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LUNIVEHSITY OF IDTRE DAME Department of Public Information

John. V. Hinkel, Director

Release: Monday, November 10 2 1947 - 47-296

Notre Dame, Ind., Nov. ::-,...{)liver Smalley, President of the Meehanite Metal

Corporation in New Rochelle, N. Y., and_one of the leading metal experts of the

world, has been named to the .hdvisory Council for Science and Engineering at the

University of Notre Dame, it was announced yesterday (Nov. 9) by the Rev. John J.

Cavanaugh, C.S.C., President of Notre Dame.

The Advisory Council for Science and Engineering at Notre Dame is composed o~

some of the nation's leading scientists and industrialists who serve in an advisory

capacity for scientific end engineering research conducted at Notre Dame.

Mr. Smalley, a native o! Chesterfield, England, came to the United States in

1925 after gaining some of the top industrial honors of England. He was associated

in England for twelve years wi ~h the W. G. Armstrong, Wbitworth and Company where he

directed the research and development of the corporation and served as manager of the

., Foundries Steel Works and Metal Recovery Department.

One of the early ·workers :in the manufacture of basic electric steel and in the

manufacture of steel ·direct from iron ore, Mr~ Smalley ·worked parallel with Augustus

F. Meehan of Tennesf?ee in th.e discovery and development o.f Meehanite, a.ltho.ugh the

work of each was· unknown at that time· to the other.

Besides being president of the Meehanite :Metal Corporation, an engineering firm

of international scope,.; Mr. Smalley operates .t'oundr~r activities in rome twenty-four

countries throughout the world and directs frum the United States a number of

research organizations.

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Mr. Smalley represented Great Britain as British Consul in Pennsylvania for

some fifteen years. The Consul Association of Pennsylvania recognized his leader-

ship and elected him President of this liSsociation, which post he occupi€d until

the outbreak of the war.

During World V'lar II, in addition to acting as director of the activities and

progress of aver 100 foundries and of the 1feehanite Metal Corporation, Mr. Smalley

was instrumental in raising over three and one-half million dollars and collecting

two hundred tons of clothing and woolen goods for war charities •

. King George VI, on a visit to the United States, decorated Mr. Smalley with

the honor of the Order of the British Empire for the splendid work he md done in

cEI!lenting better relations among the English speDking peoples of the world. most

Possibly one of th€;/important interests lvir. Smalley has maintained throughout

his life has been in youth training and in the dev.;:llopment of talent in the m$tall~

gical, iron and steel industries. He has be.en responsible for the education and

training of a number of young men who at the present time occupy important positions

both in the United States and in Great Britain.

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UNIVK1SI'l'Y GF !-;uTRE DJ,ME Department of Public Information

John V. Hinkel, Director

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Notre Dame, Ind., Nov~ : :--Imp..;rtant scientific and engineering research

conducted during the past year at the University of Notre Dame will be reviewed by

some of the nation's lea,ding scieptists and industriallsts at a meeting at Notre Dame

on November 21 and 22 of the Notre D.i:>11V~ Ji.dvis.ory Council. for Science a'nd Engineering.

Plans also will be mo.de at the. )'UeetiP.g fc)'r expanding still further Notre Dame's

constantly increasing research progr.:.un. Harold S~ Vance, chairman of the board of

the Studebaker Corporation, is chairmen of' the Advisory- ·Council, which ;:~.lso has. as

mEntbers ~ther welh-kn9wn scientists e.nct industrialists •.

On November 21 the Advif3ory Council will inspect Notre Da,me• s Chemistry

Laboratories in which important chemical research is being .conducted. Dr. Charles

C~ Price, Head of th.e Departmopt of Chemistry at Notre Dame, will ~lain the

chemical research progrc.un being conducte,d at Notre Dame by ·a stal:r of .. brilliant

young chemists.;. . . .

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Also at the Nov·erri\:)er 21 meeting, the B.ev. Philip S. lllloore, o.s.c., Dean of the

Graduate School at Noi;.re D~ne, vdll deliver a report on the research activities in

science md engineering at Notre Dame during 194_6..-4?. The Rev. john J •. Burke, C .S • C.,

business manager at Notre Dame, will report on patent policies of th~ Univers:i ty.

The Advisory Council will complete its meeting on November. 22~ Speakers at the

final session will in~lude the Rev• . Jqhn J •. C~.vanau$h, C.S .. Ct, President of Notre.

Dame; the Rev~ Robert §weeney; C~s.'o~, Executive Assistc>.nt t_o the President; end J~

Arthur B~ley, Director ~f Public Relations at Notre Dami?•

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Advisory Council ••• 2 -In addition to Mr. Vance, other members of the Advisory Committee are: Britton

~Budd~ President, Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, Chicago, Ill.;

William C;.i.lcott., Assistant Director, Organic Chernical Division, E.I. duPont de -!l€f!lours Co\, Inc., 'Nilmington, Del.; M •• E. Coyle, Executive Vice-President, General

~~tors Corporation, Detroit, :tvli.ch.; James Cco Dale;t, President, Jefferson Electric

Company, Bellwood, J:llinois; Bradley Dewey, President, Dewey and Alroy Chemical

Company, Cambridge, Mass.; Willia!)l P .. F~e1e_;y;, President, Great LakesDredge and DOck

Company, Chicago, Ill.; eJJ,d Williarn H. Harriso!!;, Vice-President, ilmerican Telephone

mdTelegraph Company, New York City.

Also: Edgar Kobak~ President, i\~UtU;al Broadc~.sting System, New York City; I . . . . .

Thomas W. Pangborn, President, Pangborn Cor;r:o:ration, H.;,gerstown, Maryland; Peter C.

Reilly, President, Reilly Chemical Corporation_, Indianapolis, Ind,; l.tl'thur J.

Schmitt, President; .tunerican_ Phenolic Corporation, Cicero, Illinois; Earle C. Smith,

ChiefMetallurgist, Republic Steel Corporation, Cleve1C3lld, Oo; Oliv;er Sm~lley,

President, Meehanite .&Letal Cor;or.:;tj.on, New Rochelle, N. Y:r-; Lelan~ S,tan~ord, ' . ·, '

Vice-PrGsident, Sincl~ir 0i1 CQmpany, N11w -;l:ork City; Dr • .Albert F.· Zahm, occupant

. ofthe Guggenheim Chair of. J•viation, Vie'.shington, D •. C.

