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Basketball Opener

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VOL. XIV, No. 8—SIX PAGES PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, PROVIDENCE, R. I., NOVEMBER 28, 1951 10 CENTS A COPY

To Give ROTC Deferments In December

Scenes From General Helmick's Visit

P i c t u r e d above a r e scenes f r o m the visit of M a j o r G e n e r a l He lmick to P r o v i d e n c e on Tuesday , N o v e m b e r 20, (Right) G e n e r a l He lmick accompan ied by Colonel Roy P. Moss, P M S & T at P.C., a p p r o a c h the e n t r a n c e of H a r k i n s Hal l a f t e r r e v i e w i n g the band . (Lef t ) T h e Very Rev. R o b e r t J . S lav in , O.P., p res iden t of P.C., gree ts G e n e r a l Hc lmick and Colonel Moss.

Salve Invites 100 PC'ers To Dance

F o r t h e conven ience of those sen-iors w h o w e r e u n a b l e to a t t e n d t h e f i r s t two P l a c e m e n t C o n f e r e n c e s he ld N o v e m b e r 16 and 20, Mr. T iml in , Col-lege P l a c e m e n t Di rec to r , h a s sched-uled f o u r m o r e of t he se i n f o r m a t i v e discussions. T h e y wi l l be he ld on F r i -day, N o v e m b e r 30, a t 2:30 p. m. in Room 210. T h e r e also wi l l be an eve -n ing c o n f e r e n c e on T h u r s d a y , D e c e m -ber 6, a t 7:00 p. m. in Room 210 fo r those u n a b l e to a t t e n d a d a y - t i m e dis-cuss ion.

Response to t h e f i r s t two c o n f e r -ences w a s v e r y good, w i t h 552 ou t of 425 seniors a t t e n d i n g t h e h o u r - l o n g discussions. I t is expec ted t h a t abou t o n e - t h i r d of t h e Senior Class wi l l seek p l a c e m e n t aid in va r ious degrees .

T h e p u r p o s e of t h e s e con fe r ences is to s t a r t t h e seniors t h i n k i n g abou t t h e f u t u r e now, t h e r e b y ob t a in ing enough job oppor tun i t i e s ava i l ab le to m a k e a wi se choice of p o s t - g r a d u a t e e m p l o y m e n t .

Mr. T iml in s t a t ed t h a t some of t he saddes t cases in his e x p e r i e n c e w e r e those g r a d u a t e s w h o e i the r t h o u g h t t hey wou ld be d r a f t e d or w h o w e r e t he v ic t ims of b r o k e n p romises of jobs, and r e t u r n e d to his o f f i c e m a n y m o n t h s a f t e r c o m m e n c e m e n t seek ing e m p l o y m e n t . A t such a t ime t h e r e is l i t t le t h e P l a c e m e n t D i r ec to r c a n do. He t h e r e f o r e e x h o r t s all sen iors w h o wi l l p r o f i t by a t t end ing a c o n f e r e n c e to do so.

Late News Bulletins

But this lead w a s shor t l ived as t he P rov idence Club roa red back to score 25 po in ts in t he second hal f . T h e P rov ide nc e t e a m was ab le to m a k e such a fine second half showing d u e to some spec tacu la r t h r o w i n g on the par t of O w e n H a g g e r t y and some raz-zle dazzle r u n n i n g by N o r m Dube .

To Give Grad Exams Friday, Saturday

P r o v i d e n c e College seniors mus t t a k e t he G r a d u a t e Record E x a m s F r i -day a n d S a t u r d a y , it w a s a n n o u n c e d M o n d a y b y the Rev. Vincen t C. Dore, O.P., Dean of Studies .

G r a d u a t e Record E x a m s a r e used in d e t e r m i n i n g el igibi l i ty for post g r a d u a t e work . T h e y a r e also used by the Col lege to f i nd ou t w h a t knowl -edge the s t u d e n t has r e t a i n e d in his s tudies.

T h e E x a m s wi l l be g iven F r i d a y at 1:30 p. m . and S a t u r d a y at 8:30 a. m. Science s tuden t s (Biology, Chemis t ry , and Physics) wil l be g iven the i r e x a m s in the a u d i t o r i u m of A lbe r tu s M a g n u s Hall . Business s t uden t s wi l l t a k e ex -

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ROTC MOVIES "Nava l G u n s at Iwo J i m a , " and

"Nava l G u n s at O k i n a w a " a r e t h e ROTC movies wh ich wil l be shown tonight at 7:30 p. m., in t he aud i to r -ium of A lbe r tu s Magnus Science Hall . Al l s t uden t s a r e invi ted t o a t tend .

President To Speak The Very Rev. Robert J. Sla-

vin, O.P., president, wi l l speak on "Spain Today," before the Cath-olic Literary Guild of Providence at 8 p. m., on Dec. 5, at St. An-thony's Hall, 49 Tobey St. Stu-dents are invited to attend the lecture.

Friars Dance To Feature Vin Capone

T h e t r ad i t iona l d a n c e of t he F r i a r ' s Club, c a m p u s hosp i ta l i ty organiza t ion wi l l be he ld th is y e a r on F r iday , De-cember 7, in H a r k i n ' s Hall . Danc ing wi l l be f r o m 8:30 un t i l midn igh t , Thomas Sul l ivan, gene ra l c h a i r m a n of t he dance a n n o u n c e d today.

To be f e a t u r e d at t h e dance wi l l be Vin C a p o n e and his o rches t ra . Mr. Capone, an a l u m n u s of t he school, also p rov ided t h e mus ic for t h e a l u m n i ba l l he ld las t F r i d a y .

Bids for t he dance , wh ich a r e p r i ced at $3.00 m a y be ob ta ined f r o m any m e m b e r of t he c lub. Beg inn ing n e x t week, t hey wi l l also be on sale at t h e t i cke t booth in H a r k i n s ' Hal l .

The a f fa i r , t h e only all college f o r m a l he ld o n campus , is t h e h igh-l ight of t h e f a l l social season on the campus , and Mr. Su l l ivan u rged t h a t for th is reason t ickets w e r e l ike ly t o go fas t , and it wou ld b e adv i sab le f o r s t uden t s s e e k i n g to a t t e n d to p ick up the i r t i cke ts ear ly .

Motif fo r t h e d a n c e wil l be t h e t r a -di t ional Chr i s tmas one. T h e r e wi l l be an e labora te c e n t e r p i e c e on t h e dance


"Honor Bill" Defeated 9-5 In Congress

To Show T h e "Man"; Admission Is Free

Admiss ion to The Man, t h e f i r s t p ro -duc t ion this yea r of t h e P r o v i d e n c e Col lege P y r a m i d P layers , wi l l b e f r e e , it has been a n n o u n c e d by the Rev. J o h n B. Larnen , O.P., c lub advisor . T h e p lay will be p re sen ted as a t h e a -t r e - in - the - round F r i d a y n igh t at 8:30 in t h e s tuden t lounge of H a r k i n s Hall .

The cast of the psychological m u r -de r mys te ry , w r i t t e n by Mel Dinell i , wil l be: L a w r e n c e Jones , '55, a s

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College Mourns Death Of Revs. J. Kennedy And W. Farrell

Word was rece ived at the college las t w e e k e n d of t h e dea ths of two ou t s t and ing Domin ican pr ies ts . T h e Rev. J o h n Jus t in Kennedy , O.P., fo r -m e r ass is tant dean , v icar supe r io r and professor of ph i losophy at P rov i dence College, d ied in New York on Thur s -day, N o v e m b e r 22, a f t e r a long ill-ness. T h e Rev. Wal te r R. Fa r re l l , O.P., a u t h o r of t he Compan ion To The Sum-ma, died in Chicago sudden ly F r iday , N o v e m b e r 23.

