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'/ 'THE SKYSCRAPER November 23, 1934 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 at 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. V. NOVEMBER, 23, 1934 No. 4 ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briargate 3800 STAFF Editor-In-Chie f Ann Lally Associates: Irene Lavin, Virginia Meagher, Marion Mulligan Managing Editor Charlotte Wilcox Assistant Dorothy O'Donnell News Editors: - Jean McKeever, Mary Catherine Rose Features .....Jane Spalding, Jane Malkemus Assistants: Gladys Henry, Genevieve DelBeccaro Alumnae Mary O'Brien Exchanges Virginia Meagher Athletics '. Irene Lavin Assistant Gertrude Rafferty Art Joan Limburg Business Manager.... Jane Spalding Reporters: Isabelle Graham, Rita Granhold, Agnes Griffin, Catherine Heerey, Elizabeth Higgins, Lilian Krez, Anna Marie Master- son, Germaine Mulholland, Mary Rita Murphy, Ann Ellen Smith, Mary Joyce Vail. Thanksgiving Official and Sincere T AST week President Roosevelt issued the Thanksgiving Day Proclamation. That in itself is no unusual custom; how ever, the thoughts expressed in this presi dential declaration cannot help but en kindle a deeper appreciation and a fuller sense of thanksgiving than that measured by things material, in the heart of every American worthy of the name. We have been given vision to make new provisions for human welfare and happiness, stated the President, and in a spirit of mutual happiness we have co operated to translate vision into reality. More greatly, he continues, have we turned our hearts and minds to things spir itual. We can truly say, what profiteth it a? nation if it gain the whole world and lose its own soul. Those words reveal . not only a great leader of his people, but also an unfailing follower of his Master. With gratitude in our hearts for what has already been achieved, President Roosevelt concludes in earnest apprecia tion and petition, may we, with the help of God, dedicate ourselves anew to work for the betterment of mankind. For those who believe in the necessity of blending the spiritual with the material -. in public as well as in private life, such a message is most heartening and encourag ing. Expressing as it does a realization in the national mind of a Power greater than itself, and at the same time a cour ageous faith in the all-wise guidance of that Power, this statement cannot but evoke a new prayer of thanksgiving from . a people who in recent years have learned the true relationship between things spir itual and things material. In Tribute As the eyes of the Catholic world were focused on Chicago this week and its prayers ascended in thanksgiving for its: Cardinal's successful completion of a quar ter century of episcopal duties, we whose College bears his name felt particularly the joy and deep significance of the occasion. It was at the urgent request of his Eminence, that the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary undertook the establishing of a college to meet the needs of the young women of Chicago. Today Mundelein College, first skyscraper college for women in the United States, is the magnificent reply to that request and the Cardinal's appreciation and approval is ex1 expressed in his position as Chancellor of the College. That his Eminence may continue to shepherd the great archdiocese of Chica go for many years to ; come, that his achievements in the future may rival the amazing accomplishments of the past twenty-five years, and that the special blessing of the Father he serves so zeal ously, may be his today and always, is the prayerful wish of the students of Mundel ein College. Glamourless Athletics E Americans are definitely sports- minded. The interscholastic contests of the various universities arouse national as well as collegiate interest. We have all cheered Notre Dame to victory in the sta dium of our own living-room as the game was brought to us by radio. Yet when interscholastic contests give way to inter- murals in a college such as ours interest soon lags, even among the students of the college. Is any of the essential value of athletics lost because they drop from a position of national moment to a place of interest re stricted to the students of an individual college, or is the fact that intermural con tests must supplant interscholastics so de vastating to their value? Stripped of the glamour which interscholastic contests pro vide, have athletics no enviable place in collegiate life. Seemingly they have not; yet it seems deplorable that so vital a phase of col legiate life should be so definitely over looked by the majority of students. Intramural athletics provide healthful exercise for the participants as well as wholesome entertainment for the spec tators. They should serve as a binding force welding classes together in a spirit of cooperation and fellowship and pitting class against class in a manner conducive to the best interests of each. That intermural athletics must fight for a place in collegiate life is indicative of a somewhat irregular sense of values. It is realized that every collegian is not actively interested in every sport, but her interest should be sufficient that she will know that her class is represented in sports tourna ments by a team of her classmates who would welcome her as a spectator if not as a player. Lacking this interest there should be at least an appreciation of the efforts of her classmates who do keep her class in things, athletically speaking. We are not asking every Mundelein student to join a team. We are not even asking every student to attend every game. But we are sending out a challenge to stu dents in general to become athletic-con scious and to give us a cheer now and then as