Patron

Notre Dame University reminded the casual world that it is not purely a football club. It awarded its Laetare Medal, designed after the Golden Rose given by Popes to European churchmen and intended to be one of the highest honors a Catholic-American can receive for distinction in arts or science, to Actress Margaret Anglin, sister of the Chief , Justice of Canada, the Rt. Hon. Francis Anglin. Other women had been so honored before: Eliza Allen Starr for art criticism; Agnes Repplier for essays; Christian Reed for novels; Katherine E. Con way for poetry. Actress Anglin's distinction, as everyone knows, was a long career in classical roles, especially Shakespearean, and a lifelong feeling that she "could not act the part of a sinful, murderous woman." Acting President the Rev. Patrick J. Carroll of Notre Dame said: "She has kept her work characteristically pure and noble in nature,"

Notre Dame, founded in 1842 by forceful, pioneering Edward Sorin of the Holy Cross Society of France, has never relinquished that patronage and cultivation of the arts which its mother church pursues.