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Notre Dame, Ind., Nov~· : :--V~ncent Schaefer, Research Chemist of the General

EJ.ectric Laboratories in Schenectady, N. Y., who has gained national prominence with

experiments ~n production of artifi cia.l raj,.n e.nd snow,. will deliver the fourth annual

Martin McCue Lecture on Novembi;r 19th at the University of Notre Dame.

Mro Schaefer, with anoth8r General ELectric chemist, recently conducted a

ni.mlber of · successful experiments deaJ,..:ing with the production of artificial rain and

soowetorms. These experiments will form the. basis for his Notre Dame lecture

entitled,· "Scientific Fun in the Fields~ Mountains and Skies".

The Mr..rtin McCue Lectures· at Notre Dame are sponsored b;r Charles Breitung,

Tulsa, Okla., oil executive,·and are nwned in hqnor of the late· Dean Martin McCue,·

for many years Dean of the Co:l_lege of Engineering at Notre Da..11e.

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'-Nofre-Dame, Ihd~, Nov. :-:.:.-1-~ total of 7,000 alumrii of' the Universi;t.·yof Notre ·~ :;· .-:· -- ·-

Dame., the largest alu.rnni. gathering in Notre Dame''s history:. witnessed the Notre I . , . .

Dame - Army game Saturday (Nov~ 8} in the Notre Darae Stadium} accort1ing.,to James

E, Ju'mstrong, Secretary of the b.lumni i1ssoc:5,.ation..,

Mr. Armstrong, who based his stateme:1t on the fact thct tickets for'}ne game

were allotted to 7,000 Notre Dc:m.e alumni for personnl use, said that NotrrDame

alumni attended the game frOJI!. every state in the United States and also frc,>;n

Mexico, the Philippines an4 l•laska.

Since Notre ,Dame alumni thrm.ighout the world number spproximately 20,000 one

out o,f every three alumni of the University were in Notre Dame Stadium Saturday . I

for the 1.rmy game. Special planes arid trains were chf'l.:rtered for the week-end from

many Notre .Dame alumni .cJ..ub_a:reas.

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II ' Notre Dame,· Ind., Nqv. 7: :-.. stressing ~hat 11 the Marshall plan can be mac1.e in-

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effect;ive by sabotage as well as by insttfficient or beiated appropriation~~'·" :;·Dr. F. .. . : , ...

A. Hermens, Profes;3or of. Political Science at the Univ~si~y of Notre Dame,.'.qalled , .. """I

~t for a halt in the dismantling of factories in Germany, in an address Thursday (Nov. 6)

· ,j before the Internatio.t'lal Relations Club at Notre Dame.

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11 Some branches of the English and 1\nlerican governm.ent~,n declared Dr. Hennens,

nare proceeding as if the sabcrt.~ge of the Marshall plan were indeed .their objective.

A total. of 685 plants are to· be ·d-ism;ll'ltl..eQ. in the Erlglish and -.American Zones of

Germany, plus. ~70 plants !n tne French zone. T~s of thousands of well-fed and able

bodied V\Orkers Will be required to destroy facto:ries a.nd c:rate machinery at a time

when ther~ is great scarcity of such !!len in places where productive work is done)!" ·,

Dr. 'Hermens told the Notr.~ panre ~tudents that 11 the German system of tra~p6rta.-. f· . .

tion, already on the verge of collap~:;e, is to be further burden_ed· by the shipment of

thousands of tons of ,Qld .niachin~cy :vihich vdll b~ of no use to the countries concerned

during the immediate future ·when the sue.cess of the Marshall pJ an hangs in the

balanc_e· and--only of ;a-very 11.m1ted :use-l.at~r when.these me).chilJ~J? _a!:~.put_ bac!{ into

production in an environment _:for w~:i,ch they w~re no!z. me. de'' • J ..

The Notre Dame professor, $:tress:i,ng tha,t the 1:actories to be dismantleQ. are the

most lllQdern and best located -for ~q:Or:ts wh:lch the Marshall plalJ calls for, declared

tn.at a similar s:i,tuatiC>n exists in the Far Ec'\s.t. "Ja:r:anese as well as German

industry. should be freed from .its fett~rs artd be allowed to produce all it can for

the benefit of her ·neighbo;$, of .he.I'sel.f, and of the American tEl.xpayer, whom the ·: \

" · !X>licie.s originally inspJ.~ed· by Mr. Morgenthau . have ai:ready cost billions,"· he said.

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Notre Dame, Ind.--Nov 12--The little known story of Navy engineers who design such

:. " dry ... land structures as roads, ch.urches, hospitals and public l:ltility plants was told

.... to an audience of· University of Notre Dame engineers by Comrnapdf?r A. c •. Husband, CEC,

u~, at a meeting here yesterday (Nov. 11)· in the College of Engineering at Notre Dame.

· · Corrunander Husband, who came to Notre Dal'!le to recruit officers for the Navy's Civil

mgmeer Corps, assured his audience that no engineering career offered more variety r·

··· of engineering experience, more responsibility for young engineers, or higher pay~ The

:· .. Co!i\Jilander is in charge of Naval C:i,vil Ehgineering Office,r Procurement in the Eighth

,. : m:i Ninth Naval Districts.

'' .r Many of the Not:re Dame engineers were surprised to learn that the officers who

directed the wartime work of the Seabees have responsibility for designing, construct-

-: ing and mamtaining all o!' the· buildings and f&ci1ities the riavy has on sho:ve. These

·. ' include more than a h1,1Ildred major types ranging· from railroads and drydocks to housing

. and airfields.

· 11We a.r.e primarily concerned, 11 said Commander Husband, ''with recruiting officers

'for. the. Civii.Eng:ihe.e:J;" Corps wh~ ~re interested in the professional ~spects of engin-

. eeri,ng and who are challenged by the var:i,ety arid responsilh:ility entailed in the Navyts

• shore construction. · The. college man whose sole interest is in playing the financial

... angles is of little t1.se to U:s. H:

At the . .s.rre time, he pointed out tha~ v~hen allowances, income tax advantages, re-. .

•. t' ,' . lrement pay and other hidden i terns are added to the base pay of a junior officer in

the tot~ compare~ favorably with the best which private indu~try offers~

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nQur engineers are very much concerned with new designs and equipment which will '. ,-•.

