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Pa 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 ol Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 1,75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. IX Oct. 18, 1938 No. 2 Member 1938 Pissocided CbUe6ide Preis ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briarfeate 3800 Co-editors Kathryn Byrne, Frances Geary Associate Editors Geraldine Ferstel, Angela Kospetos News Editors.. .Clare Anderson, Betty Vestal Assistants Mary Elizabeth O'Brien, Margaret Mary O'Flaheity Feature Editors Margaret Gleason, Adelaide Nilles Assistants La Vonne Hayes, Joan Kaspari Sports Editor Frances Sayre Reporters Mary Lou Bell, Virginia Coffey, Mary DeAcetis, Patricia Ellis, Margaret Coodwillie, Agnes Griffin, Mabel Holm- berg, Margaret Mary Kreusch, Eileen Ma honey, Mildred Mahoney, Mary Margaret Mitchell, Helen Murphy, Helen Printy, Ruth Schmid, Virginia Sullivan, Doro thea Swik, Marie Von Driska, Irene Weber. Education Points the Way / itholic education, as Father Gal lagher pointed out in his address following- the Mass of the Holy Ghost, is concerned with the development of the whole individual it directs the stu dent to action, intellectually, morally, and aesthetically. It provides, likewise, opportunity for the extensive participation of students in this activity, using its universal organ ization and its universal interests as a means for broadening the perspective and widening the opportunities of its adherents. Three-fold evidence of this coopera te e activity is in the news this fall, with three Catholic groups in and around Chi cago providing stimulating cooperative projects. Seventy Catholic colleges and many professional artists cooperated last week end to make the second annual Conven tion of the recently organized Catholic College Art convention, held here at Mundelein, a success. Journalists from Catholic colleges and high schools all over the United States cooperated with Marquette university last weekend to make the second Cath olic Educational Press Congress an in spiration to the delegates, and a score of professional writers gave encouragement and direction to prospective penmen. Loyola Community theatre was the scene, on Oct. 9, of a discussion meeting for the organization of a local unit of the National Catholic Drama Federation, a developing group which seems destined to write a brilliant chapter in the annals of the Catholic stage. Reflecting on these diverse activities, the Catholic college student is aware of the many-sided nature of Catholic cul ture, of the forward-looking attitude of Catholic educators, and of the encourage ment extended her by prominent Catholic leaders. Passport to Success About this time in the school year, the large number of students, espe cially lower classmen, who have not as yet discovered in themselves a trait of genius, and who have had opportunity to observe career-minded students who are hitching their wagons to a musical, or a scientific, or a sociological star, be gin to wonder about their prospects, for the future. Not being potential rivals of Madame Curie, Lily Pons, Katharine Cornell, Madame Perkins, or Ade.de Bethune, they begin to wonder whether or not they should set up a definite career-idea as the objective of their college educations. At the other extreme are those Stu dents who have recognized potentiali ties for professional success, and who, as a result, begin to wonder whether it wouldn't be well to devote all their time to laboratory science, or graphic art, or creative writing, or .drama. Both groups tend to lose sight, tem porarily, of the broader aims of educa tion, overlooking the fact that a. well- balanced program is of prime importance in the development of the educated young woman. The college curriculum is designed to meet the needs of both types of students. The more or less prescribed course for the Lower Division insures the career- minded student against one-sided, in complete development of her intellectual or artistic nature, and, at the same time, introduces the not-at-all-career-niinded student to the wide fields of general knowledge, perusal of which will yield increasing mental growth and satisfac tion through future, years. A brief review of the catalogue brings to light the general aim of the College: To uphold standards for sound scholar ship, cultivated taste, and disciplined in telligence; to train in fundamentals of morality and religion; and to equip suc cessive generations of young women to live generously and to give for the com monweal a service of loyalty, self-sacri fice, and patriotism. ' Willi this aim in mind, the College has provided a program of study which in cludes philosophical, cultural, and voca tional courses, with a view to promoting the general development of each student and to equipping her with the necessary intellectual and cultural background for success in any ol the various walks of life. A glance at the Alumnae, the large majority of whom were granted' the Bachelor or Arts degree at graduation, is evidence that general liberal arts train ing provides a passport to success. Read It and See Because everyone is talking about its success on the New York stage, you'll not want to miss reading Paul Vin cent Carroll's SHADOW AND SUB- STANCE. A story of Irish Catholicism, it contrasts the skepticism of a young schoolmaster with the orthodoxy of a scholarly Canon, and is, perhaps, the best of the newly popular semi-religious and semi-mystical plays about which Broad-: way is manifesting astonishing enthusi asm. Much lighter reading is Evelyn Wise's T11K. LONG TOMORROW. Dealing with the struggles of a pioneer priest to establish a community in western Min nesota, the story reveals a sympathetic Catholic attitude charmingly treated by a