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23 May 2013
05/23/1953: Benefit softball game for SMC's foreign students - #ND's Sweat-Sox, team of football & basketball stars, vs. #SMC's No-No-No-Sox -
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05/22/1958: Austrian Chancellor Julius Saab receives an honorary degree from #ND & delivers a major address (in German) in Washington Hall -
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05/20/1902: #NotreDame's Cuban students celebrate the independence of their homeland with a day of recreation & banquet at the Oliver Hotel
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Rev. Edward Sorin Lost at Sea
On a beautiful November 13, 1875, the steamship L’Amerique left New York and set sail for Le Havre, France. Aboard were Rev. Edward Sorin, making one of his many journeys between America and Europe, and Catholic artist Miss Eliza Allen … Continue reading
Joseph Casasanta
“When four rows of Glee Club singers chant a Notre Dame song; when columns of blue-uniformed bandsmen play and march to Notre Dame music — then we forget the ubiquitous campus grinds and gripers, and we hike along, down the … Continue reading
Sister Mary Aquinas, OSF
Notre Dame celebrates 40 years of coeducation this fall. While the women who arrived in 1972 were the first class to matriculate in the regular academic year, women had been earning bachelors’, masters’, and doctorate degrees since 1917 through the … Continue reading
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1928 Olympic Tour
Ever the entrepreneur and marketing guru, Athletic Director Knute Rockne organized a six-week European tour with a stop over to watch the Track and Field events at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. He recruited friends, colleagues, and former Notre … Continue reading
Remember the Maine and Shilly
On the night of February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded and sank in the Havana, Cuba, harbor. Tensions between the United States and Spain over the fate of Cuba led many to believe that Spain was behind the sinking … Continue reading
The Father of Mother’s Day
On February 7, 1904, Francis Earle Hering proposed the idea of “setting aside of one day in the year as a nationwide memorial to the memory of Mothers and motherhood” to an audience of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in … Continue reading
Elizabeth Ann Seton – American’s First Saint
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774-1821) was canonized as America’s first native-born saint in 1975. As part of the mission of the Archives of University of Notre Dame to collect and maintain records that document the life of the Catholic Church … Continue reading
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King Kersten
In the spring of 1972, Robert (Bob) Calhoun Kersten ran one of more memorable Student Body Presidential campaigns from his office in the fourth floor bathroom of Walsh Hall. Bob Kersten and others on the sidelines of the ND vs. … Continue reading
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
The University Archives, along with all other Notre Dame administrative offices, will close for the Christmas Celebration on December 24th and reopen on Monday, January 3rd. CAZA 40/01: Christmas Card to Dr. Albert Zahm from the Wrights of Dayton, Ohio … Continue reading
Rev. John “Pop” Farley, CSC
John Farley arrived to Notre Dame in the fall of 1897. He came to study for the priesthood, but also had a penchant for athletics. He won nine varsity monogram letters in football, baseball, and track, and was heralded as … Continue reading