National Reports
JR., WILLIAM K. WYANT & VOTAW, ALBERT N.
National Reports The Changing Scene in Chicago By Albert N. Votaw Chicago The 50-year-old weekly Defender, most influential Negro newspaper here, will become a tabloid morning daily in...
...During the convocation, the Very Reverend Paul C. Reinert SJ, St...
...The move, which will be accompanied by a $1-millionbuilding program, was announced at a golden-anniversary celebration addressed by NAACP counsel Thurgood Marshall: Democratic Congressman William Dawson: GOP leader Archibald Carey, a minister and formeralderman and alternate representative to the UN General Assembly...
...Despite the fact that Chicago remains a highly race-conscious city, which at times appears to he quivering on the verge of a serious explosion, the position of this minority has improved palpably over the last 20years...
...In the wake of a winless football season, the University has undertaken a reorganization of its athletic department...
...Louis College...
...Four years later, Jesuits assumed responsibility for the college as well, and in 1832 St...
...Anti-lntellectualism Hit at St...
...This compares with the record for the course...
...With high-school football now almost as highly organized as the college game, varsity players find that the sport dominates their lives, leaving them time to study just enough to maintain eligibility...
...He deplored the presence among modern American Catholics of what he described as "a nervous spirit of impatient and sullen anti-intellectualism...
...Firing the coach, a traditional palliative, won't work...
...The new paper" shall not be limited in either coverage or distribution by reasons of race or color," announces publisher John H. Sengstacke...
...Italian and finally in Greek, retired to her dressing room...
...Such a spirit of contempt for the intellectual life...
...It grew into the city's strongest Negro paper...
...Bishop Wright declared," if...
...after centuries of battling for the natural law and the rights and function of reason, as well as for the primacy of the intellect over passion, emotion, instinct or even will, the Church should find herself represented in the world of the college, the press or the forum by sons and daughters contemptuous of that wild, living intellect of man' of which Newman spoke, and suspicious of the slow, sometimes faltering, but patient processes by which intellectuals seek to wrest some measure of order from the chaos about us...
...Of late, it has had circulation problems--selling some 60.000 copies in a Negro community of about 800,000...
...He said part of the blame at least might be assessed against an effort to conform to prevailing patterns of anti-intellectualism in the United States...
...Louis University's young president, announced that construction of the multi-million-dollar Pius XII Memorial Library on the campus would begin within six months...
...As he ceases to be considered an alien intruder, he finds less need to create the entire apparatus of his own city within a city...
...the failure of circulation to keep pace with a growing potential readership is...
...Apparently, the Negro is gradually being absorbed into the body politic...
...Not that the road which still has to be traveled is a short one: This year, it cost the city about S1.5 million for police protection to individuals threatened with racial violence...
...canto soprano could be heard over the crashing of glassware...
...Renata Tebaldi...
...Now an institution of 11.000 students, St...
...Year's end is transitionally a time for taking stock, and probably nowhere is this process more painful than at suburban Northwestern University...
...The Defender was started by the present publisher's late uncle, Robert Sengstacke Abbott, in the kitchen of a boarding house...
...His goal: a modest100,000 circulation...
...In 1824, seven Jesuits opened an Indian seminary at nearby Florissant, not far from the confluence of the rivers...
...In the past, too many opera companies here have been built on the star principle, with one or two prima donnas and tenors holding up a cast of lame voices and limping supernumeraries...
...This may also prepare him for a later career in coaching...
...They were promptly engaged by a veritable army of stagehands, fans, opera officials and other cast members...
...The affair made good copy, overshadowing even the carefully-nurtured "rivalry" between Mine...
...This represents a considerable personal triumph for the 31-year-old, New York-born soprano, who, according to her press agent, was once turned down at a Met audition and achieved fame only after repairing to La Scala...
...Judge Abraham L. Marovitz, and Roosevelt University President Edward J.Sparling...
...Louis University, and went on to point a moral...
...One of the convocation speakers was the Most Reverend John J. Wright...
...This became St...
...In a city where racial identification can pretty well be made from the address, however, the benefits of the omission are more moral than practical...
...Living space has been augmented and now includes some nice residential areas...
...The Civil War cut off its Southern patronage, and in 1863 three students received AB degrees...
...More than half of the season's 25 performances were SRO: for the season, the house averaged 90 per cent of capacity...
...She will not be back...
...He suggested that schools and universities develop a special patience "with the bright and the sometimes irritatingly brilliant, a patience comparable to that which we have virtuously tried to have toward the dull...
