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THE SKYSCRAPER Volume III MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 11, 1932 Number 1 College Newspaper Issued Semi-Monthly This Year With the announcement that the Skysceapeb will appear semi-monthly in the future, Mundelein's newspaper begins a fresh page in its career, un der the guidance of the co-editors, Evelyn Lincoln and Justine Feely. Evelyn and Justine collaborated on a story for the first issue of the paper, 'way back in 1931, and made the front page, in their first tryout. Last year Evelyn carried her enthusiasm for athletics outside of the gymnasium and livened up the fourth page as sports editor. Evelyn was responsible, too, for many of the editorials printed last year. Justine displayed an interest in things social toward the close of her freshman year and last year as fea ture editor she edited society news and wrote a good part of the feature stories. Justine comes from Dixon, Illinois, and she attended hieh school at St. Clara Academy, Sinsinawa, Wisconsin. Evelyn is a graduate of the Immaculata High School. Frances Davidson, the new news edi tor, joined the staff last year, and after reporting faithfully for a semester was made editor in charge of college or ganizations. The other editors have earned their spurs at the reporters' desk during the past year, and Virginia Woods has gained added experience by editing the Cisco7-a Netcs. Several new features have been in troduced the Book Chatter column, which will handle informally interest ing books, magazines, special articles, and pamphlets. The editor of Book Chatter will be glad to receive any suggestions in regard to the matter, yea, and the manner also of her col umn. The discussions do not pretend to be formal book reviews, but they are intended to indicate worth while things in the library. The increasing demand for personal articles is behind the Skyscraping col umn, and contributions to that column are in order at all times and from all sources. The Alumnae column will alternate with Faculty Interviews, and Reflections, successor to Who's Who, will turn the charmed mirror on sev eral students each issue. FRESHMAN GROUP IS COSMOPOLITAN The one-hundred and seventy-seven members of the freshman class repre sent forty-nine high schools of eight states, according to a recent examina tion of the registrar's files. Arline Kroutel from Marymount, Los Angeles, California, represents the farthest school, with close competition from Mary McDermott of Southern Brothers Business College, Miami, Florida, and Louise Teich, of Sullins College, Virginia. Other long-distance freshmen include Helen Keegan whose home is in Clark, South Dakota; Mary Dehey, re cently of Cleveland, Ohio, Elizabeth Morrison who attended Ladywood, In dianapolis, and Janey and Frances Reegan who come from Sacred Heart Convent, St. Joseph, Missouri. MRS. CROSSE WILL LECTURE Mrs. Theodosia Crosse, na tionally-known dramatic reader and lecturer, will give a lecture in the college auditorium on Fri day, October 14. Mundelein students will recall the series of lectures which Mrs. Crosse gave last year on social usage. S. A. C. President Catholic Action Is Organized In Clubs In order to make Catholic action a vital force in all student enterprises, the Student Activities Council has prepared a plan which will correlate the individual work of each college cluD wiLii the worn ot tne colit e Sodality and unite all student activ ities in the common cause of Catholic Action. Doris Barnett, president of the Stu dent Activities Council, presented the plan to a group of faculty and student representatives on Wednesday, Oct. 5, and having secured their approval, proposed it to the student body at a general assembly on Friday. In accordance with the plan offered by the Council, each club would be as signed a special phase of Catholic Ac tion, and will be given the responsi bility of that particular work. In cit ing examples, Doris suggested that the classical club undertake all in vestigation or projects connected with the liturgy of the Church, that the press and stylus clubs promote the reading and writing of Catholic litera ture, and that the philosophy club sponsor a Catholic Evidence guild. The plan was passed as read. FATHER LORD OFFICIATES AT SOLEMN MASS The Mass of the Holy Ghost, the first official religious ceremony of the scholastic year, was celebrated on Fri day morning, Sept. 30, at 9 o'clock, in the college auditorium by