WELCOME HOMECOMERS
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BEAT McKENDREE No.2
Thursday, October 16, 1930.
Volume XLVIII
ST. VIATOR WELCOMES SONS HOME AGAIN CLASSES HOLD NEW ELECTIONS Freshmen Elect Officers, Seniors and Sophs Fill Vacancies On October 7, the largest Freshman class in the history of St. Viator College held its election. To head it during the next year, the class chose Patrick N. Farrell of Chicago, a graduate of St. Viator Academy and one of the best known and most generall y liked men in the class. The Freshmen also Wl'ote a new ch apter into the history of St. Viator College when Miss Marie Smale, of Bradley, became the first co-ed ever to hold office in a class of the College. For Secretary, t he class selected Charles Byron, of Bourbonnais, and elected to entrust such funds as might come into their possession in the hands of Harry Hartigan, of Chicago. Robert Delaney, a Iso of Chicago, will represent the Freshmen before the Advisory Board. The election was unique in two ways, fir st, because the class elevated a co-ed to the office of VicePresident, and secondly, because all of the officers, with the exception of Miss Smole, are graduates of St. Viator Academy. S~o phomor es Elect To fill the office of Vice-President, left vacant by the failure of Francis Cassidy, of Holyoke, Mass., to return, the Sophomore class held a special election. John McGrath, of Peoria, was selected from a three-cornered field consisting of himself, Danny O'Connor and James Laffey. Seniors P ick P r esident Because Lloyd O. Warne, of Sioux Falls, S. D., failed to return to school, the Senior class held a special election to fill the office of President. Kenneth Clothier, of Bloomington, Illinois, was picked to fiucceed t h e absentee, Mr. Warne,
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FATHER MAGUIRE TALKS TO LABOR I
Viatorian Pulls Scoop
Holy Name Sunday Heid i Th e firs t Holy Name Sunday of the 1930-31 scholastic year was observed on Sunday, October 12, when the entire student body of the College altended Mass in a body a,n d received Holy Communion. The second Sunday of every month is traditionally Hol y Name Sunday at St. Viator College, and at that time the student body receives Holy Communion in a gt路oup. It has been the custom in past years, a custom which is continued this year, to hold the Mass On Holy Name Sunday at seven o'clock instead of the regular eightthirty Sunday Mass, and to have breakfast imm ediately following Ma,ss rather than preceed it. It has also been customary to hold the meetings of the Holy Name Society as soon after breakfast on Holy Name Sundays as possible. Another innovation this year is the holding of two student Masses on week days at 6 :30 and 7 o'clock rather t han the si ngle Mass at 6:40 as was the case in former years.
With it. first issue, the Viatorian carried the first n ews uscoop" of the --,yea r when it had the story of the PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE AP- Viator-Wesleyan football game cirPEARS BEFORE AMERICAN culating on the campus four hours FEDERATION OF LABOR I before the first local newspaper. The I paper was made up on Friday afternoon preceeding the game with the exception of a column on the back Noted Economist and Sociologist page which was held open for the football story. The game was written Tells Laborers How the Scientist up late Friday night after its occurSees Present Situation renee, taken to the printer a,n d run off early Saturday morning. As a Very Reverend J . W. R. Maguire, resu lt of this exceptionally kind coC. S. V., pres ident of St. Viator Col- operation on the part of the printers, lege left early last week for Boston, the Viatorian was ava.i1 able at the Massachusetts, where, on Wednesday College by two o'clock Saturday aftOctober eighth, he appeared before ernoon, fully four hours before the the American Federation of Labor in first Kankakee paper carrying the its Annual Convention and delivered story of the game rea,ched the school. an :1ddress. Father Maguire who has an international reputation as a
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Gives Sociologist View I
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IPARENT'S DAY
sociologist a.n d economist. has long championed the cause of the working man throughout the extent of the land, and is directly responsible for I much of the legislation enacted dur- I
TO BE SOON
Plans for Parent's Day November 7, Nearing C I路 omp ebon
GAME AND DANCE TO BE FEATURES St. Viator Meets McKendree in Night Grid Battle Between the routine and work When the night is beginning to lower Comes a pause in the year's occupation That is known as the Homecoming hours. My apologies to Longfellow! A pause? Yes, a respite from labor ~ nd duty; but certainl y not a cession of activities, rather a r enewed fervor in that the anticipations of a year are realized. Homecoming Day is the big event of every year in every college throughout the entire country. It is the day when, in response to a summons sent out from their Alma Mater, all her children. old students and new, assemble within the friendly wa,l ls of their college and there continue and perpetuate the friendsh ip of college days. So does St. Viator College issue an invitation to all who have found a place within her walls-alumni, students, and friends . She, too, wishes and urges that her children revisit once more the scenes of their college days. So she has set aside October 17 as the day that she will entertain th~m. A round of festivities has been a.rranged in accordance with a ll Homecoming occasions. On the night of October 16, St. Viator's respectable students become transformed into a disreputable array of hobos. And, not content with that, th ey must, as though they were proud, and of course, the occasion (Continued on page s ix)
