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

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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)

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(Top) Three of twenty student mailmen leave post office with evening delivery. P. O. and land are owned by University, are leased by government for 99 years with option. Building was new in 1934. Under recent act of Congress, postmaster registered five aliens. Postmaster and four clerks arc Brothers of Holy Cross, send out three mail deliveries a day, one on Sunday One of two University doctors treats citizen in in- firmary clinic, cares for average of 61 per day, 14,659 last year. Five Sisters of Holy Cross and two nurses run modern, three-story brick hospital with 75 beds, last year bedded 824 citizens for average stay of 3.2 days Scholastic, undergraduate weekly news magazine, rolls off Ave Maria Press which prints 11 publica- tions. Fourteen brothers run plant in new building, built in 1940, turn out the Ave Maria, Catholic weekly; placards, blotters, etc., for campus poli- ticians, salesmen. Old press building was 75 years old. Ave Maria prints Script, undergraduate literary quarterly but not The DOME, (Top) Citizens live in halls like this, mostly in single rooms; doubles are at a premium. This is Alumni, on the gold coast, newest, most elite of Senior residence halls. 211 students live here with rector, 3 other priests, 2 student prefects. Senior halls are quieter, more sedate than freshman and sopho- more halls Even University laundry has a name, is St. Michael ' s. Here employees take some of week ' s 6000 sheets from huge, sudsy washing machines. Laundry is run by manager hired by University, and 5 sisters, has statues of Sacred Heart, saints on wall shelves. Of 78 employees, 4 do nothing but darn socks. Equipment cost $126,000 25