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r*a e Two SKYSCRAPER THE SKYSCRAPER Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction OF the Sisters of Charity, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under Ihe Act of March 3, 1879. 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May uclusive by Ihe students of Mundelein College. Georgia Jean Budgets Vacation gt;each with all the gay summer VOL. VIII June 2, 1938 No. 14 6 1937 Member 1938 Fissoclded Cblleftiate Press ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Brinrfeale 3800 EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief iinaniarie Masterson Associate Editor Priscilla Moore Make-Up Editor Catherine Heerey Managing Editor Frances Geary NEWS AND FEATURE STAFF News Editors: Geraldine Ferstel, Betty Vestal. Assistants: Helen Finnegan, Frances Sayre. Feature Editors: Kathryn Byrne, Adelaide Nilles. Associates: Catherine Ann Dougherty, La Vonne Hayes. Reporters: Clare Anderson, Margaret Glea- son, Joan Kaspari, Marguerite Kelly, Ange la Kospetos, Margaret Mary Kreusch, Violet Lasker, Marguerite McNulty, Mary Malloy, Ruth Schmid, Edythc Williams. *The Time Has Come' 'The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'To speak of many things . . .' It may sound a trifle flippant to quote Louis Carroll on the eve, so to speak, of graduation, hut the more thoughtful crit ics discern in the whimsical narrative of Alice's adventures unmistakable evidence of the author's mathematically serious mind. And we are serious. The time has indeed come the time to which most of us have, looked forward since the day on which we first entered Mundelein College, since the day on which we first felt ourselves a vital part of her gay and gallant and glorious spirit, first caught a glimpse of her splendid spiritual vision, first realized our share in her rich heritage of beauty and knowledge. Now that the time has come, we realize that the magic casements of our college days, which1 opened inviting avenues of knowledge four brief years ago, lead much further than we have yet traveled. We agree with the Commencement orators who insist that graduation is a beginning, not a conclusion or that it should be. Educated in a Catholic college and trained to a realization of our duties as Catholic leaders, wc recognize both the possibility for further development and the obligation of seeking that development and of maintaining our spiritual and intel lectual life on a collegiate level. For some of us, continued education may come in the formal manner, in graduate schools, where we may study for higher degrees. For many of us, further educa tion will come informally, through intel ligent study of current affairs, through an alert and resourceful and generous attention to Catholic Action and progress all over the world aixl especially in our own diocese and in our own parishes. For all of us, our thrilling Mundelein Commencement may be a prelude to that new Commencement in which we begin to pEORGIA JEAN strolled leisurely out the cast door on her way to the library, stopping once to tic a lazy shoestring in her white sneakers and to observe the lovely green of the grass on the library campus. Let's sec. she reflected there will be Thursday, and Friday well, only five days until school is officially closed. She'd be glad lo go, even though the campus was lovelier than it had ever been' and the lake breeze promised comfort through the sum mer. She wanted to rest lo relax. Slowly she walked up the steps and into the lobby, returned her books, and glanced at the clock 10 minutes till four. She might as well wander back to ihe browsing room and enjoy the lake view and the shuttered sunlight slanting through Vene tian blinds. She'd get in practice for re laxing at the lake this summer. The fam ily was considering going up next week. Georgia Jean sal in an easy chair and watched a sail boat skim Evanston-ward. It was going to be fun to do as she pleased all summer. No book reports, no term papers, no accounting problems, no burn ing of midnight oil for exams. Georgia Jean stared at the lake and the sunshine. One minute, Iwo minutes of per fect relaxation passed and Georgia Jean began to think. It had been a good year, term papers, bock reports and all. But somehow, she hadn't accomplished all the things she had planned for it the reading, extra-curricular reading, for instance, wasn't what she had exported it to be when she had copied hook lists of suggested read ings last fall. And now the summer was here, with its full day of tafflnis, golf, swimming, riding, sailing, dancing. Georgia Jean's mind floated (il was much too spring-fevered to rush) back to last summer and the fun she had had the trip to Canada, the week-end on Journey's Island, the time she and Jim had won the boat race, the glorious hours on the crowd. But there had been times when she had been a little bored there had been rainy days, on which she had rather wished the library wasn't quite so far from the re sort. Georgia Jean winked back at the waves that danced beyond the lake wall, reflecting the sun. She had an idea. Planned econ omy was receiving a lot of publicity these days. Perhaps if she applied economic tactics to vacation timing she could expand the coming llirec months until they in cluded everything she wanted to do. 11 istory, for example, had made her realize the absorbing interest she could have in the perusal of a few good historical biographies. The plays she had seen dur ing the winter season had inspired a fleet ing resolve to read drama. And her poetry course, not to mention the Choric Mosaics, had convinced her that her PQ (poetry quotient) was in need of decided elevation. There were other things, too that short story for instance, which had been hiber nating in her mind since an inspired mo ment last December. Maybe she could bring it to light with a few clicks of