Notre Dame Post Offices
The initial success of the University of Notre Dame as an internationally renowned institution is due to the passion and dedication of her founder, the Rev. Edward Sorin, CSC. Located in the rural...
View ArticleNotre Dame Mascots
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the idea of mascots and team names at Notre Dame was very fluid. Team names often changed from year to year, team to team, game to game. Sports writers used a...
View ArticleNotre Dame Summer School
Notre Dame established a summer school program in 1918 “to help Religious teachers to make their work more interesting and more effective” [UPWC 41/44]. On a deeper level, the summer school program...
View ArticleThe Issue of the Atomic Bomb
Since the development of the atomic bomb and for centuries yet to come, historians, philosophers, scientists, and everyone in between have and will debate the morality of the use of the atomic weapons....
View ArticleRockefeller Hall
Near where Cavanaugh Hall is today, there once was a building which had the tongue-in-cheek name “Rockefeller Hall.” This building housed the University privies and possibly stables at some point, and...
View ArticleWashington Hall
Notre Dame Film, Television, and Theater professor Mark Pilkinton’s much anticipated book on Washington Hall was released earlier this week. Look for Washington Hall at Notre Dame: Crossroads of the...
View ArticleWomen & Spirit Exhibit
The Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America traveling exhibit stops in South Bend from September 2 – December 31, 2011, at the Northern Indiana Center for History. A number of photographs and...
View ArticleJewish Students at Notre Dame
The student population at Notre Dame has always consisted of religions and denominations other than Catholic, including Jewish. Statistics of ethnic and religious backgrounds of Notre Dame students...
View ArticleFootball Game Watches
As the Irish football team has another road game this week, those not traveling to the game will have to catch it somewhere else. In this day and age, football fans have a variety of media options to...
View ArticleThe Peace Corps and Notre Dame
“The Peace Corps offers you a dimension that is lacking in our modern life — a spirit of idealism and adventure,” Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh at a dinner reception for the first group of Peace Corps...
View ArticleAtom Smashers at Notre Dame
If you’ve been around campus lately, you may have noticed the construction around Nieuwland Science Hall. Notre Dame is currently in the process of installing a new nuclear particle accelerator. Such...
View ArticleGot Tickets?
Notre Dame welcomes the Southern California football team this Saturday, continuing the 85-year storied rivalry. When the teams are both doing well, as they are this year, the excitement is palpable...
View ArticleCarroll Hall Haunted House
At Notre Dame, students usually reside in the same dorm for at least their first three years. This fosters a great sense of community among the dorm residents. Out of that camaraderie has grown...
View ArticleTelephones at Notre Dame
On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell used a liquid transmitter and electromagnetic receiver to relay his famous telephone message to Thomas Watson. Bell, Thomas Edison, and other inventors raced...
View ArticleVetville
Like many other American universities in the late 1940s, Notre Dame saw an influx of a new type of student: a World War II veteran on a G.I. Bill with a wife and possibly children. Since Notre Dame...
View ArticleNotre Dame vs. Syracuse, 11/18/1961
Notre Dame football has sometimes been controversial, and the 1961 game against Syracuse was no exception. When the defense commits a penalty, the offense is usually compensated with a replay of downs...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving is a celebration of the harvest, so food naturally takes center stage on this day. Enjoy these menus of Thanksgiving Day feasts from years ago. Thanksgiving Day Menu for the Oliver Hotel,...
View ArticleFrank C. Walker
Frank C. Walker entered the Notre Dame Law School in 1906 and began an affiliation with the school which lasted throughout his life. He graduated in 1909 and later served on the University’s Board of...
View Article“John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!”
Earlier this week, actor Harry Morgan passed away. While he is probably best known for his role as Colonel Potter on M*A*S*H, Morgan also appeared in a campy movie with Notre Dame ties. John...
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