... ·meet new developments -in warfare., 11 said Commader Husband. "For example, our young

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officers· are experimenting with equipment and construction methods in polar climates,

with underground. construction and radiation res~stant structur~s o 11 .

He also pointed out that the variety of jobs handled by the Civil Engineer Corps

opens.up opportunities for all brahd:Es of engineering, although most billets are for'

civil· engineers.

. The University of Notre Dame has had a Naval ROTC unit since l94L Since that

time more ·than 25,000 young rnen have undergone training· in this unit~ Nearly 13,000

have been commis-sioned ·Eosigns, a num"be:r greater than the officer strength of the ,-

Regular Navy- at Pearl< Harbor.

Two Navy Cross winners are in· charge of the Notre Dame Naval ROTC, -- Captain · Destroyer

AnthonY c._ Danis, . m~N, who captained -the/Kearney when it was torpedoed .off I~eland

in 1941,_ is Comma,np.ing O;ffioer~ His executive is Commander Bernard ·J. McMahon, USN,

one_of the Navy's ace submarine _commcnders during World War II.;

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Notre Dame, Ind., Nov, ::--Since war begins in the minds of men, it is in the

' minds of men that peace must oe started, according to Dr. H • .Albert Noyes, of

Rocheste~, N. Y~, President of the iunerican Chemical Society, who expre~sE3d this view

during a visit on Nov~ 10 to the Unive~sity,o~ Notre Dame, where he conducted a

seminar in chem;i str;r. _ ·

The world ,famous clwrnist,_ who is a member of the science committee of the_

. United National Educational, .Scientific and Ctlltl.lra)_ Orgar1izat;Lon (UNESOO), pointed

out that the program of UNE$CU is a J_ong range program to ~V9id weJ? ~ If war should

· comewithin the next five years, he said, the organization could do nothing about

it <md the world situation would be entire1,y in the hands of politicians.

Describing the reli~f and :rehabilitati9n phase of the UNESCO program, he said

that four or f'i ve billion do :tJ,c.rs is _nece::;sary to gE3t education throughout the

world back to a pre-war level, Although this am.ount is only enough to carry on a

war for 2~ weeks; he_ stressed,_ the 1947 budget.callf3 for only six million dollars.

In speaking of. other phases o:f the UNESC0 p:rogram, J):r, Noyes divided it into

four other pr:,rts ~ (1) publishing soiep.tific publications; (2) excha+1ge of personnel

between countr:i_es; (.?) setting up international laboratories; and (4) providing .

finances for international meetings and coni;erences!

At Notre Dame, P:r, Noyes was the guest ofDr. Charles Price, distinguished

Chemist a11d head of Notre Dame's fc.JIPllS Pepartmept of Chemistry~ und Dr. Milton

Clwmistrw _at Notre Dame and atomic energy expert.

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Notre Dame, Ind ~ ~ Nov·o :!--High praise was accorded the Vatican Choir, from

, the pontifical Institute of Sacred MusiG in Rome, during a concert before the

student body of the University of Notre Parne on the Notre D2Jne campus Thursday

(Nov. 13 )1

The Choir, '1Jlder the dirt;Jction of the Rt. Rev • .Msgr. J_,icinio Refice,

professor of all compositions of _the Institute, prE;sented a concert of sacred music

before the Notre Dame- student body., The Cnoir, on a coast-to-coast tour of the

United States, w~s brought to Notre Dame by the Notre Dame Concert and Lecture

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Notre Dame, lndq, Nov. ::--Problems of the University of Notre Dame and the

Alun1ni Association of theUniversity will be disCtl.SSed Friday and Saturday at Notre

Dame (Nov. 21 alfcl, 22) ·at a meeting of nearly 100 Notre·Dame alum.pi club presidents

from all over the United States~

University off..'iC.ic\ls who will discuss the problems with club presidents at the

meeting include: Rev~ John J~ Cavanaugh, OoS.C~, fres;ident of NotreDa.me; Rev, John

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H. Murphy, c,s.c., Vice-.fresident; ~9V, Louis J. T}fornton, C.s.c., Registrar; Herbert

·, E~ Jones, Business Manager of Athletics; Harry Q, Hogan, of Ft, WaynE?, Ind~,

President of the .Alumni .fl:ssociation; and James Eli Armstrong, $ecretar;y of the

~lumni Association.

Thre~ gen~ral types of problems will be discussed; (l) problems of university

interest J (2) problems of general interest in the Alumni Ass6c;iation; and (3)

problems of spec;ific interest to the alumni club:;; throughout the nation~.

Other subjects to be disGU:ssed include the orgapization and operation of the

newly created·· Notre Dc-Jn~ Foun,dat;ion, footbnll ticket distribution for alumni, the

enrollment problem at Notre Dame and deta.tls of programs in tne various cJi.lbs .. ' .

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UN;I:V:ERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Department of Public Informa tiel)

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Notre Dame, Ind.~ Nov •. ;:"'"-A portrait of the late Rev. J. Hugh O•Donnell,C.s,c •

. former president of the University of Notre Ramel has been presented to Notre

· name by Joseph A~ Lafortune, prominent 'rulsa, Okla., oil executive and a member

; orthe Associate Board o:t' LaY. Trustees at Notre Dame.

Thepo':ftrait, presented to the Rev~ John J~ Cavanaugh, c.s.c., president of

ibtre Dame~ was painterl by Robert Joy~ -well-known po:rtrai t artist in Tulsa. It

~ill hang in tne Trustees ~com of the Notre Dame Dining Hall~ Father 0 1 Donnell, ' . . ' . ..

•• ~ho died last clune, -wa.s pl1eside!].t ·of Notre Pame el.uring the critical period of

World War II from 1940 until 1946.

M:r, LaFortune is a native of South Bend, Indiana.

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•~tm<>J.v<~~e: Tu,esda:zi Nov~. 18, 1947 47-309

Notre Dame, Ind,, Nove 18;.--A bronze· plaque for meritorious services to the United

ates Navy during World War !I will be presented to the Uniwersity of Notre Partie by

Department of the Navy at 11:30 a.m., Tpursday, Nov. 20, it was announced yester

(Nov. 17) by Captain Anthony L. Danis;. U ,S~.W., Commanding Officer of the Naval

.T .c ~ at Notre Dame~

:Read Admiral J • Cary Jones, U.s ~N,;,. Commandant of the Ninth NavaJ. District at

ago,. willmake the presenta~ion to the ~evi John J. Cavanaugh, C,S~G., President

Notre Dame, in the presence of the Not~e Dame Nayal ~,O.T"C. and otP.er students and

11t"'"'·''"'""'''" members of the Univ.ersity. The cer.~onies will be open to the general public.

