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Page Two SKYSCRAPER About These Days . . . Students Solve Blue-book Worries, Organize B.K.T.S. Whereas the student personnel of Mundelein College is periled by blue- book fever; And whereas this fever is especially mentally cumbersome; And whereas this fever is especially the everlasting lot of the collegians: We, the people of the local press, propose that certain weeks of the year be designated as BE KIND TO STUDENTS WEEK. Consequently, we hereby pro claim Jan. 24-28 as the first B. K.T.S. Week. Certain regulations will be imposed upon the student body in observance of this week. Students will be expected to pass all examinations with clear heads (clear of all unnecessary knowledge, that is). No one will be allowed to raise the curve. Before we retire to our padded abodes, may we remind the sen iors that there are 25 days until comprehensives 139 until grad uation. Do We Creep or Stride? Youth Mourns Loss Of Father Lord, S.J. Father Daniel A. Lord, S.J., is dead, and the Catholic teen-agers of Amer ica have lost a valued friend. Father Lord knew young people, understood their way of thinking, gave them frank advice about their social and spiritual problems. Born in Chicago and graduated from Loyola, our neighbor college, he was ordained in 1923 and three years later Avas appointed national director of Our Lady's Sodality and editor of its publication, The Queen's Work. The Sodality became his greatest contribution to youth. Under his leadership it enrolled 2 million active members. Through The Queen's Work Father Lord reached over 500,000 Sodality members, and he influenced many more through his pamphlets, an esti mate being that he wrote a pamphlet a month for ten years. Adding to his list of achievements are his books, musical comedies, plays, and hymns Mother Beloved and For Christ the King, a martial melody that has echoed in thousands of high school and college chapels. But this is his success he was a devoted priest and he was loved by millions. Do Catholics Take a Back Seat In World Affairs? The American Catholic Sociologi cal society has tossed a challenge to college students, with its widely pub licized convention message that Ca tholicism in the United States is creeping rather than striding. The scholars who make the declaration stir or should stir in college students a desire, a resolve, to become intellectual leaders with religious influence. The declaration is undoubtedly meant as a challenge, yet inevitably there are people who find it discour aging. Actually, in the history of Catholicism there is much and noth ing to be discouraged about. The picture is always dark and light at the same time dark because of man's weakness, light because of the strengthening grace of the Holy Ghost. The sociologists report that only 25 per cent of Catholic high school stu dents enter college while 68 per cent of Jewish graduates do and 36 per cent of Protestants do. Undoubtedly some of these non- college-going graduates could be col legians with a little effort just as some of us now in college could be better collegians with a little more effort. Maybe when we are parents, educating children, we will push the curve up a little. Meanwhile, we must remem ber, as the sociologists probably noted in papers not publicized, that neither the Church nor its Founder has catered to the educated or the influential. Christ's greatest kindness and sym pathy were centered in the poor, the diseased, the wretched. He never underrated the individual value of the human person rich or poor, and He called both the privileged and the underprivileged but the underpriv ileged had a better rate of answering, usually. The Church has always followed in His footsteps. It was the slaves of Koine who flocked to hear Peter and Paul. The aristocrats were usually the tail-enders, heeding the words of their lowly servants. Kecent studies of the Middle Ages, the period in which the Church is ac cused of bleeding the people with tithes, show her concern for the poor. Perhaps the reason the Church hasn't moved forward stridingly is because her members are poor. It wasn't the wealthy plantation owners of Virginia or the merchants of New York and New England who support ed the Church; it was the poor Irish, or Polish, or Italian immigrant, who couldn't afford even a high school education for his children. These children in turn perhaps managed it for the next generation; perhaps the third generation will squeeze college into the budget. The sociologists also note the low salaries and lack of professional stat ure among Catholics. They observe that more than half of the eminent Catholics are in the fields of religion, law, and education. This is a challenge to contemporary collegians to strive for success in these fields, but to be realistic about the true measure of success. All sincerely religious people are restricted in their ascent to the top of a field. The journalist can't do anything to get a story, nor can the poli tician buy and sell votes, nor the lawyer plead divorce cases, nor the author write to please the low tastes of a segment of the read ing public. Good salaries, influential positions, and college degrees are fine, but the Church has not made it her aim to cultivate a religion of intellectuals, shuffling the common people into the background. The Catholic Church has sur vived for nearly 2,000 years, despite Nero, Luther, and Mod ern Protestantism. As long as she upholds her principles, even communism cannot destroy her, and the sociologists, knowing her limitless charity, would be among the last to doubt her endurance. Week Moments . . . Jan. 24-28, Semester Examinations (weakest moments of the ac- demic year) Jan. 31, Feb. 1, Registration Feb. 2, Midyear Holiday Feb. 3, Classes Resume Feb. 4, Semester Swing (Freshman Mixer) Feb. 11, Open House for High School Seniors Feb. 12, 13, Play, Shadow and Sub stance Feb. 17, 18, Senior Comprehensives (weakest moments in four years for Class '55) Feb. 18, Junior Mardi Gras (Prom) Qetting to Know You . . . The King and I Charms Critic Somewhere between New York and Chicago there is a primitive pony ex press route or covered-wagon system still in use. There must be, for it ar gt; parently is being traveled by com panies of Broadway plays and musi cals which finally arrive in Chicago several years after opening in Net York. Some never get here. The King and I is a delightful mu sical based on the biography, Amu and the King of Siani, by Margaret Landon. The scene is set in Siainii the 1860's. Anna Leonowens, a win some and widowed Englishwomai played by Patricia Morrison, accepts a position as teacher of King Mong- kut's 67 children. Not only does Anna have the chil dren speaking excellent English b; the time of her departure, but ha extra-curricular activity of introdM- ing liberal reforms into the govern ment has began to fructify. Yul Brynner as the King cap tures the unique flavor of a charming, yet sometimes cruel feudal leader. His haircut, too, is captivating. Terry Saunders, an unfamiliar name to Midwest audiences, surpasses Miss Mor rison in sweetness and clarity of voice in her role as head of the King's household. Time has not tarnished the lustrtj of Richard Rodger's musical scon, which is still as lilting and contagioni as when first introduced. Getting ti Know You, Hello Lovers, and A Pin- zlement are a few of the memorabk songs. Oriental flavor, colorful costumiij a dash of comedy and romance, phi beautiful music are blended with m gt; usual skill and sensitive taste to mah The King and I sparkling entertai ment. Jke hudcraper Vol. XXV Jan. 24, 1955 No.1 Entered as Second Class Matter Not. 30,IBL at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to Xr inclusive by the students of Mundelein Cell:; 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Editors-in-Chief Rosemarie DiJ Grace Pertell, Patricia SampsJ Associates Mary Caiq Ann Storino, Mary Alice Wij SAC Speaks Up Mary Ann Lasha Skyscrapings Jean Kid) Virginia Dirl Editorial Associates Loretta Cass Marie Kobielus, Nancy Mamma Art Editor Vasilia So* Cartoon Rose Anne -McGrt Reporters Leora Bnd Chandra Camp, Patricia Sullivan, Hi Caprini, Toni Cassaretto, Hannah lb Dwyer, Marilyn Fitzpatrick, Geraldi Gross, Donna Hanson, Diane Letouma Joanne Matuszak, Josephine Mele, M beth Naughton, Marilyn Santini, Ui Ann Schumann, Genevieve Tentt Frances Theisen, Nan Voss, Patric Kobel, Mary Ann Banich, Ann Nora Mary Ann Herold, Marie Kammerk
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1955-01-24 (2)
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