ing hi s time for the protection of the I[ laborer. Father MagUIre presented ' an unusually compact and comprehensive survey of the prese nt industr ial situation and its remeaies, l and gave his address t he added wegiht I of his usual forceful style of speech. I The plans for the first annua l The address was broadcast over a Parent's. Day at St. Viator. College national network of radio stations. are ra.p ldly neanng completIon. InAs indicative of the high esteem in ! vitations to parents of the students which Father Maguire is held by the will soon be issued by the College. working men of America, it is signi- In addition, the students are requestficent to notice that he was invited ed to personally invite their parents At the annDar Conference of the to share the program and the Con- to attend the festivities. Midwest Debate League of which St. venti on's time with such justly Parent's Day, which occurs on Viator College is a member, held at famous men as William Cardinal November 7th, will find the Fighting the Auditorium Hotel in Chicago, O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, and Irish entertaining the strong CharlesSaturday, September seventh, the Herbert Hoover, President of the ton eleven in a night football game. question for t he debating season of United States. Father Maguire has That the game should be extraordin1930 was decided upon. always been in the forefront of every arily well-fought is evidenced by the The question which the men will labor dispute, ~. nd is to be congrat- records of the two teams, Charleston debate is: Resolved, That the several ulated on the recognition given his holds a 15-0 victory over Illinois states should enact legislation proNormal, while St, Viator beat the viding for compulsory unemployment services by the Federation. Teachers 6-0. The score does not ins urance, This selection waR made SHEEDY IN HOSPITAL accurately guage the relative merits _ __ from a long list of interesting topics Cl S Sh d f S eca 10f the two teams as shown by the . . . . including modern advertising, prohi,a:ence . ee y o . ,en 'fact that Viator made two more first Wlth a determmabon to make Itbition, repeal of the Sherman Anti- Il?mol~, was taken to St. MalY s Hos- owns a ainst Normal than CharleS-I ~elf hea~d, the la rgest, hobo parade g . m the hlstory of St. V,ator College Trust Act, free trade, campaign ex- pltal In Kankakee for an emergency d penditures, women in public affairs, operation for appendiciti s. His con- ton was able t~ do, and 楼amed l~o~e invaded the streets of downtown e Kankakee last night The paraders recognition of Soviet Russia, old age dition is reported as satisfactory at yards from scnmmage. It shoul . ordinarily staid" ~ober students: Due to the energies of the Sopho- pension, too many people entering this writing. Sheedy is a member of anybody's b~ttl e. (ContInued on page SIX ) seemed to g lory in their fallen state. the Freshman class. more class the campus has been re(Continued on page six) cently beautified by the acquisition A t the head of the procession rode of some extremely attractive caps by the football team in automobiles. a certain portion of the student body McKendree rode, too, but only in whose love for the Alma Mater has effigy, borne upon the shoulders of prompted them to be so self-sacritwel ve Fres hman stalwarts. It was ficing. Not content with instructing I not a gala occasion for the McKenthe youngsters in the joys that are to I dree troop, however, for they rode in be attained from properly decorated I a specially constructed casket. Folsurroundings, the upper-classmen I lowing the somber funeral procession have kindly volunteered their precious with its hoard of mourners (hired), time in an effort to improve the came the aristocrat of the Hobo etiquette of their wards, and offer a Parade, Mr. Byron, who rode in his 0' proclamation in this issue as the first I coach and four (minus three), erstfr uits of their conference. The while Patty Haye's ancient victoria . master-minds of the College have ! The upper-classmen brought up the improved upon most of the old and I rear in picturesque disarray, and accepted formulas of conduct. and making so unds that seemed a lmost have even gone so far as to suggest sacreligious in view of the character a few new ones for the Book. The of the first half of the column. administration of the rules is to again I At the College the Hobo Hoards be in the hands of the ancient and I broke ranks to lig ht the big bonfire honorable Tribunal of the Kangaroo. , 0' that Bob Delaney and his crew of Freshmen had been collecting for the I pas t two weeks. The marchers were followed by a large number of townspeople, who came along to see the "'We extend our condolences to thing done and remained to particiJames Wolf of the Freshman class L_______________________ ______________________--' pate. on the death of his father.
DEBATE QUESTION PICKED AT MEET
Midwest Debate League Selects Question For This Year
Hobo Parade a Success
Sophs Decree Frosh Conduct
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HOMECOMING PROGRAM
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THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16
7 :00 clock-Hobo Parade through Kankakee 8:30 o'clock-Bonfire
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17
5 :3 0 clock-Dinner for Alumni in College Refrectory 7 :45 o'clock-Homecoming game with McKendree 9: 15 o'clock-Homecoming party in gym
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