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Pa e Two SKYSCRAPER THE SKYSCRAPER This Is the Qreater Reality 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. XI MARCH 14, 1941 No. Ill ALL-AMERICAN HONORS 1940 Member 194 Rssoc'icrted Cblle6icrle Press ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briarfcate 3800 Editor-in-Chief Marie Von Driska Feature Editors .... Muriel Moll, Marie Rudd Assistants Mary Lou Bell, Jeanne bemis, Patricia Gould, Eileen Mahoney, Kathryn O'Reilly, Anne Ma rie O'Rourke. News Editors..Dorothy McCarthy, Joan Morris Assistants Rosemary Lanahan, Patricia Byrne, Mary Agnes Firaiio, Geraldine Hoffman, Marie Norris, Rose mary Shanahan. Reporters: Alice Breckenridge, Margery Row- bottom, Marcella Garrity, Jeanne du Moulin. Make Way-for Spring Keep hold of your theories and your formulae and your opinions on the folly of optimism or the purity of the classic form. Remember if you must that water is H20, and the air, a compound of nitro gen and oxygen, and things like helium, argon, and krypton. But make way for spring. Make way for it along the lake where people are beginning to come for Sunday walks, and ship builders have started ham mering and measuring for the white sail boats. Make way for it on the streets and in stores and on streetcars because it is big, and a mystery, that is in people's eyes, and in their walk and in their hope. And make way for it in your heart because it is the eternal youth of the world. With living divided into so many small pieces like days, and hours, and minutes perspectives have a hard time keeping themselves straight and long. It's easy to lose yourself in a maze of your own thought and experience and to forget that your hopes and your hurts are in essence only the hurts and the hopes of an amazing number of people because there is a changeless order of things. So people keep on living and losing per spectives, but every year spring comes back to give assurance of what Alice Mcv- nell calls this rhythm of life and to testify to the eternal youth of the human soul, whose desires and hopes are forever youngk This, then, is the time to give your soul a chance because no hope is too impossi ble in spring. This is the logical time to be exulierant with all the objectivity and expectancy of the very young. (Jet a new hat, or a new view, or a new focal point of interest anything, so long as you make way for spring. Fallaciously persistent has been the im plication that the Christian ideal is un workable in the face of conditions outside the sphere of academic theory that Christianity and what is broadly called reality are incompatible. Kqually persistent, however, lias been the contention of its protagonists that the fault lies, not in the impossibility of the Christian ideal, but in the unwillingness nf the individual to make it possible. The singular position of the Cath olic college graduate as a representa tive of modern Catholic thought in evitably draws the attention of the thinking and unthinking mind. How well does the Christian ideal work in the face of reality and the hard cold facts? How does the theory hold up in ethical application to some thing as real as getting or holding a job? Of local college significance, at least, were the remarks of a representative group of Mundelein College Alumnae, speaking before the assembly during Vo cation Week. After it will be admitted a relatively brief time in the world of jobs ami ca reers, they were as a group primarily cog nizant not of the special abilities which were attained during their stay at college but of the particular ''inspiration and training which is a heritage of every grad uate of Mundelein College. These graduates each doing successful work in her own field came back after at least a touch of reality to speak of those particularly ephemeral things which arc intrinsically associated with the Chris tian ideal. I am grateful, said Mary Agnes Tynan Schroeder, in summing up the general attitude of the group, for the sense of orthodoxy which I re ceived at Mundelein, for the unique inability to compromise with absolute standards of right and wrong. This sense of orthodoxy, of absolute mor al values, is necessary for the indi vidual in any vocational field, but par ticularly in aesthetic pursuits, accord ing to Miss Tynan. After at least a taste of reality these Mundelein graduates came back to talk about things like the necessity of an awareness that is able to see and learn, and an understanding heart that is able to weigh, and be charitable ephemeral tilings all. nothing like the reality of com promise, but, we would say. rather a striking proof that man does not live by bread alone. Forty Days for Liberty The personal applications of Lent have been almost thoroughly covered. Now let's look to a second view: Lent is the training period for a future conflict. Let's look at the facts. We, who call ourselves Americans, live in a world of our own. In the east, an undeclared war rages. In the west, nations clash while the fu ture of Christian ideologies hangs in the balance. We exist in the midst of the turmoil. We exist to fulfill a purpose whose full import litis not yet been made clear. Shall we say that we exist to keep alive the last semblance of sanity and Chris tian thought in the midst of insanity and bloodshed? Lent is a training period for the battle of the coming year. During these 40 days, we should real ize the meaning of sacrifice for a person al Christian cause so that, in the coming year, we will be able to sacrifice for another cause an American one. Round Town