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

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Meagher, Edward Fitzmaurice Seattle, Wash. Murphy, Donald Edward Maywood, III. Michel, Julian Dufort Charleston, S. C. OTode, Kevin Chkago, III. Rons, Joseph Phillip Bel Air, Md. Powers, John Bernard Enid, Okla. Randolph, William Eugene . Jackson, Tenn. Rousseve, Kermit Anthony New Orleans, La. Roscher, John Richard Erie, Pa. Salvati, Nello Arthur Quincy, Mass. Stumpf, Francis Julius Richmond, Va. Veneman, Jacques Maftingly Louisville, Ky. Villarosa, Nicholas Joseph Montclair, N. J. Yavorsky, John Charles Belle Plain, Iowa Yoklavich, Eugene Patrick Gunnison, Colo. . . . Names of the North, ice-steeled air and pines, of the South, and sluggish rivers in cloy country . . . Names of all the tongues and countries. The Huddle, scene of milling rushes after classes . . . football pic- tures, empty coke and milk bottles, perpetual milk shake machine. ' 1 Carroll Hall desks, in long green rows, spiked by white posts, have been a part of Notre Dame since its founding. And students, visiting the caf at night, are joined in bull-sessions by profs. 21

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Adams, Hugh Clairborne El Paso, Texas Alcayaga, Eduardo Santiago, Chile, S. A. Bryan, James Joseph Bay St. Louis, Miss. Campbell, Joseph Malin Santa Monica, Cal. Chung, Benedict Jackson Tientsin, China Deegan, John Francis New York, N. Y. deManeby, Lyndsay Raoul West Hartford, Conn. Facusse, Miguel Tecugalpa, Honduras, C. A. Fitzgerald, Paul Brice New Rochelle, N. Y. Garcia, Fernando Ligardi . Caguas, Porto Rico Golubski, Victor South Bend, Ind. Joyce, James Lyle Spartanburg, S. C. McGowan, Graham Burlington, Vt. McKenna, William James Saskatoon, Sask., Canada McNamara, Donald Joseph Brooklyn, N. Y. The names of Notre Dame ore drawn from all the regions of America, her neighbors, and nations abroad. . . . Students . . . holding informal pep rallys, catch Angelo Bertelli, of the accurate passing arm, returning from the library. . . . rapidly; in two months ' time they are indistinguishable from, and equal to, any other Notre Dame man. The University, wiser than most schools, has insisted on but few conventions; the atmosphere therefore resembles home-life more than is usual in universities. In the classroom, more than anywhere else, the informality appears to best advantage. Many Notre Dame professors have sat in the same worn benches in which their own students now sit, and therefore they have a special interest and understanding with regard to the students ' problems. There are no barriers between a Notre Dame man and a Notre Dame prof; the classes are gen- erally informal, though never casual. Students are more alert than ever, probably sensing their potentialities and responsibilities in the somewhat muddied future. In seeking to maintain good professor-student relationships, Notre Dame has done much to preserve its own unity of purpose, and strengthen the spirit and tradition that so typifies it as a Catholic University. In other less important functions, also, the informality ap- pears; in the long, good-humored lines at the Dining Halls, newly converted to the cafeteria system; in a Saturday night show at Washington Hall; in the Huddle, milkshake factory extraordinary; and in the residence halls, which resemble beehives since the Navy appropriated four halls for use in the midshipman training program, forcing the students to double up in the remaining halls. With three, four and five students in a room, the bull-sessions are carried on with more vigor than ever, and with a surprising range of topics. But a laxity in excessive formality does not imply a laxity in law, or in law-enforcement, as any Notre Dame man will testify. There are rules at Notre Dame, which, if not obeyed, inevitably involve the separation of the student from the University, as the student manual euphemistically puts it. Authority for the enforcement of the rules is in the hands of the Prefect of Discipline, and the hall rectors, who do a good job impressing upon some students that their frolicking days are over. So here three thousand young Catholic Americans live four years of their lives, most of them conscious of their advan- tages. They live fully and good-naturedly the months they stay at Notre Dame, and when they leave they are suddenly and sharply aware, for the first time, perhaps, of their loss. They lose Notre Dame and they see their places filled by others like them; but with the regret, there is an accompany- ing satisfaction and appreciation, just as deeply felt; they have known Notre Dame and her way of life, and they find it so strongly attached to them that they know it will never be forgotten, that with it they will gauge every single thing they meet. As a Notre Dame man steps away from the Circle he knows that he will think Notre Dame as long as he lives; he has been made Our Lady ' s special watch and charge, forever. 20

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M, ' AN LIVES ON THE EARTH, and he knows the suns and shadows of its ways. Its rivers run foam- ing on icy rocks, stir sluggish by willow banks of clay: and man hears them in the night, feels their moving in the pulse of his blood. The sea, moving to bind the lands together, beats the rocks of an old castle, and streams back again upon itself; gulls come in white waves in the moonlight, bending their wings to dip and rise. Rain falls in the night, searching out, streaming down over a tree, a roof corner, a tombstone, seeping hungrily home into the earth: man hears the rain, feels it returning, crossing into the seasons and the years. Man feels, hears, sees the things of the moment, smells them, touches them, knows the forms of his God: the hurl of wind in heavy trees, the burn of sun on stone, a brittle brown leaf, its life dried in the stem, breaking from a branch, scaling to earth to lie and wait for its weathering. Softly in pleasant movings, swiftly in startling flashes, are revealed the things of the earth to man, the poet, man of the earth and of his people. 22