UQME8NS ÜNIVB»»ÍTÍ "rmiUROH. pHSNNßYUVA! : "EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER! Clear That Jump! "Pat1 Hackett (in the saddle) has had years of experi- in jumping a horse ence in riding and training jumpers. She knows her or choosing cigarettes too (see below). a cigarette," * says NOTED SPORTSWOMAN 1 I i The wartime m J cigarette shortage v] was a real experience. 1 Of all the brands ' I smoked, CAMELS suit me best! —y R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, W Salem. N. C. ] More people are smoking CAMELS than ever before! • Not many women can match intended to or not, you com- Your "Pat" Hackett's experience with pared brand against brand... for horses, but millions can match Taste... for Throat. That's how "T-Zone" her experience with cigarettes! millions learned from experience that there are big differences will tell Remember the many brands you smoked during the wartime ... in taste, mildness, coolness you cigarette shortage? Whether you ... in quality. Try Camels. Compare them in your "T-Zone." Let your own Taste and Throat...your own experience...tell you why more people are smoking Camels than ever before! /iccore/ing to a recent Nationwide survey- MORE DOCTORS ...T for Taste...T for Throat... SMOKE CAMELS that's your proving ground for any than any other cigarette cigarette. See if Camels don't suit ii. - n « J/. ii When 113,597 doctors from coast to coast—in every field your T-Zone to a T. of medicine — were asked by three independent research organizations to name the cigarette they smoked, more doctors named Camel than any other brand ! &Mte*tt4r I This Issue... | Vol. II November, 1947 Number 2 OU'LL find the November issue Democracy And Apple Pie 4 filled with a number of items, at Yleast a few of which, we are sure, will interest you. City Within a City 6 November, you see, is very much an Fall Campus, '47 8 off month in this game. It's too far away from the opening of school and too far College Without Credits 10 away from the tinsel of December. Of course there are always the turkeys, the Chaga Marriage 12 Indian corn, and the Pilgrims. We de- cided, in this issue, to hold that kind of Candid Campus 14 business to a murmur. Read the poetry of John Dipple (pp. Athletics 16 9 and 11) then try to tell yourself that you don't like the rime and the flow of T'ree Bulls 19 robust verse. We think his stuff is mighty good. The University 20 An article across the page from Dip- pie's PRISONER'-S SONG called Your Cultural I. Q 21 FALL CAMPUS '47 recreates the at- mosphere of the Bluff in these crowded Tammies in Training 23 and some-times crazy days. For a taste of Hill Top flavor we ask you to turn Alumni Notes 23 to it. Letters 24 Our art man, A1 Circosta, started something with his DEMOCRACY AND APPLE PIE (page 4). Mr. Mc- Faculty Files 25 Ginness, of whom he writes, is quite a person and he's got quite a plan. The Top Hat 'n' Tails 26 man and his activities make a long story. We intend to run the story as a series Cover: Two of our women students on a bright autumn morning. of articles, starting, of course, this month. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Rev. J. A. Lauritis, C.S.SP. You'll find a deal of good reporting MANAGING EDITOR FEATURE EDITOR in the article CITY WITHIN A CITY, Gene Boyce, '49 Arts-Sci. Joseph Doherty, '48 Arts-Sci. (page 6). It holds aside the curtain ART EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR for a long peep at that dark and somber Albert Circosta, '49 Arts-Sci. George Ford, '49 Arts-Sci. stage called Pittsburgh's Hill District. Published at Duquesne University monthly, from October to June. Office of Publication: 209 Administration Building, Pittsburgh 19, Pa. GRant 4635. Some of you have met Mr. Klinefelter in any one of his many English classes. Perhaps you didn't know that he also lectures at a rather unique evening school. In his article COLLEGE WITH- OUT CREDITS (page 10) he writes about this other job of his and what the whole plan of adult education might mean to us. November 1947 Page 3 DEMOCRACY AND APPLE PIE Christian dream of a peaceful, democratic world Years ahead in thought . Will it work? SOME fifty years before the advent by Pius XI that a profound renewal of militantly Catholic McGinnises gradu- of atomic energy, a very tired the Christian spirit must precede the ally drifted into Protestantism, stork, bewildered by the loquacity reconstruction of society. Our society oframf hies houschargee wit, hcircle a bidg fronovert yara draftd andy caanomaloun not survivs partse ,a seac a hconglomeratio one fendingn foofr ThuReads Henthe r ScripturesClare McGinni16 Timess was dropped his dynamic little bundle into itself at the expense of the others. It , . , „ , ^ , . ... .. / , ,, . , , ,, , , A ,,. born into a Protestant family which con- the household of a defenseles r s though can only become tire, smoothly operating .. , .. ,, ,,. ,. i. „ w. , ., „ in i i jlt_ ±. r~\ i , .. , t i sidered it certain that he would enter happy McGinnis famil y att Cecil, Penn- whole that God meant it to be by a . , „ , . ,. , , , . .. , ,. „ ... the ministry. During his childhood he sylvania. practical application of Christian prm- j , . , ,, _... , , ..