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

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The high-shadowed sanctity Of the Church Where the cherubs of Gregori, In multicolored fresco, Sing silent hymnals against stars. And the Word, below. Rings in aged air. 15

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The circle of trail And trees And Somnolent Lake Bears quietly the flare of autumn And the keen-scented sadness Of a lost summer.

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O ' Donnell shows the Navy ' s admirals around the halls they now use. Sunday Mass at Notre Dame; visitors, the organ plays, and the Moreau Choir sings Gregorian Chant at 8:30 high mass. Fifty miles east of the lower tip of Lake Michigan, on the dark rolling grainlands of Indiana, is the broad, green- wooded campus of the University of Notre Dame. A mile to the south, clustered on the banks of the St. Joseph ' s River as it wanders momentarily down from Michigan, is the manu- facturing city of South Bend, with a war-boom population of over 110,000. Surrounding the University ' s somewhat quiet, isolated 1700 acres, in which are imbedded two small spring-fed lakes, are farmlands, hamlets, and the suburbs of South Bend; a mile to the west, across the wide, busy Dixie Highway, can be seen the spires of St. Mary ' s College for young women. Long, maple-bordered Notre Dame Avenue is the main approach to the campus from South Bend; here, between the University golf course and the distant, tan-bricked stadium, flows a surprising amount of traffic, including the familiar orange-and-silver busses which provide six-minute trans- portation to the downtown district. At the end of Notre Dame Avenue is the Circle ; on each side of it stretches a long, glistening line of the more recently constructed build- ings, forming one side of the imposing, mall-like sweep of the new Quadrangle. At the left end is the Knute Rockne Memorial Fieldhouse; to the right is famous, green-fenced Cartier Field, the practice home of Irish athletic teams. Straight ahead is the Main Quadrangle, with wandering gravelled walks and ancient evergreens contrasting with the sharply-sliced, young-treed new Quadrangle. Over the old evergreens can be seen the slim, cross-topped Spire of Sacred Heart Church and Before exams, after lights go out, the students sit in the halls and study. the Golden Dome of the Administration Building, surmounted by the famous statue of Our Lady. Here is the very heart of the University; within the circle of a few time-marked buildings the Church, the Administration Building, Washing- ton Hall, Sorin, Corby, St. Edward ' s, Science Hall Notre Dame lived for years, small, and unaware of its destiny. But now, outside the original circle, huge new halls and labora- tories line the new Quadrangle; and, on the east edge of the campus, near the old Fieldhouse, is another growth of new halls. On the far corner of the campus is the Biology Building, the University power plant and the University press. To the north of the University proper are the Lakes, St. Joseph ' s and St. Mary ' s, and several buildings used by the Congregation of Holy Cross for the schooling of the younger seminarians. It is here, on these grounds, that the Notre Dome of Sorin, of Cointet, of Marivault, of Gousse, the Notre Dame of the 16