^^ii fry-/4r^:«^;.^a^x.^..a^- The Notre Dame Scholastic 459 [•JiliiiililtlitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiititiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiJiittiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiitiiiiiiiiiitiiiiititiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii fal COMMENT I The Notre Dame Scholastic j One of the most pleasant and con­ genial members of our office force I Disce Quasi Semper Victurus Vive Quasi CrasMoriturus | has suggested that this column of I Founded 1867 I "Just Filler" be replaced with some­ thing more interesting. As a substi­ tute, our friend said that we might EIHL L. TELFEL—EDITOR-IX-CI!IEF run a column entitled "The Man Who Assistant Managing _Editor Managing Editor Assistant Managing Editor Was." That would indeed be ap­ NEIL 0. HURLEY JOHN E. BERGAX JOHN A. KIENER propriate at this time. The second Associate Editors semester as a rule means nothing EDWARD E. BRENKAN JAMES J. KEARNEY EDWARD R. BEENNAN more than passing a few "pipe" AusTiN BOYLE JAMES CARMODY PAUL J. HALLINAN exams and going on with the regu­ JOHN PICK AVlLLIA.1I COUR LLOYD TESKE lar routine. (All agreeing say "aye"). The Week Make-xtp Editors College Parade This year, however, we are astonished RICHARD J. O'DONNELL WALTER V. BEESLEY DANIEL C. WILLIAMS at the number of men scurrying across the campus with bags in hand, Music and Drama Feature Editor Campus Clubs ready to face an irate father at home. FRANK E. SEWARD JAMES K. COLLINS W. LESLIE R,\DDATZ And we aren't losing only freshmen; Neivs Staff many of the men who have been to­ WILLIAM C. KARL, News Editor gether four, almost four years, are WILLIAM F. FITZGERALD, Assistant .Vivt-s Ed'tor JOHN CONLEY ANTHONY R. SCHREINER LAWRENCE DUNDA leaving. It is a tough break and we Mi'RON CKAWFOKD F. GRANGER WEIL L<VWRENCE PRYBYLSKI hate to see them go. On the other JOHN PICK WALTER JOHNSON EDJIUND STEPIIAN hand, we are consoled by the fact JOSEPH DEGNAN RICHARD MOLIGUE W'ILLIAJI KNOX that many of our friends are coming Spo7-ts Staff back after a leave of absence. May HENRY B. ASMAN, Sports Editor they do better! CLEVE CAREY GEORGE BELTING T. EDWARD CAREY JAMES E. MCFEELY, JR. JAMES KEARNS IRVING B. HALPER And what a beating the office force Business Staff is taking! It is really a dirty shame JAMES H. RORKE, Local Advertising Mgr. JOHN R. BLANDA. LOCOZ Circulation Mgr. that our freshmen can't have morn­ JAMES L. RIZER, Foreign Advertising Mgr. ANDREW MCGCAN. Foreign Circulation Mgr. ing classes the year through. Every­ FREDERICK BAUER RAYMOND J. NABEI: JOHN P. HESS where we hear them complaining JOHN F. STOECKLEY—GRADUATE MANAGER OF PUBLICATIONS about having a "two-fifteen three MERLE BALD^\lN. Publications Office Manager days a week" and some go so far as to gripe about a one-fifteen." We Vol. LXIV. FEBRUARY 6, 1931. No. 15. might take sides with a senior who should be burdened unnecessarily with afternoon classes but our "alumni- TABLE OF CONTENTS freshmen," oh boy! It is a physical The Week—Richard J. O'Donnell 461 impossibility to give everyone the Scholarships Announced—Lloyd Teske 463 schedule he would like, so if you Music and Drama—Frank E. Seivard . 465 happen to have an afternoon session, Glances at the Magazines—Edward R. Brennan 468 and can't have it changed, don't com­ Book Reviews—John Pick 469 plain too much, you just got a poor A Man About the Campus—William Kno.v 472 break; there are other semesters com­ A Man You Know—Edward E. Brennan 473 ing, and who knows but what you Campus Clubs—W. Leslie Raddatz 474 might have all morning classes at Editor's Page 475 least once before you get out of College Parade—Daniel C-Williams 476 school ? The Wink 477 Cagers Triumph Over Hoosiers—T. Edward Carey 478 A good move to pacify a large num­ "Scrap-Iron" Young Rejects LSLW—Irving B. Halper 479 ber of discontented men who have Splinters From the Press Box—Henry B. As^man 485 spare hours during the day and who At the South Bend Theatres—John Francis 486 spend them in Brownson "Rec," would On Down the Line—Cleve Carey 488 be to purchase a few decks of cards for the use of those men. Bridge is a good, clean game and an hour spent THE SCHOLASTIC is published weekly at the University of Notre Dame, Manu­ scripts may be addressed to THE SCHOLASTIC, Publications Office, Main Buildinsr. in Brownson "rec" without some form of amusement besides checkers is Entered as second-class matter at Notre Dame, Indiana. Acceptance for mailins at indeed a dull one. Bridge is the cam­ special rate of postage. Section 1103, October 3, 1917. authorized June 25, 