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

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I him the problems proper to man living in his society as man. Nevertheless, it has been a large part of the task of each editor o f SCRIP to attempt to bring it to a wider student audience, without sacrificing any of the standards of the magazine. This year Mr. Gilligan has been singularly successful. Work- ing with Mr. Frank O ' Malley, faculty moderator in the absence of Father Leo L Ward, Editor Gilligan secured a greater variety in contribu- tors and in contributions. The critical essays and book reviews, in which works and problems in literature were examined and valued by philo- sophical analysis, were of the same high quality. Poetry was reclaimed and proved to be worthy of its requirement: that it viewed reality and truth properly in its mat- ter and form. There were a great number of delicately written personal essays. If any criticism may be ventured, it is that there were not enough fully-developed short stories such as Inherit the Earth which ap- peared in the first issue. Jack Gilligan of Cincinnati was the sec- ond consecutive red-haired Gael to edit SCRIP. After writing book reviews, he came into prominence with Who Has Tasted Bread? , a story which appeared in the May, 1942 issue. Having finished the job of managing editor of the 1942 Dome, Jack then became editor of SCRIP, and still found time to write the excellent Inherit the Earth. His associate editors were George Kelly and John Hunt. George, who comes from Richmond, Va., has a manner of walking and smiling effort- lessly which has brought on him the jests to which Southerners seemed traditionally subjected. But George also followed another Southern trait when he wrote honestly and beautifully in short fictional sketches of the people and places he has known. John Hunt, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been a steady contributor to SCRIP for the past three years; his best work to date was the story A Little Boy Laughing Just Like You finely written in the stream of consciousness technique. Also on the editorial staff this year were three special editors: Joseph Hillebrand, a senior from Toledo, Ohio: Kelly Cook, Lex- ington, Ky., junior, and J. H. Johnston, a sophomore from Norfolk, Va, Prominent contributors to Scrip: Front row: Jack Sherer, Warren Leary, Farre Pequigney, Dick Powers, Joe Lanigan, Bill Sherer. Back row: Richard Ames, Dave Condon, John Lynch, Kelly Cook, Joe Hillebrand, and J. H. Johnston.

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Editor John Gilligan, Cincinnati, Ohio ' s 1942 Editor of Scrip, who was assisted by ... Mr. Frank O ' Malley, John Hunt, and George Kelly It was in December of 1929, following a decis- ion of the University Board of Publications, that SCRIP sprang fully grown from the literary sec- tion of the SCHOLASTIC. The editorial, Scrip which appeared in the first issue stated the pur- pose and intention of the magazine. The follow- ing paragraph is notable: The primary intentions of the magazine are to assist in every way possible the crea- tion of literature at Notre Dame, and at the same time to promote sound literary criticism. Scrip will not only serve as a medium for this literature but will also serve as a stimulus for more and more effort being exerted in the production of good student writing. Aside from this, such a publi- cation as this puts on record the best thought of the institution which it represents, whether that thought be wholly the product of the student, or of, likewise, the instruc- tors whose vocation is the training of youth and the discovery of talent. SCRIP has held to these aims. It has maintained as editor John Gilligan notes, in Scrivener of the first issue, some very remarkable standards, foremost of which is intellectual honesty. Com- menting further on this first problem of young writers, he says: Intellectual honesty among college men, first trying the steel of their intellects and emotions on a fresh, wide world, is a delicate and some- times elusive thing. Young men too frequently adopt pseudo-intellectual attitudes or devices as a protection against the scorn of more sophisti- cated and less honest minds. The result in litera- ture is fradulent, formalized, synthetic writing, which although it often has a ready gloss and luster, lacks more fundamental requi- sites, such as those, for instance, which are outlined by Aristotle and developed in the Christian aesthetic of Maritain. The refusal of SCRIP ro be taken in by routine and hollow- ness has sometimes incurred the dis- pleasure of the more thoughtless of its readers; but has at the same time earned the esteem of many others, on and off the campus, including several national known arbiters. Yet it is this very maintenance of standard which has kept SCRIP from enjoying the recogni- tion, least of all the approval, of the mass of students. True, English majors are known to sleep with it under their pillows, but the engineers and men of commerce pick it up gingerly between thumb and forefinger and drop it into the waste- basket. And in this action there is demonstrated the lamentable breach in all American education: that curricula have been designed to fit the ex- clusive needs of the technician but have not taught 150

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Editor of the 1942 December DOME, Kelly Cook of Lexington, Ky. THE RECORD AND MEANING OF A GREAT WORLD UNIVERSITY IN A YEAR OF OUR TIMES The DOME must necessarily consider the things proper to the University and those events of the particular year; and to these it must give meaning, making evaluations and, where prudent, critical comment. Such a meaning is best given by a combination of writing, art, and photography; this knowl- edge has been recognized by all previous editors, for in using these means, it is the first problem of each editor to give a form to the matter, which is of necessity both old and new. If this is properly done, the DOME will then be both a record and a meaning of the University, and consequently a demonstration of the creative work of and within Notre Dame. This is the reason for the existence of a yearbook. This year we have been particularly concerned with the importance of the Centenary and the meaning of Notre Dame as a force in American and world education. This relates to the War in progress, and that in turn to the life of each student. These things have been the subject matter of the DOME; they were the things upon which the editorial staff have given the impress of form through writing, art, and photography. Guiding them were two faculty members whose help can- not be measurable, Mr. Frank O ' Malley of the English de- Mr. Francis J. Hanley, planner of the DOME and former head of the Art department. Copy editor Ed Meagher, of Seattle, Wash. 152