the Rev erend Daniel A. Lord, S. J. The members of the College Glee Club, with organ and violin accom paniment, sang the sequence Veni Saiictc. Spiritus, and an Ave Marie during the ceremony. After Mass, Father Lord gave a beautiful sermon, choosing as his theme the passive virtues of the Little Flower, since she is the patron of youth and since her feast day occurs this month. Sounding a warning to the eager students who are ever anxious to do magnificent things, Father proved that the wiser and more difficult course is to live magnificently, and without in any way repressing the ambition to achieve, he, nevertheless, insisted that no effect is greater than its cause and that consequently one can accomplish great things just in so far as one is one's self great. With genuine eloquence, Father described the obscurity of the lives of Mary, the Mother of God, and the Little Flower, and showed that the former had changed the entire history of womankind, while the latter has done immeasurable good for the modern world. Father concluded his talk with a day, urging them on to leadership in every field, but counseling them to cultivate the passive virtues, to live magnificently themselves and so to bring to a cynical world the true peace and the genuine happiness which come only to those who are spiritually alive. Students Will Present Gheon Drama Next Month Senior President Library Receives Two Incunabula Two fine distinct incunabula have been presented to the library by the Reverend John Rothensteiner, of St. Louis, Missouri, whose collection in the Mundelein College library now in cludes samples of the art of printing from the fifteenth, sixteenth, seven teenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. The incunabula are rare books, hand printed works of art which were writ ten and bound during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Of these in cunabula there exist in all the world only 20,000 specimens, many of these duplicates and triplicates. Because of the increasing difficulty in obtaining the better grade of incunabula, the new volume is extremely valuable. It contains a Sidonius Apollinaris, Mediolani, printed in 1498 by Ulderi- cum Scizenzeler, and an Aehilleidos of Statius Papinius printed at Brixiae (Brescia, Italy) in 1485. Upon the (Continued on page 3, column 4) Lecturer Analyzes GeorgeBernardShaw The Reverend Daniel A. Lord, S. J., lectured on Bernard Shaw, Thursday morning, Sept. 29, in the college audi torium, and in so doing made literary history. Father Lord dealt chiefly with Shaw the philosopher, since it is in that role that Mr. Shaw creates most interest. Tracing his career from the days in which the serious young journalist and embryonic playwright began to realize that to be heard above the sirens, horns, and riveters, a man must speak so that no one can mistake his mean ing, to his present position as the most notorious jester in England of our time, Father Lord revealed the sincerity and seriousness behind the satirical cleverness of the man, to gether with the paradox of his life and his doctrines. Shaw Really Desires Reform In referring to his role of dramatist, Father declare , Shaw was a man who sincerely hated abuses and de cided that the best medium of correc tion of these abuses was the theatre. As one function of comedy is the de struction of established morals and conventions, it is to that form that he adheres. He admits that he says with a laugh that which he means most seriously and in so doing inevitably gains a hearing. Condemns Social Evils The four things which Shaw con demns most heartily are religion, pa triotism, capitalism, and family life, and the reason for this condemnation Father finds in the study of Shaw's own life and the influences of his (Continued on page 4, column 1) Class of 1933 Holds Election of Officers Gretchen Kretschmer was elected president of the class of '33 at the first official gathering of the class on Monday evening, Oct. 3, in the model apartment, and Dorothy Higgins, Lucy Ryan, and Margaretta Nolan were ciivocu 1.0 vwl'iv wiui ficl* a v i c-prebj- dent, secretary, and treasurer respec tively. The new senior president came to Mundelein a sophomore, when the col lege was opened in the fall of 1930. She spent her freshman year at St. Mary of the Woods College, Terre Haute, Indiana, and was elected class vice-president in her junior year here. Gretchen is a mathematics major. Dorothy Higgins spent her fresh man year at De Paul