Fr . K e n n e d y first came to Prov i -dence Col lege in 1941. He served as ass is tant d e a n f r o m 1945 to 1947. H e was v icar super io r of the Dominican c o m m u n i t y f r o m 1944 to 1947. He le f t in 1950 because of fa i l ing hea l th .

Fr . K e n n e d y was born in Knoxvi l le , Tenn. , on December 22, 1899. He at-t ended Aquinas College High School and St. Joseph ' s College, Somerset . On October 12, 1919, he was professed at St. Joseph 's . Archb i shop Michael J . Cur ley of Ba l t imore and Washington o rda ined h im on J u n e 17, 1925. F r .

Rev. J. J. Kennedy, O.P.

K e n n e d y also taught at Alber tus Mag-nus College f rom 1937 to 1941.

Fr . Fa r re l l was born in Chicago in 1902, and was educa ted at Dominican schools. H e received his S.T.D. f r o m the Univers i ty of Fr ibourg . In 1940 he received his Mas te r of Sacred The-ology. Dur ing World War II he served as a Navy chaplain .

Hockey

At Auditorium

Friday

The d e f e r m e n t quo t a f o r t he P rov i -dence Col lege ROTC un i t h a s been received. T h e D e f e r m e n t Board , com-posed of m e m b e r s of the academic faculty and M i l i t a r y Science D e p a r t -ment, wi l l mee t b e t w e e n the 1st and 15th of D e c e m b e r (Col lege D r a f t De-ferment Tests t a k e p lace D e c e m b e r 13th—Editors). It is e x p e c t e d t ha t FORM 44—"Mil i t a ry S t a t u s of Indi -vidual"—will be issued f o r d e f e r r e d sti lents no l a te r t h a n t h e 19th of De-cember.

The d e f e r m e n t r egu l a t i ons a r e de-fined as fo l lows:

RESPONSIBILITY OF STUDENT— Every s t u d e n t w h o is cer t i f ied fo r de-

ferment wi l l be respons ib le f o r promptly no t i fy ing :

a) Local D r a f t Board IN WRITING that he h a s b e e n cer t i f ied fo r d e f e r -

ment f r o m induc t ion u n d e r provis ions of section 6 " d " (2), T i t l e I, P L. 759, 80th Congress . E v e r y s t u d e n t w h o is

granted such d e f e r m e n t in a d v a n c e of his ac tua l r eg i s t r a t i on (for t h e D r a f t ) will n o t i f y his local b o a r d a t t he t i m e

of reg is t ra t ion .

b) Local B o a r d in w r i t i n g of any subsequent c h a n g e in s t a tus w h i c h terminates s u c h d e f e r m e n t , (i.e.. dropped f r o m R O T C course fo r de-ficiency in academic w o r k ) .

c) No t i fy t h e P M S & T of t h e n u m -ber a n d a d d r e s s of h is local board , when d e t e r m i n e d , and r e q u e s t i n g t he PMS&T to f u r n i s h t he local boa rd with official cer t i f ica t ion of d e f e r m e n t .

The Mi l i t a ry Science D e p a r t m e n t has p r e p a r e d a f o r m l e t t e r f o r each student to u s e in n o t i f y i n g his local board in compl i ance w i t h "a" above. This f o r m l e t t e r wi l l be g iven to t he student a t t h e s ame t ime he s igns t he Deferment A g r e e m e n t . T h e P M S & T


To Hold More Placement Conferences

College ROTC Unit Praised By General After Inspection

P r o v i d e n c e Col lege and its ROTC un i t w e r e w a r m l y p ra i sed by M a j o r G e n e r a l Char le s G. He lmick , com-m a n d e r of t he N e w E n g l a n d S u b a r e a of t he F i r s t A r m y , in an i n t e r v i e w w i t h Cowl edi tors . G e n e r a l He lmick was i n t e r v i e w e d Tuesday , N o v e m b e r 20, on w h i c h da te he vis i ted P. C. to con fe r w i t h t he Very Rev. Rober t J . Slavin , O. P., p res iden t , and to m a k e a n i n f o r m a l inspect ion of t h e R O T C uni t .

"We a re de l igh ted to h a v e a un i t he re , " t h e G e n e r a l told t h e COWL. "Cons ider ing t h a t t hey h a v e had only t h i r t e e n h o u r s of dr i l l t he i r p rogress looks to be exce l len t . Not only t h e i n s t ruc to r s b u t also t he s t uden t s h a v e w o r k e d v e r y h a r d . "

G e n e r a l He lmick also p ra i sed the w o r k of ROTC in p rov id ing o f f i ce r s f o r t h e A r m y . H e s ta ted t ha t t h e c r e a m of A r m y o f f f i c e r p e r s o n n e l comes f r o m ROTC. A m a n w h o goes t h r o u g h ROTC, he said, k n o w s m o r e abou t his m i l i t a ry spec ia l ty t h a n one who has g r a d u a t e d f r o m West Poin t .

R O T C wil l g ive r e s e r v e uni t s t r eng th , the G e n e r a l said. " T h e r e -

(Con t inued on P a g e 6) Miss A n n Collins, s ec r e t a ry of t he

Student G o v e r n m e n t of Sa lve Reg ina College has cordia l ly inv i ted 100 s tu -dents of P r o v i d e n c e Col lege t o an in-formal dance on F r iday , N o v e m b e r 30, a Mercy Hal l .

All s t uden t s in t e re s t ed in a t t e n d i n g this dance at t he N e w p o r t Col lege a r e asked to sign up at t h e S t u d e n t Con-gress Off ice , Room 223, H a r k i n s Hal l .

T h e S tuden t Congress at its N o v e m -ber mee t ing voted down the h o n o r reso lu t ion p roposed by one sophomore and f o u r j u n i o r r ep re sen t a t i ve s in a secre t ballot . 9-5. T h e Congressmen la te r r eve rsed themselves and vo ted t o go on record as to how t h e y voted .

The only o the r n e w bus iness t a k e n up at t he m e e t i n g was a resolut ion b y George M u r p h y , senior class pres ident , which r e c o m m e n d e d the s t a r t ing of a s tuden t loan f u n d to aid s tuden t s w h o a r e unable , fo r financial reasons, to con t inue school d u r i n g the i r sopho-more , j un io r or sen ior years . The res -olut ion was r e f e r r e d to commit tee f o r f u r t h e r s tudy.

T h e Congress also discussed t h e f o r t h c o m i n g blood drive. Def ini te p lans w e r e p u t off unt i l a d a t e could be set f o r t h e coming of t he mob i l e un i t here . A motion to con t inue t h e s teer ing c o m m i t t e e on a t e m p o r a r y basis w a s passed unan imous ly .

More t h a n half of t he Congress mee t ing was devo t ed to deba t e on t h e "honor" resolut ion. Basic issues in t h e deba t e w e r e t ha t Congress s h o u l d n ' t m a k e laws fo r t h e classes; t ha t t h e "h o n o r " reso lu t ion is a r e su l t of t h e wishes of t he class; a n d t ha t t he class p res iden ts a r e capable of hand l i ng t h e s i tua t ion .

T h e five w h o voted f o r t h e reso lu-tion w e r e t he s ame five w h o in t ro -duced it in to t h e Congress . T h e y we re : Wil l iam J . Conway, L u d g e r Gomez, R i cha rd Buckley , J a m e s Marsha l l a n d Char les Schlegel .

Prov. Club In Finger Bowl The Providence Club climaxes an undefeated season when

they play Brown today, in the Sixth Annual Finger Bowl game at the field on Thayer Street .

