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

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CITIZEN PROUD Cafeteria is in dining hall building between two main halls. Here mem- bers of 9:00 p.m. society have evening snack, some wait at counter for hamburgs; in winter citizens buy 125 a night. C.if is open 6:00 a.m. lo 9:40 p.m. daily, is popular for late breakfasts and on Fridays when dining halls serve fish. Soda fountain, cigarette and candy counters, newstand line opposite wall. Cafeteria is also scene of faculty intellec- tual bull sessions (Right) Main locker room is focal point of Rockne Memorial. In back- ground, small lockers which citizens rent for dollar a year, returned in June; when using Memorial, lock, clothes are transferred to large lock- ers (left). Memorial is open 13 ' i hours a day, houses swimming pool, gymnasium, apparatus rooms, badminton, squash, handball courts, use free to all citizens. Unique feature is huge sunlamp, on two hours a day. Memorial furnishes towels, each day exchanges 750 clean ones for soiled ones Campus barber shop is in Badin Hall, has six barbers, one bootblack. Barbers cut 70 to 80 heads a day, report crew cuts are not popular, majority wear hair long. Busiest times are before vacations, before big formal dances, Sophomore Cotillion, Junior Prom, Senior Ball. Citizens do not make appointments, wait in line. Many prefer technique of bar- bers at downtown hotels r M lawns, tooting whistle at the main entrance to keep automobiles from entering the campus road. Only persons with campus permit may drive over the road that encircles the buildings on the main quad, does not run between them. The campus fire department this year got a new, sparkling red truck which is manned by brothers of the Holy Cross Congregation. Other N.D. public services include the Brother Game Warden, as citizens call him, who guards wild life on the lakes; cleaning snow from the walks in win- ter, maintenance of lawns and paths, lighting of walks. Most utilities at N.D. are publicly owned. On campus is a great, modern power plant which heats campus buildings, pumps water from St. Joseph ' s lake for plumbing, generates electricity for street lights and buildings. Level of the lake has sunk so low in recent years that wells have been drilled to supplement springs that feed it. Winding for two miles under the campus are lighted tunnels contain- ing heating and water pipes, electricity conduits. Drinking water comes directly from wells. Student laundry and dry cleaning are also a public utility at N.D.

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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

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Outside utilities also serve the campus-town. In each hall is a pay-station telephone for use of the citizens. Western Union and Railway Express have a joint campus office next to the Science Hall. Railroad siding on the campus is used to deliver carloads of coal to the power house to accommodate special trains for football crowds. At N.D. even eating is a public utility. Citizens eat in noisy factory-like mass production, in two huge mod- ern-gothic halls seating 1200 each. Dining hall building was designed by eminent Boston architect Ralph Adams Cram. Former faculty dining hall upstairs, seating 200, has been converted to student use to take care of over- flow in recent years. Cafeteria in the dining hall build- ing is also run by the University, is used by visitors, professors, graduate students, some Seniors. N.D. department of recreation provides excellent facilities for citizens. New Rockne Memorial is called the most modern, best-designed athletic building in any U. S. university. In three different places on campus are groups of tennis courts. Separating the University buildings from South Bend residential district is excel- lent, well-kept, but flat 18-hole golf course. Citizens use St. Joseph ' s lake for swimming in spring and fall, St. Mary ' s for skating in winter. N.D. provides many cultural facilities for students. A large main library and departmental libraries contain more than 225,000 volumes. Art galleries in the library build- ing house a permanent collection of 286 canvasses, also exhibit travelling collections, works of professors and students. Two herberia on campus contain 150,000 specimens. The campus-town also has shops, stores. The Hud- dle, rented and run by a private enterpriser, has a soda fountain, caters in general to student needs. In the same building are watch and shoe repairs and a tailor shop. In the Rockne Memorial is a golf shop which serves golfers and other athletes, is the 19th hole of the course. The Bookstore run by the University does $65,000 a year business. Campus also has recreation rooms for pool, billiards, ping pong, bowling. N.D. is not with- out door-to-door salesmen who are sometimes working their way through college, usually are earning spending money. They sell ice cream, stationery, school jewelry, chances in privately conducted football raffles and pools. 27