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Pa e Two SKYSCRAPER Academic Robes Are Uniforms of Service In all parts of our vast land, men, young and old. are donning the uniforms of the nation's armed forces. Navy and marine blue, and army brown are the insignia of these lighting men; insignia which carry them into battle; insignia of loyalty and service. Similarily, when the S6 members of the senior class wear their caps and gowns for the first time on Sunday, they will be donning an academic uniform of service and responsibility. The robe and mortar board are banners of a privileged person, even more so if she has been so privi leged as to have attended and to be a candidate for a degree from a Catholic college. It is in a religious institution that young women become strongly equipped for meeting problems of the pres ent and the future a present and future in a chaotic world. Consequently the Catholic college is more than ever a strong, necessary, vital factor in this world necessary because it lacks vagaries; because it reveres learning and holiness. The Catholic college is the custodian and witness of culture and civi lization. And the Catholic college graduate has a profound responsibility to be true to that heritage of learning and holiness, of culture and civilization. When the members of the Class of 1943, and classes thereafter, solemnly participate in the senior investiture ceremony and wear academic robes for the first time, they assume a special duty of being loyal to Mundelein's ideals of right reason and of beauty, and they become newly aware of the intellectual endowment from which they may draw strength and courage. They an- reminded of the graduate's solemn pledge of loyalty and service: To hold my degree as a sacred trust; to serve God and my fellow man; to keep my honor untarnished; to be loyal to my country and my flag; to be faithful to my Alma Mater until death. 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, 1897, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May- inclusive by the students of Mundelein College, Vol. XIII Friday, October 23, 1942 No. 2 1941 Member 1942 Associated Golle ate Press Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chief Rae Haefel, Joan Leach Associate Rosemary Shanahan Feature Editors.Mary Kay Jones, Marie Nordby Associates Helen Egan, Mary Coughlin, Petty Jane McCambridge, Lorraine Super. News Editors Jayne King, Jerry Stutz Sports Editor Geraldine Hoffman Associate Jacqueline Michelsen Staff Artist Anita Caparros Reporters: Eleanor Arends, Marion Barrett, Mary Grace Carney, Madeleine Courtney, Eileen Coyne, Patricia Curran, Ellen Patri cia Ehle, Sheila Finney, Patricia Flynn, Dolores llartigan, Margery Kane, Alyce Jeanne Kiley, Carol Jean Liddy, Jane Lyons, Margaret McNamee, Kathleen McNulty, Helen Nicholson, Betty Seguin, Joan Tem- plcnian, Mary Catherine Tuomey, Genevieve Urbain, Dorothy Welch, Betty Wiersema, Frances Wilkinson, Noreen Walsh. Shakespeare's in the Army . . Don't Be A.W.O.L. When Club Roll is Called ll one may judge by the number of pledges who attended the first club meet ings of the year, there are many Munde lein Jills who prefer not to become dulled by all work and no play. Hut we wonder bow many of them have entered into the work and play of the clubs bow main have done more than just wear their club emblems; how many have remembered to follow the instruc tions given by club presidents? Signing a club roster does not make a student an integral part of any organiza tion, nor does wearing an emblem. Noth ing but consistent interest in the club and cooperation in its work van do that. There are approximately 270 new stu dents here at Mundelein. ()f this number, some have already begun to do good work in valuable extra-curriculars; sonic have intended to. but have neglected it; some are still wondering which club to join. To the latter two groups, we say: Resolve now to attend a club meet ing on Nov. 3. Watch the bulletin board each club has one in the bookstore lounge for details about the place and business of the meeting. Have something to say when you get there, if suggestions are in order. Make friends with the girls already in the organization. Scots from the plains of Forres and the days of old invaded Camp Meade recently and were met. not with a round of ammuni tion, but with a round of applause from the soldiers. They were led by crafty Chieftain Macbeth in the guise of actor Maurice Kvans who believes soldiers' entertainment tastes run above vaudeville with its song and dance. Me proved it To camp grounds from the Xew York stage came a complete profes sional production of Macbeth. Broadway style, for a successful three-night stand. Extra help for staging and lighting effects was drafted from AAV.O.L.'ces in the guard bouse Maurice Kvans, now Captain Kvans, has been appointed Theatrical Technical Con sultant of the Seventh Army Corps in Omaha, and will no doubt give Shake speare a commission in the army, touring the country's army camps For more of this, turn to THK CATHOLIC WORLD for October. An Anthology of living authors, Tins Is My Best, complied by Whit Burnett, is due off the presses soon and will be distributed by the Book-of-tbe-Month club. Names and news of favorite American authors, voted thus on ballot by a selected group. reveal that the first 10 pen-favorites in Barbara Ward Carries Sword of the Spirit Barbara Ward was not clad in a coat of mail; she flaunted no bright banners; she played no martial music. But no call to battle was ever more clear, more forci ble, more persuasive than this young Kng- lisb woman's. Miss Ward is an attractive, an interest ing, and an interested woman. She is an Kiiglishwoman with the future of her country ever present in her thought. But above all she is a Catholic, an active Catholic. She came to us as an emissary of the Sword of the Spirit. She came to ask us to join with her and other Cath olics in this movement which lias grown out of the desperate need of bewildered men and women. Miss Ward and her fellow Catholics have