The Nava~ R,O;T.C. uni~ established at Notre Dame in 1941 has trained· more than

,000 naval students. Nearly 13,000 of them have been commissioned ensigns, a number

er than the total officer ~trength of the.Regu~ar Navy at the start of World War

Notre Dame also has conducted important research in a number of fields for the

since 1941.

Captain Danis? an Annapolis gradUate of 1922, is a native of Attleboro, Mass. He

the Navy. Cross in lS4l. for bringing the Destroyer Kearney, which ne commanded at

time,. safely to port after it was torpedoed by a German submarine off of Iceland.

also is one of the Navy's top experts on lighter~than-air aircraft~ He was ·aboard

U ~S,;S't ·Macon, one of. the Navy's 'best-known dirigibles, as a ships officer when it

~.estroyed .in an· acc'iderit in 1935• Captain ·PB.!P.s ·also holds the Legion of· Merit.·

. other ·decorations for outstanding se:rvi.c est .. ·

. Commander Bernard J ,-McMahon, TJ ~s,N!', ~ecutive Off!c er o;t' '·the. Notre· D~e Naval

.T ~c. i .. ;ts a native ot Cl.eveland; o, ~· a~d was· g~aduated .. from A11napolls in '193L

World War !I he became one of the Navy's foremast submarine commanders~ being.

th~ Navy Cross, .the S:ilv~r Sta~·~ith gC)ld sta~, and four other de~or~tiop$ for exploits in. sinking tens of thousands .c>.t' tons of Japar+ese shipp;ing( · . .

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Notre Dame, Ind,, Nov .. ::.,......One of the leaders of the French Resistance Movement

Claude N. Julien, of Parif3, ~ranee, a graduate student at the Uni

y of Notre Dame, is attending the p:resent meeting of the United Nations Ed~ca

' Scientific and Cultural Organization in. Mexico City as the representative of . . .

··. he interm tional Young.Chr::i.stian S.ttrlents. . .

Julien, -whose trip to· Men'co City .for the meeting is being financed by the · . · ·· (Indip.na) e Dame Alumni Club of St. Joseph. VaJ..ley/~s the only Catholic. student I"epresenta-

ve at the conference. T<..vo othe~ studerits,. one :representing protestant students and

third· representating all other students, also are att~nding the meeting.

Since arri vj,ng at· Notre DAme 1ast year, Julien has been a,cti ve in the Notre Dwn.e

of the Young Christian Students and has written ex:tehsivE:JlY for secular and

. holic publications~

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Notre Dame, Ind., Nov. Z6--A tattered page from the New York Freeman's Journal

and Catholic Register of 102 years ago told a story this week of a Vniversity of

Notre Dame of a century ago that dj.ffers· greatly from the present world famous

university ~~hich today '(Nov. 26) ·celebrated its 105th anniversary.

The page, released for public viev~ by the Archives Depr.rtment of the University,

was published on December 20, 1845, The article was based on a letter wri.tten to

the Freeman's Journal by the Rev, Edward Sorin, c.s.c., founder of the univer~ity.

The letter and the article illustrate the great contrast between the University

of Notre Dame then and the present university,. In 1845 the Notre Dame campus was a

six acre clearing on the sho:res of two small la~es in a wilderness near South Bend.

There was one classroom building, two chapals, seven v.orkshops tor mechanical trages

and a novitiate for seminarians. ~he faculty consisted of a handful of Congregation

of Holy Cross pri~sts qnd brothers,

Notre Dame today has become one of. the nation's leading uni. varsities. It13

campus now comprises 1700 acres, studded with 46 buildings, which include some of . .

the most beautiful and modern residence ha~ls 1 laboratories1 dining halls and other

university structures on any campus in the United States.

The· present Notre Dame f~culty comprise~ more than· 400 p:rtiests and laymen, and

includes~many distinguished scholars.

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Notre Dame at the time of Father Sarin·• s letter had barely 100 students.

Today' s st~dent body number-a. more than 5,000 of whom more than 3 1500 are ve~'erans of \

World ~v·ar !'!;,. These veteran students,·:who have government allowances arriving· each

month, would\.be intet~estod in another regulation in effect at Notre Dame in 1845, l

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"The pup~·l,s will not be allowed to have money in their pos'session, 11 Father Borin \

wrote. ''Their pocket money must be deposited in the treasurer's hands~ in order to

guard ~gainst abuses, an4 to enable the Institution to apply the money as an incen

tive to virtue and industry. Vfuen parents wish to have their children sent home~

they must give timely notice, settle all accounts, and supply means to defray their

travelling expenses •11

Discipline at the University of Notre Pame is still stricter than that of

secular universities but not so strict as ·when Father So~in gave his account to the

Freeman's Journal.

Then Father Sarin reported, 11 Thc disciplinary government is mild, yet

sufficiently energetic to preserve th&t good order, so essential to the well-being of

the institution~ The morals and the genernl deportment of the pupils are watched

over with the greatest cr.re and solicitude; and no pains are spared to prepare them

for fulf~lling their r...;spective duti.::::s in society, In their daily recreations, they

are always accompanied by &. mem.ber of the institution, all books in their possession

are subj~ct to the inspection of the Prefect of 8tudies; and none is allowed circu

lation without his consent. Corporal punishments are never inflicted, but more

concilatory and effective means of correction are judiciously used; should a pupil

prove refractory and incorrigible, he will be dismissed~"

Medical care at Notre Dame in 1845 was entrusted to a Brother who was a physician

but "dust in case", other provisions could be made, vvrote Father Sarin, "Line of the

Brothers is a physic::i..a.n,. but for greater security, the services of the most experienced

of the faculty will be procured in case of serious disease."