Providence won the r igh t to play Brown by de f ea t i ng t h e Amoebas 37 to 13 yes t e rday . Th is v ic to ry enab led the P rov idence C lub to c a p t u r e t he Intramural c rown . In t h e ove ra l l series B r o w n has t he a d v a n t a g e f o u r games to one; howeve r , last y e a r t he Friars snapped the d r o u g h t of f o u r years w i t h o u t a v ic tory by t rounc ing the Brown squad 52 to 9.

Although the score was s o m e w h a t lopsided in t he P rov idence -Amoebas encounter, it was not a t r u e indica-tion of t he closeness of t he ba t t le . A t half t ime the Amoebas l e f t t he field

with a 13 to 12 edge, t h a n k s to t he fine pass ing of " G u n d e r " Hagge r ty .

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A Hasty Move The Student Congress in voting down the

"honor" resolution acted hastily and perhaps imprudently for it put tha t body on record as not disapproving of the practice of giving f ree bids to social committees.

Granted tha t the Congressmen who voted against the resolution did not intend to go on record as favoring f ree bids, their action, however, cast a poor reflection on Providence College.

Granted tha t there is no question as to the integrity of the Congressmen and tha t they were not seeking f ree bids for themselves or for the dance committees, their action would seem to indicate otherwise to those unfamiliar to the situation.

Granted tha t the resolution offered was too limited in so f a r as it only regulated class functions and not all extracurricular activi-ties, the Congress should have attacked the problem by either amending the resolution or by sending it back to the committee for f u r t h e r study.

Granted the resolution brings up the dif-ficult problem of the separation of powers be-tween the Congress and the classes, the prob-lem should not be handled through the nega-tive approach of defeating any resolution which brings up this problem, but ra ther by a positive approach of defining once and for all jus t where the power lies.

It is unfor tunate t ha t the Congress went on record against a resolution which in spirit everyone a t P. C. including the Congressmen, themselves, are in favor of. This situation should be rectified not by any hastily drawn resolution but by a completely thought-out resolution prepared by a special committee of the Congress. This resolution should be like a beacon shining out in this materialistic era as a symbol of our Catholic training which stresses our spiritual growth not only through study but also through a well-rounded extra-curricular program.

The College Grieves Providence College was saddened to learn

over the weekend of the deaths of two mem-bers of the Dominican Order, the Rev. John J. Kennedy and the Rev. Walter R. Farrell . Both men played an important par t in the intellec-tual growth of our students.

Fa ther Kennedy, a teacher of philosophy here f rom 1941 to 1950, was well known on the campus both for his teaching, and his guidance of the students. In his years as dean of discipline he became the intimate of many of the students. His services as moderator of one of our largest territorial clubs also made his figure familiar to many.

But it was his kindly intelligence in the classroom tha t made Fa the r "Jake" one of the most popular teachers here at the school. Those he taught learned their elementary phi-losophy in such a way tha t it became an in-tegral par t of their entire schooling.

Fa the r Farrell, although never on the cam-pus physically, had a vast intellectual force in the college. For it is f rom his series of books on the Summa t ha t we have all learned our theology. His was the monumental task of condensing the first book of Catholic theology so tha t it could be assimilated by our busy world. He wrote these books so tha t the edu-cated Catholic could explain his religion in-tellectually.

Both these men were educators in the best Catholic and Dominican tradition. Their pas-sing is felt, for they have given the students valuable lights on the road to becoming well rounded Catholics.

Look To The Windward There is something present at Providence

College which is jus t as much a landmark as the cafeteria, the rotunda or the Rock. But it is very seldom spoken of, and then only with a frigid shudder. We're speaking of the angry, and sometimes very cold wind which blows its way around and across the campus in the late Fall and Winter.

The P. C. campus happens to be situated on one of the highest parts of Smith Hill, and also one of the most open and unprotected parts . Consequently, if you have ever had to take the bus to school in the morning or even later in the day, as you trudged up the hill you could feel the icy tentacles of Sirocco's colder bro-ther reaching through your heavy overcoat and chilling your bones to the marrow.

Even dorm students have not been able to escape the clutches of this West Wind (or does it come from the Eas t? ) . It is a ter r i fy ing experience to have to roll out of bed early in the morning, venture out of Aquinas Hall bound for Harkins with your eyes half closed and have them suddenly opened by a shriek-ing blast of the East Wind (or does it come from the West?) .

Well, the wind is there, and there's nothing we can do about it, except wait for warmer weather. Might as well t ry to enjoy it.

Classical Review:

Suggest Reviving Old Custom Of Concert On St. Cecilia's Day

By A. H. Lister Among the Victor re leases for the

month of N o v e m b e r h a v e been severa l operas re-Issued on L P records. We have had occasion to h e a r only o n e of these to da t e—Faust—but hope to be able to r epo r t on the o t h e r s soon. This is the f a m o u s Beecham record ing of old v in tage , and it is a l r eady wel l k n o w n to most opera lovers. T h e p r in -cipals (happi ly F r e n c h ) a r e Geor i Boue as Marguer i te , Georges Nore as Faust , Roger Rico as Mephis topheles , Roger Bourdon as Valent i , H u g u e t t e Sa in t A r m a n d as Siebel , and Bet ty B a n n e r m a n as Mar the . The a l b u m is one of t he "T rea su ry of I m m o r t a l Pe r -f o r m a n c e s " set and as such, p re sen t s only one d r a w b a c k (i.e., the impe r f ec t r ep roduc t ion which was an u n f o r t u -na t e even tua l i t y in t h e ea r ly days of r e c o r d i n g ) , even to t he connoisseur . This, it would seem, accounts for t he con t inua l inaccuracy in p i tch , impres -sing one as be ing bu t a ha i r ' s b r e a d t h (1/4 tone, if this is feas ib le) f r o m per -fect pi tch. O u r only o the r cr i t ic ism is t he a r b i t r a r y t r anqu i l l i t y of the opera as a whole which smacks of a pecu l i a r Beecham procl iv i ty . This is indeed mer i t o r ious in ce r t a in ly the f r i l ly e igh teen th c e n t u r y " tea - tab le mus ic" of Mozar t and Haydn , b u t is ce r t a in ly an in jus t i ce to such a g ran -diose figure as Gounod, and to such a g rand iose work as Faus t . Th is is most a p p a r e n t in t he ga rden scene, w h e r e a ce r t a in tep id i ty rep laces the called fo r a f fec t iona te w a r m t h and w a x i n g passion. M a r g u e r i t e does not s u c c u m b to F a u s t wi th qu i t e t he ecstat ic a b a n d o n o n e expects ; nor , does it seem, fo l lowing such a d rag -g ing tempo, tha t she would e v e r h a v e

reason to. But , all in all, this a l b u m r ema ins o n e to be inves t iga ted .

A n o t h e r release, this one by Colum-bia, is " P i n e a p p l e Poll ," a su i te f r o m the ba l l e t of the s ame n a m e by C h a r l e s Macer ras , a r r a n g e d f r o m music of Gi lbe r t and Su l l ivan for p r e sen t a t i on by Sad le r ' s Wells in 1950-51. Most of the ope re t t a s a re r ep re sen t ed in th is qua in t hodge-podge. T h e ba l le t w a s in-spired by the Bab Ballads of Gi lber t , especial ly t he Ballad of the Bumboat Woman. Mr. Macerras , o r ig ina l ly f r o m Aust ra l ia , conducts t he Sad le r ' s Wells T h e a t r e Orches t r a ve ry well. T h e su i te is a p leasant l i t t le th ing for those t imes w h e n one feels t he need of a quick p ick -up of G i lbe r t and Su l l ivan all in one dosage, bu t un less one is more in te res ted in t he o rches t ra l back-ground of t he se t id-bits , or the severa l exc lus ive ly o rches t ra l p ieces (del ight -ful , it's t r u e ) , we canno t see t he po in t of o w n i n g such a r eco rd ing be fo re the ope re t t a s themselves .

