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.THE RECORD
Wednesday, March 17,1948
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Read On, O Sons o* Erin
By Paul A. Mulready
Ivry year at this toime, those graaaate green-clad Irish lads git togethr fer the purpose iv showin' the rist iv the school what a foine, fightin' bunch o' lads they are.^ And ivry year, it's th same auld tale... those wonderful boys from the auld1 country come out on top.
Woiy, if it weren't for the sons of the auljl sod —the Shanahan's, the ,Clancy's, Muldowney's, O'Toole's—woiy Oollegeville would be just a bleak little borough 83 miles northwest iv McCarthy's on O'Zata boulevard.
Shure, the Dutch dahgs are all-the-time tryin' to make out like they're from the auld country. Take Siegfried Schultz, owner of the Siven-TJp Company. What color did he make his bottles? GREEN! And who was Augsburg's leading hockey scorer this year? .. /Paddy McHale!
That's the way it's bin all through history. Woiy, the greatest laddies we iver had were all Emerald Isle boys. Fer instance, there was Jo seph Duffy, who was Editor iv the Record in '34. Faith, aaall the best Record boys were Irishmen. Take yer pick...there was Edward Hennessy in '31, Emerson Hynes in '36, Thomas O'Neill in '39, James Barry, in '40 James Cullen in '41, Bill Dur-kin in '43—all good Irish lads.
Iverybuddy knows who the foinest upstandin' student council president we iver had is—Eugene Richard Patrick Connelly. And before him was another great Irishman—Joe McCarthy.
Whin they name the next man to take over the job of Eamon De Valera it'll probably be one of our leadin' boys, John Simonahan, ..this year's student council president. (A Roman iv Irish ancestry. Makes his home in McOenter, Minnesota with 4 blocks iv the foinest peat pavin' in the wirld). '
Thomas '' Shamrock'' Rowan was Editor iv that great monument to histry, the 1935 Sagatagan. (Sagatagan, as ye know, means land iv the Great Green Irish Moon.) ¦
Probably the greatest all-around Johnny we iver had was John V. McNally, who took on the name iv Johnny Blood in order to stop the flood iv fan mail he was gittin from all the fair colleens. Johnny was editor of the Great Green Irish Moon in
1923, was a four-year letterman at St. John's, and played professional football (an old Irish game) with the GREEN-Bay Packers fer 12 years.
And who was the only nation to keep outa the war. Shure, it was the peace-lovin' Irish. (Th« spoinless Swedes were also on the soidelines.)
Now it's bin definitely proved. The sayln' that our opponents have bin bandyin' about fer years and years means nothin' atall, atall. Fer yeart now they bin sayin' "Deutschland Uber Alles," and all it means is "Ohew Adam's Clove Gum/' And speakin' iv Adam, ye all know what coloi clothes he wore. Fig leaves are GREEN!
The good 'n faithful Irish have bin leadin' the ' race in iverything. Woiy, think wot would happen if the Spanioligan closed. Think of all those thousands iv homeless people! But d'ye suppose the Spanioligan would iver think iv such a thing? By the banshees, no! Last week they had free drinks fer the whole 27 hours we was holdin' Steve O'DonnelTs wake.
Augsburg beat us in basketball (also an old Irish game) fer only one reason. They were usin' a German National basketball. All season long, the boys had bin practicin' with a ball made of Irish cowhide. Even Stan Wilfahrt was baffled down there. It was the GREEN linin' in his shoes that kept the game close. Jimmy O'Brien (a foine lad from the Tipperary district in St. Paul) made the greatest showin' iv the season with his 31 points in the game against Stout.
Oh, the firnstahl's and the hacker's and kohn-ke's and schmitz's and all the rest iv the Dut-chers'll be tryin' to paste the orange over the GREEN all day, but with all the grit and determination (not to mention the courage and character) iv the Irish, the round-haircuts don't stand a chance. After aall, where would Christopher McLumbus be if he'd iv given up back in 1492? Or what d'ye suppose McNamara'd be doin' if he'd iv listened to Petrillo?
Soooo...
Shake the hand iv yer Uncle Mike me boy, ' And the hand iv yer sister Kate,
'Cause here's the day that we all give
The Deutschland boys the gate.
5000 QcUleuU 01 Soft—
To Make 175 Gallons Of Syrup
Record
Pictured above are some of the student employees who are on the administration's payroll.
TOP: Bill Prickril, senior from Park Falls, Wis., assists two future atomic scientists in .their chemistry researches. His "pupils" are Bill Wimmer and Harold Bruhns.
MIDDLE: Ray Shirley, sophomore from Farmington works (hard) as a typist and stenog in the Registrar's office. Note the white-collar look on his face.
BOTTOM: Candy Store manager, Babe Manion (foreground) of Marshall, waits on a wiU-be-satisfied customer. Apprentice Pius Senger wonders (at the same) time just how much the bill is and whether the price on potato chips has gone up. Note the smiling faces of other Johnny luminaries at the candy bar.
