•^•> K:mmmmm •-%m m S8|r»i .— THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC PUBLISHED WEEKLY - FOUNDED 1867 V;-^, s-^r-A- ^^mmm^'^f:- •L - -'ivies'? ^R1WS-/I »?>• -. ^<-, l'-:^:-::^r^ fcy'. i<-4 ^^'A IJJ,««^ = .--•-.• "..viia •••-:/vv^.:^:^J 4 'i|^i|«^^ i3S r^y .-« i^ I- . 'T • , .-i3ii*!v Very Rev. Edward F. Sarin, C.S.C. •¥%; Volume 74 U\.OCTOBE IUDCRK III I.. 194I Vf0U Number 4 ^WS^^ m HARVARD'S HEAD COACH DICK HARLOW— he found he'd have to beat Harvard before Harvard could beat anybody else. Read this week's Post. How's your FOOTBALL PSYCHOLOGY? OU'RE the new football coach. Your new team Yis terrible. The student body is indifferent as a clam. Player after player drops out of spring practice. T^u^ 'THEY Head Coach Dick Harlow tells how he shook Harvard out of its famed "indifference"... insulted Torby Macdonald into a 78-yard sprint for a touch­ DIDN'T NEED down ... built a team around a man who broke his leg! In this week's Post Harlow lets you in on some of the psychological gags that worked on the Crimson COACHING" —and some that backfired. Buy the Post this week. f r -f 15 OTHER FEATURES: PAUL GALUCO-ALVA JOHNSTON-MARY ROBERTS hy Dick HarUnv RINEHART HIYSTERY-LIFE OF WILL ROGERS-NEW AMAZON JUNGLE NOVa STARTING THIS WEEK-CARTOONS-STORIES-ALL IN THE POST. THE SATUUpjlY EVENING POST THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC War Talk The Indiana Daily Student tells tis that the conscription deferments are to COLLEGE PARADE be made on the basis of indispensability, RAYMOND J. KELLY or, in other words, how valuable you are to the coimtry in your present position. It has been stated that probably farmers On the political front Seven of them, still freshmen at U. of D, all answered on the Democratic side will have a better chance of being de­ The Swathmore Student Union recent­ of the roll by stating that they had voted ferred than the "big city" lads. Natural­ ly withdrew from the ASU. In the resolu­ "carefully and often." ly, the article ended on a partisan note, "It looks like Purdue might have the tion, printed in the Swathmore Phoenix, Pappy asked about the eighth son. the organization stated "that those aims laugh on some of our boys." "Him," snorted the more wakeful of • which we desire — civil liberties for all, the septet, "why the danged fool got to greater economic and political democracy, be a sophomore, learned to read and be­ Ole Miss Rolls in peace, and academic freedom — can no came a Republican." — Varsity News, Last week The Rebel, humor magazine longer be achieved through the Ameri­ University of Detroit. can Student Union." Specifically, the of Ole Miss, fell into these columnistic ASU was condemned for disapproving of hands. After culling the joke columns and putting aside the two stories that -the candidates of the two major parties The English Majors Get Theirs without suggesting a third choice, for were both funny and fit, we began look­ continuing a policy of isolationism and The quotation of the week comes from ing through the articles. One, featuring opposition to conscription in the -face of the University of Minnesota where Pro­ the first letters of a freshman to his the present international situation, for fessor Ross Finney said: "The intelligent­ mother, his best pal and his home-town failing to condemn Russia for the inva­ sia are no better than the commonalty. flame, was well done. A page was devoted sion of Finland, and for issuing unsuit­ Far from being intellectually indepen­ to "Prof Profiles," caricatures accom­ able and unscholarly literature, even on dent, these high-brow sheep but drift in panied by appropriate quotations. Out­ issues with which the Swathmore group smaller droves and pride themselves on standing was a sketch of a wispy-haired-, agreed. their exclusiveness." chinless, be-spectacled individual, labeled • • 'Inferiority — 'How little even the wisest of us know.'" Mottoes And no Oriole! The Brooklyn College Vanguard, has Personal peeves The Merciad of Mercyhurst College, in its banner the slogan, "All the news Erie, Pa., evidently was trying to encour­ that fits, we print." This column will rejoice mightily when age the students when recently it pub­ things settle down and the papers it is our part to peruse each week, end their lished a few of the rules of Mt. Holyoke More Milestones College as promulgated in 1837: foolish talk of initiation, fraternal and "Said the monk as he s^vung by his tail. infernal, when wiseacres who write col­ "No young lady shall become a mem­ To the little