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

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(Far Left i Citizen engineer at work in pattern shop. Machine is lathe on which student makes wood patterns, also works with files, chisels on bench. Paper propped on machine is blue print design with which pat- tern must correspond. Engineers have most class hours of all courses, due to machine and patternshop work, and laboratory work Student lawyer makes summation of case before panel of twelve fellow citizens in courtroom of Law Building. Regular court sessions are held weekly, try fictitious cases, but contain all problems of real cases. Student lawyers are witnesses, counsel, jury, plaintiff, defendant, judge is professor. Law school has 102 students, is approved by American Bar Association, member of Ass ' n. of American Law Schools View down inside of atom smashers. Running length of interior is con- tinuous rotating band which builds up high charge, sends electrons hurt- ling down white porcelain tubes. Scientific name is electrostatic generator, was financed by University, designed by two Ph.D. ' s in physics. University has atom smasher of different type construction in Engineering building. In Science Hall, this is most powerful of its kind in world Fine Arts students do pencil sketch with fellow citizen as model, will follow predecessors in fields varying from portrait painting to industrial design. Department has 3 professors, 21 majors; 29 others take elective courses; Luigi Gregory, court painter to Pius IX, is former department head. Department was founded in 1853. Casts are some of 247 sculpture reproductions used as sketching models (Far Left) Head of music department directs University symphony in re- hearsal. Majors in music belong to either orchestra or glee club. Most of 17 music majors will become teachers, as have their predecessors. De- partment has five professors, is now seeking admission to National Asso- ciation of Music Schools of America, most eminent organization in its field Research associate in laboratories of bacteriology inspects germ-free animal cages. Inside sterile, heated cages, germ-free guinea pigs are born by Caesarian section. Projecting hands are rubber gloves into which researchist puts hands to work inside sealed cages. Bacteriology occu- pies entire ground floor of Biology Building, contains 18 labs. Depart- ment has 22 germ-free cages, keeps stock of 500 guinea pigs for experimentation Rev. Leo R. Ward, C.S.C., head of graduate department of philosophy, lectures to class. Aim of department is to acquaint student with essen- tial unity of all knowledge, clarify insight into nature of world and man, give student a better In quantum sumus, since man exists, he id should be for all his days. Formal religious instruc- tion is a required course for all undergraduates in first two years, takes two class hours a week. Many N.D. citizens are non-Catholics, are not required to attend services or study religion, may substitute other courses for it. N.D. ' s faculty numbers 302, actively and directly engaged in teaching. Of these, only 71 are priests, four are brothers. The rest of the faculty is composed of laymen , 175 professors and instructors, 52 grad- uate assistants, graduate students working for advanced degrees who teach one or two classes. Faculty also includes many administrative officials not engaged in teaching. Most lay members of faculty live in South Bend with their families. The University attempts to keep N.D. educational facilities abreast of the times, does a marvelous job with limited finances (see cuts) . University has only a small general endowment fund of $1,010,000 plus foundations of little more than two hundred thousand dollars. On campus are seven classroom and labora- tory buildings. The Administration Building, main library and Rockne Memorial also house classrooms. Fourteen laboratories for different studies are pro- vided. Classroom buildings also house departmental libraries. The University is composed of five colleges which contain thirty-three departments in which students .trol over thinking. Quotation on blackboard, sumus, is from St. Augustine, means that od in himself. rows of figures on calculators in machine tic work of business math, accounting. Com- jfimefi , Jewish engineers by other citizens, iMijjoVsity ' s five colleges, have attempted to . fcL(V Forum, N.D. ' s Tammany Hall , lMi jpVsity ' s fi iugh UmHlerc may take major sdBtets. Colleges sjfi Ajr and Let- ters, Science, Law, faHgine,erine,, q yCflmrnerce. Each is headed by a d pPP@SSKrs!fy ' s graduate school are seventeen departments in which University can confer master or doctors degrees. Largest of five col- leges is Commerce; Arts and Letters is only slightly smaller. Each has over one thousand students. Science and Engineering have only about three hundred and five hundred respectively. The University offers a six- year law course, with pre-law studies in either Arts and Letters or Commerce. For the most part N.D. citizens are convinced of value of the courses they take. Relative value of the colleges and their courses is popular topic of conversa- tion in bull sessions. Greatest feud is between Arts and Letters and Commerce. Commerce men say A.B. (Arts and Letters is known by the degree it confers) is not practical. A.B. men base argument on cul- tural value, say education cannot be practical and still be education, believe Commerce is mere business training, should not be a University course. Engineers and pre-meds (Science school students) have little respect for A.B., Commerce, consider these courses too easy. Discussions undoubtedly involve a personal element, but still have basis in sincerity, show that average N.D. citizen has some purpose and interest in his college work.

