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Pafce 2 THE SKYSCRAPER October 22, .1937 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 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. XIII Oct. 22, 1937 No. 2 IQ36 Member 19 ?7 Ptssociried Golie6icite Press ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briarfcate 3800 EDITORIAL STAFF Edtior-in-Chief Annamarie Masterson Associate Editor Priscilla Moore Make-Up Editor Catherine Heerey Managing Editor Frances Geary Student Press Representative...Julia Mary Hanna NEWS AND FEATURE STAFF News Editors: Geraldine Ferstel, Betty Vestal. Assistants: Helen Finnegan, Frances Sayre. Feature Editors: Kathryn Byrne, Adelaide Nillis. Associates: Catherine Ann Dougherty, LaVonne Hayes. Reporters: Clare Anderson, Lois Jane Flynn, Margaret Gleason, Florence Graham, Joan Kaspari, Margureite Kelly. Margaret Mary Kreuseh. Ruth Schmid. Selling Scholarship Short? IX the October issue of Scribner's John R. Tunis accuses college authorities of selling scholarship short. Pointing to scholarships and subsidies as sugar-coated pills, Mr. Tunis insists that, in their mad competition for students, col lege authorities have let down the liars of requirements and have erased scholas tic standards. Only a little research convinces us that scholarships to Mundelein are not sugar- coated pills. Freshmen who have entered Mundelein, scholarship in hand, have left it after four years of study cum laude, magna cum laude, summa cum laude. Scholarship students at our college lead in scholastic standing as well as in acti vities. Scholarship students are the stars among our alumnae. Furthermore, most Mundelein scholar ships are given for one or two years only, witli the clear stipulation that the scholar ship may be renewed only if the student's scholastic record merits such renewal. lt; )ur scholastic requirements, more over, are carefully maintained through the combined efforts of a vigilant Com mittee on Admissions and a considerate but definitely exacting Faculty. Recurrently, students chafe under the pressure of quarterly and semester . gt;x- aminations. Even now, more casua up- perclassmen join in the occasional fresh man conclusion that college is a grind, that reading assignments and term papers are dark glasses shutting out the sun of Indian summer days, football rallies, and endless teas and proms. However, an article like Mr. Tunis', ex posing conditions prevailing in many col leges, makes Mundelein students sincerely grateful that the stigma of selling scholar ship short cannot be applied to Munde lein College, and that the Mundelein Fac ulty has succeeded in maintaining a high standard of scholastic excellence without suffering any decline in student registra tion. You Can't Take it With You HE Readers Dicest applied it to the average American. We apply it to the average college girl. You can't take it with you but you certainly can get a lot of enjoyment out of it while you're here ffl Just stop and think of the hundred daily opportunities for pleasure or en joyment, for culture or aesthetic apprecia tion, for physical development or mental stimulus, which we pass up for lack of time to appreciate them. Every day in almost every class, books are mentioned which we have every in tention of reading, but a later mention of them usually finds the books still unread. And the opportunities have slipped away. And the chapel on the second floor, on our way to class or just a little bit out of the way but we must get a final glance at that psychology. And so an abundance of grace slips by. Then there is the girl who has a locker next to ours. She seems awfully nice. We would like very much to know her. Hut comes graduation and site is still only the girl in the locker next to ours. And a possible friendship lias slipped away. There are the clubs we have always meant to join. That lecture in the Science Forum sounds terribly interesting We really would like to go but we can't pos sibly make it this afternoon. And so all the other afternoons with Science Forum lectures slip quietly away. Then there is Clepsydra. Wc have always meant to offer a contribution. We used to write essays in high school But there's that math assignment, and we have to go out tonight, so we can't really . And another opportunity slips away And what nf the beautiful view of the lake from the library windows? It is certainly worth our leisurely study. But there are so many appointments to meet, arrangements to make .... And another lovely mood of the lake has slipped away unnoticed. The examples could be multiplied end lessly. We are continually passing up opportunities for mental and spiritual growth, opportunities which we cannot take with us when college clays are done. Isn't it possible that some of us could re- budget our time? Design for Reading HAVE you been living on crackers and milk? Or is your intellectual fare akin to the long-eared rabbit's lettuce leaf? Hie yourself to the library, then, and survey the Literary Menu, com piled by the librarians from books that are old, and middle-aged, and new. To begin at the beginning how do you like your entrees? Spicy and intriguing and appetizing? Then read Cornelia Otis Skinner's Excuse It Please, or Life With Father, by Clarence Day. Soups are next. We have the thick rich kind with grated Parmesan, or clear consomme, like steaming amber. Try James Hilton's Goodbye/ Mr. Chips, and Flush, by Virginia Woolf. The roast beef of fiction is the next course, and here are a few choice slices: Anne Sedgwich's Little French Girl, Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis; Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad; Willa Cather's My Antonia, and So Red The Rose, by Stark Young. Diary Of A Provincial Lady, by E. M. Delafield, and Julia Newberry's Diary are cool crisp salads, while Maxwell An derson's Mary Of Scotland, Barretts Of Wimpole Street, by Rudolph Besier and Victoria Regina, by Lawrence Hausman, are desserts that will prove in centives to after-dinner conversation. Points of View On Charm THERE is either revolution or reform