University, and since coming to Mundelein she has manifested an interest in history and athletics. Dorothy is a history major Lucy Ryan came to Mundelein from Clarke College, Dubuque, and she is majoring in Spanish. Margaretta No lan, another history major, spent her first year of college at the University of Wisconsin. A number of the seniors of last year were present at the social hour which followed the elections, and they heart ily approved the decision of their suc cessors to carry on' the custom of hav ing social class meetings at the college each month. Six New Members Added to Faculty Six new members have been added to the non-resident faculty of the col lege and twelve of the former outside professors have returned this year. The Reverend J. McLaughlin, S. J., of Loyola University, is teaching logic. R. E. Wolseley from Northwestern University is teaching editing; Miss Myrtle Magnuson, a graduate of the University of Illinois and sister of the former swimming teacher, is in charge of the swimming classes. Miss Maxine Garner, who has spent the past year studying at Theodora Irvine's school in New York and who has studied under Daniel B. Jones in London, is teaching in the drama de partment. Miss Emilie Sonderegger, a native of Switzerland, who has studied in France, Germany, England, and Italy, is teaching French conversation. Miss (Continued on page 3, column 3) The Marvelous Adventures of Ber nard de Menthon, an adaptation by the celebrated modern French dramatist, Henri Gh6on, of a. fifteenth-century mystery play, has been selected as the annual fall production of the drama department and will be given in the college auditorium on Thursday, Nov. 17, and Sunday, Nov. 20. A matinee performance will be given on Satur day, Nov. 19. Although the production is prima rily a project of the drama department, the various departments of the college will contribute to the performance, the music being furnished by the or chestra, and the singing by the glee club. The art department is working on the stage settings, and the depart ment of home economics will design tbe costumes. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Stransky, who have recently returned from a summer's engagement at the Berkshire Playhouse in Stockbridge, Mass., are to supervise the lighting and stage management. The following cast lias been selected, and the two students listed for the major roles will alternate in the dif ferent performances: The Fool, Pene lope Haloulos; Bernard, Marian Ryan, Mary Agnes Tynan; Richard de Men thon, his father, Janice Linnette; Dame Bernoline, his mother, Winifred Greene; Master Germain, his tutor, Ruth Hazle; Signeur de Duyngt, Lu- cile Barrett; Signeur de Biaufort, Mary Ellen Decker; Menthon, herald, sergeants, trumpeters, minsters, glee club and orchestra. Marguerite de Miolans, Virginia Sweeney, Sallie Agnes Smith; Dame de Miolans, her mother, Katherine Walsh; Miolans, herald, Gertrude Scanlan. The Laetare auxiliary mem bers will be servants, guests, min strels, attendants, and one of them will act as Castor, the page. Bonaventure, Lavergne Bosch; ten pilgrims, freshman Laetare players; Prior of Acosta, Pauline Duzeski; Por ter at the monastery of Acosta, Vir ginia Bosch; Our Lady, Mary Nichol son; St. Gabriel, Mary Frances (Continued on page 3. column 2) collegeIreceives valuable violin If we told you that a valued, rare violin mellow with old memories of a celebrated master had found its way from far off, through many hands, to the music studios of Mundelein Col lege, would you think we were draw ing the long bow? Recently, through a benefactor, the college received a violin with a Pique bow certified to have been made by the noted Lauren tius Storioni in Cremona in 1797. Papers from Vienna dealers, Wilhelm Jaura and Anton Poller, attest the authenticity of the instrument. Appearing at Orchestra Hall here in 1926, Rosalind Wallach played this violin, provided for the occasion. Miss Wallach praised the instrument, which has been remarked by other musicians also, for its inherent fine tone, of the old Italian cantabile quality. Today the violin rests in a Munde lein College music studio. STUDENTS PLAN STYLE SHOW The Department of Home Eco nomics will give a Style Show in the College Auditorium on Wednesday, Oct. 19th. The gowns will be from Saks Fifth Avenue, and Mundelein students will model.
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1932-10-11 (1)
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