„ , . ,, . , ,, . , . , r . read fivn e chapters of the Bible each day Ihe birth was a town event since the ciples. You lust cant have apple pie , . „ , _ .. , , . , „ , . „ , . ,,, i j .i :,. ,. and ten on oundays. By the time he had rrench and Belgian settlers loved tne without apples. , , ... % . „ . „ ,, . completed his high school training he social-conscious McGinnises for their Though always social-conscious, Mr. had read the SJptures 16 times. His benefactions to the poor. Bu the child McGinnis has not always been Catholic. friends and continuall im. soon grew weak, and when rt appeared He is a descendent on his mother's side d him the necessit /f that he would not survive the immi- of an endless list of Protestant arch- j the obstreperous Catholics who grants took over and agreed on a pre- bishops, bishops, publicists, and church- were enJel too numerous in , scription: Ze garlick. Hah! Make baby men By way of example Frederick the United States sta-r-ong!" So they proceeded to rub William Farrar, his great-great-uncle, But un down his helpless- little body with the was dean of Canterbury and author of y° g McGinnis, always a non- potent herb. a Jjfe 0f Christ. conformist, could not compromise this For weeks the McGinnis home A ^ ^ James M F Qut. kind of talk with the Christian way of llfe He talked to the ministers seekin smelled like the kitchen of a Sicilian standing theologiarl; writer and lecturer, ", S a clarification of pizzaria. The crisis finally passed headed the Dutch Reformed Church in the contradictions though the odor lingered, and Henry the United g^. and twQ q£ the ^ which he recognized. But the deeper he lun ed into Clare McGinnis looked up at his unsus- ter>s brothers were ministers. So active P g the question the more con- pecting parents, flexed his tiny muscles were the Farrars in church work that fused he became. and uttered his first words: "You can't the King of England presented the Finauyj he gaye u the idea of the ' have apple pie without apples. family with a coat of arms for its "de- ministry and went with the Army to Upon this terse bit of philosophy Mr. fense of the protestant faith." Europe to fight in World War I He McGinnis has built a national reputa- suffered serious wounds at the battle of tion as a writer, sociologist, theologian, Old McGwms Hod a Farm 0urcq and ended up with a metallic < political scientist lecturer, and as foun- Qn the Catholic side flf hig ances p]ate where some of hig ribg had been der and national director of Christian great-great-great-grandfather McGin- About this experience he says, "It was ' Democracy in America. nis came tQ Hoboken from Ireland, almost finis McGinnis." Following his He came to Duquesne University in fought ^ ^ American Revolutioil) and rec0very he worked with the State De- 1946 as an instructor of sociology and became fajrly prosperous cultivati partment, the Balkans Reparations with him came the non-political educa- 64Q acres of ]and g.yen tQ him fm hjs Commissioilj the Mission to Rumani J tional movement, Christian Democracy service in the war 0ne of hig sons and Herbert Hoover.g American Relief Soon the campus became alive with (whom ^ present McGinnig ca]lg the Administration. C.D. enthusiasts who met once a week firgt American Christian Democrat) in discussion groups. As interest mush- C0(jld nQt understand wh the other set_ The Search for Truth roomed, Mr. McGinnis designed a four- .i -i TJ , , , year course and the administration made ^U fS g W " ^ He returned to America and ^ church j it part of the curriculum for those who „ ,' activity, but the old contradictions kept J want to take an active part in the He declded that they had every riSht P°PPing UP- Realizing that he could movement. Like everyone else who had to the frults of the earth 80 he Planted never have Peace of mind until he found I been exposed to it the University had 160 acref of corn' stocked the land with true Christianity, Mr. McGinnis mar- contracted C.D. fever. pigs' a turned the annual harvest over ried and settled down at Midway, Pa., .