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

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Spirit of the Reason Ml IKti long-imprisoned men releasei.1 I from the gloom and chill of winter ' s l -M dungeons, Georgetown students awake to the mood of spring. Overnight the dark cast of the March sky begins to reflect the light brilliance of the budding lilacs. The threat of choking snow is replaced by nourish- ing rain ; galoshes are replaced by rubbers, tubercular hacks b - buoyant shouts, the mo- rose trea l of class-bound students by an en- li encLl race for the baseball diamond and the track. .Alongside the eternal stone of Healy ma - be heard the varying bounce of tennis balls, and time-pressed day-hops spare a heart-balming moment to rest in the spring restored benches beneath the ancient trees on the lawn. Even the sombre cloaks of the Jesuits cannot restrain them from stealing a grateful glance at nature ' s rebirth as they pace the walks and read their daily office ; and as the days advance into ever-lengthening warmth, even the cloaks join the topcoats and snowfall of an unlamented winter ' s memory. Tennyson ' s young man ' s fancy dresses him in colorful and light regalia in these . ' pril and Ma - days, and bends his attention not only to the fields of sport but also to the fields where dandelions and poppies grow. Along the student footpaths of the Chesapeake and Potomac Canal students stride in dreamy exhilaration with girls who suddenly appear in spring at the same time as the budding on the maples and elms. %tm Dyer, Tcwcs, Reynolds, Father Geib, SJ., Wilson, Palms and Kearney

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J J I ITH the familiar sound of 40- I ■ love, deuce, and add out the Jfc Georgetown Tennis team once again was revived after having been dis- continued during the past four years like so many Hoya activities. Traditionally tennis has al va s been a big sport on the Hilltop, and this year it has certainly li ' ed up to all traditions. When the call went out for Racket men in the fall of ' 4b the outlook wasn ' t too good, but by centering the team around Philippe Neff, who won all his scheduled matches, by the end of the year Father Gilee, the coach, was able to look back over a successful season. Phil surpassed all expectations and hopes when he reached the quarter finals of the N.C..A.,A. tournament held in Chicago. He and his teammates, Captain Charles Hagan, Tom Reynolds, Harry Kearney, Wally Sawch, l rank Cantwell, and Gordon Ryan, at the end of the fall season turned in an admirable record of wins and losses against teams along the Eastern Seaboard — Nine matches won; Four lost. This year while the netmen lost Captain Hagan, Phil Neff, and Gordon Ryan, their ranks were strengthened by the return of Joe Tewes and Charles Palms, well known on the Hilltop from pre-war teams. These men faced Yale, Princeton, Penn State and 12 other teams to really give punch to the call that tennis has returned to GU in great tradi- tional style. JOE TEWES and GERRY DWYER, Co-Captains 171