T h e "Sleeping B e a u t y " bal le t mus ic by T c h a i k o v s k y h a s been issued on London records wi th Deso rmie re and the Pa r i s Conse rva to ry orches t ra . M. Deso rmie re conducts wi th a gusto which the compose r himself would apprec ia te . Sect ions of m e l t i n g ten-de rness rol l into sec t ions of de l ica te ly bandy ing "po in t -work , " and on in to sect ions of r av i sh ing g r a n d e u r , in one mad undu la t ion . In genera l , Desor-miers cont inues his success in t he field of tone poems and ba l l e t music . If one canno t h a v e the Pa r i s of Gluck , Lul ly , and Couper in , it is a t leas t consol ing to re l ive tha t of Liszt, Chopin , and T c h a i k o v s k y (who was usual ly F rench , w h e n he w a s n ' t G e r -

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The Cowl Mailbox To T h e Edi to rs :

In r ep ly to t he d e l u g e of sa rcasm signed "Some of the Ga l lup Pol lers ," I should l ike to offer some fac t s f o r cons idera t ion .

A r t s tuden t s would do wel l to in-ves t iga te class schedules of scient is ts be fo re cr i t ic is ing t h e i r lack of par t ic i -pa t ion in e x t r a c u r r i c u l a r act ivi t ies . As J o h n Custer, '55, so capab ly po in ted out last week ( N o v e m b e r 14th i ssue—The E d i t o r s ) , t he p r i m a r y a im of s t uden t s is proficiency in s tudy . With 25 to 30 clock h o u r s a week in class and labs, and almost dup l i ca t ing t ha t wi th h o m e study, science s t uden t s do not h a v e too m u c h le i sure t ime.

We a r e accused, also, of be ing a cl ique. This, if t rue , is p u r e l y un in-in ten t iona l . We s imply a r e not b r o u g h t in con tac t wi th o the r s tuden t s in t h e course of t he day .

Ars gratia artis is pe r fec t ly praise-w o r t h y ; nonethe less , condem na t i on of the s tudy of n a t u r a l science is no th ing more than an unabashed d isp lay of ignorance .

J o v i t e La Bonte, J r .

To t h e Edi tors : With t he excep t ion of t he pe renn ia l

ma lcon ten t s and pe rpe tua l g r ipers who are, fo r some reason or o ther , neve r sa t isf ied, I am sure t ha t t he s tuden t s of P rov i dence Col lege wil l reac t f avorab ly to the w i n t e r spor t s p r o g r a m p r e p a r e d by t h e a th le t ic de-p a r t m e n t . T h e r e r emains but one fac-tor necessary for a successful year , pe rhaps the most i m p o r t a n t f ac to r of all, tha t is, t h e s u p p o r t of all loyal Fr ia rs .

The o ther n ight I watched our new-ly- formed hockey t e a m in action. T a k e my word for it, they a r e a classy out-fit and the roughest , toughes t t e a m in the league. They should be a source of p r ide for all of us. Let 's get beh ind them!

T h e vars i ty basketbal l and t r ack t e a m s a r e looking f o r w a r d to a great season. They need your s u p p o r t also.

Judg ing f rom past years we know tha t the i n t r a m u r a l baske tba l l p ro-

g r a m will be popu la r . Th is is an ex-cel lent oppor tun i ty for exe rc i se and e n j o y m e n t f o r all s tuden t s .

Lack of in te res t t h r e a t e n s to e l im-inate boxing f r o m t h e school spor ts p ic ture . T h e r e should be m a n y m o r e s t uden t s eager to t ake a d v a n t a g e of these boxing lessons. We mus t r e t a in t he annua l s m o k e r and spor t s night . It is a vi tal p a r t of t h e a th le t ic p ro-gram. T h e school is coun t ing on us. You don ' t h a v e to be a champion ; tha t is w h y t h e r e a r e lessons.

Once again I ask you to avoid t he a t t i t ude of i nd i f f e r ence wh ich pers is ts among a grea t m a n y of our s tuden t s . Ignore those c ry -bab ies in o u r mids t who o f f e r no th ing cons t ruc t ive to o u r school but a lways f ind s o m e t h i n g to complain about . Don ' t be a shamed to h a v e school spir i t ! Don' t let t he t eams down. Be p roud of t hem and p roud of t he school they a r e f igh t ing for.

I 'll see you at t h e game! J o h n McMullen, '52

To the Edi to r s :

Congra tu l a t ions on the Cowl elec-tion poll.

Unfo r tuna t e ly , however , it r e f l e c t s the genera l p r e s e n t day a t t i t ude of most Amer icans , r egard less of age or occupat ion. T h e idea tha t mi l i t a ry men m a k e the bes t P r e s iden t s seems to be un iversa l today.

It 's t r u e tha t t he pas t two decades h a v e p roduced grea t mi l i t a ry l eaders bu t th is is to be expec ted d u r i n g a n y per iod of sus ta ined conflict, especial ly in th is m o d e r n age of t e r r i b l e weapons w h e n grea t minds mus t gu ide our des-t iny. When it comes to choosing a cand ida te for Chief Execu t ive of the Uni ted Sta tes let 's forget t he mi l i t a ry aspects. Last Apri l , Douglas Mac-A r t h u r was the s t ree t co rne r conver -sat ional topic e v e r y w h e r e one went . Bu t since tha t t ime the t h i n k i n g peo-ple of our na t ion have v i r tua l ly for-got ten a b o u t his sudden dismissal by Mr. T r u m a n . I t 's t r u e tha t the laure ls which M a c A r t h u r ea rned d u r i n g World War II shal l never be denied . But it is also genera l ly conceded tha t the Pres iden t did not be t ray our coun-


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Urbis et Orbis: Truman To Campaign As Democrats Face Defeat

By Joseph Quinton The question t ha t has begun to agitate

the country is, of course, the coming elections. The politicians are home now and able to com-mand and mend fences. The Democratic party, in control of congress for 22 years now and in control of the presidency for 20 years are wor-ried the most. Now they have against them two forces—the natural t rend of politics, and the revelations f rom within the par ty itself.

Under our two-party system it is natural for a pendulum-like movement to take place. It is easy for the discontented and radicals of the left or the r ight to a t tack the par ty in power and we can find no period in American history which sees such an uninterrupted reign by one par ty . We can expect a natural swing away f rom the Democrats.

This natural swing is accentuated when scandals such as those now shaking Washing-ton come to light. Political g r a f t has always been a s t rong ins t rument to overturn the party in power, and Democrats are now up to the i r ears in accusations concerning such g ra f t .

Who is there to carry the par ty forward in the face of such handicaps? The most out-standing candidate at present is the incum-bent, H. S. T. To find a parallel situation we need look no f u r t h e r back than 1940. In tha t year Roosevelt adroitly played off all possible candidates, so tha t none could gain s t rength, while at the same t ime he piously decried all thoughts of a third term.

Truman is in a slightly different position. He is less the adroit leader of men and more the "voice" of the ent i re par ty . He is a tired man, and could be persuaded much more easily than Roosevelt by other people—his wife and daughter , for instance. But despite all this it will be hard for Truman not to run.