a typewriter. (Memo: take typewriter to lake.) The clock buzzed four, and Georgia Jean rushed to the reserve shelf. Summer was going to be fun, she reflected, as she signed for the book. Somebody sometime had said relaxation consisted in a change of work. She would alternate fun at sports and travel and dancing with stimulating mental effort, pleasantly taken on a shady terrace. Then next fall, when the book lists went up, she would nod at them in friendly fashion and turn in her story at The Clepsydra office Entertainment Is Looking Up j I KE a day of sunshine after a week of rain like a calm, sparkling Lake Michigan after a storm and angry waves like the day after school is out, with vacation stretching ahead like all these pleasant things is a glance al three typical Americans after a bird's-eye view of the world. There arc wars and strikes and confused standards and ideals in every land, but the most popular motion picture in the United States is a dramatized fairy talc in which the villain is unmistakably and unattrac tively villainous, and the heroine is unmis takably and enchantingly good, and the vil lain pays and pays while the heroine lives happily and kindly, and generously, and virtuously ever after. There arc dictators darkening the far horizons of the Orient and the near hori- zens of the Continent, but the best-loved radio actor in the Unite* States is a soft hearted, wooden-headed dictator, who answers to the name of Charlie McCarthy. There is cruelty, there is iconoclasm, there is departure from idealism in our own land as well as in others, but the leading lady of the silver screen, the heart-breaking siren of all America, is a curly-haired, dim pled, merry-hearted child and we call her Shirley Temple. build wisely and carefully on the strong spiritual and intellectual foundation our college days have given us. Points of View On The Freshman Staff For the freshman staff members, who put out one of the finest Freshman Edi tions in Mundelein history, who crystal- ized our own sentiments in their Thanks for The Memories Theme, and who, in the editorial For Our Dads, voiced a tribute wc all echo For the Freshman Staff Three Rousing Cheers On Spain A recent news dispatch from the Vati can city announces that the Holy Fa ther has recognized the Nationalist gov ernment in Spain and has sent as Papal Nuncio from the Vatican His Excellency, the Most Reverend Gaetano Cicognani, brother of the Apostolic delegate to the United States. On Next September Your summer schedule is planned, of course, down to the idlest hour of sun-tan- getting, but jour calendar is not yet com plete if you haven't appended to it the dates of registration announced on Page 1. For all of us except the seniors, the Fare well Social hour marked a pause that re freshes and cools, perhaps, but that does n't put an end to life in a skyscraper col lege. All aboard for the courts, the fairways, and the open sea we'll be seeing you in September *i t-:iz: su ojimiz Skyline Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, Ihe blythe freshmen go And leave ns Ihe press room, Heigh-Ho, Heigh- Ho. Skyline We can't seem to get the freshman edition off our minds. (Thanks for the Memories al though we had not observed prior to the date of publication that the freshman HAD memories) And wc believe in giving orchids where or chids are due: forsooth, to the edilors, the col umnists, the newswriters, the jockeys who parked horses on our rolo page, and sundry other scrib blers, but we feel Ihe need of establishing a Lost and Found Column. High and low, up-side-dowu and down-side-up we have scrutinized that paper, and we fail to find the Three Rousing Cheers. Can it be that the Freshman Staff, like all other staffs, to quote themselves, also forgot Our Dads? We move that the freshman class group itsell on the main staircase (lining the Dean's confer ence hours and give those Cheers For Our Dads We promise to sprinkle tears in abundance on the fresh little freshies' fresh little graves. Skyline Paging Officer Moore We heard a drama student say to another drama student on the way to a rehearsal the other day: You take care of The Highwayman, and I'll bring Don John. Skyline Our idea of perfect solitude is that which sur rounded a certain sophomore all alone with her thoughts. Skyline Said the wide-eyed freshman to the weary senior after Commencement rehears al: What are you taking your degree in? Said the weary senior, with emphasis: In my RIGHT hand, believe it or not, even though I'm left-handed. Skyline I thought and thought, confided a freshman, about that question on the kind of schools they had in the Middle Ages, and finally I put down Night Schools. Well, aren't you bright, returned her colleague. Knights went to them so of course they were Knight Schools. Skyline A science teacher, reviewing IMPORTANT FACTS, asked what essential change occurred when waler became ice. An economies major, intent on balancing the budget, replied: A change in price. Skyline The prize to end all prizes goes to the student who handed in a long paper with an aspirin tab let in an attached envelope inscribed with this legend: This paper is a headache. Enclosed please find prescribed cure. Skyline Before we fold up our typewriters, empty the waste paper basket, clear off the bul letin board, and pack Skyline away in lavendar for the summer, we vote gardenia corsages: To people who have laughed at our line, To people who have made laughs if any for our line To people who contributed laughs if any to our line To all who hereby highly resolve to contribute next year Cheerio Happy Summertime Skyline P.S. We almost forgot to fire the second gun in the Loyola-Muiidelein peace movement. Cheerio, Ho-Hum.
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1938-06-02 (2)
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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