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

Page 25 text:

P ij ii

Page 24 text:

Towering spire d clustering green in unmeasured embrace and the cold simplicity of statue-on-stone . . . 22

Page 26 text:

UNIVERSITY NOTRE DAM NOTRE DAME NDIANA The guardhouse at campus entrance, he.idqu.irtcrs of campus police. N. D. bus line ends here, turns back for South Bend; buses run every twelve minutes. Here citizens wait along road for rides in cars leaving entrance parking lot, make dash for bus when it begins to leave. Campus police have three uniformed men, one plainclothesman, are commissioned by sheriff, once caught a safe-cracker. In background, Alumni Hall SUBURB OF - . ' :- -- ; ' -- - ' - --. : -:- SOUTH BEND Out South Bend ' s Notre Dame Avenue, just past the north city limits, sprawling out over the plain, dipping down to the shores of two dear, blue, spring-fed !akes St. Mary ' s and St. Joseph ' sis an unique city. In America ' s most represent- ative county, it is a dry unlike any other in the If. S. A city apart, yet it is as cosmopolitan as any from East to West. It is Notre Dame, Indiana, known scholastically as the University of Notre Damg. ::; Iunidpal alea of rlisj colle|e-towii s |s a ; ; 1 7Q-acre campus, with forty-five buildi||p, lar|e and mall. Spread orderly over the flat; green la|4 the| form a T-shaped main quad- rangle and numerous |ide courts. f Citizenssare 2551 students, 75i: instructors, professors and administrative officials who live on campus. Unlike most U. S. college men, Notre Dame citi- zens might well spend all time from September to June, excepting vacations, in their town.WjR ' er venturing into in- dustrial South Bend (pop. 101,268). Though Notre Dame is not an incorporated municipality, it has all aspects of a city in itself. Notre Dame has no private homes or fraternity houses. Citizens live in large residence halls, built in quadrangles resembling apartment courts. On campus are 14 halls. Two, in wings of the great, golden-domed Administration Build- ing are dormitory halls. Here, unlike residence halls where citizens live in pri vate rooms, residents sleep in great white- curtained dormitories, study in bright, high-windowed halls. Residence halls vary greatly in size, age, and appointments. Priests and lay professors live in halls as rectors and prefects ; some upper-class halls have student prefects. In each residence hall is a private chapel. Citizens who live in dormitory halls use Gothic, steepled Sacred Heart Church, next to Adminis- tration Building. The main church is used by all citizens on Sundays, and for special services. Though N.D. has no department of public service like most municipal governments, it has many public services, some most cities do not have. Campus policemen wear blue uniforms with N.D. insignia, patrol the campus in regular beats. Their most important duty is keeping citizens off the (continued on page 26)