If he does not run, who will lead the Democrats? Vinson, Just ice Douglas, and Senators Douglas and Kefauver have been mentioned. Eisenhower now seems out, for he does not believe in the Democrats ' domestic policy, and he has refused all efforts by Demo-crats to lure him into the par ty . The two Douglases a re f a r too "liberal" and "anti-machine" to be accepted by the South and the big-city-controlled s tates . In a period when the par ty is in power they are unacceptable. If the par ty were out of power, they would make good candidates, but not now. Kefauver, while acceptable to the South (he is senator f rom Tenn.), has the liabilities of being from the South, as well as the enmity of the city bosses. He, too, would make a good candidate for an election if the par ty were not in power. Vinson alone remains. He would make a good candidate. He had a good history as an ad-ministrator during World War II and is politi-cally harmless, having been removed from cur-rent controversies as Chief Just ice of the


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Re-elected

Confirmation was received from Rome last Friday of the election of the Very Rev. Terrence S. McDermott, O.P., S.T.Lr., LL.D., K.M., to his sixth term as provincial of the Dominican Fathers of St. Joseph's Province which includes the Dominican community at Providence College. Fr. McDermott received a Doctorate of Letters from Providence College in 1932.

Literary Column:

" Another Mexico" Called Autobiographical Travelogue

By Vincent F. Callahan I have had in mind saying some-

thing about Graham Greene for quite some time. To review his latest novel. The End of the Affair, would have been the most appropriate means to discuss him, but, unfortunately, I was unable to borrow the book from any of the libraries (where there are long waiting lists) and buying the book was out of the question,—or, Why the long hair on my neck? I decided that a few comments upon one of his rela-tively uncommented upon books might be worthwhile, so I chose Another Mexico, which is an impressionistic and somewhat personal account of Mr. Greene's visit to Mexico in the Spring of 1938.

It received lukewarm reviews by reviewers whose main complaints were that Mr. Greene was prejudiced in favor of England (his home), and that the account of Mexico was over-shadowed by the author's exposition of himself, and concentration upon the persecution of the Catholic Church which was going on in Mexico at the time. Mr. Greene's self-exposition

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didn't bother me. Actually, what we have in Another Mexico is an auto-biography and a travelogue for the price of a travelogue. His concentra-tion upon the religious persecution was merely a per accidens effect of his discussion of the religious life of the people. What these reviewers failed to realize is that as it is necessary to consider the Church for a full under-standing of a period such as the Medi-eval Era, so is it necessary to consider the Church for a comprehension of a country so religious as Mexico.

Greene puts across his over-all im-pression of Mexico by a system of narration which might loosely be com-pared with Chaucer's 'cross-section' of pilgrims which slowly presents us with a picture of 'Merry England.' Greene

I is a master of atmospheric detail in things, and psychological insight into people. His insistence upon relating almost every significant human action which he discusses to a set of eternal verities would make Graham Greene worthwhile reading even if he were not one of the greatest contemporary stylists in English Literature. This practice of constantly analyzing things as they stand against the background of Faith, death, Judgment, damnation, etc., is a much-to-be-desired habit of the mind, and can be attained to a certain extent by a careful reading of Graham Greene.

I was particularly struck by the fol-lowing passage which shows a few of Greene's perceptions, and reveals his poetic consciousness. It is part of a description of a cathedral in Mon-terrey:

". . . An interior all white and gold with pale refined un-Spanish

| statuary, and three girls doing the Stations of the Cross, giggling and chattering from agony to agony."

In one sentence, Greene makes a comment upon Spanish religious art. gives a little description of the cathe-dral, comments upon the mock devo-tion of the three girls, and in the end draws a sparkling poetic contrast which by the magnitude of the dis-crepancy immediately focuses our at-tention upon the Redemption.

These formal techniques, added to the seriousness of his subject matter and the freshness of his treatment make Graham Greene the most out-standing prose writer of our times.

Debaters Downed By Cross In Mass., St. Anselm Here

During the past two weeks the Bar-risters, campus debating organization participated in two inter-college de-bates, with Holy Cross on November 26, and with St. Anselm's last Mon-day.

Richard Buckley and Joseph Mul-hall represented the negative of the national debating topic against St. Anselm's of Manchester in a debate held in the Auditorium of Albertus Magnus Hall Monday. St. Anselm's, represented on the affirmative by Donald Doyle and Alex Kalinski won the decision.

The arguments of the victors cen-tered around the practicality and logic of the adoption of permanent price and wage controls on the part of the federal government. They stressed the evils of inflation and affirmed that wage and price controls were the only answer to the danger if we expect to preserve our freedom. Providence Col-lege attempted to prove that indirect controls would serve as well, while they also showed the dangers of permanent government control. The judge for the debate was the Rev. Pierre H. Conway, O.P., of the college faculty.

Buckley also represented Provi-dence College in their debate with Holy Cross at Worcester on Thursday, November 15. His partner was Joseph Quinton. The decision in the contest went to the host school.

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Third Order To Sing Compline At Meeting

Tertiaries will hold their next meet-ing in Aquinas Hall chapel, Thursday afternoon, Nov. 29, at 1 p. m. sharp. At each of the special bi-monthly meetings scheduled for the students, the beautiful liturgical hour of Com-pline will be sung by the Tertiaries. All students of the college are invited to attend Thursday's meeting in order to acquaint themselves with first hand information concerning the Third Or-der of St. Dominic and with the Dominican chant of Compline.

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try to the Soviet Union by dismissing the General.

Certainly no one can also deny the earned merits of General Eisenhower. But does this make him a potential President? He may be a wonderful prospect for the Republicans or Demo-crats, for either way he seems sure to win.

And further, just what is General Eisenhower? Is he a Republican? Why won't he state that response? Could it be that the General is waiting for President Truman to make the first move? For if Truman does not choose to run, it would certainly be wise of the General to come out as a Demo-crat. And vice versa, if Harry does run, then Eisenhower should certainly try for the Republican nomination over Taft, which he would certainly get, along with the election by a vast majority over Truman. Either way he would seem to be the '52 winner.

Cowl Reader, Arthur Cadoret

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New ROTC Sergeant Is Veteran Of Eight Years In The Navy

By Henry Griffin In line with the present series of brief biographical sketches

of the personnel of the ROTC unit here at Providence, we intro-duce you this week to one of its newer members, Sgt. Cecil H. Flowers, who stands unique as an Army man, in that he has spent most of his military time in Uncle Sam's Navy.

This native of Conway, South Caro-lina, enlisted in the Navy in July, 1940, long before the outbreak of the Second World War, and received his boot training at the Norfolk, Va., Naval Base, after which he was as-signed to the battleship U.S.S. Missis-sippi as a clerical worker. He served aboard the Mississippi for nearly two years, from September, 1940, to July, 1942.

The Sergeant's next assignment was also on a battlewagon, this time the famed U.S.S. Nevada, veteran of many battles in both the Asiatic and Pacific Theatres.

In his three years on the Nevada, Flowers saw action in the amphibious operations both at Iwo Jima and at Okinawa, as well as the subsequent Normandy invasion and the Allied landing on the southern coast of France. It was during the Okinawa campaign that a Japanese kamikaze pilot rammed his plane into the Nevada, causing considerable damage.

In June of 1945, his sea duty com-pleted, Flowers was returned to this country, and reassigned to the Boston Naval Base, where he stayed until his enlistment expired. He received his honorable discharge from the Navy in April, 1948.

The Sergeant's Army career began a brief four months later, on August 11, 1948, when he took out enlistment papers in his home town of Conway. He was processed at Fort Jackson, S. C., and then transferred to Fort Sheridan, Ill. He remained at this post from September. 1948, until the fol-lowing April, at which time he was given the second Boston assignment of his career, this time at the Hub City's Army Base. Finally, just three weeks ago, he was given orders to report to the ROTC unit at Providence College.

Sergeant Flowers is married to an Everett, Mass., girl, and has three children, two girls and a boy.

Sgt. Cecil Flowers

OSP Group To Plan Fund Raising Drive

The campus committee of the Over-seas Service Program will formulate plans for fund raising this year at a meeting to be held Friday at 1 p. m. in the Student Congress office. The program is sponsored nationally and locally by the National Federation of Catholic College Students of which P. C. is a member.