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CITIZENS ' PRIME CONCERN IS HIGHER LEARNING Notre Dame exists for one prime purpose. That purpose is the campus-town ' s main industry: educa- tion. Each year more than three thousand young men leave their homes scattered over the globe, converge on this 1700-acre island of higher learning on the plains of northern Indiana. Here they live in an at- mosphere of education with as little or as much to do with outside life as each citizen may desire, but within limits set by the University. Study is the main thing in their lives for the four, five, six years they spend in N.D. Most young men who become N.D. citizens realize this. Some students of the University are not citizens of N.D., live with their families in South Bend, or board in homes authorized by the University because they cannot be accommodated on campus. Education at N.D. is for them the same as for citizens, the pressing business of their years of study. Education is more than books at N.D. Life in the campus-town is designed so that everything contrib- utes to education, cultivation of students. Citizens come from all parts of U.S., from many foreign coun- tries, notably America ' s southern neighbors. Citizens live with their fellows, know them more intimately than most U.S. college men know their fellow-students. Thus citizens become cosmopolitan in views and man- ners, are freed of local prejudices and provincialisms. Citizens also come to know professors well, lose exces- sive formality that usually exists between faculty and students. The barrier that separates teachers from classes in large state schools does not exist at N.D. Religion is part of N.D. citizen ' s education, is meant to teach him his spiritual obligations, moral principles, to convey to him that he is a Catholic at all times, not just at Sunday Mass. Here religion is the center, guiding principle of all life and education, 30

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Sunday afternoon on the road around the lake ; citizens desert their city for school across the road, St. Mary ' s College for Women. Tea dances without tea are weekly Sunday afternoon affairs; comparatively few citizens go, however, since N.D. outnumbers the Rock ten to one. Photo is typical of autumn beauty in wooded lake section of campus IT IS A CITY WITHOUT WOMEN Though N.D. is a city apart, vastly different from all others in the land, it is by no means shut out from the world. Like all college men in campus boarding schools, N.D. men gripe vehemently about life in their town. Citizens well know that life at N.D. is a great change from life in their homes, but for the most part will readily admit that it is far more conducive to study, perhaps even more natural for college men than life in their homes. Life at N.D. offers all pos- sible features of home life, but with restrictions necessary in a town whose citizens are almost all college students. Recreation and social life are a part of the N.D. life, perhaps even a part of N.D. cultivation. Much of citizen ' s leisure time is spent on campus. To a great extent recreation at N.D. is athletic, in the Rockne Memorial, on the lakes, on the golf course. On winter afternoons and evenings, the Memorial is so crowded citizens must wait for free squash, handball, basketball courts. In spring and fall, students bring golf clubs to dinner at noon, rush to course immedi- ately afjjar so they won ' t be caught in huge crowd it first tee. In winter, swimming is in rial pool, in summer in the lakes. Citi- on frozen St. Mary ' s lake in winter Residence and dormitory halls have jrtter.-hall football, basketball leagues letic Association; all year citi- ti football, baseball. Spectator arsity$ !mes consume much of citizen ' s waitins ( on Hall is N.D. ' s cinema palace ' , wheraiinfrfvles are shown every Saturday nicht and evenings before free days. Here also University Players put several productions before the foot- lights each year, Glee Club and University Sym- phony give concerts. The University each year presents a series of productions by professional theatrical and musical groups. Probably most universal leisure time activity is the bull session which consists of much con- versation, much less listening. Main bull ses- sion topics are home-towns, girls, dining hall food, studies, and after vacations detailed accounts of what citizens did from time they left until sad day of returning. Like most U.S. men ' s colleges, N.D. has a girls ' college hovering near by. Around St. Mary ' s lake and across the Dixie Highway, it is St. Mary ' s College for Women, known in N.D. as the Rock, presumably because rules of the school across the road are strict as Alcatraz. Actually N.D. buildings are one mile from St. Mary ' s building. Comparatively few citizens go out with girls when at N.D., import dates from home-town or other mid -western schools for big school dances. Most students who do date go out with St. Mary ' s girls; but many find South Bend girls more friendly, more informal, unhampered by girls ' school rules. Citizens who go to St. Mary ' s usually have substantial allowances, a desire to date that conquers all obstacles. Influx for first Sunday tea dance in September is huge, quickly dwindles through succeeding weeks ; mortality rate is high. Through rest of year, influx consists of sporadic visits of many boys, weekly visits of a faithful few. 32