1918. pus pastime, so Brother, give the boys a hand. (Will somebody put a copy THE ADVERTISERS IN NOTRE DAME PUBLICATIONS DESER^^E THE PATRONAGE OF of the SCHOLASTIC in Brother Aloy- ALL NOTRE DAME MEN. sius' room?) —^W. V. B. Q.. •O 460 The Notre Dame Scholastic THE ENTRANCE TO CHEMisrRv HALL The Notre Dame Scholastic 461 i^EMESTER examinations last for only four or five days. IHE beginning of the second semester witnesses the Yet the mental fatigue which results from them has been return of many of those ill-fated students who made un­ known to last for months. Ambitious pseudo-scholars expected exits from the University upon occasions during who spent the last week of the first semester in prodigious the past months when exits were not being legitimately preparation for the fatal tests now feel that the few made. Many of them became over enthusiastic over foot­ hours of sleep they missed must be made up. Ergo, they ball victories. Many also, were lacking in enthusiasm over will get their twelve hours a night, with a slight nap in the quarterly examinations. Some did a thorough job of the afternoon for as many weeks or months as they deem it, and combined the two reasons for departing. It has necessary to repair the harm which the examinations been estimated that about one-half of these returned caused to tlieir mental and physical systems. All forms of prodigals have been greeted by erstwhile friends with a relaxation and entertainment will be indulged in, in an "Hello, where you been the last couple of days?" But efl'ort to forget that horrible nightmare of psychic torture even such forgetfulness does not seem to dim the apparent in which they actually pored over textbooks until mid­ gladness at being returned to the anns of their alma night, and did a semester duty which should have been mater. Many of the men who were standing in line before completed weeks previously, by candle light. The student the office windows in the early part of this week had conscience is the easiest one in the worlcV to appease. not so long ago been announcing that their student days Perhaps this is because the college man's imagination is here were ended. But after four years of detailed investi­ so effective in finding means of appeasing it. And there gation, we feel that it is safe to state that they always is no means of satisfying a protesting conscience that is come back. There are no available statistics as to the so efficacious as the recalling of the rigors of the past number of Notre Dame men who have at some time or examination. If one passes them he is justified in cele­ other voiced intentions of "going some place else next brating the good fortune which is his by either a pro­ year," but it would not be illogical to estimate that these longed loaf or prolonged festivities. If, however, he is so individuals make up ninety-nine and foi-ty-four hundredths unfortunate to fail, it is imperative that he resort to some per cent of every graduating class. It would take an kind or kinds of recreation which will enable him to for­ expert psychologist to analyze and explain this "griping" get the terrible ignominy. Thus, the post-mortem of complex. It's as paradoxical as any statement of Mr. examinations is customarily a pleasant party. It's the Chesterton's. same as a good old fashioned wake. There are some tears which must necessarily be shed, but when that formality is done, and everyone resolves to "do better next time," campus life becomes once more contented and serenely I ZAAK WALTON'S local feminine disciples have appar­ sleepy. ently tired of the rod and reel and have turned to a more suitable instrument (or is it weapon?) whereby to while away these winter evenings. This week we are treated N,0 robin has as yet visited the campus bringing tidings to a sample of their ability with the pen. Nor is it a bad of the approach of spring. In fact there has not even sample, as samples go. If the wielder was as successful been a rumor of a visiting robin. And that portends a in her angling as she has been in her poetizing, she will lengthy wintex-. For the rumor usually precedes the robin probably be often "among those present." Let us hope by at least two weeks. In fact rumor invariably precedes that this is so. For apparently she is a talented person, any actual happening in these parts by no less than ten though her identity remains a mystery, with a real appre­ days. But some believers in omens have been satisfied by ciation of the higher things in life, such as wonns, bait, the actions of the good old reliable groundhog who did his spiders, and so forth.