The campus committee, which has charge of raising funds for destitute students abroad, is headed by Charles Schegel, '53, and Joseph Andrews, '52. and include John P. Lynch, '53, David Collins, '55, and Robert Door-ley, '55. Other students interested in such work are invited to attend the meeting Friday, the co-chairman said.

OSP also sponsors a correspondence exchange, yearly prayer week, and student tours. Preliminary information of the 1952 summer tours has been posted. The itineraries include three European tours and one Canadian tour, including attendance at the Pax Romana Congress in Montreal (Pax Romana is an international organiza-tion of Catholic national student fed-erations) .

Ireland - England - France, England -France - Switzerland, and France -Spain - Italy itineraries will be of-fered, at prices ranging from $592 to $792.

During the past four years, the Overseas Service Program has raised over three quarters of a million dol-lars for student relief, obtained from the students in 180 American colleges and universities belonging to the Na-tional Federation of Catholic College Students. Providence College has par-ticipated for the past three years.

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PC Hoop Season Starts Saturday Friars, Laskamen Clash In Feature

By Phil Griffin Vin Cuddy's varsity and Hal Martin's junior varsity get their

baptism under fire come Saturday night, with Vin's Friars getting top billing in their game with Assumption. In the preliminary contest Martin's jayvees will take on Quonset.

Cuddy is logically pleased with his offensive potential. His top boys along this line are Captain Jim Schlimm, Ray Korbusieski, Tom Bauer, Bob Prendergast, Bobby Moran, Hank McQueeney, Phil Lynch and Tom Mullins.

Schlimm, of course, is Mr. Offense. When Jim graduates he will own about every P. C. scoring record that can be found in the books, barring unforeseen developments. Especially torrid in the Mount Pleasant gym, the high scoring center has amazed fans for two years with his spectacular pivot shot.

Prendergast Tallest on Varsity Jim's alternate at the pivot will be

big Bob Prendergast, the tallest mem-ber of the varsity. Bob's deadly shoot-

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Vin thinks the team looks good at j such an early date and he likes the way they're moving the ball, but he's concerned over his lack of rebound strength. This isn't a tall ball club as basketball teams go and Cuddy is hard pressed to find a replacement for Frank Pellegrino.

Friar Defense Improved The defense, however, has improved

over the past couple of seasons. Last year we had a good offense, but the boys weren't too capable when the other club had the ball. The coach has worked on the problem and things look brighter in that direction this season.

The Standings so far in the Rhode Island Amateur Hockey League:

ing make him a top replacement in anyone's book.

Moran, McQueeney, Lynch and Mullins are sophomores. Bobby, Phil, and Hank led the freshmen to a spec-tacular season last year. Mullins was ineligible due to previous competition at another school.

Moran shoots from the outside and McQueeney, Lynch and Mullins drive in close. Moran, McQueeney and Mul-lins, however, are all-around offensive stalwarts and don't confine themselves to one spot on the floor, while Lynch is tops on defence.

Korby and Bauer Rate High Korbusieski and Bauer are seniors

who saw plenty of action last season. Korby was the driving force on last year's five, a holler guy all season long. Tom didn't start, but did his share of playing, and he displayed an excellent one-handed shot.

JV Five Host To Quonset In Opener

Providence College's Junior Varsity will open their schedule this Satur-day night against the Quonset Flyers. The team is coached by Hal Martin, last year's freshman mentor. The pic-ture is somewhat confused at the mo-ment. Hal, forced to wait until the final varsity cut, has had little time to mould his players into a unit.

Martin will have a few familiar faces to work with. Back from last year's yearling club are Quinlan, Mc-Bride and Cordon.

The new faces are Jack Keating, a junior, who played freshman ball two years back, and frosh Gibbins, Preiss-ner, O'Connell, Miller, Lavault, Bark-er, and Knowles.

The club will boast plenty of height in Ponton, Keating, and Quinlan, who had the top percentages on the Friar's top yearling team last season.

Quonset will be no soft touch for an opener. The Flyers proved a tough nut for our outstanding freshman out-fit to crack last season, and service teams have been generally tougher this season. Martin has his work cut out for him in straightening out the situation by this weekend.

But Hal isn't moaning the blues. Be-sides the old hands, there are a few promising new boys on the squad that could develop into good ball players. The prospects aren't too bad at all.

Team w. L. P.C. Providence College 2 0 1 .000

Providence Chicks 2 0 1.000

Dunne's 2 1 0 6 6

Fogarty'3 2 1 .666 Burrillville 1 1 .500 Scituate 0 3 .000 Univ. of Rhode Island 0 3 .000

A quick look at Assumption gives us an idea of what they'll use to counter Schlimm and Co. Former Cross Star Coaches Assumption

To start with, the Greyhounds have a brand new coach, young Andy

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JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL SCHEDULE Coach: Harold T. Martin

Managers: Edward Sughrue, '54 Whitinsville, Mass. Peter V. Filpi, '55 Pittsfleld, Mass.

Edward J. Thibodeau, '55 Waterbury, Conn.

Dec. 1 Quonset Flyers Providence, R. I. " 5 Open Providence, R. I. " 7 Newport Naval Training Station Newport, R. I. "

11 Newport Naval Training Station Providence, R. I. " 14 Brown University Providence, R. I. " 15 Nichols Jr. College Providence, R. I.

Jan. 9 Admiral Billard Academy Providence, R. I. " 12 Springfield College Providence, R. I. " 15 Holy Cross College Worcester, Mass. " 17 Quonset Flyers Quonset, R. I. " 23 Open Providence, R. I.

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12 University of Rhode Island Providence, R. I. """" 15 Admiral Billard Academy New London, Conn. "

16 Clark University Providence, R. I. "

2 0 Stonehill College Brockton, Mass. " 23 Springfield College Springfield, Mass.

" 25 Nichols Jr. College Dudley, Mass. " 27 Stonehill College Providence, R. I. "

29 University of Rhode Island Kingston, R. I. Mar. 8 Brown University Brown University

Hill And Dalers 15th In IC4A's

By Jim Marshall According to the official results the

Providence harriers placed fifteenth in the I.C.-4A meet held in New York on Nov. 19, however, the official tally does not tell the true story since there seems to have been quite a bit of be-fuddlement in tabulating the results. The P. C. runners were placed incor-rectly.

"Pop" Johnson was credited with being the first Friar to finish (71) but actually Chris Lohner was the first Black and Whiter to break the tape. Lohner placed somewhere in the fifties. Following Johnson, P. C.'s second harrier, was Dick Lee who was officially placed 89th, however, Lee probably should have been credit-ed with the 79th position which was officially given to Lohner.

Running closely behind Lee were Bill Newman and Bill Hennigan who were placed 101st and 106th, respec-tively, in the tabulation. This com-pleted Providence's first five.

Not to be overlooked in the "melee" was the sixth place finish of Bill Hor-ridge in the freshman race. Horridge who has been a stalwart all season added more laurels to his already prosperous record which includes the New England Freshmen Champion-ship. Considering the fact that Horridge was feeling ill during the New York trip makes this winning ef-fort shine ever brighter. Horridge was the Friar's lone entry in the fresh-man fray.

1. "Sport should not be an end to itself and it should not degenerate into a material cult. It is at the service of man and should strive for spiritual and moral perfection . . ."

2. Regarding spectators, "Sport has the aim of providing a relaxation in order to permit a return to the tasks with a renewed vigor and will."

3. "Sport should not interfere with married life nor deprive from the joys of family life."

4. "The same principle holds true with even stronger reason and again with greater importance when it af-fects religious duties. On Sunday, God has the first place."

My own suggestions include: 1. The banning of any athlete who

deliberately maims an opposing athlete who is witnessed to be entirely out of the play involved.