lived through the destruction phys ical, mental, and moral which the pres ent war has brought upon their country. Together, they have formed a movement designed to rebuild the world, now, and from its very foundations. We Catholics in America are just be ginning to feel the real effects of this war. We are becoming confused and fearful. Here thinking men are asking as they did in England : Why are we lighting this war. What sort of peace do we want, that we may begin now to work toward it.' Cath olics in Kngland have passed through this stage of confusion and fear and question ing. There were 100 roads before them, just as there are before us. They have chosen their road, their plan, their motto, and their Leader. You're the Critic . Louisa, tall and golden, Jeri, her brother, small and dark. Polish refugees living in wiiq7 ;i scow on the coast of Mass achusetts: Smith, the profes sor, who searched for peace all bis life and finally found it in Louisa; Mr. and Mrs. Baghout. plain, uiironiantic. industrious Xew Knglanders who never loved, only felt Christian Charity. and Meg. aged eight, who worshipped Jeri and would have fol lowed him to the ends of the earth. The philosophy of four people, Louisa who had seen everything taken from her yk/u AT? an'' had ' -st nothing herself. Smith who had everything and could not find himself. Mr. Baghout who worshipped Jeri and would have fol lowed him to the ends of the earth. The Sea Gulls Cry by Robert Nathan is not a fitting successor to his Portrait of u/uv? Jennie; it eclipses it. Here, is dee ) thought, and under standing of the human soul Iold in a style so ordinary, yet so charming that to read it is to love it forever. Father Germain, Jerry to his parish ioners and the people of his country flock; w jf o Kmnia, the housekeeper; Cas par, who was prevented from becoming a priest because of an injury to his bands; Stan, the lovable black-sheep; Rose, his sister who married a non-Cath olic; Joe the Hunchback. These are the people who make up Faith the Root by Barbara Frances Flcury. The simple, everyday life of a small town pastor and the simple, everyday people who WHAT? come to him with their joys and sorrows, their cares and problems are the substance of this book. The book is a delightful relief from the war literature of today it is a real story WHY? ' rca' 1H' P'C- gt;'cl w'th a kind ' of ethereal quality. For sheer enjoyment including pathos, suspense, and quiet peace, read Faith the Root. the land arc Carl Sandburg. John Ste beck. Eugene O'Neil. Ernest Hemingwfl ilia Gather. Pearl Buck. Edna St. Vincel Millay. Sinclair Lewis, Stephen Yincet Benet. and Christopher Morley. All tha writers belong to the past. Who will lit new courage and new hope to face tl war and its effect? . . . These will be tB writers to form America's destiny. Ral about The Place of American Letters I COMMONWEAL. Oct. 9. Imperative in these days of great til vail is harmony and friendly understands between the two Americas. Much of ofl former attitude towards our Latin frier* was due to insidious propaganda fnm foreign sources. Germany, howeim hasn't jolted us apart, but has drawn I closer together by our mutual rcacti against her. For the two lands, one of 20 rcpubfl the other of 4S separate slates, niutm confidence and respect are the basis cooperation, for coordination the M necessities for victory over forces at vl attempting to wreck our culture and ciw zation. Learn more of our neighbors I low the Rio Grande in AMERICA. Oct. What friends have we in the island Japan? Just what are the Japanese expfl ing to achieve from this war? What A the place of the Japanese in internatw relations before the battle started? 1 answer to these queries, and further M cussion of the growth of Japanese milifl ism. the bitter struggle against a inili'J and bureaucratic master, the even hanfl struggle for economic welfare, are ghl the reader's alertness in world affairs . written bv Harry Paxton Howard. I COMMONWEAL. Oct. 9. Ticker Tape Time carries a heavy load in this I of confused living. The hodge-podgel the world in general has caused disl sion on many a home front. One loon the ticker-tape that has clicked overt this fall would send up anyone's leftfl brow, but it isn't altogether discouraginl The President of the United States; a jaunt around his country and saw J his own eves what the Washington wigs didn't try to see. Everyone J everyone else anecdotes from See El Private Hargrove, and castor oil I placed on the restricted list. Factory managers were moaning I shortage of man-power when Hitler telling his people 13.000.000 person the U. S. are unemployed. Chicago if tors discovered a new cure for burns, ul Stalingrad prepared to go down in his:l Playwright William Saroyan was drafl Sports fans expressed amazement all Louis' announcement that he would no more. James Francis Byrnes was appfl Director of Economic Stabilization il same city where playful passengers M street car put off the conductor and I turns at his post until the niotori caught them at it. Wages were frozen. Willkie retu from bis diplomatic trip to the re the Allied world, and school children i drafted into the scrap army. The Da ters of the American Revolution M about face and counter march by invi Marian Anderson to sing for one of I war concerts. In South Bend, an old horse, rej from the circus, was treated for exhau after being pastured near grounds us a Navy recruits band. Mabatma Ghandi, India's Big Bossl celebrated his seventy-third birthday communicado. People worried morel Li'l .Miner on Sadie Hawkins' Day I they did about the recent crime wave. I The Solomon Islands became a shocked battle-ground. Music-lovers 1 Shostakovich's vivid Seventh Symph composed during the siege of Lenin and hunters welcomed the opening duck season. Football-fan favorite. Notre Dame, ally got started on the usual wid streak, to the chagrin of opponents, war-conscious American read W. L. Wk simply-told story of Bataan, and rej softly to himself, They were expend
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