...Marshal tried to serve her papers (relating to a long-standing contract dispute with a New York lawyer) as she left her hotel in the company of an entourage of opera lovers...
...Officials have indicated that they will not adopt one alternative, which is to create a school of physical education, through which many a big-league player elsewhere maintains his technical amateur status by taking courses in callisthenics, gridiron marking, football inflating, and the like...
...Mme...
...The Lyric, created last year to bring permanent opera to Chicago, has completed its second successful season with a deficit unlikely to exceed $100,000...
...Inasmuch as the lawyer who says he discovered her lives in New York, there may be a chance for some extracurricular pyrotechnics similar to those which enlivened her last evening in Chicago...
...1 million, rung up in 1922 under the "directaship" of Mary Garden...
...That night, as the kimono-clad Callas stepped off the stage after committing operatic hara-kiri, the persistent marshal and a small task force of seven sheriff's deputies met her...
...Louis University, still under Jesuit auspices, could look backon a colorful 137 years of history when it observed Founders" Day with a series of convocations on November 15 and 16...
...The Lyric Theater probably won't have this problem...
...Bishop of Worcester...
...A secret committee of businessmen is drawing up plans, and it is reportedly the most distinguished group of outsiders ever called upon to aid the school...
...National Reports The Changing Scene in Chicago By Albert N. Votaw Chicago The 50-year-old weekly Defender, most influential Negro newspaper here, will become a tabloid morning daily in February...
...Callas has been signed to open the Metropolitan Opera season in New York next year...
...Only the Tribune continues the routine identification "Negro" in its coverage of local (i.e., mostly crime) news...
...Massachusetts, who delivered the sermon at a solemn pontifical mass in St...
...The afternoon of her final performance (in Madame Butterfly), a deputy US...
...The library, built with the assistance of the Knights of Columbus, will house microfilmed copies of the Vatican manuscript library...
...voluble in English...
...in a sense, a symptom of the community's coming of age...
...made her American debut here last season and returned this year...
...But University officials appear to be more interested in rebuilding the team, and many persons feel that this can be done only by sacrificing some other asset such as academic standing...
...one police captain, and five aldermen...
...Metropolitan press coverage has also been bettered, although Negro society news and what for lack of a better term may be called "crusade type" news are still omitted for the most part...
...Grades like this would keep them out of Northwestern, and in the past the University has been unwilling to make exceptions...
...What a doubly tragic irony it would be...
...The student newspaper had the bad taste to suggest that NU quit the Big Ten, by far the roughest, toughest conference organized for the quasi-professional teams engaged in collegiate football...
...Bishop Wright said, was not a Catholic phenomenon but was the more unbecoming among Catholics because it was "so utterly out of harmony with any authentic Catholi- tradition...
...The civil service and elected office have been opened to men of this race: Among the most conspicuous are Representative Dawson, a power in the Capitol by virtue of his seniority...
...this is about one-half the penetration of any of the city's four major dailies...
...Louis U. Ceremony By William K. Wyant Jr...
...Louis The first university to be established west of the Mississippi River had its origins in an "Academy for Young Gentlemen" that was set up in November 1818 in a onestory stone house on the riverfront here...
...Callas...
...After picking himself up off the sidewalk, the marshal decided to enlist some aid...
...Long after the battle ended, her priceless bel...
...Bishop Wright said the wrath of the stupid had laid waste the world quite as often as had the craft of the bright...
...The university went through the cholera epidemic of 1819...
...Louis University was chartered...
...Callas and the Company's other soprano star...
...Stock-taking at one of the city's other cultural assets, the Lyric Theater, has been a happier task...
...Their prima donna, Marie Menneghini-Callas...
...Early in its existence, an ignorant, rioting citizenry destroyed the equipment of its medical college...
...when death carts rolled through the streets, and it weathered the "Know Nothing" disorders of the 1850s...
...Then the school could either seek its own level in a smaller conference or, emulating its rival on the Midway, Chicago University, give up intercollegiate football...
...Francis Vavier Church, Bishop Wright alluded to the Catholic Church's preoccupation with education, as reflected by the history of St...
...The Defender's decision, most optimistically interpreted, might seem to indicate that the Negro minority is starting to achieve a status comparable to that enjoyed by the city's other self-conscious ethnic minorities...
...The more likely solution appears to be the establishment of a sort of tacit academic double-standard...
...that was done last year...
Vol. 38 • December 1955 • No. 50