we follow the ball to victory. Paul Martin's Book Tells Stirring Tale Of Cardinal's Career By Ann Lally IF you have missed some of the install ments which ran serially in the New World, get yourself a copy of The First Cardinal of the West, by Paul R. Mar tin. Here you have a thrilling tale of what a modern Catholic boy, born of humble parents, has been able to accomplish. The book is particularly concerned with the work Cardinal Mundelein has accom plished in Chicago since he became its archbishop. It shows that he attacked the material problems of colossal building and the spiritual ones of saving souls, with more than ordinary vigor, inspired at all times by a lively faith and turst in God. HEILA Kaye-Smith has seen the light In her latest book, Supersti tion Corner, she gets away from the drab, hopeless atmosphere of her earlier novel, Susan Spray. Although she has been a convert for some time, this is the first of her Catholic novels. The critics are loud in their lamentations, bemoaning the fact that Miss Kaye-Smith has lost her psychic interpretative ability. I think it's well lost, for in this Elizabethan Sussex novel her portrayal of Catherine Alard is unquestionably skillful. If you liked Miss Alcott's Joe, you will like this character immensely, for while they are poles apart,' really, they both have the same dynamic force. he Vatican : Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow is something new in hisr torical writing George Seldes, its author, is not a Catholic, but he has done a re markable piece of work on this subject, because he was able to give us a picture of the Vatican and all that it has stood for, and will stand for, from a viewpoint of pure appreciation of true value, unclouded by sentimental attachments. All the in formation contained in this volume mea sures up to a high standard of sincerity and truth, although, of course, the part dealing with the future is necessarily merely guess work. Its predictions are, nevertheless, in triguing, and, if these words are sage prophecies, we of America are destined for great things. News and Views of the College World DOLEFUL DITTY Ye sliades of Chaucer and Aquinas, Oh, spirits dear of Ohm, Ampere, If ye aid not a trembling maiden I'm doomed woefully to flunk , I fear. Yon chemists's fumes be stifling, choking. The bot'ny lab hath seedlings green, But e'en greener be my knowledge Of texts and lectures, that I ween. A hundred facts of foreign making Leer dismal from the classic page. If my wits did e'en digest them, T'would seem to me, the Golden Age, v. Ye bards, ye men of history great, . / know ye not, I must admit Maybe if I crammed all the night I'd know ye then, a palling bit. Oh fateful week Oh days eternal *.' Thy dreadful hours I'll ne'er.live through. And when the quarter's grades be gotten Thy horrid week, I long sliall rue. Hark Hark tlie alarm At seven bells rings And scholars 'gin to rise ' And hasten school-wards with their things, ' Yclept books, that make them wise. E'en though ye must lift your heads With drowsy, heavy eyes With everything tliat sleepy is Ye scholars rise Arise Arise ' ***** Prithee, think ye not that yon zoology in structor hath verily a strange palate? When her scholars were ready with sharpened The Trinity Times, from Trinity col lege, Washington, D. C, brings a timely challenge to those of us who are exper iencing a cooling off of scholastic enthu siasm. The challenge applies to Mundelein students as well as to Trinity girls. Each September there is a remarkably lively atmosphere in every institution of learning. Imbued in enthusiasm from which great dreams could become actual ities, , we set out to make this year the year. Sad to say, however, time can bring about a different attitude. Before long such resolutions to keep up with as signments may probably seem quite hope less . . . and our presence at our regular society meetings, we shall tell ourselves, is not necessary at all. Then it is that we should remember our intention, so strong at the starting point, and force ourselves to be staunch. knives to hew and carve the slothery car casses of earthworms she did bless herself and pray, Bless us, O Lord, and these, Thy gifts... ;' ' ' * * *J ' - '- ''- A la Shakespeare Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more' Exanis do murder sleep; the examless sleep; . Sleep that solves the tangled skein of math, The death of history's life, fatigued brain's bath Balm of chemical soith, great nature's psychol ogy course ' ' '- ' i: Chief rest for cramming minds.... * * * * * '- ' / - Sweet are tlie uses of adversity; Which, like the test, ugly and fearful. Bears yet a fruitful mark for all its dread And this our life, bound in by quarterlies Finds books in trees, experiments in the running brooks, ../'. Lectures in stones, and scrapbooks in everything. ***** Marry, that maid hath a puzzled wit, who did pen in one sociology test that the fossil Neanderthal man was found at the World's Fair. iv - : .... .'. -.. . ;, siii-j.- ' . . **,*** By my troth, quoth a merry wit, who lutd heard both teams in debate quote a) sage yclept Professor Zookes to prove their-points, Zookes bad for both of them. ***** Verily one maid hath a monstrous large pair of knitting needles she knoweth a swain who plays the drum. gt;i *.**** , APOLOGIA Oh, Twelfth Knight of Laetare fame We beg of thee thy pardon sweet This mangling of Will Shakespeare's art . By such as we, ye think not meet. , But students prat of ruiught. but thee . Of days, and ways of Shakespeare's time. ; We cannot help but do the same .. . ... .-; And speak in old and teamed rime. '- '-
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1934-11-23 (2)
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