Georgetown University - Ye Domesday Booke Yearbook (Georgetown, DC)

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pathftnto Club EMBERSHIP in the Pathfind- ers Club is limited to members of the Senior Class. It has a ofold objective — to point out to the seniors the opportunities that are offered in the dif- ferent walks of life that the ' will follow upon graduation; secondly to weld into a unit the members of the Senior Class, who ha e been split up into various class sections as under- classmen. Under the moderatorship of Father Charles J. [- ' ole , S.j., these objectives were faith- ful 1 - pursued. Meetings were held monthly at Hotel Twenty Four Hundred Si.xteenth St., in the form of dinner meetings, to which men prominent in their respective fields were inxited as guest speakers.

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i:he (Boikn Jubilee of iathtr John % © ' Connor, S Father John J. O ' Connor. S.J. FATHER John J . OConncr celebrated his Golden Jubilee Mass on the tenth of November in Dahlgren Chapel. Present at the service were His Emi- nence, Francis Cardinal Spellman, a former pupil of Father O ' Connor at Fordham Uni- ersit -, Very Rev. Father Rector, fellow- Jesuits and many of his students, past and present. Following the Mass, His Eminence extended his congratulations to his former teacher and imparted the Apostolic Blessing. I- ather O ' Connor was ordained in 1 11 by the late Cardinal Gibbons. After serxing a tenure as Prefect of Discipline at I M-dham, he Joined the faculty of Georgetown in F)27 as professor of classical Greek. 97

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Di. Iiboi Eckhaidt addresses the first meeting of Pathfinders ( lub phgsical ' Craining program © EORGETOWNS physical training program is regarded by today ' s col- legiate authorities as one of the finest and most complete of its type in the country. The program, inaugurated in l - 42 in the form of boxing classes, developed quick- ly under the added stimulus of the war, and soon attained a position of major importance in the school curriculum. Chiefly responsible for the brilliant success of the physical training program is George J. Becker, Director of Physical Training. Mr. Becker this year adopted a program whose purpose was to encourage physical de elop- ment in the college student, and ... to require of a man that his muscles be trained to respond to his will. With the help of two assistants, John Moloney, a senior at Georgetown, and Walter O ' Connell, of the Class of 1945, Mr. Becker has worked constantly to bring to the student the realization of the intention of this -ear ' s P.T. program. The schedule has compulsory calisthenics, cross countr - running, dual com- bat, genera! phxsical conditioning, and com- petiti -e sports such as touch football, basket- ball, track, -olle ball, speedball, and pushball. Boxing, formerK- a part of the P,T. schedule, came into its own and became a arsit - sport. Not only to test the effectiveness of this program, but also to determine the progress made by the participants, tests of respiratory action, ph sical stamina, and adaptablities were made. 99