2. Strict supervision of athletes be-fore and during all sports functions of national interest.

3. Individual college administra-tion of college athletic departments.

4. College administrations should run athletic programs not as means to increase the college physically (finan-cially) because the end does not neces-sarily justify the means, but rather they should be run to teach student spectators and players (for whom they were first intended) to develop the body and to take victory and defeat in stride.

5. Finally, college administrations should net do away with sports pro-grams merely because of present dif-ficulties. They can not! If they do, they deny the elemental principle of education — to develop the whole of man.

Basketeers Open Saturday On Saturday night Coach Vin Cuddy

and Coach Hal Martin will have their respective teams, varsity and junior varsity, on display for the first time this year in regular season games at the Mount Pleasant Gym.

This season will be the finale for seniors Jim Schlimm, Tom Bauer. Ronnie Gagnon, Ray Korbusieski and Jerry Lembo, who have in no little way aided in the Friar basketball comeback over the past three years. Juniors Bob Prendergast, and Bill Mullins round out the list of returnees (Mullins became eligible to play only this year because of the college trans-fer ruling). These men along with such sophomore standouts as Bob Moran, Hank McQueeney, Bob Lynch, Jack Durkin, and Ed Ryder, who came up from last year's fine freshman team and two or three of the top freshman players are potentially capable of giv-ing Providence College one of its best


Track Briefs

On December 5, Providence's track team will conduct an informal dual meet, here at Hendricken Field, with the University of Rhode Island. Prob-able events will be the various relays, shotput, javelin, dashes and possibly the hurdles. This informal meet will be a warm up for the indoor track season which officially opens on Jan-uary 5, with the Knights of Columbus Meet in Brooklyn, New York.

At a recent meeting of the Spiked Shoe Club it was announced that a monthly bulletin will be published beginning in December. It will con-tain news which will be of interest to the track enthusiast. The name of the bulletin will be the Straightaway.

President John McMullen also wishes it to be known that the Spiked Shoe Club membership is not lim-ited to members of the track team and the managers (those forgotten people) but that the club welcomes any person who is the least interested in track. It is hoped that all followers of track will attend the next meeting.

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J. Austin Quirk, '29

The Providence College Hockey team will play their third game in league competition this Friday night with Fogarty's providing the opposi-tion at R. I. Auditorium, North Main Street. The Friar sextet is undefeated in two league games while Fogarty's has a record of two wins and one loss. Fogarty's only loss came at the hands of Dunn's East Siders, 1-0, whom Providence College defeated in their first game, 3-2. Friday night's game should see both teams giving a good account of themselves with both sides fairly evenly matched.

Friars 3, Dunn's 2 In their first game the Providence

College entry could not be considered by any means as an inexperienced club but they were a little slow in getting started, having only two prac-tice sessions previous to the game. In



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Laska. the fo rmer Holy Cross s tar . Laska, who played unde r the old mas-ter. Doggy Ju l ian , p lans to compen-sate for his lack of height wi th a high speed of fense bui l t a round co-captains Ger ry Grave l and Don Lemenager.

Gravel, a s ix foot junior , has been a star s ince his f r e s h m a n year . Al-

though not a big boy by baske tba l l standards, Ge r ry ' s been one of the blue-and-white's top rebound threats .

His for te is his one-handed push shot. Speed, Hustle Dominate Laska's Of-

fense Lemenager isn't exac t ly a s t r ange r

in these parts . He hails f r o m New Bed-ford w h e r e he was a s tandout h igh school pe r fo rmer , and a t e a m m a t e of Bill Quinlan and J a c k Lowney who now p e r f o r m for the Fr ia rs . Don is a player along Laska ' s l ines—small, hard-driving, and aggressive. A soph-omore, he's t he younges t p layer to co-captain a G r e y h o u n d team.

This club, shor t and fast, is made to order f o r the new mentor ' s h igh-geared offense. Look for a ba t t l e f r o m the boys f r o m up Worcester way.

So, the general consensus is tha t things don' t look too d a r k for t h e Friars on the eve of the i r f i rs t batt le . Boasting an improved offense which promises to t ake a good deal of t h e burden off Schl imm's shoulders , and a tighter defense, they should compile an even be t te r record than last year ' s warriors.

A.A. Reminder All s tudents who have not yet

picked up the i r Athlet ic Asso-ciation books at the A.A. office, Ha rk ins Hall, may still do so. The first t icket of the s tuden t book may be used to gain admission to S a t u r d a y night ' s baske tba l l games.

Spike Shoe Club Plans Dec. 15 Dance

At a Spiked Shoe Club meet ing held a week ago last Tuesday (Nov. 20, 1951) in Hark ins Hall, it was decided by the member s of the club to hold thei r second in fo rmal dance of the semester for c lub members , the i r f r i ends and all sports fo l lowers who hold an in teres t in t rack on Decem-ber 15.

Other business discussed included plans for a club newspaper whose pur -pose will be to keep present and past members in fo rmed as to the activit ies of the t rack team and t h e Spiked Shoe Club. Rober t T ie rnan was made Editor- in-Chief . The rest of the staff will be B e r n a r d Masterson and James Gannon as Associate Edi tors and Will iam Higgins as Circulat ion and Business Manager .

The dance commit tee for the De-cember 15th social includes Daniel Walsh and B e r n a r d Masterson as com-mit tee co-chairmen; Richard Tiernan , music; Wil l iam Higgins, t ickets; Eu-gene Coyle, adver t i sement ; J o h n Salesses, location.

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the first period, as the clock crept to-ward the five minute mark , Tommy Army shot one into the nets with an assist by Bob Pet i t for the first P.C. score. In the first period, Dunn 's goalie, Hornstein , did well to s tave off several P.C. d r ives toward the nets. P.C. scored once in each period with the final period being the most thr i l l ing pa r t of the whole game.

With about two minutes lef t in the game, Cliff Ingham of Dunn 's took the puck and soloed down the ice, skated a round in back of the nets and took a quick shot into the corner which was good and tied the score at two all. Approximate ly one minu te la ter the Fr ia r s rushed down the opposite end and Pa t r ie wi th an assist f r o m Tom Army smashed the puck past Horn-stein for the winn ing goal. The game ended seconds la te r with the Provi -dence defense fighting hard in f ron t of thei r own goal to p reven t a tie.

Friars 2, Scituate 1 The second game followed the same

thr i l l ing pa t t e rn as the first. At one minu te and three seconds Pa t r i e blast-ed one through the nets on an assist f rom Pet i t and Army to put the Fr ia r s out in f ron t . La te r in t h a t period the P.C. ska te r s were ou tnumbered on the ice, th ree to five, wi th two men in the penal ty box. The Fr ia r s did well in p reven t ing any scoring dur ing the t ime tha t Tom McAleer and Reilly were serv ing thei r t ime in the penal ty box. Special recognit ion mus t be given to Peti t , A rmy and White who pre-

vented the scoring in the interim. No f u r t h e r scoring took place unt i l the third period. Joe McAleer at 7:20 of the thi rd period pu t the puck past goalie Johnson of Sci tuate with an assist f rom White to p u t P.C. in the lead 2-0. At 10:39 Sci tuate received their only goal wi th Mageira assisted by Bera rd and Poole smashing one past Howie McGuiness. F rom the re on Providence 's defense stood up well and prevented any f u r t h e r scoring by Sci tuate and the Fr ia r s skated off with the i r second win in as many starts by a score of 2-1.

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United States. He comes f rom a non-critical s tate ( K e n t u c k y ) , bu t a vice-president ia l candidate l ike Roosevelt of California, Lausche of Ohio, or Im-pell i ter i of New York would r emedy this, as well as giving necessary balance to the slate.