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The wardrobe of students then was not elaborate"' Each student was required to

bring 11 bed and bedding (if furnished by the institution they form an extra charge),

six shirts, six pairs of stockings, six pocket handkerchiefs, six towels (all of

which must be marked), a knife and fork, a table and teaspoon, a hat and cap, two

suits of clothes, an overcoat, a pair of shoes and a pair of bo~ts for winter, three·

suits and two pair of shoes for the swnmer. 11

There is a great difference in the cost of education at Notre Pame 102 years

ago and now~ Then the to"tal cost for board, washing, mending, medical attendance

and 11 the English course, embracing all the branches of practical education, Urtho-

graphy, Reading, Writing, .11.rithmetic, Grrunmar, Composition.pG·aography, .n.ncient

and Modern History, Bookkeeping, Surveying, Mensuration, Mathematics, Astronomy,

use of the Globes, ~hetoric, Vocal Music and etc 11 was only $100 a year for full

time students. Half boarders paid on:)..y .w40 a year., . Of course, if you wanted to

study French, German, Spanish or Italian an e~ra fee of eight dollars was charged.

11lt is useless to add, 11 th~ news story said, "that decidely this institution is

by far the cheapest in the whole Union. Moreover, in order to extend to every

individual of good will, the invaluable benefit of a round and complete education,

the University will allow young men, um:.ble to do it otherwise, to pay for their

schooling with their own labor, for which fair wages are allowed either on the farm

or in any of the various trades, where an unlimited number of hands may be usefully

employed, but no labor is received from any one under 15 y<;ars of age."

Then as now a part of the student body at Notre Dame was non-Catholic. Wrote

Father Sorin, 11 In reception of students, no distinction of creed will be made and

the parents of those not professing the Catholic faith may rest assured that there

will be no interference with their religious tenents; they will be required only to

attend to the religious exercises with decorum, this being in conformj_ty with the

rules of all Catholic co lieges in the United States.

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The article was illustrated by an engraving of the building at Notre Dame that

preceded the present Administration Building surmounted by its famous gold dome

a.nd statue of the Blessed Virgin. The original structure was destroyed by fire

in the early 1870's~ An editorial accompanying-the news article praised the

founders of Notre Dame who had changed the area 11where in 1843· was but a complete

wild without traces of habi tation11 into a 11 spacious college" in a "healthy abode11

. where there is 11 pure invigore,ting c:.ir 11 •

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Notre D3.nle, Ind., Nov. 25::--Rev. M~urice E. Powers, C.S.C,, chaplain of the

Eerlin Command and one of the best.,.known United States Army chaplains of the World ., t;.

W,ar II era, has been returned to the United States for reassignment by the Army, ac-

cording to word received yesterday (Nov. 24) at the University of Notre Dame, where

· ' h,e formerly serv~d as a faculty member.

Father Powers, a Major in the Army, prior to being assigned to Berlin in 1945,

~as with New York 1 s famed lOlst Mechanized teavalry, 12th Armored Di~is;Lon, during some

of the heaviest fighting of the war. When tnis unit retu:rned home, he became a

legimental Chaplain in the 36th Division for a short period before being assigned to

During Father Powers! assignment in Berlin he became well-la10wn among the troovs

for his many promotional a.ctivi ties~ Included among these were the institution· of

the first Catholic Mission for American troops in Germany; promotion of Christmas

~arties for the orphans, a home for the blind and five hospitals for civilians; pro

~tionof a library for military prisoners: staging the first Field Mass every held

in Berlin on Memorial Day in 1946; promotion of the adoption plan for the poor in

Berlin by contacting churches in ·1\.merica to adopt war-ravaged German parishes for

· Providing the essentials and necessities of life.

'Father Powers, wn·o was scheduled to arrive in the United states last week, pJans

to Visithis mother in Los Angeles, Calif., prior to assignment. He is a native of

graduai:,ed from Notre Dame in 1933, and wn.s ordained in 1937 ..

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Notre Dame, Ind., Nov,: :--Dr. Glenn 'F. Seaberg, one of the nation's foremost ex-

perts on nuclear energy, declared he would be 11rather surprised if Soviet Russia had

-~ atomic bomb within two yem:s" while. the noted scientist 1vas at the University of

Notre Dame this vreek (No-vo .17 to 21) to deliver the 1947 Nieuwland Memorial 'Lectures ·•.

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Dr, Seaberg; director of chemistry in t.1.e radiation laboratories at the University

'~f California, said that there was .no· doubt but wha.t. the Hussians w·ould produce an

~tomic bomb eventually, but ·that reports from Russia· notwithstanding he did net believe.

they would ·do so wit~in ··two years.<> ·'

The. California scientist, codiscoverer of the element-plutonium which played a

yital role in the atomic bC?mb_,_ discussed the peacetime potentialities of atomic energy

~d expresseS. the belief that "an efficient. atomic energy plant consuming only one-

·• bf 130,000 po.pulat:i.on. 11

· Dr. Seabmfg hastened to add_, however, that he wouldn1t care to go on record'·as to

hO\V SOOn this WOUld COme about. 11 'J.'here are many drawbacks, II he said_, 11 in the applica

~~0!}..-0f atomic energy to provide power that could be generated· economically~ One of -~-- --·· _, __ --- ----,~ ~----· ~

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t1e big problems :l.s the present lack of sui table materials for the c"onstructioi:t. oi' --suer_,_.

a plant."

He observed that atomic_ energy installations necessarily would be.large because ·' . I . • . ' '

o~ shielding to prevent the ·escape of harinful radiations.- ··Because of this fact, he . a~ded, atomic· energy probably never would be adapted to automobiles or even locomotivet

alth~ugh h~ believed its .use- to drive large. ships appeared feasible,

\ Th€r ~ieuwiand Lectures are named iri honor ~f the late Rev. Julius Nieuvdand, CSC,

. in~ernationally dis~inguis~ed scientist and former member of the Notre Dame faculty~ ·Fat~er Nieuwl~d discovered -the. basic element in the chemical formula -to produce

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Brooklyn, N.-Y., Nov. .. : :--"Truths Men Live By", latest book of the Rev. John A..

O.'Brien, Professor of Religion at the University of Notr~ Dame, has been chosen as one -.:

~f the eight most important books published :in .recent ·years by the :Brooklyn committee ~

i.n charge of the obse-rvance in Brooklyn of· Catholic Book Week. • ..

. ~ The educational auth~rities of the 'Brooklyn diocese have recommended the book to

~ollege and university students and to all adtil t readers with a college background.

~o secure the widest circulation of the volume, the Brooklyn-Long Island unit of the l .