in the Mundelein air. since the lec turer in Charm and Personality sowed the seeds of dissension by denouncing the American college uniform sweater, skirt. and kerchief. This plea for individuality, taken in a broader sense, is one of the underlying ideas of the course. .Studying your own assets and liabilities and capitalizing on them will make you a more sincerely charming person than will copying Shirley Temple if you are a Garbo by nature. In its fundamental motive, however, the Mundelein course differs from all other charm and personality studies. Where THEY teach charm for what it will do for YOU, the Mundelein goal is the plea sure and inspiration your charm may give to others. On Catholic Action ECLARING that the parent-teach er group offered public insult to its Catholic membership, the Catholic wo men of Chicago severely critized the Illi nois Congress of Parents and Teachers recently for proposed publication of a list of 13 birth control clinics. Citing the Encyclical on Marriage by Pope Pius XI as their authority, the Catholic group declared the action to be in direct opposition to their religious doctrine. THERE is Catholic Action, courage ously executed. On Discovery IX the year 1492 Columbus discovered America. In the year 1937, we, the inhabitants of that great country are still discovering it or are we? The Duke of Windsor is crossing the ocean to see the stockyards and Hull house and other Chicago showplaces. Have we seen them? Scientists gathered in the city a few weeks ago, made pilgrimages lo the plana- tarium, the museums, world-famous la boratories and clinics. Have we seen them? Visitors from out of town flock to the Art Institute in such numbers that traffic on Michigan Avenue is a problem, Are we among them? Incidentally, there is, in our skyscraper building here, a model home, a conserva tory of music, a tropical-appearing solar ium, a Little Theatre. Have we discovered Mundelein? 'Round Town To the operatic-minded, it is good news that Rosa Raisa will star in a program at Orchestra Hall on Oct. 27, and that First Night at the Civic Opera will be celebrated on Oct. 30, when the Chicago City Opera company presents Aida. The Illinois Symphony Orchestra con tinues its Sunday series at the Great Northern Theatre, while Frederick Slock, director of the Chicago Symphony Or chestra, leads this group in -its annual popular concerts at Orchestra Hall. Philosophic-minded students will find interesting the series of lectures based on Critical Thomistic Examinations of Im portant Philosophy. Sponsored by the Calvert club, the first lecture will be given this evening by Dr. Herbert Schwartz, at the club headquarters. Catholics who keep up on the isms and on the Catholic attitude toward them, should underline Oct. 30 in their date books. Doctor Fulton Sheen, well known philosopher and lecturer, will appear on the Loyola Community Theatre program on that night. 33d suvuniz Skyline The other day in logic class, the difference between the canine mind and the rational mind was being explained. You see, the professor explained, the canine mind could not comprehend the square root of pi, multiplied by pi, raised to its thirty-seventh power and divided by its ini tial digit. Which makes everything nice and clear, including the fact that we're not quite sure we have the rational mind ourselves. Skyline A little more cheerfully, we report the simple conversation of two freshmen, one of whom has been foiling around the gym. Going out for athletics? asks the blue- eyed one. Yes, fencing, replies Ihe athletic one. Fencing Why on earth .....? Oh, I don't know. It just seems to have more point to it .... Skyline Barking back to the canine story at the head of the Line, we report on the junior who accosted her Counselor before the lec ture last Tuesday and said: Will you please tell me if I am K9? Canine? queried the bewildered Coun selor. K9, yes, K9, replied the junior, plead ingly, Am I K9? Skyline The Scripture professor looked thought fully out of the fifth-floor window at the storage warehouse sign some blocks away and exclaimed, David Moving And I suppose Solomon and Saul arc standing by Skyline Tragedy of the Month And now we have a sad, sad story to tell you. It concerns the family of Leona Michels, 11 in all, for whom time marched off instead of on. The last Saturday in September everyone in the house ventured to see that the grand father clock, only ranking clock in a family of many watches and sundry timepieces, was changed from Daylight Saving to Central Standard. Leona set it back herself at 9 p.m. Her youngest brother set it back again at 10 p.m. Her father set it back again at 10:15 p.m. Her sister set it back again at 10:30. Her oldest brother set it back once more at 11 p.m. And on Sunday morning the Michel's clan arrived breathless at the 12-o'clock Mass. Or don't you see? Skyline Too Many Peanuts The other day, an 11-year-old boy died as a result of eating 40 raw peanuts to im press a younger brother and sister. Here we find a sad, sad object lesson for the cut-up collegian. On coming to col lege, CU Collegians oftimes seek to impress their more serious sisters with deeds of daring and courage. They have the impression that if they begin cutting classes early and often and if they never do today what they may have time to do tomorrow they are headed for academic prestige. If said delusion isn't curbed in time, they are liable to find the peanuts gone, and only the shells remaining. Incidently, they'll learn that E's and F's aren't easy to swallow. By sophomore year, the average collegian, if her 1Q is what the average collegian's usually averages, has learned that you can't eat your peanuts and have them. By junior year, she has learned that a pea nut in the hand is worth two in the bag. And every senior knows, that too many peanuts, if they don't kill you, can make you desperately ill. Skyline Whereupon we append our own especial VERBUM SAP and wish you a Happy Co tillion.
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1937-10-22 (2)
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