But all these musings a re vain if T r u m a n decides to r u n again. A n ex-aminat ion of his speech of last Tues-day seems to indicate tha t he well might . For in this exhor ta t ion to the f a i t h fu l women worke r s of the pa r ty he made it evident tha t he feels the foreign policy of this country is r ight, and tha t a n y at tack upon i t by the opposition should be m e t by all forces available. This means Truman , for he is the greates t vote-get ter t h a t the pa r ty has at the present . The re is no indicat ion tha t any o thers wil l be developed, so Mr. T r u m a n is on the spot.

The Cowl extends its sympathy to the following:

To the Rev. Dominic L. Ross, O.P., on the death of his sister.

To the family of the Rev. John J . Kennedy, O P.

To the family of the Rev. Wal ter R. Farrel l , O P .

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man) r a the r than tha t of Francaix and Satie.

And now a di f ferent note. The oc-currence of St. Cecilia 's Day last week on November 22 suggests an old cus-tom which, were it revived, would great ly enhance the cul tural l i fe of Catholic colleges and seminaries in this land—namely, a concert of sacred and p ro f ane music in honor of its holy Patroness . This annua l celebra-tion was s teadfas t ly mainta ined a t t he English Catholic universi t ies on the Continent, and even today is con-tinued among t radi t ion-loving Angli-cans and a t t he ancient Jesu i t school at S tonyhurs t and a t Oscott (where Newman was once a guest a t this fes-t ival) . Would it no t be appropr ia te for us, in this Dominican college, which t races its ancestry through Bishop Fenwick and Fr . Wilson back to the noble Cardinal Howard and his English bre thren , exiled at Douai and Bornhelm, to en joy anew this hap-py feast which they so t reasured as a re l ique of that robust Catholi-cism of medieval England. Perhaps another yea r we may join with the magnif icent Dryden in singing how:

"At last d iv ine Cecilia came, Invent ress of the vocal f rame. Tho sweet enthusiast , f r o m her

sacred store, Enlarg 'd the f o r m e r n a r r o w

bounds, And added length to solemn

sounds, With na ture ' s mother-wi t , and ar ts

u n k n o w n before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide t h e crown, He rais 'd a mor t a l to the skies; She d r e w an angel down."

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In the religious life man more purely lives; less of ten fa l l s ; more prompt ly r ises ; walks more cau-t iously; more safely res ts ; dies more happi ly ; is f r e e ear l ier f rom cleans-

ing: f i r e ; and T H E BROTHER'S ? „ , gains withal a

VOCATION . br ighter crown. (St. Bernard.) The Chris t ian teach-e r l ights the tr iple candle of fa i th and hope and love in immortal souls, there to burn fo r God's sake and never to be quenched; i ts light typi-fies his devoted labors, and a noble sacrifice, continues his work not in one, but in many souls forever .

For f r e e l i t e ra ture write, phone or vis i t : Brother Louis, OSF, Voca-tion Depar tment , 41 But ler Street , Brooklyn 2, New York. Telephone MA in 4-2036.


Friar Notices COWL

There will be a very impor tant meeting of the ent i re COWL staff to-morrow af ternoon a t 12:45 in the COWL office. All staff members are asked to be present.

CAMERA CLUB The next meeting of the Camera

Club will be Monday night, December 10. at 8:00 o'clock in Room B-5 of the Business Building. Ref reshments will be served.

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serve system is based on Universal Mili tary Training, and until UMT is working, the reserve quotas will not be filled."

General Helmick was accompanied on his tour of the campus by Colonel Roy P. Moss, PMS&T and head of the P. C. ROTC unit; Captain C. E. Geary, his aide, and Colonel Norman E. Fiske, commander of the Rhode Is-land Mili tary District.

His i t inerary included an inspection of the honor guard in f ron t of Hark ins Hall, a meeting with Fa ther Slavin, inspection of ROTC headquar ters , t ra ining aids room and classroom, Al-ber tus Magnus Hall, inspection of the a rms room and supply section, Don-nel ly Hall, visit to the indoor r i f le range, and inspection of the ROTC dr i l l units.

Musical Notice Saturday, December 1, Is the

deadline for mater ia l to be con-sidered for use in the Pyramid Players ' spring musical. Those who have contributions, such as scenarios, lyrics or music, should leave them at the receptionist 's office, addressed to Fa ther Lar-nen, before noon of December 1.

(Continued f rom Page 1) Howard: Herber t Benn, '52, as Mr. Franks: Al McKitis, '53, as Mr. Arm-strong; Richard Buckley, '53, as Doug; Leonard Conlon, '55, as Mr. Stevens.

In addition to the students, two young ladies will also be included in the cast. Joan Langton, ve teran of several Pyramid Players productions, will be cast in the role of Mrs. Gillis and Lillian Zelano, a newcomer to P layer productions, will play Ruth.

Thomas Kelly, '52, club president , will direct The Man. Fa the r Larnen will supervise.

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ams in Room B- l of St. Antoninus Hall. All Arts s tudents major ing in Education will take exams in Room 208 of Harkins Hall, and all o ther Arts s tudents in Hark ins Hall Audi-torium.

The tests given Fr iday and Satur -day will be General Apt i tude and Prof i le tests. The Apt i tude test de-

termines the general scholastic abil-ity at the graduate level. Scholastic ability is determined from verbal abil-ity and scholastic ability.

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will p repare Form \ \ for each s tudent selected for deferment and will for-ward same to the s tudent 's Draf t Board.

The following conditions refer-ring to these deferments should be carefully noted:

Unless otherwise deferred, the above deferment will be terminated immediately if and when any of the following conditions arise:

a) Failure to remain in good standing; fn either his academic or military course.

b) Failure to demonstrate prop-er and sufficient aptitude to indicate that further Instruction will qualify him for a commission.

c) Failure to pursue the ROTC course throughout any semester or term In which attendance would be normally expected, or failure to at-tend summer camp (between 3rd and 4th year) when ordered to do so by competent authority.

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Blood

Railroaders To Unite Providence College studentw in-

terested in railroads as a hobby are requested to contact Paul B.

Boivin, Jr., at the Cowl office. Plans are being made to form an HO gauge model railroad club In coordination with the R.O.T.C. Transportation Corps. All In-terested should leave their names and home (or campus) address.

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floor, and the lounge and lobby will be decorated f rom wall to wall in keeping with the Chr is tmas mood.

Invited guests to the dance incude The Very Rev. Robert J . Slavin, O.P.. pres ident of the school, as well as other members of the adminis t ra t ion and faculty.

Following the custom of the school there will be no corsages at the dance.

T h e r e a l m e a n i n g of C h r i s t m a s c a n b e s t b e e x p r e s s e d b y s e n d i n g C a t h o l i c C h r i s t m a s C a r d s .

W e h a v e a g o o d s e l e c t i o n of c a r d s , b u t q u a n -t i t i e s a r e l i m i t e d . S h o p E a r l y .

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varsi ty t eams In the last ten year*. P. C. Sextet Well Underway

The hockey enthusiasts of this campus will have their third chance to see P. C.'s hockey team in action Friday night a t the Rhode Island Au-di tor ium on North Main Street when the Fr ia r s meet Fogarty ' s of East Providence In a R I. Amateur Hockey League game.

Al though they were a little slow in thei r f irst outing, the Providence sextet improved considerably in their

second game. Joe McAleer has done consistent ly f ine work at defense. Goalie Howie McGuiness has also re-ceived some good suppor t f rom Harry Daigle and Tom McAieer Tom Army, Bob Peti t , J i m White, John Patrie, George Ducharme, and Bill Charland have looked well at the wing and cen-ter positions. With a li t t le more prac-tice and an improvement in their passing, the Fr ia r s could really go places in th is league.

Let's Put Christ Back into Christmas

hockey basketball at auditorium opener friday saturday

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