The Editor Sounds Off
St. John's has an accomplice! The following appeared in the February 20 issue of the Notre Dame Scholastic:
"Notre Dame seceded from the Fort Wayne Region of the NFCCS .. .last Sunday___
"In setting forth the reasons for the break, B, J. Bedard, junior delegate from Notre Dame, stated that 'Notre Dame has belonged to the Fort Wayne Region six years now and has not benefited sufficiently to warrant further participation' ..." •
The Nexus, student newspaper of St. Mary's College in Winona, has adopted the "new look" in college journalism. It is now appearing in a three column, magazine-si ze, slick-photo-covered, monthly edition. Here's the Nexus on the Nexus:
"Just as the fashions of the year, having been starved and overlooked during the war years, suddenly blossomed forth in the longer, more sophisticated 'new
look,' so too the Nexus has cast off its conventional restrictions and now proudly presents what could well be called the 'new look' in journalistic endeavors at Terrace Heights."
A word of advice to 'you vets who are only part-time students. The Veteran's Administration has announced that the increased subsistence rates which will go into effect April first will not be applicable to part-time students. Got it?
Perhaps 'some of you wonder if any veteranls are taking advantage of the G-I Bill by taking their educational training in foreign schools and universities. By the end of 1947 almost 6,000 vets were enrolled in foreign institutions. The greatest number of these (900) were in Canadian schools; 645 were studying in France, 356 in Great Britain* 461 in Mexico, 427 in Switzerland, and 116 in Italy.
#Now that the last snow has fallen and spring is just around the. corner, Brother Julius will soon be making his rounds of the thousand or more maple trees on the campus.
Each tree is tapped with metal spouts, and a bucket is hung from each of these taps. Then, when the weather is warmer, the sap is collected and put in barrels at pickup stations.
Later the sap is picked up in tanks and brought to the evapo-
BULLETIN
Andre Cheveton, of St. Cloud, France, who recently announced that he will arbitrate the German-Irish feud, proclaimed that he had found the likely candidates for a commission of arbitration. Their names: H. Blin-kin, R. Winkin, and R. D. Nod, all of South Afganistan. "Their records are clear," claimed Cheveton. "None of them has heard either of Krautland nor the Emerald Isle."
Eamon De Valera, late president of Eire who is now travelling in the United States, declined— with regrets—an invitation to be guest of honor at the festivities at St. John's held in honor of St. Patrick's feast day. "Perhaps, if you could postpone the day of festivities to the twenty-first, I should be able to make it," De Valera said.
rators (in that little green shed a quarter of a mile down the road toward the highway). There it is put in storage tanks at the rate of eighty gallons an hour..
The finished syrup, a clear crystaline brown, is brought to the kitchen and then to our tables where it goes so well with Johnny-cake and coffee.
An average year yields a total of one hundred and seventy-five gallons of syrup. This amount of syrup is the result of processing well over five thousand gallons of sap.
About a thousand gallons of this sap are collected on the first warm day following a cold snap.
The best weather for collecting sap comes in a period of frosty nights and warm days. A week of this weather will usually net three thousand gallons of sap.
^German Sentries stationed a-top the water tower lately reported a mass infiltration of Leprechauns to the campus proper. The "little people" were accompanied by Margaret O'Brien, the report said.
Published semi-monthly from October to May, and monthly in June, August, and September by the students of St. John'B University, CoUegeviUe, Minnesota. The officia newspaper of St.' John's and organ of the alumni. '
Subscription rate: $1.00 a year.
Entered at the postoffice at Collegeviile, Minnesota, as second-class matter, January 30, 1925.
Member of the Catholic School Press Association, Associated Collegiate Press, and Minnesota College Press Association.
Editor.........................Ray Endres
Associate Editor.............Ed Fitzpatrick
Make-up Editor................Bob Benson
Assistant....................Leo Croteau
News Reporters: Tom Ryan, Bob Rome, Gordon Moosbrugger, Gay Brusseau, Terry Dooley, Don Meyers, Charles Mathews, Don Durken
Features Editor.................Bob Brown
Feature Writers: Tom Roesor, Bob Gavin, Gene Wait
Sports Editor.....................Jim Gits
Associate Sports Editor.......Paul Mulready
Sports Reporters: Jerry Tooley, Dick Boo, Dick Sladek, Bill Herzog
Alumni Editor.................Geno Sheehy
Exchange Editor...............Bill Feather
Business Manager......... Cornelius Whalen
Advisors: Rev. Boniface Axtman, O.S.B.
Mr. Stephen Humphrey
Club News
FRENCH
A French Club, conceived and organized by Andre Chaveton
with the support of Rev. Emeric Lawrence, OSB, French professor, has started its program for the remainder of the year. The club is divided into two sections, one of which meets on Wednesday noon and the other on Thursday evening. It has thirty members and, remarkably, has no officers. French is spoken during the meetings.
GERMAN
Another new club, the German Club has begun its activities. It
is composed of 70 members and is divided into two sections, one for day students and the other for resident students.
The meetings consist of conversations and readings in German. They are presided over by Rev. Bernard Strasser, OSB. Aim of the club is to acquaint the members with everyday German and with the common culture of German today.
