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

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I on Brownson field, a revitalized band in practice, with interhall football teams scrimmaging against the backdrop of the field house. Autumn on the campus: the rush of students and fans to the stadium. Log Chapel by the Lake, has sprung outward and around the Lakes; from two or three humble buildings, a dozen teachers, a few dozen students, Notre Dame has burst into a Uni- versity of quadrangles, of hotel-like halls, of libraries, with a faculty numbering hundreds, and a student body in the thousands. This one-hundred-year progression was no mere matter-of-course enlargement, but a living achievement, a cumulative realization of the dreams of Sorin, who must have had some intimation, in his years of hardship and disappoint- ment, that his struggles would produce something great and enduring. And because Notre Dame was founded in strug- gle and hardship, it has endured and enlarged through the years,- Notre Dame is a strength, a guide, a repository of Catholic Faith and Learning to Catholic America. Though Notre Dame has grown much in one hundred years, though curricula have been widened and diversified enormously, though changes in educational methods have come about, the University still adheres strictly to the ideal of Catholic tradition and culture; Notre Dame men of today are schooled undeviatingly in these elements of Catholic edu- cation, just as preceding generations have been schooled. There are thousands of Notre Dame Alumni who are living proof that Our Lady ' s University is not just one university among thousands; there is something in them, an intangible something that was acquired at Notre Dame, and that can be found only at Notre Dame. This something marks a Notre Dame man from all other college men; it is not a man- ner of dressing, nor a manner of speak- {Omtauud an uxtp gtt From the back of the cam- pus to the front: the steady, living power of the power- house and the long sweep of grass, tree, and build- ing down the mall to the Rockne memorial.

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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

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Students find recreation in Branson wreck , with its old football pic- tures and interhall trophies, its radio with a fine bass for music. At other times they are entertained by performances like this one by the Camel Caravan. All this for a bottle and it empty; it happened on Co- operation Night, but it looks like everything else but that. ing, nor is it entirely a fanatic devotion to the alma mater. It has been popularized as the Spirit of Notre Dame ; the public has mistakenly attached it to, and identified it with, the courage of Notre Dame football teams, or with the pride and exuberance of the Notre Dame students at football games. But these, perhaps, are merely the most out- ward manifestations of this spirit. It is doubtful if anyone who has not attended the University can be aware of more than these outward manifestations; students, however, are keenly aware of it, even though it is not definitely tangible to them. The majority of the three thousand boys who go to Notre Dame are of the broad American middle class; sons of physicians, contractors, farmers, lawyers, shippers, they arrive from high school or preparatory school unanimously impressed with the fame of Notre Dame. For a while they walk wide-eyed, but the early fascination soon wears off and they settle down academi- cally and socially, usually falling in with a group of boys with interests similar to their own. There are no fraternities, no cliques, no class distinctions; Notre Dame is a near- perfect social democracy. Under these con- ditions, finding acquaintances is not hard; the South meets the North, Texans befriend 18