Notre Dame College - Moorings Yearbook (Staten Island, NY)

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dfoaf afifze eladfi afl95l Christmas i947 . . . Joan Costello, Freshman proxy, banded us together as Santa's helpers. Time fashions the cloth out of which his- tory is made. lt intensifies the significance of events, outlining their conformity to the pattern of civilization and cutting away the ravelings of prejudice and 'self-interest which obscure our vision of that which is too close to us. Through the perspective of time, his- tory measures man, his rise, his progress, and his fall. It views his efforts and his achievements, it judges his principles and his ideals. But history must be written anew for the Class of '5l. As Freshmen we committed to memory Nevin's definition of history and then promptly set out to make our own. United in our individuality, we both adopted and adapted the traditions of the past to the pulsing spirit that was our flaming youth. September i947 . . . and the beginning of Notre Dame traditions found us parading up the hill to the first of those all com- prehensive assemblies with the Dean. ln Room 6 we were graciously enabled to grasp our relationship with the past, and to chart on general lines our immediate forward course. The first faltering step of that four year course was taken the very next day as we officially met the student body and unofficially absorbed the spectacle of bob- bing hats and bear-like embraces. Orien- tation to the ways of Notre Dame began with the serving of coffeelat the high tea held in our honor-and didn't we feel like speci- mens under observation, as amused and knowing looks were exchanged between upperclassmen. Basic training included our first experience with those benches at the Mass of the Holy Ghost, a barrage of tests, mostly psycholo- gical lwe were pigeon-holed from the startl, an enthusiastic introduction to Midland Beach prefaced by Chesterton, Dr. George's version of the Athenian bottle and Dr. Hart's Bostonian economics. Under Mr. Grace's tutelage we all become avid readers of the Altantic Monthly and prolix writers of our mental associations . Just as we werevset- February Frosh . . . With the arrival of Leap Year 32 new recruits were detailed to our troop.