non-Catholic author. ... Points of View On Peace While Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini. Eduard Benes, and oilier world figures conferred in Munich one day last month about the possibility of avoiding World War, His Holiness Pope Pius XI broad cast to the entire world a plea for a cru sade of prayer for continued peace. The international crisis is over, for a time at least, but the crusade of prayer goes on for peace, for tolerance among nations and races, and for Christian charity. On Education A new plea for cultural education was made by President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago in a recent discussion. Colleges which want to teach young people how to live an examined life, he said, may dis regard the business index. Whether jobs are scarce Or plentiful, the country will wish to be more intelligent. In the light of what has happened in certain impov erished European countries, it may be that intelligence is most important when jobs are scarcest. On Youth Youth is the hope for rescuing this nation from the decadence into which it is slipping, according to the Reverend George Johnson, professor of education at the Catholic university, in his final address of the Catholic Hour broadcast over NBC's network. Youth has a sanc tifying mission to perform, he said. In their own souls is a Divine potency that they must know how to develop, that by becoming holy and godly them selves, they may show forth in their lives and actions the beauty that is vir tue, and thus leaven the society into which they are entering. Round Town Remembering one William Shake speare's apt remark, the play's the thing, recreation-seeking collegians will not fail to see at least one of the current productions now in town. SUSAN AND GOD, Rachel Crother's celebrated comedy capitalizing the idio syncrasies of a religious movement among the socially high caste, is play ing at the Harris, starring Gertrude Lawrence. Miss Lawrence portrays the iole of an enthusiastic convert to the movement, who tries to convert her family and friends, only to end by being considerably chastened herself. Eugene O'Neill's classic portrayal of a small-town American family, AH, WILDERNESS, is being presented to night at the Loyola Communiey theatre, with Freshman Anne Marie O'Rourke in the cast. A headliner in Catholic lectures is the opening of the Charles Carroll Forum, on Oct. 23, at 3 p. in., at the Palmer House, with a discussion of THE CRISIS IN AMERICAN EDUCATION by the Right Reverend Joseph Corrigan, rector of the Catholic University of America. The Chicago Civic Opera, opening at the Civic Opera House on Oct. 29, in cludes in its repertoire seven revivals, among them such favorites as Gounod's ROMEO AND JULIET, and Verdi's A MASKED BALL. Mundelein presents the first of its Mu sical Series, the Roth Quarter concert, on Oct. 21, and the first student program of the year, the Fall Concert on Oct. 23. vi.-: iz: ssuivlushz With everything nicely underway, and five weeks of the school year joining the snows of yesterday, it might be nice to remark that attendance at classes this year is colossal, stu pendous, what-have-you And full classrooms two minutes before the bell Who says the economic system is all wrong? Skyline We overheard a freshman, escorting her father to the bookstore lounge on Parent- Daughter Day, give the following description of the pendulum: It's the most wonderful thing, father, this Foucault pendulum It's installed as a memorial to Benny Goodman, and it swings, and swings, and swings Skyline DOWN with UP (From a blonde whose curls are down) These new hair modes Bother me. Where can all the Page-boys be? Up and up say Stylists wise. Can't they hear my Plaintive cries? Why expose one's Neck and ears, To one's little Brother's jeers? Paris claims the Style's soignee; I think it's a Silly way To wear One's hair. (Editor's Note And who is Paris to argue with a Freshman?) Skyline Which brings us, for no reason at all, to the story of the college man who called on a Mun delein music major. Came eleven o'clock. The MMM launched into Liebestraum, and the college man whispered : Say that you'll go on playing that for me forever. She thought and thought, and then she re plied : I would, except for my 8 o'clock class to morrow. Skyline We offer this timely suggestion for all fresh men who are going to classes bookless because they can't get their lockers open. We have composed the following master combination by means of mathematical formulae and we guar antee that it cannot fail. Master Combination (patent applied for): Grasp the lock firmly in the left hand and with the right hand turn to the right at least 16 times, then to the left 4'/2 times, stealthily sneaking up on Number 22. Take time out to park your car, your bicycle, or roller skates. Then find the square root of 287 and give a sound jerk eastward, letting the dial fly back at its leisure. Take a number from one to ten, and with eyes closed turn to it. If your locker doesn't open now, it's just too bad. Skyline- Have you heard of the resident student who sent the following letter to the folks back home: Dear Mum y, Dad y, i tcr u ie: I imply love School; it' lot of fun. Next week 1 nuiSt buy three new book . Gue S what I need mo t of all. That' right. end i: along, and oblige, Your loving Liability. Skyline Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Ilumpty Dumpty had a great jail. All the king's horses and all the king's men Left Humpty Dumpty lying there, because tliey were on their way to the SOPHOMORE COTILLION. By all means truck along after the crowd, and we'll be seeing you at the Stevens a week come Friday night.
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1938-10-18 (2)
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