Qatholic Library Ass6c;iat:i,.an has. issued 25:,000 book marks listing the eight selections . I

1 ~d circulated themw~dely among the Catholic reading public, ~ . . :;· .

Three priri.tings of the book, totali:ng 21,000 copies, aiready have been made by -~-::

1: . . . . ~be publishing firm;, the Macmillan Company:, and a fourth printing will be made in the ~ . . .<

~ear future. ~· ~~ • ~l •

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South Bend, Ind., Nov.:!--New and continued investment in private business is

¥ital if the ~resent economic system in the United States is to survill"e, William H. ~ \ . -Dovmey, Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, declared here on Nov • . '\ '

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1''7 in an address before the Catholic Forum of South Benda ·.1 ' I

;; Professor Downey pointed out that "if in the future added standards of l~ving are

to come with less effort and with shorter hours of labor J and the price of failure is

lo discredit the entire system of private ownership and direction of capital goods, we ;

~well look for some method of accomplishing tnis miracle.

"The pl'ic_e of keeping Americans contented, 11 he told the group, 11 is to produce a

~onstantly incrt;:lasing quantity of goods and services 1.rr.ith less effort and hours of '

This requires added investments of ·capital, not by government, certainly not

~hiefly by government, but ·by pr:Lvate savers furnishing privately operated capital. 11

The Notre Dame professor stressed that from 1930 to the present time less and lesE.

~oney from private individuals has been invested in business. and pointed out that sana

~uarters are l:iJ.aming this factor on the ,increase in income taxes during recent times. ,!

11Under present 9onditions," he continued; 11 the sources of ne·w savings for busi-

ness will be business profits and undistributed earnings of corporations and small

individual savers~ , With present income tax rates, those with large incomes are

practically precluded from se.ving. The sa.vings from these latter sources will be ample

in good years, but if present trends cohtinue they will not find their way to business

If this be true, our economy faces difficulties."

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Chicago, Ill., Nov. 25 -- The Catholic . View on the question of 11Man and the

Staten is an integral part of the general outlook of Catholics on world and human

problems, the Rev. Dr~ Gerald B. Phelan, Director of the Mediaeval lnstitute at the i Umversity of Notre Dame, said here today (Nov. 25) at the third session for 1947-48 ~: ' . . ,,

of the Institute for Religious and Social Studies- on 11 Current Religious ThoughV', at ·; :,

yhe Hotel Bismarck.,

Representing the Protestant View on "Man and the State11 wa::? Dr. ·werner Richter,

noted German. theologian_, while the Jewish View was presented by Will Herberg, \

Director of Research and Education for the IntePnational Ladies Garment Workers' , ' . . - . . .J .

Jerome G" Kerwin,, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago,

Dr. Phelan, in his remarks, said in part:

11 Five pivotal points-of Catholic belief dominate the thinking of Catholics on

~11 such questions: The Existence of God, the Cr~mtor of theworld, the Nature of ,'.;

. ~an, uriginaJ_ Sin, the Redemption by Christ and the Mis;::;ion of the. Church. ~ ~~

"Because God ~s the supreme ruler of the universe, the Catholic View repudiates

every form of totalitarianism, Nazist, F a:cist qr Communist, which usurp His

sovereign authority, as well. as all forms of individualism, which substitute human

caprice for divinely astabJished order.

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.nBecau.se man is by nature a social animal, the Catholic View acknowledges the

need of political society and power and demands reverence for governments and rulers

~s deriving their authority, in the last analysis, from the liuthor of man's nature.

11 Because of original sin, the Catholic View recognizes the deficiencies in ail

human governments and the necessity of putting ,up with certain injustices, which

cannot be eliminated without jeopardizing the peace of society as a whole; and, by

~the same token, it acknowledges the right of duly established authority to coerce

~ecalcitrant citizens into the observance of just laws.

11 Because of the :Redemption, the Catholic View regards all human individuals and

every political state as subject to the Kingship of Christ, to wham all power in

heaven and on earth has been given by the Fatbero For that reason, it proclaims that

the principles o:f Christian morality are the indispensable fourrlation of a sound

political order.

"Because of the Mission Christ gave to His Church, the Catholic View asserts the

right of all citizens to the practice of religion, w:i_ thout in.terferenee or hindrance

by the State, and, in particuJ.8.r, the rights of Catholics to Catholic education.

"In the Catholic View, no particular form of government is required for the

achievement of the ends of political life, The only requirement is that the rights

of all citi~ens, without discrimination, be duly protected by just laws, a,r;d that

they be given every opportunity to enjoy the full liberty of free men, and to live

their lives in t r anquil:j.i ty and peace. 11

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Notre Dame, Ind,, No~~ ::--Revolutionary scientific improvements for the better

ment of manki~d conceivably could be made in the future through the use of newly-i~

discovered 11weather control" methods, Vincent J. Schaefer, pioneer in the field of i

~tificial weather, declared Hednesday; (Nov~ 19) in the 1947 Martin McCue Lecture at

he Univer~ity of Notre Dame. ··i •

Mr. Schaefer, research chemist at the General Electric Company in Schenectady,

Jl. Y., has worked with Dr. Irving Langmuir, Associate Director. of the Resear·ch.

}aboratory fil,t t~e General Electric Company, in the production of artificial weather.

~oth men currently are serving as consultants on a speGial governmental experimental

·projeQt in Schenectady"~ l

11une of the chief possibilities of ·artificial weather," according to Mr.

~chaefer, 11 is the possibility of eliminating icing in .the clouds, thus relieving

~i~craft of the danger of i_ce-coated structure and natural:j_y ma)dng air travel much

safer~ It zrQ.ght be possible to cut grooves through the clouds b~ use of d~y ice in

v1hich no ice wo'uld be formeQ.. This naturally would eliminate much of the 'hazardous ~ . . . . . . . . . - . ~ .

ponditions for flying." ·; '

1 · Oth~r ·possibilities through "weather coritrol11 described by Mr. Schaefer included . . -

the elimination of destructive hail Which causes ·much' damage .to crops,, the toneing

down of destrueti ve thunderstorms by .. el:iminating super-cool conditions in the clouds; . .

and formation of· more snow on some of the very. high mountains to augm.ent irrigation •. ·

Mr!! Schaefer was introduced at the lecture by Dr. Karl Schoenherr, Dean of the . ( . .

