University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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STUDENT ffoio su ' eet toos the victory. The Flying Irish. (I apologize: EoJ Lowering the boom at band initiation. IHE CRY WENT UP a minute after the final gun of the fateful Purdue game . . . Go, Irish, beat Tulane! And beat Tulane they did, to the roaring approval of 300 students and bandsmen representing the Irish at New Orleans. The four day weekend was packed with activity for the trippers. Leaving South Bend late Thursday after- noon on an Illinois Central Streamliner, the vacationers rode through the night and most of the next day. The usual card games and impromptu songfests helped pass the hours, and during the daytime ride Northerners got their first look at cotton in the rough. Friday night the Roosevelt Hotel was the scene of a giant Notre Dame rally. Beside several Irish notables, many of the country ' s leading sports writers and New Orleans Mayor DeLesseps Morrison put in an appear- ance. Students saw the sights of the Crescent City after the rally, and later returned to the quarters provided them. Mustard down . . .

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and Orientation tennis racket, chair, and any other stuff they might have up to their rooms. This was all old stuff to the upperclassmen, hut to those poor innocent freshmen it was overwhelming - well, at least a little hewildering anyway. For this reason the Freshman Orientation program has been set up. Under the very capable supervision of the Blue Circle student organization an orientation program was or- ganized and carried out. Through this pro- gram the freshmen have arranged for them such activities as guided tours of the campus (later they were given maps to refresh their memories ) , smokers, a picnic outing, and a big get-together rally in the fieldhouse with Monogram Club members running the show. After their first get-togethers the freshmen are almost full-fledged members of the Notre Dame student body. But there is one more activity for them to participate in ... the inevitable movie, Kreufp Rockne, All- American is shown to all freshmen on the night before classes start. After seeing the film, it is assured that they will be instilled with the feeling of Notre Dame and that they are fully pre- pared to meet the greatest of ordeals, the first class on the following morning. Even the extra-curricular angle was cared for by the arranging of a frosh picnic, which was held in conjunction with St. Mary ' s College, and the two local Catholic girl ' s academies. At the end of the orientation program it was assured that the freshmen were here to stay, and well prepared for that stay. Oh, come on Major, pity the poor kid. He isn ' t a draft-dodger he WANTS to join the R.O.T.C. Here ' s the whole chaotic mess. Hotv should I know my great aunt ' s maiden name? The Freshman picnic again. College was never so good.

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I love VD, but oh, that French quarter . . . Most of the trippers slept late on Saturday morning, but the hand was up early, going through their routines for the afternoon. The game itself, played on the dry, hard turf of the Sugar Bowl, was bitterly fought all the way, with the Irish finally winning by a 13-9 count. Saturday night the transplanted Yankees sought enter- tainment in various fashions. Probably the most spec- tacular event was the lawn party given by Notre Dame boosters, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph David. Early Sunday morning, after special Masses had been said, the student trippers left New Orleans to return to Notre Dame. The trip back was a good deal more quiet than the one of three days before, but everyone had fond memories of a truly great weekend and a fine Irish squad. Hurry? I ' ve got 30 seconds, besides I ' d just as soon be left behmd! The aftermath: 1950-51 ' s most-racked-out-man-on-campus. ' Just a friendly little fame . . . I was broke before I got there!