monks, female and male: umns stop attempting to find a humorous ber of Mt. Holyoke Seminary who can­ 'From your offspring, my dears. way of plugging the "fifth column" gag, not kindle a fire, wash potatoes, repeat In a few million years, and when the worry-warts of the cam­ the multiplication tables, and at least May evolve a professor at Yale.'" puses begin to act as if the European two-thirds of the shorter catechism. —Queen's University Journal War was still in Europe. Every member of the school shall walk a mile a day unless a freshet, earth­ quake or some other calamity prevent. No young lady shall devote more than an hour a day to miscellaneous reading. No young lady is expected to have gen­ tlemen acquaintances unless they are returned missionaries or agents of benev­ olent societies." Milestones on the Pathway of Progress It seems that an old Kentuckian had eight sons who had been raised as true gun-totin', still-workin', feudin' Demo­ crats. Eventually these sons reached the period when all young men go to work or to college. Naturally they went to college and amid hems and haws and coughings and snortings finally became freshmen. Eight years later, pappy caUed his sons back to the hills to take a Gallup poll of their political views. 'What if it is 12 o'clock? I don't give a hoot!" THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC THE WEEK OPINION i FRANK WEMHOFFi Four bells to Jimmie Fidler who, by Top of the Week in the hand is worth two that say his presence in South Betid last week­ "Brrraacck!" . end, gave tis the idea for this rveek's A Georgia peach column — a review of the neiv pictures. Within our reach. There's only one neiv picture as far as Thumbnail Sketch anyone around here is concerned, though, so here's witat campus First Nighters Last Friday "The Week" printed a . Moose Piepul . Rolling stone thought of "Knute Rockne — All Amer­ story taken from life and representing that gathers no loss. ican." no place in particular. Now, it seenis, so7neone has tried to apply that more or Dillon Hall, Jim Tracey: "I really less isolated instances to her oivn pe­ Jots between Dots enjoyed it, and thought it was Pat culiar Imbitat. "The Week" /zos been O'Brien's best role. The part where Ivarshly censured. Here is the complete . The Engineers call the Commerce Rockne gave the kids a football out on and unexpurgated letter of condemnation Building the "Yacht Club" . Over­ the practice field was especially convinc­ that 2vas received: heard in Walsh: "My window overlooks ing. It seemed the sort of thing he would a- waste basket" . "From where I sat have done. I liked seeing how the se­ the game was only a rumor" . "Oh quences in Saci-ed Heart Church came you know, that stream of unconscious­ out in the finished picture, too." Deer "The Weak" ness wi-iting" . "Sounds like the Tliis is the message from 'the rock." Quartet from Hunger." . Morrissey Hall, Connie Conley: "This You can't get away with it, Weakie. picture is made of the sort of stuff that We girls see through your treachery. will draw big crowds. The only thing I Take back them words. Are hollowed have to say against it is that it tries to walls are atremble with rage. We have Loony Lines cover too much, and as a result is choppy got the buck fever (Ed. Note — Buck I wish I were a little egg a way up in a in some places. But Pat O'Brien's great equals 1 American dollar). These tradi­ tree acting job makes up for it in a large tional grounds upon witch once walked A sitting in my little nest as bad as I part. His scene before the investigation the dainty fett of Cobina. and Brenda could be; board is one of the most impressive I've are shocked and irate (Ed. Note—not seen in a long while." I wish that you would come along and to be confused with the archaic "I stand beneath that tree rate"). Us 0.0. girls demand an apol­ Howard Hall, Bob Courtney: "I ogy. Are pride has been cut to the quick, Then I would up and burst myself and thought the picture, 'Knute Rockne — not to mention the humidity that you spatter thee with me. All American,' was a very fitting tribute liave caused our own Desdemona Kootch. to a great man. The acting was excellent, In the words of are own Desdemona and the scene in which Rockne defended "Youse, sir, are a cad." Retract or im­ Lesson No. I football had a lot of punch." pact—^take your pick. A junior was strolling over by the Zahm Hall, Leonard Swoyer: "One of Angrily Yours, stadium the other night when he spied the most interesting pictures I've ever Ruth Lessly, O.