Music Hath Charms Those of you are fortunate enough to have seen Fantasia, and those of you who will see it, will want the Victor recording of the witty, fantastic, and colorful Sor cerer's Apprentice, the music which in spired Disney to his unbelievable produc tion. It is recorded by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra exactly as they portray it in the picture. The opera recording of the month is Puccini's Madame Buttkrfly. Complete in two acts, this popular Italian opera is presented by notable Metropolitan stars and the chorus and orchestra of the Royal ()pera 1 louse of Rome, in a Victor record album. The progressive ventures of the All- American Youth Orchestra, under the in spired leadership of Stokowski, have never been more appreciated than in their record ing of Weber's Invitation to the Dance. This popular favorite is presented with sensitivity, life, and color. Round Town would like to suggest a few worthwhile programs this week which make good entertainment without over stepping the bounds of the season. The Story of Campion Who Ride on White Horses, the story of Edmund Campion, will be presented by the Loyola Community Theatre on Mon day and Tuesday evenings, March 24 and 25. This play in three acts and eleven scenes was written by Richard 1'reen and Harry Schnibbe. It was prepared for production at the Fordham Playshop and was first shown in New York in January, 1940, in commem oration of the fourth centenary of the So ciety of Jesus. Who Ride on White Horses is one of the most interesting and dramatic plays ever to find its way to the American Catho lic stage. It follows the history of Father Campion from bis undergraduate days at Oxford through his ordination at Rome, his return to England as a Jesuit, to his encounter with Queen Elizabeth and his incarceration and execution in the Tower of London. The freshness and dramatic quality of this splendid and thoroughly Catholic pre sentation assure its success as the Loyola Community Theatre's most ambitious pro duction this season. Lenten Lectures For a MUST on your Lenten program are two sets of lectures scheduled at St. Ignatius church and auditorium for the entire Lenten period. Every Wednesday evening at 8 p.m., the Reverend James T. Htissey, S.J., spiritual adviser at Loyola university, speaks on different phases of the Christian Way of Life. His specific topics will be The Chil dren of God, on March 19, and Out of the Valley, on March 26. Every Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m., the Reverend Michael I. Knglish. S.J.. speaks on Marriage and the Family. On March 16, he will especially treat of Mod ern Science Studies of the Family, and on March 23, on Enemies of the Family. All of these lectures will take place in the St. Ignatius auditorium immediately after the devotional services in the church. Because we never back down on a promise especially if it's easier than making up our own jokes we have betaken ourselves into the morgue for the second time, in memory of past days, past jokes, and in ghostly celebration of our tenth birthday In the morgue with the spirit of the oc casion Question before tlie house: Shall we walk to the cemetery? Answer: That's a grave question . . . Not to be daunted, we grope on until we stumble over the domestic genius who spends a great deal of her time making jelly airt labeling all the jars T.P. for 'Tis Peach . .. 'Taint Peach . . . Sound effect in morgue: Crash of jelly jats to the echo: I Want a Girl Just Like the Gitl Who Married Dear Old Dad. And ever on To the antiquities with Romeo and Juliet: Drama Student: VVIiat did Romeo say when he met Juliet on the balcony? Unsympathetic friend: Couldn't you get seats on the main floor? And because we feel the same way to the old, old days when freshmen were wide eyed.'' Said the wide-eyed freshman to the weary senior who was tottering from a Commence ment rehearsal : What are you taking your degree in? Said the senior, positively and with em phasis: In my right hand. And now for something more in our style: What did Henry Ford say after eating din ner? V8. Don't write in if you've heard this one: What did the Scotsman yell at the footliall game': ( et that quarterback, get that quarterback And now for the straw that broke the cam el's back, we enclose a song for you to sing as our happy birthday wish: MELODY Mminin minium nimmm mm iiimnim nun mmm minium nun lllmmmm m mminin mniin m Miiimin minium nuiuii mm m iiinim iiiiiiiniiiiii Minium niium nmiin mm mm nun nun inmm Verse Two Minm inininm mm nminimm mm minimum mm innini mm nimnmimm m niium mm mmm Minimum mm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm : Mminin mmm m mmmmm mm minium m And then there was the shoemaker who was faithful to the last . . . This one will finish you: Editor's Blues If we print jokes, folks say we are silly. If we don't, they say we are too serious. If we publish original matter, they say K lack variety. If we publish things from other papers, they say we are too lazy to write. If we don't print contributions, we don't show appreciation. If we do print them, the paper is full of nonsense. Like as not some fellow will say we took this from another paper. And we did. Next time we'll he hack with something original to prove that we haven't lost our touch and that if it isn't one thing to be unhappy about it's another Closing with happy birthday wishes to our selves . . .
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1941-03-14 (2)
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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