College of Engineerii1g a. t N~tre Dame. The late .Martin McCue was for many years Dec.p 1.

of the College of 'Enginee·ring at ·Notre Dame~

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South Bend, Ind., Nov~ 24- Long-range plans for making the Universityof Notre

DDille nbest in the fields of science and ·the professions 11 were described by the Rev.

John J. Cavanaugh, C.s.c., President of the University of Notre Dame, in an address ··- . ·-··

Mo.nday (Nov. 24) at the weekly meeting of the South Bend Asso.ciation of Commerce.

Father Cavanaugh, speaJ.dng on the subje~t 11 Notre Dame Plans for the Future11 ,

told members of the Association that Notre Dame faces three major challenges in the

~stwar era. He classified those challenges as (1) enrollment, (2) increasing

research and (3) the moral challenge~

.The prob1em of enrollment, Father Cavanaugh declared, r e~ults from the postwar

influx of stu:d~nts and has increased the university's .Pre,.,.war enrollment of 3,200 to

a present total of nearly 4,800. He pointed. out that numerous new buildings are

badly needed to acC011JlT!.Odate the largest nu'Ilber of students ever to attend Notre Dame. . .

Father Cavanaugh observed that Notre Dwne has an obligation to the world of

science to continue and expand i'Ls research and to make further important contribu

tions to scientific knowledge~ By· expanding the Notre Dame research program, he sajd, ~ .

the faculty would ·be: stimulated to ·c:tchieve even-greater benefits for mcillkind.

Finally, the Notre Dame president stressed, Notre Dcme has a moral challenge,

Which involves one. of the most vital contributions the university can make toward

society. The world; today needs more than ever before morally trained leaders and

Notre Dame conducts the type of educational program which keeps this fact ever in

the foregr:ound, he said.

Father Cavanaugh concluded that as a result of these three challenges, the

newly-create'd Notre Dame Foundation has three objectives. First, he emphasized, the

Foundation seeks to enchat"!-ce the prestige of the Dniversi ty •. Secondly, it is de

signed to encourage the highest type of boy in the nation to enter Notre Dame, and

thirdly, it is designed to build a large endow~ent.

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Release: Friday~ Nov. 28, 1941 - 47-322

South Bend, Ind., Nov. ::--1ivbat :is believed to be the first Papa.l Encyclical . - . . ~ . -- . --~

ever .. t.o be completely indexed was released this week in the Outline Press '

Publication, "Social ·Justice in the Modern V~orld, 11 an 84 page booklet on Pope Pius

XI's famed encyclical, 11 Quadragesimo Anno," prepared by Doctor Francis Joseph

Brown, Professor of Economics at the Uni varsity of Notre Dame.

The publication includes a complete outline, a new method of presentation of the

encyclical itself and an index with ·several hundred references, It is the first in

. a series of publications that will be released by the uutline Press, Inc,, 2308 West.

Van Buren Street, Chicago, Ill. Other in<;l S?Ced ,. O'Utlined. booklets on the Encyclical

· · series are Pius XI's 11 Atheistic Communism, 11 and ''Christian Marriage," and Pope .

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Leo XIII' s famed "Rerum Novarum. 11 The booklets retail for fifty cents a. copy.

The series has been more th.;m a year in pr~paration, Do·ctor Brown ·said• A .

· coinpiet~-o·u~line itr· inclUded in ei'fch booklet and the outline is incorporatea -into

the_ text of the encyclicaL A detailed index was completed for each of the

e~cyclica].s by the Notre Dame professor ..

Dr, B~wn holds. Ph,D~ degrees. in Sociology anci Economics from Catholic • . - J

University. He joined the staff qf Notre Dame in 1946 after the completion of

· ni~~i tary s eryi c e ~,

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Notre Dame, Ind., Nov. ::--Plans for increasing finances of the University of

· Notre Dame through the newly-created. Notre Dame Foundation were discussed last week

, end (Nov. 21 to 23) at a "ileeting of seventy-seven presidents of Notre Dame alumni

. clubs from all parts of the United States, held on the Notce D2JI1e camp1,1.s;

Rev~ John J; Cavanaugh, G.s.·c~, president of Hotre Dame~ Rev. John H. Murphy,

c,s;c.; vice~president, and Hev ~ Robert H~ Sweeney, C~S~C•, executive assistant to

the president, combined with Harry G~ Hogan~ president of the Alumni Association and

chairman of the Foundation~ to explain the need for the Foundation and the method of

its organization, particularly in relation to Notre Dame Alumni Clubs.

The groups of presidents, representing Notre Dame alumni clubs with a total

membership of more than 15,000, were told that Notre Dame alumru are to play a vital_

role in the progress of the Foundation, set up on a national basis to provide for

financial support needed to carry on and intensify its alins in

-At-other sessions of -tne-two~dey coricla~e, other-types of information was pro-

- vi~ed the presidents with special consideration given to the details of club opera-

tions~ Rev. Louis J~ 'l'hornton, C;S~C., Notre Dame registrar, spoke on the problems

ofenrolling students at Notre Dame. ri13v. John J. Lane, c.s.c~, chairman of the

comitt'ee on scholarships and prizes, told. of the possibilities of scholarships pro_;_

. Vided by Notre Dame clubs~ Heroert E. J~nes, business manager of athletics, dis

cussed the work of distributing hu:ndreds of thousands of footoall tickets each year;

and John V~ Hinkel, director of public information, gave the presidents an insight

the University's • efforts to provide adE:Jqua.te national news coverage.

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• , Notre DD.rne, Ind,, Nov. :;--Students at the University of Notre Dame, with the

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great tradition inherited from the founders of Notre Dame, must bear the brunt of

the '"'Church-Militant", Honorable Joseph Scott, prominent Los Angeles attorney,

declared ¥onday (Nov. 24) in an address to the student body at Notre Dame.

i'4r~ Scott, who was awarded the Laetare- Medal by Notre Dame in 1918., told the

st~dents tha:t there is something more in life than mere economic security. 11 The

slaves of the South were fed and clothed and died in security of a sort", he

expla~n:ed, 11 but they were not free. They were slaves still., There .i.s . .r_~!?.-1 freedom .

only when a man may call his soul his own~ As long e.s my soul is free, I may be in

jail, chained and 13hackled, but ·r will still bE;l free.

