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

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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

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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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Students at basketball game in fieldhouse. Citizens are admitted to home varsity games by tearing coupon from bock issued from athletic association, at football games sit according to class, seniors on 40 yard line, freshmen on 10. Men in visored caps are guards, keep order in stands, try to prevent smoking Notre Dame has a curious form of municipal government. It is a democracy within an autocracy. Its democracy is pure as any in the world, its autocracy is absolute. Democracy exists among the students, who live under strict control of adminis- trative officials. Citizens of N.D. in most cases are such only nine months of a year, four years of their lives. While they are citizens, they lose all distinctions of family, fortune, fame. At N.D. they must make their own friends, their own names among their fellows. Average citizen of N.D. is from an upper middle class family, has just graduated from home- town Catholic high school; most come to college to study, none for social life. Citizens come from 48 states, great cities, small towns, farms, 14 for- eign lands. Not all citizens are from great middle class how- ever. Many are from poorer families, must earn part of the expenses of their education by working. Students may earn part of yearly expense by wait- ing table in dining halls, serving as secretary or corrector to professors, working as assistants in library, may have any other of miscelleaneous part- Citizens stream into dining hall for noon dinner, supper is in evening. This is in West Hall, which, like East Hall, seats 1200. Some hall rectors, pre- fects eat at elevated tables at ends of hall. Citizens eat 1 Vi to 1 V 2 tons of potatoes daily, have ice cream once daily, eat 100 gallons. Dining halls employ 200 workers, 150 white-coated waiters. All workers must pass health exam yearly. r time jobs offered by the University. Other citizens are from rich cosmo- politan or small-town aristocracy, must leave evidence of wealth, except clothes and personal belongings, in their homes. Wealth, social position count little in N.D. Fraternities do not exist on campus; citizens may not drive automobiles. To find the son of a big industrialist or professional man with famed name rooming with the son of a small town druggist or Iowa farmer is not unusual. Municipal ordinances provide for this democracy, fellowship of Amer- ican youth promotes and insures it. When young men apply for entrance to the University, they are accorded citizenship only on record of scholastic average, general desirability. Admission is only awarding of first papers, however. Citizenship is retractable at any and all times. Rules of the Citizens wait in line in Badin Hall laundry, dry cleaning dispensary. Students drop laundry in hall chutes, must show numbered card when they pick it up here; articles are marked with students ' individual num- bers. Here student with huge bundle pays additional for oversize laundry