South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-03
Notre Dame News

Prof John NJ. Cooney. dean of
the journalism department at No
ire Dame university. received a let
ter from Harry scott. member Of
the 1917 class in journalism. who
as a lieutenant is stationed with the
first battalion of the 18Th depot
Drisad" at Camp Taylor.
He says. Looking over the last
issue OF the Scholastic brought back
TO memory the old days at Notre
Dame. mean especially the old
. days when the journalism class was
a gasping infant and when we put
out dummy copies of the great No
tire Dame daily when we were not
having feeds up the ST Joe river.
Seeing the names Of Gene Mcbride
and O'Boyle. now in the Canadian
army. and the rest Of the boys GER
tainly started memory tripping
backward.
Please don't think that i needed
a Scholastic as a reminder of those
olden golden days, because that holy
place is always in my memory, and
each day that / live the old school
becomes nearer TO nre. like wine II
improves with age. / can see the
old class room now, Parker's feet
stuck over the next chair, Sackley
blushing behind a raised hand,
Danny smoothing out his mustache.
McOsker with that eternal serious
look on his face and Jerry Miller
coming i'm late as usual oh Prof.
those were the days when the whole
world was smiling and we were too
busy schooling ourselves 10 notice
IT, L can see that this copy is not
going 10 be clean, because I have
lost the artists touch, and my i'm
gers are not SO nimble. Neither the
typewriter or the piano come much
in my life anymore.
How is Notre Dame? gulp
down every bit OF Notre Dame news
that j can find, and like a starved
pup. cry for more. The scholastic
comes weekly, and now even more
than in my dreaming freshman days
do i wish for a NOtre Dame daily.
/ am down i'm your beloved state of
Kentucky and am searching each
day for the far-famed blue grass
all / have been able 20 see so far
is gooey sticky. churned mud. And
OF all the mud ] have ever seen,
Kentucky mud is the muddiest. The
past week has been delightful warm
under a soft blue sky. IL makes me
think of school in the sprins, with
the winding cement sidewalks
washed white by the last melting
snow, and the trees and shrubbery
Just beginning to bud under the
spirit of old Dominic. / tell you
professor. there never was more
perfect place TO spend a spring than
up there.
Il was glad and proud to see the
Notre Dame priests made chaplains
but feel sighted because none OF
them were sen. down 10 Camp Fay
Tor. However. we have three Cath
Ollie chaps" here who are mighty
fine men and are doing a great work
We have three x. of <. buildings
here and all OF them are doing an
:. r. O. business. Some more build
ings certainly could be used. There
are a good many Notre Dame boys
here at camp. but what camp does
not have more than its share. The
old school has surely given a good
many sons 10 the Flag and its cause
William Broom Mcdonald is here
i'm the same brigade with me, and
Joe O'Hara is ny room mate. L
see the Lindeman boys every once
in a while. one of them is in the
90 sr,fr - VI
Vurpillat. SO is Jimmy Phelan.
tell YOU the Big Fuss certainly up
set the plans and scattered the boys
all thru this country and the one
over there. Not very many lays are
Louis Keifer was here 10 see mo, on
his way back 10 Camp Shelby after
spending a short leave at home. He
says he feels ft TO kill
If / am still i'm this country when
June rolls around this year. ] am
surely going TO get back for a day
or two and take just one more peep
at the blessed gold dome After that
] will be willing 10 gamble German
bullets and their kultur gasSes But
when this military BALI is over
and they play Home. Sweet Home.
I feel that tn still be able TO say
Home James
Prof YOU can't realize what
an act OF charity YOU could perform
by merely writing me a line or two.
Letters are the soldiers pot of gold
at the end of "a hard days work.
And tell an my bold friends that
ask for them. And some time
when YOU are leaning back in that
old swivel chair and looking out
on Gods country smoking your fav-
orite long green. think Of"
SOOTTN.
lst battalion
159th depot bri-ade.
Camp Taylor. Ky