"With the reputation and great tradition that the students at Notre Drune have

inherited, 11 Mr •. Scott declared, 11 you students must bear.the brunt of the Church

Militant. Let the man be happy who may. say that J. h8. ve won a ·great battle, for I·

._have kept the faith. Perpetuate th.at militantcy here--above all be militant -.. ~~ .• • . • • . -. .! '

Catholics--the .world hungers for intrepid Catholic men. 11

Mr. Scott, who was knightE;ld with the urder of St. GregorY; by Pope Benedict XV

in 1920; is the ·fat)'ler of three graduates .of Notre Dame. , He was int;rooduced to the

studei1.t body by the Rev. John J. Ca"atiaugh'· C,s,C,, President of Notre Dame.

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NQtre Dame, Ind., Nl'lv. ::--Edgar K~bak> of r:ew York City, President of the Mmt}+al

Broadcasting System, has been elected chairman of the Advisory Council for Science

and Engineering at the University of l1ictre Dame, it v1as annou rped yesterday by the

Rev~ John J, Cavanaugh, C .S.C., :-resident of N0tre Dame~

Mr. Kobak~ who is a former student at Notre Dame, succeeds

Harold Vance, Chairman of the Boara at the Studebaker Corporation in South Bend,

Ind., as Chairman of the Advisory Council. Bradley Dewey, President of the Dewey

and Alffiy Chemical Company in Cambridge, Mass~, was elected Vi~e-Chairman of the

Ctuncil~ The vice-chairmanship is a newly created office.

The Ad"Jisory Couhci~ for Science and Engineering at Notre Dame

revievJs scientific and engineering research conducted in Notre Dame's lab~rator-

ies and advises. the University reg6rding this an~ proposed new research at

Notre Dame. Importa.mt research in nuclear energy, o1ectronics, cancer. synthetic

rubber, penic~lli.n, insulin, germ free animals, the c8u.se of tooth decay, plastics,

vaccines, toxins, vi tami·ns, proteinS. and in other fields of vast benefit to man-

kind are being carried on at pres,:nt in the Notre Dame laboratories t

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Notre Dam~, Ind., D.eco 5--:The Natural Law will be emphasized as the basis of the

American Co"urt system and legal practices at a Natu?:"al Law Institute to be held at the

University of Notre Dame on Dec~ 12 and 13, it was ~ounced yesterdar (Dec" 4) by the

Rev. John J, Ca:vanaugh,_ C .. S.C., Presid,ent of Notre Dame •.

Hundr~ds of judges, lawyers 2 clergymen, educators epd other interested persops .. · ...

have been invited to attend the Institute. The Most Rev,. John F. 0' Hara, c.s.c., Bishop of J?uffa1o, N~X~.? and forFaer President ·at' the Univ~rsity of Notre Dame, will

be. the Honorary Chairma~, while Fat};ler Cavanaugh will act as chairman of the me.eting~.

Dr~ ·Clarence E! Manion, Dean of the Not:re Dame·College of Law, is in charg{of

· arrangements ..

Speakers will include Dr. Mortimer J •. iidl~r, 9f the Univer~ity of Chicago, who

·:;,·· . will speak on "The- fl1ilosophy of the Natur~U Law";· Harold R!" McKinnon, prominent San

Franci~c<1>, Cal~ , attorner, on 11 The Np.tural Law an4 the Posit,i ve. :t:.aw 11 ; Professo;r Ben W'" .

Palmer/of t.he University of ,Mi~esota, on 11 lh~· Natural Law_ and Pragmatism"; a~d the.·· ~4~ -· . . .· . .

! Rev, William J. Poheny, C.S,C ., of the University of Notre Dame, noted a.Uthority on

Canon Law, on "The Eternal. Law Backgrol)nd of the Nattiral Law11 •

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Church in the U~ited $~ates, Deans of a:)..ll~w sehools in the nation~ officers of the . . . ..

American Bar- association_, all Notre D~e lawyers, Ind~ana state and federal judges,

officers of th~ llJ,in~is Bar. Association_, officers of th~ Chicago Bar Asso.ciation, •

officers of the ·cath_olic Lawyers Guil.cl of Chicago, members of the- state, federal and

· · municipal courts .. :of .Chiqago, members of tte Assoqiate Board of L~y Trustees at Notre

. · ·~ame, .members of J:,he Advisory Council for Science· and Engineering-at ·NQ~re Dame, ar.d .·_: .. . ··._- .· . , I • .. • - . ---·-·- •.

all s:tate governo~s and city chairmen of the Notre ~ame Foundation.

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UNIVERSITY uF NJTRE DAME Department of Public Information

John V~ Hinkel, Director

Release~ TuesdaY, December 2. 1947 47-331

.Buffalo, N.Y., Dec 2--A new chemical industry, base<;i on the chemical Furfural as ' substances,

a raw material for nylop and other commer.CiaJ/ looms in the near future as a result of

recent res~arch performed with that chemical, Dr. Christopher L. Wilson, Professor of

1"'' Chemistry ai;. the University of Notre Dame, declared here last night (Deco l) at a

meeting of the Alumni Chemical Society of Canisius College.

Dr• WiJ,.sop, who .currently is engage.d in research with Furfura~ in the chemica:). . . '

laboratories at Notre Dame, told members of th~ Society that although Furfural was

discovered :tn 1831, it was not up.til 1925 that it was produced in large quantities and

only in recent years that :its potentialit;5..es have been realized. Furfural is made I

from agricultural wa~te such as grain hulks and corn cobs.

''Up to the present time, Furfural was used on a large scale for only two purposes,11

. Dr. Wilson obseDved. "These wer.e for oil refining and for a bakelite type of resin~

During Vvorld War ll the use in oil refining got a tremendous fillip since it was used

a$ a selective solvent to extract buta<;ii:enefrom a mixture of b~tadiene~ butene and

butane and the butadiene was used to manufacture synthetic rubber:

11 Furfural, however, nas a future of qu~"e another kind. lt apparently rivals

acet~1ene in the versatility of the products to which it gives rise 1 This Year saw . .

the first large scale use of Furfural as a na.w material in' chemical synthesis. This an

was/announcement by duPont that they were erecting a $3,000,000 plant for the marm-

factu:re of nylon from Furfural, This is only a begiqning and it is not an exaggera

tion to suggest f:.hat before many years have elapsed a whole new chemical industry

Will be. based on Furfural as raw material."

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