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

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(5. JB. 3. THIS is WGTB, — the station break familiar to many of us. Among the first to shake off the ciust of the war years and set the pace in restoring the G.U. activities to normalcx ' w as the Georgetown Broadcasting System. Frank S. Blair, Program Director of WARL in Arlington, called on the Georgetown Broad casters for three one-half hour programs a week for his station. That was a privilege for GBS, but it meant hours of unexpected hare work and worry. The Blue and Gray Show, the Missa Recitata for shut-ins, and the Georgetown University F orum went on the FROM THE CONTROL ROOM

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fPintcr ILifc Y - V TH I C ] is SCI inexorable as na- I ■ ture. Not e en the centuries-old II curriculum ( i St. Ignatius can maintain the same regimcntc l obci licncc that physical law wields o cr the lanLlscape of the Georgetown -ista. Peering through the glazed backdrop of Coplc - one watches through the declining No ember days the sad retreat of the saffron-hewed leaxcs from their mother branches. The meandering Potomac shivers under the marble eyes of the Maguire columns, and Slobbo ian mud ' ainly coales ces into sterner earth. Not e en the war years could force a deviation of Mother Nature ' s schedule — nor dint of pleas from football fanatics, nor chilly plaints from light-shod students. Win- ter days advance, and the caresses of the sun become less sincere and cooler as some ardent Candida spurning the ar lent in iuiries of a Marchbanks. Then, as if Dickens had casualK ' walked o er the scene with a brush dipped in snow- ikikes and hot toddies, the Christmas spirit captures the imagination, and student interest in the bypaths of science and the hallwaxs of art is supplanted b - a holiday rest. In answer to the prayers of those who yearn for the traditional white landscape of the Northern Christmas, the December sneer of Zephyr from the Northwest is replaced by the biting snarls that catapault over Healy from the heaving Atlantic. Footfalls sound gently in the hushing snow, and the breath steams merrily like a boiling kettle while tired veterans and younger species of the genus student tired of winter, hope for spring. c.hoKt L. H ) N BRO. DCASTING SYSTEM

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t. John JBtrchmans ocictiJ I? T- : ' , mt ' M ' ■M VJk o m - NE of the oldest campus organiza- tions, the St. John Berchmans So- ciety was founded in the latter part of the nineteenth century to teach young men the rubrics of assisting at the sacred cere- monies of the Church. This year the St. John Berchmans Societ experienced an unusual revival as a hundred and twenty members answered the call for servers made by Mr. Nash, S.J., the new moderator. The probable cause of this great interest was an obser ation of the moderator that ne.xt to the priest, the ser -ers deri -e the greatest blessings and graces from the Mass. .At the first meeting in October, Richard N lantz was elected Prefect ; Fred Furfey, Vice- Prefect ; and James Buchholr as Secretary. 134