The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-06


ment of Notre Dame, with a commodious
and perfectly appointed stage and seat
ing capacity OF i.20J. Here all the oebateS
and oratorical contests are held, C we'll as
the five plays that are presented during the
year by the students. and the lecture ana
concert course, which brings about twenty
i've attractions, comprising the prominent
lectures and leading concert and operate
companies.
Near Washington hall is the new gym
nasium. one OF the finest in the West. It's
ample room for indoor baseball and track
meets as well as an excellent floor tor
dancing in the part reserved for gymnastics
Beside the gymnasium is Cartier heid, one
~ the largest and best athletic fields in the
State comprising gTidircn, basenah ga
mond, q 23o-yards straightaway, and a
quartermile cinder track.
The equipment OF sclence nan Is most
perfect for physical. chemical and biolog-
zeal courses. The institute OF technology
and the near by astronomical observatory
furnish ample apparatus and laboratory
facilities for the pharmacy and engineering
students. Opposite science hall Is Sorin,
the large residence hall, affording private
rooms 10 more than a hundred upper class
men The first fiocr of Sorin hall is occu-
pied by the law lecture rooms and library.
Near by stands Corby, another residence
hail, with private rooms for nearly two
But perhaps the most interesting structure
at Notre Dame is the Church of the Sacred
Heart. which was more than twenty years
was pronounced one of the most magnificent
Catholic edificcs in America. Its GOTHIC
spire rises almost three hundred feet In
the air; in the tower are hung the sweet
chimes of twenty-three bells that every
hour sound the soft strains of Ave Maria
Stella" just below them swings the great
est bell but one in America Its loud,
though sweet tones, can be heard for TWEEN
ty-tiye miles. Within this bell fifteen men
can stand erect. The united strength Of
twelve men is required to ring it,
THE FAIREsT OF ALL.
But the church itself is fairest of all to
see, with it's exquisite frescoes, its stately
arches, it's wonderful windows. its twelve
affairs. wherein rest the relics of the saints.
Few know that in all the world there is
but one altar more privileged than the one
at Notre Dame, which for three centuries
stood in Rome. and which has all the in
dulgences attached TO the portiuncula Of
st. Francis. Here are venerated a sec
ton of the garment believed by the faithful
TO have been worn by Jesus, a piece OF the
veil and girdle worn by His mother. a part
of the true cross, which. or each Good
Friday, is elevated in benediction. Above
that altar is a statue of the Blessed Virgin
adorned with a costly crown of beaten
There. too, is the massive Ostensorium of
purest metal, donated by Napoleon III.
Behind the church is grotto, where three
pilgrimages made each year by the
pious people of the neighborhood.
This is Notre Dame, and under these in
fiuences have thousands of young men come
TO manhood's estate and were made fit to
enter the battle OF life Notre Dame is
thoroughly and uncompromisingly Catholic.
Yet hundreds of her students have been
nOn-Catholic, and to-day many Of those
most prominent in student activities are
Protestant. She is truly Catholic-and all
seeking for knowledge are welcome-be they
Jew or Gentle.
To-day the community more resembles
town than college campus. For fifty
years. through the personal influence of
Henry Clay, Notre Dame has had post
office, and to-day the postmaster and his
assistants handle a business that is eX-
ceeded by only five offices in the State. The
institution has it's own electric light gas
and steam heating plants, bakeries, shops
and general stores, from barber shop TO
Very few colleges have their own printing
offices. AT Notre Dame the weekly college
Paper the has tn been published
the monthly magazine, the Ave Maria, has
attracted worldwide reputation in Catho-
lie circles by its literary excellence.
To an outsider the social life at NOtre
Dame is perhaps most misunderstood. The
institution is a boarding school for boys,
two miles from South Bend, and from Sep
TENDER till June there is not regular need
of any of the thousand students that cam
not be supplied by the stores and Offices
within the community Physicians and
SPECIALISTS are IN daily ATTENDANCE, Ample
hall. The great intercollegiate athletic con-
tests take place on Cartier field
| The preparatory students and the fresh
men live under the dormitOry and study
hall system, but the three upper classes all
| have private rooms in Brownson, Corby and
| SOrin halls. Though there are no chapters
of the national college fraternities at Notre
Dame, yet there are students from almost
every State in the Union who have organ
lied State clubs The Capitol keystone
Club has sixty members 6e The Empire State
! Club forty. The men from Central and
| South America have flourishing organiza-
ton of thirty-fve members. Four literary
! and debating societies are strongly organ
| lied and actively carried on. There is a
| junior musical and dramatic society. a
| university band and university orchestra,
| a glee and mandolin club, boat club, hold
| ing annual regattas and races, a thriving
| tennis club, scores of basketball teams, a
most promising handball organza ton, a
/ varsity football team that has the proud
| record of being the only team in the West
| that has never been scored on, a baseball
team that is one of the best in the country,
and a track squad that bids fair to win the
| championship honors of the State this
spring.
| ly events. Stag dances" are frequent.
| South Bends society is always represented
at intercollegiates. oratorical contests the
student plays and entertainments, and al
the football and baseball games. But the
| biggest society event OF the scholastic year
| ia the senior promenade. which is held in
| the gymnasium on Easter Monday night
| The affair is very elaborate and formal and
| the most exclusive social event among
| tie students. commencement week is a
| continuous round of festivities.
| Such is Notre Dame with it's natural at
Effectiveness. it's sylvan retreats, its stately
| buildings, its pleasant grounds its thorough
and varied courses, its many and competent
| instructors, its ever increasing number OF
students The institution has truely become
one of the fairest of all those beautiful
| gardens planted by the fathers in the West
ern wilderness; has come TO take her rank
at the head of the Catholic universities OF
| our country.
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